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affair from the very beginning but was
willing to risk everything.
Vronsky, less mature and more im-
petuous, soon tires of their self-imposed
exile and tells Anna that he is “sick and
tired of love." He misses his buddies and
decides a month or so away at war will
help his spirits.
Anna follows Vronsky to the train sta-
tion where he joins his regiment.
She watches Vronsky kiss another girl
goodbye as the train rolls out of the sta-
tion.
Anna lingers despondently at the sta-
tion. She had given and lost everything
for a love which was too fragile to survive
the cruelty of human nature.
As the last few cars roll by. Anna
throws herself under the wheels.
Even though the film was produced in
the 1930s, the action on screen was credi-
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personality of Greta Garbo.
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WSAC-TV, beset with problems of in-
formality in its closed circuit production,
has terminated for the remainder of this
semester to re-evaluate the program’s
guidelines.
Charles Wright, radio-television-film
professor, said production and program-
ming for the station this spring has been
adequate, but it was not reaching its full
potential as an educational and enter-
tainment medium on this campus
because of its informal structure.
For the television station to function
effectively, there first must be organiza-
tion in the station itself, and second, a
high level of communication and
understanding among the administra-
tion, the student activities office and the
library television service which provides
equipment and service for the station,
Wright said.
Because WSAC-TV is a new project,
these problems had not been ironed out
until recently, he said.
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Human nature can destroy a love af-
fair as quickly as it created it. Such was
the case in Leo Tolstoy’s classic tale of
ill-fated romance, “Anna Karenina.’’
The 1935 film version of “Anna
Karenina." starring the beautiful Greta
Garbo, was shown April 10 in Moody
Learning Center.
The film depicts the all-consuming
romance between Anna (Garbo) and the
dashing Count Vronsky played by
Frederic March.
The wild affair is sparked when the
two meet at a train station in Moscow.
Vronsky, a hard charging, hard drinking
Russian military officer, is waiting for
his mother to step off of the train when
he spies Anna.
The scene is the epitome of the roman-
tic love-at-first-sight encounter. Anna
mysteriously appears shrouded in a veil
of steam, wearing a hooded, full-length
Watching live opera in the living room
is a rare treat, but it takes some getting
used to.
The Metropolitan Opera Company
presented Giuseppe Verdi’s “Don Carlo’’
live on KLRN April 12. The nearly
three-hour program demonstrated why
opera should and should not be seen at
home on a 19-inch television screen.
The music, of course, was first class
Metropolitan fare. The lighting, make-
up and costuming were in the finest PBS
tradition.
The question is whether using the in-
timate techniques of modern television is
appropriate for grand scale opera pro-
duction.
Only occasionally was the stage seen as
the audience saw it. The rest of the per-
formance was shown like a television
drama, a technique that does not lend
itself well to the operatic medium and
which weakened the force of the music.
Music, after all, is what opera is all
about. The drama and the production
A series of meetings involving Wright,
Jean Longwith, radio-television-film
chairman; Dean Truett Chance, and
Larry Adamson, director of student ac-
tivities, produced a set of proposed
guidelines outlining the future structure
of WSAC-TV and operations therein,
Wright said.
The guidelines call for a station staff
comprised of faculty, paid student
assistants and volunteer students from
the RTF department and other related
departments.
The student activities television com-
mittee will oversee the operation, of the
television station.
The guidelines also stipulate proposed
policies regarding copyright laws and
recordings and equipment use and the
maintenance of WSAC-TV by the
library' television maintenance personnel
with assistance from the electronics
department. The guidelines also explain
funding for WSAC-TV, including fun-
performance, I fell under the spell of the
total program. It was lavish and compell-
ing.
Opera lovers may cheer this innova-
tion, or they may bemoan the changes
that come with television technology7. For
myself, I’m not ready to see every opera
done that way, but I think, in the
absence of a live stage production, I will
be ready to see another one — soon.
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mink coat. Snowflakes dance about her
and the cameras make Garbo appear to
be a woman of unearthly beauty.
Vronsky’s pencil-thin moustache prac-
tically falls from his face and his eyes
become glazed with desire as he stands in
the snow gawking at Anna.
Anna meets his dumbfounded gaze
with a cautious you re-not-so-
bad-yourself smirk that causes the love-
sick Vronsky eventually to follow her
back to St. Petersburg.
Anna's husband. Count Karenina
(Basil Rathbone) and 8-year-old son,
Sergei (David Bartholomew) live in St.
Petersburg. Anna has serenely resigned
herself to a loveless marriage but deeply
loves her son.
Vronsky doggedly pursues Anna until
she can no longer resist his pleading ad-
vances.
“My life is empty without you Anna.
We have a choice of eternal bliss or eter-
nal despair,’’ Vronsky said.
Anna’s inbred resistence melts and.
Arts major shows techniques
of applying corrective makeup
Fiesta eek is a time to ride floats, at-
tend parties and meet people. A student
here will participate in Fiesta activities as
Miss Kelly Air Force Base.
Kathleen Garza, sophomore business
major, is one of 1 I women
the Air Force base.
was totally shocked, i didn't expect
to win." Garza said.
Garza first competed Dec. 22 against
six other women
troller division at the base.
Winners of each 11 base divisions then
competed for Miss Kelly Feb. 22.
“It was just like a beauty pageant. We
wore formals and were judged on charm,
poise and personality." she said.
The theme of the competition was,
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow " and the
contestants dressed as Dorothy of “The
Wizard of Oz" and did a dance routine.
“We then changed into our formals for
those who did not know the story, but
they, too, were distracting—choppy little
phrases that summarized long passages
and reduced them to triteness.
The liberties Verdi took with history
and his melodramatic plot were
magnified when the camera closed in.
The cast was superb and. with the ex-
ception of Vasile Moldoveanu as Don
Carlo, worked reasonably well in the
double medium. Paul Plishka gave an
especially convincing performance as the
arrogant and tormented king and was
rewarded with extended applause and a
shower of programs.
Robert Jacobson, in the March 29
issue of Opera News, said, “The 1980s
may well see TV become the nation’s
preeminent performance medium.”
He went on to quote E.B. White who
said the role of noncommercial television
“should be the visual counterpart of the
literary essay, (it) should arouse our
dreams, satisfy our hunger for beauty."
My hunger was satisfied during the
unprecedented three and a half hours I
spent mesmerized by the Metropolitan.
In spite of the ambivalence of the filmed
Martinez do a better job of
photographing his models. He is
especially interested in experimenting
w ith corrective makeup as it can be used
in fashion photography and portraiture.
He met Compton, a special education
major, in the cafeteria and asked her to
be his model for a makeup demonstra-
tion.
“He had a trusting face,” Compton
said, “and I had done some modeling so
I didn’t mind doing it.”
Compton worked as a model in Japan,
where her father was stationed with the
Army. While there, she modeled for
cosmetic commercials, posters and sports
clothes. She appeared on Japanese
television in some of the commercials.
She was hired by an
model scout saw her at
day at the Army post.
“I think they liked my blond hair and
blue eyes," she said, adding most of the
models were foreigners.
Compton said she enjoyed her model-
ing career in Japan and is saving her
money to go back, but she doesn’t plan
on a career in that field.
“If I were a thin Twiggy, I would at-
tempt it," she said. “All I really want to
do is be the best wife and mother in the
world, looking after my children with my
shepherd's crook, but I would enjoy do-
ing some modeling as a sideline.”
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Makeup model
Visual arts major Manuel Martinez uses freshman Nancy Compton
as a model to demonstrate corrective makeup techniques.
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fully understanding the magnitude of her
actions, lets her emotions sweep her
away: “Not to think, only to live, only to
feel.”
Anna's husband remains diplomatic in
regard to his wife's affair until the
romance becomes a full-blown scandal.
“You are becoming an object of un-
favorable discussion, Anna," Count
Karenina said.
Anna’s husband tells her she is jeopar-
dizing his honor and he will never grant
her a divorce.
“If you value the love and respect of
your son, you must never see this Vron-
sky character again," he said.
Vronsky receives a command from his
superiors ordering him to give up Anna
or resign his commission.
Anna and Vronsky throw caution to
the wind and go into social exile to be
together.
Anna has sensed a dark shadow in the
long and myself with my hands.
“In some ways it forced me to be more
reflective, but it didn’t move me com-
pletely away from the commercial end. It
just gave me more challenge."
Martinez recognizes that his handicap
can affect people he approaches as
customers in one of two ways.
“I have to face reality. Some people
do it at all.”
The reflectiveness and thoroughness of
his nature are shown by his approach to
photographic art.
“I want to learn how to see things the
eye doesn’t see. So many people pick up
a camera without knowing how to see
things.”
Seeing things through photography
tells a person a lot about himself. Mar-
tinez said, as well as about his subjects.
He tries to get to know his subjects
1952 which left him crippled presenting before he photographs them.
him with other challenges. “Sometimes I shoot pictures aimlessly.
“I was raised in a Shriner's Hospital then go back over them to look for the
for Crippled Children, but the handicap reason behind what I chose to shoot and
has served me well. I learned to express how I decided to do it."
should complement and amplify the
music’s power. But in Saturday even-
ing's production my attention was drawn
away constantly from the music to the
plot and the action, neither of which
matched the might of the orchestra and
voices.
When one is watching from a theater
seat, it makes sense to see the lovers sing
their duet toward the audience and away
from each other. The close-up video view
looks ridiculous. Facial expressions, or
lack of them, are barely noticed when the
audience is at least an orchestra’s depth
away from the stage. In the theater the
elaborate costumes enhance the produc-
tion but do not capture undue attention.
The staging, the lighting and the stage
business all combine to underscore the
supremacy of the music.
But in sharp, living color the exquisite
costumes screamed to be noticed and ex-
amined. The dramatic lighting in the
scene in King Phillip’s study over-
shadowed the moving aria and wooden,
expressionless acting repeatedly came
between the music and the viewer.
The English subtitles were helpful to
The makeup session was
painstaking, transforming Compton’s
face from its normal state to a
camera ready one.
“I felt like a walking rainbow,” she
said. “But when I saw the pictures he
took afterward, it was much more subtle
and I knew he had a purpose in doing it
that way.”
Martinez uses the same techniques
with his fashion photographs. He tend to be swayed toward me because of
believes much fashion talent is available mY handicap and some against me,
in this city, but it needs to be shown off thinking I can t do the job. I don t get
more dramatically.
more dramatically. around as fast as most people, but it has
If he can sell local businesses on using taught me that to do something slowly
locally produced advertising art, he an^ do it right is better than not trying to
thinks all sides will benefit — the adver-
tiser from lower costs and the models and
photographers from increased employ-
ment.
Martinez finds the challenge of pro-
jects such as this a way of life.
“I was a low achiever in school," he
said, “but a high achiever in projects. I
tried to find things to do that were away
from competitive areas and find
something no one else was doing. ”
Martinez had a severe case of polio in
judging." Garza said.
"1 always wanted 1 Miss Kelly
because my daddy worked there.
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without the int<‘ r -mg.
entered just to hav c : uh
Somerset High Schoo) graduate said.
Winning Miss Kelly is an honor for
representing Garza.
"1 get to ride to all the events in a staff
car which has a sign along the side of it
that says ‘Miss Kelly. " she said.
"1 also have a military escort, and 1
for queen of the comp- got $500 to supplement my wardrobe for
items such as formals. she added.
Part of Garza's responsibilities aside
from Fiesta Week activities, include
small-town parades and luncheons.
"I enjoy sewing and jogging, but 1
don't have time for that any more. 1 also
have to get out of work at times to attend
social functions." Garza said.
"I'm really looking forward to the
year, and I hope 1 can handle it." she ad-
ded.
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“Pretty is as pretty shows" might have
been the motto of visual arts major
Manuel Martinez when he demonstrated
corrective makeup techniques, using
freshman Nancy Compton as his model.
A self-taught photographer and artist,
Martinez is studying at this college after
working for several years in an audio-
visual graphics studio. Pictures of Comp-
ton will be added to the portfolio he is
assembling to show his work to potential
buyers. He wants to encourage other
photographers to go directly to adver-
tisers, too.
“I would like to stimulate an avenue
for photographers to find a way to get
away from large agencies and present
their portfolios directly to the adver-
tisers," he said.
Martinez has received some positive
response from work he presented to two
local clothing stores, but so far has not
made any sales to them.
He is taking a copy writing class and a
radio and television advertising class to
get a well-rounded education in cor-
porate advertising.
"That will complement my fashion
photography and give me another
medium to work in."
A theatrical makeup course has helped
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