At The Movies
with Bob Peek
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Alice’s Restaurant is hard to
classify. Is it a comedy? Is it
a tragedy ?
Inevitably, the answer must be
that it is both. The movie re
fuses to be neatly pigeon-holed
into either category. Director
Arthur Penn has taken Arlo
Guthrie’s hilarious, satirical rec
ord and transformed it into an
experience of elation and melan
choly, joy and despair.
In the story, Arlp drives up to
Stockbridge, Mass?, to visit his
friends Alice and Ray Brock
(James Broderick and Pat Quinn)
in their home, a converted
church. They have made their
home a sort of “mini-commune”
by removing the peys from the
church.
All the humor from the record
is still there. After a monu
mental Thanksgiving feast which
produced an amazing pile of
garbage, Arlo and his friend
Roger attempt to “dump it at the
dump.” Sadly, the dump was
closed on Thanksgiving. After
searching around for another
dump they finally dump the
trash off a cliff when they see
that there is another pile of
trash at the bottom. They de
cide “one big pile is better than
two little piles.”
An elderly couple driving by
the scene report it to the police,
who react properly to what was
to them the biggest “crime of
the decade.” This includes tak
ing “27 eight-by-ten colored
glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and paragraphs on
the back of the scene of the
crime.” Of course the judge is
blind.
Arlo’s conviction is his down
fall with the draft board. His
“criminal” record of littering de
nies him the honor of serving his
country like any good all-Ameri
can hero.
But beneath all the comedy is
an underlying theme of tragedy.
Arlo’s father Woody Guthrie is
slowly dying of a disease of the
nervous system. The blissful life
in the commune breaks up from
the pressure of internal strife
between the inhabitants. One of
the group dies of an overdose of
heroiji, and his funeral marks
the end of their life in the
church.
In all, it’s an experience well
worth your time.
★ ★ ★
Everyone with the slightest bit
of romanticism in him should
see Camelot. The word is syn
onymous with enchantment, and
so is the movie. In the uncut
version of the movie it is almost
impossible to find fault with it.
Vanessa Redgrave and Rich
ard Harris provide regal per
formances, and David Hemmings
is appropriately evil as Arthur’s
bastard son Mordred.
The music is beautiful, and the
direction and photography is
magical. The most dangerous
point of a musical is when a
character stops speaking and be
gins to sing. All too often, songs
seem inappropriate and distract
ing. Camelot is a magnificent
exception. The songs come in
the right places and the perform
ers deliver them perfectly.
When the house lights go up
and you begin to leave the thea
ter, you know that Camelot will
never be forgotten, the kingdom
or the movie.
“ . . . Because my set went out during A&M’s last televised
game—that’s why!”
Animal Science Prof
To Lecture Thursday
Dr. A. C. Warnick of the Uni
versity of Florida Animal Science
Dept, will lecture here Thursday
on crossbreeding and calf crop
percentage.
His talk is set for 11 a.m. in
Room 132 of the Animal Indus
tries Building.
Dr. A. M. Sorensen of the
A&M Animal Science Dept, said
the visiting lecturer’s experience
includes work in Argentina on a
special fund project dealing with
ways to improve calf crops. He
also received National Science
Foundation travel grants to the
1961 World Congress on Repro
duction in Holland and the 1964
Congress in Italy.
Committee will meet with univer
sity officials at noon Tuesday at
Sbisa Cash Cafeteria.
Emergency Course
Set Next Week
Ford Mustang Will Be Pacer
This committee has been es
tablished to discuss laundry
operations and to serve as a
communications link between
students and the University Laun
dry. Students who have sugges
tions concerning the operations
and policies of the laundry are
invited to contact one of the fol
lowing committee members:
A practical course on emergen
cy care and transportation of the
sick and injured is scheduled for
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day in the Fellowship Hall of
A&M Methodist Church, 417 Uni
versity Dr.
Allan Byrd, Schumacher 408,
5-2506; Allen Mikulencak, Mitch
ell, 83; Jimmy Alexander, Davis-
Gary 417, 5-3557; Robert A. Har
ding, Dorm 2 Room 114, 5-2350;
Jack C. Hollimon, Dorm 6 Room
301, 5-3240; Albert Kinkead,
Dorm 2 Room 110, 5-1950.
Invited to attend the three-day
course of lectures and demonstra
tions are ambulance attendants,
policemen, firemen, safety engi
neers, rescue squads, nurse, pub
lic health, civil defense, and others
who handle persons sick or in
jured in accidents.
Model of Compressor
Given to M-E. Dept.
A cut-away model of a refrig
erant compressor has been given
by Lennox Industries of Fort
Worth to the Mechanical Engi
neering Dept., announces Dr. C.
M. Simmang, department head.
The model of the company’s
L2 line, designed and built by
graduates of Texas A&M now at
Lennox, will be useful as a visual
aid, he said.
Making the presentation were
Sid Parker, ’54 graduate in elec
trical engineering and now man
ager of Research and Develop
ment, Air Conditioning Compres
sors; Dick Cawley, ’59, mechani
cal engineering, chief engineer in
the same division; Charles Ellis,
’59 mechanical engineering, chief
project engineer, and Sam Taheri,
’69, chemical engineering, project
engineer.
★ ★ ★
Laundry Committee
To Meet Tuesday
The 1969-70 Student Laundry
Singing Cadets
Cut New Album
The course, given free of
charge, is sponsored by the Texas
State Department of Health and
the Brazos-Robertson County
Medical Society.
A new album entitled “The
Old and the New” has been re
corded by the Singing Cadets and
is currently on sale, according
to John Roby, publicity chairman
for the organization.
The album, recorded in Houston
at the ACA studios last spring,
can be bought at the Memorial
Student Center Gift Shop or at
The Exchange Store for $5.00,
Roby said. It can also be ordered
through the mail by sending
$5.50 to the Singing Cadets, Box
5718 College Station, he added.
The first side, Roby explained,
contains old favorites from the
past, such as “Porgy and Bess
Medley” and “Wade in the Wa
ter.” The second side has such
new popular songs as “Love Is
Blue,” “Going Out of My Head,”
and “Windy,” he said.
Profits from the sale of the
record, Roby said, go toward
scholarships for members of the
Singing Cadets.
Dr. J. T. L. McNew, a Bryan
physician, is program chairman
of the Training School.
It v^s announced today in
New York by Ford Division,
Ford Motor Company, that Mus
tang has been chosen by Ameri
can Raceways, Inc., as the 1970
Official Pace Car for Texas in
ternational Speedway and other
American Raceways, Inc., facili
ties.
The first appearance of Mus
tang in its official role will be at
the Inaugural Event at Texas
International Speedway on No
vember 9th — the final event of
the ’69 Can-Am Series.
Each track in the American
Raceways Complex will have its
own distinctive Mustang color.
Texas International Speedway’s
Pace Car will have a special
“Texas Red Paint Job”. In ad
dition, “Special Official Pace
Car” kits will be available at
Ford dealers in the Texas Inter
national Speedway market area
so that they will be able to iden
tify themselves and their cus
tomers with the track.
The cars will be Mustang
mach 1 models with 428 Cobra
Jet engines.
Mr. Lawrence H. LoPatin,
President of American Race
ways, Inc., stated in New York
that, “Mustang was chosen as
the 1970 Official Pace Car for
all the American Raceways’
tracks because of its highly com
mendable position as America’s
No. 1 compact sports sedan; its
obvious influence on the per
formance market in the country;
and its most important role in
the growth of the popular Trans-
American Sedan Series inaugu
rated in 1966.
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
MSC Chess Committee will
have a beginner class at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 3B of the MSC.
SUNDAY
Brazos Orinthological Society
will meet at 7 a.m in the parking
On KBTX Tonight
6:30 Get Smart
7:00 Brady Bunch
7:30 Hogan’s Heroes
8:00 TX Friday Night Movie
“Last Sunset” w/Rock
Hudson
10:15 TX Final News
10:45 Friday’s Late Movie —
“Mark of the Hawk” with
Sidney Poitier and John
Mclntire
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Staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace, Jay F.
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THE FALL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS
WAR OF THE BUTTONS
October 31
The young boys of two neighboring French prov
incial villages are traditional rivals and, over
some past insult long since forgotten, have begun
a “war.” Buttons are the trophies of the conflict,
and each captive is unceremoniously stripped of
all he has.
TONIGHT 8:00 P.M. MSC BALLROOM
lot of the Redmond Terrace Phar
macy, College Station, for a trip
to Somerville Reservoir.
MONDAY
Industrial Education Wives
Club will meet at 8 p.m. at the
Girls’ Club, 306 W. 24th St.
Agricultural Economics and So
ciology Student Wives Club will
have a Tupperware party at 7:30
p.m. at the home of Mrs. Char
lotte Jones, 1217 Haines, College
Station.
WEDNESDAY
Aggie Christian Fellowship will
hear Steve Atkinson discuss “His
tory and Christianity” at 5:30
p.m. in Room 3C of the MSC.
THURSDAY
Chemistry Wives Club will tour
Stacy Furniture Store, Townshire
shopping Center, at 8 p.m.
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