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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1978
‘Could have been better
Adaptation
The Aggie Players and Texas
A&M University’s Theater Arts sec
tion are producing the play "J.B.” in
Rudder Center Forum. It will run
from Nov. 13-18.
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
Since the beginning of time, Man
has suffered and his cry has often
been, “Why me, God?”
Archibald MacLeish wrote “J.B.”
as a modern version of the Book of
Job, the Biblical story of a man who
refuses to lose faith in God though
staged
he is sorely afflicted. MacLeish’s
Job, however, is a modern busi
nessman who trusts his luck and also
God. The scene is an abandoned
traveling show set in which two
down-and-out actors, Mr. Nickels
Review
Smooching
healthier than
hand shake?
and Mr. Zuss, try their hands at the
roles of God and Satan in place of
the usual actors. But when they put
down the balloons and popcorn
they ve been selling and don the
costumes and masks, God’s voice
comes alive, and J. B. appears on the
set.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
ASSOCIATION
United Press International
NEW YORK — Doctors studying
the common cold have found it is
spread more by shaking hands than
by kissing.
Dr. J. Owen Hendley, a cold re
searcher at the University of
Virginia, reports in the November
issue of McCall’s magazine that
people with colds have large virus
colonies on their hands “and they
deposit them on everything they
touch.”
Dr. Jack Gwaltney, a UV internal
medicine specialist who made a 16-
year study of the subject, told the
magazine “most colds are not spread
by airborne virus particles or by kis
sing.”
In dealing with modem man’s suf
fering, MacLeish slams his J.B. with
twentieth century tragedy. J.B. is
denied the small comfort of knowing
that his son died for his country; his
son was killed in a wartime accident.
Other children are killed in a wreck
by a drunken driver. His last daugh
ter is murdered by an idiot. His
home and business are leveled by
bombs, and his wife leaves him for
refusing to curse God and die.
Then the modem equivalents of
Job’s comforters appear to Job in the
ruins of his home. They are those
cold creatures who prance in today’s
sociology, science, and pulpits.
They lend poor solace indeed. The
sociologist claims that J.B. as an in
dividual is too insignificant to count.
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He says J.B.’s sin was to be born an
individual.
The scientist tells J.B. that there
is no such thing as sin, and the
minister thunders guilt upon the
diseased businessman and says his
sin was being born a man.
J.B. rejects their counsel and
comes to a conclusion of his own.
The play is a powerfi.il work. The
set was imaginative and appropri
ate, while the direction and lighting
were fine.
Yet somehow the acting was a bit
off. Perhaps one problem was that
the three primary actors, Phillip
Hafer, who as Mr. Zuss plays God,
Pat Martine, who plays Satan, and
Chuck McDaniel who is J.B., con
centrate so much on projecting their
voices that they lose some of their
character projection.
Clear, loud voices don’t necessar
ily have character. In fact, the
Forum is small enough to let less
volume be audible. That way the ac
tors wouldn’t have seemed to have
been overacting. It must be said,
however, that Mr. Nickels(Mar-
tine), and Mr. Zuss, being unem
ployed actors, would overact. It
could be in their character to almost
ham it up.
The best-cast actor was Lawrence
Leach, the pipe smoking
sociologist-type. He did a fine job.
This is not to say others did not do
their jobs adequately. McDaniel did
play the part of an older man well.
But at times the actors did not seem
totally engrossed in the play, which
is important.
That hurt the performance. Thus,
though the play itself is masterful,
and the production wasn’t an afflic
tion, one was left with the feeling a
better job could have been done.
I the
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Battalion photo by U
Aggie Players Phillip Hafer (God) on the platform,
Martine (Satan), discuss J. B.’s soul in J. B. by Arcliit
MacLeish in the Rudder Forum. The play will run from)
13-18.
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to regulate used car dealers
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sumer abuse, the Federal Trade
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mended the agency require dealers
to inspect all cars first and admit
what s wrong with them in writing.
If the agency adopts the proposal,
used cars would carry a window
sticker showing the results of the
dealer’s inspection. Each major
component of the car wod ^ a PP‘
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listed as “OK” or “Not 01
any system designated as im “
repair would have to cairyli
mated cost of fixing it
In addition, the form wouli
the car’s previous useandii
it had been declared a
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Thursday, November 30, 1978
G. Rome White Coliseum
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