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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1979 Bt XUichact# An Episcopal School 2505 South College Avenue Academic Curriculum Small Classes A Superior Faculty PRESCHOOL-ELEMENTARY-SECONDARY College Preparatory Curriculum Call TODAY For Fall Registration 822-2715 Had no idea what a cowboy hat is Chinese ballet students learn NEW «fe»ch m ther jjie him ^ EL Chico arfcj restaurant 3109 Texas Avenue Bryan, Texas 77801 presents Happy Hour 4-6 (7 days a week) 2 for 1 per person 10% discount for all A&M students with current I.D. Mon.-Thurs. only. more than dance in Houston United Press International HOUSTON — Politics, more than custom, dictate that the first Chinese dance students to study in the United States will spend their lives and talent in China in a ballet considered drab by American stand ards. But ever so briefly this summer Li Cunxin and Zhang Weiqiang, both 18, discovered ice cream. Star Wars, vacuum cleaners, James Bond movies, traffic, Houston heat and Texas hospitality. 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Offered the companionship of Chinese-Americans to soften their culture shock, they politely refused. “When they came, I tried to get hold of a lot of Chinese people — one must be careful about the Taiwanese situation — I tried to get Chinese people and they said, ‘no, we don’t want to go out with Chinese people,”’ said Ben Steven son, artistic director of the Houston Ballet. “And I had some Chinese people who were going to be interpretors for them and they said, ‘no, we want to try to speak Engish.’ And, there’s a Chinese family, very sweet, who have sons their age, a very nice house and they would like to host them for the weekend and they (Li and Zhang) said no. 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I said it would be marvelous if I could get some sort of schol arship for them to come here and the feeling was from the people in volved that it was a very nice ges ture but it would take perhaps two years to organize something like that.” The six-week trip and schol arships were arranged in less than three months, however, with the help of Columbia University’s Cen ter for U.S.China Arts Exchange and for reasons Stevenson can only speculate upon. “I’m going back to Peking for a month to teach, I think that helped a lot, the fact that I sort of think they need me,” he said shortly before the boys’ stay ended. At the time, he was waiting in his Ballet Academy office for the boys’ return from English classes. “It’s very unusual for young people to come out (of China) like that. They’re the youngest students out for anything and the first per forming arts students. I don’t think any of us really thought it would happen, that they’d come over here.” Stevenson choreographed a pas de deux (dance for two) for Li and Zhang, although their only perform ance was before 120 persons active in the local ballet workshop. No public performances were planned before their departure (Aug. 5) by way of New York where they hoped to meet Mikhail Baryshnikov during a three-day stopover. “I’ve learned a lot from u*,. their simplicity,” Stevenson a 1 “It’s like having ideal sons. U? very honest. Their emotion; very ready. They smile easi'. it’s not phony. “Their evaluation of themselvg very good. Strangely enougiti West very few students have Sa I ■t? 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ABC discovered, however, that succeeding installments of the sit com did not live up to the opening episode’s promise. It happens all the time — television land has a whole writers who specialize in pilots, because those are the scripts os which series are sold. Once a show is bought, the quality often goes down. In this instance, rather than accept a weak half-hour, ABC shelved the show’s premiere while production work continues. “Nobody Perfect” probably will be an early winter replacement. That left a hole in the ABC schedule, which will be filled by tie “Detective School” run by James Gregory, aka Inspector huger “Barney Miller.” Originally scheduled as a limited-run summer placement, “Detective School” has scored top marks in the ultriu'f test — the Nielsen rating's. A pilot that failed to turn into a series will be shown on CBS At; 25, 8:30-9 p.m.. Eastern time. 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