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For further informatton call 7303. 719 By DEBBIE NELSON Battalion Staff Maybe it was because they were competing with the World Series and only 30 people were in the au dience. Or maybe it was because the actors didn’t even claim to be Broadway material. Whatever the reason, there was a severe lack of emotion in Stage- Center’s production of “The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia” Wednesday night. Preston Jones’ play — about a meeting of a 1962 fraternity of war heroes and good old boys — could have had some very dramatic moments, as well as some very funny ones. Unhappily, most of these moments just weren’t be lie veable. The Knights of the White Mag nolia appear in their rundown meet ing room, ready to hold a usual meeting, accompanied by dominoes and whiskey. Then, for the first time Review in five years, they find someone willing to be initiated into their so ciety. The Knights go through their ridiculous initiation ceremony, get in a few fights, drink a little whis key, and compare war stories. Members claim to have seen a lot of action in different wars, but the col onel is the only one who remembers the horrors of war. The colonel, played by Will Wor ley, keeps interrupting the initiation with increasingly gory details of WW I. Finally, recalling men being shot and bodies flying around him, he collapses. Although the words Worley speaks are horrible and full of the bloody reality of war, the play’s emotional level is so low the audi ence cannot believe the character is feeling any pain. The same lack of credibility oc curs in a fight scene. The town drunk, played by Roy Fitzwater, gets in an argument with a bitter cowboy, Mark Lindsay. Again, the dialogue and the action are believe- able, but their execution is not. Both actors smiled in the middle of their supposedly heated argument. Despite these flaws, the play was otherwise well presented and had a GAYLINE 693-1630 Information-Referrals 8-10 p.m. M-Th GSSO sponsored Professor studies engine for fuel efficiency, design message for the audience. The Knights were founded because members were not satisfied with the Ku Klux Klan, but by the time the play begins, these men in their small Texas town are the only sur viving chapter of a once-large or ganization. In their initiation ceremony they had sworn to uphold the ideals of the society till they died. But the ideals didn’t seem to mean the same things anymore. An all-white club, the Knights are ironically interrupted by the pres ence of colonel’s faithful black ser vant, played by Raymond Belcher. At the end of the play the Knights break up, realizing their meetings have become nothing more than domino tournaments. The servant shuffles into the des erted meeting room to sweep up. He picks up a page of the Knights’ secret initiation ceremony. 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