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Variety show set Saturday :lel)l By DEBBIE NELSON Campus Staff Music, comedy, dance, ventrilo quism ... all are ingredients for a good variety show, whether at a Las Vegas nightspot, on a Hollywood sound stage or in the Memorial Stu- T dent Center. This year’s variety show will be Saturday at 8 p.m. in Rudder Au- ditorium. Kathy Campana, the show’s chair man, said 17 student acts are fea- ecret however llr turcc ^ in ^is year’s show. Variety rtain percentaK ; > real, y is , th 1 e theme of the show, with bsidv into camp. acts includin § a ro,ler skater, a clas- 1( , r thines thev *’ sical P ianist ’ a Kenyan student sing- st (uTinan voter:; in | a native , son S> a flutist and vocal the debts are pilir and mus ! L ; al acts ran g in g from reh - i . gious to bluegrass. here maintain pert & - - izations that area; field of 57 in preliminary auditions, its pai > o icesn®! j^ e jjy MeElroy, Miss Texas A&M : University, will be featured in a tap- dance routine. The show also pre- i ising oists. v ie WS the theater arts production of “Guys and Dolls,” Campana said. • judges Joe McHale, from a public relations firm in Houston, Harry Gooding, a local musician, and Helen Sodders, from KBTX-TV, will award the winning act with a plaque. ’ As of Thursday afternoon, plenty of seats were still available at the Rudder Box Office for the show at $■50 for students and $2 for non students. The first variety show at Texas Publicity chairman Keith New man said the acts were chosen from a insly seeking waysti noney. They haveta isful in persuadingfe n template an iflcreast for donations. Buttle w being considered,! ‘Marlin’ needs more polish THE BATTALION FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1980 Page 3 By ANGELIQUE COPELAND Campus Staff Having to compete for an audi ence with “Showboat” didn’t help the already lagging performance by the Aggie Players in “Marlin the Magnificent” Thursday night. Two minor characters, the prince and the second guard, managed to steal the show in this off-beat fantasy. The prince charming, Mike Steege, dressed in pink and with a lust for cooking, gave a funny per formance as the petulant son of the moments of real comedy. The title character (Tom Stimson) is a lost magician lacking in self- confidence. Stimson wears a per plexed frown from the beginning of the play — a frown that almost nev- ers leaves his face as he seems to stay confused about both the action in play and his character. Despite a slow start, the action picked up in the second act and the audience began to respond to the adult humor in this basically chil dren’s show. Review lie current election inentum, West Gen idox. Throughingem ud work, theyhaveli [i one of the worlosi nornies. 1 heir pdiN A&M was the Intercollegiate Talent lowever, simply o show, featuring first- and second- place winners from individual shows at Southwest Conference schools. •, editor of the Hapa Newman said the show, which pack- e Zeitung, writes on ec l G. Rollie White’Coliseum yearly, urs in West Gera* was then the biggest entertainment event at Texas A&M. Author to speak in library evil queen (Mary-Alice Helman) as he tried to avoid marrying the out cast princess (Jill Moore). His facial expressions as he pouted and hung on the queen’s skirt were both com ical and convincing. The second guard (Terry Martin), petrified of being turned into a statue by Marlin, together with Steege picked up the action in the second act helping to give the show some The set was beautifully done with a soft glowing backdrop befitting a fantasy world. The stage props were sparse, accenting the scenes and the action not detracting from them. As a children’s show, the play would have been more successful had it run at a faster pace from the beginning. But for the older crowd, it needed more character depth to give the audience something to iden tify with. check our price. . . 19.99 for women 'All Court." White canvas tennis shoe with blue trim. 6V2 to 13. IMIS Shoe. Stcyiel Culpepper Plaza 693-3577 MC & Visa Accepted Steve Vogel plays banjo and sings for the Skillet Lickers, one of the acts performing in the MSC All-University Show Saturday in Rudder Auditorium. Staff photo by Lynn Blanco Corps set to entertain The MSC Basement Coffeehouse has brought some class acts to Texas A&M University and Corps Night, tonight, will be no exception. Beginning at 8:00 p.m. members of the Corps of Cadets will provide all the entertainment up until some where around midnight. The acts will vary with anything from singing to guitar playing. Admission is 500 at the door and everyone is invited. The next group night the Coffee house has planned is Greek Night on April 10. m KFreelance writer Robert F. Karolevitz will address the Friends of the Texas A&M University Lib rary at their meeting today in the Sterling C. Evans Library. ifThe 2 p.m. meeting in the library conference room is open to the pub lic and will be chaired by Friends president-elect Loran Laughlin. R: Several of Karolevitz’ 15 books have earned national recognition. His subjects include biography, humor, nostalgia and history. The South Dakotan has also published more than 1,000 magazine articles. IT He is a former newspaperman, ghost writer, military public infor- mation officer, advertising copywri- j ter and public relations counsel. Karolevitz is a veteran of World War Iliand the Korean conflict. His most notable book, “Where Your Heart Is,” is the biography of Dakota-born pioneer artist Harvey Dunn. It received a coveted Wrang ler statuette from the National Cow- VE V boy Hall of Fame and Heritage Cen- wrr^,^, ter in Oklahoma City. |; Karolevitz is a charter inductee into the South Dakota Heritage Hall of Fame, along with Dunn, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Lawrence Welk. The Friends speaker is a South Dakota State University graduate and Distinguished Alumnus. He also holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. I' He and his wife Phyllis now live on their farm near Mission Hill in Yank ton County, S. D. Karolevitz has de scribed their farming experience in another book, “Everything’s Green dislays, speakers Thumb ” two years, they p»t*f he fa ™ , raised , corn ’ and ilays. 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