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1 - 1 Focus. The Battalion Thursday, June 11, 1981 ' 'M.r. Grove films fill summer nights The series of summer movies in The Grove is well under way, and although the price of stu dent admission is up 100 percent over last summer, the crowds are still coming. After all, a 50tf movie is still a bargain. MSC Aggie Cinema adviser David Mucci said the increased admission price reflects the quality of films offered. "I think it's reflected in the schedule,” Mucci said, "in the sense that we're trying to get films of a more popular type." Mucci said The Grove is be coming self-supporting; the amount of student service fee money allotted to its operation is decreasing each year. The in creased admission is partly re sponsible for this. Mucci said the program had a "really strong first week." Grove manager Bill Scott said this year's first week attendance was lower than last year's. "The main reason was the bad weather we had last week," Scott said. Many people will stay away if they think the film will be in side, Scott said. If it isn't raining, however, the movie will be out doors. For example, Thursday night's movie, "Time After Time," was shown outdoors, although the decision wasn't made until about 15 minutes be fore the movie started. "If it starts raining during the middle of the show, we'll move it inside," Scott said. The Grove holds about 1,000 people, while the indoor rooms only hold about 250. During the coming weeks. Aggies will be treated to such classics as "Star Trek," "Friday the 13th," "The Jerk" and "Saturday Night Fever." For "The Graduate" next Tuesday, all seniors graduating this summer will get in free with proof of graduation. Scott said seniors may show proof of hav ing ordered graduation announcements or a degree. The Grove has also expanded its concession stand, Scott said. The booth now offers three sizes of drinks and popcorn, instead of just one size of each. For a schedule of this week's Grove movies, see page 3. A small crowd braves the threat of bad an expanded snack bar and the ever-present weather to watch a movie in The Grove, trains that pass in the night. This summer's movies are accompanied by Photo by Greg Gammon. T-shirts may be newest art form United Press International WASHINGTON — T-shirt ex pressionism, one of America's newest art forms, is receiving its first "national" gallery exhibi tion at a small dealer's show room one floor above a dry cleaning plant on fashionable Connecticut Avenue. The name "National T-Shirt Art Exhibit" was derived from the fact that the showing in cludes works of art from "throughout the country," in cluding some from as far away as Fall Creek, Ore. Ruth Stenstrom, who helped arrange the exhibition, hopes it will give.T-shirt art a boost up the ladder of respectability. She readily admits that skivvy graphics have a few rungs to climb. Thus far, ornamental T-shirts are still used primarily to deco rate the human torso rather than grace the walls of museums and gallerys. Private hangings are scant, except perhaps in bed room closets. The Local 1634 Art Collective and Gallery, where the exhibit opened June 2 for a summer- long run, drapes most of the 100-odd T-shirts in the show on wire hangers. Hence the pro ximity to the dry cleaning plant is more than symbolic. Even so, it is apparent the T- shirt has come a long way since it first gained notoriety as the upper part of Marlon Brando's underwear in "A Streetcar Named Desire." According to the catalog pre pared for the show, the three most expensive entries are one- of-a-kind T-shirt etchings priced at $30 apiece. Stenstrom, a petite young woman who was wearing an un adorned black tank top, said etching is but one of many tech niques used by T-shirt artists. Among the more classy modes are hand silkscreening, hand painting and applique. It is, however, the familiar "message shirt" that is the back bone of the showing. This particular genre, "origin als" of which were advertised at from $5 up, still reflects its in cubation in the protest move ment. Adornments across the chests run strongly to slogans like "No Nukes" and "Hands Off El Salvador." As for medium, Stenstrom said no particular style pre dominated. From the T-shirts festooning the gallery it would appear that "decal on Fruit of the Loom" is an extremely popular school. Esthetically, it is about where the "Hudson River school" of oil painting was before Picasso, Braque and that bunch came along. 'ft, Pti El