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Thursday, June 11, 1981
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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.
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