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Review
Friday, February 3, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11
primes' funny
in tragic way
By MIKE DAVIS
Reporter
/ A Southern household filled
with family skeletons is the per
fect combination for a tragedy
with comic results. “Crimes of
the Heart,” presented Thursday
night in Rudder Auditorium,
took that combination and left
the audience laughing one mi
nute and reaching for a Kleenex
the next.
H “Crimes of the Heart” — a
^1 delightful play — brings back
J| the memories of family reun
ions, both the good and bad.
The play was brought to life by
■ " the characters’ detailed facial ex-
, 'T' 1 pressionsand exaggerated body
j IHIt movements. These antics, com-
j i' 1 bined with a set like a grand
mother’s kitchen, make the
' ! 11 absurd plot believable.
^HUfs | i “C r i nies 0 f the Heart” takes
" ' 0 place in Hazelhurst, Mississippi
five years after Hurricane
Camille. The three MaGrath sis-
" as ’ ‘ ters are brought together be-
voles! cause Babe, the youngest, has
c ‘ iar ! : just shot her husband because
she can’t stand his looks and falls
' ( ™ asleep at the sound of his voice,
d AeacJI Lenny, the oldest, is trying to
thepw.:|celebrate her 30th birthday
rain ' which no one remembers except
pfessfib her cheap cousin Chick, played
iheacs! by Dawn Didawick. Also, Lenny
' or S) e ’ finds out her pet horse of 20
) rea {years, Billy Boy, was struck by
lepen. lightening and killed the pre-
oomiia vious evening.
■ Meg, the black sheep, has re
turned from Hollywood to help
Babe. But to complicate things
even more, Meg’s old flame, Doc
Porter, played by Tom Stech-
schulte, has returned to town
with his Yankee wife and to half-
Yankee kids. Meg left Doc to
to
pursue a singing career that nev
er materialized.
The plot twists and turns as
Babe gets a crush on her lawyer,
played by David Allison Carpen
ter. He wants to prove Babe’s
husband, Zachery Botrelle, is a
fraud and a brute. Babe, played
by Cyd Quilling, is the stereoty
pical blond with a high, squeaky
voice and air-headed pearls of
wisdom. Babe has been having
an affair with Willie Jay, a black
15-year old who came over to the
house to play with his dog —
Dog. Unknown to Babe, photos
were taken of her and Willie Jay
in the garage.
Meg MaGrath, played by
Kathy Danzer, is the brassy,
seductive sister. Because she
found her mother and the old
orange cat hanging in the cellar
16 years before, her top priority
in life was to be a strong person.
Caryn West played the some
times sad, sometimes paranoic,
but always hilarious Lenny. Len
ny has devoted her life to taking
care of Grandaddy, with the ex
ception of one brief affair which
she called off because of her
shrunken ovary.
The play takes the light
hearted approach to everyday
life’s ups and downs, shown by
Lenny and Babe’s uncontroll
able laughter over Grandaddy
slipping into a coma. Through
out the play, the sisters never
seem to be on the same emotion
al plain, until Lenny’s birthday
wish that they all be smiling
together. The wish and the play
is finished by the three devour
ing large pieces of Lenny’s “one
day late” birthday cake.
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Gov. N
Dorm's microwave
roposal approved
By LISA PEDERSEN
Reporter
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iber fr«j
e, Whitfi
fexas 1 ' Haas Han s propost
iconoffltj m i cr owave oven for their dormi-
desigirf tory was approved by Student
n cap»! Affairs this week,
busines® The proposal, written by
4,000^; Julie Hilton, vice president of
Haas Hall, said the microwave
■al prof will be used for limited food pre-
nail Bit paration and will be located in a
rs 15- 11 storage room on the second
rtiallM floor, says Haas Hall’s President
lady inDee Dee Pearson,
eas that ^ “Haas Hall has been given the
als who approval right now to go ahead
dc devti and purchase and have the oven
s. installed on a two-year trial
eraplo' basis. We will then evaluate it
i offen and see how it is going,” says
fun® NylaPtomey, housing programs
i using* supervisor.
U.s. dff; When the residents of Haas
id Urban Hall asked permission to put a
; Small B microwave in that’s all they had
u. in mind. But when the request
pedtocn went from the Residence Hall
ipital in' Association to the department
0 new j of Student Affairs, it set off a
a m durit study of the entire dormitory
food situation.
; church RHA asked that light cook-
,yhite si ing, such as boil-in-bags, be per-
corporal mined in dormitory rooms. The
ous lealj request was denied by Student
) handk' Affairs,
ributei^ ‘ “We disapproved that be-
calagen cause essentially we see it as
ationsifl cooking and we don’t allow
•ationof cooking in the rooms. It would
be changing the policy and at
this time it is something we
would rather not do,” says
Pyomey.
Ron Sasse, associate director
of Student Affairs, says he is
looking into several possibilities
for improving the dormitory
food situation.
There has always been snack
privileges in the rooms, but
cooking in the rooms has bever
been approved, Sasse says. He
realizes the cooking regulations
are not being obeyed, but the
policy is difficult to enforce, he
says.
“The dorm rooms are not de
signed for cooking, they are de
signed for living,” Sasse says.
“We have a super meal plan, so
why do you need to cook in the
rooms?”
Sasse says dorm rooms don’t
have the proper facilities for
cooking which makes ventila
tion, disposal, and clean-up a
problem. In addition, the rooms
don’t have the proper electrical
system to handle the overload,
and cooking would make the in
sect problem worse.
“We want to enhance the liv
ing environment without the
problems,” Sasse says.
To meet students’ needs, Sas
se is considering centralized
cooking rooms, with microwaves
and boil-in-bag concession
stands, and an optional meal
plan — 12 meals a week, for ex
ample — in addition to the five
and seven-day plan.
Sports Car Club
a:i\ CROSS C/>
Zachry Lot 50 col
^ Sun. Feb. 5
Registration-10 am Runs-1pm
New Members Welcomed
Galveston mayor dies
i
United Press International
GALVESTON — Mayor Gus
Manuel, who last summer
advised residents of his island
city not to evacuate their homes
ahead of Hurricane Alicia, died
Thursday at St. Mary’s Hospital
in Galveston from complications
related to cancer. He was 54.
Manuel had been hospital
ized since Monday in Galveston.
He died about 8 a.m.
1
Manuel became widely
known last August when he
advised residents of Galveston
Island not to evacuate their
homes, despite the onslaught of
Hurricane Alicia. t-
Although he initially had
been criticized for his decision,
he turned out to be correct be
cause the brunt of the storin mis
sed the city. , :
City Manager Steve Huffman
ordered flags in the city to be
flown at half mast until after
Manuel’s funeral.
Mayor Pro Tern Jan Cog-
geshall will take over the job un
til the city’s scheduled election in
Apt il.
In September 1982, Manuel
had one cancerous kidney re
moved and later underwent
surgery for malignant tumors
on, the remaining kidney.
He.is survived by his wife
Nancy and four children.
LAURENCE E X. BRETT
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OF WASHINGTON, D: C.
MONDAY FEB. 6
7:30 pm RUDDER THEATER
sponsored by
the Catholic Student Association
Photo by ERIC EVAN LEE.
A scene from ‘Crimes of the Heart’
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