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Musical revives fable of show business
‘42nd Street’ performance exhilarating
By MARY McWHORTER
Staff Writer
“Cgme and meet those dancing
feet, on the avenue I’m taking you
to, on 42nd Street!”
The audience in Rudder Audito
rium was wowwed Thursday night
I with a toe tappin’, finger snappin’
I performance of David Merrick’s
"42nd Street.”
The show began at full speed and
couldn’t be stopped — not one exhi
larating, campy, funny and down
right swell moment of it.
Set in 1933, “42nd Street” was a
resurrection of the old show busi
ness fable where the star can’t go on
and the greenhorn takes her place
and becomes an even bigger star.
Cathy Wydner knocks ’em dead as
Peggy Sawyer. Her dancing was in
credible, as was everyone’s.
Dorothy Brock, the gaudy and ag
ing star, was played properly by Eliz
abeth French. Gary Marshal also hits
From dii ector/ch oreogra -
pher Gower Champion’s
ilashy tap dancing to The-
oni V. Aldredge’s silky,
satiny, sparkling costumes
and the spirit-lifting, jazzy
old tunes, “42nd Street”
doesn ’f miss a trick.
the mark with his characterization of
the tough director with a heart of
gold, Julian Marsh.
But this show really had no stars,
the show was the star. From direc
tor/choreographer Gower Cham
pion’s flashy tap dancing to Theoni
V. Aldredge’s silky, satiny,,sparkling
costumes and the spirit-lifting, jazzy
old tunes, “42nd Street” doesn’t miss
a trick.
“We’re in the Money” and “Lul
laby of Broadway” provide some
fantastic numbers, as does “Shuffle
Off to Buffalo.’’Performed in the
sleeping births of a train chugging
along to New York, the number fea
tures a scantily clad women’s chorus
trilling the lyrics in their nighties like
Las Vegas show girls.
And of course you can’t forget the
show stopper — “42nd Street.” A
fine piece of razzle dazzle, “42nd
Street” is the show of shows —a
snazzy bit of entertainment.
Chagra dealt second conspiracy conviction
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Elizabeth Chagra was con
victed Thursday for the second time of con
spiring to kill the federal judge scheduled to
preside over the drug racketeering trial of
her husband.
U.S. District John H. Wood Jr., known as
"Maximum John” for the stiff sentences he
dealt drug offenders, was shot in the back by
a sniper as he left his San Antonio condomi
nium on May 29, 1979.
A federal jury found Mrs. Chagra guilty of
murder conspiracy T hursday after deliberat
ing 10 hours over two days.
Sentencing was set for March 10, when she
! could receive up to 30 years in prison.
Mrs. Chagra. 32. showed no emotion as
the jury’s decision was read and told report
ers she had no comment. .
Defense attorney Larry Zinn, said, “There
definitely will be an appeal.
“I think we have a better chance than we
had before.“
Mrs. Chagra was convicted of the conspir
acy charge in 1982, but an appeals court
overturned the conviction because of im
proper jury instructions.
At the time of his death. Wood was sched
uled to hear a case involving her husband, Ja-
miel “Jimmy” Chagra, who was accused of
making up to $10 million a year smuggling
boatloads of marijuana into Florida.
Jurors asked to listen again Thursday to
testimony about how Mrs. Chagra delivered
$250,000 that went to Wood’s hired killer,
Charles Harrelson, who is serving a life sen
tence for the judge’s murder.
The panel reheard testimony from Teresa
Starr, Harrelson’s stepdaughter, who re
ceived the payoff, and also had replayed four
tapes of secretly recorded conversations be
tween Mrs. Chagra and her husband in a fed
eral prison.
Mrs. Chagra took the stand during the
trial, which started Feb. 5, and contended she
thought the $250,000 was for one of her hus
band’s gambling debts.
She also contended she knew nothing
about plans to kill the judge by her husband
and his brother, Joe, who pleaded guilty to
murder conspiracy in a bargain with the gov
ernment.
Jimmy Chagra was acquitted in 1983 of
murder and murder conspiracy charges, but
was convicted of obstructing justice in the in
vestigation into Wood’s death.
Mrs. Chagra’s chief defense attorney,
Warren Burnett, said Thursday, “I would
hate to be one of the jurors who voted for
this verdict and then finds out that Jimmy
Chagra was acquitted of this same thing pre
viously.
“We could not show this to the jury be
cause of a court order.
“It might have made a great difference.”
Joe Chagra, testififying as a government
witness during the trial, said his brother
agreed to the plan, but that Mrs. Chagra had
no part in the scheme.
Students may
apply to attend
lecture series
Texas A&M’s Wiley Lecture
Series Monday will begin taking
applications for attendance of lec
tures by former presidents Ger
ald Ford and Jimmy Carter, his
torian and author Stephen
Ambrose, and “Newsweek” col
umnist George Will, the four se
ries speakers.
The seminars will be April 1 at
2:30 p.m. in Rudder Tower. Ap
plicants can attend only one semi
nar. Each session is limited to 60
students.
Each speaker will give a 15-25
minute lecture and a question-
and-answer period will follow.
The topic this year is “U.S. In
terventionism: Resolving Inter
national Conflicts.”
Ford will discuss the Gramm-
Rudman law and Carter will lec
ture on terrorism. Ambrose will
discuss Nixon’s foreign policy
and Will’s topic is “Government:
The Disease for Which it Pre
tends to be the Cure.”
Applications are available at
the Student Programs Office in
216 MSC. The deadline is March
10. Applicants must provide their
social security number as a secu
rity check.
Ruben Brochner, seminar
planner, said, “We are trying to
provide a way for students to in
teract on a more personal basis
with the speakers we bring.”
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performing in the spring
show on April 25 need
to contact their teachers
this week.
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