Thursday, April 5,1990
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Around Town
Live Music
Information is provided by the
individual nightclubs and is sub
ject to change.
DOUBLE DAVE’S
In College Station at 326 S. Jer
sey. All ages admitted. Alcohol
served. For more information,
call 696-3283.
Wednesday — Sundown. Vari
ety. Starts at 9 p.m. $2 cover.
FLYING TOMATO
Northgate at 303 University
Drive. All ages admitted. For
more information, call 846-1616.
Tuesday — Will Mason. Rock.
Starts at 8 p.m. No cover.
Wednesday — Sneaky Pete.
Rock. Starts at 8:30 p.m. $2
cover.
FRANK’S BAR AND GRILL
In College Station at 503 E. Uni
versity Drive. All ages' admitted.
Alcohol served. Call 846-5388 for
more information.
Friday and Saturday — J-W.
Davis. Jazz saxophonist from
Austin. Starts at 9:30 p.m. No
cover.
GALLERY BAR
In the College Station Hilton at
801 E. University Drive. Only
ages 21 and older admitted. Call
693-7500 for more information.
Thursday —Steve Schoen. Jazz
pianist. Starts at 5:30 p.m. No
cover.
Friday and Saturday — D.A.
McDowell. Jazz pianist. Starts at
5:30 p.m. on Friday, 7 p.m. on
Saturday. No cover.
Wednesday — Steve Schoen.
Jazz. Starts at 5:30 p.m. No cover.
KAY’S CABARET
At Post Oak Mall. Ages 18 and
older admitted. Alcohol served.
For more information, call 696-
9191.
Thursday — Hank Townsend.
Mellow rock. Starts at 9:30 p.m.
No cover.
Friday — Borrowed Tyme and
Enemy. Rock. Starts at 9:30 p.m.
$2 cover.
Saturday — Starvin Marvin’
and the Dexatrims. Rock. Starts
at 9:30 p.m. $2 cover.
MAMA’S PIZZA
At 1601 S. Texas Ave. in College
Station. All ages admitted. For
more information, call 696-0032.
Sunday — Mama’s Boys. Rock.
Starts at 9 p.m. No cover.
SNEAKERS
At 504 Harvey Rd. All ages ad
mitted. Alcohol served. For more
information, call 696-8888.
Friday — Subculture Progres
sive rock. Starts at 10 p.m. No
cover.
TEXAS HALL OF FAME
At FM 2818 in Bryan. Alcohol
•served. For more information,
call 822-2222.
Thursday — Full House.
Country. Starts at 8p.m. $3 cover
($1 off w/ A&M ID.).
Friday — Special F/X Country.
Starts at 9 p.m. $5 cover.
Saturday — Bubba Cox and
Easy Going. Country. Starts at 9
p.m. $4 cover ($2 off with A&M
ID.)
FRONT PORCH CAFE
In Bryan at 4410 College Main.
All ages admitted. Alcohol
served. For more information,
call 846-LIVE.
Thursday — Blue Rhythm.R-
hythm and blues. Starts at 8 p.m.
$3 cover.
Friday — The Vanguards. Re
cord release party for this Austin
band. Rhythm and blues. Starts at
9 p.m. $5 cover.
Saturday — The Hightailers.
Rock from Houston. Starts at 9
p.m. $4 advance tickets, $5 at the
door.
Tuesday — Acoustic Stage. Open
stage for acoustic music. Starts at
8 p.m. No cover.
TIPPY’S
At 1803 Greenfield Plaza in
Bryan. Ages 21 and older ad
mitted. For more information,
call 846-7203.
Thursday — Sundown. Vari
ety. Starts at 8:30 p.m. No cover.
Friday — Fantasy. Country
and classic rock. Starts at 9 p.m.
No cover.
Saturday — Breakaway. Rock.
Starts at 9 p.m. No cover.
WAIVERS
At Northgate at 103 Boyett. Ages
18 and older admitted. Alcohol
served. For more information,
call 846-8863.
Thursday — The Kerouacs.
Rock. Starts at 9 p.m. $3 cover.
Friday — The Texas Twisters.
Rock. Starts at 9 p.m. $3 cover.
Saturday — The Band With
No Sleepand Bucky Einstein and
the Disciples of Relativity. Rock.
Starts at 9 p.m. $3 cover.
Monday — Stormy Monday blues
jam with The Rhythm Addicts
Blues. Starts at 9 p.m. $1 cover.
Comedy
Information is subject to
change.
GARFIELD’S
Located at 1503 S. Texas Ave.
Reservations recommended.
Ages 21 and older admitted. Call
693-1736 for more information.
Thursday — Brian Frazer,
headliner; Brian Leonard, mid
dle-man; and Jason Porter open
ing. Starts at 9 p.m. $5 cover.
Movies
Information is subject to
change. Admission restrictions
may apply.
AGGIE CINEMA
Tickets sold at Rudder Box Of
fice. Call 847-8478 for more in
formation.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.
Rated PG. Showtimes are 9:45
and midnight on Friday, 7:30 and
9:45 on Saturday.
CINEMA THREE
Located at 315 College Ave. Call
693-2796 for more information
about matinee showtimes.
House Party. Rated R. Show-
times are 7:10 and 9:15.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Rated PG. Showtimes are 5, 7 and
9.
POST OAK THREE
Located in Post Oak Mall. Call
693-2796 for more information
about matinee showtimes.
Lord of the Flies. Rated R. Show-
times are 7:25 and 9:25.
Opportunity Knocks. Rated PG-
13. Showtimes are 7 and 9.
Joe Versus the Volcano. Rated
PG. Showtimes are 7:15 and 9:15.
SCHULMAN SIX
In Bryan at 2002 E. 29th Street.
Call 775-2643 for more informa
tion about “dollar movies” and
weekend matinee times.
Born on the Fourth of July.
Rated R. Showtime is 8:20.
The Little Mermaid. Rated G.
Showtimes are 7:05 and 9:25.
Tango and Cash. Rated R. Show-
times are 7:05 and 9:55.
Black Rain. Rated R. Showtimes
are 7 and 9:30.
Look Who’s Talking. Rated PG-
13. Showtimes are 7:15 and 9:45.
Steel Magnolias. Rated PG-13.
Showtimes are 7:10 and 9:40.
PLAZA THREE
In College Station at 226 South
west Parkway. Call 693-2457 for
more information.
Hunt For Red October. Rated R.
Showtimes are 7 and 9:45.
Roger and Me. Rated PG-13.
Showtimes are 7:20 and 9:35.
Driving Miss Daisy. Rated PG.
Showtimes are 7:10 and 9:30.
MANOR EAST THREE
In Bryan in Manor East Mall. Call
823-8300 for more information.
Lambada. Rated PG-13. Show
time is 9:35.
Pretty Woman. Rated R. Show-
times are 7:15 and 9:45.
Enemies, A Love Story. Rated R.
Showtime is 7.
Glory. Rated R. Showtiome are
7:05 and 9:40.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas
scholar who recently published a
book about black soldiers in the Civil
War says the popular movie “Glory”
almost got it right.
Almost. But he liked the movie
anyway.
Joseph Glatthaar, an associate
professor at the University of Hous
ton, spent four years researching his
newly released book, “Forged in Bat
tle: The Civil War Alliance of Black
Soldiers and White Officers.”
Glatthaar says it was exciting to
see the lives of soldiers he has stud
ied come to life on the screen, but he
notes some inaccuracies in the film,
which coincidentally came out about
the same time as his book.
“The movie’s very good — I
strongly recommend it,” Glatthaar
says.
“What the movie is good at is con
veying a sense to the observer of
what it was like to be in these black
units and what were some of the
obstacles that they faced.”
But from a strictly historical
standpoint, there are some prob
lems, he says.
One example is the scene in which
Robert Gould Shaw r , the white com
mander of the 54th Massachusetts
Regiment, orders a soldier flogged.
“Flogging was illegal in the United
States Army,” Glatthaar says. “Shaw
would have been discharged from
the service if he did that.”
Glatthaar says the Hollywood ver
sion also included a fictitious ser
geant-major as Shaw’s right-hand
man.
“In reality, the sergeant major of
the 54th Massachusetts was the son
of the abolitionist and former slave
Frederick Douglass, which in itself is
very interesting,” he says.
Glatthaar has read hundreds of
letters exchanged between the sol
diers and their families, as well as
were apprehended as “contraband”
from the South.
“Of course, you have the old situa
tion with whites in power,” he says.
“Most of the blacks are from slav
ery, so it’s a position to which they’re
accustomed, but not happy with.
In World War I, they went through the exact same
issues, the exact same accusations that blacks didn’t
have the character to stand up in combat, that they
would all drop their weapons and run, or that they
would act like savages and fight uncontrollably and we
couldn’t trust them.”
— Joseph Glatthaar,
Civil War scholar
thousands of military documents
from library archives.
“There was no censorship of mails
and people were very prolific with
their own family or their own
spouse, and that’s very revealing, as
far as racial attitudes go.” he says.
It was a letter from a white officer
in charge of black troops that ini
tially got Glatthaar’s attention.
“I do not think that 1 would ex
change my position in this regiment
for one of equal rank in any white
regiment,” the officer wrote his
brother.
Glatthaar says he was intrigued by
the strange alliance between the
white officers and black soldiers,
many of them former slaves who
“And, of course, these blacks are
experiencing freedom for the first
time in the military, and that’s a
strange situation, too.”
Some 178,000 blacks served un
der 7,000 white officers in the U.S.
Colored Troops during the Civil
War.
Only 110 blacks were able to be
come officers in their own regi
ments.
Even before President Abraham
Lincoln officially freed slaves in Jan
uary 1863, black soldiers were re
cruited to fill the gaps left by casual
ties in the Union Army.
Glatthaar notes that black soldiers
suffered the indignities of lower
wages, undesirable assignments and
dwindling supplies.
But for many, it was a unique op
portunity to serve as “an equal” to
whites and to establish their rights
for themselves by fighting their for
mer owners.
But the white officers directing
black troops were not popular back
home.
“They were heroes in the black
community, but they were despised
by whites,” Glatthaar says.
“A lot of them were attacked and
brutalized and their families abu
sed.”
But Glatthaar says the most shock
ing indignities were those inflicted
on black troops after the war.
“What really surprised me most
was the way the white population
took away the accomplisnments of
the United States Colored Troops
after the war,” Glatthaar says. “They
denied their achievements.”
Black soldiers who remained as
peace-keeping forces in the South
during Reconstruction often suf
fered reprisals from former Confed
erate soldiers.
In the North, their fellow Union
Army soldiers and officers began
discounting their abilities.
“Blacks, I think, wisely felt that
their white officers should have
fought to help them gain full, equal
rights,” he says.
“The white officers never over
came their prejudice.”
Glatthaar says the battle for equal
ity continued in the military ranks
for years to come.
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AFTERNOON
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