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Dawson I Chapin T The Dawson Boys, pictured above, will be in the Golden Spur this Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00. The Dawson Boys appeared on the patio this summe~r and they were so well received that the Contemporary Sounds Committee decided to book them for this engagement and to front Harry Chapin this Friday night. The Dawson Boys specialize in soft acoustic story telling music and admission to their concerts in the Spur are free, but be sure to bring your USC ID. Friday night, the Dawson Boys will open the Harry Chapin Concert that is also being presented by the Contemporary Sounds Committee. Harry Chapin has been hailed by the critics as everything from "the best thing since Bob Dylan" to "too emotionally complex." He is a Grammy award winner for his songs "Taxi" and "Sniper." Much of the confusion that critics feel about,.Chapin's music stems from his insistence on telling stories that are sometimes not as has ChapCUinI T e DasANDARDs,pcue T e DasoLECTRysaperdo theCpATION s umendThe weesoElC receivESSth ConEporayMSoNs Cm ie 30ys Spur Frd Harry Chapin will be in Town ship Auditorium this Friday at 8:00 with the Dawson Boys. Admission is $2.00 in advance $3.00 at the door for USC students, $3.00 and $4.00 for the public. Tickets are available at Russell House, Taylor Street Pharmacy, Budget Tapes and Records, Tunes and Things and Record Bar. Whej yo1 at mo alk Contact_ At. Yo, Richard A Charmin, BY BOB CRAFT The closer the time came for Richard Harris to be in Columbia, the tighter the atmosphere around the campus became. Calls kept coming to the office, the voices were inevitably female, the question always was, "Do -you know where Richard Harris is staying? The motel or the room number?" Harris's myth precedes him and the thought relished with gleeful panic by the Union people was . "Is he really as wild as everyone says?%Wil we need to hire attack dogs to keep him in line? Will it be necess-try to chain him in his room'"" \'nt ronllv.. Flutters. He arrived a day early. Sorry ladies. He's traveling with a girl he picked up at St. Bonny or Villanova and she's traveling with him now. She's beautiful, quite young, although her face is set in a mask of horedom that is supposed to pass for regal serenity. There is nothing worse than a beautiful woman who looks bored, it makes you wonder why God created her. The switchboard is out and the only way the Union people can keep in contact is to keep sending runners down to the Sheraton, Suite 801. It has started. Harris has asked where the student bar is and he has told someone in the Union that his new girlfriend is going to precede him at the reading and give a lecture on sex. "We think lie's serious," said Mary Moody', Union vice-president for finance. 1 you enroll i i can get moi a scholarshi at free flyi et at: nthly Inter University of 2 ____-777 ai'1l find more than a scho Harris JI g Failure Another tantalizing rumor. Be there, he's coming to the Golden Spur tonight at 8:00. I wait with a good friend, the noise levels in the Spur constantly rise. We watch the last of Banacek, simply staring listlessly at 01i set. The sound has long since tren drowned and images change on the set, they could be people or swirls of for miless color, it doesn't matter. We leave for the Stage Door. Frank Siano the man who is keeping tie Harris barnstorm together catches me on the second floor. There is a question and answer session with Harris at 1:00. University Union Television is taping the session in the Art Gallery. Tom Moody is setting the video equipment up. There are cables everwhere and to add to the con fusion, a new display is being set up in the art gallery. The time is changed to 2:00. Richard arrives shortly before 2:00. He looks old, far older than his 42 years. lie is clean shaven and his hair is almost completely grey. He seems to be aware that he is onstage and clicks on his "Richard Harris " characti lie stands very close to a print on the wall and pulls his eyeglasses down on his nose, scrutinizing it playfully. That ;iight. I arrive late for the reading The place is packed. lk, (rmes out and starts on a light note. lie has the poster the Union Press has made for his visit and he uses it to -give the five stages of an actor: "First. Who is n Air Force I re than a cha p and a char ,ng lessons... ix-fre 0< pers :e of$ -ested? outh Carolina .__ -4134 ______ __ larship in the Air Force I rap-up: Richard Harris; second, Get me Richard Harris; third, Get me a Richard Harris type; fourth, get me a young Richard Harris; fifth, Remember Richard Harris?" He says he loves the poster. He starts reading. He reads jumping from poem to poem in no apparent order. "I'll do this one, no I'll do it later, I want to-do this, one first." Some of the poems are char ming, some are bad. The two best are "Christy Brown" written to the author of "Down All the Days" and "Too Many Saviours on My Cross," about the civil war in Northern Ireland. People had expected him to sing and so people began to leave quite early. He interspersed his reading with anecdotes that he has told on the "Tonight Show" and some others. The whole production was boring in spots, although he did reward the audience by singing an old folk song at the end. He did an hour and left. Technically, the reading was a failure, but it was done with charm and it had the sinews of Harris's Life to make it go. He was gone the next day at noon and the university settled back after having him here for a few days. He may have winged it, but he 'is such a person that he lit up .this campus for a couple of days with excitement, an excitement that I have never seen generated here before. For a couple of days, life was in the cadaver. ROTC nce Lce 100. (OTC.