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i ' - -1 agy * BP " / ? < m HhkK Marx Bro By CHUCK CROMER Entertainment Editor Films, as usual, contribute heavily to the campus weekly activities. The Russell House University Union Cinematic Arts Committee is sponsoring a special Marx Brothers' double bill as this weekend's pay film. The flicks, "The Cocoanuts" and "Horsefeathers", will be shown at 6 and Q r\ m faHQIf u p.m. , A k 1UMJ C411U kXHUIUd^ in the Russell House 'Hieatre. "The Cocoanuts" (1929) was the four Marx Brothers first film and brought to the screen some of their best stage routines, including Groucho's land auction and the nerve-racking "Viaduct" dialogue. The story, always of secondary importance in a Marx Brothers r>1m, deals with a Florida hotel ^ smanaged by Groucho, and 'no ctnlnn ioumlc *iiv uvv/awi jvnv/iOi 'Horsefeathers" (1932) has the /Iarx Brothers satirizing college life. Chico and Harpo portray dumb college athletes, who help provide 'nrff: j ;| ' j . I " 'BET in , : ^^HK|H^HkLV > ^^Zb3reB - | Mark Alexander?THE GAMECOCK thers highli a frenzied football finale, involving chariots, hot dogs, banana skins, elastic bands and countless pigskins. THE CLASSIC Cinema Series i begins its second week at the Jefferson Square Theatre with "Seven Beauties", directed by the world's most acclaimed female director, Lina Wertmuller. Tickets for USC students are $2. As critic Rex Heed wrote, "The central figure is Pasqualino (boldly, dymanically played by Giancarlo Giannini with eyes that blaze brighter than the tips of his cigarillos until the screen is on fire), a strutting, hot-blooded, Neapolitan peacock who murders his sisters' pimp to defend his family's honor, pleads insanity to escape the death penalty, lands in an asylum, rapes a female patient, and escapes again by joining the ! army to defend his country's : honor. Sick of war in which there's neither win nor loss, only guili; for > everybody, he deserts, gets captured in the German woods by Caught in the middle of / a song, ZZ Top's Billy | _ Gibbons and Dusty Hill | grunt out some of the band's thundering rock and roll. ZZ Top played EJ |j| J to an audience of more ^ gggj j than 13,000 Sunday at | the Carolina Coliseum v as a part of their 15 month tour. 'Top' spins By JOHN ROBINSON Gamecock Staff Writer If you appreciate the thundering kind of rock music ZZ Top plays, you would have gotten an ear full of it Sunday night at the Carolina Coliseum. A festive mood for the concert was set immediately for the record breaking attendence of more than 13,000 persons. As the lights dimmed on Styx, the warm-up band. an excited and expectant crowd greeted the first group with lighted matches. Opening the set with "Laurelie," the group came across loud and tight as the crowd rushed to fill the isles in front of the stage. With a style that alternated between heavy jamming rifts of the two lead guitarists and a synthesizer, Styx had the audience on their feet with the first number. The audience, appreciated and, despite its size listened to the group, which is not always the case for warm up bands. ZZ TOP made their way on stage by 10 p.m. and did not find their way off it until an hour and a half, and two encores later. TUn.. A I 1 .. ?i : 1 J?*?--? incjf wui ftcu luii u on Mdgc, piaying naru driving rock interspersed with an occasional blues song. Unfortunately, a three-man group does not leave a great deal of room for musical diversity. But what ZZ Top lacks in diversity, they make up for in energy and power. ZZ Top started their first set with a number called "Get High Everybody, Get High", which turned out to be what most people were doing. The band did 11 songs in their first set. Some of them old favorites such as "Beer Drinkers and Hell naisers , i-rsirci , precious and Grace", Mexican Black Bird", finishing with their famous song "La Grange". Unly two blues numbers were performed during the set. The rest of the songs, with the exception of "La ight movies Nazis, and ends up in a con- artist Philip Mui centration camp where wholesale at the Columbia carnage is like an extension of Oct. 17 through I what he did to people back home." associate art p The Carolina Community Film painted the worl Festival begins its six film series year sabbatical, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the The exhibition Williams-Brice Nursing works, ranging A1 iHitnrillm tvifh "Cmninn ? I r? 1 / 1 . .mvuvw*ivuii w ivii Kjggl^in^ in tuc incites uy ZV2 inci Rain." 21 feet. The lar Other films in the series include exhibition can b< "Red Dust", (Oct. 31), smaller individi "Tho Thin A/Ion" / NT-.. r?\ J - * .11111 man , UHUV, i)y ClUdCd 111 tfie "Camille" (Nov. 14), "Adam's paintings on ac Rib" (Nov. 21) and "The Best paper, paintings Years of Our Lives" (Nov. 28). and silkscre< Season tickets cost $7 and are homemade pape still available at the English The last week Department. Month at the "Singing in the Rain" (1952) is Public Library v one of the greatest musicals of all and craft nros< time. Gene Kelly, Debbie p.m. and 3:30 p.1 Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor Hammerman ii star in this whimsical Hollywood will be shown. / satire as it depicts the traumas of nesday Maree D actors and actresses trying to the main Librar survive the transition from silent The Columbia to sound movies. Concert Series season with AN EXHIBITION of paintings by From Great Oj nnini. in,. ^ fhe Gamecock * * i^nuinmenr i i J 4 crowd Grange", sounded very much like one another. Loud, driving music with the lyrics sung mostly by lead guiianst tsiiiy uiDDons. Sustained chanting, applause, and foot stomping } i brought the group back for an encore that included Johnny Cash's "Folsolm Prison Blues", "Hollywood" and "My Old Blue Jeans". The crowd wouldn't give up, and ZZ Top came back for a second encore blasting for an half hour on "Jail House Rock" and "Boogie Children". "We don't usually do two encores, but tonight we were really pickin', and I guess we all felt good about the way things were going," Gibbons said. ZZ Top got together in Houston, Texas, seven years ago and is in the third month of a 15 month world-wide # 4 tour, which will take them to Europe. "WE PLAY about every third day. It takes a day to set up and a day to tear down," bass player Dusty Hill f oirl oaiu. "Being on the road is something that takes a lot of getting used to and a lot of adjustment. You have to get used to not having the nice things like being around friends you know and being with out the comforts of your own place, but I really like it," Gibbons added. i ZZ Top came to Carolina with more than $1 million nf cnnnH r?miinmnnt tV->nir> nnm lirtlw oW.^.1. in v?. v\ju>piiiv>ll, utvll WWII llglll OIIUW, II lUdU hands and four tractor trailers, complete with drivers. "We couldn't bring our animal show with us because the hall (coliseum) is too small," Hill said. Usually, Hill said, the group brings a stage cut in the shape of Texas. In front of the stage, a pen is set up with a buffalo, steer, a beaver and two rattle snakes. 4 4 T C1 1 nnACO Mm1 Kirtrfnof T/wnn U ~ ~ A ??V. IV- 111 ICAda, UUWII IR.'IIlt" UlUi w all that," Gibbons said. "We've been doing well in the North too. Up there we're still kind of a novelty act; you know cowboy hats and boots. I think there is an intrigue with the mystic of the West." FOCUS 3 < lien will be shown performers from the Columbia i Museum of Art Lyric Theatre at 3 p.m. Sunday in ^Jov. 16. Mullen, an the Trustees Gallery of the rofessor at USC, Museum. The concert is free to the ks while on a one public. Arias and duets will be chosen from "Lucia di Lami will consist of 31 mermoor", "Marriage of Giaro", in size from 1M> "Othello", "Pagliacci", hes to picht hw " C ...ew?VVVW, ger works in the 3 ?broken down into THE CONTEMPORARY Sounds jal paintings. In- Committee will present the display will be "Wright Brothers Overland Stage luarius figerglass Company" in concert at the on linen or ranvas Russell Hnnsp RallfAnin o ?. m , v?w - -Vv?wv Ul U |S.1U. en prints on Friday. r. of National Hobby Tickets are $1 and can be purRichland County chased at the Travel Center. vill feature a film As one critic wrote, "The entation. At 1:15 breadth of their music spans from in. Tuesday, "The ethnic down-home footstomping ? n Williamsburg" bluegress to orchestrated ballads it 2:30 p.m. Wed- charted for symphonies, with owdy will quilt at many varieties of gospel, country y at 1400 Sumter, rock and rock in between". Museum Of Art'u Thp hariH hno ? u - v< VUIIU IIHO t CVU1 UCU IWU opens its 1976-77 alburns, 4'The World Renowned Vrias and Duets Memorabilia Box", and "Cornfield seras", featuring Cowboys." I) <