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By STEVE DeANTONIO
Gamecock Staff Writer
Disco, the nightlife that is sweeping the nightclub circuit,
it> quite cviutriu in v-wiuiiiuid.
Disco is loud music with a heavy beat, abundant with
sensuality and enticement. Disco is dance, bright lights and
people.
Artists whose records are frequently heard in the discos
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Gees, Barry White and many others.
Disco music has stressed rhythm. The music is mostly
produced by black soul, rhythm and blues artists.
AT LEAST three nightspots in the Columbia area have
become discos, using contrasting styles.
The Left Guard's "2001 Disco" has a black and white
checkered tile dancefloor below two rotating quadri-colored
lights. In front of the dancefloor is a light that shines a
tumbling projection onto the opposite wall.
The decor is modern, there is emphasis on glass and
rectangular wall-hangings One truly enjoyable aspect of
the 2001 is the comfortable furniture, which is much different
from the simplistic furniture in other Columbia bars.
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The Columbia Music Festival Association opens it
Artist Concert Series with a performance by th
Folklorico of Mexico at 8 p.m. Wed. at Township Aui
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especially for the University staging the play in a
Theatre will open today at Drayton theatre presentation
Hall. selected as one of the ye
The production, written by productions.
Jonathan Crow, a Sumter
playwright, is the story of two The cast of "Page
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des?>erateiy trying to get past the playwright roles being
firtwC rMige in their new script. Jack George and Glern ]
7he show will play from Monday play is being directed
tmcugh Saturday at 8:15 p.m. Green with set de
daily. technical direction
The plot is one of weird situations Cleveland. Costumes a
brought about by the people who frey Blum, and the
come to tile writer's apartment directed by Richard Br
while they are trying to complete The box office is open ]
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Fhere are plants and attractive murals that further comDlement
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A COMPLETELY different nightspot, is the Skyline <
Disco. The atmosphere here is more open and informal. Its
lecor has a western accent, most evident by the saloon-type
3ar complete with bullhorns above it. j
Five parachutes are suspended from the high ceiling and ,
create an open effect. The dance floor is wooden and is as
arge as a high school basketball gym. This gives ample |
oom for dancing. I
The more refined dancers exhibit their abilities on top a <
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ightshow placed on the stage. There are tall lights behind ;
panels that change hues rapidly. A disc jockey plays music |
*nd controls the lights, which are sometimes synchronized
A'ith the music. ,
Smuggler's Inn has a disco that caters to a richer and j
)lder crowd than college students. It has the same music,
and similar lighting effects as the other discos but in a more \
exclusive atmosphere created by crafted ornamentations
and formal dress codes. A low-key disc jockey plays music. ]
Its patrons begin their evening in the disco before dining
in an adjacent restaurant. ,
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Committee is showing three under these
television commercials before semester, a
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weekly pay movies have failed to fighting anc
attract the minimum revenue since televis
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expenses of their free films which They face
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iitorium who seek to satisfy viewers by the premier
showing these recent films free, of "Gone wi
Thus, college and television the withdraw
programmers are intensely from the n?
competing for the same movies this summer
and the same audience. television c
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aboratory because they can not compete The previ<
it was against free entertainment. The with the Win
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logically would prefer watching a integrity ant
free movie on television rather the televisioi
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DISCO ATTRACTS those who want to go somewhere that
is distinct, apart from the boring life.
Disco music never seems to depart from happiness and
exhilaration. It's key is the song by the Trammps, "Disco, <
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While the musical quality of disco music is questionable,
few persons will refute that the music makes people want to
dance.
Clearly, the disco market is a significant contributor to
phases of related businesses although it may be crushing
the live band circuit. New discos have been popping up fast
as the disco hopper discovers. These nightspots have invested
considerable sums of money in sound systems and
light shows. The Skyline boasts eight 15 inch speakers and
[our woofers. Each disco has an expensive array of lights.
Attendance is not poor at Columbia's discos, or other (
discos around the nation. According to Billboard Magazine,
more than 20 per cent of weekly attendance at discos in the
United States reaches three and one half thousand. At least
M per cent have a cover charge.
Whether the increasing amount of discos will cause the
market's own demise is doubtful for the immediate future.
As long as discos provide a variation of tastes and
audiences, they will flourish.
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troys films
and television are movies, can attract more people
the same film in the than theatres. "The Shootist", for
example, starring John Wayne was
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>r example, was shown this summer because Paramount
5 circumstances this Pictures concluded that their
nd the results were target market was staying at home
disastrous bringing to watch the Summer Olympics on
i projected $750 for the television.
i's competition with I CONSIDER the infiltration of
; has been even more television commercials into
ii makers have been colleee mnviphmiRPs th#> final
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I losing to television example of television's supremacy
lion's inception in the over the films.
USC, even with a subsidized
the same problem as budget of $20,000 for its
omoters: how to programming, has succumbed to
against free en- the television because the money
provided in the con- generated by advertising has
one's home? become vital to the Cinematic Arts
has an additional Committee's existence.
t makes them masters The three commercials are
rs?unlimited captal. designed for an audience with a
mcial backing of their pre-college mentality. They insult
V can purchase any the viewer's intelligence and
ram?even Hollywood belong, on television where they
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Ingmar Bergman or Humphrey
Bogart film.
IECEWT displays of Regardless, the commercials
power have convinced are here to say, at least for this
astery over the films; semester. What's worse, the same
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th the Wind" on NBC, repeatedly without replacements,
wal of "The Shootist" The future of films remains
itional theater circuit uncertain because of television,
and the infiltration of and a new product of TV videotape,
ommercials into thp ac nodi Wmom
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se Theatre. "The Ix>ng View", wrote "It is now
>us absence of "Gone only a matter of time before the
d" from the television videocassette, working on outright
ooiized Hollywood's purchase or library subscription,
1 staunch contempt of will be able to supply myriad
!i industry. "Gone with packages of visual information?
irther symbolized that from Eisenstein or DeMille
ecious art form, not to through historical actualities to the
I by television's small History of Art, Newton's Principia
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iouio in uui iuu?iraiea, serializations ox
$10 million for the classics, or a conspectus of
jhts talked louder than Peanuts?direct to people In their
ors' pride. own homes, there to be shown and
ve witness the reshown at will."
[ of this 1939 classic The popularity of movies is
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