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entertainn Black actors roles are ^distortions,' author says Theme of About C By CHUCK CROMER Entertainment Editor Season ticket applications for the sixfilm Carolina Community Film Festival are being accepted. 41 rm -a _ - ..... r lima 01 me irnnies is me ineme of this spring's festival. The films include "Grand Hotel," Feb. 13, "Mutiny on the Bounty," Feb. 20, "Dinner at Eight," Feb. 27, "San Francisco," March 6, " "Goodbye Mr. Chips," March 20, and "Mr. Smith (Joes to Washington," March 27. The films will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Sundays at Williams-Brice Auditorium, I f KT --?:? .uvuivu uvmccu me ixursing ana Humanities buildings. "GRAND HOTEL" (1932) opens the festival in spectacular style in much the same way it burst upon Depression audiences of the early Thirties. It is the granddaddy of the all-star-cast pictures, boasting a cast of seven great Hollywood stars: Greta Garbo, Lionel and John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Berry, I^ewis Stone and Jean Hersholt. "Grand Hotel" is a series of interwoven vignettes rooted in tragedy. Garbo plays an aging nallerina who contemplates suicide until her romance with John Barry more [ronicallv. he is out to rob the wealthy guests of the hotel, including Gnrbo 'rv!" theatrics of this particular segment look like something from the stage, but the scene remains intprpctind ^w?ancn # Al-~ ww...d ^wmuov u pui ii ay& I lie hopelessness of a romance that is doomed to fail. JOAN CRAWFORD is superb as an ambitious call girl-secretary who con lent By WENDY OGLESBY Gamecock Staff Writer Black performers have been forced ?T_11 4^ 1 nunywwuu movie makers 10 poii stereotyped film roles, Donald Bo author of a book on black roles American films, said Wednesday. ^ Bogle said these distortions have often been taken as reality by both wl and black Americans. TOMS, COONS, mulattoes, mamr and bucks are the five black m stereotypes, Bogle said in a lecture-? presentation at Gambrell Hall. Toms are good, passive Nt characters who support the system, B said. The stereotype first appeared 1903 movie version of "Uncle Tc f!flhin " "In this movie, we see Uncle Tom, black slave, chased, harrassed, be and humiliated, but he dies con because he has been true to his good w master," he said. Masochism is frequently a part of Tom personality, Bogle said. "By mal the black characters seem to ask foi movie makers are able to justify suffering and punishment endured Toms," he said. COON FIGURES are clowns, Bogle s "They are the ones always eating f chicken or stealing watermelons," he s "The white actor tfpts hiiw ac tho with the black actor portraying the la< sidekick," Rolling eyes, demeaning antics and combinations of clothes are s( techniques used to make the bl character "look as absurd and ludici as possible," Bogle said. Black women have been forced to n white standards of beauty in films and festival is lampus siders an offer by a despicable industrialist (Wallace Berry in a role he patented in the Thirties) to become his private whore. Lionel Barrymore's performance~as a common but terminally ill DooKKeeper who wants to die in style-is another part of the film to savor. "Grand Hotel" won the Academy Award as Best Film of 1932, but, more importantly, it made millions at the box office. Yet its sequel, "Dinner at Eight" (1933), was far more rewarding in terms of consistent, stellar performances. "Dinner at Eight" is based on George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber play, and is directed by George Cukor. It centers on a dinner party thrown by Lionel Barrymore, who owns a merchant fleet of ships that is about to be consumed by ruthless tycoon Wallace Berry. Vignettes of each character prepares for rlinnpr rovoalino infUtilJunl ? ? *? , . vfvuiiu^ muiviuuai l CCI9UII5 IOr attending. Berry is attempting to financially ruin Lionel Barrymore. Jean Harlow is his sluttish, wisecracking wife who foils his plans and has an affair on the side. Marie Dressier is a declining stage actress trying to secure money by selling her stock in Barrymore's shipping company. John Barrymore, parodying himself in one of his finest performances, is a destitute, alcoholic actor on the verge of self-destruction. Georges Sadoul described the film as a "Dazzling tracicomedv.. rantnrpc w w ^ 1 fectly the self-contained world of the midDepression upper crust, its pretensions and its coldness, its incongruities and its silly desperation, The acting, camera work and sets are faultless." See CAMPUS. Page 7 mulatto and mammie figun resulted, he said. The mulatto is by skinned, straight-haired black wo ray the mammie the dark-skinne gle, v female, Bogle said. in "THE TRAGIC mulatto is al1 t?? exotic sex object," Bogle sai< aren't exactly whores, but they ai figures. Dark black women, on t hand, have been desexed by th ni<JS industry. Louise Beaver, a 1 ?yje figure, had to force feed hersel ;lide films to gain enough weight to sa stereotype," he said. !8ro Bucks, sexual black men, have ?8le hardest time in movies, Bogle s in ,a they demonstrate the ties betweer >m s racism in America. The need of black audiences to s "ie men with strength and power ti aten exploited by filmmakers in such n J?"1 "Shaft" and "Superfly," Bog hite "These films play on the needs audiences to see black chs me displaying power, but they doi realistic solutions to the probk r said. the by Formerly an assistant ed "Ebony" magazine, Bogle has throughout the United Stat ai^i graduated from Lincoln Univer riea studied at Harvard and C< ai?- universities. He wrote the book star Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and ckey An Interpretive History of B1 American Films," upon which hi his lecture. 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