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By CHUCK CROMER
Entertainment Editor
The Russell House University
Union's (RHUU) Ideas and Issues
committee will sponsor John
Marks, executive dire tor-of the
Center for National Security
Studies and co-author of "The Rise
and Fall of the CIA," in a free
lecture-film discussion called "The
CIA and the Cult of Intelligence" at
8 p.m. today in the Russell House
ballroom.
Ed McCall, chairman of the
- committee, said, "The program
will discuss the CIA mechanisms
used to interfere with other
countries that ignore and un
dermine American processes and
pose a threat to the democratic
system at home."
Many students see the CIA as an
agency with little relevance to
campus life. Marks believes this is
wrong. He said, "The CIA today
operates secretly on over a hundred
American college campuses
in ways that directly touch the
lives of students. Hundreds of
American professors secretly work
for the CIA. Their main task is
'spotting' and helping to recruit as
spies foreign students studying at
our universities."
USC actres
By GLENN RAWLS
Gamecock Staff Writer
The set for "Much Ado About Not
usual week-before-production state
the crew was on their lunch break
was having lunch in Drayton Hall's
Chris Carter, the scenic studio su
show.
Kathleen Estes?
YES," BEAMED Patti Gill
Department Chairman, just a day
really excited about it. She was n<
judges from the American College
for her performance in 'Hedda Gab]
production last semester) and we go
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Award. She'll be competing in nati<
Easter Sunday in Washington, D.C
The Irene Ryan Scholarship Awar
the late Irene Ryan. Ryan was
audiences as Granny in "The Bev
and for her role in the Broadwaj
pin. "The award is a $5,000 scholar
former who wins the national comp
"When they told me I'd been nomi
for the Irene Ryan Scholarship," Es
bites of salad, "it really didn't affe
didn't know what it was. Chris had to
Estes, a senior in the theatre <
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woweu locai crmcs wun ner perf
manipulative Hedda Gabler. She is
(JSC's latest production, "Much Ado
as the scornfully witty Beatrice.
"I didn't consider acting seriously
Estes said. "I tried everything excej
it's a hard life. You can't just walk ii
agency and get hired. You can't say,
and take dictation.' When you go i
you're saying, 'Here I am. Me!'
yourself and your talent.
"I tried everything: waitii
bookkeeping, marriage. I even tri
finally I decided that if I was going t(
a bookkeeper and not make any mor
as well not make any money being a
iment
to speak
THE COLUMBIA Museum of
Arts and Sciences, at Senate and
Bull Streets, will feature a combined
exhibition of paintings and
mobile sculptures by two South
Carolina artists, Ralph Waldrop
and Clark Ellefson, March 6-27.
Candy Baker of the museum
said, "This unusual combination of
paintings and mobile sculpture
reflects two distinctively different
approaches to the visual
manifestation of the concept we
know as "object." Both approaches
are valid, both work as
objects ana both have at their core
that almost forgotten, yet one of
our oldest concepts: craftsmanship."
Instead of using paint, Waldrop
dyes canvas or paper. Baker said
Waldrop uses a wide range of "Mr.
Fox's Magic Dye" to produce
objects that are "color-fields."
Clark Ellefson produces mobile .
sculptural pieces in a variety of
media such as steel rods, electric
motors, wire, rubber, metallic
tape, wax pewter, copper, brass,
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Of his work, Clark said, "The
object is still very much a part of
me. Recently I've become interested
in multiple objects and in
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happy."
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hing" was in the she do it so well
of turmoil, and "The big thing
. Kathleen Estes balize my feeling
outer lobby with gotten it as clear
ipervisor for the of me is thinking
is feeling. Your
parts, but a big
audience - wha
espie, Theatre thinking about a
earlier. "We're they know, but
>minated by the believe I'm Hed
Theatre Festival Acting is, after i
ler' (USC's third Estes's start ii
t wnrH that cho'H fm-nncinf
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the Irene Ryan she wanted to a<
)nal competition "So I dropped
taking acting cl
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d was founded by "My favorite p
best known to she said with pa
erly Hillbillies," really control her
r musical, "Pip- she was a little o
ship for the per- Gwendolyn in T1
>etition. adore her."
nated to audition
tes said between
ct me because I For the nations
tell me." read a monologu
from "Much Ado
iepartment, had nrofpssnr .in??nh
I f"
ormance as the "I'm really gra
now starring in how many faults
About Nothing," have to do. I thinl
things, but for the
until last year," long way to go.
)t acting because "If I do win t
i an employment reached over an<
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into an anriitinn ...uv. ??! *?
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they can't get the
lg on tables, Lunch was ovei
ed nursing. But to the mountain <
> be miserable as "Much Ado Abou
ley, then I might Gabler and Beat
n actress and be hammer the set
about C]
multiple elements within an object."
The Columbia Museum's hours
are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday and 2 p.m. to 5
p.m. on Sundays. Admission is
free.
THE RHUU Cinematic Arts
committee's pay film this weekend
is "The Bad News Bears," to be
shown at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
today through Saturday in the
Russell House theatre. Admission
is $L
"Tne Bad News Bears" was the
sleeper film of 1976. Walter Matthau,
in an excellent performance,
stars as a beer-guzzling pool
cleaner hired to coach a little
league baseball team of misfit boys
and one girl (Tatum O'Neal). The
flick is entertaining and diverting.
ABC Theatre discount tickets
can be purchased by students for
$1.50 at the Russell House Travel
Center. These tickets provide a 50
per cent savings and are good at
the Palmetto and Richland Mall
Theatres.
THE LONG-AWAITED local
premiere of the film "Rocky,"
nominated for 10 Academy
Awards, will be Friday at the
ard
iis talent called acting anil how does
I?
! is concentration. I've tried to ver;s
on acting before and haven't ever
as I'd hoped. When I'm acting, part
how I'm feeling, what the character
mind is in three or four different
part of me is thinking about the
t they think and feel. I could be
i ham and cheese sandwich for all
all that's important is that they
da or whatever part I'm playing,
all, manipulating your audience."
1 acting came late. It was not until
itioo in high school that she realized
:t.
t my forensics course and started
lasses. My first role was as the
from 'Anastasia.'
art of all time? It was NOT Hedda,"
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^ pitaoia. x cuuiu never
I had glimpses of her, but I felt like
ut of my reach. My favorite part is
fie Importance of Being Earnest.' I
il competition, Estes is planning to
e from "Joe Egg' and a dialogue
About Nothing' with visiting acting
Totaro.
teful to Joe because he showed me
I have and how much work I still
k I'm ready for dinner-theatre-type
roles I want - classical -- I've got a
he competition," she said as she
i knocked on a wooden table, "I'm
[raduate school. Even if I don't win,
pie competing, there're bound to be
eges would prefer number one, but if
im, they'll settle for number three."
r and it was time for her to get back
of technical work left to be done on
it Nothintf " Kathlp*?n FtctAc n?u)Ho
rice had to leave so they could go
together.
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' Richland Mall Theatre. "Rockv."
starring Sylvester Stallone in the
title role and Tally Shire, as his
girlfriend, is the story of a
struggling fighter who
miraculously gets a crack at the
world heavyweight title and at the
same time develops a tender,
romantic relationship with a lonely
young woman.
THE RHUU Fine Arts Com
mittee will exhibit the ceramic art
of Michael Johnson, Debbie Cobb
and Michael Rikowski in the
showcases of the Russell House
second-floor lobby through March
11. The show includes nieces in
stoneware and porcelain.
The world premiere of "Green
Pond,"a musical written by Robert
Montgomery and South Carolina
native Mel Marvin, will be
presented by Stage South, the state
theatre of South Carolina. Its five
performances will be at A.C. Flora
High School at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
March 5-6 and 8 p.m. March 7. For
further information call 795M5270 or
the S.C. Arts Commission at 7583442.
The RHUU Trips and Expeditions
Committee will be
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Marks
sponsoring a trip to Charleston on
Saturday, March 26. Tran
spoliation to and from Charleston
will be provided at $3 per person.
The bus will leave from the Russell
House that morning at a time to be
announced and return to Columbia
at approximately 10 p.m. Participants
can roam the city at their
leisure. Dinner at a seafood
restaurant in Charleston will end
the afternoon's activities. Persons
interested can sign up at the
Russell House Travel Center or
phone 777-7130.
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