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entertaii Humphrey Bogart and Ingri "Casablanca" to be shown at I week. Below is Lee Frank, w Monsters." America By BARRY J. GLENN (iamecock Staff Writer America's latest album, "Hart their eighth effort. Although the gr been cutting albums for a long tin have not improved. If anything, th< sunk into an abyss of packed-to-s< music. When this soft-rock trio started out they were just teenagers produ pleasant blend of simple guitar Their first two albums were huge su< producing hits like "Horse With No and "Ventura Highway." After the album "Hat Trick" failed miserab canea on former Beatles producer Martin to help. Martin has produce< album since, and America has res with more hits like "Tin Man," ' People," and "Sister Golden Hair.' BUT WITH THEIR last "Hideaway," and their recent i America has reached her heights ol ness. anient Country-ro< Focus By CHUCK CROMER Entertainmenl Editor The Russell House University Union Contemporary Sounds Committee will sponsor MCA recording artists, New Riders of the Purple Sage, in a free outdoor concert at 3 p.m. May 6 on Intramural Field F. The Contenders, a country-rock band that appeared in the uoiaen spur last fall, will perform also. d Bergman (above) star in the Russell House theatre this ho will lecture on "Unknown 's latest a "HnrKfti-'' 1 i ..m.wvi uuo ocvcim u First, like "Hideaway," the reliance on the backgroun K>r," is carry the songs over. The oup has most songs overshadows t le, they piano-playing talents of the t ey have a conglomeration of worth] ill, dull lyrics themselves are ridic pie: "These brown eyes of in 1971, been doin' some powerful c icing a Dan PppIt'c !/?! ?? sounds, progressively worse on ea< icesses, voices of Gerry Beckley and Name" still hold up pretty well, ir third The most damning proble le, they America's disastrous attem George kind of music they are just d every performing. "Harbor" is 1< 1 - ' - - >i*jnutnj lempis at last rock and roll ? 'Lonely group seems so out of its le music resembles that of a h band experimenting with ev album, sound. release, F bland- ONE GETS THE FEELI1 "Harbor" a conglomeration 3k band to g The New Riders are booked to piay iur ai least w minutes. The concert will be in Township Auditorium if it rains. Like the Grateful Dead, the New Eiders are the epitome of the contemporary country-music band. They last appeared at USC in 1973. GRANT MUNRO, ANIMATOR and experimental film-maker, will present films from the National Film Board rtf Ponorift O % 1 * -1 11 u& vuuaua ai o p.m. lOUtty Bl IRG Columbia Museum of Arts and Sciences Trustees Gallery. The Bull Street entrance to the museum will be the only one open for film viewers. Candy Baker of the museum, said Munro apprenticed with innovative film artist Norman McLaren. Munro now works with McLaren at the filmboardi - :J? a j-i ttiiivii |/iuviu? iniunuiai ana moral support for independent Canadian film-makers. The board, unlike any American organization, encourages the artistry of individual filmmakers. Munro and McLaren introduced pixillation (shooting single frames of live action) as a successful film technique in the 1940's allegorical protest of wona war 11, "Neighbors." The museum, located at the intersection of Senate and Bull streets , will also sponsor an exhibit and sale of about 600 original prints from the famed Ferdinand Roten galleries collection this Friday and Saturday. Such masters as Picasso, Goya, Renoir and Hogarth will be displayed along with works by many con temporary American artists. A Roten galleries representative will be there to answer questions about the prints and the artists. AS IF THE MUSEUM didn't have enough to offer, a program 11 lDum is 1 asic problems, been crammed onti ire is too much quality. Most of t\ d orchestra to chance fail. Beckle ! symphony on a good beat but is 1 he guitar- and Bunnell's "Down tc rio, resulting in reggae beat but is less noise. The sound effect of > :ulous. (Exam- distant beach. Th? mine, they've accompany Peek's ryin'). horrendous tune 01 is becoming ^h album. The Of the three, Bee Dewey Bunnell one exception, his slow, Dalatable A m, however, is piano, guitar and I ipt to play the America shoul not capable of perimenting with oaded with at- were ahead. The ? ind reggae. The dimensions of unor ague that their igh school rock In the past, the g or\; imortinoKlA ' v.j iiiiuguiuuic everyone l Young. At least tl produced some res MG listening to artists. Now it is I of sounds have would take credit f< ;ive free con 4 of portrait painting by California artist Lee Ricketson will be presented at 7:30 p.m. April 28 in the museum's Trustees gallery. Ricketson will paint a model selected from the audience. Baker said Ricltptenn .*.^..v*wv<i will" pleted in the 60s a large body of work inspired by literary and Biblical sources. Expressed in polychrome, this threedimensional wall piece formed the basis of several successful solo exhibitions of Ricketson's work represented in important collections in the United Spain, France and Venzuela. Among her many awards are a 1966 First Award for an abstract - r\-i- ' tivm mc vjdh I\lClg6 Art Association and a First Award for a portrait from the Society of Western Artists in 1976. The RHUU Ideas and Issues Committee will sponsor a lecture-film presentation, "Unknown Monsters," by research investigator Lee Frank at 8 p.m. April 28 in the Russell House ballroom. Frank will discuss his own encounters with monsters and the history of investigations into Bigfoot and with the Loch Ness monster. He has been on three expeditions searching for the Loch Ness monster and has served as field monitor and chief scuba-diver with the group conducting the current research at Loch Ness, Scotland. He also has led two expeditions searching for Bigfoot. Four thousand people claim to have seen the Loch Ness mnnctor o ? ,!l? ...v/..u?w, u wtuui uuiuadur'UKe creature, since its first documented sighting in 565 A.D. Bigfoot is called America's Abominable Snowman. It is said to be a 10-foot tall, 1,000-pound, hairy, human-like beast. Frank will also discuss other controversial creatures he is inves tigating including mermaids, )land d a disc without regard to le songs that do have a \ y's "God of the Sun" has repetitious and too short. ?the Water" has n ruined by the ridiculous vaves crashing onto a 9 ~"'fSl b sounds of gale winds i "Hurricane," the most lr. |? i the album. kley fares the best. With Rgligggp! songs stick to the usual merica style of simple HHMft iass combinations. :"'-v vfp d have stopped ex- . S their music while they IHHfl (roup has achieved new iginality with "Harbor." present s The sol roup has been accused of George from Paul Simon to Neil abandon lat supposed plagiarism "Harbor' iponse from the offended nocuous s hard to see how anyone America or resembling America's harbor be > cert gargantuan birds with a 10-foot wing span and sea serpents. The Columbia Lyric Theatre, in cooperation with the USC Department of Music and the Department of Theatre and Speech, will sponsor performances of Giancomo Puccini's opera, "Tosca" at 8:15 r? m tnninkt ? 0_? > - - p.aba. 1UH15111 emu ottLuruay in Drayton Hall. Rachel Mathes of the Metropolitan Opera Company will be featured as Tosca. Tickets are $4.50 for adults and $2.50 for students and may be purchased from the Columbia Music Festival office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or at the Drayton Hall box office one hour before each performance. Reservations may be made by calling 771-6303. "CASABLANCA" (1943) th*? haunting love story starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains and PaulWhenreid, will be shown at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. today and Friday in the Russell House theatre as this week's pay film. Winner of three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director, "Casablanca" was rescheduled for this date when the university rlrvjf>H in lonnn?i. w.wwwvt uuuuai Jf. Jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty will be the guest of the "Nightbird," Alison Steele on Sunday on WZLD-FM 96. The half-hour radio special, airing at 10:15 p.m. features music I and talk between Ponty and j Steele, whose program on New York's WNEW-FM - ... X'WI livu 1ICI the distinction of being named the 1976 "Progressive Air Personality of the Year" by the International Radio Programming Forum, an organization of radio announcers. WZLD carries her program weekly. .# - ; <s* ilMwmnPpv ^yRSPHww^'^HpSSfflJg^CZz^Jl^Mteg nBtmf ound. ution to America's problems is for Martin and his three boys to the ridiculous experiments on ' and return to the pleasing, in>ound they had several years ago. certainly needs to sail out of this if ore its ship sinks for good.