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Entertaii Jan By HENRY GREEN Gamecock Staff Writer "James at 16" is an honest t gained considerable attentio Dealing with the pleasures a adolescent encounters in gro "James" is something of a 4 decade. Happily though, the s the television audience the sill Days" is prone to wallow in People sometimes look baci school and marvel at how i problems seemed-not finding ; tantamount to the end of the c days. "James at 16," unlike "Hap although the show does have i is not cute or sugary. "Jai problems as not finding a d; seriousness ana aencacy, anc problems seem childish or ovc in one episode James is stood 1 much taller than he is, feai s th right to dance with him at th< portrays the problem honest someone who is six inches talk awkward. THE WAY JAMES (Lance K Workshops of fere Acting Compan to penorm ml/j vUST F & j\ \ ~2 invent ies elevision show that has n for that honesty. t V* rv rvniM anVt* #*l% am nil II1C WHICH ctll wing up in the 1970's, 'Happy Days" for our ;how manages to spare iness to which "Happy sometimes. i on their years in high important their small a date to the prom was :ivilized world in those ipy Days," is a drama, ts comic moments, but nes" deals with such ate to the prom, with 1 does not make these :rblowrt. For example, up by a girl who, being at it just would not look b prom. The program ly; slow dancing with ;r can indeed be a little erwin) copes with this ;d By LESLIE BATES (ianiecock Staff Wri Academv award-v V "* John Houseman will Hall Theatre Friday perform but to obsei The producer-direc watch a perfo y Shakespeare's "King Acting Company, t group he founded ? directs. "If Lear doesn't him, he'll have rehearsal of Lear, t< ready to go into Ne\ Dr. Patti Gillespie, USC Department of Speech. The 22-member < present "King I^ear" EY ROSCOE/\ IAS YOUR ) vTE? J y M.wmi J7D ? tf5Fi, J <n jks problem should bring raisec "Waltons" fan. If James wer Mountain, his father would be th on his shoulder, has a heart-to and makes him see the light, m height should have nothing to d( feel about each other. Not so on "James at 16." Inte not James' parents who make should not lash out at himself foi to the prom with his intended d James' peer group, his black father does try to talk to his so cess. A sign of a most un-V parental influence for the 1970 THE SHOW EXHIBITS boldm as can be seen when James los< episode. It is true that televisi and more riarinn in rpopnt ) iry 10 gei u v York," said The Acting chairman of evolved out ol Theatre and class at the Jt York City, to company will several month March 3 and 4 shows in New CUPSTTO I^WEI RA6T I A ^? \ f 4 virginity at 16 - well, that's still It's something Richie Cunningl Yet "James" is honest in this adolescents do lose their virgin and in other ways as well. The i the show is mostly top 40 materi would expect teenagers to list< kuk example, England ] Coley sing the song which i at 8 p.m. ar "Mother Cc ter Children" at i finning actor Both perforn be in Drayton Drayton Hall night, not to rve. TWO WORI !tor-actor will fered by the A rmance of in wigs and ir Lear" by The Saturday Mar* he repertory until 1:00 p.r ind currently Theatre. One i combat will b? look right to 3:30 p.m. on M a Saturday Theatre. a ^ r~ L | II S23 ^ \ v ill 1 eyebrows to any e living on Walton's flHtj e one who lays a hand -heart talk with him, akes him realize that BSflBHE > with how two people restingly enough, it is j llllilllg him realize that he I r being too short to go ate, but a member of ^r friend Sly. James' f n, but with little sue- J /altonlike erosion of i 's, maybe? ^ ess in subject matter, ^ ss his virginity in one f* on has become more * irs, but to lose one's a little controversial. I ^ tiam would never do. matter - today many * ity at 16 or younger nusic that is heard on al, songs to which one ;n to. Dan and John Ford s heard during the Lane >ee JAMES, page !f> V id Bertolt Brecht's As many )urage and her company ar B p.m. on March 5. lances will be in and the ot! Theatre. selected afte Gillespie, wh tSllOPS will be of- company thi cting Comnanv. One Sfiiramm w K V kJVIIlMltllllf " lake-up will be held Lear, ch 4 from 11:00 a.m. a. in Drayton Hall "I'VE SE1 n stage fighting and that they've iheld from 1:30 until feel like I've [arch 5 in Longstreet now for q Repertory cc today's publi ; Company, which repertory cc F a freshman drama jn which the m mien u oLnuui in ixi:w periorms a 1 urs the country for s before opening'new "In a repe York, Gillespie said, a stock con x- DID SHE ASK\ I DU UP TO HER 1 OOM ? HNUW, DID / SUP O J WD^?k f TS THAT ALL \ [ ?2 [ "*?U EVER I A\ I think ABOUT.' I X UK.E HER ENOUGH in MOT TO GO AROUND \U. BABBUN6 ABOUT jtl her morals I so JUST LAf OFF, WILL YAI* ' ^u ' - - ' UUI {,i i( I- {{( " -jtjr tmmmmmm?mpvHHHBnaaMBMnaMM jSflCjwJRh V.y t ^^nfeja. ( ^ V*fc* A xV --j ?y f \ w^iEJsc*'' * >"> .NrC \Vk Vv$3 .Bk r/.- ?J< jfflr e Kerwin as James...treatin as 50 percent of the compan e Julliard graduates see not opportu her 50 percent are craft o r open auditions, said because 10 has kept up with the rough member David variety ho will play the role of Gilles panies the 18th EN EVERY SEASON wasn't done," she added. "I century ; known the company this cot luite a long time. reperto imnanips arp not what ic is accustomed to. A Work* impany is a company general same group of actors formani variety of plays. $5 for availabl rtory company, unlike F*ox Off lpany or (he kind of <>r 777-2 /^struckX?N ( OUT I V AGAIN? J m K^:slL* b A,*, ??? i ii r ?^ ly we're used to, you get to only the play but have the nity to evaluate the acting f each individual rwrsnn ; you get to see them in a of roles." pie said repertory cornwere very popular during i and 19th centuries, and "it until the end of the 19th 1 that most companies in jntry went away from the . ry and into the long-run." shops are open to the public. Tickets to per:es are $2 for students and the public. Tickets are le irom me Drayton Hall ice or by phoning 777-2551 552. eah, been\ at mac dom alp's j four. hours j pf w |p*~ g youth seriously A