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Ente l?p< By WAYNE D Gamecock Sta When Oscar see Jane Fond accept her awa One might als see the char Redgrave whc nounce best talents of thes< make "Julia" the year, am honored with nomination foi "Julia," no\ Mall Theatre, eleven Acaden several. Scree done a marv< forty pages o selling book timento" (197: the story of The story t friendship wil their first mee school ends, L and sees Julia few times in separation. Julia was bo 'Mo Cou asu rtainiiK w? )l??W lgrav< OLESKI ff Writer night arrives, expect t( la stroll down the aisle tc ird for best actress of 1977 0 be advised to expect t( ming face of Vanessf ;n the time comes to an supporting actress. The 1 two are easily enough tc one of the best pictures oi 1 it has riflhtfnllu hoor M A V IIMkJ t t^HVAVUlJ MV-VI another Academy Aware * best picture. v playing at Bush Rivei has been nominated foi ly Awards and should wir nwriter Alvin Sargent has ;lous job of taking about f Lillian Hellman's best of reminiscences, "Pen i), and translating it int( Julia." races Hellman's lifetim< th Julia, beginning wit! Ling at school in 1918. Whei illian (Jane Fonda) leave: (Vanessa Redgrave) ver the years following theii rn into a very rich Germai By Gar per ther s: "is cor WjTt /Y/T> "ai I Hoi the Gei anc L/ \y OO *3 dur me wa hor brc Pr< wa _i DON'T K>UOVU v f rv\y PROBLEM is i semester. I'm VJMOT MEETING AMY ( ;nt e,F ondc family and Lillian always Julia was one of those rare who was able to transce Julia came from a family tl about the poor and under] she was able to rise abov THE BULK OF THE ST Lillian's efforts to find Ji and the mission Lillian Julia once she does find F completing her first i Children's Hour" in 1934. 1 her lover Dashiell Han Robards), to write in Pari Lillian searches for Julia a be a patient-pupil of Freu i There Julia lives in a on > ment where she shares he t anyone who needs it. The i brink of World War II an< finds Julia badly beaten > she is warned to leave at Lillian returns home J where she enjoys the trium i of her first play with a 1 V\r.~L-V o i:T :ii x vi rw o laiucu OdlUl a. Lilll 5 Paris in 1937 enroute to a t! i in Moscow and is appi r mysterious Mr. Johann * See JULM HENRY GREEN tiecock Staff Writer fSC theatergoers were treated to a formance of Bertolt Becht's irage" last Sunday night at Dra iatre. The play was perform* ;ing Company, which, as the pla the only permanent professional npany which tours from coast tc 'he Acting Company, which inch tistic director" the noted a< Liseman, has already perform *r" in Columbia, and "Mother G groups's last production here, 'he play concerns the wandering: rman woman, known as Mothei 1 her children over the continent ing the Thirty Years' War (161 rchant whose two teenage son: gon because the family is too pool se, Mother Courage sells he indy, cloth and other things--to tro )testant and Catholic armies. HIE TRIES to avoid being caugh r, but it is not easy; her coir jghter Kattrin, who is mute, >tected from soldiers who have ra THIS OUST ? 3iRLSy I STOP TRYING TO BE SO COOL. "COOL" TURMS JIM CHECKS OFF. Jffll BE YOURSELF jn^Sj yAcx natural. i,4Julia admired how Blip human beings nd her class. Si " tiat didn't care JpP DRY concerns fli tfK ilia in Europe performs for her. Prior to in mi*' play, "The B^SSS!} Lillian leaves imett (Jason s. While there IjjjSSpW nd finds her to ?ja93gB d's in Vienna. e-room apart;r wealth with ggggjgffil vorld is on the oShhSH i when Lillian by pro-Nazis, to Hammett tphant opening SlS^BjB party at New lian returns to heatre festival oached by a v (Maximilian vane. a tendei i, page 28 "Pentin minds, and he Cheese, must b unscrupulous ai i wen-done "My aim in lif "Mother to get through i yton Hall ;d by The don 0ne by 01 ybill read, way or another repertory Mother Couragi > coast " herself. ides as an This depressii ctor John seen in the conl ed "King ^ struggle d ourage" is Play takes piac< half the populat 5 of an old entire towns w< Courage, peared altogeth of Europe L8-1648). A APPROPRIA s pull her Courage" is r to have a suggestive of a < ;r wares-- Germany came ops of both To understar understand th t up in the Brecht. A de\ iely young ideological vie^ must be stance, the Chr pe on their are scorned thr MBBVlll I r-DAV/ )i / ni lci\UI , j I A RIDE V OUR. RO' mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm&Mkammmmmmm?mmmmmammnKmmmmam?mmu 1'reap nt Jm MEP^MPPM JpgjP^ ^pB^7^ lip'# ?sa Redgrave as "Julia" and Jai -momentof friendship. "Julia,' tiento," has been nominated fo r two sons. Eilif and Swiss y e kept from being taken in by h my recruiters. h e," says Mother Courage, " is t a. n r?i i ' ? - - - - i. ane aoes, Dut ner children 5 ne, they are lost, killed in one 1 and by the end of the play * is left to pull her wagon by ? l ng plot is even gloomier when J text of the Thirty Years' War. ;vastated Germany, where the v 5 for the most part; more than ion of Germany was killed, and 1 ire left in ruins or they disap- 11 er. F r TELY. THE SET for "Mother a L/fM gray, bleak-looking, and ( desert, which, after all, is what J: to resemble during the war. J id the play better one has to r ! playwright, the late Bertolt p /out Marxist, Brecht let his ws pervade the play. For in- j istian Church and its members ; oughout. A Protestant chaplain ; UOE NEEpV \CX TO J 5rv\ J ^ > >111111 ci ^ a BL | ?** ie Fonda as Lillian H< 'taken from Hellman r 11 Academy a wan /ho meets Mother Coui er for a little while exh e piously uotes scriptu >ut shirks his duty of Mother Courage and her t is not his "calling." BRECIIT DOES NOT bvious grim humor pre: Catholics and Protesta ;illing and raping in the Mother Courage obse var of religion is just Speaking of Mother iosato, who played the light's performance, ga^ art. As the forceful, sp ags, Rosato painted a i inguish which Mother C osing her children. F Courage does not cry wh ler daughter Kattrin,wh< vatholirs hilt a o nonotone voice. Rosatc >oem sadder than tears Rosato's performance few other players, Schramm as a lasciviou albeit depressing, play /WH> VN\ YOU ' V coc * itions 'llman engage in s autobiography Is. *age and travels with ibits great hypocrisyire in every situation, splitting firewood for family, declaring that LOSE SIGHT of the sent in the spectacle of nts looting, burning, name of the true faith, irves shrewdly that a like any other war. Courage, Mary Lou s title role in Sunday ve a harsh luster to the unky little old lady in noving portrait of the ourage experiences in 'or example, Mother en she sees the body of )has been killed by the ad little poem in a flat, >'s delivery made the along with those of a particularly David s cook, made this good, worth seeing. "1 I dcwt \ try bfimg\ )l again j iX llM i