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Entertain BiFin Top: Rev. Toop (B maintain his compos drunken Miss Skillon ( cast assembles in the fi Catholic S 1610 Creei Sunday Masses r Monday thru Thursday Mas Friday Mass HI First Wed. of each mor I ! I r Abtwnr ~ ? ^ ^ ^ >y Comple 5 functi< i Ireaaou (TAKES PA THE JEWELR PI ATT SPRINGS ft ment ormaiN ill Arvay, Jr.) struggles to ure when faced with the [Sheryl Wood). Bottom: The nal scene at the vicarage. SUH Photos by ROX POU 4RI) ' ' ... .. / tudent Center, USC ie St. Tel. 799-5870 11 a.m. 6 p.m. 10 p.m. s 5 p.m. 7:45 a.m. ith: Faculty/staff lunch 11:30-1:30 len Lynch, O.F.M. | j : Campus Minister ! j DIGITAL CLOCK! pen <e $10.00 R ~>n (ST AiNLhSS) i: --W 1 iRKER PfN RFFI1 ! S) ; ! Y WAREHOUSE? I ID.. W. COLA 9 til f> Mon.-Sjt. I cesSc By JOHN VAUGHAN Aut. Entertainment Editor Individual Derformances are central to any stage production, but they are perhaps the most crucial factors to the success of the farce. Even more attention is focused on performances in the popular British period farces. See How They Run, Town Theatre's current show, is this type of play: physical slapstick and absurd wit abound in a series of frantic and misunderstood happenings. And when the performances are good, the play is funny. The action? and there is a lot of it? takes place in an English vicarage over the f wse of an autumn afternoon and evening. Though the entangled situations get under way a little slowly, the play soon is moving along quite rapidly. Director jummaiee koodiiis does a fine job keeping the characters' interaction brisk; the play's shortcoining isn't noticeable 1MBMB HNH ^Kfl & ^ Cj < > } ive Pic simply because the audience isn't given enough time to nnHr?f? it i THE ONLY real drawback I to the play is that it's so cliched. Several lines are i reminiscent of 1940s screen gems, and the character list 1 could be read blindfolded: the American ex-actress Ufhnco n\ ifcrvilrnn ?-i oc c nm. I TT1IVOV VUtOpVlWIUI^OO till" barrassesher proper English vicar husband, the cockney maid, the stuffed-shirt bishop, the rambunctious American soldier. But Town Theatre is lucky ( to have some performers who breathe new life into these stereotypical roles, i and it is these folks who make the play an enjoyable experience. i Caroline Hembel is one. As Ida. the porknf?v maiH Hembel scores a direct hit. She is shorter than the others and is physically perfect for the role. Her cockney accent is right on target, which is relieving? my pet peeve is an incorrect accent, or one that fluctuates with every xecora-j . By MIKE ROMATOW Intertjinnx-nt tditor 1 I "No record company is out P artistic statement. They're ju: records, said songwriter ar m artist Robert Starling during hi M night lecture in the Russell Hou |L Speaking before a group of aj I 25 people, Starling gave an m count of what it is like to make ? ?? covered the entire process frc If to end, including multi-trac P mastering, and marketing of song or album. I Six of the best tai ,0r/V ly'sH other sentence. Hembel's timing is as certain as her accent. SHERYL WOOD is another. As Miss Skillon, the nosy spinster who wants everyone to meet her moral approval, she has a keen delivery. Wood's physical slapstick is a scream; after downing a bottle of cooking sherry, she keeps the audience in fits of laughter as a falling-down drunk. Bob Durrett is yet another. As the effeminate Bishop of Lax, his mannerisms and Iciciai CAJJI CSS1UI1S diUHC provide much of the show's humor without becoming overdone. Bill Arvay, Jr. is humorous as well in his portrayal of the the embarrassed vicar. Tom Dobbs provides a hilarious walk-on as the Reverend Arthur Humphrey? a very memorable minor role. As the vicar's wife, Penelope Toop, 18-year-old Katy Power is physically appealing, which ut^ronies a Making F SKI Starling be 12. "Back th< who just wan to make an a|j screai St OUt tO Sell caiH Ho nrr r?c?rdjng ferent types s Wednesday an(j acici-r0el se Ballroom. to mafce a ^proximately publishing cc insiders ac- about $25m} an album. He enabled him >m beginning ^s songs k.ureC,0rdlungJ are forced to the finished sting beers in the' ^^Siillilir !, THE EXCEPT! ? o fcf iimnr point in her favor. The pretty USC freshman does not have the funniest or the most I endearing lines in this play. THE ONLY performances that are true to the character cliches are turned in by Mark Shelley as Penelope's soldier firend and USC senior Perry Simpson as the Russian Intruder. Shelley's delivery is often rushed, and sometimes he almost interrupts Power (and vice A versa). Simpson would have it made if it wasn't for a "Russian" accent that sounds verv like? Insnector Clouseau. ? The sets, by Walter P. O'Hourke, Jr. are striking and meticulous. The interior of the vicarage has several nice touches of authenticity throughout. See How They Run is, simply, an entertaining ? nlatj T f rvl o?ro n piajo uiiuu^m Nov. 20 at Town Theatre; tickets are $5 for adults and \ $3 for children. ) rom A-I I gan playing music at the age of J ' ?n I was like a lot of other kids ted to be like the Beatles, with ning girls and everything," he jgressed through several difof bands, including rock, disco t. Eventually, when he decided record, he formed his own >mpany ("Anyone can do it for , Helpless Child Music. This to retain the full royalty rights He explained that many artists i split their royalties on a 50-50 ^ see Starling, page 7 world. <*> R ION 8 l