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-entertain men' ' Sold-out Bal By Jim Van Arsdale r ew people left dissatisfied Monday night after the spectacular performance of R.E.M. and The English Beat in Russell House Ballroom. Both bands were greeted with thunderous applause and cheers by the ^ sold-out crowd that did an excellent job of dressing up for the occasion. R.E.M. opened the show with a few tunes r At. _ ? 11U1U [\m LP, Uironic Town." They also played a few yet to be released. Judging from the crowd's response, the Athens, Ga.based group was far from the stereotypical opening act bomb. - |' fie? xuf % Photo by Dave Grimley R.E.M. Jead vocalist Michael Stipe twists and shouts during one of the band's songs. Pulitzer Prize-win From Staff Reports Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin will speak tonight in Belk Auditorium in the College of Business Administration as the fourth guest in the 1983 Spring Writers Series. Kumin will attend an autograph party in (? her honor at 3:30 p.m. today in the University Bookstore. Her 8 p.m. reading will be followed by a reception in Gambrell Hall's third floor lobby. Kumin won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry, "Up Country." She has written six other volumes of poetry, four novels and a book of short stories. She coauthored, with Anne Sexton, a number of children's books. Hpr latoct hnnlc of rwvtrv "Our firnnnH Time Here Will Be Brief," and a book of The Acting Com "jtirSiMHwi ? s v . JgflRBH '--J?* aPy -x-SM pi ^^ . I A KMM1 Malvolio (David Minis) reads a lova letter he b Olivia as some of his tormentors look on in "Twel * Iroom concer The band's big hit, "Radio Free Europe," WM was a definite crowd favorite. Lead singer Michael Stipe's twisting body added greatly ||? to the crowd's excitement. FOLLOWING R.E.M., The Beat delivered S close to 1 1/2 hours of solid entertainment. [ They opened the show with one of their ^9 biggest hits, "Twist and Crawl." i / Both vocalist Ranking Roger and H guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Dave i Wakeling did-fine jobs getting the audience to dance and sine. After "BiBshot " from the I : band's first album, "I Just Can't Stop It," | Roger yelled to the crowd, "Can you feel it H pumping?" They could. f The English Beat's stage was set about six H feet off the floor, and the group made full use of the excellent lighting system. As they H played "Mirror in the Bathroom'' later on in 9 the set, spotlights were put on two mirrored B balls on either side of the stage for extra H effect. Also during this song, Dave | ; Blockhead came from behind his keyboards j to do a jig with Roger. [ Other songs included the band's remake of "Tears of a Clown" and "Hands Off.... _ She's Mine." One of The English Beat's more political songs, "Stand Down pai Margaret" (about British Prime Minister SQr Margaret Thatcher), was another crowd fh favorite. ^ the THE BAND played most of the songs off to * their new album "Special Beat Service," pla including "I Confess," and "Jeanette," Lai which was dedicated to all the Jeanettes in the audience. I The last three songs of the first set were wh from the new album. They included "Spar by Wid Me," "Sole Salvation,"(which featured clu some excellent bass guitar playing by David she Steele) and "Ackee 1,2,3." 1 Aftpr thp first nf Rnflpr'c lpanincr anH Kv -.-O f "fc> ?"" "J hopping, Steele's constant reeling to and fro rer with his bass and the display of Wakeling's Cli ining poet reads toi short stories, "Why Can't We Live Together Like Civilized Human Beings?" were published simultaneously last year by I Viking Press and Penguin Press. I Kumin is now serving as a visiting \ professor at Princeton University and is 1 Consultant in Poetry to the Library of [ Congress. ?| While much of contemporary poetry j reflects a chaotic and meaningless H universe, Kumin is one of a small group of poets who insist upon order, upon finding or j creating meaning where others deny it H exists. j "I think there is an order to be discovered, k that's very often true in the natural world, H but there is also an order that a human can H impose on the chaos of his emotions and the % chaos of events," Kumin said of her poetry. inan\/ falk chnrt r J I U1IU UIIUI I W I By Pamela Shaw Since its inception in 1972, T received extraordinary praise fr< But Monday's performance of Night" at The Township provided compliments on the cast and crew. Professional acting companies amateurish as this one was. Presented by the USC Cultural was the only S.C. appearance of schedule that began in August. It i three years that "Twelfth Night" h Company's repertory ? but that applause Monday night. IN THEORY, there was noth formance; but on the other hand about it. Director Michael Langh conservative and loyal to the te rather blase. "Twelfth Night" is an extren woman named Viola who discnisp ^Hj subplot concerning a stuffy stew IB on ^at *s ?^en more a &S* &JbI Langham, however, managed I comic material away, and his per MP characters and many of Shakes !P|||. Chief among the subplot cha steward, a pompous and thorough character that can make or break potential. Thankfully, David Man _ s best performance as. Malvolio, w viiavow <9 ii um almost salvaged the subplot a Ifth Wight" v -characters^ >v~ - 4 t wins loi HL ** * he English Beat's vocalist Ranking Ro "form before an enthusiastic Russell Hoi gwriting talents, the crowd refused tc band leave. Vith deafening chants of "Beat, Bef audience was able to convince the b :ome back for its first encore. The B yed their most recent hit, "Save It ter." T WAS followed by "End of the Part ich included an excellent saxophone i Wesley Magoogan. The last song ded "one minute, twenty seconds ;er madness," according to Wakeling. ^his turned out to be true as the band, lead toaster Roger, gave an excel] idition of a first album tune, "Cli ck." night as Writei Hp- -- JSXfsm " ' " 'yV.^^^r^ ^_?C- .': 3 J P^fS Maxine Kumin if 'professior UNFO : ; ? 7"? enough t he Acting Company has Toby )m critics and audiences. (Andrew Shakespeare's "Twelfth rr very little cause to lavish funniest Partici simply should not be as played t characte t Series, the performance noticeab the troupe this year, in a The ac narked the second time in were, lik las been part of The Acting constrair decision did not deserve viola, m eventual! Forme ing wrong with the per- Reed, a* I, there was nothing right counterp lam kept his structure so xt, it was unoriginal and THE < "Twelfth lely funny play about a Shakespt s herself as a man, with a Shakesp* ard and a practical joke Richard musing than the main plot But th another to throw nearly all of the repeated formers ruined some good as Harle peare's best lines in the different fr?Ai i wo o 1 VI Ol racters is Malvolio, the Acting C ily unlikable fellow, and a Overal much of the play's comic ? is turned in the evening's smoothly ith an excellent portrayal ** n(^nd overshadowed the main Sufficc v." ?- v ' ain. ' id applause f ^ photo by Dave C.rimlcy ger and guitaristjvocalist/songwriter Dave Wakeling ise Ballroom crowd Monday. let Once again, the fans refused to believe it was over and chanted "Beat, Beat." One fan it," had to be removed from the stage after he ind used Roger's microphone to help the crowd eat chant For For its second encore, The Beat opened with "Best Friend" and closed with an extended version of "Jackpot." During y," "Jackpot," Roger shook hands with some ;olo crowd members. in- If the USC crowd's response to The of English Beat is any indication of what the band has experienced in the South thus far. led we should be seeing more of The Beat in the ent future. This idea was attested to with ick, Wakeling's closing words: "We'll see you again." rs Series continues I "That's what writing poetry is all about," she said. "You begin with the chaos of impressions and feelings, this aura that overtakes you, that forces you to write. And in the process of writing, as you marshal your arguments, as you marshal your metaphors really, as you pound and hammer the poem into shape and into form, the order ? the marvelous, informing order ? emerges from it." One of five authors appearing in the 1983 tr r_n A I i J - I senes, tYuiimi ioiiows noiea merary critic Richard Ellmann, British playwright Tom Stoppard and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Howard Nemerov. Acclaimed novelist Toni Morrison will close the series April 20. The annual series is sponsored by USC's Department of English. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 777-4203. iol' n+ Tmnmokm icai qi i uvvnoiii|J RTUNATELY, Manis' talent was ultimately not o cover the weaknesses of his three tormentors, Sir ;lch (Richard Iglewski), Sir Andrew Aguecheek McGrath) and Feste, the fool (Philip Goodwin). >les were discarded ? and with them, the play's lines. jlarly disappointing was Goodwin's Feste. When o the hilt, the jester can be the most welcome r onstage; in this production, he was barely le. Or worth noticing. tors in the leading roles of Viola, Olivia and Orsino e the subplot performers, understated, reserved and ?ed by Langham's direction. Megan Gallagher, as ade an occasional effort to act more freely, but ly withdrew. r USC student John Stehlin, as Orsino, and Margaret ? Olivia, displayed the same mildness as their arts. COMPANY refused to take any chances with Night," which today can be poison in a sarean production. Noveltv is what distinguishes a iarean presentation now, unless a top actor such as Burton or Laurence Olivier is in the cast, is performance had no ambitions other than to be classical rendition of a play that has been staged ily since 1602. A director need not use a setting such m or costumes such as leather jackets to create a :e, but "create" is the key word here; a professional lould be able to create a sense of originality, and The ompany did not. II, the performance was not odious, but it was dull. Of ara s comeaies, iwemn iNigni moves along most r and hilariously if done well, but clunks and clatters i it to say this was one presentation that made quite a