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NEW YORK (AP) ? Public television
I -opens the attic and trunks full of vintage
memories come flooding out tonight in the
documentary, "There Was Always Sun Shining
Someplace; Life in the Negro Baseball
Leagues/'
The broadcast, produced, directed and cowritten
by Craig Davidson, pieces together a
sentimental portrait of black baseball, which
was played strictly for love, since the players
earned little fame and no fortunes.
IOn park benches ift stadium scats qr on
front porches, the underground stars of
those segregated sports times Joyfully tell
their tales, Davidson calls his story-telling
technique "oral history," and if some hardto-undcrsiand
dialects swallow some
recollections, so be it. This is bonafide social
history being spun.
JAMES EARL Jones, the basso prof undo
behind *4Star Wars" villain Darth Vader,
narrates, he once starred in "Bingo Long's
Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings," a
movie about the Negro Leagues. The oldtimers
disliked the film's characterizations,
'Suddenly Las
From Staff Reports
Auditions for the USC second theatrical
offering of the 1983-84 season, "Suddenly
Last Summer," will be held tonight at 7
at Booker T. Washington auditorium on
H Wheat Street.
The play, written by the late Tennessee
Williams, will be presented at USC's
Longstrect Theatre by the Department of
Theatre and Speech Oct. 14-16 and Oct.
19-23. The director will be Russell Green,
USC theater professor.
use STUDENTS can purchase season
tickets to the 1983-84 Carolina Concerts
season for only SI5, a 25 percent discount off
I the regular price of the tickets.
Tickets to the classical / pop performing
arts series are on sale at the Carolina Coliseum
box office or can be ordered by mail.
I acuity and staff, who can buy season
subscriptions for $20 each, will receive a
ticket mail order form after Labor Day
through which they can subscribe to Carolina
Concerts.
Only season subscriptions are sold to the
six-show Carolina Concerts program, ln,ff
dividual show tickets will not be available.
The series is sponsored by USC and the
ff Carolina Coliseum Advisory Committee.
I The 1983-84 season opens Oct. 9 with a 4
p.m. performance by the Scots Guards and
Black Watch, a regimental marching band
and bagpipe and drum unit from England
and Scotland. Called the Harlem Globetrotter*.
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and Davidson says Jones is setting the record \
straight here.
In the earliest days of baseball, the game
was integrated. But following the failures of
Reconstruction, the documentary reports, a
color barrier was erected in the 1880s that
didn't come down until Jackie Robinson
joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Black players had to look elsewhere to
play, and they found it in the Negro Leagues
and barnstorming exhibitions around the.
country. Sometimes th*y played
doubleheaders and theft a night same, returning
after midnight to their mobile homes,
otherwise known as btt?e$.
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"Their World Series moved from city to
city/' says Jones. Today's major league
players would be well-advised to hear the
Negro Leaguers talk about the good ol' days.
They do so without a trace of bitterness or
anger. One wonders what Cesar Cedeno of
the Cincinnati Reds would think. He's the
guy wno went oti in a snit when a plane's
first-class section was full.
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sent a marching and musical program featuring
the music of the British Empire.
CAROLINA CONCERTS will open its
spring program Jan. 24 with a concert by the
Chicago Symphony. Considered by many
music critics to be the finest symphony in the
world, the orchestra will be conducted by
Claudio Abbado and will perform a program
including Rossini's Overture to
"Semiramide," Stravinsky's Firebird Suite
and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 in C
minor, Op. 17, nicknamed the "Little
Russians."
The Israel Ballet, the national dance company
of Israel, will perform March 13 and
14. Their program will feature a variety of
choreography ranging from classical to
modern.
Closing out the season March 24 and 25
will be theLondon Savoyard's production of
"The Mikado," Gilbert and Sullivan's comic
operetta.
All Carolina Concerts begin at 8 p.m. in
Carolina Coliseum with the exception of the
Scots Guards/Black Watch, which starts at 4
p.m. on a Sunday.
Seating is general admission with the doors
opening an hour before show time.
For more information on Carolina concerts,
call 777-2555.
THE PALMETTO Mastersingers, an allmale
chorus directed by USC's Arpad
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NEW YORK (AP) ? With a perverse nod
to sexual equality, NBC has a two-menchasing-woman-around-an-apartment
show
to go with ABC's one-man-chasing-twowomen-around-the-couch
hit.
Real equality won't happen until the
women, in any multiple, start pursuing the
men, but let's not give the networks any
ideas.
NBC's entry into the wink-wink-nudgenudge
brand of televised tease and titillation
is "We Got It Made," which debuts tonight.
The program stars Teri Copley as Mickey,
the dumbest blond in television since
Suzanne Somers bounced around on ABC's
brainless success, "Three's Company."
In order of importance, Mickey is buxom,
giggl} naive, alone and unemployed in New
York City, where she answers an ad for a
live-in maid. "I enjoy helping people, and I
want a home," she says breathlessly, batting
her puppy-dog eyes, flashing a toothy grin to
her prospective employers.
They happen to be two young bachelors,
David (Matt McCoy) and Jay (Tom Villard).
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Darazs, is seeking new members throughout
the state.
The chorus is open through auditions to
qualified men. The group rehearses twice a
month on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m..
The Mastersingers perform throughout the
state at various functions and are often seen
on television. For more information, call
Darazs at 777-2454.
THK MUSIC of Godard, Debussy and
Stravinsky will be featured Sept. 11 in the
first of the "September Concerts."
i ne an-i rencn cnamber concert begins at 4
p.m. in Gambrell Hall auditorium.
The scries will feature six separate and
distinct concerts, ranging in style from the
mostly Baroque concert planned for Sept. 13
to the all-Brahms and all-Bach concerts planned
for Sept. 20 and 23, respectively. Music
from the 20th century and a potpourri concert
will round out the series.
All concerts will feature music by members
of the faculty of the Department of Music,
sponsor of the program, which is in its second
year. Seating for the concert is limited
to juu, and tickets will be available on a
series-basis only for $15.
THE PROGRAM of French music on
Sept. 11 will feature "Suite, Op. 116" by
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Their apartment is desperately in need of
urban renewal, but - now here's the rub how
will their girlfriends react to this featherbrained
bombshell- Says sophisticated
Claudia (Stephanie Kramer), David's beloved:
"If there's any laying on of hands, you're
dogmeat."
Jay's earthier girlfriend, Beth (Bonnie
Urseth), is more trusting, and quite a bit
more stupid. At one point, he tries to keep
her in the dark by putting a bag over her
head. We're talking mature relationships
here.
Each week, we can expect a major
misunderstanding between the sexes.
Tonight, Mickey, David and Jay get locked
in the bathroom. Mickey is wrapped in a
towel, which inspires Jay to philosophize
about reincarnation. "I'd like to come back
as Dolly Parton's bra." (Don't write us,
write NBC).
Then the plot thickens: The girlfriends arrive.
Mickey hides on the ledge. She shimmies
toward the patio. She loses her
towel...OK Enough
today
Benjamin Godard; "Troid Ballades de Fran
cois vinon" and "Ketlets dans 1'ean" by
Claude Debussy. After a brief intermission,
Igor Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat"will
be performed.
The next concert, at 8 p.m. Sept. 13 in
Gambrell Hall, will include mostly Baroque
music, including "Trio Sonata in C Minor"
by Johann Quantz; "Concerto per trombone
alto ed archi" by Johann Albrechtsberger;
"Concerto a tre" by George Philipp
Telemann; "Contrapunctus IX" from "The
Art of Fugue" by J.S. Bach and the
"Prelude and Fugue in E Minor" by BachAnderson.
The third concert will feature music from
the 20th century. The 4 p.m. program Sept.
18 in Gambrell Hall will feature music by the
USC Faculty Jazz Quintet, plus other musicians.
Numbers will include "Sonata after
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"Two Movements for Guitar" by Fred
Teuber; and "Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet
and Piano" by Bela Bartok. The Teuber
piece will be played by Christopher Berg,
renowned for his virtuosity on the classic
guitar.
The Brahms concert at 8 p.m. Sept. 20 in
Gambrell Hall will include four numbers:
"Sonata in E Flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2,"
"Two Songs for Contralto Viola and Piano,
Op. 91," "Intermezzo, Op. 116, No. 4" and
"Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52." Several
voices will be featured in this concert,
notably those of Evelyn McGarrity, Laury
l nrisue, Kicnard Vealc and Donald Gray.
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