| Summary: | Page 4 THE CONCORDIAN Arts and Entertainment African art compliments Black History By MIKE PAUL Superman is entertaining, but not flawless Africa, The Black Kingdoms, a showing of African art in con-currence with Black History Week is now on display in the Berg Art Center Gallery. It will remain on display until Feb. 23. It is part of an excellent col-lection of African art on loan from the James O'Rourke col Debators continue success Fjve members of the Concord-ia debate team advanced into the elimination rounds at two recent tournaments. Keith Fuglie and David Han-sen posted a 4-2 record at the University of Iowa tournament. Fuglie and Hansen defeated teams from Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois, South Dakota State, and Westmar College. The pair advanced into the quarter-final elimination round where they lost to Macalester College. Last weekend, a special three person team composed of fresh-men Terry Beyl, Heidi Leider, and Robin Hamilton attended the tournament at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. They won five out of six preliminary rounds before losing in the quarter-final round to Behtel College. . The debaters hope to continue this semester's success at con-secutive tournaments at North-ern Iowa University and the -University of Nebraska-Lincoln. lection and the Plains Art Museum. Also lending works to the collection are Merlyn and Daphne Skretvedt of St. Gennis- Povilly, France, and Ernest Slingsby, Washington, D.C. The show consists of sculptures and ceremonial masks constructed of wood and bronze, two sets of wood and leather drums, some woven and decorated cloths, and a collection of gold-dust con-tainers, spoons, gold weights, and measuring scales. Along with the works of art are descriptions and a short history of the piece and its function in the society from which it came. All in all the show is quite interesting and is displayed exceptionally well. Africa, The Black Kingdoms is supported by a special grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board with funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legis-lature, and a grant for opera-tions assistance for the Plains Art Museum from the North Dakota Council oh the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., a federal agency. This exhibit is the first in a series of exhibitions and lectures on tribal arts at the Plains Art Museum. Future in-depth studies will include Eskimo art, North American Indian art, Mexican and Central American . art, in addition to studies of other African cultures. ' jStudent Association and Student Activities Commission " present ALL NIGHT MOVIES Friday Feb. 16,1979 * Guess Who's Coming to Dinner *Brian's Song * To Sir With Love Centrum 9:00pm - Sunday Films Monty Python Meets Beyond The Fringe Humanities Theater 9:00pm By JEFF TORRISON Although it is not flawless "Superman" is an enjoyable movie. It offers action, sus-pence, romance, spectacular effects, and above all, comedy. The movie follows the early life of a child who is sent to eart h by his father, Jor-El (Marlon Brando), because the planet Krypton is about to explode. The super-boy is found by tho kindly Mr. and Mrs. Kent who take the child in to live with them on their midwestern farm and give him a name, Clark Kent. During Clark's eighteenth earth-year he goes north to a place that is almost as cold and forbidding as Moorhead to re-ceive instructions which Jor-El left for him in a special crystal. There he learns, among other things, that he is to battle evil with his special powers. With this sense of purpose etched in his mind he moves to Metro-polis, a city bustling with crime, to fight for "truth, justice, and the American way." After several skirmishes with small-time crooks, which, of course. Superman always hand-ily wins, the numerous super-human physical feats, he is ready for the real test—the arch-villian Lex Luthor. Luthor is a brilliant criminal who plans to make the west coast of Calif-ornia fall into the Pacific Ocean by exploding a nuclear missile in San Andreas fault. This, he reasons, will make his adjoining desert property much more val-uable. Superman's job is to stop him, of course. The acting in the movie is gen-erally very good. Ned Beatty does a fine job as Luthor's bumbling assistant. Though I do not believe he is worth the 3.7 million he received for doing the film, Marlon Brando's portrayal of Superman's loving father, Jor-El, is touching nonetheless. Christopher Reeves, who is no relation to the George Reeves who portrayed Superman on the television series, certainly has the physique to go with his title. He looks as imposing in a suit as he does in his costume. As Superman he is matter-of-fact about his special abilities, while as Clark Kent he is an oversized Don Knotts, unsure of himself and somewhat clumsy. The con- Tokyo String Quartet to perform The Tokyo String Quartet will appear in the Centrum at 8:15 p.m. Feb. 22 as part of the Artist Series. Members of the quartet are Koichiro Harada, first violin; Kikuei Ikeda, second violin; Kazuhide Isomura, viola; and Sadao Harada, cello. Although all four members studied in Japan's famed Toho School of Music, the Tokyo String Quartet was not formed until the four were studying at the Julliard School of the Performing Arts in New York City. Koichiro and Kazuhide began music lessons at age 6, Kikuei at 7 and cellist Sadao at 11. Members of the Julliard String Quartet were conducting a chamber music workshop in Japan in 1966 and met three of The Tokyo String Quartet began in the spring of 1970 when the group entered and won the Coleman String Quartet Compe-titibn in California, judged by the Amadeus Quartet. Four months later they won the International Chamber Music Competition in Munich and a first prize recording contract. Since then, the quartet has traveled extensively and made several recordings. trast is marked and adds to the humor of the- movie. Margot Kidder portrays Lois Lane, Clark's fellow reporter on the Daily Planet as a tenacious journalist willing to go to great lengths to get a story, and to get to know Superman. Valerie Per-rine, well, she does a good job of filling the screen, if you know what I mean. The special effects in the movie are very well done. The use of the crystal as the primary construction material on Kryp-ton is a welcome departure from the standard metallic fare usual-ly encountered in science fiction. Also, Superman's flying looks believable, though his mid-air poses sometimes leave some-thing to be desired. At times events in "Super-man" seem too contrived to be believable, but who goes to a movie like this ^to, see a plot unfold with smooth' transitions? So what if Superman tells the world he cannot see through lead, thereby making one of his flaws known to evil-doers! Who cares if Lex Luthor never paus-ed to think about the effect fallout will have on the value of his desert property! Is it really that important that Lois Lane flies with Superman in the iono-sphere without an oxygen tank and does not die? If you are looking for a flaw-proof plot, do not see "Superman"—you will be disap-pointed. If, on the other hand, you are interested in seeing interesting special effects, how Superman deals with unenclosed phone booths, and the develop-ment of a romance between an alien and an earthline (other than Mork and Mindy), SEE THE MOVIE. It's entertaining! Senior productionproject is solo flight By SHELLEE ALLSOP The senior theatre major at Concordia has a rare and some-what frightening educational op-portunity. This opportunity, the the young men and encouraged senior production project, chal-them to consider forming a quar- lenges the theatre major to use tet. All four eventually studied the past three years of theatre at the Julliard School on full classes to shoulder the respon-scholarships. All played sepa- sibility of directing and produc-rately or orchestrally after com- ing a play. ing to this country, but intended to form a quartet. They began playing as a quartet while at Julliard in the fall of 1969. The challenge of the project, the scope of the work to be done, provides the impetus for trans-forming theory into practice. single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities. J.H.R. Cqlkien's "the A SAULZAENTZ PRODUCTION ^ ^ A RALPH BAKSH1 FILM J. R. R-Tblklcn1* T H E LORD OF THE RINGS" Mu*tc by LEONARD ROSENMAN Smcnftoy by CHRIS CONKJJNG and PETER S. BEAGLE B*Md on ih* tmcte I T HE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING" •ndTHE TWO TOWERS") of J . R.R TOLKIEN Produotd by SAUL ZAENTZ • Urmcd by RALPH BAKSH1 Prncntaikm MounmincMi mmiuamuium rinnncmcV STARTS FRIDAY FEB. 16 J37-OD22 j 1 MILE COUTH OF 1-94 ON U 5 B1 Eve. 7:00-9:30 Sat. Mat. 2:00 Sun. Mat. 1:45- 4:10 For those whose education seems too theoretical and con-fined to the classroom, the senior production project is an example of education as it should culminate -- with excitement and risk in a manner integrative of theory; reflection, and creative taste. The senior production project is to the director what the first classroom full of students is to the education major; what the recital is to the music major; what the first tournament is to the phy-ed major. Each solo flight offers something very special; the senior production project is no exception. Work on a senior production project of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere%8 Fan is now under-way. Watch for it. GOIN* SOOTH YOU'LL BELIEVE tVO. MO A MAM CAN FLY . . . 7:00 SUPERMAN 9:30
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