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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, JUNE, 1975 Ulovies a Page 9 imis i The Foubourgs And The Suburbs Produced and Directed by Trent Harris ' Commentary by Richard Daily Casey' Stengel at 72 wants into the void, only to be bitten very badly to be an astronaut. and only to return with the My friend Michael Garvey left debris of accumulated wisdom. the Midwest under no uncertain The difference between terms last week, armed with a Brigham Young University and fifth of Jack Daniels, a wad of reality, says Daily, is-travellers checks, and a forwardit's the difference between the in somewhere Chile. address ing foubourgs and the suburbs. He wants very badly to find the A simple answer to a very American Dream. Before it be- complex question, no doubt. comes nationalized. In remote But what about the difference Africa, a prime minister has gone between BYU and Richard berserk, erected a huge monolith Daily? Or for that matter, Richto Adolf- Hitter, and fired his ard Drily and the rest of the minister of culture and former planet? Unfortunately, the girlfriend for illicit viewings out--, answers to these questions reside the galleries with French art main somewhat vague and obcritics. He wantsvery badly to scure at this print. When you be remembered.- - stop to .think about it, everyWhat has this to do with thing is pretty vague and obscure Trent Harris? Nothing really. at this point Even generalizaAnd then again,' everything. For tions. But we press on, drunken it's that universal 'respect for in hopes of greater clarity. To movie-goermystery and reverence toward everywhere, benevolent madness which led to The Foubourgs And The Sub-- , the production of; The : urbs will carry the horror of a And The Suburbs. spectre in the night. No longer : What exactly is a foubourg? will we be able to rest comfortMy first thought is to say its ably under the illusion that the what a suburb is notfOrto put real maniacs are in front of the it more succinctly, a foubourg is camera. For those who thrive on not what a suburb is. Which is eccentricity, Harris film is a welnot to say-tha- t Mr. Harris has come relief. It puts inanity into given the viewing public a refer-om- c laymans terms and. successfully point on the way to clarity neglects two thousand years of and understanding. If anything, philosophic tradition. For that the film addresses itself to the alone it is most desaving of the menesjs ; o f sodal : enlighten- Salt Flat News Critic's Choice V-ment existential paralysis. The Award.. ''' ' . And now great crippler of young adults. you may be askby has "What a rare for Combining hopeinsanity to do ing, eye less detail with an undaunted en- - with The Fourbourgs And The thodasm for for the insanity in Suburbs? Or Casey Stengel? Or Michael Garvey, who is probably each; of us, Harris has successin Chile right, now, suffering at corraled that which, is, fully ' . from an acute absence of Jack best, an .enigma." Richard Daily, in the role of Daniels and thinking seriously of cosmic shortstop, is quite possibecoming a French art critic? most characbly the Nothing, realty. And then again, interesting ter to step from the' welter of evetything. humanity, since. Neil Careidy. From the cluttered sanctity of Douglas Siddoway, Film Critic his castle, he peers time and again Travelling -- well, - s : Fou-bour- gs WCWSphuMSy S. UniM Recent recipient of the coOeted Salt Flat News Critic's Choice Award, filmmaker Trent Harris, left, accepts the first issue of a free one-yesubscription to' the Salt Flat News. Bestowing the honor is FUm Critic Douglas Siddoway. Travelling ar . pletion of the Utah Central Railroad running between Salt Lake City and Ogden. By connecting with the transcontinental railroad completed the year before, the Utah Central made entrance into and exit out of Salt Lake City much easier than before. ' In 1870 the Germans were celebrating - another event that took jriace in faraway France Germany's defeat of Napoleon IH and his capture at Sedan on September 2, 1870. This event (We may reasonably doubt that Utahns paid it much attention.) was to have far reaching consequences for Europe and later the world. ' : Starting out as the prime minister of the German state of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, the Iron- Chancellor, had formed a modern Goman nation .'from a loose confederation of German states and principalities. In this confederation Austria undo the Habsburgs had traditionally exercised the' greatest influence. But Prussia, under Bismarck, defeated Austria in 1966 just after the American Civil War at Koniggratz-Sadow- a (in present day Czechoslovakia) thus , - - s ..v- had set up an empire in Mexico with the Austrian prince Maximilian as his puppet emperor. The' end of the American Civil War enabled the government in Washington to turn its attention to the situation in Mexico. Washington told Napoleon HI that it would not tolerate any new intrusions by a foreign power into the Western-hemispheNapoleon meekly with-- , drew from Mexico, abandoning One hundred and five years ago, Utahns celebrated the com- - re Maximilian to his death at the' hands of a firing squad under - establishing her leadership among the German States. . , Ever wonder how the Urw is enforced in the wide open when his ex spaces? Well, Larry Bernstein saw the light amined a wide open space as big as his head in the middle of atarget used by Wehdover police for shooting practice.Elko County Deputy Sheriff Earl Lacy evidently figures that forty thousand rounds of .45 caliber ammunition deli-:- r vered to the midsection of a cardboard criminal will make : ; the real offender think twice before drawing a gun on the commend- - ; deputy. Besides hb marksmanship, Earl's to be ed for getting the publics money's worth out of a poUcff - : - ; . Germanys defeat of France in 1870 established her as the most " powerful country in Europe. Napoleon III, Emperor of France,- was coming to the end of his string when he precipitated the war with Germany. It finished him completely and restored republicanism to France. The war was the final disaster in a series of disasters he had engineered. One disaster was Mexico. Napoleon III, .taking advantage of the American government's prosecution of the war against the secessionist states, -- Benito Juarez's leadership. The French emperor had also antagonized secular Italy by intervening there to prop up the Pope's temporal power. The Spanish throne provided the occasion for the Franco-Prussia- n war' At the time the were looking for a forSpanish ' eign noble to take over the vacant Spanish throne. Leopold Hohenzollem, a Prussian prince, held first place. France, however, feared to have a German on the Spanish throne and worked to prevent Leopolds becoming King of Spain. William, the King of Prussia and soon to be jnan Emperor, fearing a war with France ovo what he considered a minor matter, prevailed upon Leopold to withdraw. France, intent upon war, did not think this act sufficient. France demanded William endorse Leopolds withdrawal and, most humiliatingly, promise not to offer Leopold as a candidate again and apologize for the candidature. If not, France would declare War. In a telegraphed reply, the Prussian king refused but added conciliatory phrases. Bismarck published Williams Ems telegram, the telegram, but edited out the conciliatory phrases. The war, by now inevitable, followed. Napoleon. HI himself became a prisoner at the defeat at Sedan. A rump French' government held out until Paris fell, ending the war officially in 1971. William was crowned Go-ma-n Emperor in Versailles that and year Germany's power and influence in Europe was confirmed. ' The' German state of Prussia fought her war against Austria for prestige and leadership alone. Prussia did not demand one groschen of indemnity, nor did she take any land from defeated . Austria. The German nation demanded indemnities (five milliard francs) and the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine from a defeated France after the Fran war. Many thinkers on the subject believe that these humiliations .imposed on the French ;by the Victorious, Germans resulted in the harsh terms imposed on Germany by France World War I after the l914-191- 8 that led in its turn .to World War II in 1939. We still live with that war's results. . so-call- ed -- an |