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Show U offers varied weekend fare Show time is 7 p.m. at the Union Theatre for free, Sunday. Fisherman opens This weekend will also be the opening of another coffee house (that makes two, is coffee coming to Utah?). The Fisherman will offer live acoustical music on Saturday nights 9-12 p.m. After much squabbling about backing, after last year, they hope to offer a very good season of entertainment. Opportunity for musicians The Fisherman hopes to provide an opportunity to local musicians to perform before an audience, and the chance to meet and exchange ideas with people sharing same interests. in-terests. They feel that it will be a non-profit, non-commericial enterprise enter-prise for the promotion of music only. Opening night will feature Hardin Davis, a local ragtime finger picker. Hardin has been performing at the "Cave Inn,' and will play at the Cork Room later this season. Also, opening night will have Jim Poulton. He also plays ragtime and folk music. The Coffee House says they are still looking for performers. per-formers. If interested they should contact Bill Dawn or Chris Boyer at 762 East, 1st Ave, 4. This Friday and Saturday nights n the New Cork Room Coffee House Brain Bowers will be presented. The concert will start at 830 ' Bowers plays the guitar and the autoharp but it should be expressed that the guitar is his secondary instrument. He plays the autoharp like maybe, no one else (or no one else plays like him). He plays it in a new and complicated way and has taken the instrument farther than it has been taken before. He has been on the coffee-house circuit in the East and has only been in the West for a while. He has played behind John Denver on a new single that will be released this winter. He was also hired this past summer by the National Park Service to play at National Monuments like Washington and Jefferson Monuments. This winter he will go on tour with the Dillards on the West Coast. He has played some festivals with the Dillards this past summer. Movie too Bowers plays mostly his own material but plays a lot of other traditional tra-ditional material as well. During the break between sets there will be a movie shown about Mance Lipscomb, Lip-scomb, who will perform in the Cork Room next Tuesday. Sunday Film Series Sunday, "Metropolis," will be shown in the Little Theatre in the Union as the second movie of the Sunday Film Series presented by the ASUU Entertainment Committee, The movie was directed by Fritz Lang. The cast includes mostly unknowns like Brigett Helm, Alfred Abel and Gustav Froehlich. Everyone acknowledges Lang's mastery of the cinema, yet no one can quite tell why this should be so. At times it seems as though Lang's position has been assigned to him for historical reasons and because he is a man of good intentions. Examination of Lang's films reveals something harshly personal in almost every project he has undertaken, un-dertaken, a hypnotic vision of the human contition that is totally involving, and an understanding of line and structure given to few in film. Other films to his credits are: "Fury" (1936), "Western Union" (1941), "Manhunt" (1941), and the "American Guerilla in the Philippines" (1952). Hitler impressed Paulene Kael writes, "Hitler was so impressed with this film he tried to persuade Lang to make Nazi movies." An industrialist-tyrant who runs Metropolis plots to incite riots so he can crush the worker's belliousness. His son has gone to the workers and fallen in love with saintly Maria who gives spiritual comfort to the oppressed. The tyrant plots with his inventor, Rotwang, to create a steel double the false Maria who leads the masses to revolt. But the destruction gets out of hand, and all of the city would be destroyed by floods were it not the final alliance of the industrialist, his son, the true Maria and the workers. |