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4D ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH April 28, 1983 Audiences Reviews he heard about the rugged Boone, his eyes opened wide. Afterward, be said, "It wasn't boring; it was really interesting." "It wasn't little kid stuff at all," said Jennifer Sturgeon. "I'd thought it would, be like 'Jack and Jennifer Rushing said her father sometimes told old-time stories and she hadn't thought a school storytelling session could be as interesting as that. The room was still as Ms.

Rubright talked. The only distracted person never gave her a chance a teacher who put her nose in a book before the tales began and dozed off, much to the amusement of the students. "It's a shame teachers often don't pay attention. It happens They don't set much of an example for the kids," Ms. Rubright said.

But in every school, some teachers or administrators are enthusiastic about the programs. "We are appalled that many of our Iriftc Hon't Irnrav a lnt ahnltt nnr aroa nr From page one world. BO-ring is a word some use every five minutes, and peer pressure can be a great stupifier some kids fear risking enthusiasm about a performer until everyone does. The sessions in the junior high gym had a lively beginning with the St. Louis Ragtimers, who played many of the same songs they performed on the Goldenrod Showboat.

Many of the songs were written in St. Louis, some by Joplin, when Delmar Boulevard (then called Morgan) gave birth to new rags every week. The next Tuesday, the Young Audiences folk trio performed. After school hours, the trio adds a bass player and becomes the group Spats. Music that requires real listening is not something to which many young teens are accustomed, and there was soft talking during several early songs.

But then Lydia Ruffin's voice soared in a sad sacred song in the Lakota dialect of the Sioux, and even the most cultivated looks of boredom were dropped. Cynicism did not completely die, however. One boy said he thought the singer had made up the words to the Indian song. That astonished Charlie Pfeffer and Steve Mote, the rest of the trio, who had watched Ms. Ruffin painstakingly memorize the difficult lyrics.

"They are a tough age," Ms. Ruffin said. Dory Gunn, an eighth grader, shrugged at the entire performance and told a reporter, "I just wasn't in the mood." However, many of her classmates had stood to cheer the group. Mary Galbreath, a class member who takes flute lessons, loved every minute of the performance. "The music was good, and you could really hear the words," she said.

Amy Quinn agreed. "In pop and rock, you just hear a bunch of mumbled words," she said. "You could hear a story in their folk songs." Perhaps the biggest surprise to the eighth graders was the third performance. Told that a class period would be turned over to Lynn Rubright, a master storyteller and collector of folk tales, many reacted with "yuck." "I thought it was going to be boring," said Paul Loveland. But then Ms.

Rubright stood up and unwound yams she has collected all over Missouri, moving and motioning and making faces just as frontiersmen might have done a hundred years ago by a bonfire. Ms. Rubright is no sugary story-lady telling once-upon-a-time tales. And despite the high spirits of her tales, several had a moral tone. For example, the high principles of Daniel Boone and his resolve to have no debts were underlined.

Loveland sat in the front row, and as its history," said Vicki Francis, assistant principal at Parkway. "We've found that many have never been to the Arch or the Symphony or any live cultural event." That's why she signed up the school for the three-Dart cultural experiment. and she was so pleased with the result that these eighth graders will explore more. Next on the agenda was a bus trip to the Arch and Laclede's Film Chan Is Missing' In terms of the astronomical sums spent on motion pictures these days, 1 "Chan Is Missing" is a miracle. It came in for about $20,000 and more important, it's a bright, witty, intelligent motion picture that brings up a lot of interesting ideas.

In most respects, it could easily compare with lots of films made for a thousand times more. Sure it's ragged from time to time, and the black-and-white footage sometimes looks slightly grainy. But "Chan Is Missing" tells a story, and tells it well, and young filmmaker Wayne Wang, who produced, wrote, directed and edited, shows a great deal of talent. Born in Hong Kong and educated in California, he also has achieved a first by producing a film that is seriously Chinese-American in subject matter. It's a very simple story, sometimes deceivingly so.

A middle-aged cab driver named Jo (Wood Moy) and his nephew, Steve (Marc Hayashi) are trying to buy their own cab. They give their cash savings to Chan, who is going to arrange the deal. Chan disappears. Jo and Steve look for him. They talk to his friends, his family, his acquaintances, his business relations.

The more they learn, the less they know. Chan apparently has shown a different face to everyone he knows, and while Jo and Steve have discovered many faces, they don't know which if any is the real one. Through this float overtones of the difficulties of Chinese in America, whether native-born or recent immigants, the eternal battle of values between young and old, the political struggles between the people who support Taiwan and those who believe in the Peoples Republic and always the ancient Chinese dichotomy of yin and yang, the dualism intrinsic to philosophy and life. Moy, who also acts as the narrator, has a wrinkled, gentle face whose eyes tell the whole story, and who tends to drift into a Richard Pryor imitation from time to time, are splendidly matched. And Wang definitely picked them, and wrote their dialogue, to provide a wry, Oriental look at the old Charlie Chan films and a modern, Chinese-American view of the political and social views held by both older and younger generations.

The minor characters are equally splendid. Peter Wang is a cook who wears a T-shirt that says, "Samurai Night Fever," and sings "Fry Me to the Moon" while he prepares sweet-and-sour pork and drinks milk. Emily Yamasaki is Chang's daughter, whose Chinese accent overlays a conversation sprinkled with black English. Judi Nihei is an attorney De Antonio, whose previous work includes "Point of Order" (about the McCarthy era) and "Underground" (about the radical Weather wrote the script based on the transcript of the trial. The eight defendants the Plowshares 8 play themselves.

Actor Martin Sheen plays the hotheaded judge. cinema-verite style, with handheld cameras occasionally revealing each other, unbalanced light and sometimes scratchy sound, effectively conveys the idea that an actual trial is being filmed. This is augmented by footage, much of it apparently on videotape, shot outside the courtroom when the trial was actually going on. This includes interviews with scientists and other authorities testifying as to the devastating effects of nuclear war. These "expert witnessess" were not permitted to testify in the trial because their testimony was irrelevant to the charges breaking and entering, destruction of private property and several others, some of them seemingly ridiculous "In the King of Prussia" pivots around a very moving speech by Father Berrigan tracing his long history of activism and civil disobedience to growing up in a Catholic family "where there were no crooked lines." The testimony of the excluded witnesses (biologist George Wald, psychiatrist Robert J.

Lifton and several others) has undeniable power. And it is hard to argue with the commentary by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark about the excessiveness of the sentences (five to 10 years for four of the eight). However, I found something offensive in the way de Antonio has stacked his script. His side has all the good lines. The judge, as written by de Antonio and portrayed by Sheen, is a weak and confused bumbler who frequently loses his temper.

But that is understandable. I cannot imagine any judge from William O. Douglas on down putting up with the kind of harassment he gets from the Plowshares 8. They repeatedly call the judge a liar in his own court and even at one point turn their backs on him. The defendants are obviously a lot smarter than he is, and they are almost arrogant about rubbing it in.

At some points, de Antonio's script seems more about intellectual arrogance than the threat of nuclear Armageddon. I kept looking for a little Christian charity. (No rating. Friday and Saturday, 7:30 and 9:15 p.m., Kelly Auditorium, St Louis University, with proceeds to Clergy and Laity Concerned and Pax Christi.) Harper Barnes Health Quiz Marc Hayashi as Steve in "Chan Is Missing." whose discussion of language patterns is probably serious, but awfully funny. Most serious are the discussions of assimilation, of the difficulties of remaining "too Chinese" or becoming "too American." But over all this, Wang has laid a lovely, winsome, story with an often-delicate, fascinating look at San Francisco's Chinatown, and he has created a first-rate film.

Some street language is the probable cause of the rating. (Running time: 1 hour, 20 minutes. Rating: R. At the Tivoli, Friday through Monday) Joe Pollack experiencing any of these you should seek medical or psychiatric help immediately. However, you should also consider professional help as a preventive measure if you are experiencing two or three of the signs in answer d.

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Fact Fare 'In the King of Prussia' In September 1980, eight anti-nuclear activists entered a General Electric pant in King of Prussia, Pa. The activists, including the Rev. Daniel Berrigan SJ and his brother, Philip, sang hymns, poured blood on nose cones for nuclear missiles and pounded on them with hammers. The movie, "In the King of Prussia," is the story of their subsequent trial. "In the King of Prussia" is an intriguing film, perhaps not totally for the reasons intended by Emile de Antonio, the director.

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