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Statesman-Journal, Salem, Friday, February 11, 1983, 1 3A 'Silent Partners' at Chez Robert UAL offers Portland-Tokyo flights review PORTLAND (AP) When United Airlines inaugurates once-a-week service to Tokyo in April from Portland International Airport, local and state officials hope they'll see the vanguard of a flood of Japanese tourists. "One trip a fortune doesn't make," said Bill Supek, Port of Portland director of aviation, ding he hopes the flight will open the door for a lucrative new tourist industry. United plans to use Portland and Seattle as its gateway on daily flights to Tokyo from Chicago beginning in April. The first Portland-Tokyo flight is planned The performers work together with the grace of a true ensemble, but they are distinctive Ulmer has a face that doesn't need words to talk, a body that speaks with little apparent effort; Hewitt is lanky and loose, his face silly putty when he wills it; Redelsperger has more tensile strength, but he's limber nonetheless. "Silent Partners" is not a classic evening, not in the sense of a Marcel Marceau, but it's a modern classic, with all the grace notes of a true original.

"Silent Partners," produced by Curtain Up Entertainment Services. Now at Chez Robert Restaurant, 8:30 nightly, Feb. 11-12, 17-19 and 24-26. Admission $5. similar inventiveness, as the title's style of appearance mimics its meaning.

Probably the best proof that we're in the presence of well-practiced inspiration is the very real sense that virtually nothing goes on one millisecond too long. An essential part of the grace of this entertainment is the performer's ability not to hold an effect too long, to express a moment with a minimum of effort. Be it playful, erotic, goofy, corny or farcical, each skit has its own life and life span. SALE for April 5, with the other six flights a week going through Seattle. Supek termed Portland "an untapped tourist mecca" for Asians and said he hoped the number of flights would eventually increase.

State and local officials have been publicizing Oregon in Japan. In November, the magazine Travel Times displayed a picture of Mount Bachelor on its cover. In June, the magazine had a five-page spread on Oregon and Washington, and in March, it plans to sent a correspondent to do a story on West Coast Amtrak service. The magazine is circu Limited 10-year warranty. Phone for details.

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"It never has been a destination for Japanese. It's a shame," he said. "The Japanese have no idea of what is located between British Columbia, which has done a good promotions job, and California." 3915 S' T- By RON COWAN Of the Statesmaa-Jounul The human body is a wonderful thing. Not just the pulchritudinous plumpness of your Playboy bunnies, nor the beefy brawn of the bullpen or the boxing ring the expressiveness of a loose limb, a wacky grin or an entire body softened into a rubbery plaything. In a society so attuned to objects and special effects, it's something we don't usually think about.

That's why it's such a joy to see the simple wizardry of something like "Silent Partners." "Silent Partners," now at Chez Robert Restaurant, is mime, as practiced by performers Tom Hewitt, Cherie Ulmer and A J. Re-delsperger. Mentioning mime may turn off some people. We've all probably gotten our fill of some of the anachronisms of classical mime the black tights and white face, the goofy gestures and the unseen objects. Going beyond anachronisms to unselfconscious entertainment is the great leap forward, a leap this show makes with surprising eloquence and frequency.

There is some sound music and recorded dialogue and a few props. But, best of all, this is in no way stiff and predictable. More than 15 of the 20-some sketches in this short entertainment (about 90 minutes) will surprise you -with their freshness, playfulness and imagination. Classical, smassical; this is just plain fun. A few of the pieces, particularly at the outset of the show, stagger under some obscurities and enigmas.

The body may be expressive, but it doesn't tell all, particularly when you try to say too much. But who could expect something as bright and crazy as "The Morning This is your standard drunk (Redelsperger) suffering through that morning, but the clever twist the first of many in the show has Ulmer and Hewitt seated at a table with sound effect devices. It's a technique which unburdens the cliche and provides treble delights. Then we have bowling, after the style of Busby Berkeley. That's right three expressive bowlers choreographed with the same kind of florid exaggeration.

It can't be described, but it's hilarious. After that, the evening bounces from high point to high point, stopping for a few, more peaks like "Jukebox" Hewitt and Ulmer as the unwilling innards of a jukebox subjected to music freaks and "The Dog Trainer," in which Ulmer puts the spirit of Barbara Woodhouse to rout. Each skit title is introduced with Foreign student enrollment at UO is highest ever EUGENE (AP) Enrollment of foreign students is at its highest level ever at the University of Oregon, at 1,053 students. Of that number, 47 percent are in graduate programs and the remainder are undergraduates, said Dr. Kenneth Ghent, a retired foreign student adviser who compiled a report for the school.

Students from 73 countries are enrolled. More than 58 percent are from Asia, the report said. Singapore ranks first in the number of students, with 162. Japan follows with 105. In 1974, the school had 718 foreign students.

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