Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 17

KAREN BLACK As Rayette in Easy I sai'KaOiO iiil MbH AHnKW I MNI I HI Hnl wB isi I I I I I PW8 4 if II if flW 1 'i Mr wiftwtiMiiraw rI1I ijfeaiHMiil mIBMw Wl I 1 1 I MBMMMl 1 1 nil I I 1 1 ill I MKH 1 1 ilSil fell IIBIwM Karen ibbed on Weddings Investigation Here Reveals By MS TAUKE Can a girl forget a husband and a maiden name? Can she erase Lafayette Ind from her memory bank? Did Karen Black hide her first marriage out of love or fear? Did Skip Burton new husband want a virgin bride? Only Karen Black the actres who won an Oscar nomina tion for Easy knows On April 17 Miss Black married Skip Burton an aspiring young (and handsome) actor A few weeks later when the two revealed their marriage the Associated Press quoted Miss Black as saying it was the first the marriage for both But that just so At least the people in Lafayette think so When the picture with the caption ran in the Journal and Courier whisperings and rumors started flying Karen had been married when she lived in Lafayette the people remembered And she is older than the 29 years she claims whole story is a pack of a former instructor who refused to be identified said It seems that Karen came to Lafayette in 1954 when she was just 15 (School records list her birthdate as July 1 1939) A child bride she was already married to Charles Black a Purdue University mathematics student when she arrived She immediately enrolled in Jefferson High School The music director Richard Jeager has called her of odd was ahead of her time in a lot of he said was the first to wear long black stock Because she was married Karen stood out in a high school class especially one in the 1950s Her fellow students remember1 her as and was a very intelligent one of her peers said seemed more grown up Some of the girls looked up to her like a And even in those days Karen Black told her classmates she was going to become a famous actress picture appeared in the school yearbook in 1955 and 1956 She was in the high revue and was involved in speech and dramatics was very expressive very her speech teacher Bill raser recalled could almost tell the gal had something She had a goal in Karen withdrew from Jefferson June 7 1956 Although she have enough credits to graduate the school did send her transcripts to both Purdue and Northwestern Universities The next year she enrolled at Purdue as Karen Black did some work with television unit modeled for money in one of the drawing classes was a member of WBAA drama guild and appeared in two plays to the and Nights in a One of her professors remembered her today as a actress After one year at Purdue Karen left Lafayette and her husband Her old friends agree he just All she apparently retained from the marriage and her stint here was the name Black Perhaps Karen went home to her parents Mr and Mrs Norman A Ziegler of Des Plaines Ill (Before she was married she had attended Maine Township High School in Des Plaines) Perhaps as she told Newsweek Magazine in July 1972 she attended Northwestern University in Evanston According to that report Karen was bom in Park Ridge to a mother who wrote high school textbooks and a business executive father She tell Newsweek about Charles Black or Purdue but said she was acting in summer stock by the time she was 14 had majored in drama at Northwestern and then went to New York where she picked up some off Broadway parts and studied with the Studio Since her early days on the Jefferson High School and Pur due University stages Miss Black has become the star she predicted she would be To date her movies have included a Big Boy Easy to He and And since those days the beautiful dark hair Lafayette folks recall Karen had has turned to auburn Can a child bride find true happiness as a 33 year old ac tress who fibs about her age? Can an older woman find fulfill ment with a young actor? Does Hollywood give one amnesia? What is the REAL truth about Karen Black? journal ana courier gH? Arts Leisure Sixth Graders Visit Going Places Windy City Sights Doing Things But Like Home Best Compiled by Mary Sue Tauke Theater Exhibits in Getting To Know You Musi Zany Satire Here's Looking at You Review Special Events You Can Take Own Chicago ield Trip South Dance and band leader The second is the bingo game in the camper trailer park Both em body the epitome of the down home American types who at tend lodge dances or own up the Inner North GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY featuring photography of nine artists will be on display at the Lafayette Art Center through May 27 The center is open from 1 to 5 pm daily excepting Monday JOAN VAN BUSKIRK former Lafayette resident will display her paintings and drawings through May 27 at the La fayette Art Center The center is open from 1 to 5 pm daily excepting Monday CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL BAND AND CHORUSES will present a concert at 3:30 Sunday in the school gymnasium CATHOLIC SCHOOL ART featuring works from St Boniface St Mary and St Lawrence elemetitary schools and Central Catholic High School will be held from 2 to 5:30 Sunday at the high school' WENDY will display her prints at the Washington Gallery in rankfort beginning Sunday and continuing through May 29 giraffe Mayflower sixth graders visited the zoo Shedd Aquarium and the Museum of Science and Industry on a recent field trip (Staff Photo by Shirley Roberts) Perhaps like to take your own Chicago field trip An easy way to reach Lin coln Park Zoo Shedd Aquar ium and the Museum of Science and Industry is to take Interstate 65 north to Interstate 80 then head west rom 1 80 take Interstate 94 (Calumet Expressway) which becomes the Dan Ryan Ex pressway rom the Dan Ryan turn east on North Ave Sunnyside Junior High School will present this musical at 8 pm tonight and Saturday in the school auditorium Tickets are $1 and may be purchased at the door And the kids laughed at the looking antique cars and the old time movies in the Arcade in the museum They and over a Gemini space capsule the gigantic model train layout and vintage air planes hanging from the ceil ing The acting is superb James Caan is excellent as the good natured con who does obvious ly stupid things (He could easily be the character in the Pollock joke who turns the ladder while his buddy holds the lightbulb in the socket remember that one?) Sally Kellerman writhes with the crazies during the en tire film Either on uppers or downers she plays the gamut of her nuttiness in the restau rant holdup scene Peter Boyle the star of shows himself this time as a bohunk who through sheer luck is getting fat off the land And Louise Lasser as his dizzy blonde wife Mary is particularly good in her scenes with Dick (It seems Mary had once had a crush on Dick when she was a pompon girl and he a high school football hero) Howard Zieffthe advertis MS Tauke ROBERT KINSELL mixed media exhibit by DePauw Uni versity student will continue through May 31 in the Drawing Room of Purdue Krannert BuildingX ARE will continue at Stage One Dinner Theater in Williamsport every riday and Saturday through eMay 19 Dinner served from 6 to 8 pm with 8:30 pm curtain time or reservations phone 762 6200 By SHIRLEY ROBERTS What would you get if you put 78 sixth graders and a doz en or so chaperones into two Greyhound buses and sent them to Chicago? At Mayflower Mill School get a field trip that was tiring educational and a heck of a lot of fun The Mayflower Mill sixth graders started working out details for the field trip months ago Like all field trips which re quire transportation of any kind this one had to be ap proved by the Tippecanoe School Corp board Then came the problem of financing the trip The kids sold cookies washed cars anything they could do to earn and they came with about $400 toward $800 plus trip The whole package eluding transportation food and tours cost each pupil only $540 Such as cotton candy peanuts and souvenirs were extra OnSS in Chicago the group wore out a lot of shoe leather tromping through the Museum of Science and Industry (in cluding tours of the coal mine and captured German subma rine) Shedd Aquarium and Lincoln Park zdo Many youngsters were seeing the sights including Lake Michigan for the first time Wolves howling in the zoo bears begging for popcorn and peanuts eels slithering in and out of cubbyholes in the aqua rium these were new ex periences for many gets mixed up with crazy pill popping gun toting petty thief Kitty on his way to find Barry and Mary enaka The nakas a dying friend has told Dick have the clue to a great deal of money The two couples eventually wind up in the camper trailer in search of the $312000 enaka and the dead man embezzled some seven years ago But all is not glory Soon two huge wierd green ar mored trailers are on the ing ace who is known for his comic commercials particu larly the Alka Seltzer series directed his first film It has the humane wholesome humor of his TV ads that type of humor that pokes fun at the everyday Joe by just listening to his every day conversation The screenplay by WD Richter however is not as creative as it could be using many cliched situations and trite scenes Laszlo Kovacs who filmed also controls the cameras in this one He particularly innovative in his action photography but is excellent in the close up work The film is filled with of The ethnic humor is taste fully handled but apparently the film intends to say some thing about the ethnic seg ments in America and in this it more or less fails Be sure to arrive on time for The opening mo ments are classic The film is showing at the downtown Lafayette The On a field trip to Lincoln Park zoo you see a lot of mothers introducing their smallfry to the wonders of nature woolly bears slippery snakes or maybe a gigantic AND TALENT Tippecanoe Junior High School' will present a talent show at 8:15 pm today in the school gymnasium Pre program fun will begin at 7:15 pm Admission is 75 cents and tickets can be purchased at the door THE RUSS MORGAN under the direction of Jack Morgan will play at Stage One Dinner Theater in Wil liamsport Monday and Tuesday Dinner will be served from 6 to 8 pm with dancing from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am Tickets for the dinner and dance are $10 for dance only $5 or reserva tions call 762 6200 The trip to Chicago was long in terms of miles and planning but it was a big day in the life of a sixth grader In spite of the excitement and the adventure one weary youngster said it all after a hard day of walking and look ing: like it right here in La nue to Lake Shore Drive The zoo is 2400 on the Inner Drive The aquarium is 1400 on Lake Shore Outer Drive (Interesting side trips can be made to the planetarium and ield Museum of Natural His tory which are within walking distance of the aquarium) The museum is "5500 South on Lake Shore Drive SUNDAY IN THE a program of music and dra ma featuring the West Lafayette junior high concert band and the all city sixth grade band will be held at West Lafayette Junior High School at 2:30 pm Sunday The program will also include a play On presented by the junior high drama students The program is free and open to the public less dim witted of those 1960s jokes is peopled with Dick Kanipsia Kitty Kopetsky and Barry and Mary enaka who are played by James Caan Sally Kellerman Peter Boyle and Louise Lasser re spectively The movie is delightfully acts as master of ceremonies funny a comic shoot up filled with many fresh and zany moments It is proof that a bad plot too important if the actors are good Dick Kanipsia is a big heart ed and naive ex convict who campers LECTURE Teachers and students of the YWCA School of Dance will present a lecture demonstratioon from 1 to 3 pm Sunday at the irst Christian Church 329 Sixth St The program if rep and opep tp4he public A recep 5 tion will follow 7 Mayflower Mill sixth grader Danny ox really look ing at himself in a mirror Danny is peering through thick plate glass at one of the big cats on display in Lincoln Park zoo The reflection is caused by the flash 9 from the camera (Staff Photo by Shirley Roberts) Although ethnic jokes from Chinese to are consid ered in poor taste today on television and even in the most intimate cocktail circles the ethnic movie satire is hav ing a heyday rom Heartbreak a satire on the ultimate Jewish stereotype and many Satirical black comedies which played in La fayette because there is no market for them here we how come It gleens many of its laughs off the Pol ish stereotype that poor hap nakas trail Are they space ships? 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