Austin American-Statesman from Austin, Texas • 106

2 Austin, Texas -TJif Austin- Amt-rii'jfi-StaiV-man Sunday, May -12, 1974 Sunda. Ma 12. 1971 Tic Aufift AovricJuSutfmaii 'Hey, Ma, Look Where 1 Ami No Conventional-Type Heroine Cicely Tyson Particular About Moles By LUX OVERSEA 74 Chrisiian Science Monilor News Service Sa'iy. by P. rt Joe Stem; li-ths-Mtmll, pares; $ri ''5.

By CATHERINE PLTROSKI If it wen n't that KoruTt SKat's Sally." (K .1 ii) c-. a iri'sriie-. and -n is fat moving ry to It is Sally's her nie of raund ibis city T-ne and plan-. wxl n3rly ins ry. are nnt crucial p.t's.

ail wvil h.ippe-ns "Mm have yi as last wetk or Vif rth'-rs thematic cirer? rrl'y five his 4 a. its frVigh steries' arp-aranr vary nixjlly. We U-k ferwarJ rext novel jr. iV new fxscs will ii'visc a realist's vbwo cl pecyle rh pa" is st th-it otN-r events ii Sally's I will repeal over an evtr The pe4e do get a-e not always the real Vr5 rs. and are often not rmrilly A f.ni:?aerti, no, but a r-A --J Sal'y" is a re.i'.st'sbork..

f'- a- -f SK-ut Iiwd st-Vtral years, many ef tkt p' sn UJi mil be th-a tV wy may seem 5.fVrent the is late prnhihitton era. rtx.fs change pass a a but it frum a (rum nM v. ,.) i' xlTt IS Us LJL4tJsl Contrasts bHveen "j.tmlm-ss" aid "bai'iess," t. her to savi't al a nmval and ht event u.i vtiation. bctnitn tt km of fiTvar a-j her hrrMj'BT's ir l.

bigotry-, twero and her 'i- t-r siskr and h-r pr-misruou ou.U-r ss'er. 'vM-en SalH's wvlx-s to art ind er to I. h. lt her .,1 st and her these and h.i!a;xe the The cast cf -fiarjcu-rs is so or f.iscrru!.r.j!. tV ailer ne.U! i Lir re: I'e'jsin Mail.

is Sally's temporary knight in Mr. Eayne, the 'siekAS'" cf all tew. Sont-hins manages an almost sa.Mtltke endurance, and we are It fi pondering whether it's thick skin or whether she is simply convt rted to realism The cv iderae the latter. Salty is "sawd" after the ftwfoid nipe but very possibly lucause th.us the only optuA 0n. the boys uiil never get taujuht.

The hotel J- from the iri's f. ml of view by a and the- f.i thai Sally is not cnimritienal nf henntU'. a RESTAU.1AIIT 7 MOTOR INNS is Jt x-- t- v. 11th and SAN JACINTO 476-7151 Sally is a I fr-m ginning and what hijle wikltm d'x acquire is strictly hardk.mn.ks variety Remarkably was reconsidi-rt by CBS and fira'ly produced she is selective in roles. Tyson i.

has made two rrAics past six years i r.ee Heart Is a Lonely Har.ter." is a New sve d. E-j! even in such a milieu her not her n-aited badly when she said she was going to an actress and put her out of their he-no nade h- st debut in "TV.e Dark of the ar.J s'ard-m catr.e as Virtue in Gt net's "The Blacks" She won the Vernon Award for that role and repeated as a winner in "Moori on a Rambtiw Sha-Al Since then she has appeared in numerous television and motion picture roles. Al the nem luncheon Miss Tyson told her black audience: "I cannot tell you how proud I am of all of you. I am astounded to see you as fatuity, avsociate deans, directors, here at Harvard. You are the cream of the crop.

It is nut enough to say I love you The world should know about you. "And I just want to scream, iook where 1 am!" ojiestion-and-answer session and informally throughout tf-e day. She signed autograph after autograph for al'. who asked Her day was climaxed al the Harvard Club when President Bok presented her With a Revere bol as a token of campus esteem for her talent. Miss Tyson talked abc.it fur experiences as an actress, her excitement al being on the Harvard campus, and her goal cf being accepted, "not as Cicely Tyson, symbol of black women." but "s.mpiy a Cicely Tyson, actress." Being Cicely Tyson, actress, is not easy, she says, because today's roles for women, regardless of race, are ofun not acceptable.

"Becoming a symbol does not speak highly for the movie industry." M'ss Tyson said. "Roles offered to black women are degrading and disgusting. -ll pleases me to be a symbol and to be recognized as such, but I hope some day to be simply Cicely Tyson, actress." It is important for black thespians to present positive images on the screen, she said. "Certainly, we black people need escape and fantasy films," she reasoned, "but that should not be all we are given. We must live down stereotypes.

We must also BANQUET ROOMS FC1 PARTIES CAMBRIDGE. Mass. i want to scream, 'Hey. ma, Joe where Actress Cicely Tyson waved her arms and cheered her audience. She was guest of honor at Harvard University on "Cicely Tyson Day at Harvard Her audience mcladed black staff and faculty members and graduate students at Harvard, putting the finishing touches to a steak luncheon at the Harvard Facuity Club on campus.

"The role determines whether I work and where I work," Msss Tyson said. "'It takes guts to be an actress-black or white, but particularly biack and stand up to one rejection after another simply because you are a black woman who wants a decent script." Miss Tyson spent April IS at Harvard because she was invited by Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Derek Bok. in tribute to her performances in the movie. "Sounder," and the television film.

"The Autobiography of Miss Jane Piltman." On campus she also met with students in a formal SERYIX2 FECa 20 TO 450 lOltMER Al STINlTi: KOCKRT JOE SHlLT Hi first novel h.i Au-nn area I a lreuiel World Intrigue 1 Fi CICELY TYSON HONOR LI) I1Y HARVARD STAFF, STIT1LNTS roll- d-lirniines hrtber 1 work ainl vhi r-; 1 work" Snowball, by Ted AllN'ury l.ippini oii; SG-S5. PATIO COVERS! (AIL TYPES) PATIO COVERS! (CUSTOM BUILT) agent. Tad lakes Charge of the pingram to "defuse Snowball," and Mane-Claire FouSrt. Hie beautiful French agent, into the action. A 1 1 was a Counter-inii-'I'igence agent during World War II and draws on that experience in writing this story, lie is a public relations consultant making his home in England.

audience was discovered. Producers. she continued, have resisted a new image or a new approach, and she asks. "Why can't good films about blacks make money, too? "We are told niggers want sex and violence, and producers have no choice but to make such films," she added. "The initial interest in making "SounJer was nut lo make money, but to produce a film for children "Jane Pittman' was turned down by all three TV networks before show that black is beautiful." The current black revival in movies began six years ago.

she said, with "Shaft." "Cotton Comes to Harlem." and "Sweetback." These films turned the industry around, she pointed out. and the black unwitting, she is rKH wry mueh in of anvthmg least of all U-rstlf. Six- may not be Sirr.p!e-ro:n"Je'd. but neither is she ttrril quick, lo balance all this. is an idealist and a basically honest person, thtiugh the wurlJ of "Mu.s Sally" irfc and bimest people are likily to come out on the sh end.

So though Sally is an anti-heroine. snill town in her HUerisls and sni-o! time Imt misdeeds, issues underlying the story, which she diH-s sense fnim tur to lime but can do nothing about, are as large as yiu could want. Sally's rape and the consequences bind the plot together. Stout's descriptions in this regard and lus parotfy of tent preachers may be strong medicine for some readers, though I believe his meihod is justified. He has, moreover, made a convincing narrator of his S.lly.

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Lid MtN HAiHblUlbl 1050-C South Lamar in Lamar Plata Shopping Center SUPER contents Art Page 4 Music 9 Film 26 Drama 29 Dance 37 TV 41 Radio 42 Books 43 I "1 vJ Saddles" with Clevon Little, Gene Wilder (R j. Screen II: Held over. "Conrack" with Jon Vuight, HumeCronyn (PG). STATE Held over. "Foxy Brown" with Pam Gner (R).

VILLAGE IV Held over, "The Three Musketeers" with Michael York. Richard Chamberlain (PG). Through Tuesday, "The Outfit" with Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker (PG). Starts Wednesday, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" with Paul Newman. Robert Redford" (PG).

Through Tuesday, "The New Land" with Max von Sydow, Uv Ullmann (PG). Starts Wednesday. "Fantastic Planet." animated feature (PG). Through Tuesday, "Charlie and the Angel" with Fred MacMurray. Harry Morgan (G) plus "Cinderella," animated feature (G).

Starts Wednesday. "Friends" with Anicee Alvina. Sean Bury (PG). CAPITAL PLAZA CINEMA Held over, "The Great Gaisby" with Robert Redford. Mia Farrow (PG).

HIGHLAND MALL CINEMA Held over. "The Exorcist" Knowledge" with Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkle (Ri. Starts Wednesday, "The Silence" with Will Geer, Ellen Geer (G). PARAMOUNT Through Thursday, "Billy Two H3ts" with Gregory Peck, Desi Amaz Jr. (PG).

Starts Friday. "People Toys" with Gene Evans, Shelly Morrison (R). VARSITY Through Thursday. "Jeremiah Johnson" with Robert Redford, Will Geer (PG). Starts Friday.

"16' with Mercedes McCambndge (R). AQUARIUS IV Through Thursday. "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" with Peter Fonda. Susan George (PG). Starts Friday, "People Toys" (R).

Held over. "Jeremiah Johnson" (PG). Held over. "The Sting" with Robert Redford, Paul Newman (PG). Held over, "American Graffiti" with Ronny Howard, Richard Dreyfuss (PG).

FOX TWIN Screen Through Thursday. "Sugarland Express" with Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson (PG) plus "Sometimes a Great Notion" with Paul Newman, Henry Fonda (PG). Starts Friday, "Biaztng Zachary Scott Theater Center, 'The Amorous Flea." Friday and Saturday at 630 p.m. at Creek Theater, "Nellie of the Sawdust Ring," Gay Ws melodrama. Friday at 6 m.

in McCallum High School cafeteria, "Only an Orphan Girl," melodrama. Sunday (May 19) at p.m. at Austin Recreation Center. "Heidi," Children's Arc Theaier production. ART Monday through Friday at Capitol City Savings, charcoal portraits by Peggy Johnston Moore; demonstrations Monday through Wednesday from 11 a.m.

to 3 p.m. See also Museums and Galleries. Page 6. MISCELLANY Sunday from 2 30 to 10 30 pm. at Philip Menn Arena, grand-opening show with George Jones, Tammy Wynette.

Jeannie C. Riley. Nashville Brass, et aL Saturday and Sunday (May 19) at Laguna Gloria Museum. Fiesta, annual arts and crafts show. THEATERS AMERICANA Through Tuesday.

"The Graduate" with Dustin Hoffman. Anne Bancroft (PG) plus "Carnal CONCERTS Sunday at 30 and 11 am. at University Methodist Church, ragtime piano services. Sunday at 2 m. at Woolndge Park, Gabneli Brass Quintet.

Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at Wesley United NSethodist Church, Jimmy Butler Singers. Friday at 7 30 m. in Mary Moody Northen Theater, St. Edward's University.

Hilltopper Chorale and Varsity Singers. Sunday (May 19) at 2 30 p.m. at Woolndge Park. Austin Chamber Players. Sunday (May 19) at 7 m.

at All Saints Episcopal Church. "It's Cool in the Furnace," folk-rock musical. DANCE Sunday at 7 30 p.m. at Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin Ballet Theater; final 1973-74 performance. DRAMA Sunday at 2 and 8 p.m.

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