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i I CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1970 4 Section 5 MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES 1st CHICAGO SHOWING 1st CHICAGO SHOWING Theater Organ Revival More Than NORTH NORTH Nostalgia NOW PLAYING Chicagoland A new entertainment policy! First Chicago show ing of outstanding motion pictures at three Ihcatrrs Cinestage (Downtown), Erlens iNoilhl, UA Cinrma 15(V(West). "THE BOYS IN THE BAND GETS TO ITs AUDIENCE IN AN ENTERTAINING AND ENGROSSING MANNER." nithord Christiansen iN ENTERTAINING AND ENGROSSING MANNER." nithord Christiansen JERRY BRESLER PmrJurlmn A Chicago Daily News "WHETHER YOU ARE A NEWCOMER OR A VHTERAM CF THS oTaG VERSION, YOU WiLL FIND THE FILM APFEALING. THE CAST, TO A MAN, IS BRILLIANT." Mary Knob'auch Chicago Today i) is LGP: TECHNICOLOR' United Artists TRIBUNE, Ovli CarUr NOW PLAYING Lee Erwin at the console. Continued from page I for the theater organist was power-sound power pure and simple, the power of shared reactions and fantasies, and the therapeutic, joyful power which sweeps thru a group of strangers as they unite in a single, trusting This action can be as simple and as complex as the singing of a partly familiar song. Mr.

Erwin leading "Always" and Arlo Guthrie bringing us all in on the "Alice's Restaurant" chorus are doing the same thing. But Mr. Guthrie depends on our memories. Mr. Erwin offers the added security blanket of slides and animated verbal segments.

He and his slide-maker can manipulate us to a degree. Games are possible. Remember those "who can sing louder?" sing-a-longues? Or the accelerating race duplicated last week where the organist plays faster at each repetition of "Casey Would Waltz" and the slides replace more and more words with blanks? The important point in such cases is not that we are being manipulated, but that we are surrendering a little control, loosening a few bonds, playing as a group. And that we are doing this in the same room where we have been lending our feelings to the fantasy world of the silent movies, a world where visual forms and musical sounds are primary and where words and referential sounds are kept to a minimum. Every minute of a "movie palace" performance in the pre-sound track days united the living present with the canned and erc-lit past.

No one could escape completely. The distant hero on the EDENS 2 UA CINEMA 150 nit iti4 tittniwA CINESTAGE Ml 10, 'AXl I') at 4, 6, 8, 10 at 2, 4, 6. 8, 10 Mart Crowley's "TIHIi: mm not a musica NORTH NORTH informality, and easy access to the high level sound. But even rock remains aloof. Its audience cither listens or dances.

The one can be an alienated sensual trip, the other a silent communication of exhibited muscles. The souped-up machines and would-be supermen onstage may be blowing our senses loose from their moorings. But what power there is, belongs only to them. The silent movie and its accompanying organist are as necessary a blend of fantasy, sight, sound, machine, and participating public as any we have today. We need all the mighty Wurlit-zers we can save, not just to remind us how lucky our fathers were, but to show our sons and daughters what direction to take with their synthesizers and hyped-up guitars.

screen was complemented by the local man at the keyboard. He might not be as dexterous as his successor in the audio studio. His reinforcement might leave a lot to be desired on several levels. But he was indubitably present and part of the rite. Today we are faced with en electronic information barrage of lethal dimensions.

Background music lulls our musical sensibilities into lethargy. The transistor and the stereo set have made listening a private act, to be enjoyed by family or friends. Churches and concert halls have backed themselves into socio-cultural corners, taking their music along. The rock palaces have the best of it, with their open floors, contagious ALfoRoductons.LldfVyijcto'i ut, ANdtondlGeneidlPdi.PsP CjADp'r' fir IBAIJrnWIril AT 1:30,3:35, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:55 Telephone 944-2SS6 lOlilsTARTS FRIDAY STARTS FRIDAY ANTONIONI's E7 SalTOaP.OP HT ISt-i am VZ STST1 S3 With Robb Baker Ex-Fugs Leaders Solo Album Study iliiJfHIHHnUltH) IILIIIIII HtfliUiliifiii! 11 Sr 4 Sav WUTI KlAOt TMj.TUr IU ESQUIRE 5M. 0K ST OE UU7 Sell Today it 3:00.

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27 "lob CoTol Ted Alice' LliLI s.4-i.i-io "tyKjtf f4m foe -v Htld O'er Agornl BriltwavLRWrncr Ed Sanders (grand playhouse ACADEMY AWAR0rVJGp1 Tnd.iV .1 louiihon 3433 W. NORTH at KIMBALL htM Best KMU ANEW TOX Picture! jmmmmmrm 40M I luk" 0EH AT NOON DAILY TWO FIRST-RUN FILMS! "THE THREE WAY SPLIT" (olir: 12:15. nn, f.iS. 10 nd 10:40 "THE Otrn I 45 L.i.t Ffr.lurfi ALFRED HITCHCOCK NEW YORK Ed Sanders ex-Fugs leader, Egyptologist, magic-maker, song writer, poet, novelist, onetime editor and bookstore owner was here from the beginning, just about, when Greenwich Village marched to folk, not rock, when funny looking people were beat, not hip. He is a New York underground archetype.

"I was into religious ritual and magic as early as 1960," Sanders explains, referring to the interest in the occult that has become so fashionable over the past year. In addition, he set a record for longest continuous picketing of the Pentagon three days without stopping to rest and was arrested for swimming out to and boarding a Polaris submarine both in 1961. In 1962, he began a monthly mimeographed "magazine of the arts," with a title that still can't be hinted at in a family newspaper and which was a prototype for the many underground papers to come. The Fugs, a group which Sanders formed on a $50 bet in 1966, brought to the rock uia mm i.iauLvwi. i Otn I 45 Last 2 Fr.lh'fM Si 1135 Mil.aiikrr 0 Ooi 1 ll 2 Ftaturci 0:40 INITIATION" It: 1:30, 4:1.1, 1:50 and CHICAGO'S FINEST ADULT THEATRE A Pr" rtfi to'aoults.

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Sanders, who left studying for a masters degree in Indo-European linguistics to found the Fugs, is an iconoclast of everything the middle class Establishment holds sacred and respectable-but this doesn't categorically make him a moral anarchist. "Our problem is to find an ethical system that's of value to a Godless society," he said. His standards for working that out relate only to the things he can be sure of "I admit I'm confused too confused to be a professor, for freedom and self-honesty. In his forthcoming novel for Grove Press, a madcap satire on the 1968 Democratic convention and Festival of Life in Chicago, he writes: "The analysis of the computer was that there are three things Americans hate most: A sex in the open; LSD in their daughters; shamlessness." Self-honesty entails an admission of one's heritage, even if that heritage has been rejected. Sanders does this particularly well in his first solo album for Reprise records, "Sanders' Truckstop," which he describes as.

"punk rock redneck sentimentality my own past updated to present day reality." That past includes being born in Jackson county. Mo. starting point of the Oregon belonging to the Boy Scouts, the Order of DeMolay, and the Christian Youth Fellowship, playing football and basketball, being high school class president, and even winning the VFW "I Speak for America" award. "It took reading Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' in shop class one day to make me rroaowav LIZA MINNELLI Lj "WBS0 Plus-Bold Film "OVER 18" FREE PARKING AVAILABLE shake off all that creepy heritage," he says. But "Truckstop" is born of that heritage, tho it may smile at it.

It's a good country album might even get hillbilly air play, except for the lyrics. But rednecks don't laugh at themselves very often and don't take kindly to others who do so-especially expatriates. Sanders is backed by some of the best country musicians around including Bill Keith on steel guitar and banjo, and everything is framed in perfectly authentic hillbilly style. Even the liner notes, by Ed's wife Miriam, carry out the theme, being a parody on some that Mrs. Jimmy Dean did for one of her husband's albums: "My husband is a God-fearing family man, and he's proud of it.

Around our home you won't find smut or protest buttons, and if our children ever get wise we're gonna lock them in the. cellar. We think if parents would send their children off to scout camp instead of letting them run around naked smoking marijuana at rock festivals this country might not lose the battle of nerves coming up with China in 19110. Furthermore, I think we ought to ban Indian headbands and moccasins at the homecoming game. Our grcat-great-grandparenls did not hack down the Osage Indians just to have a bunch of uppity scions come along cursing about ecological disaster." Strong stuff, that humor the Sanders family puts out.

"It's tragic humor," Ed says. "Laughing while your hand is in the meat grinder." In his first novel, Sanders turns this humor on 'STERILE CUCXOO1 SKe'r ADELPHI Academy Award Winner Klhrin. HEPBURN Ptlrr O'TOOLE "LION IN WINTER" tut NORTH Att IUU lfl0 BHD (X) RATED FOR ADULTS ONLY "THE VIXEN" "ALL THE LOVINQ COUPLES" Cinema Theatre 1:30, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00 and 10:15 MATINEES DAILY For Student GROUP RATES CALL WH 4-5667 a tuu lining PE 1-1030 rATIU S9nior Citizeni Ijc LOVING COUPLES" Hi "BORA BORA" AulU Only Ni On. Aomltm Injtr 11 I 9PECIALKIDS MAT. 2 ALFRED A HITCHCOCK i ELVIS 'Change of Habit' KC VI iiumi PR mm "Destroy All Monsters" "3 Fir it Slinv 1:10 lilt FmI.

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"It's on the Tate murders," he says, "and again I'm working under an assumption this one being that Charles Manson is innocent. He may be guilty, for all I know, but a person is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty; isn't that the American way?" Besides his present venture into what he calls "left-wing reportage," Sanders knows the publishing world from other standpoints as well. He has published six books of poetry; had his own printing company that magazine ran for thirteen issues containing works by many well hnown figures, included the late poet Charles Olsen and now sells for up to $400 per setl; and ran his Peace Eye bookstore in the East Village for five years the doors are now locked because "I'm a terrible business man there was a standing rule that no shoplifter was to be stopped, and the word sort of got around''. Sanders disbanded the Fugs the most famous of America's "blue groups along with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, who also have split up following the Chicago convention. The group first recorded for Folkways, then ESP, then Atlantic, and finally with Reprise.

A fourth Reprise album, recorded live at the Fillmore end entitled "Golden Filth," is due for release soon, and two others are in the works another live album and a jazz opera with Navajo overtones called Meanwhile. Ed Sanders holds interviews over dark ale and vodka tonics, carries around such books as "Elementary Persian" and "Acta Oricntalia," and goes home to his wife and daughter in an apartment on the lower Hudson river In a newly-remodeled building where such kindred artistic radicals as choreographer Merce Cunningham and playwright Sam Shrpard also live. When he's not posing as an occultist buying skulls. 'CkMN Triton tail tir-lal "THE SWAPPERS" i Al Al Cactus Flower' "ZZT "THE WILDEST" DAVIO NIVEN the BRAIN" nowop CmIm' ''In' At THE ULTIMATE IN "ART" 3040 Mllvniikn. Of.

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