The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 13

Saturday November 8 1975 Page A13 THE SACRAMENTO BEE Politicos Talk A Strange Breed Of 'Bull' stage Irishman The Irish politician is portrayed as full of blarney beguiling a bestower ot favors and-the master of malapropisms and oratory that mutilates if not murders the English Such a politician is not above calling for a probe of the state university it is a known fact that on campus boys and girls matriculate And he accuses his political opponent of practicing nepotism with his own sister-in-law" A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA columnist recently reminisced about the San Francisco supervisor of Irish descent who had a reputation for malapropisms and as a self appointed watch dog of public funds On one occasion after listening to more than an hour of debate by the Board of Supervisors on a proposal to allocate J92000 for the purchase of 10 Italian gondolas to grace a lake in a city park die supervisor suggested: we just buy two and let nature take its The same supervisor once declared that the city was without funds to its indignant and on another occasion said the public was up with exuberant DWIGHT EISENHOWER Murphy was adamantly opposed doubt the construction of a public urinal would add greatly to the many fine amenities" he declared at this time of financial crisis there just is no money for such The council voted to deny the request The women approached Murphy after the meeting and asked why he was so opposed to such a worthwhile project He repeated his statement that no town funds were available but in subsequent conversation the suspicions were confirmed Murphy was unfamiliar with the word urinal and had no idea what they were talking about Tactfully the women explained adding that it was but a long overdue act of Christian charity to provide facilities for the farmers who packed the town square each fair day opposition melted and he promised the women that if they brought their request to the next City Council meeting he would back them to the hilt He was as good as his word only do I believe that the construction of a public urinal in the town square is long overdue he declared will go further and move that the City Council also allocate funds for an declared is a profession a serious complicated and in its true sense a noble But those who disagreed with him are legion The Bard of Avon defined a politician as that would circumvent Said Jonathan Swift: could make two ears of com or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put Winston Churchill saw things a little differently: are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous In war you can only be killed once but in politics many Bernard Baruch advised the public to for the man who promises least be the least Humorist Rogers declared politics is and lamented that politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get SOME YEARS AGO IN IRELAND the women of a rural town approached the City Council at budget time with a request that funds be allocated to construct a public urinal in the town square But Councilman By ALFRED ALLEN Bee Staff Writer AS THE IRISH POLITICIAN remarked time has come when we must seize the bull by the tail and look the situation square in the With the presidential elections coming up next year we can expect a spate of oratory from political hopefuls who seem to promise all things to all men but in terms which never quite solidify to the point of future accountability Politicians are a strange breed a breed all their own It takes a high degree of mental alacrity for a man or woman to field questions from an audience seemingly providing answers to all but never allowing themselves to be pinned in a comer or forced to take a position on an issue from which it would be difficult to retreat The skillful politician is never stumped for an answer He will field a tough question by remarking glad you asked that question my and then if necessary to give himself time to think repeat the-question The born politician is one who can speak for three or four minutes in reply to a question without ever saying anything the audience can retain and ending up by saying there I think that answers your while all he has done is obscure the issue BACK IN THE 1930s humorist Will Rogers reassured the nation have the best politicians money can And on the matter of buying politicians Simon Cameron Republican boss of Pennsylvania back in 1860 is credited with declaring honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay Equally cynical was Louis McHenry Howe secretary to President Franklin Roosevelt who (On The Light Side) maintained cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain Mencken said: whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of Henry Adams said politics consists in ignoring and Ambrose Bierce defined politics as conduct of public affajrs for private OVER" THE YEARS THE IRISH politician on both sides of the Atlantic has developed as a stereotype almost as familiar as the Nostalgia Flick 'Peeper' A Shortsighted Parody Of '40s Private Eye Movies Unfortunately it fails to generate the frenzy of and falls short of the delicious plotting of And as nostalgia it never does capture the feel of an-early-day Los Angeles that did so well or that managed to a lesser degree As Tucker Caine is not as crisp as he can be Natalie Wood playing one of the twins is passable and comes the closest to hitting the tone needed for a film parody but Kitty Winn playing the other twin turns in a performance that occasionally lapses into stagy high school playing Others in the cast tend to play their parts a bit too broadly to fit in with the light tone needed to pull a work like this off likes to my the rest of the film to figure that out The trouble is it also takes a lot of talk in the form of narrative that never is quite clever enough and repartee that probably have much sparkle even in 1947 As a parody of the Hollywood detective movie Movies falls short The dialogue is too cute and the direction by Peter Hyams fails to give the film the light touch it needs pays homage to the detective genre by starting off with something of a brassy imitation of Bogart But its real heritage seems to rest in such recent nostalgia pieces as and By DAN Bee Staff Writer comes to you courtesy the nostalgia craze This time with Michael Caine playing a a peeper in 1947 Los hired to find a little girl who disappeared 29 years earlier It all starts in the semi-dark of Leslie (Caine) low-rent office The father wants her found all of a been too busy all these years to look But now lugging a suitcase that has to be important and running from three thugs who never seem as menacing as they should in a hurry That and an old photograph lead Tucker to a Beverly Hills mansion where he finds an unaccommodating brother-in-law a nasty old woman and the twin daughters Or are they? It takes Tucker a private eye who "Peeper" written by WD Richter directed by Peter Hyams featuring Michael Came Natalie Wood Kitty Winn Thayer David Liam Dunn (PG) Arden Fair 4 Cinemas 'It Isn't Fair' Homely Men Better Off Than Homely Women Conductor and violinist Alexander Schneider Mozarf Fete: Elegance And The Unexpected So where does that Teave us ordinary-looking girls with so-so figures? Out in the cold where! Much myself this question I became so curious that one day I smoked a couple hits on a joint Soon I was all for grass and was constantly finding excuses in favor of legalization Life was one concert to another one high off another high First plain Mary Jane then Acapulco Gold on to Colombian and then cross tops and eventually acid and harder stuff I completely agree that pot leads to harder drugs because I popped reds a year before I smoked but got my head together and quit the pills Then all this other came down going through hell trying to drop back into reality When you look back and see what your life was before drugs you wonder why you did it I had everything going for me and I tossed it I may never recover but are kids who started and are curious A word of advice: Please Get high off of life period: naturally not artificially If you have problems dope solve them always someone who will help you if you ask And remember: God loves you One Who Is There And Wants Out DEAR RAP: A comment on the girl whose mother makes her do all the work because divorced and must work out to support the family Two years ago my mother died of leukemia There are nine kids in our family but I was youngest and the only one left at home I ended up being the housekeeper for my Dad I protested at first but Dad and I are now best triends so bad being 16-Year-Old King Features Syndicate Inc By HELEN AND SUE BOTTEL RAP: It fair A guy can be homely skinny awkward but if he does something to distinguish himself and he has a good personality the girls stand in line for him But a girl has got to be attractive Period not just a point of view I read an article that says "A man with a good-looking wife rates higher in other eyes than a man married to a homely Then it added the reverse true a handsome husband apparently enhance the status of his but a successful one will And a homely man married to a beautiful wife automatically proves to the world that he is powerful or rich or something great otherwise how would he rate a gorgeous female? Generation Rap DEAR NM: You forgot one thing: to one guy is to another Passable looks with sparkle can hold their own any day against but Helen Note from Sue: Not at first they Mom A guy learn about until after drawn to (And some guys even mind the dull part) DEYR HELEN AND SUE: What is a doper? I used to ask On The Go A Roundup of Weekend Events By WILLIAM CGLACKIN Bee Arts Editor A MOZART FESTIVAL could probably run forever by the time you got to No 626 in the Koechel Catalogue be ready to start over The Mozart festival currently being presented by the San Francisco Symphony Fall Orchestra in three bay area halls runs to only three programs each repeated twice And looking over the three one feels they reflect hardly at all certain aspects of his genius the almost incredible vocal richness and beauty of the major operas for instance or the soul-shaking depths of the But what richness and beauty remain even in the relatively light-hearted range of the first program conducted with wonderful warmth and musicianship by Alexander Schneider in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley the other night! The distance from the exquisite perfection of Kleine Little to the German 571 proved far and there were some remarkable unexpected vistas along the way THE STRIKING thing about was its human warmth its presence It can seem like an elegant 18th century miniature particularly in the disembodied sounds of a recording And of course it is But Schneider and his 27 string players made it more The graceful lively first movement went at an unhurried pace with a vital string sound as if good friends were re-examining the masterpiece with an affection to match their respect The transparent texture of the slow movement was voiced with care the finale was as light as it was merry positively light-headed Schneider helped all this happen with a firm subtle grasp of the work's dynamics For the in 251 Schneider took over the chair and conducted from there while playing the violin for which he is even more famous Opposite him was oboist Jean Louis LeRoux whose role was almost as important The orchestra was reduced to about 17 including two French horns LIKE SO MUCH of Mozart particularly in this vein the work's six movements are notable for a lively vigorous rhythmic sense and a flow of melody that seems endless It was composed as a birthday present for sister and the mood is predominantly merry particularly in the racing rondo But that same rondo has an episode in a minor key that jolts one into another mood (brilliant oboe playing here from LeRoux) and there is a gentle lyricism in the slow movement led with consummate' restraint by violin that takes the listener into still other paths of feeling Like this divertimento the for flute harp and orchestra in 299 is commonly described as French in style and form and like the divertimento is marked by lightness and elegance of expression But Mozart is almost never that simple There is a major development of themes in the first movement for instance with some minor-key passages for flute which are as interesting as they are beautiful MOZART WROTE the work in Paris in 1778 on commission from two rich talented amateurs the Due de Guines (flute) and his daughter (harp) The great Mozart authority Alfred Einstein says Mozart care to make only moderate demands on their and reminds us that Mozart was notoriously unfond of the flute Nevertheless there are some truly perfect moments of writing for the instruments together particularly in the slow movement like the passage in which the flute sustains long tones over rippling arpeggios in the harp and the ten-derest kind of string music The solo roles were played with notable skill and authority by flutist Paul Renzi and harpist Anne Adams both veteran first-chair members of the orchestra In 1787 Mozart was hired as court composer by Emperor Joseph II whose demands on his genius were limited mostly to dance music The German are short (about 90 seconds each) and hearty one wonders if the noble dancers at these masked balls slapped their heels and knees to these rhythms Even here though the composer cannot restrain his inventiveness there are interesting little touches of originality unexpected turns of thought And the sixth dance is wonderfully jokey with a threatening storm of rhythm (led by a tambourine!) in the trio and a funny ending which bounces from one instrument to the other until it lands at last on the plucked strings of the bass Schneider led all of this with a fine hand for tempos The festival will continue with the pianist Christoph Eschcnbach playing and conducting a program which includes two concertos Nov 13 at Zellerbach and Nov 14 at the Palace of ine Arts in San Francisco He will play a solo recital in Flint Center in Cupertino Nov 16 The final program which will include the "Symphony No and "The (in a concert version) will be given in the three halls Nov 19 21 and 20 respectively They all will start at 8 pm OMEGA GALLERY 1701 Stockton Blvd Weekend hours: 4 to 8 Friday noon to 5 Saturday and Sunday Pamlingsby JeH Gere and Pam Aver NORTHERN CALIFORNIAARTS Annual coer show at Expo Center Cal Expo Hours noon Id pm daily through Nov 22 CALIFORNIA MEDICAL FACILITY at Vacavlle Annual fall show ot prison art 8 am to 3 pm Nov 7 8 ahd 9 FAIRFIELD annual open art show in Community Center through Nov 9 PHIL SCHUSTER Energetic sculpture and draw-inns by a young local artist in The Art Gallery lone Open noon to 5 weekenos CAL EXPO State Fair pe-manent toi'echon on vew by aooontment Music SACRAMENTO SYMPHONY Harry Nexislsne conducting with cellist Janos Starr playing Prokofiev "Symphony-Concerto" oeus 125 Comnumiy Cenier Theater Nov 8 at 8:30 Nov 9 at 3 BARRY MAGUIRE with the Second Chapter of Acts nd David in concert in the Hiram Johnson High School auditorium Nov 88 pm JAZZ Trombonist Bill Allred is the guest artist with-the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society in the Empire Room of the Hotel Senator Nov 9 at 1 pm MUSIC FOR BRASS The professional Sacramento Brass Repertoire Ensemble directeo by Larry rreil music by Bach Vivaldi Corelli and some mooerns Arden Christian Church Nov 9 8 SOUZA MARCHES The Oavs Common tv Band commemorates a 1909 concert by the Scuta Band in Woodland with a concert in the Woodland Opera House Nov 9 at 3 pm auditor um J4tfi and streets Nov 7 8 14 is 21 and 23 at 730 pm GETTING GERTIE'S GARTER Tne farce staged by the Stageooor Comedy Playhouse Sacramento Irn Plaza Fridays and Saturdays at 830 pm from Nov 7 through Ja 17 FINISHING TOUCHES Stockton Civic Theater production of Jean Kerr comedy in the playhouse at Willow and Monroe Streets Thursdays at 8 Fridays and Saturdays at 8 30 Sundays at 2:30 Nov 7 through Dec 6 DARK OF THE MOON Play vth music by Howard Richardson and William Barney about a young warlock who loves a American River College production ARC Playhouse through Nov 8 at 830 DR JEKYLL ANO MR HYDE Stevenson's story Staged b- the Ct-au-auaua avers a raw local arouo in tre Old Eagle Tneatre Old Sacr0men'o Frday and Saturdavs'hroughNov8 8 30pm NEVFR TOO LATE Sumner A staged by the Bacchus Theater Morse Building Sacramento at 8 30 pm Ffdays and Saturdays through Nov 15 WHAT'S MINE IS MINE or "We'll TMk of Sor e-Itnng" Old fashioned by Boo Pmson staged with an oho by the Gesl-ghters their theater the Sutter Club Folsom Fridays and Saturdays at 830 through Feb 7 THE DEATH ANO LIFE OF SNEAKY FITCH A eovboy farce staged by the Bad Actors (DeviS Art Center grouo) in tne Palms Public Playnouse Road 103 (off Ch'les Road) Fndavsand Saturoaysat 8 through Nov 8 Films satire on Hollywood lilmmakmg the early 1930s Jeff Bridges Alan Aram and Andy GriHith turn in superb performances (PG) Capitol PEEPER Michael Came and Natal Wood star in what its croducers cad "a lovmg lavish lighthearted toast to Hollywood detective fare ol the 1933s and 43s'' (PG) Arden Fair THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR NY Timecman Vincent Canoy liked this CIA caper starring Robert Red-lord even though it lacked the impact of daii newspaoer revelations about the intelligence agency (R) Sacramento Inn LET'S DO rr AGAIN Bill Corby and Sidrey Poit'er are back won a lollow up to Jp'own Saturday ght" that LA Timesman Kevin Thomas cans even tunmer than the first Pm all abojt hpnoss prize lighting gambling and Other incongruihe IPGj Several locations LISZTOMANiA Cr tidhavt bem ta rtv 'u-h'rs in Nwe treat nl o' Kn Rum'-li adcap vers on ot tn lives of com covers Franz L-azt and fit crara Wagner (R) Caoitol MARY MARY BLOODY MARY A beautiful vOurg women nas ah irresistib impjlse 10 kill LA Timesman Kevin Thomas was able toro-iSt I King tms corpse filled melodrama (P) Arden Fair 49er CHARLOTTE "Bunk" was the unkind term br an NY Timesman to Roger Vadim's venture into death and pornography (X) Arden Fair RYOE HOTEL entertainment Saturday tne Pcar-ng Twenties revue alsod nners nro onrks on Highway Ie3 CRUSH vt -uac g-op Nov B'ac'v A1i'JSrttouron LANDSLIDE 'seal oco (-s': grop Mnrnay through Friday Tne Ramicres' 42sl FiO' Road Sacramento JANI AND THE GOOD TIMES Holiday Inn south Friday and Saturday nignts RONNIE KEMPER Singer composer pianit nightly at the Almanack on Howe Avenue ROOSTER COGBURN (-AND THE LAOY) Jolt Vavne and Katherine Hnoburn have a good re in trv cheerful and tunny western according to NY Times reviewer Vincent Canby (PG) Cinema II Sacramento Drive In HARD TIMES This story of a Depression era street fighter ICnaries Bronson) and his crafty manager (James Coburn) has won critical praise (PG) Century 22 Sacramento Drive-m JAWS "A rew classic of horror" says Cary Arnold of the Washington Post in reviewing this varn about a killer shark and the men who try to destroy it (PG) Century 24 Sairamemo Dnve-m 97 IN THE SHAOE Fonda Warren Oats and Harry Ocan Stamen Olay hsh rg guioe he Flo oa Kcvs what LA Timeman Cnarits Crampi rails an at "abjrd st me drama or ex-s-tentiai farce" (ft) Several local iors OLO DRACULA Davd vefl stars th horror spoof (PG) Century 21 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN "Surehr tearierker" that fails to do lustice to the story of skier Jill Kmmonl (who was paralyzed man accident) according to the assessment by LA Timesman Kevin Tnomas (PG) Century 25 MAHOGANY Desoite numerous stereotypes hi this black epioitat'On turn NY Times reviewer Vincent Canoy found it reoea'r-oiy entertaining Dana Ross stars (PG) Certury 23 Tower HEARTS OF THE WEST Bee reviewer Charles Johnson toined other critics in high prus torttns comic Special Events USED BOOK SALE of the Sacramento branch of thu American Association ot University Women Nov 7 through 9 at the Farmers Free Market noon to 9 the first day 8 until the second and noon to 4 pm the lat day DOLL SHOW Nov 8 at Country Cub Plaza shopping center during store hours Displays and demonstrations ot antique ethnic wooden tin wan ruober and contemporary dolls soonso-ed by the Camellia City P-onee and Guys and Dolls Doll Clubs SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND arts and cra-s sale from 9am to 4 Nov 8 at Cammji' ly Center 5j0I Broadway 'ARTS CRAFTS FAIR at the Cafchael Fi-e 5's-lion woodwork meerdme ieweirv oher 'tenis oenetif yQ the Sacramento Burn Center Nov 8 at to am Theater-" AWAKE AND SING The Cl fiord Odets drama about Deoression days staged by California Sia'e Umversity Sacramento in the Playwright Noy 78 to and 2Q 22 at 20pm WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Aibee's tdugh domestic drama is 'he rst cm Proteus a new local group Carson Jr gh sj-mi Art Shows JERALD SILVA Rct'O oectvc eh-o to- a 'ceil can'ei- in tr Crocker Art Go 'try Weenend hcjr ICamtoipm CANDY STORE GALLERY eoisom Wo-r by James Nutt Gaovs Nilsson Susan Aaan M'ke Slevefta Weekend Hours I0amto5p ARTISTS CONTEMPORARY GALLERY Cross-weds shoppng center Paintings by Ken Walerstreet Laureen Landau Weekend hours: Item to 7 Friday II am to 4 Saturday closed Sunday JENNIFER PAULS Gallery lake ot the Pines Highway 49 norm of Auburn Paintings by Patricia Cas-Sidycfamicsby Eric Dahl LE SAHUC GALLERIES 1727 St Wekena l-dcv 11am toom Drawings and swicture by Harvey andBcnaminDa's? tot in children INDIAN CAPTIVE piy by the Eaglet Children's Theater Saturdays at 2.