The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1972 Page: 5 of 8
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Pancho Villa’ flick falls short
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KSYM-FM radio schedule
Weekend rock acts set
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SHAWN PHILLIPS
Shawn Phillips will appear at
8 p.m. Oct. 13 in the Laurie
Auditorium at Trinity University.
Tickets are $3.50 presale and $4
at the door and are on sale at
all Joske's stores.
Rare Earth, Tower of Power
and Michael Murphy will appear
dumps her out his window. Can
you believe he normally lived
like this? Neither can anybody
else.
Obviously, different actors
should have been used. Savalas
handled the Villa role as best
he could but someone more color-
ful should have been given the
part.
On the other hand, Walker has
too much color and charisma to
play a near super-human role like
Scotty. A Clint Eastwood charac-
ter is not needed in this type of
film, anyway.
Connors seems too uncomfor-
table playing an unstable person-
ality like Wilcox. He isfarbetter
when the script calls for intelli-
gent acting.
at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Muni-
cipal Auditorium. Tickets will be
on sale only at the municipal
box office.
Tickets for the Grand Funk
Railroad Oct. 27 concert are on
sale at Chess-King in the North
Star Mall, Arena Box Office and
Our Place, 1002 N.E. Loop 410.
Tickets are $6, $5 and $4.
2:30 Sounding Board; Janice
Roberts, "Gifts from the
Sea"
3:00 Music For Every Mood With
George Garza
5:00 Firing Line with William
F. Buckley Jr.
6:00 Library Hour; Dave Bur-
kett, "Impact of Jour-
nalism"
6:30 Library Hour; Robert John-
son, "Advertising"
7:00 Music For Every Mood With
Carlos Aidape
9:00 The Roger Carroll Show
2:30 All Things Considered
3:00 Music For Every Mood With
Steve Shriver
5:00 Radi.o Smithsonian, "Terms
of the Social Contract"
5:30 Book Beat
6:00 Library Hour; Ms. Florence
Lieb, "The Poetry of Kahlil
Gibran"
6:30 Library Hour; John Igo,
"Contemporary Poetry--
The Structure of Forms"
7:00 Music For Every Mood With
Dick Swisher
9:00 Serenade in Blue
THURSDAY, OCT.5
2:00 Music From Rochester,
"Eastman School Symphony
Orchestra"
3:00 Music For Every Mood With
Frank Young
5:00 Classical Hour
6:00 Musical Journal, Theresa
Berganza Sings Rossini
7:00 Music For Every Mood With
Kim Bunch
9:00 Jazz Revisited, "Darktown
Strutters' Ball"
FRIDAY, OCT. 6
2:00 Special of the Week
STARTS TODAY!
12:00-3:00-6:00-9:00
Department replaceslight board
for first production of semester
melted because of its faulty elec-
trical wiring,” he said.
The dimmer board, which in-
creases or decreases the amount
of light intensity in the audi-
torium, is located in the balcony
of the auditorium in the Mc-
Allister Fine Arts Center.
Both drama stagecraft classes
will learn to operate the board.
In the drama production "Of
Thee I Sing” which opens Nov. I
all of the lighting instrumentswill
be used.
Unfortunately, both trains are on
the same track and collide.
Wilcox breaks every bone in his
body but wins a Medal of Honor.
Villa and Scotty continue with
their escapades.
From virtually any way you
look at it-script, credibility, role
casting, historical perspective or
even musical score (when Wilcox
enters a room and stands seri-
ously facing his men, the music
is going boing, boing)-this movie
doesn't make it.
None of the characters are
believable. Villa, for example,
is brought to tears by a troubled
woman. Moments later he kills
two enemies in cold blood. That
same day, he marries a woman
and, after the usual honeymoon,
By CHARLES HUGHES
Just by looking at an ad for
this movie, it is easy to tell
"Pancho Villa” is not worth see-
ing. Historical films usually are
not exciting.
The ads carry a picture of
Telly Savalas as Villa and he
does not look Mexican. At the
theater where I saw this movie,
the audience was not enthusiastic.
After escaping from a train
taking him to his execution, Villa
orders $30,000 worth of rifles to
be picked up in Columbus, N.
M. and sends his North Ameri-
can sidekick, Scotty (Clint
Walker), to get them.
Scotty is ambushedtwice. Once
in his wife's room he spots and
shoots three well concealed as-
sailants 10 seconds after enter-
ing the room.
When he picks up the weapons,
a hidden machine gun kills all
the men Villa sent except Scotty
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down funky chords while the
rhythm section is pounding out
solid, primal rock beats.
The sing - songy "Looner
Tune” has Sly's jubilance as a
Sly - like chorus §jngs, "What
would you do if you could do
whatever you wanted?” and a
male chorus replies,” I would
be free in my heart and my soul
and in reality.”
"God Is Great” starts slow
and dismally but builds to a
rousing gospel chorus. "The Bus
Is Coming”' swings all the way
through and contains a classic
line, "The funky systems gonna
fall-or it's gotta be changed to
include us all.”
The slow songs are at least
as consistently good as the rest
of the album. Preston’s keyboard
work seems to become an exten-
sion of his voice at less strident
paces.
"Without a Song" has a South-
side Chicago bluesy feel to it.
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Keyboard artist statements
make first recording success
Billy Preston, keyboardist, re-
nowned for studio and concert
work behind such diverse artists
as Little Richard, King Curtis
and the Beatles, is making im-
portant statements on his first
A&M album, "I Wrote A Simple
Song.”
Assisted by Quincy Jones's
arrangements and George Harri-
son's guitar artistry, this record
has the best compositions and
music of any rhythm and blues
album since Marvin Gaye's
"What's Going On."
The success of this album lies
chiefly with Preston's ability to
blend the ideas of several artists
and still make the sound come out
fresh and original. His vocals
show strains of Sam Cooke, Otis
Redding and Marvin Gaye.
The music is heavily influenced
by Sly Stone. "Outa Space,” for
example, has a very unusual
sound (made by an electric harp-
sichord with wah-wah?) laying
KSYM-FM, 90.3 MC, is a non-
commercial educational channel
owned and operated by San An-
tonio College. The station broad-
casts from 2 to 9:30 p.m.
MONDAY, OCT. 2
2:00 Search for Mental Health,
"Prison Psychiatrist"
2:30 How to Get Along With Peo-
ple
3:00 Music For Every Mood With
Joel Ramos
5:00 SAC Bulletin
5:15 German Press Review
5:30 Weekly News Feature
6:00 Library Hour; Ms. Marie
Fitzhugh, "Irish Flats"
6:00 Library Hour; Ms. Mar-
garet Roland, "Turmoil In
French Education"
7:00 Music For Every Mood With
Rick Arms
9:00 The Roger Carroll Show
TUESDAY, OCT. 3
2:00 Showtime, Selections From
"The Sound of Music"
3:00 Music For Every Mood With
Fil Alvarado
5:00 BBC Science Magazine
5:30 Bernard Garbiel, "What's
Been Happening to the Great
Band Leaders"
6:00 Folk Music Americana,
"Transplanted British Bal-
lads"
7:00 Music For Every Mood With
Fes Haas
9:00 Serenade In Blue
9:15 Travel the World in Song
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4
2:00 Sounding Board; Jerry But-
ler, "The Airport"
A new dimmer board will be
ready for use for the first drama
production of the fall semester
"Of Thee I Sing”. John Fowler,
technical director for the drama
department, said the new board
should be installed sometime this
week.
After several years of basic
planning and designing by Norbet
Lussey of Decor Electronics and
Fowler, the administration gave
approval for procedures to begin
for installing the new dimmer
board.
Texas Scenic chief electrican
David Spears is in charge of the
installation.
The new dimmer board con-
sists of 45 dimmers in compari-
son with eight on the old board.
‘The dimmers can be handled by
any one of the 20 control units.
"The new board has a low
voltage cross connection system
which makes it safe to operate,"
Fowler said.
"The old board was dangerous
and obsolete in its design and
several screwdrivers have been
Two concerts have been sched-
uled for this weekend. Peter
Frampton, ex-Humble Pie mem-
ber, will be performing at 8p.m.
Friday in Laurie Auditorium at
Trinity University. Tickets are
$2.50 and $1.50.
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who, unarmed, eludes
weapon-carrying men.
These types of Clint Eastwood
stunts are prevelant throughout
the movie.
Villa, eager for revenge,
launches assault on Columbus
with an army of soldiers,
artillerymen, well built Mexican
females and mariachi musicians.
He takes the startled town but
General Wilcox, the local mili-
tary leader learns of Villa's
invasion.
Wilcox (Chuck Connors) an
egotistical and foolhardy, sol-
dier, boards a train south to
Columbus. Villa, moreproudthan
usual because of the sensational
headlines he's received from of
the invasion takes another north.
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