The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1973 Page: 11 of 14
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Liberty Hall caucus: Tracy Nelson, and raucous talk
The little woman with the
big voice, Tracy Nelson, was in
town for a three-day engage-
ment at Liberty Hall, along
with her band Mother Earth
and a New Orleans band called
Flavor (who could have been
awful but were surprising
solid). Though I missed the
first set, when Tracy seems to
have done some of her best
songs like "I'll Be Long Gone"
and "Temptation Took Control
of Me and I Fell," she did some
old favorites such as "Ruler
of my Heart" and the classic
"Mother Earth," along with a
few new songs.
Tracy's favorite kind of music
is blues and gospel, but the
Houston audience was hot for
some country music, so they
got "Will You Be Here When
I Need You Most or All?" and,
as an encore, an old favorite—
"I Fall to Pieces."
—Don Shewey
Liberty Hall was the scene
of a raucous caucus (you were
bound to hear it once) as hun-
dreds of women gathered to
talk loudly, eat, and listen to
Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth
last Fridayp. It was National
Women's Political Caucus' first
annual convention, attending
hip - lib section of their hectic
schedule.
To avoid the crowds, we
stayed off the floor until the
band came on, then ensconced
ourselves in the back aisle, to
be stepped on frequently. Moth-
er Earth played a rather un-
inspired set, while a group of
women danced frenetically at
the nearest table, skillfully
grabbing the attention of some
television newsmen for a while.
As the music was ending, one
of the dancers approached us in
the dark, said hello, and went
straight into her diatribe.
"Do you see those women
behind you? They're beautiful,
beautiful people. See — there's
Bella, you know, Bella Abzug,
you can always recognize her
and cattle barns
The Windmill Dinner Theater
can ruin an evening unless you
happen to like being treated
like cattle, seeing a rotten
show, and aspire to attending
theater in a barn (which may
be a subm*ban trend). It's lo-
cated about twenty-five miles
from campus in Town and Coun-
try Village, which makes it
worse, and' it's expensive, which
probably makes it impossible.
The Owl and the Pussycat is an
hysterical show, but at the
Windmill it's dead; Zina Bet-
hune (The Nurtzes) is a pros-
titute, but comes on like a
cheerleader; I missed the pom-
poms, probably since I left after
the first act. SteVe Edwards,
Houston television personality,
tried to act, too. Braniff Inter-
national, who owns the joint,
should know better — I would
think twice before using their
airline on the basis of this
rotten experience.
hdd
by her floppy hat. And Gloria,
you know, Steinem, is over
there in that group. And there's
Betty Friedan, and ..."
We didn't recognize anybody
as we craned our necks.
"Do you realize that there
are over two thousand women
here, and they're from all over
the country. There are ten
delegates from Alaska, and sev-
eral from Hawaii, and Vermont
and Delaware ..." She named
every state except West Vir-
ginia and Idaho. Her name was
Barbara, and she was from
North California.
"I'm a divorcee. I have a kid.
I work at a job, a man's job,
but I don't get the same amount
of pay as a man doing the
same work. I can't get insur-
ance — because I'm a divorcee.
. . . I've worked hard for this
convention, I worked on the
bus . . ."
"What did you work at?" I
asked.
"A little work wouldn't hurt
anybody," she answered, for
some strange reason. Then it
came. Equal rights. Equal pay.
Child care. Controlled anger
but reasonable. In a torrent of
fiery words. She stopped when
Gloria Steinem took the micro-
phone to thank Tracy Nelson
and someone in the audience
said that someone ought to
straighten out her lyrics. There
were catcalls and hoots as
Steinem talked about what a
drag the Rice Hotel was, and
other interesting matter. Bella
Abzug took the stand to give
a rather ordinary but intelli-
gent support statement for
women's rights, and was right-
eously cheered. Then some coun-
selwoman from New J ersey
came up to the stage next, and
a harmonica player in the front
row demanded equal time so
★ ★ CAPSULES * *
The American Ballet Theater
swept into town last weekend,
and I caught the concluding
event on Saturday night. I
missed Les Sylphides with Cyn-
thia Gregory, but heard lots
of applause for it; the Don
Quixote pas de deaux was fan-
tastic, while Sea-Change was
rather full but colorful as it
ran through dawn, evening,
moonlight, on the ocean. Fancy
Free, the Jerome Robbins piece
moved into the realm of pure
delight, as the classic story of
three sailors on leave unfolded
in some fine dance movements.
The Society for the Performing
Art's next big ballet event is
Rudolf Nureyev appearing with
the Canadian Ballet, and their
next general attraction is Van
Cliburn at the piano.
Sounder is a brilliant film,
muted but passionate. It's a
Depression-day story set in
Louisiana, 193:3, about a family
of black sharecroppers; the
father is sent to prison camp
for theft, the son looks for him
and finds a teacher, instead; he
returns home, followed shortly
afterwards by his father, now
a cripple. Although the son
wants to stay and help out on
the farm, the father convinces
him to go off to school with
the new teacher. Cicely Tyson
gives a powerful, angry per-
formance as the mother, and
manages to convey all the emo-
tions she is called upon to do
with equal intensity. I'm con-
vinced she should win the Oscar
for Best Actress (for which she
was recently nominated). The
rest of the cast is good; the
movie is great. At the Gaylynn.
The Mephisto Waltz is back
at the Village, and is one of
the better non - Hitchcockian
horror flicks. The plot involves
the devil, and shows how to
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body, a rather risky caper
since you have to die first. Bar-
bara Parkins is fantastic-look-
ing and Jacqueline Bisset isn't
bad, either. The acting is decent
enough, and the eerie sequences
will keep you at least slightly
terrified.
Travels With My Aunt spot-
lights yet another indomitable
female talent. English actress
Maggie Smith, Oscar winner
for The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie a few years ago and ac-
claimed theatrical talent in Bri-
tain plays a finicky, eccentric
but all-together auntie with in-
ternational connections f o r
money and excitement. But the
movie is disappointing, espe-
cially considering the tremend-
ous amount of advance public-
ity it received. Everyone knows
that Katherine Hepburn turned
down the lead role, and Gra-
hame Greene's novel by the
same title was a bestseller for
ages! Even Smith herself gets
into a rut, despite her fine abil-
ity at movement and expres-
sion. Alec McGowen as the
"nephew" is stuffy, and most of
the other characters are your
local stereotype. The camera-
work, though adequate, is hard-
ly original, and the script is
sometimes witty, sometimes
atrociously stupid. For an over-
dose of eccentricity and maud-
lin story-telling, Travels With
Mv Aunt is choice material.
—hdd
she could play a song for free-
dom. It was rather bad, but
everyone was told to leave so
the Hall could start preparing
for another show and as Bar-
bara was leaving, she offered
us her room number. We gra-
ciously declined.
This weekend a "Demon in
Disguise" will have to provide
all the excitement himself. But
according to many, D a v i d
Bromberg, who will display his
"instrumental wizardry" at Lib-
erty Hall tonight through Sun-
day night, can do it. His guitar
artistry has graced the albums
of Dylan, Chubby Checker, Paul
Siebel, Tom Paxton and Doup:
Kershaw; he plays the piano,
dobro, banjo and mandolin, and
will appear with a four-piece
back-up band, including a fe-
male singer. Albert Collins will
share the billing. Shows at 8
PM, and on Friday and Satur-
day an extra at 11PM; tickets
may be obtained at the Hall,
Paisley Company, Staff of Life,
and the U of H ticket office.
—H. David Danglo
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Wouldn't it be better to represent as many stu-
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Deadline for pics & biographies is Feb 23.
Pictures taken in our office any weekday 1-3 pm.
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