The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1981 Page: 4 of 28
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THE FT. HOOD SENTINEL Thursday Ju ly 16 1981
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In a continuation of 66 years of
Broadway tradition The Param mount
Theatre is delighted to announce the
1981-1982 season.
FEATURED are “D ancin”’ “Sugar
a ie s” ro ch The A ustin
S a O rc stra
“M orning’s at Seven” “Rigoletto”
“They’re Playing Our Song” “Chil-
dren of a Lesser od” and The Merce
Cunningham Dance Company.
Season Ticket holders will have
until July 31 to renew their tickets
from last season. Following the re-
new al deadline all unsold tickets
will be released to the general public
for sale through Sept. 8.
Those who join the Param ount’s
George M. Cohan Society (a prog-
ram ing support organization) will
see nine shows for the price of eight
plus they will recieve a 10 percent
discount on the price of the tickets.
Season tickets for non-mem bers will
range from $84 to $108. Season tick-
ets for embers will range from $76
to $97.
The Tony inner “Dancin”’ which
sold out in one day last year at the
Special Events Center returns for
encore performances Oct. 1-4. The
smash rlesque usical “Sugar
ab ies” starrin E ddie racken
plays Nov. 20 and 21. “G roucho” a
unique two-person show on them as
E lep an ts horses even camels
will arrive in Austin very early Fri-
day to perform in six shows at the
Frank Erwin Center Friday through
Sunday.
New season announced
at Param mount in Austin
Circus to visit Austin
BUT BEFORE the first elephant
enters the center ring folks will be
treated to one of the circus orld’s
ost popular events ... the Animal
Walk. The Anim al Walk will officially
begin at noon Friday at 10th and
Congress at First Texas Savings but
the circus animals will begin on the
IH 35 access road and 6th Street
travel est to Congress then north to
irst Texas Savings.
From there the animals will con-
tinue to 11th Street then east to Red
River then north to The Erwin Spe-
cial E vents enter. on’t be sur-
prised if you see smiling local celebri-
ties aboard th elephants. A ustin
Sym phony conductor A kira Endo
has accepted an invitation and the
inner of a First Texas Savings and
KCSW promotion will be riding an
ter of com edy will play the Para-
mount Dec. 6.
The A ustin Sym phony ham ber
Orchestra returns for a pair of con-
certs Feb. 5 and 6. The Tony Award
in in co ed ‘‘M rn in ’s at
Seven” will hit the boards Feb. 12
and 13. “R igoletto” performed by
the dynamic Texas Opera Theatre
opens Feb. 28.
The Tony Award winning musical
by Neil Simon “They’re Playing Our
Song” will bring its $500000 produc-
tion to Austin March 29 and 30. The
Tony Award winning Best Play of
1980 “C hildren of a Lesser od”
premiers April 16 17 and 18 as apart
of the Param ount’s National Festival
for the Deaf Perform ing Arts. The in-
novative Merce Cunningham Dance
Com pany wakes a return appearance
to the Param mount April 20 and 21.
DURING THE 1980-1981 season
th a ra ac ie record
breaking sales totaling 1800 season
tickets. Officials from the Param mount
feel confident that this year’s season
is stronger than last year and that the
1800 ticket figure will be surpassed.
The Param mount encourages all pat-
rons of the arts to place their ticket
orders early due to predicted sales.
For more information please call
the theatre at 472-2901 or 472-5411 for
a season ticket brochure.
Pachyderms to parade
elephant. So bring the kids dow n-
tow for lunch Friday and see an
elephant or two.
Even elephants eat Mexican food
when they come to Texas. So to wel-
come Ringling Bros and Barnum &
Bailey Circus to Texas Del Taco of
A ustin is busy preparing “The Big-
gest Tostado in the W est” measuring
12 feet in diam eter and ade espe-
cially for the trunked performers of
the circus.
The public is invited to come out
and see seven elephants dig into their
giant tostada at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in
the south parking lot adjacent to the
Erwin Center. The “m am oth” tos-
tada will contain 800 pounds of pota-
toes 100 pounds of yellow squash
nine aterm melons and will be topped
off ith tusk-tingling alfafa.
As a gift to organic growers. the
Greatest Show on Earth will be giv-
ing away their high-potency animal
manure at the Southern Pacific rail
yard at 5th and Weller Streets from
By CHIP LAUGHLIN
riday afternoon until the Circus
train leaves Austin following the fin-
al performance Sunday.
VARIETY
Video computer games capture the nation
They’re everywhere. That soldier
on his lunch hour. He’s one of them.
The kid on sumer vacation. She’s
one too. The other with the baby in
the stroller. She’s one. Even that guy
in the three-piece suit.
THE GROUP of computer game
fanatics is growing fast not only here
bu across the nation. As a subcul-
tu re in ers co ter gam
fanatics ay just have passed pin-
a ll a a a e
Circus manure is premium quality
fertilizer since the animals have a
rich and varied diet consisting of not
only hay and grains but also apples
carrots and other vegetables. It has a
ig er co cen tratio of nitrogen
sp ro s calciu an th er
animal minerals.
UNLIKE FARM an re which
may be sprayed with chemicals to eli-
inate in sects ircus manure is
pure and unadulterated. So with the
widespread interest in organic gar-
dening the Circus decided that such
a natural resource would not go to
waste.
hose tak in advantage of this
offer shou’d be advised that manure
ust age several months before it is
tran sfo rm ed into com post and is
ready to be spread on the flower beds
or the cabbage patch.
INVADERS Computer games capture the attention and
quarters of unsuspecting humans. Actually the games re-
quire dexterity wit and sheer stamina (as well as quarters).
Nowadays the machines seem to pop up everywhere.
(Photos by Eloise Lundgren and Chip Laughlin)
GET A HORSE Hudson (Gordon Jackson right) doesn’t
seem over-confident about the driving ability of James
(Simon Williams) in “Upstairs Downstairs” which reprises
votees. If they had tim to turn away
from the screen and speak to you the
computer game fanatics would prob-
ably utter a slogan of defeat. Com pu-
ters are hard to beat.
Yes they are growing by leaps
bounds and quarters (a quarter for a
game as quick or as slow as you can
ake it last.) There are the luring
machines flashing slogans to all
that pass play me play me. These
a a tic
achines. Games with names like
S a In a rs A te ro id an
among th newest (and becoming
ORIENTAL TREAT Ben Stevenson (cen-
ter) artistic director of Houston Ballet is
joined by Hsiao Su Hua (left) dance instruc-
tor at the Peking Dance Academy and Zhang
Shu director of ballet at the Academy while
very popular) Pac Man. All these deal
with space warfare with the excep-
tion of Pac Man (Pac Man is cannib-
alism.)
There are games on these machines
that range from bowling car-racing
basketball cowbovs and Indians to
football. And then there’s Pac Man
them unch-them -as-they-com game
that has people eating hairy creatures
during lunch hours happy hours and
even later hours. I t’s like th old
A ric a a vs. N a tio a
League or Cadillac vs. ercedes or
apples vs. oranges. Win one for the
Gipper we all end up saying.
These games require rapt atten
tion hair-trigger dexterity and pure
stam ina. Although too many people
think of video games as a ere facet
of TV their assumptions are on the
wrong track. Video fanatics spend
tim and pure energy on the screen
games. You have to be quick sharp
and mentally alert to get anywhere
ith a a ad
machines.
A friend of mine Brian archant
of illeen admits th a he spends
tim ju watch in eo le spend
their tim in front of the achines.
“I’ve noticed that the ore they play
the more they ant to play. It’s kind
of beat the system The ore I watch
the ore I’m convinced that som e-
body is going to beat the system. And
then hat here do you go after
you’ve beaten a com puter?”
ut this sam video viewer also
a its th a he plays th se ad
machines. “It’s incredible. I started
playing first. I got pretty good but
the machine always seems to keep
ahead of me. So I started watching
other people” he says with a look of
te in a tio in is eyes. ‘‘By
watching someone else it gets you
on Mobile Masterpiece Theatre’s Festival of Favorites on
Sunday at 8 p.m. on Channel 46.
(Courtesy Photo)
out of the tense situation. You can
observe all the good points as well as
the eak points of that player. A lot
of times it improves my gam es.”
“Y ou’re the alaxians” say the lit-
tle glimmering computer letters on
the screen. “Your mission: Destroy
aliens.”
Upon depositing a quarter the cus-
tom er finds him self staring into the
twinkling void of Deep Space peer-
ing through the view-port of a planet-
ary cruiser. Suddenly one is bom
barded with alien ships. They not
only come at you head-on but attack
from the sides and from the rear.
You are firing back of course one
hand on the control of the lazer and
the other hand planted firmly on the
control stick. Some of the little devils
do a kamikaze and wipe you out. You
get three spaceships per game.
The machines themselves are com
petitive. But don’t call them “spoiled
sports.” At the end of each game
some machines flash a display of the
10 highest scores made with the ini-
tials of the players.
NEARLY EVERY co en ien ce
store has several computer games
tuck ed in a corner. aundrom ats
la th to th a
machine and the dryers. And fast
food join ts and bars use them as
tables. Only time will tell when banks
and hospitals start installing them in
lobbies (or have they already?)
A couple just back from their hon-
eym oon admits that they sp en a
good $30 on the computer game Pac
Man alone. “We hated leaving” the
groom says. And his wife adds “Life
is cheap. War is hell.” With that every
computer game gives a nod of agree-
ment.
on a teaching journey to the People’s Repub-
lic of China. The visit is subject of “A Dance
of Two Countries: China and America” air-
ing Tues. at 7 p.m. on KNCT-TV Channel 46.
(Courtesy Photo)
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