Page Four SCARLET AND BLACK Friday May 24 I H "CHANGE IN THE MAKING"— BRILLIANT COMEDY ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR Tho notorious Mr. Gait, or Ray, or whatever, hasn't been captured yet, but the Asso- ciated Press noted a few day: ago that, supposedly before he fled Memphis, he supposedly made a long-distance telephone call to the lngall’s Shipyards in Pascagoula, Miss. The Beloit College Roundtable — in a May 9 followup on the 5&B’s expose or President Leggett's nprll trip to Longfellow House, a posh, discriminatory hotel-mo— tel in Pascagoula — noted that Longfellow House is owned by be lngall's Shipyards, which is division of Litton Industries. &!%@*&l%@* A Raloron sophomore has been hailed into Judicial Council on the charge that he bought beer with hull funds. on, my, there’s some- thiiig that's ncucr been (lone before. &l%@*& l%@* Henry Wilhelm’s yearbook has been postponed again. Let’s see, -is this the fourth time or the fifth time now? In a letter mailed to purchasers last week, Wilhelm said: “We now tllink of the book as an ‘hiStorical document‘ I 3 !h E 1' than a yearbook. it becomes more so all the time.” &!%@*&l%@* TODAY lN HISTORY: it was just eight months ago to- day that President Leggelt told an open senate meeting in ARH that he advocated “a con- :cious College policy of permit- ting more upperclass students to live oil-campus in either pri— vate homes or apartments... the option for upperclassmen who do not choose to abide by college social regulations to find oil-campus housing and abide by whatever regulations meir landlords or the Commu- nity or Grinnell imposes.” Jun- iors next year will doubtless remember that bit or presi- dential rhetoric when they try to study in their Loose Hall rooms — since none of them have been given permission to live oii-campus. &!%@*&l%@* Informal sources said to- day that the next meeting of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest may actually be in the Midwest. &!%@*&!%@* Members of the new SGA fl- nanoe committee have a new rorrnula ror determining next year’s budgets tor campus or- ganizations. They ask the out- going heads of those organiza< lions in to propose a budget and tell them how much money they’ll need. Asked by the committee, the present editors of the 5&3 said that I budget Increase oi at least 51,000 was necessary tor the survival or the campus newspaper. The ' ANIMAL— (Continiied on Page I) CHANGE IN THE MAKING: screenplay by James Avis son; directed by James Hormel; produced by Camp- bell Films; photographed by Milton Bellows and Laverne Hanssen; script assistant, Fred Hess; narrated by Peter Hackes; special as ristants for on - location scenes, Howard Currant and barrel lrcenen; music play- ed by Dru and Ann; color; 291/, minutes. By the S&B‘s smrr FILM CRITIC Among recent films, “Bonnie and Clyde" is probably the most imaginative in its use at the medium, “The Graduate" is surely the most sensitive ex- plorntlon oi the spiritual agonies oi young people mov- ing from college into a iraudu- lent world. “Change in the Making,” a lowrbudget, inde- pendently produced sleeper I happened to see last week, may be the best recent exam- ple irom the film genre which spoofs college liie, though per- haps not as funny as the Marx Brothers’ classic “Horse Feath- ers.” The college, of course, is a s or all, coeducational liberal arts college in the middle west. The form is imaginative: 't is a pseudodocumentary — the sort of thing one can imagine some slightly desperate college actually using for promotional purposes, All of the cliches are there. ln the beginning, the camera moves from a pastoral land- scape to a long study of the tall, handsome Athlete in bi! letter jacket and his leggy Beauty Queen girl friend, hand in hand, returning down the railroad tracks to their cam- pus, having been God knows where. During the Course of the film, we are given to understand that such a place is populated chietly by kindly preceptors over 80, and by other Beauty Queens; that the autumn ritual of football playing and Queen crowning is still taken serious- ly by a considerable number of students; that learning con- sists very largely of manipu- lating a r n a n e paraphernalia which have been devised by electronics engineering with s t r o n g propensities towards witchcrait; that the sylvan set- ting or such a place somehow has a steadying effect on the twitchy nervous systems of young people engaged in the inchoale rite of passage our culture prescribes; and other nonsense. Most of the actors are ob- viously amateurs, but, true to the tradition of the old movies in which Walter Winchell play- ed Walter Winchell, Peter Hackes plays Peter Hackes. it is a brilliant Stroke; the husky- voiced Mr. Hackes has made his name reporting about spacecraft, and the space age’s cliches about liberal learning, broadcast over the mass media. are surely a different matter from earlier pietier communi- cated in more primitive ways. Hackes utters them with a sol- emn pomposity which gives ballast to the comic strategy of the film For a climax to the film, the writers have invented a hilari- ous sequence in which practic- cally all of the great ones of the intellectual community con- verge on this remote spot, heatedly discuss weighty mat- ters for two or three days, ass cept their rewards —- honorary degrees — and depart. “These were the three most important days in the college’s history," we hear Hackes say sententb ously. (The Lord help us all, there might be college people nowadays who actually believe this; or there might be col- leges that are so poverty-strick- en intellectually, that this might be true or them.) All or this, naturally, is In technicolor; the low»budget pro- ducers knew better than to skimp here. (Think how incom- plete the joke would have been, in black and white.) Best of all. however, is the almost in- penetraole dead pan which masks this presentation Almost impenetrable. Per- haps the film is slightly ilawed in that the mask is allowed sometimes to slip, to make very clear to the drowsy viewer that he is watching a parody, and not the real thing. in one of the great comic scenes, some students are shown looking at a painting; but at ahout the moment when one might ex- pect them to have deciphered its mysteries, two men, appar- ently from the finance com- pany, come along and haul the painting away. During the loot ball scene, while Hackes’s voice is telling us about the "excited tans,” the camera is showing us six mini—skirted cheerleaders irentically trying to arouse the fans, while from the stands comes —— absolute lilence. The most subtle joke of the tilm, perhaps, shows an incred- ibly beautiful coed, in I pose ture of introspection, whllo Hackes's voice simulates the run of her meditations; just all the is beginning to ask herself - you guessed it: “Who Am I?”.— the camera contrives to blur the perfect lines oi her nose into a bulbous blob. Perhaps some or the humor is too occult: probably only the relatively small circle oi people who follow the talents of Ann Kirschner and Dru McCon- aughy know from tho twinkle with which they sing the sac- charine lyrics or “The Happy Song" that they aren’t buying its Hubert Humphrey Pollyan- naism; the camera, however, illustrates the lyrics literally, complete with a happy little squirrel in a happy old elm tree. The boldest stroke oi the dls rector was to photograph this film on location at Glinnell Cole lege, in Iowa, and then to ao< tually call the college “Grin- nell.” I don’t know enough about the law oi libel and slanv der to assess the degree of his liability, though i can imagine an irate alumnus, having spent money in five iigures and en- ergy in millions oi ergs in on der to win a degree from this college, suing the producers for making that degree an obs ject of ridicule. They’re repom edly good students out there however, and Will probably} take this film in the spirit at Iun In which it was made 01 perhaps, remembering Nous Dame, the producers hope for the publicity that a law suit can bring, tor minors along the Rialto have it that none of th! big distributors have bought this splendid motion picture. The more’s the pity. llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll‘lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll FOUR-POINT DOODLES . When his classes would get dull. senior Mil-re Schwartz would put his notebook to a diiierent purpose. Mike found that doodling was a pleasant way to pass the time, and be- sides, it kept him irom tailing asleep.