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Play Review

By Mark R. Guy
What could be more logical?
Leonard Nimoy, TV's Mr. Spock, as
the greatest sleuth of all time,
Sherlock Holmes.
The Shubert theatre is presently
showing the play, Sherlock Holmes,
co-staring Nimoy and Alan Sues,
the latter from TV's Laugh-In. Sues
plays the evil Professor Moriarty to
Nimoy's Holmes.
The evening. promised to be
entertaining. Promises are made to
be broken. With an anaemic story-
line and even weaker performances
by the leads, this play never gets off
the ground. Elaborate sets and
terrific lighting are the only attri-
butes that make the play interest-
ing.
The play opens in London fog,
beautifully recreated on stage. It is
unfortunate the fog doesn't remain General scene on center campus during games in which student teams . competed against a combination
faculty-administration aggregation. Student team won easily. Game was marred by leg injury suffered by Dean Steve
on stage through the entire first act.
It would give the audience a break. Cerra, bicentennial celebration chairman.
Bogged down with inferior plot
and even worse dialogue, the west
coast production of the Royal BIRDS RETURN
Shakespere company gives an (Cont'd From Page 1)
almost high schoolish performance. going on and numerous mud puddles
Even the great Sherlock would find were caused by the sprinkling
A it difficult to follow the first act. The systems. This year, with the grass
fuzzy plot doesn't clear up until act well developed, mud puddles are
2, and when it does we find it trite nearly non-existent," he said, un-
and uninteresting. aware that swallows don't need mud
Highlights, if any, come in the holes, only damp earth.
second act, with the death-game The disappearance of the swal-
confrontation between Holmes and lows for the week delighted the
Moriarty. The scene perhaps the COC maintenance department, but
best of the play, tries desperately to disappointed ornithologically in-
generate a few laughs, but fails terested students who carefully
dismally. The climax comes when chanced a skyward glance to watch
Moriarty draws a concealed hand- the nest builders. The birds are
gun and pulls the trigger. There is protected by international law.
no shot. Holmes, smiling, drops the "If there's a (mud-nest) perch big
handful of bullets into a bowl. He's enough for a bird to stand on, we
outsmarted Moriarty. The audience are prohibited from disturbing the
is amused, but just barely. nest until the young have flown,"
Sues' Moriarty, is much too said Leon Horton, physical plant
complicated. Moriarty, neither director.
vicious or comical, is difficult for the "We could keep the area dry so
audience to digest. So it doesn't. the birds could not find enough wet
Sherlock Holmes at the Shubert soil," said Horton, "but if we do
offers mild entertainment to the that, the grass will dry out and the
devoted Homes' fan, but the general plants will die. The swallows really
audience is not amused. It's just as have us.by the short-tail feathers,"
well Holmes isn't around today. he said.
What they're doing to his image at The birds could have nested at
the Shubert is a crime. UCLA or USC, but they probably Winning student team included Bob Baldwin, Martha Suhosky, Tom Bates and
opted for COC because they sensed Jean Richards. Team members performed series of physical and mental feats
that in event of an earthquake their to complete jigsaw flag in foreground.
OPINION nests would be safest here in light of
(Cont'd From Page 3) the fort-like construction of our
cows, wash the clothes (in large building.
tubs, by hand), then get ready for COC's grass is green and moist.
the noonday meal-and so on. The disappearing swallows have
returned in full force. There's a
Look around your houses and
kitchens today, and see why women good chance the birds have decided
are now "liberated". to nest here because of the far-flying
reputation of our excellent biology
Everyone in this country is born department.
with a free will to do what he or she
wishes. Look around today at the
men and women who have risen
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
from abject poverty to greatness.
Dr. Marjorie D. Wagner, presi-
There are men of greatness dent of California State University
among us today. There are men at Sonoma, will be principal speaker
destined for greatness being born at College of the Canyons' seventh
every day. commencement Thursday, June 17,
~ Remember "greatness" is only a in Cougar Stadium.
word. All men are human with all Dr. Wagner, the first woman
the failings that go with it. History president in the California state
will · make their deeds, whatever university and college system, will Among administrators who participated in bicentennial game was Gary Mouck
their own personal reasons were, speak on "Commencement: Is it a (right), vice president and assistant superintendent, instruction, here keeping
great. Beginning?" his nose to the ground as he propels a pingpong ball.