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NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Friday, July 26,19SS PM* Entertainment DeKalb hosts Bugle Corps Championship "Broadway on a football field' returns to Northern Illinois University's Huskie Stadium Saturday, July 27, as more than two dozen drum and bugle corps gather here for the eighth annual Drum Corps Midwest (DCM) Championships. The day-long preliminaries begin at 8 a.m. and finals, featur­ ing the 12 top corps from the prelims, are scheduled for 7:30 P m. Tickets are $5 for general ad­ mission to the prelims and $8 for reserved seats for the finals. Solo and ensemble competition also will be held from noon until 6 p.m. in NIU's nearby Chick Evans Field House. Spectators are welcome at no charge. Tickets for the prelims and the finals will be available at the stadium on the contest date or, for the finals, in advance at the Mel Elliott Music Center, 132 E. Lin­ coln Highway, DeKalb, and at Popcorn World Ltd., 722 W. Lin­ coln Highway, DeKalb. "Hie NIU stadium is the most ideal drum corps stadium in the world because it's lifted high above the field and tilted for­ ward," notes Roman Blenski of Milwaukee, DCM executive direc­ tor. "There isn't a bad seat in the stadium." Blenski points out that for the first time, competition this year will be held in two distinct divi­ sions, Division I for corps with 60 to 128 marching performers and Division II for corps with fewer than 60. The two divisions were decided upon because DCM board members recognize that different levels of corps exist, with goals and objectives for some corps dif­ fering from those of the big budget powerhouse corps that tour throughout North America, Blen­ ski explains. Musicians reunited at Jailhouse It's reunion time ... nostalgia time... anniversary time. Roger Schiller and Chris Strong, who rose to musical prominence as the Hartland Express during the 1970s, will be reunited July 26- 27 to perform at the Jailhouse Saloon in the Old Courthouse on the WoadWMk Square. Schiller and Strong will present their energy, folk, comedy and bluegrass music from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. both evenings. Dave Spitzer, manager of the Jailhouse Saloon, notes the reunion coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Old Courthouse Inn restaurant and the fourth anniversary of the Jailhouse Saloon. Schiller has performed fre­ quently at the Jailhouse Saloon as a single, but the duo has not per­ formed together since their retire­ ment as the Hartland Express in the late 1970s. "I formed our family bluegrass band, the Strong Family," ex­ plained Chris, "but the family has grown and we've retired that group. Now Roger and I will strum our guitars, banjos and homemade instruments at the Jailhouse Saloon. We'll continue our audience participation, and you may see a local banker thum­ ping a washboard or a stock broker playing an old-fashioned gutbucket. "We're delighed to be back together and look forward to a reunion with our many friends at the Jailhouse Saloon," concluded Strong. "Our old lavorite medleys, 'The Occupation Song,' 'Sinnerman' and the 'Hartland Express Theme Song,' are only a few of the popular songs that the revived Hartland Express will perform this weekend," said Strong. " The cadet corps also have been intermingled into the two divi­ sions, depending on their size," Blenski says, pointing out that the new classifications should greatly help growth of drum corps throughout the Midwest. Corps from Ontario, Canada, Il­ linois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin will be competing in the DCM competition this year. The finals will include seven Also especially strong is the Star of Indiana, the new and unusually well-financed corps from Bloomington, Ind., that was formed last September. It has already spent a reported Si.6 million, some of it to hire top in­ structors from other corps throughout the nation. Using familiar Walt Disney music for its entire show, and ^ brand new equipment that io- Division I corps, four Division II corps and, in exhibition, the top senior (over age 21) corps from the prelims. Among competing corps this year will be the defending cham­ pion Phantom Regiment from Rockford, which has won six out of the past seven DCM titles. In early season clashes elsewhere this year, however, the Regiment's ex­ traordinarily difficult show has scored behind this season's front- running Scouts from Madison, Wis., and the Cavaliers from Rosemont, the nation's ony re­ maining all-male corps. eludes a fleet of new buses and a horn line with 12 of the huge and expensive contrabass bugles, the Star's performance has been a consistent crowd pleaser and is heralded nationally as the sur­ prise corps of the year. Other competing corps include the Colts from Dubuque, Iowa; the Knights, Geneseo; Bandettes, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.; Northern Aurora (formerly the Saginaires), Saginaw, Mich.; Illiana Lancers, Chicago; the Marquis, Fond Du Lac, Wis., which has merged with the former Royal Knights from Manitowac, Wis.; the Cap- tiolAires. Madison. Wis.; the Marion Cadets. Marion. Ohio, a new entry in DCM competition: Phantom Regiment Cadets. Rockford: the Glassmen. Toledo. Ohio; and the Black Knights. Belleville. Senior corps expected include defending DCM senior champion Brass. Inc., Minneapolis. Minn., the Spirit of '76. Racine. Wis., and theGovernaires, St. Peter. Minn. In the DCM finals a year ago. the top 10, in order, were: Phan­ tom Regiment, Madison Scouts. Cavaliers, Knights. Colts, Emerald Knights. Glassmen, Pioneer, Royal Grenadiers and Saginaires. The Emerald Knights. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Pioneer, Milwaukee, Wis., and the Royal Grenadiers, Kankakee, all are in­ active this year, as are three other corps that competed in DCM last year, the Caballeros, Cleveland, Ohio, the Sundowners, Eau Claire, Wis., and the Rivermen, St. Croix, Minn. Mel Tillis appearing at The Boone County Fair * Bel\ idere. 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In doing so, Hillerman is carry­ ing on a long and distinguished line of actors who played misan­ thropes with an elan that suggests they themselves were blessed with wit that cut to the quick. Among the most honored masters of sarcasm was Monty Woolley who covered himself with acerbic glory as the terrible tempered Sheridan Whiteside in "The Man Who Came To Dinner." Who can forget Woolley deliver­ ing the line, after his hostess ob­ jects to an unpardonably loud belch, "What did you expect, Madam, chimes?" Certainly In the same vein were the roles of Clifton Webb, whose satirical Observations reduced his victims to pulp in such films as "Sitting Pretty." Foremost among them was W.C. Fields whose devastating barbs unhorsed a generation of overmatched leading men. Among women, Bea Arthur in "Maud," flayed the hideis off lesser mortals with wicked voice, demeanor and delivery. Hillerman assumed Higgins' smug grin and said, "I've been compared with Webb and William Powell, flattering because both men were memorable per­ formers. "The characters most au­ diences remember are brittle and ascerbic. People love it when Hig­ gins rambles and nobody listens. I didn't expect a cranky, middle- aged man to become so popular. "Ascerbic characters are popular because they make viewers laugh. Invariably people recognize me and smile, not because I'm a celebrity, but because of some scene from the show." Hillerman, who earns a fortune doing nut commercials, also br­ ings smiles as the dapper but miserly dispenser of nuts. Is Hillerman, indeed, as handy with repartee as the ironic Hig­ gins? "Perhapa .I am," he mused, touching his mouth gently with a napkin during lunch, his sleepy eyes betraying a flicker of in- JULY 27-28 9 a.m.-G p.m. A WILD WEEKEND OF WOOLLY WEST SKILLS & THRILLS WILD WEST WEEEEID A whole weekend of woolly west thrills! 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