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PAGE 20 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19. 1983 Tuesday‘s performance includes: Kettentan, a suite of waltzes, galops and polkas performed by six couâ€" ples; Monotones, possibly the most serene ballet ever danced, which was choreographed by Frederick Ashton to an early set of piano; and Song of a Wayfarer, in which a young man and another figure, described as his double, conscience or destiny, struggle together before The National Ballet of Canada will present Ballextravaganza, a comâ€" pilation of their most popular ballet pieces Tuesday Jan. 25 and Wednesâ€" day, Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. in the Centre in the Square. The ballets will be performed by a galaxy of the National‘s dancers including prinicpals Frank Augusâ€" tyn, Vanessa Harwood, Mary Jago, Karen Kain, Tomas Schramek, Raymond Smith, Veronica Tennant plus a host of first and second soâ€" Galaxy of stars in Ballextravaganza of the same name. a final reconciliation. As well, Harwood will perform the Dying Swan, which was created by the great choreographer Michel Fokine and his muse Anna Paviova, and Tennant and Kevin Pugh will rform Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, a g:llotr let based on Lord Byron‘s poem Wednesday‘s program features the Don Juan Pas de Deux, danced by Jago and Ottman, excerpts from Napoli and the Don Quixote Pas de Deux, performed by Harwood and Schramek. Also, Tennant and Smith will dance Portrait of Life and Death, an archetypal 20th century ballet choreographed by Vincente Nebrada especially for the National Ballet. Tickets for the performance are $11.50, $14.50 and $16.50. They are available at the Centre in the Square Box Office or by calling 578â€"1550. Who says university can‘t be fun? This small but loyal group of Wilfrid Laurier students thoroughly enjoyed themselives Monday night at the Turret lounge watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a film that has created great fanfare for its ability to generate audiénce participation and masquerading. Above, four students feign surprise at one of the scenes in the movie. The event was one of the first of WLU‘s Mardi Gras ‘83 Winter Carnival celebrations, which continue on all Based on a semiâ€"autobiographical novel by Boston medical malpractice lawyer Barry Reed, The Verdict is predictable courtroom melodrama, at times highly reminiscent of the old Perry Mason series on television. Granted, Newman‘s characâ€" ter reveals more personality flaws in this one case than Mason was ever allowed to display in his entire career, but the course of action and inevitable outcome are practically the same. It has been speculated that Newman‘s failure to actually win an Oscar in the ‘50s and ‘60s had been due to *"Hollywood politics." Last year, a longâ€"standing debt for similar honors was paid to Henry Fonda, and all the current hype surrounding Newman‘s role as a seedy trial lawyer in The Verdict augurs well for Newman this year receiving such a tributary gesture. But anyone expecting to see something quite extraordinary just won‘t find it here. Both the story and Newman‘s character in it are really oldâ€"hat in Hollywood pictures. Once again we have injustice at the hands ‘of big institutions and powerful people threatening to overwhelm the comâ€" mon man and being combatted by a loser making his last stand for selfâ€"respect. Certainly, The Verdict is what the majoriâ€" ty of movieâ€"goers, I suspect, would find readily enjoyable, and Newman‘s perforâ€" mance in it solidly convincing. It may very well be Paul Newman‘s turn to win an Oscar, but he does not necessarily deserve one for his performance in the movie The Verdict. Newman has been nominated for the Academy Awards‘ bestâ€"actor honors on five occasions, most recently in 1982 for his potrayal of a man victimized by newspaper headlines in the 1981 picture Absence of Malice. Victor Stanton Chronicle Special Newman‘s portrayal not extraordinary ROCKY SHOCK [] s _ Movie review In addition to those of Newman and Mason, there are notable onâ€"screen conâ€" tributions by Milo O‘Shea as the judge, Jack Warden as the downâ€"andâ€"out lawyer‘s last remaining friend and Charlotte Rampling as an earlyâ€"Lauren Bacall lookâ€"alike the lawyer meets in his favorite bar. The Verdict is entertainment on a purely superficial level, and on that level it works reasonably well. More praise than that truly seems excessive, even though it likely will receive the widely predicted Academy Awards nominations. The movie is satisfactorily proficient in all areas of filmâ€"making craftsmanship, and performances â€" even when characters are thinly written or little more than stereoâ€" types â€" generally ring true.. â€" Paul Newman in The Verdict Rick Campbeil photo