Shows/1967-03-31

March 31, 1967
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La Maison
City	Houston, Texas
Tour
Event	Archi-Arts Ball (Rice University)
Billing	Mandrakes The Red Crayola

Announcement

Rice Thresher

Rice Thresher, March 16, 1967

Rice University student newspaper

March 16, 1967

Two bands, seven broads

Archis expand minds

It's been rumored that a multi-sensual assault of voices, lights, noises, and liquids can produce an involvement/awareness quite similar to certain of the effects of the psychedelic drugs.

Rice students will get a chance after Easter to test this theory, as the architects go all out to create--sans drugs, of course--a "total environment" as this year's edition of the occasionally annual Archi-Arts, "Psychedelia '67."

Two bands have been employed, the "traditional" Mandrakes and an offbeat group which features television sets as instruments and a varied of aural techniques.

In addition, an elaborate light show is planned, to be capped off by an interpretive dance by the seven Archi-Arts honorees. The girls--Bonnie Robinson, Mary Corneil, Mary Burton, Linda Thompson, Mari-Ned Timme, Lili Milani, and Sue Gilbert--will wear costumes designed by the senior and fifth-year architects.

The show goes on Friday, March 31 at 319 McGowen from 9 to 1. The Dean of Women has granted all girls a special 2 am late permission for that night.

The price is $5 per couple and proceeds go to finance the William Watkin Scholarship, a traveling scholarship for senior architects.

Photos

Some or all of these photos from the 1967 Rice University yearbook are from the event

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Reviews

Houston Post

Houston Post, 1967

Helen Anderson

1967

Sight, Sound, Spin, Speed, Spasm

A strobe light was flashing into the blackness—spasms of light blinding in the darkness—seizing contorted limbs and engraving them in relief—faster than comprehension—and plunging again into blackness.

"Psychedelia"—red lights—hanging cellophane—black walls—crash helmets.

And sound: Weird, unbelievable sound—from "The Red Crayolas."

The Place: An old abandoned church building at 319 McGowan—with the 9 turned backwards. The Inhabitants: The architecture students of Rice University—and friends. On Friday Night.

They were there for the Archi-Arts Ball, a tradition discontinued for the last few years—in need of resurrecting.

"Frodo Lives" a button on a tall thin ghoul assured the other dancers. The girl in the bat costume couldn't care less. She spread back diaphanous wings smeared with luminescent paint. They blazed skeletally in the psychedelic light.

The electronic devices of the "Crayolas" shrieked to a deafened demi-god—"They were there to add color," mused a potential architect. The light gyrated with the music—and all equilibrium faded into the night.

Psychedelic—perhaps—epileptogenic—definitely—the brilliant instant flashes could induce epilepsy in the unaware, murmured a young doctor at the scene.

Many in mini-skirts—and one with wired pigtails stiff with horror from the night. She came out of the Basement.

The Basement—chaos extended into the nethermost regions—with periodic migrations of the lost from upper to lower "Psychedelia."

And the honorees mingled with the guests in the gyrating light. Seven honorees from the campus had been chosen and costumed by the architects. They were presented earlier in the evening—much earlier.

But this was "Psychedelia" with a purpose. The funds from this beaux-arts effort will be part of the $2,000 William Ward Watkins Fellowship, which will enable an outstanding senior student of architecture to have three months of European travel.

But what could he see that might surpass "Psychedelia?"

"Frodo" perhaps?

Campanile

Rice University yearbook

1967

A bright spot in the social scene was the return of Archi-Arts, in all its frenetic consciousness-expanding complexity. To the accompaniment of the flashing strobe and the non-music, the honorees, led by Mary Ned Banana, blended well with the student body, showing off its femininity and artistic talents while releasing all its inner anxieties in an orgy of the unbelievable.

Houston Chronicle(?)

Possibly referring to the Houston Post article above: "There was a Houston Chronicle from April, 1967 article mentioning that the "Red Crayolas" (sic) were playing a fashion show there, but they refer to it as "an old church" and not La Maison"

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