Monday. November 13. 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Opera audience uses imagination
By Linda Fabry
Kansan Staff Reporter
A pleasant looking man with a ring of snow white hair around his head walked onto the bare stage of Swarthout Recital Hall Sunday afternoon and urged his audience to use their imagination.
Gerhard Lenssen, a native of Germany, then began his one-man performance of Bertclt Brecht and Kurt Weill's "The Trepeney Opera."
"I will talk only in German which was Erecht's language," Lenssen said after giving a short introduction in English about the opera and his one man theater.
The lights were dimmed and only one spot light, placed on the piano, shone on Lensen.
Lensen played all the characters and sang all the songs, himself. Acting as his own narrator he also described sets and action
to his audience.
A former chemical engineer who founded this one man theater, Lenssen has given guest performances in many cities around the world, including Amsterdam, Geneva, London, Dublin, Bagdad, Beirut, Copenhagen, Istanbul and some South American cities.
Lenssen's performance of "The Threepenny Opera" was presented by the Goethe Institute and sponsored by the German department and the School of Fine Arts.
"The Threepenny Opera" opens on a market day in Soho, London, where a street singer is singing "The Ballad of Mackie the Knife."
Mackie, a highwayman, has secretly married Polly Peachum, daughter of the King of Beggars.
When Polly's father discovers this he sends the police after Mackie, who leaves Polly and flees to Highgate Moor.
Military theme-
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"Land of Fire" emphasizes the reaction of the North Vietnamese to the "armed invasion by the technologically superior United States forces, their massacre of the civilian population, the use of gas and toxic chemicals, the bombings of schools and leprosoria."
9:50 "Time of the Locust"—Produced by the American Friends Service Committee, this is a compact and impressionistic survey of U.S. operations in Vietnam. A "study in counterpoint between, on the one hand, U.S. bombings, Viet Cong defenses, on the other—a sound track of L.B.J. speeches, percussion, and U.S. popular music."
10:05 "Why Vietnam?"—A recent Department of Defense release which traces the history of the Vietnam situation from the French withdrawal up to the present time, and specifically the development of the U.S. commitment there from economic aid to military advisers to combat units.
10:35 "The Other Vietnam"—A color film depicting the U.S. program to help bring economic development to the Vietnam so people. It shows some representatives
Vietnamese engaged in this program, as well as the American specialists who assist them in applying new farming techniques, developing industry, raising the educational level, and improving health and sanitation.
11:05 "Mekong: A River in Asia"A color film on the work that has been done on harnessing the Mekong River in the former Indo-Chinese peninsula - work that might move must faster should the war in Vietnam draw to a close. A study in international cooperation.
11:35 "U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam, No. 1"—Produced by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam for investigation of U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam.
1 p.m. "Red China"—This U.S. Defense Department release is a review of Communist China's domestic and foreign policy since 1959. In addition to presenting China's problems and assets, it examines Mao's position on nuclear war and Chinese aggression in Korea, Tibet, India, and Vietnam.
1:30 "The Pile of China."
2:19 "Why Victim?"
2:40 "Land of Fire."
2:48 "Time of the Locust."
Japanese prime minister to seek return of Okinawa
STATTLIE, Wash. — (UPI) — Prime Minister Faisaku Sato of Japan arrived here Sunday to begin an eight-day visit to the United States which will include talks with President Johnson on Vietnam and Japan's desire to resume control of Okinawa.
Sato showed good humor although he demanded Tokyo emailed a bloody two-hour battle between in 7,000 police and about 500 students of the Zengahuren, an organization that toppled a Japanese government in 1980.
Some Japanese political officers, including members of Sato's own Liberal Democratic party, believe the premier's days in office may depend upon the outcomes of the Chiba question.
The prime minister told reporters at Seattle his critics should wait for the results of his visit before presenting it.
Sao coid if he were to make a major pelley change recording Vienna and commit his country in a military way, then there would be grounds for criticism.
But he said there was a divergence of opinion regarding disposition of the U.S. military base on Okhava.
Discuss timing
Sato also said all Japanese share a strong sentiment for returning administration of Okinawa red the Bonin Bando, a group which includes famed Iwo Jima, to Japan.
He noted that he did not change its policy when he recently toured the nations of Suei heiest Asia.
Sato said his discussions with President fohm would concern mainly the "timing" for returning the Japanese island and disposition of the base.
"This does not have to be compelled immediately" he said.
compli- hed immediately," he said.
Okinawa, which has a popu- lation of almost a million has been ad- maniated by the United Stat- sion since the end of World War II in under the U.S.-Japan peace treaty.
Johnson and Sato will meet in their first round of talks Tuesday morning.
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