University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 13, 197
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'Scarecrow' opens amid illusions
By BARB HINTON
Staff Writer
Percy MacKaye's "The Scarecrow" will be introduced tonight amid electrified smoke pots, microphones planted to suggest voices from mid-air, and a scarecrow brought to life by a red-haired, mustachioed devil.
These are some of the Illusions director Robert Smith, visiting professor of theatre,
"The Scarecrow" will open at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre.
The idea for the play was derived from Hawthorne's famous short story, "Featerthet." The play tells of blacksmith Goody Rickey, a woman who, in a small Massachusetts village in the late 17th century, is regarded by the Christian populace as a witch.
Goody and Dickon, an embodiment of the devil, bring a scarecrow to life to gain control over the village.
Funds closer for Clinton
A bill that might make federal money available for Clinton Parkway passed the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday while the consultant for the parkway worked toward obtaining federal permission for the project.
The Department of Transportation appropriations bill and its 50 amendments passed the House by a voice vote, Meredith Mason, assistant to Rep. Larry Winn, R-Nev., on Tuesday, section of the bill provides $100 million for the construction of lake access highways.
Although the bill doesn't specifically allocate money for Clinton Parkway, Winn and Sen, Bob Dole, R-Kan, and Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan, established last summer that the park will be the Clinton Parkway to have priority over similar projects in the country.
The 4.1 mile parkway will extend west from Iowa Street along 23rd Street and will terminate at the Clinton Dam, which is now under construction.
The consultant for the planning of Clinton Parkway, Finney and Turnipseed Consulting Engineers, Topeka, is finishing with the impact statement. John Frazier, managing partner for Finney and Turnipseed, said the statement would be completed within several weeks and would be filed with the Environmental Quality in Washington.
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When the appropriations bill has passed both the House and Senate, it will be sent to President Ford for his signature. Bob Dowen, a legislative assistant for Dole, said the Department of Transportation would be responsible for determining whether to allocate money to Clinton Parkway.
The bill appropriates $3.98 billion for the Department of Transportation. Of the $10 million appropriated for the construction of lake access highways, local officials have asked for $4.13 million for the Clinton Park and Gardens development, one of the cost of the parkway. Lawrence and Douglas County will supply the other 30 per cent of the funds.
hypocritical man who 22 years earlier fathered a baby host to Goody Rickby.
THE BABY DIED, and now Goody and Dickon创 "LORD Ravenbans," who they take to the Merton town to pass off a son of Merton and the illegitimate son of Merton and Goody.
Dickon teaches Ravenbaise how to walk, speak and gesture. He performs these acts in the rigid, mechanical manner of the scarecrow he is. However, his responses to Rachel Merton, the Justice's niece, become less mechanical and more human as the progresses: Because of his relationship with her, he seems to begin to feel and to love.
Ironically, Smith said yesterday, the scarecrow is more sensitive and humane than other humans in the play, most of whom profess to be Christians.
All of these plot twists are mixed in with a magic mirror, a mirror of truth that reflects images from other sides.
MACKAYE SAW HIMSELF as a visionary, self-styled poet, Smith said. He tried to get away from the vaudeville and burlesque, and to deal with more substantial concerns than other playwrights were considering in the early 1900s.
There is much in the play that is amusing,
almost like an adult fairy tale. Smith said,
But in "The Scarecrow", Smith said, Mackay also tries to say something about the scarecrow.
"The Scarecrow" was first performed at Harvard in 1909. That performance was followed by a brief run on Broadway in 1811, and a successful run on 1923 in "Purtian Pandons."
"People tend to adopt those kinds of qualities that other people, as mirrors around them, tend to reflect back to them," Smith said.
human growth. He is concerned with self-
identity and self-concept, he said.
The play was also performed under the direction of Max Reinhardt in Berlin; in England; and in 1924, it was produced by Stanislavski for the Moscow Art Theatre.
In 1963, the play was presented at the Theatre de Lys in New York, with a cast headed by Ell Wallach. Anne Jackson and Kate Winslet. Scarcecrow was revived in 1972 in a version which starred Gene Wilder, Norman Lloyd, Blythe Danner, Will Geer and Nina Foch.
Smith didn't update the period of the play. As director, he said he tried only to emphasize transformation for a more sophisticated audience and played playwright originally intended to convey.
"The Scarecrow" will also be performed at 8 p.m. Nov. 14 and 15, and at 2:30 p.m.
Heavier turnout in HOPE voting
Voting turnover for the HOPE Award was a little bit heavier than in past years, Tom DeCoursey, co-chairman of the HOPE award committee, said yesterday.
According to DeCoursey, 451 seniors voted for the HOPE (Honor to the Outstanding Progressive Educator) Award. DeCoursey said that earlier voting for the semi-finalists had also been heavier. About 400 seniors lived in 1974.
The award will be presented Saturday at halftime of the KU-University of Colorado football game, DeCourse said, but the presentation won't be televised. The HOPE
DeCourney said that he and Del Shankel, vice-chancellor for academic affairs, would accept the offer of appointment.
Award presentation is a part of Senior Day and Higher Education Week.
The five finalists this year are: Allan Cigler, assistant professor of political science; J. Hammond McNish, professor of business; Calder M. Pickett, professor of business; Dennis Quinn, professor of English; and Lee Young, professor of journalism.
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