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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 6, 1967
All Stars-
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about a gallon of water. I can feel it sloshing down there right now." Marty Napoleon slapped a card down.
"You cats get alot of entertainment out here—I mean good entertainment!" Tyrese Genn asked in a low, raspy voice.
Tyree, who weighs 285 pounds and smokes menthol cigarettes, loves Scotch whiskey. So much, in fact, that he has a watch with the letters C-H-E-V-A-S R-E-G-A-L encircling the dial—the only number being 12.
“Well,” Tyrese said, “You know it’s never going to be five o’clock on that dial, and I can always tell when it’s noon or midnight.”
It was then 9:50, and the "All Stars" threw on coats, adjusted ties, combed hair and took a few
And then it was show-time:
Part Two.
"Dig this one," Satchmo — "Pops" to those who know him well — rasped.
last furtive puffs on their cigarettes.
Tyrese Glenn then donned a red bonnet as "Madam Butterfly" and swooned as "Pops" serenaded him with "That's My Desire." It brought down the house.
The next stop was Washington, D.C., and Satchmo and his "All Stars" left Lawrence early Sunday morning to catch an 11:40 flight from Kansas City.
Marty Napoleon was asked to jot down the names of the band members and their instruments.
As he rode east on the turnpike, Napoleon wrote the last entry on the list. It read: "Trumpet—?"
"Oh yeah," somenoe said jokingly, "who was that guy?... Now don't tell me..."
Then his eyes perk up behind his big black glasses and Clarence starts a story.
"Ya' see those old bed springs over there? The other day I went down to the Salvation Army to buy 'em. I'm always going around buying things for the theater. Anyway, this gal wanted $12 for them and I got her down to $4."
Clarence rolled his head back, let out a gusty laugh, and packed up to go home.
Clarence-
Rehearsals over one night, Clarence sat back on a wooden box and scratched his head with his now-black hand.
"We want to standardize these things, too," he said, gripping a corner piece with his paint-grimy hands. He tore it into splinters.
"You know, I s'pose I'm a bit old-fashioned—but I try to be broadminded. I was raised a Quaker and I'm a little concerned about the sex in some of these plays.
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"It's the youngsters I'm worried about. Did you know more youngsters bought tickets to "Gypsy" than any other show? All them strippers ..."
He scurried off—he never walks —to work.
"Yeah, I give 'em pizza parties and take 'em on hayrides. They really like that!"
quality in sets," he said proudly. Then, dropping his voice a little: "I've been told it's been noticed from the audience!"
"I've got a lot to think about—gotta keep fit and alert . . ."
"He's the most patient man in the world," one student said. "He's working with people like us who have never pounded nails before. So he teaches us how—and he really is tolerant of our mistakes."
"I'm sort of a jack-of-all trades. I learned by practical experience." His experience includes plumber, carpenter, electrician, stone mason and farmer.
Clarence hopped over to some storage cabinets and pulled out bits of wood.
"Like that! See, it's not strong at all! That's why we've got to put these corner braces on—or all the sets would fall down."
Clarence had his own construction company before he became shop foreman.
"I was waiting for this job to open up so I took the Civil Service exam. I scored the highest—95.27 rating!" Tugging out his wallet, Clarence extracted a crumpled bit of paper. "See, right there! Sure enogh, Clarence made a 95.27 on his Civil Service exam.
Clarence lives on a farm with his wife in McClouth. Besides being shop foreman he manages three ranches and spends a lot of time with children.
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