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Friday, May 5, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Selected art students' exhibit merits praise
Bv SARAH ILES
Reviewer
It's not often that an art show, especially a student one, can be reviewed without a single word of adverse criticism. But the 1978 Art Department Selected Students' Show, in the Union Gallery (until May 9, is a welcome exception to the norm.
Gallery keeps all the work in the show does not consist of masterpieces, but none of it is less than good. Viewers who have followed these students' work will be pleased by the past year's achievements.
The mood of the exhibit is difficult to define because each of the 22 students represented has a unique style. The pieces vary in genre from landscape to surrealism to abstractionism, and in medium from oil to printers' ink to milkweed pods. The pieces were selected by the art faculty in conjunction with the awarding of this year's scholarships and prize money. The presence of an artist's work, however, is not necessarily correlated with whether he received an award.
CHERI QUICK, Olate senior, and Steve Bonham, Hutchinson junior, are exhibiting their oil self-potrans, which were done in a realistic style. The self-potrans is an assignment commonly given to art students, but Quick and Bonham have excelled in it.
Quick included in her painting the face of a self-portrait. Its eyes are so all the objects on the canvas were being effect created by the tilting angles swing the eye back and forth, ultimately leading to the face of Quick's portrait. The face returns viewer scrutiny with an amused gaze.
The only plumb line in the picture is a yellow cord hanging about 4 inches from the edge of the canvas. It serves as a wall anchor.
One of them, "Ortz," shows a flat grassless plain, lit by a ninkish-velight light. Camulus clausus斜落 close to the ground.
In addition to the aesthetic values of Quick's and Bonham's self-portraits, anyone who has seen the artists must admit that they are not the best.
BONHAM'S PORTRAIT is simpler. It shows his body in profile, one hand holding a pallet knife, the other clutching a painting pig. His face turns to the viewer with frank signs of the painter's mind. The hands are black and bright. Feathery brush strokes define his hair.
John Porter, Lawrence graduate student, is displaying two surrealistic acrylic paintings, partially with airbrush.
This Dali-like stage is inhabited by giant insects patterned after the plastic "cootie bugs" found in a popular children's game. Their red, blue, green and yellow bodies reflect light with an unearthly sheen.
CANE-SHAPED tongues loll from the plastic mandibles of egg-shaped heads. Black-black, pill-like eyes stare vacantly. The cooties are shaded by stylized palm trees laden with ball-bearing fruit.
Like much surrealistic work, "Ortz" is ominous yet ridiculous because it uses familiar objects in a disuising way.
Tim Moore, Albion, Mich., senior, is exhibiting five surrealistic sculptures reminiscent of some of Marcel Ducamp's work. The best one is an unlit, 4½-foot high wooden structure. The piece is an irregularly seven-sided cylinder that leans to one side. The wood is covered with ball-point scribblings and splashes of red paint. The top of the cylinder is covered with plexiglass and half of it is crowned with a wooden arc and steepe. The object looks a lot like a baptismal fount.
Looking down through the plexiglass, the viewer sees a small red chair, just narrow enough to fit inside the cylinder. The chair, frenched in as it by the seven sides, reminds the viewer of a sculpture or sculpture sculpture, a sculpture that evokes feelings of both punishment and worship.
The exhibit, which is the best collective show of student work in the past three years, testifies that the improved working conditions of the new Art and Design Building were worth the money spent.
Self-portrait
The Art Department's Selected Students' Show on display in the Kansas Union Gallery includes a variety of work by the art scholarship winners, "Painting," by Mark Franzke, Topea senior, and "Self Portrait," by Steve Bouhman. Hutchinson junior, use just one of the many different media on display. The show will run through
University concert policies stifle promoters
As general manager of Kansas City's Cowtown Productions, Dan Scolofs' job is to promote concerts. But Scolofs thinks a concert at the University of Kansas.
Staff Writer
By SAM VAN LEEUWEN
And unless Scolof or another promoter is wilting to promote a show on campus, there probably won't be any large concerts on campus.
concerts directly with the group's manager.
But big losses, such as those during the
1974-75 school year when SUA ended up
88$ in the red, have changed all that.
Since 1957, concerts in Hoch Auditorium and Allen Field House are promoter-guaranteed, which means that the promoter assumes all financial risks and guarantees
KU concerts are arranged through the Student Union Activities' Special Events Committee, which until 1975 promoted concerts directly with the group's manager.
Now, SUA must for promoters who are willing to work within KU's policies and policies.
AND IT'S THOSE policies that make Second reluctant to promote concerts at KK
For example, he said he didn't like the fact that KU received the tickets for a concert before they were sent to Coutown for distribution to the ticket outlets.
"The University expects the promoter to take the entire risk, yet the promoter does not have 160 percent leeway to promote the concert effectively." Socioel said Tuesday.
The Leo Kottke and Lou Reed concerts at KU this semester were both promoter-
  based at Leo Kottke's studio.
And Scoelf isn't pleased that it can take up to a month before they receive their share of the profits from a KU concert.
"It's hard to explain to a promoter why you have to control over the tickets and payments."
According to Mark Woodman, chairman of the special events committee, it is customary in the concert-promotion department that we receive their wavers the night of the show.
ALAN SHAW, who has served on SUA's Special Events Committee for the last two years, agreed that KU's system is not appealing to concert promoters.
"It's unattractive to the promoters because of the delay before they get their promotion."
"HE'S ONE OF my favorite people," the actress said, "professional or otherwise. He makes everyone relax. He's been an actor, he so knows what to tell you."
A new clause was added last fall to the
So great was her affection that she often visited the set of "Unmarried Woman" when she was not needed in the scene. She knew how important it was among performers was essential to a tasteful production. This point, she noted, was established by "Unmarried Woman" director Paul Mazursky, who encouraged him to work before beginning actual work on the film.
Lucas said she had been fortunate to be associated with accomplished performers like Robards, MacLaine, Anne Bancroft and Clayburgh. Her acting ability, she suggested, has been carefully selected from the wealth of talent that has surrounded her.
contract SUA uses with promoters. The clause states that no tickets will be sold until the promoter gives KU a certification check for all estimated costs of the concert.
Shaw wouldn't comment, however, on which groups may be coming to KU.
"I've been basically relying on what I've seen other people doing," she said. "'Uunmarried Woman' was definitely the most educated of Paul, Jill and Ivan (Murthu)."
KATHERINE GELE, SAU adviser and assistant director of the Kansas Union, said that one of the reasons the clause was added in 1972 was the legacy of the May "Tux" 1977 ZZ Tone concert.
recent telephone conversations with promoters about possible concert dates next
Kemper Arena and Municipal Auditorium, which are both located in Kansas City, Mo., provide better acoustics than Allen Field House. Woodman said.
KU is seeking $19,347.64 in the lawsuit, which is still in litigation. Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, said the last he heard about the suit was that federal authorities were unable to locate Newberner.
The promoter of that concert, Arthur R. Newberger of the Amusement Conspiracy Inc., is being sued by KU for allegedly not支付 for expenses he agreed upon.
"I don't care about the money, billing or fame that comes with acting," she said recently. "I love the people in the business and the process of acting."
Besides the fact that outside promoters must promote KU conferences, Woodman said that Allen Field House was another deterrent to promoters.
AND, GIVEN HER spectacular entrance, who wouldn't? To have two first features of such magnitude as "Turning Point" and "The Inventor," she achieved in a lifetime, let alone in an initial outing. In addition, to a young performer who had yet to acquire opportunities to learn her craft firsthand.
"ALLEN WASN'T designed for concerts." he said.
Lisa Lucas rising star in TV, films
Shaw, who will be next year's SUA special
She has gained acclaim over the past few years by appearing in a series of seasonal television specials, notably "The House Without A Christmas Tree," with Jason Robards. Now that she has made the movie, she is staring on the silver screen, she is sighting the Broadway stage at her next step. But, for the moment, she very much like motion pictures.
At the rate her career is traveling, it might not be unusual for another actress, a few years hence, to be saying the same things about Lisa Lucas.
Bv JERRY JONES
Lucas appeared first in "The Turning Point," as Shirley McLaigne's non-dancing daughter, then in "An Unmarried Woman," only child caught up in her parents' divorce.
Associate Entertainment Editor
Some actors go for years without appearing in two consecutive films that are both critical and financial successes. For some actors, it never happens. But for 17-year-old Lisa Lucas, it's already happened, in her first two motion pictures.
Film financiers vital to industry
Re JERRY JONES
Associate Entertainment Editor
Assembling the components to make a feature film requires a multitude of talents—scriptwriters, actors, directors, technicians, editors–virtually scores of craftsmans. Yet, perhaps the most gifted – if not the most vital–craftman is the “money technician,” the fiscal creator who provides employees together into one single, working unit.
Of course, for an established producer or director of a well-known motion picture company-Universal Studios, United Artists or 20th Century-Fox-money is no problem. Either the producer or the company has established a revolving, multi-purpose neighborhood Hollywood bank that keeps the cash flowing throughout the production.
Check with someone in the film department or the drama department. Chances are there is no shortage of scripts, performers or technicians to put a motion picture together. But when the time comes for a new movie, production, the search becomes jong and hard.
THE ONLY exception is Walt Disney Productions, whose company resources are so great that bank loans are not needed; all productions are paid from cash on hand.
However, the majority of films flowing from Hollywood today are independent films; features made by individuals who have not secured distributors for their works. "American Graffiti," a $700,000 feature directed by George Lucas ("Star Wars", remember?) and "Rocky," last year's Academy Award winner, both were distributed by Universal, eventually distributed by Universal and United Artists. There is doubt, however, that either picture would have ever been made by those two studios.
"WE'LL HAVE a lot of projects that come through our office that we'll turn down." Miller said. "We're looking for a commercial picture."
Given that the independent film producer is a vital component of the motion picture
industry, how does he survive? How does he find the capital necessary to put his ideas on display?
events chairman, said that although he wasn't completely satisfied with the way concerts were produced, he was optimistic about next year's chances for concerts.
KARL MILLER wondered the same thing. A few years ago he and his partner, Kelvin Cullimore, exhibited Exhibitors Production Group, a Salt Lake City-based company that produced financial backers for worthwhile film projects. To date, Miller said recently that his company had always been able to locate the required amount of financing. But gathering in huge sums of money for a production meant moving picture production is no easy task.
The basis for that optisim, Shaw said, was
"The way a lot of people feel about raising money is all you have to do is wave a wand and the money appears," he said. "To find money costs money. When you're talking about sizable sums of money, you don't do it over the telephone."
Some industry people have contended that the elimination of a tax shelter for fizzled film projects would cripple the independent film industry, but that he had little concern for tax shelters.
"We try to make it a good business deal. I'll call them (potential investors) and tell them about our ideas."
"SIZABLE SUMS of money" means from $25 to $40 thousand for one investor. That means finding from 25 to 35 investors for each project, and for each project is about $1 million.
"We structure our projects to make money," he said, "not to be a tax break.
Although Miller and his partner will consider any project, they're very selective.
A project, when first presented to the partners, may be a script, a book or just an
"Most investors like to make money."
"You schedule your money in accordance to the need," Miller said. "We have a basic group of investors that we contact. We'll tell them about the amount of money on such and such a date."
idea. If the project is accepted, then
deadline. If the project and partner Miller
Collaborate are off and a new
project is accepted.
"We've always come up with the money to do the project."
Miller's eye for a commercial project must be pretty keen. Like any other business, the barometer of success is the amount of repeated business the work generates.
"We retain a good percentage of our investors," he said. "They come in on one thing with us, and they usually come in again on something else."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN-
Arts & Leisure
Off-Wall-Hall entertainment varies
By MARK L. OLSON
Staff Writer
In a town filled with disco music and big-name bands, finally there is a place where an amateur performer can find a receptive audience that doesn't have to pay an arm and a leg to get through the door.
That place is the Off-the Wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire St., now under new management.
The hall is now the one place in Lawrence where a person can run and perform activities, exercise, play basketball or entertain others and where the first time he reaches for his wallet is at the bar.
The man behind this change is Richard Ray.
"It's our intention to make the offer that we do have a stage that can be used for people who want to get up and try do some enter-
TOO OFFTEN, he said, he had heard complaints from KU people that there was no place in town for them to perform, other than the university.
Once a person has Ray's approval, it is simply a matter of taking the stage.
ray sent ne planned to make the hall's stage appear for anyone with an act who wanted to perform on nights when he did not have a band scheduled. All someone has to do is to find Ray at the bar and outline what they want to do.
said, because there is no cover charge. Ray said, there would consequently be paid for anyone who wanted to perform. But he refused.
"We would love to see people really use their imagination and reach out farther than just a lead guitarist and a drummer." Roy
RAY, A 1963 Lawrence High School graduate, ran a similar venture before he when had the Pawn Shop Coffee House in the
The coffee house might not be familiar to many of the students.
Some of the changes Ray has in mind for the hall include staging short one-dramas, variety acts and vaudelle acts, in addition to the "Acoustic Jam Session", a regular Wednesday night feature at the hall when it was managed by Steve Mason.
Ray said, but it was a basement studio where amateur artists performed impromptu.
"I know we got quite a few people started there, and some of them, like Beth Scalet and Nicholas, are still playing professors."
RAY ACQUIRED the management of the hall from Mason, who owns both the hall and Steve Mason Stringed Instruments, next
Another change that Ray said he had in mind for the hall was to expand the hours it would be open, to accommodate people who were looking for something to do in the afternoon or who wanted to stay out a little at night.
"It's always been a feeling of mine that one should be allowed to sit and relax and so on at his own speed." Ray said.
THE TREND during the nights he has been open has been for women to call on their boyfriends and ask where they were.
One of the biggest problems the hall has encountered in the past, Ray said, has been a tendency for the management to spend beyond its means for advertising. He said he thought he could rely on his customers to let others know it was available.
"This town probably has the greatest grapevine of any town I've lived in," Ray said, "as far as a community of people is concerned."
Once people realize they have a place to perform, Ray said, he hoped to build up a reserve of regulators to be available in case of an emergency and make inking to perform.
He said he also would try occasionally to schedule bands, because people liked to be able to plan ahead when they went out.
"We don't want to limit it to the activities the hall has been doing in the past, nor do we want to eliminate them," Ray said. "What we want is to make it more accessible."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
This Week's
Highlights
Concerts
ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS by students in the department of theory and composition will be perma-
tent, since this course is taught at UNIVERSITY.
UNIVERSITY CHORUSE
and UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY
than their masterworks concert at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday
SELECTIONS from Puccin's "La Bohème" and Barabar's "A Game of Change" will be performed at 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the Wiumlage igloo, where students will be offered operas will be completely stained and costumed.
The KU PERCUSSION ENSMBLE will perform at R m Tueday in Knuthard Rental Hall
Theatre
"SACRIFICE," a play by R. Tagore, will be
presented at 8 a.m. tonight and tomorrow night in the stage Theatre.
Exhibits
DORAUS will present flamenco music and dance from Spain at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Law
THE KANSAS UNION GALLEY will feature a
special luncheon for our students, to be
through Tuesday, an Outstanding Seniors Show,
at 4 p.m. at the Kansas State Museum.
THE HELEN FLOWER SPRINTER MUSEUM OF OPERA AND THEATRE, 635 N. W. 20th St., Haven, Oahu. Obaks, Zen Painting and Calligraphy, 815-794-8020, zenhaven.org.
THE KENNETH SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY is featuring "Lunaeus, Prince of Lunaes," in the book *The Life and Times of King Leonidas*.
Aspects of Scottish Culture in the Archives Gallery
The 7E7 GALLERY is featuring paintings by Mama Ken tomorrow through May 30.
THE GALLEY, 745 New Hamphis St. will feature stoneware pottery by Helen Martin begin.
THE GALLERY of the Visual Arts Building is featuring a New Faculty Exhibit, with textiles by Mama Goldstein, paintings by Terry Richardson, sculptures by Michael McKenzie and sculpture by Kee Manning and jewelry by Jain Hawner.
THE LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER is exhibiting "The Kixy Photonographs."
THE LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY is featuring Laura Wheeler's work, Janine J. Tames pottery, by Linda Hisa and paintings by
Lectures
MILTON ESTEWOR, editor of ARTworks
Citizensism at 8 lulls in the auditorium of the
National Museum of Art.
KWAN S. WONG, from the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City, will lecture on 'The Art of the Brush' in a calligraphy demonstration at 2 p.m. Sunday in the gallery of the Helen Foenstein Spencer Museum of Art.
JEANNE STUMP, faculty tutor of modern art, will speak on 'Paris Art Treasures,' at 8 a.m. Monday.
**ARTHUR D. DRATONY**, a professor at the University of the West Indies, will speak on "The individual and the Tribe: Towards a Theory of African American Identity" at p.m. 6:00 in the Council Room of the Union.