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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 2, 1967
Take a 'trip' in Lawrence?
By Maggie Ogilvie
Kansan Staff Reporter
Peter Fonda on a motorcycle is a best-seller in Lawrence this fall. "Hell's Angel" hangs on a wall of the "Magic Circus" downtown, and is often carried off by customers who think "it's campy to have it in your room."
"Klief"—Arabian marijana—is part of the international psyche delic paraphernalia which owners Jamie Brewer and Kay Hughes of Kansas City have clustered on racks, counters and tables for KU students to sample.
But Rick Wrigley, Lawrence sophomore and salesman in the store on Massachusetts Street, has a "low opinion" of "camp" posters. Of 113 on display, he likes "funny" ones—the 1930 advertisement of a marijuana scare and another reading, "A puff of Keif in the morning makes a man as strong as camels in the courtyard."
Strangers unalarmed
Foreigners to the territory seldom get "too turned on" during the quick trip from sidewalk daylight to black light darkness.
Two who were aware of posters glowing and incense burning could only say, "What's that weird smell? Who makes all this stuff?"
On successive trips around the shop, they found medallions
("This side is like American Indian, and this side is like American psychedelic"), bedspreads and bracelets ("made in India"), long loose women's garments ("made in Pakistan"), symbols like the "Ankh" (Egyptian for "life"), "yin and yang" (Taoist for "opposites"), "Shiva" (a Hindu god) and "the eye of God" (made in Oklahoma "under the influence of hallucinatory cactus juice").
The two gawked at a display of wildly colored, wildly labeled buttons, especially "Jesus was a dropout" in green and blue.
A few dandies
"Sonny, if you don't know, there's no point in trying to explain," answered Wrigley.
"I didn't know He ever dropped into anything to drop out of," said one of them.
"Who's that? He looks familiar—like Wescoe with a beard."
"All right, Dad," the customer said, tripping on toward a portrait of Allen Ginsburg in Uncle Sam attire.
Both thought it ironic that Ginsburg and his contemporaries are "putting themselves in the establishment's market" by promoting such sale items.
Not all establishment
The shop's market is not totally "establishment," but, Wristley said, "If somebody's going to buy it, you might as well make it."
Soon he was suggesting to a girl that she apply liquid incense to a plastic base which heats up when attached to lightbulbs or radiators.
Jasmine, lotus and sandelwood scents also are offered in cake form, and may be burned in "hookah" water containers also sold there.
On another shelf sat a box of cigarette papers, and above it ornamental-hairpin - or-tweezerlike "roach clips" used to hold the butt end of a joint of marijuana. Nearby lay a pamphlet entitled, "The synthesis and extractions of organic psychedelics."
Flat, wooden "Hashish Pots" with brass pipe extensions ("for superconcentrated marijuana") are displayed beside Hawaiian Woodrose, a smoke "supposed to get you high."
In a piece of the pottery that "does not sell at all" were braided straw finger rings. Endless pairs of pierced earrings, many made by Ric Propst, Lawrence sophomore, were hung near "stick-on" paper flower ones and "grocovy" ankle bracelets.
Pop art. 400
For pop art lovers, there are mirror-like ornaments which Wrigley said were printed designs on paper, glued over thick plastic with ridges in it to act as prisms. The effect, showing only a portion of the design at one glance, is like the mock movement of children's cereal-box buttons.
For "carrying stash" are "stash bags" in both leather and pouch versions.
"Nobody would be idiot enough to carry grass in them," said Wrigley, "because it's the first place somebody's going to look." And the last place to look for "LSD" in the store would be the far corner where rests a game kit called, "Ludicrous Systems Development of Psychedelic Happenings."
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A 1709 French play so controversial that the original company was bribed not to perform it will be enacted by a French touring company, Le Treteau de Paris, at 8:20 p.m. Nov. 10 in the University Theatre.
In spite of a public triumph, Alain Rene Lesage's "Turcaret" was presented only seven times. It so cutraged Parisian financial circles that they bribed the actors not to perform it.
In "Turcaret," money is the protagonist and Lesage creates a world of people who gravitate to "gold power."
Lessage's tone in this play, a study of characters and manners, is that of amiable satire.
“Turcaret” appears more ridiculous than dreadful because Lesage was not a moralist. He filled
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