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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 26, 1967
Drama-no bumps, grinds
'Gypsy' star to undress
Parmalee Bates, New York, N.Y., senior, was named KU's Best Dressed Coed of 1966. In addition, she may become the Best Undressed Coed of 1967 when the KU presentation of "Gypsy" opens tonight.
Because Gypsy "Rose" Lee was a dignified lady in addition to being queen of the teasers, Miss Bates appears to be the perfect girl to portray the part.
This will become apparent to playgoers who are looking forward to a bumps-and-grinds evening at the University Theatre.
"Gypsey was never a grinder, she was a lady. I'm just afraid this might disappoint a few people," said Miss Bates. "When she started, she was a little gauche, but then she becomes graceful, and becomes a star."
Miss Bates admitted that since KU's production is a University affair this makes a bit of difference.
"Educational theater has to have a line of discretion. Something like the strip scene could be offensive to some theater goers, so there has to be that line."
KU's "Gypsy" strippers are not being coached for their disrobing acts. None of the "Big Girls" from Kansas City has been brought in to tutor, and even Mrs. Anita Sorrels, the choreographer, is letting the girls ad lib it.
"Most of us have either seen the play or the movie, so there's a general idea about what to do," said Miss Bates.
As for any feeling of embarrassment on the part of the girls, she said the stripping scene is a humorous one, and it's not too hard to get in the spirit of the fun.
"There are a few girls who are a little nervous about how their boyfriends will feel," she conceded.
Navy starts new drive enlists Negro officers
The Navy, like so many other organizations today, is trying to change its image.
In recent years, the Navy has fallen behind in ratio of Negro officers to the other services. Thus they have begun the Minority Officer Recruiting Effort (MORE). Two representatives of the MORE program were on campus this week to inform and try to interest Negro students in careers as Naval officers.
Quintet set to perform in Swarthout
The Warsaw Quintet will perform at 8 p.m. Monday in Swarathout Recital Hall, the first of four concerts in the Chamber Music Series.
Playing classical, romantic and contemporary music, the Quintet has toured Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, India and Scandanavia.
The group originally started in 1660 as five musicians playing informally for their own pleasure and that of their friends.
In 1963 the director of the Polish Concert Agency, Szymon Zakrzewski, heard them play and suggested they become a professional ensemble. Six months later they gave their first public concert.
Bronislaw Gimple, first violinist in the group, became an American citizen in 1943 and conducted for the American Broadcasting Co. in New York.
The other members are Krzysztof Jakowicz, violin; Stefan Kamasa, viola; Aleksander Ciechanski, cello, and Wladislaw Szpilman, piano.
Other concerts in the Chamber Music series include the Chigiano Sextet, Jan. 15; the Zagreb String Quartet, Feb. 19, and the Alma Trio, April 29.
Tickets are on sale for $2 each at Murphy Hall box office.
TOUGH ON TOURISTS
LONDON —(UPI)— Spending by British tourists in non-sterling area countries doubled between 1958 and 1966 to hit more than 220 million pounds ($616 million). Then in July last year the government limited the basic foreign travel allowance for all Britons to 50 pounds ($140) per person per year.
"During World War II, the Negro in the Navy had the image of being a steward or a shoe shine boy for the officers," said Lt. (jg.) Jaurvon Johnson, representative of the program.
"We are here to talk to the Negro college student to let him see that it isn't that way any more," he added. "We want to let them know that the Navy now has Negroes in aviation and all other special fields as well as several training to be astronauts."
Johnson said that some of the people he talked to did not even know there were Negroes in the Navy. He also said that friends of KU's only two Negro NROTC students often teased them about their membership in the program.
Johnson explained that his job was to get around the campus, meet Negroes to get their ideas and tell them about the Navy.
Johnson and three others will return to KU Nov. 9 and 10 to set up an information table to distribute pamphlets and arrange officer candidate exams for those interested in the program.
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