Friday, February 8, 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Chautauqua celebrates Shakespeare's life
By JON BLONGEWICZ
Staff Reporter
Lovers of William Shakespeare, rejoice. Non-lovers, beware. The important you is your chance.
"Shakespeare: The Globe and the World," a traveling exhibition, opens tomorrow at the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Mo., and runs through May 4.
The Shakespearean exhibition, on loan from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is America Shakespeare Chauquey. Being held at the Johnson Center, the taqua is a joint project of the Nelson Gallery, the university of Missouri at Columbia, Kansas City and the University of Kansas; and Kansas State University.
"It is all just another way to bring the books to life," said Margaret Welch, project administrator for the Shakespearean exhibition. "The most exciting thing is me is getting everything surrounding it together."
The exhibition at the Nelson Gallery is a collection of nearly 400 rare books, manuscripts, prints, paintings, sculpture and costumes that depict the life and times of the beloved plawright.
THE JOURNEY THROUGH Shakespeare's life, which covers most of the gallery's ear wing, begins with a bust of the bar itself, surrounded by the works that have become a part of everyday language.
There are 77 pages of Shakespeare in Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations," but only 31 of the Bible. This fact, among many other anecdotes on Shakespeare, on an electronic flash board in the opening book of *Mary Queen of Scots*.
The journey continues, beginning with a glimpse into rural life of Stratford-on-Avon, where Shakespeare spent his youth. The world of Shakespeare then moves on to Elizabethan London and to London's theater district. Here, the visitor discovers Shakespeare's world, Theatre where most of his plays were presented.
THE END OF the exhibition includes views of modern Shakespeare, how his works have been adapted, translated and transformed. This includes film and video clips of some of the most famous film renditions of his plays, from Sir Laurence Oliver's "Othello" and John Gould's "Parnassus" and Polanski and Owls Wrestel materials of Macbeth.
Another highlight of the exhibition is the 1623 First Folio, the first collected edition of plays and first publication of authorized versions of more than half of Shakespeare's plays.
Without this folio, collected by Shakespeare's contemporaries seven years after his death, written copies might not exist today of "Macheth," "The Tempest," "Juus Causes Euxthe," "Twelfth Night" or "Asleep," Henry Fowler (Guerder of the Folkier Library, called the volume "the most precious book in the world."
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS of the exhibition include:
Queen Elizabeth's Bible, printed in 1588 and
published in 1604.
- An early printing of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."
- Deeds to Shakespeare's house in Stratford and his property in Blackfriars, London.
*Henry WIII's own school book, "Clereo," in which he and written "Thesus book is myse, Pryehn Cycle."
All the world's a stage.
'As You Like It,' II, vii
of the world a stage.
They have merely players;
They have their exit and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.
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- Many quarto editions of Shakespeare's works, including the only existing copy of "Titus Anatole."
*A scale model of the Globe playhouse by John Crawford Adams and Irwin Smith.
THE SHAKESPEAREAN exhibition, which comes to Kansas City from San Francisco, marks the first time the Folger Library has permitted its rare books and manuscripts to be displayed outside its building.
When the exhibition moves, it takes 45-foot moving vans, one that is specially temperature and
humidity controlled like the showcases to protect the valuable manuscripts. Most of the exhibition must be kept at a temperature between 65 and 75 degrees with only 50 percent humidity.
The main responsible for protecting the 350-year-old
First Pollock and other items is Frank Mewley, who
is the President of the Society.
MOWERY, 27, already has experience in masonry. Her establishment has studied in West Germany and Vienna and received a grant to work in Florence, Italy. He comes to Folger after working at the Huntington Museum,
Mowery calculated the possible stress of displaying each open manuscript and designed each individual display stand to limit the amount of stress on the books.
The safety of the exhibition is important because of its value, Welch said. While she declined to put a dollar value on the exhibition, she said that its insured value was "up there."
"How can you put a million dollar price tag on something, when a million dollars won't give you another one?" Weich said. "The exhibit is an artifact that has been viewed today, the way everyone is humor for him."
THE FUN IS not confined to the Neison Gallery. "The Mid-America Shakespeare Chataquana" will present a variety of plays, films and musical programs in the Kansas City area to attract attention
to Shakespeare and the Shakespearean exhibition.
At the University of Kansas the event will range from Stephen Orgel, professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, to a lecture by Cedric Messina, the president of broadcasting Corporation of Shakespeare's plays.
KU also will present a musical program on the occasion of the 100th anniversary exhibits at the Helen Foster Spencer Museum of Musical Arts.
David Bergeron, professor of English and coordinator of the Chautaqua events at KU, said the program was a cooperative program that "proves it works." The international universities to get together and work together.
"Together we can bring in some outstanding people and make it worth their life. One University alone is a great place to learn."
BERGERON SAID that he was working with local civic groups to publicize the events and provide a bus tour for senior citizens to see the exhibition at the Nelson Gallery.
Interest in the exhibition is demonstrated by the 13,000 people who have reserved tours. According to Welch, 3,000 people the visited the exhibition a day during the last week it was in San Francisco.
"But with all the surrounding events, Kansas City is the best so far, the most exciting," Welch said. "We've had a lot of fun."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Scenes from "Shakespeare: The Globe and the World," which open tomorrow at the Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Mo. Above: A bust of Shakespeare welcomes visitors. Right: A sculpture by Joel McCormack.
'Gigolo' is superficial entertainment
By EVIE LAZZARINO Contributing Reviewer
"American Gigol" goes close to being
the joke. The hero is an anti-hot-tech, sagey guy
older woman. The setting: ultra-rich Los
Pierer, avant-garde wardrobes and sleek
chore interior们 fill the screen. The film comes close to being click; but it isn't—
Julian Kay (Richard Gere) is a dressed-up, elegant front street park who basks at the top of his profession—gigolo to frustrated BEL airMatrons. He meets Michelle Straton (Lauren Hutton), an ex-lawyer who wants to show him love is
Gere goes through the motions of loving her in the midst of dishing out sex for a living. But he supposedly doesn't understand love until he is saved from a frame
for murder only when Hutton goes to the wall for him. She tells the police that Gere couldn't have killed anyone because he was taken by the night with her the night she murdered.
She then leaves her husband, and the gigolo says goodbye to the good life he used to value so highly.
ITS ANSWER twist to the reformed law. You can't work to hold this film together. It is a similar that admittedly does not add up to an important film but that is undeniably a welleful film.
Hutton, Revlon's gorgeous Ultima
Woman, is surprisingly good in this per-
formance. Her career she isn't more lauren Hutton
playing Lauren Hutton. Her performance as
an unhappy partner in a loveless marriage
with her boyfriend, who Olsen's lover's
savior is downplayed and believed.
The elegance of the interiors and magnificence of the scenery as Gere whitzes down fireworks in his Mercedes are unified by an excellent score by Giorgio Morander and Blonde. The punk music from Springs streets sends a message of its own.
Art director Ed Richardson adds to the
interesting visuals of the film. Several interiors have slanted window blinds. When gere repeatedly stands in front of them, the blinds open and the blinds look unmistakably like prison bars.
work well to add to the '80s look predominant throughout the film.
Later, when Gere actually is in prison, the effect is chilling. The streamlined credit designs at the film's beginning and end also
“AMERICAN GIGOLO” is full of beautiful faces, perfect interiors and stunning clothes, but it means nothing without Gere's mature performance in the play. Its portrays a tightly coiled, complex chameleon that lacks emotion or guilt, yet feels sensitively toward his clients and the frustrations that lead to his being hired.
Outside he dries his confidence, is impeccably cool. Yet, when the facets crack away he stops playing. Other any scared, desperate street punk on the run. It is at this point that his charisma burns.
"American Gigolo" is not a must-see film, "it never attempts to be. It can be enjoyed on different levels. It is superficially and intellectually valuable, but a little thought could be memorable film."
Symphony's winter concert tonight
Quiet food and a pops concert atmosphere will be as much a part of the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra's Winter Concert tonight as the Bartok, Beethoven, Hayden and Lloyd president, and associate president, president and associate professor of music history, said Wednesday.
By KATHY KASE Staff Reporter
Among the available refreshments will be beer, coffee, soda and "quiet food," Politoske said.
"We want to play music that most people in the community can understand and enjoy, and we will use it, too. We'll have tables with tablecloths and refreshments will be available. It will be a fun experience."
"We tried to get non-rattling food that
won't make noise during the concert," he said. "We've avoided wrappers with crinkly paper."
Although the exclusion of noisy food seems a minor consideration, Polltoske said, its absence should enhance the com
cert, which includes: Listz's Les Prudes,
Bartk's Six Roumanian Dances, Hayden's
Symphony No. 100 in G major and
Two Romantics for Violin and
Orchestra.
"I want to appeal to a wide range of the music loving public," he said. "I try to span three centuries—the latter part of the 20th century and the 19th—when I choose program selections."
THE PIECES are often performed by many symphonies, but that is because they appeal to a wide range of listeners. Charles Wesley was a wise teacher and professor of music theory, said.
"The Bartok is the 20th century work, but it's not terribly far out. It has straight harmonization of fiddle tunes."
Another selection that should appeal to the audience is the Beethoven work, Haag and Featuring a violin solo by Susan Duckworth. The songs are pleasant, uncomplicated melodies.
"These works are fairly simple forms that are pretty definite," Shumway, also concert mixtures for the symphony, said. "There's another reason for their virtuosity and that would scare people."
Even though the orchestra has given concerts with a more sophisticated content, Hoag said performances were generally well-attended.
"I think we have developed a high quality symphony. For a town this size, it's damn good."
"At our last concert we had almost 600 people," he said. "It was standing room only. We had people practically hanging from the chandeliers."
The orchestra will give its Winter Concert at 8 ontight in the Kangas Union Ballroom.
spare time
FRIDAY
MOVIES: "The Muppet Movie," Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas City, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union, Shakespeare in Kansas City, P.K.A. Theater, UMC campus.
MUSIC: Lawnery Orchestra, 8 p.m., Missouri Union Ballroom, Pat's Blue Ridgid Band, 8 p.m., Lawrence College, North and Massachusetts, Anne Johnson's River City Country Band, O.K. Corral, Holiday Plaza, 23rd and Iowa.
THEATER: "Hamlet," 8 p.m., Missouri Repertory Theatre, Heilen F. Spencer Theater, Kansas City, Mo.
ART: "Lama Lemures," Joan Livingstone, Charlotte Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, Mo. Through Feb. 24.
SATURDAY
MUSIC: "Ariat Shakespeare's Sweet Power and Music," Royal Shakespeare Company, Nielsen Gallery, Kansas City, Mo. Pat's Blue Ridgid Band, Lawrence Opera House, Seventh and Massachusetts, Anne Johnson's River City Country Band, K.Crel Holiday Plaza, 23rd and Iowa.
THEATER: "Twelfth Night," Missouri Repertory Theatre, 8 p.m., Heilen F. Spencer Theater, UMC campus, The Elephant's Child, Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vernon.
ART: "Shakespeare: The Globe and the World," Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.
SUNDAY
MUSIC: Carlton musical Albert Gerken, 3 p.m., Memorial Carson PI Kanaal Lamba Concerto Concertum, University Symphony Orchestra, 3:30 p.m., University Theatre, "American Music of the Symbolist Era," Winkeroo Jazz, 2 p.m., Paul Young and Jennifer Greenjee Performance Museum, THEATER: "Hamlet," Missouri Repertory Theatre, Heilen F. Spencer Theater, UMC campus
LECTURES: Eubethan Decorative Art., Yvonne Haskenbaum, The Gathering Gallery, Who was Shakespeare? S. Seboenbaum, UMC.
WEDNESDAY
MUSIC: XTC, Lawrence Opera House, 8 p.m., Seventh and Massachusetts.
THEATER: "30 seconds to an Inch," Lawrence Arts Center Ninth, "The Shift off his Back," G.P. Lloyd's, Seventh and Massachusetts.
THURSDAY
MUSIC: Whitentheme G.P. Lloyd's West, Ninth and Iowa.
THEATER: "30 seconds to an Inch," Lawrence Arts Center Ninth and Vermont.
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