Thursday, May 3, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Kansas Photo by CARL G. DAVAZ JR.
One of the cheapest ways to furnish an apartment is with used furniture. Krisa Krier, 1601* Tennessee St., and her daughter Adrian St. in an old-fashioned wooden wheelchair in
Used Furniture
their apartment. Most of the furniture in the apartment came from "junk stores" in Salina. Many Lawrence used furniture dealers offer real bargains if a student is willing to search carefully without expecting to buy everything at one place or one time. Mrs. Kizer and her husband Harrell, a fine arts senior, had added to the room's individuality with their own art work and a dress maker's dummy to display jewelry. Like many students, they have added plants to give the room more color.
Apartment Furnished Using a $75 Budget
Editor's Note: The Kansan gave these reporters a hypothetical $75 to spend on an unfinished apartment. This is what they found in the Lawrence area.
By LARRY FISH
NANCY GILLILAND Kansan Staff Reporters
Students who live in apartments usually are faced with the problem of making a few dark, stuffy rooms into friendly, cheerful living quarters.
we must paint, cut and ding areas,
we must put a curtain and gather
together in a geometrical pattern with
twine. We found the scrap metal rings in
a junkyard. Originally they were headlight
Two large floor pillows cost $4 each at Montgomery Ward. We added a canvas director's chair that we purchased for $10 at Foster + Rowe. The chair has with box cushion seats, easily made for $3.
We furnished a two-bedroom apartment on a $75 budget after a long search through Lawrence's used furniture stores, lumberyards and mail-order catalogs.
We discovered that a small apartment looks much airier when it is painted in cool, neutral colors. We paint white of white, a few plants and colorful floor cushions which evade the expense of colored panels.
At Quantrill's Flea Market we purchased a wooden cask about two feet tall for $4, which made a convenient accessories table. We also purchased a mini rug throw rug run at Quantrill's for $3.
We splurged on wicker wall shelves. Ordered by mail from Ward's, they cost $10. But the wicker effect in a small apartment is well worth stretching a budget for.
For the bedroom we bought a floor bed with a box spring and mattress for $20 at Freeman's Used Furniture and Appliance Store. Freeumber scrap boards supported by metal brackets make sturdy bookshelves. We found these blocks for 3 cents each at a lumberyard.
To give the windows an interesting lighting effect, we bought custom-made blinds, simple strips of wood that pivot open in dwells, for $4 and stained them ourselves.
We bought a wooden wine rack at an auction for $4. It can be used as a wall hanging and is useful for storing yarn and other things.
Light, movable furniture, such as pillows and a director's chair, is convenient for students who move often. Dual-use furniture is also handy. We bought a couch that opens up in a bed for $15 at Anderson Furniture and Storage Co.
We purchased two healthy-looking plants at Rusty's IGA for $2 each. We also picked up a few orange clams at Rusty's. We used an orange, stacked them and used them for storage.
Finally, friends in fine arts and architecture schools provided us with odds and ends which added a unique touch to our overall effect.
The Wilcox Museum at the University of Kansas was packed in crates and put in storage just before the destruction of Old Fraser Hall in 1956. Since then, no one has seen the museum's collection of classical paintings, even not the museum's present curator.
By DAVID HEALY
Kansan Staff Writer
Following is a list of our expenditures:
2 floor pillows $8.00
wooden cask 4.00
rug rug 5.00
wicker wall shelves 10.00
floor bed 20.00
wooden blinds 5.00
dual couch-bed 15.00
2 plants 4.00
wine rack 4.00
Total $75.00
At the time of the museum's crating, the University promised the museum space in a proposed humanities building. In recent years, the university included gallery space for the Museum.
Wilcox Museum Stored Away; No Place for Exhibit
However, when the size of wescoe was reduced, plans for the museum were made.
In recent interviews, Elizabeth Banks,
assistant professor of classics and curator
of the museum said, "We have no plans at
the moment" to pieces of the Wilcox
collection in Wescoe.
Last summer, a corridor vestibule in Wescoe was offered to the museum as a place for visitors to walk along.
She explained that the curators had found the proposed display area and cases unavailable for use.
The Wilcox Museum, a veritable tradition at KU, was originated as a complement of the strong classical tradition of education established in 19th century American universities.
Its plaster cast of classical Greek and Roman sculpture and busts of Greek philosopher and Roman statesmen were, in times of expensive and difficult travel abroad, as close as many young Kansans could afford. At the same time, the Thrower, the Laocoon, the Venus of Melos, the Winged Victory of Samnothrace and the Augustus of the Prima Porta.
Photos Record KU's Past
Applications for positions on the summer Kansan staff are due at 5 p.m. today in 105 Flint Hall. The applications can be picked up there. Monroe Dodd, summer Kansan editor, will interview applicants Friday.
By BILL GIBSON
Staff Applications Due at 5 p.m.
Kansan Staff Writer
Photographs of Dr. James Naismith, Glenn Cunningham and a 1937 Kansas dust storm will be part of a special commencement weekend display of A. P. (Dutch) D'Ambra's 45-year pictorial history of the area.
But D'Amba was best known for his sports coverage. He prowled the sidelines at the KU football games for 40 years rarely missing a game. At the 1926 Kansas-Drake game, D'Amba captured an image that Drake coach Knute Rocke called his
The D'Ambra collection was donated to the University by his widow and last fall as a memorial to the area's most noted teacher and for the appreciation of students.
His depiction of a Kansas dust storm in 1937 shows a contemporary automobile driving out of clouds of billowing dust. This image is not only notable, was used in the New York Times.
Selected vintage works of the man who was called the "picture taker of the University" will be shown from 3 to 5 p.m. May 20 in Spencer Library. Enlargements in the Kansas Union Gallery will be featured in the Kansas Union Gallery from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 19 and 20.
"We were delighted to get this beautiful collection," said David Heron, director of KU libraries. "It is the largest single source of pictures of the University."
The D'Ambra collection includes 17,000 negatives and 12,000 contact prints and represents community and campus events in human interest images from 1924 to 1969.
Also included are portraits of early police stations, ice skating on Potter Lake in 1928 and a still life. (Courtesy Paul H. Bender)
The history of the area is preserved in 'DAmbrra's photographs of automobile show rooms and department store window displays in the 20th and 30s. He claimed to be almost of the construction on campus and in Lawrence during his 45 years of work.
Highlights of the D'Ambra collection include crime scenes of the '30s, photographs of the 1951 flood and shots of Harry S. Truman from the rear platform of his train on the whistle-stop campaign through Lawrence.
favorite action shot, dubbing it "the perfect block."
The collection includes portraits of Naismith, the inventor of Basketball; Cunningham, the KU miler; Wilt Champlin; and Phog Allen, former basketball coach.
D'Ambra's photographs were widely circulated among the nation's newspapers. In four consecutive issues of the New York Times, D'Ambra pictures of KU events were used.
The major contribution of D'Ambra's work is its rich documentation of an era, according to James Enyear, curator of photography at the KU Museum of Art.
"There is currently an escalation of pedestrian interest in photography as an art form," he said. "But aesthetic concern is not always the motive of a photographer."
D'Ambra was a type of photographer that we don't even have anymore. It was a way of life. But it was more his concern to document the activities of the community that to promote a work of art. We have a rich archive as a result."
"I think that this series of photographs is an important part of the historical record of the area which is not available anywhere else," said John Nugent of the Spencer Archives, who classified and processed the material.
D'ambra came to Lawrence in 1921 as an instructor of ROTC. He later abandoned his teaching and specialized in photography. He became known as the University public relations man as his pictures of KU became famous. He organized magazines and newspapers across the nation.
Enyeart said that all of the negatives in
the collection were in excellent condition and that 80 per cent of the prints were well
During a Kansas-Boston University game in 1969, D'Ampra, then 71, collided with a Boston player on the sideline. It was later reported that the Boston coach had remarked, "If they all blocked as well as the man, they would have won the game."
He operated an independent photography service but did some work for such agencies as NEA, International News Service and World Wide Photos.
D'Ambra was a familiar figure along the KU football sidelines and was known for his quick recoveries when bowled over by a scrambling athlete.
Haldeman and Ehrlichman are remaining on the White House staff and payroll for an indeftine officer, ostensibly a member of the Nixon administration, required as Nixon rebuilds his inner circle.
D'Ambras's favorite player was Lewin (Rabbit). Weller, a 155-pound halfback on the Haskell Institute squad of 1930. The team scored a Rabbit was the greatest player he had seen.
The D'Amba collection will be kept at the Spencer Library, but copies from the negatives may be made available for concerned groups, Nugent said.
Nixon Adds . . .
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Nixon had complained at the Cabinet meeting that FBI men had been standing outside the offices of the three resigned members of the Nixon administration; they station themselves inside the offices.
within the White House where they were being guarded by FBI agents.
ZIEGLER SAID he believed Haladem and Ehrlichman had been in their White House offices Wednesday but said he did not know of Dean's whereabouts.
ZIEGLER SAID Nixon thought the conspicuous presence of the agents cast arousal on him.
Another White House source said investigators could have access if they had reason to believe the files contained relevant to the Watergate investigation.
The press secretary said the files were private presidential papers and were being guarded to make sure that they were examined by the resigned men or members of their staffs only under supervision designed to safeguard the documents.
Asked if the files would be available to federal investigators, Ziegler replied, "©
Ziegler was asked if the President was aware at the time that Ehrichman already had told the FBI he had learned after the fact about a burglar at the office of a California psychiatrist who had treated Daniel Ellsberg, defendant in the Pentagon
THE PRESIDENTIAL spokesman said he had been advised by White House lawyers not to discuss any aspect of the burial, which the burialary now figures prominently.
papers case, and had found nothing to inform appropriate authorities about the
The defense in the case said it would probably move for a mistrial Thursday on the grounds that the government sought to "compromise" Byrne because the government suspected the eventual involvement of Ehrichman's name in the trial.
At the trial itself, Judge Matt Byrne denied defense allegations that Ehrlichman tried to bribe him by offering him the FBI directorship. He said he never discussed the case in meetings with Ehrlichman or a lawyer. He said that he had beenirmed that he had been offered the FBI job.
Banks said the Wilcox collection was more a teaching collection than a museum collection. Many pieces, such as a series of kinds of marble from the Palatine Hill and Poppel Hill cell on Pompeii, are useful as teaching aides, she said, but are not of museum value.
Originally known as the Classical Museum, the Wilcox Museum was opened on June 5, 1888, in the large second-floor room in the south wing of Old Frasier Hall.
In a preliminary catalog, the museum listed 114 objects or groups of objects. They included five plaster casts in the round and rectangular shapes, maps, charts, plates and photographs.
The museum's first curator was A. M. Wilcox, professor of Greek, and upon his death in 1929 the museum was renamed in his honor.
It is administered by the department of classics and classical archaeology.
The museum receives a set allocation of $300 a year for the acquisition of new pieces. Banks said that in recent years they had added to purchase objects of museum value.
She said the strengths of the museum included a fifth century B. C. Attic red-figured kylix (cup), a small group of objects from the Düruscan pieces and a collection of coins.
This year's purchase is to be a fourth
century B. C. Campanian red-figured amphora (two-t handled jar).
Banks, who has been curator for two years, said, "The most difficult thing for me is establishing a contact with reputable banks," she said. "I am not where things were bought in the past."
She said a small special exhibit of museum pieces had been considered but that the University administration had discouraged the idea.
"The collection was packed by professional packers and the administration has been reluctant for us to load it," she said.
If the University should build a new museum of art, she said, the Wilcox Museum will attempt to acquire a permanent gallery in the building.
At present the kylik and a Villanovan arm are on loan to the Museum of Art.
Charles Eldredge, assistant professor of art history and director of the Museum of Art, said the genuine classical pieces in the Wilcox collection would augment the Museum of Art because it had few classical pieces.
"It has been because of the existence of the Wilcox Museum that the (art) museum did not build up a classical collection," he said.
Whether the Wilcox collection of plaster
casts would be allowed to be displayed in an art museum is questionable.
The inclusion of plaster casts in a future art museum would require a policy decision regarding the use of plaster casts.
"the tendency over the last quarter century or more has been to banish from public display casts, copies and duplicates to display original pieces of art," he said.
However, both Banks and Eldredge agree that debate on the inclusion of the casts in a museum is premature. Eldredge is quick to plan, but Kearsarge no plans for a new museum in K.K.'s year.
In the meantime, KU students must go elsewhere to see classical antiquities or even copies. The Wilcox Museum is indefinitely in storage.
Gunn Receives Award for Book
Marceau: Master of Visual Poetry
The first place winner in the 1972 competition was "Beyond Apollo" by Barry Snyder.
Kansan Staff Writer
By MICHELE LONSDORFER
Second place in the John W. Campbell Memorial competition for best science fiction novel of the year has been awarded by the American Society of Journalism, for his novel, "The Listeners".
It seems almost irrelevant to meet Marcel Macreau without his white stage make-up and jumpsuits. It is as somebody needed to play the part of Marcel Macreau.
But soon, Bip reappears in the fuzzy dark hair, the swift gesture of the hands, the facial expressions, when trying to find the appropriate word to express his thoughts.
Marceau was completing a three-week stay at the Civic Theater, in Chicago, where tickets were sold out almost every night. His next step would be New York, California, and finally France after a seven-month tour throughout the United States.
Marceau, 50, was born in Strasbourg, France, where he spent much of his youth, attracted since early childhood by the art of mime.
Marseau is a firm believer in the universal language of the human gesture and refuses to choose his program according to nationalities. "I have not found it possible," he said, "to identify laughters or French, American, German or English."
The following year he created the character of Bip and his flower hat, a humorous and touching little tramp, summing up all human emotions. Ever since, Bip had become famous throughout the world.
The important things he considers before setting up his program are the technical possibilities of the particular hall, how long he is going to stay in a town, and what he has already presented to the audience in previous shows.
As a favorite game, he would amuse himself and his playmates by silently imitating anything animate or inanimate that caught his fancy. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton—mimes of the silent screen—were his inspiration and joy. A pupil of Charles Durney in his school of music, he became a decorous Decroux, Marceau had his first professional chance in 1946, when he performed the part of Harlequin.
"In doing that, he presents the audience a mirror of their lives, comic or tragic, moral."
An explanation for that success might be found in Marceau's commentary about his art, "A mime in his art is equal to a sculptor of space, a visual poet. The mime floats between a visible and invisible world and acts from according to his imagination."
To achieve such a goal, Marceau thinks that the future mine must possess a great amount of sensibility, a gift for acting, and a musical sense. He also has to be an acrobat (for example) and an animal stinger. But above all he has to be gifted, Marceau says, and it is mainly a natural gift.
The schools of mine help to a certain extent, he says, but after two years of training, a pupil may start to teach, and, as in almost every form of education, one runs the risk of a misuse of one's teaching. But in schools where a live, alive, more and more schools are peded.
Marceau thinks that the mime is going to
evolve towards a greater simplification. "The mime is a language in itself" Marceau says, "quite self-sufficient, powerful enough to express dreams, realities, symbolisms. We just have to adjust it to the modern world."
Is Bip adjusted to the modern world?
"When he was younger," Marceau says, "Bip was naive, always looking in the sky, but now he has matured, come down to realities and become the harsh realities of the Modern World."
Marceau expresses this in his latest pantomime, "Bip in the Modern and Future"
"But it does not make him sad," Marceau says. "Bip has too much vitality for that. He may be moody, but his eyes communed on the human level now. He is a witness, but also a personification of man's passion on earth."
As if to assert this, an impression of true human worth is what prevails in the circle of lights on the stage where Bip-Marcel and Ivan were born. This is no once again bring the poetry of silence alive.
Faces of Marcel Marceau