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Wednesday, January 31. 1973
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Photo by FELICIA SMALLWOOD
Steve Carpenter sketches cartoon satire for Daily Kansan
Tryouts for New Play Today and Thursday
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas Experimental Theater will hold opa auditions tonight and Thursday night for "Pimples," an original play written by David Willis, Wichita graduate student. The auditions are scheduled for 7 p.m. in 402 Murphy Hall.
According to director Peter Clough, Falmouth, Maine, graduate student, the play is a contemporary statement on the ethical implications of life, and the essence of human relationships.
Clough described the play in an annotated narrative.
The setting is an isolated island. The characters are Santa Claus, a symbol of white Western man; Virginia, a young black girl who wants security and love, and the Dolphin, a fish performer who seeks beauty in his poetry.
In the play each of the three characters uses the island situation to explore the image he has of himself. Tacific themes are woven throughout the play, Clough said, "oneself" throughout the play. Clough said,
Santa Clara escapes from the Western
and North Pacific in search of friends,
fans, or adventures.
The Dolphin, weir with his Marineland performances, happens to stop by the island
Virginia doesn't know how she got there (although she suspects cosmic retribution for her history of sin) but she wants to go home.
Clough said that one of the major
problems in the characters' attempts to
recognize that they each have a
different concept.
Santa is directed by some unseen person named "Pimples," who gives him instructions. Virginia spends much of her time praying to her vengeful god for atonement for her sins and deliverance from her fate.
The Dolphin enjoys reciting poetry to the audience, an act which symbolizes his
As each character attempts to achieve his personal Nirvana, Santa Claus reverts to
Santa slyly adduces the Dolphin and Virginia to a magic candy he keeps in his bag in an effort to gain their dependence, and thereby, their love.
Ultimately, he fails to maintain his power over them, and with this failure, he
has to accept that the war is a battle.
"It's a play about growing up," Clough said.
Concurrently, Virginia and the Dolphin weneth themselves from their former theistic利益. In their search for love, happiness, and beauty, all three turn inward.
Each of the three came into the situation with certain ideals for comparing people and certain dogmas about the nature of life. In the end, each is stripped of these preconceptions about himself and others, and left naked and helpless.
Opening night for "Pimples" is March 29. The play is站到 run for 10 consecuti tion.
Sidewalk Plan Endangers Action by Irked Opponents
A proposal for an $85,000 skeletal sidewalk project could lead to a lengthy fight between the Lawrence City Commission and aroused citizens. About 50 opponents of the sideways planned for an area bounded by 19th, 23rd, Louisiana and Iowa streets met at Schwegel school Tuesday night to devise opposition strategy.
The group voted unanimously to follow a suggestion made by Lloyd Davies, 1645 W. 19th St., that informational letters about the plan be mailed to all 700 property owners in areas. Postcards requesting a "yes" or "no" opinion of the project are to be enclosed.
Davies said that after the postcards were returned, the group would have a good indication of the chances a protest petition would have of succeeding. He said the group
would then consider hiring an attorney to fight the project.
The City Commission voted last week to approve the plan, and scheduled a public hearing on Monday.
Among the group's objections to the plan was the city's placement of sidewalks on the south side of 19th Street. Several residents said the sidewalk should go on the north side of 19th and include the University of Kansas district, making KU liable for assessment.
"Four of those commissioners are connected with KU in some way, so we draw a line from KU to each of them."
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Cartoonist Sees Life's Funny Side
BY CATHY SHERMAN
Everyone is fair game in a Steve Carpenter cartoon. Nixon and Kissinger parade in trick-or-treat costumes, Santa Claus gets hijacked on Christmas Eve and Carpenter's out from one of the pages of a children's book that he is writing and illustrating.
Kansan Staff Writer
"A lot of people are just walking cartoons," said Carpenter, Independence junior and the Kansas's newest cartoonist. Sooner or later many of Carpenter's friends find themselves caricatured in his cartoons. Some of his subjects protest that their features are too exaggerated. The Carpenter editor often itches to be a successful cartoon. It brings out the humor that he tries to see in everything, he said.
"I like to do caricatures," he said,
"to people to take themselves
less seriously."
Groups of people also get their share of Carpenter lampooning. Carpenter's first cartoon for the Kansan was one in which a ticket salesman was mauled by a large crowd camping out in line for tickets to the Oct. 13 Elton John concert.
"I remember seeing all those people camping out and I thought, 'What would they do if someone told them the concert was cancelled?' And I brought it to the Kansan," he said.
AFTER HIS INITIAL cartoon was accepted, Carpenter began drawing cartoons.
Carpenter's cartoons for the Kansan are his first attempts at political cartooning, although he has been publishing cartoons in newspapers since he was a high school group.
Carpenter said he enjoyed drawing political cartoons now but had never thought of drawing them until the Kansan editor asked him last semester.
It had taken a push from a high school journalism teacher, who had drafted Carpenter to draw a cartoon heralding an upcoming high school football game before Carpenter even considered publishing his work.
Carpenter said that he was then so overwhelmed by seeing something he had drawn in print, that he began to seriously consider a career as a cartoonist.
"Now more than anything, I want to work in cartoons, animation and illusion."
Although he is majoring in commercial and editorial art, after coming to KU from Independence Junior College, Carpenter's drawing career really began in his kindergarten days when he threw out his coloring books.
"I WASN'T SATISFIED with just
he said," I said. "I wanted to draw my
own picture."
he took art lessons for a while after school, he said, until afternoon sports with
Carpenter is an avid cartoon fan and his tastes are varied. He particularly likes Prince Wilhelm for both its story and its elaborate, excellent drawings, he said. He said he liked the satire of Al Capp's better character and the custom of Charles Schuls' peanuts strip.
Despite his years of art instruction, Carpenter he was most inspired from the works of the great painter Diane Disney. And unlike many cartoonists who reduce their characters to a minimum of lines, Carpenter said he liked to use exaggerated features in his cartoons to achieve depth and realism.
He paints his favorite cartoon characters on canvas bags and halter tops which his wife, Becky, sews. Last summer, Independence residents sported Poppey purse. Prince Valiant halter tops, and Carpenter made $200 from their garment venture.
CARPENTER HAS NO PLANS to start a strip of his own, however.
other children began to interfere. He picked up art lesson again in junior high school and joined the class.
"You really have to be inventive to think of something new everyday," he said. "I lean more toward animation and illustration. I think."
Currently, Carpenter is rewriting and redrawing a children's book, "Freddy Finds an Ugly Caterpillar," which he began after taking a children's literature class.
"It's a take-off on the "Ugly Duckling," he said.
In the story, children have a contest to find the most beautiful bugs. Freddy McTedd only finds an ugly black fuzzy caterpillar and becomes downhearted. But
In Closed Meeting, BSU Hears Report from SES
The Black Student Union (BSU) met in closed session Tuesday night in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. The meeting was publicized as a discussion session on the Supportive Educational Services (SES).
Kansas reporters were requested to leave the meeting room shortly before the meeting started. A representative of the team was requested to meet with reporters after the meeting.
the university of Kansas Memorial Corp. Board of Directors, recently submitted a report on its policies and finances to a Memorial Corp. Board committee.
SES, an educational program for members of racial minorities financed by
The report was requested by the committee last December after it came to the committee's attention that some minority groups had been refused aid by SES.
Dick Wintermote, executive director of the Alumni Association and chairman of the committee, said that the report would remain confidential until after Feb. 3.
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in the end the caterpillar blossoms into a
batterfly and Freddy wins the
contest, he exclaims.
Besides illustrating, Carpenter would also like to draw animated cartoons. So far, he
said, the only experience he has in that field is a set of fluff cards he has drawn.
He thinks there is a definite need for good, imaginative and well-drawn animated characters.
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