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Tuesday, June 11, 1974
University Dally Kansan
The 38th annual Bank Management Clinic, sponsored by the Kansas Bankers Association and the University of Kansas School of Medicine, will meet on campus today through Thursday.
Summer Inge Festival to Offer Plays, Films
Ewing Knauffman, owner and president of the Kansas City Royals baseball team and president of Marion Laboratories, will discuss "Ideas of Proftability" this morning at 10:30 in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
A Judo class will meet from 11:30 to 12:30 Monday through Thursday in 223 Robinson. More members are needed. Contact Col. Willem Hoevel, the physical education department, 844-3371.
The KU Folk Dance Club will meet at 7 p.m. every Friday at Potter Pavilion. Beginners are welcome. Call Cynthia Wike, 843-293-87.
Plays, films, lectures, special classes, an art exhibit and concert, and a memorial dedication will be the attractions of "The Wizard of Oz" at the University of Kansas (eestival at the University of Kansas.
The festival is the first of three summer festivals at KU honoring works of American playwrights. The festivals are part of the American Bicentennial celebration, according to William Kuhl, festival academic coordinator.
Related classes are being offered by the departments of political science, music history, art history, history, English, American studies and speech and drama.
Along with the graduate and undergraduate classes for those involved in the program is one easy-access class designed to involve the community in the program. The class, a seminar in theatre and dance, meets Mondays and Wednesdays. Special enrollment for it will be 7 p.m. tomorrow in Room 402, Murphy Hall.
The festival plays will be "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams and two plays by William Inge, "Picnic," and "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs."
"The Glass Menagerie" was chosen because it inspired Ineg to try play writing, and in drama the New York Drama Critic Award Outer Circle award. Of Inge's four most famous plays, "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" is only one never before added to KU.
There will also be five films, all based on Inge plays or written by him. One of these, "Splendor in the Grass," won an Academy Award. Movies of his two other top apps, "Bus Shea" and "Come Back, Little Shea," will also be shown.
In addition, there will be six lectures about Inge's world and times. The lecturers include Jack T. Brooking, director of the festival; Donna E. Schafer, instructor in American studies; David Katzman, associate professor of history; John G. Clark, professor of history and Richard Wright, director of KANU.
A special attraction will be the concert and photographic art exhibit. James Enyear, curator of the photographic exhibition at KU was commissioned by the Kansas Committee for the Humanities to do a photographic study. The exhibit has been
on tour and will come to campus as part of the festival.
A special honor to Inge will be the renaming of the Experimental Theatre the "William Ige Memorial Theatre." This will be done at a special ceremony July 12. At that time there will be an exhibit of Inge memorabilia in the Experimental Theatre. There are plans to rename the University Library to Inge, the founder of the Department of Speech and Drama at KU. Inge was a student under him at K.U.
The Inge theatre will not be used for this summer's productions. The first play given in the renamed theatre will be by Eric Anderson, the first recipient of the Inge production, and directed by the Dramatist's Guild of New York. It is given to a student of playwriting.
Partly because of economic and convenience reasons, the festival planning group decided to do something other than Shakespeare plays. They thought that it was appropriate to commemorate Inge, who died June 10, 1973, because he was born in Kansas and was a KU graduate. The group also wanted to appropriate "to launch the series with an exploration of mid-America at mid-century."
The festival will culminate in a repertory week July 23-27. This is a new part of the festival program and will have a special theme for this year's Junior college theatre and drama teachers.
There will be two special guests, Greg Hill, a former KU student who has done designs for the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minn., will be guest designer. A
unit set will be used, as in the Shakespeare festival. John Capellatte, director and actor, will lead the evening.
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