University Daily Kansan
Fridav. April 5.1974
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'Lovers' Is Romantic Fun
By JAY GLICK
Kevin Parks
The romantic escapades of Barney Cashman as he repeatedly tries and fails to establish a meaningful love affair can be night, Saturday and Sunday in Hahndorf Hill.
Barney isn't a resident of Hashing, he's only a character in Neil Simon's "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers," a presentation of the Hashing Hall Theatre.
Giff Booth, Wichita junior, plays Barney, and he plays him very well. Barney is a restaurant chef. He also runs a fish restaurant. However, he doesn't think he's getting all there is from life. Booth has the perfect smile for the character of Boba-Pittful, pious and sometimes poignant.
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"Life has not only been very kind to me," Barney says, "it has gone out of its way to you."
THUS BARNEY TREES to get his excitement by bringing to his mother's apartment while she's doing volunteer work. The idea is to do and do those things one usually does in
decide Frances— unusual to for the g a pill.
an extramartial affair. But Barney never quite calls it off.
His first attempt is with an out and out,
cold-blooded prostitute. She has a cough.
"Have you ever tried a vaporizer?"
Barney asks.
"No," the lady replies, "but sooner or later I'll get around to everyone."
Barney smiles absently.
But, the prostitute isn't interested in a meaningful relationship. She tires of hearing Barney's life story and of his fingers snimbling. (Barney handles fish a few times.) And Barney is fine-family-similar fingers.) Nothing ever develops, and the prostitute leaves in a haff.
THEN, A MORE self-confident Barney tries an affair with a pot-smoking, paranoid night club singer who is trying unsuccessfully to break into show business. But Barney's up tight. The singer just talks about bizarre sexual encounters she has had and becomes increasingly paranoid. Barney doesn't react anxiously enough to smoke some dope. The scene closes with both Barney and the singing singer what Barney later describes
as some popular tunes of the day—"What the World Needs Now."
Act three marks Barney's final attempt. This time, the woman is his wife's best friend—Jeanette Fisher, played by Nancy Molitor, Park Ridge, Ill., junior.
Jeanette is seeing a psychiatrist. Dr. Mongolia, because she only enjoys 8.2 per cent of her life. She takes pills to relieve her depression, but the pills don't help.
ULTIMATELY, IT TAKES a raving confrontation with Barney to convince Jeanette that there are three decent, gentle and loving people in the world. That relieves her depression. It also buries Barney's failure to realize the wrong place for his sexual fulfillment.
At the close of the play—you guessed it—Barney calls his wife and invites her to his mother's apartment. He explains that his mother hasn't invited them for dinner.
The play is good. Act three is very good. The director, Peggy Baldwin has done a fine job of staging. The audience has the sense of being right in the mother's apartment. The audience, through the same door as the audience, so if you're latite, you enter as a character.
Musician Rejected College
By JACK HAWKS
Kenan Staff Reporter
Kanaan Staff Reporter
For Mike Fimmigan, rhythm and blues musician, learning the ups and downs of the professional music world is far more imptant than a college degree. "I'm about to graduate from the school of what's happen," he said in a personal interview.
Finnigan, who attended KU on a basketball scholarship in 1963, is currently
Mike Finnigan
on a short tour in Kansas. He and his band will give a concert at 8 p.m., Saturday, at the Free Theater Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St.
Kruger describes their music as funky, and Finkinn gives it a just "good of" quality.
His band, Finnigan said, probably will be called the Jukes. The band features Jim Krueger on guitar and second vocalis, Bob Glaub on bass and Rick Jaeger on drums. Finnigan plays organ and piano and sings the lead vocals.
Finnigan, who is 6 feet 2, started at forward for the Jayhawks' freshman team, and was signed by Ted Owens, then the freshman coach at KU.
scholarship and my basketball obligations.
It was during his first year at KU that Finnigan began to seriously consider a music career, and it was his interest in film as conflict with Owens after his freshman year.
“OWENS IS A REAL smoothie,” he said,
“never underestimate him.”
"MUSIC TOOK OVER as the main force in my life, and I had to go where my heart was. Owens had gotten me a construction job in Kansas City that summer, but I turned it down to work with a band in Wichita."
Finnigan left KU after the first semester of his sophomore year to pursue a career in music. He said it was the most difficult job ever made, as well as the most crafty.
"I kind of lost my basketball desire after the first year," he said, "and dropped my
"It is very difficult for a man or woman to know what they want in life at 19," he said, "and it is very difficult for women to know what they want in life at 19."
business was especially tough for me.
"THE PRESSURE from parents, friends and society in general to stay in school only compounded the questions that were in my mind back now. I'm glad as hell that I did it."
Finnigan lived in Wichita after leaving KU, and played the clubs and bars circuit for several years, as well as working as a session musician.
One of those sessions included a stint with Jimi Hendrix on Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" album. Ffmigan said Hendrix very soft-spoken and easy to play with.
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Watergate Boys Seem Tame
"THE WATERGATE GIRLS" by Stephen Lewis (254 pages; Ace Books); 1973; $1.50 If you thought the Watergate boys—Hademan, Ehrichman and Mitchell—were corrupt, you might look more sympathetic after reading about the Watergate girls.
By STEVEN LEWIS
Stephen Lewis "The Watergate Girl" is about four young women who shared an apartment in the Watergate complex prior to the infamous break-in.
One of the women, Annie Marie, became impregnated by a U.S. senator who was running for the 1972 Democratic nomination. The senator was married, but not to Annie Marie.
When the learner named his creation, he rented a private plane to fly his secret lover to a San Diego abortion. Annie was taken aback, and wanted to have the son's baby, better.
A scuffle aboard the plane resulted in a crash. The senator survived with scarcely a scratch, but Annie burned to death in a brush fire near the wreckage.
The senator, it is implied, was too concerned for his political future to pull Annie to safety. The obvious moral: remember Chappaquiddick.
Fortunately, one of Annie's roommates was an investigative reporter for the Washington Eagle. She received a telephone call from the load-muthed wife of a prominent adviser to President Nixon, and her brother to investigate the mysterious crash.
The reporter's investigation revealed that the senator and Annie had been lovers, and the senator was persuaded to withdraw as a presidential candidate.
That's not all. Another of the four interagents was a burglarist for the brokerage firm. He had taken over the business.
her lobbying, however, was done in bed.
The fourth Watergate girl was a wholesome granddaughter of a Southern senator. To her grandfather's disguise, she visited a withing "negra" prince from Bakir.
events. He even dedicated the book to Martha Mitchell—"a wise Washington lady who knew long before the rest of us that love is more important than power."
There are many interesting parallels in the Lewis book to actual persons and
"The Watergate Girls" shows with
the consequences of excessive
luxury for power brokers.
Women's Recognition Night
sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women April 22,1974
7:30 p.m. Kansas Room—Student Union
HONORS IN THE FOLLOWING KU WOMEN-HALL OF FAME
NOMINATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR HONORS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
OUTSTANDING WOMAN TEACH.
OUTSTANDING SENIOR WOMAN
ATHLETICS
OUTSTANDING WOMEN STUDENTS IN THE AREAS OF:
ACADEMICS
STUDENT SERVICE
FIELD OF EQUAL RIGHTS AND/OR HUMAN
AWARENESS
COMMUNITY SERVICES
Nomination forms are available in the Office of the Dean of Women, 222 Strong Hall. Nominations must be returned to the Women's Recognition Committee, 222 Strong Hall, by Tuesday, April 9th.
If you have questions or desire further information, please feel free to contact the Commission on the Status of Women, 844-3552, or Judy Long, Women's Recognition Committee, Chairperson, 842-8072.
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OFFICER PROGRAMS FOR UNDERCLASSMEN
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These are only a few of the HIGH LIGHTS, be sure to ask the Officer Selection Team about the others available when they visit your campus on 4 and 5 April 1974 ___.
THE KU CONCERT SERIES
presents
Gina Bachauer pianist
Saturday, April 6
8 p.m.
Hoch Auditorium
Reserved tickets are available at the Murphy Hall box office. General admission tickets-$4.00,$3.50 and $3.00.
Students admitted free on performance night with presentation of K.U. I.D. Concert will begin promptly at 8:00.