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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1963
Resident Theatre-
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IT'S A PITY THAT 'The Boy Friend' was given for only one performance here. The University of Kansas Players . . . plan to return with other offerings. If they run out of material, they could bring 'The Boy Friend' back anew. It would stand up nicely," he wrote.
KU took its second planned step early last October when it presented three performances of MacLeish's "J.B." at Battenfeld.
The next production to go to Battenfeld—and the last for this season—will be "The Fantasticks," a small whimsical musical which will play here in the Experimental Theatre Series this coming Friday (January 11) through January 19. "The Fantasticks" will play at Battenfeld on January 31 and February 1 and 2.
Though KU does not plan to present any more shows in Kansas City this season, it made a change in the sale of the University Theatre season coupon books. Advertisements in the Kansas City area invited patrons to buy season tickets to the University Theatre and see "J.B." and "The Fantasticks" in Kansas City and two of the other three shows in Lawrence—"Paint Your Wagon," "Albert Herring" an operatic comedy, or "Cvrano de Bergerac."
Separate from the immediate steps toward a resident professional theater yet offering the KU theater more exposure in Kansas City is the Children's Theatre, directed by Jed Davis, associate professor of speech and drama.
Last year the KU Children's Theatre made two three-day visits to Wandotte High School, presenting "Aladdin" the first time and "The Ghost of Mr. Penny" the next. This year it will take "Alice in Wonderland" and "Mr. Popper's Penguins" to Wandotte and to the Kansas City Music Hall as well.
Originally it was planned to do "Alice" four times at the Music Hall, but ticket demand was so heavy KU added another performance. As many as 2,309 tickets were sold to some of the performances. The Kansas City Community Children's Theatre is sponsoring KU's appearances there.
which means that KU is being paid to come.
More definite steps toward the realization of a Kansas City area resident professional theater will have to await the return of Prof. Goff, who is on sabbatical leave this year at the University of Vienna.
Pertinent questions still remain unanswered, and future plans will surely depend upon them:
Where will the money come from?
Is the public really interested? William Kuhke, head of the Experimental Theatre, said;
"It is vital to know what other producing groups in the area think about the project. How much can the KU staff contribute to the plan?" We are still looking for the best way to do it, but how nobody knows yet."
(Editor's Note: Tomorrow, Winston's second article will deal with the failure of colleges and universities to prepare students for the professional stage.)
Official Bulletin
KU Exchange Scholarships 1963-64 to England, Scotland, France, Germany and India. Applications due January 15. Information and application forms at 306 Fraser.
International Students. the January P-t-P Industrial Tour will be Saturday, Jan. 12. The trip will be to Ft. Leavenham. We'll have lunch with officers of the Allied Command School. Sign up in P-t-P office in the Kansas Union.
TODAY
Methodist Community Worship, 9:15 p.m., Wesley Foundation.
Tau Sigma. 7:00 a.m., Robinson Gym.
Catholic Masses. 7:00 a.m., 11:40 a.m.
St. Lawrence Catholic Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
Nurses Club Meeting, Fraser Hall Dining Room, 7:00 p.m.
TOMORROW
Radio Production Center executive committee meeting, 7:30 p.m., 220 Flint. Episcopal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
Button Stays--Needle Must Go
GLASGOW, Scotland — (UPI) — Duncan McKay, 21, underwent an emergency operation yesterday for removal of a two-inch needle which embedded itself in his side after he left it in his shirt while sewing on a button.
United Nations vs. Tshombe Seen as "Fight to the Death"
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Katanga's representative in the United States predicted today that President Moise Tshombe will not surrender to United Nations forces or flee the embattled province, but will "fight to the death."
Michel Struelens, white 34-year-old chief of the Katanga information service here, discounted reports of British and French attempts to arrange new negotiations with the Central Congolese government.
"THERE WILL BE no more negotiations," Struelens declared. "The United Nations, with the United States pulling the strings, is determined to destroy Tshombe. It would
mean surrender for him to go to U.N. territory. They would put him in jail again or kill him.
"The U.N. and (Congo President Cyrille) Adoula have been dishonest all along, and never intended to reach an agreement that would keep Tshombe in office. Tshombe hasn't much of an alternative. It's either jail or a fight to the death in the bush."
Struelens, currently engaged in his own last-ditch fight with the state department which wants him ousted from the United States, admitted that Tshombe knows his days probably are numbered.
FACED WITH the armed might of U.N. forces backed by the United States, he said, Katanga can only
hope the guerrilla warfare may last long enough to turn world opinion against the United Nations and bring a withdrawal of foreign troops.
Struelens charged the Kennedy administration was once reluctant to approve the use of force in the Congo, but made a secret deal with the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban crisis to "dispose of Tshombe quickly."
The communists expect long-run of chaos after Katanga's downfall, he gains in the Congo following a period said.
Struelens said his funds from Kattanga are running out, but he "can always depend on many friends in the U.S. who have offered financial help."
Poet Robert Frost To Have Surgery
POSTON — (UPI) — Foot Robert Frost, attacked again by pulmonary embolism, will undergo surgery today to tie off leg veins so no more blood clots will reach his lungs.
Doctors at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital reported the new setback after announcing only yesterday that they hoped to let the 88-year-old unofficial American poet laureate take brief walks within a few days.
Hospital! Director Dr. F. Lloyd Mussells said Frost sustained a blood clot in the lungs during the night despite anti-congluent therapy.
The surgery today, described as minor, was to be performed under local anesthesia. It was to take less than an hour.
The Pulitzer Prize winning poet is convalesccing from an operation, a heart attack, and a previous attack of pulmonary embolism. He got up twice yesterday and sat in a chair in his room.
WEATHER
Fair, windy and unreasonably mild temperatures will prevail throughout Kansas tonight and Wednesday. The low tonight will be in the low 30's with Wednesday's high in the 59's.
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