Monday, Nov. 5, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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Catchy Songs Highight "Paint Your Wagon"
A Review
By Rose Ellen Osborne
Lerner and Loewe's music "Paint Your Wagon" opened Sunday night in the University Theatre to an almost-full house.
Costumes and settings were colorful and tunes were catchy. The cast appeared to be in a dress rehearsal. They failed to project either their voices or their mood to the audience.
With the exception of Roger Brown, Topeka graduate student, cast members seldom bridged the gap between the orchestra pit and the first row.
BROWN, AS A California gambler, had a small part. But the moment he stepped on the stage, the audience responded to his booming voice. The audience did not hear some of the most significant lines in the songs and the dialogues of other characters.
WHAT DAVE HOLLOWAY, Gas City junior, lacked in Spanish ancestry in the play, he made up for in song.
Phil Harris, Lawrence graduate student, was convincing as the rough and tumble gold miner who founded the town of Rumson. At times, Harris seemed to capture the spirit of the loud and boisterous miner without difficulty, but for the most part he needed to be more forceful.
with his closely-cropped hair and his Spanish accent, it was difficult to imagine Holloway as a Mexican youth. But the audience seemed to forget Holloway's dramatic shortcomings when he burst into "I Talk to the Trees" and "Another Autumn."
Sylvia Anderson, Wilmette, Ill., junior, maintained the personality of Rumson's understanding daughter. Jennifer, throughout the play.
One of the cleverest angles in the entire play was the arrival of a Mormon and his two wives in Rumson. The town people offer the Mormons, Ed Dittimore, McLauth graduate student, and Liz Getz, Schenectady, N.Y., sophomore, sanctuary if the Mormon man will auction off his other wife Anne Baker, Shaker Heights, Ohio, freshman.
DITTEMORE ISN'T too displeased with this proposal. Miss Baker is sold to Harrison.
The orchestra, directed by Robert Baustian, associate professor of orchestra, was excellent. Under the direction of William Kuhlke, instructor of speech and drama, scenery and cast whirled into place on a revolving turn-table stage.
The Fandangos, dance hall girls imported by Brown to give the miners "some good unclean fun," inject color and liveliness into the play with their bouncing bustles and their brilliantly-colored costumes.
MAYBE IT WAS just a case of opening night jitters, but in any case the audience was trying too hard to communicate with the characters in the play. The "Paint Your Wagon" cast needs to project themselves into their parts, and project their parts into the audience.
University Theatre To Present 'The Trial'
Tickets will go on sale today for the University Theatre presentation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial," to be shown here Nov. 11-19.
The play is taken from the French adaptation by Andre Gide and Jean-Louis Barrault and will be presented in an original translation from the French.
The play, directed by Bill Evans, Mississippi graduate student, will be presented in the Experimental Theatre.
Tickets are 50c with student IDs.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
TOMORROW
Episcopal Evening Prayer: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
WEDNESDAY
Atene se reúmina mícoles el 7 de noviembre a las 4:30 on la tarde en la sala 11 de Fraser. El doctor Jorge Lines dara una conferencia titulada "Notas Sobre la Arqueología de Costa Rica." Todos están cordialmente invitados.
Catholic Masses, 7:30 a.m., 11:40 a.m.
Science Catholic Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
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Recreation Leaders To Meet Nov.18
The Kansas Recreation Society will meet Nov. 18 at the Kansas Union. The annual Kansas Recreation Conference, conducted by KU for the society, will follow on Nov. 19.
Betty van der Smissen, holder of A.B. and L.L.B. degrees from KU, will be guest lecturer for the conference. She is now associate professor and director of the McBride Field Campus, State University of Iowa. Miss van der Smissen holds master's and doctor's degrees from Indiana University.
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Vote Fraud Worries GOP As Off-Year Campaign Closes
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The 1962 election campaign ended today with the Republican high command sounding an alert to guard against vote frauds in tomorrow's balloting.
At stake in the election will be the governorships of 35 states, 39 U.S. Senate seats, all 435 seats in the national House of Representatives and many state and local offices.
The warnings against vote frauds came from Rep. William E. Miller, N.Y., chairman of the Republican national committee, and Rep. Bob Wilson, Calif., chairman of the GOP congressional campaign committee.
MILLER issued a statement calling on Republicans "to report immediately any and all indications of chicanery and irregularity at the polling places."
Wilson telegraphed Atty. Gen Robert F. Kennedy "to double and redouble your surveillance of problem areas in the nation, with particular attention to areas where known abuses have taken place."
Republican leaders still maintain a lingering suspicion that vote frauds in Chicago and elsewhere made a significant contribution to President Kennedy's election two years ago.
THE MINORITY Republican party, the challenger in this election, ends the campaign with solid hopes for winning some governorships from Democrats, who now have a 34 to 16 edge in that office.
However, the Republicans no longer are talking about winning control of the House, which they once proclaimed to be their chief goal this year. The Democrats now hold a 261 to 174 margin in the House. Pre-election indicators suggest a small Republican gain, far short of the 44
additional seats they need for control.
IN THE SENATE, where the Democrats have a 64 to 36 majority, the GOF will be lucky to break even. Of the 39 seats at stake, 21 now are held by Democrats and 18 by Republicans.
Among the 35 governorships to be filled tomorrow, the Democrats now hold 21 and the Republicans 14. Here the Democrats would be overjoyed to break even.
In New York, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller is an overwhelming favorite to win re-election over Robert M. Morgenthau, the Democratic nominee. A runaway victory for Rockefeller would keep him in front of other possible candidates for the 1964 GOP presidential nomination.
Republican challengers are rated at least an even bet to displace Democratic governors in four other key states.
IN CALIFORNIA. 1980 GOP presidential nominee Richard M. Nixon is trying to unseat Gov. Edmund G. Brown. In Pennsylvania, Rep. William W. Scranton is the Republican candidate against Richard Dilworth
for the job now held by Democratic Gov, David L. Lawrence.
George Romney, the former auto maker, is trying to unseat Democratic Gov. John B. Swainson in Michigan. State Auditor James A. Rhodes is attempting to oust Democratic Gov. Michael V. Disalle in Ohio.
Republican victories in these states would give the GOP a stronger base from which to try to prevent the re-election of President Kennedy in 1964.
ROCKEFFELLER and Morgenthau yesterday made a joint television appearance which almost became the debate, which Rockefeller has shunned. Morgenthau said New York needed a governor "who wants to work with President Kennedy instead of one who wants his job." Rockefeller said Morgenthau was advocating programs which would cost the state $3.2 billion.
In California, Nixon was planning a final television speech tonight. Brown scheduled a flying trip around the state with stops in 11 cities.
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