Monday, Sept. 24, 1962 University Daily Kansan
Theater Season Features Plays Off Campus
The University of Kansas theater department is taking to the road this year. In the busiest season yet for the multi-phase department, numerous off campus productions will be given.
THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE productions will be "Alice in Wonderland" and "Mr. Popper's Penguins." In addition to their three days' run at the University, each will play three days at the Kansas City, Mo., Music Hall.
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LAST YEAR "FEELER projects" were begun to allow the casts and production crews to continue their respective productions after the runs are finished at KU. These efforts have mushroomed into an entire series of future outside productions.
NEW TO THE UNIVERSITY Theatre series this year is the addition of a series at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. This will include featured guest performances by three members of the speech and drama faculty. Also "in the wind" according to Jack Brooking, director of the University Theatre, is the possibility of extensive touring for one or more University Theatre plays.
Last year's annual University Players' production, "The Boy Friend," has been selected by the United States Overseas organization (USO) for a tour to the Far East next summer.
"Alice" will also play three days at Kansas City, Kan., Wyandotte High School and "Penguins" will play a day in Wichita.
"The Boy Friend" was the first step in a project to establish a resident professional theater with employment outlets for KU graduates. This received a glowing notice from Landon Laird, drama critic of the Kansas City Star. The play received further compliments from Kansas City when the newly organized Circle Theatre invited the show to return to Kansas City for a week's run as part of their season. Financial, time and production difficulties prevented this from developing, however.
THE BATTENFELD SERIES for this year will include Archibald McLeish's Pulitzer Prize winning play "J.B." and an off-Broadway musical play by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, a bizarre delight called "The Fantasticks." Both of these productions will be moved en masse to Kansas City from their regular University runs here.
The University Theatre is selling regular coupon books this year to Kansas City residents inviting them to attend two productions in Kansas City and two in Lawrence. The establishment of the Battenfeld Theatre Series is the second step in the plan instigated last year by "Boy Friend."
THE GUEST performances by KU speech and drama faculty members are another facet in the plan to establish the resident professional theater in this area. This season will present Virgil Godfrey, assistant professor and set designer for the University Theatre, as Nickles, the devil, in "J.B."; Caroline Kriesel, instructor and costume designer for the University Theatre, in "The Egg," and William L. Kuhkle, instructor and director of the Experimental Theatre program, as Cyrano in "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Dickinson County Is Disaster Area
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The Small Business Administration today designated the Dickinson County, Kan., section as a disaster area as a result of damage from tornadic winds last Tuesday.
The designation means homeowners, businesses and religious and charitable groups whose property was damaged or destroyed may make application for government loans carrying a 3 per cent interest rate.
The SBA said applications should be filed at its Wichita, Kan., office.
Ship Rescues 49 Survivors After Atlantic Plane Crash
A vast armada of ships and planes sought another raft, but hope was dwindling that the 21 missing persons would be found.
SHANNON, Ireland — (UPI) — Swiss freighter Celerina plucked 49 survivors, five of them women, from the stormy North Atlantic today where a Flying Tiger airliner ditched with 76 Americans aboard.
THE AIRLINER, with three of its four engines dead, came down in the sea shortly before midnight last night while carrying 68 U.S. servicemen with women and children dependents. A crew of eight from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., manned the plane.
Enroute to Frankfurt, Germany, the plane plummeted into the gale-whipped ocean 550 miles northwest of Ireland.
There were six known dead. At least three of the survivors were injured.
A spokesman for the Flying Tiger line here said the survivors — all picked up by the Swiss freighter — included 44 men and five women. He said the two children aboard the plane were not yet listed among the survivors.
The spokesman said the airliner floated for almost an hour before plunging to the bottom - allowing ample time for all aboard to get out of the plane.
IN WASHINGTON, the Civil Aenautics Board said its investigators will check the possibility of fuel contamination in the ditching. CAB spokesman said failure of even two engines on a four-engine airliner is a rarity and a triple malfunction is considered a one-in-a-million shot.
State Areas Slated For Federal Help
T O P E K A — (UPI) — Gov. John Anderson today announced that agreements have been signed on behalf of the state to implement provisions of the Federal Area Redevelopment Act and Manpower Development and Training Act in southeastern Kansas.
The governor said under the agreements facilities and services of the State Employment Security Division will be made available to assist in retraining workers in new skills, particularly in so-called "depressed areas."
Among southeast Kansas counties slated to receive such aid were Cherokee, Crawford and Labette former mining areas which have high rates of unemployment.
It was the first airliner to ditch successfully in the Atlantic in 15 years. The plane's pilot, 44-year-old Capt. John D. Murray, of Oyster Bay, N.Y., was among the survivors, a U.S. Air Force spokesman said.
The Swiss freighter Celerina, plodding eastward with a cargo of corn, suddenly found itself in the center of a massive Mercy Mission when the chartered American airliner ditched not far from the ship's course.
CAPT. MURRAY'S first distress call came at 9:20 p.m. when he reported to Shannon Control Tower, "One engine out. Request emergency."
Then in rapid order came the report of a second engine feathered. At 10:10 p.m. Murray reported: "Third engine feathered. Will possibly have to ditch."
A few minutes later, he went into storm-lashed sea on one engine, landing lights blazing to show him when to pull up.
A crew member of a Trans-Canadian Airways jetliner from Monreal, which passed over the disaster area during the night, reported that the sea was illuminated "like a big city at night."
"OTHER PILOTS who went out in the gray, clouded daylight reported the weather was bad, the sea "pretty mean looking and doggone rough."
Flares were soon illuminating the ditching scene from the first rescue planes.
ASC Meets Tomorrow
Dean Salter, Garden City senior and chairman of All Student Council, said today that the recent issue on the decentralization of student polls will probably be discussed at the council's first meeting tomorrow night.
The session will begin at 7:30 in the Kansas Union.
The president of the student body, Jerry Dickson, Newton senior, will address the group on "Student Government at this point." He will also make several appointments to ASC committees within the council. These include the following: finance and auditing committee, secretarial committee, committee on committees and legislation and the athletic seating board.
Salter said a brief outline of the ASC goals will be presented at the first meeting.
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As dusk approached, the 9,040-ton Celerina began transferring the injured survivors to the Canadian Carrier Bonaventure, which has a doctor, well-equipped sick bay and a medical contingent. One crew member of the Swiss Freighter was reported injured.
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Seriously injured persons were to be flown off in the carrier's planes to Shannon or to Prestwick, Scotland.
It was the second Flying Tigers Lines plane tragedy at sea this year. Last March, one of the line's planes carrying 107 persons was lost in the Western Pacific. An intensive search found no trace of the plane or those aboard, including 93 American soldiers bound for South Viet Nam.
Paid to Be a Thief
LOS ANGELES—(UPI) —Maury Wills, the Los Angeles Dodgers' ace base stealer, swiped 54 bases in his first season of professional baseball with Hornell of the Pony League in 1951.
KU Graduate To Be on TV
Other shows he will appear in will include the Alcoa Hour, Wagon Train, The Virginian, and Laramie.
James McMullan, a 1961 graduate of the School of Engineering and Architecture, is now under contract to Revue Studios in Hollywood, Calif.
He has finished nine television shows and plans to make his fall debut in the new series, "Wide Country," which starts Thursday.
McMullan was active in theater here and performed as a ballad singer.
In an interview in the Kansan for Sept. 26, 1960, McMullan said: "I think that while I'm still young I'll give show business a try first. I still want to sing and act and travel. I'll have to settle down and mellow before I can do architecture justice."
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