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The University Daily KANSAN
October 28, 1983 Page 6
Halloween offers spine-chilling customs
By PAMELA THOMPSON Staff Reporter
Halloween has many illusive tricks
One of them is that its macabre traditions include some-chilling treats for adults as well as for children.
But for those too old to wear an E.T. costume and ring doorbells to collect Tootsie Rolls, and who do not have a ghost of an idea of what to do this Halloween weekend, Lawrence is brewing up some frightfully fun activities.
If the only thing you have to fear is fear itself, then a darkened movie theater may be your ticket to an exorcism.
Tonight and tomorrow night at the bewitting hour of midnight, students will be shown on campus.
IF THE SPIRIT moves you more than the silver screen does, then the party that has been advertised as "The World's Greatest Seance Party" might raise your Halloween consciousness.
The weekend's schedule of horror films, which are guaranteed to test the viewer's ability to suppress a scream and grip the arm rests of the movie seat, include two recognized chillers.
KLZR radio station is sponsoring the seance seance tomorrow night at the Lawrence Opera House, Seventh and eighth floors.
The party is free to those who registered and received an
Steve Smithers, KLZR disc jockey, said the station was expecting between 500 and 600 people to participate in the
Before participants in the mass seance hand hands and palms to the camera, they predict fortunes and palm cards for interested individuals.
invitation. Spirit medium Madame Leah Ashley will conduct the mass seance.
In case another medium is more your style, both Kansas City and Lawrence offer Halloween haunts.
A visit to Asylum in Heritage Park, 160th and Pimble streets in Johnson County, may scare you, if not.
Visitors arrive at the haunted island on pontoon boats and are escorted by a guide who shows them through the 13-room spok house, said Demmaree Carns, a spokesperson for the project.
THE ROOMS IN THE house, which include Lizzie Borden's cell, Frankenstein's laboratory and a hall where the 'Lunatics Ball' takes place, were designed by a
Legend tells of haunted cemetery in Stull
Bv the Kansan Staff
A 19th century cemetery sits on the side of a hill by the tiny community of Stull. 10 miles west of Lawrence.
According to legend, on the spring equinox and Halloween night, the devil comes to the cemetery, and those buried there who died violent deaths come back to haunt their murderers.
Some say the legend originated with the German settlers who first came to Stull. Others say the devil's appearance dates back to the 1850s when a stable boy stabbed the mayor to death in the graveward.
Many KU students have gone to the cemetery on Halloween and returned with terrifying tales.
In 1973, three KU juniors decided to visit the cemetery. They got out of their car and began walking across the cemetery. One student said he heard a noise behind him and felt icey cold fingers grab his arm. He thought one of his companions had tripped, but when he looked behind him, his friends were about 25 yards away.
About 20 years ago, Julie Day's grandmother took her out to Stull. As they drove closer, Julie said, the skeleton of the old church in the cemetery glowed red, as if it were on fire. Moments later, it appeared normal.
When the moon glows dully through the clouds and twists the shadows that fall behind the tombstones in weird figures that only the mind can create, the devil will come back to the little cemetery at Stull.
According to legend.
professional set director.
This year the hired director wrote all the stories
connected to the 19th century private insure assig
"THERE'S A CLEVER story to it," Carrs said. "It's not bloody and sory and horrid. It is for families."
However, the guides temper the level of fright in their story-telling according to the ages of the visitors they lead.
More than 5,000 people were guided through Asylum Island last year, she said.
Although it's in a warehouse instead of on an island, the Lawrence Jaycees' sixth annual haunted house. 1245 North 3rd St., also gives its visitors the anticipated big chill.
Wayne Thornberg, Jaycee member and haunted house co-chairman, said that a "chicken exit" had been provided halfway through the tour "for those who are so scared they have to run out."
"THE GRADE-SCHOOL KIDS and the college girls get a grazed-back excuse out of it. Especially the college girls have the same real story."
I more who choose instead to go "dressed to kill" to other
between parties may not find they are the only devils in the
square.
Larry Corneilus, owner of Fun and Games costume shop,
1002 Massachusetts SL., said he had sold many costumes
and accessories to college students, for prices ranging
from $1 to $140.
Scare tactics this Halloween will be plentiful
All Jacks is a full moon
Movie series draws screenplay writer
By the Kansan Staff
Walter Bernstein, a screenplay writer of movies that include "The Front" and "Fail Safe," will be at the University of Kansas through Wednesday for showings of his movies.
Bernstein's screensplays deal with topics such as politics, sports, labor disputes, and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, said Robert Dau, artist in residence at KU this semester.
"His movies are inordinately intelligent," Day said. "He's a screenplay writer who teaches you."
Day, who has known Bernstein for 10 years, arranged the four-day KU series "The Screenwriter's Arts," which will include showings of several of Bernstein's movies, a colloquy of KU professors and a workshop for students interested in writing screen plays.
The movies, which will be shown in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union, are free and open to the public.
The schedule for the movies is: "The Molly Maguires," 4 p.m. Sunday; "Yanks" and "Semi-Tough," beginning 7 p.m. Monday; "Fail on Tuesday," 8 p.m. Tuesday; and "The Fight," 8 p.m. Wednesday.
showing of "The Front" to answer questions from the audience. Daysaid.
A group of KU professors will have a colloquy,
with the U.S. Geological Survey at 4 p.m. Tuesday
in the dayhawk building.
Professors participating in the colloquy will be Burdett Loomis, associate professor of political science; Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science; Charles Krider, professor of business; and Chuck Berg, associate professor of radiotelevision-film.
Bernstein will appear on stage after the
KU students interested in writing screenplays may participate in a creative writing workshop with Bernstein at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in 4046 Wescoe Hall.
SPARE TIME
ON CAMPUS
SECOND CITY, a comedy group, will perform at 8 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
SUA FILMS WILL show "The Year of Living Dangerously" at 3:30 p.m. 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. for $1.50 and at Andy Warhol's "Dracula" at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Woodsworth Auditorium of the Union.
UFS WILL PRESENT "The Omei" at 7 p.m.
and 9:30 p.m. for $1.75 and at midnight for $2
today and tomorrow in Downs Auditorium in
Dveche Hall.
THE LAWRENCE CHAMBER Players will perform at 2 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday in the central court of Spencer Art Museum.
"A BONE TO Pick," a Halloween workshop on bones for 8-year-olds to adults, will be offered by the Natural History Museum from 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow in Dyche Hall.
A CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP titled "Proverbs, Prints and Presses" will be from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Spencer Art Museum. admission is by reservation.
THE CORONACH TUBA Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
AN OCTUBAFEST concert of the Midwest All-Star Tuba Ensemble and the Kansas Tuba Consort will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY Pok-Chi Lu, assistant professor of design, are on display in Room 302 of the School of Photography.
MICHAEL KIMBER will present a faculty
vocal recital at 8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
SIERRA CLUB WILL sponsor a rock-climbing seminar for beginners, starting with a meeting at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas City, Mo. Call 843-6955 for details.
REGION
A MIDNIGHT HALLOWEEN concert will be given by the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory Orchestra on Saturday in White Recital Hall on the UMKC campus. The concert will also be given at 3:30 p.m. There will be an admission charge.
BY BERKE BREATHED
BLOOM COUNTY
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