ENTERTAINMENT
The University Daily KANSAN
October 14, 1983
Soul to portray Luther
HOLLYWOOD — David Souk, now co-starring with Cylib Shepherd in the "Yellow Rose" TV series, will portray Protestant reformer Martin Luther in a live TV drama Sunday, Nov. 6.
The dramatic special will be fed via two satellites to most large U.S. cities on the 300th anniversary of Luther's birth and will be delivered by a National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Swit signs with studio
The script was written by Emmy-winning screenwriter Allan Sloane in conjunction with producer Lothar Wolf. They worked together 30 years ago on the movie "Martin Luther." Soul is the son of Dr. Richard Solberg, a Lutheran minister and scholar.
HOLLYWOOD — Loretta Swit, making her first large career move since she joined the M-A-S'H" cost as MaJ Margaret (Hollis) of the Rockford-based Paragon Pictures an exclusive contract with Paragon Pictures
Swit and her company, sweet Cherun, will develop television projects for the studio. The first will be a plot show, still untitled, which is being projected for the 1984-85 season.
NBC airs 'I Love Men'
HOLLYWOOD — A wide variety of stars will contribute to the NBC-TV special "I Love Men," an hour-long melange of music and sketches by various men, women and teenagers talking about what makes men appealing.
Among the stars discussing what makes men "watchable, danceable, singable, laughable and lovable" will be Barb Denton, Sandalh Berg, Eddie Arendt, Linda Furst, Margia Engels, Gloria Lorina and Les Luggies.
The show, produced by Dick Clark, will include special appearances by Andy Gibb, Byron Allen, Ursula Andress, Phyllis Diller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Stacy Keach, Billy Dee Williams and Tom Wopat.
Burns plavs God again
HOLLYWOOD — George Burns, 87, will star as the Deity once again in "Oh, God! III" for Warner Bros., with Paul Bogart directing from an Andrew Bergman screenplay.
burns co-star this time around will be newcomer Ted Wass, playing an aspiring songwriter who makes a pact with the devil. In his first dual role, Burns will also play the devil. Information for these stories provided by United Press International.
American scenes inspire Asian playwright
Paul Stephen Lim, a lecturer in the Department of English, is producing this semester two plays that he has written. One play is being produced by the Shelter West Company in New York and the other by the Lawrence Community Theatre.
Although his parents were Chinese and he lived in the Philippines until 1968, little of Paul Stephen Lim's writing betrays his Asian heritage.
By PAMELA THOMPSON Staff Reporter
Lim, a lecturer in the English department, said he consciously played down his ethnicity in the plays and short stories he wrote from Alabama. He pigeon-holed too quickly as an ethic writer."
"I want to be known first as a writer and then as an Asian." Lim said. "It's too easy to become a professional ethnic. I could do that, but I'm not." He was born of Chinese parents in the Philippines.
In the eight plays and numerous short stories he has written since he emigrated to the United States 15 years ago, Lim draws on his experiences of being only indirectly from his ethnic background.
ONE OF LIMS PLAYS titled "Fless, Flash and Frank Harris" will be performed by the Shelter West Company, an acting troupe in New York City, Oct. 27-Nov. 20.
He said he personally identified with the play's main character because Harris had also been a KU student, an emigrant and a student of English with his candid treatment of taboo subjects.
As a writer he is personally more interested in asking uncomfortable questions and provoking thought than he is in entertaining audience with a "mindless evening," he said.
"I don't write the kind of plays that people go to for an escape or to relax after a hard day of work," he said. "My plays deal with often before they become fashionable.
Lim said that although he did not intend to upset people by writing about issues such as child abuse, sexual liberation and divorce, the subject matter of his plays often horrified people because of what he called the "Chappaquiddick Syndrome."
chapped skin
THE "CHAPPAQUIDDICK Syndrome"
occurs whenever people take a stand on a
newsworthy issue based on the general
public's morality rather than their own moral
stance, he said.
Although he frequently travels to New York to supervise his Off-Broadway play, Lim said that he would be in Lawrence more regularly this fall, to direct his own one-act play "The Hatchet Club" at the Lawrence Community Theatre.
"The Hatchet Club" will be performed Nov. 17-20, in conjunction with two other one-act plays written and directed by Kansas playwrights John Clifford and Penny Weiner.
Theater-goers in Lawrence have had many chances over the years to judge Lum's plays.
Lim said he based his one-act play, in concerns a woman professor's struggle in a male-dominated academe upon a woman who encountered while teacher at the University of Kansas.
"I have been accused of being antifeminist," he said, "because my plays examine the nature of given situations based on my experiences. But I don't make any statements."
"FLESH, FLASH AND Frank Harris" was first staged three years ago by the Lawrence Community Theatre in a workshop production, and "Homeric: Trilogy on Sexual Liberation," "Woeman," and "Compersonas" were all produced at KU.
Doug Wasson, Lawrence Community Theatre production coordinator, said that although there was a certain risk involved in producing a "shot-in-the-dark" original play, Lim's works were among "the best known of any local playwright."
IN 1974, LIM WAS appointed university
practitioner, having both his B.A. and
M.A. degrees from the University of
Michigan.
The Lawrence Community Theatre tries to balance the type of shows it presents each season, he said. Because of this "The Hatchet is being done in a university town since it is being done in a university town."
After his first play "Compensation" won the national American College Theatre Festival competition in 1975 and was performed in New York, he then said in the right doors began to open for him.
Until that initial break, however, he said he spent a lot of money mailing his manuscripts to publishers and producers across the country.
"I could have papered my walls with rejection slips, " he said.
Glee club prepares for clash with Wildcats
Staff Reporter
By PHIL ENGLISH
The glee club director passes out sheet music to the 20 men sitting in front of him. The small room is silent for a moment as the director prepares to start the singing. Suddenly the loud blending of voices fills the air.
The young men clench their fists in excitement and wave flags and pom poms as they shout "Dite,
THE 20-MEMBER GROUP will perform a variety of KU fight songs as well as "some surprises," said Rob Reid, director of the club.
This weekend will not only feature the traditional rivalry of KU-Kansas State football, but also a clash between members of the two schools' clubes glee.
The original KU Glee Club was organized in the 1920s by Thomas A. Larrimore, a former KU student, he said. During the late 1940s, however, the group stopped meeting because of financial problems and in 1950s to revive the organization, the KU Men's Glee Club was disbanded for more than 30 years.
But three years ago as the result of a push by alumni of the original KU glee club, the club was reborn. The concert tonight will be the fourth meeting between KU and K-State in recent years.
THE CONCERT IS THE first of a biannual exchange between the rival groups. The KU group will perform in Manhattan in the spring, Reid said.
The free concert will begin with the two groups in a combined chorus singing "God Bless America," and end with "brothers Sing On." The second half will sing of personal tributes and years of rivalry.
"We've been preparing for this since the beginning of the year," said Reid. "It's not really a competition, but the rivalry is fierce."
John Onken, St. Louis, junior and president of the club, said that there was a considerable difference between the two groups.
"K-State has a long-standing reputation, while we're still up and coming," he said. "We just want to whip them."
Any man can participate in the men's glee club. Reid said. But people with school spirit are especially sought by the club.
New Spencer Museum show depicts pictorial history of Dutch way of life
Staff Reporter
By GUELMA ANDERSON
With her face scrunched into a tight grimache, a middle-aged woman sits squirming in a wooden chair. An old woman, who looks like a witch and wears a funnel on her head, kneels next to the woman and applies a black leech to her leg. A fat, bladed man laughs as he stands behind the
the practice of purifying the blood with leeches was common in 17th century Holland, and Dutch artist Corneilus Dusart captured this practice in a black and white etching.
A pictorial history of the practices of everyday Dutch life is now on display in the White Gallery on the third floor of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art in an exhibit titled "Dutch Prints of Daily Life." The 63-print exhibit will be on display until Dec. 31.
Linda Stone-Ferrier, assistant professor of art history and curator of the museum, said she had been organizing the exhibit for more than two years.
MOST OF THE BLACK and white prints are on loan from 17 museums across the country including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The black-and-white etching by Hendrik Goldzavus shows two men measuring a stranded whale on the beach. The black-and-white picture is featured in the Common and Curious Occurrences category of the new Dutch Prints of Daily Life exhibit at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
She said that the faculty and staff of the museum had encouraged her to organize and exhibit them since she starting teaching at the museum.
She chose to try to obtain an exhibit of 17th century Dutch art because of its increasing popularity and controversy.
"The quality of the impressions of the prints is very high." Stone-Ferrer said. "Some of the pieces of art are extremely rare and many museums were reluctant to loan them."
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popularity at first the prints were thought to be a recording of life in Holland, she said. But then, scholars began to speculate that maybe the prints contained hidden meanings of Calvinism, which was a prominent doctrine of the time.
SHE SAID THAT MANY scholars assumed that Dutch art functioned in the same way as the moralistic art of the Italian Renaissance.
But instead of concentrating on the moralistic message of the print, people should consider the overall print image before trying to discern a hidden meaning, she said.
"The point of the show is not simply to put up beautiful images, but to present the fascination with the various interpretations," she said. "I think the rich aspect of the art is its ambiguity, and my goal is for viewers of the exhibit to ask questions about the interpretations."
However, her opinion is not definitive, she said. And the dispute makes for a provocative exhibit.
The scenes of 17th century Holland are arranged in three categories: "Trades and tasks," "Pestivities," and "Common and personal." Dutch peasants, doctors, makers, beggars, fairs, fires and prostitution
are interpreted on etchings and engravings by such artists as Rembrandt van Rijn and Pieter Bruegel.
STONE-FERRIER HAS cataloged the exhibit and will give a talk about it at 2 p.m. Sunday in the North Gallery of the museum. A reception in honor of the new show will begin at 3
In conjunction with the exhibit, Svetlana Alpers, professor of art history at the University of California at Berkeley and a 17th century Dutch art expert, will teach a graduate student seminar about the dutch prints for two weeks in November.
SPARE TIME
The deadline to submit items for the spare time calendar is Wednesday for Friday and Thursday for Sunday. All events must be open to the public.
ON CAMPUS
THE KU FOLK DANCE Club will sponsor folk dancing from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. today on the second floor of the Military Science Building. No students are allowed and the dancing is free and open to the public.
STUDENT UNION Activities films will present two films, "An Officer and A Gentleman" will be shown at 3:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m., and "Being There" will begin at midnight tonight and tomorrow. Both films will be shown in Woodruff Auditorium.
SUA FILMS WILL present "The Goalies
Anxiety at the Penalty Kick" at 2 p.m. Sunday.
A JOINT CONCERT by the KU Men's Glee Club and the Kansas State Men's Glee Club will begin at 7:30 p.m. today in the Party Room of the Frank R. Burge Union.
LORENE PARSONS will give a free master's piano recital at 8 p.m. today at the Swarthout Recital Hall.
THE ANTA TOURING Company will present "A History of the American Film" by Christopher Durang and Mel Marvin at 8 p.m. today and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Crafton-Preyer Theater.
THE ANTA TOURING Company will present
"The Tavern" by George M. Cohan at 8 p.m.
tomorrow in the Crafton-Preyer Theater
JAMES MOSER WILL give a free faculty
course for students at Plymouth
Congregational Church, 935 Vermont
Congressman
ROB FISHER WILL conduct the KU Concert
Choir in its Fall Concert at 8 p.m. Monday in the
Swarthout Recital Hall.
A FREE OCTUBAFEST Concert by Michael Thornton on the tuba will begin at 8 p.m. Monday in the West Junior High School Auditorium.
A SNAKES ALIVE workshop will begin at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Natural History Museum The workshop is for people aged 8 to adult
A STORMY WEATHER workshop will begin at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Natural History Museum. The workshop is for people aged 8 to adult.
LAWRENCE
CARIBE WILL PERFORM at the Jazzhaus tonight and tomorrow. Chicago Bluesman Joe Young will play Sunday night.
THE COMMUNITY MERCANTILE Co-op grocery, Seventh and Maine streets, is hosting a fair filled with food, music, information and fun from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
THE KAW VALLEY DANCE Theater will perform at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Central Junior High school auditorium, 14th and Massachusetts streets.
BLOOM COUNTY
BY BERKE BREATHED