Tuesday, March 30. 1954 University Daily Kansan Page 7
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TAKE MY RUBIES AND TAKE MY PEARLS—Warren Tuckness, education freshman, stole the show at this year's Rock Chalk Revue
Texan Scores at Revue With 'Git-tar' Recital
By TOM STEWART
A massive guitar-playing Texan stopped the show at the Rock Walk Revue Friday night, and even as the audience clapped and shouted in vain for encores it was clear that his future reputation had been firmly established here by this brief debut.
The git-tar man, Warren Tuckness, a freshman in physical education, had the vast Hoch audience howling with laughter by the time he finished his first number, "We Three," and by the end of "The Rich Maharajah of Magadore," everyone had forgotten that Tuckness' appearance was actually meant to be only a minor sidelight to the Revue
Tuckness confessed that he "had one more worked up" for Friday night, but said that he was too surprised at the crowd reaction to Nos. 1 and 2 to get back onto the stage again. "I figured they'd run me off after one anyway," he said.
It was the singing that did it. He sings in a lazy low falsetto, and supplements this basic tone in the "Maharajah" with the most terrifying wails ever heard from the Hoch stage.
On Saturday night, it was a different, cooler audience. Even so, they shook the building with their pounce for his four-number program. He added "Moulin Rouge" (. . . "well, anyway, my version of it") and "Little Coquette."
His costume was an ensemble created especially for the Rock Chalk performances. Over white Navy bell-hooded he wore a green plaid sport coat. At his throat was a king-sized bow pike, on on his head a dark porkpie worn a la gaucho.
The success Tuckness racked up this last week-end was the greatest in his short career. Everything got its start "when I was a kid—well sort of a kid, anyway—about 9 years old," he said, a solo mimicking AI Jolson. This act was repeated occasionally until he was 17.
In the meantime, Tuckness had been working on stringed instruments. He has never had a music lesson in his life, having learned guitar from a chord book—the alma mater of most ukelele players.
It wasn't too long before he and some others of high school age were appearing as "Sandy's Swingster" over KFDA-TV of Amarillo, Tuckness' home. This was a non-profit deal, for as Tuckness put it, "They let us play two weeks a week."
As one of Sandy's Swingers, he played the electric guitar. Now, he
can manage this instrument, his regular guitar, and the banjo. (Tuckness rode in the banjo seat with the band of mobile instrumentalists who drove about the campus Friday, winding up the centennial observance.)
The first and only reward he ever got for his music came when he bested all other competitors in a contest in the Amarillo municipal auditorium. "I got lucky," Tuckness said, by way of explaining. The catch was that the prize was $150 worth of women's clothes. ("They told me that after I'd won."
This strange lack of connection between Tuckness' playing and the money which could be derived therefrom exists even now. Most of the observers at the Revue took it for granted that they were seeing a performer who probably was booked up for week-end engagements months into the future.
Tuckness reacts to this by saying, "Well, I wouldn't mind, but I'm not sure I'm good enough. They'd probably run me off as soon as I got started."
The cast chosen for "The Happy Journey" is Ma, Mary Patton, college freshman; Pa, John Pearson, college sophomore; stage manager, David Horr, college freshman, and Buelah, Nancy Reich, college freshman. Two Lawrence Junior High school students, Carol Freeman and Gaylord Murray, will also be in the cast.
Two one-act plays, "The Happy Journey by Thornton Wilder and Noah Baum - Paul Sartre, will be presented in April 21 to 23 by the Studio Theatre.
Bonnie Royer, graduate student in speech and drama, will direct the plays for her master of arts thesis.
Drama Group To Give Plays
The "No Exit" cast is Garcin, David Rosario, fine arts sophomore; Inez Jo Anna March, college senior; Estelle, Marjorie England, education junior, and the valet, Bruce Dillman, college sophomore.
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American Nations Condemn Reds
Caracas, Venezuela-(U.P.) T h e 10th Inter-American conference ended Sunday with formal signing of a "final act" condemning Communism in the Western hemisphere.
The economic proposals will be discussed further at a conference scheduled late this year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Resolutions approved at the conference included an Argentine-Brazilian attack on colonialism in the Americas and various proposals for price and trade regulations which would favor Latin American nations at the expense of big industrial nations.
The act, sponsored by the United States, was signed by representatives of 20 of the 21 Inter-American nations attending the four-week session. Guatemala voted against the resolution. Costa Rica, which boycotted the conference, will be allowed to add its signature if it wishes to do so.
Three members of the School of Education faculty are at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching in Chicago which ends today.
They are Dean Kenneth E. Anderson; Fred S. Montgomery, director of the bureau of visual instruction; and Herbert A. Smith, director of the bureau of educational research and service.
Mr. Montgomery presented a paper "Toward a More Effective Use of Sound Motion Pictures in High School Biology."
Dr. Smith, chairman of the secondary school committee of the association, is in charge of the annual review of research in science education for high schools.
Education Faculty Attend Meeting
Dean Anderson, the vice president of the NARST is coordinator of the review of research in science education at all school and college levels.
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