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Friday, September 23,1977
University Daily Kansan
Pack rats enjoy hobbies
ByLYNN KIRKMAN
Associate Entertainment
Editor
Matchbooks, arrowheads,
campaign buttons and sheet
music are all faint. But it's
probably someone, fact, there's
probably someone, somewhere,
who has taken a fancy to almost
any type of item that's ever
seen.
Collecting doesn't have to involve a lot of time or money. Collectors devote varying degrees of effort to expanding their collections and may acquire additions in fits and starts, as the mood strikes them.
Chris Hies, Olathe freshman, recently started a collection of Madame Alexander dolls. The dolls, about 12 inches tall, are dressed in elaborate costumes and tournaments countries or historical periods.
Hies' collection began when her grandparents gave her several of the dolls. She adds to it from time to time, usually finding the dolls in specialty toy shops and department stores.
SHE HAS DOLLS in the national costumes of Hungary
and the Netherlands and dolls that represent Scarlett O'Hara "of Gone with the Wind" and Amy of "Little Women." She also has an American bride doll and a baby doll.
"The baby doll is smaller than the other dolls," she said. And it's pretty elaborate — not that you'd give a child to play with."
Childhood interests often grow into adult hobbies. Mike Weas, Overland Park junior, started his collection of comic books when he was in second grade and comic books in comics he bought cost 12 cents.
Weas specializes in Superman comics from DC and Spiderman comics from Marvel. One of the Superman editions in his collection is worth $5. Weas bought it for $5.
The comics Wens buys today cost 30 cents, although he says he hasn't bought a new comic book in a long time.
"THE PERSON I bought it from didn't know how much it was worth," he said.
Weas' collection numbers about 1000 comic books, which he keeps in trunks at his
"It plays "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," she said, "and I guess it's my sentimental favorite."
Sometimes a gift provides the impetus that begins a collection. Hannes Dear, Meridian, Miss., senior, started a collection of music boxes when her father gave her one for Christmas.
parents' home. He has not added to the collection steadily, he says, but he still looks for new comics from time to time.
"Garage are really good," Weas said, "and sometimes I even find them in the trash."
Another gift Dear received was a music box that has a marionette on a Punch and Judy stage. The marionette dances while the music box plays a Mozart minuet.
Collections advised
"You can the works in a couple of them," Dear said, "but I don't know the songs they play."
OTHER MUSIC BOXES in Dear's collection were acquired from the estate of a great-aunt. They are as old as 75 years.
Reviewer
Antiques, cut glass and even beer cans are a few of the many items collected today. For the beginner or avid collector, several books available locally on the subject of collectibles.
Bv MARY MITCHELL
"Fortune in the Junk Pile," by antique-authority Dorothy H. Jenkins a collector-historian's bible. More than 400 pages give values and descriptions of this book, which were found in all sorts of places. This book would be an invaluable aid to bidders at auctions.
For beer can collectors, there is the "American Beer Can Encyclopedia," by Thomas Toepfer. For seekers of these valuable cans, this book is a good introduction and lists collectable beer cans according to breweries and cost.
If you want to learn how to make a killing at an auction, try "How to Buy at an Auction," by Michael D. Forrest. This book teaches you how to buy at auctions and tells how to avoid mistakes and traps.
"Antique Hunting: A Guide for Freats and Fanciers," by Anne Kilborn Gilbert, contains more than 75 photographs and tells how to find anything from bottles to royalty milk. This book includes tips for hunters and gives hints on finding hunting grounds.
KANSAN
Off the Shelf
"Antiques," by Ann Kilborn Cole, is a guide to identifying, selling, refining and caring for antiques. Cole provides an introduction to this sometimes bewildering hobby and discusses at length antique books. The book contains sections on everything from furniture to pewter and clocks.
For lovers of cut glass, there is "The Standard Cut Glass Value Guide," by Jo Evers. The book lists listings of prices from leading manufacturers during the Brilliant Age (1875-1915). Information includes company, product and price details; a discussion of signed pieces.
A group collection of beer cans is on display at Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall. The collection was started in 1974 and is now the charge of David Russell, Coffeville sophomore.
"The Connoisseur Illustrated Guides: Pottery and Porcelain, by John P. Cushion (New York, 1986) the last 4,000 years. Everything from Chinese pottery to early English Spode and Wedgewood are categorized and discussed accompanying illustrations.
“It’s an appointed position,” Russell said, and it ranks somewhere between a cabinet position and a junior.
Russell said the collection has beer cans from across the United States and 12 foreign countries, from France, Spain, Portugal and Australia – as well as cans from obscure breweries in the U.S.
The Rhinegold Brewing Co. of New York ran, as a promotional gimmick, an advertising with the author who women wield for the title of "Miss Rhinegold." The idea was adopted with a twist by the company that brewed a beer named "Old Follingswash."
"We have all Coors Boer can," Russell said, "the kind you have to open with a can opener. And it still full."
Djuric collects seashells,
stamps, matchboxes, mugs,
plates, old keys, books, pillows
and coins.
"When I see something like, I pick it up in a box," he said. "About once a year I sit down and sort through everything. Sometimes it takes me three or four days."
The Old Flothingswash containers bear pictures of women that Russell describes believably unattractive.
Dipir, whose family is from Yuglolavia, said he started collecting coins as a child. He has a number of coins from the World War I era and old coins from the Second World War gold, he said, and he keeps them in a safety deposit box at a bank.
"IVE NEVER tasted the beer," he said, "but I've heard it tastes just as bad as its name."
Diricus has acquired a number of wood chips, which he finds on trips to the mountains. These are used in the forest area. Because of the high altitudes, the wood does not decay. It is worn away by animals and visitors and eroded by weather until it forms unusual shapes.
He gave up coin collecting when the hobby got too expensive.
Sometimes one collection just isn't enough. Dragan Djuric, Wichita junior, might be one as a "collector of collections."
"Many of them look like small toot poles," Djuric said. "I spray them with clear lacquer and give them to my mother, who puts them in with her ferm garden.
"They're not really a collection. They're more like souvenirs — something to you of where you've been."
Arts & Leisure
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN-
Quantrill's wares varied
C. J. ARNOLD, DeSoto,
Quantrill's is home to a collection of 40 booths where merchants display all types of merchandise on a side by side with booths where dealers present their stocks of kewpie dogs, knickknacks and art deco pieces. The beginner or the serious collector can browse through displays of antique gifts, coins and handmade gifts.
By LYNN KIRKMAN
Editor
For shoppers in search of the beautiful, the practical, the unique or the curious, all roads lead to Quantrill's Market. The antique collectors, the curio seekers and the browsers who come each weekend to Quantrill's, 811 New Hampshire St., generally find what they're looking for, captures their interest. If they don't—it's probably their own fault.
Quantrill's, situated in the basements of old buildings just east of Massachusetts Street, proclaims itself a permanent flea market. A sign announces that the shop has been open every Saturday and Sunday since Oct. 25, 1971.
operates one of the booths at Quarryll's. Standing behind a counter display of jewelry and curios, he said that he became interested in antiques when he and his wife started a doll collection. As the collection expanded, they began to think creatively about makers and then opened their booth in Quarryll's.
"We buy most of our pieces in Missouri," he said. "It's cheaper to buy at sales there than it is in Kansas. We've grown our farm and shop from Missouri to Illinois. Then they start going up again."
Arnold pointed to two small boxes on the counter. They were made of marble, and they lay together with glass in the center. One had a display of miniature flowers; and there was part of an old greeting card.
"I don't know what these pieces are," he said. "And nobody's been able to tell me. Somebody said they were made to be sent for funerals but I didn't have any." Look what the card says on it.
Rod Oelschlager, Lawrent
Raduate student, examined an antique bird cage on a stand. He said he came to Quantrill's almost every Sunday and had to look for his衬衫 for his home at the market.
Peering through the bars of the cage, Oelschlag exclaimed, "I can't this beautiful? It's all brass. I don't have a bird—but if I owned this cage, I'd get a bird to go in it."
THE YELLOWING CARD under the glass in the mystery object read, "From a well-wiser."
Geneva Robinson, Kansas City, Kan., said she thought fewer students visited Quantrill's now than in past years.
"Maybe they have less money now," she said. "They have a lot more expenses than they used to, with what tuition going for them. They are out of small things but not as many of the bigger pieces."
NANCY KELLY and Penny Hemphill, both of Lawrence, operate a booth called Crafty Lady, which they opened at the Hemphill is a homemaker; Kelly is a KU graduate student.
Crafty Lady features hand-crafted wares from 36 craftsmen in the Lawrence area. Kelly and Hemphill sell the items on consignment and keep a percentage of the profits for
operating the booth. They sell afghans, barbed wire sculpture, jewelry, leather and appledhee pieces in their shop, handmade pieces in their shop.
Jim Baterman, Lawrence graduate student, has operated a book book since April. He said he had about 8,000 volumes in the booth and others at home. The shelves offered prospective buyers the works of Sir Walter Scott for free through a wide range of titles in paperback and in hard cover.
BATEMAN SAID he had bought the inventory of the booth's previous owner. He buys books at sales and people bring him books they think he may be interested in.
and browsers find the flea market the place to be for such odds and ends.
Vicki Klewoen, Lawrence graduate student, has a booth called Mini Mania, where she sells all kinds of miniature dolls. She also said she had a shop in downtown Lawrence but when the lease expired, she decided to return to school. Quantrill's offered a chance for part-time work while completed her graduate degree.
Decisions, decisions ...
Karen Webee, Ridgefield, Conn. graduate student, examines a display of spores and curiosities at Quantrill's Market. Buyers, sellers
Wayne and Judy Booth, Topeka, hand crafted jewelry in their booth called Arizona Jewelry. Make all the pieces themselves.
"Test turquoise with a match if you think it's not genuine," he said. "A little heat won't harm it." He said that you know if the piece is plastic.
"A dealer who's selling genuine turquio won't mind if you check it out."
Booth said the test was risky in cool weather, however, because heat could crack a cold stone.
Shoppers wend their way through the displays, stopping to enjoy a peppermint lemonade at the refreshment booth or to examine an item that caught their eve.
Mark Griffin, manager of Quartillr's, said the market offered definite advantages to both buyers and sellers. The buyer knows collective advertising and display rates, he said, and the buyer knows he isn't shopping at a store that may not be there when he returns. He cited the goods as another advantage.
"Someone could actually set himself up completely for housekeeping just by shopping here," he said.
"Maybe the variety is why we have so many customers—there are thousands every weekend.
"And they come here from Lawrence, of course, but also from Kansas City, Ottawa, Topeka."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
This Week's
Highlights
NIGHTCLUBS
FILMS
"LEADBELLY,' directed by Gordon Parks, at 3:30 p.m., 7
At the INGE THEATRE in Murphy Hall "Syckton Z" by Myrna Lyman, opening Thurs. 9 p.m., at Theatre C, 8. Performances at 8 p.m.
THEATER
Folklore Center Wednesday night
Jam Session, no electric instruments or drums allowed, Wednesday.
At the LAWRENCE OPERA HOUSE 644 Massachusetts st. Billy Spears tonight and tomorrow night, doors open at 8 p.m. Spears also will play one set tomorrow afternoon in the State game. In the 7TH SPIRIT balcony: The River City Jazz Band after midnight tonight and tomorrow night. Echo Cliff on the main stage Wednesday and Thursday in the Wednesday and Thursday in the 7TH SPIRIT cellar.
AT PAUl GRAY'S JAZZ PLACE 928 Massachusetts St.: Claude Williams with the Gasite Gang tonight and A jam session Thursday with the River City Jazz Band.
p. m. and 9:30 p.m. today and tomorrow.
"THE T.A.M.I. SHOW" and "DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK"
A recital by Marek Pskunov, violinist,
opens the University of Kansas Chamber
Music Series at 8 p.m. tomorrow and at 3:30
p.m. Sunday in Swarthout Recital Hall. He
At the OFF-THE-WALL
HALL 737 New Hampshire
St.: Pottatch tonight and
tomorrow night. The Kansas
Alexander Plakunov, pianist, will perform Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata in F minor, Op. 80, No. 1, Mozart's Sonata in G major, K 301 and Hard Strauss' Sonata in E flat major, Op. 18.
At the LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER, Ninth and Vermont streets; The Seem-to-Be Players present "The Leprechaun's Tale" and "The Adventures of Nyrm the Sprite, Part 40," at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
"IT'S SHOWTIME," with Hollywood animal stars,
"BUG VAUDEVILLE" and
"GREAT VEGETABLE MYSTERY"; cartoons at 2:30 Sunday afternoon.
Violinist opens KU series
"THE CHICAGO MATERIALY NENTER STORY" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Room of the Kansas State
Unless otherwise noted,
all films are shown in
Woodruff Auditorium of the
Kansas Union.
"RAVEN'S END" at 7:30
d.m. Wednesday.
"LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS" at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
EROTIC FILMS by independent filmmers: "The Bed," "Seed Reel," Lovemaking, "Range" orange, "Crocus" at 7:30 a.m. Thursday. This performance is rated X.
at midnight tonight and tomorrow night.
EXHIBITS
State
At 7E7, 7 E. Seventh St.
William Nittelship Sculpture,
Large Series #1 and
Leonard Koenig painting,
"Dreamspace Series—Unit II"
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At the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY in Dyche Hall: "Ever-Changing Fashions," North American clothing; "Basketry" Techniques; "Basketry: Mother of Weaving"; "Don't Tread on Me"; "Kansas Snakes and fishes"
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Yes, television has done much maturing since the twin bed era of the early "Dick Van Dyke Show." For the most part, this liberation of TV has been quite gradual. But the aging process is speeding up, and there have been major changes in the past few years.
Although the advertiser's greatest concern is the size and type of audience the program will attract, he is also concerned about the program's compatibility with his product's image. In other words, McDonald's does not want the audience to be frightened by the brand endorses the familial cavorting on "Soap."
The remaining problem, then, is the audience. It takes only a few letters of complaint before the memos start to fly around the network's program standards departments. And if organized groups of students are involved in the National Parent-Teachers' Association get up in arms, network exec breaks into cold sweats.
BECAUSE OF THE the nature of its product, the television industry is very conservative. The dramatic programs aired by the networks are valued only as vehicles for the commercials. The advertising time slot is the real product of commercial television.
FORTUNATELY for the nets, few writers write letters and the ire of the pressure groups has been aimed at the violence that has been abundant on campus. While this is a problem, it has been moving toward less violent content in prime
Yet the experience of the past few years has shown the networks that there are usually enough advertisers who are willing to buy time on any kind of program — and advertiser resistance to liberalizing television is no longer much of a problem.
—by Dale Gadd
time offerings, the loosening of standards con-
served by parents and adult language has gone
celessly unprotected.
The major impetus toward adult appeals took place a few years ago when the TV industry started what was called the "Family Viewing Period." This move required that any programs be made accessible to the entire family. This public relations play allowed the networks to say something along the line, "O.K., we cleaned up our act in the early evening. Now we can loosen up a bit after 8 since the kids have gone to bed." The viewer discretion becomes commonplace in late evening television.
Independent writers and producers in the industry challenged the Family Viewing Period in court and the FVP was struck down. The networks informally agreed to keep the FVP guidelines essentially intact. However, in hopes of gaining a few ratings, they upgraded standard for "The Richard Pryor Show,"aired at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. More such changes are yet to come.
The bottom line is: With ABC pulling from third to first in the ratings race, the three nets are going to be extremely competitive as CBS and NBC try to regain rating points. In response to public opinion that the network is leaving mature dialogue, adult themes and appeal as the major means to attracting adult viewers. Consequently, television will continue to move in the direction of loosening program controls. This would be particularly true for late night television such as the "Tonight" and "Tomorrow" shows.
As a viewer you can write a letter or sit back and
Ascould you turn it off.
7. Dale A. Gadd is an associate professor of radio, television and film.