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Friday, September 23, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Pack rats enjoy hobbies
By LYNN KIRKMAN
Associate Entertainment
Editor
Editor
Matchbooks, arrowheads, campaign buttons and sheet music are all fair game for collectors. In fact, there's probably someone, somewhere, who has taken a fancy to almost any type of item that's ever been manufactured.
Collecting doesn't have to involve a lot of time or money. Collecting allows us to take advantage of effort to expanding their collections and may acquire additions in fits and starts, as the mood strikes
Chris Iles, Olate freshman,
recently started a collection of
Madame Alexander dolls. The
dolls, about 12 inches tall, are
dressed in elaborate costumes
of countries or historical periods.
Hes' 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 one you'd give a child to play with."
The comics Weas buys today cost 30 cents, although he says he hasn't bought a new comic book in a long time.
Childhood interests often grow into adult hobbies. Mike Weas, Overland Park junior, started his collection of comic books and its sequel grade. The first comebest 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 $50. Weas bought it for $5.
"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 its sentimental favorite."
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.
OTHER MUSIC BOXES in Dear's collection were acquired from the estate of a great-aunt. Of them are as old as 75 years.
Sometimes a gift provides the impetus that begins a collection. Hannes Dear, Meridian, Miss., senior, music boxes when her father gave her one for Christmas.
"Garage sales are really good," Weas said, "and sometimes I even find them in the trash."
"You can the works in a couple of them," Dear said, "but I don't know the songs they play."
Collections advised By MARY MITCHELL Reviewer KANSAN Off the Shelf
parents' home. He has not added to the collection steadily, he says, but he still looks for new comics from time to time.
Antiques, cut glass and even beer cans are a few of the many items collected today. For the beginner or avid collector, these books available locally on the subject of collectables.
If you want to learn how to make a killing at an auction, try "How to Buy at an Auction," by Michael De Forge. This book teaches you how to buy at auctions and tells how to avoid mistakes and traps.
"Antique Hunting: A Guide for Freaks and Fanciers," by Anne Kilborn Gilbert, contains more than 75 photographs and tells how to find anything from bottles to fur truffles and new rules for antique bunters and give hints on finding hunting grounds.
"Fortune in the Junk File," by antique-authority Dorothy H. Jenkins is a collector's bible. More than 400 pages give values and descriptions of all types of books in all sorts of places. This book would be an invaluable aid to bidders at auction.
For beer can collectors, there is the "American Beer Can Encyclopedia," by Thomas Toepfer. For seekers of these valuable canes, this book is color pictures and lists collectable beer cans according to breweries and cost.
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, Coffeeville sophomore.
"Antiques," by Ann Kilborn Cole, is a guide to identifying, selling, refinishing and caring for antiques. Cole provides an introduction to this sometimes bewildering hobby and discusses the nature of collection and fakes. 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 Ewers. The book lists the listings of prices from leading manufacturers during the Brilliant Age (1875-1915). Information includes company, price and location information, in a discussion of signed pieces.
"The Connoisseur Illustrated Guides: Pottery and Porcelain," by John H. Cushion and David potter the creator of the last 4,000 years. Everything from Chinese pottery to early English Spode and Wedgewood are categorized and discussed accompanying illustrations.
For doll collectors, there is "The Complete Book of Doll Collecting," by Helen Young. Young discusses everything from making dolls to display them. There is a special section on the ancestors of today's dolls and the current creators and artists.
"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. There are beer cans from France, Spain, Portugal and Australia – as well as cans from obscure breweries in America.
"We have all Coors beer can," Russell said, "the kind you have to open with a can opener. And it still full."
The Hinegold Brewing Co. of New York ran, as a promotional gimmick, an advertisement featuring women who vied for the title of "Miss Rhinegold." The idea was adopted with a twist by the company that brewed a beer named in honor of "Old Flohingswash."
Djuric collects seashells,
stamps, matchboxes, mugs,
plates, old keys, books, pillows
and coins.
"When I see you something like, I pick it up and put it 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.
"IVE NEVER tasted the beer," he said, "but I've heard it tastes just as bad as its name."
Sometimes one collection just isn't enough. Draujar Djuric, junior, might be described as a "collector of collections."
He gave up coin collecting when the hobby got too expensive.
Dipir, whose family is from Yugoslavia, said he started collecting coins as a child. He has a number of coins from the World War I era and old coins from World War II. He said, he keeps them in a safety deposit box at a bank.
Djuric has acquired a number of wood chips, which he finds on trips to the mountains. These are chip boards. Because of the high altitudes, the wood does not decay. It is worn away by animals and visitors and eroded by water until it forms unusual shapes.
"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 fern garden."
"They're not really a collection. They're more like souvenirs — something to you of where you've been."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Arts & Leisure
Quantrill's wares varied
gifts.
C.J. ARNOLD, DeSoto,
By LYNN KIRKMAN
Associate Entertainment
quantill's is home to a collection of 40 booths where merchants display all types of wares. Antique items and booths with wares dealers present their stocks of keckie dolls, knickknacks and art deco pieces. The beginner or the serious collector can browse through displays of antique coins, coins and handmade gifts.
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 a space that contains something that captures their interest. If they don't—it's probably their own fault.
Quintilli's, situated in the basements of old buildings just east of Maschassee and near permanent flea market. A sign announces that the shop has been open Monday and Sunday Oct 25, 1971.
operates one of the booths at Quarrill'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 ex-
"We buy most of our pieces in Missouri," he said. "It's cheaper to buy at sales than it is in Kansas. We've got a lot of them. Drop from Missouri to Illinois. They start going up again."
Arnold pointed to two small boxes on the counter. They were made of marble, he said, with glass and with glass in the center. One had a display of miniature flowers; the other part of an old greeting card.
1. don't know what these pieces are, he said. "And nobody's been able to tell me. Somebody said they were trying to make it better, but I don't think that right. Look what the card says on it."
THE YELLOWING CARD under the glass in the mystery object read, 'From a well-wisher.'
Rod Oelschlag, Lawrence graduate student, examined an antique bird cage on a stand. He said he came to Quantrill's yard and had purchased many items for his home at the market.
Peering through the bars of the cage, Oeilschager explained, "Isn't this beautiful? It all brass. I don't have a bird—but if I owned this cage, I get a bird to go in it."
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 on." She added, "a lot 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 38 craftsmen in the Lawrence area. Kelly and Hempill 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 applebread pieces, and handmade pieces in their shop.
and browsers find the flea market the place to be for such odds and ends.
Jim Bateman, Lawrence graduate student, has operated a book booth 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 Richard Sanders who could browse 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.
Vicki Kleweno, Lawrence graduate student, has a booth called Mini Mania, where she sells all kinds of miniature toys. She 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 Ware, Ridgefield, Conn. graduate student, examines a display of spores and curioses at Quantrill's Market. Buyers, sellers
Wayne and Judy Booth, Teeka,
teeks handcrafted jewelry
in that booth called Arizona
to 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 the turquoise." You know if you piece is plastic
"A dealer who's selling genuine turquise 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 eye.
Mark Griffin, manager of Quarrillt's, said the market offered definite advantages to both buyers and seers. He added the advantage of collective advertising and display rates, he said, and the buyer knows he isn't shopping at a store that may not be there for returns. He cited the variety of 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
NIGHTCLUBS
FILMS
Folklore Center Wednesday night JAM Session, no electric instruments or drums allowed, Wednesday.
"LEADBELLY," directed by Gordon Parks, at 3:30 p.m., 7
At the LAWRENCE OPERA HOUSE 644 Massachusetts St.: Billy Spears tonight and tomorrow night, doors open at 8 p.m. Spears also will play on Tuesday after the KU-Washington State game. In the 7TH SPIRIT balcony: The River City Jazz band after midnight tonight and tomorrow night. Echo Cliff on the main stage, Gary Sarner in day, Garry Sarner at 11 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in the 7TH SPIRIT cellar.
Highlights
At the OFF-THE-WALL
HALL 737 New Hampshire
St.: Potatl touch onight and
tomorrow night. The Kansas
p. m. and 9:30 p.m. today and tomorrow.
THEATER
AT PAUL GRAY'S JAZZ PLACE 926 Massachusetts St.: Claude Williams with the Gasite Gang tonight and a jam conference Thursday with the River City Jazz Band.
"THE T.A.M.I. SHOW" and "DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK"
At the INGE THEATRE in Murphy Hall "Sycklon Z" by Brynne opening Thursday, Sept. 19, 2014. Performances at 8 p.m.
A recital by Marek Piskunov, violinist, opens the University of Kansas Chamber Music Series at 8 p.m. tomorrow and at 3:30 p.m. in Swarthout Rochelle Hall. He and
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Alexander Plakunov, pianist, will perform Sergel 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.
EROTIC FILMS by independent filmmers: The Bed, "Seed," Seed Film; Lovemark, "Orange," Orange Film; and "Crocus," at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. This performance is rated X.
Violinist opens KU series
"THE CHICAGO MATER-
NITY CENTER STORY" at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday in
Room of the Kansas
Upton.
Unless otherwise noted, all films are shown in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
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"RAVEN'S END" at 7:30
n.m. Wednesday.
"LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS"at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
"IT'S SHOWTIME," with Hollywood animal stars,
"BUG VAUDEVILLE" and "GREAT VEGETABLE MYSTERY," cartoons at 2:30 Sunday afternoon.
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On "The Richard Pryor Show," a construction worker, singing "I Gotta Be Me," removed his shirt and jeans to reveal a polka-dot bikini, bottom and toon.
The first episode of "Soap" showed us that the husband in one family was impotent and the mother and daughter of another family were having an affair with the same man.
In a recent episode of "Baretta," our hero was invited to come in out of the rain and get warmed up by a sympathetic hooker with the predictable heart of gold.
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. He does not want the audience to think that Ronald McDonald endorses the familial cavorting on "Soap."
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.
The remaining problem, then, is the audience. It takes only a few letters of complaint before the memos start to fly around the networks' program standards departments. And if of course the NPCC or Christ or the National Parent-Teacher's Association get up in arms, network exec break into cold sweats.
FORTUNATELY for the nets, few viewers write letters and the ire of the pressure groups has been aimed at the view that that has been achieved by a large number of observers whose have been moving toward less violent content in prime
cavalling it. 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 concerning sex, nudity and adult language has gone relatively unnoticed.
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 program aired between 8 to 9 p.m. be 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 discovers advantage over commonplace in late afternoon television.
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, the network fell down violence, leaving mature dialogue, adult themes and sex appeal as the major means to attracting adult viewers. Consequently, television will continue to move in the direction of loosening program standards and getting better at presenting particularly true for late night television as the "Tonight" and "Tomorrow" shows.
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 points, Nitec hired David Rivers to record for "The Richard Pryor Show" aired at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. More such changes are yet to come.
As a viewer you can write a letter or sit back and enjoy. Or you could turn it off.
1 Dale A. Gadd is an associate professor of radio, television and film.