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Friday, September 2, 1977
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Theatrics
Del Urinh, scene designer and technical director for the University Theatre, discusses changing concepts in theater
design. Whether the style is painted scenery or "Inchinator Neolithic", Uirrah says, design should work to enhance the total theatrical production.
Arts & Leisure
Set design faces revolution
By LYNN BONNEY KIRKMAN Associate Entertainment
Editor
"Theater reflects the life around it," he said, "so we're seeing the sheer number of options reflected in the theater."
a theatergoer today is likely to be exposed to a wide variety of design techniques and styles in the course of a single theater season. Be sure to attend for the University Theatre, say yesterday.
UNRUH SAID he found these options made teaching design exciting. An associate professor
Unrush attributed this wide range of possibilities to the opportunities for different lifestyles available today.
"Design today is different, but exciting," Unruh said. "You have to show that should be the accepted and traditional way. If you talked to six different designers, you'd get different responses on what is right."
of speech and drama, he teaches two classes in the KU theatre department—a basic class and a class in design aesthetics.
"We're able to question the traditional ways of design," he can find out which of these we want, still valid for today's designer.
Questioning the traditional ways, Unruh said, might include trying to find new materials which a designer could use to create effects. He said young designers should do things differently than they had been done before.
Unruth, who grew up in Montana, completed his graduate work at Northwestern University, where he taught for six years. He spent five years teaching at the University of
"When we find ourselves saying 'We've done it that way before' it's time to change," he said.
Oklahoma before coming to KU this fall.
NURSING AN index finger he had injured slightly in a scene shop mishap, Unruh said he thought the theater facilities at the library were offering interesting opportunities for students and instructors.
"The University Theatre is a good space to work in," he said, and "the Inge Theatre offers student designers' many chances to try out experimental works in a pretty workable area."
He said he hadn't been working in the theater at Murphy long enough to know where the weak spots were.
"Much of the equipment is way past its expected lifetime," he said. "That's a polite I'm not the great prophet from Oklahoma who's come here to tell you we need new drapes."
UNRUH SAID in a theatrical production all the elements should contribute to the integrated whole. The design, the actors, the lighting and the movement on stage should revolve around one essential idea.
"A production is an ensemble of animate and inanimate materials," he said, "and the materials we use will be insuperable from the event.
"It makes no difference what we do if, when the audience sit in the theater, they can see a reason why we did it, and why we did what we did."
"Anyone over the age of seven knows he's in a theater. They know it's a set—the they know it is real people. It's all an illusion."
"We're all in the same place—to play the same game."
Romance fills new books
By TONSTANT WEADER
Here are some new paper-backs for the romantics among you. Marlys Millhiser (Crest, WILLIST HOSTAGE (Crest, $1.50) is about a woman heading out to the West Coast when, in seedy weather, she is kidnapped by a stranger. Fortunately, he’s dark and handsome. Isabelle Holland's DARCOURT (Crest, $1.75) takes place on an isolated island where terrible truths begin to surface. She works at the place, but our girl reporter is on the job and also in dire trouble. Jane Aiken Hodge usually comes up with a good one, and JUDAS FLOWERING (Crest, $1.36) is set in Savannah during the American Civil War, her home a peniless English orphan, the hero a wealthy plantation owner.
Then there's the Violet Weingarten M.S. BENEKT (Pocket, $1.50), which is sturdered by a backpack cope with her weird son, her foolish daughter-in-law, her philandering husband and her own Candle-like attitudes. Sylvia Thorea's FAIR SHINE THE DAY CREATING (take place during the English civil wars, pure cleavage-and-dagger school. Diana Havailan's THE PASSIONATE PRETENDERS (Crest, $1.86) is in fourth-grade class. She and Cuba, and it follows the formula pretty well, too.
Cops, spies, crooks and assassins are steady fare, and here are some recent ones. NEXT KILL A COP (Pocket, $1.75).
which is about LJ. Johnny Cristo, a detective, the death of his partner and how Cristo has to find the killer in 24 hours. Steve Kniekmeyer "THE BLAKE" is also aighter police, one who returns from retirement to become a hit man for the mob. A good, tough thriller is Charles Einstein's *Storm* ($1.50), about a wild scheme which materializes in the mind of a man who has had enough of his wife and wants to get a long way away. It is always good to know there is Sam D. Adams' new one and new one is Will B. Aarons' ASSIGNMENT: TIGER DEVIL (Gold Medal, $1.50), which carries her hero to the jungles of South America, where she Indianas and, obviously, Red Chinese to give him trouble.
KANSAN Off the Shelf
And good to know that Jack Higgins books are still coming out, one of them being THE DARK SIDE OF THE ISLAND (Gold Medal, $1.75), whose setting is Greece and which in time goes back even to the years of Nazi occupation.
(Pocket, $1.50) is already a classic in this popular genre. In reprint is Herbert Lieberman's CRAIL-SPACE (Pocket, $1.95), about a gruesome thing under a New England fangirl (and Lieberman) GOV OF THE DEAD (Pocket, $1.95) reveals terrors in the big city. You are warned to be in the presence of others when you read Gary Bardner's THE HOWLING (Crest, $1.75) in a peaceful California town where people mislead and suddenly John Jakes' BRAK VS. THE MARK OF THE DEMONS (Pocket, $1.50) shows that science fiction can be pure trash, and this is probably as good a place as any to treat a collection from the TWIST SPIDER-MAN (Pocket, $1.95). But you'll need a magnifying glass to read the typeface.
Science fiction and the world of the weird first, a collection by Isaac Asimov, *ASIMOV'S MYSTERIES* (Crest, $1.50). There are 13 takes here, the most beautiful UNICORN (Pocket, $1.50), takes the reader into fantastic places, and A.E. Van Vogt's THE WEAPON SHOPS OF ISHER
nonction in new paperback ranges from the inspirational to the fun of jogging. The inspiration in L.R. Lasky's TEEN, IT ON THE MOUNTAIN (Pocket, $1.95), about how the son of the movie producer, Jesse Laskey converted from Judaism to Christianity at Hafstief's BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE (Pocket, $1.75) is the testimony of a distinguished public figure, Robert Hoffman. MORE NOW: SAVING TOMORROW (CREEK, $1.75) is a collection of essays on facing the future. In reprint is a famous work of writing by Mikhail Kovakov's EARTH IN UPIHEVAL (Pocket, $1.95), which treats extra-terrestrial forces in ancient times.
Wakeman returns to Yes guides them to new level
While I was playing the new Yes album "Going for the One," for the first time I easily found myself not listening intently — the music served simply as nice background to some other activity.
Staff Reviewer
But upon closer inspection I hear a band, each member a master of his instrument. These masters have blended their inspirations with the hopes of hope and encouragement to their listeners.
BY JOHN MCANULTY
The album, released this summer, offers encouragement and a push for everyone to try to better his life. This is expressed by Jon Anderson's vocals throughout the album.
In the title track, Anderson expresses this push and striving in the lines:
When you've tried most everything and nothing's taking you higher
Once at the start can you gamble
That next spell simply mean to finish
When you've come to realize, you've been playing with fire.
As you treat danger a pure collection.
As you it cat danger a pure concept
As you throw away misconception
IN "PARALLELS" he says:
After seeing all your sense of fear dimini
Ayurveda treat dengue a pure collection
Hear me when I say to you, it's really down to your heart.
That you really surely mean to finish.
After seeing all your sense of fear diminish
Of course, Wakeman is the reason Yee has returned to the spotlight. Advertising for the new album always mentions his return to the group. The advertisers seem to be on the right track because Wakeman plays the lead role in the music of "Fragile" released in 1972. The album rocketed the group into superstardom, but Wakeman quit to seek a solo career and the group downhill.
THOSE WHO HOPE to find the same Yes in the
One will immediately recognize the sound as Yes, but with a strikingly different style.
yes' style has always been characterized by Jon Anderson's alternating chopty and smooth, overdubbed, high pitched vocals, Steve Howe's complicated lead guitar riffs, and Chris Squire's beautifully slick, forceful bass runs, which, along with drummer Alan Laan, form a solid backbone
new album should be prepared for a disappointment.
on which the music rests brilliantly. The group has experimented with several organisers and keyboard players on their eight albums, but only Wakeman truly belongs with them.
Otherwise it is music to soothe the mind after a hectic day. Each song rises and builds smoothly and softly until vocals and instruments combine to form church-like vibes. This is heard especially in the 15-minute "awaken" in which Wakeman plays a church organ.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAN Riffs
"GOING FOR THE ONE" seals a sensuous and
general appeal, except for the title track,
which is full and full of love.
One striking difference between this album and their previous ones is the guitar now stands out much more and the bass much less. In many songs the bass is played in bass. In previous albums it stood out prominently.
This Week's Highlights
Theater
There is no doubt that Yes or at least Yes' sound will be around for a long time in the rock world. But the question remains as to whether they must rely on Rick Wakeman to insure their financial success. That is undoubtedly a question the group must face.
THE SEEM-TO-BE PLAYERS will present "The Leprechaun's Tale" and "The Adventures of Nyfyr the Spirits," a play by the author at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
ROGER BAIN, a guitarist,
will perform his original songs
and 'bizarre blues' tonight and
tomorrow night at 9 p.m. at the
Off-the-Wall Music Hall, Milch Fabulous
and Jasmin Tailora accession
Bain on the bill.
Admission $1.25.
BYRON BERLINE, winner of three national fiddling championships, and his band, Sundance, will perform at 9 p.m. tonight at the Opera House. 644 Massachusetts St. Also appearing will be the Grand Poo-Bah Bean Band.
Nightclubs
RANDY CHOWNING, former lead guitarist for the Qark Mountain Daredevil, and his band. Mule, will perform at 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Opera House.
Films
South depicted
A WOMAN OF PARIS,
Charlie Chaplin's dramatic masterpiece, will have its
first appearance in 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. today in
Wooldruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. The second
feature will be Chaplin's 1919,
Admission is $1.25.
Exhibits
THE VALLEY WEST GALERIES, in the Holiday Plaza at 25th and Iowa streets, is showing watercolors by Jan Texas art. A display of quilts and pillows is also featured.
LAWRENCE MORGAN'S photographs of Kansas will be shown through September at the Louisville Museum. 1347 Massachusetts St.
THE LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Seventh and Vermont streets, is showing textiles by Barbara Meador in the lobby, drawings by lawyers lodges and galleries by patrons by Jay Stiles in the showcase and paintings by Fern Kleiffer in the auditorium.
THE ELIZABETH M.
AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: On the fifth floor: 'Ever-Changing Adventures,' on North American clothing; Basketry Techniques' and 'Basketry, Mother of Weaving.' On the sixth floor: 'Don't Miss the Showings of rattlesnakes, and displays of live Kansas fishes and snakes.
THE SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY is featuring "KU Across the Years" in the Main Gallery, "Bruce Rogers: Book Designer" in the North Gallery, "Student Organizations and Activities" in the Central Library, and "First Fire The Story of the Lawrence Fire Department, 1859-1976," in the Kansas Collection.
WATKINS COMMUNITY MUSEUM, 1047 Massachusetts St., is showing its permanent collection, featuring a reconstructed 19th century playhouse.
position. There he becomes involved in a terrid and doomed affair with the former prom queen from his home town, Ms. Brayton, back to Chicago, another marriage, divorce and fame.
'GET READY... GET SET
...NEW JERSEY', a display of prints and conceptual art by Jamie Jones, Lawrence artist, is being shown through tomorrow at 7 E. Seventh St.
A football scholarship and prowess in Latin enabled Jed to attend college in Alabama. At the University of Chicago, he becomes a scholar in the field of classical and medieval literature. Marriage, his wife's death and World War II interfere before the destination back to the South. Jed may want to escape the South but the South will not escape him.
Staff Reviewer
By MARY MITCHELL
Jed's story begins on a dilapidated farm near Dugton, Ala., just after World War I, when he is nine. His almost illiterate mother, whose causes Jed to abrasive the town against. As she puts it, "Gif what's to git, then git. Git on."
"Hating the South, I fled it," he says, "and ever afterwards blamed my solitude on that South. If I could flee to the fleet to I told how I had tried to buy my way out of solitude by supporting the cause of virtue, but I felt isolated even from that South. And if I might save, into甸悦文巢."
At the climax of the novel, Jed realizes he can not elude the South.
Southern heritage runs deep,
and its influence on the lives of
southern sons and daughters is
often profound and poignant.
Kentucky-born writer Robert
Penn Warren has not forgotten
that influence, nor has Jed
[KANSAN]
sun reviewer
A PLACE TO COME TO
By Robert Penn Warren
Random House, 401, pp. 110
Off the Shelf
Tewksbury, the protagonist in Warren's ten novel, "A Place to Come To."
Warren has come to terms with his past, also. Yet, Jed is not Warren. Warren, however, has captured the heart of up in richness of the South. Beautifully flowing lyrical passages, strong characterizations and a narrative force. It is a powerful picture of one man's soul-seeking odyssey through life.
HE MOVES to Nashville where he has a teaching
In the most moving passage in the novel, Jed, a kind and gravely-minded mother, his mother's grave. Here he comes to terms with life and makes a kind of peace with it.
The title of the book refers to some lines in Robert Frost's "Death of the Hired Man" which say "Home is the place where when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
A few years ago, it was fashionable for newspapers to have a resident television critic. Many of these critics, like Jack Gould and Lawrence Laurent, gave readers their views on television, and sometimes what was right with television. These critics went far beyond simple program reviews. They got into television and politics. First Amendment rights were advertising and other areas where television affects society.
By DALE A. GADD
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY Kansan has decided it is time to reverse the trend and return to the idea that a television column can be turned over to other wonders, whether there really is any substance to that shadow that flickers across your screen. In the weeks to come, you might find some of the funnier gossip tidbits here. To get to the heart of personal opinions about television programs, violence, sex, politics, censorship, network wheeling and dealing, legal hassles and battles, bad mercenaries, trade secrets, trends, trivia and whatever else comes to mind.
The trend today seems to be toward reviewing what you missed the night before and making a good mind to misunderstand. I, too, am interested in knowing where Kate Jackson eats pizza and what brand of chow the biologic苍蝇. And, who wouldn't lose some sleep worrying about Wawai's financial security?
Please note that I said "personal opinion." If every reader agreed with my opinion it would be a miracle of the same magnitude as the success of "Charlie's Angels." If you begin to have blood pressure problems over something in column, please give me know. In care of the editor. If some interesting letters come in, I'll devote a column to your opinions.
ONE OF THE EARLY columns will be "Gadd Predicts." Every fall in a couple of my classes, I put my reputation into practice by the success and failure of each new show in the three networks' fall schedules. I have had some brilliant successes in the past few years. The other day I remember one of those milestone successes. I predicted that "Happy Days" was just a novelty designed to take advantage of the popularity of the film "American Graffitte" and would not release it until I predicted great futures for such short-lived shows as "The Manhunter" and "Ellery Queen." I seem to remember saying last spring that viewers would willingly watch a program even night for eight straight evenings, and "Roots" was doomed to failure.
Oh, well. I guess if I were right all of the time, I'd be sitting in an office at ABC, impressed with the balance in my checkbook. As it is, I'm sitting in an office in Flint Hall, depressed by the balance in my checkbook.
ON THE OTHER hand, I could have saved each of the
nets several million dollars in program development costs over the past few years. (1) Wonder whether anyone at your company is interested? So watch for that column and keep score on my crystal ball.
A weekly feature should satisfy some of you amateur trivia fans. Every week I will have a trivia question and the answer to the previous week's trivial question is really meaningful trivia, not be harsh with me for coming up with easy questions. Any Star Trek freak worth his weight in tricorders knows that Spock's blood is green. But that little fact might not be common knowledge, an average viewer. These questions will be aimed at the viewer with average tastes and viewing habits. I hope it will arouse some little corner of your memory. The answer is there. You just might have to think about a for while to come up with it.
Here is an easy one for starters. In each episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" Paladin shows his business card. The card invites the reader to wire Paladin at his hotel in San Francisco. What was the name of the hotel?
See if you can come up with the answer by next Friday. And tune in next week, same time, same page when . . . once again, we will "Follow the Phosphorous Dot."
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