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University Daily Kansan, October 9, 1981
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Exhibition shows Indians' adaptability
BvCYNTHIA HRENCHIR
Staff Reporter
Doll that once decorated Hopi huts hang in a display case. Across the room, shell earrings that were a Plains Indian woman's pride are displayed on her neck. The man arrived,衣ed from the West Coast.
"I set up the exhibit with two themes in mind," said Marti Kreipe, designer from the Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall. "The first theme was that before the white man came to America, there was an Indian culture and the tribes were very aware of each other.
"Second, I wanted to show how the Indians have taken from the dominant culture—the American Indian—into something new."
KREIPE CONCENTRATED ON the Southwest
and the Hopt, with articles mostly from the late
1960s and 1970s.
19th and 20th centuries. A few modern pieces have been added, mostly from the Kickapo and the Potawatomie tribes of this area, and several from the Lawrence community.
One highlight of the exhibition will be pottery made by Maria Martinez, world-reknown for her work. Martinez rediscovered the way Southwest tribes hardened their pottery without kilns.
"They would build a fire, place a grate over it and put the pots they had made on it," said Kreipe. "When the fire was not enough, they would cover everything—the fire, the grate and the pots that were used for sheep dung. This baked the pots and also turned them from red clay to a deep, shiny black."
PICTURES WILL be shown of the early schools of Indian art, with examples of works by Richard Martinez, a relative of Maria's, from the late 19th century, who came from the Kiwai, or Oklahoma, school of style.
"Danny Miller, who teaches Indian art at Haskell Indian Junior College, designed our poster for the exhibition, and a few of his paintings paintings will also be shown," said Kriepfe.
A dress exhibit demonstrated how ideas in making clothes were borrowed from one tribe by another.
"The Apache would wear a deertail dress, where the deer's tail, the shape of the deer, where his legs and heels were still showing the outline," Kreipe said. "It was a simple dress, with two sides. You simply sewed two hides together."
"The Navaho weaving and beadwork demonstrate best, I feel, how Indian creative ability and Euro-American materials were combined," Kreipe said.
On Sunday, Oct. 11, at 2 p.m., an Indian dance show will be performed at the Museum of Anthropology.
Dresses from several tribes are part of an exhibition of Indian culture on display in Spooner Hall. The exhibition opens tomorrow.
Doctors, nurses trade scalpels for violins
By JOLYNNE WALZ
Staff Reporter
Melvin Mohn, an anatomy professor at the KU College of Health Sciences, flexed his fingers before picking up his instrument.
Then he started to play the violin.
"There's a strong correlation between music and medicine, but I don't know for sure what it is." conductor Leopold Shopmaker said last day at the Medical Arts Symphony Musicfest.
Even though it's a symphony composed of
auatures, that symphony creates
something in the StainlessSteel.
SHOPMAKER HAS BEEN the conductor of the thrombosis at it was founded 22 years ago.
Since then, he said, doctors, nurses, lab technicians, doctors' wives and other people who were just interested in music, but were not with the Med Center, have joined the symphony.
"The Medical Arts Symphony is semi-professional," he said. "Mostly they are medical people, but they are highly motivated. It's a form of therapy for them."
He is a charter member of the Kansas City
pharmonica and he also conducts the Kansas
City band.
Mohn echoed that opinion.
"I raise horses, too," he said. "It's something different, a way of blowing off a little steam."
MOHN SAID THAT he had learned to play the violin when he was a child, but now the only
place that he had to perform wa with the symphony.
The Medical Arts Symphony was founded by
Sharp a former Mid Center Lab technician.
Sharp retired from the Med Center Aug. 21, but he performed at the Musicfest Sunday night and in his spare time.
"Some friends and I decided that we wanted to form some sort of a chamber music group, so we advertised around the Med Center," she said. "When 50 or 60 people showed up and were interested, we knew we had a symphony, so we hired a conductor."
Shopmaker's salary, as well as the costs of programs and sheet music, is paid for with the money that the symphony takes in at the Musicest.
THOSE WHO attended the Musicfest paid $75 or $100 for the support of the Medical Arts Symphony, said Carol Bayer, a nurse at Baptist Church in Wilmington, Mo. Moyer plays violin with the symphony
For their money, the symphony supporters heard seven and one-half hours of music Sunday—everything from Mozart to popular guitar tunes to Appalachian folk songs.
She was elected the symphony's president this year.
The supporters also ate well.
"The symphony members cooked all the food, with the exception of the pig and the liquor," Bainville wrote.
A catering firm tended bar and roasted a whole pig, which was carried out to the dining room buffet, complete with an apple in its mouth.
LATER, as a quartet of cornet players played
ragtine, Bayer danced in the background with another member of the audience.
For comic relief, the Musicfest had Mini-
tature Writers that was intentionally written to gag a girl.
The blue-wigged conductor led the musicians with the aid of six batons.
During the afternoon, a kitted bagpipe player interrupted the musicians who were performing when he started tuning up in the backyard of the Musician's Pavilion in Kansas City, Mo., where the Musician was held.
Pretty soon, he had more of an audience than the scheduled performers.
TO OBLIGE the audience, he paraded inside and played a piece on his pipes.
"I prefer to play them outside, though," he said when he finished. "The apes are outside."
"We'll follow," someone in the crowd shouted,
and everybody trooned outside.
Of course, the respectable sounds of Vivaldi, Chopin and Bach were heard throughout the evening, but the most ingenious performance was Dorothy and Russ May's rendition of Bach's Third Cello Suite, played on a dulcimer and a wash basin.
Although they have both performed with the symphony, neither Dorothy nor Russ May is known to play it.
"I wanted to play with an orchestra, and I came around and found the Medical Arts Symphony."
The symphony's next performance has not been scheduled yet, but it will be sometime in early December at the Med Center's Battenfeld Auditorium. Shopmaker said.
The Ozark Mountain Daredevil will perform tonight at the Sigma Chi Derby day party. The party begins at 6 p.m. Tickets are $6.
Keith Branson, organist, will perform a student recital at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. No admission charge.
Caribee, a reggae and calypso band, will perform at 9 p.m. tomorrow in the Lawrence Opera House. Tickets are $2.50 for members and students, and $3 general admission.
Student creates commercial voices
The Vernier String Quartet will perform at
3:30 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. Monday in
the Mall Hall. Tickets are $3.50 for
KU students, $4.50 for senior citizens and
$7 general admission.
A collection of drawings by caricaturist 'marius de Zayas will be on display through
arts calendar
Art
By STU LITCHFIELD
Handmade and cast-paper pieces by Jean Van Harlingen will be on display through Oct. 28 in the Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and Vermont streets. No admission charge.
Nov. 8 in the White Gallery of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art. No ad
Willie Dixon, blues singer, will perform at 9 p.m. today in the Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St. Tickets are $5 advance sale and $6 at the door.
Music
"Masterworks of the American West," an exhibition of 50 works by painters of the frontier and modern West, will open Saturday in the Kress Gallery of the Spencer Museum. The paintings will be on display through Dec. 6. No admission charge.
Roberts, Overland Park sophomore, is what the advertising business calls a voice man, and his impersonation of Carter's speech gave him his start.
In December of 1978, President Carter gave a speech to Egyptian officials at the American Embassy in Cairo. It's possible that Europeans may have heard radio broadcasts of that speech, but what they heard was not Carter. It was 17-year-old Tom Roberts.
Roberts said he was living in Egypt at the time of Carter's visit and that a friend arranged the trip.
Staff Writer
"I'm not exactly sure what it was used for," Roberts said. "I think it was played for some other foreign correspondents or for radio broadcasts. Something along those lines."
According to Roberts, the U.S. government did not let the press in to hear the speech and a correspondent wanted a recording of it. So Roberts and a friend, who was related to an embassy employee, got the text of the speech and they recorded it for the correspondent.
"You hear about the guy who phoned Winston churchill a voice years ago. Well, I guess there's not much of a point."
SINCE THEN, Roberts has been impersonating a miraid of celebrities and has been getting paid for it.
Using different accents or impersonations, he has recorded the narration for several commercials. Each time he used different voices, he mimics the image the commercial was trying to create.
Before Carter, there were other attempts. Doing impersonations since childhood, Roberts would entertain his friends with the stuttered words of Jimmy Stewart or the smooth British wit of Corporal Newkirk from the television show "Hogan's Heroes."
"I do it all subconsciously," Roberts said. "I never tried consciously to get a voice and I ever forgotten a voice. I just get all this by hearing naturally. I had some since I graduated."
then adjusted his pronunciation to the different accents.
ROBERTS SAID he stored his voices. As a computer would store information on chips, he would put every voice on a subconscious chip. Roberts said on a roberts chip, the chips would fall back into place.
Robert's has also done accents, which he said were different than impersonations. He said he was a lawyer and the accents were
Although he has done voice work for several years, Roberts just started in the advertising business two years ago.
"I got tired of watching bad businesses," he said. "So I started calling businesses up and offering them suggestions about their com- pany. They all thought I was a crackpot, though."
The American Cancer Society didn't think so.
The American Cancer Society didnt think so. ROBERTS PHONED the society and commented on one of its commercials. He also offered his services for future jobs.
The commercial was for the society's annual garage sale and, according to Roberts, the response was so big that the society asked him to do all of the work for its other commercials in Missouri and Kansas. Since then, he has done two more of these, he has done for the society has been donated.
Several days later, the society returned his
call and asked him to do the narration for one of it.
He did.
"The big thing that helped me was my voice—my deep voice." Roberts said. "It sounds like I was a child."
"The first time they saw me, I was I was Tom Roberts, and one of the ladies looked at me and said, 'Oh, I was expecting a man.' 'Well, I'm close, I said.'"
From his work with the society, Roberts formed his own agency. According to Roberts, however, the agency didn't have a name at first because it was very informal. It is now called Roberts-Kenworthy, because he joined with a friend Charles Kenworthy, Overland Park freshman.
OTHER WORK they have done includes a commercial for KXTR radio station in Kansas City. Roberts said there was a possibility he would also do voice-overs for cartoons with a Kansas City animation shop and commercials for KJHK.
Robert's work over these past few years has not gone unrecognized. The American Cancer Society's Missouri division recently honored him with a Creative Services Award, and the Life Underwriters of Kansas City, an insurance group, presented an award to Roberts for his work promoting the Run Through the Zoo, a foot race through Swoto Park in Kansas City, Mo.
Roberts said although he had achieved some success in the advertising business, he would like to graduate from college before he worked full time.
"I've been told I can make a lot of money now, but I want to get an education and meet some people."
Friday, Oct. 9
Saturday, Oct. 10
Altered States
(1980)
William Hurt as a doctor whose ex-pirations in the recourses of the mind are often made up by her own before him Ken Russell's dazzling psychechiel horror thriller, from Paddy Chaysetya's book. With Blair Brown Chaysetya's book. (102/10 min.) Color: 3:30, 7:00; 9:30
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A moody, erotic film about her, her son, and her lover, an unusual, powerfully charge film with beautiful coastal scenery. With Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, and Elizabeth Colley selected by Lewis John Carlin (The Green Grades) (104 min) 1:20 color. 10:20 midnight.
Sunday, Oct. 11
Woman of the Year
(1942)
Swing Time
(1976)
(1836)
Two of Hollywood's greatest couples. Woman stars katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy; they're journalists who fall in love, swing stars Fred Astaire and Kate McGonagall in a dance team trying not to fall in love. Jangles jungles" number. Both directed by George Stevens. (112/105 min.) 8:4W, 2:00.
Unless otherwise noted, all films will be aboard at Woodford Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Midnight Movies are available at the SUA theater and are available at the SUA office, Kansas Union. 6th level, Kansas Union. Information allows smoking or refreshments allowed.
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