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Spare time
Play turns back clock
"Holiday" by Philip Barry Directed by Harry Park
By ERLEEN J. CHRISTENSEN Contributing Reviewer
They've turned back the clock in the Inge Theatre. It's 1927 among New Yorkers who know how to be rich.
Butlers step out of the magazines in grandma's attic—simpily fixed on their faces and every hair sliced into place; lost generation hirses lappar charmingly into drink and the pursuit of pleasure—or not so charmingly into business; two engaging young flappers with Cupid's-bow mouth tangle with their stuff banker father; and an engaging young suitor who made good in Horatio Alger style rocks the Seton household by throwing "it" all over.
"R," as the Setons coy call money, is what the play is all about. Those who delight in the antics of people who have money and know how to dress with flair and style will love "Holiday."
Those who yawn at the plight of poor little rich girls may nod off during the scenes where the Setons and young suitor Johnny Case spar over philosophies of getting and spending.
The Seton clan is considerably more entertaining when the kids are trying to outwit them.
The set is properly elegant. The staging is
Ned sneaks drinks, and Linda and sister's new fiance engage in witty repartee. When friends Nick and Susan Potter, played superbly by Lyle Wilson and BIG Bronfman, start satiizing the in general and stuffy cousin Seton Cram and, particularly, the audience is awake and laughing.
Harry Parker, the play's director, has given Philip Barker's "Holiday" the same faithful and authentic restoration that other folks lavish on elegant New York brownstones, and the play has all the charms (and drawbacks) of a house restored right down to the chain mail toilet.
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traditional. The young Setos deliver user-writtest lines with a certain appearance diction, offhand elegance and bored superiority that such students have taught us to associate with wealth and breeding.
Parker's impulse to create a period piece makes the things that aren't quite faithful resorations of the 1927 play seem disproportionately jarring. An awkward gesture, a crooked stocking or a less-than-elegant costume stands out. The stage hands she self-conscious on the curtainless stage—Barry would have given them a curtain to hide behind.
Bv SUSAN JEZAK
Staff Reporter
When Dick Wright transferred to the University of Kansas in 1851 as a sophomore majoring in voice, he had a small collection of jazz records. Thirty years later, he is donating his collection, now worth $200,000 to $250,000, to KU.
"in jazz alloy, it's certainly one of the largest
trophies in music history, to recognize a professor
of music history, said Wednesday.
The collection contains 12,000 jazz LP's, a about 85,000 books and about 40,000 books, magazines and periodicals, he said.
It also contains original records from the early 1930s and reissued recordings from as early as 1917. One reissued record in the collection is the first jazz recording, containing "Darktown Strutters Ball" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. The record was released in 1917 by RCA and there has been debate as to whether the recording was a novelty or a jazz selection.
He had a jazz band at the time, Wright said, but his greatest love was singing.
Wright said he grew up hearing jazz and opera and thought it only natural to study classical voice and the clarinet. He realized at KU that voice would be his master field.
He started working at the music library at KANU in 1966 and became director in 1970.
After he earned a master's degree in voice, he was accepted to audition with the Metropolitan Opera Association in New York City. He returned to Lawrence a few months later and still occasionally sings professionally for weddings and funerals.
"I just started teaching a jazz history course in '73 for the heck of it," he said. And by 1978 he was a part-time teacher of pop and jazz history and part-time associate director at KANU. This fall he became an associate professor of music history.
"Four or five years ago, Jim Searver gave KU his collection and it seemed like a good idea," Wright said. So he decided to donate his work to Jasper Garton Research Library in Murphy Hall.
Final plans are being made to move the collection into the library by next semester, Wright said, but it may not be ready for use until fall of 1982.
And several problems have risen from the donation.
Ailey company dancing 2 shows this weekend
The group is actually Alley's second company and was formed in 1974. Alley and his original company are based in New York, Jacqueline Davis, director of the KU Concert Series, said
Alvin Leley's Reportery Dance Ensemble will enliven the stage in Hoch Auditorium with a program combining ballet, jazz and modern dance at 8 p.m. today and toomgrout.
The group will stage an open rehearsal at 1:30 p.m. today in Hoch. Wear microphones, the dancers will explain their moves for an audience and teach the children schoolchildren who will watch the group rehearse.
"These dancers are young people who at some point go to the main Alvin Alley company, if they want."
Kristin Benjamin, director of the Lawrence school of Ballet, said the group performed *The Nutcracker* in 2014.
"The style of the company is a warm style that people can identify with," she said. "It is one of the two most popular touring dance companies in the nation."
The company recently made its seasonal debut in New York, where critics gave favorable reviews.
"It's the kind of company that people who don't know if they like dance should see, because they're not afraid."
Tickets are on sale at the box office in Murphy Hall.
The largest problem involves cataloging the collection and deciding in what capacity it will be used. Wright did one catalog from memory to have the collection appraised, but the catalog needs to be transferred to a library's structure. He plans to take part in this process.
The University plans to devise courses and summer workshops utilizing the collection and there may be difficulty determining how outside groups can have access to it, he said. Eventually,
Dick Wright
the collection will be used by everyone from music history researchers to television studios.
Problems have also developed from stipulations Wright put on the donation. These include his unrestricted use of the collection for his three radio programs that air on KANU and KFKU of Lawrence and WREN in Topeka. His results from the programs have resulted in contract problems.
"The University is making a pile of loot from the problem we have to solve," Wright pro-
blem will themseyevse out. "Wright is going to be the king."
In the sitting room of Edward Seton's house, Linda Seton (Angela Wallace) makes a point to Johnny Case (Mark Rector) while Ned Seton (Mark Cocanoughe) and Julie Seton (Lisa Heffley) listen. 'Holiday,' a comedy by Phillip Barry, is being presented in the William Inge Memorial Theatre through Oct. 4 in Murphy Hall.
Daredevils to highlight Derby Day events
Bv JANICE GUNN
Staff Reporter
KU students will welcome the Ozark Mountain Daredevils back to the University for their second consecutive homecoming weekend performance.
But this year the band will be sponsored by a fraternity rather than the Student Union Activities, the group that usually supplies the homecoming concert performances.
After SUA's disappointing cancellation of Oscar's Pearson's jazz concert, students will listen to a line-up of Mofet-Beer Band and Mofet-Benny Berger events at the annual Sigma Chi Dervy Day O. 97.
The Ozark Mountain Daredevil's performance was not certain until two weeks ago, said Bill Bruce, Wichita junior_ and Derby Day co-chairman.
He said that originally the Dave Mason Band and the date first scheduled for the event was September 18.
Now that the homecoming concert sponsored by SUA was canceled, the timing for Derby Day were announced.
Derby Day will be on University property at 23rd and Iowa streets. Last year the fraternity collected $3,500 for its national charity, the Childhood Children in children with brain damage in Brownsville, Colo.
Chuck Mackey, also co-chairman for Derby Day, said the fraternity hired a big-name band this year and hoped to make a larger contribution to the Wallace Village.
Mackey said the sororities helped collect the profits and promote the Daphnia additives.
The KU sororities compete annually for the
Sigma Chi Derby Day Champion trophy for the security that compiles the most points from four
The events began Tuesday night when the sororites each received 100 tickets to sell before Derby Day. Each sorority competes by putting on a skirt for members of Sigma Chi.
The sororities in the contest are also rated on how well they can surprise the members of Sigma Chi. They are required to give the answer true, false, and will be rated on how effective the surprise is.
Tomorrow, the batting sororites will play a scrumming football game at 2:30 p.m. on the team's home field.
The concert and events are promoted by Chris Fritz, and Contemporary Productions, a Kansas City concert promotion company. Tickets are $6 and available at Kief in Lawrence, the Sigma chairman, Tiger's Records in Kansas City, Mother Earth in Tooele and any KU Sorority.
Potters peddle
wares Saturday
work from about 15 potters will be for sale.
The Lawrence Potters' Guild will hold its annual sale tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the lawn of the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
Work from about 15 potters will be for sale. The Arts Center will receive a commission from the sale and all the money from a $1 an item grab bag. The grab bag contains useful items that have minor flaws, Clare Belt, Arts Center secretary and guild member. said this week.
arts calendar
Bell said the group members enjoyed getting together to sell each other's pots, and that they liked the idea of helping out the Arts Center.
If it rains tomorrow, the sale will be held Oct.
10. Checks will be accepted at the sale, but the guild is not equipped to accept credit cards, Bell said.
Theatre
Music
"Holiday," by Philip Barry, will be presented at 8 p.m. today, tomorrow and Sunday in the William Inge Theatre. Tickets are $1.50 each, $2 for senior citizens and $3 for the public.
The Secrets, a rock band, will perform at 9 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St. Tickets Opera students and students and $3 general admission.
Henry Cuesta, clarinetist, will perform at 9 p.m. today in The Jazz Place, 225 Massachusetts.
perform at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre. No admission charge.
Dance
The KU Wind Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. used in Saworth Inclub Hall. No admission.
The University Symphony Orchestra will
The Alvin Alley Repertory Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium. Tickets are $2 and $3 for each adult (senior citizens, senior citizens, and $$ for the public).
Art
A caricature exhibition by Marius de Zayas will be on display in the White Gallery of the Spencer Museum through Nov. 8. No admission charge.
Members of the Alvin Alley Repertory Dance Ensemble rehearse for this weekend's performances in Hoch Auditorium.
Stones' fans to make 600-mile trek
Hundreds of KU students, most of who were barely old enough to remember when the Rolling Stones first started, will make a 600-mile trek to Boulder, Colo., to see the Stones in concert.
Although the group has been in existence since the early 1960s, and its lead singer, Mick Jagger, is now 38, the band is drawing drowses of fans in its first American tour in three years.
The Stones, who made "Honky Tonk Woman" and "Brown糖 Sugar" famous, will play two concerts this weekend at the 80,000-capacity venue. Saturday afternoon and the other on Sunday.
Kief's, 210 W. 25th St., the only ticket agency
of its 690 tickets Tuesday to晚. The sold of the
its 690 tickets Tuesday to晚.
The first of the concerts was sold out within
At least one group of KU students has rented a bus to make the trip.
One Stones admirer, David Hoffman,
Lawrence senior, said he was going because the group was "one of the greatest rock-and-roll bands ever."
Hoffman said that a lot of students were making the trip because the Stones did not tour
"There's a perennial rumor that each tour will be the last one," he said.
Asked if he was upset that the Stones had decided to bypass Lawrence, Hoffman said, "I wouldn't come to Kansas if I were the Rolling Stones."
The Stones kicked off their tour last week at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.
on campus
TODAY
THE RIVER CITY WOMEN'S HEALTH COLLECTIVE will hold an open house from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The River City Community Center, 200 River City Blvd., Denver, CO 80210.
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
RECREATION SERVICES SOCCC HILL
RECREATION SERVICE played at 4 p.m. on the fields east of Robbins Center.
TOMORROW
THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION RECEPTION
will begin at 9 a.m. on the first floor of Bailey Hall.
THE NAVAL ROTC AWARDS CEREMONY
will be at 9 a.m. in Swarthout Reception Hall.
THE AIR FORCE ROTC OPEN HOUSE will
begin at 3 a.m. in Room 1807 Military Science
Bldg.
THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
OPEN HOUSE will begin at 9 a.m. in Room 2006 Malott Hall.
THE DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
begin at 9:30 a.m. in the
Society Museum of Art
THE STUDY ABOB Open HOUSE will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Room 108 Strong Hall.
EVENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES RECEIPT will begin at 10 a.m. in Room 2134 Wescoe Hall.
THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND DYNAMIC ENGINEERING will begin at 9 a.m. in Room 4007 Learned Hall
THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS RECEPTION
wash in 10 a.m. in Room 126 Summerfield
wall.
SUNDAY
THE KU CIRCLE K CLUB will meet at 7 p.m.
in Room 614 Mallet Hall.