Page 6 University Daily Kansan, February 16, 1982
Spare time
Open mike offers a chance to perform
ROBERT WISEMAN
Staff Writer
Liz Anderson, Rich Frydman and Melvin Litton. Not your everyday household-word music personalities. But then Bob Dylan was just a "cross between a chairboy and a beatnik," a writer Robert Shelton beset him at a club called Greenwich Village—niven his dues, as they saw.
It's Open Mike Night, every Tuesday at Off-The-Wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire St. Anyone with any form of entertainment is encouraged to take their act out of the closet and sign-up for one of the seven or eight 20-minute time slots. Admission is free.
And that's what these three Lawrence song/singer们 are doing—trying to be heard. Now, thanks to Billy and Terry Ebeling, they have the last one opportunity to play in public every week.
"This is artistic expression," said Terry, Lawrence senior. "We don't kick anybody off the bus."
The idea for an open mike show came while the bottom — and I find a gag for their act, the Rudolph Regal of Redhats.
"Donnie (an Off-The-Wall Hall manager) told
us there weren't any openings in the schedule."
we used us we could do an open
make, and they would provide
a job.
Frydman has played guitar since he was nine-years-old and got his first chance to play in public four years ago at the Pentimento, a downtown Lawrence coffee house, which has since closed. Frydman said the Open Mike Show and the void created by the Pentimento closing.
Litton, who recently returned from a trip to New York where he played at some folk clubs, said he used the Open Mike Show to try out new songs.
"It beats playing on the back porch," said Anderson, who has been performing for four years.
"Most rigs you have to play a certain tempo, but here you can play what you want," said Jack Hammond. "I'll probably just play the bass."
He also said open mike was good for practicing behind a Mike.
"It's a lot different than just playing in your living room." he said.
"No matter how many times you've played in tennis, you still feel unnatural practices," said Litton.
Actually, the for an open mike show can be traced back to the Wednesday night jam
"Back then nobody used the stage, they just played out by the street," Billy said.
session, started five or six years ago when Steve Mason opened what is now Prairie Music School.
But, he said, the open mike entertainers were more varied in their acts than the original jam group.
Besides the many Bob Dylan-type of solo acts, a typical Open Mike Show might include magic acts or juggling, Cullen Mertes and Steve Goetz are the "Rainbow Brothers," and they juggle everything from "Max the 'Ax" to flaming tennis balls in the Open Mike Show.
No matter who is included in the Tuesday night shows, the Ebeling brothers usually close the evening's entertainment with their blues-oriented act. They are paid $15 for organizing the show, so, as Terry pointed out, this is not a big money-making venture.
"This isn't a bunch of musicians out for a fast buck," he said.
Agreeing with his brother on the fact that money was not the main reason for his involvement in the Open Mike Show, Billy had a slightly different opinion about his work with the musicians. He thought he could back for all of the open mike chances he had had since he started playing guitar in high school.
Liz Anderson, 736 Missouri, takes the opportunity to exercise her vocal chords at the weekly Open Mike Show at the Off-the-Wall Hall.
By DEBBIE DOUGLAS Staff Reporter
KU students now have access to a color/light laboratory where they can study the interaction of color and light and their effects on cells. Dr. Menn, Mann, is an academic and actress.
Mann said the laboratory's equipment could also be used to study how different combinations of light and color could change the dimensions of moving shapes.
Jones experimented with kinetic light and color in the late 1930s and early 1940s while he was $ p $ KU faculty member in the art and design department.
The equipment was donated by the widow and family of Tom Douglas Jones.
Equipment for the Tom Douglas Jones Color/Light Laboratory was dedicated yesterday. The laboratory contains Jones' color and light research inventions.
"Being able to use this equipment has put a whole new education in my teaching," Mann said. "And I don't have any motivation problems with my students."
She said students could add music to their
color, light and design creations and make a totally new environment.
In one of Jones' inventions, colored lights that can be turned on or off separately are set up behind a rotating three-dimensional shape attached onto a projected glass screen, Mann said.
Designs projected on the screen can be photographed creating a different style of art. Recognizable images as well as those that are abstract can be created, she said.
Another of Jones' inventions is simply a rotating盘 on which cardboard disks with black-and-white designs can be spun, Mann can manipulate the disk fast enough, the viewer can see other colors.
Mann said that Jones was one of the few people who had experimented with color and light in this way and that he had written a book called "The Art of Light and Color."
A museum wanted to buy Jones' 12 inventions, but his wife wanted the equipment to be used so that light and color experimentation could continue. Mann said.
Mann said she doubted if there were any other laboratories like this one in any other country.
milestones
CINDY TREASTER, Lawrence graduate student, has been awarded a travel subsidy by the Council on International Educational Exchange. Treaster will use the award to carry out a study program in Haiti. She is one of eight students nationwide to receive this grant.
DAVID DARWIN, associate professor of civil engineering, was elected as a fellow to the American Concrete Institute at the Institute's convention last fall.
CARLYLE H. SMITH, professor emeritus of has been invited to participate in a conference at the Smithsonian Institution. The conference, the first of its kind, is being called
BARBARA ETZEL, professor of human development and family life has received the 1981 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award for her work in developing methods to teach children with learning problems. In conjunction with the award, Etzel was the guest of the Japanese government from mid-November to mid-December.
for the purpose of recording and preserving the important history of metallismmating and jewelry from pre-World War II to the present. Smith was the founder of the KU jewelry and metallismmating program. The new jewelry and metallismmating programs and Design Building will be named in his honor.
By MICHAEL GEBERT Contributing Reviewer
Historical 'Ragtime' recollects the past
RAGTIME
Starrying Brad Dourif, Mary Steinburen, Howard Rollins, James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, James Olson, Kenneth McMillan, Normale M师, Pat O'Brien, Robert Joy, Donald O'Connor, Matinick Written by Michael Weller, Directed by Milos Forman.
The difficulty in adapting a patchwork novel like E.L. Doctoor's "Ragtime" is in knowing which parts of the patchwork to use, which to choose, and how to render them beforemost of which is the original plan to have
Robert ("Nashville") Altman direct—never the less, we do have Milos Forman's new film "Ragtime" before us, and it is a very fine film indeed.
Review
Not having been much of a fan of the book in the first place, I sympathize with Forman's choices. Doctorow's book seemed to me to be a catch-all historical pastiche—the highbrow equivalent of one of those Sherlock Holmes things where Karl Marx and Teddy Roosevelt help HolmesMcKinley's assassination. In the movies, however, taking a bit of this, a touch of that, two jewish immigrants here, a black piano player there.
Three strata of society are mixed with famous people to create Doctorow's stew. There's Father (Olson), Mother (Steenburgen) and Younger Brother (Dourif), a tight-laced family of Protestant-work ethnic types choking on their high-collars; there's Coalhouse Walker (Rolls), a black piano player who entires their lives when Mother takes in the illigible son Cole (Nicholas), a queen is a possessor in the bushes; there's a Jewish peddler (Pattinik), who eventually becomes an early motion picture producer—and in the book, invents the Little Rascals.
The film delineates the disintegration of the ultra-sterile household as they come in contact
with the world. Coalhouse becomes a black terrorist after some goons destroy his brand new Model T. Younger Brother involves involved with Evelyn Nesbit, the woman over whom millionaire Harry Thaw shot archived Stanford White in one of the most famous murder cases of the century (that's true); and Mother makes a meek but firm blow for liberation by taking in Coalhouse's baby.
There's a suggestion of Altman in the way the film seems made up of half-glimpsed moments—the murder of White Mailer), Nessit being paid to investigate the murders of his nakedness, police inspector Cagney, showing more contempt for the descrainer of Coalhouse's Model T than for the black man holding the J.P. Morgan library hostage. But the difference Hermann's vision of America—an imn-altman version.
The same attitude was shown in Louis Malle's "Atlantic City;" for some foreign-born film-makers, America seems to be a great toy, a comic strip company, a Disneyland to live in. The Czechborn Forman can't see any real bad in the total loss of cynicism which is refreshing.
That doesn't mean that Fornan (and his scenariist, Michael Weller) are naive, but that they give everyone a chance. Doctoro's Father was a repressed capitalist, bad in bed (the sin of being a capitalist) and distressed when the natural curtors turn out to be so natural. It's a more truthful stance. And
by extension, Coalhouse's self-destruction is precisely that; he's not a victim of fate.
Because of its setting—the early 1910s—'Ragtime' is compared by some to 'Reds'. It isn't a very appropriate comparison, 'Reds' says. So when John Lee sells itself like John Reed sold socialism; 'Ragtime' is more stately, more clinical; 'Ragtime' would never have had the 'Reds' bit with the dog scratching at the bedroom door; if it knew of 'Reds' fire and chutzpah, that's the price.
Not that "Ragittum" is sterile. Many bits are endearing, particularly Cagney and Elizabeth McGovern—Tim Hutton's girlfriend from "Ordinary People"—as the casually mercenary Nesbit. McGovern will probably get an Oscar for it. The settings are excellent, especially the scenes in the Jewish immigrant areas. And Mary Steenburg's portrayal of Mother is extraordinary, quiet, reserved, yet incredibly moving at times.
The film is aided enormously by its scrupulous, expensive historical setting, the excellent cast (there are simply no bad players in the film) and Randy Newman's fine score. But it does not come to light until later, built by Forman and Weller. They worked together on "Hair," and it is hard to imagine anyone else who could have done such a project with a straight face, let alone the combination of visual and narrative elements they achieved. With "Ragtime," they have made the film that gives us the past we had forgotten.
on campus
TODAY
THE STUDENTS CONCERNED WITH DISABILITIES will sponsor a discussion, "ALCOHOL ABUSE A DISABILITY," at 4 p.m. in the pajay Hawk Room of the Union.
THE NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS ORGANIZATION will sponsor a dutch lunch for members at 11 a.m. in Cork II of the Kansas Union.
INCENTIVE OF STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS IN ACTIVITY SPONSOR A LEADERSHIP TRAINING WORK-
SHOP at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
TOMORROW
THE TAU SIGMA DANCE CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in 242 Robson堡
THE MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRIES
will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlors A and B of the University.
THE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
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