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Page 6 University Daily Kansan, November 10, 1981
Market hobby for sellers, customers
By AMY CRAIG Staff Reporter
Been looking everywhere for an RCA电台 from the 1920s? A Kansas sidewalk brick that says "Do Not Spit On Sidewalk?" A straw hat from the
For these or for many other things out of the ordinary, Quanttrill's Flea Market, 811 New Hampshire St. may be the place to go.
Quantrill's, which was opened by Glen Bridgman in October 1971, houses 40 shops owned and operated by private dealers. Most of the shops sell a general line of collectibles and antiques, including furniture, china, pottery, pictures, quilts, books, jewelry, clothes and clocks. However, Quantrill's also has shops specializing in one line of goods such as books, antique reproductions and miniatures.
Randy Davis is the current owner of the market, which is open Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Although Quantrill's is open only during the weekend, many of the tenants say they find themselves working seven days a week. During the week most of them spend time buying, refinishing, repairing and researching merchandise.
DEALERS MUST DO research to be knowledgeable about the goods they sell, said Claude Holeman, who owns a shop with his wife, Marian. Holeman said he spent about $500 a year on books and magazine subscriptions to keep informed about antiques and collectibles.
"There is no university that gives a degree in antiques," Holeman said.
"Not 'tat that sad?"
Most of the merchandise for the shops is purchased through other dealers, at estate sales, at antique shows and from personal contacts. However, some of the dealers said they traveled many miles searching for merchandise for their shops.
To find good merchandise a dealer must be 'alert and inquisitive. There hake to be i love affair with the merchandise," Marian Hooleman said. "It's
ALMOST EVERY dealer at Quantrill's started out as a collector, but their hobbies just mushroomed on them, so they became dealers. Thompson
Marj] Siewald, who had a shop at Quantrill's since the month after it opened, said she had collected perfume bottles since she was in junior high school. After going to auctions every Saturday for 10 years, and getting a couple of them, she opened her shop at Quantrill's out of curiosity. Soon afterward, she opened her shop.
Susan Henry, who has sold vintage clothing at Quantrill's since spring, owned a shop in Topeka for four years before coming to Quantrill's. owned
renry said she had already rented the space for her shop, so instead of gifts she brought in some of her antiques that she "wasn't too crazy about and they sold like hotcakes. So I had to go out and buy more things for my shop."
Henry said that her original plan was to open a gift shop in Topeka, but he wanted the shop to decide the gifts were all the same and were overpriced for their quality.
Holeman said that his shop was more of an avocation than a hobby. He and his wife originally opened their shop to give a son something to do. But their son changed his mind and the Holemans have been running the shop for five years. Holeman said.
"Old collectors never die, they just become dealers. There is more truth than poetry to that," said Holeman, who was a collector of 20 years before
THE SHOP IS also a good way to keep busy after retirement, and "the couple that munks together, toes together." Holeman said.
In addition to saying that the antique business is interesting work, most of the dealers said that it was profitable.
Erma Finch, a shop owner for 10 years, said that the business was profitable or she wouldn't still be at the market.
Because he is in the “want” business and not the “need” business, Holeman said that it did not bother him when he went six weeks without
"If we had to live off this shop we couldn't do it," Marian Holeman said. "We reinvest most of our earnings in merchandise, travel and we sell them."
SEIWALD SAID that although her business was profitable, customers did much less impulse buy now than when she started.
"Along with the economy, the reason there is less impulse buying is because people have reached a saturation point of what they want." Seiwalid said. "When Quantrill's first opened it was one of the few markets in this area, so a lot of people's bought impulsively."
HENRY SAID that she did almost all of her business with students and markets for market clothing in Lawrence is good because students are like her.
Although the antique business is profitable, the merchants warn that people should be cautious about going into such a business.
People interested in the antique business need to know that they "can't just go out and buy some antiques and start selling." Holeman said. "They need to take time to build up their clientele and reliability and use their knowledge to make their business a success."
R. L. Montrell has sold collectibles at Quantrill's Flea Market since its opening in 1971.
Kurt von Schlemmer, Leavenworth senior, makes a point to Gillian Logan, Wichita junior, during the production of "Brigadonna." "Brigadonna," which opened this past weekend in Murphy Theatre, con-
"Brigadoon" entertains with few weak spots
By ERLEEN J. CHRISTENSEN Contributing Reviewer
"Brigadoon" by Lerner and Loewe
Musicals have been the theatrical cash crop because musicals" is an old reliable, safe as wheat—or corn.
Lerner and Loee fans were out in droves on opening night last Friday at the University Theatre, fondly recalling past performances of their favorites. They seemed on the whole delighted with Tom Rea's production of "Briqdon" and for good reason.
There was the rotating set with its six tail,
whimsical pine trees, its fairy-tale houses and
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the little nooks and crannies of the Scottish village of Bridagoon. There was all that mist and glow—evenning and morning and moonlight—in a place that exists only one day in every 100 years.
There were all those songs everyone knows so well—and plenty of bonnie laddies and laddies to sing them while they danced about the stage. Above all, there was that haunting bagpipe music and those fellows in kills whose twinkling feet never disturbed the crossed swords they danced between. We couldn't stop clapping for those lads. I tell ye.
"Bridgson" is a play more for surgeries and dancers than for actors. But Demis Altschul and Larry Stephenson, as the two world-weary New Yorkers on vacation in Scotland, and Susan Hash, as Brigadison's town husy, get to show their stuff in a number of comic scenes.
As is the wist in musicals when things get romantic, lovers burst into song—which is just as well. All that treacle goes down easier to a lifting tune. The most engaging of these lovely songs were done by William Hite as Charlie Dralymple. His strong but wasful voice was perfect for "I'll Go Home with Bonnie Jean" and "Come to Me, Bend to Me."
Charlie and Jean have engaging parts and sing beautiful songs, but they are the show's counterpoint. The central couple is deanie's sister and Alexis, played by Tommy Albright, played by Dennis Allschwiel.
The scenes between these two are heavily sentimental and over dramatic. Samuelson has a beautiful operatic voice, while Allschul playm Tommy as the sort of clean-cut young man who ducks into phone booths and comes out with a gold "S" emblazoned on his chest. The result, unfortunately, is duets that seem like a splicing of La Scale and the Bijou.
For sheer entertainment, Hash's singing steals the show. She belts her songs out with a lusty heartiness totally appropriate for the role of Meg. But it's not all at times, but she's always, exuberantly, Meg.
Most of the chorus and the minor singers could take lessons from Hash. While their songs are pleasant to the ear, the words get lost in the resonance of the theatre.
The dancing is both the play's glory and its embarrassment. In the first act, the highland dancing in the village square sets a mood of gaiety and nostalgia for what is gone—or never could be. Hamlett and Heather Anne Murray dance beautifully in that first dance. The two weave in and out of dancing couples in a sort of courting歌 that creates just the right romantic mood for the play.
The play's finest moment—the sword dance at Charlie and Jean's wedding—is pure nostalgia. Doing with the ruthless authenticity provided by a really fine bagpiper, Jant Horskott, with exac-tional footwork of seven kilos who do the same duty while with flawless precision, it works—and works magnificently.
Two other dance scenes, however, lapse into pure indulgence that no amount of fine dancing can save. Kept short and poignant, Jean MacLaren's pre-wedding dance of reverie and Maggie Anderson's dance of grief could have been graphic visual underscores of key scenes in the play.
Instead, both dances have been expanded into long exhibitions of the virtuosity of dancers Gillian Logan and Murray, and the musical is put on "hold" until the dancing is done.
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