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University Daily Kansan, October 30, 1981
Spare time
Jaycees haunt house
By DIANE MAKOVSKY Staff Reporter
When an ape stands on the 23rd Street curb and beckons cars to turn into a parking lot, it
One Lawrence Halloween tradition is the Jaycee's Haunted House.
This is the tenth year for the house, located in the Southern Hills Mall, 23rd and Ousadha streets. The proceeds will go to the KU Audio Reader.
It costs $1.25, $1 with a coupon, to go through the house. Co-chairman of the project, Frank Dehart and Steve Markley, said they thought their house was good enough to be competitive with haunted houses in the Kansas City area that charge from $3 to $6.
THE HAUNTED HOUSE will be open tonight and tomorrow night from 7 to midnight.
Markley said besides raising money for the reader program, they wanted to "get the kids off
But the house is not only for children. People of all ages have gone through the house, and even the man who lives there
A woman leaving the house with her children only exclaimed, "Oh God," as she wandered to the door.
EACH YEAR room chairman are appointed in displays are chosen by the chairman, Debra Saunier.
This year there is a Chain Saw Massacre Room, which has caused some controversy as noted in a letter to the editor in Tuesday's Lawrence Journal World.
The letter, from Andrea Welborn, coordinator of a program for displaced homemakers, read, "Since the 'Chain Saw Massacre' is a movie which protsys violence against women, what is the rationale of the Lawrence Jaycee's Haunted House having a Chain Saw Massacre Room? Are"
witches, ghosts, and goblins not enough anymore?"
The movie, which was shown at the University of Kansas last year, is "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," Mike Gebert, SUA film chairman, said earlier this week.
HE SAID THAT the movie was based on a real crime.
"The movie is kind of tasteless," he said, "but I know the victims weren't all women."
"People love to be scared," Markley said
The Jayces said that the idea for the room came, from other haunted houses rather than from the movie. Neither Markley nor DeHart had seen the movie.
*People who to be scaled*, markery slam.
The are attracted to the interesting title of the movie.
The chain saw is used more for sound than anything else, he said.
HAUNTED HOUSES are not for everyone, and the chairman said they felt parental discretion should be used to decide if a child was too young to go through the house.
If someone seems too scared after he or she enters the house, there are people who will lead that person back out to the entrance, Dehart said.
There is a sprinkler system and fire exit in the house.
Dehart said the Jaycees had spent about $1,700 on the house. The space was donated by a Kansas City, Mo., developing firm, and many local companies have also donated items for the house.
The Jayces said that they had had a good response to the house. However, Dehart said, adults sometimes go through and try to destroy parts of displays or punch the monsters. But, he said, that doesn't happen too often and the problem is that the monsters are the trouble caused by a few unsavvy characters.
The Jayces, a civic organization, have been helped in this project by the Jaycees and many others.
arts calendar
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan Staff
Music
The Blue Riddim Band will perform at 9 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Lawrence Opera House, 442 Massachusetts St. Adjacent to the $3.50 for members and $4 for non-members.
The SUA-Ministry Affairs-International Club Dance will feature the Silver Star Steel Drum Orchestra at 9 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas University Ballroom. Admission is $15.
The KU Concert Series will present The Gregg Smith Singers at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Central Junior High School auditorium, 1400 Massachusetts St. Tickets are $8 and $9, with discounts for students and senior citizens.
Art
Carol Jean Planthaber, pianist, will perform as part of the Visiting Artists series at 8 p.m. Sunday in Swarthout Recital Hall. No admission charge.
Drawings by Lois Green and ceramics by Luella Vaccaro will be on display through Nov. 24 in The Gallery, 745 New Hampshire St. No admission charge.
"Masterworks of the American West," a collection of 50 paintings of the frontier and modern West, will be on display in the Kress Museum of Science Museum of Art. No admission charge.
Drawings by caricaturist Marius de Zayas will be on display through Nov. 8 in the White Gallery of the Spencer Museum. No admission charge.
Paintings by Gerry Lubensky, associate professor of art, will be on display through Nov. 5 in the Art and Design Building gallery. No admission charge.
Bodie, 21, plays Maggie in the production. Maggie is a sweet girl who was born to save her sister.
Jane Bodle, Lawrence resident and a member of the touring cast of "A Chorus Line," now showing in Kansas City, Mo., will appear from noon to 1:30 p.m. in today 242 Robinson.
Dancer to hold class
The workshop will be open to the public and will cost $3.00.
Bodie joined the company 15 months ago at an audition in Salt Lake City, where she worked as a salesperson.
Steve Envart applies makeup to Ruth Gress, one of the spooks at the Jaycee's Haunted House.
Amateur comics clown in tavern
Halloween entertainment will take a new turn when a company show of amateur acts plays with the audience.
The owners of Ichabo's, a 1929 schoolhouse converted to a tavern, decided to do something different to celebrate the tavern's famous statue. A horseback ride into midnight ride was told by Washington Irving.
"Since Halloween was his night, we wanted to do something special," Brad Greenwood, coworker, said.
His brother and partner, David Greenwood,
suggested that instead of throwing a Halloween
sweepstakes game at a family reunion,
"We have 12 people so far," Greenwood said. They will begin sharply either nine, with each on their own, or five.
A first prize of $50 will go to the best act, which will be indicted by the two gamers and their staff.
will be judged by the two owners and ... The Greenwoods, both KU students from Topea, assumed ownership of Ichabod's in August.
Halloween show to benefit players
The headless horseman will ride again tonight when the Seem-To-Be players present The Legend of Sleepy Hollow along with the movie's cast. The Vaudeville-Owen" benefit for the players.
During intermission, there will be a costume contest with several prizes and wine
Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
Rick Averill, director of the Seem-to-Be Team, paid $50 a person benefit would kick off the players.
the festivities will begin at 8 p.m. in the
For children, the center will offer its annual pumpkin carving from 10 a.m. to noon (9:30 a.m. Sunday).
on campus
TODAY
THE AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM will feature Carlos Blacklock, from the Federal Aviation Administration, and Daniel Eshar, from the Federal Aviation Authority, at 3:00 p.m. 314 Wasson Hall
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kanaas Union.
THE KU CHESS AND BACKGAMMON CLUB will meet at 10 a.m. in Alcove D of the Union.
TOMORROW
SUNDAY
THE KU CIRCLE K CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in 641 Mallott Hall.
Presents
From the director of DAYS OF HEAVEN "The most assured first film by an American since CITIZEN KANE."
—David Thomson
"The best film ever made in America."
—John Simon
Sissy Spacek Martin Sheen in Terence Malick's
2:00 p.m. Sunday, November 1st Woodruff Auditorium $1.50
Plus: Charlie Chaplin's ONE A.M.
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