Page 6 University Daily Kansan, October 23, 1981
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MIKE MANLEY Special to the Kanser
Members of the Tau Sigma dance ensemble practice a routine during one of the group's regular meetings he every tuesday night in Oakland. The Sigma is open to any interested in joining the group. Members can contact Tom at tom@tau.edu for more information.
KU group holds dance symposium
For $3, KU students and Lawrence residents may attend up to three dance classes a week for free. Class films about dance and dance performances by local dancer Marsha Paladan and students.
The 18th annual Dance Symposium, sponsored by the Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble, will offer classes in ballet taught by Elisse Dreyfus, physical education teaching assistant; jazz taught by Willie Leonor. Teachers will lead a beginning modern dance taught by Arvella Frazier, physical education teaching assistant; and intermediate and advanced
modern dance taught by Janet Hamburg, and taught of physical education and Tau Tadmur adviser.
Registration for the symposium will be from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. tomorrow, registration will be on the main door of Robbin Hall. The symposium will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tau Sigma is a dance club on campus that is "open to everyone. Anybody who loves to dance," Karla Flott, body president, said earlier this week.
The group has been at KU for about 60 years.
TODAY
on campus
THE POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRO-SEMINAR will feature Melvin Dubnick, associate professor of political science and Pete Jenkins, an associate professor of politics, discussing "The New Federalism, Gresham's
SOUL PURPOSE will present "Which Way is Up for Black America?" at b.p.m. in Lewis Hall.
Law and Regulation," at 3:30 p.m. in 525 Blake Hall.
'Evening Light' glows in Inge Theatre
THE KU CHESS AND BACKGAMMON CLUB will meet at 10 a.m. in Alcove D of the Union.
"Evening Light" by Alexel Arbuzov Directed by Kenn Wessel
By ERLEEN CHRISTENSEN Contributing Reviewer
"Evening Light," opening toright in the William Ige In Theatre in Murphy Hall, promises to be the best play so far in the University Theatre season. Much of the credit must go to Alexel Arbuzov's fine script, excellent acting by a group of University Theatre regulars and sensitive directing by Kenn Wessel should also garner their share of the praise.
The action of the play swirls in Laventy Yegorovich Palchikov, a newspaperman caught between his love for a forest being destroyed by developers and his loyalty to a friend and boss whose career would be destroyed by exposing the abuse of the developers.
Arbusov shifts defy from scenes at work to scenes at the Palichok home as Palichok develops an affection for a female co-worker who works at the forest and print and map the story of the forest's destruction.
The play deals with all the biggies—passion, ambition, friendship, family loyalty, loneliness, aging and idealism, as well as ecology and philosophy, progress and poetry. It could lapse into sloppy sentimentality or preach admonition, but a fast pace and a light touch are consistently pulling the script back from such abysses. And Arbusgrov's insistence on presenting
Review
sophomore, magnificently create the roles of Palchikov and Nikolayeva. They manage to play the developing attraction with a convincing combination of respect, reticence and sense well as humor and a certain ironic distance which recognizes the transiency of their attraction.
his characters as complex people caught in real mazes of conflicting attractions and loyalties.
The heaviest scenes of the major characters have their mocking counterparts in the interaction of minor ones. The on-again, off-again love affair of Palchikov's young daughter is a recurring lemotiv on the transienty and ridiculousness of passion that nicely counters the tenderly developed scenes between her father and his co-coworker, Tamara Nkolaveya.
LeWan Alexander, Junction City junior, and Margaret Humphreys, Houston, Texas.
The set looks deceptively simple, but it proves more than adequate for a play whose staging is delicate.
The play has a wealth of well-developed supporting roles. Fran Hale, Baldwin senior, plays Palchikov's wife, Inna-Sergeyeva, with a combination of distance and attachment. Larry Schneider, St. Louis, Mo., special student, plays the young reporter, Volodymyr Mikhno, as part of the cast of young idealist. Tom Roberts, Overland Makhno, plays as a thoroughly unlike Alexei Petrovich Galetsky, and has the audience feeling sympathy for him by the end of the play.
Often in the course of the play, three different actions are occurring at stage one. It is in the orchestration of these scenes that director Wessel's touch shows most.
Writer finds success at 67
By STU LITCHFIELD Staff Reporter
Monette Cummings writes because she has to.
Monette Cummings writes because and has no:
The need to write has always been there. So
you don't need a teacher. Monette
last few years has the short, gray-haired 67-year-old
able to satisfy her yearning.
Success as an author came to Cummings, 2424 Melrose Lane, with the publication of "Guardian Devil". Shortly after that came "Don't Wager on Love," and "The Scandalous Widow." Soon to come is "The Girl From America" and "See no Love."
"It's just something that there's," Cummings said of her talent for writing.
"It's work though. Don't let anybody tell you writing isn't hard. It's work hard, but the sort of work that makes it easy."
CUMMINGS WRITES Regency novels, books
and lives of the aristocracy of
19th-century England.
Regency novels follow a certain style and formula. There is always a virtuous, desirable heroine pursued by a rakih, swarty and shy woman who becomes their problems, and the end, it solves them.
"Guardian Devil," for example, ends on that happy tone, as the young, pure Maris and the handsome and wise Marquis of Theale give in to the inevitable course of their love.
"He caught her hand, kissing each fingertip, then the palm. As his lips touched her wrist, he flicked her.
SAYS THE MARQUIS "If we are to be happy together my dearest one, I shall have to find some way to overcome your dislike of being kissed. For I want—and intend—to kiss you often."
Cummings said her novels are not pornographic and do not contain anything offensive.
The key to a good regency is the fantasy element and an accurate background, she said.
"Sometimes just a little slip can ruin a novel," Cummings said. "In one of my books, I had a character visiting a certain building in England. Through my research I found the building where the scene takes place years later from when the scene was set. If I hadn't have caught it, somebody else would've."
ALTHOUGH CUMMINGS said she had only one month to recover, years she, bed with personal assistive in her free time.
"If I'm reading a regency and find such an error, it just ruins it for me."
Before writing regencies she wrote short stories for science fiction magazines, greeting cards, Sunday school verse, and an occasional bit of poetry.
IT WAS HER friends who talked her into writing the regency novels. So, after she retired from operating a gift shop in California, Cummings went to Lawrence to have with a cousin and to write.
Now, everyday from 7 a.m. to noon, Cummings pounds out her novels at a small portable typewriter. To prevent interruptions, she unplugs her phone and then lets her imagination take over.
"I guess I have a big imagination," Cummings say. "My imagination is vital to fiction. If you cannot imagine anything, anyway."
AND IN CUMMINGS' business, the cookier the better. That imagination has helped her to start realizing a life-long dream of success in writing.
"It's thrilling, it really is," Cummings said. "I just sold a hundred copies, I be thrilled."
"I think it was Samuel Johnson who said that nobody but a fool would write for anything but money. But I'd probably still write even if I didn't make any."
Great success would be nice, but Cummings is happy with the small amount she's achieved already. An occasional letter from a fan and her friend, a cover of a book are enough to make her happy.
"I've gotten several letters from a woman in Kansas City. She's prejudiced. She thinks I'm better than Barbara Cartland," Cummings said with modest joy.
"Something like that is a boost to the ego, like a starring role to an actor."
arts calendar
Music
The KU and K-State Men's Glee Club will perform in concert together at p.m. today in the Alumni Center for the Arts.
Doc Stevors汀 and Xebron will perform at 9 p.m. today at the Lawrence Opera House, 604 Massachusetts St. Admission is $11 for students and students, and $12.30 general admission.
Kelley Hunt and the Kinetics will perform at 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Lawrence Opera House. Admission is $2.50 for students and $3 general admission. No charge for members.
Brenna Little, pianist, will perform a
p.m. p.m. s.t. Sunday in Swarthout
Railhead Hall (No. 108).
Theatre
The Lawrence Community Theatre will present the musical "Little Mary Sunshine" at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow, and 3:30 p.m. Admission is $15.00, $25.00 for senior citizens.
The KU Inge Theatre Series will present "Evening Light!" at 8 p.m. today, tomorrow and Sunday. Tickets are $3 general admission and $1.50 for students.
Dance
Art
The Tau Sigma Student Dance Club will hold its 18th annual High School and College Dance Symposium from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Albion Center. The fee to participate is $3.
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"Masterworks of the American West," a collection of 50 paintings of the frontier and modern West, will be on display through Dec. 31. The exhibition is Spencer Museum of Art. No admission charge.
An exhibition of drawings by Lois Green, and ceramics by Luella Vaccaro will open tomorrow in The Marketplace Gallery, 745 New Hampshire St. The works will be on display through Nov. 24. No admission charge.
HAVE FUN
Sunday, October 25 1 a.m.
"A Scandal in Bohemia"
The King of Bohemia is about to marry the daughter of a Scandinavian monarch. A scandal is looming — the King's former mistress, Irene Adler, has no intention of withdrawing gracefully, and intends to send a certain photograph to the bride's parents. In a desperate attempt to get the photo from her brother, she wedding three days hence. The king engages Sherlock Holmes.
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