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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 12. 1960
KU GOES OVERSEAS—Sharon Tebbenkamp, Salisbury, Mo., junior, Harry Hopkins, Duncanville, Tex., senior, and Leslie Coover, Junction
City junior, pack one of the footlockers that will carry scenery, costumes and props overseas for the KU "Brigadoon" troupe.
18 'Brigadoon' Cast-Members, 10 Trunks Ready for Far East
The 18-member cast and crew of the University's vagabond theater troupe is preparing for departure Friday for the Far East.
The members of the cast of "Brigadoon" will spend eight weeks touring U.S. military installations and U.S. embassies in the Far East.
This is the first KU production to participate in overseas tours, which have been sponsored for the past three years by the U.S. government and the American Educational Theatre Association.
The group will arrive in Tokyo on Sunday. Air transportation will take them to performances in Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, the Philippines, and other Pacific islands.
The usual seven-week tour has been extended one week for the KU group for performances sponsored by the State Department in American embassies in Tokyo and Manila.
Each year eight American colleges and universities are selected to send overseas touring dramatic productions as entertainment for American servicemen and cultural exchange programs. Four go to Europe and North Africa, four to the Far East.
Individuals traveling abroad worry about living out of suitcases, but the KU theatre troupe must somehow pack a complex musical production of "Brigadoon" into ten Army footlockers.
The "orchestra" takes up one foot-locker, with a stereo set, two speakers, and the tape-recorded music of the University orchestra under the direction of Robert Baustian.
The remaining nine footlockers must accommodate the elaborate Scottish costumes for the 23 parts—six cast members play dual roles—and other gear necessary for performances in sites ranging from outdoor areas to the American embassies in Tokyo and Manila.
Dr. Lewin Goff, director of University Theatre and unit manager for the overseas group, is the only person going along who does not act. He runs the stereo set, in addition to his other duties.
Mrs. Goff doubles as a cast member and chaperon. Choreographer Tomi Yadon, stager Sidney Berger, and set designer Jim Gohl all play roles.
Everything has been pared to an efficient, versatile minimum, including the script itself which has been
reduced to 90 minutes to meet military requirements.
Even the footlockers do double duty. They form the basis of an imaginative multi - use setting changed by the players for the various scenes.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—It happened at the 1912 convention of Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party.
Sen. Albert Beveridge of Indiana was presiding. He had been banging his gavel for order but the noisy delegates weren't heeding him. Then, as sometimes happens, the convention suddenly became quiet—while Beveridge was still shouting. His voice boomed throughout the great hall;
"Where in the blank is that blankety-blank preacher so we can start the blankety-blank prayer and get some blankety-blank quiet around this place."
Political conventions always produce unexpected laughs. All America enjoyed the joke in 1952 when a Puerto Rican delegate to the Democratic convention kept demanding "poll's" of his three-member delegation. The home audience on TV was similarly in on the fun when "Joe Smith" was nominated for vice president at the Republican convention in 1956.
Some of the funnier episodes take place backstage.
There was, for example, the elderly lady who walked into the headquarters of one candidate at Chicago eight years ago and announced that she wanted to "speak to the man in charge of organizing spontaneous demonstrations."
Laughs Abound At Conventions
AUSTIN, Tex.-(UPI)-At a recent seminar for justices of the peace, Frank McBee of Austin demonstrated his style of JP weddings. McBee married Toni Fave and Edward Joseph Smith while the other justices at the seminar served as witnesses.
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