Tuesday, March 15. 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Looks This Way
By Jack Harrison
A Sunnyside resident, who happens to be a graduate student in comparative paleobotany, was out in the yard trying to give his young son a practical education.
"Now you see, pardner, it's a kind of green stuff, and it grows all over the ground, where there isn't any sidewalk or street. They call it grass."
"Lemme see some of it, daddy," the kid pleaded.
"Well, son, I sure like to show you, but it's all gone now. No one has seen it for quite some time. Maybe some day..."
"But, daddy, what's this sidewalk and street you were talking about?"
"You see that kind of low path in the snow over there, son? Where the dogsleds go back and forth? That's a street. Down there deep under the snow is asphalt, bricks, concrete and hard things like that. That's a street."
"But I don't unnerstan, pop," the kid whined.
"I'm sorry, pal, but it's just hard to describe something you haven't seen for a long time. Maybe some day..."
The kid brushed the snow from his cowlick as he grabbed the old man's hand and trudged back toward the house between the 20-foot walls of snow.
"How come the reindeer are eating the shingles on Billy's house, pop?"
"Well. I guess there's nothing left for them to eat, old buddy. They finished off the trees last week — and the bird-houses, too."
"Hey, dad, what's a bird,
hub?"
"A bird's a kind of little feathery animal that flies around up in the air. Uh, I
mean they used to fly around up in the air. They're all extinct now, son. The snow got 'em."
"But how could they fly around up in the air if the snow's all over? How could they see?"
"Well, the air isn't always full of snow, cowboy. Er. I mean it didn't used to be full of snow. Anyway, sometimes it isn't snowing. But I guess that was before your time. Maybe some day..."
"Hey, pop, mom's calling ya."
"What is it, dear?"
"The chimney's buried again. Get up there and clean it off!" "Okay, I'm on my way."
"Just a sec, pop — one more thing. What's that big hump out there behind the house?"
"Well, son, we used to have a thing called a car—a while back, that is. Out there is where we parked it. I'll tell you all about it some time, chief. A car's a very handy thing to have around—if you can drive it, I mean. Maybe some day..."
By Stuart Levine Instructor of English
Their approach to the Brahms C Major Trio, Opus 87, was almost operatic, and the work sounded very nice this way. Mozart's B Flat Major Trio, K 254, was given a similar treatment, which made for rather strange Mozart. This is a rather straightforward work, I think, and although I like my Mozart on the rare side, I'm not used to it quite this juicy. But what the Trio did seemed artistically valid. Certainly they carried it off well.
We happy few who braved the drifts last night heard a lovely concert as the Trio di Bolzano returned to Swarthout Recital Hall to demonstrate that its fine performance last year was no accident. If it was blizzardy outside, there was sunshine aplenty indoors. These guys are really good.
Dmitri Shostakovitch's Trio Opus 87 followed the intermission. If not a very profound work, this is certainly challenging. It opens andante with an excruciatingly difficult harmonic passage for the cello. After a poignant opening comes a sardonic central section, then a return to the andante. The second movement, marked allegro non troppo, is a sort of drunken waltz. Movements three and four are performed without pause. The third is a sombre large, the fourth one of those nonsense pieces, in the vein of the Polka from The Age of Gold or the Scherzo of the Fifth Symphony, which are among Shostakovitch's specialties. At its close there is a repetition of the large theme.
And it all sounded extremely good, which should indicate the Trio's flexibility. Giannino Carpi, the violinist, looks like a headwaiter, but plays like velvet. Cellist Santa Amadori, chamber music's answer to Kookie, is an earnest young man who looks to me like a major talent. And the spectral pianist Nunzio Montanari has a touch which reminds one of Serkin's. I wish the piano had been wide open; everything he did was worth hearing.
The little audience insisted on encores, and one of them, a Dvorak Andante Moderato, was revealing in the light of the Shostakovitch which preceded it: it showed how old-hat Shostakovitch really is, and how thin is his modernism. Here was the same bag of tricks, less only the superficial dissonance.
Children Giggle, Sigh, Gasp As They See 'Rapunzel' Play
By Donna Engle
Boys and girls sporting pony tails, crew cuts, ski sweaters and scout uniforms squirmed in their chairs and scampered about the aisles last night while they awaited Rapunzel.
Giggling and whispers came from the audience as the lights dimmed and heralded the beginning of the "Rapunzel and the Witch" premiere.
Jack Melanos' adaptation of the classic fairy tale was given by the University Children's Theatre. Directed by Bernice Harvey, the play also will be given at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow through Friday and at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Experimental Theatre.
The settings for the play were complex. The costumes were simple. Both were effective.
Settings, Costumes Effective
Widened eyes took in the opening scene. The Witch and Rapunzel's parents sprang to life amid the magic setting containing the Witch's garden with its talking stone, tree and plant.
Enthralled children and amused adults watched as the power-crazed Witch stole Rapunzel from her parents and planned to turn her into a fellow witch so that the Witch could maintain her power.
Talking Tree Intrigues
The audience responded with "ohs" to the effective use of sound and light when the makebelieve tree, plant and stone spoke. As each object spoke, its eyes lit up, catching the children's attention.
"Oh, no!" resounded when the intriguing witch (played by a male) began to stir her witch's brew of lizzards, vipers and snakes.
During the intermission the children romped about and voiced their reaction to the first act.
Witch Shunned
"I don't like the Witch because she's ugly and casts bad spells. And I don't want her to sign my autograph card, either," said a seven-year-old named Jane.
John, Jane's older brother, said, "I think the Witch is good because she has to yell so much."
Judith, an eight-year-old, said, "You mean my name is going to be in the paper? I'm glad I came.
He said if he could have the magic talking stone,he would ask it for some money,rather than for evil power.
"I want to ask the actors afterwards if the Witch is really mean," she added.
An outburst of whistling greeted the beginning of the second act.
The audience saw Rapunzel spirited away to a lonely tower because she would not drink the third cup of the brew which would have transformed her into a witch.
The children mocked the Witch's "Prince Eric" screaming at the conclusion of the first scene of the second act.
Pleas of "Mama, wait," and "Let me out of here," were heard when the children had seen Rapunzel rescued by Prince Eric and the final curtain was drawn.
School of Business Names 59 To Fall Semester Honor Roll
"The steps are back there," cried the observing youngsters who noted that the Witch did not climb the tower solely with the aid of Rapunzel's long hair.
Fifty-nine students have been named to the dean's honor roll of the School of Business for the fall semester.
Children Advise Actors
Thirty seniors, or 12 per cent of the class, equalled or exceeded the required 2.3 grade average.
Twenty-nine juniors, or 16 per cent of the class, met or surpassed the 2.2 standard for that class.
Five students made straight A's.
They are:
Gary L. Carrico, Beloit senior; Jean Barbara Mills, Madison, Wis.; senior; George G. Moore Jr., Topeka senior; Joseph C. Morris, Emporia junior and James Stankiewicz, Philadelphia, Pa. junior.
Others on the honor roll are:
Seniors
John C. Boesche, Jerry K. Brown,
Walt C. John, John L. Casson, Robert
R. Crawford.
George E. DeTray, Lawrence L. Dieker
James G. Dugg, Winston L. Grantham,
Paul F. Grelinger.
Marylyn E. Miller, David McLeod McLennan,
kerneth P. Pohl, Janet I. Powell, Robyn
Hewlett
Barbara A. Hall, Louis E. Hannen, Hilar
Walsh, James N.葛, Edward G. Edwards,
M. McFlynn
Harry Joseph Reitz, David Oliver Rush,
Jacob Foster, Kenneth Wagnon,
Walpole W. Willey.
Lee H. Woodard, Richard N. Woodford.
Junior.
Lynn Leon Anderson, Janet S. Baker,
Frank Mackereler, Peter B. Block,
Frank J. Bono
Ronald K. Dalby, Joseph F. Dilling-
ing, Marion G. Fall, Robert E. Hodgson,
John W. Hoover, Henry W. Hopp, Steve B. Kurtz, Don E. Logan, Joseph A. Mize.
Sidney A. Morris, John E. Muttl Jr.
Sidney A. Morris, Marshall L. Price,
Galen B. Prvor.
John M. Reiff, Jerry D. Roberts, James Wah, Robert Lee Smith, Merilim L Stige.
John E. Stumbo, Willard A. Van De Veer.
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