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Bracken, Desmond Are Stars of 'Say,Darling'
Comedian Eddie Bracken, singer Johnny Desmond and comedienne Jane Kean headline the all-star cast for the first midwest presentation of "Say, Darling" at the Starlight Theatre July 13-19.
"Tom Sawyer," the current Starlight production, runs through Sunday, July 12, with Randy Sparks, Virginia Gibson and Richard France recreating their original roles of Tom, Becky and Huck from the world premiere of the musical last season.
The story actually concerns Bissel's experiences when he was hired to come to New York and adapt his best selling novel, "71½ Cents" into the hit musical. New York critics said he etched the real show business characters he encountered in his new musical, and most theatrical personalities were in the first week's audience in New York to see if Bissell had characterized them in his show.
Next week's show opened in New York only 15 months ago, and was written by Richard Bissell as a sequel to his highly successful first musical, "The Pajama Game." It ran more than a year on Broadway.
Bracken, making his first Kansas City appearance in many years, and his debut at the outdoor theater here, is a veteran of dozens of motion pictures and television productions. He takes the leading role of Jack Jordan, the Iowa author who comes to the big city to adapt his book into a play.
Singer Johnny Desmond plays his original Broadway role of song writer Rudy Lorraine in the musical, a fast-talking composer who is hired to do the score for the musical after writing several rock-n-roll hits. The handsome young singer is also a newcomer to the Starlight stage.
Jane Kean played at the outdoor theater last year and this week takes the role of Irene Lovelle, a beautiful Hollywood star who needs a good musical comedy role to further her career. Her chances of securing the lead are somewhat jeopardized since she is the ex-wife of Rudv.
Full of backstage talk and lively
musical numbers, the show won the immediate acceptance of New Yorkers. It is the first new show of the season for the Starlight Theatre since four previous productions were popular repeats from former years.
Theater officials have reported a good advance sale for the show, featuring more big name stars in one presentation than ever before in Starlight history. The story originally featured only incidental music, but the score has been augmented for the outdoor presentation here, with the full 35-piece Starlight orchestra used in the production.
Deadly Crop To Be 'Grown'
WOOSTER, Ohio — (UPI) — Workers are building a foot-high concrete border around an acre of farmland destined to grow perhaps the world's deadliest crop.
Next spring, agronomists will seed the land with corn, hay, soybeans and possibly wheat, then spray it with a potent solution of water and Strontium 85. a radioactive material.
Then the field will receive the normal amounts of fertilizers and attention any farmer in the northern Ohio region would give his crops.
The purpose is to determine the effect of radioactive fallout on crops. The experiment could continue for half a century.
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Strontium 85, a material somewhat less dangerous but similar in behavior to Strontium 90, the deadly by-product of a nuclear explosion, will be used the first year to cut the risk of contamination as farmhands with Ph.D. degrees tend the crops.
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A special concert by the School of Fine Arts and Midwestern Music Clinic will be presented at 8 p.m. today in University Theatre. The program and artists are as follows:
Clinic to Give Concert at 8
Benar Heifetz, violoncello; Henr Temianka, violin; William Gower, oboe; Robert Paolucci, trombone; Fred Hemke, saxophone; Harold Brasch, euphonium; Marian Jersild, Ruth Walter, and Sara Hopkins Beene, acompanists.
"Concerto in C Major," Haydn, Rondo-Allegretto, Mr. Gower; "Etude Op. 25 No. 7," Chopin; "Habanera," Ravel; "At the Fountain Op. 20," Davidow, Mr. Heifetz.
"Piece Concertante," Rousseau; "Cujus Animam," Rossini, Mr. Paolucci.
Program:
"Temple of Glory," Rameau; "Tambourin," Rameau; "Aria from Suite in E." Bach; "Gigue," Leclaire; "Sonata for Saxophone, first movement," Hindemith; "Prelude and Saltarelle," Planel, and Caprice Enforme du Waltz," Bonneau, Mr Hemke.
"Prologue from 'Pagliacci,'" Leonavallo, and "Carnival of Venice," Manning-Brasch. Mr. Brasch.
Selected music, Bach, and "Hexapada Suite," Bennett, Mr. Tiemanka.
No Comment on Big 8 'Gifts'
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — Reeves Peters, Big Eight conference executive director, said yesterday he had no comment regarding money 'gifts' given to coaches.
School of Education Golf Tournament Starts Monday
The annual School of Education Summer Session Golf Tournament for staff members and graduate students will be held Monday and Tuesday at the Lawrence Country Club.
Foursomes can tee off at 1 p.m. on either day and must complete 18 holes of play.
Two trophies will be awarded, one for the low medalist, and one for low handicap score. Other merchandise prizes will be awarded for second and third places for low medal and handicap play. Values of the prizes will depend on the number of entries. No one will be able to win more than one prize.
The handicaps will be computed on the basis of 80 per cent of the difference between par and gross score on one nine-hole round to be drawn by chance after the tournament.
Miss Ruth Stoland, secretary to the dean of education, said the tournament was started several years ago and was "just a matter of some of the graduate students and faculty members deciding that it
would be fun to have a golf competition."
"The first tournament was played at the Hillview golf course. The trophies were presented during a dinner at the golf course immediately after the tournament.
"I presume this isn't done anymore because the tournament has grown too large and complicated," she said.
Trophies and prizes for this year's tournament will be presented in Bailey Lounge at 11:30 a.m. July 16.
Religion Professor At Baptist Sessions
Ernest E. Klein, associate professor of religion, is attending the American Baptist Assembly at Green Lake, Wis.
The assembly is a conference of 140 Baptist professors of theology and church history, pastors, lay persons, and staff members of the American Baptist Convention. The purpose is to explore and resolve theological problems and encourage scholarship on theological questions.
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