Summer Session Kansan
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Tuesday, June 30, 1959
'Tom Sawyer' to Play at Starlight
"Tom Sawyer," the musical comedy that had its world premiere at the Starlight Theater last year, will return to the outdoor playhouse Monday, July 6, for a one-week engagement.
Iva Withers, Barbara Heller and Joan Kibrig, a trio of blondes, will play through Sunday in the current Starlight presentation of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," the musical set in the days of prohibition and the Charleston.
When "Tom Sawyer" opens Monday night at 8:15, the theater will be breaking an 8-season rule of never repeating a production in consecutive years. Starlight theater association president J. F. Pritchard said the show was brought back because of the tremendous response last year, when thousands of persons were unable to see the show the letters poured in to the theater office requesting a repeat performance this season. The premiere last year was also hampered by bad weather, but still set the 1958 attendance record for one week.
Starring in the production will be Randy Sparks in the title role, singer Virginia Gibson recreating her role of Becky Thatcher, and actor-singer Richard France repeating his role of Huckleberry Finn. Other familiar Mark Twain characters in the show are Injun Joe, Aunt Polly, Muff Potter, and Doc Robinson.
The story line follows the original book closely, and the show abounds in tunes written by composer Frank Luther, the author of Barnacle Bill, the Sailor and more than 600 other tunes. Included in the score are "There's a New Girl in Town," "My Love Has Gone Away," "The Big Missouri" "Why Do You Want to Kiss Me," and "Girls Can't Lie Worth a Nickel."
The show was adapted for the musical comedy stage by Edward Reveaux, Peter Gurney and Starlight Producer Richard H. Berger. Additional orchestrations for the production were arranged by Starlight musical director Roland Fiore.
The premiere last year was attended by newspaper criticism from New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and other major metropolitan areas, and given extensive coverage by Life magazine and Newsweek magazine, as well as columnists from the Associated Press and United Press.
They reported glowingly on the performance, with several writers not only commending the productions, but expressing surprise that such a show could originate this far from Broadway. The comments expressed were all favorable to the show, and were instrumental in the decision of Starlight officials to play the show a second season.
Guidance Conference In Session on Campus
One of 40 counseling and guidance training institutes supported this summer with contracts from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare is in progress at the University of Kansas.
Trujillo Men Seek Enemy
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican Republic — (UPI) — Generalissimo Rafael L. Trujillo has indicated that his troops, assisted by machete-wielding peasants, still are searching for remnants of an invasion force which landed in the Dominican Republic earlier this month.
Trujillo made the disclosure yesterday while personally conducting a tour for two American newsmen to prove that the attempt to overthrow his regime had been snuffed out.
He showed what he said were relics of an ill-fated rebel landing attempt on the northern coastline June 19, including photos of sunken invasion barges a quantity of burned and rusted weapons purportedly carried by the rebels, and the corpse of rebel field leader Enrique Jimenez Moya.
Truillo was assisted in the demonstration by his son, Gen. Rafael Trujillo, general staff chief of the Dominican armed forces. The younger Trujillo gave a detailed account of the fighting that resulted in the destruction of the invasion force.
Kansan Want Ads Get Results
- Twenty Kansas and Missouri fulltime high school guidance counselors with master degrees were selected from 150 applicants to attend the eight-week institute.
The KU institute differs from most others authorized by the 1958 National Defense Education Act in that its emphasis is on advanced training for persons already possessing experience in guidance and counseling.
Dr. Gordon Collister, professor of education and director of the Guidance Bureau, directs the institute, which will end Aug. 1. His associates are Dr. Donald Harder, associate professor of education at the University of California at Davis, and Dr. Richard Rundquist, associate professor of education at KU. William White, Kansas City, Mo., is assisting.
Institute members will earn eight hours of graduate credit for their course work in "Functions of Measurement in Guidance" and "Development and Measurement of Vocational Interests." In addition to classwork, they spend four hours a day counseling under supervision.
Guild Strikes Reno Papers
RENO, Nev.—(UPI)—The American Newspaper Guild Monday threw a picket line around the plant of Reno Newspapers, Inc., but Publisher Charles H. Stout said, "We'll get out a paper."
Anthony Funeral Scheduled Today
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — (UPI)— Funeral services will be held here at 10 a.m. today for Daniel R. Anthony IV, co-publisher of the Leavenworth Times. He was a former KU student.
Anthony was killed Friday in the crash of his plane near Steubenville, O., while he was returning from a flight to Edgartown, Mass.
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Geological Past Shown To Campers on Tour
Members of the fourth annual KU Science and Mathematics Camp got a glimpse of several hundred million years of history last week. The teen-age scientists studied rocks along the roadways between Lawrence and Wyandotte County Park. It was part of a 100-mile, all-day geological conference conducted by the State Geological Survey. Dr. J. M. Jewett is conference director.
The tour included:
Dightman Crossing, near Eudora, where students saw cross-bedded sandstone in the banks of the Wakarusa.
Sunflower Ordnance quarries where fossils more than 200 million years old were collected.
A gravel pit near Holliday, where ice-age deposits, laid down within the past million years, were studied and mineral specimens collected.
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Zebus don't wear sunglasses inside houses
Wyandotte County Park, where lunch took place. Students heard about geological processes that contributed to the park landscape.
Peerless Quarries, Inc., near Turner, where campers saw limestone being mined underground.
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