Thursday, Dec. 11, 1958 University Daily Kansan
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Pirates Walk the Deck As Young Fans Squirm
By Bob Harwi
It is a mangy, scurvy-ridden crew that is exhibited in the Experimental Theatre production of "Treasure Island" this week.
A disappointingly small crowd of children attended the opening performance Monday, but those who did were transported back to the days of pirates and pieces-of-eight.
The doings of this pack of dogs were watched carefully by the children attending. Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Ben Gunn and the rest of Robert Louis Stevenson's characters came to life before one's very eyes.
The forces of law and order finally triumphed, but there was more than one anxious heart in the audience.
The beards looked real, the cutlasses sounded heavy and sharp, and the children exhibited the degree of their anxiety by absently spinning in the swivel chairs.
After all, this was considerably more dangerous than anything seen on television.
The swivel chairs were a fair indication of, the emotional state of the youngsters. When a tense moment arrived, the chairs were still. When the tension relaxed, the chairs resumed their squeaking.
Between the acts of the play, the children were invited into the lobby of the Experimental Theatre to sing songs with some bloody sea wolf of
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a pirate, who could very well have shanghaied them.
The youngsters loved the tunes about gore and slime, and one bystander thought he heard one young voice call distinctly for a round of grog.
Wendy Millett, 7-years-old, said at this point that she was not at all frightened by the pirates. She was confident that things would turn out all right.
Garold Sneegas, six, a young man who could spell his first name but not his last, said he thought the whole thing was just fine.
Grumm Writes for Magazine
"Theories of Electoral Systems" is the title of an article by John Grumm, professor of political science, printed in the Midwest Journal of Political Science. Effects are traced of different statutory and electoral systems on political parties.
It is estimated that about four million Americans will go skiing this winter.
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