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Broadway Hit To Open At Starlight Monday
A smash Broadway hit never before presented in the Kansas City area, "The Pajama Game," opens Monday night at the Starlight Theatre in Swope Park. Starring in the romantic musical comedy are singers Don Cornell and Fran Warren.
Second of two record-smashing successes produced by the exciting team of George Abbott, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (the first to hit Broadway was "Damn Yankees"), the national company of "The Pajama Game" was scheduled to appear in Kansas City last Spring but closed prior to the expected local showing. The musical, which boasted a net profit of over a million dollars after its successful Broadway run and national tour, will run through Sunday at the
Dr. Kenneth Lucas, assistant instructor of mathematics at KU for the past four years, has joined the staff of the mathematics department at New Mexico A & M College, State College, N. M.
Dr. Lucas received his doctorate of philosophy from KU in June. He and his wife, Billie, and their daughter, Glenna, are living at 1101 Humbert in Las Cruces, N.M.
Night Work Is Hazardous
THREE RIVERS, Mich.—(UP)—J. B. Mikel, secretary-treasurer of a local savings and loan association, will think twice before he decides to work overtime again. Mikel was working alone in his office late one night when a few plaster bits fell to his desk. He looked up and dashed to safety under a nearby counter while the ceiling collapsed, smashing typewriters and covering the floor with a foot of rubble.
open air theater with curtain time at 8:15 o'clock.
Cornell is making his legitimate theater debut in his role as Sid, plant superintendent in a Midwestern pajama factory. One of the few recording stars to have sold over a million copies, each of six different recordings, Cornell recently returned from a 17-day tour of Australia during which he played to nearly 30,000 people each night.
Starlight officials are highly gratified to have been able to sign Miss Warren in the role of Babe Williams, a grievance committee of one. The tiny singer with the powerful voice played the role in the national company for 16 months.
Spoofing both management and labor, "The Pajama Game" tells the story of the lives and loves, as well as the intrigue, between workers and their bosses. Supporting the stars is a strong cast which includes dancers Neile Adams, Colee Worth, Stanley Prager, Justine Johnson, Lu Leonard, and Joseph Maculay.
Miss Adams recently completed the movie "This Could Be The Night." Prior to her motion picture work, she had portrayed the secretary, Gladys, in the cast of the Broadway production of "The Pajama Game."
Only Summer Performance
Colee Worth made his Starlight debut in 1983 in "New Moon" and "Kiss Me Kate." A regular at the New York City Opera, his portrayal of a time study man brings on the efficiency expert's anthem, "Think Of The Time I Save."
"I was so disappointed when we stopped the tour before opening in Kansas City," she said. "That's why I signed to do it here this summer." This is her only summer stock appearance this season.
Prager Originated Role
Prager plays the president of the union who has his charges' interests at heart, especially when they're girl-type workers. Prager originated the role on Broadway. Justine Johnston and Lu Leonard as two of the workers, and Joseph Maculay as the boss, raise havoc throughout the plant, and the whole show makes a sitdown strike over wages seem the next thing to a strawberry festival.
Based on the Richard Bissell novel, "7½ Cents," the book for the musical was written by Bissell and Abbott. The score by Adler and Ross includes the hit numbers, "Hey There," "Steam Heat," and "Hernando's Hideaway" as well as the tunes "I'm Not At All In Love," "A New Town Is A Blue Town"
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19 Kansans Are In Award Finals
NEW YORK—(UP) — Nineteen Kansas youngsters have been named finalists in a nation-wide college scholarship program sponsored by Fruit of the Loom Socks, a division of Chester H. Roth Co., Inc., New York.
The 19, ranging in age from 3 to 15 years, were selected from a field of four million candidates. Five four-year scholarships winners will be named from a list of 1,105 remaining finalists, according to Merwin J. Joseph, foundation president.
Scholarship winners will be named on the recommendation of local civic leaders and on the basis of personal and scholastic achievements. The program is designed to prepare promising youngsters for educated leadership in all areas of American life.
Tuesday, July 30; 1967
Wrong Number Really Right
BAY CITY, Mich. — (UP) — Mrs. Robert E. Treece made an error but not a mistake when she awoke at night and smelled smoke. She decided to call her husband who works the nightshift for a manufacturing company, but got the police instead. The police dispatched the fire department.
Mayor-Council Government Remains Basic Kansas Form
The mayor-council plan of government, employed by 508 cities, remains the basic type of municipal government in Kansas, reports the KU Governmental Research Center in a recent publication, Forms of City Government in Kansas.
Until 1907 the mayor-council form was the only governmental system available for Kansas cities. Since that date, Kansas law has provided for three other types: commission, commission-manager, and mayor-council-manager.
ciliman receives an income that makes it possible for him to devote full time to the job. In smaller Kansas cities, state law provides that the mayor and councilmen may not receive salaries in excess of $100 per year.
In Kansas cities using the mayor-council plan, the mayor and councilmen are elected for two year terms. The mayor as the chief administrative officer, has the power to appoint and remove non-elective city officials, with consent of the council. The mayor also exercises a qualified veto over the acts of the council. The council is authorized to pass ordinances necessary for the care, management, and control of the city, its property, and its finances.
Although the salaries of mayors and councilmen differ throughout Kansas cities, no mayor or coun-
The actual division of powers and duties between the mayor and council may vary greatly from city to city. In some cities the mayor may be the principal moving force of the city government because the council ratifies all his recommendations. In other cities the council either as a group or through committees may assume the dominant role in city administration.
Minnesota Farm Land Up
ST. PAUL - (UP) - Minnesota farm land is worth an average of $126 an acre, according to Philip M. Raup, agricultural economist at the University of Minnesota. He said the price jumped an average of five dollars an acre last year. Land values increased seven per cent each year in 1954 and 1955.
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