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Friday, October 13, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Play's costumes authentic
The time is more than a century before Levi Strauss even considered putting on a pair of blue jeans. The dress of the day ranges from colorful military uniforms and courtly gowns to the common bundled look of a peasant.
It is 1754 at the University Theatre in Murbury Hall tonight.
Although the University Theatre has
presented many historical plays through the years, few of the shows have struggled for such authenticity as tonight's production of George Farquhar's "The Recruiting Of
According to the play's costing director, Chez Haeli, more than $600 been spent to produce replicas of 18th century clothing for the production.
"Recruitina" costumes
Nancy Kaufman, Golden, Colo., junior; Robin Manzano, Piedmont, Calif.; sophomore; and Tim Lofus, St. Louis senior, model costumes from the University Theatre's production of "The Recruiting Officer." The play, which opens tonight, has a budget of about $800 for props and costumes.
"There are some sacrifices," Haeli said. "The styles and colors are authentic, but some of the trim was not available. There was little time."
Haekel and the play's production staff have worked "practically day and night" for the past four weeks to be ready for tonight's opening show. He said the production required 31 countries to attend in social classes of the time—the gentry, the militia and the peasants.
LITERATURE ABOUT the era provided costumers with many of the necessary details. Haeli said. The women's dresses were upon authentic patterns of the early 1700s.
Most of the costuming sacrifices came in the design of the military uniforms, he said. Although the style and colors are authentic, the silver and gold irons had to be changed.
"I'd give anything to know where I could find a good length of soldleace." Haeli said.
In addition to the play's costumes, nearly $200 was spent on exact duplicates of the peruvian military hardcore. For a performance in a store in San Francisco, the play's director, Bill Keeler, associate professor of theater, said he thought the weapons would add realism.
Keeler said the production is set in the Welsh countryside in August, 1704, just after the British have fought and won a major victory in the War of the Spanish Secession.
UNDER THE LEADERSHIP of the popular Duke of Marlborough, the military image in Britain reaches its height. The military life offers the dazzling possibility of social and material advancement for all, even the common folk.
When a young officer who is recruiting soldiers for his regiment comes along, Keeler said, the play suggests that the same officer may also be recruiting might also be useful for seduction.
"A complete equation is soon drawn out between the similarities of marital and business relationships."
The result, Keedler said, is some pretty timely satire of both marriage and the culture.
Men are courteed or seduced into service, while women are the objects of siege, assault, negotiation and conquest," he said. He said roles are transposed and through the confusion, more open and honest issues of relationships are sought.
"The Recruiting Officer" is KU's 1979 entry in the American College Theater Festival. The production will be judged with colleges and universities throughout the midwest and could be selected for regional competition in St. Louis.
Performances of the play, which starts at 8 tonight, will be repeated Saturday night and Oct. 19-21. Tickets are available at the University Theatre box office.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Spare Time
Night life
conference Opera House, 644 Massachusetts
- Macks Creek, Oct. 13-14, 9 p.m. to 12 p.m.
* $2 general admission and $15 $10 mem
- Dry Jack Jazz Band, Oct. 13-14, 12:30 to 2:30 a.m. on the balcony, free.
- Missouri Heli Band, Oct. 18, 9 p.m.
12:30 a.m. tree. *until 10 p.m.* and 50 cents
- Eddie Harris Jazz Band, Oct. 19, 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
- The Symptoms, Oct. 20-21, 9 p.m. to
12:30 a.m.
- kathy Buehler, Oct. 20, 21: 12:30 to 2:30 a.m. on the balcony, free.
- Off the Wall Hall. 737 New Hampshire $^ {1}$
- Pats Rid Blue Diddim Band, Oct. 20-21, 8:30 p.m. to midnight
AAC 8136/1954 Ran Rams Rim, 8:30 p.m. to midnight.
* Thumbs, Oct. 13; 11:44, 8:30 p.m. to midnight.
$2
Paul Gray's Jazz Place, 926 Massachusetts
$15
- Jim Stringer Band, Oct, 13-14, 9 p.m. to midnight, *
- midnight 14
* Jam Session, Oct. 19, 9 p.m. to midnight
***
- Jay McCann and Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Oct 20, 9 p.m. to midnight, $6.
One flow the Cuckoo's Nest, with
1. 14:30, 2. 7 and 9:00 p.m. Petcher, Oct
13:14, 3. 50 and 8:00 p.m.
The Story of O, directed by Just Jaeckin,
Oct. 13-14, midnight; $1.50.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. and The General, with
Buster Keaton, 7:30 p.m. m$1.
Movies
Red River, with John Wayne, Walter Ben-
mont and Montgomery Clift. Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m.
The Man with a Movie Camera, directed by Doga Virgil and Arsenal dir. by Alexander Drexel.
Paper Chase, with Timothy Bottoms and Lindsay Wagner, Oct. 20, 3:30 p.m. in Dyche Auditorium, and 9:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium. Oct. 21 at 7 p.m.
SUA
Allegro Non Tropeo, trained by Bruno
ozotto, Oct. 20 at 7, 17 and Oct. 21 at 3, 30
Miami. (Credit: Banco America)
Concerts
University Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 15, 3:30 p.m. U.S.Museum Theater, free
A Handel Holiday, by the Kansas City Phil-
harmonic Orchestra. Grace and Holy
Day. (Meredith)
Prague String Quartet of Czechoslovakia,
14, B. 4, b Ppm. White Concert Washin, Washun
University, Topeka, $2.50 for students and $5
for others.
Recitals
Carillon Recitals, Oct. 15 at 3:30 p.m., Oct.
8 at 7 p.m.
Faculty Recital Series
- James Moeser, organ, Oct. 16, 8 p.m.
* Youthmouth Congregational School, 925 Vernier
- Kansas Brass Quartet, Oct. 18, 8 p.m.
Swathout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Student Recital Series
*jun Wacker, Oct. 17, 8 p.m. Swarthowon*
*swanz Ensemble, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. Swarthowon*
- Jazz Combos, Oct. 20, 8 p.m., Swarthout
Exhibits
Lands Gallery, 918 Massachusetts St.,
lands by Dan Paimon and prints by
Margaret Ward.
Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, New Works by Lawrence Craftsmans.
The Gallery, 745 New Hampham SL,
onehouse by Allen Brumleml and etchings by
Maryanne Mills.
Valley West Galleries, Holiday Plaza at 25th and low streets, watercolors by Charles Sanderson, oils by Marie Bufink and paintings by Lorenzo.
767 Gallery, 7 East Seventh St., paintings and drawings by Tim Sisak, and sculpture by Mike Huckabee.
- Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy
Melpomene 4553
- Reverse Paintings on Glass: The Ward Collection.
- Nelson Gallery, 4528 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
The Sensual Imagery
- Christo's Wrapped Walkways, at Loose Park
- Albert Bloch Exhibition.
Theatre
The Recruiting Officer, Oct. 13-14 and 19-21, University Theatre, 8 p.m. for KU students with ID, $3.25, $2.50 and $1.75 for others.
'Revenge' best of Sellers' four
Bv.JEFF KIOUS
Reviewer
Once again, the indestructible and irrepressible Inspector Cassius returns, "Revenge of the Pink Pant," the fourth in a series.
Crime, as you'll recall from previous Clouseau catastrophes, is the underlying theme. This time, however, the criminals are on board.
A French nobile boss, Douvet, played by Robert Webber, is asking trouble maintaining credibility with a New York-based drug agency.
One such catastrophe is Clouseau's night rendezvous with Douvier. En route, Clouseau picks up a hitchhiker who later robs him and steals his car. Douvier's group, waiting down the road for the assassination attempt, kills the hitchhiker. Clouseau later
KANSAN Review
From the moment you see him walking down the street, you know you're in the hands of a master comic. The comic base of the movie, as in Pink Panther movies, lies in the unruffled self-confidence that Sellers, as Clouseau, confronts catastrophes of his own makin.
The French syndicate decides that a big crime would display the organization's power and would preserve the "French connection" with New York. The crime is the assassination of one of France's covert soldiers—Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau, played by Peter Sellers.
learns of the hitchkiser's death and uses the mistake as a cover-up to seek out Dourier.
He disguises himself as a New York synchrist boss, complete with black suit, black and white shoes and a mouth full of cotton, and goes to Hong Kong to make a drug deal with Douvier. This is one of the most beautiful songs, since well, the dentist in the "The Pink Starbite Strikes Again."
Clousseau's cover-up is highlighted by different disguises that put him in situations that make his cool dignity hysterical.
The story also provides a splendid reprise for Dreyfuss, the former chief inspector, played by Herbert Lom. Once again, he is released from a psychiatric clinic and is ordered to find Clouseau's would-be killers.
And, as usual, the sequel features a rematch between Clouseau and Cato, his karate-crazy houseboy, played by Burt Kkow.
"Revenge" is much better than the last two Panther movies. "Return of the Pink Panther" (1975) was a sophisticated rerun of "Pink Panther" (1984). The sight-gags and humor were present, the plot was clever, the characters played by the '84 version "Pink Panther Strikes Again" (1977) was far too tany and unreal. However, "Revenge of the Pink Panther" has an excellent balance of humor and story development.
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