University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 23, 1961
The Lonely Man ... The Frenzied Crew
By Judy Asel
It was 5.45 p.m. the auditorium was empty except for one person. The spotlight of the stage shone on him, blinding his eyes.
The person was Lynn Miller, producer of Rock Chalk. He was 15 minutes early, waiting for another rehearsal to begin.
Suddenly the main door to the auditorium opened. The participants had arrived. Walking slowly down the main aisle toward the stage, they were singing their opening chorus.
Action began; the directors and producer had given the command: "Okay, run through it!" Another hour and a half of striving for perfection had begun.
THEY WENT STRAIGHT to the stage and, still singing, took their places for the opening scene of their skit.
The cavern-like size of the stage the vastness of the auditorium meant they had to make their motions big, chorus' loud, and positions right.
TO TAKE FIRST place each one knew they must be seen and heard.
they must be seen and heard. As everyone moved quickly from place to place, it was obvious they were eager to work for perfection. Each scene was rehearsed again and again. Many interruptions were made by the directors: "You're not together . . . make your motions wider . . . louder. louder . . ."
The directors were constantly running back and forth explaining to one side what to do while the other went through their choreography, utilizing every minute.
IT WAS TIME: time to go through from beginning to the end without any interruptions. The directors sat with the producer who jotted down suggestions for needed improvement, while the rest of the production staff timed the skit. It could not exceed 15 minutes, for if it did, the judges would deduct points for overtime at the actual performance
Squirming in their seats the directors tried to sit still and not say a word. This was the hardest time for them, someone missed a cue, a song was off-key—the directors want to scream.
Scream? Yes, but only to stop them, tell them their mistakes, help
them so that their skit would be best.
IT WAS OVER, there were 10 minutes left to run over the first scene again. The directors didn't scream at them. They were proud of what the actors could do on their own and of the improvement that had been made.
"Three minutes overtime," the production staff reported. Every participant realized this meant more work: cutting unnecessary parts moving faster than they were.
Rehearsal for that particular skit was over; the directors and participants were tired, some had headaches. They left up the same aisle; not singing, not speaking, but thinking of the improvements to be made before tomorrow's rehearsal.
The main door closed, the stage again shone its spotlight on one lone person.
Rock Chalk Revue Tickets Going Fast
Only a few scattered seats remain for the Saturday, March 4 performance of Rock Chalk Revue.
Donald E. Hunter, Oak Park, Ill., junior, and Rock Chalk sales manager, said, "the majority of the main floor seats and the better seats in the balconies have been sold in block seat sales or are being reserved for dormitory sales."
Hunter said that there are still good main floor and balcony seats left for the Friday performance.
General ticket sales began today at the information booth in front of Flint Hall and at the main desk in the Kansas Union. Special sales of dormitory section tickets begin Monday in the dormitories.
Ticket prices are $1.50 for main floor seats Saturday, $1.25 for Saturday balcony seats, $1.00 for Friday main floor, and $.75 for Friday balcony seats.
AWS Briefing Set
The briefing sessions for AWS Senate candidates are at 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m, today in the Forum Room of the Kansas University. Students running for the positions should attend one of the sessions.
Journalism School Wins First In Hearst Competition Again
Fellowships and grants totaling $28,800 will go to the ten students and three universities receiving the highest number of points at the end of the six-month competition in April.
Mortar Board questionnaires are being distributed this week to all junior women and also to those in the accelerated program who will graduate in 1962.
editor emeritus of the editorial page of the Dallas News; Roger Tatarian, managing editor of United Press International and Hubbard Keavy, bureau manager of the Associated Press.
Anyone with this standing who has not received a questionnaire is asked to get one from the office of the Dean of Women. All completed questionnaires must be returned to the Office of the Dean of Women by tomorrow.
A wide exhibition of ancient art will be opened in a week in the temporary exhibition gallery of the Spooner Thayer Museum. The ancient art exhibition on extended loan from the Nelson Art Gallery of Kansas City, Mo., includes Greek vases, Roman Portrait Heads, Etruscan Funerary Urn, and an Etruscan Mars figure.
The 59 entries from 32 schools were judged by William B. Rugles.
Ancient Art to Be Shown at Museum
Mortar Board Forms Available
The William Allen White School of Journalism ranked first for the second consecutive month as two KU entries placed in the January editorial writing competition of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation Awards Program.
The winning entry came from Stanford University.
"I think we need a little reevaluation of the organization," he said.
Noting the absence for the third consecutive week of Marvin McKnight, Lawrence senior, who is chairman of the CRC, Baratz said the group should act to improve "the stability of our leadership.
Frank Morgan, Webster Groves, Mo., who won December's news contest placed second, and Dan Felger, Mishawaka, Ind., finished tenth. Both seniors and the journalism school will receive foundation scrolls.
The group voted to have an election in two weeks.
Stephen L. Glass, instructor of Latin and Greek, is helping with identification and labeling, and Edward A. Maser, associate professor of art history, is directing the actual installation of the project.
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CRC to Check Local Barbers
Selections from the Fleischmann Loan Collection previously on exhibit in the temporary exhibition gallery are now on exhibit in a second floor gallery and will be there for the remainder of the year.
Tom Moore, secretary of the YMCA and faculty adviser for the CRC, said, "Some people have told me the main thing they like about this group is that it is unorganized.
accommodations law, but he told me I could file under a special prosecutor.' Barry said.
"That anarchist point of view is the one that ought to be considered," Mr. Moore said.
Bruce Wright, Salina sophomore suggested that the group draw up a constitution.
Barry said, "I went into a barber shop right before Christmas, I really needed a haircut, and the man told me he didn't have the right kind of clippers to cut my hair.
The council then moved to a discussion of discrimination in local barber shops.
"I asked him what kind of clippers he needed." Barry said. "He said he'd have to get a different comb and different clippers."
WRIGHT SAID, "All you need is clippers you cut flat-tops with."
Baratz said, "The reaction of these barbers is emotional-psychological connected with psychoagnic factors.
"We should tell them we would be willing to subsidize the purchase of this extra equipment if we could take a percentage of the profit each time they cut a Negro's hair."
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. —John Locke
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Kansas Union
Advice of Chancellor Stops Showing of Film
Chancellor W. Clakre Wescoe said he advised postponement of "Operation Abolition," scheduled to be shown last week, because he felt the film should not be brought here while the state legislature is meeting.
Dr. Wescoe made the suggestion to Charles A. Menghini, Pittsburg junior, and Charles B. McLwaine, Wichita senior, who are representatives of the campus NSA committee that is sponsoring the film.
THE TWO*STUDENTS went to Dr. Wescoe about two weeks ago to get his opinion on bringing the film here while the legislature is meeting in Topeka.
"I told them I had some feelings about the timing of the film," Dr. Wescoe said last night. He indicated that having the controversial film here might be harmful to the outcome of the University's budget at the legislative session.
Dr. Wescos Tuesday declined to answer whether or not he had suggested to the two students that the film be postponed.
THE FILM IS a documentary of student demonstrations against the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in San Francisco last summer. Several national liberal magazines, including the Reporter and The Christian Century, have criticized the HUAC for its "slanted" approach in preparing the film.
The criticism is based on allegations that the film falsely depicts Communist participation and direction of the May 12-24 demonstrations.
McILWAINE had said on Tuesday that "the film was postponed because
there wasn't enough time for advance publicity and to obtain literature that would present both sides of the controversy."
Dr. Wescoe said last night. "No-body ever told me that the film was already scheduled." He said he had not read a UDK story of Feb. 10 saving the film would be shown Feb. 16.
Musicians Slate Free Jazz Concert
Jazz musicians will give a free concert at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The 17-member jazz band is composed of KU students and Lawrence area musicians. Local 512 of the American Federation of Musicians and the University of Kansas Jazz Club are sponsoring the concert.
A recording of the concert will be played at midnight March 4 on FM station KXTR.
Temporary plans have been made to play the recording at the Topeka Veterans Hospital. An exchange program may also be worked out with Topeka musicians, Mr.Newton Jerome, executive secretary of Local 512, said.
Poetry Hour Today
The works of German poets Kaestner and Wiechert will be read by Gerhardt Zuther, instructor of English, during Poetry Hour at 4 p.m. today in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.