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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, June 17, 1958
'Fanny' Opens At Starlight
"Fanny," a musical drama new to Kansas City and the Mid-West, opened Monday as the Starlight Theatre's first musical production of the season. It starred Wilbur Evans, Jan McArt, Robert Penn, and James Hurst.
Wilbur Evans, star of "Fanny," is a powerful baritone with an international reputation. He played the lead opposite Mary Martin for two years in the London company of "South Pacific" and co-starred with Shirley Booth in the Broadway production of "By the Beautiful Sea." This will be Mr. Evans' Starlight debut.
Jan McArt, the beautiful black-haired San Franciscan who plays the title role of Fanny, is also a newcomer to the Starlight stage, but no newcomer to music. The stunning soprano starred in "Oklahoma," "La Boheme," on television and in opera houses. Her versatility with operatic arias or popular songs makes her one of the most sought after singers of the day, and Starlight officials feel audiences are in for a rare treat with Miss McArt as "Fanny."
Singers James Hurst and Robert Penn round out the leading roles in the poignant story which is set in the Marseilles waterfront in France. Mr. Hurst is cast as Marius, a young man longing for the sea and for Fanny at the same time. Mr. Penn plays Panisse, a wealthy middle-aged widower who has his eye on Fanny as a second mate.
Torn between his love of the sea and his love for Fanny, Marius finally leaves on a ship for a five-year voyage. Fanny, discovering she is pregnant, agrees to marry Panisse, at first against the wishes of Cesar (Wilbur Evans), Panisse's friendly enemy and Marius' father. But he agrees with Panisse that the child should have a father, and Panisse agrees to raise the child as his own and swears the others to secrecy.
The May-September marriage delights Panisse, and the moving drama in the play sets the scene for the wonderfully melodic tunes such as "Fanny," "Panisse and Son," "Restless Heart," "Never Too Late for Love" and "I have to
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Tell You," all written by composer Harold Rome.
Mosser-Wolf
The play runs through Sunday night and will be followed by the happy hit "Happy Hunting," fresh from two successful years on Broad-day, and starring Bill Hayes, Jane Kean and Virginia Gibson.
Education Speaker Here
Dr. Mary Titus of Washington, D.C., National Education Assn. field representative and consultant for local associations, will speak at a public assembly at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Bailey Auditorium.
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Mrs. Posey, who now lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, has given the Endowment Assn. the residence at 1315 New Hampshire Street. The property has been appraised at $12,750.
Creation of the Chesley J. Posey Memorial Fund through a gift to the Endowment Assn. by the widow of the late Chesley J. Posey, professor emeritus of geography, was announced Friday by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
tal be kept intact and that the income be used as the University determines, but she expressed the hope that it could be used for student loans which was greatly favored by Prof. Posey, or for the benefit of incoming faculty members.
Local House Given To Start KU Fund
Mrs. Posey directed that the capi-
The Endowment Assn. will maintain the property for rental to new staff members.
Professor Posey taught geography at KU from 1920 until retirement in 1945. For many years until his
death in 1957 Professor Posey was the official volunteer weather observer in Lawrence. The Lawrence official station, which has since been transferred to the KU campus, is now known as the C. J. Posey Memorial Weather Station.
The longest laminated wood arches in the world support the roof of the Memorial field house at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. They measure 254 feet in are length from tip to tip.
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