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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 13, 1958
PEACOCK - This 8-foot metal bird is part of the faculty art exhibit in the Museum of Art.
Faculty Art Show In Art Museum
The annual faculty art show is now on display in the upper gallery of the Museum of Art. The show will be up for the rest of the summer.
The show includes contributions from about 15 members of the faculty of the architecture, design and drawing and painting departments. On display are 28 paintings, 2 sculpture pieces, 14 ceramic pieces, 4 wallpaper designs, 4 architectural structure designs, some brochures, one cartoon and one line drawing.
The show has been held for about five years.
Benton Painting Gift To University
A Thomas Hart Benton painting, "The Ballad of the Jealous Lover," has been purchased by the Elizabeth M. Watkins fund of the Endowment Assn. and is hung in the main gallery of the Museum of Art.
The picture is based on an Ozarks folk song and was painted in 1931.
Lutheran Students Meet
Jerry Lewis Opens Starlight Season
The Lutheran Student Association will meet at 5:30 p.m. Sundays at 1314 Louisiana St. during the summer. All programs will be discussions. The group will eat before the programs. Everyone is invited.
Jerry Lewis, one of America's top comedians, opened the 1958 Starlight Theatre season Monday in a 2-hour show featuring five headline acts from Hollywood and New York.
The eighth season of entertainment under the stars in Swope Park will run 84 consecutive nights, with Mr. Lewis playing one week, the next seven musical comedies playing one week each, and the last two musical productions each running two weeks.
Mr. Lewis, the favorite of millions for his motion picture, television and night club antics, recently completed a sensational two weeks at London's Palladium, where English critics gave him rave notices, something rarely earned by an American performer.
Appearing with Mr. Lewis at the Starlight Theatre are Eileen Barton, the Novellies, Mr. Ballantine, Augie and Margo and the Amin Brothers.
Miss Barton, a top selling recording artist, skyrketed to fame with her recording of "If I knew You Were Coming," and has stayed on top of the record field since that time.
The Novelites are a comedy-instrumental trio who have played to packed houses at Las Vegas the past few months, and who are known for their ability to keep audiences in stitches.
Mr. Ballantine is a comedian-magician whose tricks never seem to come off quite right. He has been on network television more this season than any other single artist.
When Augie and Margo return after their show stopping routines with last year's show opener, the Starlight audiences will see a dance team that has been compared to Vernon and Irene Castle and Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. The Amin Brothers, newcomers to this country as well as the outdoor theatre, are an outstanding balancing and acrobatic act, having been featured a number of times on the Ed Sullivan show.
Famous Stars In Every Show
Shirts In Every Show
The Starlight experiment of 1957,
big names in every show, is being
followed again this season for every
production.
A world premiere, five shows fresh off Broadway that have never appeared here, and four of the most popular musical comedies ever to play the giant outdoor stage make up the 1958 schedule. Heading the casts for the season's musicals will be Frankie Laine, Julius LaRosa, Jane Kean, Virginia Gibson, Fran Warren, Bill Hayes, Jack Russell, Robert Weede, Pat Suzuki, Jan McArt and Janet Medlin.
Following Mr. Lewis is "Fanny." June 16-22, a poignant musical drama that ran over two years on Broadway. The show has never played the Midwest. Baritone Wilbur Evans and beautiful Jan McArt, the West Coast's leading singer, are cast in the leading roles of the musical
set in the seaport of Marseille.
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Hanny Hunting Is This Show
Another New York hit that has never been produced in this area before, "Happy Hunting," starring Bill Hayes and Jane Kean, plays June 23-29. Set at the time of the Grace Kelly-Prince Rainier wedding, the Broadwav success follows Main Line Philadelphia to the wedding and back home again. One of the many hit songs from the production is the popular "Mutual Admiration Society."
Jean Fenn, the statuesque blonde who dazzled threatre-goers with the 1957 opening show, takes the lead in the light-hearted "Rosalinda," June 30-July 6, with Jack Russell, for four years the singer on the Sid Caesar show, and Wilbur Evans playing opposite her. The gay musical, adapted from "Die Fleddermaus," ran two years on Broadway. It's a light-hearted tale of Vienna and the magic mood that captures both men and women there.
The wonderful Cole Porter melodies in "Kiss Me Kate" July 7-13, will be sung by Julius La Rosa in the leading role, with Janet Medlin and Jane Kean supporting the popular singer in such tunes as "Wunderbar," "Why Can't You Behave," "So in Love Am I," "Too Darn Hot," and other hit songs.
To Have World Premiere
The first world premiere in Starlight history, the musical comedy "Tom Sawyer," will be given a gala presentation in the Swope Park Playhouse July 14-20. The music and lyrics are by composer Frank Luther and the play by Edward Reveaux and Peter Gurney, two New York playwrights. Mr. Luther has captured the Missouri feeling and the spirit of boyhood in such sweeping melodies as "The Big Missouri," "In the Spring," "New Girl in Town," "Why Do You Kiss" and Injun Joe's "Hate Song." Taking the title role is fast-rising Randy Sparks from California, a virtual unknown in show business only two years ago, but now a veteran performer on the Red Skelton show and in night clubs from coast to coast. Becky Thatcher is played by singing star, Virginia Gibson of the Hit Parade.
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Jan Clayton, who created the original role of Julie in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit "Carousel," will recreate that role for the Starlight Theatre audiences in the hit musical July 21-27.
Next will be the immortal "Wizard of Oz," starring Pat Suzuki, whose overnight rise to the top of the recording field has created a national sensation.
Frankie Laine To Star
Frankie Laine, second only in record sales during his career to Bing Crosby, having sold more than 20 million platters. stars as Sky
Masterson in the delightful "Guys and Dolls" set for 2 weeks. August 4-17, with Fran Warren, the star of last season's "Pajama Game," playing Adelaide.
The season's closing show is the winner of the Music Critics Award in New York as the best musical of the year, and the theatre has brought Robert Weede from New York to play again his original role of Tony in "The Most Happy Fella," which ran over 2 years on Broadway and will be at the Starlight August 18-31.
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