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IT'S HARD, BUT IT'S FUN—Jane Quaid, Norman, Okla. graduate student and assistant costume designer for the University Theatre. is shown making costumes for a coming KU production. (Daily Kansan photo)
Imagination, Research Make Good Costumes
"I imagination and research—those are the two main factors of costume design," according to Jane Quaid, Norman, Okla. graduate student and assistant costume designer for the University Theatre. "However," she added, "the design must be practical to build."
At KU all women's clothes for a production are designed and made here. All period piece men's clothing is also done this way, but when called for, standard modern wear is used. The costuming of a show takes hours of work. "The Saint of Bleecker Street" required 70 postures, including identical wedding dresses for the two leads.
Miss Quaid loves her design work and finds that it takes hours of time. She became interested in costume design at the University of Oklahoma. However, most of her actual designing has been at KU, where she came after graduating from Oklahoma in 1956.
Research is the first step in all but modern dress plays. A good amount of research was needed for the highly praised costumes Miss Quaid designed for "Henry IV, Part I."
As is usually the case, exact duplications based on research were not possible. The costumes had to be adapted to the mode and style of the production. Miss Quaid worked with the director and also considered audience reaction to the costumes. n "Henry" the more than floor length original designs had to be hortened to allow movements and action.
"Henry IV" was planned as a costume and props show, with no scary except a set of platforms and tairs. The costumes had to carry much more color and movement han usual. Since the play is set in the late fourteenth century, stained lass colors were used to create the roper atmosphere.
Character relationships were also established by costume color. Miss juaid placed opposing characters in lashing colors. Allied parts were losely related by shades and tones if the same colors. Lower classes were dressed in earth tones.
After basic decisions have been made, the actual designing is done. His involves imagination and creative ability. Usually color sketches re made to visualize the finished product. Then the costumes must be made.
At KU this is done in the large costume room. Sewing machines, tables, ironing boards, clothes racks, storage shelves, dress dummies and mirrors take up most of the floor space there, with just enough room left for fitting. Here the patterns are made, materials cut, and sewing and fitting are done. Finally the costumes are ready for the stage.
A costumer's job is not yet finished. During the running of the show there is need for constant attention. Repairs are often needed. Ironing after each performance is frequently necessary. Finally there is the job of cleaning, storing and recording.
All of the costumes are kept for possible future use and reference.
Pioneer Was 1st Statue, Gets Little Attention Now
"I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is."
When Cato, the Younger, made this statement back in the time of the hey-day of statue making, he must have meant that most men wouldn't have any answer to why a statue was put up.
On the KU campus, one statue's beginning is a little hazy for most students.
The Pioneer, the first piece of statuary put on the campus, has had relatively little publicity over the years when compared to one of his more frequently admired colleagues, Uncle Jimmy Green.
Statue Is A Gift The Pioneer, or the Corn Planter, as it was originally known, was a
Sophomore Picnic To Be Saturday
Rowboat races, soft ball games and refreshments are on the agenda for the sophomore class picnic to be held from 1 - 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Elks Point, Lone Star Lake.
James R. Austin, Topeka sophmore and class president, said that a car parade will begin at Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity at 12:30 p.m. and make the rounds of all the organized houses to provide transportation for those students without cars.
This is the first line in 27 years that a picnic has been planned for a whole class of students. Austin said that he hoped there would be a good turn-out for the picnic. If there is, he said, the same thing could be planned for the class next year.
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gift to the University from Dr. Simeon Bell in 1905, a donor to the early day Medical Center in Kansas City.
It was first placed in front of Marvin Hall. Later, presumably in the early 1930's it was moved to its present position in front of Fraser Hall,
Dr. Bell, himself a pioneer, chose the gift so that "succeeding generations might understand the difficulties and handicaps early Kansans encountered."
The figure of a man planting corn in the same way the early pioneers did in the virgin prairie soil was made in Chicago by an artist friend of Dr. Bell.
Painted Often
The statue, as long as it was in front of Marvin, suffered about the same indignities as the Law School statue. It was painted several times, usually at the same time as Uncle Jimmy Green.
When moved east of Fraser, it was treated with a little more respect. Part of the respect was
probably prompted by a Men's Student Council ruling in 1937 that anyone caught painting or otherwise desecrating the statue would be fined $50 and prosecuted in the courts.
Since then, The Pioneer has led a rather staid existence as all he does is plant his corn.
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