ENTERTAINMENT
University Daily Kansan, October 4.1984
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"Collective Creations." 8 p.m., William Ingle Theatre in Murphy Hall. Performances through Oct. 7.
Hema Rajagopalan, Bhurata Natyam dancer from India. 8 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Second City National Touring Company.
a b c, Woodriff Auditorium in the Kansas
State University.
Slides of George McNeil, professor everlast Fratt Institute 2 p., Aldershot, FL.
Black Pearl, rock'r roll. 8 p.m.
Johnny's Tavior, 401 N. 2nd St.
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Second Annual Kansas Film and Video Festival. Begins Friday night at Dyche Hall. Festival through Oct. 7.
Gregg Tamblyn, country-rock. 7 p.m.
Johnny's声隆, 401 N. 2nd St.
The Bill Lynch Band, rock'n'roll, 9:30 p.m.
The Jazzwahrs 926 $ Massachusetts
"Cosi Fan Tutte," opera, 8 p.m., Lyric Theatre, Kansas City, Mo. Performances also on Oct. 8, 10 and 12.
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Irish Dance Workshop. 2 p.m., Community Building, 11th and Vermont streets. Sponsored by the Lawrence Barn Dance Association.
Blue Ridgid Band, reggae. Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St.
Steve Epely Group. 8 p.m., Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. 2nd St.
Charlie Parker Ballet. 8:30 p.m., Folly Theater, City Music, Mo.
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University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra 3:30 p.m., Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Memorial Concert; harp students of the late Margaret Ling. 2 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
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Theatre brett, mime troupe. 8 p.m.
Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall
Performance also on Oct. 9.
Jacques Yvart, French folksinger. 7:30 p., mwoodruff Auditorium in the Union.
Club members say they like toy beary much
By KAREN MASSMAN Associate Entertainment Editor
The more it is torn and soiled, the more the eyes pop out and the stuffing falls out, the more it breaks.
But for most people, the adoration of their teddy bears exerts an age seven when roommates are born.
However, the members of the Lawrence Teddy Bear Club seem to have forgotten that adage.
The club, founded in August by Joleen Robison, 502 Lindley Drive, and Brenda Eubank, Route 5, meets once a month to show off bears, discuss different types of bears and talk about bear activities and bear paraphernalia.
At their second meeting last Tuesday, members were greeted at Merrie Rose's house, 1703 W. 20th St. Terrace, by Barney, a 27-inch stuffed polar bear that is propped in the window during the winter. Rose owns 70 bears, which she displays throughout her
house. One room has even been titled "The Bear Room."
"There's something about bears. You either like them or you don't." Rose said. "There's a secret world of teddy bears. It's a funny thing. Unless you are into them you really can't understand them. They bring a smile to your face."
The 11 club members sat around Rose's living room, surrounded by their bears. It was Paddington Bear night, and the women were ready to get down to serious bear business.
Part of Merrie Rose's teddy bear collection sits on a bench in her home, 1703 W. 20th St. Terrace.
"You have to know the story that goes with them to really appreciate the bear," Rose said.
Response to the club has come from a diverse crowd, Robison said. Men and women of all ages have called to inquire about the group. No men have joined yet, Robison said, because none of them want to be the first male member of The Teddy Bear Club.
"I think it' is going to grow by leaps and bounds." Eubanks, the newly elected president, said. "It ought to be interesting and fun."
Eubanks, a member of the Teddy Bear Club of Kansas City, said she would like to change the name of the Lawrence Teddy Bear Club, become involved in the community and have a program planned for each meeting. This would help make the Lawrence district from the Teddy Bear Club of Kansas City, which is more of a social club, she said.
The interest in teddy bears seems to have grown over the last few years. Eubanks says she does not know why bears have become so popular.
"I think teddy bears are something that will always be popular," she said. "Anything that is soft and cuddly will be."
Eubanks began collecting bears after making them for her children for years. Tuesday night, she brought her newest creation — Bearnessa. Bearnessa is a small black bear dressed in a lavender teddy, complete with black lace.
Other members first got hooked on old dolls.
"My first love was antique dolls, but they got too expensive," Robison said. "I turned to bears. Each one has an individual look, and they're made in India." He made them of my childhood.
Brothers bring back good ol' days of barbershop
By DOUGLAS H. CHANDLER Staff Reporter
Back in the days when Ronald Reagan was but a child and nobody had ever heard of Michael Jackson, a special kind of music was popular. Men gathered in what was the grandmother of today's beauty salon, and sons, some of them famous, called these miniscuits barbershop quartets.
"Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end..." But they did, and most barbershop quartets disappeared with handlebar mustaches.
John Fortino, Joplin, Mo. junior, and his brother, Mark, Joplin,Mo. freshman, aren't sporting handlebar mustaches, but they know that barbershop music hasn't died.
WHILE MOST of their neighbors in Templin Hall are listening to the throb of Van Halen or The Cars, they are listening for that sound, which John Fortino finds "almost addictive."
"We constantly listen to quartet music to help improve our sound," said John Fortino, one of the members of After Class, a quartet of carpentrybershop music throughout the United States.
The quartet is a member of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. Next weekend, After Class will be competing against 26 other quartets from across the nation in a contest sponsored by the organization at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.
THE BROTHERS got involved with the
society last March when a friend invited Mark Fortino to a meeting. He was so impressed with what he heard, that the next week when John Fortino came home for spring break, Mark Fortino "dragged him to a meeting," John Fortino said.
The chorus director was impressed with the Fortinos' voices and introduced them to Charles Campbell and Trent Sherwood, both of Miami, Okla., and the quartet was complete.
The brothers decided to try barbershop music because of the challenge. "We had always sung in school and church chops, but barbershop music is unlike anything we've ever done," said Mark Fortino, who songs from his own band instruments to guide you — just four voices.
It's totally harmonic. And it's all relative pitches so the blend is more important than hitting perfect notes."
THE CHALLENGE IS what keeps them interested. "When a quartet singes a chord correctly, you hear more than just four notes," said John Fortino, who songs baritone. "If they get their voices matched just right, singing with the exact same vocal texture, it creates overtones that give it that special barbershop sound called the 'barbershop ring.' But that sound is extremely difficult to find, and we're just getting to where we can hit it most of the time. It's really exciting."
Campbell, the bass, and Sherwood, the tenor, both attend Northeastern Oklahoma Community College in Miami, Okla.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus ~ Joe Flaherty ~ John Candy ~ Shelley Berman
~ Dan Akroyd ~ Joan Rivers ~ John Belushi ~
Past Cast Members
Valerie Harper~Alan Arkin~Ann Meara~Elaine May~Mary Gross
~ Jim Belushi ~ Gilda Radner~ Rick Moranis~