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ENTERTAINMENT
University Daily Kansan, September 20, 1984
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Koke Taylor, jazz singer: 9:30 p.m., The Jazzhaus, $261_{2}$ Massachusetts St. Billy Spears, country-swing musician
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"Sugar Babies," 8 p.m., Midland Theatre for the Performing Arts. Performances through Sept. 23.
Eton John. 8 p.m., Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Mo.
COMMON GROUND, reggae band. p.m. Kansas Union Ballroom.
Bon Toni Soul; accordion band 9:30 p.m.
The Jazzhouse, $ 926_{1}$ $ ^2 $ Massachusetts ST.
Also performing on Sept. 22
Charlie Robie, ballad singer. Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. 2nd St.
San Francisco Ballet, 8 p.m., Kansas City
City Music Hall. Performance also on Sept.
22. For more information call (816)
276/2704.
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Mutt and the Millionaires, rock 'n' roll Johnny's Tavern, 401 N, 2nd St,
"Candide." 8 p.m., Lyric Theatre, Kan
sas City, Mo. Opera also performed Sept.
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Master's Recital: Tijuana Julian trumpet, and Steve Parsons, trombone 3:30 p.m. Swarthout Recital Hall. Admission is free.
Peter, Paul and Mary, 5 p.m., Starlight Theatre, Kansas City, Mo.
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Scartaglia, Celtic band The Jazzhouse
920' Massachusetts St.
"The Humanist in Old Age: The Late Works of Franz Anton Maubertsch" 8 p.m. Helen Foresman Spencer Art Museum auditorium. Lecture presented by Edward A Maser, professor of art history and founder and former director of the University of Chicago David and Alfred Smart Gallery.
Cook is still queen of Castle Tea Room
By DAVID LASSITER
Outside, the rain slapped against the Castle's stone face as it had done off and on for nearly a hundred years. The walls stood up in the air, holding the drops striking its darkened surface.
Staff Reporter
But inside, the walnut hardwood floors and carefully carved woodwork created a feeling of warmth and safety from the damp.
The weather outside didn't seem to bother Libuse Kriz-Frioito - Libby to her friends. She owns the Castle Tea Room at 13th and Massachusetts streets.
She is a small woman and the high ceilings and large rooms of her Castle make her seem even smaller. She wears her Castle like an old housecoat, moving comfortably from room to room, complaining about needing to throw things away. The odds and ends have piled up over the years, Kriz-Fiorito said.
"It's hard to keep things like that in stock." Kriz-Fiorito says smiling. "Things like that are so perishable, and you never know what business is going to be like.
ALTHOUGH IT WAS RAINING outside, she made plans to go out in the afternoon. She had eight customers for dinner the night she needed to get a chicken and some flour.
But, she said, the trip to the store could wait.
News clippings and letters to her from
customers interested in the Castle are piled in the middle of the long banquet table. As Kriz-Fiorio sifts through the papers, squinting to read the old handwriting, she tells stories about the Castle's history and her own.
She and her husband bought the Castle in 1947 from J. J. Simmons, who had plans to convert the building into a church — the Assembly of God Congregation. Kriz Flierito and her husband then converted the house into a tea room which occupied the entire three stories of the house.
BECAUSE OF THE DECLINE in business,
Kriz-Fiorito now uses only the lower floor of the house as a restaurant. In the four rooms and the entry hall which compose the first floor, she can entertain from eight people to an entire wedding reception.
The wood carving in the Castle is fine and detailed. The ornately-carved staircases and built-in bookcases are carved birch, cherry, walnut and other woods.
John Roberts, who was a general in the Civil War, built the castle for his family in
1893 and commissioned Sidney Endacott to do the carving of the woodwork. Endacott later became well known for his water color paintings of U.S. homes.
Joel Jackson/KANSAN
The Castle Tea Room, 1307 Massachusetts St.
FROM BEHIND THE large pile of yellowed clippings. Kriz-Fiorito talks as though she is bored by her surroundings.
"Eh, I suppose it's beautiful," she said. "But I used to have to dust this kind of stuff when I was a girl."
"I go to auctions, and I see a lot of people buying that antique stuff — you know, with a lot of cash," she said.
legs," she said. "And I can remember every Saturday, my mother making me get under the table and dusting in between the grooves of those claws."
Kriz-Fiorito has worked hard in her life and still does, she says. She all the cooking for the restaurant, but she says she is getting old now and has to slow down.
"Sometimes I have some of the high school girls come in and help me if I know that I am going to be busy," she said.
THE CASTLE Tea Room, the oldest restaurant in Lawrence, is open for lunch if Kriz-Fiorito knows ahead of time that she will have eight or more customers.
"It's just not worth it to open if there's not going to be more than eight people coming in."
She serves dinner to her guests each night between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Kriz-Fiorio likes people to make reservations, but because she serves readily available items she said that she doesn't mind people just dropping in for dinner
When she and her husband opened the Tea Room, they decided that because Lawrence was a college town they should keep the prices and food items within a student's budget. She still holds to that philosophy. Today, her prices range from $6 to $11, and the menu includes entrees such as lobster, filet mignon and beef stroganoff.
"I cook what I have on hand," she said.
"Sometimes I make soup, sometimes I don't
it depends on the mood in m'"
Stage shortage leads to lack of live entertainment
By P.M. LEWIS Staff Reporter
Street musicians are back.
Some local musicians have taken to the streets, or rather the parks, in an effort to find a place to play their music. Many of the musicians in the city's local clubs have left them in the cold.
However, Lawrence bands have discovered that with a little perseverance and ingenuity they can find places to play their music.
About two weeks ago, 150 people gathered in Burcham Park, 2nd & Indiana streets, to hear three bands play amid the cottonwood lining the Kansas River. The impressive setting was not chosen for its beauty
DUANE. DINHAM, music director for KJHK, agrees
"We're doing it here because we want to play, and there's no place else," said Chuck Mead, lead singer and guitarist for The Pagan Idols. Mead and Doug Snodgrass, organizers of the event called "Dave and Gale Present: Old Washed Up Rock Stars." cited a lack of places for live bands to perform in Lawrence as the main reason for the outdoor show.
"If the Opera house die there won't be many places left," he said. However, the potential exists for more live entertainment, especially progressive rock, he said.
The Student Union Activities office works to provide live entertainment on campus. Last week, R.E.M. and Get Smart played on campus.
"Students are demanding a lot more live music than what's available," said Fran Macferran, SUA special events director. However, bands have to wade through a myriad of complications before they can perform at KU.
Lawrence's proximity to Kansas City both helps and hurts the live music scene. He is an avid player, and draws from the town's City area, he said. However, the town loses bands to the larger
THE SPECIAL EVENTS board must juggle open concert dates with available dates on campus as well as insure that projects can be financially supported.
crowds and the increased exposure of Kansas City.
Elliot Brand, co-owner of Redline Productions and a Prairie Village sophomore, is trying to increase Lawrence's exposure to bands while exposing bands to Lawrence. Brand started Redline Productions six months ago in an effort to bring at least two bands to Lawrence every month.
REDLINE RENTS the Lawrence Opera House and uses the door receipts to pay the band and rental fee. The cost of the band usually determines the ticket price. Brand
The Jazzbaus, 926 **i** Massachusetts St,
has presented some of the top n Jazz in jaz-
bass. The Jazzbaus are the only jazz pro-
ducer in New York.
Rick McNeely, owner of The Jazzhaz,
said he was inspired to start a club when live
music was dying in town. McNeely said the
scene was no better now, perhaps
even worse.
However, the Jazzhaus usually presents four shows every week. Wednesday through Saturday. McNeely said the audience was the determining factor in having bands.
"If they don't support live music, we won't have it," he said. Although not every show is a sell-out, McNeely said that support had
been strong and he had no plans to change his course of offering jazz and blues to his patrons.
SGT PRESTONS of the North, 815 New Hampshire St. , has been presenting live entertainment in their courtyard for three years.
Manager Steve Stephenson said the clubs to cater to all musical preferences. The entertainment, which is presented every weekend, includes brass band in reignage and rock n' roll to easy listening.
Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. 2nd St, has a five-year tradition of presenting live music. Every Thursday and most weekends a live band will perform. Johnny's or Up And Under, 403 N. 2nd St,
Doug Hassig, co-owner of both bars, said that while bands help bring in people, he didn't think they were as popular as they once were.
Doug Compton, owner of Cogburrs, 757 New Hampshire St., said he booked bands to cater to his customers. The bands, which usually play Top 40 music, appear every other Friday. Compton said he tried to rotate bands so that the same band would not be more than a few different. The variety of bands also draws crowds, he said.
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The Republican Party and Chamber of Commerce seem to believe that because there are millions of unemployed persons in this country the successful are forced to undergo periodic recessions in the otherwise carefully articulated "private-enterprise" system. Although every study about which I have read in the last two decades concedes that prolonged unemployment can undermine an individual's confidence and thus fundamentally alter his personality, it is said we obstreperous indolentists on retaining our pariahdom in order to impede progress.
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During the celebration which resulted from our discerning the Chamber's evolution from an organization promoting the commercial interests of a select few to a governmental organ working for the people, some of us wondered which public need this revitalized body would deal with first. Would it begin its new existence by calling for more day care facilities, orderly and informative schools, a public transportation system or nursing home reform? Those malcontents who predict these public needs will remain unmet obviously don't realize that the Chamber is unacquainted with failure.
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2702 W. 24th St. Terrace
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The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts
Chapman Museum Presents
The Arden Trio
Suzanne Ornstein, violin
Clay Ruede, cello
Thomas Schmidt, piano
3:30 p.m. Sunday, September 30, 1984
Crafton-Preyer Theatre/Murphy Hall
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Office B2 Office A1 seats reserved. Public $ 8 & special discounts for students and faculty. Public $ 380. See www.murphy.edu/events.
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