University Daily Kansan
Fridav. August 31. 1979
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Arts and Entertainment
Music
LAWRENCE OPERA HOUSE 7th and Massachusetts St.
7th and Massachusetts St.
David Allan Coe, Southern Fried,
tonight; Thumbs, The Gary Charles
Band, tomorrow. Doors open at 8 p.m.
music贝音到9 n.m.
OFF-THE-WALL-HALL 227 New Hampshire St.
Used Parts, 9 tonight; Cowboy X, 9 p.m. tomorrow.
PAUL GRAY'S JAZZ PLACE
PENTIMENTO COFFEEHOUSE AND CAFE
Jim Stringer Band, Chuck Berg, 9 p.m. tomorrow.
611 Vermont St.
Town Dougherty, 8 tonight; Gena Compton, 10 tomorrow; Tommy Holliday, Al Brune, 10 tomorrow; Carl Fichtenham, midnight tomorrow; John Andrews, 6 p.m. Sunday
KANSAS CITY, MO.
OPEN-AIR CONCERTS Brush Creek Park near the Country Club Plaza
Kansas City Philharmonic, all-
tihtekovsky program, 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
SUMMERJAM 79
REO, Little River Band, Santana, Pat Travers, Jay Ferguson, tomorrow afternoon.
UPTOWN THEATER
3700 Broadway
Ray Charles, Sept. 6.
WORLDS OF FUN
Ronnie Milsap, tomorrow, Sunday and Monday.
Spare Time
Movies
CINEMA TWIN THEATRES
"The In-Laws," starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.
"Hot Stuff," starring Dom DeLuise.
HILLCREST THEATRES 9th and Iowa streets
9th and Iowa streets
The *Anmityville* Horror, "starring James Brolin and Marcot Kidder.
James Broin and Margot Kidder.
"Blazing, Saddler," starring C.
"Blazing Saddles," starring Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn.
"Breaking Away," starring Dennis Christopher and Paul Dooley.
GRANADA THEATRE
"North Dallas Forty," starring Nick Nolte and Mac Davis.
SUNSET DRIVE-IN THEATRE RFD1
"Star Wars" and "Silent Running",
tight and tomorrow night, "Alice in
Wonderland," "Flesh Gordon," "Sex
Machine," and "The Erotic Adventures of
Superknight." Sunday night.
"Sunday in Smoke," starting
Monday night.
VARSITY THEATRE
"Dracula," starring Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier.
VARSITY THEATRE
1015 Massachusetts St
Woodruff Auditorium
Kansas Union
The *Big Fix*, 3: 30, 7 and 9: 30 p.m.
today; "Of Mice and Men," 7: 30 p.m.
sept. 4; "The Conformity," 7: 30 p.m.
sept. 5; "Girl Growth at Dumbbell," 7: 30 p.m. sept. 6.
Cablevision program highlights local talent
Staff Reporter
The show will be at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and 1 p.m. Saturday beginning Sept. 5.
For those unfamiliar with Lawrence entertainment, Sunflower Celbvision has created "Bringin' It All Back Home," a series of videos that show every two weeks on local channel x.
Mason said the show was created last spring because he felt people should have an opportunity to learn about the diverse amount of music that Lawrence offers.
By BRETT CONLEY
"We would like to show people that Lawrence is a rich place for live music. Rock and roll seems to be the most predominant genre in the city, but we also done country, release and jazz."
Randy Mason, producer and director of the show, described the program as "informational but artistic."
"There is not really anyone in the country that we can find that this kind of thing happens," he said. "Its things done in the past have either been a local American Bandstand type of thing or an actual concert."
Mason said the first program last spring featured Cole Tuckey in performance at the Ravenswood Theater. The show has been taped at the Off-the-Wall Hall, the Lawrence Arts Center and the Pentimento building.
Sometimes the program features national groups on their way through Lawrence. Mason said he did shows with Patti Smith and the Boontown Rats last sorning.
"The show is a big undertaking for us," Masa said. "Nationally there is not much pressure to do it, but it's hard, in business, but I think it's fun to get your hands in on so many things, which you have to with
"We usually spend six to seven hours taping each show using a crew of three to four people. Then we spend 16 to 20 hours just look"
ing at the tape and then another ten hours actually editing it. I am not only the producer and director, but I write the scripts and do the camera and do any interviews for the show."
Mason said the show's fall season would begin with programs featuring The Secrets and the Dry Jack Jazz Band.
"We would also do to do something with Billy Spears and his return to performing." Mason said. "That is something that should have a lot of local interest."
One thing Mason does not have to worry about, he said, is television ratings.
"We don't have ratings as such because it just not practical to do a survey." Mason subscribes, and I'm not trying to pass this off as a worker production because it is too expensive.
Mason, who described himself as being a teacher, worked in radio in Kansas City before coming to Sunflower Cablevision, and that he still did a weekly jazz program for radio station 172.
All arts share in Uptown's return
"I knew we could do the show without spending a lot of money, but I haven't heard of anyone who didn't like it. In fact, we envisioned it as something to think about the show."
"Lawrence has an amazing amount of people who can write and perform their own compositions," she said. "We're more support for local talent than there is now, and we have various things in mind for us."
Mason said the possibility of running out of acts to feature did not worry him.
Mason said he was not sure what would happen to the show after this season ended.
"December 15 is the last show of the season and that is about the time I will totally collapse. 'Mason said. 'We are going to do something, but show after it is up in the air.'"
By RICK HELLMAN Staff Reporter
they opened the hall before work was completed. Last week's tribute to Count Basekiss off a series of "sneak preview" videos, which show how he treated Charles and the Kansas City Philharmonic.
A part of Kansas City tradition for over a hundred years, the Uplift theater, 3700 W. 46th Street, is known for its renovation and is all but ready to become the premier showplace for the arts in this city.
When those bugs were ironed out to the satisfaction of the owners, Katz said, a major show would be booked for the official opening of the museum to expect to take place in early October.
"PEOPLE WILL HIT just to excuse us during the snake previews," Katz said. "All the work is basically done, what's left is ironing out the bus."
Art exhibits, legitimate theater and dance programs also were being planned to make the Uptown a home for all the arts, Katz said.
"We feel that entertainment will sell, even when times are rough," he said.
KATZ, AND HIS employees, Neospace INC, who operate the hall, said they hoped to provide diverse programs of entertainment from all segment of the art-collectors public.
For an admission price of about $10, one can enter a New Uptown, completely remodeled from its front window glass to its stage. Gone are the cramped balcony seats, the greathall walls and the dimly lit showrooms. The hazardous past. Instead, cream-white paint and
When shows finish early and on other occasions, the hall will be transformed into a disco for dancing onstage and on the front portion of the main floor.
By the beginning of October, the Uptown is expected to be featuring live entertainment five nights a week. Katz said in addition to that, he said, the downstairs kitchen would serve a businessman's lunch and it would show its events in the evening and food after shows.
rich red and gray carpets decorate the hall in opulence.
THE UPTOWN'S NEW sound and light,
systems, are equally elaborate. Georgetown
School District is building a stack system
system, Jon Katz, the Uptown's
publicity and public relations director, said
Those involved in the project were so eager to open the theater, Katz said, that
Two conventional speaker stacks have been installed on each side of the stage with two additional stacks, both raised 25 feet in height to project sound up to the balcony ceilings.
Despite the costiness of the renovation at a time when money is being tight, Katz said he was optimistic about the future of the theater.
Of special interest to stunners may... new Upbowl's first visit by a rock band. The game will have bands in the United States" will make a mystery appearance at the hall Sunday, September 2. Just who will be playing would be known from tomorrow on KV192. Katz said.
Other new equipment included a Midas 32- channel mixing board for the ball's sound system, Katz said.
Uptown Jazz
RADB VINMEVIwanan afal
Jazz fusion artist Roy Ayers heads his band, Ubiquity, Wednesday night in the third of a
series of snack preview concerts at the newly-renovated Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.
Rare Oriental works open museum season
The Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art opened its season this week with a visiting exhibition, "Hanging in Chinese Singing," dating from the 14th to 18th centuries.
Commissors of Chinese painting will be able to identify and appreciate the various brushstroke techniques that characterize each style represented in the collection. And to the help in oriental art enjoy the knowledge of working each of the works have been provided.
"Besides the didactic function of the
show, it is pretty," said Douglas Hyland, curator at the museum.
Twenty-tour painters are represented in the 185-piece exhibition of silk and paper works.
The owner of the collection, Arthur M. Sackler, a New York physician and published medical journals and books, interested in medical research during the 1950s before there was much of a demand for the works. During the next decade, he joined Wen Fong, a professor at Princeton
University, and the Sackler Foundation was created.
HYLAND DESCRIBED the portion of the collection now on exhibit as "one of the most important shows held here."
The exhibition will travel to Israel after leaving Lawrence Oct. 7.
The exhibition includes handscrolls, Chinese viewed from right to left a few feet away and two panels with 150 loose leaves; painted fans; and hanging scrolls that were rolled up; and an unrolled scroll.
The largest painting is a scroll by Chang
Chi-su called "Snow-Capped Peaks," which hangs from ceiling to floor.
Instead of viewing the painting with the fixed perspective traditional in Western art, the eye tends to follow the paths created by the valleys and mountains of the landscape
A series of gallery talks have been scheduled in an attempt to make the exhibition more meaningful. Hyland said.
The first lecture, "Tao-chi and the Art of Chinese Brushwork," by Tita Addis, lecturer at the University of Missouri-Kansas at Pine Forest, tomorrow at the museum's Kress Gallery.
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