University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 15, 1975
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'Annie' to start with bang
By BARB HINTON
Staff Writer
The magic of show business, the wild west and good music will materialize Friday night at the University Theatre's opening production of "Annie Get Your Gun."
Director Joe Watson, Kilgore, Tex., graduate student, said that much of the musical comedy was historical because it followed Anne Oakley's overnight rise to stardom in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Oakley's love for Frank Butler.
"It's no great piece of theatre, and no great piece of dramatic art," Watson said. "I didn't know what to do."
Watson said the production would be different from the original version written for Broadway in 1946, which was written for Ethel Merman who starred in it. The new production was revised and revived in 1958 for the Lincoln Center in New York, he said.
composer Irving Berlin, Watson said, and the "whole show is tighter and slicker."
"I tried to get rid of anything that slowed the action of the show." Watson said.
The libretto, or book, was tightened up in 1965 by Herbert and Dorothy Field and
He cut out some of the long-duration performances as well as some of the offensive and stereotyped dialogue and phrases spoken by Indians in the play.
Cherish Sitting Bull, the main Indian character, is a "very intelligent, dignified and humorous character." Watson said, "I know that he's how he's written into the script."
Watson said he wasn't out to offend anyone, but he thought the play *wra* a sword. It would be cutter to butcher the script for the sake of elimination of the passages that might seem offensive.
Although the libretto has been extensively changed, the music is from the original production, and the score has many of Berlin's best-known songs. These include: "Can't Get a Man With a Gun," "Doin' What Comes Natur 'lly'","The Girl That I
Marry," "Falling in Love in Wonderful."
"Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better,
and "There's No Business Like Show Business."
The cast is unusually large, Watson said, with 35 characters. He said he didn't want to fake the many gunshots in the production because they were an important part of the movie. The actors will be used from Hollywood, loaded with blanks, will be used on stage, he said.
"Annie Get Your Gun" was chosen because it celebrates the bicentennial, Watson said. He said he thought an older musical was appropriate because it would reflect a more mature flair of the wild wist. The play reflects the golden age of musical comedy, Watson said.
Annie will be played by Rhonda Plymate, Topeka graduate student, and Frank Butler will be played by Bill Glinkas, Olivette Mo., graduate teaching assistant in music.
The business of the poet and the artist such as Thomas Hardy is to show the underlying grandeur of the common aspects of life, according to Frank B. Pinion, emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, England.
Pinion lectured to about 40 people last night in the Council Room of the Kansas Union on "The 'Pictorial Art of Thomas Hardy.'"
"The artist has a concrete way to express experience far more intensely than the realistic of psychological writers," he said. "Here, Hardy excels."
Pinion discussed the influence and presence of art on the novels and poetry of Thomas Hardy. He said art was an extremely important part of Hardy's self-reliance and study of art of "developed his perceptions and intensified his interest in the visual."
Alfred Lata, lecturer in chemistry, portrays Bauftra Bill, and Tom Res, associate director of the University Theatre, will play Chief Sitting Bull.
drawn with finely detailed brushstrokes.
Elsewhere Hardy was the artist of chiaroscuro, a technique that features dramatic interplay of light and shadow.
Hardy's descriptions, which use both image and landscape to express human feelings, prospects and situations, were complex aspects of his craft, Pinson said. Penion was born in a location of landscape and situation is to be found on the island of Novels." Pinson said, "but never so abun-
Pinion said writers often assumed too much knowledge by their readers. Hardy was always careful to make certain that his readers understood and recognized his direct references to artistic works, Pinion said.
Pinion illustrated his lecture with many quotations from Hardy's works. The artist used a variety of colors in several different artists. He was sometimes the miniaturist whose descriptions were
The doctor, Mike Waring, a first-year law student, said Monday that he thought the medical practice understand enough about the medical procedures to make good laws affecting health care.
He plains to take the bar exam and work with law and medicine to improve health care. He said he might even end up in politics.
Too many people who don't know enough about medicine are trying to determine that profession's future, according to a medical doctor who is studying law here.
When he graduates from law school, he becomes a physician in the United States who are both physicians.
dandy as in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles." Like the artist, Hardy had a good judgment and a good sense of proportion, Pinion said, but his descriptions aren't pure description in the sense that they replace man's senses.
The set was designed by Steve Meriwether, Mission graduate student. The music will be conducted and directed by George Lawner, professor of orchestra.
Art influenced Hardy,prof says
Doctor studies law to improve medicine
Evening performances will be at 8, Oct.
13. Performance will be at 6, Nov.
performances at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 19 and 26.
"Legislators in general do not possess an adequate knowledge about the practice of medicine," he said. "They frequently arrive at very commandable, practical standards and can impropriate and could prove detrimental to the health care delivery system."
Waring
"Hardy does more with words than 99 percent of the novelists," Punlion said. "What I wrote is so much different in these words. There is so much there to think about, so much to observe. It's rich."
and lawyers. Waring received his M.D. from the KU Medical Center in 1973.
By DIANE WILSON
Staff Writer
He said an example was a current push in Congress to force a redistribution of physicians in the United States. There are too few physicians in small towns, and medical specialists are mostly in large metropolitan areas.
Waring said no laws were needed because the distribution problem would work itself out as popular locations, such as Colorado and Arizona, filled up.
National health insurance, he said, is another example of lack of legislative incentives. The law was medical care at reasonable cost not medical care at government expense.
Second, Waring said, patients should make better use of hospital emergency rooms. He said some patients used the emergency room instead of the doctor's office because insurance paid for emergency treatment.
The two other ways to reduce the cost of health care, he said, relate to malpractice suits. Some patients insist on hospitalization and if physicians don't admit them, the doctor will "bring an "unreasonable nuisance" malpractice suit against the doctor, he said.
Waring defined a misuse malpractice suit as one that a lawyer agreed to prosecute even though he knew it had no merit.
Primary care physicians are pediatricians family practitioners and pediatric nurses.
There are four ways to reduce the cost of medical care, Waring said.
First, certain medical fees must be lowered, he said.
"Some surgical fees are extravagant," but most primary care fees are reasonable.
There is some genuine medical malpractice and it should be stopped, he said, but there is probably more malpractice in professions other than doctors. There are also medical malpractice suits because they are profitable for lawyers, he said.
The test of muisance malpractice suits and medical tests in medical and laboratory tests, Waraing said.
Law isn't the answer to the problem of good medical care, he said. The solution is for each person regardless of his job to learn services with high standards, he said.
Health care costs could be lowered if insurance companies refused to pay claims for some procedures, he said, since patients demand only what insurance will pay for.
Waring works in the emergency room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and he is also a Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Officer.
STREISAND & CAAN
How Lucky Can You Get!
Funny lady
PG
Tonight 7:30, 9:50
Your senses will never be the same.
Tommy PG
Tonight at 7:30, 9:30
Varsity
It's the same two dudes from 'Uptown Saturday Night!'
but this time they're back with kid dyn-o-mite!
SIDNEY POTTER - BILL COSBY
JIMMIE WALKER
LET'S DO IT AGAIN!
Tonight 7:20 and 9:30
Hillcrest
Tom Launchlin as "THE MASTER GUNFIGHTER"
Play both Herman "LITTLE BIG MAN"
Showtime 7:30
Sunset
The True Story of the Sager Family ...
"SEVEN ALONE"
Eve. 7:30 & 9:30
Hillcrest
He was taken by everyone. Now it's his turn!
That 'Walking Tall' man is back!
Joe Don Baker is
Evenings.
7:40 & 9:40
FRIDAY & SATURDAY NIGHTS AT 12:15
A Playboy's Delight
Hillcrest
SHE'S RADIO'S ANSWER TO FANNY HILL -
TURN HER ON AND SHE'LL TURN YOU ON!!
SHE WILL REALLY GET YOU UP...
IN THE MORNING!
Rated X
the Dirty Mind of Young Sally
Rated X
"I've seen this one before. If has skin, laughs and even a plot. I think you'll like 'Dirty Sally.'
SUA Travel
GROUP FLIGHTS
Group flights to Chicago for Thanksgiving are now filling. Flights to Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta for Christmas are also filling. These group flights offer students, staff and faculty large savings over regular air fare and include an option to return anytime within one year. If you plan on flying during Thanksgiving, Christmas or spring break stop by the SUA office and fill out an information card. It could save you money!
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$13500 Jan. 3-13
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— Seven Nights Accommodations
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—4 Nights at Red Roost Condominiums
—4 Blocks from Downtown Breckenridge
—Fully Equipped Kitchenettes
—4 Days Lift Tickets
—4 Days Equipment Rental
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Cross Country Skiling
—Optional 5th Day of Skiking, $126°
Contracts are available for all of the above. 864-3477 Stop by the SUA office for information or to sign up. SUA is located on level 4 of the student union.
A Law School Information Meeting for ALL Interested KU Students (both undergraduates and graduate):
"Everything You've Wanted to Know about Law School But Were Afraid to Ask."
Speakers will include Dean Dickinson, faculty members and students at the KU Law School. Discussion will center upon Law School in general and KU in particular.
A question and answer session will be held at the end.
Thursday, October 16 8:15 P.M.
Big 8 Room Kansas Union