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Wednesday, August 20.1975
University Daily Kansan
Apple Valley has theater, chickens and pickin'
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dances held every Saturday night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. have drawn some large crowds.
"We have the best country and western bands in the area," he said.
The music hall had formerly been a grainery, and Stroup said an old farmer, about 70, who had been out dancing up a barn and gone to work. He covered there when he was a youngster.
"I never thought that I would be dancing with drinking out," the farmer smirked.
Sundays from 3 to 6 p.m. the Kansas Old-Time Fiddlers, Pickers & Sings, a historical society, get together for a free jamboree to do exactly what their name
THE RESTAURANT THAT occupies the old farm house specializes in fried chicken dinners, and if you don't feel like eating inside the house, there are plenty of tables outside on the shaded patio area. It's old-fashioned dining, right down to the red-and-white checkered curtains and tablecloths. It's open Thursday through Sunday.
The old combination chicken barn and hay loft metamorphosed into a unique antique and craft store-unique but not inscrutable in its incarcerated yesteryear, but the building itself is of vintage stock. Built in 1890, the barn is the oldest building on the farm. If you don't mind a few creaking board boards in the loft, it provides a delightful excursion into the
A brief perusal reveals a wild variety of valuable treasures that would set the heart of any antique lover affitter. Need to bone up on your reading, "riting and rihmetic? Well, how about a classic Kansas edition reader or an 1877 edition of the "New
Primary Arithmetic? If you are a history of the United States, the history of the United States," (through 1893).
IF READING ISN'T your thing, the loft is lined with old paintings and photographs, and bottles concatenated by cobwebs grace the crossbreads. There are animal traps, spittitors, milk cans, wooden slat barrels, and pennants. You can't begin to identify parachaeromaly I couldn't begin to identity.
"It was Grandma's," said Mary Malinowicz, who runs the store.
The store has a steady clientele, so her husband, Jibb, who does most of the buying, often works with her.
There is even a marvelous wood-burning stove complete with rusty strawpipe, but it doesn't heat.
"People come back here all the time, always looking for new things," he said. That's why I always have to be going to see them and have to have something new to see."
MALNOWSKY IS ASSISTANT director of the University of Kansas library. He adopted his antique-buying sideline as a "diversion."
Mrs. Mallinowsky recently convinced a Lawrence patent, Jay Sires, to set up a kilt at one end of the antique barn and to start "throwing" pots there on weekends as an artisan. She has created a variety of different artists and craftsmans to work in residence on the farm.
The Apple Valley Farm Barn Theater, which is operated by Dale Easten, Inc., Topeka, features a cast of nine players who starred in the movie on Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights.
LINDA CHAFFIN, BUSINESS manager, said the theater holds from 200 to 225 people comfortably, but 302 people packed in one night because they were so eager to see it
The fall children's production is "The Prince, The Wolf and the Firebird," by Jackson Lacey, Toni Schmidt, Santa Claus, and Michael McGrath, will direct the show, performed Oct. 4.
Various plays . . .
Interspersed among the main stage productions are children's theater shows and a number of interesting experimental plays in the Inge Memorial Theatre.
PAUL GAFENEY, Lawrence graduate student, will direct the opening production in the inge Series. It will be "Telemachus Clay," by Lewis Carlin, and will run Oct. 2-17.
Rae, associate professor of speech and drama, will direct and George Lawner, professor of orchestra, will conduct in the traditional spring co-production of the theater department and the School of Fine Arts.
--show. She said the audience apparently didn't mind the crowded conditions.
An original play by Paul Lim, Lawrence graduate student, will be the University of Kansas's entry in the original script of the American College Theater Festival.
"Slow Dance on the Killing Ground,"
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The play, "Compersonas," will be directed by Cook. It opens Oct. 28 and explores the moral difficulties of a priest who must support his mother's murder by a homosexual lover.
William Hanley's poignant play about a shopkeeper's attempts to aid the confused young people who split out their problems to him, will be performed Feb. 4-13. Ame Abrams, Brooklyn, N.Y., graduate student, will direct.
A CONTEMPORARY musical adaptation of the Grimm's Brothers' story "The Bremen town Musicians," will be produced Feb. 7 as the second children's theater show. Jed Davies, professor of speech and language, will present updated play called "Sacramento 50 Miles."
Two "mint-productions" will also be directed by graduate students as part of a program begin last year to produce shorter plays with limited runs.
“Pieces,” the last in the Inge Series, march 3-12. Rhonda Blaire, Warren, Mich., graduate student, will direct the production of J. L. McClure's play.
The first of these will be "Jest, Satire, Irony and deeper Significance," a play by Christian Grabble that Rufus Cadigan, St. Martin's School will direct. It will be performed Dec. 34.
For example, for the Saturday night play,
"The Drunkard," an old-fashioned melodrama, the audience is tutored in the art of properly missing and booing the villain and cheering and sighing for the hero and connecting the characters to the audience throughout the play.
"R's like a big party." Chaffin said.
"The only way to describe it."
GEORGE WEISS, Lawrence graduate student, will direct "Col. Sellers: An Entertainment," which opens April 7 and runs through April 10. It is a short, entertaining piece by William Dean Howells and Mark Twain.
"It's one place where women who can't get their husbands to go to a stage show or play can bring them because they can really relax." Chaffin said. "Our shows are just
"Once I sell one alice of bread with apple butter on it, they're just like honey bees, they taste great."
another kettle to double the output—and he said he needed it.
"IT'S ITS LIKE A fair," Malinowski said. "One of the guys sells cotton candy and candied apples, and some people bring food, bake sale type stuff."
"Really, the people who come to see the fair never see the food because all of the exhibitors buy all the stuff."
entertainment. You're supposed to have fun and a good time, and we do."
Unfortunately, the food doesn't seem to last too long, he said.
Stroup has a lot of expansion in mind for the farm.
DURING THE FIRST FOUR Sundays in October, Apple Valley Farm has its annual Christmas Days. Craftsmanship from all over the Midwest come to exhibit, demonstrate and sell their wares. There is also musical entertainment and a variety of Apple cider fresh from an 18% cedar press.
Eventually he hopes to have a key club that would allow the serving of a few types of mixed drinks. He also said he sees a man who learns to warm up as the site of an old-fashioned mill and stone grinder to show how wheat and corn are ground up.
Malinowinky conccets apple butter during the fair in copper kettles perched over open windows. It is one of last year at the festival was sold out by midafternoon, so this year he is adding