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Bob Clark and his 350-pound pet snake, Sadie
Unusual campus pets include python, piranha
By RICK THAEMERT
Sadie, a somewhat unusual pet, didn't get to come to the University of Kansas in her master's car like other pets, because it takes six people to carry her.
Sadie is a Burmese python, 10 pounds, senior, and she weighs 390 pounds and measures 18 feet. "It's the biggest one on my back," Sadie said.
Pets like Sadie, although not as large, are common to students studying for animal friends besides dogs and cats, but pets like Sadie, although not as large, are common to students studying for animal friends besides dogs and cats, but pets are as vested as the animals themselves.
"I breed pythons and sell them to people like myself," I said. "I have more than 100 eggs which, at 50 a baby, he has had no problem."
CLARK SAID he is interested in reptiles because they make a fascinating hobby and are money makers.
Because Clark can get inexpensive sterile chickens and rabbits from farmers, he has a device he'd haven't been too calm.
THE ONLY problem Clark has with his pets is finding places where they can stay, he said.
He had tried to save Sadie at his apartment because he thought puzzles weren't included in the apartment's pet kit, which mainly covers damage done by dogs and cats.
Clark said that 11-year-old Sadie doesn't move much except when she eats, and that game, is not too affectionate.
White said Fisher found Rufus, a 5-foot black rat snake, on K10 highway.
But Clark was mistaken,
and must keep Sade in the basement of a friend's
room. The other reptiles back home.
Other snake-loving
students, like Frank Fisher,
and Dan Wain, both Overland
and chosen, have chosen smaller snakes.
"It had been run over, so Frank brought it back and we nursed it back to health," White said.
FISHER IS interested in pediatology, the study of young children. Ruf just because he enjoys having an easy-goin gipe toy.
"It culls all over you and wraps around your neck," he said, with his hands irritated when people want to play with him when he wants
for about two years, said:
"People always want to see it kill something. It's a good conversation piece."
Stingley said the six-inch piranha, Buddy, eats about two minnows a day, which cet about 50 cents a dozen.
For the two University of Kansas students performing with the Kansas City Lyric Opera, it is well worth driving them to the auditorium where Lawrence nearly every day. Long rehearsals, sometimes bad props, nonexistent social lives, strained academic lives and the possibility of being interrupted for the professional experience.
"She's hyper, and I tend to be hyper, too," she said. "And she's really mean because I tease her a lot."
Cleaning up after pets is a problem for Leslie Weinrich, Shawnee Mission senior, who came a nominee named Babe
UNUSUAL PETS aren't often found in Lawrence pet stores, so they must be bought from people like Clark.
"I've had to drop five hours, some of them my graduate courses. It's a big sacrifice but the rewards are great. It is so much fun to put a price tag on experience," he said.
GILNSKY, a baritone who will be singing in the "Barber's" chorus, said that performing with a professional opera company such as the Lyric could be the best thing that could happen to a voice student.
Sacrifices made for opera
Bill Gilmick, Omaha graduate student, and Carl Packard, Lawrence graduate student, will be performing in Rosin's "The Barber of Seville" here Monday through Friday at the Lyric's other operas during the five week season in Kansas City.
By LIZ LEECH Assistant Entertainment Editor
"This is the loudest business in Kansas," he said. "I just don't think Lawrence is as far as pet animals are concerned."
Weinrich said pets assume the personalities and attitudes of their owners.
Bill Brinkerhoff, owner of Petstep, said he didn't carry unusual pets because they were hard to sell.
He said that professional standards were higher than those in college.
But somehow, students find the pets they want, and when they do, companionship and loyalty frequently develops.
"A week to two weeks before the season starts is when we start rehearsing, and by the first rehearsal you have to
THE MUSIC is given to the singers the previous spring, Gillisky said, so they can memorize their parts during the summer.
"If you don't have it memorized they get pretty upset, but everyone is responsible enough to learn their parts," he said.
have everything memorized," Gilinsky said.
In addition to night rehearsals or performances in the Lyric, Gilmick is a graduate assistant and gives private vocal lessons to 16 students, as well as taking part in choir concerts for area churches every weekend too, and recently has been learning his part for the KU Opera Workshop's production of *Cinderella*. He was been in several KU musicals and opera
"The only time I actually became nervous was this season when a woman had to jump into my arms and I had to carry her around the stage and then up to the door where she could do it because she was 5'-9" and we have a very heavy cane," Gilsink said.
HE SAID that opera was about 50 per cent singing ability and 50 per cent acting ability, and that opera singers had to be singing actors rather than acting singers.
Gilkinson has performed professionally since 1970, when he performed in Omaha. As a result of his varied experiences, he no longer has stare freak.
During one performance, Gilinsky
GILNSKY has performed two roles in Lyric performances, as well as serving in the chorus, and has had some interesting experiences.
He said that food sometimes presented problems on stage, such as actors throwing fruit peels on the floor.
said, he came close to dropping her as he began to climb the stairs and his feet became entangled in the actress' case.
And in the Lyric's performance of "La Traviata," Ginsky has to eat chicken as part of a scene. He said that sometimes it is difficult on the floor, or was several days old.
Gilrish said his social life suffered during the opera season. He cleans his apartment and does laundry during his birthday, "My biggest enjoyment is sleeping."
PACKARD, a bartonne who plays a servant in "Barber," is the first person on stage in the opera. He served in the play of the other lyrical opera this season.
He said he liked the fast-paced, professional opera more than the college productions he's been in.
"Since I do plan on trying to make a career in opera, it's a marvelous opportunity to work with professionals," Packard said.
He said he liked to talk with his cisengers, people he used to watch from his seat in the audience, not only about opera but also about life in general.
Packard has performed in several KU productions—musicals and operas—and also in the 1974 Tanglewood Music Festival.
Packard agreed with Gilinsky on some of the problems with food on stage but said that an experience he had had was good.
IT IS Difficult to balance school with his professional work, he said, because he is enrolled in six hours of courses. Packard also works as an announcer at KANU and is a soloist at Atopica church.
"I do get nerves of some kind before I go on stage, but it's the positive kind, adrenaline," he said.
Packard said he didn't have stage fright any more because he had been an actor since junior high school.
Real champagne was used one night during the performance of "The Ballad of Baby Dole" instead of the usual glass of Parkard said it didn't affect his vocals.
"BUT IT was quite a psychological lift and I rather enloved it," he said.
"it's easier to cover up mistakes with spoken lines than in opera, where you sing your part. The must keeps going loudly, the must waves his arms, the "Packard said."
Packard said he had never really bungled his lines, although he had dropped a few.
'Hester Street'delightful,moving
By CHUCK SACK
Reviewer
"A pox on Columbus," cries the heroine of "Hester Street," a newly immigrated Russian Jew. This comic but tender moment is characteristic of his work, and Silver's finely etched look at life on the Lower East Side of New York, circa 1896.
Gill (Carole Kane) has good reason to hate Columbus. Her husband has lived in America three years without her, and has worked with the students because it sounds like a Yankee name. When she arrives at Ellis Island with their son, she funds an endowment that she does not recognize him.
JAKE (STEVEN KEATS) is trying to eradicate all outward traces of his old country home. He has accepted as an American, and he
is proud of his $12-week job running a sewing machine in a sweat shop. He is not proud of Gtl, who clings to her customs and traditional values with the help of her husband, whose husband throws them away
The question of values is brought to a head when Gilt discovers that Jake has been pursuing not only the American dream, but also another woman. Mamie (Dorie Kavanaugh) doesn't know that Jake is married when she calls on him to inspect the furniture in her room and discovers that Jake intends to marry her, Mamie is stunned when Gilt answers the door.
GFTL IS innocently unaware of the two lovers discuss in English, but she is intrigued with Mamie's "liberated" dress. "I thought she was nobility," she tells the boarder,
Ms. Silver, working from a script she based on the novel *Hell by Abraham Cahan*, tells her that the author illuminate from the intangible pressures that work on her characters. Her comic touch is deft—and considering that this film—that ability is miraculous.
BUT "HESSTER STREET" as owed to much its excellent cast as to its director. All the actors convey the proper, the character, the despair that accompanies people in an alien environment.
imitated. When these attitudes collide with old world sensibilities in the same person, the resulting statements are touchingly funny. "You can't pee up my back and make me eat your food," says Jake. And Mamie tells him, "Don't like it. lump it."
THE ACTRESS who best illustrates these complex abilities is Carol Kane. Nominated for an award in the Award for Best performance in this movie, Kane appears birdlike as the vulnerable Gitt. Her sharp features and luminous eyes make her stand out. Giancarlo Giannini and Marty Feldman, but her subdued, confident acting style doesn't depend on physical over-confidence. The Gitt begins to make her way, Kane unfolds layer after layer
of her character's personality She is terrific.
SO "ISHER Street," which examines American values with the same expertise that Kane uses to lay bare her character. "We live in an educated society of people of saying, but the follies of immigrants are indicative of current American values."
The realignments between the lives of Jake, Mamie, Gitt and the scholarly Mr. Bernstein are wryly hilarious, and the black-and-white photography and the black-and-white attitude added to gentle style of comedy. But all too often the laughs are tempered by the character's insights, such as when Mr. Bernstein asked on the boat you should say: 'Goodbye, O Lord. I'm going to America.'"
By TIM BRADLEY
'Songs in the Key' lacks feeling
Stevie Wonder's long-awaited song, "Bands in The Key of Life," is finally available at your local diaryk. I don't like
It'd be so easy to cop a cicle or two about the album's Vesuvian bursts of incendiary fire. You can also don't need eyes 'cause he can write so good. And it is a fact that amid the skunk bait that passes for new releases, the album is quite the Pearl.
But hey, they're the deal. The record is a real yawner. It's a superly crafted excerpt in which he dazzles finesse, and Stevie's voice can't be faulted. They are fingerpoppers and thigh-thumpers with thick hands. Their craftsmanship rarely approaches the art that a $13-million contract with Motown would lead us to expect.
sentiments are felt on any more than an academic humanist level.
THE DOUBLE-PLUS album is too long, and it's a nuisance to get up to change the spindle for the small disk that's included. Throughout, Wonder wallows in a self-righteous morass of socio-political-cosmic musc about things as illogical as this (his soliloquy is move to Saturn), ghettoes and innocent children. The idea is very commendable, but there's no clue in the music that the
Steve is a magician in the studio, and all the music is ably produced and performed, but it's done so spassionately that before long we should be able to buy supermarkets. And there's something inherently wrong with using a string quartet
(synthesized) for a song about the getto. The letter with a less taste than I might say, "Small Wonder."
A LITTLE discretion and a careful pruning, could we make "Songs in The Key Of Life" a album of much more punch.
Try instead the new Tom Waits release on Asylum, called "Small Change." Here is
emotional veracity that goes straight for the giblets.
Waits' writing is the musical equivalent of Hunter Thompson's *jonzo* journalism, a sonic voice like the result of an odd experiment involving Osterizers and gravel. Once past the voice boundaries, he rewarded with excruciatingly vivid pictures of the deprived
and deprived life of a big-city down-and-out. The album may as well be a late bus passengers being given a dimly lit—but safe—look at the sad world of junkies, alkies, burglaris, ambulance drivers and all the other nighthawks, who also play this because it's just too over real, too good.
Paul Winter Consort fuses styles
Music reflecting Latin American folk music, modern jazz and even classical styles can be heard tomorrow night when the Paul Winter Consort plays in laux Auditorium.
Winter, who plays soprano and alto saxophone, has recorded everything from Bach to Joni Mitchell to Jerry Jeff Hare. He organized his first group while attending Northwestern University. The group, later called the Paul Winter Sextet, took top honors at a collegiate jazz festival in 1981. The secret then tore 25 countries in America and Latin America.
During the tour Winter was influenced by the folk music of
The consort played to 1,000 people last year in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
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Some of the original consort's members left and formed the group Oregon. Instruments played by the present consort, which has four members besides Jesse, include *Lute*, *organs*, *xylophone*, *bengos*, classical guitar and marimba (a type of xylophone from South Africa or Central America).
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Winter's first consort was formed in 1967, and it included a cello, a classical guitar, an alto flute, and English horn, a saxophone, a bass and percussion.
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Latin America, while he continued to perform his own modern jazz.
By the mid-1960s, Winter had developed an idea for a consort, which he hoped would reflect the voices and idioms he had heard in the music of African and ethnic music of the countries he had toured. The term
consort was first used in 1580, when it was applied to a specific combination of instruments for a small ensemble.
This Week's
Highlights
Exhibits
"ST. PETERSBURG — PEТROGRAD — LENINGRAD"
a pictorial and book biography
displayed at Watson Library.
THE MAX KADE COLLEE
temporary oil paintings and prints by James Whistler and Anders Zorn is at the Kansas State University.
"PHOTOGRAPHS," a
series of three art and white photographs by four area photographers, is displayed at the 2E Gallery. It features
Theater
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