Fridav. September 24,1976
University Daily Kansan
Arts & Leisure
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By ROB EMBERS
The old oak table and chairs that your grandpa traded in on new furniture, and the bedroom trio that your grandmother put little have suddenly reappeared 60 years later as antiques.
The demand for antiques from this period has risen sharply in the Midwest, primarily among the young, who have been attracted to the crafts of early 20th century antiques.
Actually, items made in this period aren't antiques at all, because an antique is generally considered to be one of the least important. few of the shops in Lawrence carry more than a few genuine antiques.
ACCORDING TO owners of two antique shops in Lawrence, KU students are about one-half of their clientele. The students, they say, aren't looking for genuine antiques, but are searching for 1920s furniture and other collectible items.
Art Gelfont, owner of Big G's Antiques, 44 Locust St., said his main concern was having a high turnover of stock that bayers would see something different each time they came in.
"Younger people want the
unusual," he said. "They don't want what their neighbor has."
"when his neighbor has."
Geller said he sold much of his merchandise to dealers in other states where the demand for certain antiques was greater than it was in Kansas.
"I've got a dealer coming in sometime today and he'll take every piece of oak furniture in the shop," Gifler said.
JEFF GRUND, who restores antiques in his shop,
Restoration Hall, next to Emerald City Antiques, 415 N. Second St., said the most important feature of older furniture is that it appreciated in old homes. The company was usually a safe investment, most ancient buyers got their money's worth.
"Everything I've seen has doubled in value in the last four years," he said.
Another advantage of buying older furniture is that the furniture is usually of higher quality than new furniture, he
"SOME PEOPLE come to buy a dining room set because those that are new are shoddy and are more expensive," he
Grund said most people in the Midwest were looking for antiques they can use in everyday living and therefore prefer to have the antiques refined. In the East, antiques with original
Geller said 90 per cent of his buyers want refinished furniture even though a few young people to do their own refinishing.
finishes get higher prices where age is the determining factor, but in the Midwest this isn't usually the case.
Brown said he once owned an antique tool box, made about 1910, that he repaired with squares instead of the nail heads used in 1910. Square nails were used about 1860.
"I TOOK IT to an antique sale and sold it for what it was," he said. "I wasn't trying to deceive anybody.
“Sometimes you can buy from a magazine and they may not turn out the way you want,” she said. “You had once or twice that way.”
"I saw this same item in a shop a couple of years later dated 1860 instead of 1910 and had they picked it accordingly."
Once in a while an antique
JACK BROWN, a former antique dealer who lives in Overland Park, said people should carefully inspect them and compare them with antiques they know are authentic. He said caution should be used in buying antiques from a magazine.
This Week's
Theater
Highlights
LYNYRD SKYNYRD and
COLE TUCKEY ON RYE will
be in concert tonight at 8 in
Hoch.
"THE BARK ARTISTS OF YIRKALKA," on display at the gallery. It is a collection of paintings by Australian artiste arboires.
Concerts
"THE BALLAD OF BABY
DADDY," written by
Colorado, love tragedy,
is performed by the Kansas City
Lyric Opera Wednesday night
"ANDREA CHIENIER," a tragic opera set in the French Revolution and composed by Umberto Giordano, is presented by the Kansas City Lyric Opera at 8:15 p.m. on the Alton Theater.
7E GALLERY is showing the
following exhibition:
Edward Knowles paintings and
James Crates' sculpture. The
exhibition will be on the
display ends Thursday.
"NATOL", Arthur Schnitzler's cycle of one-act plays, from the late 19th to the early 20th, opens at a Wiener manor, about town, the opens the William I墓 Memorial Theatre Series Thursday at 8 p.m. in Murphy
Exhibits
"PIRATES OF PEN ZANCE," a comic operetta by the Kansas City formed by the Kansas City Lyric Opera tonight and tomorrow night at 8:15 at the Central streets, Kansas City. Me
THE KU CHORAL EN.
SEMBLE and THE KANSAS
MPS form in conjunction with
KU Day at Crown Center tomorrow
in the Multimedia
Festival.
JIMMIE SPHEERI and IAN
MATTHEWS perform Sunday
night at 8 in Memorial Hall.
Kansas City, Ky.
LONA CULMER, mezzosoprano, performs a faculty recital Wednesday night at 8 in Recital Hall in Murphy.
HEART is in concert Wednesday night at 8 in Hoch.
Nightclubs
MAX TENANT, country guitarist and ballad singer; plays Sunday night from 9 to midnight at the 7th Spirit.
WILLOW WIND plays tonight and tomorrow night from 9 to midnight in the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union.
CLAUDE WILLIAMS, jazz fiddle player of the Count Batie era, performs Saturday night from 9 to midnight at Paul Gray's Jazz Place. Anyone can join in for a FREE BAND in a jam session Thursday night from 9 to midnight at Gray's.
CORNBREAD plays
Louisiana or Arkansas swamp music tonight from 9 to midnight. Monday night the hall offers its Last Chance Weekend Romance Dance from 9 to midnight with SOUTH OF THE TRACKS providing music. Wednesday from 10 to free ACOSTEU JAM SESSION from 7 to midnight.
ON TAP and CARGO, dance bands, play rock 'n' roll dance music Tuesday night from 8 to midnight at Bugsy's.
hunter will find something good among the piles of antiques in an antique shop. Brown's wife, Margo, said one of their best finds was a plaster cast of Abraham Lincoln's hand.
Films
"We were in an antique shop in Missouri and we saw this plaster hand turned over with the palm obviously having been used as an ashtray," she said. "We had a lot of money maybe $4 or $5, so we bought it just because we didn't see anything like it."
THE GREAT AMERICAN
COLLEGE documentary
examination of
featuring world champion
riders Larry Mahan and Phil
THE GREAT SCOTT AND Marvin gives a tired performance, which almost parodies his appearance in 'Cat Ballou.' The western has long been a favorite retirement, but this film would make a 40s cowboy pooterbite like an original masterpiece.
W. Crawley, a furniture craftsman in England, says in his book, "Is it Genuine," that buyers should beware of 'rare,' never-before-seen antiques.
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS-
Judy Garland is singing "The
Ringling Song" by the
Dove You're Yourself a Mert
Little Christmas" and a duet
with Margaret O'Brien
oh Under Bare Bones, new in the
1970s. The garish colors look
old, and the story of a small family at the turn of the century is simple,
the work of Grace Minell's work is polished.
FRANKENSTEIN—Director Paul Morrissey blends sex and golf with the latest frameworks to create this perversely funny twist on the monster's legend. A bizarre grusome realism, the film isn't for those with weak stomachs or bulges. Dellasiano and Udo Kier star.
THEY DISCOVERED the origin of the hand some time ago and read literature about Lincoln. She asked Mrs. Brown said she couldn't estimate the value of the hand because she had never seen one.
GLEN AND RANDA—A low-budget independent production that gets chilling atmosphere through the use of the backgrounds. Set in a war-torn urban war zone, the film is rated T for children contains scenes of childbirth.
"A dealer may discover a unique piece that has been hidden away," Crawley says. "But it is most improbable, and not seen before, in all probability no one else will have either."
An estate auction, where the personal belongings of a person are sold at auction, is considered by some people to be the best place for bargain antiques. However, Gelfler said estate auctions rarely provide
Check ads for showtimes.
"THAT HOLLERING, bitchin' and damming are what the people go for," he said. "They believe that because of the atmosphere."
Gfeller said most estate auctions were antique dealers selling their own merchandise. He said he knew of instances where the auctioneer vacant house, fill it with their own antiques and hold an estate
auction. Sometimes people working for the dealers would be placed in the crowd to bid the cost of the merchandise, he said.
"Buy bidding goes on all the time," he said.
In an estate auction advertised for this weekend, Glenna Hill, who is in charge of the auction for Dan Green, former KU assistant professor of human development, said the estate auction had forced the newspaper advertisement that some antiques would be sold on consignment.
GFELLER ESTIMATED that as much as 60 per cent of the Dan Green estate auction of furniture belonging to dealers.
"I used to go to the auctions but I don't anymore." Gfeller said. "Every week I'd see the same sales and I would ridicuilous prices on them."
He said that he used to sell antiques at Quantrill's Flea Market, 811 New Hampshire St., but that some of the dealers thought he was selling his antiques too cheap.
Brown, who had been to most of the antique shops in the area, said Ottawa was a good place to look for antiques. He also said estate auctions he had attended had a few bargains.
"Some of them have had the same antiques for years," he said. "I move them in and move them out."
"It all depends on the attendance of the auction," he said. "But you might find something cheaper."
Brown said he preferred to call early 20th century items collectibles, not antiques.
"I hear people calling an oak table from 1930 an antique," he said. "I don't think it's an ornament." He then and I'm not an antique."
Indoor breeze
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Relaxing for a second, Jeff Grund, proprietor of Restoration Hall, takes in a breeze from a modern fan that sits on an antique chest made in 1860 for the second terrestrial Governor of Kansas. The room is filled with furniture and art, including a bust of Alexander Hamilton.
Aboriginal art on display
By LEROY JOHNSTON
A rare type of painting that may soon become rarer is now on display in the Kansas Union gallery.
Aboriginal bark paintings from the Northern Territory of Australia are being exhibited in a show ending Oct. 4.
One of the artists, who was at the opening of the show Tuesday at Aunt Jude Marks a native, Amandi Marks with his white beard, coal-black skin and prominent nose and ears, is the unique presence to the event.
HIS DEEPLY lined face made him look much older than his 47 years. He spoke softly in French and he worked about his work and his culture.
The situation in Australia concerning the aborigines is the American Indian. Missionaries into the Northern Territory has been a profound cultural shock and population Wandik said be
THE PAINTINGS in the show, according to its organizers, also reflect several compromises suggested by the missionaries themselves, as well as the influence of Sydney art fanciers.
The idea of the show, say the organizers, is to help the aborigines financially by creating a market for their car ownership has been a slight change in format, with more emphasis on neatness and robustness of structure—changes thought to be necessary to improve the quality of the works to white men.
"I told them I would go to their church, but would hold on to my culture," he said.
AND SELL they have. The shows have been highly successful financially in Europe and Australia, and one source said the work was appreciating in value by 50 per cent a year.
The reason is simple: It's not being made like this any more. Wandjik is the last of a dying breed. The young men of his village are no longer interested in painting.
BECAUSE all the paintings are steeped in symbolism, mythology and tradition, it
takes years of careful teaching by the elders in the tribe to bring a young painter up to the highest quality.
This is no longer being done. Tribal disintegration is taking its toll. And the bizarre animals that are so often subjects of the Northwest are being pushed out of the Northeast by large basaltite mining operation.
WANDJUK, pointing to his head, said, "It's all up here, and I learned it all from my father."
The work of father and son, among others, is in the show, and every painting tells a story. Some seem more humorous than symbolic, with a close association for animals and their behavior.
One example is the painting "The Kangaroo Kaitjambal at the Nara fire," which shows the animal two times—once licking a paw burned by the hot ashes when it came near the fire.
THE SIMULTANEOUS depiction of events occurring at different times is typical.
A more ominous painting is of a human skeleton. The explanation reads, "Associated with a prophecy of famine
expected to result from continuing developments at the Mission in the early '60s."
One painting, "Men of the Yellow Ochre," is the story of a sacred place where a special yellow ochre is collected.
When finished, the painting is fixed with the juice of a special orchid that preserves paintings reasonably well. Even with modern fixatives, the paintings are difficult to preserve.
THE KANGAROO, or "roo" as it's called in Australia, is a favorite animal subject, as are hiding mantra rays and sharks.
Wandjuk has represented his mother through such creatures in several paintings, both as an octopus and as a whale.
But the painting that is perhaps most symbolic of the fate of the aborigine is by the artist in "The Field of Figures," abstracted almost beyond recognition. It is the work of a man psychologically disturbed from the past, who has become lost in a modern world.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
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On-campus havens for getting away from it all
But the feeling of indulence that so often sets in as we while away our mid-morning or mid-afternoon grape soda breaks could easily be forgotten. For under our proverbial noses is a campus rife with the need to relax and unwind us, and—for those who truly relish the way to sit and do nothing—plenty of out-of-the-way, do-noty spots.
Boredom. It happens to the best of us, wasting two-hour breaks between classes with no money for lunch, no transportation back home and no inspiration to proceed with tomorrow's English assignment.
By The Entertainment Staff
As a guide for those of us who haven't had the good luck or the fortitude to search out the campus ourselves, and as an incentive to those who have grown tired of the same situation, training is a comprehensive guide to where to go and knowing it is to be doing to no the KU campus.
- Visit some of the University collections and exhibits. In Spooner Art Museum, images from Japanese prints to 18th century paintings are displayed on floor change periodically, and the front desk
sells several books of artistic reproductions. Spooner is one of the oldest and most beautiful buildings on campus, and this is the last year the art museum will be housed there. Take advantage of the interior and, if you want a picturequease place to study, try the museum garden adjacent to the building off campus of the Wakarusa Valley and is one of the few outside areas on campus with a feeling of the past.
- Explore Dyche Hall, the natural history museum. The building is crammed full of nature, from snakes and birds to fish fossils. Make sure to catch Manchene, the only survivor found at the Battle of the Little Horn, and the bee tree, situated on the sixth floor. The displays are panoramic, and even those behind the display details behind the displays should be able to appreciate looking at animals not native to this area.
- Be entomological and visit the bugs in Snow Hall. Besides displays in the hallways of the biology building is a research collection of more than 2.5 million insects. Call the museum in advance if you have a bona fide interest in seeing particular bugs.
- Visit the herbarium in the Botanical Research Complex on west campus if you like plants, but don't be deceived into thinking you're going to visit a greenhouse. There are no live plants here—but the houses more than 200,000 specimens dried, preserved plants that can be seen if you make an appointment in advance.
- or if bugs are simply a mild interest, browse the vails.
- The Geological Survey, also on west campus, encourages students to wander through and look at the displays. There's an exhibit of fossils, rocks and glassbling. Students who wander through the building can see how a computer is run, how rocks are ground up to make gem stones and how rocks are made in the building's kis room.
- In Nichols Hall, students can watch lab work in radar technology, satellite photography, rock dating, the distribution of rainwater and flight research.
- The KU observatory on the top floor of Linden Hall, offers open houses Friday through Saturday.
During the day when classes aren't going on, students can look at the six-inch Clark refractor, which was built in 1858 by Isaac Adams. The refractor operated as it was designed to 91 years ago.
- Listen to some live music. The jazz bands practice in the Murphy band room from 12:30 to 1:20 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; from 11:30 to 12:20 Monday, Wednesday and Friday; and from 11:30 to 12:20 Tuesday and Thursday.
- the marching band practices from 3:30 to 5:20 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday on the practice field south of Allen in the Stadium or the practice room or the Stadium Fridays.
- The KU Orchestra rehearses from 3:30 to 5:20 Tuesdays.
- Albert Gerken, carillonier, performs concerts in the campanile at 3 p.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Occasionally he and his students practice on weekday afternoons, playing anything from Bach to variations on "Fighting Jawhawk."
- Hanging around the halls on the upper floors of Murphy Hall, you can hear people singing and dancing.
- Comb Spencer Research Library, situated behind Strong Hall. You can get lost in University Archives which contains a range of items from old Kansans, to letters to the faculty from former chancellors, to the faculty to recruit high school seniors to come in for study through the red-carpeted special collections department, and stop at the north end, which offers an incredible view of the campanile and the stadium and is officially designated for no sleep or study, but for quiet contemplation. Or if you like studying an isolated place that catches plenty of light, the patio between Spencer and Strong.
- simply practicing. Scan the hallways until you find a performer who suits your tastes.
• Listen to some un-live music. The Music Library in Murphy has more than 5,000 headphones, with music ranging from jazz to pop and also recordings of poetry readings.
- If you've got just a small amount of time to kill, and perhaps a lunch to eat, try climbing the fire escape on the side of Bailey Hall-it ends on a windy platform from which you, unobserved, can watch masses of students unobserved.
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- Visit the west side of Potter Lake early in the morning and watch the sun rise while seated on one of the stumps on the water's edge, or climb out onto the roof terrace on level six of the Kansas Union—it's a solitary place to study.
- Visit Prairie Acre, behind Watson Library, which is a section of unplanted minnisot undisturbed sod of the original canyon visit Marvin Grove, below Strong and Bailey hills, a shaded area planted with two rows of walnuts donated from a local farmer
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- Visit the microfilms section of Watson Library and go through old Life magazines and books from the banded important events of the past. The bay window in the west alcove is a beautiful place to study, and from the cubicles and back door you can look out over the entire valley.
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