Experimental Theatre Opens Season in Polish Absurdity
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The Experimental Theatre is small and simply furnished. Eight rows of swivel chairs on a bare concrete floor face a narrow stage five or ten feet from the front row.
There is no stage curtain and the actors on stage are close enough to touch. Black drapes on the walls seem to close in on the audience. Pipes are exposed and there is no pretense at decor.
The simplicity of the theatre setting is in keeping with the spare staging and costuming of three one act plays premiered in America last night.
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The absurdity of the plays is highlighted by scenes such as three men in tuxedos marooned on a raft ("At Sea"); an oculist who is almost blind without glasses ("Charlie"); and two men in Madison Avenue garb stripping to turquoise and black striped shorts at the command of a huge, beckoning finger visible off stage ("Strip Tease").
Each play is presented in front of a collage backdrop constructed from outsize newspaper and magazine mastheads, names of famous personalities such as Christine Keeler or movie titles such as "La Dolce Vita" pasted on a background of classified advertising.
Fairer Sex Faring Well On US Political Scene
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Women are coming on strong in this year's congressional races as they try to prove that the hand that rocks the cradle also is capable of handling complex world problems.
There are nine new females faces in the race for Congress, 10 oldtimers who are seeking to save their seats and one congresswoman who is retiring.
Also, if she wins, Mrs. Patsy Take moto Nink of Hawaii will be the first woman of Oriental ancestry to ever serve in Congress.
Only one contest pits woman against woman. In Illinois, pretty Rep. Charlotte T. Reid, a Republican from the 15th district west of Chicago, is being challenged by fast-talking Penny Xenophon Mitchell
Mrs. Reid is generally favored to save the House seat she won two years ago, but both women are waging an "issues only" battle.
Both races are considered toss-ups.
PROBABLY the hottest races, however, are between Pennsylvania interior affairs secretary Genevieve Blatt, a Democrat and Sen. Hugh Scott, the incumbent Republican; and GOP Rep. William Ayres of Akron, Ohio who is being challenged in the rubber capital of the world by Democrat Frances McGovern.
She won the backing of Sen. Joseph S. Clark, D-Fa, while the organization supported state supreme court justice Michael Musmanno.
Miss Blatt, a devout Roman Catholic and the only woman who holds statewide elective office in Pennsylvania, split with former Gov David L. Lawrence and other party regulars when she decided to seek the nomination.
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TODAY
CATHOLIC MASS. 5 p.m., St. Law-
rence Chapel, 1910. Strattford Rd.
rence Chabot, 1911 Statford rd
INQUIRY FOUND p.m., St. Law-
ford 601 W. 28th St.
THEOLOGY OF THE SACRAMENTS
7 p.m. St. Lawrence Center 1915 Strat-
ford
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COLLEGE ORGANIZATION, 7:30 p.m., Danforth Chapel INQUIRERS CLASS, 7:30 p.m., Canter-Houw, U1F6 Lf.
REPUBLICAN RALLY. 7:30 p.m. Kansas
Water Resources Governor->
Goldwater Jr.
Bilson Bloom, Bill Ayers
"STRIP" TEASE." "AT SEA" and "mariale." 8:20 p.m. *Experimental Theatre*
STUDENT PEACE UNION, 7:30 p.m.
Kansas Union.
CATHOLIC MASSES 0. d5 a.m. 5 p.m.
SARAH CATHOLIC MASSES 0. d5 a.m. 5 p.m.
CARLION RECUTICAL 7 p.m. Albert
WESTERN CIV DISCUSSION. 9 p.m.
St. Lawrence Center, 1915 Stratford Rd.
EPISCOPAL HOLY COMMUNION, 9:30
p.m. Danforth Chapel.
1. Damoree Cogan
TOMORROW
TIMELY TOPICS, 7 p.m. St. Lawrence Center, Stratford Rd. The Bible: Inside the Iraqis
CLASSICAL FILM. 7 p.m., Fraser Theater.
STEPHENSON FUND CONCERT, 8 p.m.
at The Hall. Joseph Knetz
and Arthur Loesse.
SUA FEATURE SPEAKER LECTURE,
Hohm Bahl Music, Auditorium, Dr. Charles
Hohlman MHz
"STRIP TEASE." "AT SEA." and "Charlie." 8:20 p.m.,实验 The-
EPISCOPAL EVENING PRAYER, 9:30
p.m. Duporth Chapel.
CIVIL, RIGHTS COUNCIL, 7:30 p.m.
Kansas Union.
Miss Blatt finally emerged victorious—but not until a close vote vote fraud charges and a court fight which isn't settled yet had wreaked havoc among Democrats.
Scott is not without his troubles, however. A liberal Republican in the mold of Gov. William W. Scranton, Scott found it difficult to accept Republican presidential candidate Barry M. Goldwater.
THE SENATOR finally said he would support all GOP candidates, but he blamed a schedule made up weeks in advance" for his failure to join Goldwater in a tour of Philadelphia suburbs.
In Ohio, "Ayres is opposed by Miss McGovern whom he describes as a "tough able campaigner." She has had help from both President and Mrs. Johnson who made separate trips into her district and elsewhere in the state.
Ayres is running for his eighth term from the 14th district, a heavy labor and traditionally Democratic area. Miss McGovern served in the Ohio House of Representatives and at 34 was the youngest woman in the nation ever to be elected chairman of a state public utilities commission.
In other distaff races, the former director of women's activities for the National Republican Party in Washington, Mrs. Elly M. Peterson is running or the seat held by two-term Sen. Philip Hart, a Michigan Democrat. Hart is considered to have the edge.
Props are simple, ranging from three chairs and a tree branch in "At Sea" to two revolving stools in "Strip Tease." The most elaborate costume is a black leather jacket and cap worn by the grandson in "Charlie."
In the House, Democrat Eleanor Clark French is running in new York City's silk stocking district for the seat held by Rep. John V. Lindsay, seeking his fourth term in the 17th district.
THE TWO women in the U.S. Senate, Margaret Chase Smith, R-Me. and Maurine Neuberger, D-Ore., are not up for re-election this year.
Rep. Kenneth Gray, D-III., is running for his sixth term in Illinois' 21st district against Mrs. Stillman J. Stanford of Makanda, the widow of a former state director of agriculture. Her chances are considered slim, but she is working hard.
A 47-year-old widow with four children from Texarkana, Tex., is challenging Rep. Wright Patman, Chairman of the powerful House banking committee.
Mrs. William E. Jones has been active in building a Republican organization in Bowie County.
There are no lighting changes during the plays. To compensate for a curtain, the theater lights are dimmed to pitch darkness before each play begins.
Six actors switch roles to portray the ten characters in the plays.
"The common trait of Mrozek's dramas is a consistent fight with contemporary and traditional stereotyped lines of thought or feelings, a fight waged by means of the most sophisticated and most original expressional forms of today's Polish drama; a specific scenic, grotesque mechanism . . .." Janusz Warminski, director, explains in the theatre program.
The plays will be presented at 3:20 p.m. in the Experimental Theatre through Saturday. Tickets are on sale at Murphy Hall box office for 75 cents with student ID.
Members of the KU Collegiate Young Democrats plan to attend Hubert Humphrey's speech in Topeka this Thursday.
The group will meet at the Kansas Union at 4 p.m. Mike Rogers, CYD president said. Free rides will be available for all students who wish to hear the speech.
Young Demos To Hear Talk By Humphrey
The club has already made posters to carry during the speech.
"We hope to have between 50 and 100 students at the speech representing KU," Rogers said.
Humphrey is scheduled to arrive at the Topeka Municipal Airport about 5 p.m. He will go directly to the south steps of the Capitol where he will speak. After his speech he is scheduled to fly to Wichita to speak at the Wichita State University field house about 8 p.m.
After the trip to Topeka the CYD Club will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, Keith Martin, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, is scheduled to be the speaker. Volunteers to drive voters to the polls and other election day work will be organized at the meeting.
The club will hold an election night party at the TeePee after the returns are in election night. A definite time has not been set yet
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