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Wednesday. April 30, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Festival to include prize-winning plays
By EVIERAPPORT Kensan Staff Reporter
The second annual University of Kansas Theater Festival, which opens July 2, will comprise three Pulitzer Prize-winning plays by noted American authors.
"Landmarks of the American Theater" is the theme of the festival, produced by the theater division of the speech and drama department.
The first play, "John Brown's Body," is a concert reading of Stephen Van Benet's narrative poem about the Civil War. Benet's 1923 Pallitzer Prize for poetry for poem "Women."
Tom Rea, associate professor of theater, will direct the production, which has roles for two men and a woman and a chorus from eight to 16 singers and readers. "John Brown's Body" will be performed July 2, 3 and 5.
The second production will be William Sarayon's "The Time of Your Life," which won a Critic's Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1939.
THE PLAY IS a realistic drama-dramat about the decided individualistic patrons of a seedy San Francisco bar. It is set in the Depression and has a cast of 14 men and nine women, whom David Cook, Lawrence graduate student, will direct. "The Time of Your Life" will be performed July 10, 11 and 12.
"Oklahoma," the third production, will be directed by Paul Hough, Shawnee Mission graduate student. It will be the first musical touring the summer theater season in six years.
"Okahoma" established a new form of American musical drama when it was first
produced in 1944 and won a special award from the Pultzer Prize Committee. It is based on the play "Green Grow the Lilacs," by Lynn Riggs. The music and lyrics were written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
"Oklahoma" will be performed July 18, 19, 25 and 27. The last performance is a benefit matinee, and proceeds will be given to the Lawrence Arts Center.
AUDITIONS FOR the three productions will be June 7 and June 8, according to Rea, production manager for the festival. Begin the first week of the summer session.
Auditions for "Oklahoma" will be open to people in the community as well as to University students. The show requires a cast, nine women and choruses of six.
Greg Hill, a graduate of KU's theatre design program, will be technical director and designer for the three productions. Mary Jane Sisk, Lawrence graduate student, and Andrea Southard, Topela graduate student, will design the costumes. Kristin Manley, Lawrence special student, will be choreographer for "Oklahoma."
THE FIRST FESTIVAL was last summer and had two plays by William Inge, a 1953 KU graduate. Ige won a Pulitzer Prize and a Critic's Circle Award for "Picnic," one of the three plays produced during the festival.
The two other plays were Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Manager"; a play by William S. Cohn, in which he pursued his own career as a playwright.
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Four American Marines died during the final hours of the U.S. presence in Vietnam. Two were killed in the heavy Tuesday morning bombardment of Tan Son Nhat airport when a rocket hit the compound of one of the naval bases they were on guard. The other two died during the evacuation when their helicopter plunged into the South China Sea.
30 years of war . . .
MARINE PLOTS who arrived aboard
the ship were also said they
tried fire, flying over San Diego.
One of the last civilians to leave was U.S. ambassador Grashman Martin, who boarded the plane on Friday.
A broadcast over Peking's Hainah news agency monitored in Tokyo said the Viet Cong had captured the seaside resort of Danang and seized the sugar plantation of Sugon near the mouth of the Salam River.
The massive shelling of Tan Son Nuh air base and an order by Minh for the American defense attache and his staff to get out led to President Gerald F'is's initial order to remove
The massive shelling of Tan Son Nhu air base and an order by Minh for the American defense attache and his staff to get out led to President Gerald Ford's initial order to remove all Americans, with only a handful of civilians and relief workers remaining voluntarily.
FORD SAID the evacuation "closes a chapter in the American experience," and asked all Americans "to close ranks, to avoid recrimination about the past."
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said the priorities of the evacuation were to save American lives, rescue as many South Africans as possible and with the United States and to bring about
MARINES AND U.S. civilians used pistol and rifle batts to hammer their fingers, but scores got over and raided with the firemen on top of pad on the top of the four-story embassy.
Thousands of civilians, fearing they would be killed by the Viet Cong victors, tried to claw their way over the 10-foot-high wall of the enemy's white embassy building and its gardens.
Embittered Saigon soldiers, feeling betrayed by America's withdrawal, fired at buses carrying evacuees to the hotel and at the helicopters skimming overhead.
The revival of the Douglas County Drug Abuse Council's drug analysis program will depend on how the Drug Enforcement Administration interprets the law James McChesney, professor of pharmacy, said recently.
Drug analysis program possible
Some frantic civilians jumped from the wall and landed in barbed wire below. A middle-aged man and some women were bleeding as they struggled against the steel
America's 30-year involvement in Viet-
mation ended in tears, panic, looting and rage.
Mothers holding up their children weap as take the Americans to take the youngsters with them.
By BRAD JONES Kansan Staff Reporter
Across the street, men and boys began stripping the abandoned U.S. vehicles. Mohs stormed into apartments vacated by the Americans and carried armwood of
By BRAD JONES
Douglas County Atty, David Berkowitz said only two major obstacles existed that would inhibit the program from releasing drug-related information.
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McMeschen, a Kansas licensee for the testing of drugs, said the regional drug enforcement offices had a latitude in their application of set guidelines on drug analysis.
"as humane an outcome that was achievable."
"The state laws concerning the operation of a drug analysis program are patterned after federal laws; McChesney said, "But, I don't think it would point about the operation of a program."
BERKOWITZ SAID that he had talked with Atty. Gent. Curt Schneider about the analysis program and that Schneider had suggested that he would be in the possibility of the program's reopening.
"We'd have to get a reversal of the attorney general's ruling in 1973 that closed down the first program." Berkowitz said. "We've never done that yet. We got proper federal and state licenses."
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The program, originally developed in 1973, was closed shortly after it began operation by former Atty. Gen. Vern Miller. Miller said the people analyzing the drugs weren't licensed to handle controlled substances.
PLOTS OF THE SOUTH Vietnamese air force, Saigon's staunchest anti-Communist force, and the United States' bombs.
"They, the attorney general's office, felt that the drug reportage, which occurred after analysis, encouraged use—made it safer—to the extent that pushers would submit a portion of their drug for evaluation," he said. "They would use the report to enhance the 'Safety' of the drug for the prospective buyer."
McChesney was involved with the operation of the program at that time and agreed that those involved probably weren't qualified according to federal guidelines. But he also recognized another reason for the closing.
MCHEMNEY SAID the problem was that dealers, regardless of whether they submitted the drug for analysis, would tell buyers that it had been analyzed as good.
However, McChesney said this was only partly correct.
"If the buyer is gullible enough to buy under those circumstances," he said, "then you will be willing to pay."
McChensey said the Drug Abuse Council considered the program to be a responsible effort.
MCHESHENY SAID that if the council could persuade the community that the program was a worthwhile activity, then it would be to seriously begin outlining the program.
Although the program had been given the reputation of being used by the habitual user, McChesney said it would be used most effectively by the younger experimenters. He said the program could help them realize that they might be dealing with drugs that could result in serious health problems.
"Without controls," he said, "almost anything would be sold no matter how pure or how adulterated with other chemicals the drug might be."
couragement from many city leaders as well as the KU administration," he said.
Part of the problem of having legal acceptance of the program depends on the approval of the entire Lawrence community, McChesney said.
"We have received favorable en-
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