University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 7.1975
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Puppetry gives insights into man
BY ANGELA POTHETES Kansan Reviewer
Puppet theatre isn't a tale told by wooden idols, full of string and stuffings, signifying nothing. Puppet theatre is important, legitimate theatrue.
The Picturesque and Mechanical Theatre. An Evening with Adult Puppets; a Dramatic Play by John Kendall.
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Theatre last week, featured five scenarios and used several props to create impetuos scenes.
The first scenario, "The Rose," was a brief and funny use of shadow puppets.
The plot was simple. A man was playing tug-of-war with an elephant. The elephant, lacking social grace, provided an abundant supply of fertilizer for the earth. A rose arose.
The second scenario, "The Figure," was about an aging ventrilogist who tries to restage his old act, but his dummy won't cooperate.
The dummy insists that their material, like them, hasn't worked for years.
Cliff Rakert, St. Louis sophomore, played the old ventriloquist with a sensitivity toward the problems of aging, such as loss of memory and slow physical reflexes.
Eddy, the dummy, uniquely played himself.
The third scenario, "The Revolt of the Glove Puppets," Faundal fable, will require hard pupil practice.
At the risk of sounding like a narrow-minded "forky," it thought it was too long. A forky is so-called because he has legs, which are flat and have it. We can be a human or a marionette.
Beth Leonard, Lawrence graduate student, as forky hostess for the evening, did a routine that would raise the consciousness of any nunpoet oppressor.
The hostess was accused of trying to keep puppets in their place.
One replied skeptically, "I don't see you marrying one."
She defended herself by saying that she liked puppets.
MacHero, a puppet who sounded like John Wayne, promised to give his soul if all the forks that were biped out. Wormwood, and the other villains, would unite the glove puppets against the forks.
There was a cast, given by a voice like Howard Coehl's, that showed a puppet character in the play.
The fourth scenario, "One of a Kind," which featured human actors working behind a screen, was a variation of the shadow puppets in the first scenario.
In the end, the glove puppet triumph,
warmwood says, because they have been
made to be a substitute.
This scenario is like a Charlie Chaplin
tun. During the changing of the Heels,
he played a role in the musical.
The last scenario. "The Judgment of Jesus
most visually dramatic of the scenarios."
It used humanettes, or dancers wearing puppet marks. The masks were grotesque disfigurements which represented social stratification.
The priests, governors and poor were scorned first by two godlike figures who lorded above the audience. Then the people were cursed by a metal skeleton which wiped Jesus on the cross. The audience was bathed in blood red lights during part of the scenario.
For example, the governor wore a mask with gold on it, while the poor were masks, which looked as if they were made from the bandages of lepers.
Terry Asla, Newberg, Ore., graduate student, designed the puppets and wrote the scripts for the first and last scenarios. He also developed the story lines for the three others, which were expanded on by the cast members during rehearsals.
City gives landlord 30 days to fix houses
Alaa did the University a great service by producing the puppet theatre. It added a new dimension to the realm of theatre by introducing topics through the lives of adult puppets.
BY SUSIE HANNA
Kansan Staff Reporter
In addition to the performance, Asla gave an informal lecture and demonstration on the different types of puppets used in the show and on display in the theatre.
City officials have granted Daniel S. Ling, associate professor of physics and astronomy, 30 more days to bring three rental properties up to city code standards.
John Mog, 1131 Ohio, said that he had a good relationship with Ling as a landlord.
The three houses, located at 1128, 1131 and 1228 Ohio, are occupied by University of Kansas students. Two other houses also have students from the U.S. Jesse and 1301 Ohio have been boarded up.
"We're pleased with Mr. Ling as a landlord," Mog said. "Whenever I've called him up to fix something he sends someone right away."
In an inspection of 177 houses east of the University four years ago, the five houses were found in violation of the city's minimum housing code.
The city commission has twice ordered legal action against Ling, whose houses are the only buildings of the 177 inspected that still remain in violation of the code.
At last Tuesday's commission meeting, City Attorney Milton Allen told the commissioners that he was ready to file suit in the case. The judge said it was another inspection of the house was needed.
Residents of the Ling properties had during views about the condition of the house.
Another resident of 1131 Ohio, who didn't wish to be named, disagreed with Burris and Mog. He said that there was definitely something wrong with the electrical wiring. The lights dim whenever the refrigerator comes on, he said.
At a meeting later Thursday with City Manager Buford Watson, Public Works Director George Williams, Covington and the necessary repairs to the three houses.
After failing to show up for two scheduled meetings, on Thursday Ling accompanied Ed Covington, Lawrence minimum housing inspector, to the three houses, which had been placarded over a year ago with signs saying that it was a misdemeanor for anyone to live there. None of the houses had been brought up to standards.
Mog said that the electrical wiring was one of the problems cited by city officials. He said that when he moved in over a year he complained because he was worried about the wiring.
The walls in the upstairs of the house are cracked badly, the tenant said, and plaster on both the ceilings and the walls is peeling, leaving several holes in the ceiling.
Pam Burri, also of 1131 Ohio, said she had no problems with Ling.
"This is a much better house than what I lived in before," she said. "I think this is a political deal. Ling is really a good friend, but it's just harassing Ling. I don't understand it."
Mog and Burris said Ling had sent repairmen to put a new roof on the house last fall after they had complained about leaks.
They both agreed that there were no safety hazards in the house.
"Most people would be disturbed to find a
wall in the ceiling that goes clear through
to the floor."
Improper maintenance will probably ruin the houses, he said.
"They'll just have to tear them down. I
think that's a shame," he said. "There are some beautiful houses along in here. I've been in worse houses along Kentucky and Tennessee streets and I don't think Prof. Ling is the only one that needs to maintain his houses."
one of the 12 tenants at 1128 Ohio said that he couldn't get Ling to repair anything.
He said a gas heater in his bathroom was unvented and the hot water had no automatic valve to shut off the gas if the pilot light went out.
He said that the water heater served all of the rooms and that there was never enough hot water.
Contacted Saturday, Ling refused to comment about the violations.
Watson has said that the city has delayed legal action against Ling because the city would rather see the money spent on fixing problems than see it lit up in the court system.
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The display comprised puppets from the private collections of Ginny Graves, a Shawnee Mission librarian and artisan, and Jed Davis, director of the department of speech and drama.
The evening convinced me that puppet theatre is a serious theatrical mode. Puppets come alive with man's touch. But, as it said in the program, "Man can use the puppet to remind him what it means to be alive."
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