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Wednesday, April 2, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Puppet theatre surprises
By EVIE RAPPORT Kansan Staff Reporter
If you think the peak of puppet theater was reached with Kukia, Fran and Ollie or Punch and Judy, you may be in for a surprise.
"The Picturesque and Mechanical Theater: An Evening with Adult Puppets," which opens at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Inge Theatre, at 423 Broadway, and uses several different types of puppets.
The first scenario, "The Rose," uses shadow puppets, or silhouettes on a screen. The second, "The Figure," is about an aging ventriloquist speaking with his puppet and pretending to be a puppee; the third piece, is a fable using traditional puppets worked by hand.
The fourth scenario, "One of a Kind," features human actors working behind a screen, a variation of the shadow puppets used in the first scene.
"JUDGMENT OF JESU Ben Joseph," the last of the five scenarios, uses humanettes, or dancers wearing puppet masks.
Terry Asia, 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.
The cast members, some of whom perform and some of whom work the puppets, are Asia; Bill Farmer; Pratt senior; Beth Leonard, Lawrence graduate student; Charlotte Morris, Lawrence graduate student; Sarah M. Greenberg, Keith Pickering, Bloomington, Minn., sophomore; Cliff Rakerd, St. Louis sophomore;
Judith Scheff, Lawrence graduate student; Alice Sullivan, Quarkertc, n. Pa., graduate student; Steve Whitlock, McPheron junior; and Cathey Joe, Lawrence
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Prof to speak about danger to atmosphere
The threat that aerosol propellants could be breaking down the protective layer of ozone in the atmosphere will be the topic of a lecture on Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Thursday in 3140. Wescue
Rowland was professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas from 1956 to 1964 before he became department chairman at the University of California at Irvine.
Last July, he and a colleague published the first report to bring attention to the theory that pressurized freon used as a propellant in aerosol sprays could react with the ozone in the atmosphere, depleting it. The results were so far to the biological processes on the earth.
According to Rowland, freen that rises into the stratosphere (eight miles or higher in the atmosphere) is decomposed by the chlorine. Rowland predicts that chlorine the chlorine atom then attacks ozone and breaks it into oxygen, he says. Rowland predicts that each chlorine atom can remove thousands of ozone atoms from the atmosphere in this manner.
IF FREON PRODUCTION is unchecked, Rowland says a 10 per cent reduction of the stratospheric ozone can be expected within the next 50 years.
After the ozone shield deteriorates, the resultant increase in ultraviolet radiation striking the surface of the earth could be caused by human agriculture. According to him, agricultural crops could be damaged and phytoplankton in the oceans affected. He also predicts increases in human skin cancers and changes in the rate of increased ultraviolet radiation.
SINCE THE INITIAL REPORT by Rowland, a lawsuit to ban anasol product has been filed and a congressional hearing on the subject was conducted in December.
According to Ralph Adams, professor of chemistry, Rowland is so concerned about the possible consequences of ozone depletion that he has temporarily halted his research efforts and is speaking around the country in an effort to raise public awareness of the seriousness of the problem.
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class taught by Marcia Grund, speech and
drama instructor, in the final
assignment.
After a brief intermission at the end of the scenarios, Asla will give a short lecture and a demonstration of the different kinds of puppets used in modern shows. We will work on the drill: Asla, Aslid
A special addition to the evening will be the display of a large private collection of puppets by Gimmy Graves, a Shawnee Mission librarian and artisan, and Polish puppets by Jed Davis, professor of speech and drama.
Included in the Graves collection are a 125-year-old marionette of an English juggler, several puppets in traditional Chinese Peking Theatre dress and a variety of glove, shadow and red puppets from India, Africa, Turkey and Japan.
"PUPPET THEATER is at least as old as live theater," Asa said, and in some cases it was. "It has been called."
not the theatre. Puppets can do things the human actor can't. They help get past the personal identity of actors. In certain kinds they're more effective than actors."
The limited number of mechanical functions that puppets can perform is an aid in developing universal themes, Asla said, because one must develop only the major ideas of a story and leave out the subber sub-plots of standard drama.
Among the themes dealt with in "The Picturesque and Mechanical Theatre" are religion, self-delusion, old age and human insipnity.
"IT'S DEFINITELY NOT a show for children." Asla said.
Lighting and special effects for the show, which runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday, were designed by Gary Andrew, St. Louis senior, assisted by Yoe and Tom Sherman, with assistance from Jeff Green. Wichita sophomore, in charge of sound effects and properties.
Museum gets home in Watkins building
By GRACE STOUFER Kansan Staff Reporter
The Douglas County Historical Society will move its collection of historical artifacts into the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Building in about two months, according to Charles Stough, former president of the society.
"For 40 years the historical society has been looking for a home." Stough and last week.
The move to the Watkins building at 11th and Massachusetts will take place after extensive repairs on it have been completed, Stough said.
The society now houses its collection of artifacts in the basement of the police
The Watkins building was erected by Jaber Watkins in 1883 to house his various businesses. Among those businesses were a real and land mortgage company, Stough said.
AFTER THE DEATH of Watkins in 1925, his bank was merged with another bank, Stough said. In 1929 his wife, Elizabeth, in her will gave the building to the city for the city hall under the stipulation that if the building were no longer used as the city hall, it would pass to one of nine other buildings in the city where he merited additional benefits at the Watkins Hospital, the University of Kansas, Boys Town, Nebraska and the historical society.
When the city officials vacated the building in 1970, Stough said, Raymond Rice, the Watkins' attorney, secured deeds for the property from each of the other beneficiaries so the building could go to the historical society.
In 1972 the society started a fund drive to raise money for the restoration of the building. By the end of 1973 the organization had raised $300,000.
"There has never been a community endeavor as well supported as this," Stough
John T. Andrews was the director of the campaign fund. He is now acting as the project coordinator in the absence of a successor. Mr. Andrews will oversee the restoration of the building.
STOUGH SAID they had been waiting on the selection of a museum to house their collection, building. However, after a six-month search for a director, the selection of Arthur Townsend of Annapolis, Md., as the new curator, he will assume his duties within two months.
The interior of the Watkins Building is marble and hardwood. Much of the pine woodwork was painted over and the hardwood floors covered with lichen when city offices occupied the building, Andrews said.
A large room on the third floor which had housed the land and mortage company in Watkins' day was partitioned into smaller offices when it was the city hall. Andrews
The false ceilings which had been added when it was the city hall were taken down during the restoration, Andrews said. This exposed the broken plaster of the original ceiling and dangling electrical wires. All that has been renaiured.
THE SECOND FLOOR of the building was the Watkins bank. An electric automobile which belongs to the historical society is there now, ready for display.
The museum will be supported in part, Stought said, by a tax levy and contributions.
The 7th District Court still occupies offices in the basement of the Watkins Building. However, Stough said, the court will vacate the building when the new courthouse under construction is completed.
SUA Films in Woodruff Aud.
SUA Films in Woodruff Aud.
"BATTLE OF ALGIERS" 7:30 Italian Film (Subtitles) 75° Wednesday, April 2
"CINDERELLA LIBERTY" 7:00 James Caan, & Marsha Mason $1 Fri. & Sat., April 4, 5
"OUT OF THE PAST" 7:30 75° Thursday, April 3
"CHARLIE CHAPLIN, BUSTER KEATON, LAUREL & HARDY, BETTY BOOP" 1:30 75° Sunday, April 6
Egile Elizabeth Wu a pair of scissors and a piece of paper and she can tell a story or a person's name.
Paper-cutting art to be shown
Wu is a recognized Chinese painter and an expert in Chinese paper cutting, an art she will demonstrate and speak about tonight at 7:30 in the Forum Room in the Kansas University.
She said Monday that she believed that the real Chinese arts, such as painting and paper cutting, must be revived in order for the Chinese culture to survive.
Paper cutting began as a domestic art similar to embroidery, Wu said. It requires a clever mind as well as skill and creativity, she said.
The Chinese prefer everything in two's
portion. You'll probably import
often, double meanings. We said,
The first historical record of paper cutting was the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907 A.D.). The designs on the paper cutters often symbolize old Chinese proverbs and usually appear double because the paper is folded before being cut, she said.
"The symbols for Chinese proberes are always a play on words," Wu said.
In addition to symbols, the paper cuts also
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contain designs of flowers, landscapes,
animals and fruits. We said she created her
paper cuts from a flat piece of paper or by
folding and cutting with scissors.
The basic techniques of paper cutting can be taught in a year, she said, but it could take longer to learn to cut designs freely without the aid of a drawing.
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Wu said she learned the art of paper-cutting from her grandmother while growing up in Peking. In 1936 she began the study of formal Chinese painting at the Hu Sheh Art Studio in Peking. She has exhibited her paintings and paper cuttings at the National History Museum in Taiwan and in Peking.
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