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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 8, 1965
Possible Third Show For 1966 Rock Chalk
Plans and prospects for future Rock Chalk Revues are already crowding the brain of Hoite Caston, Independence graduate students and producer of this year's Revue.
IN THE LONG-RANGE FUTURE. Caston felt the basic structure of the Revue would change.
Caston also felt the Revue would lose much of its effect with the audience so far from the facial expressions of the cast.
The Revue will probably stay in Hoch, Auditorium, however.
One of the biggest problems in recent years has been the ticket shortage for the two-night production. Plans are in the offing to change the Revue to a three-night show, according to Caston.
"IF WE COULD GET the English proficiency examination moved back, it would be much simpler. But even by opening our dress rehearsal, an extra 750-800 people got to see the show. We would have to move our production schedule up a day to put on three nights, but we could do it." he added.
"Hoch is the only place with the stage, lighting and facilities to put on the show. If we used the field house we would probably move in a portable stage and make several other costly adjustments," Caston said.
"Much of the success and longevity of the Revue has been due to the element of competition involved. But the competition has also kept the Revue from expanding."
He continued, "What we'd really like to see is an all-campus Revue. The name is now a misnomer. It's not a Revue, but more like a glorified skit."
Caston mentioned the Northwestern University campus review as the type of show "culling the best campus talent."
"THEY HAVE ALL ORIGINAL music, the best writers from all over the campus and do black-out comedy skits satirizing campus life. It's a talent showcase for the campus and gives more people an opportunity to perform than the house-competition system does." Caston added.
The major difficulty in this type of change, according to Caston, is cultivating the proper attitude among participants.
"It's very difficult to get people to give time for this kind of sustained effort except where there is control, as in the Greek houses. We would all like to see independents in the Revue on their own merits. But whether or not they could control their cast once they were in is something else. It's a terrific sacrifice and requires much organization and cohesion," he continued.
"FOR INSTANCE, our inbetween acts would not have turned out nearly so well if we had not had the cooperation of the Tau Kappa Epsilon and Gamma Phi Beta houses Group pride and pressure is required," he concluded.
TODAY
Official Bulletin
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Center. Confessions before and during
Graduate Physics Colloquium, 4:30 p.m.
Dr. Jack Culvahouse, 15 Malott.
Student Peace Union, 7:30 p.m. Union
Union College, 8:15 p.m.burgers-
bromberg, Swaworth Recipe, 8:45
Epicapish Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Teaching Candidates, interviews scheduled for March 8. California, Anaheim Union H.S., secondary; Orange Unified elementary, elementary and secondary; Hemet Valleyuth Schools, elementary and secondary; Los Allos School Dist., elementary.
TOMORROW
American Society Class, 7 p.m. Speak to
Joe McChee, Banking
24 N. String
Catholic Mass, 6:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. St.
Luke Church. Confessions on death,
and during mass.
Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship, 7
Intervice
Paul Stefens, Pine Room Kansas Union
Stevens, Pine Room Kansas Union
Christian Science College Organization,
7:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
Inquirers Class, 7:30 p.m. Canterbury House, 1116 La.
Lecture. 8 p.m. Gabriel Marcel "The Contemporary Thought." Fraser Theater
Business Wives Meeting. 7:30 p.m.
There will be a flower arrangement demonstration at Alexander's Flowers, 826 Iowa St.
Episcopal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
Caston felt work on next year's Revue would begin much earlier than this year's efforts.
"We'll have a review session of this year's show soon to evaluate our work. Interviews for next year's staff will be coming up soon, also," he added.
Curator Says:
"NEXT YEAR'S THEME will probably be announced in May. This will avoid leaving staff and theme selection until fall," Caston continued.
"I think the Revue is one of the most worthwhile things on campus. It makes me feel good to see those kids on stage who've had no dramatic experience. It's probably the one chance of their lives to do something like this. And the job they do amazes me."
Caston felt the added time for writing would improve the overall quality of the show.
Modern Art Young at 160 Years
By Joan McCabe
In the realm of art, anything after 1800 isn't history—it is current events, according to Bret Waller, curator of the Art Museum. Waller spoke to the Newman Forum last night on the subject of "Meaning in Contemporary Art".
"To talk about the meaning of contemporary art we must first talk about the nature of meaning in the art of any period," Waller said. "First, we must ask ourselves what we mean by meaning."
"Meaning in the visual arts is somewhat different from that in other forms such as literature and music." Waller said. "In literature the basic element is the word, and it is the nature of words to mean, to have specific, limited, dictionary meanings. In music the basic element is the note, or the chord, or the group of notes—none of which have any specific, objective meaning in the sense that a word does. Music does not normally have any kind of literary meaning," he explained.
"THE VISUAL ARTS must fall somewhere in between," he said. "In painting the basic element may be said to be the colored shape. This may or may not have a recognizable literary meaning."
He asked the audience to "watch the next time you go to a museum, and see how many people go through gallery after gallery looking at nothing but labels."
Waller listed four levels of meaning that a painting can have. He used as an example a painting of the Madonna and Child.
"ON THE VERY simplest level of meaning, to someone entirely unfamiliar with Western history and Christian teachings, the meaning of this painting would be, simply, woman and baby," he said. "Obviously this does not determine the value of the painting as a work of art. If it did, all paintings of women and children would be equally good," he stated.
For the second level of meaning the speaker turned to the Christian viewer who would recognize the
painting as representing the Virgin and the Christ Child. "This again has little to do with the painting as art," he continued.
According to Waller, "There is a third kind of meaning that results from the personality of the artist as it is reflected in the painting. But even this kind of meaning has little to do with the aesthetic value of the work. If it were the determining factor all paintings by a certain artist would be equally good."
THE LAST LEVEL of meaning involves what might be called the "spirit of the age". Waller said, "Every work of art in some way bears the evidence of the time and place of its creation," Waller stated. "This in itself is not a determinant of the value of the painting as art either."
"After all of these elements have been peeled away, there is still one very important element left: the meaning based purely and simply upon formal relationships and the formal structure of the painting," Waller said.
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