Page 10
University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1965
A TENSE MOMENT—In the University Theatre production, "Mother Courage," Branka Veselinovic, Yugoslavian exchange performer to KU, sits pensively as Karin Gold, Overland Park senior, speaks. Mr. and Mrs. Mladja Veselinovic, both members of the cast, are international exchange performers program to KU. "Mother Courage" is Bertold Brecht's epic of the Thirty Years War which is set amid the battlefields during the religious war of the seventeenth century in Europe.
Yugoslavian Performers Lead In Brecht's 'Mother Courage'
By Joyce Outshoorn
Big and stouthearted, courageous and indomitable are the principle characters in the new play of the University Theatre which opens tomorrow. These characters are portrayed by two of KU's international exchange performers, Branka and Mladja Veselinovic, of Yugoslavia.
Branka and her husband Mladja are Mother Courage and the Chaplain in Bertold Brecht's epic of the Thirty Years War, "Mother Courage", set amid the battlefields of the religious wars of the seventeenth century.
SITTING IN their dressing room at Murphy Hall, and getting ready for one of the final rehearsals. Branka and Mladja told something about their career prior to their coming to Lawrence.
"I was a student of philosophy and English Literature at the University of Belgrade before the war", Mladja explained. "After the war, I tried out in an audition for a role in Yugoslavia's new national company, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre."
THIS WAS the beginning of a still existing connection with this company, and Mladja has played many
roles since joining in 1948. Among his most distinguished ones are Banquo in "Macbeth", Capulte in "Romeo and Juliet", and Lt. Brein in "Dark are the Roots". Also Mladja has translated some twenty plays from English and Russian into Serbo-Croat.
BRANKA HAS always been attached to drama in some way. She joined the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in 1948, and has played in works of Racine, Shakespeare, and Carlo Goldoni. She has also appeared in seven films and is a regular radio and television star. Children's plays have her great interest. Last year she won the International Gold Medal of the Red Cross for her acting in hospitals and children's wards.
BRANKA AND Mladja got their chance to come to America through Mladja's position as secretary of the Yugoslav Center of the International Theatre Institute, and also through the cooperation of the University and the U. S. State Department. They are here as guest artists and lecturers.
Now close to the end of their stay--they are leaving at the end of this month--Branka and Mladja feel that their stay has been a great experience for them, and
they hope for the University too. Playing Brecht in America is interesting, so they both found, as he is not nearly as well-known here as in some of the European countries.
"PLAYING BRECHT is not different from playing any other role." Mladja said, but he felt that Brecht's characters had to be presented rather than lived on the stage.
Back in Yugoslavia Branka will start rehearsing for Mrozek's new play "Tango," and Madija will play in Gogol's "Dead Souls." Also scheduled are tours to Moscow and Warsaw this summer.
Seventy-eight pharmacy students and their wives accompanied by Duane G. Wenzel, dean of the School of Pharmacy, were guests of two pharmaceutical houses in the Illinois-Indiana area during semester break.
FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
First of two special programs featuring guest speakers and discussion leaders from faculty and administration leaders.
The group, composed of fourth and fifth year pharmacy students, left KU Sunday, Jan. 31, to investigate new production at Abbott Laboratories, a Chicago drug firm. Leaving Chicago Wednesday morning, they arrived that night in Indianapolis where they toured the biological research center and parasitology department of Eli Lilly and Co. They returned last Saturday.
Avery Calls Youth To Help Lead State
Danny Lee Lattin, fifth year student from Smith Center, added that the trip gave them an appreciation for the magnitude of the industry. "They can make products faster and more accurately than we can." Lattin explained. "For example, we consider ourselves lucky to turn out two dozen perfect suppositories in two hours, yet one man at Eli Lilly can produce over 6000 of equal quality in the same time."
"We all gained an appreciation for the time and labor involved in the production of quality medicines for the patient," said David G. Hattan, fifth year student and senior class president from Independence. Hattan also said the group gained a better understanding of the individual pharmacist's place in the drug industry.
LAWRENCE—(UPI)—Gov. William H. Avery yesterday told Jaycees in Lawrence that "Now more than ever, young people are needed to participate in the leadership of our government."
The trip, an annual activity for the pharmacy students, is the project of several drug companies throughout the country. Pharmacy students at midwestern colleges are invited to visit the plants and offices of these companies to introduce them to new products and new production techniques. Expenses are paid by the participating companies.
Creative thinking was never needed more in Kansas than it is now. Avery said.
Jamaica Bound
Speaker-Vice Chancellor Nichols Wed. Feb. 10th----7:30 Union Building
KU Migration Planned For Spring Break April 3 to April 8
- Leave Kansas City Municipal Airport 4:00 p.m. April 3 by jet-stream charter. Round Trip Champagne Flight.
For more information
- Stay at the Tower Isles Hotel near Playboy Club on Bunnie Bay at Ocho Rios. Two room suites reserved.
Pharmacy Students Visit Drug Firms
Call: Betty Harrison — VI 2-1340
Kay Orth — VI 3-3120
Bill Robinson — VI 3-4102
- All meals provided—free rum party.
- Many other facilities provided such as transportation, sailboats, etc.
- All for $279.95
Contact Harold Klee or Buzz Wengler
VI3-5529
All reservations and deposit of $100 by Feb. 15th.
The expense and speed of the capsule-making machines impressed Donald D. Winklepeck, fourth year student from Haviland. Each cost around $26,000 and can manufacture capsules at a phenomenal rate.
Winklepeek also expressed an appreciation for the attitude of the plant employees. "They are non-union workers," he explained. "yet they maintain a friendly, co-operative attitude in their work."
Summer Group Flight To Britain
Approximate dates:
Depart New York June 15
Return New York Sept. 10
Fare
$325
round trip
Save $120 or more
Those interested should immediately contact Professor E. E. Harris Philosophy Department
NOW! 7:00 & 9:10
ENDS TONIGHT...
JAMES GARNER·ANDREWS·DOUGLAS
THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY
7:00 & 9:10
TOMORROW.
CHOP-CHOP!
It's A New High
in Good Clean-Cut Fun!
CONNIE DEAN CESAR
STEVEN'S JONES and ROMERO
SH YO
Local ped kioned area $9,50 further Box 11
Phi Del microscope prices. V
White T for Aust
cameras
stereo
Garrard
concerto
2-2411.
1961 Tri recently accessori 6400.
VM For Must se CALL V
1963 Aum miles, r tires, ra condition
Radio S to $29.2
stereos.
St.
BEFOR MIUMS
sion, G
Age 18
$10.000.
Santee
Western pletely mimeog copy.
Printed plete or outline classes.
Notes.
TYPEW tables;
Hermes Adding equipm Mass.,
BE TH Harley clutch, IS NO about Monti
Student rent wh
10 x 5
home
This h
condition
RI 8-09
1964 Mm
Front I com-
fort
PORTA
two car
for spar
for raft
for rooftop
II 3-5*
CHINA
ing. R
$100.
addition
the fir
Full s cymba fice, V
Babysi mothe south
Two u to sha W. 22r weekd
Free studen change assisti childr 2-0493
Male to sh near cellent utilitic
OLD If you Do it
Washi Reason Phone
Roomi apartn mo. u No.1.
Blue VI 3-
Distri
part
mer
For n
away
p.m.