4
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, July 23, 1968
Young actors reflect on roles
By DARRYL PINCKNEY
Journalism Cam Reporter
Clothed in shorts, sneakers, and relaxing with cigarettes, members of the '68 Summer Repertory Company discussed themselves and the plays they were in.
John Young, who plays Prince Dauntless in "Once Upon A Mattress," and Ed in "You Can't Take It with You," is a KU junior majoring in language arts.
His experience includes roles in high school plays in Shawnee Mission, several University Theatre productions, and Concert Chorale. When speaking about the attributes an actor must have, Young said, "In order to get up on the stage in the first place, you have to say, 'I'm going to be the best.'"
YOUNG BECOME interested in acting when he was in his youth. "I can't evaluate myself as an actor this early, but as a performer, I think I'm damn good." Young prefers leads in comedies, because he is "definitely afraid of serious roles."
Portraying Mr. Kirby in "You Can't Take It with You," La Font in "La Parisienne," Sir Harry in "Once Upon a Mattress," and Albert Admundson in "A Thousand Clowns," is Lance Hewett.
HEWETT PREFERS serious roles, and would like to go into motion pictures and Broadway. Hewett cited the qualities of a good actor as being "alert . . . having feeling . . . and intelligence."
Hewett, a junior from Haddonfield, N.J., has experience as a member of the Creede Colorado Repertory Company, Village Playbox, South Jersey Theatre Guild and New Jersey's School of Performing Arts.
Lance Shull, a junior from Haven, plays the king in "Once Upon A Mattress" and Tony in "You Can't Take It with You." His acting experience consists of work on various crews for shows and appearances in showcases.
Shull prefers serious roles also, and lists sensitivity as a quality of a good actor. He would like to continue to go on to Broadway. Shull said an actor must believe the role he is portraying in order for that audience to believe it.
HUGH KRANITZ, who is a freshman from St. Joseph, Mo., plays the wizard in "Once Upon A Mattress," and a policeman in "You Can't Take It with You." Kranitz hopes for a degree in acting, but he plans to go into law.
Irene Ballinger is a senior from Mission Hills. She has worked in UMKC Playhouse, several theatre companies including the Circle Theatre, and the Barn Theatre. She plays Princess Winnifred in "Once Upon a Mattress," and Essie in "You Can't Take It with You."
The Repertory Company will continue until August with its "Calvalcade of Comedy."
—Kansan Photo by Doug Underwood
THEATRE MEMBERS REHEARSE
Lance Hewett, Evie Masterson, and Holmes Osborne rehearse a scene in "You Can't Take It with You."
Geology applies computer
Frank C. Foley, director of the Kansas Geological Survey, announced John C. Griffiths as visiting scientist at the State Geological Survey at KU and C. W. Ondrick as the first Pan American post-doctoral fellow.
Both newcomers will work in computer applications to geology during their stay at the Kansas Survey. Griffiths is a pioneer in geological uses of the computer, and Ondrick modified a computer program to process the data on
which he based his doctoral dissertation.
ONDRICK received his bachelor's degree in geology at Michigan State University in 1963, began his graduate studies at Pennsylvania State the same year, and was awarded his Ph.D. degree in March of 1968. He was nominated for the fellowship by Griffiths.
source Development" in March, was head of the Department of Mineralogy and of the Department of Geochemistry and Mineralogy at Penn State from 1955 through 1966. His undergraduate degree came from the University of Wales, where he won his Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees, later taking a diploma from Imperial College, Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London, and another Ph.D. from the University of London.
Griffiths, who last appeared at KU during the "Forum on Long Range Planning for Mineral Re-
Stay Cool and Crisp All Through the Summer
aunderers and dry cleaners Daily Pickup & Delivery drive up window & off street parking One day service on request hours: 7 a.m.-7 p.m. (Mon-Fri.) 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (Sat.) Now at 1029 New Hampshire