Monday, March 4, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Theater majors entertain in remote Colorado town
Because the town was located in a mountain valley, Creede citizens found television reception all but impossible and the town was too small to merit a movie theater. The student repertory company was to provide all the town's entertainment.
The 13 KU theater majors who conduct "Operation Summer Theatre" are paid less than a penny an hour, yet the experiences they have had at Creede, Colo., where they supply the sole entertainment for the 350 inhabitants of the small mining town, are so rewarding many sign up to return.
Jurasea Lain, Springfield, Mo,
junior, had nothing but praise for
Since that first summer KU students have found "Operation Summer Theatre" a unique experience. Devoid of University sponsorship, the students build their own sets, string their own lights, sew their own costumes, act, direct, advertise and sell tickets.
Wiley-
Continued from page 1 including honorary members, Chancellor and Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe.
"Operation Summer Theatre" was initiated two years ago when Steve Grossman, a KU drama major, was contacted by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Creede and was asked to establish a summer theater group.
Wiley said the "greatest gift he had ever received was the privilege of working with young people." He said he plans "to be affiliated with the University for another half century."
Toastmaster Wayne Erck summed it up when he presented the gift, "we'll remember you for today, tomorrow and the 33 years you served as band director."
her experience in Creede. "I have never learned so much about the theater as I did last summer," she said. "The people were just great. If we needed furniture for a set they brought pieces from their own living rooms."
The Creede Junior Chamber of Commerce provided room and board for the players and paid each $10 per week. "We figured out that we were each making less than a penny an hour." Miss Lain said. "I never got to bed before four in the morning because we were always taking down or setting up scenery in preparation for the next play."
The troupe put on six different one-week shows in an abandoned movie house.
For all the hard work and little pay, Miss Lain said, it was an exciting experience. "The best show we put on all summer had an audience of six people.
Rocky is asked to enter primary
MILWAUKEE, Wis.—(UPI) —Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York was challenged to enter Wisconsin's April 2 presidential primary Sunday by John K. MacIver, chairman of the Wisconsin Nixon for President Committee.
"Since you have now clearly indicated that you will accept Republican nomination by a convention draft, we urge you to withdraw your disclaimer." MacIver said in a telegram to Rockefeller.
Rockefeller was one of six Republicans whose names were placed on the Wisconsin ballot by a state selection committee. However, the New York Governor filed a disclaimer taking himself out of the race.
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
MONDAY, MARCH 4
was "a clown show with definite militant opinions."
HUMANITIES FORUM—"The Paganism of Roman Art," Dr. Robert B. Palmer. Pine Room.
TUESDAY, MARCH 5
4:00 p.m.
CURRENT EVENTS FORUM—"The World Situation," Dr. Walter Judd, Member of the 78th through 87th Congress, Forum Rm.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
CLASSICAL FILM SERIES—An Evening with W. C. Fields,
Dyche Auditorium, 60c
THURSDAY, MARCH 7
7:00 p.m.
SUA SPRING CONCERT INTERVIEWS—Union
8:00 p.m.
SPECIAL FILM SERIES—Musculine Feminine (Godard), Hoch
Auditorium, Admission 50c
Numerous posters placed around the campus to encourage Negro students to attend tryouts have been torn down or defaced, Miss Habenstein said.
FRIDAY, MARCH 8
5:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, MARCH 8
5:00 p.m.
SUA BOARD AND OFFICER APPLICATIONS DUE IN THE
SUA OFFICE
"Blacks" tryouts begin
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 9, 10 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
POPULAR FILM SERIES—Notorious Landlady, Dyche Auditorium, Admission 40c
French poetry this afternoon
SUNDAY, MARCH 10 7:00 p.m.
University Lecture and Film, JEAN-LUC GODARD, French new wave film Director. Film: La Chinoise, Hoch Auditorium, Admission FREE. Discussion following the film
Pierre Viala, a professional actor, will dramatize French poetry at 4:30 p.m. Monday in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
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Viala was trained under the noted French director Charles Dullin. Viala is touring the U.S. with the international organization Alliance Francaise (French Alliance).
An all-Negro cast is needed for the Experimental Theatre production of "The Blacks" by Jean Genet. Tryouts will be held at 7 p.m., March 4-5, in 341 Murphy Hall. There are parts for 14 actors.
Kay Habenstein, Columbia, Mo., graduate student and director of the play, described "The Blacks" as "a cover-up for a black power philosophy." She said the play
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