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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 10, 1962
Carol Burnett At Starlight
KANSAS CITY—(Special)—Last night Carol Burnett, America's top lady comedian, opened at the Starlight Theatre where, just a year ago, she broke all box office records.
Starlight officials say that since The Carol Burnett Show is only playing one week that tickets are going fast and it appears she may break her own records set last year.
Telstar Flight Planned Today
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) The first attempt to launch a privately owned radio-television communications satellite was scheduled for early this morning.
The 170-pound, three stage "Telstar" could pave the way for global radio and television programs in about four years.
The ball-shaped satellite, built at a cost of nearly $1 million and composed of 10,000 parts, is tucked in the bulbous nose of the slender rocket. Technicians started fueling the upper stages and began the first half of a long countdown yesterday.
In space, Telstar will serve as a sort of "switchboard in the sky"—a complex instrument to catch microwave signals, amplify them and relay them back to earth.
The United States hopes to put the satellite into an orbit which will carry it once around Earth every two hours and 20 minutes, at altitudes ranging from 600 to 3,500 miles.
It is expected to permit the first transatlantic television broadcast via space satellite within one or two weeks—a newscast from the United States and scenic views from several European countries.
Scientists envision a network of 30 to 50 Telstar-type satellites circling the globe at altitudes of about 6,000 miles within three or four years, to answer some serious communications needs:
- The desire for a worldwide system of television communications, in which telecasts originating in far-flung corners of the globe could be transmitted "live" to television screens or viewers around the earth.
- A space-going "switchboard" to vastly increase the number of telephone channels available for overseas communications. Most of the current radio channels and submarine cables already are overloaded.
Bell Telephone laboratories built the first Telstar at a cost of about $1 million, and will pay the National Aeronautics and Space Administration another $3 million to launch it.
Bell, meanwhile, has set up elaborate ground stations at Andover, Maine, and Holmdel, N.J., to handle the U.S. part of the radio, television and telephone experiments that have been planned.
Another station has been established at Goonhilly, England, and still another is being completed at Lannion, France.
The earliest tests of Telstar will occur about a half-day after launch, when signals will be flashed from Andover and Holmdel.
The first transatlantic experiments, scientists said, would have to wait for another week or so. But when they come up, the television pictures will be flashed onto the sereens of millions of viewers throughout the United States and Europe.
America is planning to transmit a newcast through the Andover station and the satellite as it first contribution to transatlantic telecasting. Europe, with the help of the Goonhilly station, will reply with a program of scenic beauty from several nations.
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THE SHOW contains many of Miss Burnett's acts which she has performed on the Garry Moore show, the past three years. Included is, "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles," a song written by a Kansas Citian, Ken Welch, which vaulted her into fame overnight when she first performed it on the Jack Purr Show.
Co-starred with Miss Burnett in her songs and sketches are Mary Allen and Steve Rossi, the George Becker singers and the E Flatt dancers.
Miss Burnett is on a six-city tour presenting her show. Reports from Pittsburgh, her first stop, are that she does everything but sell ice cream bars during intermission.
Miss Burnett will do a take-off on the famed Nelson Eddy-Jennette MacDonald duets in "I Don't Want to be Nelson Any More." She also does a cowboy ballet and a take-off on the Moiseeyev dancers. She portrays the various types of singers; the jaw singer, no-voice singer, three voice singer, late show singer and the opera star gone pop singer.
The comedian will also perform serious vocals which she does quite well as she demonstrated at the Starlight last summer when she sang "Secret Love" in Calamity Jane.
Bikini Clad Miss Practically Prude
NEW YORK —(UPI)— The girl with the itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, polka-dot bikini was practically a prude compared with a 25-year-old brunette at Jones Beach.
Mrs. Marlena Serena Cody almost caused a riot at the crowded beach when she performed an impromptu dance which made her blue bikini slip its moorings.
Attracted by roaring male voices, police shouldered their way through the admiring throng of men.
The policemen didn't mean to be spoilsports, but duty was duty and they issued Mrs. Cody a summons for disorderly conduct—after convincing her to cover up with a beach robe they thoughtfully provided.
Mrs. Cody said she was only trying to shake off some sand and could she help it if the bikini happened to slip.
She will get a chance to explain her sand-dusting methods to a judge July 23.
Food for Thought
NEW YORK — (UPI) — It costs a restaurant operator approximately $4,000 per seat to open a new establishment, according to Donald Greenaway, executive vice president of the National Restaurant Association.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — (UPI) — When they were unable to open the office safe of the St. Vincent de Paul Society with acetylene torches, burglaries decided to ransack desks.
Reason? Americans are becoming more interested in atmosphere than food.
In one desk they found the combination to the safe and looted it of $150.
Can't Lose
A consensus of opinion showed disappointment that Anouilh's version of "Antigone" was not more like that of Sophocles. There were a few however, who, like myself, had read the play and found it a refreshing, yet thought-provoking drama.
One of the quickest ways to an audience's heart is through the element of surprise. For some this emotion turns to delight; for others disillusionment. The latter was the fate of Anouilh's "Antigone" Thursday and Friday at the University Theatre.
IT WAS UNFORTUNATE that the cast had such a short time for the preparation of the production. Consequently, the play suffered greatly from lack of comprehension on the part of the cast. They were not at all sure how to play the drama. They appeared well-acquainted with the classical drama, however, they seemed at a loss as to how to interpret Anouilh. They seemed to have little conception of how to project an old tragedy into a modern setting.
The Theatre Scene
By Carol McCoy
One of the most misfortunate aspects of this play was the faulty diction and lack of voice projection on the part of the women characters. At times their voices were so weak that the audience was unable to understand them. In this respect the men performers were excellent, Chorus Creon, Haemon and the Guard are to be congratulated outstanding
Antigone' Lacked Surprise Element
The high point of the play was the first entrance of the Guard. Of all the cast he gave the most to the play to give it life. Otherwise it was a rather plodding production.
performances.
ANOTHER HIGH POINT was the Chorus' last speech in Part I. This put the audience at ease and gave promise of better things to come. The beginning of Part II was well done. The feeling that perhaps Antigone existed started then and continued until her argument with Creon which ended the illusion.
The lighting, sets, costuming, Antigone's facial expressions, the Chorus' voice and stage presence and the introduction were all done well.
On the whole the production was good, but certainly not great. Its fundamental fault was the cast not being able to convince the audience. In comparison to previous University Theatre productions, it was not up to par.
Registrations Being Taken for WC Exam
Registrations are now being taken for the Western Civilization Comprehensive examination to be given on Saturday, July 28, from 8 a.m. to noon.
Registration is in Room 130 Strong Hall and closes Friday.
TIME Features Two KU Stories
Pictures of two men associated with KU appear in the current issue of Time Magazine.
Al Otert, who helped KU track teams to NCAA championships and won the discus throw in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, is pictured in the sports section because of his world record toss of 204 feet and $10^{1/2}$ inches made in the U.S.-Poland meet last weekend.
The music section features Thomas Hilibish, choral director at Princeton, N.J., High School, who will be guest conductor the week of July 23-29 at KU's Midwestern Music and Art Camp. Hilibish, now leading his high school choir on a tour of Western Europe, has amazed critics by presenting programs of great difficulty even for professional singers.
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