Thursday. May 10, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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Theater Review
it is regrettable, in view of the humorous abandon of the first two acts, that playwright Tate could not find a way to weave his Message more subly into the play.
Instead, he lets the play fall flat in the last act while the actors struggle with the speeches proclaiming the Message. The comedy in this part of the play depends largely on
By Walt Blackledge
"Double-Double," the third play in the Drama Symposium, is a farce in two acts with a sermon substituted for the third act.
Playgoers Like 'Double-Double'
Language Pro Tests Scheduled May 12
The first two acts playfully poke fun at psychology and the devotees of various schools of its interpretation. These segments of the play are pure fun, and the people of the audience in the Experimental Theatre seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly.
Unfortunately, the play's author, Marston Tate, apparently believes that a play must carry a Message. Worse yet, he abandons the dramatic form for conveying the Message and surrenders the third act to a series of moralizing speeches.
THE MESSAGE is summed up by Paul D. Ackerman, Colby sophomore, playing the part of psychologist David Hastings — summed up well enough, in fact, that a single line read by Ackerman could adequately replace at least half of the last act. The line:
Passing the Language Proficiency Examination is one way for College students to satisfy their language requirement.
"Marriage is an experiment — an endless experiment in mutual discovery."
Every student in the College, beginning with those who entered in the fall of 1959, must complete 16 hours of language study or pass a Proficiency Examination to meet graduation requirements.
These examinations are to be given May 12, at 1:30 p.m. in the following rooms: Latin — 206 Fraser; German — 110 Fraser; French — 303 Bailey; Spanish — 3 Green.
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He ran against his boss and lost. County Assessor Miles McDill, who hired Kiser fired him yesterday and said he felt it was "not ethical" for his assistant to run against him.
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the ability of the actors who are not saying anything to divert attention from the one who is speaking by mugging and comic business.
On the whole, the actors did a remarkable job. They had little in the way of costumes, scenery or properties to help them. They had to pantomime business such as typing, and they had to keep track of scripts.
THEY HAD all memorized a good portion of their lines, however, and were able to characterize their parts quite well.
Karin Gold, Overland Park sophomore, did especially well in depicting Emma Hastings, the wife of the psychologist. Emma "splits" her personality in order to help her husband in his research. She switches rapidly from plain, prudish Emma to "Cleopatra," the sexy vamp on the make.
Another standout was Roxann Behl, St. Paul, Minn., graduate student in Miss Spitz, a firm believer in chemical conditioning as the factor which determines personality. She spends most of the play trying to establish a more romantic chemical balance in the system of Dr. Bradley, the director of the Institute of Human Research, played by Tom Winston, Dallas, Tex., junior.
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