Page 4
University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 29, 1962
'Boy Friend' to Start Resident Theater Plan
The University Players' production of Sandy Wilson's "The Boy Friend," a musical re-creation of England's "twittering twenties," will be the first production in a plan to bring a permanent resident theater company to the Kansas City area.
At 8:30 p.m. Friday the University Players, who presented the show in the Experimental Theatre last December, will perform "The Boyfriend" in battenfield Auditorium at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City to an audience paying from $1.80 to $3.60 per ticket.
THE PROPOSED COMPANY would offer high quality entertainment to the area and would provide job opportunities for KU theater graduates who wish to remain in the area.
"The Boy Friend" is also the first step in a continuing program of theater production in Kansas City by the University Theatre. Lewin A. Goff, director of the University Theatre, said many alumni and friends of the KU theater group have expressed interest in establishing such a company.
As a resident professional theater, which the plan eventually calls for, it would be similar to one being started by Sir Tyrone Guthrie in Minneapolis in collaboration with the University of Minnesota.
The resident professional theater is, among other things, a device which theater people hope will make the business of acting or directing a stable and money-making enterprise, as financially respectable as any other business.
Each year the theater would employ the talents of a professional actor, actress or director to appear in or direct several shows. He would remain with the theater for a specified period, and then move to a similar program elsewhere in the country.
SINCE MURPHY HALL OPENED in 1958 the KU University Theatre has employed professional actors or directors to do shows at KU. In this
capacity, actor-playwright Jerome Kilty, singer Virginia Copeland, actor-singer Norman Atkins, and actress Vera Zorina have taken part in this program.
In addition, Broadway director Bill Butler directed "The Ballad of Baby Doe" at KU in 1960. F. Cowles Strickland directed the recent production of "The Consul," and is currently a visiting professor of speech and drama at KU.
Dr. Goff said he hopes to have these professionals extend their KU engagements long enough to help with the Kansas City project.
NEXT YEAR THE UNIVERSITY Theatre plans to take five productions to Battenfeld Auditorium. They will be the KU Summer Theatre production of Archibald McLeish's "J.B." a staged reading, a small musical, a second large play, and the final Experimental Theatre production.
Dr. Goff said the program must be self supporting. He said he expects the production of "Boy Friend" to succeed on box office receipts.
"The Boy Friend" company also will travel to Junction City for a performance Saturday night. It will be a benefit in honor of Betinna Coover, director of the Junction City Community Theatre and mother of Leslie Coover, Junction City senior, who died in an automobile accident
Clarion Call Brings Woes
EAST LANSING, Mich. — (UPI)
— Helen Goldberg, of Valley Stream,
N.Y., will be more cautious with
her next clarion call.
Firemen had to be called to extricate her finger from between the valves of a trumpet.
WHOLE CHICKEN
$2.00
BIG BUY
JIM'S CAFE
838 Mass.
GOOD FOOD
DAY and NIGHT
Patronize Your Kansan Advertisers
Having a Party?
Crushed Ice
Ice Cold 6-pacs
of all kinds
PARTY SUPPLIES
LAWRENCE ICE CO.
6th & Vt., VI 3-0350
912 Mass. — VI 3-0151
PORTABLES - $49.50 up
SALES — SERVICE — RENTALS
Employment Data Sheets
Reproduced
Printing, Mimeographing
and Duplicating
Pick up — Delivery
Pick up — Delivery
Extra length, Extra-long ink supply. Long long-lasting. You never refill. Long (fine or medium) point. You see what you write. Retractable. Easy top-button action. Six colors. Color of the pen is color of the ink. Perfect balance. No writing fatigue. Smooth writing. No smudging. no skipping, no false starts, The Lindy UTRACTAPEN. It measures up.
Baked Daily!!
to make a long story short... CS
est. 1984
manufactured by
Lindy Pen Co, Inc., Calvert City, CA, U.S.A.
Fresh...
- Donuts
- Cupcakes
- Cream Horns
- Cookies
- Pies
- Rolls
Cream Puffs
Enjoy Some Soon!!
907 Mass.
C In
Thlationalong
The this p.
sonality
such a
cause
place
gether
Cha-
ior, an,
reason
this p.
- T for pe are pl later n
- S difficult life if man for solve
Men future out b saying may lories.
Mar and a
with I
about room
explain
men o
quest
Miss any t friend women concern
Miss Unive form a would with a
Tom the KI parent usually proble dents.
"Pa. daugh said. the I discriu
Moc KU th are p
"In versit integr ful."
"Th terpre I wa CRC any v