Photo by John Ebling
Just I and my friend . . .
The recent warm weather brought these two nature lovers to the banks of Potter Lake to enjoy the cooling shade of the Redbud trees and the delightful fragrance of the breezes (?) winging their way over the lake.
Mount Oread Troupe stages unfamiliar play
The last play on which Gilbert and Sullivan collaborated and a play which has not been performed since it opened in 1896, will be a feature of the International Conference on Gilbert and Sullivan, to be held May 7-9 at the University of Kansas.
The play, "The Grand Duke," is the story of a band of strolling players and actors who attempt a revolution in an 18th century German baronry.
According to Bob Butler, publicity chairman for the Mt. Oread Gilbert and Sullivan Co., no one has ever presented the play since its original opening in 1896. It closed soon after it opened.
Butler said "The Grand Duke" closely parallels other Gilbert and Sullivan works in its music and comedy. "But there are elements in this play that are more grotesque, because some of the characters are moral idiots. This play was ahead of its time," he said.
More than 200 Gilbert and Sullivan scholars, historians, and performers have registered for the conference. This will be the
first time many of those at the conference will have seen "The Grand Duke." Usually when a Gilbert and Sullivan work is performed, it is a familiar one, such as "H.M.S. Pinafore" or "The Mikado." Butler said.
Lynn Schornick, musical director of the company, is working from the original manuscripts of the play, handwritten in 1896. The music has never been published. Some of the musical numbers, as well as parts of the play were censored because they offended Victorian morals, but they will be included in this performance.
"The Grand Duke" will be presented May 6-9 in the Central Junior High School Auditorium. Tickets are $2.00 for general admission and $1.50 for KU students, and may be purchased at the University Theatre Box Office in Murphy Hall.
"The Grand Duke" is directed by John and Sandra Jones, founders of the local Gilbert and Sullivan company, and the guest artist will be Ron Highley of the Kansas City Lyric Opera Company.
More than 3,000 Guardsmen were alerted in northeastern Ohio and began assembling in Cleveland and Akron armories for possible guard duty on highways where there have been repeated incidents of violence and vandalism.
Gov. James A. Rhodes of Ohio Wednesday ordered National Guardsmen on standby alert and vowed to stop "open warfare" on the state's highways in a wildcat Teamsters' strike.
Labor Secretary George Shultz rejected a proposal by Rhodes that the federal government reopen talks with the Teamsters Union. Shultz said in Washington the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
Statement to be entered as evidence
NEW YORK (UPI) — Assistant District Attorney Joseph Phillips said Wednesday he plans to use as evidence a statement made by Richard Moore, one of 13 Black Panthers facing trial on bombing conspiracy charges, that he had refrained from shooting police only because he was cleaning his gun at the time of his arrest.
Phillips told the defense the statement attributed to Moore was made on the morning of his arrest April 2,1969,to the other defendants in the district attorney's office.
Attorneys for Moore and two other defendants protested the statements which Phillips said he planned to introduce on the grounds that the defense had not been given sufficient time to prepare motions for their suppression.
Change machine in Union vanishes
By United Press International
A dollar bill changing machine has disappeared from the Kansas Union, said Frank Burge, Union director.
Doctors implant atomic battery
Burge said the machine was found missing yesterday morning by a routine service check. The office of Traffic and Security will make a full investigation today, Burge said.
Guard on standby in Ohio
He said there was no way to determine the money loss until audits are made.
PARIS (UPI)—Surgeons Monday implanted an atomic battery into the body of a woman suffering from failing heart beat. This is the first such operation on a human being, the French Health Ministry announced.
Until now, heart "pacemakers" installed in humans have been powered by electricity from mercury batteries, ministry officials said.
Pacemakers powered by atomic energy have been implanted only in dogs, first in the United States in 1968, then in France the following year.
The grafting of a radio isotopopropelled battery Monday at Broussais Hospital was successfully carried out on a woman of more than 50 years of age, the officials said.
The heart stimulators were named "pace makers" when American scientists first developed them in 1952.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
VERSAILLES, France (UPI)—Footnote to history: 50 years ago the Treaty of Versailles was signed between the victorious Allies and defeated Germany to end World War I, "the war to end all wars."
Apr. 30
1970 KANSAN 7
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — A jury Wednesday awarded $50,000 damages to Gloria Sykes, the 29-year-old former Sunday School teacher whose attorney claimed a runaway cable car gave her a runaway sex life.
'Sex drives' suffered; jury awards damages
Marvin Lewis, Miss Sykes' attorney, said he might appeal the award—one-tenth of the $500,000 he was asking.
But he hailed the verdict as a "legal breakthrough" which established the principle of "psychic damages."
As a result, Lewis contended in the trial, she suffered from uncontrollable sex drives which drove her into the arms of more than 100 men.
Miss Sykes was on a Hyde Street cable car in 1964 when it broke loose, plunged down a hill and smashed into a power pole.
WHERE THERE'S SMOKING.
Miss Sykes, who testified for 21/2 days during the trial, said she was a former Sunday School teacher and choir singer.
NEW YORK—Smoking may be hazardous to your environment as well as to your health, says the Insurance Information Institute. Of the 960,900 U.S. building fires in 1967, nearly one in five was traced to causes related to smoking and matches.
situation in Ohio but he said the violence "primarily is a matter for local law enforcement."
Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes met with mayors of 18 other Ohio cities to discuss the strike which the Greater Cleveland Growth Association said was costing the area $6.5 million a week in lost payrolls and $23 million per week in production.
The general executive board of the Teamsters Union met in Washington to go over final details of a proposed national contract and to ratify a vote on the
proposal.
Some 12,600 Ohio drivers, 9,600 St. Louis drivers and about 10,000 Los Angeles drivers have been on wildcat strikes protesting the national agreement which would provide for wage increases totaling $1.10 an hour over three years.
About 40,000 Chicago area truck drivers, who bargain with truckers separately from the national talks, also are on strike. They walked out to enforce demands for increases over three years totaling $1.65 an hour.
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