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Wednesday, March 1, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Acting, not money, motivates KU student
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
Jay Karnes' life is going well.
And last week he won a $1,000 scholarship.
"My parents put a sign in my room, 'When do you start waiting tables?' " Karnes said, laughing.
Karnes, Stillwell senior, won the regional reine Ryan contest Feb. 22 and in April will go to the national contest at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in New York. If he wins it, he will compete against 11 other regional winners.
Karnes was one of 150 students from Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa who competed in the regional contest.
"My goal was to get in the finals."
Karnes said, "I was looking at it realistically because there were 150 people in the competition. It never mattered if they won or the finals that I could actually win."
Karnes, who will graduate in May,
said he would like to use the scholar-
ship to pay off student loans or to
continue training as an actor.
Continue a thing that's nice.
Although the money's nice, Karnes said, it's not the motivation behind his acting.
"I'm acting because I enjoy it," Karnes said. "I'll take a pay cut in order to do the roles I want." Former is his motivation.
but not his motivation either:
"Being famous is not as important to me as doing good work and being respected for that work by people that I respect. I think being famous might be an inconvenience."
karnes has performed in 16 main stage productions at KU, and not all of them were good. He said he worked from "Much Ado about Nothing."
"I played a messenger, a very small role, but I learned a lot about acting in that show," he said. "We
Karnes
did a lot of improv work,and we connected with each other as actors.
He said auditions also were learning experiences. When Karnes was in the Irene Ryan contest in 1985 and made it to the semifinals, he said he felt like he were both comedies, and he felt afterward that he had chosen his material
This year, he performed contrasting pieces, and it worked. For his monologue, he performed the Crispin speech from Shakespeare's "Henry V." For his scene with a partner, he did part of "The Follow Up," an original one-action comedy written by Neil Labute, Westbury, N.Y., graduate student, who also was his partner.
doorly.
"What really did it for us was the contrast. I went from a serious Shakespeare to an original, modern, comic piece." Karnes said. "People didn't particularly like my monogue; maybe they'd give me a seven or an eight on it. But they would give me about a 10 on my scene. They really liked it. Neil and I really won together."
"It's such a nice way to go out. I'm graduating and it's just like a cap to my work here. It was very emotional for me.
"I've gone into Crafton-Preyer by myself and said my monologue to an empty house, but then last week to do it in front of 500 people with the hot,
white light on me, it felt really good," he said. "And then to win on top of that. It was marvelous."
Wayne Kruse, Herkimer sophmore, watched the final contest and also worked with Karnes in a production.
"He has an incredible stage presence," Kruse said. "You just watch him and believe the characters that he does."
Glenn Pierce, chairman of the department of theatre and film, directed Karnes in a few productions.
"He has a commercial look and sound. He looks like an actor that you'd see on stage and film," Pierce said.
Karnes had he was a sophomore when he decided to major in theater but didn't decide to become an actor until a year ago.
"When I came to KU, I didn't really know how to act," Karnes said. "I still don't know how to act, but I think I'm on the road. I realized that I know, and for me had the first step toward becoming a good actor."
Reduction in traffic fines gets results
The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A February half-price sale on fines has charged record drivers, and perhaps other drivers, motorists, a judge said yesterday.
Traffic Judge Bill Watt estimated that payments increased by a third during the monthlong drive to reduce the number of vehicle warrants and 3,500 parking tickets
Little Rock Municipal Traffic Court told violators that they had until yesterday to clear their fines for half the amount owed. The offer covered fines dating from 1986 to January 1989, Watt said.
"if we get $1 in revenue off a warrant from someone voluntarily surreptitiously themselves, we are not any way, anyway, we are gaining $1," he said.
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