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Thursday, July 5, 1979
Summer Session Kansan
Coming up this week
Concerts
LAWRENCE OPERA HOUSE 642 Massachusetts St
642 Massachusetts St.
Sat. July 7 Pott County Pork and Bean Band (country rock)
BROWN BAG
Wed. July 11, 8 p.m. South Park, 13th and Massachusetts Streets.
LAWRENCE COMMUNITY BAND
Tonight featuring patriotic music at 8 p.m. south Park, 13th and Massachusetts
SYEZRNUNU SU/CUMP
Fri, July 6 Jazz Concert 7 p.m. Swarthout
Recital Hall
Today Noon, Watkins Park, 11th and Massachusetts Streets.
Sat. July 7 Choruses, Orchestra Bands,
Charles Fletcher and Alvah Cravey, guests
from New York.
SUMMER CONCERT SEASON
Tues., July 10 Jazz by Bryant Hayes and
Fri., August 8 9 pm at Union Ballroom.
Tickets at Murphy Hall Box Office.
Gen. admission, $2.50, 50 cents for
Midwestern Music and Art campers and
free for KU students.
Museums
Sat. July 14 through August 12 Special exhibit of original American and Canadian World War II posters will be on display. Sat. July 15 through August 16, Mon. through Sat. and 12 noon to 4 a.m. Sun.
FORT LEAVENWORTH MUSEUM
Fort Leavenworth Kun
Galleries
Galleries ART AND DESIGN GALLERY Visual Art Building
Sat. July 7-21 Exhibit of works from senior high division of Midwestern Art and Design
NELSON-ATKINS ART GALLERIES
Sat, July 7 through Aug. 12 William Sommer's Watercolors
Recreation
KU DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION SERVICES
Today Deadline for entering Intramural Tennis (mixed doubles) is today at 5 p.m.
Sat. July 7 Intramural Tennis (mixed doubles) continues at 12 noon.
Wed. July 11 Deadline for entering Intramural Racquetball and Table Tennis is
LAWRENCE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT
Tomorrow Deadline for registration for a canoe trip, scheduled for July 14th and 15th.
Contact John Ross at 847-7700, ext. 381 for more information.
Sun. July 9 B Deadline for adult entries for the Lawrence Open Tennis Tournament. Entry fee for singles is 45 for each event and for doubles is 75 for each event. The tournament will be held July 11-15.
Theatre
MISSOURI REPERTORY THEATRE
Tonight Opening performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." The performance also is the premier production in the new Helen F. Spencer Theatre of the Center for the Performing Arts. The show begins at 8 p.m. for ticket info call 816-276-254.
KI SUMMER THEATRE '70
STARLIGHT THEATRE
Fri. July 8 through Sun. July 8 "Hot L Baltimore," a comedy by Landon Wilson. Gen. admission $2,50. KU students with ID admitted free. Fri., Sat. performance. No charge.
Now through Sun. "Brigadon" starring John McCook, Victoria Mallory and Farley Granger. Performance begins at 8:30 p.m. 11-95 black-Blackie's Magic Show, 3:30 p.m.
STARLIGHT THEATRE
Park, Kansas City, Mo
Staff photo by KEVIN KING
marcus Wolf, left, intently listens to a story being told Kathleen Warfel in a scene from the movie "Hot Lil' Baltimore," a comedy by Lanford Wilson. The play will be presented on Friday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.
All ears
KU's 'Hot L Baltimore' opens Friday night
By LEONARD D. GROTTA
Kansan Reviewer
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following Kansan preview is on the cast's second dress rehearsal to allow for publication before the film. The cast will "more" will be presented this weekend only,
The Hotel Baltimore was once an elegant hotel serving the throngs of rail travellers passing through Baltimore. But now, in aid need of repair and with the "e" burnt out on its marquese, it has become the end of the line for transients rather than travellers.
"Hot L Baltimore" also was voted the best American Play of 1972-73 by the New York Drama Critics Circle. It opens at KU and is produced on the Kansas Summer Theatre. '79
"Written by playwright Lanford Wilson,
'Hot L Baliinmore' is a play which achieves its
character development rather than action.
The language is that of the bottom of the
American social strata; the language found in
cafes, pawnshops and the streets urban
The play also presents its own peculiar view of the American Dream, not as viewed from a lofty penthouse, but as seen by the couple who had hotel, soon to be felled by a wrecking ball.
The action of the play takes place in the course of a recent Memorial Day, in which tenants discover that the hotel is to be razed and its tenants are forced out. The three acts comprising the play all occur in the Hotel Baltimore's lobby; a room where the monasteries serves as a living room for the tenant.
Perhaps the most outspoken of the tenants is April Green, played by莎拉 Hendrick, a former student at North Carolina.
overweight, usually drunken protestist who
is not her nirme; but still in the ballroom
Although the play is definitely an ensemble piece, with no leads or main characters, Hendrick does much to bring life to the performance, but the entire performance to life.
Other residents of the Hotel include Mr. Morse, a cranky and cantankerous old man, played by Beauford K. Woods, Lawrence C. Kissinger, and Kathleen Warfel, Kansas City, graduate student, a brother and sister team played by Muzzy McCaskill, Lawrence and Kent Skawson, Tonganese special student and a member of the Student Council, Rello Zuther, Lawrence graduate student.
The "Hell L Baltimore" will be presented in The University Theatre tomorrow and at St. Mary's Hall.
These characters, and others such as the hotel's small staff and a young man searching for his elderly grandfather who once lived in the hotel, form the core of the drama. Their interactions are both brutal and caring; hilariously funny and unspeakably sad. Despite the fact that they are society's rejects, their ability to assimilate to their survival are their dreams, no matter how improbable these may be.
Tickets for the play are now available at the Murphy Hall Box Office. All seats for the show are for general admission and tickets are $2.30, $1.50 for senior citizens and free to KU students.
Local parks host a variety of sun and fun
Staff Reporter
BY BONNIE DUNHAM Staff Reporter
With 27 city parks and public recreation areas, the park spots abound in Lawrence. among the parks there are several parks still in the rough, awaiting development. with two exceptions, all 27
The parks are there to be used, said Fred DeVictor, director of parks and recreation
"What we try to do is provide opportunities for people to participate in as many leisure activities as they desire and also to provide well designed and well maintained parks in which to pursue those activities," be said.
A grand tour of the city should turn up a pleasant place for a number of outdoorSummer events.
(1) MARTIN PARK is a woodsy hideaway, cool and shady even in 90-degree temperatures. Located three-quarter of a mile west of Kasold on Peterson Road, it is owned by the city, but all 18 acres are outfitted with large windows and Ozark's style road leads through the haven wooded area. Private picnic areas are secluded well off the roadway.
(2) DEERFIELD PARK, at Princeton Blvd. and Arrowhead Street, is a kid's delight with a sandlot playground, a western-style playground, with ramps, slides and a swinging bridge. It is new and slick, but like the surrounding housing development, there are few trees in the park. However, the 10 acres include a small open shelter, grill, tennis courts and a
(3) LUIIDUM PARK, called a tot lot, has
large areas and area picnic and
shelter and Sea Play.
**P) PERRY PARK on Monterey Way south of Sixth street, is a 45-acre undeveloped property. Devictor is sitting idle now, DeVictor said core samples have been taken to determine if the property will be developed.**
(4) CENTENARY PARK has 35 acres of rolling hills and clusters of shade trees between 6th and 9th streets on Iowa. Built in 1964 when Lawrence celebrated its 100th anniversary, the park has tennis, jogging, swimming, and cycling in addition to the standard park amenities.
(6) WATERTOWER PARK, Stratford and Sunset Drives, is another lot to lot with two acres of grassy areas, a watertower, plav equipment and a baseball backston.
(7) LOUIS HOLCOM PARK AND SPORTS COMPLEX is 31 acres of sports complex and very little actual park. Full of action games including baseball, beep ball, tennis, basketball, soccer, frisbee and space for kite-flying, it is rarely quiet and often is crowded. Holcom is located two blocks west of 28th and Iowa behind Park 25 Apartments.
(N) NAIMISH VALLEY PARK, a narrow five-block long wood area, can be reached from 24th, 28th or 27th streets. The hiking trail crosses the street crowded nine there is no off-street parking.
(9) RIVERFRONT PARK has 994 acres.
undeveloped as yet, and is blocked by a locked gate. Plans call for a $293,000 project, a 50-50 cost sharing with the Corps of Engineers. DeVictor said the city had a contract with the corps to build boat ramp, a hard surface hiking trail on the levy and toilets. The city will do hiking trail work, clearing of trees for campgrounds, fencing and gravel construction. DeVictor said he expects work to begin this fall and take about a year to complete.
10 (WOODY PARK, on Maine Street new Lawrence Memorial Hospital, is another baseball队 headquarters with a lighted ceiling contains playground equipment for children.
(11) BURCHAM PARK, 2nd and Indiaan on the Kansas River, captures the cool breeze award, but it has a fuzzy smell. Trash cans were placed in the clean parks in Lawrence. Devictor said it was a popular spot for fishermen and the city still had work to do on the redevelopment of this area. The metalowers are accustomed near the entrance to the park's 23 acres.
(12) LYON STREET PARK is a simple 10-room around the perimeter. Getting to the 7th and Lyons location is the best part for a view of the city, located in the residential north of the town.
(13) CLINTON PARK, locked behind Pinckney School at 5th and Illinois, is a neighborhood park with some character. Native stone grills, steps and walls fit the landscape. The contemporary shelter house doesn't match the Civilian Conservation Corps building that it is clean and usable. The playground has an unusual tractor seat merry-go-round.
(15) ROBINSON PARK is a one-acre historical park complete with a large rock commemorating Kansas pioneers and a cannon, built in 1863, which barely escaped becoming scrap iron when it was donated to the war effort in 1943. Rediscovered in a corral beneath the bank brought the cannon back in 1946. The park was Charles Robinson, first governor of Kansas.
14) TOMMY CONSTANT PARK is a bare spot on Sixth Street between the new bridge and Tennessee Street. The area is expected to become a river view park with hiking trails, it is being used to store steel girders for the Massachusetts Street bridge construction.
(17) CENTRAL PARK AND MUNICIPAL SWIMMING POOL comprise seven acres located between Kentucky and Tennessee where the pool is a little shade near the pool, but not much else. In addition to swimming pools, which are open through Labor Day, the other special attraction is a 1902 Sante Fe freight locomotive where kids and adults try out the boat's seat. All the knobs are welded and nothing turns or moves, one child complained.
(16) JOHN TAYLOR PARK, 7th and Wailu-
net, has play equipment for the neighor-
hood children, basketball goals and a small
shelter on a three-acre lot.
(18) WATKINS PARK, located next to the Elizabeth Watkins Historical Museum at 11th and Massachusetts Streets is a downtown oasis. Antique park benches and a small garden are located in the tiny park greenbox beds maintained on the one-acre lot.
19) HOBBS RECREATION AREA & MUNICIPAL BALL DIAMOND, like Holcom, is loaded with baseball fans on summer evenings. The concrete bleachers were built in 1949 and are a neighborhood landmark, DeVictor said. There also is a toddler playground at the 11th and Delaware location.
(21) BROOK CREEK PARK, a narrow seven-acre neighborhood park, is located at 12th and Brook Streets. Seedling trees do not require fertilizer. It has play equipment and a picnic area.
(22) PARNELL PARK has basketball goals and space in the wedge-shaped three acres used for play and picnic areas. It is located at 15th and Maryland Streets.
(23) EDGEWOOD PARK is a botanist's delight with huge triple-trunked, honey locust trees. It is a cool spot to hear the birds singing and picnic facilities are included in the 18-acre park.
(24) VETERANS PARK, 19th and Louisiana, also has tennis courts, a shady play area and picnic tables. The acres are one of the closest city parks to the campus.
(25) PARK HILLS PARK, actually several parks, off Utah, Nebraska and Dakota State University, on the campus and his court areas. Most of the trees have been spawned in this neighborhood park, so there is
(27) BROKEN ARROW PARK sports a "fantasy play area" with a tall rockslide and a two-seater adult swing. It is still on the edge of town and offers an unbrown view of rural area to the south. There is a baseball park located near the southern side of park facilities. The park is located behind Haskell Indian Junior College and Louisiana City, south of South Junior High School.
(28) HIGH CHAPPARAL PARK, a one-room lot, at 217ft and Haskell has play and basketball courts.