University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, July 6, 1988
Arts & Entertainment
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Summer theater starts season with a refreshing melodrama
By Debbie Bengtson
Take a step back into the 1890s, where villians are mean, heros are brave and the whiskey as strong as the acting in "The Face on the Barroom Floor," the first production of the summer for the University of Kansas Summer Theatre.
The production, a melodrama, is set in the 1890s in a Colorado hotel. The plot is impressive because it is not what one would expect for a melodrama. Of course, it follows the boy-loves-girl, boy-loes-girl, boy-wins-girl-back routine, but it is sprinkled with surprises along the way.
The audience is persistently encouraged to participate throughout the production, from booing the villian to sighing over the damsel. The audience, although small because this was only a dress rehearsal, genuinely enjoyed participating. Toward the beginning the audience was prompted into participation, but by the end of the play the audience would not stop hassling the villian.
Karin Paludan, Lawrence freshman, played Sweet Madelaine, the beautiful damsel overtaken by the treacherous lies of Roderick Rodent, playfully by Darrell Everson, Shawnee senior. Rodent leads her to believe that her painter fiance, Jack "Toulouse" Goodhard, played by Jeffrey Orr. Lawrence freshman, had broken his vow to stay true to her. Shaken by this revelation, she falls for the dime-store promises of Rodent. He promises her a successful singing career.
They move away, and Rodent builds a hotel with money Madelaine inherited from a saloon regular. They move to New York.
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delightfully played by Jill A. Towsley, Topeka junior, to teach the poor tone-deaf Madeline to sing. Although she sings badly in the play, she sings beautifully during the vaudevillian break between acts two and three.
The play is fun. Not only will the ticket-holder be entertained by a wacky plot, exciting costumes and larger-than-life acting, but before the play, they will be able to meet the actors at a box dinner on the patio.
Director Jack Wright, professor of theatre and media arts, said the catering for the dinner would be provided by S.C. Pomeroy's, a catering service from the Eldridge Hotel. He asked S.C. Pomeroy's to cater the dinner because in the 1800s, when melodrama was popular, Lawrence, they would stay overnight at the Eldridge.
After eating and cavorting with the actors on the patio, the audience takes part in a sing-a-long as it goes into the Crafton-Preyer Theatre at the start of the play. The host for the play is Roderick Rodent.
Many other fine performances should not go unnoticed. Christopher Hayes, Olathe junior, plays Dusty Rhodes, the stagecoach driver. Although sometimes his voice is muffled by his costume beard, his laugh and mannerisms are unmistakably hilarious. Jeffrey Sherr, Lawrence junior, plays the continuously drunk Herbie Rainwater. He does a fine job never breaking
Scott C. Reeves, Olathe sophomore, and Donna Kane, St. Carmel, N.Y., graduate student, rehearse a scene from "Face on the Barroom Floor."
out of character and, like Hayes, brings a deep comic quality to the production.
"The Face on the Barroom Floor" will be performed
at 8:00 p.m. July 7, 8 and 9 at 2:30 p.m. July 10 in Crafton-Preyer Theatre. For ticket information and prices, call the Murphy Hall Box Office at 864-3982.
Newly canonized saint who worked in area subject of Kansas exhibit
Phil Carvalho KANSAN
An exhibit of books, articles and artwork on the life of Saint Philippine Duchese, who worked with Indians in the Kansas Territory during the 19th century, is on display at the Spencer Research Library until the end of August.
By Karen Boring
Kansan staff writer
One hundred and forty-six years after finishing her work with the Potawatomi Indians in what is now Kansas, Rose Philippine Duchesne has officially become a saint.
The Kansas Collection in Spencer Research Library is featuring an exhibit on the life of Duchesne, the most recently canonized saint.
On Sunday in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II canonized Sister Rose Philippine Duchesne for her work in the Missouri and Kansas territories in the early 1800s.
Duchene was born in France in 1769 and came to the United States in 1818 and founded schools, convents and orphanage St. Louis and on opposing sides, no areas.
In 1841, at age 72, Duschene asked to be sent to the Kansas Territory to
In 1841, at age 72, Rose Philippine Duchesne asked to be sent to the Kansas Territory to fulfill a lifelong dream of working with Indians. She worked for a year with the Potawatomi tribe at the Sugar Creek mission in present-day Linn County.
fulfill a lifelong dream of working with Indians. She worked for a year with the Potawatomi tribe at the Sugar Creek mission in present-day Linn County.
Because of falling health, she stayed in anguilla Creed for three years and was not back to St.
Charles, despite her pleas to be allowed to die among the Indians. She recovered partially and spent the next 10 years sewing shirts for the Indian children. She died in 1852.
Although her stay in Sugar Creek was short, the Indians loved her and named her Quah-Kah-Ka-Num, or "the Woman Who Prays All the Time."
Gerald Tuckwin, dean of liberal arts at Haskell Junior College in Lawrence and a Potawatomi Indian, attended the canonization ceremony in Vatican City.
Beverly Boyd, professor of English, who has become a specialist on Duchesne, also attended the ceremony. Boyd has written a book of poems about Duchesne titled "Philippine's Windows and Other Poems." Her poetry and some of her research are displayed in the Kansas Collection exhibit.
Sheryl Williams, curator of the Kansas Collection, said that Boyd would be back from Italy in time for a public reception at the exhibit from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday.
"She has been working tirelessly to promote knowledge of Mother Duchesne and her work in Kansas," Williams said.
In 1984, Duchesne was named the Outstanding Pioneer Woman by the University of Kansas Commission on the Status of Women.
The exhibit features a biography, articles and artworks about Duchesne. Photographs of murals and stained-glass windows from the Church in Mound City depicting Duchesne also are part of the exhibit.
The exhibit will be on display from 8 a.m. to $5 p.m. until the end of April.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
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