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Tuesday, July 3, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
'Robber' steals into town
Music and dancing enhance fairy tale comedy play
Mike Cofield and Cameron Meier are in "The Robber Bridegroom."
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
By Bryan Reber
Kansan staff writer
A cast of comic characters will take the stage when "The Robber Bridegroom" comes to town this week.
the story, based on a novella by Eudora Welty, was adapted for the stage by Alfred Ursach, who wrote "Driving Miss Daisy."
The Mississippi backwoods are the setting for this musical comedy, presented by the University of Kansas Summer Theatre and The Liberty Hall Players in April 2014. Lawrence's six-fourth of July celebration
"The story is originally a Grimm's fairy tale," said Paul Meier, director of the production. "Welty tapped into America's own mythic roots and the story became a mythic portrait of the American psyche in her hands."
"They say he could eat half a watermelon, spit out the seeds and recite the twenty-third Psalm all at the same time," Sean Gutteridge, the actor who plays Lockhart, said in his introduction of the character during rehearsal on Sunday.
rehearsal of Mary Rosamand Musgrove, the beautiful daughter of a rich plantation owner, is played by a Amanda Clark.
is played by Michael Hunt. Rosamund "changed the temperature of the moon." Clark said.
of the MCU. Rosamund falls in love with the robber persona of Lockhart and spurus the gentleman persona when he is introduced to her by her father, Clément, Meier said.
"It's one of these confusion of identity plots that are so popular in fairy tales," he said.
fairy tales,
Rosamund's mean and ugly stepmother, Salome, is played by Jeanette Bonjour.
"The story goes that one glance from Salome caused every bulffrog in Yazoo City to drop dead of heart failure," Bonjour said of her character.
Little Harp and Big Harp, played by John Abramson and Mike Coelfield, respectively, are characters based
on actual Southern thieves, Meier said. Big Harp was caught and his head was cut off and hung in the town square as a warning to would-be criminals. In the play, Big Harp's head has been saved by his brother.
The comic story is complemented by U.S. folk music and dance.
Performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. July 5, 11, 12 and 13 at 2:30 p.m. July 7 at Liberty Hall, 642
Massachusetts St. A condensed version of the production will be present; July 6 at Burcham Park, and Indiana streets, during Independence Days. General admission tickets are $8 for the public, senior citizens, $5 students and children and are available at Murphy Hall Box Office and Liberty Hall. A $1 discount will be available to Independence Days ticketholders for the July 5 and 7 performances.
Kids have wrong ideas about July 4
The Associated Press
More children age 4 to 6 think Bush was the flag's seamstress rather than Betty Ross, with 29 percent casting a vote for the president's wife and 15 percent going with the real McCov.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The Fourth of July celebrates somebody's birthday, George Washington is "nice and he's dead" and the original Stars and Stripes flag was sewn by Barbara Bush, according to a poll of youngsters.
company surveyed 151 children at day-care centers in Boston, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Denver and Los Angeles to find out how much they knew about Independence Day.
Hang with the feel of this,
Hoping for a story like this, a toy
Day. The poll was taken by the Pawtucket-based toymaker Playskool Inc.
When asked from whom the United States gained independence, the kids gave answers ranging from the King, at 56 percent, to the Indians, 19 percent, the Pilgrims, 18 percent, the Russians, 5.
percent, the British, 2 percent, and the Italians, 1 percent.
"It's somebody's birthday," a 4- year-old boy from Denver said.
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While 21 percent said that July 4 had something to do with fireworks, none knew that the holiday commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
When questioned about the meaning of the Fourth of July, 18 percent of the youngsters, who were polled in February, said it was a holiday — but weren't sure which one.
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The government has taken the bang out of the Fourth of July in recent years. The Food and Drug Administration outlawed high-powered firecrackers in 1966, and the product safety agency issued strict, industry-backed regulations 10 years later that severely limited the kinds of fireworks that can be sold legally in the United States.
The industry council said fireworks injuries have declined in recent years, from 12,600 in 1986 to 9,700 last year, according to estimates by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Thirteen states have gone further and banned fireworks of any kind.
Conkling singled out the National Fire Protection Association based in Quincy, Mass., for its campaign to outlaw all fireworks for individuals.
"they hate fireworms," he said. Spokesman Julie Reynolds confirmed that the non-profit NFPA, whose members include fire marshals, insurance companies and sprinkler manufacturers, believe that "fireworms should be left in the hands of licensed professions" and kept out of the hands of amateurs.
"Fireworks are explosives and they are dangerous," Reynolds said. "Even sparklers can and do cause serious injuries."
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Waiting for the pop
Liz Marrow, Parkville, Mo., and her 15-month-old daughter Felicia get ready to set off a champagne-pop firework. The Marrows attended the River City Celebration on Saturday in Riverside, Mo.
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