Sunflower July 13, 1967
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Summer Theatre Will Present THE Kansan's Comedy 'Bus Stop' Summer Theatre will present trying to get "Cherie" to marry of upstage, downstage and about SUNFLOWER ''Bus Stop," a play set in Kan him. He had to learn to vault entrances and exits. sas and written by William Ing~ the lunch counter and had some difficulty in learning to whistle The major costuming problem a Kansas pla.ywright, in Wilner VOL. LXXI NO. 64 WICHITA STATE UNIVER5ITY JULY 13, 1967 Auditorium at 8 p.m. Thursday, with two fingers in his mouth. has been finding a size 48 bus 1 Friday and Saturday. _, Kovacs came to the United States driver's uniform. The bus com at theend ofWorld War II from panies of Wichita have looked, The plot deals with a bus Holland. Terry is excited about but they haven'tbeenabletocome stranded somewhere between To the part of ' 'Bo Decker" since up with one.Presentlyanairforce Annual Band Concert peka and Kansas City during a he knows Inge and he said that uniform is being adapted. March blizz.ard. The passengers Terry should play the part of •'Bo" sometime. Most of tht: cast are students, on the bus are thrown together with the exception of Washburn Scheduled For Monday in a small restaurant, the ''Bus who is an East High drama in Stop." As Kovacs' sidekick, Knetsch structor and Calhoun who is a The annual WSU Band Con concert, the Colas Breugnan has had to learn to play "Red member of the WSU English fa cert will be held Monday. at Overture, by Demitri Kabalev "The play is a warm, realis River Valley" on the guitar. culty this summer and will be 8:15 p.m.,in the DFAC Concert sky; and Liturgical Music For tic comedy of the type that is come technical director for Uni Hall as part of the Summer Band by Martin Mailman wiU so popular on the American Other members of the cast have versity Theatre in the fall. Lecture Series. Philip L. Wein be presented. stage," said Joyce Cavarozzi, di had opportunities to do parts acht, graduate assistant director rector and WSU speech instruc which they previously haven •t ''Four members of the cast of bands and trumpet, will be the Also included in the first part tor. done. Miss Da Vee has never have worked with me before," conductor. Weinacht replaces of the concert will be two solos portrayed an older woman. Miss said Miss Cavarozzi. ''Kovacs, James Kerr, director of bands, sung by Jill Bergquist, Fine Arts "People of the Kansas area Hobbs has been in two plays, Hendricks, Miss DaVee and Miss who is unable to conduct due to senior. Bergquist will sing Lon will especia.Uy enjoy this play but she never moved around. Hobbs were cast members of illness. donderry Air and Ouvre Ton since Inge writes about a people She has bad to learn the meanings 'Antigone• presented last April." During the fir~t half of the Coeur. he knows and grew up with. He has an understanding of Kansas The first portion of the con cert will be completed with a se that is wonderfully warm and 1 human," Miss Cavarozzi added. lection entitled "Two Marches for the Sultan Abdul Medjid." Professor Motwani Will Attend 1 The set, designed by Larry Several selections including McMullen, a WSU student, crea ''Valdres" by J. Hanssen, and tes the atmosphere necessary for "Suite of Old American Dances" the play. ''l t reminds people in International Orientalists Meeting by Robert R. Bennett will be this area of a small town where presented by the band during the a bus or train stops once a day," Dr. Kewal Motwani, a visiting first time. About 1,500 Orienta A review of Dr. Motwani•s second portion of the concert. said Dr. Richard Welsbacher, professor of sociology, will at lists are expected to attend. book, critique of "'Empirism in director of Summer Theatre. tend the 27th Session of the In Sociology," by Professor Jac Two trumpet trios, played by , ternational Congress of Orienta Dr. Motwani's paper, "Con ques Maquet, of the Ecole Pra Richard Gardner, Roger Walls , The characters of the play are lists Meeting. It will be held ception of Individual and Society tiques Des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and Greg -Tompkins will be pre varied. The widerangegoesfrom August 13-19 at the University from Religious Point of View,'' will appear in the next issue of sented. a high school girl to a drunken of Michigan, Ann Arbor. which was read at the Inaugural the "Cahiers inter- nationaux de The University Summer Choir professor. "Everyone is on stage Session of Indian Institute of sociologie," Paris. Prof. Maquet and the band will combine their from the first and they have to He will read a paper on "ln Advanced Studies, Rashtrapati is an outstanding authority in efforts in the finale of the con work together as a group," said dia's Ancient Literature: A New Nivas (Viceroy's Lodge) Simla, sociology and anthropology. He cert. They will perform ''Jesu, Miss Cavarozzi. "I think thatthe Look at Its Ideology and Chrono India, opened by President S. will be a visiting professor of Joy of Man's Desiring," by Bach; cast has really had fun working logy." The Congress will be Radhakrishnam, in 1965, bas been anthropology at the University and "America, the Beautiful" by together with the play. Maybe it's m~eting in this country for the published in the Transaction of of Pittsburg next fall. Samuel Ward. because of what it's all about." the Institute Volume I. Members of the ''Bus Stop" ~olume 11 containing the dis cast are Sharon Hobbs as "Elma cussion on various papers will Duckworth.'' Cindy DaVee as be published shortly. This in Cantata To Be Sung ''Grace Haylard," John Calhoun auguration was organized by the as "Will Masters," Barbara Ministry of Education Govern Wilkinson as "Cherie," Jaye ment of India. By University Otorus Hendricks as ''Carl," Bob Wash The University Summer Cho Joanne Racklay will accompany burn as "Dr. Gerald Lyman," rus will present a concert to Piet Knetsch as ''Virgil Bles• . the c!torus as organist. Marian night at 8 in the DFAC Concert Abbot, alto; Nancy Nussbaum, sing," and Terry Kovacs as WSU Trustees Hall. Directed by Robert Hines, ''Bo Decker." soprano; Michael Lipe, tenor; the 70 singers of the chorus will and Dudley Dodgion, bass; will • present works by Benjamin Brit The cast has encountered some be the featured soloists. difficulties. The female lead, Discuss Plans ten, a leading British composer. Miss Wilkinson, who was second A chamber choir of 30 voices runner-up in the l<Miss Kake A Cantata, ''Rejoice in the has been organized from the cho Lamb" will be the first selec rus and will perform the Choral land," contest with voice as her For Housing tion to be performed by the talent presentation, had to learn Dances, from Britten's opera Plans to construct a married group. Composed by Britten, the "Gloriana." The dances are often to sing off key. ''Cherie," is students housing facility on East words were written by Christop a singer who performs in a night performed out of context in con club close to the stockyards in 21st were discussed at a recent her Smart in the eighteenth cen cert. meeting of the WSU Board of tJ,try while· he was confined to There will be no admission Kansas City. trustees. The housing would be Kovacs will portray a Mon an asylum. charge. Dr. Kewal Motwani constructed by a unit of the tana cowboy, Bo Decker, who is Garvey Enterprfses. The property on which the units would be bu.lit is a 3. 75 University Department acre site wedged between the President Seleds Two Men Corbin Education Center on the west and the newly acquired Crestview Country Club on the 1 Given Expansion Grant east. It is presently owned by To Fill Administrative Posts J. Douglas Landsdowne. Two additional appointments Ph.D. in guidance ana counsel A two.year grant in the amount opportunities to prepare them for have been made to the admin ing. of $107,680 was awarded to Wi Ph.D. work at larger institution, Although Amortbanc, a Garvey enterprise, has an option to pur istrative staff recently at Wi chita State University for the sup Dr. Breazeal said. chi:ta State University, it was an Gohn is a member of National port of an expanded Masters pro chase the property, WSU has Association of Student Person been giYen until Sept. 5 to ne nounced by President Emor)' gram in Physics at the Univer "They will in the process earn Lindquist. nel Administrators and American sity, it was announced recently Master of Science degrees from gotiate with Landsdowne and the Personnel and Guidance Associa by Emory Lindquist, WSU presi WSU," he continued. Garvey interests before a final tion. He has been a Danforth dent. The grant was awarded decision is made on zoning. Assuming the position of as sistant dean of students and as Fellow. by the National Science Founda Six new students will enter the sistant professor is Lyle Gohn. tion. program each summer and will It is feared by University of Meeker, who will be assistant ficials that the zoning changes Frank Meeker will serve as as receive fellowship support th- sistan't director of records with co Dr. Carl Fahrbach. Director The program will be directed 1roughout the two-year period. which would be made, if the of Records, was formerly as Housing units were built, might faculty rank of assistant pro by Dr.