The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 18

I tn wm 18 THE KANSAS CITY STAR Friday October It IW Cobbler Collects For Asians Mr Mike's Film Flams A Bit Flimsy By Robert Trussell A Member of the Stiff "Mr Mondo now in the home stretch of a mercifully short Kansas City run gets two stars not for HOW IT RATES -MR MONDO VIDEO" "MR MIKE MONDO VIDEO" a comedy features profanity sexual references seml-nudlty and some violence Audience rating: Now playing at the Ranch Mart Theater Produced and directed by Michael written by Donoghue Mitchell Glazer Emily Prager and Dirk Wlttenborn released by New Line Cinema and featuring the following principal players: Michael Donoghue its of which there is but because its bizarre quality makes it an Interesting novelty piece Concocted by Michael of Night and featuring many of the television Show regulars Including Gllda Radner Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd the one-hour film was originally produced as an NBC special but had trouble getting past the network censors for reasons that are obvious when you sit through it Structured as a parody of and its host of imitators which purport to take the viewer into the seldom-seen pockets of bizarre human practices the film contains a few funny sequences among them: A swimming school for cats a Midwestern cult religion which worships the actor Jack Lord and a sequence in which famous starlets explain why men with disgusting habits arouse them sexually Then there are other segments that are just strange Notable among these are a film of an execution by electrocution and a purported Pentagon film of a top-secret weapon called "Laser Bra Actually more laughs were provided by an old Tom It Jerry cartoon and a short satire called Wars" which precede the film Oil Company Gives Aid for Cable Cars SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Standard Oil Co of California has donated $1 million to help fix up the antiquated cable car system Mayor Di anne Feinstein says The oil firm is the first corporation to contribute to efforts to restore the idled cable cars Mrs Feinstein said Thursday City officials have said a complete overhaul of the century-old 105-mile system will cost more than $41 million The city has applied for a $32 million federal grant with the remainder of the money to be raised from the private sector The cable cars were shut down Sept 25 after the Public Utilities Commission said the system was Rick Solbergstaff Mr and Mrs Sam DeLuca start food drive for Cambodians KU Players Experiment Well Skull Identified As Flood Victim A skull discovered Wednesday in Swope Park was identified today as that of a 29-year-old man who was swept away in a June 3 rain storm William Barker 1516 99th jumped from the top of his flooded car into the Little Blue River near Bannister Road and Lydia Two men in the park found the skull lodged between some logs near 53rd and Hardesty about seven miles northeast of where Barker was lost Dr James Moore a forensic odontologist from Overland Park identified the skull which contained extensive dental work matching The skull was missing the lower jaw Except for three long bones no other remains were found Detective Peter A Edlund who is assigned to the Jackson County medical office said the almost total destruction of the body was not unusual in a river By Meriemil Rodriguez AMambarofthaStaH For years customers of a Belton shoe repair shop have looked forward to seeing the philosophical witticisms on signs in the windows Now however the sign in the window of Sam shop in Belton is more serious: are hungry too how about some canned The 55-year old Cass County cobbler has launched a one-man drive to help feed some of Cambodia's starving population offering a free shoeshine for each can of food brought to his shop at 110 Scott are hungry (in Cambodia) Maybe if I can get started (collecting food) here others will do the DeLuca said as he fingered some of the canned goods stacked in his shop one can of beans going to break DeLuca said he decided to launch the food drive after learning from published reports about the misery and poverty of some Cambodians State Department officials have said that about 3 million Cambodians may die of starvation or disease DeLuca said the plight of the Cambodians brought back memories from the time he was a paratrooper with the US Army and spent a year in Japan during World War II seen people drop in front of me dead because of starvation and this made me want to DeLuca said He plans to visit some of grocery stores and ask the managers to donate dented cans for his food basket He also hopes the 442nd Tactical Airlift Wing at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base will help him find a way to get the food to Cambodia He has discussed it with a member of the reserve unit Deluca who has been shining and mending shoes at the same location for 16 years noted that his customers have named him Philosopher" always have a sign on my he said like to make people happy" He said his customers call him on the carpet if he leaves the same sign up too long "I started putting the signs up three years ago Then I began noticing that people used to come in the shop with long faces so I hung a sign that said DeLuca recalled Another sign read "The end is coming save your When lines were long at the gas pumps the sign read better gas mileage put all that Carter bull in your gas tank One of 10 children the cobbler grew up on a small farm in Raytown His family moved to Kansas City In the 1630s and he later settled In Belton Bootmaking and mending shoes has been a tradition on his side of the family for five generations DeLuca said Four of his brothers and a nephew are in the same business DeLuca learned the art of mending shoes from his oldest brother Vince who has a DeLuca Shoe Repair Shop in Los Angeles "My brother learned bootmaking from Grandfather Patti my father and he taught the rest of us" said DeLuca who added that he never learned his first name His brother Jim who had a shop on Womall Road in Kansas City retired recently Another brother Frank with whom he worked before opening the Belton shop has a shoe repair business at the Meadowbrook Shopping Center in North Kansas City Brother Bob is established in Parkville The nephew John DeLuca has a shop at the Truman Comers shopping center DeLuca's constant companion at the shop is his wife the former Miss Peggy Harbison whom he taught to repair shoes Two of his five children usually lend a hand too He spent 18 months in the Army and was stationed at Fort Riley Kansas before going to Japan with the 11th Airborne Division "THE INK-SMEARED LADY" and "SCAPIN" presented by the William Inge Theater series at the University of Kansas A Japanese play translated and directed by Andrew Tsubakl and a comedy by Moliere adapted and directed by Carolyn In Kyogen style sets by Tamara Vardln costumes by Chez Haehl and Lilly Tsubakl and lighting by Erin Green By John Bush Jones A Contributing Reviewer LAWRENCE If there is one way that college and university theaters can one-up the commercial stage in the wonderful chance to take risks Except for the occasional heavily funded regional company where else but in academic theater could audiences see on a single evening a traditional Japanese Kyogen play performed in English along with staged in a manner incorporating the stylization of Japanese comic theater? This is precisely playing now through Nov 3 in William Inge Theater If it seems astonishing that such esoteric theater is being performed even more incredible is that mostly performed remarkably well Ink-Smeared Lady" is a slightly satiric piece in which a servant exposes to his master the hypocritical weeping of the mistress about to Her task of adapting farce to style is formidable The results of the experiment are mixed The formalized gestures heighten moments of physical comedy and stylize visual gags These are most success-fill Less so are the intoned speech patterns imposed on a text far more elaborate and complex than traditional Kyogen even in Ms Haynes' pared-down adaptation The result is speeches becoming needledssly tedious especially in lengthy exposition A plot full of the intrigues of Roman comedy is inherently intricate However when dialogue is not paced normally but virtually chanted the weight fights the lightness of the comedy Yet more weight comes from the usual Kyogen posture which looks perfectly natural In the Japanese garb of Ink-Smeared but in the leotards and tunics of actors with bent knees and elbows and clenched fists at their sides look like Marcel Marceau miming Willie Loman with two heavy sample cases on his first entrance in of a Still this evening of Kyogen style comedies has more ups than downs And the KU Theater Department again deserves praise for giving such exotic and experimental efforts a place for public exposure This is what academic theater is all or should be leave only for her to turn on both of them In a wonderful finale of comic revenge It seems in Japan as in the West hath no fury The charm of the 20-minute play is its simplicity A cast of four student actors meticulously trained and directed by Andrew Tsubakl ex-cercise the graceful moves stylized gestures ad melodically intoned if not like pros then at least like the next best thing theater students taking pride in their craft The ensemble is excellent both in the way they have learned such exotic performance techniques and especially in the way they seem to feel so comfortable in executing them If a standout and there is Kevin Cloepfil as the servant His voice face and physical moves are models of comic control If Ms Carolyn Haynes has been less successful in training her larger cast as fully in the techniques of Kyogen her challenge has been a harder one More actors some seemingly less experienced must mean less personal coaching for each Hence some performances remain unintentionally more Western in style than others Generally Ms company has learned the if not fully making them their own Win Important to Algoria The grapes of its vineyards are one of most important crops Most Algerian wine is sold abroad The majority of the wine goes to France where it is often mixed with French wine before being sold REVCO DISCOUNT DRUG CENTER ACETAMINOPHEN EFFECTIVE AS Aston 1 LIQUIPRIN 35 CC i yyyy yyy yyy yy FACTORY WAREHOUSE SALE and Coats of Every Description Short Coats Long Coats All-Weather Coats Dress Coats Outerwear i EVERY COAT BELOW WHOLESALE ALL PRICES 50 75 OFF RETAIL Regular Jr Sizes Short and Long Coats $10 and $160 Half-Sizes Stouts Tails Toddlers 3 to 6X 7 to 14 Jr Petites $10 to $25 307 West 8th Street ALL SALES FINAL 9 am to 5 pra Saturday October 27 October 28 One Block Eit of Brodwy Please no checks! 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