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Magician adds spice
to local restaurants
with cards and talent

By BETSY JONES
Staff Writer

Magic: the use of premeditated
deception or concealed equipment to
produce baffling effects.

If you were eating a Big Mac. and
suddenly a queen of spades popped up
in the middle of it. what would you
think?

Before biting into your next burger.
you'd better take a peek inside. A
certain magician has been appearing in
McDoaaIds in the Lexington area.
and may be leaving his “personal
touch" on your burger.

Mark Comley .is a magician. At 25.
he is still “up to his old tricks.“ which
are rooted in early childhood.

“My parents gave me a magic set
when I was six.“ said the not-So-
mystical-looking Comley. “and I
played around with it for years and
years. until high school. Then I got
into card and rope tricks. which are
now my specialities." '

Working in a tuxedo. Comley
performs primarily in restaurants. and
has been hired to perform in the
Nicholasville Road and Harrodsburg
Road McDonald‘s.

“That is an attraction not offered in
any fast-food chain in the country."
Comley said. “More than anything.
though.” he said. “I enjoy making
private house calls for things like
birthday and cocktail parties.”

When he gives a performance he
doesn‘t arrive on the scene bogged
down by boxes of all sizes. or rabbits.
or girls at his side. or wands to
dramatize his magic. He simply arrives
with a single. small black box clutched
under his arm that contains the bare
necessities: a short rope. a couple of
decks of cards and some coins. .

His tricks are performed right under
the nose and are not complicated
procedures.

Comley attended Transylvania
University and claimed his magic
helped put him through school.

“My friends and I frequented
Columbia‘s restaurant.“ he said. “and
while we were waiting for a table I
would go behind the bar and perform
magic tricks for the customers.

“Invariably when it was time to pay
the check at the end of the meal. the
waitress would tell me it had already
been taken care of. usually by someone
I didn‘t even know."

Being treated to his meals was one
thing. but Comley also remembers a

time he relied on his magic to “snow
over“ a professor so he could pass a
course.

“I was taking a statistics course at
Transy. but never attended class after
the first day.“ he said. “The first lecture

was to cover probabilities. and the
professor came to class with a deck of
cards with which to demonstrate
probability."

He said as soon as the professor
started peeling cards off the top of the
deck. he walked out. Comley took a

. few of the tests during the semester but

never passed one of them.

“After the last lecture I went to his
office and showed him every card trick
I knew and explained every
probabiltiy to him.“ he said. “Sure
enough. I got a B out of that class.“

Rather than the glamour that show
business might have 'to offer him.
Comley prefers that his life be kept
private. He shares his life with a wife
and works as a wholesaler. As was his

intention from the start.Comley has _

restricted his magic "shows to a local
level.

“There was a time once when I was
still in college and out somewhere with
my buddies. when I was scouted by a

. talent agent." he said. “As usual. I was

hamming it up and drawing a fairly
large crowd.

“In the middle of one of my tricks
this man approached me. holding two
plane tickets. and proceded to tell me
that he was taking me back to New
York with him to make me famous."

But Comley said he never wanted to
carry his magic that far. “My magic
started as a hobby. and I've tried to
keep it in that prespective.“ said the
bearded magician. “I will give out my
card only when asked for it. and I don‘t
advertise my services.“

C omley practices everyday at home
in his magic room where he retreats —
sometimes for hours.

“It is my escape from reality.” he
said. “and the most enjoyable part of
my day. What many people don't
know is that magic has to be practiced
just like any other profession.”

Inside his room he is surrounded by
a collection of posters and
photographs of various famous
magicians. his idols. Comley is proud
to claim some of these as his personal
friends. like Albert Goshman. who
appears frequently on the Johnny
Carson Show. and has been a guest in
Comley's home on visits to Lexington.

Comley is the past president of a
magic club in Lexington. Ring I98 of
International Brotherhood of
Magicians.

“You must be a magician before you
can gain memberhsip in the club.“ he
said. “and to be accepted you must go
before a board and perform three
tricks to be judged.“ The club meets
monthly and conventions are neld
with other clubs.

“That is how we magicians keep up
on the latest tricks.“ C omley said with
a chuckle. “We get together and trade
tricks.“

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I

3y JIM GULLO
CCRS Writer

Copyright. C" Collegiate Consumer Reporting
Service

Lazlo Toth is at it again. ,

The great letter-writer recently
addressed one to the Firestone Tire
and Rubber Co.. which has been
having some troubles with its
Firestone 500 Steel Belted Radial tires.

In fact. the company is recalling an
estimated 7.5 million ofthethings. The
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration said it received reports
of 4l deaths and 65 injuries allededly
caused by Firestone 500 failures.

But Toth has never been one to
complain. His letter read: “My
Firestone Radial 500‘s have not blown
up yet and they will be two years old in
November. Just thought you‘d like to
hear from someone who wasn‘t
complaining. Keep giving America a
smooth ride.“

Toth received a nice reply from
Firestone. thanking him for the
encouragement.

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spelt binding books

It's a bookmobile with a different twist. The College Traveler, a book
display room on wheels was parked in front of the Student Center
yesterday and will be today for UK professor to search through books on
the shelves. The texts are representative of more than 200 publishers in the

Companies reply to consumer letters

If you‘re familiar with Toth’s.

perevious effort. a book of lettters to
politicians. corporations and
personalities entitled The Lazlo
Letters (Workman. .I977), you'll
remember that “Lazlo Toth” is a pen
name for comedian and writer Don
Novello.

“I wanted to see what kind of
reactions I could get from those
people." Novello said. “I couldn‘t
believe they wrote back to some of
those letters."

Fact is. companies cannot disregard
letters from their customers. no matter
how outrageous they may seem.

“We answer every letter." Ray Ertle.
director of research at the Gold Seal
Corporation. said. Gold Seal is the
maker of “Mr. Bubble” and “Snowy
Bleach.“ .

“Whether it be an inquiry.
complaint or fan mail. we read it and
pass any useful information along to
our people in the field." Ertle said.

Firestone receives between l.000
and l.500 letters a week since the
controversy began over the Firestone
5005 said James James. assistant

 

—icday

Building courtroom.

campus

STATE AUDITOR GEORGE ATKINS. running for governor in the
Democratic primary. will be speaking at the noon forum today in the Law

nafion

. A FEDERAL Jl'DGE HAS RL'LED THAT the city of Boise. Idaho.
improperly fired six female police employees last year‘after what he called an
“abysmal" investigation into alleged lesbian activity.

 

state

A FOOD PROGRAM FOR SENIOR CITIZENS was temporarily
suspended yesterday after 34 persons were hospitalized and In others were
treated for an apparent outbreak of food poisoning in four counties.

The discontinuance was announced by Jim Simpson. manpower director for
the Lake Cumberland Commmunity Service Organization. which operated the
program in lo counties.

He said the agency had reports that I67 persons became ill Monday in Casey.
Clinton. and Cumberland counties.

Simpson also announced that the Health Department had sent a technician to

Russell County to check the kitchen where the food is prepared by the Salvation
Army.

US POSTAL INSPECTORS ARE TRYING to recover a large number of
old l3-cent stamps that escaped burning here because of a security lapse. postal
ofl'iealt said Tuesday. .

Four US. Postal Service employees in Louisville may be disciplined because
they failed to follow proper security procedures in disposing of the stamps at the
city incinerator. officals said.

Postal inspectors believe about $500.“) worth of the stamps went to the city
incinerator Oct. 4 to be burned. said regional inspector MD. Moore.

Moore said postal inspectors have recdvered about $354!!) worth of stamps
from peple who 'innocently" purchased them at discount prices.

The women. who have not denied they are lesbians. sued the city for SIO
million. claiming that their constitutional rights of due process were violated
and that the city broke its own civil service rules by denying them heaings.

The investigation was launched after citizen complaints that the women were
seen in public as lesbian couples and made no secret of their sexual preferences.
A female city employee also alleged that a fellow female worker who was her
roommate made a sexual advance.

US. District Judge Ray McNichols did not order the women reinstated. but
he ordered attorneys for both sides prepare memoranda on damages and

indicated arguments may be held next spring on the women‘s request for it)
million plus legal costs. '

FORMER SUPERVISOR DAN WHITE was offically charged Tuesday
with the murders of San Francisco Mayor George Mascone and Supervisor
Harvey Milk under a law that calls for the death penalty.

District Attorney Joesph Freitas said at a news conference that the two-count
complaint. filed in Municipal Court. cites murder under “special
circumstances” a crime covered by the death penalty in California.

Freitas charged that White killed Moscone and Milk. the city‘s first avowed
homosexual supervisor. “in retaiation for and to prevent the performance ofthe
official duties“ of the two officals.

The two were shot to death before noon Monday Moscone in aconference

room of his office. Milk in White's own office. White surrendered to police 45
minutes later.

weather

SI'NNY SKIES WITH A HIGH in the low 40‘s is forecasted for today.
Tonight‘s weather will bring cool weather in the low 20‘s, Tommorrow is again
expected to be cool with a high in the mid 40's.

 

 

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By LINDA CAMPBELL/Kernel sm'r

country and many are lent to professors on a 60-day examination basis.
W.S. Krogdahl. an astronomy professor. takes a longer moment to glance

through a text.

director of consumer affairs at
Firestone.

James said the company received
807 phone calls one day shortly after
the company recalled the tires. He said
the company has hired 20 to 25 case
workers to answer phones.

Sylvia Porter outlines these steps for
consumers to take in complaining
about a faulty product or service in her
book on surviving in today‘s economic
jungle. Silvia Porter's Monet Boo/t
(Doubleday. I975): ~

~Go back to the dealer who sold
you the product. and complain ~
loudly. Bring the product with you and
the original sales slip. Give the dealer
(and not an innocent sales clerk) the
details of the problem without
threatening him.

—If the dealer refuses to help. then
write the manufacturer's customer
relations department. again stating the
facts clearly. If possible. send
photocopies of canceled checks and

previous correspondence. but never
the originals.

—If this doesn‘t work. write to the
company‘s president. coldly repeating
the facts. Indicate to him at the bottom
of the letter that copies are being sent
to a_ variety of consumer
orgainzations. You can get his address
from local consumer organizations or
from Poor Is Register of C orporatt'ons,
Directors and Executives or Moody's
Industrial Manual in the library.

-——Send copies of the letter to a
local consumer protection
orgainzation and also to such
orgaizations as the Office of
Consumer Affairs in Wahington.
Consumers Union and the local Better
Business Bureau.

7- You might want to send a letter
to your local newspaper. Many
investigate and resolve consumer
disputes.

—And if all else fails. you can write
your Congressman in Wahington.

Director of PPD says

UK is 'better prepared'
for this year’s snowfall

By JACK WAINWRIGHT
Staff Writer

UK students may not haveto go slip
sliding away this winter. according to
Jim Wessels. physical plant division
director.

PPD is better prepared for this
winter than last. he said. “We‘ve gotten
one additional snow plow as well as
new equipment to replace old worn
out equipment.“

Wessells said clearing the ramps and
sidewalks for handicapped students.
and the emergency ramp at the
hospital would get top priority. A crew
of IS to 20 workers would be sent out
after a snow to tackle this job.

Buildings would be cleared
according to their use and need at the
time. Wessels said. For instance.“lf
there were a concert at Memorial
Coliseum that night it would be
cleared before other buildings.“ he
said.

The most difficult clearing job faced
by PPD is parking lots. “After a snow
there are cars that are in the lots and
the maneuvering of a snow plow is
difficult.” Wessels said. “It may take us
up to two days to clearacouple of lots
because of the ears.

“Clearing city streets is easier

because the city can tell people to get

off the road so they can run a snow
plow.“ he continued. “We have
students who can‘t move their cars
anywhere so we can‘t really make a
request stick."

Snow falling over a gradual period
of time is easier to cope with. Wessels
said a heavy overnight snowfall cannot
be readily cleared by PPD crews.

Wessels said if it snowed at night.
crews would begin as early as seven the
next morning clearing such places as
hospital parking lots. which are used
24 hours a day.

“We won‘t be paying out a whole lot
of overtime this year.“ Wessels said.
“We have 70 people working on
ground crews that we can put into
snow removal.” However. if snow is
heavy. overtime may be required
because some employees would be
working l2-hour shifts.

This summer. L'K built up the
stockpiles of calcium chloride used to
melt snow. Wessels said there are IS
tons of calcium chloride and LS tons
of a new product. called “snow melt.”

“With calcium chloride people can
track it into buildings and dome."
Wessels said. The new chemical snow
melt has the same effect but it is not
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Jonestown murders-suicides

should be seen as a warning

‘ It will be in the history textbooks decades from
ndw, of 'course. Probably a few pages after the
antiwar protests, at neatly boxed grim reminder of
the horrible consequences that man‘s blind faith —
or blind faith in a man — can cause.

The Jonestown tragedy is indeed a gruesome
symbol. Nine hundred people from the world's
richest and supposedly most advanced and
democratic nation were unable to deal with their
problems in their homeland, and sought salvation
from a cult leader well on the way to insanity. They
believed in Jim Jones, and finally trusted him past
the point of no return.

By all accounts, Jones and his cult began as a well-

meaning, level-headed sect espousing rational '

religious activism. The Peoples Temple stood for
integration. equal rights and fair treatment, and
Jones himself was known as an outstanding citizen.

Only in recent years did the cult begin to decay
along with the mind of its leader. 'Stories on violent
revenge, abuse of members and improper handling
of funds attracted Rep. Leo Ryan‘s investigation in
Guyana, which triggered the mass suicide of the cult
members there.

The proliferation of “extremist" religions and
faiths is a fact ‘of modern American life. For
whatever reasons. people are devoting their souls,
lives and money — and sometimes rationality 4 to
new strains of fundamental Christianity. Eastern
religions, Muslim faiths and others.

Many of those sects, including the Peoples
Temple, demand levels of obedience and devotion
that are uncommon to Americans who worship in
more traditional denominations. Religion has
always been something that‘s convenient to check at
the church door on Sundays — who knows how
many hypocritical Babbitts there still are in this
country?

Some people have cited the Jonestown tragedy as
an example of the need for stronger laws against the
kind of mind control and coercion used by some
sects to attract and keep members. Without better
precautions, it‘s argued, gullible or psychologically
vulnerable people are helpless against hypnotic cult
recruiters.

But such legislation would be unconstitutional
and dangerous, as it would establish a strong
precedent for governmental regulation of religion.

Existing laws from various categories —
kidnapping, child abuse. custody of minors.
harassment and others, can all be interpreted and
enforced to give a reasonable level of protection,

'and the need to enforce them is greater now than

ever before.
Ultimately, it will be the individual's choice about

religious affiliation, and the government has no

business guiding private choices of ethics and
values. no matter how bizarre they seem.

What‘s needed is a clearer separation between
church and state, religion and politics.

Jim Jones' cult is a pertinent example. Jones used
the political clout of his group to secure government
posts in San Francisco and Indianapolis. His
political contacts were valuable in spreading his
message, and politicians knew Jones could deliver
thousands of Peoples Temple members to rallies
and to the polls.

When Jones first established his Guyana
commune, the recognition of important public
officials and figures. including then-Georgia Gov.
Jimmy Carter‘s wife, was essential. His ingratiation
with the Guyanese government allowed the cult to
receive extraordinary privileges for foreigners.

The smooth blending of religion and politics tnat
Jones accomplished is nothing new, and is not
objectionable to in itself. But using the political
system to establish credibility and attract converts
must be taken as a warning sign of the dangers
involved.

One only needs to look at the Korean
government‘s notorious ties with Sun Myung
Moon‘s Unification Church to see how a religion
and thousands of misguided acolytes can be
controlled for political ends.

Not only was Jones adept in manipulation of
governments, he succeeded for a while in duping the
Fourth Estate. He purposely sought to win support
from the news media by allying the cult with
integration, press freedom and other issues favored
by the press. Jones knew the power of the printed
and broadcast word. Only recently did stories that
were negative about the Peoples Temple begin
appearing on the West Coast.

Ultimately, the shocking end of Jim Jones was
caused by his troubled personal difficulties,
including drugs, sexual problems, guilt and an
obsession with death. If he had not been losing his
mind, there‘s no telling how influential the Peoples
Temple might have become.

Americans should take the Jonestown mass
suicide as a warning about our society’s
vulnerability, and not just an example of a lunatic
who took the lives of 900 people along with his own.
But then, it‘ll be there in the history books to read
about.

 

 

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McDonald’s rumors are result of diet g‘uili

The human mind is a hell ofa thing.
When you're finally ready to give up
on it, figuring creativity has been
mugged unconscious by network
programmers, the imagination soars
to the tree tops, like a macaw in a snow
storm, and squawks its head off.

have been quick to track down
backwoods ministers preaching the
heresy of a hamburger boycott. The
PR people assure us that Ray Kroc,
the McDonald’s owner, is simply your
average entrepreneur, modestly
generous, certainly not crazy enough

 

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by robert hemenway

 

Despite the Judeo-Christian
symbolism of golden arches, plus
millions of dollars in advertising, the
McDonald‘s hamburger chain has
failed to stifle rumors that (l) part of
their profits are funneled to a satanic
sect in Southern California. and (2)
worms are added as protein to the Big
Mac. The rumors are a triumph of
mind over media, superstition over
common sense. No one knows how
they got started, and no one can stop
them.

The McDonald‘s folks think the
catanism may have begun with an off-
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to give away his fortune to religion.
The worm story turns on economic
rather than nutritional grounds.
Worms. although edible, and dense
with protein, cost more per pound
than beef. No cost-efficent fast food
executive, not even one with a sense of
humor. would consider such an
expensive additive.

Why do rumors start? How do they
grow? Often they accompany mass
tension. Rumors spring up when there
is a community catacylsm that makes
authoritative communication
impossible, as in New York‘s power
black-out and looting. The
McDonald‘s rumor, which have
expanded to include Burger Chef,
Wendy‘s and White Castle, are not in
the category of urban riots, but they do
grow from communal anxiety, and
they spread because modern man.
hungers for unprocessed information.

The McDonald‘s rumors may bethe
first example of the growing tension
between domestic diet and public
appetite. Deep down we collectively
know that the fast food burger is
unhealthy, that it is not a REAL
MEAL. Where are the green beans?
Where is the broccoli your mother
forced you to eat, blackmailing you
with starving Chinese? How many
chocolate milk shakes did you ever
drink at home? We chomp the quarter-
pounders, gobble the french fries, but
secretly we‘re feeling guilty. We keep
looking over our shoulders for parents
brandishing carrot sticks.

Our insecurity arises because a
burger stand is a long way from home,
even if it if just around the corner. The
genius of fast food is that it exploits
this psychological distance. By no
accident does McDonald's direct its
advertising primarily at children. The
ads not only propogandize the young,
but promise a fantasy world of

unbrilded freedom, a world where
there are no grown ups, where even
adults can become irresponsible and
escape the memories of a “Balanced
Meal.” Eat fast today as a special treat.
Plenty of time tomorrow to buy some
cauliflower and get your life back
together.

This tension between what we do
and what we secretly believe takes its
toll, especially when new franchises
open daily. How do we stop our
appetites? Admonish our stomachs?
The mind responds to the call for help,
and the imagination goes to work.
Why not a satanic cult? Rumors are
created, embellished, transmitted.
Creativity blossoms like gardenias
peeping out of a deep fat fryer.

The McDonald‘s rumors are, i
suspect, a logical result of the firm‘s
advertising. Not only do the ads subtly
appeal to infantile fantasies of
freedom, but they are all form, no
substance. Have you ever seen a
McDonald’s ad that featured a Black
Angus? A polled Hereford? An
unprocessed, uncut, unpeeled ldaho

potato? An ocean perch that was not,

square and breaded? Hamburger
chains advertise container rather than
content; the meat is always bloodless,
sanitized in a Styrofoam package.

The effect of the advertising is
roughly that of the food: a kind of mild
unsettling somewhere within. We
secretly know the ads are froth, we
secretly know we can not trust
Madison Avenue to represent what
truly happens behind that stainless
steel counter. Yet we continue to
consume. The tension between the

.public act and private knowledge leads
to the creation of fictions, the
imaginative effort to gain some
control over the images of our lives.

You think the Big Mac looks good?
Try to imagine it with squiggly little
angleworms swimming around in the
special sauce, burrowing holes in the
patties, losing their grip and sliding
out from underneath the meat,
hanging on to the lettuce spilling
around the edges.

Celebrate such images, glory in the
imagination that created them. You
say hamburger chains use goat's blood
in the strawberry shakes? Bird seed on
sesame buns? They do. They do. Tella

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Receives national grant _ _
.Woman named playwrrght-rn-resrdence

Actors Theatre of Louisville
recently announced receipt of a
grant from the Literature
Program of the National
Endowment for the Arts to
engage Marsha Norman as

Playwright-in-Residence
through September I979.

For many years. the
National Endowment has been
granting writer-in-residence
stipends to colleges. museums.

SchoOI of Music to
present concerts

The UK Symphony Orches-
tra will present a concert Dec. 7
at 8:|5 pm. in Memorial Hall.
The program will consist of
works by Bedrich Smetana.
Igor Stravinsky, and Felix
Mendelssohn. Philip Miller
will conduct.

The UK Trombone Ensem-
ble, conducted by Thomas
Senff. will be in concert Dec. 4
at 8: l5, also in Memorial Hall.
Music to be performed consist
of works by Walter Hartley.
Duke Ellington. and Thomas
Stoltzer. among others.

The Collegium Musicum.

Kentucky

under the direction of Dr.
Wesley Morgan. will present a
program of Medieval
Christmas music Dec. 3. 8:l5
pm. at the Catholic Newman
Center.

The School of Music will
present Morgan and John
Lindsey in a program. Baroque
Music jar Violin and
Harpsichord at noon Dec. 8 in
the gallery of the MI. King
Library (north.) Morgan .will
be on harpsichord. Lindsey on
violin.

All the above programs are
free.

groups

win art can test

FRANKFORT (AP) ~
Three Kentucky art organiza-
tions are among the winners of '
a graphic arts competition
sponsored by the Kentucky.
Ans Commission through a
grant from the Southern Arts
Federation.

The contest was conducted
among non-profit arts
organizations in ten southeast-

"ern states and included
categories for poster.
letterhead. brochure. catalog.

program and unified design.

Winning entries from
Kentucky were the M). Speed
Art Museum in Louisville in
the poster category: the
Photographic Archives of the
University of Louisville in the
unified design category and the
Kentucky Arts Commission in
the poster and catalog
categories.

The entries were judged by
Peter Laundy of Vignelli
Associates. Inc. of New York.

'Dream’ tickets
go on sale today

The UK Theatre office will
begin selling tickets for A
Midsummer Night's Dream at‘
noon today, in the lobby of the
Guignol. Theatre. Fine Arts
Building.

Tickets are $3 for students.

' $4 for all-others.

The play will be performed at
the Guignol. Tues. Dec. 5
through Sat. Dec. 9. Curtain
time for all performances is 8
pm.

Reservations may be made
by calling 258-2680. from noon
to 4:30 pm. today through
opening night. The box office
will be open from noon
through intermission on
performance nights.

U K students can buy leftover -
and unclaimed tickets in the
last l5 minutes before curtain
at thespecial “rush“ price of $2.
For additional information call
254-9652.

Applications for ,.

Concert
Committee
Chairman

are now being accepted

n Rm. 203 Student Center
Deadline: December 4

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prisons. and other institutions.
but only in the last three years
have professional regional
theatres been eligible to receive
the awards. Actors lheatre is
one onO in the United States to
be honored in fiscal I979.

Ms. Norman is from
Louisville. and her first work as
a playwright developed from
conversations with director
Jon Jory. resulting in the
prison play (felting ()m.

The play. based on Norman‘s
work with emotionally

disturbed children. was set in
| ouisville. (felling ()ur has
since played at l ouis\ille. l os
Angelcs. and New York (‘in
The play received the American
("ritics‘ Association Award as
the best new play presented at a
regional theatre.

lhe purpose of the grant
Norman recened is to deselop
dramatic material for the
theatre. including work on her
new project. (TI'tlH luli'rtlmt'.
which centers around a troupe
of circus performers who
entertain at a shopping mall in

Opera House may
soon sell liquor

(AP) Lexington‘s Opera
House could be selling liquor
again within six months. if' it
gets permission to do so from
its neighbor. St. Paul Church.

The Opera House has sold
only beer since October l977
after the Rev. (ieorge
Donnelly. former St. Paul
pastor, objected to staging of
the sexual satire. ()h.’ Calcutta!

A state law requires an
establishment located within
200 feet of a church to obtain
the church’s permission before
applying for a liquor license.

Tom Minter. executive
director of Lexington (‘enter
Corp. which includes the
Opera House. said Monday
application for a new liquor
license could be made within 90

Choristers to
be in concert

The UK singing group
known as the Choristers will
present a concert this Friday.
Dec. I. X:l5 pm. at Memorial
Hall.

The Choristers. with Sally
Holroyd. director. is a 57-
member choir of men and
women who will sing a variety
of Christmas music. including
popular favorites along with
more classical pieces.

Admission is free.

GREAT

days if permission is granted by
the Rev. Flmer Moore. St.
Paul‘s pastor since April.

It would then take about 60
days to process the application.
Minter said.

Moore said he is awaiting
results of research into laws
pertaining to the booking of
shows at facilities s