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Monday. February 14. 1977

Overwhelmed

-—Stewart lawman

Six-year-old Heather Hayes controlled her excitement well
Saturday night at Rupp Arena as UK beat Auburn. Heather
and her mother traveled from Lebanon, Ohio to see the Cats
post an 89-82 win. For an account of the garrre, see page 4.

City ordinance postponed

Drinking hours won’t change soon

By MARY ANN BL'CHAR'I‘
Kernel Reporter

On Jan. 29, 1976, the Kernel
reported that Stephen D. Driesler
(then Alcoholic Beverage Control
(ABC) Board administrator)
planned to recommend to the Urban
County Council that Lexington bars
be allowed to remain open one hour
longer.

His reasons for the recom—
mendation included the Lexington
Civic Center. Driesler said con—
vention delegates wouldn‘t be used
to early closing hours. Liquor sales
presently end at 1 am.

He also cited the fact that
Louisville‘s automobile accident
rate had decreased between mid—
night and 1:30 am. by 16 per cent
after Louisville bars extended
drinking hours until 4 am.

Alan M. Stein, manager of 803
South, reported that the Bluegrass
Beverage Association lnc. (BBAI)
was working with the Chamber of
Commerce. the Lexington Center
Corporation. the Mayor‘s office and
the Tourism Commission on an
extension.

Publicity prompts decision

Then on Feb. 5, 1976, it was
reported that Driesler might have to
make the proposal sooner than he
had planned because of premature
publicity by the Lexington Herald
and the Kernel.

Bruce Hinton. secretary of The
Lexington Hotel and Motel

 

—today

region

Jessie (‘oulter and his former wife, Rita
Gibran, were charged with kidnaping yesterday in
Cincinnati after reportedly holding eight hostages
for 15 hours in a home for unwed mothers. The last
of the hostages were freed Saturday after police
reported he was duped by them into believing that
an officer was the son he hadn‘t seen in 20 years.

A new study reports that crime is increasing in
rural areas, and while it may not be a pitchfork
jungle, the tradition of unlocked doors is coming to

Association, added that the
Chamber of Commerce had been
working behind the scenes it! at
least three months with Mayor
Foster Pettit on the plan.

According to Hinton, Pettit was
waiting for the appropriate time to
submit it to the council.

A later article stated that a poll of
nine of the 15 Council members
revealed that five would oppose the
plan, four were undecided. Six could
not be reached.

According to Driesler, “nothing
ever happened to the proposal,”
meaning no formal ordinance was
ever introduced.

“I think that a motion was made
and passed that they wouldn’t
consider an ordinance at that time,”
he said.

Council member Darrell Jackson
(6th Dist.) said the news of the
proposal leaked out and the public
respmded so boisterously that, “we
asked Pettit if it would be in-
troduced. He said no, that they had
no intentions. Actually, they decided
to forget it.“

Issue postponed

“it‘s hard to say when it will come
up again," Driesler said.
"Sometime in the forseeable future,
but not in the next six months to a
year.”

Driesler. no longer ABC ad-
ministrator. is not working on the
issue.

“Yes, it will come up again,”
Jackson said. When it does, he said

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University of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

New all-Greek yearbook
to be propoSed to board

By MIKE MEUSER
Assistant Managing Editor

Less than two weeks after the
demise of the Kentuckian Magazine.
Student Publications Adv'ser Nancy
Green has proposed the creation of
an allGreek yearbook which Greek
leaders hope will eventually become
an official University publication.

Green said she made the proposal
last Thursday during a meeting with
Greek leaders and Assistant Dean of
Studarls Michael Palm because she
was worried about the need for a
publication and felt the Greeks
represented a good core of support.

“When all this came to an end
( Kentuckian), it just really bothered
me that we were losing a
publication. During the board
meeting when the editors resigned,
there was discussion about who had
supported the yearbook in the past.
it was the Greeks,” Green said.

The traditional yearbook format
of the Kentuckian was dropped in
1975 in favor of an experimental
magaa'ne. The magazine folded two
weeksago, however, after a series of
financial and personnel problems.

he plars to rely upon his constituents
for their opinions.

“I won’t decide right or wrong for
anybody. It’s strictly up to them on
this. When it came up last time, two
out of 150 people that I asked were
for the extension."

“I imagine that it won’t come up
again until after elections,” said
councilwoman Pam Miller (4th
Dist).

“I’m open-minded about the whole
thing. I’d like to hear the facts.
There was so much opposition that
everybody just got scared and
backed off. I never got to hear any
type of presentation.”

Christopher Zaborowski,
publicatims board member and
managing editor for the quarterly
Greek newspaper Kentucky Greek,
was one of four Greek leaders
present at the Thursday meeting.

He said he thinks the idea can
succeed and that he would like to see
the yearbook eventually become the
official UK publication.

“We‘re hoping they’ll allow us to
continue using the space the Ken-
tuckian occupied. i don‘t know about
the future, but hopefully we could
reinstate our yearbook as the
yearbook,” he said.

Green said last week that the
board would have to consider the
results of a board survey to deter-
mine what type of publication
students wanted before making a
recommendation to UK President
Otis Singletary about the future of
the Kentuckian.

Publications board chairman
Robert Orndorff, a journalism
professor who conducted the survey,
said the results would be made
available early this week.

Green said yesterday that she

Randy Butcher, Local Convention
Bureau director, said he can't give
his personal opinion, but his
professional opinion is that the
drinking laws as they now exist are
sufficientfor tourists and convention
crowrb.

“Longer drinking hours would be
better, but they aren’t necessary,”
he said. “Travelers are satisfied as
long as we have liquor by the drink.
The isue is heated locally, but it’s
not a makeor-break situation.”

Gary Stingle, BBAI vice
president, when asked if the ex-
tension was still being sought,
said,“We’re keeping it under low
profile.”

UK Art Museum shows

intemational additions

By JENNIFER GREEK
Kernel Staff Writer

A pair of 17th-century Japanese
screens and sculpture from tribal
Africa are among the UK Art
Mrseum’s new exhibits on display
for the first time this month.

They are being shown, along with
other new acquisitons, during the
museum’s ”Directions for a
University Art Collection" exhibit.

The show runs through Feb. 20 in
the Fine Arts Building Art Gallery
on Rose Street and features pieces
from Africa, East lndia, the Orient,

Colombia and
Ame-ica.

“We call it ‘Directions’ because,
with our recent acquisitions, we
have added diversity to our
collection," said Jacqueline Gordon,
museum registrar.

“People ask why we have so many
works from different cultures and
periods, instead of just sticking to
mode-n art," Gordon said.

“We don‘t think we’re
hodgepodge. We believe in diversity
and think a person has something to
gain if they only see one piece of
Continued on back page

19th-century

made the proposal last week
because “whatever has to be done,
has to be done now. Next fall will be
too late.”

Another publications board
member who was present at
Thursday’s meeting was Lisa
Weatherford, editor-in-chief of the
Kentucky Greek. Weatherford said
she hopes members of her staff can
eventually staff the publication
since they already have some ex-
perience.

“I think our staff would be capable
enough to run the yearbook. Most of
the backing and support for a
yearbook would come from the
Greeks and our people along with
others have the experience to staff
it,“ she said.

Green said effective organization
of the Greeks was one of her chief
reasms for making the proposal last
week.

“i would like to see everyone
around here call and say they were
willing to support a yearbook, but
the mly way we‘ll have one is if a

group comes in here and says,
We‘re willing to do the job.’ it would
be very hard to invite the whole
campus," she said.

At the meeting Thursday, the
group decided to conduct a poll of
the Greeks to find out if they were
willing to support the yearbook idea
and pay the $10 per person it would
probably cost. Zaborowski said the
poll would be conducted Wednesday
and presented to the board that
night.

Green said thatalthough the board
will consider the proposal, the topic
is still open to discussion. "No
promises have been made. No
agreements have been made. There
is no plan that says this has to be,"
she said.

Palm said he thought the proposal
was the best choice because the
Greeks had the ability to succeed
with the project. “There is
something about fraternity and
sorority people that makes them
particularly good at making
something like this work," he said.

-Olvid O'Neil

In praise of rays

Warm. sunny weather finally returned to Lexington over the
weekend. Gatewood Galbraith (left) and Lynn Brown took the
opportunity to get outside and review the action on South
Limestone street in front of Brown’s shop, chtall‘s.

 

an end. Though vandalism is the most prevalent
rural crime reported, researchers noted that all
types of crime in all of rural Ohio rose 305 per cent
from 1965 through 1974. The three-year project was
conducted by Ohio State University’s College of
Agriculture with $170,119 from the Law Enforce-
ment Assistance Administration.

nation

The United Steelworkers union and the nation's
steel producers held open talks in Washington today
with the future of the industry’s historic Experi-

mental Negotiating Agreement staked on the
outcome. The agreement bans an industrywide

strike and provides for arbitration instead.

The National Weather Service issued a flash
flood watch yesterday for West Virginia as two
large cranes banged away at ice jams on the Big
Wheeling Creek, a large Ohio River tributary at
Wheeling. The US. Army Corps of Engineers

It was nice while it lasted.
cloudiness with a chance of rain today. The rain will
change to snow tonight and end tomorrow. The high
today will be in the low to mid 40's with a low
tonight in the upper teens to low 20's. Tomorrow,
the high willbein the upper 30’s to low 40's.

raised the water level of the Ohio about two feet at
Wheeling in order to flush the ice out of the mouth of

the creek. in addition, officials were considering

using explosives to break up the ice.

Winter is back

Compiled from Associated Press
and National Weather Bureau dispatches

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For years the Supreme Court tried to find a
suitable definition of obscenity. And they failed

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terest” and “redeeming social value” and still determination of whether Hustler and Deep 1

getting nowhere, the court gave up and Throatare really obscene, buton who makes the ,i

established the community standards test determination. Obviously, a new means of ‘

allowing local communities to decide their own definition is needed if a small town community’s fail:

definitions of obscenity. morals can control what is seen or read in New mm
. York.

_La_st “leg“. that standard was the basxs “the" a Instead of trying to placate die-hard anti- 3:;
Cincmnnatiljury {09nd Larry Flynt guilty.of pornography advocates in 1973, the court should only
“gag".‘g m organized crime and p andering have stood by the First Amendment.Any and all . dead
Oblsnc:2htl¥3rf2i‘nlgn;l;?lf 2534p 3:23:13; gefizsctfigh films, publications or any art forms are ac- betra
to seven to 25 vears in jail and fining the ceptable and legal no matter how raunchy or Bring back pomp High

. . * the 'ur demonstrated that offenswethey might be to some persons. . a,
magazme $10,000, . J y This attitude is the only equitable one in trying . for 1
any . local community. can prosecute. any to establish a position on pornography. Without I > u u some
WW a .. .. Down hom ei n ess is foolish
jurisdiction. . repugnant can avoid it. But with censorship, supei

The commumty standards test was also en- . . l actre:

. . his when 12 persons those who enjoy obscene materia are _ ' . . . ‘ . form:
forced last year 1“ Memp discriminated against for no purpose. Jimmy Carter is not like us. And now that Amy IS gomg to a And the bell hops of America are - Th
anOlVed "1 the prOdUCthD 0f Deep Throat, 3 Anti -p mnographyhounds could then fight their He’s not like oneofthc b0ys,"g00d “regular” school just like all the livid. President (‘artcr has done m th"
rather unabashed X -rated film, were convrcted battles over the process of selling the materials. ol"‘ or otherwise. He's h°t like one Of gang, the DC. school board is going irreparable damage to their busi— no iii
0“ crimmal conspiracy charges. A minimum age (say, 14) could be established the girls, or one Of anything for that crazy trying to find desks big enough ness by insisting on carrying his own 223p,

The two cases show the vulnerability of the for the right to purchase and regulations could be mitten . C t . 'll' . f” the secret serv'ce agents Who baggoge NOW: ,m‘?” and, ”‘0”? To:
Supreme Court‘s latest test. Theoretically, the adopted to ensure that allegedly obscene “$223: ”gig“? N? mitionagre' accompany her t.°her regular SChOOI Amemansargmmsnngm(1.0”?ng show
' . i ' ' . ' 1d allow citizens materialisn‘to enl displayed to those who wish .. 1‘ Dina.“ 0w ”"5“" “‘5." an “is“? "we???" same Th" Tim” .‘mi'ke 0' “p“ '5 ——
tomn “mt" standards test wou . . p y you pronounce Italian, this spells old creep dips her pig-tails in the ink reportedly disgusting.
in Pour Pebbles, Wyoming to prosecute a New to avord it. . different. well). The forthcoming congressional
York erotic film producer who sold his film to the . But, to condemna manto a quarter-century in But the President's problem is And in keeping with Carters’ and federal employe pay hikes are
operator of the Four Pebbles town drive-in. jail for publishing dirty pictures is more obscene that he wants to be President wishes that she have a normal not going to set well with “the

Thus the door is open for the most stringent than anythingHustler ever printed. without being President. He wants schooling ina normal school, Amy‘s people". It seems the Washington Harri:

the circumstance without the pomp. teacher gave hera normaldog. set is having trouble making ends SUPPO

WhiCh is confusing the grits OUt 0t President Carter and Jeff and meet on $40.t)00~$60,000 a year. The set Cl

I some Oi us good 0" boys and girls. ChipBoy can try all they want but reported raises are actually higher furnit

h Ga dner Traditionally the presidency has they’ll never convince “the people” than the annual salaries of a great house]

n me Ing- O n r . .. been an awesome institution, second that they' ‘are just one of “the many Americans and p
' " ”' ‘ ' ' '" ‘ ‘ ' - ' l ' ‘7 ' h M ' " ’ people" becaifsé'u'nlike' ”the pee (.li'arited,”tli'e“pay raises were the SPGCiE
pie."theCarter’sdon‘thaveto: doing of the Ford administration, Har

ByRAYDICKlNSON look up a moment later, however, Gardner would be interested in —repatch patched jeans; but the present administration has costur

the two of them have come to a halt that?” —-buy toilet paper on sale; made no effort to thwart the idea. shepu

They come in the back door, faces right before the desk and the shadow “Let’s see it.” -- clip super savers; This makes the man who insists on stage.
mi from the cold. and you can see starts talking: “This is John Gard- [go get the appointment calendar borbgro —~remove three layers of price carrying his own suit bags look like at its
r‘ ‘lll off that they aren't customers. nerandhe needsanaddress book.“ which happens to be an antique stickers fromabox ofCheerios; Scrooge. The
l ‘rc just passing through. “You need an address book for appointment calender full of pic— hOUlS -—fearApri115th; Trulhfully. how President (‘arter quiet];
l l in the lot out back and John Gardner:"Isay. tures of antiques and 1 bring it back —pump their own Bi-Lo gas; chooses to live his life, is his stage,
‘ ‘19, through the Shop to Main “This is John Gardner," the t0 the desk and hand it t0 John . ' —get-ridoftheFuller Brush man; business. However. it becomes our Dickir
street. . shadow says. Gardner. . . in fear and veneration to God and —wait three months to see the busmess when he carries his “just welc01
They'recommg along too fast. for “00k overa, John Gardner and he “It‘s a little big.” John Gardner Daddy. Now Jimmy Carter wants to dentist; like ya‘ll" act to the point of —
one thing. Not taking time to 100k looks at me andatiny lightening bolt says. “l need something that Will lit change things. —use a vacation day to have the foolishness. His walk through the

flashes between us (as is often the in my pocket.” ‘ ‘ . He wants to get down to the car serviced; streets of Washington after the
case when geniuses meet) and we He tries'to PM It In his pocket. The people—rub shoulders with just us —-worry when the john overflows; inauguration was foolhardy and

commentary shake hands. calendar is about twice the Size 0f folks and all that. —catch the bargain matinees; dangerous.
“Nice to meet y ou," I say. “I’ve any of John Gardner S pockets and He evidenced this in his campaign —dealwith the phone company; ‘ His behavior made. a mockery of

... ‘ . .. .. . , read several of your books. I‘m Ray in about .30 seconds he gives up and by bombarding us With ads showmg ~lose pay for oversleepmg; the seriousness of the office. and of
01o! on) Oi the hoolis- They dont Dickinson ,. shakes his head. him wading through rows of peanut —explain to the landlord why he thetrustthc American public placed
look like readers anyway. One of ' “it’s on sale," I say. “Only 49 plants. Inone, he actually bent down can’tcashyourcheckjustyet; on him by electing him their _'

lhen‘r is owing blili‘ jeans and 8 There is a moment of silence. I cents. Marked down from $4.95." and rubbed his hands through the —squeeze tea bags; president. He got to the people. all
nine lean Jacket and no sccms to be keep expecting John Gardner to “I'll take it,"John Gardner says. dirt. —drink Slo Gin; right, and he‘s luckv "the people“
around 40 or so but he has this wild '

say: “Oh, yes. Ray Dickinson. I‘ve

“No, John." the shadow says.

A recent Saturday morning cabi—

——save the outside lettuce leaves;

, , . , _ didn't get to him—people like Sirhan
stockolsir«frlcr-lcnglh‘l‘hltehalr- read the stories you do for the “That’s not what you want. It’s too net meeting saw him in casual —~steam-offunfrankedstamps; SirhanandJamcsEarlllay.
“‘9 0th“ fellow ‘5 ”m” a little Kernel" bUt he doesn't say a thing. big." slacks and no tie. Next we were ——divide the luncheon bill three

taller ora little shorter than the first

President Carter is a very rich.

_ JUSt nods his head a few times, He takes the calendar away from treated to his Roosevelt imitation in ways; very powerful'man. So what'.’ 1 say,
and he has ”fl" ’1 h?" and eyes and shuffles his feet, then slips and John Gardner and hands it back to a recently televised fireside conver- —fly tourist; bring on the tinsel and glitz! Before
ClOtheS and he might as well be almost falls down. me. sation. (His Truman impression was —lose luggage. we 0.D. on “downhomeiness,” live it

wearing book jackets he blends in so
well. Can't compete with all that
white hair so he just doesn‘t try. He
might as well be a shadow.

Farmers. i say to myself and
return to the matter at hand. When I

The shadow clears his throat. “Do
you have any address books?" he
says.

“l‘m afraid not," I say. “The
closest I can come is an appointment
calender. Do you suppose Mr.

They turn and start to leave and
pass by the Kentucky books‘ section.
They walk by a display of Jessie
Stuart books.

“Jessie Stuart," John Gardner
says.

 

Vandals

I am writing this letter to protest
against the "Vandals". who in the
past month. have sought to destroy
the phones that are equipped for the
hearing impaired. Two of the phones
which were vandalized are located
in the Classroom Building and in the
M. 1. Library.

As a person who has a hearing
impairment. I rely on these phones
to help me hear and understand the
other party. even hear above the
noise in the hallways during class
changes.

1 was involved in giving the
Director of Handicapped Student
Services the idea of setting up some
placts for these special phones (one
located in the Student Center. two
located in Alumni Gym. one located
in the (‘lassroom Building).

Unfortunately. I feel that our

purpose is being defeated in helping
the hearing impaired to be better
able to communicate in a world that
is already silent, at least to some
degree or totally.

Therefore. I make an appeal to
those. who or whomever, vandalized
the phones, to please show some
consideration to those of us who
can‘t hear as well as you.

If anyone has information about
this vandalism. please contact the
Director of Handicapped Student
Services at 258-2751. or the campus
police.

Hattie Smith
l..'l‘.l. Nursing

Kentuckian

The Feb. 9 Kernel article on the
current status of the Kentuckian
traced thehistory of that publication

since 1970. The article referred to
the controvasial 1970 yearbook as
the “Black Book" and included the
following statement: “After the
Black Book, the administration
withdrew the senior fees and the
Kentuckian was forced to generate
its own subscriptions. although it
did and still receives $11,000 an-
nually from the University."

The causeeffect relationship was
actually more complex than was
implied in that statement. and I wish
simply to point to two important
additional factors in the dec'sion to
abolidi the senior fee.

First. in February of 1971 Student
Government recommended that the
mandatory senior fee be abolished
and that the purchase of yearbooks
by seniors be made optional. Second.
in the spring of 1971 a survey of
student (pinion, conducted by the
Board of Student Publications,

Letters

better.)

Rosalyn chose. for sentimental
reasons she said, to wear a four-
year—old gown to the inauguration. l
was dying'to see her in a backless
Halston.

The list is inexhaustible.

Maybe we could believe. his' earth-
iness if he just wouldn‘t shout about
it. I suppose it's the thought that
counts, but by the time it reaches
the public. it’s hard to digest.

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Barbara llouts is a (‘ommunications
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revealed that over 80 per cent of the
studentbodyopposcd the mandatory
senior fee as a means of funding the
Kcntuckian.

Those two reflections of student
opinion were major factors in the
administration‘s recommendation
and the Board of Trustees’ decision
to eliminate the mandatory senior
fee in August of 1971.

Robert (E. Zumwinkle
Vice President for Student Affairs

Violence

In regard to captial punishment, I
tend to agree with William Sheehan,
president of CBS News, who said he
could understand the position of
those who say that if society insists
on capital punishment, it should be
prepared to watch it on national
television.

lf executions were to be televised,
the networksshould bear in mind the
words of policeman-author Joseph
Wambaugh, who complained not
about violence on television. but
rather that it was “sanitized
violence." cleaned up for home
consumption.

So that if executions are “laun-
dered“ for television, reduced of
clarity and forcefulness, the
moralisitc and realisitc overtones
will becomes irrelevant.

Most probably the end result of
televised violence in general is
meaninglessness. instead of
creating a generation of push-button
cutthroas. we’re more likely. by
virture of the ”sanitization" of
violence (stripping it of its force-
fulness and often barbaric nature).
conditioning them to unreality.

Even if it could be proven that

television generates violence in the
young. or anyone for that matter, it
would more probably be because
television has denuded violence of
it's true fomi and caused people to
imitate it as an overtly acceptable
facet of social conduct. The
imitation would be a fiction with the
critics as mirror.

In closing, how many of those who
rant against televised violence
supported the execution of Gary
Gilmore? l’sing their logic. only two
options are available as regards
televising an execution. 1) don't
televise it; 2) use an “edited for
television" tape.

Or. in other words. as long as it's
possible to have a filtered reality,
executions are as American as
cherry pie.

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Julie Harris brings Dickinson to life I

By THOMAS CLARK
Assistant Arts Editor

This past weekend a
famous American poetess
v'sited the Lexington Opera
House. Actually Emily
Dickinson didn‘t come, but
only the fact that she’s been
dead nearly 100 years
betrayed her imposter, Julie
Harris.

Harris has been in theatre
for nearly 30 years, but
somehow the big role that
would distingu'sh her as a
superstar has eluded the
actress. However, her per-
formance last Thursday night
in The Belle of Amherst was
nothing short of superb and
qualifies her for the title of
“superstar.”

To saythat Belle is a simple
show is an understatement.

 

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Harris is the star, co—star and
supporting castall in one. The
set consists of 12 pieces of
furniture and various
household items like teapots
and pictures and Dickinson‘s
special “Black Cake.“

Harris has exactly one
costume clange, the dress
she puts on before she goes on
stage. The play is simplicity
at its finest.

The play opens with Harris
quietly rolling a tea cart on
stage, and from line one she is
Dickinson. Fhe audience is
welcomed as a vistor to the

Homestead. Dickinson’s life-
long home, with the poet’s
recipe for Black Cake (in
proportions large enough to
feed the Seventh Infantry
Division) serving as an in-
trodudim.

From there to the end of the
play, the audience is treated
to Dickinson‘s life through
her conversations, memoirs
and poetry. A perpetual
recluse, she lived her entire
life at Homestead in
Amherst, Mass, rarely
venturing out into the world.

Harris, as the only
character on stage, must tell
the whole story on stage—
even portions that would
normally be handled by
another character. It takes a

special person to be able t0‘

communicate a two-person
conversation when the other
person isn‘t on stage. Harris
is that sort of actress.

Throughout the play,
Harris weaves a portrait of
Dickinson using memories
and the present. These
transitions move easily with
the audience barely aware
that they have suddenly been
transported to another time.

Occasionally Harris starts
to slip from her role, allowing
one’s attention to wander. But
she‘s apparently aware of
what she‘s doing. for she
immediately strikes out with
a new boldness in her voice
and character even more
engrossing.

Despite slight hoarseness,
Harris’ voice spread

throughout the Opera House,
filling it with the imagination
Dickirson lovers have grown
to love and respect.

The most memorable
characterization is that of
Emily’s father. Through her
loving descriptions of the
dogmatic, yet soft-hearted
ruler if her childhood home,
we can almost see him
moving and speaking on
stage, encouraging Emily in
her poetry and extending a
soft hand to a distressed
young lady.

Technically, Belle was
beautiful. Divided between
the living room and Emily’s
bedroom of The Homestead,
the stage was set with warm
Victorian furniture. Nothing
fancy, but functionally
beautiful.

The highlight of the
evening. besides Harris, was
the lighting. Designed by
Tony award-winner H. R.
Poindexter, the stage was
bathed in soft reds and
yellows, creating an image of
good times and loving
memories.

Behind the stage backdrop
was a silk—screened silhouette
of tree branches that lent
beautifully to the atmosphere
of the evening.

As drama goes, Belle is
truly unique. Julie Harris
gave Lexington theatre
patrons a treat to be
remembered for many years
after lesser productions have
come and gone.

 

 

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