Antiques session focuses on lures

A Wilson Fluted Wobbler from 1912 and a Weedless Widow made in the 1920s will be among the antique wooden fishing lures on display at the “Know Your Antiques” session from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday at Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass.

Jim Wisdom, Lawrence, a former officer in the national Fishing Lure Collector’s Club, will show wooden lures made from 1912 to 1930.

Wisdom also will discuss the history of manufacturing wooden lures, display copies of numerous patents and bait advertisements, and give advice on how to avoid pitfalls in correcting.

Attendees can bring lures for show and tell or for help with identification.

The session is free, but a donation to benefit the museum is suggested.

Musical traces life of Buffalo Soldier

Kansas City, Mo. “Buffalo Soldier,” a one-hour musical based on the real-life story of Jones Morgan, will be performed by Theatre IV of Richmond, Va., at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Folly Theatre, 12th and Central.

Until his death at age 110, Morgan was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier in the nation. He ran away from his home in 1898 at the age of 15 to become a Buffalo Soldier. During the Spanish-American War, he was chosen to tend Teddy Roosevelt’s horse at the Battle of San Juan Hill. In 1992, he was honored by President George Bush in the White House. He also was flown from his home in Richmond, Va., to Fort Leavenworth to assist Gen. Colin Powell in the dedication of the Buffalo Soldier monument.

Tickets are $8 and are available at the Folly Theatre Box Office, (816) 474-4444.

Topeka fest to show classic silent films

Topeka The Kansas Silent Film Festival 2002 will be from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday in White Concert Hall at Washburn University, 17th and Jewell streets.

The festival, which will highlight 15 short and feature films, is free and open to the public.

The films include “The Kid” with Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan; “Sherlock Jr.” with Buster Keaton; “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” with Rudolph Valentino; “The Freshman” with Harold Lloyd; and “Body and Soul” with Paul Robeson.

Other stars to be featured are Laurel and Hardy, Marion Davies, Harry Langdon, D.W. Griffith and Walt Disney.

Accompaniment will be by Marvin Faulwell of Kansas City and the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra of Boulder, Colo. Denise Morrison, a film historian from Kansas City, will provide introductions to the films.

For more information, call Jim Rhodes, (785) 580-4513, or e-mail jrhodes@tscpl.lib

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‘Vagina Monologues’ to play at KU, Washburn

“The Vagina Monologues” will be presented at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Frontier Room in the Burge Union and at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Kansas Ballroom in the Kansas Union at Kansas University.

The V-Day Festival will be at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Tickets are $6. Proceeds will benefit the Lawrence Rape Victim-Survivor Services and Women’s Transitional Care Services.

The play also will be presented at 8 p.m. March 8 and 9 in the Andrew and Georgia Neese Gray Theatre at Washburn University in Topeka.

Tickets for the Topeka performance are $6, with proceeds going to the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse.

Tickets for all performances are available at the Murphy Hall Box Office, 864-3982, and at the door one hour before each show.

‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ auditions scheduled

Auditions for “Arsenic and Old Lace” will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 24-25 at Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 N.H.

The comedy-mystery, by Joseph Kesselring, is the story of two charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously “acceptable” roomers. Roles are available for 11 men and three women.

The show will be directed by Victoria Hartman, with performances scheduled April 12 through 27.

Scripts are available for checkout with a $10 deposit.

Spanish war veteran to show, talk about film

Abe Osheroff, a Spanish Civil War veteran and filmmaker, will present his award-winning film, “Art in the Struggle for Freedom,” at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art at Kansas University.

His presentation is part of the events scheduled to coincide with the “Shouts from the Wall: Posters and Photographs Brought Home from the Spanish Civil War by American Volunteers” exhibition, which runs through March 10 at the museum.

Exhibit allows viewers to make, star in a film

Kansas City, Mo. The new “Behind the Screen: Making Motion Pictures and Television” exhibit at Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Road, will offer viewers a chance to act, direct and produce scenes from movies.

The lineup includes “The Wizard of Oz,” “Babe,” “Taxi Driver” and “Ghost” and re-create sound effects from “The Mask,” “Terminator 2” and “The Nutty Professor.”

The exhibit features artifacts from the early days of television and movies dating to the 1920s.

Among the artifacts are a Chewbacca costume head from “Star Wars,” a Yoda puppet from “The Empire Strikes Back” and makeup construction for Jim Carrey in “The Mask” and Robin Williams in “Mrs. Doubtfire.”

The exhibit runs through May 12.

Admission is $9 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and $7 for children ages 4-12.

Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and noon-5 p.m. Sundays.