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Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, September 24,1984
Chinese troupe
amuses crowd
with acrobatics
Two boats helpless
all night in Galveston
United Press International
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
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were amazed and amused Sunday
night by a performance of the
Chinese Magic Revue of Taiwan.
The program, sponsored by the
MSC Basement Committee, was pre
sented in Rudder Auditorium.
Although the program took place
on one stage instead of in three
rings, the Revue was similar to
American circuses. Magicians, juggl
ers, clowns, acrobats and martial arts
experts clothed in lavish costumes
performed routines to the tempo of
oriental music.
The highlight of the show was the
“tower of chairs,” a stunt performed
by troupe member Hai Ken Tsai.
Hai placed four champagne bottles
on a table, then stacked a total of six
chairs atop the bottles, climbing the
chairs as he stacked them. From the
top of the stack, Hai performed a se
ries of balancing stunts, including a
one-handed vertical handstand.
A tier of bud vases, wine glasses
and champagne glasses on a table,
topped with a plexiglass sheet, pro
vided a 6-foot tall stage for the small
est member of the troupe. The
young acrobat performed a series of
back bends and contortions atop the
2-foot square platform.
In addition to the acrobatic stunts,
troupe members dove through
hoops of Fire and knives, performed
bicycle stunts and demonstrated
Kung Fu techniques and magic
tricks.
Several skits in the program pro
vided comic relief. In one skit, a gi
ant Pekingese dog— manned by two
troupe members — chased a per
former off the stage. After rolling
over, licking its paws and scratching
at fleas, the big Pekingese was joined
by two Pekingese puppies — each
manned by one performer. The big
Pekingese cavorted through the au
dience, then rejoined the puppies to
complete a series of stunts, such as
walking across a seesaw on top of
two large balls.
The entire troupe joined in a
grand Finale, which included an 11-
person pyramid on the floor, a 9-
person pyramid on a bike,and a hu
man wall composed of 13 perform
ers.
The troupe — which includes 20
members from two families — is di
rected by Hai Ken Ksi and Kai Ken
Hsi. The group is on its ninth' tour of
the United States.
GALVESTON — The skipper of
a boat who tried to help a pleasure
craft that ran aground on a sand bar
found himself beached early Sunday
and had to wait for a Coast Guard
helicopter to rescue his crew.
The crews of both boats spent the
night on the larger vessel, a 38-foot
pleasure craft owned by John Har-
gan of Katy. All six people were air
lifted from the sand bar, just outside
the Galveston ship channel, Sunday
morning, said Coast Guard spokes
man Michael Spencer.
“One ran aground late yesterday
evening, about 7:30 Saturday. The
other was coming by at about one
o’clock this morning and, in turn,
ran aground,” Spencer said.
Hargan said no one was injured,
but it was a difficult night at sea.
The Coast Guard identified i
owner of the smaller boatasUoir
Hemphil of Houston.
Hargan described the
his $110,000 boat, the Nita,
was sitting on its side in 3 feet oh,
ter, as “quite extensive.” Hesaidtl*
propeller shaft broke loose, andik
boat was taking on quite a bit of m
ter.
Spencer said the Coast Guards®
two boats to the scene to try to
the boats off the sand bar.
“Even the Coast Guard practical
got swamped,” Hargan said of
earlier rescue attempts. “They cat;
in a 15-foot boat, and it wasalltb
could do to get out themselves.”
Spencer said the Coast Cuaii
pushed forward its rescue operate
because at one time both boatsk
water in them.
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Prairie View A&M President
Percy Pierre has been invited to
the White House today to partici
pate in a conference designed to
help historically black colleges be
come more effective in raising
funds from the private sector and
in competing for federal grants.
The conference is part of Na
tional Historically Black College
Week which began Sunday and
commemorates the third anniver
sary of President Ronald Rea
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der intended to help colleges and
universities with predominately
black enrollments in fund-raising
and related endeavors.
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