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Dance Arts Society
announces its
Spring Concert
Friday, April 24, 1987
8:00 pm
Rudder Theatre
Admission $3.00
tickets available at MSC box office
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KATHY ANDREWS, LISA RYAN
Formerly of PARK AVENUE
are now with the New Salon
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Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, April 23, 1987
Adults perform plays that hook
children’s interest, ’maginations
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Parents, youngsters alike entertained by "Animal Tales"
By Mark Gee
Reporter
“Fish in the sea, come listen to me.
My wife begs a wish from the magic
fish,” the fisherman says.
The fisherman casts his imaginary
hook to the children gathered in
front of the stage and catches more
than a magic fish — he also reels in
the children’s attention.
The fisherman is Dennis Busch,
assistant manager of the Texas A&M
University Center Complex. Busch
is one of five actors in “Animal Ta
les,” a 45-minute production of eight
short plays written and directed by
David and Judy Williams for ’mag-
ination Station.
’magination Station is a non-profit
children’s theater that features
adults performing plays aimed at
children in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area.
’magination Station gave its first
performance of “Animal Tales” Sat
urday at the former Gallenkamp
Shoe Store in Manor East Mall. Cul
pepper Properties gave the chil
dren’s theater group temporary use
of the mall space.
“Animal Tales” will be performed
again at the mall at 10 a.m., noon
and 2 p.m. on Saturday and on May
2.
The magic fish, played by Pam
Wiley, a skin-care teacher for Mary
Kay Cosmetics, makes a big entrance
as she plops onto a beanbag on stage,
blowing soap bubbles through a ring
and fanning them with her tail.
The bubbles makes Heather
Wichkoski, 3, get up from her moth
er’s lap and laugh as she chews pink
bubblegum.
The young audience’s experience
of being in the fisherman’s world is
enhanced by the dyed blankets
draped behind the stage and along
the walls.
“What do you want?” the magic
fish asks.
“My wife wants a house like Miss
Ellie and J.R.’s,” the fisherman says.
“You mean Southfork,” the magic
fish says.
The children gathered in front of
the stage laugh along with their par-
was greedy and she got nothing.”
Heather, dressed in pink sandals,
purple shorts and a polka-dot shirt,
wrinkles her brow and nods in
agreement with her mother.
The Williamses use lessons, such
as the downfall of greedy people, as
the basis of their plays in “Animal
Tales.”
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the improvisation of folk tales, fairy-
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ents, who are seated behind them in
folding chairs.
“OK, but, if you ask for too much,
I’ll take everything that I’ve given
you away,” the magic fish says.
“Gosh, thanks, fish,” the fisher
man says.
The Fisherman skips home to the
“Dallas” theme song to find his wife,
who is played by Carol Slough, a cus
tomer-service manager at Lamar
Savings.
“This is nice,” says his wife, with
intensity in her eyes. “But why settle
for big when you can have bigger? I
want to live like Ron and Nancy. Go
back to the magic fish and ask for
the White House!” the wife de
mands.
The magic fish gives the fisher
man the White House, but his wife
still is not satisfied. She asks for “eve
rything” and the magic fish takes all
the gifts away.
Heather Wichkoski’s mother leans
over and tells her, “Now see, the wife
tales and fables,” David says.
“The basic idea I was trying to get
across was, ‘Don’t ask for so much,
Emily.’ ” David was referring to his
4-year-old daughter. He got the idea
for “The Magic Fish” from a nursery
book he bought for her.
David ana Judy met at the Alley
Theater in Houston in 1980. David
was acting and Judy was a stage
manager.
David is a graphic designer for
Educational Information Services at
A&M. Judy takes care of their chil
dren, Emily and Luke. Both David
and Judy have bachelor of arts de
grees in theater arts.
The Williamses use contemporary
language and situations children can
understand.
In the original folk tale, the fish
erman and his wife lived in a shack,
then a castle. And finally, she asked
for the sun, stars and moon.
The couple in the Williams’ play
lived in an efficiency apartment bc-
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Sales of
U.S. milk in Mexican border towns
have slowed to a trickle and South
Texas dairymen say they could face
losses of $5 million annually be
cause of a recent ban on selling im
ported milk.
Joe Martinez, general manager
of Golden Jersey Creamery in Edi
nburg, said Rio Grande Valley dai
ries are losing $300,000 to
$400,000 each month due to a re
cent prohibition by the Mexican
government.
U.S. Embassy officials in Mexico
City claim the ban is linked to a
move last month by the Mexican
secretary of commerce to limit the
import of U.S. milk and eggs in an
attempt to spur the purchase of
Mexican dairy products, according
to a report in the San Antonio Ex
press-News.
Milk from the United States may
“We have had no communication
with the Mexican states or Mexico
City,” James Littlefield, assistant di
rector of the Texas Health Depart
ment’s milk and dairy products di
vision, saidt
Raymundo Rodriguez Jr., gen
eral manager of Borden Milk in La
redo, said the ban of milk sales was
costing his company between
$20,000 and $30,000 each week.
“We are not prevented from ex
porting milk across the border, but
the store owners or operators are
told not to sell U.S. milk because it
is unfit for human consumption
and, if they sell it, their stock of
milk will be confiscated,” Rodriguez
said.
“Our milk is 10,000 times
better in freshness and
quality. There is no way
you can get me to drink
milk in Mexico, but we
haven’t sold any milk
there in four weeks. ”
— Joe Martinez, general
manager of Golden Jersey
Creamery
“You would think the Mexican
officials would go through the
health departments or the FDA
(U.S. Food and Drug Administra
tion),” he said. “There is no reason
to suggest that U.S. milk quality has
been compromised.
“It is safe.”
Mexican border businessmen
called the milk ban “stupid" and
claimed the prohibition has hurt
their business.
“If the Mexican government
wants lab studies of our product, we
can do it,” he said.
Mexican Secretary of Health
Guillermo Soberon Acevedo said
the ban was initiated because milk
produced in the United States is
hazardous to the health of Mexi
cans, according to Mexican press
reports.
be imported, but not sold.
Martinez said, “Our milk is
10,000 times better in freshness
and quality. There is no way you
can get me to drink milk in Mexico,
but we haven’t sold any milk there
in four weeks.”
Texas health officials told the
newspaper they were stunned by
charges of subquality U.S. milk and
by the ban.
Mexican Chamber of Commerce
leaders along the 2,000-mile U.S.-
Mexico border have called for a
meeting Friday in Matarnoros to
protest the federal milk ban.
Nuevo Laredo Chamber of Com
merce President Enrique Bulas
said, “People who aren’t able to buy
U.S. milk in Nuevo Laredo go to
the U.S. side to buy the milk and
then end up buying their other gro
ceries there, too.
“We are losing business because
of this stupid ruling by the secre
tary of health.
“I have confidence in the U.S.
government and its health depart
ment.”
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