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Friends, bicsrsphcrs end critics have called author
Ernest Hemingway "Papa."
And, the author's sons called him Tapa."
Now readers and Hemingway enthusiasts have a chance
to really find out why these people called him "Papa."
i'cpa: A Persons! Memoir provides insight into what
Hemingway the father was, as compared to Hemingway
the author.
Greg Hemingway, Ernest's second son by his second of
four wives, does not spare emotion in the writing of this
interesting, informative autobiography.
Although Greg is a doctor-evident from his writing
and style-the moments from his life recounted in Papa
are invaluable.
Few people grow up with such celebrities as Gary
Cooper ("unbelievably handsome, gentle, courteous and
innately noble,"). Ingrid Bergman ("Some women are
noted for producing a state of temporary insanity in their
admirers, but with Miss Bergman the insanity was perman
ent.") and Clark Gable.
Greg writes of times, never dull, with his father in
Cuba , Sun Valley and on the high seas.
Different life
This book brings a different life to Hemingway, one of
father. It shows the compassion and love Hemingway
displayed to his sen. And, It also shows the admiration,
respect and love a son had for his father,
Grei never lived with his father on a permanent basis
after bis parents were divorced in 1940, but he did spend
summers with the Nobel Prize winning author.
It was on these occasions Greg eventually fell in love
with all of his father's wives. These touching accounts add
greatly to the story.
Greg shows bitterness towards his father s critics, al
though he often thought of his father critically.
lie writes: "In Ms youth, my father was not a bully, a
sick bore, or a professional celebrity. In later life, in
drunken revels with sycophants, revels which merely
anaesthetized the pain which h3d accompanied the loss of
his talent, the man I had known would never have left a
record that provided a permanent feast of f a carcass the
literary vultures thought they had already picked clean."
Days with father
Greg would spend many days swimming, fishing, sport
ing and shooting with his famous father. And, Greg often
puts some of the blame of his father's death on his own
shoulders.
As for hunting and the infamous Hemingway death
wish, Greg writes: "Papa didn't deliver any pious lectures
about giving them the "gift of death" or any of that crap
he talked in later years when he was sick and tired and
death may have appeared to be a gift. The only thing I
remembered was his advice when we picked up a wounded
duck: "Wring its neck quickly so it won't suffer. "
Greg also gives Hemingway's impressions of contem
porary artists, along with his declining physical and
mental health. .
Papa is a short book, but big on character-Hemingway's
character.
Greg puts life into the Hemingway hero, life that can
be read in one sitting, and a reader probably will want to
do it in that sitting. -
'Cabaret 'Matchmaker' on NU Repertory Theatre agenda
By Charlie Kris
A summer of entertainment is planned by the Nebraska
Repertory Theatre for the 77 season. The bill includes
the usual four plays with the addition of a new genre, a
children's theatre production.
Three of the four main productions will be presented
on Howell Theatre's stage. The fourth will be performed
in the Studio Theatre. The main stage productions are the
musical Cabaret, the serious drama, The Night of the
Iguana, and the comedy, The Matchmaker.
Seascape, the latest play be Edward Albee, will be done
in the Studio and will be directed by UNL theatre Prof.
William Morgan.
Morgan said Seascape is one of Albee's "rose" plays
because it shows a brightness in humanity's future and a
promise in evolution.
"The play says we have to keep trying to assist in the
process of evolution, to move forward,1 Morgan said.
"The next big step is not here. We don't know where itH
be, but we're hoping it wfl be. That something new will
take place."
Rex McGraw, chairman of the UNL theatre dept. wi3
direct Cabaret. This show originally begin as a series of
short stories, became a play, then a musical and finally
evolved into the movie-musical version.
McGraw said each step in the development of the play
caused Some changes in the original story and meaning,
but he wants to capture the garishly theatrical and
decadent feeling of the first stories and play.
Tennessee William's The Night of the Iguana will be
directed by UNL theatre dept. assistant Prof. Bill Kirk.
Humor, poetry and passion color the forceful characters
in this play which is set against the backdrop of a
steaming Mexican summer, Kirk said.
The guest director for the summer will be Dennis
Dalen, professor of theatre at the University of Ohio at
Athens. He wO direct The Matchmaker, the comedy
basis for the musical hit HeUo, DoMy! Besides his directing
duties, Dslen wl also play the role of the grandfather in
The Nht of the Iguana.
Doug Anderson, a UNL theatre arts graduate student,
is writer and creator of the children's theatre piece,
Dumberton, Hoppfcg end SmckervUIe. McGraw will direct
this show. He said the play would be available for per
formances in and within a one-hundred mile radius of
Lincoln.
Another special part of this summer's series of plays
will be the hiring of two professional actors, McGraw said.
Patricia Ryan, an acting instructor at Perm Stateand
Maurice Erickson, a member of the Virginia Museum
Theatre in Richmond, Va., will play major roles in the
four main stage productions, McGraw said.
The season starts June 24 and runs through August
20. Season memberships for $16 are now on sale at the
Temple Theatre box office. Individual tickets are $4.50.
Midwest Speedway is king of road entertainment
By Jim WiEisrras
- Simply as entertainment, Midwest
Speedway has one big thing going for it
it's different.
On those summer Sunday evenings
when re-runs rule the television, the movies
are stale and the city's bars closed, Midwest
provides dose-fought competition for late
model and hobby stock auto racers and the
tab is reasonable.
Midwest at 4600 N. 27th St., runs races
almost every Sunday at 7 p jn. Three
dollars with your student ID gets you in,
$4 without.
YouH want to bring friends, and youll
want to bring a toweL The one-third mile
oval track is surfaced with clay, watered
to eliminate dust, but the bleachers still get
dirty. The friends are to argue with and to
hold your seat when you head for the con
cession stand (a big cup of Coke and
decent hot dog cost 90 cents) or the rest
room (not immaculate, but you won't
get any loathsome diseases).
The arguing is important because grass
roots auto racing is conflict, and these
who have the most fun are partisans. The
way to have fun is to pick a favorite
whether by performance in the prelim
inary races, the color of his car or the fact
that his crew wears "Take a Marijuana
Break T-shirts. Then folbw his fortunes
with insane loyalty. Nobody will mind.
Everyone else does the same thing.
You should know that being a late
model stock car driver is about Lke being
an AA shortstop-it takes more
abHIly than most peopk have, but it's
cot quite up there. r
It doesn't matter, though. The racers
sliding around out there in their vague
parodies cr ordinary street automobiles
badly want to win and they run just as
hard for the $500 first prize as Richard
Petty runs for thousands.
The heat races, short sprints that
winnow the ineffectual from the comers
wholl make it into the 40-lap feature, are
tense. Drivers slide the clumsy stockers
sideways around the slick, wet-clay turns
like drunks on ice. It doesn't have the var
iety of road racing, and unless you're root
ing for somebody in particular it can get
monotonous, but it's very competitive and
very close. It abo uses less fuel than send
ing the Big Red to one away game.
Sometimes it's too close, and somebody
gets tapped. Frankly, if you're. the sort of
vampire who wants to see blood, the fans
who turn up at Midwest to cheer their
favorites would just as soon you stay home
and watch "Creature Feature." Getter you
should anyway, because this kind of racing
is surprisingly safe.
During last week's late-model feature, I
saw a racer stuff his Camaro head-first
into the east guard rail The race was
stopped; emergency trucks climbed up to
the scene. There was a long, long interval,
and people in the pits began to mutter
"Hell, nothin could have happened, he's"
got a good safety cage. Unless his harness
broke or something . . .
Then a push truck rolled the Camaro
until its engine started, and the driver
resumed the race. The car's huge, bridge
Like steel roll cage had absorbed the impact
without damage.
4 "He couldn't have got hurt at that
speed," a pit watcher said"Sure as hell
hurt his prMe, though."
The other watchers nodded, ducked the
htge clods of damp clay that bomb the pits
when a car gets too high on a turn, and
laughed. It's a good time.
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