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MARKET SCENES... 11th and Howard Streets, looking East (top) and the interior of the Farthest Outpost (bottom).

MARKET PEOPLE... Pat Brougham (left) runs Other People cafe with his wife, while girl with flowers (right) adorns wall of Reba's.

## Old Market Attracts Young, Young at Heart

By ANITA KUSLEIKA

The Old Market (a couple of square blocks around 10th and Howard Streets) has become a thriving place for teens, though it's not located in a large business section. The name comes from the fact that the area was once primarily a fruit market, where grocers went to purchase their fruit.

Today, it is filled with shops, cafes and art galleries and has become "the" place to go.

On Friday and Saturday nights, you can sit in the Other People cafe and watch an acid rock band or a jam session while sipping hot cider, a specialty of the house.

Or, you can walk down the street to visit the Farthest

Outpost or the General Store. These shops specialize in the psychedelic — love beads, posters, incense, black lights and wild rings.

Beards, moustaches, bell bottoms and boots all seem accepted attire, and the area has a very relaxed atmosphere. You can find people meeting for the first time and going into in-depth discussions in only a few minutes.

One restaurant seems to attract the "Jet Set." Called the French Cafe, it specializes in authentic foods prepared by an authentic French chef.

The Edison Exposure Film Society shows everything from avant garde to W. C. Fields and attracts a mixture of ages. Reba's, a clothing store, ma-

jors in far-out items, gold dresses and leather garments.

The Old Market News is a center for magazines, books and conversation about today's problems, including everything from racial anxieties to politics. You can find a book by Eldridge Cleaver, the writings of Confucious or an underground newspaper from Omaha or elsewhere.

Art galleries, an antique store, a haberdasher, leather goods specialists, an import shop, a book store and boutiques now occupy other stores, and more are due in the next few months.

Basically, the Old Market is for the youth of today, the curious and enlightened.

Courtesy of the Sun Newspapers.

APR 13 1978

## 'English broken at Magic Theater

In spite of the title, "American King's English for Queens," this is the straightest (but not straight-faced) show we've ever seen at the Omaha Magic Theater.

Megan Terry's new script is her most theatrically conventional yet, but her most ideologically revolutionary. The show is also great fun.

Terry's study of semantics, set to snappy music, tells its story from beginning to end with each scene in sequence. The music is melodic, and the sets and costumes realistic and representational. The actors portray one set of characters in one time and place. Nobody cusses and nobody's in drag.

None of this is the reason the show is worthwhile, but all these things make the show an abrupt departure from many Magic Theater trademarks.

What makes the show worthwhile is

planes, men can dance. The boy retorts: "Stewardesses aren't flyers, they're just waitresses in the air."

That's fresh spice and it makes the dogma digestible. Terry's outlook is open and fair, to the point of showing how Mom helps Dad imprison her.

At the Magic Theater, the absurd is still acceptable, as shown as Mom's veal stew sings chorus while she sings lead. The sight of Schmidman in animal skins, woofing and twitching like a prairie dog, is a show in itself.

The actors, especially longtime ensemble members LaFerla and Schmidman, make the evening one for lively laughter and limber thinking.

See "American King's English for Queens" at 8:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday, April 21 and 22, and April 28 and

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-Photos by Dave Wright.

By ANITA KUSLEIKA

APR 13 1978