Page 4 University Daily Kansan Monday, Jan. 8, 1962
BEARING GIFTS—The third annual Christmas book drive of the William Allen White School of Journalism for Watkins Memorial Hospital collected more than 200 paperback and hardback volumes from students, staff and faculty members of the school. Emissaries of the school,
Charles Martinache (left), Pittsburg senior, and Walt Blackledge (right), Lawrence graduate student, made a presentation of the books during the Christmas vacation. Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, hospital administrator, and Mrs. Donna Stene, director of nursing, accepted the books.
Vera Zorina Will Be in 'Joan of Arc'
A summer job has given KU a major star for one of its theater productions.
Vera Zorina, dancer and actress, will play the title role in Claudel and Honeygreg's "Joan of Arc at the Stake," to be presented in University Theatre at 8 p.m. Jan. 15-17. Her appearance was made possible by Robert Bausian, associate professor of orchestra, who conducts the Santa Fe Opera Company in its summer season.
Miss Zorina appeared with the Santa Fe company last summer in its production of Igor Stravinsky's "Persephone," conducted by the composer. Later in the fall the company went to Berlin and Belgrade for performances of "Persephone" and "The Ballad of Baby Doe," which Prof. Baustian directed. At the conclusion of the tour, Prof. Baustian asked Miss Zorina if she would play Joan in the KU production.
Miss Zorina created the part of Joan in the cantata's first American performance with the New York Philharmonic and Charles Munch after Artur Rodzinski had heard and seen her as Ariel in Margaret Webster's production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Miss Zorina began her career at age 10 in Max Reinhardt's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and came to the United States to appear in Samuel Goldwyn's "The Goldwyn Follies" after a stint with the Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe.
Since her creation of the Honegger part, Miss Zorina has added to her repertoire of dance-narration Debussy's "The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian," Lukas Foss's "Parable of Death," commissioned for her by the Louisville Symphony; William Walton's "Facade" and Darius Milhaud's "Les Cheephores," which she performed in October with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
Of her performance in "Persephone" with the Santa Fe Opera last summer, Walter Terry, dance critic of the New York Herald Tribune, said:
"The event was unforgettable... Miss Zorina not only spoke in a marvelously lifting and almost forgotten style of poetic declaration but also, as a dancer, her actions were exquisitely realized... I don't mind admitting I wept along with others in the audience. For here, in truth, was one of the great performances of our day."
The Claudel-Honegger score employs some vivid and imaginative techniques. Joan's trial is recreated with masked animals playing the leading roles in a carnival atmosphere and the Hundred Years War is danced as a game of cards. The unification of France is represented as two giants reuniting as the bread and wine of France in a boisterous frolic. Joan's voices are depicted as glittering Medieval images helping her to understand her life's purpose.
Brooking, associate professor of speech and drama. Prof. Baustian and Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of choral music, are the orchestra and choral directors. Students may obtain tickets with ID cards.
The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.—Tryon Edwards
The production is directed by Jack
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.—Leonardo da Vinci
Teacher to Actor
Alexander Mackenzie, who retired from Scotland's classrooms at the age of 61, reaches movie stardom in Walt Disney's "Greyfriar's Bobby." He appeared in his first picture a year ago with the late Paul Douglas.
HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) — A 75-year-old retired school teacher has been making an entirely new career as an actor.
Not For Pay
LUFKIN, Tex — (UPI) — Rev. J. A. Dias, who preached 43 years in 14 different Baptist churches in East Texas, boasted on his 93rd birthday that he never was paid for a single sermon.
"I wasn't a preacher to make a living. I was a preacher to serve God," said the man who farmed in his spare time to support his family.
On Campus with Max Shulman
(Author of “Rally Round The Flag, Boys”, “The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis”, etc.)
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RING IN THE NEW
Are you still writing "1961" on your papers and letters? I'll bet you are, you scamme! But I am not one to be harsh with those who forget we are in a new year, for I myself have long been guilty of the same lapse. In fact, in my senior year at college, I wrote 1873 on my papers until nearly November of 1874! (It turned out, incidentally, not to be such a serious error because, as we all know, 1874 was later repealed by President Chester A. Arthur in a fit of pique over the Black Tom Explosion. And, as we all know, Mr. Arthur later came to regret his hasty action. Who does not recall that famous meeting between Mr. Arthur and Louis Napoleon when Mr. Arthur said, "Lou, I wish I hadn't of repealed 1874." Whereupon the French emperor made his immortal rejoinder, "Tipi que nous et tyler tu." Well sir, they had many a good laugh about that, as you can imagine.)
But I digress. How can we remember to write 1962 on our papers and letters? Well sir, the best way is to find something memorable about 1962, something unique to fix it firmly in your mind. Happily, this is very simple because, as we all know, 1962 is the first year in history that is divisible by 2, by 4, and by 7. Take a pencil and try it: 1962 divided by 2 is 981; 1962 divided by 4 is 490-1/2; 1962 divided by 7 is 280-2/7. This mathematical curiosity will not occur again until the year 2079, but we will all be so busy then celebrating the Chester A. Arthur
bi-centenary that we will scarcely have time to be writing papers and letters and like that.
Another clever little trick to fix the year 1962 in your mind is to remember that 1962 spelled backwards is 2691. "Year" spelled backwards is "mey." "Marlboro" spelled backwards is "orobram." Marlboro smoked backwards is no fun at all. Kindly do not light the filter. What you do is put the filter end in your lips, then light the tobacco end, then draw, and then find out what pleasure, what joy, what rapture serene it is to smoke the filter cigarette with the unfiltered taste. In 1962, as in once and future years, you'll get a lot to like in a Marlboro—available in soft pack and flip-top box in all 50 states and Duluth.
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Mr. Arthur, incidentally, is not the first ex-president to come out of retirement and run for the House of Representatives. John Quiney Adams was the first. Mr. Adams also holds another distinction: he was the first son of a president ever to serve as president. It is true that Martin Van Buren's son, Walter "Blinky" Van Buren, was at one time offered the nomination for the presidency, but he, alas, had already accepted a bid to become Mad Ludwig of Bavaria. James K. Polk's son, on the other hand, became Salmon P. Chase. Millard Fillmore's son went into air conditioning. This later was known as the Missouri Compromise.
© 1962 Max Shulman
But I digress. We were speaking of the memorable aspects of 1962 and high among them, of course, is the fact that in 1962 the entire House of Representatives stands for election. There will, no doubt, be many lively and interesting contests, but none. I'll wager, quite so lively and interesting as the one in my own district where the leading candidate is none other than Chester A. Arthur!
In Missouri, or anywhere else, there is no compromise with quality in Marlboro or the new unfiltered king-size Philip Morris Commander. The Commander does something new in cigarette making—gently vacuum cleans the tobacco for flavor and mildness. Get aboard! You'll be welcome.