UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
"THE LOTTERY MAN"
PULLED THE LAUGHS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 17, 1912.
Eleventh Production of the Masque Club Well Received by Good Audience
MISS SMITH THE FEATURE
Other Stars Were "Bunny" Wilson "Pinky" Wingart—Speeches Carried Well—Show Equals "Billy"
(By Grouchy Gilihan)
Pronounced by many critics to be as successful as any play given this year by a University dramatic organization, "The Lottery Man" was staged last night before a good-sized and appreciative audience. Coming as it did after two other local dramatist co-authors, it debuted in college plays and players was at a low ebb, the Masque club's production is especially to be complimented on its appreciated reception.
The players were well fitted for their parts, and though perhaps they did not act as well as professionals, they did highly satisfactory amateur work. An improvement is especially in the emulation and players voice strength, the latter. Though not always pronounced as clearly as possible, only a few of the speeches lost themselves in passing under the proscenium.
LUCILE SMITH WAS THE BIG STAR
TUCKLE SMITH is THE BIG STAR
The big hit of the play was Lucile Smith as "Lizzie." Her coy yet simian advances toward the "Lottery Man" were side-splitting in their effect on the audience. Indeed it was an art times she could not keep her own, but bright enough "Runny Wilson" Wilson, leading man, as "Jack Wright," the不fortunate reporter, disappointed not a one of his most ardent admirers—except "Lizzie" "Jack's" protesting lines were somewhat petulant at times and he anticipated the scenes somewhat, as if he were in a hurry to get it over with but it should also be remembered that "Bump" manages the show, and his cares are manifold.
The mothers, Marguerite Ellis and Hannah Mitchell in their appearance and their interpretation of their parts were commendable. The scene in which "Jack" found his mother had pawed her trinkets to buy lottery tickets, was the most effective resource for getting bigglong college audience, was silenced for once and listened attentively to every word.
Fay Chisham, as "Helen Heyer" rendered the part of the "heroine" with a natural case that made her lovable to the reporter who "loved to work."
CUPID LAME, BUT THERE'S A REACTION Wayne Wingart made a good newspaper man, but a better actor. His interpretation of a millionaire newspaper owner was a trifle free and easy; his concern for the vanities of his mother lacked a deep sincerity which was expected, but in the main, his lines were handled effectively.
The love scenes in general were a little cold and lack enthusiasm, but were as realistic as in most University plays.
The Swede-Irish massuse, played by Elsa Barteldes, did consistent and satisfactory work in the opening scenes, later, in the scene with the Lottery Man the part called for more spirit and enthusiasm than was shown. "Hedwig's" stage presence and appearance, however, are not to be criticized.
PLAY WAS WELL CHOSEN
PLAY WAS WELL CHOSEN
As a whole the play was well received. It showed the effect of careful training, and intelligent management. It should be an example to student dramatic organizations, as was the production of "Billy" by the Thespians; an example, a warning, a hint. It ought to show that, inasmuch as college actors are not expected to be able to handle difficult or weak parts, a real live show with good lines and strong situations should be chosen for production.
Some degree of credit is due Harold Wilson for his management of the play, which was in addition to playing one of the most difficult parts in a manner, mainly commendable. Another element that no doubt
contributed to the success of the play was the dinner party for the cast given by crafty Manager Wilson in the Eldridge house just before the show.
DR. W. C. PAYNE WILL VISIT EASTERN CITIES
Dr. W. C. Payne started, Saturday evening for New York City where he will attend the "Men in Religion Conservation Congress," to be held n Carnegie Hall April 19 to 24.
Dr. Payne will be gone a month, and during his absence he will visit Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore. For some years Dr. Payne was pastor of the First Christian Church in New York and Philadelphia.
STUDENT COUNCIL ENACTS REFORMS
Make Decisions Regarding Athletic Board and Annual--ChangeStudents' Day
At a meeting of the student council last night, it was decided that the manager and editor of the annual shall be elected hereafter in the junior year. The election will be held annually, on the third Tuesday in February, and will be governed by the rules established for the present time. The election of these officers for the ensuing year, however, will be held on May 10.
It was also decided that the date of students' day should be changed to May 24 and that the date of the athletic election should be changed to Mav 16.
The athletic election was changed so that the election could be held under the new athletic constitution if it is ratified by the Board of Regents, whose next meeting will be held sometime near the first of May.
The reason for the change of students' day from May 17 to May 24, was on account of a noted speaker who will talk in chapel on that day.
WELL GET THAT SMOOTH
TALKING TIGER THIS TIM
Missouri Debate in Fraser Hall April 26—Professor Gesell Says Kansas Can Win
The annual Kansas-Missouri debate will be held in Fraser Hall, April 26. Final arrangements for judges have not been made. Unlike the Kansas-Colorado contest, there will only be two men on a team, though each side will have more time to develop its argument. The main speeches will be twenty minutes and the rebuttal speeches eight minutes.
"This plan is more conducive to intensive work," said Prof. G. A Gesell this morning. "The lack of time to really cinch an argument was one of the main objections to the debate last week."
Allen Wilber and Milton Minor will represent the University against Missouri. The debate will be the last one of the year.
ENGINEER'S TO ELECT FOR STUDENTS' DAY
Prof. Haworth to Entertain Betas.
Professor and Mrs. Frasmus Haworth will entertain the members of Beta Theta Pi and their girl friends with a dancing party at the Haworth home, where they meet his parents. Beta has never lost interest in his fraternity and gives the chapter a party every spring.
A meeting of all Engineers has been called for Thursday morning to elect a speaker for Students' Day. Important business concerning Engineer's Day will be considered.
Members of the cap and gown committee will be at the check stand tomorrow from 10 to 10:30 and from 9 to 3:30 Friday to take measurements. The prices are $2 for two weeks, C.O.D. $1.50 for one week C.O.D.
Miss Hannah Mitchell will give her gratuation recital from the department of expression, Friday, April 25. Miss Mitchell will be assisted by Mrs. Owens who will give several violin selections.
Seniors
The meeting will be held in the chapel in Marvin hall at 10 o'clock.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
PAGEAENT STARTS AT 2 P. MA
and Colleens Will Dance Before Her Highness
ALL NATIONS HONOR CHEMICALS TO LEARN THE KIRMESS QUEEN SOME FACTORY FACTS
Senoritas, Geishas, Lassies
Will Leave Royal Palace Fof The Fraser Green Where Coronation Will be Solemnized.
The pageant leaves the Queen's Palace, otherwise the gymnasium, at two o'clock. In the procession, will be all the dancers, the senior girls and a sunflower chain, the attendants to the Queen, who is Lucie Wilkinson.
The Queen's coronation will take place before all her loyal subjects in front of Fraser Hall. The attendee will be dressed in other garments and the other Kirmess dances, will follow.
A congress of all nations will assemble on the campus on Saturday, April 27, to do honor to the Queen of the Kirness, Spanish Senioritaz, Japanese Geishas, Highland Hassles in tartan plaids, flaxen-handed Hollanders and Irish Colleagues. Her Majesty, on the grassy slopes and in the shady groves of the campus.
The spectators will move from place to place on the campus where the dances will be given.
PROGRAM FOR THE KINMESS, APRIL 27
Pagedant leaves Gym at two o'clock.
Coronation of Queen in front of Fraser hall, 230.
There will be class and solo舞,
and between the dances, folk songs,
and between the dances, folk songs.
Gladys Elliott's classes, west o Green Hall.
Faser hall, 2:30. Dance of attendants.
Tyrolienne Dance, freshmen.
Solo Dance, "La Tiera." Gladys Elliott.
Saltateria, freshmen and sophomores.
Rose Abbott's classes, eat of Green
Hawk.
*Tyrilienne Dance*, freshmen.
Sing, "Carmena," by Maribel Hamilton.
High Flinging, freshmen.
Song, "My Ain Folk," by Beatrice Dale.
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Wooden Shoes Dance, sophomores Classes under Miss Helen Thomas, of Kansas City, in front of Physics building Japanese Dance, juniors
Japanese Dance, juniors.
"Japanese Song," by Edith Bideau
Polish Dance, seniors.
Nell Martindale's classes in Medi Grove.
STUNTS FOR DORM NIGHT AT NICKELS
Paninetta Dance, Solo, Nell Martti
dale.
Irish Jig, sophomores.
The services of that obliging Thespian, Charles Younggreen (who, by the way is a Masque club member), have been offered to the senior girls for their benefit at the Pattee and Aurora theaters on next Tuesday. Mr. Younggreen was asked to put on a stunt at the Pattee Nickel and he consented, stating that he would make it something entirely new.
Younggreen and Childs Wil Put on Some High Class Vaudeville
The nature of Mr. Younggreen's act has not been decided, but it is quite certain that it will be worth hearing. He will perform between the reels of pictures. Selections from the best releases of the year, both comic and classical, will be offered for pictures with the firm intention of giving all patrons their money's worth. At the Aurora there will be some extra music between reels, and Dan Childs will accompany the pictures. Ben Leventhal has been asked to give some violin selections. Tickets for the benefit will go on sale Friday morning. The committee in charge state that they will allow no student, faculty member or down town business man to escape buying a ticket or two.
The Deodorized Will Visit
Kansas City and St, Louis Next Week
CHEMISTRY AS SHE IS USED
Prof. W. A. Whitaker Will Conduct The Expedition.—Will Give Engineers Insight to Practical Method
The Chemical Engineering Society will take a trip of inspection to Kansas City and St. Louis next week. They will start April 22 and return April 27. This is the first extensive trip that the Society has taken and it is planned to make a similar one each year. Prof. W. A. Whitaker, of the department of chemistry, who will have charge of the project, would send letters from plants and factories, which they will visit, stating that they will endeavor to show them every courtesy and will co-operate with them to make the trip highly successful.
The purpose of the expedition is to give the chemical students an insight into the practical applications of the science of chemistry as employed in the large manufacturing plants, and the methods which are used.
MANY FACTORIES TO BE INSPECTED
The party will go to Kansas City first, will spend two days there and visit the following places: A place for the manufacture of sulphuric, nitric and hydrochloric acids; a plant for the roasting of zine ore, showing the modern roasting furnaces; two plants which manufacture laundry and toilet soaps; the packing houses; the municipal laundry; and the laboratory (the laboratory in which meat suspected of being unwholesome is treated); and it is possible that they may go through a paper mill.
Three or four days will be spent in St. Louis and visits will be made to the municipal gas plant; a plant for the manufacture of paints and pigments; a paint factory in which the "old Dutch lead process" is used for the manufacture of white lead; a corn products company (a plant which manufactures straches, syrups, etc. from corn); an enamelware plant; a plant which manufactures anhydrous ammonia; several plants for the manufacture of steel and steel castings; and several large foundries.
SIXTEEN IN THE PARTY
Several short trips may be taken out from the city plants in the vicinity of St. Louis, the principal places to be visited are the glass factory, and plants for the distillation of coal tar, wood and crude oil.
The trip will probably be the best and the most interesting of any which any of the engineers have taken this year and several are taking advantage of this opportunity offered them. So far as is now known the following will compose the party: Prof.W.A. Whitaker, James D.Malcolmson, L.yen B. Bennett, Charles J.Robinson Glem.L. Pyle, George O.Peter, Peterson L. Kshaw, Emile E. Grignard, Arch Mackinnon, Clint G. Armstrong, Carleton H. Armsby, Ewart P. Jacques A. R. Jones, and Lloyd E. Leatherco
Princeton Gets Two Gifts.
Princeton has received a gift of $300,000 from William Cooper Procter, of Cincinnati, for the endowment of the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter fellowship in the graduate school. Mrs. Russel Sage gave $65,000 for the completion of Holdall Hall.
Moving Pictures in Schools.
The prediction of Thomas A. Edison, that geography will be learned by children in the future, from moving pictures, has proven very true to a degree since the public schools of New York, Massachusetts, and California, are introducing moving pictures.
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DISMISSES CLASSES FOR MUCISAL FESTIVAL
The announcement was made this afternoon from the Chancellor's office that classes would be dismissed at 2:30 p.m. f. Friday on account of the Musical Festival.
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The Weather
Baro and Thermo have decided that it will be useless for them to quarrel any longer. Thermo allowed Baro to come out of the little white box and make a few observations. After taking these observations Baro declared that the weather for tonight and Thursday would be unsettled with slightly rising temperature Thursday.
Sigma Delta Chi Meeting
Sigma Delta Chi will meet Thursday at 8:30 p. m. at the Alpha Tau house.
NEW CLASS PERIOD SAVES TIME FOR ALL
Dean Templin said that all the College instructors were glad of the change, as it had done away with the over-lapping of classes, and given a regularity to the day's program, and that recitations are not interrupted by students coming in late, as they were before the plan was adopted.
The Whistle and 50-Minute Hour Brought Order to Class Room
An interview with the deans of the different schools concerning the new fifty-minute class period, nothing but favorable comments toward it could be obtained from any of them. The superiority of the new system is greater than it was expected to be. A number of the instructors were opposed to the change before it was tried, on the ground that the noise of the whistle would be disturbing. Now these instructors are thankful that the old system was discarded, as the bad features of the whistle failed to appear.
Dean Blackmar in recounting the advantages of the new system said, that now there was no excuse for a student being late to class on account of time; that the new period was more economical in reference to time than the old one, as the student could have time for relaxation between classes, and therefore do better work in his recitations. He also pointed out that the greatest advantage was that conditions would be better for the health of the student.
The necessity of having at least ten minutes between classes is obvious, when it is considered that a number of engineers must go from the Physics building to the Engineering building between successive classes. Dean Marvin confirms the opinion of the other professors in the statement that the fifty minute period is a saving of time compared with the old period.
TRACKING THE LIVING PROBLEM
RIGHT WHERE IT LIVES
At Mills College, Cal., they are answering the question often raised as to whether colleges are giving enough attention to the conditions which make difficult the rearing of a family on a small income.
To the regular course in economics has been added a study of home management. Each member of the class will prepare a paper in the nature of a thesis case account, which he submitted for examination at the end of the term.
The class has decided to keep account of the family of a street car conductor as a typical case. The college grant will have to take into account factors such as the family expenses, cost of food, clothing, light and heat and other necessities.
In addition to learning the cost of living, essays must be prepared by the girls on ways in which the expenses can be cut down.
"Yellow" Authors Hurt Fraternities.
College fraternities of the country are objecting to the caricatures of the college man as portrayed by certain authors, and claim that they actually have an evil influence on the pro-verse fraternity man.
"T. R." WINGART HAD HIS HAT IN THE RING
Send the Daily Kansan home.
"Pinky" Made the Winning Speech in the Sophomore Class Meeting
SOPH FARCE FOR THE SOPHS
Class Voted Unanimously to Bar Outsiders From Junior Farce Next Year, Also
By a unanimous vote the sophomore class decided today in chapel to bar all but members of the class of 1914 from participation in the sophomore farce, the junior farce and the senior play. The decision arose out of the proposal of the prom managers to permit the cast of the play to be selected from the other classes. The announcement was made in the Daily Kansan two weeks ago, but at the time attracted no attention and comment.
The Hopp management thereupon decided that the sentiment of the class was not actively against the position, and steps were taken to place members of the freshman class on the cast. When this was officially done a storm on protest was aroused which broke in the class meeting today.
Speeches were made by the Sowers brothers and Arvid Frank in support of the proposal to throw open the cast of the farce to all students of the University. Then up rose "T. R." Wingart and in a few earnest words, he set forth what appeared to be the sentiments of a majority of the class. 82 attended the meeting.
The vote that came later was unanimously in favor of a "sophomore farce for the sophomores."
A class tryout has been ordered for seven o'clock tomorrow night and all members of the sophomore class are requested to attend.
"Upon the success of the tryout depends the success of the whole production," said Ralph Yeoman, president of the sophomore class, at the meeting today.
Prof. Stimpson, Deputy State Sealer, Depiores Condition in Kansas City, Kan.
Professor Stimpson, the deputy state sealer, returned from Kansas City, Kan., last week, where he presided at the installation of Amos C. Riddel, as city inspector of weights and measures.
Professor Stimpson found the condition in Kansas City very bad, in regards to the use of weights and measures. In one store the scales twelve ounces and the avoidupois and apothecary weights. By the apothecary system a pound is only elewce ounces and the avoidupois sixteen ounces. It would seem that the store keeper had the best of it; but that is not the case. The ounces of the apothecary are larger than the ounces of the avoidupois and there is one store in Kansas City that gives more than is required for the money.
USE OP LIQUID MEASURES
Another bad feature was found in the stores of Kansas City was that the stores use the liquid measure for produce that is supposed to be measured by the dry scale. Onions and cranberries are measured this way. By this system the purchaser is beamed about 15 per cent that is due him.
The penalty for such offences is a fine of not over $100.00 and thirty days' jail.
New York and Massachusetts have had this law enforced for a number of years and Kansas has decided that its good people shall get all that is coming to them. In the future Professor Stimpeon will see that the merchants of Kansas give the people of the state the correct weights.