Daily Hansan
60th Year. No. 66
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1963
EMPTY SEATS—This bus made its 7:30 p.m. run across the campus between women's dormitories and Lewis Hall and Hashinger Hall yesterday, but no passengers were on it. Although city transit officials are pessimistic about the number of students who will ride the new night
bus, they initiated the service at the request of an All Student Council resolution passed Dec. 11, 1962. Twenty passengers are needed on each round trip to keep the bus company from losing money on the new night route.
Russian Journals in Watson Being Indexed by Machine
Watson Library is becoming automated.
No robot librarians have joined the library staff, but a new IBM data processing machine will be just as helpful to KU students, especially if they are majoring in the Slavic and Soviet area.
THE ELECTRICAL data equipment indexes articles in current Russian journals on social sciences and the humanities. It will also provide author lists, tables-of-contents, and complete original Russian wording of article titles, not provided by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Under this system, an index can be published every two months with a staff of two: an editor and a key puncher. The Library of Congress' traditional methods require 40 highly-trained Russian specialists.
Earl Farley, head of Watson's preparations department, is in
charge of developing the first issue of the Kansas Slavic Index which will be published in April. It will index 3,000 articles in 200 selected Soviet periodicals received by Watson in 1962
The project is being done by Watson in cooperation with the Slavic and Soviet Area Studies program.
A MAGNET1C-TAPE IBM machine belonging to the Kansas Motor Vehicle Department in Topeka will be used. Machine processing of the tape for the index usually requires about two hours but it will take only minutes to process the numerical data.
Farley estimated the cost of publishing the experimental first issue will be less than the $5,000 granted for the project.
If the project is a success, he said,
the index may be expanded to cover
all Slavic languages and listings
from cooperative American libraries.
ASC Session to Cover Big 8 Conference Role
The role that KU played in the Big Eight Student Government Conference will be discussed tonight at the All Student Council session.
The Council will meet at 7 in the Cottonwood Room of the Kansas Union.
Jerry Dickson, Newton senior and student body president, will lead the discussion on the Big Eight Conference attended by seven ASC members in December.
The appointment of a KU student to the Big Eight Attractions committee headed by Reuben McCornick, Abilene junior, will also be announced.
In other Council reports, Gregg Turner, Seattle, Wash., junior, will discuss a resolution establishing a student advisory committee. The resolution passed by the Council at the last session.
Bunche Avoids Moise Tshombe
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, The Congo —(UPI) —Katanga President Moise Tshombe returned to Elisabethville today. United Nations Undersecretary Ralph Bunche left town ahead of time to avoid seeing him.
Tshombe flew from his headquarters at Kolwezi to the airstrip at Kipushi and then drove to his capital. A communique issued by Katangese officials said he was returning here to contact U.N. officials — presumably including Bunche.
Kennedy Argues First Court Case
But Bunche, apparently to avoid the embarrassment of telling Tshombe he did not want to see him, pushed up his own departure time by several hours and left early for the central government capital of Leopoldville.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Attv. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy will argue the first court case of his career next week when he appears before the Supreme Court in a Georgia voting case, the Justice Department said today.
He will present the government's position in the renewed challenge of Georgia's county unit voting system.
HE SAID the attorney general would have balt an hour to present the government's argument that no unit system is proper and that, in general, the proper reappointment would give each man one vote.
The Justice Department made the disclosure in announcing a letter, dated yesterday, from Solicitor General Archibald Cox to John F. Davis, the supreme court clerk. Cox wrote:
"The United States has filed a brief amicus curiae in the above case and has been granted half an hour for oral argument.
"The attorney general will argue the case on behalf of the United States."
A GROUP OF private citizens in Atlanta filed suit last March 27 against the state Democratic Party and the chairman and the secretary of the state Democratic Executive Committee challenging the constitutionality of the state's county unit system.
This allots a specified number of unit votes to the winner of the popular vote, rather than apportioning them according to the percentage of vote.
WHEN HE arrived here Sunday, Bunche said, "We have nothing to discuss with Tshombe," and repeated that view again yesterday.
Tshombe arrived in nearby Kipushi at noon (7 a.m. EST) aboard a chartered private plane, then drove the 20 miles into his capital of Elisabethville in a Rhodesian army jeep.
He was met at the Kipushi Airport by a handful of Rhodesian army officers and four newsmen. Kipushi is on the Katangese-Rhodesian border.
Diplomatic representatives said Punheh, in a meeting with consular representatives yesterday, clearly indicated the United Nations had nothing to discuss with Tshombe.
THEY SAID BUNCHE INTENDED to stick by his statement, made upon his arrival here and that he was not here to talk with the secessionist leader.
It was believed Tshombe returned here from his South Katanga stronghold of Kolwezi—about the only major Katangese city which the U.N. has not yet captured.
See related story, page 12.
Bunche's visit here may lead to a clarification of U.N. plans for the next step in relation to Katanga in general and Kolwezi in particular, informed sources said.
Earlier, it had appeared top officials of the Katanga regime were sending their families away in preparation either to fight or flee.
IN THE PAST TSHOMEE has slipped to the neighboring Rhodesias to keep out of U.N. hands.
Resident Theater Called Potential Help to Legitimate Stage
(Editor's Note: This is the $^{\mathrm{rst}}$ of a four-part series dealing with theater at KU.)
By Tom Winston
Article I: What it is and isn't; the vision
For well over 300 years, theater has been an alluring and creacherous profession where only "daft and dewy-eyed dolls" dare enter and an actor's job usually lasts only as long as the show.
Lewin Goff, director of the University Theatre, has a dream and a plan which will offer KU theater graduates something more secure and in addition, give the Kansas City area a theater of more excellence and professional quality.
WHAT PROF. GOFF PROPOSES would be a substantial contribution to a currently growing movement heralded by experts as potentially able to make American legitimate theater a paying and therefore respectable profession for a greater number of people—a resident professional theater. There are only a
handful of these at present in the United States.
Such theaters are permanent fixtures in the community, and resource institutions on a social par with the public library. They operate most of the year with a permanent corps of actors and directors and are therefore resident. The actors are paid salaries and would devote their full time, talents, thoughts and energies to their theater and are therefore professional.
What Prof. Coff has in mind is a place for theater graduates from KU and elsewhere to become professionals:
- theater with a performing philosophy which reflects the spirit of the midwest area.
- theater which can do plays well enough as an ensemble to interest even persons with merely a passing interest in live theater.
- theater which charges prices most people can afford to pay.
The idea of resident professional theater is not new. But the type just described is comparatively new and has positively revolutionary implications.
A RESIDENT PROFESSIONAL theater is not a community theater in the normal sense of the term. In the usual community theater, members of the community, most of whom are amateurs, donate their services for their own enjoyment and the enjoyment of their neighbors.
The community theater director may be professional or paid, but the members are neither and the casts vary considerably from play to play. Whether the enterprise makes money is subordinate to the fact that the community wants the theater. It is an outlet for creative energies in one's spare time.
By contrast, the resident professional theater is not open to amateur performers generally. Instead of replacing the community theater, however, it supplements it by arousing community interest in the theater and by providing the standard and impetus for amateur community theater groups.
In the resident professional theater, an actor will play a large role in one play and a smaller role in another. Each actor contributes in
some capacity to each play, whether in acting, directing, costuming,icket sales, public relations, publicity or technical work. The acting corps is sometimes assisted by established famous professional actors and directors.
Naturally such a theater will sell tickets to single events, but subscriptions are a good stabilizer; money which an organization can count on.
UNLIKE THE CITY LIBRARY and the community theater, however, a resident professional theater is intended to operate as a commercial enterprise, sustaining itself from its box office receipts. Often it sells subscriptions to a series of plays which it may announce either ahead of time or one at a time, as public demand seems to dictate.
KU took its first step toward establishing a resident professional theater last April when it presented "The Boy Friend," a musical spoof of the 1920s in England, for one performance in Battenfeld Auditorium at the KU Medical Center.
Prior to the performance, Prof. Goff and his staff sent in queries to KU friends and alumni in the Kansas City area to see if interest would support the venture. There were two parts to the queries: would they be interested in and support an area theater program, and would they participate in it.
"We GOT REPLIES FROM about 700 of the 1700 queries we sent out," said Jerilyn Lawson, Lawrence graduate student assistant in extension theater, who helped.
"About 75 per cent were in favor of the project, and about 67 per cent of these were wildly in favor. Only about 25 per cent were indifferent or against it. About 33 per cent said they would participate," she said.
The most interesting note was that "The Boy Friend" filled about 500 of Battenfield Auditorium's 700 seats at $1.80 and $3.00 prices.
In addition, Landon Laird, drama critic of the Kansas City Star, noted a "professional atmosphere which wafted over the show":
(Continued on page 12)