SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXVI
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938
NUMBER 14
A Cappella Choir In Vesper Program
Summer Session Group of Seventy Voices, Directed by D. M. Swarthout, Will Appear in Hoch Auditorium Sunday Evening
The summer session A Cappella Choir of 70 voices will present a vesper program, the only concert of its kind offered during the Summer Session, at 7 o'clock Sunday evening in Hoch auditorium. The choir, which is directed by D. M. Swarthowt, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will appear in two groups of unaccompanied numbers.
Other musical numbers will be given by the Mid-Western Music Camp Orchestra, the University string quartet, a violin quartet, and Joseph Wilkins, tenor, professor in the de- partment of voice.
The program will be as follows: Orchestra: Overture, "Iphigenia en Aulis", (Gluck;) Summer Music Camp Orchestra, David Lawson, conductor.
A Cappella Choir: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Palestrina) (Baritone solo by Charles Neiswender). All Breathing Life (Bach); Summer Session A Cappela Choir, D. M. Swarthout, director.
Voice: Arioso — Dank Sei Dir,
Herr (Handel); Joseph F. Wilkins,
tenor; accompanied by the Summer
Session String Quartet with Lewis
Copeland, contrabass; Lucile Wagner,
piano; Laurel Everette Anderson,
organ.
String Quartette: Quartette in D flat, Op. 15 (Dohnanyi); Summer Session String Quartet: Waldemar Geltin, first violin; Olga Eitner, second violin; Perry Pangrac, viola; D. M. Swarthout, cello.
Ensemble: Concerto for Four Violins (Maurer); Waldemar Geltch, Olga Eitner, Frances Robinson, Carroll Nickels, and Ruth Orcutt at the piano.
A Cappella Choir: Vale of Tuoni (Sibelius); My Lovely Celia (Munro-Luvaes); Children, Don't Get Weary (arr. by Max Krone); Dark Water (W. James).
Present Recital Monday
Olga Eitner and Frank Cunkle Appear in a Musical Program
Miss Olga Eitner, violinist and a graduate student at the University will appear with Frank Cunkle, pianist and assistant professor of theory and organ, in a recital Monday evening at 8:15 in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall.
Miss Eitner is a member of the Summer Session string quartet. In her early teens she was the winner of first prizes in Federation of Music Club contests in both Nebraska and Kansas. She also won the Lyon & Healy prize contest at Orchestra Hall, Chicago. At the age of 17 she was elected head of the violin department of Ottawa University. She has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Frederick Stock and later was concert master of the Chicago Woman's Symphony.
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Carol Johnson, fa'38, will continue his sketching of summer sessionites for the "Hall of Fame." All persons who have had their portrait
Unique Program Features Last 'Open House' Session
Frank Anneberg, '33, tap dancing on his hands, and playing a trombone while standing on his head; Benny Maynard and his musicians coaxing tunes such as "Old McDonald Had a Farm" and "Organ Grinder Swing" from an orchestra of three bass jugs, three sets of bottles, and two sets of test tubes—will be special attractions of the last "Open House" of the summer session to be held at 7 o'clock Monday evening in Memorial Union building.
Anneberg has appeared several times in Ripley's "Believe it or Not." During the 1932 Olympics held in Los Angeles, he walked down the Olympic stadium steps on his hands. The past year he has been assistant coach at North Central College at Naperville, Ill., and at present is recreational director of the Mid-Western Music Camp at the University.
sketched and who wish to have them must claim them at the close of the open house. Those who have won a place in the gallery to date are: Rita Morris, a student at the Mid-Western Music Camp; Henry Werner, men's adviser; Richard LaBan, editor of the Summer Session Kansan; Joseph Cochrane, c'38; Dorothy Gehret, fa'41; Edith Ferguson; Howard Palmer, e'uncl; Lewis Copeland, fa'40; Gene Klemp, b'38; Dr. Forrest C. Allen, professor of physical education; Russell Hodge; and Fred Littooy, c'39.
Ross Robertson, assistant instructor in economics, will lead the group in the singing of "barber house gems." As this is the last party dancing will be continued until 10 o'clock in the ballroom.
Damp and dry or hot and cooler. Relatives humility 100; temperance 5050. Murky. Son raises at 10:30, sets 10:31. Kansas 6. Mo. 0.
Weather
Cotton Discusses Theater
Says Theater Gives Many a Vision of Better World
"The aim of the theater is to offer escape from one reality into another reality of the imagination, whether the offer is made by the legitimate theater, or her illegitimate sisters, the circus, vaudeville, burlesque, Hollywood, or the youngest offspring, the radio," said George Cotton of New York City in speaking on "American and European Theater Trends" last night in Fraser theater.
"All of us, no matter how exciting our lives appear to others, at times seek the relief of the theater in trying to catch a vision of a better world or to retreat in a nostalgic glow of the past offered us by literature or to throw ourselves headlong into the rhythmic world of music, or to look through the keyhole that the proscenium arch of the theater offers us to peer into the lives of others."
In discussing European theaters which he has studied on a recent visit in Europe Mr. Cotton said, "The English theater offers an idea of what the American theater offered us ten years ago. Diction was quite perfect, if you managed to sit in the first ten rows, but they seemed to have borrowed the first principles of the Chinese theater in never letting their face betray what they were thinking. Consequently, if you couldn't hear the words you were at a total loss.
"Germany has done more for the modern theater than any other country in Europe. In Meinigen there is a theater better than any in New York City."
Mr. Cotton pointed out that advantages of the state theater as practiced in some countries are: a repertoire of plays can be given that do not depend for their maintenance on financial success; better plays can be produced, thus educating the public to a higher level than gangster melodrama; actors have financial security ahead for a year at least and they can become better actors because of the varying types of parts that they play.
Dean Crawford Colonel, Now
Ivan C. Crawford, dean of the school of engineering and architecture, was promoted to the rank of colonel while attending the officers Reserve Camp at Ft. Riley recently. This rank is the highest that a reserve officer can hold in time of peace.
Dean Crawford served as major in the corps of engineers of the U. S. army during the World War and has had the rank of lieutenant colonel in that corps for the past 15 years.
Take a Kansan; Not the BOX!
Hill Players Seen in Retrospect
700 Attend Campus Performance; Cat and Bird Surprise Thespians; 'Added Performers not in Original Cast,' Say Directors
Punctured by a cat with a walk-on part and unintelligible syllables by the other characters, three one-act plays, Tuesday night provided a modicum of entertainment for an audience otherwise keyed to a pitch of expectancy that soon sadly wilted. If the cat could only have spoken the audience's belly-laughs would have been justified; as it was the laughs merely provided discomfit for the actors.
Seven hundred people crowded Fraser theater, including a large number of conscientious faculty folk sprinkled among the large number
Band Camp Presents Concert
5th in a Series of Six Concerts to Be Given Sunday
The fifth of a series of six concerts by the Mid-Western band and orchestra will be presented Sunday afternoon. The orchestra concert will be at 3:30 o'clock in Hoch auditorium and the band concert at 8 o'clock in Fowler's Grove.
Guest conductors who will appear on the program are: William G. Altimari, Atchison; Herbert R. Rifkind, Chicago; David T. Lawson, Topeka; Benny Maynard, Pratt; Hugh Allen Anderson, Lubbock, Texas; John Frances, Merriam; Don Moore, Cimarron; and Hazen Richardson, Ottawa.
David E. Partridge and Kenneth L. Morris, students in the department of ojournalism last year, have secured positions on the Anderson Countian and Salina Journal:
of summer sessionites who often felt at a loss as to what was actually happening.
In "Steven Speaks the Truth," the observing spectator noticed Steven wore white socks when he should have been trotting onto the stage in brown ones, as the latter were those which his newly-married wife had just thrown into their bedroom for Steven to wear. Incidentally, he drank water, not coffee. But such mishaps were irrelevant to the trials that appeared to foredoom Steven's chance at a junior partnership in his boss's firm. Built around a situation wherein a job apparently de-
The first play, "Let Slip the War Gods," was a play with a message. It had something to tell the audience; it was serious—but it failed in its mission, probably because of the cat. By a trick with a droning radio and a man from Arlington Cemetery, the characters depicted how trivial student ideals, wordy denunciations, and other sophomoric tendencies actually would be in the face of the reality of a bombing raid. Its locale was on the Hill and its characters were former students, who talked too much and did too little.
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By Isabel Neale
Backstage Reporter Sees Mishaps Happen
In front of the dark red curtain an audience buzzed; behind it, three casts bustled. Things weren't quite right, somehow, but the stage manager, insistent that the curtain should not be delayed on a summer audience, gave the music cues, the curtain warning. What, thought the girl in the red scarf, would be the first mishap?
Knowledge came forthwith. The curtain lifted, the man at the switchboard counted "One-two," the lights went on, and the first play was jinxed. Entering belatedly, the boy in the brown suit and the girl in the red scarf made the best of the slip and began their analysis of the world's wrongs. Then, simultaneously, they discovered that a prominent word on one of the posters adoring the stage was missspelled. Both were English teachers, in a way; neither had a red pencil. They proceeded with the business of romance. Other characters joined them,
and the peace meeting was rapidly turning into a good fight. In walked an expected stranger, and in flew an unexpected bat. The stranger sat; the bat hovered. The bat, for a while, threatened to take the words from the stranger's mouth. Presently, though, it surrendered its place in the light to a singed cat who, hearing the voices of the friendly beings who had fed it scraps of lunches on Saturday and Sunday, returned to the theater on Tuesday evening for a friendly call. Tail afloat with dignity, Puss promenaded the footlights area with feline grace and quiet. Unfortunately, just at the moment, the actors found hospitality impossible; by not one honest glance did they recognize their old acquaintance. But the audience, less concerned with the guest-ghost than with the cast, took a more human recognition of the animal. They smiled, grinned, murmured, laughed. A sudden thudding in the orchestra
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