SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXVI
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1938
Final Faculty Concert Presented Thursday
NUMBER 13
Miss Evelyn Swarthout and Mrs. Marie Wilkins Will Appear as Guest Artists; Summer Session String Quartet Also Performs
The final faculty concert of the summer will present two guest artists, Miss Evelyn Swarthout, pianist, and Mrs. Marie Wilkins, soprano, on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in Hoch auditorium. Others on the program will be Miss Meribah Moore, Miss Ruth Orcutt, Mrs. Dorothy Enlow Miller, Joseph Wilkins, and members of the University string quartet.
Miss Swarthout received her B.M. degree in piano in 1932, having received her training from her father, D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts. After two summers of study under Guy Maier, she went to London where she spent three years studying under Tobias Matthay, winning the three-year Jeffrey Reynolds scholarship. Returning to the United States for the summer of 1934, she won the $1,000 cash award Kinley Memorial Scholarship at the University of Illinois. She gave a recital in Wigmore hall in London in 1933.
At present she is teacher of piano at the Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, New York. In addition to this, she gives each season a number of recitals. In November she will be soloist with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in two concerts in Kansas City under Karl Krueger; in December she will be soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., under its director, Hans Kindler; and in January will give a recital in Town Hall, New York City.
Mrs. Wilkins received her training at Cornell University and abroad. She has appeared in opera performances in Milan, Italy, and later was engaged as leading soprano with the Shubert Opera company. She also appeared in the Municipal Opera in St. Louis for two summers.
Miss Moore, soprano, who is associate professor of voice, will sing a group of songs by Frank Cunkle, assistant professor of voice. Miss Orcutt, assis.ant professor of piano, will close the program with a number which she has composed with the or-
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George Cotton To Discuss 'The Theater'
George Cotton of New York City will discuss "American and European Theater Trends" at 7 o'clock Thursday evening in Fraser theater.
Mr. Cotton who has been on the stage for ten years, returned in January from a study of theaters in Norway, Sweden, Finland, England, Austria, Italy, and France. He has played in "Marco Million" by Eugene O'Neil and in "Volpone" by Stephen Zweig, both of which were theater gild productions. He also played in "Dead End" and "Mary Queen of Scots."
Mr. Cotton has played with Raymond Massey, Helen Hayes, Pauline Frederick and Phillip Merrivale. At present he is on his vacation here, as the guest of Kenneth Rockwell.
K.U. Grads Get Jobs This Summer
Placement Bureaus Report 50 to 75 per Cent of Graduates Are Employed
The various placement bureaus at the University report from 50 to 75 per cent of all the graduates are on jobs, in a few instances just temporary ones, but in the main lining into regular places.
University of Kansas graduates are getting jobs this summer, albeit they are not all stepping from the Commencement platform into paying positions.
Ivan C. Crawford, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, said 65 per cent of the graduates have so far been placed, chiefly with the large employers of engineers, such as Westinghouse and General Electric. He looks for the greater number to be in work by fall.
Frank T. Stockton of the School of Business, which this year had by far its largest graduating class-104 —said 50 had places by July 1, or had definitely decided to continue study. He expects a 75% placement by Aug. 1 and 90 per cent by Sept. 1. Of those placed, 26 have permanent positions with various firms; 7 have temporary jobs; 9 are entering businesses managed by their fathers or other members of their families.
Two are entering business for themselves and one has a temporary commission in the U.S. Army. Three will return as assistant instructors next fall; 6 will enter law schoo', 4 will enter graduate schools and 1 will study voice in New York.
L. N. Flint, chairman of the Journalism Placement Bureau, said three-fourths of the journalism majors had positions. One has purchased a paper of his own. Mr. Flint was well pleased with the situation, since newspaper positions, as a rule, open in the fall rather than the summer.
H. E. Chandler, director of the Teacher Placement Bureau, said his division had found places for 125 to 150 teachers already this spring, and looks for 140 to 150 more, as the summer progresses.
Teacher demand this year has been largely for music, commercial.
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Mt. Oread Goes Broadway Three One-Act Plays Presented by Hill Players
Dioramas Seen in Next Junket
Processes in Making Model Dioramas Will Be Explained by William Campbell
Some of the arduous processes of making model dioramas will be explained by William Campbell, graduate of the department of design, and supervisor of the WPA museum project, at the Campus Junket held tomorrow night in Robinson gymnasium at 8:15.
A series of six dioramas, which have been completely made in Lawrence, have been carefully and durably constructed and are authentic in every detail.
To those who are unfamiliar with dioramas, the exhibit will resemble miniature outdoor stage sets complete with actors and beautifully executed lighting effects. Mrs. Kerr, national director of WPA museum
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Education Banquet Tomorrow
Meanderings in Mental Hygiene' Is Theme; Informal Talks Feature Program
"Meanderings in Mental Hygiene" will be the theme of the annual education banquet for summer session students, faculty members, and their families, to be held tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock in Memorial Union building.
Tickets will be on sale until noon tomorrow and may be purchased from any member of the committee or at the Office of the School of Education at the price of 50 cents.
The Campus Junket has been scheduled for 8:15 to enable Summer sessionites to attend the banquet.
The program will include a discussion of "The Non-Typical Teacher" by Ida Johnson and "Oral Pho-hias" by Walter Russell. A solo by Mrs. Glenn Blair, a talk on "Escape Mechanisms" by Mamie Burk, and on "Problem Professors" by Lavern Dental. Alden Brooks, instructor in Denver schools, will be toastmaster. Group singing will be led by Ross Robertson, assistant instructor in economics.
This event is planned by the students in the School of Education with the details in charge of the following committee: chairman, Elsie Penfield of Augusta, Pauline Busch of Kansas City, Rachel Gard of Lawrence, Fred Settles of Ottawa, Francis G. Yeoman of Wichita, and Roy Browning of Manhattan.
'Let Slip the War Dogs;' 'Stephen Speaks the Truth; and 'A Foothills Jezebel' Are Offered in Campus Show Tonight
Broadway invades Mount Oread tonight in the vehicles of three one-act plays to be acted before the footlights of Fraser theater at 8 o'clock. Two world premiers, never before attempted, even by the Chinese theater of Hollywood, will call forth Summer Session students dressed in the latest styles of organdie and white coats. The third play, prize winner of the Chanute Little Theater, will appear for the first time on the University campus.
"Let Slip the War Dogs," a fantasy by Martin Maloney, Gr., is written around situations and characters that are K.U. legendary heroes and part of K.U.'s historic past. This is not to say, however, that the play
"Let Slip the War Dogs," a fan ten around situations and characters part of K.U.'s historic past. This is speaks kindly of them or their thoughts, excepting summer session students, of course. It deals with the vague understanding which young people have of the true concept of peace and the means of obtaining it.
In the second play, "Stephen Speaks the Truth," written by Ruth Lockwood Yeoman of Wichita, poor Stephen is broken on the rack and goes through all the anguish that even a second Poe could conjure in his attempts to prevent evidence of his first quarrel with his bride from reaching his employer.
Played against an Ozark background, "A Foothills Jezeebel," written by Mrs. M. M. Bair, tells the age old story of a woman's search after a man. Here, it is Evie Croptone's search that merits telling who hunts for a male member of homo sapiens to provide her with "purties."
Sponsored by the Summer Session Activities Association the production has been supervised by Susan Maloney, c'39, with Frederic Fleming as technical adviser and Julia Hudson as manager of properties.
Late comers will be seated promptly, however, no 'yoa-hooing' or parading up and down the aisles will be allowed.
By Isabel Neale
Play Production Has Bright and Dark Sides
Practically as good as the barnstorming, province-playing Broadway shows are the three one-act plays which the Summer Session Players will present tonight in Fraser Theater.
Play production any time is the breath of life and a source of mirth for the dramatically inclined, but summer heat adds its own peculiar touches. While cold November winds are blowing and the war dogs howl, a sunburned cast sweats through a rehearsal in winter clothing. Toast that should burn just at the most critical of moments remains innocently white. How to make love to a married woman and that in front of her mother, the author, plus her husband and bewildered Irish settter?
Five Receive Appointments
Five appointments recently made through the teachers appointment bureau, according to H. E. Chandler, director of the bureau, are as follows: Virginia Hinshaw, gr., will teach Spanish and Latin at Frederick, Okla, Romola Hammons, A.B. '36, will teach home economics at Effingham; Mary Harnley, gr., will teach English and journalism in Junction City; Ida Jean Polson, A.B. '37, will teach home economics at Linwood; and Jessie M. Lemon, A.B. '38, will teach French and Spanish at Sedan.
Producers and directors staving off lunacy—or do they?—swim through alabastine lagoons of pink and turquoise and pale sea green. The technical adviser, in a fine, paternal way, insists that backstage be kept clean. Actors quibble over dressing-rooms—who gets the first landing? A football player, using his best publicity smile, poses with a guitar he is zealously trying to learn to tune, for a picture that may or may not change his career.
Stamina, that's what it takes. Food and a ten-gallon bucket of ice tea (unbelievably transported around corners and up the hill on the floor of a temperamental Ford) provide some of the needed energy and make the weather bearable. And music (Maestro, please), without it we are all at sea, or so says the technical adviser. Old records and a bad needle arrive from somewhere, and to the A. A.'s favorite ditty, "We Say the Sea" the stage crew swabs gobs of paint whersover the brush may spray it.
Standards of language are shattered. A hillbilly twang pervades the atmosphere. With a bragging "Hure weuns are," Broadway comes to Kansas.