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53rd Year, No. 104
Audience Enjoys Pygmalion'
A thoroughly enjoyable performance of "Pygmalion" greeted first-nighters Wednesday in Fraser Theater. The play will be presented at 8 p.m. today, Friday, and Saturday.
Thursday, March 8, 1956.
G. B. Shaw's sometimes serious, often comic play of late 19th century English social systems gives much to its audience and demands much more from its players.
Marjorie Smith, Wichita graduate student, plays Eliza Doolittle and faced with the task of changing from a gutter-walking, cockney flower girl into a young, fashionable lady of grace and poise. The change is gradual, subtle, and convincing.
Twice the audience showed its appreciation of Miss Smith's portrayal with long, spontaneous applause, once after an exit and once again after her initial and semi-trumphant entrance into society. As an impulsive, independent flower girl she added flair and funny. As a young lady in the middle of a bachelor and about to be thrust into a world in which she no longer belongs, she is convincingly confused bitter, and almost pathetic.
Shows Appreciated
Shows Appreciated Thomas Sawyer, Topeka freshman, plays Henry Higgins, the gentleman bachelor who takes it upon himself to make Liza a lady. Higgins has strong convictions about his own actions and little respect for others' feelings. Sawyer plays the part so well that one develops two distinct attitudes toward Higgins. One would like to thoroughly dislike bim if he
Shower Scene Good
thoroughly dislike him it he weren't so thoroughly likable.
Jack Brooking, assistant director of University Theatre, did an excellent job in directing the play. His use of color and sound well executed, especially lighting.
A London shower scene could have been very well done with the simple and striking use of rain in the background. Sound effects of wind and passing autos, however, drown out important speeches and distract from the play.
The part of Alfred Doolittle is played very well by Jerome Hanken, Cincinnati, Ohio graduate student. Mrs. Higgins, palyed by Ruth Doddrill, Westchester, Pa. graduate student, is also excellent.
Milton Howarth, instructor of speech, designed both the sets and costumes in full character with the play's period. The sets are especially well done and apparently very mobile judging from the speed of scene changes.
900 Preview Fashion Show
The Easter Parade got off to an early start as models paraded before an audience of about 900 persons at the Newcomers Group fashion show Wednesday night at the Union.
Fashion themes on the program included Tea Time showing dressy cottons, Casually Yours with house-dresses to wear marketing, Summertime featuring bathing suits, Playtime with the modeling of shorts and play clothes, Party Time with informal party dresses, and the Easter Parade with coats, suits, and accessories for all ages.
Fourteen University coeds modi- med the bathing suits complete with long black stockings. The treat in bathing suits is one-piece cotton.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Clothes and accessories for the program were furnished by Weaver's.
The finale was a bridal party complete with bride, maid of honor, two bridesmaids, and a flower girl.
(Related Picture On Page 8)
Benefits from the fashion show are used for the University Women's Club Scholarship.
Students Can See NCAA For $1
Students may buy one ticket each for $1 upon presentation of their ID cards for the NCAA regional basketball tournament March 16-17 in Allen Field House.
The tickets will be good only for unreserved seats in the north bleachers. They will go on sale Wednesday, March 14.
Kidnaped Girls Escape Unhurt
INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (UP)—Four teen age girls who said they were kidnapped at gunpoint on a Newton, Iowa, street late yesterday escaped from their captors near Independence early today by deliberately wrecking their automobile.
The four were unharmed, Sheriff Floyd Huggins reported, except that two of them, Judy Damman, 17, and Gloria Jensma, 18, were suffering from shock. The two other girls, Lois Davis, 18, and Jeaneane Fahrney, 17, were described as "in better shape, but too nearly hysterical to give us a coherent story vet."
Sheriff Huggins quoted the girls as saying they left high school at Newton yesterday afternoon and that two men, displaying a gun, forced their way into their car at a street intersection. The men, described as 24 to 26 years old, and wearing blue jeans, ordered the girls to "drive south," and told them they'd be killed if they didn't "keep their mouths shut."
Band, Orchestra Busy Preparing For March Trip
The 175 members of the University Band and Symphony Orchestra are polishing their instruments and perfecting their parts this week in preparation for the spring tour which begins March 19.
The group will travel in five chartered buses, leaving Monday afternoon and returning Friday of that week.
The tour will visit Chanute, Iola,
Parsons, Neodesha, Caney, El Dorado,
Bartlesville, Okla., and
Blackwell, Okla. The concerts will be given in the mornings and at night leaving the afternoons for travel and rest.
Members of the band and orchestra will stay in private homes selected by the local sponsors of the tour.
Four soloists will be featured in the program. They are Edward Masters, professor of trumpet, Paul Wallace, instructor in trombone, Roy Hamlin Johnson, assistant professor of piano, and Miss Charmine Asher, instructor in percussion.
The Symphony Orchestra's program will include "Romeo and Juliet Fantasy" by Tschaikovsky, "Mark Twain Protrait" by Jerome Kern, "Fantasy on Green Sleeves" by Vaughn Williams, "Third Piano Concerto" by Rachmanioff, "Concertina for Marimba" by Creston, and "Berceuse and Finale" from "Firebird Suite" by Stravinsky.
The Concert Band will play "Variations on a Haydn Theme" by Brahms, "Three Men Suite" by Eric Coates, "Oberon Overture" by Von Weber, and "Lincolnshire Hosey Suite" by Percy Grainger.
Picture Deadline Is March 15
The deadline for senior pictures
for the Jayhawker is Thursday,
March 15, Hank Wittenberg, Kansas
City, Mo., senior and editor of the
 Jayhawker, said today. Appointments
 can be made at Estes Studio.
sophomore. The old car is set up in front of Flint Han.
—(Daily Kansan Photo)
AGES CAR FAST—Fred Lawrence, Independence, Mo., freshman, is shown taking the fast swing today in the Inter-Fraternity Council car-smashing contest. The proceeds will go to the Campus Chest drive. At left is Jerry L. Kindig, Kansas City, Mo., senior and chairman of the event. In the center is Bill Wittenberg, Kansas City, Kan.,
Humanities Talk Slated For Tuesday
DR. LOWRY
Nixon's Chances Don't Look Good
WASHINGTON (UP) — Several facts emerge from the confusion clouding President Eisenhower's real intention as to Vice President Richard M. Nixon and the No. 2 place on the 1956 GOP ticket.
1. Some of Mr. Nixon's friends are mighty glum these days.
2. The White House was the source of the first news leak that Mr. Eisenhower himself had raised the idea for. Mr. Nixon should be on the ticket.
3. Mr. Eisenhower has put the Vice President on a hot political spot.
The president on a hot political spot. 4. Mr. Nixon's strength lies among organization Republicans from National Ward H. Hall down to the grass roots.
Until Mr. Eisenhower refused to endorse Mr. Nixon for renomination, it generally has been assumed here that the President wanted to run again with his young friend. His every public reference to him had been praise.
Newsweek Magazine reported at length before Mr. Eisenhower's conference—that the matter of No. 2 place on the Republican ticket still was up in the air. Mr. Eisenhower followed shortly in response to news conference questions with more high praise for Mr. Nixon.
Political Coffee Hears Docking
"Genuine interest in politics is genuine interest in good government," Robert Docking, Lawrence banker, said at the Political Coffee in the Student Union Wednesday.
Mr. Docking discussed how to organize a political campaign and the different methods that campaigneers use.
He gave the basic construction of the political setup from precincts to the nation as a whole.
Professor To Explain Background Of Opera
An explanation and the background of the opera, "The Marriage of Figaro," will be given by James E. Seaver, associate professor of history, at the German Club meeting at 5 p.m. today at the home of J. A. Burzle, professor of German, 1224 Louisiana.
The discussion is being held in preparation for the club's trip to Kansas City March 17 to hear the opera.
A Humanities lecture by a college president who has distinguished himself by his public speaking will be presented at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, in Fraser Theater. Dr. Howard F. Lowry, president of the College of Wooster, Ohio, will give a modern appraisal of the works of Matthew Arnold, English poet, critic, and essayist. The lecture will be the fifth in the 1955-56 Humanities Lecture series.
Dr. Lowry will also participate in an "open conversation" in the browsing room of the Memorial Union at 4 p.m. Monday, March 12. With instructors in Western Civilization, he will discuss "Science, Technology, and Liberal Education." Anybody interested may attend and join the discussion. The Student Union Activities Committee is sponsoring the program and will serve refreshments.
Speaks Effectively
Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism and chairman of the Humanities committee, said that "although English literature is his special field, he speaks effectively on basic problems and values in education and on the influence of religion in education."
During his three-day visit to the University, Dr. Lowry will speak to three classes in English and one in drama, lecture on "The Mind's Adventure" to a Faculty Forum luncheon on Wednesday, meet with the administrative committee of the College, and be interviewed on KANU about Argentina and the Peron regime.
Wooster President In 1944 Dr. Lowry became president of the College of Wooster in 1944, just 21 years after he had received the B.A. degree there and been appointed instructor in English. He received the Ph.D. degree from Yale in 1931. While in New Haven, he was a roommate of John Hankins, now professor of English at the University.
He was a Sterling fellow at Yale and in 1934 had a Guggenheim fellowship. He studied in England and France in 1928, in 1930-31, and in 1933. From 1940 to 1944, he was professor of English at Princeton University. He has been visiting professor at Western Reserve, New York, and Chicago universities, and has been awarded four honorary degrees.
He is author or editor of seven books. One of them, "The Mind's Adventure," was a Religious Book of the Month selection in 1950. From 1935 to 1941 he was general editor in the American branch of the Oxford University Press. He is on the board of trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
The weatherman predicted a temperature of close to 50 this afternoon in some parts of the state and close to 60 degrees Friday.
Warmer Readings Expected For State
This would round out a four-day period in which Kansas weather produced record high temperatures, snow and sub-freezing daytime readings and then above normal temperatures again. High temperatures today were 40-45 in the northeast with a low of near 30 tonight. Local dust storms are expected today in the northwest.
Where's The Fire? No Se'
CONSOHOCKEN, Pa. (UP)—Conshohocken firemen are having trouble finding fires these days because they can't understand the calls on their radio system. They say they have been getting Spanish voices from Cuba on the fire engine sets for the past week. They blame sunspots.