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'Don Pasquale' Gets Laughter, Applause
"Don Pasquale," a Donizetti opera superbly and clearly sung in English received laughter and applause from an appreciative audience in Hoch Auditorium last night.
The performance by Boris Goldovsky's Opera Theater of Boston opened the KU Concert Series.
The superior singing and acting of the performers, the orchestral accompaniment, and the lavish and colorful costumes and stage settings all insured the success of the opera for KU viewers.
Mr. Goldovsky conducted and staged the presentation.
The amusing plot in its English translation and the clear enunciation of the singers added to the enjoyment of the opera.
Nancy Trickey as Norina was a young, vivacious widow in love with Don Pasquale's nephew. Her lover, Ernesto, played by John McCollum, received applause for his senadee to Norina in the last scene.
Robert Gay was the bachelor, Don Pasquale. He quickly learned the moral to the story, that it is madness for an old man to take a young wife. Mac Morgan sang the role of Don Pasquale's friend and physician, Dr. Malatesta.
The second Concert Course presentation will be on Wednesday when Jose Greco and his troupe of Spanish dancers will perform. The curtain will rise at 8:30 p.m. Student ID cards will admit.
Four To Attend Asia Conference
Dr. O. P. Backus, associate professor of history; Dr. George M. Beckmann, assistant professor of history; Dr. Ambrose Saricks, assistant professor of history, and Dr. Werner Winter, assistant professor of German will attend the Conference on Asian Affairs in Manhattan Nov. 18 and 19.
Psycholoaists To Hear Talk
Dr. Beckmann will read a paper, "Marxism and History in Modern Japan," and Dr. Backus will speak on the "Eurasian Movement in Russian Historiography." Dr. Werner will act as chairman of the Japanese section of the discussion.
The Psychology Colloquium will meet at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in room 9, Strong Hall. Howard Baumgartel, assistant professor of business and human relations, will speak on "Leaderhip, Motivation, and Attitudes in 20 Research Laboratories."
Commerical powders containing rotenone or pyrethrum will control fleas on dogs and cats.
A joint meeting of the KU and K-State Young Republicans will be held in Topeka in the near future as a part of the program of the junior political organizations. A member of the Kansas legislature will speak.
General information on politics is also presented, sometimes through informative talks by politicians or legislators. The club receives information from the Republican National Committee which provides a picture of the party's activities on a national level.
KU, K-State GOP To Meet
Membership in the Young Republican organization is open to all students. Meetings are held once a month, in which Republican policy, organization, and platform are outlined and discussed.
A campus-wide membership drive will get underway soon to add to the club's 200 members. Anyone wishing to join may contact one of the following:
Ted Ice, Newton senior, president; Virginia Delp, Merriam senior, vice president; Richard Billings, Russell junior, treasurer; John Knightly, Hutchinson junior, secretary; Don Rowland, Ellis junior, executive member at large; Elaine Armbruster, Ellis junior, and Max Fuller, Ellis sophomore, membership chairman.
State Council Holds 39th Convention
WICHITA — (U.P.)— R. S. Hass, Russell County Director of Welfare, presided today as the Kansas Official Council opened its 39th annual convention.
The organization which includes all county officials will have a three-day discussion of county problems. Mr. Haas is council president.
Featured speakers for the general meetings included Gov. Fred Hall and Alex Dreier, NBC radio and television newsman. Approximately 1,000 county officials were attending.
More than 200 species of birds find sanctuary in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming-Montana-Idaho, the world's oldest national park.
Site Planner To Visit Campus
Lawrence G. Linnard, site planer and landscape architect from Maumee, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich., will visit the University Wednesday and Thursday.
He will give an illustrated public lecture at 3 p.m. Wednesday on "Site Planning and the Planning Professions."
He is known nationally for his work on private properties, housing projects, state and municipal parks, schools, camps, subdivisions, commercial and industrial properties.
He will meet informally with the students and faculty members to exchange ideas concerning the relationship of landscape design and architecture.
Mr. Linnard is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He has executed numerous site planning and development projects throughout the United States, but has worked especially in the Detroit-Toledo area.
Wednesday evening he will meet with the student chapter of the American Institute of Architects to discuss common problems between the two professions. Wednesday morning he will exchange informal ideas with upper class design students in Marvin Hall. Thursday noon he will be a guest at a luncheon in the English Room of the Student Union.
U. S. Warns Russia Against Arms Trade
GENEVA — (U.P.) The United States bluntly warned Russia today against starting a world trade in arms.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles delivered the warning as the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference ran into a solid deadlock on the question of expanded East-West contacts.
The new impasse followed failure to agree on German unity, disarmament and admission of new countries to the United Nations.
Mr. Dulles also charged the Soviet leaders with being afraid their system would not stand up in contact with the outside world.
The housefly feeds and breeds most extensively i nmanure, garbage and fermenting crop wastes.
Call
Houseparties
Old acquaintances
Mothers and Dads
Exciting rallies
Celebrations (we hope)
Old grads
Motor caravans
Ingenious decoration
New acquaintances
Great football rivalry
Be sure your clothes are ready for the coming weekend of excitement.
Be certain you'll have sharp looking,cleanly pressed sports and date outfits for the homecoming events.
Bring or send them to New York Cleaners today.
Monday, Nov. 14. 1955. University Daily Kansan
Gorton To Attend Music Meeting
Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts will represent the University at the 31st meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music. The meeting will be in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 25-26. The University is a charter member.
The association now includes 225 leading universities, colleges and conservatories.
Dean Gorton is chairman of the committee on research and a member of the graduate commission. He will speak as a member of a panel, discussing the administrative problems of scholarship.
On Friday afternoon the delegates will attend a concert of the St.
Louis Symphony Orchestra as guests of the Symphony Society. Morning and afternoon sessions Saturday will be devoted to topics in music education.
Since the National Commission on Accreditation has designated the NASM as responsible for the approval of music standards on a national basis, the outcome of these meetings will have a significant bearing on the trend of music education in this country, Dean Gorton said.
More cattle are now finished on grain feed, and the average carcass weight at slaughter has risen from 474 pounds in 1920-40 to 511 pounds in 1950-54.
On Campus with Max Shulman
' (Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.) '
THE TRUE AND TRAGICAL TALE OF HAPPY JACK SIGAFOOS
Who would have thought that Happy Jack Sigafoos, the boy the sky never rained on, would ever teeter on the edge of a life of crime?
Certainly there was no sign of it in his boyhood. His home life was most tranquil and uplifting. His mother was a nice plump lady who hummed a lot and gave baskets to the poor. His father was a highly respected citizen who could imitate more than four hundred bird calls and once saved an elderly widow from drowning in his good suit. (That is, Mr. Sigafoos was in his good suit; the elderly widow was in swimming trunks.)
Mr. Steakos Was in his Good Suit ...
Happy Jack tried to get more money from home. He wrote piteous and impassioned letters pointing out that the modern large-capacity girl simply could not be maintained on his meagre allowance. But all Jack got from home were tiresome homilies about thrift and prudence.
Happy Jack's life was nothing short of idyllic—until he went off to college.
In college Happy Jack quickly became a typical freshman-tweedy, seedy, and needy. He learned the joys of rounding out his personality, and he learned the cost. His allowance vanished like dew before the morning sun. There were times, it grieves me to report, when he didn't even have enough for a pack of Philip Morris—and you know how miserable that can be! To be deprived of Philip Morris's gentle flavor, its subtly blended tastiness, its trauma-repairing mildness, its ineffable excellence—why, it is a prospect to break the heart in twain!
Then one day a sinister sophomore came up to Jack and said, "I know how you can get more money from home." Jack said, "How?" and the sinister sophomore handed him a sheet of paper. "For one dollar," said the sinister sophomore, "I will sell you this list of fiendishly clever lies to tell your father when you need extra money."
Jack read the list of fiendishly clever lies:
1. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to buy a new house for the Dean of Men.
2. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to buy a headstone for Rover, our late, beloved dormitory watchdog.
3. A branch of us fellows are getting together to buy the college a new fullback.
4. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to endow a chair of fine arts.
5. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to build our own space satellite.
For a moment, poor Jack was tempted; surely his father could not but support all these worthy causes. Then Jack's good upbringing came to the fore. He turned to the sinister sophomore and said, "No, thank you. I could not deceive my aged parent so. And as for you, sir, I can only say—Fie!"
Upon hearing this, the sinister sophomore broke into a huge grin. He whipped off his black hat and pasty face—and who do you think it was? None other than Mr. Sigafoos, Happy Jack's father, that's who!
"Good luck," cried Mr. Sigafoos. "You have passed your test brilliantly." With that he gave Happy Jack a check for a half million dollars and a red convertible containing four nubile maidens.
Crime does not pay!
$ \textcircled{C} $Max Shulman, 1955
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