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Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No. 38
Friday, Nov. 4, 1955
Cast Selected For New Play On Dec. 7-10
The cast for "Gammer Gurton's Needle," the next University Theatre production has been selected.
The anonymously written play directed by Jack Brooking, instructor of speech and drama, will be given in Fraser Theater Dec. 7, 8, 9, 10 Milton Howarth, instructor in speech, is in charge of costuming and settings.
"Gammer Gurton's Needle" is a farce with its setting in Elizabethan England on Christmas Eve. Included in the action is a mummer's play. Mummers were those who silently dramatized religious stories performed during the Christmas season.
The cast; Gammer, Lee MacMorris, Hutchinson junior; Dame Chat Shirley Baker, Garden City junior; Hodge, Larry Weaver, Lawrence senior; Tib, Sandra Blankenship, Great Bend freshman; Cock, John Branigan, Kansas City, Mo., sophmore; Doll, Elsie May Pinkston. Altoona freshman; Diccon, David Rosario, Bronx. N.Y., senior; Dr. Rat Bob Yanike, Maryville, Mo., senior; Baily, Jerry Hanken, Cincinnati graduate student; Scapethrift, Don Iode, Hope senior.
Characters in the mummer's play are St. George, George Edwards, Kansas City, Kan., junior; Turkish Knight, Bob Damkroger, Clay Center senior; Lord of Christmas, Ken Evans, Kansas City, Moe, sophomore; Doctor, Dee Richards, Hutchinson senior.
Suggests Change In Primaries
TOPEKA—(U. P.)-Democratic State Chairman Mike Harder proposed today that the 1956 Kansas party endorse candidates for governor, senator and congressman ahead of the primary election.
He said he will submit his recommendation to the state Democratic executive committee at Hutchinson Nov. 16, and to the full state party committee session in Topeka Dec. 10.
The Kansas Democratic convention, held only on presidential years, probably will meet in Wichita sometime before May 1, Mr. Harder said. He said his plan was designed to curb party factionalism.
Asserting he never would favor doing away with the direct primary, Mr. Harder contended, however that in Kansas it "aggravates factionalism" among Democrats which "continues beyond the primary into the general election."
ID Cards Exchanged Today, Tomorrow
Identification cards will be exchanged at the information booth from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday and from 8:30 until 11 a.m. Saturday, said Forrest Hoglund, chairman of the Student Athletic Board.
Weather
KANSAS—Generally fair this afternoon, tonight, and Saturday. Warmer this afternoon. Low to night 30s northwest to lower 48s southeast. High Saturday upper 70s southwest and in 70s elsewhere.
The student must have his identification card, the one he is exchanging, and pay a fee of $1.
Rally Explodes,Kindles Spirit And That Cat Will Be There
REAR VIEW—Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy talks to rallying students.—(Daily Kansan Photo by Tom Siegfried)
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Abductor Says It Will
By BOB LYLE
Assistant City Editor, Daily Kansar
Touchdown IV, Kansas State mascot now in the hands of a KU student, should make an appearance at the annual football game between the two schools in Memorial Stadium tomorrow, if the abductor doesn't change his plans at the last minute.
Yesterday the abductor, now hiding out in the Lawrence area with his contraband cat, planned to return it to Manhattan, but the enthusiasm of University students at the rally last night changed his mind again.
"I had planned to return it to K-State last night," he said, "but the students proved they were really interested in school spirit. I believe the capture of the wildcat has contributed greatly to this rejuvenated enthusiasm. I'm willing to take the chance of being caught with the wildcat in my possession to keep this spirit at its present peak.
"To return the cat to Manhattan now would be an admission of defeat and I don't think we can be beaten either off or on the field by the K-Staters. If they get the cat at the game they won't have any excuse for losing."
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The conspirators say too many persons know about the actual cat-napping, but very few know exactly where Touchdown IV is being held. The animal has been moved at least once in the last two days from the original hiding place.
Abductor Lays Low
The abductor has made himself scarce recently, putting a veil of secrecy around the plan for getting the wildcat to the game Saturday. All suggestions of how to get the wildcat into the stadium are no longer being considered by the cat-napper.
—(Daily Kansan Photo)
SENIOR BEAUTIES—One of these gorgeous gals will be chosen senior calendar queen next Tuesday. From left: (front row) Mary Lou Wickersham, Kansas City; Pat Tucker, Kansas City, Mo.; Jill Gilbert, Independence, Mo.; Peg McReynolds, Coffeyville. Second row: Dorris Toland, Mount Ayr, Iowa; Dianne Nothdurft, Paterson, N. J.; Joan Parker, St. Joseph, Mo.; Beverly Jackson, Kansas City;
Back row; Jane Grantham, Topeka; Carol Saunders-
White, Kansas City, Mo.; Marilyn McCrory, Newton;
Barbara Beilharz, Mission; Joyce Schmidt, Goodland;
Pat Campbell, Nickerton; Pat Pierson, Burlington.
Not pictured. Retta Jones, Nickerson.
(Daily Kansan Photo)
Chancellor Says 'Good!'
By BOB BRUCE
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
KU school spirit, at a low ebb for the past few weeks, flamed to one of its highest points last night as approximately 500 students took part in a spontaneous rally that mushroomed from a few rabid KuKu's at about 9 p.m. to mob-size proportions by midnight.
The rally wound from the Student Union to North College Hall, to Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's home, downtown to the Eldridge Hotel, and then back out to Carruth-O'Leary Hall where the rally reached its frenzied pitch.
The madly cheering mob in what was the largest spontaneous rally since 1952 when Clyde Lovelle and Co. returned from Seattle after
'Tis A Bonny Yell, Goes Muckle Well
Soon everyone else began yelling,
all except Eileen Black who sat silently
with her friend, Delores Mohler.
Iola sohhomore.
A group of snake dancers wound their way through the Hawk's Nest last night, chanting "Rock Chalk, Javahawk. KU!"
"Why aren't you yelling?" one of the snake dancers asked Eileen.
"I don't know the yell," she replied. And she has a reason. She's a student at Iola Junior College, and she's from Inverurie, Scotland.
winning the NCAA basketball title, received every aid from both Lawrence and campus police as the students ran stop signs downtown with gay abandon. The police blocked off streets at Carruth-O'-Leary乳产
The rally idea started, said one KuKu, when upperclassman's pep organization "thought something should be done to stir up spirit and it kind of got started after we gave it a little push."
"A Little Push"
Chancellor Murphy said he first was aware of the commotion about 9:30.
"I discovered about 500 students milling around and cheering in my front yard," he said.
Dressed in his bathrobe, the chancellor had several pertinent comments about the rally. Touch-down IV, and the defacing of public property.
"It's the most well attended, unplanned rally I've ever seen and based on the noise, probably the most successful," he said. "It reminds me of the rallies several years ago when the basketball team went to the Olympics."
Asked if women students would also be permitted to stay out after closing hours, he said. "We have a good many deans around here and I believe they are all relatively human."
Asked About Wildcat
A student asked the chancellor for his opinion about the abduction of the Kansas State mascot, Touch-down IV.
"I don't think it's serious as to who takes whose cat where"—at this
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