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Casts Named for Two Operas To Be Presented May 10-12
The cast for a joint production by the University theatre and the School of Fine Arts of two one-act operas, "Riders to the Sea," by Vaughan William and "The Marriage Merchant," by Rossini, to be presented May 10-12 in Fraser theater has been named.
The cast for "Riders to the Sea" includes Mrs. Carolyn Chard Hart, fine arts junior, Maurya; Jack Davison, fine arts freshman, the son; Gretta Reetz, fine arts senior, and Nan Noyes, graduate student, the daughers.
The chorus will include Delciena Guest, and Billie Mallory, fine arts seniors; Peggy Wilson, fine arts junior; Carolyn Craft and Kay Nelson, fine arts sophomores; Beverly Runkle, Bonnie Dinsmore, fine arts freshmen; Delores Stitrysox, education senior; Nan Bayless, education junior; Charlisia von Gunten, education sophomore, and Carolyn Roberson, college sophomore.
Principals in "The Marriage Merchant" are Merrilyn Coleman, fine arts sophomore, Fanny; William Wilcox, graduate student, Edward; Carolyn Craft, Clarina; Robert Parke, fine arts senior, Slook; Jerry Hart, fine arts junior, Mill, and Jack Davison, Norton.
New English adaptations are by Charles Loyd Holt, assistant director of University theatre.
Dean Thomas Gorton, of the School of Fine Arts, will be musical director, and Dr. John Newfield, director of the University theatre will be stage director.
2 Men to Vie For Alum Helm
A Topeka bakery executive and an Independence publisher are nominees for the presidency of the University of Kansas Alumni association.
S. K. "Sam" Alexander Jr., '47, Topeka, and Herbert A "Hub" Meyer Jr., '36, Independence, are candidates for the one-year term of president. Chester L. Mize Jr., of Atchison will complete his presidential term at commencement in June.
Nominees for the vice presidency are Clyde M. Reed Jr., 37, publisher of the Parsons Sun, and Robert H. Rover, '50, an attorney at Ablene.
Two directors will be selected for 5-year terms from among Mrs. Margaret Wilson Bangs of Wichita; Mrs Jean Haines Barteldes of Lawrence; Chester L. Mize Jr., and Wilmer R Shaffer, a banker at Russell.
Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary,
said members would vote by mail ballots.
He expects more than 3,000 votes from members located all over the world.
Mr. Alexander is a managing partner in the Alexander Brothers Baking company in Topeka. He is a member of the Board of the Red Cross, active in cancer and TB societies, and is a past president of the KU alumni in Shawnee county.
Mr. Meyer is publisher of the Independence Daily Reporter. He is a past president of the Kansas Press association and is president of the Midwest Advertising Executives association. He was employed by Capper Publications in Topeka for several years following his graduation.
Philippine Newsman Visits KU J-School
Adriona P. Laudico, Philippine newspaper and magazine executive, visited the University Daily Kansas and the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information yesterday as part of a two-month study of publishing methods and journalism education in the United States. He is also visiting Stanford and Columbia universities schools of journalism.
Mr. Laudico, editorial adviser and circulation manager of the Ramon Roces Publications, publishers of the Manila Times and several mass circulation magazines in the Philippines, is touring the country under auspices of The Asia Foundation, San Francisco. He is spending Tuesday in Topeka as a guest of Henry S. Blake, president of Capper publications, and tomorrow he will study The Kansas City Star and WDAF-AM and WDAF-TV as a guest of Roy A. Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star Co.
Paganini Quartet Thrills Audience
By NANCY COLLINS
Fingers and bows literally flew over the strings of four Stradivarius instruments last night as the members of the Paganini quartet played to a near-capacity audience in Strong auditorium.
The quartet is composed of Henri Temianka and Gustave Rosseels, violins, Charles Foldart, viola, and Lucien Laporte, cello. Their instruments, which once belonged to the virtuoso, Paganini, are insured for $1/4 million.
Little known until last year, Alberto Ginastera is considered by members of the quartet to be a promising young Argentine composer. A powerful presentation of his music was given by the quartet.
The fine instruments, coupled with the skill and sensitivity of the artists, produced two hours of listening enjoyment.
Commenting on the Ginastera composition, Mr. Temianka said it shows the influence of Bortok, as does much modern music, with its savage, primitive rhythms. The composition's New York premiere is accompanied quartet, and "received great enthusiasm, even by the British."
Music from Mozart and Debussy were included on the program, and two selections from Beethoven were played as encores.
Planning Session To Start Tomorrow
The Kansas Conference on Planning will be held tomorrow in the Student Union. The topic of the conference will be "The Procedures and Values of Planning in the Development of Kansas and Its Communities."
L. C. Williams, division of College Extension, Kansas State college, will be chairman for the general session. John A. Parker, head of the department, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, will speak on "Procedures and Values of Planning."
Union's Regional Post Goes to KU Director
Frank R. Burge, director of the Student Union, has been appointed regional representative of the Association of College Unions according to word received from William E. Rion, president of the association.
Mr. Burge will serve as representative for Region 8, which includes Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri.
Tuesday, March 29, 1955 University Daily Kansan
Graduate Awaits Year in Norway
A Fulbright award of one year's study at the University of Oslo in Norway has been awarded to Harold D. Swanson, graduate student, of Wichita, Dr. J. A. Burzle, fellowship adviser, announced that Mr. Swanson will study zoology in Norway.
For Appointment
Mr. Swanson said he expects to receive his Master of Arts degree in zoology this spring. He is a graduate of Friends university in Wichita in 1953. Mr. Swanson said he and his fiancee, Wanda Gugler, education senior, will be married in June and will spend one year in Norway.
Dr. Burzle said the award was made under the Fulbright act, one of 22 grants for study in Norway. The 22 grants are included with 1,000 grants for graduate study abroad in 1955 and 1956 in the U.S. Education Exchange program. All students are selected by the Board of Foreign Scholarships.
Dr. Burzle said exchange programs for American students are being carried out in 23 countries. He said the funds used under the Fulbright act are obtained through surplus property sales aboard.
Hawk-Talk
If you're not popular we've got every type of lesson to make you at least socially acceptable. The last in a series of dance lessons is tonight at 8:30 in the Jayhawk Room, Union. If you have missed all of the others, you can at least learn how to get on and off a dance floor gracefully at this one.
If your personality is really wretched try gifts. No one can resist cuff links, earrings, bracelets, etc., made in the SUA Craft Shop. Lessons Tuesday, 7-9.
If dancing just isn't your long point, say "Let's sit this one out and play a little bridge." If you can't play bridge, SUA has the answer. They offer weekly bridge lessons Tuesday at 7.
Now that you've improved that personality, bring whomever you've enchanted to the Trail Room Record Dance. This is thoughtfully planned for Wednesday night following the Tuesday night personality builders. Record dancing all evening with entertainment at 9:30. Mike Grove will sing and his accompanist, Frank Tavares, will do what accompanists dream of—piano solos. Where else could you get soft lights, sweet music, and 5c coffee?
Just dying to be a Big Dealer. You can get applications for officer or board members of Student Union Activities from Sue Schwantes, 3510, or at the SUA office in the Union. Applications will be due the week after this long awaited vacation. If you have worked on SUA activities apply. If you can type, be sure to apply; we need new blood for this column.
We're not giving letter sweaters, but this is the chance for thwarted athletes. A table tennis tournament with championship and novice divisions is planned for April 14 in the Ballroom. And it's free.
Sometimes people in technical majors don't get the important part of college life, culture. Pick up some culture at the Poetry Hour this week. Clarence Kellischek will read poems of John Crowe Ransome, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren.
For the more muscled a bowling tournament is scheduled for students and faculty the week of April 18. Any bowler with an established average should register now at the J-Bowl.
student union activities
Home Economics Students Honored
Susan Montgomery, education junior, was elected president of the Kansas Home Economics College club, and Miss Viola Anderson, associate professor of home economics, was elected president of the adult organization at the annual meeting of the Kansas Home Economics association in Hutchinson last weekend.
Two of the speakers were Dr. Helen Hulbert, assistant director of the home service department of General Mills, Minneapolis, Minn., and Dr. Aby Marlatt of the department of foods and nutrition, Kansas State college.
University students attending included Peggy McReynolds, educa
tion junior; Miss Lavina Franck and Miss Muriel Johnson, instructors in home economics; Mrs. Louella Foster and Miss Ruth Franzen, assistant professors in home economics; Miss Montgomery and Miss Anderson.
KU-Washburn Debate Set for Tomorrow
Two members of the varsity debate squad, John Fields, second-year law, and Hubert Bell, college senior, will leave for Topeka tomorrow to meet a Washburn university team at 7:30 p.m. in the Washburn Union building.
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
The first thought that comes into our minds upon entering college is, of course, marriage. But how many of us go about seeking mates, as I like to call them, in a truly scientific manner? Not many, you may be sure. Most of us simply marry the first person who comes along. This can lead to unpleasant consequences, especially if the person we marry is already married.
Homogamy means the attraction of like for like. In marriage it is rarely opposites which attract; the great majority of people choose mates who resemble themselves in taste, personality, outlook, and, perhaps most important of all, cultural level.
Let us today make a scientific survey of the three principle causes of marriage—homogamy, personality need, and propinquity. We will examine these one at a time.
Take, for example, the case of two students of a few years ago named Anselm Glottis and Florence Catapult. Anselm fell madly in love with Florence, but she rejected him because she was majoring in the Don Juanian Poets and he was in the lowly school of forestry. After graduation Anselm got a job as a forest ranger. Still determined to win Florence, he read every single Don Juanian Poet cover to cover while sitting in his lookout tower.
His plan, alas, miscarried. Florence, sent on a world cruise as a graduation present, picked up the betel nut habit in the Indies. Today, a derelict, she keeps body and soul together by working as a sampan off Mozambique. And Anseh, engrossed in the Don Juanian Poets, failed to notice a forest fire which destroyed 29,000,000 acres of second growth blue spruce. Today, a derelict, he teaches Herrick and Lovelace at the Connecticut School of Mines.
The second reason why people marry, personality need, means that you often choose a mate because he or she possesses certain qualities that complete and fulfill your own personality. Take, for instance, the case of Alanson Duck. As a freshman, Alanson made a fine scholastic record, played varsity lacrosse, and was very popular with his fellow students. Yet Alanson was not happy. There was something lacking in his life, something vague and indefinable that was needed to make his personality complete.
Then one day Alanson discovered what it was. As he was walking out of his class in Flemish pottery, a fetching coed named Grace Ek offered him a handsome brown package and said, "Philip Morris?"
"Yes!" he cried, for all at once he knew what he had been needing to round out his personality—the gentle fulfillment of Philip Morris Cigarettes, the soul-repairing mildness of their vintage tobaccocs, the balm of their unparalleled taste, the ease and convenience of their bonny brown Snap-Open pack. "Yes, I will take a Philip Morris!" cried Alanson. "And I will also take you to wife if you will have me!"
"La." she exclaimed, throwing her apron over her face, but after a while she removed it and they were married. Today they live in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, where Alanson is with an otter glazing firm and Grace is a bookie.
Propinquity, the third cause of marriage, means closeness. Put a boy and a girl in a confined space for a long period and they will almost surely get married. A perfect example is the case of Fafnir Sigafoos. While a freshman at Louisiana State, he was required to crawl through the Big Inch pipeline as part of his fraternity initiation. He entered the pipe at Baton Rouge. As he passed Lafayette, Ind., he was agreeably surprised to be joined by a comely girl named Mary Alice Isinglass, a Purdue freshman, who had to crawl through the Big Inch as part of her sorority initiation. When they emerged from the pipeline at Burlington, Vermont, they were engaged, and, after a good hot bath, they were married. Today they live in Klamath Falls, Ore., where Fafnir is in the weights and measures department and Mary Alice is in the roofing game. They have three children, all named Norman.
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