Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Nov. 12, 1954
53rd Year, No. 43
LOVE WILL FIND A WAY—Figaro gives the jealous guardian a shave while Rosina is being courted by the disguised Count Almaviva—a one of a seemingly endless succession of intrigues, masquerades, and escapades in the adaptation of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" to be presented here Monday night.
Opera Theater to Offer 'The Barber of Seville'
Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," performed by the Boris Golsky's Opera Theater will open the 1954-55 Concert Series course at 8:20 p.m. Monday in Hoch auditorium.
Rossini's production, based on a play by Beumarchais, has been newly translated by Mr. Goldovsky and his assistant, Miss Sarah Caldwell. The Goldovsky Opera Theater presents all of its productions in English.
Mr. Goldovsky believes that when an audience understands what the cast is singing, the public becomes more critical of the action, stage business, and character portrayals and the performers may no longer relax their dramatic standards behind the protective screen of language and incomprehensibility.
The Opera Theater's traveling company has 14 principal singers and an orchestra of 12. The cast includes William Landormy, John McCollum, Arthur Schoep, Miss Jacqueline Bazinet, Robert Gay, Ernest Eames, Robert Mesrobian, Miss Edith Gordon, Leonard Darnell, Charles Franklin, and Herbert Hiltrich.
The settings by Miss Barbara Lawthers and costumes by Chris Mahan and Leo Witen are the same as those created for the presentation of the "Barber of Seville" at the Boston Opera House in 1952.
Gia V. Ebersole, graduate student, has been elected president of Sigma Delta Pi, national Spanish honorary society.
Other attractions of this year's Concert Series course will be Isaac Stern, violinist; Dec. 7; the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, conducted by Amal Dorali, Feb. 6; the Ballet theater, Feb. 17; and Irene Jordan, soprano, May 2.
Students will be admitted by ID cards. Season tickets are available at the School of Fine Arts office. Single admission tickets for the opera will be sold at the Hoch auditorium box office at 7:15 p.m. the night of performance.
Ebersole to Head Sigma Delta Pi
Weather
ill be partly cloudy in the northwest today, and fair in the east a n d south this after- noon and tonight. Sk i e s will be partly cloudy Saturday. It will be cooler in the evening. Saturday, turning cooler in the northeast by Saturday evening. The low tonight will be around 30 in the extreme northwest to 40 in the east and south.
Campus Chest Up to $400.37
Seven houses contributed $82.13 to the Campus Chest yesterday, bringing the total amount to $400.37.
Houses that added collections to the Chest were:
Chi Omega, $11.70; Sigma Kappa,
$19; Theta Tau, $14.83; Phi Kappa
Tau $14.80; Miller, $6.80; Phi Delta
Theta, $14, and Stephenson, $1.
Phi Delta Stephenson hall, and
Miller had turned in previous
contributions.
The Chest collections are running far behind the goal of $7,693, but many houses have not made their donations. Contributions can be left in the Campus Chest office in the Activities lounge of the Student Union from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday and all day and evening Sunday.
Reich Cabinet Refuses Pact
Bonn, Germany—(U.P.)—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's rebellious coalition cabinet refused today to approve the German rearmament agreements negotiated recently in Paris.
The deadlock cabinet referred the measures—including the highly controversial agreement on the coal-rich Saarland border area—to a five-man cabinet commission for further study.
The deadlock developed suddenly and unexpectedly.
Chancellor Adenauer had called his cabinet to approve bills which were to have been submitted to the West German Parliament for ratification of the measures which would restore German sovereignty, make her a member of a new West European union, and rearm 500,000 West Germans for the West's defense against Communist aggression.
The cabinet ministers balked. Disagreement on the measures was feared likely to upset Mr. Adenauer's time-table for ratification, which had called for the measures to be placed before the Bundesrat (upper house) for study next week and submitted to the Bundesstag (lower house) for first reading and debate Dec. 16.
Only yesterday Mr. Adenauer sent his foreign policy adviser, Herbert Blankenhorn, to Paris for conferences with Premier Pierre Mendes-France's cabinet chief, Jean-Marie Soutou, on the Saar agreement. That feature of the Paris accords has been particularly unpalatable in Germany. Opposition Socialists and some of Mr. Adenauer's own coalition party leaders have bridled at its provisions for permanently divorcing the rich border area from Germany and internationalizing it.
The French government rejected an earlier request by Mr. Adenauer that Soutou tobon to discuss the sticky Saar problem.
France has taken the position that the Saar agreement cannot be changed except for clarification of some of its articles.
In Paris, today. French spokesmen said Mr. Blankenhorn and Mr. Soutou will consider only certain annexes and additions to the Saar agreement which have not been clearly spelled out.
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Disney Classics Slated for 7:30 p.m.
A program of Walt Disney's classics will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium as part of the University film series.
They are filmed in Technicolor and will include four "Silly Symphonies," three recent cartoons, "Pecos Bill," and a True-Life adventure, "Prowlers of the Everglades." An organ recital will begin at 7:15 p.m.
McCarthy Kills Compromise Bill
Washington—(U.P.)—A compromise plan for ending the censure dispute collapsed today because Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy refused to apologize for "abusing" a 1951-52 elections subcommittee.
Sen. Frances Case (R.-S.D.), a member of the Watkins Censure committee, said last night that Sen. McCarthy could kill the charges against him by apologizing for his attacks on the elections subcommittee and one of its members. Sen. Robert C. Hendrickson (R.-N.J.).
But McCarthy stood his grounds as the historic Senate debate moved into its third day with Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan.), listed as the probable first speaker. Like Sen. Case, Sen. Carlson is a member of the censure committee.
Friends said today that Sen. McCarthy might consider backtracking somewhat on his statement that Sen. Hendrickson is a "living miracle." with neither brains nor guts." He said yesterday that "Bob and I are good friends."
PASSING IN REVIEW—The KU band marches past the marquee of the Sunflower hotel in Abilene, from which President Eisenhower
-Kansan photos by Harry Elliott
Kansan photos by Harry Elliott watches the parade being held in his honor. More pictures and stories on pages 4 and 5.