Friday. May 14. 1954
University Daily Kansan
Page 3
Britain Readies Fete For Majesty's Return
London—(U.P). It will be something like the coronation all over again tomorrow for the homecoming of young Queen Elizabeth II who has spent most of her time away from home since the crown was placed on her head. She will step ashore at 3:15 p.m. (8:15 CST) tomorrow after a tour of nearly seven months and 44,210 miles by land, sea and air.
The queen will find her ancient capital affutter with flags and pennants and jammed with throngs from the provinces in a scene reminiscent of her coronation last June 2. An elaborate ceremony will hail the 28-year-old monarch's first moment on English soil since she flew off to tour the commonwealth last Nov. 22.
Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh have traveled to Bermuda and Jamaica across the Pacific, to
Our Jamaica, the island and Australia, northward to the Cocos Islands, Ceylon and Aden, then to Uganda in Africa, over the desert to Tobruk, Libya, and back to Britain through Malta and Gibraltar.
Ever since her plane first skirted a night storm over the Atlantic when it left London for Bermuda, Elizabeth has been under pressure and in some danger.
A polio epidemic imperiled her visit to West Australia. Threats were made against her life by the Mau Mau terrorists in Africa and Spanish extremists at Gibraltar.
In addition, all through her tour security officers were worried about the ease with which children darted at her through police lines. In Jamaica a modern day Sir Walter Raleigh startled the queen by rushing out and spreading his coat in the mud.
But by far the worst moment of the trip was a Christmas eve train wreck that killed 166 persons in New Zealand while Elizabeth was visiting there.
The queen is returning from her reacting journey five pounds lighter than when she left and her usual measurements of 34-1 inch bust, 24 waist and 36 hips have all lost an inch.
From Sir Winston Churchill to London's Cockney crowd, millions will join in the wild welcome of cheers, pealing bells and cannon salutes tomorrow whep the Royal Yacht Britannia sails up the Thames river.
Exscorted by Royal navy ships and Air Force planes the Britannia will sail to the Tower of London. From there the entire royal family will travel by barge to Westminster pier.
Then will come one of the most moving moments of the homecoming—the young queen's meeting with the 78-year-old Churchill, who is intensely proud of the young monarch and her place in British tradition. In addition there have been persistent rumors that he was waiting for her return to retire.
Art Professor To Exhibit Works
Robert Green, associate professor of drawing and painting, has been invited to exhibit several of his works at the Verdigris Valley Art exhibition opening May 21 at Independence.
He is sending one oil painting and two done in egg tempera. Prof. Green is a winner of the Prix de Rome.
Keep meringue pie from breaking by slicing it with a knife dipped in cold water.
$198. EASY,
CAMPUS AGENCY,
We need a campus agent to sell nationally advertised drawing instrument sets and slide rules to engineering freshmen this fall. Tremendous profits. Free posters and brochures. No investment required. Write: Empire Engineering., P.O. Box 114, Canal St. Station., NYC 13.,NY
Costello Faces Sentence, Fine
New York—(U,P)—Gambling Czar Frank Costello was convicted last night on three counts of federal income tax evasion. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison plus a $30,000 fine.
The jury of seven men and five women deliberated eight hours and 10 minutes before finding the gambler guilty of evading $39,014 in taxes in 1947, 1948, and 1949. He was found innocent on one count in the four-count indictment. It involved his 1946 return on which the government had charged $13,244 was due.
Mr. Costello, 63, will be sentenced Monday by Judge John F. X. McGheev.
Judge McGheyb continued the defendant in $5,000 bail until 9 a.m. (CST) today when it was raised to $25,000.
When the jury filed back into the courtroom last night, Mr. Costello nervously wiped his face with a handkerchief. His hands trembled.
Defense Counsel Leo C. Fennelly said he would appeal the verdict.
When the jury foreman intoned the guilty verdict Mr. Costello's mouth tightened, he paled, and buried his face in his hands.
Mr. Costello, believed to be the king of a nationwide underworld gambling syndicate, emerged from federal prison only last Oct. 29 after serving 14 months and 15 days on a contempt of Congress conviction.
He also faces denaturalization proceedings as the first step in the government's efforts to have the gambler deported to his native Italy. In addition, a civil suit for back taxes is hanging over him.
KuKus Pledge 17 At Rush Smoker
The KuKu pep club pledged 17 men at its annual spring rush smoker last night and outgoing president of the club, Herbert Horowitz, college junior, was presented with a presidential key. Next year's officers also were installed at the meeting.
Robert E. Hess, engineering; James Zehe, architecture; Edward Odell, engineering; Paul Culp, college; Roger Lembke, engineering; Gary Schugart, college; James Ruhiauf, college; Tom Williams, college; William Hayn, college; Richard Lee, engineering; Carlton Dowdy, college; Jon Baker, college; William Breyfogle, college, Louis Stout, engineering; William Snyder, college, and Ronald Phillips, engineering.
Of the 17 new pledges, 16 are freshman and one, Conrad Brown, architecture, a sophomore.
The 16 freshman pledges:
'Secret of Suzanne' Was Protested-in 1924
It's a fairly safe bet that no one who saw "The Secret of Suzanne" during the three days this week the comic opera played gave a second thought to the moral implications of the plot. Yet, according to a story told by Prof. D. M. Swarthout this week, the influence of "The Secret of Suzanne" on public morals was a controversy giving him anxious moments some 30 years ago.
By R. H. CHESKY
prof. Swarthout was in his first year as dean of the School of Fine Arts when a traveling opera company arrived from Chicago to present "The Secret of Suzanne" for the first time in Lawrence. Since the Fine Arts school was sponsoring the event, Prof. Swarthout issued press releases and summaries of the plot to the local and regional newspaper as standard publicity practices.
The plot of "The Secret of Suzanne" doesn't seem too shocking to us in 1954, but at least one man was aroused in 1924. Suzanne's "secret" is the fact that she is a habitual user of that vile weed, tobacco, and the plot of the opera centers on her attempts to hide this fact from her husband while they honeymoon.
their villa. Of course, Suzanne reaches for a cigarette every time her husband leaves their abode, so there's considerable smoke about before the evening is over.
The husband, who is something of a prig anyway, hates tobacco and suspects that his wife has taken a lover when he smells it around
Prof. Swarthout recalls that his telephone rang very shortly after the papers hit the streets on the day of the performance. On the other end of the line was an irate citizen who also was the state legislator sponsoring the famed Kansas "blue laws," which imposed strict limitations on the sale and use of tobacco. The gentleman told Prof. Swarthout, in no uncertain terms that he would not stand idly by and see the morals of Kansas womanhood polluted by the public exhibition of a woman smoking on a stage. He also added that the performance would not be given if he could prevent it—and he thought he could.
Prof. Swarthout attempted to reason that opera plots were in most cases more than 100 years old, and dealt in many cases with plots, murders, and assassinations far more harrowing than Suzanne's minor vices. But his remonstractions were in vain.
Prof. Swarthout was new at the University, and was uncertain as to just what course to take. So he went to the office of the chancellor for a chat with his executive secretary. He advised Prof. Swarthout not to take the threats of the
legislator too seriously, and to go on with the performance as planned.
on with the performance as planned.
Well, the show went on, Prof.
Swarthout recalled, and there was
absolutely no hitch in the performance. And nothing more was
heard from the irate legislator. But
there were a few anxious moments
for a new dean, and all because
of a woman sneaking a smoke now
and then. It seems hard to believe. . .
The National Savings and Loan League, estimates the country's 6,000 savings and loan associations will probably make more than $8.5 billion worth of home financing loans during 1954, as compared with $7.8 billion during the previous record year of 1953.
RUNNIN' LIKE A TOP!
LEONARD'S STANDARD SERVICE 9th & Indiana
BARBERS EVERYWHERE RECOMMEND ☆ WILDROOT CREAM-OIL TO REMOVE LOOSE DANDRUFF ★ KEEP HAIR WELL GROOMED ★