Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Thursday, March 4, 1954
—Kansan photo by Gene Bratton
STEEL NERVES—Balancing acts are all in a day's work for the steel workers building the new fieldhouse. Walking narrow girders more than 50 feet above the ground does nothing to lower insurance rates.
"People don't care what school buildings look like. While they wouldn't send their children to school in gunnysacks, they send them to schools just as ugly," Douglas Haskell, editor of House and Home, told architectural students yesterday.
School Structure Important To Health, Architects Told
Italian Film To Be Shown
"Miracle in Milan." an Italian-language comedy, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium.
Toto the Good, reared in an orphanage, "turns a hobo jungle into a shantytown haven for Milan's poor and imbues them with good will." Time magazine said of the movie.
Toto is invited to take shelter among the derelicts after he be-friends a tramp who has stolen his valise. "He teaches the people to be cheerful, to improve their community life, and to trust those who own the property on which the camp is built." Bosley Crowther, New York Times screen editor, wrote. A plutocrat buys the property after a discovery of oil and sends police to remove the camp.
The New York Film Critic named "Miracle in Milan" the best foreign language movie of 1951. The movie includes English subtitles.
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Weather
A gradual warmup began in Kansas today after a night that was calm, clear and cold. Kansas' minimum temperatures early today
ranged from six degrees at Salina to 16 at Dodge City. Lows to night, said State Weatherman Tom Arnold, likely will be in the 20s. By tomorrow afternoon, he said.
the mercury should have inched back up to 50 degrees. Mr. Arnold said southern Kansas probably will have some cloudiness from a rain area in Texas tomorrow, but no precipitation is expected in this state. The forecast is mostly fair today and tonight, with increasing cloudiness south mostly fair north tomorrow; rising temperatures; high today 30s east to around 40 west; low tonight in 20s.
$\textcircled{1}$ Mr. Haskell and John L. Reese, practicing architect from California, were here for an architectural conference and George M. Beal, professor, spoke on the challenge presented by school architecture.
"School buildings are important both to the physical and mental health of the child," Mr. Haskell said. "The idea that an attractive environment is not important is poppycock."
Mr. Haskell stressed the need for public relations in architectural field, "Communications must be made with the public. The public must realize that it is the architect signed building that gives people a kick," he said. "To get these new schools up, the public has got to know about architects and what they can do."
In California, Mr. Reese said, architects are given an allotment of 55 square feet of space per child in elementary school, 75 square feet in junior high school, and 80 square feet in high school. He commented that the difficulty of building really attractive schools under these conditions.
Mr. Reese showed colored slides of school buildings. He told of the "chess game" that must be played with the school board finance committee in California and elsewhere to get enough building space for schools.
They will be interviewed by the senior women of this year's senate, and from this interview, a final slate of officers will be drawn up.
Women who passed the Associated Women Students quiz for candidacy in the AWS senate will be served English room of the Student Union.
AWS Candidates' Coffee Set Today
The quiz was given to select women qualified to run for AWS offices, and it was based on a knowledge of the campus AWS and the national IAWS. AWS senate elections will be held March 10.
Education Dinner to Be Today Faculty members of the School of Education and their families will hold their annual dinner in the Kansas room of the Union at 6 p.m. today.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 100
"Heightening and intensifying human problems and experiences is one essential element a critic must look for in a play" said John Beaufort, drama critic for the Christian Science Monitor, in an interview this morning.
By GENE SHANK
Critic Describes Essence of Plays
"A play must be more than a literal representation," he said. "It must be a little larger than life." Other qualities Mr. Beaufort looks for in reviewing a play are entertainment, literary quality, performances, direction, and beauty of speech and movement.
Mr. Beaufort explained that he uses his own reactions to a play as a basis for criticism. "A good critic must be unafraid to make a fool himself," he said. Beginning critics are often too caustic or too kind. "A critic must have the courage of his own convictions," he said, "but first the critic must have convictions to have courage about."
He stressed that a writer does not automatically become a drama critic. He recalled that he himself hadn't started out as a drama critic when he began working for the Monitor. But his love for the theater induced him to study drama, and after serving as a reporter and museer for several years, he began covering plays, films finally became his regular beat, and in 1393 covering Broadway became his job.
An extensive background in the liberal arts, particularly history, is essential to Mr. Beaufort. He feels that the drama critic must find the relationship between what the playwrights of the past were writing and the social conditions under which they were writing, in order to completely understand the plays of any period.
The three questions that Mr. Beaufort has used in criticizing any type of writing are: (1) What is the author trying to say? (2) Did he say it? (3) Was it worth saying?
"A writer must have a probing, lively interest and a real appreciation of his work to succeed" he said. "I think that is the decisive receptive to ideas that have value."
McCarthy Denies Feuding with Ike
Washington—(U.P.)-Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said today he had "no fight with Eisenhower at all" and hoped their dispute about his Senate investigating committee procedure now could be dropped.
Poetry Contest Cash Prizes Set
Prizes for the 1953-54 William Herbert Carruth poetry contest will be $50 for first place; $25 for second; $15 for third, and honorable mention.
Prizes will be awarded for poems or groups of poems written and submitted by students enrolled at the University. Entries should be submitted not later than April 20, at the office of the department of English, 203 Fraser hall. Entries should be typewritten.
The poems should be signed with a pseudonym and accompanying each entry should be a a sealed envelope labeled with the poem title and pseudonym and containing the author's real name.
Contest judges will be a graduate of KU, a member of the department of English and a well-known American poet. Students desiring further information may confer with Arvid Shulenberger, assistant professor of English at 303 Fraser hall.
The Carruth Memorial Poetry prize fund was established in 1927, in memory of the late Professor Carruth for his services to the University as a teacher and author.
William Herbert Carruth was a student at KU and a Harvard university graduate. He became professor of German and was vice-chancellor of the University for several years.
Chorus Won't Meet Today
The University chorus, scheduled for 4 p.m. today in Strong, will not meet, Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, announced this morning.
-Kansan photo by Gene Bratton
NEWSPAPER AND THEATER—John Beaufort, New York drama critic for the Christian Science Monitor, who spoke today to The Editorial class in the School of Journalism, is shown with Prof. Calder M. Pickett, class instructor.
The Wisconsin Republican said he and the President had made their positions clear and that Mr. Eisenhower was as strong as he on the subject of Communists in government.
In Sen. McCarthy's continuing investigation of the Army, a doctor serving as an Army private near a top-secret radar project today refused to tell investigators whether he was a Communist.
Sen. Joseph McCarthy said the soldier, Pf. Marvin S. Belsky, is "in a position to constantly contact patients" who have been working on Project Lincoln, which he called "not only secret but tonmost secret."
Belsky refused, on the basis of possible self-incrimination, to tell the Senate permanent investigating subcommittee whether he is a communist today or had been since May. 1953, when he was first stationed at Murphy General hospital, Waltham, Mass.
Sen. McCarthy's language and attitude today were friendly toward the White House. But many capital veterans saw in yesterday and today's developments more postponement than answer of one of the hottest political questions of this general election year. That is: Will Sen. McCarthy permit Mr. Eisenhower and the Senate Republican leadership to monitor his conduct of committee investigations.
Yesterday's forecast of an Eisenhower-McCarthy break or showdown on investigation procedure did not quite come off. What happened was a repetition of last year's incident in which the President gave his news conference an implied rebuke and repudiation of Sen. McCarthy's actions. That one related to foreign policy. Yesterday's had to do with Sen. McCarthy's rough questioning of Brig. General Ralph W. Zwicker.
A mimeographed two-page statement at the President's news conference defended and praised Gen. Zwicker whom Sen. McCarthy is alleged to have abused in questions about the honorable discharge of a known "Fifth amendment Communist."
The President's statement also deplored and repudiated "disregard of the standards of fair play recognized by the American people." He put it straight to the Republican leadership of Congress to enforce those standards in congressional hearings.
Valenti Plays At 8 Today
Fernando Valenti, concert harpsichordist, will be presented by the School of Fine Arts in a concert at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
The performance is open to the public, and there will be no admission charge.
Mr. Valenti, whose program will include compositions by Mozart, Scarlatti, and others, has received widespread critical acclaim for his performances. Not yet 30 years of age, he already has achieved a number of notable firsts in his profession. He is the first harpsichordist to appear on television, and the first to record a moving picture sound track.
Mr. Valenti was also the first harpchordist ever to appear at the University, performing at the spring musical festival in 1952.
Seniors Still Can Order
Seniors may order their announcement cards at the business office before March 20, H. I. Swartz, accountant, said today. The order deadline originally was March 1.
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