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University Daily Kansan
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, who is a guest speaker here today and tomorrow, is shown here with the largest tension integrity sphere in the world. The architect will give a public lecture at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Strong auditorium on "Comprehensive Resources and Design Strategy." The sphere which he is constructing at Princeton, N.J., stands 40 feet high. It reportedly may be a forerunner of lighter construction and cheaper housing.
University Radio Presents Weekly Opera Program
"Night at the Opera," a program featuring an entire opera each week, is now in its second month on University FM station KANU. The program time will be changed to 8 p.m. Wednesday in December.
Three professors serve as guest commentators. They are John Newfield, professor of drama; Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice; and Gerald Carney, associate professor of music education.
Dr. Newfield is director of the University Theatre. A native of Vienna, he received his doctorate in history and law there. He has served on the staff of the Vienna State opera, and has toured the United States as stage director for the Salzburg Opera guild. Dr. Newfield has been associated with the New York City Center opera, and has directed opera festivals in Havana.
Monday, Dec. 7, 1953
Prof. Schmidt, who has worked in opera for more than 14 years, was a vocalist on the "Carnation Contented Hour" over NBC. He was on the "Words and Music" program for three years, and a guest artist on the "Theatre of the Air." He also spent two seasons with NBC's "Evening with Romberg."
Prof. Carney has directed music in Kansas schools, and is associate director of the Midwestern Music camp. Mr. Carney, who has spent many years in music education, is musical director of the University Light Opera guild.
Tokyo Feels Earth Tremor
Tokyo —(U.P).— A light earth-
quake shook downtown. Tokyo
shortly after 11 p.m. today (8 a.m.
CST).
Christmas Tree Set In Strong Rotunda
A positive sign that Christmas is only 18 days away is the huge Christmas tree now standing in the rotunda of Strong hall.
Workmen brought the tree to Strong hall, sprayed it with aluminum paint, and set it up Friday. Faculty members of the design department decorated the tree Saturday.
University workmen from the department of building and grounds obtained the tree, 23 feet tall and with a spread in width of 15 feet, on a farm southwest of Lawrence.
Marjorie Whitney, chairman of the design department, said installing and decorating the tree in the Strong rotunda was an annual custom.
Five Attend College Program
Five faculty members attended a College Night program at Hutchinson Thursday. They are Miss Mary Peg Hardman, assistant dean of women; Miss Helen Lohr, associate professor of home economics; Albert Palmerlee, professor of engineering drawing; William Korbel, assistant professor of business, and Donald Alderdon, dean of men.
MONDAY, DEC. 7
NOTICE
We will be closed
Watch for Opening
CinemaScope comes to Lawrence Wednesday with the opening at the Granada theater of the Twentieth Century-Fox production, "The Robe."
Robe'in CinemaScope Comes to Lawrence
DAIRY QUEEN
By COURT ERNST
The CinemaScope process utilizes' a revolutionary type of anamorphic ensius which compresses a wide-angle picture onto a strip of 35 mm. film. Correcting lenses on the projection machines expand the picture back to its natural size.
Technicolor and a newly-developed system of stereophonic sound are also used in the new medium. Stereophonic sound is a means whereby sounds come from various speakers placed around the auditorium of the theater. On widescreen films it is possible to have the sound coming from the point of action on the screen.
Stereophonic sound has previously been accomplished by using a separate amplifying system with the projectors to furnish sound to the speakers. For CinemaScope, however, technicians have developed a system where four magnetic soundtracks can be put on the film strip in perfect synchronization, two on each side of the picture.
"The Robe" is a lavish spectacle which tells of the garment Christ wore at his crucifixion and the people whose lives it affected. Heading the large cast are Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Betta St. John, and Dean Jagger.
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CinemaScope has been widely hailed as Hollywood's answer to declining boxoffice receipts. Some critics argued that it was good for spectacle film, such as "The Robe," but wouldn't enhance more intimate films.
Returns, piling up from the second picture in this medium, "How to Marry a Millionaire," just recently released, would seem to disprove this argument. Variety reports that these two pictures are currently the two top moneymakers on the market. Other studios have announced their intentions of using the process, with Warners recently abandoning its own anamorphic system in favor of CinemaScope.
Late in 1952 Twentieth Century-Fox acquired the rights to Cinema-Scope from its inventor, Prof. Henri Christian, and announced it would film "The Robe" in this process. Last February the studio surprised all Hollywood by committing its entire future production schedule to the new medium. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was quick to approve the system, and scheduled two films to be made in it.
Last week Variety reported that Fox has now completed 10 Cinema-Scope films and has 15 more ready to start. M-G-M has completed two and scheduled seven more for next year, Warners has set 16 pictures for filming, and Columbia, Walt Disney, and United Artists have scheduled two cach. Paramount and RKO Radio are the last two major hold-outs, as Universal-International has said it will film at least part of its pictures next year in CinemaScope.
Time magazine said last week that if "How to Marry a Millionaire" continued to show the strength it did in its first week of release, which is
now virtually a certainty, that the rest of Hollywood would have to jump on the Fox bandwagon or be lost by the wayside.
A solid gold golf ball will be awarded to the winner cf the unique golf tournament to be held in connection with Ireland's second An Tostal (at home) Festival to be celebrated in 1954. Both "duffers" and international stars will take part.
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