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Acting Group Meets to Find Student Talent
Students interested in becoming a member of University Players, drama group, may meet at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow in 306 Fraser hall.
Bill West, college senior, will explain the year's plans for activities and tell how to become a University Player. Formerly one became a member by accumulating points for working in some capacity during the production of plays and for attending meetings. Now, the system will be simplified and will be based upon the actual amount of work one does.
At a meeting of the Players Friday Marjorie Smith, fine arts senior, and West were elected to the executive committee. James Wright, instructor in speech, was reappointed as faculty adviser.
Wright explained laboratory theater plans, and Dr. John Newfield, director of University Theatre, discussed University Theatre activities and its function in connection with University Players and laboratory theater.
Charles Dick, graduate student, is chairman of the social committee, which acts as host to University Theatre guests at drama meetings and to important visiting theater personalities on the campus. Assistants on the theatre Lawrence College sophomore, and Lenore Matthews, fine arts junior.
Mark Gilman, education senior, was named chairman of the theater laboratory museum committee, which will help set up displays in connection with play productions. The other member is Ernest Dade, colleague junior.
In other business at Friday's meeting chairmen and members were named. Joyce Henry, education senior, will head the usher committee Miss Smith is chairman of publicity with assistants Caroline West, college senior, and Means.
Three officers were appointed to the constitution committee, which will condense and make more permanent the University Players constitution. They were Jo Anna March, college senior; Marjorie Englund, college junior and West.
Officers and executive council members will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday in Green hall. Another meeting scheduled for all Players will be at 5 p.m. Sept. 29.
Monday, Sept. 21, 1953
Coming events for drama drama include a melodrama presented by University Players, a University Theatre road show, four laboratory and University Theatre plays, and perhaps a tour of some one-act plays in towns surrounding Lawrence. Occasionally the laboratory and University Theatre will present three-act plays.
Hells Canyon Issue Gets New Delay
Washington — (U.P) — A federal power commission examiner formally granted a two-week postponement today in a hearing on applications of the Idaho Power company for permanent build three low
Examiner William J. Costelk noted that opponents of the application contended they have not been given "adequate opportunity to prepare for a hearing of this magnitude" during the postponement until Oct. 5.
He said postponement would cause "considerable inconvenience" to the power company but said developments in the hearing so far show "some reasonable interruption" is in order.
The applications are being opposed by the National Hells Canyon Association, Inc., and a group of Pacific northwest public utility districts. Gerard Dawson, attorney the case, said he will start cross-examination of power company witnesses at the resumption of the examination.
The company completed its direct case for the applications Aug. 7 and the hearing has been in recess since.
ID Cards Ready This Week
Student identification cards may be picked up by students in Strong rotunda Sept. 24, 25, and 26 the Photographic bureau said today.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No.4
RALLY, RALLY—Few students showed up for the rally before the listening party in the Union Saturday night, but those who did make it made plenty of noise. After the rally the students listened to the TCU game in the Union. The game was "piped" to all parts of the Union. Several hundred persons attended the listening party. A dance followed the game. The listening parties, a regular practice since completion of the new Union building, will be held for other out-of-town
sport coats were brought out of the closets t h i s morning for a welcome change in the weather. What day, and Tuesday should see more of the same. The Kansas forecast
night games.
Fulbright, Argentina Grants Open for Student Competition
Weather
The awards cover transportation, expenses of a language refresher or orientation course abroad, tuition, books, and maintenance for one academic year. They vary from $500 to $1,200, depending on the cost of living in each country.
The awards under the Buenos Aires convention included transportation, tuition, maintenance, and incidental expenses provided by the host government.
Further information may be obtained from Prof. Burzle in 304 Fraser hall.
calls for fair skies tonight, warmer west and cooler east. Scattered frost is possible in the extreme northeast on Tuesday Tuesdays with low tonight of 35-40 in the northeast to 40s elsewhere. High Tuesday will be in the 80s.
Students interested in graduate study under the Fulbright act and the Buenos Aires convention of 1954-55 may apply for grants now, according to Dr. J. A. Burzle, campus Fulbright adviser.
Competition officially closes Oct. 31. For those desiring to study in Austria or New Zealand, the deadline is October 15.
Preference is given to applicants who have not had previous foreign residence or study in the country for which they are applying, and those under 35. Veterans will receive preference.
Eligibility requirements are: U.S. citizenship, a college degree or its equivalent at the time the award is to be taken, knowledge of the language of the country sufficient to carry on the proposed study, and good health.
Selection is made on the basis of the applicant's personal qualifications, academic record, value of the proposed study of research, and suitability for placement in a college abroad.
Smith Silverwork Shows at LA Fair
Five Pieces of art work made by Carlyle H. Smith, associate professor of jewelry and silversmithing, have been accepted for exhibit at the Los Angeles County fair at Pomona, this month.
The pieces are a salt and pepper set, a silver ring with an inset pearl, two salad servers with ebony handles, a round pin, and a sterling silver dish with ebony feet.
Student Union Activities will hold its annual membership meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Union ballroom. Committee chairmen will explain the activities of the club. All students wishing to join are invited to attend.
SUA Asks for Membership
Reds Ignore Plea For Data on PWs
Panmunjom, Korea—(U.P.)The Communists today shrugged off as "crudely manufactured" propaganda a United Nations demand for information of 3,404 allied troops, including 944 Americans, for whom the Reds never have accounted.
McCarthy Unit Checks Rumor
Washington — (UP)— Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said today his senate investigating subcommittee is checking reports that Laventi P. Beria, former No. 2 man in the Kremlin, is in a "non-Communist country" and wants to talk.
Mr. McCarthy added, however, that "at the present time I am not convinced that the man is Beria."
Mr. McCarthy declined to identify the "non-Communist country." The Wisconsin Republican told reporters his subcommittee has received repeated reports, some apparently from reliable sources," that "a man who claims to be Beria, who resembles Beria" has fled from Russia and is in hiding.
Government officials expressed skepticism about the report. Mr McCarthy confirmed that his subcommittee staff is working on the case. He would not say exactly what has been developed.
Mr. McCarthy said, "no paid member of my staff has personally met this man." He would not elaborate. But he said that no sub-committee funds have been spent in connection with the incident.
He said that "originally I considered the report so fantastic that I did not even give other members of the subcommittee a report on it."
He would not say whether he has been in contact with the FBI or the Central Intelligence agency about the reports.
"I am extremely interested to know if this is actually Beria," he said. "At the present time I am not convinced that it is."
Earlier, a subcommittee source said Beria is "in contact" with subcommittee agents abroad and is eager to come to this country to "tell all he knows about the international communist conspiracy."
This source said the subcommittee is prepared to issue a subpena to bring Beria to Washington to testify before the subcommittee.
North Korean Gen. Lee Sang Cho told a meeting of the armistice commission that most of the men on the U.N. roster never were captured by the Communists in the first place. Of the remainder, he said, 519 were repatriated and 300 others were "released at the front" early in the war, had escaped, or had died of a variety of causes.
He countered the U.N. demand with a request for information on 98,742 North Korean and Chinese troops the Reds claim were captured and never accounted for.
The western allies made their demand for information on the 3,404 missing war prisoners on Sept. 9, after a careful analysis of evidence, including names of U.N. prisoners used by the Communists in propaganda broadcasts.
The missing U.N. soldiers never have been repatriated or listed as dead by their Communist captors.
The United Nations, in demanding information on their fate, said all the missing allied troops were reported to have been in Red prison camps, either by returned POWs or by other means including the Communist propaganda broadcast.
Cool Weather Hits Kansas
After a record-breaking heat wave had scorched the state for the past week, a weekend cold wave sent the mercury down to all-time lows in most of the state.
Goodland reported a low of 31 degrees early Monday morning to set an all-time record for a freeze so early in the fall season.
Over the state it was 40 degrees at Hill City and Salina, 41 at Topea, 42 at Russell, 43 at Garden City, 44 at Emporia and Leavenworth, 45 at Dodge City, 46 at Chanute and Concordia and 47 at Hutchinson.
The government weather service anticipates continued cool weather into tomorrow. There is a chance of scattered light frost tonight, with the lowest temperatures—from 35 to 40 degrees—expected in northeast Kansas. Minimums likely will range up into the 50s in the Southwest.
Kansas air remains dry, under control of a high atmospheric pressure area to the north that continues the current drought.
Vote Wet-
KU Tipplers Defy U.S. Trend
Bv TOM STEWART
Since no one at the University was consulted in a Yale study on college student drinking, readers deserve to have a local student's reaction to the findings of the survey.
The first finding of the Yale pollers, whose story was told in local papers by the Associated Press and the United Press, is that they were a part of what Withe this local authority agrees. "No question about it. For this they take a survey?"
"Because it's there," says our area correspondent. "Because their mommies and daddies did," says the Yale group.
But why do students drink?
"An absurd view," says the local man. "Why if the students here did only what their parents have done, they'd produce the next generation and call it quits. No, I'd say few students think about the folks back home when they're busy drinking."
backs from intake of alcohol?
Do students really get flat on their
backs from intake of alcohol? The study group says a fourth of drinking college men and 42 per cent of college women who drink never get high, or do so less than 10 per cent of the times they imbibe.
"That sounds about right," says the local "wet." "except that some of my friends can't even remember the best drunks they've been on. And when I see a person in error, lets up that percentage one or two points for both groups."
What kind of students drink?
An easy question. "All kinds," according to the Yale poller. They find that 74 per cent of the students have a little alcohol now and then.
What distresses the KU analyst
is that the Yale researchers take an unfair shot at the ladies who drink. According to the group, college men say that while girls who drink have the most dates in college, they are not being considered as future wives.
"Pure bosh! Don't try to tell me that the girls who attend formalis and other parties won't be the first ones to go. Sure, they don't drink at the parties, but haven't these Yale guys ever heard of the pre-party dress code. This Hill that doesn't start off with a few rounds some place else first. So what's wrong with a girl who wants to have a good time at a party?"
The legendary wild drinking associated with college students is not an actuality, the Yale student concludes, for "while the college student likes his liquor he apparently knows how to handle it."
Nodding agreement, our local authority says, "I'll drink to that."