Phantasmagoria
By CHUCK ZUEGNER
THE BEAUX ARTS BALL, with the theme "Phantasmagoria," made its reappearance on the campus Saturday night after a 16-year absence. The annual event was discontinued in 1937 because, according to the Daily Kansan, students found it too difficult to get costumes.
"Build your own' 'is the motto now as evidenced by the pictures on this page. But the "homemade" costumes came out looking professional and ranged from takeoffs on comic strips to modeling of the apparel of the future.
The ball is under the joint sponsorship of the School of Fine Arts, the department of architecture, Delta Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity, and Scarab, professional architecture fraternity. The sponsors plan to make the ball an annual event once again with a different department taking charge each year.
No, it's not King Farouk. It's David Butts in a regal pose.
The judges went Pogo in selecting two facsimiles of Albert the Alligator as first prize-winner. The alligators are Julie York and Ed Maag.
Tom Stewart and Anne Hyde are dressed in "Pillsbury's Best," but there's nothing sad about these sacks.
Two abstractionists, Carolyn Boyd and Al Schmid, lean on second prize-winners Bob Laughlin and Jeannine DeGroot, a pair of Greek columns.
/ Entomologist Jim Lightfoot has his net set for butterfly Carol Cady.
Max Whitson seems headed for the tropics in kilts. Alice Force has gladrags galore.