University Daily Kanean Friday. March 20, 1953
Ballet Theatre Gives Outstanding Program
By PETE SLONEK
A variety of outstanding performances, including classical ballet and modern humorous dance, were given last night at Hoch auditorium by the Ballet theater under the direction of Lucia and Oliver Smith.
The ballet theater orchestra wa conducted by Joseph Levine and assistant conductor Otto Frohn.
"Pas de Deux" a part of the ballet "Swan Lake" was given by Igor Youssevitch and Mary Ellen Moylan, top stars of the ensemble.
In "Fancy Free" the audience appreciated the adventures of three sailors on shore leave.
Enrique Martinez, Eric Braun, and John Kriza put life into this modern dance to the music of Leonard Bernstein. The performance and the simple but impressive set placed the scene perfectly in New York.
“Constantia” the opening number was a newer creation to Frederic Chopin’s “F minor Concerto”. This classic ballet of abstract conception expressed the fragile grace of the well known Concerto.
"Graduation Ball," the finale, had an excellent background in Johann Strauss' music. The arrangement of Annal Dorati did justice to every mood of the characters; the anxiously preparing girls, the different highlights of the dance, the romance between the headmistress and the general, the chaperones of the ball, and the leave of the boys.
The "Graduation Ball" and "Fancy Free' emphasized the humoristic part of the ballet and were a balance to the other classical features.
The stars in "The Black Swan" showed excellently how to make a play out of classical music. Igar Zahara, the top of all present-day dancers.
The company, generally rated
5 Killed in Chicago Hotel Fire
Chicago — (U.P.) Five persons, including a baby, were trapped and killed in a burning hotel here early this month. The blaze was started by an asbestos
America's No. 1 ballet troupe, is on the homeward sweep of a very successful tour to the West coast and back. The Ballet theater will give two performances in Kansas City this afternoon and tonight.
Logan Enters FACTS Case
Former All Student Council president James Logan, now at Harvard Law school, has said he is willing to be interrogated by mail by both sides of the University-vs.-FACTS party trial to begin Wednesday.
FACTS is charged with making defamatory statements in the FACTS newspaper about Pachacama party, describing Pach as being corrupt and typical of machine politics.
Logan, who has contacted Roy Zimmerman, college junior, claims that a former member of the Pach Inner Circle told him that in a spring election a few years ago he voted at least 280 times.
Logan was a member of FACTS.
Moreau Gives Talk To Student Nurses
Dean F. J. Moreau of the School of Law gave a lecture to 30 graduating student nurses yesterday at the University hospital in Kansas City on "The Legal Problems Involved in Professional Nursing."
The dean said he had started a series of lectures last Saturday which will be given to medical students at the hospital every week until June. The lectures will cover the legal aspects of the medical profession.
Marvin Has Faith In McCoy's Merits
"Alvin S. McCoy can stand on his qualifications as a reporter and on the merits of his reporting in the Wesley Roberts case," Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism said today.
Commenting on the case now being investigated by a committee of the Legislature, Dean Marvin said it looked to him "as if a highly-qualified reporter has done a job and is being subjected to investigation because of the performance of his duties."
Dean Marvin asserted he didn't pretend to be an authority on the details of the case, but that this much seemed obvious to him.
Mr. McCoy recently was reelected president of the William Allen White foundation of the School of Journalism.
Reporter Denies Charges by Arn
Topeka — (U,P)— Kansas City Star reporter Alvin S. McCoy admitted yesterday that he was "rather outspoken or critical" of C. Wesley Roberts, Republican national chairman, but denied he took part in a plot to blacken Mr. Roberts' name.
Mr. McCoy appeared before a special state investigating committee to defend himself of charges that he took part in a casual plot" (GAPR report).
The charges were made earlier this week before the committee by Gov. Edward F. Arn.
Mr. McCoy also won permission to withhold the name of the person who gave him the "tip" leading to the first published report of a transaction with the state in which Mr. Roberts received $11,000 fee.
Student to Give Radio Talk
Hugo Jacob Zee, student from Netherlands, will be the guest of the UNESCO radio program on KLWN Sunday at 3:30 p.m. He will be interviewed about his country and about his impressions of the U.S. by Dr. John Fatton, director of the Westminster fellowship.
Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor has met a full schedule during his week's visit here.
Dohnanyi's Schedule Full In Week's Visit to University
He has conducted four classes for piano majors, met with advanced students in composition, presented two recitals, and is at present rehearsing with the University Symphony for the "Eroica" symphony by Beethoven which he will conduct at its spring concert Monday in Hoch auditorium.
During the following years he won many awards and honors, and played concerts in Europe, England, and America. In 1916 he became conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic society and occupied that position for 30 years.
At 15, Dr. Dohnanyi's first composition, a piano quartet, was premiered in Vienna by the Duesberg quartet, with the composer as pianist. He continued to appear as guest soloist for musical organizations, and made his professional debut in Berlin in 1897 when he was 20.
Dr. Dohnanyi's father, an amateur musician, gave the boy his first piano lesson at the age of 6, and later provided the child with the finest instruction available. However, he insisted that music remain the boy's secondary interest, and limited his public appearances to one concert a year.
In 1948 Dr. Dohnanyi gave numerous recitals and concerts with orchestras in Latin and North America.
A great admirer of Brahms, much of his work has been patterned from his. Brahms praised Dr. Dohnanyi at the premier of his concerto hailed as a companion piece to Brahms' "Variations on a Nursery Tune."
His works include operas, chamber music, concertos, piano pieces, the orchestral suite "Rurali Hungaria," and "Variations on a Nursery Tune" for piano and orchestra.
Dr. Dohnarvi, now artist in residence at Florida State university in Tallahassee, is still writing music. His second Violin Concerto was included with a season with the New York Philharmonic Symphony, with Frances玛姆斯 as soloist.
He is now working on a "Stabat Mater" for a six-part boys' choir,
and a concerto for harp and chamber orchestra. ___
Foreign Students To Hold Panel
The Douglas County chapter of UNESCO will sponsor the panel discussion of American-Indian-Moslem relations at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Jayhawk room of the Union.
Prof. Elmer Beth of the School of Journalism will be the moderator and the panel will consist of five foreign students now at the University: Virginia Baroudjian for Egypt, Circus Samii for Iran, Imitaz Khan for Pakistan, Nick Kittrie—who has lived most of his life in the Near East, and Mr. Latheef Ahmed, student member of the secretary general's staff of U.N.
It is expected that the panel will give an interesting and informative discussion of the relation of the Near and Middle East to the U.S.A. The speakers will present aspects of the Moslem revolt and also, more broadly, cultural, social and economic aspects of India and of the Moslem world in relation to the international problems of the present.
The public is invited to attend.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Episcopal Communion; 7 a.m. Danforth.
Annual meeting;
12-moon, Danforth chapel.
Kappa Phi; 7 p.m. Danforth chapel, installation of officers.
Pershing rifles; annual banquet. Kansas
room. Union.
SUNDAY
Danforth Chapel Service: 8:30 a.m.
sponsored by Lutheran Gamma Delta.
Episcopal Communion: 7 a.m. Danforth.
Mathematical colloquium p. 5, p. 203.
Street
Stuart
meeting; 7:30 p.m.
Introduction of new officers
Chess Club: 7.30 p.m., Card room,
Union.
FACTS: 8:30 p.m., 305 Union, after ASC referendum. Everyone welcome.
Meet the Author--honoring
We are proud to present an Autograph Tea
Dr. Robert Taft PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY
author of
Artists and Illustrations Of The Old West
TJESDAY, MARCH 24
IN THE STUDENT UNION BOOKSTORE
4:00 TIL 5:00
Everyone is Invited!