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REHEARSAL AT HOME—In one of their rare moments together, Wilson and Dorothy O'Connell go through their lines for the University Theater production to open Wednesday in Fraser theater. Wilson plays Bill Shakespeare in George Bernard Shaw's "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets," and Dorothy plays Doto in Christopher Fuys's "A Phony Too Frequent."—Kansas photo by Jerry Knudson.
Friday, Dec. 5, 1952
KU Has Own Lunt and Fontaine Team
Someone quipped the other day that KU drama has its own Lunt and Fontaine—Wilson and Dorothy O'Connell, man-and-wife student actors who will appear in the University Theater's double-bill production of Christopher Fry's "A Phoenix Too Frequent," and George Bernard Shaw's "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets," which will open Wednesday night in Fraser theater.
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But the catch is that the O'Connells do not appear in the same play. Wilson plays Will Shakespeare in "Jack Lady," and Dorothy will be seen as Doto, a comic nurse-companion in "Phoenix."
"Since rehearsals began the first part of November, it seems like we've seen each other only at mealtimes," Wilson said.
"We say 'HI' as we pass each other going to and from rehearsal," Dorothy said. "Dark Lady" is usually rehearsed 7 to 9 p.m. and "Phoenix" 9 to 11 p.m.
Wilson is an assistant instructor in speech, working on a master's thesis, "Censorship in the American Theater." Dorothy is an education junior, majoring in speech correction.
The couple met in a community theater play, "Ramshackle Inn," produced at Hutchinson in 1943. Wilson was a policeman; Dorothy, a "gangster's moll." They were married in August, 1951.
Wilson makes love to Queen Elizabeth in the Shaw play, and Dorothy does likewise with a young soldier in the Fry comedy. Wilson said that they are professionally mired about it all "especially since there are no kisses called for."
As Shakespeare, Wilson has a difficult two-page continuous speech that calls for the best in acting skill. "Sometimes I wake up at night dreaming about that scene," he said. The Bard is portrayed as "an unmitigated ham" in the Shaw play, Wilson said.
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Mary Beth Moore, college senior, will alternate in the role of Doto in "Phoenix." Also cast in this play are Cornelia Harrington, college senior, as the widow Dynamene; Bob Londerholm, college senior, as the soldier Tegeus.
cast are Bonnie Royer, graduate student, as Queen Elizabeth; Patricia McGhee, fine arts junior, as the Dark Lady, and Charles May, college freshman, as the Beef-eater.
Students may obtain free tickets by having their ID cards punched at the box office in the basement of Green hall, open daily from 10 to noon and 2 to 4 p.m.
Other members of the "Dark Lady"
New Wage Stabilizer Faces Board Walkout
Washington - (U.P.) A new chairman took over the Wage Stabilization board today, but a threatened walkout by its industry members kept the administration's whole economic control program teetering on the edge of collapse.
President Truman installed Charles C. Killingworth as chairman to succeed Archibald Cox, who resigned yesterday with an angry blast at the White House ruling which granted John L. Lewis' coal miners a $1.90 daily wage increase.
The six industry members of the board, who have boycotted its sessions since the coal wage decision was announced Wednesday, scheduled a private caucus to consider resigning en masse.
herited, but agreed to meet reporters today.
Mr. Cox said Mr. Truman's decision would lead either to favoritism for a "powerful few" unions or to general relaxation of the whole line against wage increases. The wage board had held that any increase for the miners above $1.50 would be inflationary.
Mr. Killingworth, a 35-year-old economics professor at Michigan State college who had served previously as vice chairman of the board, declined immediate comment on the turbulent situation he in-
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Czech Studet Tells Escape from Reds
By MARY BET7
"An 'enemy of the people' arrested by the Communists usually is an enemy of about 10 per cent of the people—the Communists," said Jan Brazda, graduate student from Czechoslovakia, last night at the YMCA meeting in Snow hall.
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such an "enemy" Brazda spent❶
As such an "enemy" Brazda spared a year in a Communist concentration camp in northern Czechoslovakia, being forced to work in the uranium mines there.
Fargo, N. D. —(U.P.)—Newspaperman Newell Anderson, who said he was run out of Mississippi because he was a "Yankee" has refused to take a lie detector test, the Tupelo, Miss., police chief said today.
A student at the University of Prague and a known anti-Communist, he was one of the first to be arrested when the Communists took over his country in February 1948. With 30 others, mostly students, he was sent to a Russian investigation center in eastern Ger-
ame here to give the test to Mr. Police Chief D. B. Crockett who Anderson, said that the newspaperman had backed out "because his mother doesn't want him to" take the test.
The 26-year-old circulation manager originally agreed to take the test today on his story that hooded terrorists forced him to flee Mississippi. Chief Crockett said.
Gov. Hugh White of Mississippi was branded as a "haox" Mr. Anderson's story that two hooded men threatened him with a razor and told him "Yankees aren't wanted in Mississippi."
Mr. Anderson was circulation manager of the Tupelo Journal before his "wild night ride" during which he said "two masked men" slashed him with a razor and threatened his family unless he left Tupelo.
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He and his wife have begun living with his parents here since he fled Tupelo last month.
Elmer E. Walker, warned that if the industry members block operation of the board, it would result in a nationwide wave of "quick, spontaneous strikes."
Mr. Walker, vice president of the AFL Machinists Union, said there is a large backlog of wage increase cases still pending before the board in which the unions have "patiently bided their time" awaiting board approval.
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many, where for 15 days there was "no eating, but lots of beating" to force them to talk.
Brazda had been working in the Czech underground movement, but such groups were small, had no known leaders, and members knew each other only by assumed names.
Although he made no confession, he was sent to the labor camp as a "political prisoner." Frequent cave-ins, water seeping through the porous mine walls, and absence of ventilators made life miserable for the workers.
"No matter how long one could exist otherwise, it was only a matter of time until he became ill and died from the effects of the radio-active uranium rays." Brazda said.
These very rays, however, enabled him to escape.
After a year with a tumor developing on his neck from the rays, he was sent to a famous Czech health resort, now run by Communists, for an operation.
The operation left him "near dead," and he was left by his guard. Underground workers smuggled him from the hospital. Hidden near Prague for seven weeks, he was then driven 300 miles to the west German border.
There, during the two or three minutes required for a change of guard, he made a dash for the border line and wriggled through the barbed wire into Germany and freedom.
KuKu Pep Club Elects Sloan, Pool
Courtney Sloan, engineering junior, was elected president of KuKu's for the coming year last night. Barney Pool, engineering junior, was elected vice president.
Other KuKu officers elected were Max Smith, college senior, secretary; Eugene Brubaker, education senior, treasurer; and Bill Foster, college senior, corresponding secretary.
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