Drama Groups To Be Combined
Thursday, Sept. 18 1952 University Daily Kansan Page 13
The dramatic and musical presentations this year will be coordinated under one group, the University Theater.
The Theater will be under the supervision of John H. Newfield, associate professor of drama.
In specific ventures, like musicals and operas, the University Theater will have the cooperation of the Light Opera guild and the School of Fine Arts.
University of Kansas City Playhouse and was chairman of the department of radio, public speaking and theater at KCU.
JOHN NEWFIELD
The University Theater will present four plays, a musical and a comic opera during the 1952-1953 seasons. Students will be admitted free to all six productions. Reserved seats for all productions will be available about Oct. 15.
Dr. Newfield is a native of Vienna, Austria. He received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Vienna and fellowships for special study in Rome and Czechoslovakia where he also taught at the University of Prague.
For dramatic productions, the theater will have the support of the University Players, a student organization. Theater work is open to all students, faculty members, and interested alumni.
Prof. Newfield brings a great wealth of the theater knowledge and tradition to the University Theater. Before coming to the University he spent four years as director of the
He has been assistant technical director of the Vienna State opera, stage director of the People's opera, Austrian State Theater for Youth and the Royal Opera house in Rome. He was stage director of the Salzburg Opera guild and production manager of the New School for Social research in New York.
In 1948 he came to Kansas City and developed a community theater project of semi-professional caliber
Murphy Receives 2nd Scouting Pos
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has been notified of his election as a member-at-large of the national council of the Boy Scouts of America. The announcement was made by Arthur A. Schuck of New York, the chief Scout executive.
Dr. Murphy already held one assignment in Scouting. He is state chairman of the "Coordinated Finance Effort" of the seven Kansas local Boy Scout councils. Oct. 21 will be the "kick-off" on the drive to raise $374,100 for the 1953 Kansas Scout program. Current Scout membership in the state is more than 31,500.
KuKu's Meet at 4 p.m. Today
A meeting of the KuKu's will be held at 4 p.m. today in Frank Strong hall. All acts and pledges must be present.
All KuKu's must have sweaters and white trousers before the game Saturday, and are expected to be at the stadium by 1:15 p.m., according to Jim Perry, club president.
DRAMA PROP SHOP—Richard McGehee, college junior, and Kirt Walling, college senior, work on new power machines installed in the basement of the old Journalism building. The shop is for the designing and manufacture of props and scenery for the drama department—Kansan photo by Don Moser.
Theater Changes Include Workshop, Renovated Stage
Improvements of the University Theater facilities include a new workshop in the basement of the old Journalism building and a renovated stage in Fraser theater. The work is being done under the direction of Prof. John Newfield, new director of University Theater.
Fraser theater has undergone considerable change. On the auditorium side, new houselights were installed and several safety improvements were made. The greatest amount of work and new changes went into the stage. A new stage floor was laid and all the construction backstage up in the last ten years for working purposes was removed.
The workshop is equipped with a bandsaw, scrollsaw, power saw, woodworking lathe and complete sets of hand tools for the preparation of stage props and scenery. The workshop also includes a room for making costumes.
The stage rigging system has been completely renewed and twelve new lines will now be operated from the stage floor. A new switchboard with 24 modern autostat dimmers and a cross panel which allows the greatest flexibility of the light units has also been added.
Then the pilotless Helcat zipped off the deck like a phantom, stable as any fighter plane in space.
It banked smoothly to the left and began to climb, controlled by radio signals from the ship.
The orchestra pit now has a removable railing, the whole stage house has been repainted, the attic above the auditorium has been cleared and will be used only for additional chorus dressing rooms.
Navy Uses Guided Missiles Effectively Against Communists in Korean War
The Skyraider mother plane took over control when the drone climbed.
Some of the electrical installations are still in progress but by October 15, all the work should be completed.
Before each launching an enlisted crewman warmed up the Hellcat's engine, taxied the plane to the catapult at the forward part of the deck and nursed the throttle until he stepped out of the cockpit.
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the deck controller's job is over when the mother plane picks up the drone shortly after make-off.
Tokyo—(U.P).The U. S. Navy is using guided missiles against the Communists in Korea.
They were obsolescent Navy Hellcat fighter planes, outfitted with television eyes and the electronic gadgets that may eventually replace the human pilot in air warfare.
They are deadly and astoundingly accurate.
There has been little change in the piloted Grumman F-6-F Hellcat of World War II and the non-piloted missile. The main devices that make the old propeller-driven fighter a guided missile don't show.
Armed with a 2,000-pound bomb on the underbelly, they destroyed or badly damaged a power plant bridge and tunnel entrance in their experimental missions.
I recently watched three missiles catapulted from the carrier USS Boxer in the Sea of Japan off northeast Korea.
Tested in combat, these pilotless "Kamikazes" are a major triumph for research in push-button warfare.
The planes were sacrificed, but not a man was lost.
television receivers on the deck and in the mother plane—on AD-2 Skyrider—give control officers the same view they would have in the Hellcat's cockpit.
The missile is equipped with a television transmitter.
ed to 500 feet altitude. The two planes headed toward North Korea after proper altitude was reached.
"When the drone hits the target the screen in the mother plane just goes blank," said a commander officially observing the operation. "It's a nice way to fight a war."
The television screen enabled the controlling officer to keep the drone "on the target" until the last second, giving the missile unbeatable accuracy.
Lutherans Back Religion School
He said the drone was able to reach certain targets piloted planes could not, such as installations surrounded by mountains and targets near the border of a neutral country.
Intramural Officials Needed
Students acquainted with intramural football rules are needed to officiate the touch football games to be held at 4 p.m. this fall. One dollar a game is paid to qualified applicants. Those qualified and interested should contact Mr. Walter Mikols, Robinson Gym.
The Salad Bow! football game played each New Year's day is found in Phoenix, Ariz.
The United Lutheran council has officially added its support to the School of Religion.
The Rev. R. W. Albert, pastor to the Lawrence Trinity Lutheran church, will teach a course in "Life and Teachings of Jesus." He will represent the United Lutheran council, which is a cooperative national educational group for eight Lutheran churches.
Lutheran participation brings to eight the number of denominations cooperating in the non-denominational teaching program, Dean Harold G. Barr said.
The school, which is affiliated with the University of Kansas, is entering its 32nd year. Its courses are open to KU students without charge and are accepted by the university at full credit towards a student's graduation.
The eight faiths represented in the school are Jewish, Methodist, Christian, Congregational, Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Lutheran.
Dean Barr heads a faculty of seven. The Baptist church has not yet named a representative to replace the Rev. Gustave Ferre, the Baptist pastor to students last year, who resigned to accept a position with a church related college in the East.
Theater Auditions To Be Next Week
Auditions for all productions of the drama department this year will be held from Monday, Sept. 22 through Friday. Sept. 23 in Fraser theater from 6 to 10 p.m.
The tryouts will be for student actors, singers, and others interested in any phase of the work of the University theater, such as stagecraft, production, management and publicity. All interested students should register with Jeanne Aldridge, theater assistant, at the office of the University Theater 202 Fraser hall.
If possible, students are advised to bring their own material such as arias, songs, monologues, scenes, and speeches.
17 Appointed 'Big Sisters'
The names of 17 women who will be the "big sisters" to freshman girls this year have been announced by Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women.
The 17 will be the upperclass counselors to the freshmen living in the KU residence halls. First-year women are required to live in the university-operated housing.
The new counselors are:
Miss Peterson said each counselor was chosen for her ability to get along both in and outside the classroom. The Guidance bureau assisted a committee in choosing from the unprecedentedly large number of applicants.
Four of last year's counselors will be back: Barbara Wurth, Independence, Mo., and Anna Jean Holfyield, Bonner Springs, in North College hall; Helen Pete Maduros, Junction City, in Corbin hall; and Loretta Cooley, Hutchinson, in Foster hall.
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Corbin hall; Marese Ball, Olathe;
Mary Agnes Cooper, Independence.
Mo.; Phyllis Joan Fink, Quinter;
Orinne Gray, Lyndon; and Billie
Loffin, Fredonia.
Hodder hall: Lynn Wingett, Topeka.
Foster hall: Jo Elsine Pownall, Parsons.
North College hall: Georgia Earlywine, Pratt; Barbara Findley, Wichita; Allie K. Grove, Kansas City; Ann Ivester, Kansas City, and Nancy Landon, Topeka.
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