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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 17, 1951
She's Engaged, She's Lovely She Doesn't Need A Diploma
By SHIRLEY LYON
"Say, I have a story for you," one of my recently engaged girl friends said as she approached me in the Union the other day.
Knowing my plight of always trying to find a feature story, she sometimes finds choice bits of information for me.
"You do? I gulped a big swallow of hot coffee that burned all the way down.
"Well, I've just been noticing the way people regard me, now that I'm engaged," she said. "I didn't know how much people expect a college girl to catch a man until now. Why, if a girl gets a ring, her college career is a success regardless of anything else.
"As soon as I announced my engagement everyone came up and slapped me on the back and said, 'Well congratulations, old girl, I see you finally made it!' or, 'Oh, how wonderful! I'm just so thrilled!"
"There was just one person who wasn't absolutely delighted over my highly regarded 'attainment.' That was one of my professors. 'Just as soon as we get someone good in the department, what does she do but get engaged,' he said, flattering my ego."
As for the boy she's engaged to, all his friends come up and say "Getting married, huh? You must be crazy or something. What do you want to lose your freedom for, anyway?"
"When I started out in college I didn't think so much about abandoning a career for marriage," my engaged friend continued. "Oh, I thought it would be fine if I happened to meet the right fellow, but that wasn't my chief and only goal. And it wasn't until just the last week or so that I realized how much indirect pressure there is on a girl to catch her man above all other things in a college career.
"Most people also don't think that a girl should go on with her college work when she gets married. Even before I had decided to quit next June several people, including my mother, said they thought I should live up my studies."
"Well, anyway, I thought you might think of something to write about, how people regard a girl who
gets her final degree. I think its sort of interesting and I guess its OK with me," she smiled as she took a final sip of coffee.
Being unengaged myself, I can't philosophize on this matter of what people think a college girl's career should be, but maybe it has something to do with the supposedly outmoded saying that a woman's place is in the home.
Mary O'Neil Weds
Pfc. Robert McElroy
Hugh Thomas O'Neil, Winchester, announces the marriage of his daughter, Mary Ann, to Pfc. Robert Lloyd McEldroy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd McEldroy, Topeka, Dec. 7.
Bernice Nicholson, Topeka, was maid of honor and Helen Schenck, Burlingame, was bridesmaid.
Mrs. McEliroy is an education junior and a member of Sigma Kappa sorority. Pfe. McEliroy is stationed with the United States Air Force at Barksdale Air Force base, Shreveport, La.
Scabbard And Blade Elects Beauchamp
Glen Beauchamp, engineering senior, was elected president of Scabbard and Blade, senior honorary military society, last night.
Other officers elected were Ken Davidson, vice president; Ken Merrill, secretary, and Joe Warkoczewski, treasurer.
Nine men were initiated into the society. They were Ken Merrill, William Garlock, Chapin Clark, Harold Titus, John Hamilton, Richard Taeford, Jear Warkoczewski, George Warren and Keith Kelly.
Phi Sigma meeting, 8 tonight, 101 Snow hall, initiation of new members. Dean J. H. Nelson speaker, "Your Graduate School and Research."
Chess club, 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, 111 Strong. Last round of tournament.
Official Bulletin
Kappa Beta covered dish meeting,
5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, Myers hall.
Hui-O-Hawaiiana, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 112 Strong hall. All invited.
Sigma Tau Gamma, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, 1020 Tennessee. Important
organizational meeting, all members
urged to attend.
Mathematics lecture, 5 today, 203 Strong. Prof. Marshall Stone.
Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity,
745 Tuesday. Fest week, Union
ity, 7:15 Tuesday, East room, Union. Interdorm Christmas caroling tonight, meet at Union lounge at 10 p.m. candles and cocoa served after caroling.
Geology club and A.I.M.E, joint meeting, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 426 Lindley, Prof. E. A. Stephenson and Prof. R. M. Dreyer on program.
Faculty Forum, Wednesday noon,
Faculty club.
Laurie Swigart President
Of Honorary Art Fraternity
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Louise Swigart, fine arts junior, was elected president of Delta Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity, recently.
Other officers elected were Ada Storer, vice-president; Marlene Peterson, recording secretary; Betty June Kreger, corresponding secretary; Virgile Rawline, treasurer; Ann Harms, Pallet editor, and Joey Brown, alumni chairman.
Langford Pledges Chi Chi Chi
Chi Chi Chi fraternity announces the pledging of Walter Langford, business senior from Kansas City, Mo.
The Goddess of Liberty was dedicated by Grover Cleveland 65 years ago. The statue in New York harbor was a birthday present to the United States from France commemorating American independence.
New York—(U.P.)-With the arrival of "Point of No Return" this week, the name of Leland Hayward as producer was on four of Broadway's top productions.
The lean, restless former talent agent who turned producer with amazing results in December, 1944, has had one of the most successful producing careers in a short time in the history of the theater.
Four Top Broadway Productions Carry Leland Hayward's Name
He is the only individual product —The Theater guild is a corporation who can build up insurance for at least a modest run simply by circularizing a file of previous customers of his productions who like to be first in line for his new ones.
"I feel that anyone who will buy tickets well in advance, and that's a gamble no matter how attractive the prospects may seem, is entitled to the best in the house. The priority list is a rather expensive operation, but I feel that it more than pays off in the long run."
"We have some 40,000 names in this file at this time." Hayward said. "It has grown every year since it was started. It isn't a subscription list. No one has to buy a single ticket. These people have just sent in their names, expressing a desire to hear about any productions I plan and, if interested, they get first shot at the tickets via mail orders. Each person may buy up to six tickets.
Thus, "Point Of No Return," starring Henry Fonda, had more than $500,000 in the till before the curtain went up Thursday night. Not all of it from the priority list, of course, but it was achieved without selling out performances to theater parties—against which Hayward draws the line. This fall he started a priority system in Boston where his productions are tried out.
The other current shows on which
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"Point Of No Return" is his 11th production. He has had three flops, but even those managed to stay around several weeks or months, which is unusual in this period when most shows that don't start off with a bang get short shift.
Hayward's first production was "A Bell For Adano" which opened Dec. 6, 1944. His biggest success to date as a solo producer has been "Mister Roberts" in which Fonda also starred and which also played the Alvin theater where "Point Of No Return" is established.
Rayward has a leaning toward plays adapted from books. "Adano," "Roberts," "South Pacific" and the new one are in that category.
It was well over a year ago that he acquired the dramatic rights to "Point Of No Return" a best-seller by John P. Marquand. Fonda still was playing in "Mister Roberts" at the time and he gave it to the star to read. Fonda agreed that he would like to appear in a play based on the novel if production could be held up until he finished his "Mister Roberts" tour last August.
Naturally, Hayward agreed and turned the property over to Paul Osborn for adaptation. Hayward has a weak spot for Osborn, who also happens to have an excellent record as a playwright. It was Osborn who gave Hayward his first hit in "A Bell For Adano."
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