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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1951
Ink Is Dry On College Daze Music But 'Once Upon A Time - - - - '
The ink on the piano music was still wet when the curtain was raised on the first production of College Daze in 1947.
James McCraig, musical director of this year's production, was backstage whiting music while the cast was making up for that first show.
The show this year is titled "Gone With the Gin" and will be presented 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, and Wednesday, May 2, in Hoch auditorium.
"This year it's better; the music is all finished," he sighed. "Things have really been running smoothly. Everyone is working hard and I think it will be the best vet."
McCaig, who started arranging music in the eighth grade, was the pit director of the 1948 production of College Daze.
"It takes a lot of work, to get a tune ready for a show," McCaig said. "To start with, somebody has to write the song and music."
This year's show, "Gone with the Gin," is built around a set of ballads written by Rodger Vaughan, fine arts sophomore, and James Brunson, journalism senior.
After the arrangements are complete, the individual parts must be copied. Then choral books must be made. The piano score must be completed first so the choreographer can arrange for the many dances which are featured in this year's show.
The orchestrations for the tunes are done by McCaig. Although he has been arranging for the Varsity Crew orchestra for two years, this is no small task. Work on the show was started before Easter vacation.
Beverlee Strasser, the choreographer, decides on how and where the dances are to go. McCaig finishes copies for the soloists and teaches the chorus their parts.
Baritone Recital To Be Monday
Jay Nixon, baritone, will present his senior recital at 8 p.m. Monday April 30, in Strong auditorium. The public is invited.
The recital will include two of his own composition, "Thus Remembered" and "Tarantella." He also will sing one group each of French, Italian, and German songs, and a modern song cycle by Griffes.
Nixon has been a soloist with the University Men's Glee club, and has recorded with them for the K.U. record album.
THREE MEMBERS of the "College Daze" cast rehearse for "Gone With the Gin." to be given Tuesday and Wednesday. Pictured from left to right are: Everett Corwin, education sophomore; Jack Stewart, business senior; Mary Loveless, fine arts freshman.
Nixon had his early musical training in choral organizations and in the study of the violin. He joined the Navy in 1943 and while in service he sang solos and directed community sings in various U.S.O.'s and canteens.
After his discharge in 1946, he entered the Chicago Musical college majoring in voice and composition. He was selected as the New Jersey representative to the first National Opera Festival in Milwaukee, conducted by the National Association for Opera, in 1948. He played the role of Massakroff in "The Chocolate Soldier."
He came to the University in the fall of 1949 to study with Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice.
Howie Recital At 3 p.m. Sunday
William Howie, instructor in Eng. lish, will present an organ recital in the Museum of Art, at 3 p.m., Sunday.
G. F. Handel; three pieces from the "Water Music," Minuet, Air and Hornpipe.
Johann Kellner; Choral: "What God does is well." and J. S. Bach; Fantasia in G.
The program follows: Deitrich Buxtehude; Chorale: "From God Will I Never Turn." Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C.
Francois Couperin; Benedictus.
Andre Raison; Offerte upon "Vive
le Roy."
"There will be two dress rehearsals before the show, when all the parts, with the orchestra, will work together," McCaig explained.
SAI Musicale To Be Broadcast Sunday
Mrs. Mable Hanson, graduate student, will present the program for the Sigma Alpha Iota musicate at 2 p.m. Sunday over KLWN. Her program will include "Sonatine" Ravel and "Symphonic Etudes" Schumann
Featured in the two past programs have been Lois Bradfield, fine arts junior, and Miss Marian Jersid, instructor in piano, pianists, and Harriet King, fine arts freshman, and Marian Heckes, fine arts junior, vocalists. Students represented were those of D. M. Swarthout, professor of piano, and Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice.
"The music is only one side of this production," he said. "There are a lot of people who have put a lot of time on this show."
Austin, Coker Win Contest
The winners of the after-dinner speaking contest in the intramural series are Helene Austin, fine arts freshman, and Paul Coker, fine arts senior.
Barbara Sutorius, fine arts freshman, and Marilyn Miller, College freshman, won second and third in the women's division of the contest.
Miss Austin placed first in the women's division, and Coker in the men's division Thursday night in Green hall.
The organization winners in the men's division for the grand trophies were Lambda Chi Alpha, first; and Phi Gamma Delta, second. In the women's division they were Foster hall, first; and Alpha Omicron Pi, second.
Charles Shrewsbury, College sophomore, and Gary Lehman, College freshman, won second and third in the men's division.
The judges for the men's division were E. C. Buehler, professor of speech; Cliff Ratner, College junior; Dolores Dean, College junior, Esther Williams, College senior.
The judges in the women's division were Dr. Kim Giffin, assistant professor of speech; Robert Ball, College freshman; Heywood Davis, College junior, Thomas Murphy, College junior.
Social Work Day To Be Held Here Monday
About 300 persons will attend Social Work day, to be sponsored by the department of social work Monday, April 30. The day's activities will include conferences, speeches, discussions, and a banquet.
Graduate students, undergraduates, former students, and field supervisors in social work will participate. Any student, whether or not he is majoring in social work, is invited to hear the discussions.
Following this session, the group will have a picnic luncheon at Potter lake. There Frank Long, executive director of the state board of social welfare, will discuss "Public Relations in Public Welfare."
Following the skits will be discussions of social work, led by Mrs. Dorothy Bradley and Mrs. Mary Ihinger of Topeka, Mrs. Mary Louise Chapman of Kansas City, Mo., and Paul Brotsman, assistant professor of social work at the University
At 2 p.m. the professional advisory committee, consisting of some 25 executives of social work agencies, from Kansas and the greater Kansas City area, will meet with the faculty to consider questions of field placement and recruiting.
From 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.Monday, first year graduate students who have been working in field placements in Kansas City, Topeka, and Wichita, will meet with the faculty. The purpose is to integrate their course work with their field experience.
Also at 2 p.m., first year graduates will present series of skits in Strong auditorium for all undergraduates interested in social work.
At 4:30 p.m. the professional advisory committee will meet with the students for conferences on types of social work.
John Ise, professor of economics,
will be the guest speaker at the fifth
anniversary dinner at 6:30 p.m. in
the Union ballroom.
Hoover Lauds 'Mac' As A Second St.Paul
New York (U.P.)—Former President Herbert Hoover says the great uproar that followed the firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur will give no comfort to the Russians.
He was introduced last night at the 29th annual dinner of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers association as "the man who started the great debate."
"The great debate has been replaced by a much bigger debate led by the reincarnation of St. Paul in the person of a great general of the Army who has come out of the East" Mr. Hoover said.
"A so-called Joe can get no comfort from this debate for we have only to recollect how Kaiser Wilhelm, Mussolini, Hitler and Tojo mistook our family discussion for division. But the republic has a habit of closing our ranks with a solidarity and punch that is final."
Kansas City (U.P.)—A Wyandotte county grand jury will be impaneled here June 5.
Harold H. Harding, county prosecutor, said more than 2,000 persons signed petitions asking for a grand jury. It will be the first county grand jury in session in Wyandotte county in 17 years.
To Impanel Grand Jury
US Red Tries For Lobby
Sacramento (U.P.)-A representative of the Communist party of California applied for credentials as a lobbyist before the California legislature Thursday. The representative, Hursel Alexander, listed his address as the San Francisco office of the party and asked he be accredited as representing "the Communist party and the people of the state of California."
Mr. Alexander said he would be paid $4 a week by the party.
Tokyo (U,P)—Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway warned the Council of Japanese Labor Unions today not to hold its May day rally May 1 in the Imperial palace Plaza of Tokyo.
Ex-K-State Head To Speak
No May Day In The Plaza
Manhattan (U.P.)-Milton S. Eisenhower, former president and former student of Kansas State college, will give the commencement address here May 27.
British Ammo Ship Explodes
Gibraltar (U.P.)-Six persons were killed and at least twelve workers injured today when the 1,192-ton British ammunition ship Bedenham exploded while unloading ammunition in Gibraltar harbor.
The blast hurled pieces of the ship more than a half mile and shattered windows and walls in Gibraltar. Many persons ashore were injured by flying glass.
Three University faculty members will take part in a program presented by the choir of the Plymouth Congregational church, 925 Vermont street, at 4 p.m. Sunday.
Miss Meribah Moore, associate professor of voice, will direct the choir. Mrs. Marian Replogle is the organist.
The choir will present the "Third Mass in D Minor" (Haydn), also called the "Lord Nelson" or the "Imperial Mass."
Faculty Songsters To Solo With Choir
Soloists will be Mrs. Beulah Chiapusso, soprano; Mrs. Charlotte Krehbiel, mezzo-soprano; Clayton Krehbiel, tenor; and Reinhold Schmidt, bass. Krehbiel is an instructor in music education and Schnidt a professor of voice.
The public is invited.
Dr. Thomas G. Orr, professor of surgery in the School of Medicine, has been elected editor of the monthly journal, The American Surgeon, formerly known as the Southern Surgeon.
Surgery Professor Elected Editor Of Monthly Journal
Dr. Orr's address, "Doctors Making Speeches," presented to the second annual meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress in Denver, Colo., appeared as the first editorial.
Capital Jobs Hard To Get
Washington is besieged with confusion and intensive competition for jobs, Roscoe Martin, told city managers at a banquet in the Kansas room Thursday night.
Martin, who is head of the political science department at Syracuse university, spoke before a joint meeting of the City Managers' school and the American Society of Public Administration. He shared the program with Leonard C. Howell, city manager of Des Moines, Iown. Mr. Howell told of his experiences in establishing a city manager type government in Des Moines in the last nine months.
Mr. Martin classified the units of government broadly into two divisions: the normal peacetime agencies, some of which related to defense; and agencies concerned strictly with defense.
Some of the factors affecting the present atmosphere in Washington are freedom from political deference, dispersal of government agencies, and the uncertainty of the present situation, he said.
"Confusion in the people, Congress, leadership, and agencies, real and superficial, is a determent," he warned. "There are charges and counter-charges, red herrings, and Red hunts. There is a seeming low state in public morality."
He questioned, however, whether the level of morality is lower than it was during the early days of the 20's.
He listed the causes of the situation as fast action in hiring, "including the former governor of Georgia," spotty and inadequate investigations of persons who "can't do what they're hired to do," and rough competition for jobs.
"A lot of what goes on is misunderstood." Mr. Martin explained, "because of lack of facts and people who generalize without finding out what is going on."
At Tecumseh the chorale will sing in place of the group from Chicago engaged by University Extension. Several members of the group were killed in a car-train collision Tuesday.
The University Chorale, directed by Clayton Krehbiel, will sing at four Topeka and near-by schools today and at a Tecumseh community program tonight.
The Chorale will sing at Was-
burn Rural high, Boswell Junior
high, Seaman Rural high, and East
Junior high.
KU Chorale To Sing Today In Topeka
Lee Horacek, instructor in music education, will be trumpet soloist with the group.
Copies of the Alumni magazine are being sent to all graduating seniors by the Alumni Relations committee of the Alumni association as a part of a current membership drive.
All Graduating Seniors
To Receive Alumni Magazine
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Students may purchase a subscription to the Alumni magazine when they pay their senior dues. Approximately 100 seniors have subscribed. Mary Lou Fischer, education senior, purchased the first life subscription sold to a senior.
Letters of Commencement information have been sent to February graduates.
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