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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1951
American Attitude Abroad Theme In Drama Production
Bv NANCY ANDERSON
"I Conquistatori," which will open Wednesday in Fraser theater, has the most serious and timely theme of any play presented on the campus in recent years, according to Mrs. Frances Feist, instructor in speech and drama.
Though the plot of the story concerns love and life in post-liberation Rome, Mrs. Feist, who is co-director of the play, said, "The deeper theme behind the events in the play has to do with the instinctive patronizing attitude of Americans in foreign lands.
"This attitude is coming before the scrutiny of the people of the United States more each day," she said. "Last Friday, two British debaters from Cambridge university mentioned it on our campus. This week,
Relays Champ Shows Athletics Drama Can Mix
Who said athletics and culture never mix in college? Paul Faulkner of Abilene-Christian university, Saturday's Kansas Relays champion in the javelin throw, showed that they do mix. He showed up Sunday afternoon as an interested spectator at the rehearsal of the forthcoming University production, "I Conquis-tatori."
Faulkner and a teammate from the same school, though unexpected guests, proved discerning critics in their discussion following the rehearsal. Prof. Allen Crafton, codirector of the show, said today.
They were particularly interested in the stage set designed especially for this play by Professor Crafton.
Abilene-Christian has a long dramatic tradition of its own, and the art of designing sets has always received a primary emphasis, Faulkner said.
her said.
The play, "I Conquistatori," is a dramatic adaptation of the 148 novel, "The Girl on the Via Flaminia," by Alfred Hayes. Professor Crafton did the adaptation.
The story concerns Edward Bennett, an American soldier in the liberated Rome of 1944. In his loneliness, he arranges a rendezvous with an Italian girl he does not know, Lisa Tallori, in the home of an old Italian couple, Luigi and Ida Robordoni.
In the role of Edward, the American soldier, is Harold Harvey, instructor in speech and drama. Lisa is played by Marjorie Courtney, Luigi Robordoni will be played by Professor Crafton, and his wife will be played by Miss Jeannette Cass, associate professor of music therapy.
From their first meeting the play moves swiftly through a stirringly human series of entanglements to its inevitable dramatic climax just before the final curtain.
YM To Elect New Officers
Nine students are candidates in the Y.M.C.A. cabinet elections this week. Ballots are in the mail and should be returned to the Y.M.C.A office in the Union building by Saturday, M. David Riggs, Y.M.C.A secretary, says.
The candidates for president are G. Irvin Gaston, education junior,
and Melvin Reuber, College junior.
Vice-presidential candidates are David Hills and J. Phillip Kassebaum, College sophomores, and Jack Kav. College junior.
Running for secretary are John Biegert and Myron McClenny, College freshmen.
I have already seen articles dealing with the problem in two national magazines. Nowhere, however, have I seen as strong an exposition of this theme as in "I Conquistatori"."
Candidates for treasurer are Kenneth Priaux, business junior, and Kenneth Yunker, College sophomore.
Mrs. Feist believes that the play has more appeal for the actors than any other production which she has directed at K.U. She says those participating, particularly the men, most of whom have been in the armed services, seem to have none of the doubts or reservation concerning the meaning of the play which are frequently to be expected.
Prof. Allen Crafton, chairman of the speech and drama department, adapted the play for the stage from a recent modern novel about the American liberation forces in Rome. All action takes place in the home of the Robordoni family in the period from a few days before Christmas. 1944, to New Year's. 1945.
Tickets will be available at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall. The office will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day this week, excepting Saturday, when it will be open from 9 a.m. to noon. Students may obtain reserved seats by presentation of activity cards.
Lynx Added To Museum Hall
Looking like an overgrown kitten with large paws, a new Canadian lynx has been added to the Hall of North American Mammals at the Museum of Natural History.
The lynx was frozen and flown from the north woods of Canada, Dr. Rolin Baker, acting director of the museum, said. It will replace one of the two lynxes mounted by Prof. Lewis L. Dyche which have been on display in the panorama since the 1890's.
The old lynxes, although wellmounted, are worn and faded. They will be lent for a research collection.
The new lynx, silver-gray with thick, silky fur and a cat-like face, has been mounted as a crouchingBITTLE snowsnake on his bit, its chief wear, in the northland.
Canadian lynxes are close relatives of the bobcats found near Lawrence, but they have longer fur and very large feet for running over ice and snow.
The museum asked the Bureau of Northwestern Territories and Yukon Affairs to obtain a Canadian lynx for them eight months ago.
Trappers usually skin the animals they catch, but the museum wanted the whole animal, said Dr. Baker, and this caused the delay in getting the animal back alive. It was quick frozen and shipped by air in dry ice to Kansas City, where museum officials picked it up immediately.
Doctor Gives Clendening Talk
The second Clendening lectureship on the history and philosophy of medicine was given this morning by Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, vice-president of the University of Texas—Medical Branch.
In 1949 Mrs. Logan Clendening presented to the K.U. School of Medicine a sum of money to establish a lectureship on the history and philosophy of medicine in memory of her husband, the late Dr. Logan Clendening. Dr. Clendening was a prominent Kansas City physician and an instructor in the K. U. School of Medicine.
Dr. Leake spoke on the "New generalities from old Egyptian medical papyri," to students and faculty members of the School of Medicine.
His second lecture will be on "The Hearst medical papyrus," and will be given in the amphitheater on the third floor of the Clinic building of the University of Kansas Medical center in Kansas City.
"College Daze" tickets may be purchased for 75c at the Student Union Activities office or at tables in front of the library and outside the Union fountain.
Tickets On Sale For 'College Daze'
Rehearsals for the show have been underway for over a month. The show will be given Tuesday, May 1, and Wednesday, May 2, in Hoch auditorium.
This year's show is titled "Gone With the Gin," and is built around a set of ballads by Rodger Vaughan, fine arts sophomore, and James Brunson, journalism senior.
Spanish Group To Celebrate Cervantes Day
The memory of Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, will be honored at the University Saturday.
The University's 27th annual celebration of Cervantes day will be held in Strong hall and the Union building from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Cervantes day was established in the early 1920s by the Spanish department.
The Cervantes day luncheon in the Union ballroom will be attended by 250 to 300 persons.
An exhibition in Strong hall will include work in leather, pottery, silver, weaving, embroidery, book-making and other practical arts, as well as painting, sculpture, music, and literature. The exhibition will stress two themes: "Spanish for Travel, Trade, and Science," and "Aids for Teaching."
During the day, the department of Romance languages' new language sound rooms will be open for the first time to public inspection. Demonstrations will be given at 12 noon and 4:15 p.m. under the direction of Mr. Richard M. Mikulski, instrutor in Romance languages.
Guest speakers on the program will be:
Lt. Col. F. B. Judson, Command and Staff college, Ft. Leavenworth, who will discuss the importance of Spanish from the military standpoint.
Miss Judith Stapleton of Wyandotte High school, Kansas City, Kan., who will report on her visit and educational mission to Cuba during the past Christmas holidays as a guest of the Cuban government.
Miss Janet M. Brunet, instructor in Romance languages at the University, who will present a study of literary technique and creativity.
James Irby, College senior, was elected president of El Ateneo, departmental Spanish club. April 19.
El Ateneo Elects Irby
The club also voted to have two additional appointive offices; a music chairman and a membership chairman. The club will have a picnic at Miller hall on Thursday, May 3.
Other officers elected; vice-president, Ray Beers, business junior; secretary, Veda Russell, education junior; treasurer, Paul Tongler, College senior; executive advisor, Antonio Pun Kay, business junior; and refreshment chairman, Elizabeth Banker, College sophomore.
Washington (U.P.)—Repercussions of the recent government crisis were felt in the American congress today.
Crisis Felt In Congress
The crisis spells trouble for administration requests for foreign economic and military aid. Under an agreement, you could get a big chunk of such help.
The crisis also widened the split between the so-called internationalists and nationalists in the congress.
World Wide News
Reds Swarm 10 Miles South Of 38th Parallel
Tokyo (U.P.)—Chinese Communist forces ripped a 10-mile gap in Allied lines Tuesday. They sent 40,000 troops swarming south to points nearly 10 miles below Korea's 38th parallel.
The Red breakthrough threatened to cut the vital Seoul-Chunchon supply highway west of Chunchon, isolating Allied forces on the east-central front.
Attlee appointed two new ministers to succeed Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson, who resigned in protest against the British rearmament drive.
Attorney General Sir Hurtley Shawcross, chief British prosecution at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, was appointed to Wilson's post as president of the board of trade.
Chicago will give the deposed Far Eastern commander two parades Thursday and a gigantic civic reception at Soldier field, where MacArthur will make a 10 or 15-minute speech.
London (U.P)-Prime Minister Clement Attiele plugged two gaps in his shaky cabinet today but a third one opened.
The general and his party are due at Midway airport at noon (C.S.T.) and three million persons are expected to line his route from the airport to the outer drive and then through the loop.
Attlee Plugs Cabinet Gaps
Says Chiefs Agree With Mac
A comparative unknown, Alfred Robens, parliamentary secretary of fuel and power, was named to succeed Bevan as minister of labor.
New York (U,P) — Gen. Douglas MacArthur's personal adviser said today the endorsement of the general's views by the joint chiefs of staff "is complete in the official record."
Attlee announced his appointments shortly after a third top labor official bolted the cabinet. He was John Freeman, a junior minister holding the position of parliamentary secretary to the ministry of supply.
Senate Groups To Hear Mac
Washington (U.P.)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur has agreed to testify Thursday, May 3, before senate committees investigating his dismissal.
Landon Hits British Policy
Kansas City, Mo. (U.P.)—Alf, M.
Landon today called upon Great Britain to discard the policy statement of its foreign minister which he labeled advocating "unconditional surrender to the Red Chinese."
The 1936 Republican nominee for president said that unless Herbert Morrison's stand toward Communist China is overruled by Prime Minister Clement Attlee, "the British Government is in the position of giving aid and comfort to our enemies..."
Landon praised Gen. MacArthur as an example of the type of men the American people yearn for in government, "Men of integrity and principle who are willing to be thrown on the junkpile for their convictions."
Milne, 52, a student at the University from 1922-26, was a native of Iola, and a veteran of World War I.
Dellmar P. Milne Dies
Topeka (U.P) — Funeral services were being arranged today for Dellmar P. Mine, personnel director for the Kansas social welfare department, who died here Monday.
Dispersal Plan Pigeonholed
Washington (U.P.)—The administration has admitted minor defeat in its plan to disperse some key government agencies to four sites about 20 miles outside the center of the capital.
The senate voted 45 to 39 yesterday to send the dispersal bill back to its public works committee for further study.
The bill also would have directed the general services administrator to "decentralize" some 25,000 other federal workers to cities removed from Washington.
On that front the Allies lost Inje during the day and began a forced withdrawal from the Hwachon reservoir area. Red troops from Inje began trying to cut them off, driving down the highway toward Chunchon, 27 miles southwest.
Frontline commanders said the situation was serious despite "terrible" Communist forces running to 15,000 in the first 24 hours. But they added: "We are going to fight." Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway flew to the battlefield to consult his field commanders. He said the Red offensive was their greatest effort so far, that it still had not reached full strength, and may be the decisive battle of the Korean war.
Washington officials have received unconfirmed reports that Soviet-trained Mongolian troops have entered North Korea.
Some of the troops were said to be from inner Mongolia, which is under Chinese influence. Other troops were said to be from outer Mongolia, which is virtually part of Russia.
The reports are not firm enough to justify United States military or diplomatic action. Nevertheless, they fall into a pattern that has caused anxiety to rise.
The reports recalled speaker Sam Rayburn's recent warning that troops other than Chinese were massing on the Manchurian border.
Floods Threaten Homes
Iowa Gov. William S. Beardsey said he would ask the federal government for financial aid if the situation got much worse.
By United Press—The swollen Mississippi river threatened the homes of 24,000 persons in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri today as its destructive flood crest kept rolling downstream.
The rampaging stream already has driven 7,400 persons from their homes in the three states and was expected to crest today in the tricity area of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Ill.
An Iowa City, Iowa trucking firm announced it was standing by to haul fresh water to flood-stricken communities.
Not a single Communist was elected mayor or ward chief.
In the first 160 contests tallied, the Liberal party elected 19 mayors, the Socialists 10, the Democrats 6 and the Independents 125. Observers said the majority of Independents were Conservatives on the basis of their past record.
lap Communists Shut Out
Tokyo (U.P.)-Nearly-complete returns showed today that conservatives scored a landslide victory in Monday's municipal elections.
The election was considered a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Sigero Yoshida's pro - American Conservative government. The Communists and Socialists have opposed American policies.
Chicago (U.P.)—Charles G. Dawes, vice-president under Calvin Coollidge, died last night at his home after a wristattack. He was 85 years old.
Charles G. Dawes Dies
Dawes' death came as he was preparing to make one of his rare public appearances in many years as honorary chairman to welcome Gen. Douglas MacArthur's visit to Chicago Thursday.
Philip Murray Critically Ill
Pittsburgh (U.P.)—Philip Murray, C.I.O. president, was reported critically ill in Mercy hospital today.
Murray, who also heads the C.I.O. United Steelworkers union, was adamantly against the institution Sunday night with a "very severe abdominal complaint"