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THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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You Can't Hurry Movie-Making In Your Own Home Town
Washington (U.P.)—The moral of today's story is don't make friends in your old home town if you're in a hurry. Ask Helen Haves. It took her 30 minutes just to cross a street here.
It wasn't that the lovely lady of the movies, stage and radio-TV was a slow walker or that age was creeping up on her. There were too many friendly interruptions.
Miss Hayes was wearing a dragged-out look after a trying day before the cameras for a sequence that will take up all of 30 seconds in "My Son John," a movie she is making for Paramount. Some of it is being filmed in Washington.
The lady had returned to her home town to work in her first movie in 16 years. Leo McCarey, the director-producer who made "Going My Way" among others, was trying to get things over in a hurry. The scene was simple. Miss Hayes was supposed to whirl through the revolving door of a department store, wait for a green traffic light and then, deep in thought, walk across
the street, and up the stone steps of St. Patrick's church.
But some of her old friends kept it from being so simple.
Helen Hayes was born in Washington. She attended Sacred Heart academy here and turned "pro" at the age of eight when she played in "Babes in the Woods," at the old National theatre.
"I guess we gave Leo and the cameramen a bad time," she said.
"But it was wonderful for me. I met a lot of old friends."
The first take started off in a normal sort of way. There had been no advanced publicity because McCarew had an eye on expenses.
Senator Renews Proposal To Seat Former Presidents
1 Washington (U.P.)—Sen. Owen Brewster (R.-Maine), said the new constitutional amendment limiting presidents to two terms gives new force to his proposal for making former presidents senators-at-large.
He told a reporter he consulted both President Truman and former President Hoover since he made the proposal two years ago and found that both "favor the idea."
Brewster introduced a bill in 1949 to give former president office space and staffs, the salary of senators and the privilege of the senate floor. They could make speeches but could not vote. The proposal was referred to the senate rules committee which took no action.
While he has not reintroduced the proposal in the 82nd Congress, Brewster said the recently ratified constitutional amendment limiting presidents to two terms is an "addled reason" for carrying out his plan.
while they would not be permitted to vote, Brewster said former presidents could give their views to congress and the country from the senate floor. "The least we can do," he said, "is to give them a forum of this character."
Brewster noted that presidents
often are "men in moderate circumstances." His bill would enable them to receive the $12,500 salary and $2,500 tax-free expense account paid to senators.
He said he would not want the revival of his proposal "to indicate any fear that Mr. Truman might run for the senate from Missouri." The president has often spoken fondly of his 10 years in the senate and said he would like to be back.
Brewster declined to say whether he believes/the spirit of the new constitutional amendment should persuade Mr. Truman not to seek another term. The amendment specifically exempted Mr. Truman.
The Maine senator's original proposal called for enacting a law to give ex-presidents senate privileges. He said he had since been informed by a reputable constitutional authority that the proposal could be carried out by a mere change in the senate rules.
HusbandsBarredByPlay-ReadingClub That Reviews Shakespearean Plots
The one hard and fast rule of a unique organization of campus women which calls itself "The Play-Reading Club" is that husbands are positively forbidden.
Some of the plays read and discussed include "Oedipus Rex," "Antigone," "The Iceman Cometh," "Streetcar Named Desire," "Anna Christie," "The Lower Depths," "Medea," and most of the Shakespeare tragedies. On one occasion the group attended "All About Eve," a film dealing with the contemporary stage.
Since the fall of 1949, the group has been meeting regularly each week to read a play aloud in its entirty and then, over coffee and cake, discuss its relative merits. Composed of faculty wives, four of whom are also students, and one faculty member, the members alternate classical dramas with modern ones.
The club, composed chiefly of women living in the Sunnyside project, was formed by Mrs. Sydney Schiffer. One of the first members was Mrs. Dorothy Overly, instructor in English, in whose home most of the meetings are held.
Regular members of the club include, besides Mrs. Schiffer and Mrs. Overly, the following; Mrs Rupert Murrill, Mrs. Nehemiah Jordan, Mrs. Nino Lo Bello, Mrs Jake Jaffe, Mrs Howard Irig, Mrs Kleus Berger, Mrs. Carlyle S. Smith Mrs. David Meister, and Mrs. William Thompson.
"The only trouble we have in reading the play aloud is with the male roles," Mrs. Overly explained. "Most of the women are turning into good readers. Although we us-
The great oil wealth of the Middle East was explained in relation to the geological history of the area by Dr. F. R. S. Henson, chief research geologist for the Iraq Petroleum company, at a lecture Tuesday night.
Dr. Henson used maps and cross sections of the area to illustrate his remarks. He discussed the complex faulting and folding of Arabia, Iran, Iraq and parts of Turkey.
Miss Hayes and the paid extras, getting $15 a day and hired from Catholic university's drama department to act as passers-by, were dressed, rouged, lip-sticked and sitting by in parked cars. The camera men were inconspicuous in trucks.
Dr. Henson is touring the United States and Canada under the Distinguished Lecture committee of the American association of Petroleum Geologists.
Kenneth Anderson, associate professor of education, will attend the North Central association meetings in Chicago, Tuesday, March 27 through Friday, March 30.
unally start reading the parts somewhat dispassionately, before we realize it we are 'letting go' and interpreting, or 'hamming', the role.'
Henson Explains Oil Of Middle East
Anderson Will Attend Chicago Education Meeting
Anderson will be the assistant chairman of the committee on schools to be advised during the meeting.
On a signal from Leo, Miss Hayes went into the store and came out. The cameras ground and up came a pretty little lady.
"Why, Helen," she cried. "Don't you remember me? We went to school together."
This old-time chit-chat was interrupted by a booming command from McCarey.
The grinding cameras unground. The extras went back to their parked cars, and Miss Hayes went on iawing with an old friend.
They tried it again a few minutes later. The actress made the rounds of the revolving door, and, while waiting for the light, felt the gentle touch of a feminine arm on her shoulder.
"Aunt Eva!" she said with genuine pleasure. There was another cry of "cut" and Leo burned. They tried it once again on a "dry run," with no cameras. It was just as well, because the sister of a nun who once taught Miss Hayes came out of the church and asked the star for an autograph.
On the third reel try, the Washington gendarmes took charge and everything went off fine.
What the film's about is a mystery. Even Helen Heyes won't say. All she will say is that it's sure nice to be back home for a spell.
Summer Field Trip Grant To Museum
The Museum of Natural History has again been given $3,000 by the National Park service for summer field work in archeological exploration.
Carlyle S. Smith, assistant curator of anthropology, will lead this summer's field party. The group will return to the site of an ancient Indian village in South Dakota, first opened up last summer.
They will establish a seven-tent base camp at Chamberlain, S.D. The area to be worked is in the Missouri river valley and will be flooded by the Fort Randall reservoir.
The site was described by Dr. Smith as "very rich" in evidence of prehistoric civilization. Last year the field party removed more than 22,000 pieces of pottery and thousands of bone and stone tools from the site.
He is now interviewing students who wish to join the summer expedition either to obtain academic credit or as employees. Dr. Smith is now looking for a full-time cook for the trip. The employment offer is open to anyone with a serious interest in archeology and willingness to work, he said.
The Indian inhabitants were probably ancestors of the present Arikara tribe, Dr. Smith said.
This is the fourth year that Dr. Smith has led summer field parties from the University and the third in which the National Park service has co-operated.
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