UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1950
Shrew Tamed To Satisfaction Of Audience
A boisterous, rollicking performance of "The Taming of the Shrew" delighted a University audience Monday night.
Louisa Horton as Katherine, the shrew, took undisputed honors as the star of the evening. From her opening scene she played the difficult role with feeling and sincerity. Her Kate was a real, live, intensely fascinating creature, who won the sympathy of the audience immediately despite her shrewish disposition.
Kendall Clark as the confident tamer, Petruchio, and David Lewis as the foppish Tranio gave fine performances. Karen Leslie as Bianca offered nice contrasts to Katherina. The play was characterized by the excellent portrayals by every member of the cast.
The play-within-a-play structure of the original Shakespearean version was maintained in the Webster presentation. Larry Gates skillfully portrayed the part of Christopher Sly, the tinker, featured in the opening part of the play. Only occasionally did the inclusion of Sly into the main part of the story intrude upon the plot of the taming.
Adding to the effectiveness of "The Taming of the Shrew" was the singing of chorus numbers by the "strolling players." The lyrics used are traditional lyrics of the period and were arranged for the play by Lehman Engel.
The setting for the play consisted of some 24 pieces, including many interchangeable doorways. These movable parts were arranged by the actors, as the play progressed, to indicate a change of scene. The audience was fascinated by watching the players quickly manipulate these parts.
In the production given by the Margaret Webster Shakespeare company, the shrew was tamed with all the hullabaloo surrounding a Shakespearean comedy. Every opportunity for comic action and sparkling interpretation of dialogue was fully developed.
It is difficult to tell who had the most fun—the actors or the audience. Just how much the audience enjoyed the play was evidenced by the laughter throughout the performance and the five curtain calls demanded after the show.
Applications for the scholarships which are worth about $300 each, have been sent to all high school principals. These blanks must be returned to the University by Monday, May 1.
More than 50 scholarships in residence halls will be offered to boys that will be graduated from Kansas high schools this spring, L.C. Woodruff, dean of men, announced.
The Shakespearean comedy ended on a high point with the entire cast singing. "And welcome all to Lawrence."
Rome, —(U.P.)-Italian Communist labor leaders met today to consider calling a nationwide general strike, but sidestepped the issue in a face-saving compromise.
Scholarships To Be Given
The executive council of the National Labor Federation approved "the formula of a general strike." But it left up to the federation boss, Giuseppe Diotto, the time, duration, and method of such a strike, "in relation to the attitude of the government."
Students applying for the scholarships will be considered on the basis of scholarship, activities, and need. The awards will be used to pay the cost of room and board for the students.
Italian Communists May Not Strike
Morris To Give Humanities Talk
The sixth Humanities lecture of the year will be given at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser theater by Dr. Charles W. Morris, philosopher, on "Bringing Man Back Into the Humanities."
Dr. Morris is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Chicago, and devotes most of his time to research and writing in the field of humanities.
World News At Press Time
Washington—(U.P.) The food and drug administration said today it would continue to permit the retail sale of two brands of anti-histamine cold drugs—"resistabis" and "anahist." George P. Larrick, Associate commissioner said that, despite the contitions of the federal trade commission, his agency has obtained no evidence that the two products were dangerous when taken according to label directions.
Washington—(U.P.)The F.B.I. today was investigating charges that John L. Lewis used a secret set of signals to keep miners out of the pits during the recent coal strike.
H. Graham Morison, assistant attorney general, said he ordered the F.B.I. inquiry March 18 after reading about the charges against Mr. Lewis by Lloyd M. Sidener, ousted president of a United Mine Workers local in Cainton, according to published Mr. Lewis, and Richard M. Lewis of using intricate signals to countermand the two back-to-work orders he issued when Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech told him to get the mines back in production.
Topeka, —(U.P.)— Contracts calling for road improvements in the amount of $5.102,779 have been approved by the Kansas highway commission. The projects involve more than 750 miles of trafficway and 74 miles of secondary road work.
Three experimental contracts, specifying coarse ground cement for paving on U.S. 281, U.S. 50 south and U.S. 40. feature the latest projects approved by the commission. Officials believe the coarse ground cement will result in longer life for the state's concrete pavements.
Tokyo—(U.P.)—Japan's leading university displayed noticees at all entrances today banning Communist cells among students in the school.
Tokyo university officials announced that the decision, made jointly by directors and faculty members Monday, was necessary because the cells often disturbed and disrupted basic functions of the school.
Carruth Contest To Be Extended Until April 17
The William Herbert Carruth contest has been extended to 5 p.m. Monday, April 17, for the convenience of those desiring to work on poems during Easter vacation, John E. Hankins, professor of English, announced today.
Also, the number of poems which may be submitted has been increased to three. Three typewritten copies of each poem, signed by an assumed name, must be handed in to the Chancellor's office before the deadline.
A sealed envelope containing the real name and address of the author must accompany the poem. On the outside of this envelope must be written the assumed name of the contestant and the exact title of the poem.
A preliminary committee will select one of the poems from each person and submit it to the final committee. The committee is composed of Dorothy Van Ghent, assistant professor of English, Thomas G. Sturgeon, instructor of English, and Professor Hankins.
Professor Hankins will represent the English department this year. The alumnus has not been selected. The other member will be John Holmes, professor of English at Tufts college, Medford. Mass.
According to the rules, the final committee must consist of a member of the English department, one alumnus of the University, and a man-of-letters not connected with the University.
Friends of Professor Carruth started the contest by raising a fund from donations. The interest from the invested money is used as the prize money.
The Carruth Memorial fund was established in 1927 to commemorate the late William Herbert Carruth, nationally-known poet and for 30 years chairman of the German department. He was graduated from K.U. in 1880, and was at one time vice-chancellor of the University.
This year, three prizes, totalling $90 are being offered. The first prize is $50, second $25, and third, $15. The final committee has the right to withhold any of the prizes, if the poems submitted are not considered worthy of award.
Sidney Gottesman, College freshman, was released from Watkins Memorial hospital Monday where he was treated for injuries suffered in an automobile - truck collision The accident occurred on March 15.
Hosoital Releases Student
Colored slides of Estes Park. Colo., will be shown at an all-membership meeting of the Y.M. C.A. to be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday, in the Pine room of the Union.
YMCA Will See Estes Park Slides
Y. M.C.A. members and interested students are invited to attend. The recently elected officers of the Y.M.C.A. will preside over the meeting.
New Candidates In ISA Election
Independent Students association council members nominated a new slate of candidates for executive offices at a Monday meeting.
Candidates nominated for offices are as follows
Allyn Browne, Walter Brown, and Richard Krimminger, College juniors; president; Robert Dunwell, education junior, and James Logan, College sophomore. All Student Council representative; Marese Ball, College freshman, and Louise Hamilton, education junior; secretary; Donna Hoein, College freshman, and Ellen Osborn, College freshman, social chairman; Marian Mussatto, College freshman, and Jeannine Prichard, College sophomore, social welfare chairman; and Robert Heins, College sophomore, and Robert Longstaff College freshman, public relations chairman.
Election day will be. Wednesday March 29. Polls will be in the lobby of the Union and in the I.S.A. office 228 Strong hall.
The I.S.A. banquet honoring its president, Maxine Holsinger, education junior, will be held Wednesday, March 29. The winner of the I.S.A.$50 scholarship will be announced at the banquet.
Crowds Watch KU Play Over TV
Three hundred and fifty students watched the television broadcast of the K.U.-Bradley basketball game in the Union lounge Monday.
Some students began taking gooop positions in front of the television receiver as early as 3.30 Free coffee was served during the show.
Several organized houses gave television parties and as many as 80 persons were present in some of the houses.
Bust Stolen As Feud Erupts Anew
County Club Meets Todav
Plans for spring activities will be made and a new chairman elected at the Jefferson county club meeting to be held at 430 p.m. today in Miller hall.
It's on again—that feud between University law and engineering students. Each year the rivalry seems to be renewed around St. Patrick's day.
First the statue of Uncle Jimmy Green and the student was painted bright green on March 17. Now the bust of Frank Olin Marvin, the first dean of the School of Engineering, has been taken from Marvin hall.
The 65-pound bronze bust was taken from its pedestal March 17 by a group of unidentified law students. "It is in excellent hands. We had no trouble at all getting the bust of Dean Marvin. He seemed willing enough to leave the engineering library," they said.
The future lawyers say that they have absolute proof this time of the identity of the guilty ones who painted Uncle Jimmy Green. Anonymous law students told a University Daily Kansan reporter that they trailed drops of paint that leaked out of the paint bucket from the statue to a house which had shutters painted in the same color of green.
The paint bucket was found behind Dyche hall. The law students said the bucket was covered with three separate sets of fingerprints.
"Copies of the prints were sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Washington, D.C. to ascertain
Law students think the bronze bust of Dean Marvin looks better draped in judicial robes, with a gavel and gavel in law book in his hands.
A group of unidentified lawyers took the statue from Marvin hall March 17 and they say it is being kept in a safe place of judicial surroundings.
A spokesman for the group said, "Justice should be tempered with mercy. There is a possibility that leniency will be shown to the guilty group of engineers who painted the statue, provided they are host to the entire School of Law at a beer bust or a smoker."
identity," one student said. They are expecting an answer from the F.B.I. by Thursday night.
Jimmy Green has been painted so many times for so many reasons that "such indignities cannot go unnoticed for an indefinite length of time," the lawyers said, add lawyer engineers wrote.
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The law students have taken the bust of Dean Marvin many times. In 1947 it was taken to the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Mo., and recovered by two University Daily Kansan reporters. The engineers returned the stealing act that same year by taking 15 pictures which were matted and ready to be hung in Green hall.
How long the feud will continue cannot be determined, and how violent it will become cannot be forseen. Meanwhile the lawyers and the engineers strole the campus with tongue in cheek.
'First Love Is For Music,' Says Miss Truman
Editor's note: This interview was written by a journalism student who was sent to a press conference in connection with her weekly laboratory work on the Kansas City Kansan.
By DORIS GREENBANK
Wearing a plume red gabardine suit dress with black accessories, the president's daughter looked neat and trim. Her blonde hair was cut in a short feather bob curling around face. She displayed a liking jewelry with her matching gold earrings and lapel pin, string of pearls, two gold bracelets, and two diamond rings.
Miss Margaret Truman smiled sincerely as she moved gracefully along the line of both professional and student journalists, shaking hands with each and offering a friendly greeting.
Although she denied the possession of a "Missouri accent," the president's daughter seemed much like a noncosmopolitan, typically midwestern young woman. She occasionally broke out with slang words, such as "gonna" or "workin'."
In anticipation of her concert tonight in Kansas City's Music hall, Margaret said, "I like everything on my program. I chose things I thought would appeal to the audience. The Music hall is one of the best I have seen. It has such wonderful dressing rooms backstage." Mrs. Harr Truman arrived in Kansas City this morning to attend her daughter's concert
Asked by a red-bearded newspaperman what she thought of the growing of whiskers in connection with Kansas City's centennial celebration, Miss Truman was not hesitant in expressing her distaste.
Not until the array of reporters had exhausted their supply of questions did the gracious young lady close the press conference. Each visitor left with a warm feeling of admiration for the poised young lady whose easy flow of conversation had created an impression of sweet sincerity.
Sitting near a piano in the Music room of the Muehlebach hotel, she invited the group of reporters to be seated around her. Then the barrage of questions began.
"I'm afraid my opinion of them isn't printable," she chuckled. "I'm all in favor of the celebration, but I don't think you gentlemen look very handsome with beards." The president's daughter seemed very interested in the centennial, but did not know whether she would be able to attend the June festivities.
Contrary to recent rumors, Miss Truman's career plans include opera. While she has no ambitions for the Metropolitan field, she is looking ahead to doing some opera work. Her plans for next summer include an intent to learn the role of Sophia in "Der Rosenkavalier" by Straus. She also has signed a contract to make Victor recordings during the summer months.
Two more concerts remain before the completion of Miss Truman's tour. They are scheduled for Pittsburgh, Kan. and Boling Green, Ohio. The young singer likes performing before college groups, as she will be doing in her last two programs.
Approached with the inevitable question—what about romance—Margaret promptly replied, "What romance? I don't know; you tell me the latest. Really, music is the only romance. It takes enough time."
The 26-year-old singer has no immediate ambitions for visiting Europe, either to study or to perform. She has already planned a tour for October and a series of concerts for the spring of 1951. To avoid "wasting time" Margaret has a language coach travelling with her to facilitate the learning of songs in Italian, German, and French.
Courtesy Doesn't Pav
Columbus Ohio, — (U.P.)—Courtesey doesn't always pay. Ike Mason paused on the way to school to wave to a woman neighbor, slipped on an icy spot and was knocked unconscious.