MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Polka Dots And Stripes Add Glamour To Paint Professional Magic Shown At Convention
Chicago—(U.P.)-Paul Stadleman dipped a brush in a paint can and smeared it on a board. With one stroke he got polka dots.
Stadleman said he didn't invent the atom bomb because he was too busy creating polka dot paint. But now, he said, he's almost ready to disown his brain child.
It did, too. Big red dots on a tan background.
The polka dot paint is part of Stadleman's professional magic act. But too many people take it seriously, he said.
"I'll tell you," he confided. "I don't really paint polka dots. It just looks that way."
"Ever since they hired me to perform at a paint dealer's convention I've been getting letters from people who want to put it one the market." Stadleman said. "Some people must be nuts."
Stadleman dipped the brush in another can.
He painted stripes, but they were mixed with polka dots.
"Like to see some stripes?" he asked.
"Didn't get all the polka dots out of the brush," he explained.
He wiped the brush on a rag and dots came off on the cloth. Then he painted different colored stripes, side by side, with one stroke.
"Of course, it can't be done, we said.
Stadleman said he'd had trouble with a few of his brother magicians. They claimed he got the idea for polka dots from a piece of hocus pocus known to the trade as barber pole paint.
"The funny thing is, I did," Stadleman said. "Only I'm the guy who invented barber pole paint."
He dipped the brush in a thru- can and painted a swatch of stripes, mauve and blue. He painted up and down but the stripes came out diagonally.
"Saves time that way," he said.
he said.
"An interior decorator wants to know if I can paint wallpaper designs—flowers and things like that. Said he could use it in his work."
Stadleman pulled a letter from his pocket. It was from a paint dealer in Florida who said his territory is ripe for polka dots.
Stadleman said.
"How can I tell the man I'm a fake?"
Spencer Pledges Sigma Nu
Sigma Nu fraternity announces the pleiding of Oliver Spencer, education freshman from Ulysses.
Pi Phi Party
Pi Beta Phi sorority held its annual Valentine dinner dance Feb. 18. The dinner was given at the chapter house and the dance was held at the Union ballroom. Those attending were William Schwarz, Jack William Edward Denning William Leake, Bud Barton, Henry Zoller, John Ambert, Charles Robert Neuman, Donald McLellan Moulton Green, Thomas Young, Joseph Dunnire, James Mann and Charles Oswald.
Robert Chaput, Ronald Mercer,
Craig McMichael, Stanley McEwen,
Dale Engle, David Ritchie, James
Davidson, Joseph Mendhenall,
Thomas Payne, James Potts, Buddy
Hedrick, William Champion, Robert
Orr, William Williams, Charles
Hall and Roy Britton.
Robert Wood, Robert Fountain Donald Harris, Bid Gaudreau, Lee Sauder, A. C. Cook, James Hirschberger, James Lauder, William Leonard, Charlie Hawkins, Gene Cox, Hal Cleavenger, Jerry Brownlee, Donald Elis, Robert Dunne, Mac McFerrin, Duane Newsome, Edwardal Stollenwerck, and Edward Huycke.
Now is the time to buy the things you don't need. Tomorrow your credit may not be so good—George W. Browa, "Rips and Tears", Independent-Review, Aztec, N. M.
It is entirely possible for a man to love two women at the same time—until one of them finds it out. Shannon Fife, Saturday Evening Fest.
February Wedding
Miss Melba Joan Swan of Independence, and Mr. Arnold Englund Jr., of Kansas City, were married Feb. 18 in Kansas City.
Mr. Stanley M. Englund of Lawrence, brother of the groom, was best man, and Mr. William Cole of Lawrence, acted as groomsman.
Mr. Englund was graduated in 1948 where he was a member of Alpha Kappa Psi and Phi My Alpha fraternities and president of the K.U. band, and active in campus politics. He is now a buyer for Sears Rochuck in Kansas City, where Mrs. Englund is also employed.
Widows of World War I veterans may be eligible for a death pension.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. O'Bryon of Lawrence announce the pinning of their daughter, Sarah, to Mr. Cecil Bradley, son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. C. Bradley of Sarasota, Fla., formerly of Lawrence.
O'Bryon-Bradley
Miss O'Bryan is a College sophomore and Mr. Bradley is a College junior and a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.___
Emperor's Daughter Will Be June Bride
Tokyo. Feb. 27—(U.P.)- Emperor Hirohito's daughter will be a June bride.
The imperial household announced that Princess Taka will marry Toshimichi Takatsukasa, $20-a-month clerk and scion of a noble Japanese family, at the Meiji Shrine.
The ceremony will be "preceen-
shattering" the imperial household said, because it will take place on girls' festival day. That means Emperor Hirohito and the Empress Nagako will be merely spectators instead of principals.
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WAA Annual Convention Held Feb.24,25 SponsoredBy KU,K-State To Discuss Problems
As co-sponsors with Kansas State, members of the University's Women's Athletic association assisted in the annual convention of the Kansas Athletic Federation of College Women Feb. 24 and 25. Represen- ting KU.
Representing K.U. were Miss Joe Stapleton, W.A.A.C. co-sponsor; Geneva Fleshman, Arlene Lone, Leis Lacy, Frances Fence, Beverly Pepper, and Jackeye Simpson, education juniors; Sydney Ashton, education sophomore; and Lorraine Ross, College junior.
The convention, meeting this year in Manhattan, was held to bring together, for discussion of their mutual problems, groups which are interested in the field of athletics and recreation for college women.
Beverly Pepper was chairman or the constitutional revising committee. She was chosen for this office because of her work on a similar
Sydney Ashton engineering sophomore led one of discussion groups Saturday morning after a general business meeting. Arlene Hill, president of the University W.A.A., presided at the luncheon meeting following discussions.
committee at the national convention last summer.
Highlight of the activities was an after-dinner report on the international College Women's conference on physical education by Miss Jean Galley, physical education teacher at Kansas State Teacher's college, Emporia. Miss Galley was a representative at the conference which was held in Denmark last summer.
Band Dinner-Dance
The annual University band and orchestra dinner-dance which was held Feb. 24 in the Union ballroom, had a St. Patrick's day theme.
Chaperones for the party were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wiley, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Zepp, and Mr. and Mrs. George Kreye.
Postage stamp glue is made from tapioca.