University Daily Kansan
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Missing KU Senior Found In Arizona
The disappearance of Harry C. Gilson, College senior, has been solved by Bisbee, Ariz. police, who reported Thursday that they had found the 22-year-old student walking in an arid, desolate region 10 miles from the Mexican border.
Gilson was involved in a minor automobile accident in Lawrence on Nov. 3. When police arrived at the scene he had disappeared. Since that time he has been the object of a widespread search by law officers. Lawrence police said they will not bring charges against Gilson.
Arizona officers said that they had followed a set of tracks that led 65 miles through the desert before they reached him. He was still walking in the direction of the Mexican border. The officers were on a routine patrol of the area.
Mr. and Mrs. George Beaston, stepfather and mother of Gilson, are traveling to Bisbee. Mrs. Beaston said at the time of Gilson's disappearance that she believed he had been injured in the accident.
Police said that no explanation could be given yet concerning the student's disappearance. Gilson gave his name and home address when he was found in the desert. He said that he had been working in Oklahoma until two weeks ago.
Gilson's room at 1321 Tennessee street was held for several weeks after he had disappeared. During the Christmas holidays, his parents came from their home in Marion, Kan., and returned with his personal belongings. It is not known if Gilson, an honor student and navy veteran, will return to the University.
Y-Orpheum Wants Scripts Submitted
Organized houses planning to compete in the first Y-Orpheum skit contest must submit scripts by Saturday, Feb. 11, at the M.Y.C.A. office in the Union building, Roy Wonder, business senior, said today.
Each script must be 13 or less minutes in length, but the nature of the script will be determined by the group presenting it. Acting and staging will be done by the members of each organized house entering.
The skits will be judged on originality of ideas and presentation. First and second prizes in the men's and women's divisions will be given and the eight best scripts will be presented on Saturday, April 1, in Hoch auditorium. Scripts will be judged by the dramatics department of the University of Nebraska.
Tentative scripts have been submitted by Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Beta Phi and Sigma Kappa sororities, and beta Theta Pti, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu and Delta Tau Delta fraternities.
HARRY C. GILSON
University students living at Sunflower village must bring their enrollment fee receipts to the Sunflower rental office by Feb. 20 in order to receive an adjusted rent.
Fees May Adjust Sunflower Rents
John A. LaMonica, general housing manager, said that students enrolling for the second semester must present the receipts if they are receiving adjusted rent or if they intend to apply for it. Existing rental adjustments will automatically be cancelled if the receipts are not presented by Feb. 20, Mr. LaMonica said.
Soprano Will Present Recital In Strong Hall
As the opening senior recital for the second semester, the School of Fine Arts will present Mrs. Pearl Clothier Campbell, soprano, and student during the past year of Mrs. Alice Moncrieff, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5. The program with Jacqueline Stoops as accompanist will be given in Strong auditorium.
Opera Guild's 'Sweethearts' To Open Feb. 6 In Fraser
Three dress rehearsals over the week-end will complete the pre-performance schedule for the University Light Opera Guild's production of Victor Herbert's operetta, "Sweethearts."
Barry McDaniel, fine arts sophomore, plays the role of Prince Franz, the romantic lead and Jeanne Aldridge, fine arts senior, takes the part of Sylvia, the girl he loves. Lieutenant Karl, his handsome rival, is played by Philip Wilcox, College sophomore. Liane, a coquettish milliner's assistant, played by Martha Weed, education senior, who
The first performance will be at 8:15 p.m. in Fraser theatre on Monday, Feb. 6 and not, as incorrectly stated in a headline in Thursday's Kansas, on Feb. 10. The remaining performances will be on Wednesday, Feb. 8, and Friday, Feb. 10. All will be at 8:15 p.m. in Fraser theater.
finally gets Lt. Karl. The comic lead, Mikel Mikeloviz, Chancellor of the Interior, which was played by Bobby Clark, the famous comedian, in the Broadway production of the show three years ago, is portrayed by Gene Courtney, instructor in speech.
The director, Gerald M. Carney, assistant professor of music education, is assisted by Clayton Krehbiel, assistant instructor in education, chorus; Tom Shay, instructor in speech, acting; with Don Dixon, assistant professor of speech, and G. Criss Simpson, assistant professor of organ and theory, as technical advisors.
French Movie Shown In Hoch At 7:30 Tonight
"Children of Paradise", which will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium, was made in France during the war, and in order to avoid trouble with the Germans, a story dealing with the early 19th century French theater was chosen for the picture.
Student admittance will be by activity tickets. Members of the faculty and their immediate families are invited free of charge.
This will be the first in a K.U. film series of foreign films to be shown to students in Hoch auditorium.
The struggles and hardships in the early part of two great French dramatic actors' lives are the primary focus around which the plot revolves. The actors, Frederic Lemaitre (1800-1876) and Jean Gaspard Baptiste Deburau (1796-1846), have a place in the hearts of French theater-lovers comparable to that held by Garrick and Barrymore in the Anglo-American theater.
Dr. Mattie E. Crumrine, assistant professor of romance languages, studied the lives and background of these two illustrious figures of the French theater as part of her thesis research. Some of this material provides background facts concerning the principal characters in the film and its locale.
The story has its setting in Paris in the early 19th century. Most of the action is centered on the Boulevard of the Temple, a thoroughfare noted for the numerous theaters which lined it on both sides, and particularly the Funambules theater in which pantomimes were the principal presentations. The boulevard has also been called "Boulevard of Crimes" because of the large number of murders and robberies which took place there.
The Funambuleus theater was a scene of triumph many times for Deburau, who became a master of pantomime after several disappointments in other types of theatrical work. Born into a family of performers, Deburau felt cheated when he found that he could not work with his father on the trapeze, nor tumble with his brothers. He could do nothing but make faces.
Frederic Lemaire, the other great actor, was at his best in dramatic roles. He created many of the roles in Victor Hugo's plays. Hugo himself once said of Lemaire, "... for the old he is Lekain and Garrick in one; for us he has the action of Keane united to the emotion of Talma." The latter was the favorite actor of Napoleon's era.
Lemaire was best known for the role of Robert Macaire in one of Hugo's plays. Brander Matthews, a famous American critic, said that Lemaire, "created the role, Robert Macaire, transmuting the cheap melodrama into a colossal caricature almost Aristophanic in its grandiose buffoonery."
It is the story of how these two men, so different yet so alike, rose from humble beginnings to new heights of theatrical glory and became the favorites of the "Children of Paradise" that forms the background for tonight's film.
Daumier immortalized Lemaire in a series of drawings depicting him in the role of Robert Macaire.
WEATHER
KANSAS—Pleasant weather is forecast for Kansas today, but the cold weather will return over the weekend. The forecast today and tonight is for fair and warmer with the high today ranging from 40 degrees in the east to 50 degrees in the west. The low tonight will be from 20 to 30 degrees. Saturday partly cloudy and turning much colder.
7,768 Students Enroll For Spring Term Classes
A decrease of 825 students left the total registration for the spring semester at 7,768 as classwork began Thursday, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University said today. Of those enrolled, 529 are in the Kansas City division of the School of Medicine and 7,239 at Lawrence.
HERMAN WILL, JR.
Herman Will, Jr., administrative assistant on the staff of the Methodist commission on world peace, will come to the University to speak for the Wesley Foundation during religious emphasis week, Monday, Feb. 26 to Thursday, March 2.
During the summer of 1947, Mr. Will served as an expert at the Second World Conference of Christian Youth at Oslo, Norway, and traveled extensively through Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium and England. He has special responsibilities in the fields of youth, student, and young adult work. In 1946 he was sent on a special mission to Cuba and Mexico for the International Fellowship for Reconciliation.
Mr. Will is one of several speakers being brought to the campus by student religious groups during Religious Emphasis Week which is sponsored by the Student Religious Council of K.U.
Swarthout Addresses Philharmonic Forum
D. M. Swarthout dean of the School of Fine Arts, will speak at the forum of the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5 at the home of Mrs. J. W Perry, 1217 West 55th street, Kansas City, Mo.
Dean Swarthout will discuss and give musical illustrations at the Philharmonic orchestra concert in the music hall, Tuesday, Feb. 7. It will be an all-Brahmas program.
A mid-year graduating class of more than 500 was not replaced by 461 new registrations, Nichols said. The latter figure includes 243 new students and 218 former students who returned.
Among the new registrants are 221 veterans as compared to 266 in February, 1949. There are now 2,998 veterans enrolled, 628 fewer than in the fall semester, and 2,424 fewer than the record high of 5,422 enrolled in the fall, 1946.
There were 456 new registrations this semester, five less than last year. There are 64 freshmen entering, last year there were 63.
Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, urges that College students wishing to change their enrollments should do so between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Saturday. These students should enter Robinson gym through the east door.
New freshmen, former students, new advanced standing students presenting grey cards, and students presenting transfers will enter the north center door of Robinson gym and go to the second floor between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
Journalism students should enroll at the same hours Saturday in Robinson gym. ___
Business Students To Meet Monday
Henry W. Riley, assistant treasurer of the international bank for reconstruction and development, will speak at a School of Business convocation 3 p.m. Monday, Strong auditorium. Visitors may also attend.
The bank was established in 1946 under the Brenton-Woods agreement. Mr. Riley has been assistant treasurer since that time. The bank's primary function is lending money to foreign countries for reconstruction. This will be the subject of Mr. Riley's address.
Mr. Riley is a former chief auditor in the office of the comptroller of currency of the treasury department. At present he is an executive officer with the federal deposit insurance corporation. He is also vice-president and member of the board of trustees of the export-import bank.
Mr. Riley will be a guest at a luncheon given by Chancellor Deane W. Malott Monday noon in the English room of the Union. A dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday in connection with a regional economic survey of southwestern Kansas.
Sigma Delta Chi Initiates First Man W.A. White Hired
A man who describes himself as the "first graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism," John Redmond, was initiated Thursday into Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity. Mr. Redmond is editor and publisher of the Burlington Republican.
The 76-year-old newsman said he was the first reporter hired by Mr. White when he bought the Emporia Gazette in 1895.
After working with Mr. White for three years, Mr. Redmond bought a small paper from which the Republican evolved. One of the most widely read Kansas newspapers, the Republican is a consolidation of about a dozen papers.
C. G. Wellington, managing editor of the Kansas City Star, told the students there was nothing that could replace actual experience on a professional newspaper.
The editor who does the hiring usually tries to judge the applicant's ability himself by what he observes during an interview, Mr. Wellington said. Top grades and examples of published newsstories help the employer to determine this factor.
One way a student can prepare himself for a newspaper job is to "read, read, and read," Mr. Wellington said.
He stressed that the student should read newspapers, biographies, news magazines, and current literature.