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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1948
Hard Work And Talent Will Get You In Opera'
Rv STELLA GABRIELSON and FRANKIE WAITS
Hard work and a peculiar talent is all that will get young singers into opera today, Miss Gladys Swarthout, Metropolitan Opera star, said this morning in an interview at the Eldridge hotel.
"There is no money in opera and practically no openings for young talent because there is no place for training in the opera world," the famous soprano said.
hands together.
"The operetta is very good now, because you have a chance to sing beautiful music, work under the direction of excellent stage management, and the pay is good," she said.
Miss Swarthout will sing at 8:20 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. This be her third concert at the University. Miss Swarthout will present "quite a difficult concert including some arias never before sung in this country."
She will be accompanied by Gibber King at the piano.
her King at the end.
The program will include arias operas by Handel, Paisiolo, and Rossini; Les Lettres, from "Werther" by Masseen; Spanish songs; and modern Italian poems.
She will present songs from the American composers John Duke, Dougherty, Campbell-Tipton, and Mollette.
For the past eight weeks, Miss Swarthout has been traveling throughout the United States with her concert tour. She will leave for Ann Arbor, Mich., tonight after the concert.
For five successive years she was voted the first female classical singer in radio by critics of the United States and Canada. She has appeared on many radio programs including "The Voice of Firestone."
Her latest recordings are "Chemin de P'Amour," by Poulac, and John Jacob Niles' folk songs.
Miss Swarthout has been featured in television and she believes that television is the "only medium for opera." She stated that during the war more persons attended opera than ever before but since the attendance has fallen off.
This attractive concert artist is a personal friend of Miss Mary Margaret Truman. "She is our best ambassador from the White House," Miss Swarthout said, "Everyone just loves her and she has a sweet, natural voice."
oral voice.
A world famous soprano, Miss Swartouth has sung in Italy France, England, and Switzerland. Because of a very strict concert schedule, she has not visited Europe since the war.
She began her career as a church singer. She is a member of the Chicago Civic Opera company, the Ravina company, and the Metropolitan Opera company. She has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera company since 1929.
Miss Swarthout was born in Deepwater, Mo., in December, 1904. She received her high school education in Kansas City, Mo., and her advanced musical training in Chicago. She holds an honorary music degree from the Chicago Musical college.
She created the roles of Niejata in "Sadko," and Cathos in Lalunda's "Le Preziose Ridicole." She has been the leading mezzoproo in "Norma," "Peter Ibetson," "Gloconda," "Forza del Destina," "Lakume" "Carmen," "Mignon," and scores of other operas. Her favorite role is Carmen
Aside from her musical talents Ms. Moran is known for a novel "Coms Tomorrow."
Engineer Explains Electric Logging
J. R. Grant, supervisor of electric well-logging services for the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing company, described electric oil well-logging to the University chapter of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Tuesday.
Upstream Dinner Features Panel
Seventy-five persons heard opinions on the position and function of liberalism in America in the panel discussion at the dinner sponsored by Upstream magazine recently.
The panel consisted of Robert Chesky, College junior, William Conboy, Stanley Kelley and Joan Joseph Williams, College seniors. Hilden Gibson, associate professor of sociology and political science, was moderator.
Conboy asked if the function of liberal forces is to bring change in national thinking through action or through the academic approach of talking of the need for social change.
Albert Roland, graduate student and editor of Upstream, answered Comboy saying, "Through education we find what the needs of the underprivileged are. Then it is for the liberal to do something about it."
Professor Gibson asked for some effective means to help the underprivileged.
"Liberals must first get rid of a holier than thou' attitude. They should begin appealing to people as citizens instead of demanding that they accept liberal reforms', Conboy said.
Kelley suggested that because one cannot effectively act alone that a liberal should get into an organization to achieve social betterment. He gave co-operative businesses as an example.
Chesky disagreed. "Co-operatives have become antagonistic to extreme social measures. The real problem is uniting liberals on a definite program."
Ned Linsegar, Y.M.C.A. director said, "Co-ops are becoming a vested interest in themselves. They react against any change that will shake their position. This is an example of liberals who have become so adapted to the present economic environment that there is little chance of their helping to bring about change.
Ray West, associate professor of English, summarized in saying, "The liberal occupies the middle position. He is radical to the conservatives, and conservative to the radicals. Thus he is forced to the middle of the road.
"The Totalitarian Revolt Against Democracy" will be discussed by Otakar Odozilik, visiting professor of history from Czechoslovakia, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Lindley auditorium. There will be no admission charge.
Odlozilik Lectures Start Tomorrow
He will continue his series of three lectures on Tuesday, May 10, when he speaks on "Russia and Democracy." The last talk, "Central Europe in Eclipse," will be given Tuesday, May 17.
Professor Odlozilik spoke recently on the spread of democratic ideas in central and southeastern Europe during the 19th century before the Kansas History Teachers' association in Topeka.
Japanese Fight In Chinese War
Tokyo, May 5—(U.P.) A former major-general in the Japanese airforce said today that 40 thousand Japanese soldiers are fighting on both sides in the Chinese civil war, most of them for the communists.
Many of these Japanese prisoners formerly members of the crack Kwantung army which surrendered to the Russians—may be getting their combat training now with the Chinese Red army, he said.
Yahei Oba, the ex-officer, said many Japanese believe Russia is deliberately delaying the repatriation of Japanese war prisoners because she wants to train a Japanese "liberation" army to land in Japan in case of war with the United States.
Oba estimated on the basis of reports from repatriates that 30 thousand Japanese were fighting with the communists, either as converts to their cause or as soldiers of fortune.
From five to ten thousand Japanese have been serving with the military middled, but they may have switched sides or been taken in recent fighting.
Amvets To Hold 'Monte Carlo Night'
Food, games and fortunes are offered to those attending the "Monte Carlo night" to be held at 8 p.m., Friday in the Community building in Lawrence.
The event is being sponsored by the Sunflower Amvets and Sunflower auxiliary. Students, faculty, residents of Lawrence are invited.
Other entertainments will be the "Fish Pond" and "Bingo." No admission will be charged.
This Is Berlin:
12-Year-Old German Girls Toiled On These 'Poems'
(Berlin Correspondent for the University Daily Kansan)
By CARLA EDDY
When I returned to Berlin last August-after four months in Western Germany-it looked like a different city. It was summer instead of winter, there were many more people on the streets, and all the balconies of Berlin bloomed with flowers and tomato plants. The currency had changed, the blockade had become complete, the Berliners were still wondering whether the Western powers would $ ^\circ$
These children are taught by the so-called "direct method" of language teaching. From the first day, only the foreign language is spoken in the classroom. They learn to use the language for everything they have to say in class, from "Excuse me for being late" to the discussion of grammar. The theory is that one learns better and more easily when he keeps his mind and tongue in the new language, than when he switches back and forth translate time, as it appears to him, directly to the language, rather than having to translate everything that comes to mind. It requires skillful teaching, but pays big dividends, especially where conversation is emphasized. So here are the 12-year-old's verses:
When school started in the fall, work kept me away for several weeks, so I sent a glass of jelly to the teacher with the proposal that it be offered to the pupil who wrote the best verse about the airplanes. There were 12 'takers,' and of course we found an excuse to reward all of them, for it was a difficult assignment at their stage in English. Some of the entries are printed below, unfortunately without their illustrations.
I had been corresponding with a class of school children, and looked forward to seeing them again. These 12-year-old girls had studied English for two years, and favored me from time to time by enacting chapters from "Winnie the Pooh." Each time I wrote the class from the West, there were up to 32 replies—32 little struggles with the English language, decorated with sketches or paint. These helped keep my recollection of Berlin sparkling.
The airplanes fly
We look at the sky.
They bring us to eat
Potatoes and meat
They all look so wonderful and nice.
Miss Eddy, I like to get the prize.
—Rogerite Bils.
whether the Western powers would
terrificly air-minded.
The acroplanes飞 every day for flying in sunshine. They are ordered by General Clay potatoes, butter and meat We hear the planes, in sunshine and rain Miss Eddy also flew with a plane to Stuttgart and back to Berlin. Miss Eddy is ordered a prize
Stuttgart and back to Berlin.
She brought us a glass of jelly as a prize
One-day Dry Cleaning—down 14th to VARSITY CLEANERS Phone 400
for the girl who would make the poem nice.
— Ute Guerlet
THE AIRPLANE
IN THE SUNNY DAYS and the dark stormy nights there are always over us the flights of the silver shining airplanes. They are coming over lands they are coming over the lift to bring us all the gift the couch will give us new mood. And we are holding the town against the breakers coming down in it. These silver shining airplanes are bringing from West that's the good sense: "alone!"
-Anemone Kausch.
A Poem not really about the Airplanes
When I think of a rhyme for the aro-
zones
when I think of a plane for me
planes
I find nothing, because it rains.
But when I think of the jellypot
it is hot, but not cold.
That must be the airplane high
When it hums in the sky.
And bring the things which
they come on the big airbridge
And bring the thing which
you eat and drink.
But they bring also shoes I think.
But at first they bring our dear Miss Edd
And now I am all ready.
—Gisela Neumann.
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