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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1949
Author Speaks To Journalists
Short stories offer the best opportunities for young writers, Elisa Blaik, author and columnist, told Theta Sigma Phi members at their Matrix Table banquet Thursday night.
night. She advised the honorary and professional fraternity for journalism women that nothing worthwhile can be written without sincerity and conviction.
"The market for short stories is widening," said Miss Bialk. "Short story style is becoming highly emotional and personal in approach. There is less plot emphasis and character development, but more stress on incidents," she explained.
ELISA BIALK
Miss Blalk—Mrs. L. Martin Krautter in private life—is the mother of two grade school children. She writes children's books in addition to occasional novels and a regular magazine column. The column "It's Like This In Our Town" runs in the Household magazine, a Capper publication. Through it she strives to offer human interest, humor, and stimulation.
Miss Blialk, a resident of Winnetka Ill., believes "a writer should develop a happy and well adjusted life while waiting for success to come An author must fortify himself against disappointments, for longe
Musicians To Colorado
Four faculty members of the department of music education are attending the Southwestern division meetings of the music educators national conference in Colorado Springs which will ends Sunday. Three of the University's representatives will take part in the program.
gram.
Dr. E. Thayer Gaston, chairman of the M.E.N.C.'s national committee on functional music, will speak twice. His subjects are "Values of Functional Music for Music Education" and "Correlation of Fundamental factors of Scholarship Necessary to the Success of Music Education."
Dr. Elin Jorgensen, associate professor of music education, will conduct a session of the elementary music section. He will discuss classroom aids and methods for effective music teaching. Instructor Mareus Hahn will act as co-ordinator for the audio-visual program of the conference. He will talk on "Toward an Intelligent Amaturism." Assistant Professor Gerald Carney will also attend.
vity is the keynote to success.'
When one of her stories was under option as a Hollywood play, Miss Blakie helped supervise it. She later sold the story to Paramount where it was revised for a comedy, "The Sainted Sisters."
"Selling a movie a year would be an ideal way to make a living," she commented. Since unpublished stories are not accepted by Hollywood producers such an ambition would not be easy, she added.
Formerly a reporter for Chicago newspapers, Miss Blaik said that writing is fun but can be fatiguing. She feels that three hours a day is enough time to spend writing. Her social life is limited because of her housewife-mother-writer pattern of daily life.
Finds Gold In 'Bathtub'
Scottle (U.P.) - Hugh Paris, local inventor, who introduced his portable horse bathing machine at Longacres track last summer, made assays of the mud left in his "bathtub" at Santa Anita and reported gold.
University Dally Kansan
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Queen Will Be Dance Honor Guest
The queen of the Kansas Relays and her attendants will be the guests of honor at the annual Relays dance to be given from 9 p.m. to midnight tomorrow in the Union ballroom.
the queen, Diane Stryker, education senior, and her attendants and princesses, Dorothy Neisses, Wichita university, Louise Burcham, Kansas State Teachers college at Pittsburg; Joan Bushey, journalism junior; Margaret Granger, College sophomore; and Alice Sellers, education freshman, will receive cor-sages during the intermission program.
The dance, sponsored by Union activities, will feature the music of Gene Moore and his orchestra. Admission will be $1.05 a couple, and refreshments will be served.
Hoffhaus To Attend Denver Conference
Charles Hoffhaus, College junior, left Thursday to attend the four-day North American conference of International Relations clubs in Denver.
Hoffhaus will represent the K.U. International Relations club at the conference, sponsored jointly by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Denver Social Science foundation, and the Interim Organization of the North American I.R.C.
American foreign policy, Europe and the United States, Asia and the United States, and the United Nations will be discussed at the conference.
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- KANSAS RELAYS DANCE
- UNION BALLROOM
- Gene Moore's Orchestra
- SATURDAY, APRIL 23
- Dancing 9--12
- $1.50 value for $1.05
- Everyone welcome
- Three beauty queens
- Bring Your Date!
- Sponsored by Student Union Activities