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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1948
Official Bulletin
A. W.S. joint senate and house meeting, 4 today, Chi Omega house.
Dec.14,1948
Student Union Activities, 7 to-night, Union ballroom. Committees meet in designated sections.
Candidates for initiation in Phi Delta Kappa report to 110 Fraser at 4 today. Banquet following initiation at 6:30. Eldridge hotel.
I. S.A. secretarial committee, 7 to- night, 222 Frank Strong.
Ys Men smoker, 7:30 tonight,
Henley house.
A.S.C. regular meeting, 7:15 to-
night, Pine room, Union.
Law wives Christmas party, 8 p.m. tomorrow, Kansas room, Memorial Union. Bring $5e gift for exchange.
S. A.M. 7:30 tonight, Recreation room, Union, Speaker, Perrin D. McEloy, Building and Construction Trades council, A.F.L., Kansas City. Also, nominations for second semester officers.
Travel bureau, Student Union activities office, now open to aid students wanting rides or riders.
Senior women candidates for T.W. A. hostess training second semester consult Miss Maude Elliott, 229 Frank Strong, 9-11:30 a.m. any day this week.
A.I.C. E., 7:15 p.m. tomorrow
Lindley auditorium, Guest speaker,
C.E. Hovey, patent attorney.
Pre-Nursing club 7:30 p.m. to-
morrow. Miller hall. All students in pre-nursing invited.
Sociology club Christmas party
7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Miller hall
Faculty will present program. All
planning to attend sign list in Frank
Strong Annex E or in Snow hall before
tomorrow noon.
Jay James, 5 p.m. tomorrow, Pine room, Union.
K U. Dames, 8 p.m. tomorrow
426 Lindley. Christmas party.
Archery club, 4 to 6 tomorrow.
Robinson annex.
Episcopal College club Holy Communion, 7 a.m. tomorrow. Trinity Episcopal church followed by breakfast at Parish house.
Mr. K, Wade Bennett, John Taylors', Kansas City, will be on campus tomorrow for interviews. Sign with Mrs. Strong in School of Business office for interview time. Group meeting with Mr. Bennett at 8 preceding interviews.
Classical club. 8. pim. Thursday. home of Jim O'Hara, 1547 Kentucky, to hear records of Judith Anderson in "Medea."
Mathematics club social meeting 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Women's Faculty club, 1300 Louisiana. All planning to attend sign list in mathematics office, 205 Frank Strong by 5 p.m. tomorrow.
A.W.S. Sonata, 4:30 p.m. Thursday
Miss Hainacha's house.
Student-faculty conference committee, 5 p.m. Friday, Union.
Freshman YW commission, 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Henley house.
A school of musketeer is so large it sometimes stretches 19 rilles in length and a half rille in width, according to skippers of the Atlantic Coast Fisheries Company's trawler fleet.
--saw a professional play before coming to the University. That includes the actors.
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The man on the other end of the line said: "Sure, I'll give you an interview, but you are probably wasting your time. I've never done anything important enough to write about."
I'm Not Important,' Claims Dapper Professor Of Speech
It turned out that the man who has been the chairman of the department of speech and drama for 26 years and produced 110 plays, requiring about 400 hours of his time each. $ \textcircled{3} $ was a man, well, worth interviewing.
Prof. Allen Crafton is a dapper, energetic man with gray hair, a gray military mustache, and the claim that he still can't explain how he got into show business. Graduated in 1912 from Knox college, Galesburg, Ill., with a bachelor of science degree in biological sciences, and a master of arts degree in 1914 from Harvard, he soon went on the stage.
He spent $2\frac{1}{2}$ years in France with the famous 25th Squadron of the U.S. Army air service during the first World War. While with the squadron, Professor Crafton designed the famous "Axe-man" still used by the 25th as its official insignia.
After the Armistice, he traveled with the 2nd army show throughout Europe putting on shows for the A.E.F. Returning home, he taught at Wabash, Ind. in 1919-20; and at Carleton, Minn. from 1920 to 1923 before coming to the University in 1923.
"Well, let's see. We never had an accident while putting on a play here, except the time a realistic actor smashed another boy on the head with a chair in a scene from "Ten Nights in a Barroom." The boy who got hit held his temper but almost murdered the chair-swinger after the scene ended.
"Doesn't give you much to write about, does it?" Professor Crafton remarked from behind the perennial cigar he chews.
"I remember the time we put on a little English comedy in Pratt. What the people had expected was fireworks and a brass band. The place was so crowded that we never learned until after the show that the cops had been called in to quell a small riot in the rear of the audience.
"I wouldn't trade our K.U. audience for any other. But you have to get out the goods to get results. Where a community theater has a stable audience, we have to win a new following every year. Probably 90 per cent of our audience never
Professor Crafton builds and paints most of the scenery himself. During the depression, Adrian Dornbush, a painter on a Carnegie grant, came to the University.
"He believed people noticed what was in the scenery and wanted to put in too much detail," Professor Crafton chuckled. "I have never believed this.
"We received no comments from anyone. Even the actors missed it!"
"One day, we decided to find out. During the next play, we painted two men watching a woman taking off her clothes, in the scenery for one of the acts.
Professor Crafton has written five books on play acting and directing. Mrs. Crafton collaborated on three. He also has written several plays, one about early Lawrence which was staged here, and in which he played one of the starring roles.
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