University Daily Kansan
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
awrence, Kansas
Music Festival Brings Braid, Brass To Campus
Nervous high school musicians in old braid and brass turned the impus into a three-ring parade round April 2 and 3.
The judging was done at various university buildings and at Liberty Memorial High school. All groups were rated one, two, three and four or performances. Neal M. Wherry principal of Liberty Memorial High school was festival chairman.
The uniformed musicians were for the Kansas district music festival. They practiced and played University classrooms and turn out some excellent performances. More than 2,000 musicians from Kansas high schools took part. the district festival at the University was one of 10 held throughout the state.
Individual students who received one rating are eligible to compete one of the state music festivals to be held in Emporia and Hays April 24.
Friday events included the judging of bands and orchestras, Class A voice groups, Class AA and A local groups. Saturday events were lighted by instrumental solos, ensembles, small vocal ensembles, and vocal solos.
Group Results
Group results of the festival follow:
Orchestra—Class AA, Shawnee Mission, two, Class A, Highland Park (Topeka), one; Ottawa, two; Lawrence Junior high, one.
Band-Class AA, Lawrence, one; Shawnee Mission, two. Class A, Highland Park (Topeka), one; Ottawa, two; Hiwatha, two; Osawatomi, two. Class B, Horton, one; Onaga, two; Lawrence Junior High, one
Mixed chorus—Class AA, Shawnee-Mission, one; Leavenworth, two; Lawrence, two. Class A, Highland Park (Topeka), one; Wamego, two. Class B, Fairview, one; Seneca, two; Valley Falls, two.
Boy's Glee club—Class AA, Leavinworth, two, Class A, Highland bk (Topeka), one; Burlington, two; Ottawa, two. Class B, Wellsville, one; Lecompton, two; Baldwin, two; Stanley, two.
Girl's Glee club—Class AA, Leavenworth, two. Class A, Highland Park (Topeka), one; Burlington, two; Ottawa, two. Class B, Wellsville.
Girl's Glee club—Class AA, Toppea (two entries), one and two; Shawnee-Mission, one; Leavenworth (two entries), both two. Class A, Ottawa, one; Highland Park (Toppea), one; Olathe, one; Bonner Springs, two; Burlington, two; Wamego, two; Class B, Seneca, one; Valley Falls, one; Stanley, two; Baldwin, two; Wellsville, two; Gardner, two; Eudora, two; Circleville, two.
Religion School Dean Back From Meeting
Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion, will return tomorrow from the Indianapolis meeting of the board of higher education of the Disciples of Christ.
The board discussed the effects of the new supreme court ruling on religious training in tax-supported schools.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy and not quite so warm west and north today. Partly cloudy, cooler in northeast tonight. Tomorrow cloudy possibly some scattered showers west. High today in 60's west and north,
Dr. Amiya C. Chakarvarty, professor of English at the University of Calcutta, will speak at 4 p. m. today in Frank Strong auditorium. He was a close friend of the late Mohandas K. Gandhi.
A Cappella Concert Tonight
Mary Jane Byers and Lorraine Mai, fine arts seniors, and Curtis Gloyer, fine arts sophomore, will be the soloists at the a capella choir concert at 8 tonight in Hoch auditorium.
Mrs. Byers will sing the contralto solo part in "Rejection," a descriptive setting of a Chinese lyric by Charles Lawrence, Glover, a baritone, will be the soloist in the Negro spiritual "River Chant," arranged by Hall Johnson. The soprano solo part in the spiritual "There is a Balm in Gilead," arranged by William Dawson, will be sung by Miss Mai.
The opening group of numbers will feature music of the 16th century with selections from Jacob Handl, Palestrina, Morley, and Orlando Gibbons. Russian songs will compose the second group. The choir will also sing two numbers by Edward Elgar, "Go, Song of Mine," in six voices, and "My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land." The program will close with four Negro spirituals.
Speech Finalists To Vie For Prizes Tomorrow Night
Finals of the Lorraine Buehler oratorical contest with seven of the University's veteran speakers competing for prizes totaling $235, "should be the most excellent forensic display ever held at the University," according to Orville Roberts, director of the contest.
This is the largest sum of money ever offered in a local speech contest at the University," Mr. Roberts declared.
This is the first in a series of annual oratorical contests to be held in memory of the late Mrs. Lorraine Buehler, and will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Frank Strong auditorium.
Three of the seven students taking part have won oratorical contests at the University. William H. Conboy, College junior, took first place in the Missouri Valley oratorical contest March 25. He will speak on "Facts and Fairy Tales." Hal M. Friesen, business junior, won the campus problem speaking contest last year. His topic will be "The Sergeant." E. Keith Wilson, College junior, won first prize in the All-University oratorical contest last year and will talk on "Century of Progress."
Three out-of-town lawyers and two University professors of law will be judges. They are Lyman Fields and J. M. Phillips, Kansas City, Mo.; H. E. Payne, Olathe; F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, and R. M. Davis, professor of law.
Patrick H. Thiessen, College junior, will speak on "Cops and Robbers;" Kenneth E. Beasley, senior, on "Pearls of Life"; Ernest C. Friesen, sophomore, on "Tears," and Roger L. Ewing, sophomore, on "Wall Street Versus Washington, D.C."
First prize will be a set of the Encyclopedia Americana. Second and third place winners will receive $50 and $25 respectively.
Prizes for the contest were contributed by the alumni of Delta Sigma Rho and by Walter Ross of Kansas City, Mo.
Robert William Veatch, former student, was killed in an airplane crash after a take off from the Hutchinson municipal airport Sunday. Wayne Schroll also was killed. Both are from Hutchinson. Veatch attended the University under the navy civil aeronautics authority war training service in the summer of 1943 and from 1945 to 1947.
Vandals Visit Kappa's, Pi Phi's
Two sulphur bombs were planted, trophies disappeared, and the Pioneer was painted in a wave of vandalism over the weekend.
Discoloration of a wall and divan resulted when a home-made sulphur bomb exploded in the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house about 12:30 a.m. Sunday as members and their dates were returning from the Kappa spring formal dance. Yellow fumes filled the house with the pungent stink of sulphur before John Neely, engineering sophomore, could carry the bomb outside.
A similar bomb was removed from the Pi Beta Phi sorority house about 15 minutes later, in time to avert possible damage to an expensive oriental rug in the hall.
Peggy Jean Baker, engineering freshman, tried to remove the bomb, but dropped it after burning her fingers, Leroy Britton, College freshman, then carried the "black object" out of the house.
Members of the Kappa house said they thought they knew who was guilty, but Mrs. McKay, housemother, said that no action would be taken against the suspect until she had talked to him.
One of the girls at the Pi Beta Phi house said that she saw a man with a red ski sweater run out of the house, but did not know who the prankster was.
The Pioneer received a coat of yellow paint sometime during the night April 3. Archie Dumas, campus patrolman, said the statue was painted when he came to work Sunday. David Park, campus night watchman, said he did not know who was connected with the incident.
Pemberton Will Arrive Tomorrow
Brock Pemberton, '08, New York producer and director, arrives in Lawrence tomorrow. He will arrive in time for two dress rehearsals of "Harvey," a three-act farce by Mary Chase, before the play opens its three-day run Thursday in Fraser theater.
To make it possible for Mr. Pemberton to work into the cast in such
To make it possible for a short time, K.U.'s "Harvey" has been made to follow the Pemberton version exactly. Even the stage settings will be exactly like those Mr. Pemberton uses. Ivan D. Sparling, speech instructor, who is directing the play, has conferred with Paul Foley, Mr. Pemberton's stage manager, to duplicate plans for scenery and stage management.
Mr. Pemberton, who will appear in the role of Elwood P. Dowd, describes the comedy by saying, "it tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd, an amiable man--about-town who according to his own confession, wrestles with a dog for 40 years before finally winning out. Harmfully Invisible To Some
"Then he made his constant companion a white rabbit, 6 feet $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches tall, whom he met one night leaning against a lamp post. The rabbit's name was Harvey and while he is invisible to most of the people in the play, he is so real to Elwood that only the benighted in the audience fail to see him."
The Kansas-born Broadway director was 14 years old when he had his first experience with the theater. He was refused admission to a play because the ticket-taker would not acknowledge Mr. Pemberton's rightful possession of a theater pass.
Born In Leavenworth
Leaving his birthplace in Leavenworth after graduation from high school in 1902, Mr. Pemberton entered the College of Emporia. William Allen White was his personal friend in Emporia. Later, Mr. Pemberton came to the University.
His current trip to the University will be Mr. Pemberton's first since he returned to receive the Alumni association award for distinguished service at the 1946 commencement.
Arthur Hopkins, the producer, and independently produced "Enter Madam" three years later.
Mr. Pemberton's experience as a newspaperman began when he joined the Emporia Gazette staff as reporter and play reviewer. In 1910 he went East and became one critic on the New York Eagle-Mail. He later become assistant drama editor to the New York World and the New York Times.
In 1917 he was an apprentice to
Another prominent figure who was one of Mr. Pemberton's K.U. classmates is Roy Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star.
The most distinguished productions of Mr. Pemberton's career are said to be the Italian grotesques by Luigi Pirandello, introducing that playwright to American audiences.
Not Afraid To Pioneer
In most of his plays, Mr. Pemberton has followed an innate pioneering instinct not only in producing author's first plays but in daring to depart from conventional dramatic forms. He says that it is his policy "to do a play if I like it."
Among Mr. Pemberton's successful play productions are "Strictly Dis-honorable" "Kiss the Boys Good-bye," and "Janie."
"Harvey," produced in 1944, kept Mr. Roberton in his usual high place among the first showmen on Broadway. It netted him the Pulitzer prize for the best play of American authorship produced in New York in 1944. Frank Fay staged a remarkable comeback in the production.
Tickets to "Harvey" may be reserved at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall today. Advance mail orders are being accepted. Prices are 75 cents and 50 cents for holders of season and activity tickets and $1.50 and $1 for the general public.
Lawn Sprinkling Must Cease Hagar Says
Major C. Hagar, superintendent of the water works, declared today that recent use of water to sprinkle lawns is sapping the already crippled city water supply.
He said that the number of gallons used have increased 10 to 15 per cent in the past three days. He warned that if sprinkling of lawns doesn't stop, temporary legislation to ration water and to forbid such unessential uses as sprinkling lawns and washing cars would be recommended.
The water supply has been reduced since the city's only permanent water intake was clogged with sand March 28. Repair on the clogged and ruptured pipe is progressing, Mr. Hagar said. However, the work will not be finished for at least another week and a half, he added.
He emphasized that water must be used sparingly until the repairs are completed.
Reds Ask Truce In Berlin Dispute
Bulletin
Berlin, April 5—(UP)—A Russian fighter collided with a British transport plane over Berlin today and both crashed.
All 14 persons aboard the twin-engined British viking plane were killed as craft exploded and burned. The Russian pilot of the single-seat fighter also was killed.
Berlin. April 5—(UP)—The Russians called today for a peace conference to end the "Battle of Berlin," and the British and Americans promptly accepted the offer.
More American and British freight trains bringing supplies to Berlin arrived in the capital and American authorities ordered air freight service from Frankfurt halted.
It remained for the Soviet Union to name the place and time for a meeting to iron out the last difficulties caused by Russia's sudden clamp-down last Wednesday midnight on rail traffic of the western powers through the Soviet-occupied zone to and from the German capital.
The Americans withdrew their troops from the blockade of the Soviet rail control center in the Reichsbahn building in the American sector of Berlin.
There appeared to be only one last major problem still to be settled among the four powers—the problem of inspection of American, British and French military passenger trains crossing the Soviet zone to reach Berlin.
15 Students Fined In Police Court
Fifteen students appeared before Oscar J. Lane, Lawrence police judge, April 2 and paid $17 in fines for traffic violations.
Eight persons received tickets for parking in restricted zones and were fined $1 each. They are James R. Barr, Fred H. Brinkman, John Humphrey, Max G. Mable, Donald J. McKeon, Harry C. Rice, Ernst R. Stoelting, and Charles A. Wiley.
Three were fined $1 for wrong parking. They are Clifford M. Foos, William M. Harris, and John H. Scott
Jhn W. Dickerson and Robert E.
Elbel were fined $2 each for park-
ing beside fire plugs.