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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1948
Nominate Spain To Receive Aid Through ERP
Paris, March 16- (UP)—Portugal nominated Spain today for admission into the ranks of the 16 nations banded together to receive American aid under the Marshall plan.
The Portuguese delegate asked the European Recovery program delegation in conference here to study "at an opportunity time" the admittance of Spain to the plans for the reconstruction of Europe.
pean economic Mr. Du Mata said that Spain, inhabitants and considerable resources, could not be kept "indefinitely outside the common work of European economic reconstruction."
The conference agreed unanimously to the participation of the three western occupation zones of Germany in the future setup for European recovery.
pean recovery. The delegate, Foreign Minister Jose Caiero Data Mata, voiced hope that Spain one day would be associated in the "pacific task of European economic reconstruction."
His government, he said, warmly associated itself with the Anglo-French proposal for participation in conference work by the commanders in chief of the three western German zones.
Meanwhile Britain and France are in a hard work behind the scenes of the Paris conference trying to draw Scandanavia into a military alliance against communism, diplomatic sources said today.
Foreign Minister Sean Macbride of Eire raised a proposal for the economic unity of Ireland.
sources saffooted Reports from Stockholm that the Swedish general staff feared a sudden Russian attack led observers to believe that major decisions may be reached here.
Co-ops Plan For Loan Fund
Members of the four campus coops, Don Henry, Harman, Henley, and the Jayhawk, will begin March 24 to solicit money for a resolving loan fund of the Central League of Campus Co-ops. The goal will be $25,000.
The fund is an establishment from which money can be borrowed by member cooperative houses. Applications for co-op loans are made to the University student housing association.
The C. L. C. C. is a regional division of the North American Student Co-operative League. The University co-ops became members in 1940.
University delegates to the board of directors of the C. L. C. C. are Wendell Walker, executive delegate, Jayhawk; Margaret Jeanne Connolly, Henley; Elmer Ritter Rusco, Don Henry; and Patricia Belle Waits, Harman.
A Frontier Party For Golden Nugget
The Golden Nugget saloon, usually known as the University club, will be the center of activity when the club gives its Frontiers party at 8:30 p.m. Friday.
Hosts will be Prof. and Mrs. J. A Burzle, Prof. and Mrs. W. M. Simpson, and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Holmes.
The Golden Nugget saloon will have typical saloon pictures on the walls, tables with red-checkered table cloths, games of chance with stage money, and two floor shows. All those attending will be asked to check their guns at the door.
Members will be dressed in frontier costumes, and prizes will be awarded for the best costume. A frontiers party has not been given for several years by the University club.
Crafton Displays Skill With 'Trojan Women'
By JIM ROBINSON
Prof. Allen Crafton and members of his speech and drama department wiped 2,400 years of dust off Euripides' "The Trojan Women" and came up Monday night with a production that showed a remarkable mastery of classic drama.
The modernized hour and a quarter production combines the genius of
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The modernized hour and a. 4 Euripides with Professor Crafton's skill as a director to present a message as timely today as it was when Euripides first gave it to the Greeks. The result is a play which gives a tragic description of what happens to women when the lusts of men force them down to the level of beasts.
The play deals with the aftermath of war as shown by the fate of the Trojan women after the destruction of Troy by the Greek soldiers. With all of the men of Troy dead and the once proud city destroyed the women are at the mercy of the soldiers who take them back to Greece as slaves.
Mrs. Crafton Has Lead
In the leading role of Hecuba, queen of Troy, Mrs. Jessica Crafton is on stage throughout the play and gives a masterful display of endurance. The part is filled with long emotional speeches that require every bit of Mrs. Crafton's considerable talent. She shows a great deal of understanding for her tragic role as the woman who is denied death and must live to pay for the sins of fallen men.
Marjorie Shryock as Cassandra the prophetess appears in one long brilliant scene to wring every possible drop of pity and sorrow from the difficult Euripidean dialogue.
Darlene Van Biber as Andromache, wife of the dead Hector, points up the most tragic scene of the play with an amazingly mature performance that turns the death of her son Astyanax, Josephine Skelton, into a symbol of man's eternal brutality. Miss Skelton produces a piercing scream that brings out the stark horror of the scene.
After the play belongs to the suffering women of Troy, Mr. Crafton as Menelaus and Haney Scott as the Greek herald enter just often enough to provide the necessary contrast for the doomed women. Tom Rea, Herk Harvey, Loren Kennedy, and Tom Shay as the Greek soldiers and Robert Calderwood as the God Poseidon round out the male cast.
Betty Ann Hilts is Helen
As Helen of Troy, the woman who brought on all this trouble, Betty
Delta Tau Holds Regional Meeting
The convention was held to discuss fraternity activities, and to adopt proposals for consideration at the national convention, which will be held at French Lick, Ind., in August.
Delta Tau Delta held its regional conference of the western division during the past week.
There were 61 registered delegates to the conference from the University, Kansas State college, Baker university, University of Missouri, Westminster college, University of Nebraska, University of Texas, University of South Dakota, University of North Dakota, University of Colorado, and the University of Oklahoma.
The Founders' Day banquet was held in Kansas City March 12. Mr. Dickinson was toastmaster, and the principal speaker was Hugh Shields. A banquet at the local chapter house closed the conference on March 13.
Irish Shmortocks And Films To Be Flown In By TWA
Shamrocks flown in from Ireland by C. F. Remer, traffic manager for T.W.A. will be presented to the visual education department tomorrow, Fred S. Montgomery, director of the department, said today.
Mr. Renner and Dr. John Furby, director of air world education for T. W. A., will present a film on Ireland to the department, Mr. Montgomery added.
Ann Hilts does a good job with a difficult part. She displays just enough sex appeal to make the whole thing realistic. Frances Feist handles the part of the Goddess Pallas, Athene.
Professor Crafton has broken the part of te chorus into individual speeches and spread them out to provide relief from the heavy doses of the long tragic speeches of the three leading women. They take the place of the convention breaks between scenes and allow the play to run straight through without a stop.
The ten women of Troy who make up the chorus are played by Mary K. Booth, Phyllis Mowery, Margaret Gosney, Louise Lambert, Joan Woodward, Donna Harrison, Jerry Catlett, Joy Godbehere, Imogene Frack, and Abigail Bixby.
Mr. Crafton Produces Action
Professor Crafton has combined his own scenery with the effects of modern stage lighting to produce the illusion of action which is lacking in Greek drama. In less capable hands "The Trojan Women" could easily become tiresome before it is half over. Mr. Crafton and the members of the speech and drama department have turned it into a moving drama which grips the audience quickly and doesn't let go until the curtain comes down.
"The Trojan Women" is the fourth and last play of the regular season for the University. It will be presented again tonight and tomorrow night at 8:15 p.m. in Fraser theater. Brock Pemberton wil appear April 7 in a special production of the current Broadway comedy hit "Harvey."
Two new "Co-operative Spanish Tests" prepared by Prof. W. H. Shoemaker, chairman of the romance language department, have been released by the Educational Testing Service, New York City.
Testing Service Releases
hoemmker's Spanish Tests
The tests include a section on civilization and culture of Spain and Spanish America.
Fowl Facsimile Up On Humor
The third issue of the Bitter Bird went on sale today.
It features a parody of the University Daily Kansan. The parody is entitled "Universal Dalee Kansan."
the issue was forecast by the now classic University Daily Kansan headline—"Bitter Bird Needs Humor Writers."
Violin Concert A Huge Success
Patricia Travers, young violinist who gave a concert in Hoch auditorium Monday evening, proved that age is no criterion to musicianship.
By Crystal Chittenden
Vieuxtemps "Concerto," with its intricate bowing, double-stops in octaves, and trills with a background melody, displayed her technical perfection of tone and versatility of phrasing and expression.
Schumann's "Evening Song" and Wieniawski's "Legende" showed that she was capable of interpreting melody with vibrance but emotional restraint.
She courageously tackled Ives modern "Sonata", but Debusy's impressionistic "En Bateau" seemed more adaptable to the violin. She played two numbers completely on the G string, Bachs "Air for the G string" and Paganini's skillfully treated "Eravura for the G string."
Although Miss Travers appeared at ease with her violin and music, a youthful, maidenly reserve seemed to hold her stage personality in check.
3 Students, Prof To Attend Meeting
Little Man On Campus
Three students and a faculty member from the School of Fine Arts are attending a state meeting of the American Guild of Organists in Winfield.
Laurel E. Anderson, professor of organ and theory, is a member of the board of regents of the Kansas chapter. Students who will appear on the program are Robert J. Hamilton; senior; Jack R. McCoy, and Richard M. Gayhart, sophomores.
Hamilton is organist at Trinity Episcopal church. McCoy is organist of the Country Club Christian church of Kansas City.
By Bibler
"I had the craziest dream last nite—that you gave me a 'lady royal', sweep second, non-magnetic, luminous dial, gold, 17 jewel, wrist watch for my birthday that's the 15th of this very month!"
Pickets Parade In Meat Strike Across Nation
Chicago, March 16—(UP)—More than 100,000 C.I.O. packing plant workers walked out today in a nationwide strike which cut meat production in half.
Leaders of the C.I.O. United Packinghouse Workers called the big strike at midnight despite an 11th hour appeal by President Truman. The president asked that the strike be postponed while a fact-finding board investigates the issues.
Most of the picketing was peaceful. At Cambridge, Mass., however, a striker and a policeman were injured when 150 pickets tried to stop a loaded truck from leaving a packing plant under police escort.
Picket lines were set up this morning at packing plants and slaughter houses across the nation as one of the first big industry-wide strikes of 1948 got underway. The union seeks a wage increase of 29 cents an hour.
The strike disrupted the operations of about 130 meat plants, including 73 big plants and 60 smaller ones. It cut down the production of the big four packers—Swift, Armour, Cuddhy, and Wilson and affected about 10 independent firms.
Industry spokesmen said that within a week or two at the most the pinch of a meat shortage would be felt by consumers.
The U.S. agriculture department said there was sufficient meat on hand to give housewives a normal supply at least through April 1. However, they warned that supplies will be cut sharply and that prices will jump if the strike is permitted to continue any considerable length of time beyond April 1.
White Scripts Due April 30
Deadline for the $2,500 William Allen White award in creative writing is April 30.
All manuscripts should be given to Prof. Ray B. West, Jr., of the English department by 5 p. m. April 30. Professor West's office is in 211 Fraser hall.
This is the second year the award is being offered to University students who have written book length manuscripts of any kind—a novel short stories, poems, plays. No award was given in 1947 because no manuscript came up to the standard demanded by the judges.
The award, offered by G. B. Putnam's Sons, consists of an outright prize of $1,000 and a $1,500 advance against royalties.
The Pope condemned communism as a philosophy of life, not as a political party, Father Clarence P. Finnigan of the Fort Leavenworth Command school told Newman club members Sunday.
Father Finnigan pointed out that moral and political conditions are especially bad in Italy because of communism. Leek of education and superior propaganda is striking at the heart of Christianity, he said.
'Christianity Hit By Communism'
The nominating committee announced its recommendations for club officers. Eileen O'Brien, vice-president and College senior, was candidate for president of the honor society of Newman clubs. Rose Ann Madden, fine arts junior, announced her resignation as chairman of the discussion clubs.
Jewets and Nixon Study Oil And Gos Distribution
Dr. J. M. Jewett and Earl Nixon of the state Geological Survey are in Independence, Kan. this week, studying oil and gas distribution as part of an annual report for the state.