University 45th Year No.85
45th Year No. 85
Daily STUDENT NEWSPAPER
kansan OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1948
Lawrence Kansas
Student Stars Make 'Mikado' A New Success
For the first time since 1909, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado" was presented at the University, Monday in the first of three performances. However, it is possible to conceive that the artistry of 1909 could equal that of 1948.
W. S. Gilbert did not like stars and tried to make his parts of equal importance, but the Light Opera guild had a star in Ben Shanklin. He made Ko-Ko a believable character with his excellent singing voice and unfailing comic sense.
Jane Byers, as Katsuia, ran Shanklin a close race for top honors. She dominated the finale of Act I from the moment of her entrance and gave a remarkable connotation of tragedy. The high point of the performance and the delivery of rapid patter came in Mrs. Byers' and Mr. Shanklin's duet, "There Is Beauty In the Bellow of the Blast." Miss Harlow Artistic
Harriet Harlow's radiant tones and beauty made hite audience believe in "Yum-Yum." There was a subtle artistry in her singing of "The Sun Whose Rays."
Charles Byers was a convincing Nanki-Poo and realized all the values in the tuneful "A Wandering Minstrel." Incidentally, he displayed a shapely pair of legs and danced a nimble hornpipe.
Harry Spencer, as "Pooh-Bah," got more than his share of laughs. His interpolated remark during his Act I enadenza stopped the show.
Great G'Connor Plays Mikado
Vincent May should be commended for his brisk narrative song, "Our Great Mikado."
Charles O'Connor's portrayal of the Mikado as a tyrant with a perpetual scowl was not in keeping with the conventional idea of the title role. William Danforth used to bring down the house regularly by singing "My Object All Sublime" in a light, playful manner accompanied by a jaunty dance. O'Connor sang the catchy ditty as if it were the Prologue from "Pagliacci."
Dorothy O'Connor was a pert Pittling and frolicked on her solo passages like a lovable kitten. Bernadine Reed as Peep-Bo, didn't have much to do, but she provided plenty of eye-appeal.
Chorus Excellent
The choros should have been larger, but made up for its lack of size by its singing. In general, the orchestra discoured Sullivan's witty score expertly, although a few clinkers marred the even flow. Gerald Carney, assistant professor of music education, conducted the orchestra and did a remarkable job of keeping his forces together.
Tonight's performance is a sell-out, and only a limited number of tickets are available for Friday. The Light Opera guild's presentation of the "Mikado" warrants these productions becoming annual events.
Quack Club Will Hold Second Semester Tryouts
Second-semester Quack club try-outs will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Robinson gymnasium. All women interested in competing for membership should attend, Miss Ruth Hoover, faculty sponsor of the club said today.
Quack club members will meet and swim after the tryouts.
WEATHER
K a n s a s—Partly cloudy and warm east. Snow flurries and becoming much colder northwest tonight. Tomorrow snow flurries and much colder. High today 35 to 40, low tonight 25 to 30 east and south, 5 to 10 northwest.
100 Vacancies In Messiah Chorus
There are approximately 100 vacancies in the University Festival chorus which will present the "Messiah" May 2. Enrollment cards may be secured at the Fine Arts office, 128 Frank Strong hall, or at rehearsal, 4 p.m., Thursday. This will be the last opportunity to join the chorus, according to Dean D. M. Swarthout.
Members of the University faculty and student body, church choirs and independent singers in the city are welcome to join. Rehearsals will be held at 4 p.m. every Thursday.
May Raise Fare To Sunflower
Bus fares for University students commuting from Sunflower village will be doubled after March 8 if the State Corporation commission grants the request of the Santa Fe Trail company to cancel the present round trip fare of 30 cents.
Students living at Sunflower can now purchase books of 6 round trip tickets to Lawrence for $1.80, or 12 round trip tickets for $3.60. The regular one way fare is 30 cents.
The Santa Fe Trail company has applied to the State Corporation commission for authority to cancel the commuter rates. If the request is granted students will have to pay the regular one way fare unless a new commuter rate is established. The application does not provide for a new rate.
A hearing on the proposed change will be held by the State Corporation commission in Topeka March 8 at 10 a.m. Opposition to the proposed change can be made at that time.
'Youth Aren't Set-Up,' Kuch
"We don't have a set-up for making American youth conscious of future participation in political affairs," the Rev. G. Richard Kuch told the Unitarian Liberal club Feb. 8.
Rev. Kuch is associate director of the American Unitarian youth and has made two recent trips to Europe. He said that in Eastern Europe national and quasi-national youth organizations have prestige and enjoy considerable favoritism. No tuition is charged at any Eastern University if the student can make good grades. Technology and sociology are nationalized and emphasized.
Karl Mattern, associate professor in the department of drawing and painting, and Robert N. Sudlow, instructor, will each enter a picture in the 10th annual exhibition of Painters West of the Mississippi, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
2 Faculty Members Enter Art Exhibit
"Europe makes no bones about it," he said. "Youth are being trained for the future."
Theta Tau Pledge
The exhibit, which will last until April 11, consists of works invited by the curator. Fred S. Bartlett.
Professor Mattern's entry is a recently completed oil painting, "Big Snow," and Mr. Suddlow's is a water color, "Rocky Pastures."
Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity, announces the pledging of David E. Wilson, freshman. Jack N. White, junior, was elected treasurer of the fraternity at a recent meeting.
Big Program Planned For 'Sweetheart'
The "Sweetheart of America" will be escorted by the "Most Dateable Male" at the Sweetheart Swing, from 9 to 12 p.m. Saturday in the Union ballroom.
Representatives from nine nearby colleges and universities will compete with K.U.'s "Miss Student Union" for the title of "Sweetheart of America." The winner will be chosen during intermission by Lawrence business men.
The "Most Dateable Male" will be chosen from a group of 10 University men, who will escort the queens.
Colleges and universities to be represented are Baker, Washburn, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas State, Kansas State Teachers at Pittsburg, Kansas State Teachers at Emporia, Kansas City, and Wichita.
The following schedule will entertain the visitors all day Saturday:
At 8:30 a.m., the Presidents' Breakfast at the Union; at 10:50 a.m., the Campus Parade at which time further announcements of the dance will be made; at 11 a.m., talks with the dean of women, dean, of men, and the chancellor; at 12:30 p.m., the Student Union Executive board luncheon at the Union.
At 2 p.m., the Unixiversity dance class will be held in the Union ballroom with visitor participation. R. N. Bibler will be on hand to draw caricatures and refreshments will be served. At 3:30 p.m., visitors will be taken on a tour of the campus.
Culminating the day will be the Sweetheart Swing from 9 p.m. to midnight. It will be held in the Union ballroom with decorations on the "Manhattan-Merry-Go-Round" theme.
During the intermission, the "Sweetheart of America" will be selected. Songs by Jeanne L Chambers and Mary Lou Peckenschneider, and a group of dancing numbers will be presented.
Union Plans Latin Dancing
If you've wanted to learn to rhumba, samba or tango, but haven't been able to contact Arthur Murray, you now have a new opportunity.
Under the direction of Miss Elaine Selicovitz, physical education instructor, the Student Union activities are sponsoring dancing classes and a social hour combined. Called the S.U.A.-Combo Dance club, Miss Selicovitz and 17 student assistant instructors will hold sessions on Saturday afternoons from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Union ballroom starting this week.
Miss Selicovitz gave her assistant instructors advance lessons last week and worked out a simple plan for teaching students the basic steps of rhumba, samba and tango. Later more complicated versions of these dances will be taught.
The student instructors agree that students will find the dance sessions beneficial and different from the typical dancing class. With the increase of South American music being played by orchestras throughout the country, a knowledge of these dance steps is as necessary as the frotto or waltz.
Students who are assisting Miss Selicivitz are: Joy Godhebene, Carey Campbell, Pat Brown, Althea Voss, Jean Rankin, Bunny Denson, Jeanne Peterson, Helen Manka, Inez Hall. Pat Thiessen, Jack Kendree, Mead Almond, Bill Leonard, Bob Woods.
Slide Rule Course Will Be Offered
Principles and operation of the slide rule will be explained to engineering students in an eight-week no-credit course beginning the second or third semester week, Harry W. Johnson, president of Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternity, announced today.
Instruction will be given by members of the fraternity from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. one day a week in Marvin hall. The exact date will be announced soon. Attendance will be voluntary, Johnson said.
28 Compete For UnionTitle
Twenty-eight candidates will compete for the title of "Miss Student Union for 1948." The contest will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the East room of the Union.
Dorothy M. Baldwin, Sigma Kappa;
Ladeen Stinkirchner, Theta Phi
Alpha; Jacqueline E. Campbell, Briar
Manor; Nancy L. Cole, Carruth hall;
Janet Downs, Carbin hall; Virginia
L. Cuddy, Foster hall; Joanne L.
Varnum, Hopkins hall; Edna L.
McCarty, Jolliffe hall, Marijeen Kent,
Miller hall; Merle M. Collins, Mon-
chonsia hall.
The contestants are Eleanor M. Howell, Alpha Chi Omega; Norma L. Mendenhall, Alpha Delta Pi; Betty Jo Bloomer, Alpha Micron P; Ruth L. Walters, Chi Omega; Sarah Jane Belt, Delta Gamna; Kay Collins, Delta Delta Delta; Betty L. Martin, Gamma Phi Bieta; Nina L. Green, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Ann M. Lawrence, Kappa Alpha Theta; Katharine N. Hoag, Pi Beta Phi.
Shirley N. Sondker, Ricker hall; Katherine C. Turner, Turner Hollows; Eleanor L. Bradford, Templel hall; Carole L. Ruhlen, Watkins hall; Alita York, Harmon Co-op; Marjorie H. Dilsauer, Locksley hall; Lavonne L. Simpson, Campus house; and Twila Talbert, Hillcrest hall.
The winner of this contest will be one of a group of 10 who will compete Saturday night at the Sweetheart Swing for the title of "Sweet-heart of America." All candidates for this contest except "Miss Student Union for 1948" will be guests from surrounding colleges and universities.
Lindley Gets New Labs
The mining and metallurgical engineering department in Lindley hall is being remodeled to accommodate the increased enrollment. Kenneth E. Rose, of mining and metallurgy said that the metallographic laboratories will be located on the first floor and the fire assaying and heat treating equipment on the ground floor. The mineral dressing laboratory is being revived. Lindley hall will also have a new sample preparation room and shop, a new balance room and more storage space.
Frank W. Bowdshi joined the mining and metallurgical engineering department the first of the year as assistant professor, teaching mining and mineral dressing. Professor Bowdshi was employed in the research laboratory of Oliver Iron Mining Co. before coming to Lawrence. He is a graduate of the Montana School of Mines and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Scholars To Have Dinner
John H. Michener, College senior, and Harry W. Johnson, engineering senior, will be the after-dinner speakers at the Summerfield dinner to be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, in the Kansas room of the Union.
Russians Charge US Responsible For Second War
Moscow, Feb. 10—(UP)—The Russian government said today it would soon release captured German documents proving the United States was responsible for the second world war by rearming Hitlerite Germany with a "golden rain of American dollars."
Britain and France were equally guilty, Russia charged, by completing a series of separate pacts with Germany which broke down the European policy of collective security against a German resurgence.
The Soviet statement was made in answer to the U.S. state department's publication of secret 1939-1941 Russian-German diplomatic documents. These charged the Russians and Germans with a conspiracy to conquer and divide the word.
The 6,000 - word statement was described as only the "first half" of the Soviet accusations. The second half will be released later, the Russians said, and then the documents proving the accusations will be published.
U. S. "Faked History"
Other secret documents showing the guilt of the Western powers have been concealed, Russia charged. The statement said these are the documents which Russia will publish.
The Russians asserted that World War II would have ended in the 1940 year with Hitler's defeat if Germany had not been bolstered by American capital and Anglo-French appeasement.
"The fakers of history would like to forget all this as they try to evade responsibility for their policy that unleashed the second world war," the statement said. Germany's Reperations Cut
Among the steps that helped to rebuild the German armaments industry was the Dawes reparations plan, which reduced Germany's World War I reparations, the statement said.
The Russian statement also stressed the role allegedly played by such Anglo-American financial interests as DuPont, Morgan, Rockefeller, Lamond, Standard Oil and the British Imperial chemical trust.
It singled out John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles, and Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal for having connections with German capitalists.
The Second Stage
The second stage in the Western powers' responsibility for war was the appeasement of Germany, Russia charged. The Western powers believed there was no danger in fostering German aggression because they planned to direct it to the East, the statement said.
It charged that the rise of German aggression was fostered by the Western failure to oppose German violation of the Versailles treaty and failure to defend Ethiopia and Spain.
All this time, the statement said, Russia was pleading for collective security in the League of Nations but was being blocked by Anglo-French diplomacy.
Rabbi To Address Religious Council
Rabbi Joseph Levenson, regional director for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, will address the Student Religious council on "What Every Christian Should Know About Judaism" in the Mission room of Myers hall at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Rabbi Levenson is a graduate of West Virginia university and a Phi Beta Kappa. He served as chaplain in the air force for three years and is now at Temple B'Nai Israel, Oklahoma City.