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To Present Prize-Winning Play Here
The pre-Broadway world premiere of Will Gibson's prize-winning play about William Shakespeare, "A Cry of Players," will be given in Fraser theater beginning Feb. 20.
The play calls for a cast of thirty-five actors and an orchestra and will be brought to the University by the Kansas Arts and Crafts Festival. It will be presented by the Topeka Civic theater with five University students in the cast. Five performances will be given.
Tom Shay will have the leading role of William Shakespeare. Loren Kennedy, Tom Ren, Herk Harvey, and Erwin Grout will have supporting parts.
ing parts.
The action of "A Cry of Players" centers around the last three days of William Shakespeare's life in Stratford before he left for London to become famous as an actor and writer. Mr. Gibson's play won a $500 contest sponsored by the Toneka Civic theater last year. Gibson lives in Topeka. Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, was one of the contest judges.
Eddie Dowling, New York producer, has accepted the play for showing on Broadway sometime this year. Marbartel Webster, who professor Crafton described as the "foremost director in America," will have charge of the New York production.
University activity and season ticket holders will be able to see the play Feb. 23, 25, and 26. Admission will be charged for the first two performances Feb. 20 and 21.
Axe Named Business Dean
Dr. Leonard H. Axe has been appointed dean of the School of Business, Chancellor Deane W. Malott said today.
The appointment, effective February 1, has been approved by the board of regents, Chancellor Malett said.
Dean Axe has been acting dean of the business school since July, 1947 when Dr. Frank T. Stockton, formerly dean, became dean of University Extension.
The board of regents also granted Dean Axe a sabbatical leave for the second semester to accept a fellowship in human relations at Harvard university.
university. The chancellor's office has not named a successor to Dean Axe during his sabbatical leave.
Dr. Taft Will Talk To Chemistry Club
Dr. Robert Taft, professor of chemistry, will address the Chemistry club tomorrow on "Salt in Kansas." His talk will include the mining and processing of salt.
Dr. Taft, who is interested in Kansas history, is author of the popular book, "Across the Years on M. Otread." The meeting will be Tuesday at 4:00, in 305 Bailey. All interested are invited.
YMCA Cabinet To Meet In Pine Room Today
The YMCA cabinet will meet at 4:30 this afternoon in the Pine room of the Union. John Eberhardt will discuss plans which are being made for the meeting with George Houser, national secretary of the Committee on Recital Equality.
A fireside discussion will be held Jan. 15 at the home of the Rev. C. Fosberg Hughes.
Campaign Begins For Governor
Topeka, Jan. 12—(UP)—W. P. (Bill) Lambertson, former Kansas congressman, today had launched his campaign for governor with a radio attack on Gov. Frank Carlson and a plea that the state retain constitutional prohibition. He called Carlson "a pussyfooter" on the liquor issue.
"If you don't want a straddler to lead dry in the November fight, then vote for me," Lambertson appealed in his opening airwave speech over a Topeka station Sunday afternoon.
Oklahoma Must Admit Negroes
Washington—(U2)—The supreme court today in effect directed the traditionally-white University of Oklahoma to admit as a law school student a negro girl who previously was denied admission solely because of her race.
The unanimous ruling came with almost unprecedented speed in the case of Ada Lois Sipul. The justices heard the last arguments in the case only Thursday.
"The petitioner is entitled to secure legal education afforded by a state institution," the court said in an unsigned opinion.
At last week's hearing, the justices subjected Oklahoma's two attorneys, defending the state's segregated university system, to one of the severest grillings ever heard from the supreme court bench.
Washington—(UP) The supreme court will hear arguments this week on three cases which may prove to be among the most significant in American race relations. It will decide whether "restrictive covenants," the Jim-Crow agreements in residential housing, are to be enforced by the courts.
At issue is the question of whether a negro can buy and occupy a house in a "restricted" area, in which all property owners have agreed never to sell to negroes.
Truman Budget Foreign Aid Face Hard Cuts
Washington - (UP) - Republicans jumped on President Truman's $39,668,000,000 budget today charging it was "extravagant" and "beyond the means of the nation" to meet this year.
Chairman Styles Bridges of the senate appropriations committee led off the attack on the budget estimate. The New Hampshire Republican said there "is no relief offered" for American taxpayers despite Mr. Truman's $40-a-head tax reduction proposal of last week
Mr. Bridges said the $11,000,000,-000 proposed for national defense and "additional billions" for foreign aid are "realistic although staggering".
Sen. John Sparkman, D., Ala. expressed the sentiment of the administration stalwarts. He said President Truman had "done just about as good a job as he could, considering world conditions." He didn't think economy-minded Republicans would be able to cut much off the president's spending budget. But other Republicans disagreed.
Foreign Aid Faces Cuts
Little Man On Campus
The administration's request for a $6,800,000,000 down payment on the Marshall plan faced growing opposition in Congress today with predictions that house Republican leaders will shoot for a cut of from 35 to 45 per cent.
A member of the house G.O.P.
steering committee said he
expected the group to put top expen-
datures for the plan at from $3,000,
-000,000 to $3,500,000,000 for the first
year.
The prediction of a whopping cut came as Secretary of State George C. Marshall and Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman headed up Capitol hill to continue the fight for the administration program before house and senate committees.
"They always show up around finals time."
K K G's Scare Thief Away From Sorority
A would-be thief was frightened away from the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house Saturday night and in his haste he dropped his loot.
The intruder jumped from a second story window of the sorority house when he was discovered by members of the sorority between 10 and 11 p.m. Saturday. On the ledge outside the window lay the thief's attempted loot, a wallet and a $20 bill.
8 KU Students In Car Crashes
The intersection of highways 24 and 40, one mile north of Lawrence, was the scene of two accidents at about 4 a.m. Sunday which damaged three cars without serious injury to the 16 passengers, including eight University students.
The first crash came when a blue 1947 Chrysler convertible driven by Jack Braden, College freshman, turned over in the ditch after failing to make the turn at the intersection. Braden was returning to Lawrence from Kansas City, Robert Briden, education freshman, Thomas White, College freshman, and three unidentified women students were passengers in the Braden car.
A 1947 Ford stopped at a stop sign at the intersection and the four passengers got out to see the results of the first crash. The car was driven by Richard Lobson, a student at Kansas State. Jerry Flynn, engineering freshman, Douglas Paddeck, College freshman, and Wayne Matlock, a student at Wichita university, were passengers in the Dobson car which was also returning to Lawrence from Kansas City.
The second crash happened when the third car, a 1940 Chevrolet driven by Paul Montez, Kansas City, Kan., failed to make the turn into Lawrence and crashed into the rear of the Dobson车. The Montez car slid into the ditch and crashed into a telephone pole. The five passengers in the Montez car were on the way to Topeka from Kansas City.
Sachem To Initiate 12 New Members
Twelve new members will be initiated into Sachem circle of Omicron D. Kappa Wednesday. Initiation ceremonies will be held in the Pine room* of the Union at 7:15 p.m. Omicron Delta Kappa is the national honor society with which Sachem, University men honor society, was affiliated in 1947.
Members are chosen on the basis of scholarship, leadership, and character and must excel in one of four fields, social and religious affairs, athletics, student publications, or speech, music and drama.
Dale Rummer, Sachem president,
and Willis Tompkins, assistant dean
of men, will be in charge of initiation
ceremonies.
New members being initiated are William Wehe, engineering senior; Arthur Toch, engineering senior; Arnold Englund, business senior; Lynn Leigh, business senior; Roy Shoaf, College sen
senior
...senic
Richard Plister, College senior; and Richard Royer, College senior.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy, turning much colder with strong northerly wind and occasional snow flurries this afternoon and tonight. Low tonight near 10 north border to 15 south. Tuesday generally fair.
462 Students Pass English Proficiency Test
A record number of 462 students passed the English proficiency examination given Nov. 15, 1947. Of the total 51 are from the School of Education and 411 from the College.
In the two years she has been chairman of the English proficiency committee, Mrs. Natalie Calderwood said that the number of failures in the examination had varied from 9 to 12 per cent.
Another chance for upperclassmen to pass this examination will be given next March. Students enrolled in the College who will be candidates for the bachelor of arts degree, are advised to take the examination during their junior year, so that they will have sufficient time to take the examination again if they fail. The examination must be passed before a student receives a degree.
The names of those who passed the examination follow:
The following students in the School of Education passed the English Proficiency Examination on Nov. 15, 1947:
Frank B. Alderson J., Joanne Amiket,
Anne Ashley, Clarence E. Atkins, Gus S.
Sugatz S., S. Baird Billy R. Baker,
Joseph Bollwell, David H. Barker,
June Bardwell, Edward F. Bare, John
M Basnett J, Sterling Baxter, Hugh G.
Bayles, Dorothy Beach, Joanne Beamer,
John DeLay, Beke Belle, Zelma
Beisinger, William S. Belden, Bettie
Bell, Sarah Jane Belt, Frances A.
Bernero, Elizabeth A. Berry, Marylou Bi
lenner, James W., Bouske, J.
Female J. Fowney Warren M. Bowman,
William G. Bowman, Charlotte S. Boyle,
Nell Joan Bradley.
Nelle Anne Angle, Francis W. Barrow, Alileen Beal, Anita Bedell, Hortense Bentel, Rosai Bosch, Gerald Ceball, Albert Donald Blakes, Gerald Schmidt, Harold J. Crimmins, George Rolland Cole, Katherine Culley, Imogene Frack, Geraldine Glasser, Virginia Ellen Frack, Geraldine Glasser, Fred A. Henderson, Charles H. Rauke, Mary Margaret Huse, Hirse Viennese
Mary Katherman, Winona Klotz, Koerut Kroesch, Elaine Kronald, Kenon A. Lively, Margaret Lowe, M. Eline Magm, Elaine Maine, Jane Mallory, Kathleen McBride, Nicole Cullough, Maralyn McNeish, Frances McMargret Meeks, Sue Rose Mounce, Mary K. Paiga, Betty Pinkney, Edward D. Shaney, Betty Pret, Beverly Pkye, Neale D. Shaney, Sheowalter, Roselyn Stonerbond, Theodora Tanner, Stember, Bernice Stroup, Luciel Tanner, Vena O. Thurhau, Opal Wilson, Elnora LywouFock, and Patricia Zachman.
The following students in the College pa-
tition were Examined in
English Nov. 15, 1947.
Joseph M. Braly, Stella Breeseheim,
Telva J. Briley, John W. Brimer, Kathleen L. Broers, Mary Ann Brown, Patricia R. Brown, Clifford T. Bryant, Norma R. Brown, Marjorie Burtscher, William H. Britton, Robert A. William R. Case, James G. Cheney, Charles C. Chouteau, Charles R. Clston, Jean Clarkson, Richard H. Clainoer, III, Robert Clave, Elizabeth A. Clawson, Marjory Colbert, Robert A. Coldsnow, Charles W. Conroy, William J. Cole, Charles W. Conrey, William J. Cole, John O. Copeland, Shirley T. Corlett, Loren B. Cortlis, Dean W. Cox, Harold L. Craig, Neal P. Cramer.
Edsel L. Crawford, John R. Craws, Rozanne Croff, Virginia Cuddy, Bonnie M. Cunningham, Uysses S. Curry, Marissa D. Wasson, David Darville, Dwarf W. Dassow, Anthony T. Dwight O. Dasy, Carol A. Dergance, Ernest W. Dewey, Leonard R. Diehl, Herbert R. Petterich, Ruth E. Dillon, Paul G. Greenwood, James A. Baugh, baugh. Ellen Dufford, Diane Durham, Richard E. Edgar, James J. Ekstrom, Eric E. Ericson, Joy Esch, Joseph C. Etzler, Jeffrey E. Max Pulkenstein, Dale D. Farr, Barbara Fed, Jane H. Ferrell, Keith H. Ferrell.
Ruth Fevurly, Lee A. Fleckenstein,
Phillip E. Fleener, Robert H. Foerschler,
Mary Lou Foley, George H. Ford, Jr.
Eugene P. Forrey, Marjorie J. Fortune,
Michael D. Gorski, John E. Garber,
Marilee Frame, Martha E. Fritz, Elinor
Frye, Gloria B. Fungaroll, Dorothea Ea
Deuller, Marjorie L. Garten, John A.
Caughan, Beverley Jee Gill, Elizabeth
Ann Gilman, John E. Gwanda, Wenda
Gilman, John E. Grabe, Grabe
E. Grant, Frederick E. Grant,
Martha Greitzer, Jay V. Grimm, Naomi
J. Grist, Robert Groom, Jean Guthrie,
Louise Haase, Herman D. Hale, Carl L.
Hallberg, J. Hamman, John W.
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