UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1947
Eight Chosen For KU 'Mikado'
Eight students have been chosen for leading roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "The Mikado," to be presented in Fraser theater Feb. 9, 10 and 13.
The bass role of the Mikado (or emperor) of Japan will be sung by Charles O'Connor. College junior. The role of Nanki-Poo, the Mikado son disguised as a wandering minstrel, will be sung by Charles Byers, education senior.
Harriet Harlow, Fine Arts junior,
will sing the soprano role of Yum-Yum,
the girl Nanki-Poo loves. The mezzo-soprano roles of Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing will be sung by Bernadine Read and Dorothy O'Connor, fine arts sophomores. These "three little girls from school" are wards of Ko-Ko.
Ben Shanklin, fine arts senior, will sing the baritone role of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner of Titi-Pu, Baritone Harry Spencer, education junior, will play Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything Else.
The tenor role of Pish-Tush, a noble lord, is still open. Tryouts for this part will be held in the near future.
Jane Byers, fine arts senior, will sing the contralto role of Katisha, a spinster of the court in love with Nanki-Poo.
Audition judges were Claude Newcomb, head of the voice department at Pittsburg State Teachers college, Harling A. Spring, vocal director of Westport high school, Kansas City, Mo., and Donald Dixon, assistant professor of speech and drama.
Annex Work Still Drags
"Patience" is the answer to student questions about completion of the Watson library annex and Union annex.
The students will have to wear their ear-plugs for many months to come while using the library, C. M. Baker, director, said. "However, there will be a lull in the library annex symphony during the winter months and students can study without the benefit of the jackhammer staccatos and construction dynamics."
Hermina Zipple, Union director, explained that the bottle-neck in the Union annex construction was a result of "a delay in arrival of necessary materials," but that construction would be resumed within the next few weeks.
The eventual construction lull at the library will be caused by "the difficulty in receiving the necessary constructional steel which will be needed after the foundation footings have been completed." Work will stop in a few months and construction will not be resumed until March, according to Mr. Baker.
He said that the contract called for completion of the annex within 20 months, and under present conditions and material scarcity, "it may be 1950 before completion."
The Union annex outlook is brighter and some of the needed materials are beginning to arrive while the need for workers has been nearly solved, Miss Zipple said.
University High Senate To Meet With LMHS Council
The University High school student senate will meet in conference with the Liberty Memorial high school student council at the Liberty Memorial High school today to discuss the functions of student government.
The University High senate is made up of the president, Don Christain, and two senators from each class: Caroline Crosier and Don Hergert, seniors; Lee Barlow and Pat Daniel, juniors; Don Grob and Phyllis Lytle, sophomores; and Bill Krone and Irene Rickey, freshmen.
Maltese, native language of the bomb-accurred island of Malta, is so ancient that its alphabet has been lost, and cannot be rewritten.
Student Activities To Hold Important Meeting
The committees and the rooms they will meet in are as follows: Secretarial, 205; Service, 206; Social, 207; Entertainment, 209; Announcements, 210; Decorations, 213; Booster, 305; Publicity, 306; Library, 307; Public Liasion, 308; Coffees and Forums, 309; Clubs and Organizations, 310; and Intramurals, 311.
An important meeting will be held tonight for all members of Student Activities committees to discuss plans for Homecoming. Each of the 12 committees will meet in a separate room in Fraser hall promptly at 7 p. m. Attendance is required.
Movies Vulgar, Crafton Says
"Hollywood has risen from an ugly brat and gutter snipe in its childhood to become a giant influence on economical, political and religious thinking," said Allen Crafton, professor of speech, at the Coffee forum Tuesday.
In the past 50 years Hollywood has developed into an industry with an audience of 60 million fans, the largest amount of equipment and scenery in existence, and the most competent actors, he added.
"With all of this technical progress, cheap and vulgar amusement characterize the majority of the 500 pictures Hollywood turns out annually." Professor Crafton said. "Motion pictures, run by Wall Street businessmen's policy of business before art, are being produced for an adolescent audience on a 10-year-old level.
"American fans star-worship such ham actors as Van Johnson, who is known as the 'Cute Boy on a Date' or Lana Turner as 'Miss Hamburger of 1946,' while the talents of good actors are being wasted.
Professor Crafton said that a movie projector could be bought at a low cost and run by an engineering student for University students. Thus good pictures could be shown in Fraser theater at lower prices than those of Lawrence theaters, he added.
"More pictures on a higher educational level should be produced." Professor Crafton continued. "Henry V was the only worth-while picture shown here and it was presented in Lawrence's oldest and smallest theater, the Patee."
Union Committee Plans Radio Series
The Union activities has approved plans for an extensive radio series to be relayed through the activities transmitting system, Bruce Bathurst, announcements chairman, said.
An advisory committee under the direction of Leslie Waters, associate professor economics; Hermina Zipple, Union director; and Mildred Seaman, KFKU program director, will compile a statistical report of student tastes and suggestions for the regular weekly programs.
Students are asked to submit their requests and program interests to the committee or the Union activities office. If enough student interest is shown, the daily programs will be extended into the evening with a possibility of programs continuing until 9 p.m. The present daily programs are concluded at 6:30 each night.
Present plans include the relaying of University basketball games played away from home and important speeches by Washington officials or the president.
The faculty committee findings will determine the daily program schedule and broadcast time.
Dr. H. C. Wong, geologist from China, will be guest speaker at a special meeting tonight of the Geology club and Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honorary geology fraternity. The meeting will be held at 7:30 in 426 Lindley hall.
Chinese Geologist To Talk Before Geology Club Tonight
Dr. Wong has been giving lectures at Harvard and other universities throughout the country.
French Complete Exchange Of University Students
A graduate student exchange with the University of Paris was completed Monday when Gean Delord, electrical engineering student, arrived at the University to enroll.
Miss Margurita Kerschen, '47, is the other half of the student exchange. She enrolled at the University of Paris in September in time for the complete fall semester. She will begin graduate work in French.
Mr. Delord made a delayed appearance here because of transportation difficulties. He was unable to obtain passage until Oct. 25 and arrived in New York on Nov. 5.
The diminutive 27-year-old Delord admitted that he faced a struggle whenever he had to speak English. He studied English for four years at the University of Toulouse from 1937 until the spring of 1941; however, he had no chance to speak the tongue during the war. He declares that he reads English fluently.
Mr. Delord said there was plenty of food for everyone in France, and that the situation is much better than during the war. However, meat and sugar are almost never obtained through regular rationing and must be purchased through the black market.
Mr. Delord also minimized the danger of civil war in France between the followers of DeGaulle and the Communists. He declared that he left Paris before the recent Communist-led riots, but he doubted that the Communists are strong enough to represent a real threat to the government at this time.
Mr. Delord stated that he was a member of the French force of the interior during the German occupation of France. He left the University of Toulouse in 1941 to join the Free French and remained a member of that force until the liberation in 1944.
By the end of one year's time, Mr. Deford believes he can complete his work for a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. He will then return to France either to teach or to enter industry.
No Foul Play Connected With Body Found Tuesday
Coroner Ray Clark said death was apparently due to drowning.
Authorities in Lawrence today discounted the possibility of foul play in connection with the discovery Tuesday of a woman's body lodged 12 feet under water in the flume of a hydro-electric plant.
The victim was identified as Mrs. Margaret Lineberry, 36-year-old resident of Topeka and the mother of three small children.
The victim's husband, Andrew Lineberry, said his wife had been missing since Monday.
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Voices Are Still Needed
In New KU Choral Group
If you like to sing, come to Frank Strong hall tonight at 8:30 for try-outs in the Sid Dawson Choral Ensemble.
the choir will be under the direction of Sidney Dawson, music education senior, and Rhona Raymond, fine arts freshman, as accompanist.
"I especially need tenor and high soprano voices, but other positions are still open," Dawson said.
To Present Voice Majors
The School of Fine Arts weekly student recital tomorrow at 3 p.m. in Frank Strong auditorium will present seven voice students. The prognosis
"Das Wirtshaus" (Schubert) and "Die Post" (Schubert) by Warren Alexander; "Je veux vivre" from "Romeo and Juliet" (Gouned) by Anne Ellis; "The Last Hour" (Kramer) and "The Little Shepard's Song" (Watts) by Martha Weed; "Do Not Go, My Love" (Hageman) and "Tally-ho" (Leoni) by Jess Rose.
"Erstarrung" (Schubert) and "Das Fischermachen" (Schubert) by Harriet Harlow; "A Spirit Flower" (Louis Campbell-Tipton) and "The Pretty Creature" (H. Lane Wilson) by Ben W. Shanklin; Duet: La ci darem la mano" for "Don Giovanni" (Mozart) by Nancy Messenger and Jess Rose.
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Stuhl Gives Lecture Recitals In Kansas This Week
Raymond Stuhl, head of the School of Fine Arts cello department, is giving a series of lecture recitals in Kansas towns this week. Mrs. Alberta Stuhl, instructor in piano, is assisting him.
The object of the tour is to create public school interest in the cello and string ensemble work. The Stuhls will appear at Winfield, Dodge City, Dighton, Bazine, Gessel, Burns, and Arkansas City.
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