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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Broadway Hit Will Be First KU Production
"This year students of the University and residents of Lawrence will have the opportunity to sample a theatrical fare which will surpass anything offered for a number of years." Allen Crafton, professor of speech said today during a brief preview of coming attractions.
The first production Maxwell Anderson's "Joan of Lorraine," was Ingrid Bergman's Broadway hit last year. It will be presented for three nights beginning Oct. 20. This play will be followed in December by Noel Coward's farce "Blithe Snirit"
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"Miss Zipple says we're all to eat out here from now on— it's good for the morale."
For the first time since before the war, the speech department has an experienced acting company, Professor Crafton asserted.
Over 60 Try Out
"More than 60 people have tried out for parts," he said. "Most of these actors were good. In fact, 50 of them are experienced and, with this turnout, we can plan an ambitious dramatic program."
Professor Crafton commented that the biggest success of last year was Shakespeare's "A M i d s u m m e r Night's Dream." It is for this reason, he said, that annot el classic will be the first play of the spring semester. That play will be a modernized version of Euripedes "The Trojan Women."
He added that he would direct this play himself and "hopes to stage it in as interesting a fashion as the Shakespeare play." The last play for the spring semester has not been selected.
Players Here In November
Besides these four plays, which will be presented by University and faculty actors, the department is bringing the National Repertory company to the University early in November. They will present Moliere's famous comedy "Tartuffe."
"We are cooperating with the School of Fine Arts in a presentation of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta," he said. "We also plan to stage one of the Jamons early French nativity plays, in a medieval setting, just before Christmas holidays."
Activity and season tickets will admit students to the four University plays while tickets for other attractions will be reasonably oried.
WEATHER
Little Man On Campus
Kansas--Fair today and tonight.
Cooler. Tuesday generally fair and warmer in northwest. High today lower 70's.
Swedish Student Will Send Articles Home About KU
Buck Will Open Lecture Series
Frank Buck, big game hunter, will open the Community lecture course in Hoch auditorium Oct. 14, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today. Mr. Buck will show sound movies taken on his most recent hunting trips.
Other speakers to be at the University for the lecture series are Ernest Gruening, territorial governor of Alaska who will speak Nov. 14 on "What Alaska Means to the United States;" Otto of Austria, who will speak Feb. 16 on "Europe Today," and Dunninger, the mental wizard, who will entertain with his magical feats on March 18.
Karl-Lingmar Edstrand, 24-year-old graduate student, will report KU campus news with a Swedish slant for readers at the University of Stockholm.
Activity books will admit students Season ticket sale for all others will begin Wednesday.
Ekstrand will write a series of articles for Gaudeamus, Swedish university publication; Time, a magazine published in his country; and for the Stockholm Funning News. These@
versity publication, Time, a magazine the Stockholm Evening News. These duties, in addition to preparation of material for a thesis, promise to keep the slight, fair-haired Swede more than busy.
He will begin work on a master's degree in political science. His written impressions of Mount Oread will be incidental to attendance to 12 semester hours of classes, he said. K. U. Is Recommended.
K. U. was recommended to him for political science study, Edstrand said, by a member of the American legation at Stockholm.
The student is particularly interested in a study of the next presidential campaign witnessed from a mid-western locale. The campaign and also U. S. labor problems Edstrand will describe for Swedish readers.
Edstrand attended a meeting of the All Student Council "I felt right at home," he said. "The group corresponds closely to the Student Corps council at the University of Stockholm."
Eldstrand expects to complete study in this country in about one year and then will return to Stockholm to write his thesis, "new deal policies of the Roosevelt administration." The paper will deal with constitutional and organizational methods of the new deal.
The Swedish student is on a leave of absence from the department of finance, where he is an administrative employee.
Will Study New Deal
Zone 'C' A Danger Area;
Workers Remove Nails
Students parking in Zone "C" turned in so many complaints of finding nails in that area that the parking committee was forced to hire a crew of student workers equipped with magnets to remove the nails.
Formerly the area had been used to assemble army buildings used on the campus, and the last heavy rain uncovered nails that had been covered with a thin layer of chat.
250 Enrolled In KU ROTC
Enrollment in R.O.T.C. courses at the University this year is 250 as compared with 89 at this time a year ago, Col. John Alfrey, commanding officer, said today.
There are still vacancies in both infantry and artillery courses but air corps and navy quotas are filled, Colonel Alrefey said.
Of the 170 N.R.O.T.C. trainees, 88 are midshipmen enlisted under the Holloway plan. They receive their educational costs and $600 a year in return for active duty after commissioning, Colonel Alfrey said.
The artillery course now includes training in field, anti-aircraft, and seacoast artillery.
Fred Beaty, College senior, has been elected chairman of the Young Republicans club.
Republicans Elect Beaty As Head
Other officers are James B. McKay, Jr., vice-chairman; Eunice M. Carlson, secretary; and Gene Francisco, treasurer, all College seniors. Jack B. Pringle, College sophomore, is executive secretary.
Three thousand paid members was set as the goal of a membership drive which will get started this week. A booth located in Frank Strong hall will be erected to sell memberships.
Herriott Promises To Pay 'Bird' Debts
Advises All Future Editors To Heed Business Manager, Print Gossip
In a letter to the University Daily Kansan today, Harold T. Herriott admitted negligence in publishing the Bitter Bird last year.
He warned prospective humor magazine editors to avoid five pitfalls which he encountered.
1. Do not fail to listen to your business manager.
Frank Pinet, director of the business placement bureau, will address seniors graduating in February at 7 tonight in Frank Strong auditorium. He will discuss the function of the bureau in helping graduates to find permanent jobs.
Job Seekers Will Hear Pinet
Seniors will be asked to fill out a form giving personal data and qualifications. They will be interviewed by Mr. Pinet. Last year the bureau received requests from approximately 150 companies for more qualified services that could supply. Mr. Pinet believes the same situation will exist this year.
The bureau, which has been operating actively since 1946, has 35 firms listed on the interview schedule and each of these will hire from one to five graduates. Seniors may use the facilities of the bureau in 216 Frank Strong hall.
Forensic Rally On Tuesday
Semester activities will be discussed at the first meeting of the Forensic league in the Little Theater of Green hall at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow. Hal Friesen, league president, said today. The meeting will follow a general forensics rally at 7:30 p.m. at the same place.
Prof. E. C. Buehler of the department of speech and drama asked that students interested in debate and other speech activities attend the rally.
Members who are unable to attend the meeting are to call Friesen before Tuesday evening.
72 New Students Fail To Take Exam
Seventy-two of 139 new students failed to take the required make-up psychological examination given at 2 p.m. in Hoch auditorium Saturday.
These students will be required to take the examination at a later date said J. K. Hitt, registrar. Failure to take the examination will result in a future registration delay, he added.
The make-up aptitude examination for those students who failed to take it on Sept. 9 will be given Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
Positions Are Open On Kan-Do Staff
Applications for staff positions on Kan-Do are now being accepted in 228 Frank Strong, Betty van der Shimm, editor-in-chief, said today.
Positions open include those of circulation manager and heads of the news, sports, feature, society, humor, and art department, as well as reporters. Experience in journalism is required. Miss van der Smissen said.
Kan-Do is the monthly publication of the Independent Student association. The next issue will appear in October.
2. Try to do only one job. Don't try to handle everything yourself.
3. Guarantee your supply of material a year in advance.
2. Print plenty of gossip.
3. Don't print your magazine at the University of Kansas.
Wanted His Side Presented
Herriott wanted the students to know the story surrounding the Bitter Bird, but said that he was unable to be here to present his story because:
1. The $386 owed the Lawrence Daily Journal-World.
Herriett pointed out that when he organized the Bitter Bird in the spring of 1946, (he may have meant spring of 1945) he had to submit to the censorship of the All Student Council and had to agree to supply all of the capital and assume any debts contracted by the magazine.
2. The $140 traffic fine imposed on him for 33 violations while transacting Bitter Bird business at the University.
Betsey Sheidley, publications committee chairman of the All Student Council, today gave reasons for the release of the report concerning Bitter Bird finances before Harold T. Herriott, former editor, could be reached.
Although the World Company made claim for the $113.06 balance credited to the Bitter Bird account, Miss Sheidley said, it was thought that a reasonable method of bill payment was to pro-rate the money among all debts charged to the Bitter Bird.
"It was also necessary for the Council to clear up the Bitter Bird matter so a new magazine could be organized," she said.
"If there is a charge before the Student Council that I have been negligent and incompetent in the handling of the finances of the Bitter Bird magazine, I can but plead guilty," he said. "I have repeatedly refused to listen to the advice of my business managers, and embarked on ventures which, while successful in the main, were too expensive for a magazine totally backed by the personal funds of only one or two students."
Charges ASC Censorship
"I had hoped to found a humor magazine and present the student body a vehicle which would provide some diversion and entertainment," he said. "I had hoped it would be a school magazine. However, I realized much too late that the provisions laid down by the A.S.C. precluded any possibility of the Bitter Bird becoming a school magazine and turned it into a personal venture. We had to make it pay.
Watched Jokes 'Like Puritans'
"Our first two issues were according to the dictates of the administration of the University. We watched our stories, jokes, cartoons, etc., with the minds of Puritans. The maga-
gazine paid, as can be attested by the fact that he said our printing bill for June '46 with copies for subscriptions in the fall of '47."
(Herriott may have meant the spring of '45 and the fall of '46 here.)
The next issue lost money after Henry Werner, the dean of student affairs, warned Herriott about the material he was using in the magazine. The last issue was printed without original material, Herriott said.
We were to put out one more (continued to page eight)