26, 1947
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FEBRUARY 26,1947
No Glamor Girls Today, Dix Says
Hollywood.—(UP)—For real glamor girls, says Richard Dix, he'll take the silent screen stars.
The actresses who show up in his pictures today, he said with the brains of a man stepping into a lions' age. just don't have the oomph the old-time sirens had.
when I first became a star at Goldwyn and Paramount, I worked on the same lots with Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, Esther Ralston Leatrice Joy, Florence Vidor and Mae Murray. Now, there's a real array of beauty, top-line every one
"And on the screen, too, at that time were such gorgeous girls as Mary Pickford, Marion Davies, Andree Lafayette, Olive Thomas and Lillian Gish. I tell you, you can't match 'on now."
"Of course, we have a few distinguished beauties these days, like Rita Hayworth, Vivien Leigh and Ingrid Bergman," he admitted. "But now many other really ultra-lovely screen stars can you name?
Mr. Dix, who has been making pictures regularly for 20 years and has had his name in lights longer than any other current star except Ronald Colman, last appeared for Columbia in "The Hunter Is a Fugitive," with Karen Morley—a good-looking girl, but no Swanson.
looking girl, but Mr. Dix was a youngster when he started in the silents and, aside from the prettier girls, he wouldn't have missed the fun of picture making then for $1,000,000, he says.
"The town was like a great big family in the early days." he said. "People were simple and friendly and easy with one another. There was little of the ostentatious social life. And the studios and acting were both informal."
SOCIALLY SPEAKING
BEVERLY BAUMER, Society Editor
Halls Will Give Dances
A Wednesday night hour dance will be given at Watkins hall from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at Sleepy Hollow from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. and at Foster hall from 7 to 8 p.m.
Kappa Beta Initiates 22
Kappa Beta, Christian church sorority, recently initiated Geraldine Babbitt, Edith Cottom, Catherine Engebretson, Frances Falen, Mary Lucille Garton, Patricia Gerhardt, Betty Zell Green, Helen Hendricks, Doris Iles, Jo Ann Jarrett, Freda Jones, Margaret McDowell, Jean McGavran, Sybil Marshall, Delma Nichols, Marjorie Scott, Lucille Steckel, Patricia Ward, Joan Bennett, Bernice Schmalkreid, Phyllis Bice, and Maxine Albury.
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Pi K. A. Initiates
The initiation of the following into Pi Kappa Alpha has been announced: John Holt Demman, Billy L. Robertson, Dilver Fellers, Robert T. Gray, Bernard Wardlow, Dan Clinger, Charles Lindberg, Robert C. Cowne, John Dorsey, Dale Hanes and Robert Boese.
Ani Gam's Announce Fledgling
Phi Gamma Delta announces the
pledging of Frank Sandelius, Law-
rence.
Phi Gam's Announce Pledging
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California Raids East For Teachers
San Francisco. (UP)—The coordinator of personnel for San Francisco's school system reports he is "raiding" mid-western and eastern cities for teachers.
cities for teachers.
Edwin C. Browne says San Francisco must get at least 400 school-marms a year to cope with its share of the 1,000,000 California war babies who soon will be eligible for school.
He hopes the $2,400 minimum salary for teachers recently approved by California voters will help him entice more teachers to the coast.
COEDS' CORNER
Lorraine Wonders At 'Double E, Plans To Work For Big Shot'
When asked why she chose electrical engineering as a major, Lorraine Rumsey, president of Locksley hall, shook her head in bewilderment.
"I frequently wonder that myself. I was a senior in high school when I made the big decision. I took months laying the ground-work before breaking the news to my parents.
"I began slowly—dropping a sentence now and then about how necessary electrical engineering is to modern civilization. Then, I started expounding on the big salaries connected with that industry.
"One evening in the happy atmosphere following a steak dinner, I told the folks that their daughter was a prospective electrical engineering major.
meeting topic.
"They were surprisingly calm; my dad said, 'Well, I can't understand it, but you're the doctor!'"
but you're the one who regretted her decision. She described her course as being "intensely" interesting.
"We work problems which are fun to do, and putter around with such contraptions as dynamos, vacuum tubes, transformers, and meters gauge--ammeters, voltometers, watt-meters, q-meeters, etc., etc. . ."
"I have never been in a class with another girl," she observed, "I used to feel strange being the only girl, but after a while I got used to that. Even the profs began to take my presence for granted!"
Besides being president of the Locksley, Lorraine is vice-president of the Inter-dorm council. She belongs to the student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineering.
The most trying time in her life, according to Lorraine, was the semester she enrolled in shop work—a required engineering course of such activities as foundry work, making molds for metal articles, and welding.
She likes the idea of being "within a stone's throw" of her home, which is in Council Grove, a small town nine miles west of Lawrence. There, she went through high school in three years on straight "A's". As a freshman in K. U., she made the dean's honor roll. "I haven't done that since," she said, "The pressure seems to be on up here."
Lorraine explained that her real ambition lies not in becoming a professional electrical engineer, but in being an executive secretary to a "big-shot" engineer, for which a foundation in engineering training is essential. After she receives her degree next spring, she will remain in K.U. another year to complete 32 hours of business training.
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Welding was my greatest waterloo, she related, "I fear I wasn't cut out to be a Winnie the Welder. You should have seen me togged out in my oldest jeans with my head inside a welder's helmet and my hands in enormous gloves reaching to my elbows!
"Applying an electrode welder takes a bit of doing. I never hit the metal quite right and, Oh Horrors, the electrode would jump out of the holder and I'd ruin my weld."
Petrillo To Provide Music For 'Culture'
Local musicians will receive payment from the fund for appearances in "such appropriate places as city parks, auditoriums, public schools (for educational purposes), institutions, homes for the aged, veteran hospitals, non-competitive dances and other places where the music furnished would be conducive to promoting more employment, better public relations and musical culture," a printed announcement of the plan said.
Five meetings, the first to be March 5. have been planned for the occupational therapy club for this semester. Miss Nancie Greanman, chairman of the occupational therapy department, emphasized that any O.T. major, freshman or advanced student, could attend these club meetings.
New York (UP)—James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians, AFL, announced today that the royalties collected from recording and transcription companies since 1944 will be spent by the union's locals to provide music without charge to the general public.
O.T. Club Plans Meetings
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