State Historical Society
THE KANSAN.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL. I. NO. 61.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MAY 25, 1905.
GIVE PLAY.
Seniors Present Original Production. Clever and funny.
The class of 1905 gave its annual play last night in the Bowersock Opera House. It was an original production with a local setting, written by the play committee, of which Miss Jennie Phones is chairman. The play had an excellent plot, and no one could say it lacked the dramatic quality or action. Irene Crawford, as a precise old maid, devoted to physical culture, and Ralph Gowans, disguised as a widowed aunt from Brazil, were plainly the stars of the cast. The excellent playing of Willis Carothers, a sporty senior, and E. R Gentry, in the role of a K. U. professor, madly in love, also had much to do with the success of the play.
A novel feature of the play was the chorus of six men and six women, that sang some original productions, filled with take-offs on well known features of the University.
The play was in three acts. The curtain goes up on Jack Blair's apartments on Tuesday morning of commencement week at the University of Kansas.
Bair and his roommate, Theodore Carter, are desperately in love with Nan Stromburger and Eleanor Burwick, but Nan's uncle, Prof. Stromburger, constantly foils the boys in their attempts to see the girls. Carter receives a telegram that his aunt, Donna Isabella Maranaho, of Brazil, suddenly returned to the United States, and will come to see him graduate. This is a lucky strike for it gives the boys a chance to invite the girls over to take lunch with them and meet the aunt.
The girls come but a telegram is received from the aunt saying that she has been delayed a day. To save a scandal the boys determine to dress Timothy Hobhouse, a chum who has a part in the senior play, as the expected aunt. From this time on complication follows complication. Jack's father Col. Blair, a willower suddenly arrives and immediately falls in love with the aunt. Prof. Stromburger also becomes smitten on the heiress from Brazil and determines to win her. At this time the true Donna Isabella Maranaho arrives and finds another masquerading as herself. She assumes another name and enjoys the deception. She also finds that before she went to Brazil she knew Col. Blair while in Kansas University. The play ends with all the complications unraveled. The boys win the girls and the Col. is betrothed to the true Donna, while Hobhouse, the pretender, has gotten up a case with Marion Astell, the adopted daughter of the
Donna, and all ends happily.
CAST.
Theo, Carter...Joe Pulliam
Jack Blair...Willis Carothers
Timothy Hobhouse.Ralph Gowans
Col. FrancisBlair...Geo.Hansen
Prof. Stomburger...Ernest Gentry
Christopher...Will Bailey
Nan Stomburger...Margaret
Hammond.
Eleanor Burwick...Alma Leidigh
Marion Astell...Winnie Hammond
Miss Dorothy Pennington...Irene
Crawford
Denise Jenkins.Margareth
na Isabelia Maranaho... Vera Hull.
NO BIG GAME.
Manager Plank has received a definite reply from the University of Wisconsin, stating that no date is open on their schedule for a football game with Kansas next fall. This ends the last hope that Kansas had of securing a game in the big nine for this season.
The schedule as it now stands 15:
Sept. 30, College of Emporia.
Ortober 7, State Normal.
October 21, Oklahoma.
October 28, Colorado.
November 4, Washington.
November 11, Washburn.
November 18, Haskell (probably)
November 25, State Agricultural College.
Thanksgiving, Missouri.
COMPLETE LIQUID AIR PLANT.
The University of Kansas has the most complete liquid air plant west of New York City. Liquid air is supplied to many lecturers and demonstrators in all parts of the United States. The most recent calls came from Illinois and Texas. The Texas lecturer was so anxious to secure liquid air that he sent a man to Kansas City to see that no er or be made in the transfer of the material between the roads.
SECOND CHORAL SERVICE.
A second University Choral Evensong under the auspices of Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. will be held next Sunday evening at 6:30. If the weather is favorable the service will be held on the slope of the hill of North College, otherwise it will be held in the University chapel. The musical part of the program will be under the direction of Prof. Hubach with Miss Greisinger as organist The Rev. Win. Bolt of the Congregational church will give a short address. The general character of the service will be the same as of the preceding service.
The name of Miss Nadine Hosford was omitted, in the last KANSAN. from the senior play committee. Miss Hosford has done as much as any one on the committee to make the present play a success and it was purely an oversight that her name was omitted.
Frank Beeson, '08, spent Sunday at his home at Osawatomie.
MAY FESTIVAL.
Most Elaborate Musical Program Promised.
OnFriday night at Fraternal Aid Hall will be given the first of the greatest musical treats ever given to a Lawrence audience. The people and organizations that will take part are of national reputation, Mrs. Genevieve Clark Wilson, Soprano; Mrs. Eleanor Kirkham, Contralto; Mr. Arthur Beresford, bass and the famous Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Adolph Rosenbecker, director, are some of the most widely known that take part.
Friday, May 26, 1905. 8:15 p.m.
First Concert.
Mrs. Eleanor Kirkham, contralto.
Mr. Carlo Fischer, violincello.
Mr. Ralph Wylie, violin.
The University Glee Club, C.
Edward Hubach, director.
Miss Maud Cooke, accompaniist.
The University Orchestra, C. Skiilton, director.
Program.
Coronation March, Kretschmer.
University Orchestra.
The Lorelei, Liszt.
Mrs. Kirkham.
Hunting Song from Der Freischutz, Weber.
The University Glee Club.
Dedication, Popper.
Mr. Fischer.
Caro mio ben, Giordani.
Noon and Night, Hawkley.
Folk Song, Old German.
Mrs. Kirkham.
Military Symphony, Haydn.
Allegretto
Minuet
The University Orchestra. Sextet from "Lucia" for violin alone. Covizett St. Lubin.
Professor Wylie,
Bedouin Love Song, Pinsuti,
The University Glee Club,
Romance, Becker.
Villagers' Song, Popper.
Mr. Fischer.
Songs My Mother Taught Me, Dvorak.
5 Cents per copy.
Oh, That We Two were a-Maying. Speaks.
Sunbeams, Kronold.
SECOND CONCERT,
Saturday, May 27, 1905,
2:30 p. m.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Adolph Rosenbecker conductor.
Mr. E. C. Towne, tenor.
Mr. B. C. Towne, & co.
Mr. Hugo Olk, violinist.
Program.
Overture—Land of the Mountain and the Flood, McCune.
Fantasie, Appassecionata, Vicutemps.
Symphony—From the New World, op. 95. Dorok.
Adagio—Allegro Molto Largo.
Molto Vivace.
Allegro con fuoco.
Aria—Lend Me Your Aid, Gounod.
Mr. Towne,
Symphony Poem, Rouet d'
- Omphale, St. Saens.
Waldweben from "Siegfried,"
Wagner.
THIRD CONCERT,
Saturday, May 27, 1905,
8:15 p. m.
The Festival Chorus, Charles S. Skilton, director.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Adolph Rosenbecker, director.
Mrs. Genevieve Clark Wilson, soprano.
Mrs. Eleanor Kirkham, contralto.
Mr. E. C. Towne, tenor.
Mr. Arthur Beresford, bass.
Miss Harriet Greissinger, pianist.
Program.
Program.
Overture, Leonora No. 3, Beethoven.
Concertstick in C sharp minor,
Charminade.
Miss Greissinger.
Cantata, The Golden Legend,
Arthur Sullivan.
REGENT WHITE ON FRATERNITIES.
Regent White came out Tuesday in a very bitter article against fraternities. He says:—
Scores High School Fraternities in Particular.
"The tidbits in the Emporia high school are talking of getting up a sorority—little imps, who should be spanked and put to bed. If there is one thing that the Emporia parents should sit on, and sit on hard, it is the sorority. It is called the Owls, and application has been made to the chapters at Kansas City and Topeka, where the nuisance prevails. A common school should be democratic. All should go there upon an equality. None of the children has done anything himself or herself, to entitle him or her to any distinction, social or otherwise; and the mere fact that the pupil's father has a little money or lives in a fine house should be no reason for establishing a distinction in a school. The high school fraternities are little snob-makers, the snobbery being entirely on the standing of the child's parents.
'It is intolerable that the conventions of life, which are irksome enough to older people, should be aped by little monkeys who go in for that sort in every school. They should not have their tolly crystallized and their empty-pated views of life in a measure legalized by the social laws, by allowing them to form fraternities and sororities.
O. C, Billings, a former student of the University, has been appointed private Secretary to Governor Hoch to succeed T. A. McNeal who has resigned.
Clay Anderson of Kansas City was in Lawrence Tuesday for the Senior play.