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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Dyche Museum Panorama Backed By A 300-Pound, 550-Foot Painting
Eleven thousand square feet of wall space and 300 pounds of white lead have been combined to make the animal panorama in Dyche museum one of the largest oil paintings in the country. This 550-foot painting which cost between $1700 and $2000 forms a background for the largest single unit group of mounted animals in the world. It was painted by S. T. Dickenson, Lawrence artist and house painter, who was a student in 1904-06.
The panorama pictures North American animals in their natural surroundings. Mr. Dickenson has painted a blended background for each of the animal groups in a continuous oil painting with a three-dimensional effect.
The Arctic region of the shapeless walrus and creamy polar bear, changes swiftly to the glacier country of Canada. A dead glacier is pictured and following it is a typical moraine of smooth-ground rocks, moss, behind the Lapland or Santa Claus reindeer.
Birch trees appear in the homeland of the moose, and mountain goats perch high on craigs of plaster mixed with straw pulp and shaped by hand on a wood-and-wire frame.
A steady stream of water trickles down the mountain side into a beaver pond and from there the scene shifts to the Great Plains of a century ago with the characteristic bison and antelope.
The desert country of the Southwest, the forest regions of Arkansas with their groups of smaller animals, and the California coast with its sea lions complete the panorama of North America.
A false floor using 7,000 board feet of lumber was laid and covered with the plaster solution so that the floor could be shaped for the various anomal groups.
The trees were made by making wooden frames and wrapping real bark around them, except two which were made of plaster; but they often fool the casual observer.
The exhibit can be seen in the Museum of Natural History from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on weekdays and from 1:30 until 5 p.m. on Sundays.
Six Alumni Placed By Teachers' Bureau
The teacher's appointment bureau has announced the placement of six alumni.
Earl Shaffer, '41, journalism and English at Ellis High school; Elwood Morgan, '45, English and history at Uniontown High school; George S. Cook, '30 assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Idaho at Moscow; G. A. Grunder, '42, instructor of history at Little Rock Junior college, Arkansas; Rosamond Rowe, '46, English and music at Bremont High school, and Gerald L. Smith, '40, superintendent at the Telluride schools, Colorado.
Franco Defies Big Three Ouster
Washington. (UP) — The American-British-French attempt to overthrow Generalissimo Francisco Franeo today ran smack into a defiant "I won't quit" from the swash-buckling Spanish leader.
It got a mixed reception in the United States congress where reaction ranged from "great stuff" to charges of American intervention in Spain.
Franco's reaction was anticipated. In fact, there were indications before the three-power declaration was released that none of the sponsors expected it to do the trick.
The declaration was addressed to the Spanish people—specifically to "leading patriotic and liberal-minded Spaniards." And it merely expressed the hope that they soon would find means to bring about the "peaceful withdrawal" of Franco and establish an interim or caretaker government. This temporary regime would remain in power until free national elections could be held.
It was increasingly apparent that the United Nations security council would be faced with the Spanish issue after it reconvenes in New York late this month.
Soviet Russia did not participate in the joint diplomatic maneuver. She has never maintained diplomatic relations with the Franco regime.
At the same time the three-power declaration was announced, the state department released a "white paper" —a series of documents captured from the Germans—which made clear to the world where Franco's hopes rested in World War II.
The documents revealed for the first time a 1940 Hitler-Francou plot to stab Britain in the back after the fall of France with a joint German-Spanish attack on Gibraltar. When the attack was first planned, a German invasion of England was thought to be imminent. Franco believed the Germans had won the war and that only the Coup De Grace for Britain was left. He was enthusiastic about "Operation Gibraltar" at that period.
Pretty Prairie Pilot Returns to Farm
Pretty Prairie. (UP) — Col. Marion Unrhue, the flying farmer pilot of the "Pretty Prairie Special" famed bomber of the Pacific war, today returned to his farm.
Unruh was pilot of the "Pretty Prairie Special" which was forced down in the Pacific early in the war. He was a prisoner of the Japanese until the end of the war.
Cut Food Corners, Let Europe Eat, President Urges
Washington (UP) — American housewives awaited further word today on how they can cut corners on food so that millions in Europe and Asia will not starve.
The president's food-saving conference has said that to prevent mass world starvation, Americans must eat 25 percent less wheat and stop wasting other foods.
It said consumption and wastage of fats and oils particularly "must be substantially reduced" if this country is to meet its obligations to humanity.
The specific plan by which this saving is to be accomplished was not disclosed, but Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said he hoped to have additional details soon.
The conference then officially named itself the famine emergency committee and selected former President Herbert Hoover, who directed European relief in World War I, as honorary chairman.
He said the program would save about two million tons of wheat and would be completely voluntary, calling for the cooperation of restaurants and hotels as well as individuals.
Chester Davis, former war food administrator and president of the federal reserve bank of St. Louis, was given the job of expanding the FEC. He will organize a committee of 75 nationally-known figures to work with the program.
Hoover recommended that Anderson be given complete control over all the nation's food resources. He said he felt this was necessary because no organization "outside the government, though helpful, would cover the whole emergency."
He reiterated his belief that when Europe reaps her first harvest in June the "problem will be solved."
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Just for kicks, try dropping over to play rehearsal just a day or so before the curtain goes up for the performance.
The backdrops for the play, "Hay Fever," are all there, but the rest of the set is left to the imagination. The play begins its Fraser hall run Thursday night.
Saddle shoes scuff languidly across the stage pushing a dilapidated broom in an earnest attempt to remove dust and debris. From a piano on stage tinkles the melancholy strains of "Manhattan Serenade." A touch of old time vaudeville comes up when two boys in navy blue da da-da da da their way to center stage swinging canes, and kicking energetically if not rhythmically.
Disconnected snatches of conversation drift about—are you going to wear—it keeps going—I wish you—why don't I—too drab—Jack, is Frances coming up tonight? Do you know where Judith's hat is?—I haven't seen Judith'r hat. Today there have been thousands of people in here—We're sunk if we can't find Judith's hat.
The atmosphere is there and the hustle and hubbub only sharpen the contrast when the director, Prof. Allen Crafton, says "Now let's begin with Act 2. Snap it up until you
come to the casual stuff!" and after about a second of silence a transformation occurs.
30 Members Chosen For New Chorus
Names of the 30 members of the newly organized choral group in the University have been announced. Emphasis will be placed upon modern and classical songs, Sidney Dawson, director, said.
Members of the chorus are: Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Verdalia White, Dorothy Pearson, Lionel Adams, Vastena Davis, Wanda Collins, Phyllis Ballard, Irene Rice, Lorna Green, Inez Rice, Alta Jackson, Bernice Alexander, Willie Maude Robinson, Yvonne Alonst, Evelyn Ford, Mary Jeanne Goodspeed, Louise Gross, Margaret Jackson, Alberta White, Lawrence Smith, Joseph Brown, Eugene Chinn, William Stewart, John Warder, Charles Smith, Laurence Bess, Sarah Homs, Jennie Alexander, and Johnnie Mae Peavy. Oyarma Tait is the accompanist.
These college actors shed their own personalities, their own individuality and as naturally as though they always speak with a British accent, fall into their characterizations of the screwball, slap-happy London family in the play, "Hay Fever."
The students are stage veterans with varied backgrounds. Glenna Mae Thompson, College junior, has acted with the Bismark, N.D. Community Players; Margaret Gosney, College junior who transferred from Christian college this year, acted in the Longmont Colorado community theater. Kathleen Jones Howland is an old-timer in K.U. drama.
Joan Woodward, pepy cheerleader from K.C., Mo., has been acting ever since her days at Southwest high; John Feist, a former student now taking graduate work, chalks "Hay Fever" up as his ninth play in Fraser theater; Robert Haney Scott got his experience at Hays; Robert Koenig has been in plays at Denison university and recently in "Thank You, Doctor" here and Harold Harny has appeared before in plays at the University.
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