FEBRUARY 27,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Stars 'Too Pretty To Be Loved,' Hollywood Photographer Decides
Hollywood (UP) - Movie stars have been getting more glamorous every year until now most of them look like beautiful dolls in a show case, too pretty to be loved, says Arthur Miller, veteran movie photographer.
Miller, who has been photographing feminine contours for 35 years, and the movie girls were losing the realism men like.
"They look like they'd break if you hugged them," he said. "That scares a mere male away."
Miller said there were exceptions. For instance Miss Irene Dunne, whom he is photographing at present in "Anna and the King of Siam," which 20th Century-Fox is making from the Margaret Landon book.
In the old days, when Miller was filming "The Perils of Pauline" with Pearl White, the gals didn't look "so slick." he recalled.
"She's one of the most beautiful women on the screen," he said, "but she doesn't let beauty get in the way of realism. If a scene calls for her to look ruffled, she looks ruffed."
"Pearl White didn't care whether every strand of hair was in place, but she was so real that 'The Perils of Pauline' is still running in some parts of the world," he pointed out. "She got $85 a week for that role, and I got $35. At that, we were the highest-paid people in the movie business."
"When I first began in 1910, we were happy to get anything on the film," he said. "If you could see the people moving on the screen, that
Photography has helped to glamorize the girls, he reported, by the use of lights and shadows which create illusions of beauty or mystery.
Alston to Head New Choral Group
A choral group was organized on the campus last night by Sidney Lee Dawson, a student in the School of Fine Arts. The group is made up of 30 University men and women. Officers elected were: Yvonne Alston, president; Willie Maude Robinson, secretary; Joseph Brown, librarian; Alberta White, reporter, and Ovarma Tait, accompanist.
Tentative dates for the groups to appear in Kansas City and Topeka have been made.
have been made.
The next rehearsal will be at 7:30
am. Thursday in 34, Frank Strong
hall.
Dawson said he would like to have four more men audition for the tenor and bass sections of the chorus.
Teacher Group Supports Atomic Bill
Support of the McMahon bill on atomic energy was voted by the K.U. chapter of the American Federation of Teachers at its meeting last week, Dr. Calvin VanderWerf, president, announced today.
The McMahon bill provides for the international distribution of basic scientific information regarding atomic energy "consistent with the foreign policy of the United States."
Atomic energy legislation was discussed at the dinner meeting held in the Memorial Union. A letter will be sent from the organization to the Kansas senators, supporting the McMahon bill which has been introduced into the Senate.
was excellent photography."
was excellecved. and Miller Times have changed, and Miller has won two Academy Awards for artistic photography.
Today's stars must be beautiful and well-groomed, Miller said, or the public would turn against them.
"People have come to expect glamour with a capital G." he said. "If the actresses now played scenes looking like Mae Murray used to when she thought it added to the realism, Hollywood would hear about it."
Stories of Graduates Killed Will Be Retold In Graduate Magazine
A card bearing a name, an address and a class year isn't just marked with a "deceased, killed in action" and tucked away in the alumni files, forgotten.
What of the life, the likes, the aspirations and the disappointments of the person listed on the card? It's the job of Fred Ellsworth, Alumni secretary, to find out.
The card of Lt. Neil Pennington, 42, Wichita, is marked "deceased in crash of Hawaii-based PBY patrol bomber, Feb. 1, 1945." And what of Neil Pennington? Let's go back to the days when he was in the fifth grade.
The first entry consists of two little poems published in the Gardiner school paper in Wichita under the name of "Neil Pennington." Later he made a hobby of collecting stamps and became a member of the Stamp club at the Alexander Hamilton Intermediate school in Wichita.
When he entered an essay contest on stamp collecting conducted by the Wichita Stamp club, three judges considered his paper superior and asked the paper superintendent if she thought he had written it himself. When she showed them some of his regular school work and he was awarded the prize.
His interest in writing led to a place on the staff of the high school paper, The Messenger. While in high school he was a member of the National Honor society. A scholarship plus proofreading for the Wichita Beacon, and clothing in stores, helped pay his way through two friends. Friends University at Wichita. He entered K.U. in February, 1939, for a pre-medic course. Neil left the University in 1941 to join the Navy.
He took a CAA course at the University and earned his private pilot's license. So determined was he to get into naval aviation that he went back three times for his physical examination.
Behind each of the cards in the Alumni office lies a life story of someone, a story which will be retold in a special edition of the Graduate Magazine. It will be published as soon as all of the stories are complete. Ellsworth said.
examination:
Pennington was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Pennington, 1145
University avenue, Wichita. His
brother, Dwight Pennington, writes
for the Kansas City Star.
Washington. (UP)—Housing administrator Wilson Wyatt today endorsed a bill to appropriate $250,000 000 to set up 100,000 temporary housing units for veterans.
P. S. (2)
100. 000 Units For Vets
housing units would be reconverted army barracks, huts and other facilities.
Why don't you come down to eat one of our French-fried Jumbo Hot Dogs on toasted roll with mustard, pickle, and barbecue sauce—15 cents.
See you tomorrow
CONNIE and JIM BOUTZ
THE COTTAGE
There is no shortage of doctors at the T. T. Castonguay home. Both Dr. Castonguay, professor of chemical engineering, and Mrs. Castonguay have received doctor of philosophy degrees in chemical engineering.
No Shortage of Docs In Castonguay Home
Professor and Mrs. Castonguay received their doctor of philosophy degrees from the University of Detroit before coming to Lawrence in 1941.
Kansas is "way down south" to Dr. Castonguay, who left his home in Lead, S. D., because "the state offers few opportunities for young men."
Deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and deer hunting in the Colorado Rockies are high on his list of postwar plans.
"Before the war we spent our vacations hunting and fishing," he said. "and, oh, that venison!"
He is a member of the American Chemical society, American Institute of Chemical Engineering. and Phi Lambda Epsilon, honorary chemical fraternity for men.
Students, Faculty To Talk April 27
The second annual student-faculty solidarity conference will be held April 27, Mortar Board and Sachem have decided. Fifty representatives from student organizations and faculty departments will be invited, Eugenia Hepworth, Mortar Board president, said.
Clyde Jacobs, College senior, was appointed chairman of a committee which will conduct a poll of both student and faculty opinion, to select problems worth discussing at the conference meeting.
New School Building Voted for Wakefield
Clay Center—Voters of the Wakefield grade school and high school districts have approved the issuance of bonds for a new school building to replace the one destroyed by fire Nov. 9.
The new building will consist of two wings, one for the high school and the other for the grade school. An auditorium and gymnasium, and music rooms will be included.
By their vote the citizens approved an issuance of $55,000 in bonds in the high school district and $15,000 in the grade school district.
Women Outnumbered 25 to1
There Should Be A Law Agin' It!
More than 25 to 1—that's quite a ratio.
That's the way things stand in the School of Law, where 77 men students share their classes with three women. Doris Burtscher, new law student this semester, was surprised to find so few women in the school. (If she didn't have a husband in the School of Business, she'd say "So
Pope Was 'Middleman' In '40 Peace Move, Vatican Paper Says
Vatican City. (UP)—The official Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano has acknowledged for the first time that Pope Pius XII acted as middleman in an attempted German peace move in the early days of 1940.
Osservatore denied the Prague newspaper's assertion that the Anglo-German feelers were linked up with a plot against Russia or that the negotiations in which he was involved envisaged replacing Adolph Hitler with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
The pontifix's peace role was disclosed by the Osservatore in reply to a recent article published by the Prague communist newspaper "Praze," which accused the peace minister of being a British politicoso" to have Germany turn her entire military machine against Russia.
It emphasized that the pope transmitted all the messages through "ordinary official channels" and at no point presented any peace plan of his own.
The Vatican organ said Pope Pius was approached by "certain important German circles" who asked him to transmit peace proposals to Britain. The German overtures, Osservatore said, were aimed at the ultimate overthrow of the Nazi regime
Woolens Need Soap
State College, Pa. (UP) — Don't spare the soap when it's time to wash your best woolen sweaters, a professor of textile chemistry at Pennsylvania State College advises.
"Too many people think they've got enough soap just as soon as they work up suds, but woolens, especially if they're badly soiled, require an extra heavy concentration," Dr. J. Fred Oesterling says.
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many men"). After being graduated from Hays Teachers college, she taught English and speech.
Carla Eddy and her inevitable brief case have trudged to law school classes in three states. Her undergraduate psychology major may account for her tendency to sit in the front row, but she says it's to enjoy one professor's perfume. She takes time out from law to attend music and journalism classes.
Miss Hazel Anderson, law librarian for the past nine years, is glad to have a few women around to keep her company.
Doris Dixon, second-year law student, majored in English as an undergraduate. Her curly eyelashes and violet sweater-skirt combinations belie her statement that she intends to practice law, but summer vacations find her working in a Kansas City law office.
The men, a little overwhelmed by the feminine invasion, say, "If they have to be here, there should be a lot more of 'em!"
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