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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1942
News From Page One---boast as the curtain falls, Bachmann dominated the stage.
DISPLAY PAINTINGS--boast as the curtain falls, Bachmann dominated the stage.
Park Military Academy, 1932-36. The last mural in this group, commissioned for the Cadets' Library on that campus, represents Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims. An enlarged reproduction of this mural was exhibited in the K.U. Main Library during March, together with rare Chaucer volumes.
In Private Collections
His work in portraiture forms a part of numerous private collections, including those of Dean George A. Works and Dean A. J. Brumbaugh of the University of Chicago; Prof. James Taft Hatfield, former head of the German department at Northwestern University; Prof. George O. Curme, the distinguished grammarian, and others. In the early days of his art career, Church spent some years in the commercial art field, from which he turned to the study of fine art.
Church will teach beginning and advanced work in drawing and painting of the figure, still-life and landscape in the summer session of the School of Fine Arts. He is at present head of the art department at Washburn University, and Director of the Mulvane Art Museum on that campus.
BITTEN AND---boast as the curtain falls, Bachmann dominated the stage.
Another role which called for subtlety of performance and got it, was that of Olivia Grayne, the lonely repressed niece of the autocratic Mrs. Bramson. Edith Ann Fleming employed her remarkably poised stage presence to good advantage in creating Olivia, the restrained girl whose dislike for the erstwhile bellboy unwillingly turns to fascination and infatuation in the face of her confirmed suspicions about his murderous activities.
Davis-Always Good
As the querulous old Mrs. Bramson, who fancies herself ill-to-dying of heart pititations, Virginia Davis was always good, sometimes magnificent. Her acting in the scene where she is left alone and frightened in the empty house and is a little later killed, ranks among the best in the entire play. *
Joe Nelson cinched the part of well-meaning but boring Hubert Laurie, who wants to make Olivia a "good, steady" husband. It was the unsubtlety of Hubert and the heavy-handed humor of Mrs. Terrence, played by Mary Morrison, that lightened an otherwise too dark and heavy atmosphere of horror and impending doom. Jane Peake was a perpetually perturbed Dora, with a notto-bad rural English accent.
The play gets a slow start with a dull prologue in the Court of Criminal Appeal in London. Each act becomes successively better, and the final act is one of the best seen in Fraser theater this year. In places the action drags, no fault of the actors. No lines could be cut because each was necessary to the ascending action and denouement, hence a somewhat lengthy play.
The Plot Congeals
The play proper begins in the sitting room of Forest Corner, Mrs. Bramson's bungalow in Essex, England, the setting for all subsequent acts. Mrs. Bramson, self-confined to her wheelchair, is making life miserable or her companion-niece, the latter's suitor, and the back-talking Mrs. Terrence. Excitement is caused first by the police investigating the disappearance of a woman of queen-
tionable morals from a nearby hotel, and then by the discovery that Dora, the maid, is going to have a baby. The man in question is sent for, a bellboy in the hotel.
The bellboy, Dan, arrives, ingratia-
tias himself with the old lady and
arouses the suspicions of the niece.
He stays on at the house and becomes
the favorite of the doting Mrs. Bram-
son. Olivia has analyzed Dan as the
psychological case he is, one who lives
in a world of his own creation and
never shows his true self—continually
acting and possessed of an overweaning conceit. She knows him to be the murderer of the missing woman,
but she is attracted by him, none the less.
As night approaches Olivia, becoming afraid, goes to spend the night with Hubert and his sister. The servants leave. Dan, left alone with Mrs. Bramson, smothers her, clears her wall safe of all her money, and sprinkles kerosene on the furniture ready to set fire to the house.
Just as he is about to light the match, Olivia returns, driven back partly by emotions she can't express and partly by hope of finding Dan out. She sees the dead aunt, becomes slightly hysterical. After a little, Dan is preparing to kill her, when the police arrive outside. Dan stops acting and is genuinely frightened. Olivia tries to comfort him. A policeman and servants rush in, the body is discovered, and the handcuffed Dan is led away, but not before he embraces Olivia, and with a return of his old egotism, promises that the trial will be a good show.
ANNUAL MUSIC WEEK---
ocation and public school music, presented the Pi Kappa Lambda achievement awards to the highest ranking freshman, sophomore, and junior in scholarship in the School of Fine Arts for the current year. The $10 freshman award went to Martha Dooley of Lawrence. The $15 sophomore award was given to John Ehrlich of Topeka, and the $25 prize to the highest ranking junior went to Melvin Zack of Kansas City, Mo.
Nancy Teichgraeber, fine arts freshman from Emporia, was announced by Miss Marjorie Whitney, chairman of the department of design, as being the choice of Delta Phil Delta, national honorary art fraternity, as the most outstanding member of her class in the School of Fine Arts. Donna Justice, freshman from Fredonia, was given honorable mention.
Roy Harris, one of the countries most outstanding musical composers and composer in retirement at Cornell University, was introduced to the banquet guests. He spoke briefly on the importance of the survival of the finer arts in the face of today's circumstances.
Bernard Frazier, instructor in architecture and design, and Raymond Eastwood, associate professor of drawing and painting, presented a light skit entitled "Practical Chromatactivity" in which the former sculptured while the latter painted masterpieces in their individual line of professions.
Dr. John Ashton, chairman of the department of English, was the principal speaker of the evening. He spoke on "Harsh Din and Fair Music." Doctor Ashton stated in his address that the American people must, in this time of national peril, insist on the validity of three important maxims; first, that arts are not luxury subjects but are of the greatest importance and necessary to us; second, that the creative impulses brought about through fine arts must be proven stronger than the impulses for destruction; and third, that life cannot be fully explained in terms of modern machines and inventions. But that the functions of fine arts have a very definite place in our modern world.
Dr. Ashton stated, "The function of the artist—whatever his field may be—is to bring into stability intellect and emotion in this wartorn world. . these artists are the custodians of the very civilization that we are today
fighting to preserve."
The banquet was concluded with Professor Gaston leading the guests in the Alma Mater and the Rock Chalk.
AMERICAN CONCERT--directed by Dean D. M. Swarthout will sing two numbers written to texts by Walt Whitman in Civil War days, "Year That Trembled" and "Freedom, Toleration."
The program will be an all-American one, and besides the Harris numbers the orchestra will offer Rubin Goldmark's "Call of the Plains" directed by Karl Kuestersteuer.
As a close to the program and Music Week itself the concert will end with the great patriotic chorus for choir and orchestra "Land of Our Hearts" by George Chadwick, with the University A Cappella choir uniting with the symphony orchestra.
TRAUBEL CONCERT---
plete the recital before intermission.
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Following intermission Miss Traubel will sing Rachmaninoff's "Elegie," and Mendelssohn's "Song Without Words." The second aria of the evening follows, Vio lo sapete, from "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Mascagni.
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The last group of songs are two Negro spirituals, "Deep River" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Carl Engel's "Sea Shell," Blair Fairchild's "A Memory," and McNair Igenfritz's setting of Shakespeare's "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind."
WAA To Initiate At Banquet Thursday
Members and pledges of the Women's Athletic Association will meet Thursday afternoon in the Memorial Union building at 5:30 p.m. for their annual spring banquet.
Initiation of pledges and the installation of the officers for 1942-'43 will be held. Kathryn Schaake is to be president of the W.A.A. next year succeeding Lura Smith, retiring president.
Before the banquet itself a short business meeting will be held, at which the new officers will be installed.
To Open V-1 Drive
Price of the banquet will be 50 cents, and members are requested to bring any back dues.
Lieut. T. E. Wisner, of the Navy recruiting station in Kansas City Mo., will be in Lawrence Thursday to address a meeting of all University men interested in the V-1 program, in Fraser theater at 4:30 p.m.
Lieut. Wisner will be accompanied by a staff of navy officers and, in addition to the mass meeting of interested prospects for enlistment in V-1, will give personal interviews to any young men who wish to discuss the program.
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