UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
39th YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1942
NUMBER 131
Annual Music Week Into Full Swing
Yesterday
Annual Fine Arts Day Climaxed In Banquet
The annual University Fine Arts Day was climaxed last night with a banquet in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building at which approximately 300 persons were guests.
The banquet was opened with group singing of the national anthem, led by E. Thayer Gaston, professor of education and
accompaniment was by Winifred Hill, fine arts senior.
D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, gave the opening remarks and introduced the featured guests of the affair. Miss Aida Ramirez of Costa Rica sang "A Latin American Serenade."
Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, acted as toastmaster. Chancellor Deane W. Malott spoke briefly on the importance of fine arts to the University and to the nation in the present world crisis. The University string quartet, composed of Eugene Nininger, Donald Michel, Barbara Huls, and Glenn Royer, played the "Quartette in F Minor."
Governor Payne Ratner, who was scheduled to attend the banquet, sent his regrets to Dean Swarthout yesterday afternoon, saying that an unforeseen situation had arisen of the greatest state and national importance, thus making it impossible for him to be there.
Dr. Wiktor Labunski, director of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, entertained the banquet guests with an original program of "Ivory Pranks." He was assisted in his closing number by Mrs. Labunski.
W. Otto Missner, professor of ed-
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Season Tickets Will Admit
Student activity tickets will admit holders to all Hill performances in connection with Music Week the School of Fine Arts assured today.
Traubel Concert In Auditorium Tonight
Today
The fifth attraction on the University Concert series and one of the main features of the Music Week celebration at the University, Miss Traubel is singing two arias, classical and
America's first lady of the opera, Miss Helen Traubel, will bring to Hoch auditorium tonight the purity and opulence of vocalism that critics have declared she has revived after a lapse of two generations. The press has acclaimed her as one of the great artistic personalities of the day.
a group of modern melodies.
Included on her first group are three Beethoven songs: "Gottes Macht Und Vorschung." "Wonne Der Wehmuth," and "Ich Liebe Dich." Elsa's Traum from "Lohengrin" by Wagner is one of the two arias to be sung. The third group includes three Schubert numbers: "Aufenthalt." "Wiengenlied," and "Seligkeit." Two Strauss numbers, "Ruhe Meine Seebe" and "Caecelle," com-
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The devious workings of the unbalanced mind and a stark blending of murder, infatuation, and horror were the theme of last night's Fraser theater production, "Night Must Fall," which starred Dan Bachmann as Dan, the paranoid bellhop.
"Bitten and Digested" Night Must Fall
Studied At Chicago
Bert A. Nash, professor of education, spoke in Kansas City, Mo., last night before the Kansas City Council of Social Agencies on the problem of juvenile delinquency in Kansas, with particular reference to correctional institutions and receiving homes. Nash is a member of a state committee appointed by Governor Ratner to investigate housing conditions in state children's homes.
A group of almost fifty paintings by Church, former Chicago artist, will be displayed. Church will be in charge of the work in drawing and painting in the $ ^{\circ} $
As Part of Music Week Display Paintings
Church studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and under various other well known Chicago painters,
A difficult play to produce, Emlyn Williams' "Night Must Fall" would be a mouthful for the most seasoned veterans to bite off; the Dramatic Workshop members, however, not only bit but digested with finesse this psychological drama which
Nash Speaks in Kansas City
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The oil paintings in the collection made up of portraits and figure compositions have been previously included in galleries of Chicago and elsewhere during the last several years as have the lithographs.
During his 16-year residence in Chicago, both as student and professional artist, Church completed a project of six murals for the Morgan
coming summer session at the University.
including John Norton and Boris Anisfeld. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Chicago Art Institute; Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago; Master of Arts from Ohio State University; and also has completed considerable work toward the Ph.D. degree at O.S.U.
Eastwood has gained national recognition for his paintings of Eastern sand dunes which are displayed in several art galleries and many private collections.
An exhibition of paintings in Spooner-Thayer museum by Raymond Eastwood, of the department of painting, and Howard Church of Washburn Municipal University, will be featured this week as part of the Music Week celebration.
By JOY MILLER
Tomorrow
End Concert Series With Carroll Glenn
"America's greatest woman violinist," Miss Carroll Glenn, will be presented as the last artist in the University Concert series at 8:20 Wednesday night in Hoch auditorium.
Miss Glenn, although still in her early twenties, has received the National Music League Award in 1938, the Naumburg Foundation Award in 1938, the Town Hall Endowment Award in 1939, the Schubert Memorial Award in 1941, and the Amer-
ian Federation of Music Clubs Biennial Award of $1,000 in 1941.
The violin selections included on the annual Young American Artist program Wednesday night are: Intrada (Desplanes), Rondo (Mozart-Kreisler, Concerto in D Major (Tschaikowsky), On Wings of Song (Mendelsohn - Achron), Minstrels (Debussy), Etude (Kreutzer - Kauffman), )After a Dream (Fauure), March, from "Love for Three Oranges" (Prokofieff-Heifetz), and Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (Saint-Saens).
Appearing twice as soloist with the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra and with the New York Philharmonic orchestra, Miss Glenn also has presented coast to coast recitals in star concert courses.
contained all the elements necessary to keep Freud happy for days.
Psychologically speaking, it is sound to maintain many peace-time extra-curricular activities during war, in opinion of Dr. Paul White, University of Texas psychiatrist.
The Dramatic Workshop is a group of more than 80 students, organized without a faculty sponsor and without any ties to the department of speech and drama, working together from love of acting. For such a group to attempt to produce a play unaided is commendable; for them to undertake a drama of the "Night Must Fall" caliber and make such a success of it, is practically epoch-making.
Directors Deserve Credit
Harlan Cope and Connie Moses, both competent actors themselves, deserve recognition for their direction of the play and for their assuming all the responsibility such a production entails. The realistic scenery was the work of Ruth Kelley, who also served as prompter.
Dan Bachmann should receive an "Oscar" for his understanding interpretation and portrayal of Dan, the abnormal young man who could lop off heads with one slice. From his entrance in the first act, clad in slouchy clothes with a cigarette dangling from his lips, until, hand-cuffed he flings out his last egotistical
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Thursday
American Concert To Close Gala Week
Final preparations are being made for the Gala Concert in Hoch auditorium at 8 o'clock Thursday night. This marks the final event of the Music Week celebration.
Roy Harris, the distinguished American composer who spoke at the all-University convocation Monday, has been meeting with the University orchestra, band and A Cappella choir to put on the final touches in interpretation to the numbers of his own that will be featured $ ^{\circ} $ that evening. The University band will
Harris will lead the University orchestra in the "Ode to Truth," written especially for a celebration at Stanford University; and the humorous orchestral paraphrase on the well-known theme "When Johnny Comes Marching Home."
The University band will also be led by Harris in the tone-poem "Cimarron." The parents of Harris were in the Oklahoma land rush and this number is written in commemoration of the event.
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