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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 23.1942
NUMBER 124
'Women' Slated For One Night Stand, April 27
"The Women," a play in eleven scenes, will be presented April 27 in Fraser theater at 8:15 p.m. The play will be presented one night only and no seats will be reserved. Tickets are 25c plus tax.
The scenery and furniture has been constructed and painted under the supervision of Don Dixon, professor of speech. The play ranges from a manicure booth to a Reno hotel, and ends in the powder room of the Casino roof. An innovation in contrast will be used—a space stage, in black, with special spotlighted units and pieces of furniture.
The play is being directed and staged by Allen Crafton, head of the department of speech and dramatic art. Prof. Crafton said, "I've directed nearly 200 plays, but this is the first time I've ever directed an all-women cast (because of the type of play, we can hardly call it an all-lady cast)."
The first dress rehearsal is to be held Saturday night. Further dress rehearsals will continue through Sunday with one at 3 and the second at 7.
Taken from the book, "Sixteen American Plays," Brooks Atkinson, play critic of the New York Times, says, "Clare Booth, la belle dame sans merci, conquered Broadway on the'night after Christmas in 1936. In 'The Women' she succeeded in spraying vitriol over the members of her own sex with cutting wit and remarkable knowledge of her subject. In the foreword to the published script she says that 'The Women' is a satirical play about a numerically small group of ladies native to the Park avenues of America, and that the title was chosen from several others she had considered—Park Avenue,' 'The Girls,' 'The Ladies,' etc. Miss Boethe's calculated and spiteful writing was too poisonous for my taste. But who am I against so many? 'The Women' had 657 performances on Broadway.'
Alumni Will Hold Round-up Sundau
Justice Hugo Wedell, president of the University Alumni association, will preside at the evening meeting of the round-up for Kansas City, Mo., alumni, Sunday, Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the association said today. This is the third in a series of alumni round-ups.
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Registration at the Memorial Union building will begin at 3:00 p.m., with faculty and Lawrence alumni acting as hosts at a reception for the registrants. Next will be trips to Dyche museum and the dormitories for those who wish to visit them.
Faculty Will Pull Taraxacum
Faculty knees, not disposition, will be on the touchy side Saturday after the preceding afternoon's battle with the yellow savages, Taraxacum, more commonly known on the University campus as "those pecky dandelions."
Those faculty members not conducting classes at 2 o'clock will meet on the campus and start digging in teams. Digging will continue until the "front yard" of the campus is cleared of its yellow slotets. The eradication of the yellow flowers may include side slopes, if the diggers have not reached a state of extreme fatigue by that time.
Reward for the manual labor will come in the guise of a picnic supper served on the campus or in Marvin grove.
Students with spare time, interested in the worthy cause, are invited to join the faculty diggers. It would probably be an opportune time to become acquainted with professors and incidentally polish the apple — or dandelion?
ROTC Inspection Color, Rhythm
The campus grounds and lower intramural fields were alive with color and movement yesterday and this morning as the University band and ROTC regiments paraded for their annual inspection. Marching rhythm boomed out and flags waved as the artillery battalion and infantry battalions stepped out in uniform rank and file. First year advanced coast artillery and infantry were inspected by Col. R. J. Halpin and Lieut.-Col. H. L. King, while Col. Raymond L. Briggs had charge of administrative inspection.
Members of the board of inspection this year are Col. Raymond W. Briggs, officer of the 7th corp area, Omaha; Col. Robert J. Halpin, infantry, Omaha; and Col. Harry L. King of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Malott Speaks to N. U. Students Chancellor Deane W. Malot addressed the fourteenure annual honors convocation of the University of Nebraska Tuesday morning. His subject was "Careers in Crisis."
Students Find Help Reading Laboratory
Belief that the average college student does not read fifty per-cent as well as he should in either speed or effectiveness, prompted Dr. Bert A. Nash, professor in the School of Education, to organize a reading laboratory at the University in 1938. The laboratory is still conducted by Nash.
The School of Education teachers are interested in reading habits of students for two reasons, Nash states; first, because
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Instructors have found that students have four main faults in their study habits. There is the student who skims over his text material and gets nothing from his reading, while on the other hand there is the one who reads every type of material, be it novel or fiction story, as he would read a text book. The student who has a poor vocabulary and the student who does no planning and dreads without purpose illustrate the other two faults.
In the reading laboratory students are taught how to use various techniques in their reading. Paying close attention to topic headings, footnotes, and graphs is stressed.
time in not knowing how to read, and second, because reading is fundamental in both college and after-college life.
Instructors realize that some students' eyes are defective causing distorted vision, poor concentration and resulting discomforts. This being the case, this fact is brought out when the student is given a test on the motion picture machine in the laboratory. The machine records the speed of reading, whether
Many Causes of Bad Reading
Have Four Faults
Twenty-Six Make Business School Fall Honor Roll
The fall semester 1941-42 School of Business honor roll was released this week by F. T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business.
The juniors are: Dale W. Gordon, Larned; Wiley Schuler Mitchell, Valley Falls; Shirley Mae Snyder, Mission; Paul Woolpert, Topeka; Delmer O. Green, Atwood; Mary Lou Lohman, Lawrence; Daniel E. Merriott, Lawrence; Martha Young, Caney; James Burke, Kansas City, Mo.; and Paul A. Trower, Kansas City, Mo.
The seniors are: Elden LeRoy Beeble, Bucklin; John Stuart Perkins, Kansas City, Mo.; Robert McElfresh, Osage City; Franklin D. Taylor, Hutchinson; John Robert Fluker, Clay Center; John M. Peterson, Monument; Ruth E. Wiedemann, Lawrence; Donald Sussex, Kansas City; Maurice E. Baringer, Arkansas City; Philip Sherwood, Onaga; Victor Loskot, Ellsworth; John W. Poos, Nortonville; Donald S. Mitchell, Coffeyville; Frank Pinet, Topeka; John Parker Fletcher, Kansas City, Mo.; and Adelyn Lee Cast, Wichita.
Army Air Corps Will Defer Cadets
The University of Kansas along with approximately 150 other colleges and universities through the country has been selected as a focal point for the army air corps newly organized Enlisted Air Force Reserve, which has been authorized and opened to college students.
To meet increasing needs of the Army air force for air crews to man fighting planes and supporting ground crews, the War Department this week announced the plan to recruit men in the
The World Student Service Fund is an international organization which provides aid to students and professors who are victims of the war. It is supported entirely by students. Aid is sent to Chinese students, European students, and United States refugees and students in prison camps and internment camps.
Service Fund Drive Continues
Money is used to purchase food, clothing, lodging, and medical aid; to establish student centers and recreational leadership; and to provide music, books, paints, art supplies, and other educational material.
"Contributions from members of the faculty and students for the World Student Service Fund drive may still be sent in tomorrow," Roberta Tucker, executive secretary of the Y.W.C.A., said today. The contributions may be sent either to the Y.M.C.A. office in the Memorial Union building or to the Y.W.C.A. office at Henley house.
Today was the last day for soliciting by students and faculty members who were divided into 35 teams. The groups were organized under a central committee headed by Jim Gillie, business junior. The total amount of the contributions in the three-day drive will not be determined for several days.
Dr. W. H. Shoemaker, chairman
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A "prisoners' fare" supper was held Tuesday, and a midweek was given in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building last night as part of the drive campaign.
Cervantes Fiesta Hits Hill Saturday
Stephen L. Pitcher, of St. Louis, president of the American association of teachers of Spanish, will be one of the speakers at the annual meeting of the Kansas chapter of the association to be held on the University campus, Saturday, April 25. Others on the program, which begins at two o'clock Saturday afternoon, include Prof. Dwight L. Bollinger, Washburn; F. Leon Reynolds, Parsons Junior College; and Marmaduke Grove, of the University of Chile, now a graduate student at the University.
colleges and universities of the nation for future requirements of the Army flying service.
The plan calls for the procurement of aviation cadets through preliminary enlistment as privates in the air force enlisted reserve. The program will provide opportunities for enlistment on a deferred service basis so that the aviation cadet candidates may continue their education until actually required for Army training.
Students enlisted in the enlisted reserve, of course, are subject to call to active duty at any time. The plan, however, is to defer them, permitting further scholastic training provided they maintain a satisfactory scholastic standard.
Students whose courses of study give them the special instruction necessary for meteorology and communications will be permitted to continue their schooling to enable them to qualify as officers.
Whether college students will continue college training for these special posts will depend largely upon the result of examinations to be given to sophomore students enlisted in the air force reserve. These men will already possess qualifications for aviation cadet training, but the continuance of their education will be of further benefit to the Army when eventually they are called to active duty.
Students enlisted in the air force reserve who are graduated or who may be called to duty before graduation, will be ordered to active duty and appointed aviation cadets, with an opportunity to compete for commissions in the same manner as other aviation cadets.
Young men enlisted in the air force enlisted reserve and deferred for scholastic reasons will be identified by an emblem similar to the familiar air forces' wing-and-propeller insignia.
The college recruiting plan was announced by Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, in a telegram to centrally located colleges throughout the country. These central colleges are to serve as focal points for colleges in their vicinity.
In a letter confirming the telegrams, General Arnold said: "The successful prosecution of this war demands the creation of an air force second to none on earth, and this in turn requires the eventual enlistment as an aviation cadet of every young man who can qualify for service with the U.S. Army Air Forces.
"This need is imperative — the number of those fitted for this exacting duty so limited—that without hesitation the air forces are asking
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