1942
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1942
NUMBER 116
39th YEAR
Air in Hoch Sizzles Carmen Stars
By JOY MILLER
A captivating and seductive siren made the air in Hoch auditorium sizzle for over three hours last night when the San Carlo Opera company presented Bizet's opera, "Carmen," to an enthusiastic audience.
The auditorium, packed to the top row of the second balcony, was the scene of the most elaborate musical entertainment offered on the concert series this year. Students, faculty, townspeople and music lovers from all over the state were gathered to witness the spectacle.
A number of University of Kansas students got an on-the-stage view of the opera, appearing as "supers" or background crowds in several of the scenes.
Coe Glade Lives the Part
Star of the opera and center of attention from her first dramatic entrance in the opening act until she lay dead at the feet of her discarded lover two minutes before the curtain went down for the last time. Coe Glade made Carmen live. The bewitching Carmen is resurrected from Bizet's 1880 Spain for stage presentation, but Miss Glade's interpretation harks back to the original Carmen of Merimee's, a somewhat immoral young lady with a yen for a good time.
Miss Glade acts, dances, singles whistles—all with charming accomplishment. She twins herself around the rotund Don Jose, renders arias meaningful with daring gestures, and with an insinulative shrug of her shoulders or a suggestive lift in her throaty tones, Miss Glade lets the audience see the real Carmen—passionate, fickle, and superbly alive.
Supporting Cast Scores Well
Supporting Cast members of the cast do their parts well. Don Jose, although an unromantic-appearing lover, sings with passion and finesse, and Leola Turner, the simple countrymaid Micaela, possessed an unusually lovely voice. The toreador Escamillo, sung by Mario Valle, seemed to lack volume and force—attributable, perhaps, to Hoch's poor acoustics.
The ballets were executed with grace and color, especially at the beginning of the last act, in which Mlle. Lydia Arlova and M. Lucien Prideaux were featured.
Conductor Carlo Peroni set the mood of the opera in the prelude preceding the first act, in which the themes of the bullfight, the fatality motive of Carmen, and a brooding fascination are mingled. This effect prepared the way for the unfolding of the tragic love story.
A Nod to the Music
The curtain rises on a public square in Seville, to which Micaela has come in search of Don Jose. The dragoons make their appearance about the same time as the cigarette factory girls pour out for lunch. Soon La Carmencita makes her entrance, wearing what the well-dressed Spanish hussy of the 1880's wore—low-cut white blouse, red
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Six Students Enter Oratorical Contest
Six University students will compete in the All-University oratorical contest Wednesday evening at 8:15 E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, announced today.
Those who have entered the contest, sponsored by the department of speech and dramatic arts, are: John Waggoner, college junior; Russell Baker, business senior; Clarence Mollett, college sophomore; Ethel Jane McFarland, college unclassified; Bob Hutchinson, college freshman; and Arthur Nelson, college sophomore.
There will be a total of $25 in cash prizes. First prize offered is $10, second $8, and third $7. The contest is the fourth in a series sponsored by the department.
The first contest was the Kansas Problems Speaking contest at which Governor Payne Ratner presided. The other two contests were the University Campus problems contest and the Inter-American Relations contest.
All students who wish to enter this contest should see Professor Buehler before Monday noon, and bring the titles of their speeches.
The thirty finalists for the Summerfield scholarships, awarded annually at the University of Kansas, were announced today by Olin Templin, secretary of the Kansas University Endowment Association. Of these candidates, from 12 to 15 will be selected for the awards in the final competition to be held in Lawrence April 20 and 21.
Thirty to Take Summerfield Finals April 20
Finalists announced today are:
Horace T. Ackerman, Jr., Wichita East, Wichita; James Bain, El Dorado; William Barber, Abilene; Leland S. Bohl, Wyandotte High, Kansas City, Kan.; Lewis Bowden, Wichita North; Robert D. Buechel, Wichita East; Bill Conboy, Lawrence; Dewey Cummings, Ashland; James Davidson, Topeka; Robert L. Doyle, Wamego; Dick Finney, Topeka;
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Announce V-7 Requirements
Confusion that seems to have developed in the minds of University men relative to enlistment in the V-7 Naval Reserve program, will be clarified by a letter from Lt. Comdr. Nathan Young, officer in charge of the USNR, stationed at Kansas City to Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Wrote Commander Young:
"Sometime ago the requirements for V-7 were that a junior had to be graduated before July 1, 1943, and a senior before July 1, 1942, to be eligible for V-7 enlistment. This was changed, but the information appears not to have been disseminated among the various student bodies, and we are getting in contact with many men who, having junior or senior standings, have considered themselves ineligible because their dates of graduation are subsequent to those listed above.
"There has been, however, a new requirement and I would greatly appreciate it if you would see that your student body is informed. To be eligible for enlistment in class V-7, USNR, a college junior must have attained junior status by April 15, 1942. (Date of graduation may be in 1944)."
Balzac Authority Lectures Tomorrow
Bernard Weinberg, professor of Romance languages at Washington University, St. Louis, will lecture tomorrow on the French writer Honore de Balzac at 3:30 p.m. in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. The lecture is the second ni a series sponsored by the University committee on lectures and convocations, and is under the auspices of the department of Romance languages.
Dr. Weinberg, a graduate of Chicago University, has done extensive research on Balzac and has achieved distinction in America as an authority in that field. The lecture will be given in English and will be popularized.
Prof. R. G. Mahieu of the University department of Romance languages will give the third and last in this series of lectures. His address, to be delivered sometime in May, will be on Voltaire.
Miles for a Band
Hiker Returns
Herbert Mueller, fine arts sophomore, returned to the campus this morning after a hitch-hiking trip to Washington, D.C., where he tried out for the Navy band, Army band, and the Navy school of music.
His purpose for the trip which he began a week ago last Monday was, Mueller said, "I just took a notion that I'd like to try to get some auditions with some of the big
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Expect M.I.B. Construction To Continue
Although the War Production board has issued an order prohibiting building projects not essential to defense and declaring that projects already begun might be halted, work on the Mineral Industries building here is not expected to be stopped, according to word received from Topeka today.
Roy W. Stookey, state architect, said that since the building was well under way and since its laboratories will be used in part for defense purposes, he expected the national government to allow its completion.
The mineral industries laboratories will be used for ordnance research.
Quill Club Magazine Out First of Week
The Quill Club's yearly magazine,
"Feoh," will be on sale either Monday or Tuesday of next week.
Selling booths will probably be set up in Fraser hall, the rotunda of Frank Strong hall, and the Union building, and copies can be purchased from members of Quill club.
Miessner Plans Nation-Wide Musical Rally
A letter to the Governor of every state in the Union asking that May 3 be proclaimed as National School Music Rally day, urging that every
school in America present a patriotic musical program on that day as a nation-wide demonstration n of national unity, has been mailed by W. Otto Miessner, chairman of the department of
music education and past president of the Music Educators' National Council.
The letter, in accord with recent suggestion of President Roosevelt who has voiced the need for more frequent national expression through music, contained a copy of the resolution presented by Miessner at the national music educators' conference
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Only the stacatto tapping of typewriters and the soft drone of conversation disturbed the almost pastoral silence of the Daily Kansan newsroom this morning. But in the abnormal quiet there was something ominous, something foreboding. A big story was about to break, and break soon.
By WILLIAM JACKSON FEENEY
HE FOUND TYPE LICE Second Coming of Zilch 'Shack' Tense
LATE BULLETIN: Relayed to the Kansan news room by our Berne, Switzerland, news agency, April 7 (delayed by censors.)—The Shangri-La (Tibet) Post-Democrat, official mouthpiece of the Grand Lama of Tibet, ran an extra edition today, with column rules reversed, on learning that Zilch was leaving for Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A. The wized, grey-haired, old journalist is held in such high esteem by the emotional Tibetians that even a short absence causes them to go into mourning. Zilch was feted last night at a banquet given by the Allied Rotary Clubs of Tibet, at which he gave a touching departure address, saying "I'm coming back when the bloom is on the sage."
Then a Western Union messenger boy walked through the room, handed a yellow envelope to the managing editor, and left. The editor tore the envelope open, read the message. His eyes dilated, his grimy fists clenched, beads of sweat broke out on his forehead. "*@& ) $1b?" ®
he muttered under his breath.
No. E—He found type lice—
Springing to his feet, the managing editor gave seven raps on the brass gong that hangs above his desk.
"Seven raps: My Gawd, a big story" the reporters chanted in unison.
The m.e. waved for silence, climbed on top of the copy desk, and spoke in a throaty whisper—
"Zilch is Coming"
Zilch. The magic word spread like wildfire through the newsroom. Zilch, the Robin Hood of Journalism,
the Great Enigma, coming here, April 21! Zilch, coming by dog sled, by airplane, by submarine, by rocket ship, who knows, out of his Tibetian monkey, to speak to students in the department of journalism. Zilch, author of the immortal "Angel of Death" story, producer of that best-seller "Inside Cherry Street," valiant defender of the rights of the little people.
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