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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1942
39th YEAR
NUMBER 115
Install Councils Hill To See 'Carmen'
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The following women will continue in their offices for next year; Barbara Reber, W.S.G.A. treasurer; Dorothy Stump, Y.W.C.A. representative; and Nadine Hunt, book exchange manager.
Rader Is WSGAHead
Marjorie Rader was installed as president of the Women's Self-Governing Association last night following a dinner at 6 o'clock at Evans Hearth. Doris Twente, retiring president of the organization, conducted the service.
Miss Meguiar also announced the appointment of a general committee made up of students, faculty members, and the wives of faculty members, to supervise the affair. The committee is as follows: Dave Prager, senior law; Roy Edwards, business senior; Fred Robertson, college senior; Dave Watermulder, college senior; Dean Sims, college sophomore; Marjorie Rader, education junior; Barbara Koch, college junior; Duane Oglesby, college junior; Ruth Kelley, college junior; Joy Howland, college sophomore; Georgia Ferrel, college junior; Nation Meyer, college junior; Reola Du-
Other new officers installed were: Reola Durand, vice-president; Mary Jo Cox, secretary; Jill Peck, point system manager; Marybelle Long, fine arts representative; Georgia Ferrel, college representative; Virginia Tieman, senior class vicepresident; Evelyn Nielsen, senior class secretary; Betty Gsell, junior class vice-president; Marion Hepworth, junior class secretary; Hope Crittenden, sophomore class vicepresident; and Mary Lou Nelson, sophomore class secretary, Jane Lorimer, Corbin hall representative; and Barbara Koch, Pan-Hellenic Council representative.
Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, Miss Beulah Morrison, and Miss Elsie NeuenSchwander, advisers of the Council, were guests at the dinner.
Mother's Day On Mt. Oread Set for May 2,3
The University program will begin at noon on Saturday, May 2, and will conclude with a buffet-dinner and entertainment that evening. Sunday, May 3, will be set aside for programs by the various organized houses for the parents and students.
Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women, announced today that the annual University Mother's Day will be held here on May 2 and 3, one week in advance of the national holiday honoring the mothers of the nation.
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McKale Tops New MSC
For the 1943-44 term of the MSC, P.S.G.L. will appoint the president and vice-president, and Pachacamac the secretary and treasurer.
On the new Council, both political parties, the Progressive Student Government League and the Society of Pachacamac, are equally represented, with ten seats each. The councilmen were appointed by the two parties under the recently-enacted emergency measure which called for the suspension of Hill elections for a two-year period. Each party will appoint one freshman representative next fall.
Vernon McKale, engineering junior, stepped into the presidency of the Men's Student Council, replacing Dave Watermulder, as a new MSC was installed last night in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. Bill Forter, college sophomore, is the new vice-president.
The following Pachacamac representatives were installed last night: Glenn Elliott, freshman in medicine; Scoot Somers, college senior; Vernon McKale, engineering junior; Ted Moser, engineering junior; Bee-
Pachacamac was given the right this year to select the president and vice-president, and P.S.G.L., the secretary and treasurer. Council secretary is Bob Coleman, college sophomore, and the treasurer is Garland Landrith, college sophomore.
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Elizabeth Crafton, college sophomore, as Miriam Aarons; Barbara Wikoff, college freshman, as Maggie; Deane Butler, college senior, as Mrs. morehead; Emma Louis Neidermeyer, college junior, as Little Mary; Mary Madge Kirby, college senior, as Miss Watts; Mary Morrison, college sophomore, as Miss Trinnerback.
'Women' Slated For April 27,28
The cast includes: Ada Catherine Croll, fine arts senior, Jane; Lois Lehman, education senior, as Sylvia Fowler; Frances Louise Gray, college senior as Nancy Blake; Alice McDonnell, college sophomore, as Peggy Day; Mary Cheney, college junior, as Edith Potter; Jane Beai, college junior, as Mary Haines; Comora MacGregor, college junior, as Olga; Martha Alice Horner, college senior, as Crystal Allen.
Jeanne Moyer, college sophomore, as Sadie; Georgia Ann Utterback, college senior, as Cigarette; Jeandee Allen, college freshman, and Barbara Batchelor, college junior, as saleswomen; Betty Stevens, college junior, as the hairdresser; and Ferne Stone, college senior, as the fitter.
"The Women," a comedy in three acts, will be presented in Green hall Little Theater for two nights, April 27 and 28. AllenCrafton, professor of speech and drama, announced today. The play, a well-known satire on women, will contain an all-women cast.
"Enjoyable" Says Critic Charley's Aunt
By JOY MILLER
Good lines and irresistible situations—both due to Brandon Thomas, playwright-made last night's performance of "Charley's Aunt" by an all-student cast, hilarious, guffaw-provoking entertainment.
The student actors managed without aid of faculty dramatic stars to maintain the somewhat uncertain standard the dramatics club has set up for histronic entertainment. If even unconsciously compared with the recent screen adaptation, the University production suffered. But since MGM's picture, with its expensive sets and experienced actors, should not be used
Ben Mantz, no Jack Benny, looked fetching the greater part of the evening in a somber black dress of 1890 mode and a hat adorned with dashing purple feathers. Mantz read the majority of his lines like a conscientious sixth-grader in Friday assembly, but now and then he was almost good when portraying the coquettish aunt.
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surpassed his line-reading, but one of his statements in the first act is particularly applicable: "Ive never acted before in my life."
But criticism be as it may, Mantz was popular with the audience. The playwright has given his all in the way of witty lines and farcial situations to the character of Lord Babberley, a decided help to Mantz, who could have done a much worse job and still have been considered fairly adequate.
In feminine finery, Mantz's acting
as a criterion for judging an admittedly amateur production, last night's presentation was enjoyable.
The Feminine "Touch"
Hill Opera ★★★
'Carmen' Story
Elaborate
COE GLADE
For Hill music lovers who are about to see their first opera, and aren't sure what that opera, "Carmen," is all about, the Kansan is taking up the burden of enlightenment
"Carmen" is a four-act opera by Georges Bizet, written and sung in French, about a Gypsy cigarette girl in Spain. First produced at the Opera-Comique in France in 1875, the opera was fairly successful from the first. Three months later, Bizet died from
"Carmen"
overwork, not from disappointment at the failure of "Carmen" as the popular legend states.
The Prelude of the opera begins with the lively strain which appears in the last act, brings out the melodies of a few arias, and after the motive of the fascination and fatality of Carmen, a crashing chord cuts it short.
The curtain rises on a square in Seville, filled with soldiers and promenaders. Micaela, country girl whom Don Jose loves, appears, asks the dragons about Jose, and waits for him. Zuniga, Jose, and the dragoons march up just as the cigarette factory girls pour out for lunch. As the other men pour out their declarations of love for Carmen, the most seductive of the girls, Don Jose seeks out Micaela who has brought a message from home. During this scene Carmen sings one of her better known arias, the Habanaer or "Love is Like a Wild Bird Flying." The cigarette girls return to work, Micaela leaves, Don Jose reads the letter. Soon there occurs a fight in the factory between Carmen and another worker, Carmen wounded the girl. She is taken to prison and put under the guard of Don Jose whom she proceeds to capitate to the point of freeing her. For his benefit she sings the famous juguidilla, "Close by the ramparts of St.ille."
The second act opens in the tavern
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San Carlo Cast Presents Noted Opera Tomorrow
In what promises to be one of the most outstanding attractions to appear on the regular Concert Course series the San Carlo Opera company will present the opera, "Carmen," tomorrow night in Hoch auditorium.
Because of the length of the opera, which will last a full two and a half hours, every effort will be made to start the opera promptly at 8:20, Donald M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said today.
Thousands of University students, admitted by activity ticket, are expected to attend the opera as well as townspeople and music lovers from all over Kansas. A steady sale of seats at the Fine Arts office and downtown ticket offices promises a packed auditorium.
Setting Stage a Huge Job
The stage crew of the opera company will spend most of tomorrow hanging the scenery on the mones over the Hoch stage. Dressing rooms have been built under the stage and in the wings for principals, dancers, chorus, and orchestra.
"Don Jose"
The opera company of 100 is traveling eastward on the return trip of a transcontinental tour that began in Washington, D.C., and included appearances at Salt Lake City, Pueblo, and Wichita, preceding the performance at the University tomorrow night.
Managing director of the company is Fortune Gallo. Principals in the
SYDNEY RAYNER
cast include Coe Glade as Carmen,
Sydney Rayner as Don Jose, Mario
Valle as Escamillo, Leota Turner as
Micaela, and Harold Kravitt as Zuniga.
Miss Glaze has received acclaim from critics all over the United
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