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UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
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NUMBER 114
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY. APRIL
39th YEAR
'Aunt' Farce Opens Monday In Fraser
The stage is set, the costumes are pressed, and the players are ready to take their places to present the first performance of "Charley's Aunt" at 8:15 p.m. Monday in Fraser theater. The three-act farce will also be given Tuesday night.
The role of Kitty Verdun will be taken by Betty Rowton, college junior, and Amy Spettigue will be played by Gloria Goff, college freshman. Ray Helgesen, college sophomore, will take the part of Col. Sir Francis Chesney.
In the play of mistaken identity Ben Mantz, fine arts sophomore, will take the part of Lord Fancourt Babberly, the fake aunt. Bob Hutchinson, college freshman, will play Charles Wykeham; and Bill Kelly, college junior, will appear as Jack Chesney.
Appearing in the role of Donna cia D'Alvadorez, the real Charley's aunt, will be Edith Ann Fleming, college sophomore. Dean Ostrum, college sophomore, will play the role of Stephen Spettigue; and Spencer Bayles, freshman in medicine, will appear as Brassett, the Butler. Dee Ellen Naylor, college senior, will be seen in the comedy cia D'Alvadorez, the real Charley's as Ela Delahay.
Supporting Characters
Staging in the Nineties
Costumes and scenery for the play are designed in the style of the nineties. Three changes of scenery (continued on page 167).
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Hill Observes Good Friday Convocation Tomorrow
Good Friday will be observed on the Hill tomorrow by an Easter convocation in Hoch auditorium at 10 o'clock, featuring an address by Dr. Mark A. Dawber and music by the a cappella choir.
Dr. Dawber will speak on "Facing the Cross." He is executive secretary of the home mission council of the Federated Council of Churches, and has been missionary to the Indians in
Anthem: "Crucifixus", Lotti. The University A Capella Choir, Dean D. M. Swarthout, director.
Canada and professor of practical theory at Brown University.
Governing body of the group will be the officers combined with one representative from each house. Representatives are Joan Bastian, 1232 Louisiana; Frances Cilek, 1244 Ohio; Jamaica Kinnamon, 1245 Louisiana; Wilma Medlin, Campus House;
and Lila May Reetz, Kwajya.h
Holding his present position since 1928, Dr. Dawber's secretaryship to the Council includes work with the sharecroppers, Indian governmental schools, Christian colleges in the Orient, and the printing of Christian literature and study materials. He has also written several books dealing with the problems of the church in America.
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Dr. Dawber was born in Cheshire, England, and was educated at both Ruskin College at Oxford, and at the London College of Music. He holds a degree in organ.
Five Women's Houses Organize as 'Oreadettes'
The convocation program is as follows:
Choral - Prelude: "My Inmost Heart Doth Yearn," Brahms. Prof. Laurel Everette Anderson at the organ.
Crucifixion Narrative (from the gospels), Mr. Royal Humbert, narrator.
Address: "Facing the Cross," Dr. Mark A. Dawber.
Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women, and Miss Marie Miller, assistant to the adviser of women, were guests at the dinner.
Postlude: Improvisation, Anderson
Hymn: "Fairrest Lord Jesus."
Benediction
Five women's organized houses formed a combined organization this week under the name of the Oreadettes for the purpose of planning social functions for the group.
Houses included in the organization are 1232 Louisiana, 1244 Ohio, 1245 Louisiana, the Campus House at 1245 Oread, and the Kwahyaj at 1344 Kentucky.
Prof. W. W. Davis' Lecure tonight in Fraser theater at 7:30 on "Latin America in the World Alignment" will be the ninth in the World at War series. Professor Davis, chairman of the history department, will discuss the political and economic problems facing the Latin American countries because of world conditions.
Meeting at a picnic dinner in the Old English room in the Memorial Union building Monday night, the women in the five houses elected officers for the combined group. Officers are: Ruth Kelley, college junior, president; Margaret Boyle, college sophomore, vice-president; Kelma Smith, college freshman, secretary and treasurer; Irene McAdoo, unclassified, social chairman; Joan Bastian, college sophomore, cochairman; and Joy Howland, college sophomore, publicity chairman.
Davis Is Ninth Speaker In Series On World At War
Ken Jackson, Publisher
Because the advertising and publishing schedule of the University Daily Kansan was made last fall under the assumption that there would be an Easter vacation, there will be no paper tomorrow and Sunday. Publication will be resumed next Tuesday as usual.
The organized group has a membership of approximately 50 women. Other organized houses may join the Oreadettes; however, the membership of the group will be limited to 100 women. The group is planning to hold an open house April 17 as its next social activity.
$2000 Blast Jars Engine Laboratory
An explosion resulting in damages of approximately $2,000, according to a statement made today by J. J. Jakosky, dean of the School of Engineering, occurred at noon yesterday in a small underground oil storage shed about 45 feet west of the University mechanical engineering laboratory. The blast was believed to have been caused by gas escaping from a broken main.
Dean Jakosky said that a power shovel excavating near a heat tunnel which lies between the storage shed and the Mechanical Laboratories, had broken a two-inch high pressure gas line running northward.
gas line running northward from the heat tunnel.
An explosion resulting in damages Jakosky said, had evidently seeped along the pipe into the tunnel and thence into the laboratory building, where it ignited due to the fire under the high pressure boiler in the mechanical laboratory building.
Water colors of eight artists will be on display in Thayer museum for the next two weeks. The eight are Margaret Huntington Boehner, Fessie Bone Charman, Montague Charman, Catharine E. Condon, William G. Evans, Marjorie S. Garfield Ralph R. Laidlaw, and Ruth H. Lee, all members of the College of Fine Arts of Syracuse University.
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Water Art On Exhibit At Thayer
The force of the explosion liftee and wrecked a 15-ton cement slab which covered the shed. The steel door was blown off its hinges and hurled against a wooden box car over 30 feet away with such force that it dented and marred the side of the car.
In the north gallery of the museum is another show of oils and water colors by John Salter.
the majority of the pictures are landscapes, a few flower studies. "The Three Little Pigs," a fantasy by Margaret Boehner, is one of particular interest.
Although classes were in session, and windows were shattered on the west side of the building, no one was injured. Some windows on the north side and one window in Marvin hall were also broken by the blast.
Carmen Will Bring Hundred Stars to Hoch
"Carmen" will be brought to Hoch auditorium Wednesday night by the San Carlo traveling company of over 100 people, including operatic stars, in the principal roles, members of the chorus, the ballet, and symphony orchestra.
The San Carlo group comes to the campus from Salt Lake City, Pueblo, and leading cities in the west. The only other stop in Kansas will be made in Wichita.
To accommodate the orchestra, which will sit on the main floor of the auditorium, a few rows of seats will be moved from the front, reducing the number of reserved seats available for sale in this section.
Tour Starts in Washington
The current transcontinental tour of the San Carlo Opera company was begun in the nation's capital on February 1, with a week of repertoire. The patrons and patronesses of this the 31st annual tour, include Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mr. and Mrs. Paul McNutt, the ambassadors of Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Chile, and the ministers of Costa Rica and Paraguay.
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Coe Glade, the "Carmen" of the Chicago Opera for several seasons, will play the same role, that of the seductive cigarette girl, in the San Carlo Opera Company's performance of Bizet's greatest opera. Miss Glade has a Spanish type of beauty, which, coupled with her mezzo-so-prano voice, make her what critics call "an ideal Carmen."
Other well-known singers in the opera are Sydney Rayner of the Metropolitan Opera in the role $a^c$
Pachacamac MakesMcKale MSC Prexy
Vernon McKale, engineering junior, was selected last night to hold the office of president of the Men's Student Council for next year, thus becoming the first MSC president to serve under the emergency-setup recently established by the Council.
McKale was selected at a meeting of the Society of Pachacamac last night under the provisions of the act which suspends Hill elections for a period of two years. P.S.G.L. will have the right to select the president of the Council next year, and in this same way all Council positions and men's class offices will be filled alternately by the two political parties, each party filling the same number of offices each year. Porter I'S vice-President
In a meeting Sunday night, P.S.- G.L. selected its representatives and class officers. The MSC slate includes the following men:
District II (School of Engineering); Murray McCune, engineering sophomore (P.S.G.L). Vernon McKale, engineering junior (P a c h). Ted Moser, engineering junior (Pc); and Carl Unruh, engineering junior (P.S.G.L).
Pachacamac also elected Glenn Porter, college sophomore, vicepresident of the Council. P.S.G.L. will elect men to the positions of secretary and treasurer before Monday.
Council representatives, District I (Graduate School, School of Law, School of Medicine); Glenn Elliott, freshman in medicine (Pach); Rowland Raup, graduate student (P.S.-G.L.); and Scoot Somers, sophomore in medicine (Pach).
Engine Candidates
District III (Schools of Business, Fine Arts, Pharmacy, and Education): Maurice Baringer, business senior (P.S.G.L.); Beeler Gauss, pharmacy senior (Pach); Charles Rayl, business junior (P.S.G.L.); and Charles Russell, business junior, Pach).
District IV (the College): Bob Coleman, college sophomore (P.S.-G.L.); Harlan Cope, college soph-
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Dandelion Day
Awaits Malott
Dave Watermuldur, president of the Men's Student Council, is fairly certain there will be a 1942 Dandelion Day.
Said Watermulder: "Of course we can't do anything until the Chancellor returns from Boston the first of the week, but Dean Werner and Raymond Nichols are in favor of it, and a joint committee of the two student 'ouncils will meet the first of next week to make plans."