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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1942
News From Page One
M. S.C. TO TAKE--committee was outlined by Wright to the Council last night. Wright listed the 17 projects according to priorities set by the committee.
Activities receiving a priority of one were as follows:
1. Promotion of voluntary contributions to the national bank bank in cooperation with Watkins Memorial hospital.
2. Promotion of the Victory Book drive and the sending of magazines weekly to army camps.
3. Sale of defense bonds and stamps on the campus. Wright suggested that a War Defense Savings society be formed wherein members pledge themselves to buy a certain number of defense stamps each week.
4. Use of service flags by organized houses where members have joined the armed forces of the United States.
Stress Paper Saving
5. Use of a division of Watson library for war material and literature.
6. Saving campaigns of vital materials, such as paper (by organized houses), tin, tinfoil, electricity, and heat.
7. Promotion of the use of the Registrar's published information on the armed services.
8. An expanded summer school program. This does not mean Wright said, a three-semester year. It would involve two summer sessions, one of eight weeks and one of four weeks with a full program of campus activities. Such an arrangement would allow a student to receive a degree in two-and-a-half years.
Sending of letters and subscriptions of the University Daily Kansas to University graduates in the armed forces.
Plan Campus Discussions
War defense activities with the committee priority of two were:
1. Promotion of campus discussions on the ideas and ideals of democracy.
2. An expanded physical education program to include afternoon calisthenic classes, hiking clubs, and an extension of the intramural program.
3. A series of newspaper articles and talks on the general theme,
"Yes, the war does affect you at K. U."
4. Individual contributions of a package of cigarettes, an old book.
or of a defense stamp at chapter meetings of organized houses, to be given to the U.S.O. for use in the nation's army camps.
5. "Penny boxes" on the campus marked with the names of individual army camps. Contributions placed here would be sent to the U.S.O. at the various camps.
Name Grade Three Projects
Other projects, with a priority of three, were:
1. Promotion of salvage boxes on the campus for the conservation of vital materials.
2. Non-credit first aid courses to be taught by the staff of Watkins Memorial hospital in conjunction with the American Red Cross.
3. Registration of students for industrial and agricultural employment during the summer.
The program, as outlined by Wright and the committee, is one of the most extensive and comprehensive yet adopted by American universities. Wright stated last night, "Our purpose is to create a feeling of responsibility among the students with regard to the war, to direct student activities into channels beneficial to themselves, and to do what we can to aid the government in pursuance of a successful war effort."
The committee has set up their headquarters in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. Their office hours are from 10 a.m. to 12 o'clock noon on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
CHEKHOV EMPLOYS---
Art theater. He first toured America in 1935, and in 1938 established his studio theater in Connecticut.
Modern Design
Unlike the early touring companies, which traveled by train, the Chekhov company is making its tour in station wagons and automobiles for the company and trucks for the scenery, costumes, and properties.
Chekhov has tried a new treatment of the old technical problem of intermissions between scenes by continuous action throughout the play, gaining pace and providing novelty. Although there are 11 scenes, the curtain is lowered only once during the entire show. Transitions between scenes are made a part of the dramatic movement of the play without a break or a slow-up in action. There are no shifts from scene to scene, but rather, transitions from mood to mood.
Quick Change Artists
In place of the customary canvas and wood "flats" used to indicate interiors, reversible satin curtains of many colors fastened like banners to long poles have been constructed and are set in place by the actors and suddenly a street scene becomes a chamber, the banners serving as the walls of a room or palace. Wherever possible, all sets are reversible and almost by a twist of the hand a jail becomes a cellar.
The ticket office in Green hall will not be open for the production of "Twelfth Night." No seats will be reserved for the performance. Activity ticket holders and season ticket holders will be admitted upon presentation of their tickets at the door. Single admission tickets will go on sale at the ticket office in Hoch auditorium at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
COLLEGE GRADES--current report with the survey of 1929 shows that incomplete are down 50 per cent, and that the number of failures reported has also been cut in half. On the other end of the scale, the number of A's and B's has increased from 44.3 per cent in 1929 to the present all-time high of 50.2 per cent.
Introduction of many scholarships for Hill students has been in a large measure responsible for the improved grade averages, Dean Lawson believes. For example, the University now has more than 50 Summerfield students who must maintain a point 2.5 grade average to retain their grants. There are 80 girls at Watkins and Miller who must maintain at least a B average. Twenty-five girls benefit by the Donnelly scholarships, and must maintain a high grade scale.
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WALTER PIDGEON
JOAN BENNETT
Comparison HIH
Fiction's Famous Rascal in a New Mystery Thriller
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Wednesday $200 Free
FREE TONITE at 9
Priscilla Lane - Betty Field
Richard Whorf - Jack Carson
"Blues in the Night"
Jimmie Lunceford's and
Will Osborne's Bands
Here Is the Picture That We Have Had More Requests for Thon Any Other Picture in the Past 3 Years!
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Lupe Rocks the Navy With Her Hula . . . and Her "Oo, La, La!" Lupe Velcz - Leo Carrillo
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NOTHING COULD BE FUNNIER
"The Man Who Came to Dinner"
ENDS WEDNESDAY
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The Cartoon You've Been Reading About
DONALD DUCK
And His Income Tax
"The New Spirit"
THURSDAY
When will the United Nations launch their counter-attack in the Pacific? See---
March of Time
"Far East Command"
A Gay Story of the Old South
JOAN BLONDELL
JOHN WAYNE
"LADY FOR A NIGHT"
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