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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1942
Versatile Lunceford Leads Own Ex-Pupils
Jimmie Lunceford, musical conductor of the "Harlem Express," will feel right at home in the Memorial Union ballroom, Feb. 27, when he leads his all-Negro orchestra in sweet and swing music for the Junior Prom.
Lunceford is accustomed to intellectual surroundings, having been graduated with honors from Fisk University in 1925 and having taught as professor of English at Manassa High School. Jimmie holds four- $ ^{a}$
Call Him "Piggie"
lege degrees and is a 4-letter man in athletics.
Born James Melvin Lunceford in Fulton, Miss., on June 6, 1902, Jimmy insists upon his nickname "Piggie" being spelled with the "ie" instead of "y." He attended Fisk University where he played sax, trombone, guitar, clarinet, and flute in the college orchestra, and directed the glee club.
After doing graduate work at the City College of New York, he taught in the Manassa High School in Memphis, Tenn. Here he led a jazz band composed of nine of his students, and upon their graduation in 1927, he gave up his professorship to work as head waiter in his alma mater until the boys got their degrees.
Band Retains Originals
Six of the original nine are still with the band, and the remaining members are all college graduates. The first professional engagement was at the Andrew Jackson Hotel in Nashville, Temt.; since then Harlem has needed police riot squads to handle the crowds his music attracts, and all-time records have been set over the country.
Lunceford's fraternity is Kappa Alpha Psi, his favorite sport is football, and his most thrilling experience was losing his way in a Colorado blizzard and almost freezing to death. Jimmie doesn't smoke, seldom drinks, and has no special aversions, prejudices, or eccentricities.
Likes Waring's Band
Joseph Conrad is Jimmie's pet author; he likes Fred Waring's and the Casa Loma orchestras. He speaks Spanish, preferred social sciences in high school and disliked mathematics.
Jimmie believes that jazz is becoming more tame, that American
composers seldom offer real works of merit, and that the public is swayed by "big name" attractions rather than by an appreciation of music itself.
In 1934 Lunceford's band succeeded Cab Calloway's at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem and has been heard twice weekly over N.B.C. ever since. Two years ago Lunceford's band toured Europe, rating the title, "best American orchestra," from European critics.
Lunceford is the first Negro orchestra leader to win his wings and become one of the few Negro pilots holding a license under the Civil Aeronautics Commission in the United States.
Coventry Sculptor To Lecture Here On Modern Trends
Alec Miller, noted sculptor and literary and art lecturer, formerly of Camden, England, will speak on "Tendencies in Modern Sculpture, from Rodin to Archipenko," in the auditorium of Spooner-Thayer museum at 8 o'clock Wednesday night.
Miller's stone and wood sculpturing has been on exhibition at the Cleveland and Rochester Museums of Art, the Arden Gallery in New York, in Boston, Philadelphia, and other large American cities, and also in the English Royal Academy and the Palace of Arts.
One of his most famous sculpturing projects, the ecclesiastical work on the Coventry Cathedral, was destroyed in the Nazi air raids on Coventry. Miller has lectured extensively in American and British universities. From here he will leave for a lecture at Manhattan, Feb. 19.
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Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, was guest speaker before the Kansas City "Patriots" and Pioneers Memorial Foundation" yesterday.
Dean Lawson made a hit with his audience at the outset of his talk when he confessed that he was not a historian, but just a "bugologist and an entomologist." He then added that he had been studying up on Lincoln for three nights in order to make the talk.
He spoke on "Lessons For Today From Abraham Lincoln," dealing with the faith and fidelity that Lincoln possessed and then gave some wise applications of these character traits in the world situation of today.
Dean Lawson also spoke to the Iola Rotary club last night.
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Kansas City, Mo., Feb 13 (UP)—Walt Disney said today he stood to lose $60,000 on Donald Duck's income tax technicolor venture for the Treasury department, even if Congress did decide to pay off the $80,000 bill he presented.
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The loss, explained Disney, would result from overtime work on the film plus the inevitable drop in revenue he would suffer while his own Silly Symphonies were shelved during the six weeks the income tax picture would be showing.
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Disney and his wife came here for a reunion at his primary school Alma Mater.
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cherry tree. Accused of trying to "débunk" Washington, Wood said he was treating a fable as a fable without reflection on the first president.
Seeks College Degree at 52 Boston-(U.P.)-After a 30-year wait, Earle B. Delano hopes to get a college degree. In 1912 he left Brown University to become a newspaper correspondent. Now 52 years old, he is enrolled as an undergraduate at Boston University. Delano hopes to teach dramatics and speech when he graduates.
Wood developed a stylized technique of landscape painting, showing "fat" Iowa hills, under brilliant green grass, dotted with white farm houses and globular trees.
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He joined the University of Iowa faculty in 1934 and twice directed summer art colonies in a deserted mansion at Stone City, Ia. Some of his students lived in covered wagons.
Woods' paintings have brought prices as high as $10,000 from collectors throughout the nation. Film star Edward G. Robinson bought the controversial "Daughters."
Other noted Wood pictures include "Woman With Plants," a painting of his mother; "Birthplace
Wood's brother, Frank, of Waterloo, Iowa, and a sister, Mrs. E. E. Graham, Los Angeles, Cal., survive.
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