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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1942
Here on the Hill ---be about all there is in the way of entertainment for awhile.
Hill Students Hibernate Until Final Week ls Over
Hibernation is the word of the day on the Hill. Everyone is going to hibernate until finals are over. The owners of Hill hangouts think they may as well hibernate too. Professors are planning to hibernate in order to grade term papers and finals. Consequently major social events are going to be lacking for the next week and a half. Bull sessions, coke dates, and bridge games will
ALPHA OMICRON PI . . .
weekend guest is Marcia Fry of Iola.
SIGMA PHI EPSILON . . . .
Beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21, and continuing through final week and enrollment, closing hours at women's houses will be at 12:30 each night, by order of Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser to women.
... dinner guests tomorrow night will be Karl Krueger, director of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, and four other members of the orchestra.
SIGMA KAPPA . . .
SIGMA KAPPA . . . . .
announces the engagement of Betty Meyer to Ed Linquist. Linquist is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Red Cross Organizes Sewing Room
University of Kansas women will have an opportunity to sew for the Red Cross when the organization opens its sewing room in room 116 Fraser hall the first day of the second semester, Feb. 3.
This is an entirely voluntary project organized because of student demand. The work of the sewing room will consist of both machine stitching and hand sewing. Red Cross sewing rooms are maintained for foreign and domestic, civilian and military needs.
The room will be open part of every day except Monday. Hours the room will be open on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday are 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon. On Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday the room will remain open from 2 to 5 p.m.
This Red Cross group was organized under a committee of faculty women, townswomen, and students under the chairmanship of Mrs. Paul B. Lawson, wife of the dean of the college.
Students desiring further information concerning the work of the sewing room should call Mrs. Lawson.
Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, will hold initiation services for Richard Boyce and Raymond W. Derr at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Old English room of the Memorial Union building.
Clough to Speak At Sigma Delta Chi Initiation Dinner
Following the initiation, they will hold a dinner at which Frank Clough, managing editor of the Emporia Gazette and author of "William Allen White of Emporia," will speak.
Krueger Studied Music Here On Fellowship
The Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra's concert Monday evening should be of particular interest to Kansans, because they can call Karl Krueger their own. Born in Atchison, he has always regarded Kansas as his home and K.U. as his school.
At the age of thirteen, Krueger was a church organist in his home town. He was soon given a fellowship at the University, where he was a pupil of the late Charles Sanford Skilton. To this day he attributes much of his success to Dr. Skilton's teachings. Before he was 20 years old, he entered a contest in which over
five-hundred persons participated and won a position as organist in one of New York City's largest churches.
Krueger was not only an organist, but a virtuoso on the cello. He toured Europe and South America as a cellist. However, Krueger was not content to be only an instrumentalist. He wanted to be a conductor. He loved music and believed that only as a conductor could he achieve the fullest success that music had to offer. His parents had different ideas, and insisted that he study law. So to please them, he studied law at the University of Heidelberg and of Vienna. He received his degree, then promptly returned to music. He had the great fortune to study with Arthur Nikisch, then Europe's foremost conductor. Of all his pupils, Nikisch predicted success only for Krueger.
Kruger next conducted orchestras throughout Europe, but always
had a desire to return to the United States. He first went to Seattle, where he stayed for six years to build a fine symphony orchestra. However, it was the middle-west that he loved, so he came to Kansas City in 1933, a depression year, to start a symphony orchestra in a city that had known no such musical organization. It's success has been phenomenal. In spite of acute financial shortages, the orchestra has won a place among the leading orchestras of the land.
Krueger has always been closely connected with school and university work, always fond of students. Through his friendship with students in the U. of Kansas, he was initiated into Sigma Phi Epsilon last June as an honorary member. After going through the formal initiation services he said, "Boys it makes me feel like a schoolboy again."
Bromfield's Book
"Wild Is The River"
Old But Still New
By CLARENCE BODONI
Some few of you may remember a non-stop bit of prose about the charming sex mores and general deprivacy of wartime and post-war Atlanta, the work of one Margaret Mitchell, entitled "Gone With The Wind." If you don't remember, just read the newest opus of Louis Bromfield, "Wild Is The River," published by Harpers.
The setting is different. The characters have different names. But with a moderate amount of cerebral gymnastics one can see in levin' Scarlett and swainish
The setting is different. The But with a moderate amount of ever-lovin' Scarlett and swinish Rhett and many other characters from the "Wind" trooping through the delta mud of New Orleans and vicinity. Three-Woman Plot
The story concerns itself with doings in Yankee-occupied New Orleans during the Civil War. Tom Bedloe, a devil-may-care New Englander, has a fat job as a port official. He spends his leisure time in the company of two scarlet women, one the proprietor of a pleasure palace, the other a French-
This Tom is engaged to a timid little creature back in New England, who has a brother down in the Crescent City on army duty. Aforementioned t.i.c. decides to come down to visit the boys. Complications set in.
born countess with notions of her own.
Chief doings are the uprising of a band of negro slaves, (one of the few exciting or well-written parts of Mr. Bromfield's novel); the capture of Bedloe by a band of Southern irregulars; and the cholera plague on the boat in which the
PERFECTION . . .
Second, the characters were described with a cameo-like clearness that allows the reader to anticipate their conduct at least 50 pages in advance. Some of Bromfield's descriptive passages create a mental Currier and Ives portrait of the gaudy, brawling New Orleans and the river country nearby. He has a habit of beating certain words and phrases into insensibility.
is something we all seek to attain. For 20 years Williams Perfection Grade meats have been the choice of HOTELS, CLUBS, REST-AURANTS and
This book is selling fast in Chicago and Kansas City, among other places. Local dealers report a big demand, so I guess that I represent a tiny and bestial minority by not liking the book. First place, the interweaving plot dovetails with a too - perfect coincidence usually found in the better 10 cent action puls.
Spring isn't so far away now, and fashion news is bright colored prints such as the one shown. The louder and spashier the prints are, the more stylish they will be. The timid dressers will have trouble finding drab colors this season.
t.i.c. and a spinisterish aunt are sailing to New Orleans. Most of the characters are killed or rained in some manner before the story ends.
Action Makes Book Popular
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You may, and probably will like "Wild Is the River" in spite of this diatribe. It crams more action into its 300-some pages than do most of the best sellers, and has a rather attractive jacket. So go ahead and read it, and disregard me.
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