UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE KANSAS SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1941.
NUMBER 144.
38TH YEAR.
SONG, NO DANCE Fine Arts Day Tuesday Music Week
Music Week of the University will begin today with special music in the churches of Lawrence. During the week, six nationally and internationally known musicians will be featured.
At the top of the list will be Lawrence Tibbett, baritone from
the Metropolitan Opera company. The famous singer will sing at 8:20 tomorrow evening in Hoch auditorium.
On Tuesday, at the Fine Arts banquet in the Union, Earl E. Harper, director of the School of Fine Arts, will speak.
Soprano Sings Tuesday
Also on Tuesday the Young American Artist program will be given in Hoch auditorium featuring Virginia Haskirs, coloratura soprano, and Thaddeus Kozuch, Polish-American pianist.
Wednesday evening, the University A Cappella Choir will collaborate with the University orchestra to present the Brahms "Requiem" as a School of Fine Arts musical memorial to the late Charles Sanford Skilton, a former member of the Fine Arts faculty, and John MacDonald, bass baritone of the Chicago Civic Opera company. Dean D. M. Swarthout and Karl Kuersteiner will direct the concert.
Entrada Attracts Students
Fifteen University students have tried out for principal roles in the Coronado Entrada to be held June 5 and 6 and nearly 100 more students are needed to play the parts of Aztec Indians and other minor, non-speaking parts, Bob McKay, first year law student, said yesterday.
In addition to the University students, nearly 40 Lawrence people were present at the tryouts held Friday and Saturday nights at the armory.
Final selections of 54 speaking parts will be announced soon, and tryouts for narrators are scheduled for the middle of this week.
Rehearsals of various groups recently selected are now being held and the pageant is beginning to take shape. John W. Judd, director of the Enwada, announced yesterday.
Malott Dedicates Denison High School
Chancellor Deane W. Malott made the dedicatory address for the new Denison high school at Denison last night.
Board To Hear Henry J. Allen
Henry J. Allen, former Governor of Kansas now prominent in aid-to-Britain work, will speak at the annual Kansan Board banquet in the
Colonial Tea Room Friday night. Prof. L. N. Flint, chairman of the department of journalism announced yesterday.
Word has been received from Allen that he will accept the Board's invitation to address the annual dinner meeting.
Henry J. Allen
Yesterday Allen accepted the national chairmanship of an American committee seeking aid for distressed children in Britain. This committee will operate in connection with the British "Save the Children federation," Allen said, and will ask Americans to aid 25,000 British and war refugee children and to help establish 100 nursery shelters.
Allen is also a former United States Senator from Kansas.
The Kansan Board is the governing body of the University Daily Kansan.
Starting date for the new CAA cross-country course is still uncertain, Bill Ashcraft, flying instructor at the municipal airport, said yesterday.
Postpone New CAA Course
Officials had previously expressed the opinion that the course would be started about the first of May, but Ashcraft said that it might not get underway before June 20.
CAA fliers who have completed the student instructor course are eligible for the advanced training. Twelve students are expected to enroll, Ashcraft said.
Open Dyche 5 Days Early For Students
After barring its doors to visitors for more than eight years, Dyche Museum of Natural History will open May 19 for five days to give students a chance to see the new exhibits before summer vacation begins, Prof. H. H. Lane, curator, said yesterday.
The official opening will be June 6. The museum has one of the outstanding collections of natural history specimens to be found in the midwest. It has been closed since November, 1932, when the building was declared unsafe.
Dyche is filled with impressive exhibits. Its panorama of mounted North American animals dominates the first floor. The animals are placed in scenes of their natural habitat before a 550 foot background which carries out the atmosphere of each scene. The panorama is the largest single unit group of mounted animals on display in the world, Lane said.
The most novel exhibit is probably that of Comanche, the only horse to survive Custer's last stand. Dioras painted by Bernard "Poco" Frazier, instructor in architecture and design, will illustrate periods of geological time with their respective fauna.
Formal opening of Dyche museum will take place June 6. Dr. Alexander Whetmore, director of museums at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington will speak at the opening ceremony.
Tibbett Names Concert Program
"From a wandering minstrel in the streets of Los Angeles to a position at the top of his profession," is the description one newspaper wrote of Lawrence Tibbett recently, adding, "He is an artist who has risen from the ranks, through rare talent and musical genius."
From here Moore will go to Denver, where he will be the director of community services at the Grace church and Community Center. In this capacity he will be in charge of a mother's clinic, day nursery, recreation program, camp, and labor college.
John J. O. Moore, secretary of the Y.M.C.A., submitted his resignation to the advisory board yesterday at a noon meeting. Moore has been general secretary here at the University since 1938. His resignation will become effective when a successor to the position is found.
Leaves with Regrets
"Although I am anticipating my new work with keen pleasure, I take this step with real regrets at having to leave the University of Kansas," he said.
Moore Resigns As Y.M.C.A. Secretary
In 1930 Moore was graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in sociology. He received his A.M. from Denver university in 1937. For five years after graduation from Missouri he was con- (continued on page eight)
Even If It Is a Nice Day Today Finals Start in Two Weeks
Tibbett, who will sing in Hoch auditorium tomorrow night.
So that you won't fail on the threshold of a great undertaking, we're warnin' yo. Just in case you don't realize that you can't count your chickens before they start laying eggs we're going to prove to you that a bird in the hand is worth a pound of cure.
I don't be a bit surrounded if you didn't come back to
We wouldn't be a bit surroul the Hill at the first of this semester with your thumbs up and your faces creased with wim, wigor, and vitality. Along with the rest of us. Yessir, that first semester taught us a lesson, and we reaped a bountiful harvest of bare-footed "E's." But there will be better days ahead.
Now we wonder just what was the cause of the present situation. It might have that art class with the good looking Blonde. Might have been those free picture shows that the Forum Board dug out of the archives. Might have been that little Brunte at Evans Hearth, or the Handsome Lug you met at the Hillside. You remember the cute Little Number-that was at Brick's Beer-Barrel? And that little Deal from Stephen's that came to the house party! Whatever it was, we
slipped in the interim. Meaning, we gone and done it again!
Our old man advised us against it, just as yours did. We knew the way he winked that he was serious because he was on the Hill, too, back when——. But no matter how many ribbons we tie on Miss Laird's cat or how many nice things we say to Dean Lawson, we will seem to be in a hole that we dug ourselves. We can't howl now because we're just barking up our own tree.
Now to get down to something more solid. Enough nerve has oozed in to make it.possible for the following announcement:
Finals will start in two weeks and two days. Keep your chins up, thumbs up, and don't let that under-lip hang. And don't forget that for the present and the future, "A stitch in time saves embarrassment."
was 25 when he left the West for New York on borrowed money to study singing. In six months he had received a Metropolitan contract although it was for small roles only. Shortly afterwards he sang the part of Ford in "Fal-staff," and the rendition landed him in front page headlines of the music world.
Tschaikowsky Songs Included
Songs composed by Tschalkowsky will be included on the concert program tomorrow night — "None But the Lonely Heart" and "Pilgrim's Song." Other numbers on the program will include "To Be Near Thee" (Salvatore Rosa), "Gia Ili Sole Dal Gange" (Scarlatti), "Silent Worship" from "Ptolemy" (Handel-Somervell), and "Defend Her, Heaven, from Theodora" (Handel-Lebell).
"Du Bist So Jung" and "Ewig," Erich Wolff compositions, will be compositions, will be sung by the baritone in the second part of his program. "Allerseen" by Strauss and "Verrath" by Brahms, also will be heard by music lovers in Hoch tomorrow night.
Folk Songs Vary Program
Three folk songs to be heard will be "Deep River" (Harry Burleigh), "Betsy's Boy" (Jacques Wolfe), and the Negro folk song, "Hangman, Slack on De Line" (adapted by Harvey Enders).
An excerpt from the Verdi composition "The Masked Ball" will be "Eri Tu."
Tibbett will be accompanied by Stewart Wille, who will play three numbers during the evening. The pieces are "Bist Du Bei Mir" (Bach-Warren), "Giga" (Antoinine Kammell), and "Capriccio in F Sharp Minor" (Bortkiewicz).
The concert will begin at 8:20 p.m. Student activity tickets will admit.
Eat In Grove
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Box Auction
Marvin grove, a full moon, and soft breezes.
That was the scene and setting for the Independent Student Association box supper last night in Marvin grove. And the entertainment fully matched the setting.
At 6:30 p.m. L.S.A. members congregated in the grove. Girls carrying box suppers, men jingling money in their pockets. With Fred Robertson, president of L.S.A., acting as auctioneer, the box suppers were auctioned off to the eager men.
Following the supper a dance was held in Robinson gymnasium, where the dancers practiced "Put your little foot."