Here on the Hill----
an account of Mt. Oread Society
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wed., Jan. 29, 1941
Social Wheel Still; Potters Lake Popular
By BETH WHITE
Proprietors of Hill "jelly" joints are looking forward to the close of this thing called final week. Probably because business and studying do not mix.
With only one more day to go in the final lap, students are anticipating visiting with the home folk awhile, going to the city, or just relaxing while waiting for a new semester to bring them relief from finals. The spring era gets under way with enrollment Monday morning.
Then the social wheel, which has been stopped for the past week, will take another whirl as the new semester chases old man gloom off the campus and ushers in a new calendar of gay events.
PROFESSOR GAGLIARDO . . .
Despite the pressure of studying, winter sports have been popular the past few days. Potters Lake was crowded with skaters, and the slopes of Mt. Oread claimed the attention of many on skiis.
PI BETA PHI . . .
... alumnae association will have a luncheon at noon Saturday at the home of Miss Madge Bullene.
PROFESSOR GAGLIER
and three children, David,
Bettina, and John, who have been
ill for a week with influenza,
returned to their school work yester-
day.
Mary Kay Brown, recent winner of the Kansan-M.S.C.-Life magazine Valentine contest, pictured on the left, will not have her picture in Life magazine, the Kansan was informed today.
FACULTY WOMEN'S CLUB . . .
. . . held its annual formal dinner for members and a few guests on Saturday evening at the club house. The guests were Mrs. Frank Strong, Mrs. Harriet MacDonald, Mrs. P. F. Walker, Miss Maude Smelzer, and Miss Carrie Watson. Table appointments were white chrysanthemums and calendula with ivory tapers in crystal holders.
BUFFET SUPPER . . .
... Sunday evening in the Kansas room, honored A. A. Berle, Jr., assistant secretary of state. The dinner, given by the University club, was followed by an informal talk and question-and-answer discussion by Mr. Berle.
Dean and Mrs. F. J. Moreau acted as hosts during the evening to more than 100 members. Supper was served from two long tables, at which Mrs. F. E. Kester, Mrs. (continued to three)
The letter from Life is below:
DE LUXE CAFE
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Her Picture Here...
... But Not In 'Life'
Our 22nd year in serving K.U. Students 711 Mass. St.
January 24,1941
Mr. Stan Stauffer Editor, University Daily Kansan Lawrence, Kansas
Dear Editor:
Of the 43 State Universities to which LIFE suggested the idea of selecting an "Ideal Valentine Girl" and sending her picture to us for possible publication, only 14 have responded to date. While these few responses were enthusiastic and the pictures sent in were attractive, the lack of general interest indicates that we do not have a story.
We regret that the idea, which originated with a Texas University journalism student, did not work out as we had hoped. To those who did submit pictures, we send our thanks.
Sincerely yours,
OLIVER JENSEN.
June Duprez, as the lovely Princess of Bosra, is caught in the toils of dark powers practiced by Conrad Veidt, the Magician Jaffar in Alexander Korda's "The Thief of Bagdad," the Technicolor spectacle now showing thru Saturday at the Granada theatre.
Oscar the 13th coming up.
Actors Superstitious About Oscar 13th
Which is one way of announcing the annual banquet of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—that gala affair staged by the film colony each March in the spacious ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to climax another year of achievement and $ ^{ \textcircled{2}} $
other year of achievement and advancement by the men and women of Hollywood.
Ten women and eleven men who have so been honored have felt the elation of this moment. Yet not one of these has experienced exactly the same strangeness of the moment that will accompany the award this year.
No production is greater, no cast is larger, nor is there a scene recorded that tops the dramatic moment each year when two persons—a man and a woman—step up to receive their small golden statuettes. It is in that split instant when their fingers close around the slender figure personifying achievement and they fell the coolness of the glistening metal against the pulsating warmth of their palms that they know they have received the highest honor their industry can bestow. This is the supreme moment for any actor or actress in the cinema city.
For this is the year of Oscar the 13th—and these are the people born into the atmosphere of dressing room tradition and reared by the guidance of the actors' oracle — superstition.
So they will ask what of the future and fate of the man and woman who take home the Oscar this year. For an answer they will
delive into the reassuring history of all the Oscars and allay their apprehensions with the knowledge that not one of the winners ever has slipped into oblivion—which is the worst possible misfortune an Oscar the 13th could bring.
The first feminine winner is still very much a glamour girl. She is red-headed Janet Gaynor who shared her honor in the year of 1928 with Emil Jannings. Mr. Jannings' name is on the list of Movieland's great America's Sweet-heart, Mary Pickford, and Warner Baxter — both still very much around in Hollywood—took the second year honors. They are followed by Norma Shearer and George Arliss. Miss Shearer is lovelier than ever and more talented than she was that memorable night in 1930, and Arliss has never turned in anything but a truly great characterization.
The next year's award went to veterans of the stage who stepped in and saved "sound" while Hollywood taught its stars to talk. The loveable Marie Dressler accepted an Oscar that year, and Lionel Barrymore, though not yet Dr. Gillespie, was regarded the best male actor in the business Stage stars continued to shine in the film firmament, as Helen Hayes, currently (continued to page three)
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