TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
Varied Art Collections Presented to University
Four gift collections have been received at Spooner-Thayer museum during the past week and will be placed on exhibit as soon as space can be provided, Miss Minnie S. Moodie, curator, said yesterday.
Miss Rosemary Ketcham, of the School of Fine Arts who died during the summer, left her collection of dolls numbering about 160; a rare printed silk Paisley shawl, a costume including a bonnet and dress of the 1870's with reticule, parasol and fan; a gold embroidered textile; a large enameled jar and finely engraved
plate from India; and a rare hand-tooled book on the history and art of bookbinding.
Prof. Albert Bloch, head of the department of drawing and painting, has given to Spooner-Thayer museum 18 dry points comprising a complete set of his work in that medium.
A half dozen old American and European costumes have been received as a gift from Mrs. Fanny Harding Hill of Carthage, Mo., through the efforts of Miss Cora
Downs of the department of bacteriology.
A collection of 20 pieces of early American blown glass and 50 pieces of Victorian glass has been presented to the museum by Mrs. M. W. Barber of Williamsburg, Mo., as a memorial to her husband, Magnus W. Barber, a student of the University in 1879-80.
Girl Director Plays Trombone, Test Tubes
Miss Moodie returned last Friday from Williamsburg, Mo., where she assisted in the selection and packing of the Barber collection. This collection has been given to the museum for a period of five years.
Hollywood, Nov. 12—(UP)—This is a story of a little girl who liked to play a slide trombone for a hobby; of a young girl who majored in chemical engineering because a professor told her she was too stupid to understand it; of a young woman who would up as a director of motion pictures.
It is the story of Louise Rousseau, a very feminine young person who looks 16, swears she is a dignified 30 and whose job is director of Pathe's "Picture People" and assistant on Pathe's "Information Please" short subjects.
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Louise was brought up in Texas by two old mail aunts, a bachelor uncle and a grandmother, having been sent there when her parents separated.
"My childhood home in Dallas was more like 'You Can't Take It With You' than anything else," she relates. "Aunt Emmie played the piano and the bass viol. Aunt Marth was an artist. My uncle played the saxophone and clarinet when he didn't work at being a lawyer. Grandmother also was a lawyer, and to make things complete, I learned to play the trombone."
Towards the end of her third year in college, she and her aunts started one evening for San Antonio to eat Mexican food. A month later they wound up in New York and Miss Rousseau didn't see Texas again for 14 years.
Despite the unusual family life, Louise was graduated from high school at the age of 15. She had spent her senior year reporting for a Dallas paper and might have embarked on a newspaper career except that a chemistry professor told her she was too stupid to learn that subject. So the following autumn she enrolled as the only girl in the engineering school of Texas University.
Her first job was secretary to a chemical writer. A few months later she became secretary to the manager of the Rivoli theater and at the end of two years she was in charge of the theater's advertising and finally worked her way over into the Pathe organization as a secretary.
A shakeup in the Pathe organization resulted in her becoming assistant to Frank Donovan, production manager, and it was not long before she was handling the production of
short subjects under his general direction.
Miss Rousseau's work has taken her to Bermuda, to Callender, Ontario, to film the Dionne Quints, to Florida to make diving pictures and eventually to Hollywood where she produces the "Picture People" short subjects and commutes to New York every six weeks to help turn out the "Information Please" reels. Despite her success, Miss Rousseau still has her troubles.
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Benito Mussolini, whose Fascist troops are not doing too well in the Greek campaign, is looking mighty glum in this picture. He is shown pinning a medal on a war widow.
"Everyone I meet in Hollywood," she complains, "seems to take such an insultingly 'there, there little girl, don't worry your pretty head about it' attitude. I wish they would realize that I'm thirty and serious about my work.'"
The striped barber's pole dates back to the time when barbers also were surgeons. It originally was provided for patients to grasp while a blood-letting was taking place.
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A contest for writers of humorous articles was announced today by Reginaid Buxton, college senior and editor of the Sour Owl.
Awards of $5, $2, and $1, will be given for the three best articles submitted to Buxton at the Sour Owl office in the Journalism building on or before Dec. 1. The articles will be judged by a committee consisting of Helen R. Hoopes, assistant professor of English; Siegfried Michelson, assistant professor of journalism; and K. W. Davidson, director of information and instructor in journalism.
The articles, which can be short stories or feature stories, must have a maximum of 1,000 words and must not be a pornographic nature, according to Buxton. All manuscripts should be signed with a fictitious name and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the real name of the author and the fictitious name signed to the manuscript. The latter requirement, according to Buxton, is to avoid any charge of favoritism in the judging.
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