UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
NUMBER 148.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1940.
Plan Second Premiere
K-Club Play Ready to Face Hill Public
Burly linesmen, speedy trackmen, and agile, sharpshooting forwards will vie for acting honors in the coming K-club dramatic attraction "Murder in the Old Red Barn" or "The Price She Paid" Monday night in the Little Theater of Green hall.
With lines learned and scenery built, only one major problem confronts the director, Rolla Nuckles: how will William Gorder be hung? John Narnarom, who plays the part, suggests that a different stand-in be used each night in order that he be present to carry on as the shameless hero of Maria Martin, played by Bill Bevin.
Maria, unaware of Corder's evil intentions, succumbs to his ardent wooing and meets a fate which the daughter of Ishmael, the gypsy, portrayed by Quido Massare, has already met at the hands of this sheep in wolf's clothing. "She's more to be pitted than censored" is the theme song of Maria.
To create the effect of the burning of Corder's home and farm off stage is one of the scenic problems of the melodrama.
A dance by the chorus will come at the end of the second act. In practice sessions, the athletes have been swinging out in true "terpsichorine" style. Eldreth Cadwalader will take Monte Merkel's place in the chorus.
Before and after the play, the quartette, under the direction of Otto Kiehl, will lead the audience in singing.
Rehearsal began at ten o'clock Saturday night because of the track meet at Columbia, where Bill Beven competed.
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Senior Class Meeting To Be Wednesday
A senior class assembly will be held at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning in Fraser theater, Henry Schwaller, president of the senior class, announced Saturday.
Allen Crafton, director of the Hill movie to be shown in an unofficial world premiere Wednesday, May 29, in Fraser theater, has completed everything but the editing of the flicker. Official showing of the movie will be Sunday, June 9, as a part of the Commencement program.
Bridge Team To Play Wisconsin U. By Air
The class memorial, class dues, and commencement plans will be discussed at the meeting. Seniors who desire to attend the assembly will be excused from their classes at that hour.
NEW LIBRARY HOURS
Besides regular Sunday afternoon hours, from 2 to 5 p.m., Watson library will be open from 7 until 10 p.m. today, May 19, and May 26.
Members of the University team are LeRoy Fugitt, gr. and Russell Elledge, e'41, winners of the spring bridge tournament, and the runners-up, Malcolm Miller, c'42, and Clarence Miller, c'43.
Bridging 700 miles, the University bridge team, composed entirely of men, will meet the University of Wisconsin women's team by short wave next Thursday afternoon.
The match will be relayed from the Memorial Union building if proper equipment can be secured. Otherwise each play will be telephoned to the home of Ed Price, c'42, amateur operator, who will relay it to the Wisconsin operator.
Twelve set hands will be selected by Winford Ferry, intramural chairman of Union activities, and the Women's Activities director at Wisconsin University. Thus identical hands will be dealt to each team. Corresponding couples will be opponents.
Price, the operator, will contact the radio operator in Wisconsin at 3 o'clock this afternoon to eliminate mechanical difficulties in order that bids and plays may be relayed as quickly as possible.
Hill's Own Movie To Go On Screen In Fraser Hall
Hold onto your seats, boys. Another world premiere of a movie is coming.
Only this time it will be the University's show, and not the city's. And the distinction does not end there.
Instead of dark commands, the movie will deal with high commands. Instead of Ona Munson, June Storey, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, and Gene Autry cavorting on horseback and in plush-lined limousines behind lariats and mascara, there will be Ann Rightmire, Esther Mitchell, Les Hixon, Fred Littooy, and Lawrence David studying, loaf $ ^{a} $
ing, eating, and going to school at the state U.
Instead of the burning of Lawrence, there will be a flaming zeal for education. Instead of the oneeyed Raoul Walsh behind the camera as director, there will be the sprained-knee Allen Crafton puffing a cigar and shouting both light and dark commands for "lights, camera, action." Crafton thus far has donned neither beret nor puttees, although the latter would be a brace for his ankle which he twisted when he fell on wet steps recently.
Net Gurrille, Pet. Johnsanke.
Not Guerillas, But Jayhawks
Instead of a gang of border guerillas in the supporting roles, there will be Jayhawker students hitch-hiking to school, going down the commencement line to receive diplomas, cheering at basketball games, getting homesick, and drinking cokes.
In the supporting cast are Patricia Neal, Mary McAnaw, Bill Bowers, Jim Arnold, Martha Alice Horner, Doris Johnson, and Becky Tremblly.
The show will last about 40 minutes instead of two hours. It won't preach a doctrine of state freedom nor outline the educational policies of the University. It will have local settings, student characters, and definite plot.
First Showing A Sneak Preview Directed by Crafton and filmed by Art Wolfe, first year law student, the premiere showing of "Far Above the Golden Valley" is set for 8 o'clock Wednesday night, May 29, in Fraser theater. This show will be for students especially. The official showing will be eleven days later on the graduation program when it will be flashed on the screen at 3:30 o'clock the afternoon of Sunday, June 9, in Hoch auditorium for the benefit of the commencement crowds.
First Showing A Sneak Preview
The commencement program lists the premiere for June 9, which would make the May 29 showing a sneak preview. But this is a mere quibbling of terms. The spotlights, orchids, and aerial bombs will be dragged out on May 29 as far as Fred Montgomery, head of the promotion staff, is concerned.
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Seven Entries Received In Lewis Essay Contest
Seven entries have been received in the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis Memorial essay contest on applied Christianity, Sebe Eldridge, chairman of the contest committee, announced today. Winners in the contest will be announced within the next two weeks.
the memorial fund, established in 1911 by Prof. George Edward Patrick, Washington, D.C., in memory of his wife, Hattie Elizabeth Lewis, a former student at the University, provides prizes amounting to $250 annually for the best essays on some phase of the general theme, "The Application of the Teachings of Jesus to the Practical Affairs and Relations of Life—Individual, Social, Industrial, Commercial, or Political."
Clinic to Match College Training With Vocations
"To coordinate the college training of the student and the vocations in which he may be interested," will be the aim of the first Vocational Guidance Clinic here May 14-22, according to Prof. P. W. Viesselman of the School of Law, chairman of the vocational guidance committee.
W. T. Markham, of the State Committee on Vocational Education, will give the opening address of the conference in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall at 7:30 Tuesday evening. To Help Choose Major
The clinic is being held independently of the recent employment discussions, and is not a placement forum. It is intended for the student who has not chosen his major subject. Particular emphasis will be given commercial opportunities in the various fields.
Meetings will be as private consultations with advisers in the various fields. Students interested should register immediately after the opening of the conference or later in the offices of Elizabeth Meguiar, women's student adviser; Henry Werner, men's student adviser; the Y.M. C.A.; or the Y.W.C.A.
The list of consultation advisers include:
Prof. John Blocker, accounting.
Prof. Loren Eiseley, archeology
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Littooy, Dancers Both Happy Over Osborne
Patented slide rhythms by Will Osborne, et al, slid right into the hearts and feet of guy and gal dancers alike at the Senior Cakewalk Friday night in the Union ballroom. Everyone present had a good time, Osborne was glad to be there, and most happy of all was Fred Littooy, dance manager, because the dance actually made money.
Friday morning Littioy was ready for a doctor. He had sold only about 300 ducats. But Friday afternoon brought a surprising increase in sales, despite gloomy predictions, and a sale of more than 80 cards at the door that evening, at $2.25 a head, brought the level up considerably. The total gate was around $950, quite enough to cover a $750 band contract.
Either from stage action or from fatigue, Osborne maintained a deadpan expression during the entire evening. His Rudy Vallee-like voice, however, was thoroughly satisfactory. Vocals were also ably handled by slight, fairhaired Dick Rogers, scat singer and composer of "Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut
Street." A fine voice, coupled with an "nth" degree of pulchritude, put over the feminine warbler.
Though considered not an exponent of swing, but instead a steady and devout sweet musician, Osborne managed to mix his selections so that all were satisfied. Opening all his pieces with his own style of "intro," the orchestra leader made dancing easy for Cakewalkers on those moderately swiny numbers.
A pre-intermission medley of oldtime favorites brought back memories and helped the spirit of the evening. Probably the best tune of the evening was a swing arrangement of one of the Hungarian rhapsodies, "Hungry for a Rhapsody." Osborne had to repeat the song twice to meet the popular demand.
The horseplay which members of the band engaged in kept a circle of non-dancers in an uproar around the bandstand. The short Mr. Rogers and the huge bass player brought down the house with Roger's tune about 18th street. Later in the evening another of his compositions, "Out of the Mood," went over in a big way.