HURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
On the Shin
By Walt Meininger
Quick work: Three quick coke res and Ed McComas and Fritziwn decide that spring time is the one for going steady.
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A glance through the London ones personal columns gave us this am: Unwanted artificial teeth unruly needed. Old spectacles very ceptable. Help dependent men.
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Drapes of Lath.
In this same issue of the Times he first mention of the German ination of Norway appears. On page right!
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Spring gets them all. Bob Higgins called his girl last week, talked or 18 minutes. There's nothing wrong with that except that the pung lady lives in Florida and the uncontinental tee a teet cost just shade over $14.
Add Lawrence's minor crime wave, man wandered into the police station last night to report that his car as stolen. Police located the car a few hours later smashed against a alvert on the highway. Things looked suspicious to the local company so they questioned the owner. He soon confessed to having wrecked the car himself and then reported it stolen in an attempt to collect the insurance.
No wonder the A.T.O.'s are moving in from the Topeka suberbs. We didn't realize it was so far out there until Bill Walters sat in the familiar nation wagon just before lunch time prefaily examining a road map.
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Crooks Used To Be A Singing Ice Man
This is about a man who used to bring the ice.
Alexander Richard Crooks, tenor a-la-tops and pinch-hitter for Lawrence Tibbett, as the first attraction on the University's Music Week program—a very common man who started at the bottom and ended at the top.
Crooks, who thrilled his audience in Hoch auditorium with his golden voice and easy style, said that he was glad to be filling in on the University program for Lawrence Tibbett because he remembered the time when Martinielli had to fill in for him while he was undergoing an appendectomy
Behind the scenes, while his pianist held the stage alone, "Alex" answered a number of questions for this reporter. He hinted that the intermission would be omitted when he said, "I'll just play dumb and walk on out, for I must be on my way to the University of Iowa at 10:10."
Asked if he would take a vacation following his Metropolitan concert tour, he lamented, "I don't know. The tour is running longer than I expected, but I'd like to get some in."
He admitted that he must practice all the time to do runs at his best. His least is three times a week. His chauffeur supplied the information
san yesterday announcing the initiation of a group of men into Tau Sigma, national dancing sorority, we will hold a meeting of the sewing circle to design and begin work on costumes for the coming recital. All new initiates are asked to bring their own sewing baskets. Pattern paper will be furnished by us girls.
that Crooks vocalized on the way to Lawrence from Kansas City. He arrived in Kansas City last night by plane from New York.
During his number "Longing," a phone off stage began a continual ring and the 200-pound nightingale simply stopped singing and waited until the ringing ceased. "Nothing bothers me anymore," he said, "I have gotten used to weights on drops falling and people vocalizing in the wings while I am singing an aria."
Every inch of Crook's 6 feet two is an ordinary man. He has painted gas tanks for a living, and sang as he worked. He has been an ice man in Trenton, N.J—a singing iceman—and a clerical worker in a New York insurance office. He fought in the World War, giving his age as 21 when he was really only 16. He would rather be at home or on a fishing trip than anywhere else.
Another peculiar fact about the foremost tenor of the world is that he is a native American and instead of a shock of hair he is bald in spots. He and his voice grew up virtually untutored. He didn't learn to read music.
He is the first native-born American to appear as a leading tenor at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, an honor usually reserved for a European.
Crooks and—
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His first group was the least familiar and therefore the least applauded. It included: "O Del Mio Ardor," (Gluck); "Alma Mia," "Sei Mia Gioia," and "Tell My Beloved"
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The compositions of Russian artists were included in the second division of the program: "Longing" (Vassilenko); "The Nightingale and the Rose" (Rimsky-Korsakoff); "None But the Lonely Heart" (Tschaikowsky); and "Song of India" (Rimsky-Korsakoff). The ever popular Shubert "Serenade" was his response to continued applause by the audience.
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Fredorick Schauwecker, accompanist for the evening, played a group of three numbers while Mr. Crooks rested. "The audience seems to like
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Crooks' popularity last night was not so much in what he sang, nor the quality of his voice, but in the way he sang. There was no bristling wall between artist and audience. He took them in and they, in turn, took him in. The rapport between singer and spectator was perfect.
But he had something more than stage presence. His tones were round and full and true. He soared up into the higher register with never a slip. His enunciation was clear and precise. His expression was sincere. In short he was good. From now on you'll find us on Monday evenings, at 6:30 o'clock, listening to our radio with the voice of Mr. Crooks coming through the tubes and wires and speaker that make up that machine.
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