TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Interest recently shown by the University students in the new University of Kansas song promised by baton-waver Fred Waring may be more than repaid if one is to accept the opinion of James H. Coleman, '38, now connected with Acme Newpictures in New York. Coleman's letter, written to Karl Klooz, University business office head, intimated that he had heard the new song rehearsed. His letter in part follows:
"Incidentally, I can't say anything specific right at this time, but I'm sure that if the students at the University are listening in Friday, May 3 when Fred Waring plays a new K.U. song, they are going to get quite a surprise."
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Donald Dixon, assistant instructor of speech and dramatic art, issued a call late Saturday for men students desiring to appear in several scenes of the motion picture being made of campus life.
For a mob scene he will shoot, Prof. Allen Crafton needs about fifty students, whom he has asked to appear at two o'clock this afternoon in the Men's Lounge of the Memorial Union building.
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Two important bills will have their final readings and be voted on tomorrow night at the regular meeting of the Men's Student Council, President C. H. Mullen announced yesterday.
A bill recommending that $550 be granted for the improvement of the intramural fields south of Robinson gymnasium and $250 to go toward the University dormitory project is one of the two important measures. It had its first reading at the last meeting and was given an okay by the Central committee on student activities at its meeting Monday.
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Official Announcement at last: The 1940 Olympic Games, a football for the world's war lords for three years, finally were cancelled definitely when Finland decided it would be impossible to hold the international competition at Helsinki this summer . . . Guess the athletes didn't think it would be so much fun dodging javelins, shot puts, hand grenades, discusses, shells, hammer throws, and bullets at the same time.
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Women—what do we say about them? Just this: with the faint odor of spring in the air, a girl's thoughts are turned to the figure reflected in her mirror. Does your reflection please you or are you too fat. It is difficult to be attractive if you are as crawny as a shrub on a rocky hillside, but if you are as large as the hillside, it is hopeless.
Washington, Pa., April 27.—(UP) —Jitterbugs weren't worth a dime a dozen here last night as 66 Washington and Jefferson College couples and their guests held their Seventh Annual Quadrille under the sponsorship of Henry Ford, the motor marmate.
It is generally agreed that men prefer women with wasplike waists and slender ankles.
To the music of a colonial orchestra supplied by Ford, Joe and Josephine College turned the calendar back 150 years and taffeta and satins took their places besides stocks and high collars as fashion highlights.
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Rain-soaked courts caused postponement of tennis matches scheduled with the University of Missouri yesterday, but the Jayhawk linkmen, after trailing the first nine holes, split their matches 9 to 9 with the Tiger golfers.
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By Bernard (Poco) Frazier, Sculptor
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The New Yorker informed us jokingly that people were beginning to believe that Kansas was a place where geniuses almost hid the tall corn and Life printed an article "Art Books as Best Sellers" which used photographs of two art books as illustration one written by Thomas Craven from Salina and the other bearing as a cover design, a painting of Kansas by a Kansan. It was suddenly more profitable to be from Kansas than from New York's famed Greenwich Village colony as far as art prestige was concerned. Apparently the prophets had been a little timid.
Art experts ventured the prophecy some years ago, that the ultimate cradle of American creative expression would be located in the middle-west. Taken lightly at first, this surprising statement was given new force in the nineteen thirties, when a group of painters from the prairie states drew the national spotlight and were welcomed as proof that the thing had happened. Their painting and the stories of their lives caught the fancy of the country with such intensity that little was said about art which did not include them as subject matter and prime example.
Record Hits of the Week
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Dallas, Texas. April 27—(UP)—Broad-shouldered young men wearing smiles—and blue, white and striped silk shorts—took their places today along with scantily clad girl carhops in Dallas drive-in taverns.
The girls, their ranks not yet seriously reduced by hiring of male competitors, thought the boys looked "just too cute."
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University of Kansas will enter the annual women's intercollegiate telegraphic archery tournament to be held May 11-18, May 18-25 for the first time. Miss Joe Stapleton, assistant professor of physical education, announced today.
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It's a little difficult to tell just what is in store for this immediate young generation, but not hard to forecast what is at hand for that legion of short-pantied kiddie who tortune innocent audiences with their dancing 'school routines. These "ain't I cute?" tikes are going to be running back to their mommies one of these nights with tomato juice streaming down their cheeks crying "Waa! that bad man in the front row threw something at me."
Ever since Shirley Temple slipped by the movie world with her "On the good ship, Lollipop"—the way greased by a brave smile for everybody, mothers have been making perfectly good children over into stagey jackanapes, whose posturing and wallings wring groans nightly from American theater goers.
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PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION. The last examination of the regular term will be held Saturday, May 4, at 8:30 a.m. Juniors and Seniors who have not passed an earlier examination should take this one. None but Juniors and Seniors are eligible. Candidates must register in person at the College Office, Room 121, Frank Strong Hall, between April 29 and May 1.
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Tickets for the Parents' Day banquet, May 4, will be on sale Monday morning at the business office. Elizabeth Meguai, women's adviser, announced yesterday. The dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building. Ticket sales will end Friday.
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LOST: T.K.E. fraternity pin. Name
F. L. Brumback on back of pin.
Phone 1076. -139.
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The Bach "MAGNIFICAT"
The Bach "Magnificent," sung by the Westminster A Cappella Choir of 70 voices, with Marie Wilkins, soprano; Meribah Moore, soprano; Irene Peabody, alto; Joseph Wilkins, tenor; and Rudolph Voth, bass; accompanied by the University Symphony Orchestra and directed by Dean D. M. Swarthout. Monday evening, April 29th, 8:20 o'clock in Auditorium. Admission is free.