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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940.
NUMBER 139.
Farmer Finally Wins
Housing inspection and the intramural football field appropriations
Bill Farmer was safely seated in the M.S.C. president's chair today after the council ruled last night to install him in office next Friday.
The election was out of official controversy when Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, ruled that no formal protest on the election had been made by yesterday morning's 10 o'clock deadline.
Faremr's election has been in debate since a recount showed him the victor by a lone vote almost two weeks ago.
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Dorm Fund Drive Gets Underway
Given impetus by a $75 gift from the Men's Student Council, the council-sponsored committee to aid new dorms met this afternoon to organize a campus-wide drive for funds.
Donn Mosser, c'42, drive head, said today that the drive would attempt to reach a $2,500 goal. That sum Mosser said, probably would be used to furnish several rooms in the two new men's dormitories.
It was indicated that the drive would be conducted in a similar fashion to last year's drive to send the University Band to Washington.
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Art Designed To Entertain Kelly Says
Anecdotes flew thick and fast this morning as Charles Fabens Kelley entertained an audience of about 700 with personal anecdotes and experiences gained as assistant director of the Chicago Art Institute. The Fine Arts Day Convocation speaker made the rafters of Hoch auditorium ring with laughter as he punctuated advice on how to enjoy art with witty comments on art and artists.
"We go to museums with unworthy motives. We go with the idea of seeing everything in the museum. The usual procedure is to go to the first gallery and look at the first label, then glance at the picture to see if it really is what the label says," the speaker said. Don't Read All Labels
More seriously, Dr. Kelley said that we shouldn't bother to read the
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Tryouts Tonight For K-Club Play
Tryouts for the K-Club play,
"Murder in the Old Red Barn, Or
the Price She Paid," will be held
in Little Theater of Green hall at
7:30 tonight. Every K-man is urged
to attend.
Rolla Nuckles, director of the production, will assign the parts tonight, and practice will get under way for the annual athletic event which will take place in three weeks.
Evelyn Swarthout Plays At 8:20 Tonight in Hoch
Evelyn Swarthout, concert pianist of New York City, will appear at 8:20 tonight in Hoch auditorium on the Young American Artist program. Miss Swarthout, daughter of D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, replaces Paul Musikonsky, violinist, who was forced to cancel his performance here during the Music Week Festival because of illness.
By Charles Skidmore, c'41
Reola Durand Named Oread's Best Actress
Miss Swarthout recently returned from a year's study in England to be featured on the New York City Town Hall program. Her program tonight will be the same as the one she gave there last month.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott was scheduled to address the School of Fine Arts banquet this evening at 6 o'clock in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. A program starring
Reola Durand, c'43, was named last night as the Hill's leading actress for 1940 at the annual Speech Arts banquet at Evans Hearth. Miss Durand received the citation for her work in the play, "Holiday." Mary Noel, c'40, was given an honorable mention for her work in "Quality Street."
Best male actor of the year, according to the Dramatics art department, was Lorenzo Fuller, Negro student who was the Emperor in O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," presented in Fraser theater last fall.
Germans Slice Allied Defenses In Norwegian Mountains
By Joe Alex Morris
German mechanized troops sliced through the heart of Allied defense lines in the mountains of central Norway today and battled to drive the British-French expeditionary force back toward the North Sea.
A communique of the High Command at Berlin asserted that German forces fighting Northward from the Oslo sector for more than two weeks in a drive for control of the vital Norwegian communications lines had at last made contact with the German troops moving southward from Trondheim.
Furthermore, the communique said, the Germans seriously defeated Allied troops in the Gubrands valley (near Otta) and chased them back toward the town of Dombaas, which is the key to the railroad system on the central front and which appeared likely to be the scene of the most important battle of the war to date.
The outcome of the fighting at Dombaas
may decide whether the Allies can maintain their foothold in central Norway south of Trondheim.
From the Swedish frontier, it was reported that a major battle already was under way in the Gudbrands valley, apparently before the junction of Dombaas. In London a military spokesman said that the Allied position was difficult as a result of the Nazi military successes.
Everywhere, the High Command said, the German forces in Norway were pounding ahead and their airplanes were blasting at Allied reinforcements and supply lines with tons of explosives. Warships, transports, landing bases, supply trains and troops on the roads were hammered by the German pilots, according to Berlin, and all efforts of the British and French to consolidate their positions south of Trondheim were being hampered or broken up.
Jack Nelson, gr., was named the actor showing the greatest improvement during the year. Nelson is the actor who had leading roles in two plays this year and was a stand-out success in both of them, "Quality Street," and "The Night of January Sixteenth."
David Gets Honor
Larry David, fa'40, was cited for making the greatest contribution to public productions; and Marvin Moon, c'40, was honored for having been cast in eight productions, all of the department's plays, during the past two years.
Also announced last night were the 1940 initiates of the National Collegiate Players, selected for their service in the dramatic department during the year. They are: William Shipley, fa'40; Shirley Ruble, c'42; Emmy Jane Harbin, c'41; Larry David, fa'40; Fred Fleming, c'41; Alice Noone, gr., Bill Fey, c'40; Rosemary Sebesta, c'40; Les Hixon, sp; and Nancy Moore, gr.
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the men's Quartet preceded the Chancellor's talk.
Miss Swarthout will open her program with "Soccata in C Major" (Bach-Busoni) in three parts, prelude, intermezzo, and fugue. Her second number will be "Sonata, Op. 22" (Schumann) also in three parts, presto, andantino, and Scherzo-Rondo. Her last three selections will be "Fifth Sonata" (Scriabin); "Three Etudes" (Debussy) in three parties, pour les Agreements, pour les Accords, and pour les Sonorites opposees; and "Fantasia Baetica" (de Falla).
Students will be admitted by activity books.
500 Hear Choir
The Westminster A Cappella choir of 70 voices, directed by Dean D. (Continued on page right)
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Malott Will Tell How To Get Job
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will conduct the third and concluding employment forum in his office, 223 Frank Strong hall, at 3:30 Thursday afternoon. The meeting will be an informal round table discussion on the general topic of how to find a job and hold it.
The Chancellor will sum up the views of the two preceding speakers, Dr. J. E. Walters, personnel director of Purdue University, who spoke on Feb. 27, and Charles S. Stevenson, general manager of Hall Brothers Inc., who conducted the second meeting on April 10. He will add to them his own observations
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Young G.O.P.'s Preparing For Visit of Gannett
The University Young Republican Club is busying itself making arrangements for the visit to Lawrence Thursday of Frank Gannett, New York publisher and Republican candidate for the presidential nomination.
Lawrence will be the first stop on a speaking tour throughout the Middle-west. He will address the student body at a meeting in Hoch auditorium at 10 o'clock $ arranged for a luncheon in Memorial Thursday morning.
At noon the Young G.O.P.'s have
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