THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
On the Shin
By Walt Meininger
The parade downtown this afternoon made the original Quantrill dein's look pale. The parade was planned on a big scale. It took two hours to pass any one point; included 48 separate units; and was two and a half miles long.
Many of the cars and trucks were army units from Ft. Leavenworth. Somebody must have pulled some good strings to get the U.S. Army to advertise for Republic Studios.
The whole theme of the parade could be seen in the two yoke of oxen that ambled by. It looked like a lot of bull from where we stood.
The threats rampant on the Hill yesterday to burn the false front Eldridge House in South park pressurely apparently didn't jell. It stam was holding its own with the rest of the fakes when the parade went by.
And the carriage that Lincoln rode in when he stayed that one night in Leavenworth was in the parade. If all of the beds and carriages Old Abe slept and rode in during that one short visit to Leavenworth were laid end to end they'd reach from here to the Lincoln monument in Washington, D.C. He really must have gotten around that night.
On the parade outline this morning we saw the following item, "Unit No. 15—Carriage with woman and baby supplied by Gale Mott."
The publicity offices of Republic pictures have supposedly spent between $10,000 and $15,000 on the premiere. After a look in at the press room on the second floor of the Eldridge we wonder how much of that went for all of those soft drinks and like that. About 10 cases.
If it's true that $150,000 was poured into Dodge City for the premiere of the picture of the same name, does that mean that "Dodge City" was 10 times as good as "The Dark Command?" Could be.
The guy that sets the clock in Blake tower says he wouldn't pay six-bits to see Moses give the whole Ten Commandments, let alone to see Republic's one dark one.
The Sigma Chi's are planning big reception for brother John Wayne what with everybody laying in a supply of refreshments. The boys have been hearing rumors about brother John and capacity.
Here's one that hasn't anything to do with the premiere. Two young ladies called Ray Phelps last night and imitated first a long distance operator, then the nurse on the desk in Kansas City's General Hospital.
They told Phelps that a "Mrs. Phelps" had just been admitted to maternity and had given them his phone number, could he come to Kansas City?
Fhelps, who can't remember ever having been married, was wondering this afternoon what to do now that he had eaten all his finger-nails.
Relax, buddy.
Hollywood Fever Hits The Campus This Spring
Both spring and Hollywood fever struck the campus about the same time this year.
The only difference was in the numbers afflicted. The spring hit everyone. Hollywood claimed seven.
Perhaps the whole thing started in February when a perplexed Hollywood research expert wrote to K.U., asking scientists here what kind of a noise a dinosaur made 100,000,000 years ago when he got into a fight with another prehistoric beast. Since then:
Four students have been chosen to accompany Hollywood stars to the premiere showing of the movie depicting Quantrill's raid on Lawrence a movie of K.U. is in production; two women students have been promised screen tests in Hollywood this spring a recent grad has signed a 7-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox; and a graduate student has ap peared in a technicolor short.
The students selected to accompany the Hollywood celebrities to the premiere were Virginia Ford, Kay O'Sullivan, Dick Mize, and Ivan Cain. Their companions for the event were John Wayne, Walter
Ted North of Topeka, who attended the University last year and is a grandson of the founder of the North Players, has signed a 7-year contract with the Twentieth Century organization.
Pidgeon, Wendy Barrie, and Ona Munson,
Meanwhile Prof. Allen Crafton is busy shooting the first scenes of a campus movie that has twelve students in the cast. All scenes are in or near Lawrence, and when finished the movie probably will be the official film of the University.
Frank Anneberge of Leavenworth, called the upside-down man of the campus because of his skill in walking on his hands, recently completed a technicolor feature film with Universal which shows him shaving while doing a hand-stand. His next appearance will be during the Kansas Relays (April 19 and 20, when he will be filmed roller-skating on his hands atop the press box at the stadium.
Snap Happy---- Camera Man Bowlus Finds Women Preferred
"Editors buy pictures of good-looking women," says Tom Bowls. "Practically the only pictures of men that will sell are sports shots or pictures of persons who are prominent in Hill events or who have done something spectacular."
The Johnson sisters, Helen and Doris, of Kansas City, whose photographs in a recent issue of Life magazine brought in a flood of fan mail, will report July 1 for screen tests with Twentieth Century-Fox.
A graduate of the School of Business and a second year law student, Tom spends his extra time taking pictures. He intends to practice law after he is graduated. At the present time he is local press photographer for the Kansas City Star and takes pictures for the Jayhawker and the Sour Owl.
Work Starts--the past three years, many reproductions of his work have been printed in such publications as the Star, Pic, and College Humor, as well as in campus publications and Associated Press papers.
For most of his work he uses a 4 by 5 Speed Graphic camera. In
(Continued from page one) of regular track. The track will be equivalent to one mile of regular railway line. The curves in the track are laid on a 72 inch radius which is equivalent to a 20 degree curve. Trains are allowed to pass each other by remote control through the use of a siding electrically operated.
James Cox, e'42, Clyde Pace, e'40, and Clarence Callahan, e'41 are the students constructing the model track work. The project is being worked up for a permanent exhibit which can be added to from year to year. The work is under the direction of Prof. F. A. Russell, professor of civil engineering.
Equipment for the exhibit will be loaned by some members of the Kansas City Railway Club. This equipment is quite elaborate, carefully worked out to scale, and some of the locomotives are valued up to $125. There is quite a difference between a model railway and a toy! The model train will make a complete circuit of the track in one minute. It's speed will be equal to that of a regular train traveling at sixty miles an hour.
Tom says he often gets leads on pictures from students who call to tell him that something is going on which might interest him. It he
Now He Feels---misses a news picture, he usually can buy one from somebody who doesn't care to market it himself. "I never have any trouble getting girls to pose," Tom says. "Usually they see a camera and run for it. Most of the trouble lies in keeping models from getting self-conscious, because you can't get a good picture if they do."
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If it was, no official of Warner Brothers studio would admit it. And stunt or no, there was luscious Ann bound to Brunnenkamp, with chains of hardened steel. What to do?
"Break it up," ordered police, while burly Blaney Matthews, chief of the Warner Brothers private police, yanked Brunnenkamp into the inner lobby. He also yanked Miss Sheridan.
"Cut it out" she cried. "You're tearing off my hand."
"I'll say cut it out," interjected a bystander who identified himself as Edward Stanton, lawyer whom Brunnenkamp brought along to protect his rights, if any. "You have no reason to manhandle this boy. He's only doing what 10,000 other men would like to do."
"Where's that key?" demanded Matthew.
"I swallowed it, honest," Brunnenkamp replied.
Matthews, refusing to believe him,
ordered police captain George
Young to remove Brunnenkamp's
shoes. Young stooped down pulled
off Richard's oxfords, shook them,
and found no key. Disgusted he
gave Brunnenkamp his shoes.
"I'd been trying for months to meet Miss Sheridan," explained Richard, now getting scared. "I had no luck, and then I happened to read about how Harry Lehr hand-cuffed himself to a girl in Newport a quarter of a century ago as a last resort in his attempt to meet her.
"I figured if it worked for him
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it would work for me. And anyway, the boys at the Phi Gamma Delta house bet me a dollar I couldn't get away with it."
"Only a dollar?" she demanded, suitor were in the theater hospital "That's an insult."
By then Miss Sheridan and her room. Photographers still were snapping pictures and Miss Sheridan started to weep:
"Please, oh please, get me loose.
I want to see this picture."
By the time the man arrived with the keys, the picture, "It All Came True," was half over. And Miss Sheridan sat on a bed with her eyes averted from poor Richard. Unlocked at last, she refused to prefer charges against him and on further thought and assurance that he never had attended Harvard—forgave him. She even invited him to supper after the show.
The non-plussed theater manager produced a hack saw, but only managed to nick the creamy arm of Hollywood's most widely publicized actress. Matthews said he had sent out for a locksmith.
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