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SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940.
Scabbard and Blade Elects 14
Best Dancers From Middle West Grad's Troupe Here Soon
"Although the two coasts are the centers of modern dancing in this country, most of the dancers come from midwestern and western states," declared Alice Sherbon who will present her troupe of eight in a program in Hoch auditorium April 2.
versity, Haskel Institute, Lawrence and Kansas City, and were chosen for their quality and type of movement.
gram in Hoch auditorium April 2.
Miss Sherbon, who left the University in 1930, came back to Kansas after appearing with Martha. Graham, well-known modern dancer in New York, because she feels that all dancing should not be concentrated in certain section of the country. Her group includes students from the University, Harkel Institute, Lawrence
Feeling that most people try to read deep meanings into modern dances, Miss Sherben says the dancer expresses the essence of emotion in order that the spectator may interpret it in the light of his own personal experience.
"Most people will read deep meanings into a dance trying to understand what he means, when instead they should apply the emotion expressed to their own lives and experiences.
"Dancers use movement as the medium of expression as musicians use sound," explained Miss Sherbon. "That is why we do not interpret music. The composition of the dance must stand by itself without leaning on another art, because
most music doesn't leave room for the dance. We first compose the dance and then find the accompaniment for it."
Miss Sherbon and her troupe, who have worked together for three years, plan to present programs in the various towns and cities of the Middle West after the initial program in Hoch auditorium. "Then," she says, "We hope to go to New York for a time."
The program, to be given here, was worked out by this slim dark woman who also designed the costumes and scored the music. None of the dances tell a complete narrative; instead they are her comments upon the life of today. The suite occupying the feature spot on the program, is one of five dances built around five of the elements which have gone into the making of midwestern culture.
Campus Movie Makers Have Name Trouble
Nestled among the rafters, beams, and uprights in the attic above Fraser theater, is a motion picture studio complete with two indoor sets, a director who chews cigars, and trouble.
Who the Heck Is Who?--time, Cinematographer Art Wolf, 1-43, lost the list of names that was the only key to the identity of those who appeared in the tests. Prof. Crafton would recognize the faces of his stars, but the names would be unfamiliar.
"Name trouble" is the most troublesome of those troubling the troubled producer-director-writer, Prof. Allen Crafton. His company hasn't a name. It is about to begin production of a story film that has no title. And although the cast has been chosen, names of the stars are unknown.
In true Hollywood fashion, screen tests were given all movie-struck aspirants. Likewise in true Hollywood fashion, a delay followed. During the delay, Director Crafton selected the cast. But in the meantime, Cinematographer Art Wolf, 1-43, lost the list of names that was the only key to the identity of those who appeared in the tests. Prof. Crafton would recognize the faces of his stars, but the names would be unfamiliar.
Authorized Parties
Friday, March 28, 1940
Gaumia Phi Beta, Dance at Union
Ballroom, 12:00 p.m.
Independent Student Association,
Dance at Kansas Room of Union,
12:00 p.m.
Kappa Sigma, Party at Chapter House, 12:00 p.m.
Udahunted by all his troubles, however, Prof. Crafton goes on with work in the studio. One of the interior sets is that of a boy's room, and right across what might be a hall is a girl's room. They will both be used in the forthcoming propaganda picture that the company is making to show a 20-minute version of four years at the University. Prof Crafton says he didn't write the story—it just came to him.
Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser of
Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser of Women, for the Joint Committee of Student Affairs.
Debs Scare Harvard Frosh
Cambridge, Mass. (U.P.)—Debutantes apparently frighten freshmen at Harvard University. In filing applications with a date bureau, most of the freshmen reported the "debutantes have been around too much. We are not sophisticated enough to handle them."
Within a few days, Director Crafton plans to start shooting, but before he ever shouts, "Camera! Action!" the problem of "Who is in the show?" must be solved.
Spring hats become less extreme as typified by this wide-brinmed sailor.
Prof. H. L. Smith----
(Continued from page one) interest in planes. In fact, at one point he left college and tried to get into an Army flying school; but his eyes were not good enough, and he had to become a bleacher pilot. So he returned to college—he was a Yale undergraduate at the time—and received his degree in 1929.
His story of air travel, the outgrowth of his early interest in flying and his journalist's training, was first conceived as his dissertation for the doctor's degree. But Professor Smith found even more, and more exciting, material than he had expected; hence the full-length story on which he is now engaged. Some of his information he has dug up in the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution; more of it has come from conversations with men who were active in the early days of American flying--among them Orville Wright, a number of oldtime flyers, members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and government executives. Professor Smith's book is consequently one which could have been written only at this time, when air travel has become a well-organized business, and when those who took the first uncertain steps along the way are still alive to supply their unwritten memories of its beginnings.
Thereafter, he became a reporter working for newspapers in Canton and Cleveland, Ohio, and in Tacoma, Washington. Of the end of this episode, Professor Smith says: "After six years of newspaper work, I decided to become a teacher so that I could write the things I never could write as a reporter." He became an instructor and graduate student at Wisconsin in 1935, and came to the University the following year.
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Janes Install Officers; Other Society News
Virginia Gray, c'41 Kansan Society Editor
The military influence on the campus makes itself known again with the announcement of the newly elected pledges to the Scabbard and Blade, honorary officers' organization in the R.O. T.C. The informal initiation for the sixteen new members will be held April 6.
The men elected are: W. E. Benkleman, c'41; Don Boardman, c'41; Jerald Boynton, e'42; D. W. Luehring, c'42; F. T. Luke, e'41; L. S. Nelson, c'41 Ed Poole, b'41; R. H. Price, c'41; H. E. Smith, e'41; R. F. Stadler, c'41; F. E. Totten, c'41; J. B. Johnson, c'41; Sam Forsyth, c'41; and G. S. Rice, e'40.
Installation of Jay Jane officers was held yesterday afternon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union building. The retiring president, Maurine Mong, c'40, was in charge of installation of the following officers: Ruth Spencer, c'41, president, Dorothy Weidmann, c'41, vice-president, Emily Jean Milan, c'42, secretary, Sarilou Smart, c'41, treasurer, Genevieve Harmon, c'42, social chairman and Audene Fausett, fa'41, notification chairman.
Julietta Jarvis is a weekend guest at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house.
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Kappa Alpha Theta sorority announces the engagement of Jayne Montgomery, '33, of Kansas City, Mo. to Jasper Mesmore, also of Kansas City, Mo. Mesmore is a graduate of Purdue University, and a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
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Dinner guests at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity yesterday were (Continued on page three)
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Set Deadline For Jayhawker Beauty Contest
Applications for Jayhawker beauty queen must be in the office not later than Monday, April 15, Richard MacCann, c'40, editor of the Jayhawker, announced today.
From the photographs submitted, fifteen candidates will be chosen. Hixon's studio will take special pictures of these candidates from which some expert will choose the queen and her attendants.
Any woman on the campus is eligible to enter if she submits a photograph or has some other person enter the photograph.
Tables Turned On "Dead End Kid"
By United Press
Hollywood—Leo Gorcey, one of the "Dead End Kids" reported to the sheriff's office today that three chromium hubcaps had been stolen from the wheels of his new convertible coupe.
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