EDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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High School Speech Meet Here Soon
Students from 35 Kansas high schools will participate in the Speech and Dramatics Festival to be held at the University March 29 and 30. The Festival, which is sponsored by the department of speech and dramatic art and the extension division, will cover contests in readings, after-dinner speeches, original orations, standard orations, extempore speaking, onecter plays, and drama drama.
Friday night the University dramatics club will present the play "Holiday" for the contestants in Fresno theater. A general opening will follow. Judges for the contests will be members of the University faculty. Students participating in the Festival will be housed at organized houses and approved coming houses.
Friday 2:30, Standard Orations,
Class A and B, 306 F.; Original orations,
Class B and C. 216 F.
the schedule for the speech divisions is as follows:
Saturday 9:00, Readings, Class B,
313 F.; After-dinner speeches, Class A
205 F.; Readings, Class C, 306 F;
standard orations, Class C, 210 F;
200; After-dinner speeches, Class B
and C, 210 F.; Extempore speeches,
Class B, 313 F.; Original orations,
Class A, 206 F.; Readings, Class A,
Little theater of Green hall; Extempore
speeches, Class B and C, 306 F;
Extempore speeches, Class A, 205 F.
Radio dramas will be presented
friday afternoon and Saturday
during in the studio of radio station
KKFU on the following schedule:
Friday: 2:30 Ottawa, 6:00 Wyant,
Jette, 6:40 Yates Center; Saturday
norning: 9:00 Bonner Springs, 9:20
Turner, 9:40 Council Grove, 10:00
Valley Falls, 11:30 Washington Rural,
11:50 Holton, 12:10 Effingham, 12:30
ola, 12:50 Ellinwood.
Columbia Geologist To Lecture Here Tomorrow, Friday
"Geology and Strategy in the Present War" is the first of three subjects Prof. Douglas Johnson, chairman of the department of geology at Columbia University, will discuss here tomorrow and Friday. The first talk will be given at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon in room 101, Haworth hall.
At 8 p.m. Professor Johnson will discuss the "Mysterious Craters on the Carolina Coast" before the Sigma Xi fraternity in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall. These "craters," or depressions are very numerous in that area and there are several theories among geologists as to their probable origin.
The last talk, "Is the Atlantic Coast Sinking," will be given at 9:30 Friday morning in room 101 Haworth hall.
The plays presented by the two class A high schools, Ottawa and Wyandotte, will be broadcast.
The schedule for the one-act play is:
Friday: Class A-2:00, Atchison; 2:40, Wyandotte; 3:20, Lawrence; 4:00, Russell. Saturday: 9:00, Manhattan; 9:40, Ottawa; 12:20, Leavenworth. These will be held in the high school auditorium.
Friday: Class B—2:00, Council Grove; 2:40, Valley Falls; 3:25, Washington Rural; 4:10, Rosedale; 5:00, Yates Center. Saturday: 9:00, Effingham; 9:40, Paola; 10:20, Ellinwood; 11:00, Bonner Springs; 11:40, Osawatomy; 12:20, Turner. Class B plays will be given in Fraser Theater.
Friday: Class C—2:00, Oreac Training school; 2:30, Lansing; 3:10, Linwood; 3:50, Overbrook; 4:30, Washington. Saturday: 9:00, Oskaloosa; 9:40, Troy; 10:20, DeSoto; 11:00, Webber. These plays will be presented in the Little theater of Green hall.
The winners in each class in the one-act play contest will present their plays at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon in Fraser theater.
All sessions of the Festival are open to the public.
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Especially large was the sale of tickets to the children's matinee of "Treasure Island." About 50 school children from Bonner Springs witnessed the performance, and delegations from other neighboring towns also attended.
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" was given this afternoon and John Gray Crump's adaptation of "Robin Hood" will be presented beginning at 8 o'clock tonight. The story of "Robin Hood" will be told in three acts with eight scenes and 20 characters.
On the HILL—Just back of HARZFELD'S
The entire Tony Sarg company, including four young actors, who speak the lines and pull the strings and more than 40 puppets, arrived in Lawrence this morning.
The troupe carries a specially built stage 10 feet square and 18 feet high. Each marionette is equipped with 22 to 28 strings and is about 24 inches high.
Because of the great demand for tickets to today's afternoon and evening performances of the Tony Sarg Marionettes, the shows have been moved from Fraser theater to the larger auditorium of Lawrence Liberty Memorial high school, Dean D. M. Swarthout announced this morning.
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Marionettes Go To High School
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nouncement by George Rippey, head of the engineering council. At the end of last week, students in the department of electrical engineering led in the number of tickets sold. An intra-school ticket sale contest is sponsored each year by the engineering council.
In addition to Mr. Howard's address, Dean Ivan C. Crawford, head of the School of Engineering will
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make the official presentation of the gold honor keys to the 13 members of the engineering council. The remainder of the program will consist of musical selections both individual and from the entire group.
Society---night when they will hold a Leap Year dance in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
(Continued from page 2) Thompson is also the national president of the Illinois Alumni Association and, in that capacity, he has been touring the West to meet with Illinois Alumni Clubs.
There will be no midweek tonight, according to Leo Johnstone, head of the Memorial Union activities committee.
Evelyn Smith of Salina and Bob Crockett, c'42, were luncheon guests at the Chi Omega house yesterday.
Harold Wayman of Coffeyville was a dinner guest of Phi Delta Theta fraternity last night.
I. S.A. women will have a chance to get even with their dates Friday
Admission will be ten cents for women stages and twenty cents for couples. I. S. A. membership cards and activity books will be required for admittance. Only women will be admitted as stags; they will be the only ones allowed to cut during the dance.
After the party the men will be escorted home in time for their closing hours.
Gamma Phi's have changed their annual spring formal party from Saturday night to Friday night. The change was necessitated by the University-Indiana basketball game scheduled for Saturday.
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The dance will still be held in the Memorial Union ballroom from 9 to 12 p.m. The engagement with Clyde Smith has been cancelled and Clyde Bysom will play.
Decorations have been prepared by the newly-initiated pledge class and will remain a surprise for actives until their arrival at the party Friday night.
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