UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NUMBER 90.
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1940.
Choose Two New W.S.G.A. Members
Two new members were chosen to the W.S.G.A. in the first meeting of the semester last night in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
Helen Johnson, c'41, and Jean Steele, c'41, were installed as new members replacing Jean Aumiller, c'41, and Winifred Jameson, b'40, who resigned. Jean Steele is the new secretary.
"The W.S.G.A. is very pleased with the results of the point system," said Velma Wilson, c40, president, referring to the measure passed whereby University girls are limited in their activities. "Blanks have been passed out to sororities and already it has had the effect of bringing more women into activities."
The K book bill introduced by Mens Student Council Monday at its meeting was discussed. The principal change would be in the amount of appropriation which the bill, if passed, would lessen the surplus now present.
The Association voted to support a Far Eastern drive on the campus this year.
Discussion was held on the advisability of cooperating with the convocation committee and the M.S.C. in presenting a vocational guidance program. No decision was reached.
W. S.G.A. election will be held March 7. The newly elected president with Velma Wilson, retiring president, will be delegates to the national convention at Iowa City, Iowa, in April.
No Radical Change In Enrollment Figures Expected
Two hundred and ten new students have registered for the spring semester, slightly under the number enrolling last year at this time, George O. Foster, registrar, announced yesterday morning.
No great increase or decrease in present enrollment figures is expected, Foster said. The enrollment for the fall semester was 4,637 by Nov. 1. Complete data cannot be obtained until March when all fees have been paid.
Weather Forecast for general fair and slightly warmer tomorrow.
In Today's Paper Thumbdex
Society ... Page 2
Simon and Sports ... Page 4
Editorials ... Page 6
Harry Hill's Column ... Page 6
On the Shin ... Page 7
No Club
No Award,
No Story!
E. W. Whitman, 3200 Warwick, Kansas City, Mo., last night denied the existence of "Kansas City's League of Admirers of Redheaded Women," which supposedly elected Betty Jane Boddington, c'40, "1940's Most Fascinating Woman," an annual Valentine's day award of the organization.
Miss Buddington said today she was unacquainted with either Whitman or the organization. According to a local newspaper which last night carried a story with a Kansas City dateline, Whitman was credited with having announced the award.
Whitman last night telegraphed the Kansan as follows: "Kindly kill Betty Jane Boddington story. No such organization exists."
The story to which Whitman referred follows:
"Kansas City, Feb. 13—'1940's Most Fascinating Redhead," that was the title voted last night to Miss Betty Jane Boddington, University of Kansas senior, by Kansas City's League of Admirers of Redheaded Women.
"E. W. Whitman, president of the organization, announced this annual Valentine's day award immediately following last night's meeting. Miss Boddington's home is at 1830 Washington boulevard, Kansas City, Kan. She is a member of Gamma Phi Beta.
"In announcing '1940's Most Fascinating Redhead,' Whitman commented on the unusually large number of girls mentioned for the honor this year, and said that Kansas City unquestionably had more than its share of beautiful redheaded women."
Work Progresses On Brynwood Tunnel
Work has been progressing rapidly on the public utility service tunnel, which is to connect Brynwood Place and Spooner-Thayer museum, according to buildings and grounds officials of the University. No definite date can be set for the completion of the project because of the uncertainty of mid-winter weather.
Dance Pass War Looms As Littooy, Councils Clash
Another dance manager-student council scrap loomed today. as Fred Littoo announced that no passes for the Junior Prom would be issued to members of the M.S.C. and W.S.G.A.
Litttoy told C. H. Mullen, president of the M.S.C., today that if Council members wanted to hear Jimmy Dorsey's music March 9, they would have to shell out $2.00 like the rest of the student body. Mullen refused to comment.
By Jim Bell, c'40
That Man Again--- Schiller Shore Art Exhibit Has No Nudes
that limited the use of Council passes to one's enrollment in the University.
Litttooy said yesterday that the contract signed with Dorsey specifically states that only bona fide press passes would be recognized. Anyone else seeking admission to the dance must pay hard cash, Littooy added.
The news hit the meeting of the W.S.G.A. last night with bombshell force, creating a rumpus which nearly broke up the conference. One member said today that if Littooy, or the M.S.C., attempted to forbid use of passes for the Prom, the W.S.G.A. would institute proceedings to nullify the recently enacted law
Heavy ticket sales for the annual Kansas - Missouri basketball game here March 1 have made it imperative for students without tickets to get them immediately if they desire to see the game.
Ducats for M.U. Game Are Few
"Marijuana Madonna," a printers ink painting of a Madonna with a half burned cigarette loosely hung from one corner of an expressionless mouth on a distorted face is one of the features of the Schiller Shore annual one-man art exhibit now on display in the newsroom of the Journalism building.
This morning only 175 reserved seat tickets remained, according to E. L. Falkenstein, secretary of the athletic association. After the reserved tickets have been exhausted, general admission tickets will be sold for the top balcony.
By game time only standing room will be available, Falkenstein estimated. As standing room is limited, it appears that the game, always a big attraction, will be a sellout.
The expression of the figure in this painting is somewhat baffling to everyone except the artist. It hints of honorable intentions toward no one or an at- $ ^{*} $
Perhaps criminal instinct was the power motivating Shore, the Bene-
titude denoting preference to fiddling in Rome rather than taking music lessons from the angels.
dict Arnold of the camel hair art,
in creating "his masterpiece."
Another work of note in the Shore collection is "Kansaicana." In this painting, which employs the University colors as a background, a
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Movie Moguls After Johnsons
Doris, c'40, and Helen Johnson, c'41, were recently interviewed by the Kansas City department of Twentieth Century Fox motion Pie-
Helen Johnson, c'41
ture company, with the possibility that the much-publicity sisters may be offered a chance at movie contracts.
Miss Doris Johnson, the brunette of the pair, said today that she and her sister might be given a trip to Hollywood this summer, but no contracts had been offered.
'Coed Confessions To Spice Next Owl Says Robertson
Editor Jimmy Robertson announced today that the Sour Owl would expose what he termed "sensational facts" concerning the life of University women in a series entitled "Confessions of a Coe."
Robertson said the series was being prepared by staff writers from material obtained from the diary of a Hill sorority woman who is still in school. The first of the articles will appear in the next issue of the Owl, Feb. 24.
There will be a 50 cent a day fine for late fee payments.
'QualityStreet Termed Best Play of Year
By Christopher Vanderveer
"This present production," it reads, "is entirely the work of Robert Calderwood and Don Dixon."
An explanatory note on the printed program for James Barrie's "Quality Street", which opened in Fraser theater last night, might indicate that someone was anxious not to share any of the blame for the local production of the play.
If any one did hear that the play would be a flop he may rest easy for last night's large audience took the play to its heart, laughed at it and even saw the delicate, pointed satire that Brother Barrie had woven into the romantic, four-act comedy-drama.
Jack Nelson Shines
Professors Calderwood and Dixon are hereby granted a loud huzza for directing and staging what many in the audience (and we too) termed the best "play of the year."
Jack Nelson was easily the star of last night's show as the "gallant" Valentine Brown. His part fitted him perfectly; much better than his two costumes, the sleeves of which failed to cover completely the two long Nelson arms. The part of Valentine Brown is a difficult one. He has dozens of long, flowery speeches which, to put across to a modern audience, require an inspired reading. Nelson did it and not once did he let the play down.
A new Mary Noel greeted the first-nighters. She put a fire into her part last night such as she never has lighted before. Her part was that of a female Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde. In the first act she was young vivacious Phoebe Throssel. In act two she had aged many years and was Miss Throssel, a puritanical old maid school teacher. In acts three and four she impersonated a fictitious flirtatious niece and appeared also as the old maid.
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Plan Quiz Section For English Exam
Preparatory class for those planning to take the proficiency examination in the spring will be held on Tuesdays at 1:30 in room 308 Fraser hall. The class is under the direction of Mrs. Genevieve Cain from the Correspondence Study bureau. Prof. John Virtue, chairman of the committee on proficiency examinations, urges that all students interested in the class should plan to attend regularly.