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SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1940
Full Social Weekend On Tap
Motion Picture Will Change Dress Styles
Fort Worth, Texas—"Gone With The Wind", the motion picture that is attracting attention all over the country may be responsible for a new trend in women's fashions, it was predicted here at a spring and summer style show and market conducted by the National Fashion Exhibitors. The hour glass figure, hoop-skirts, and flowing gowns were featured at the show.
Tight-laced corsets of the nineteenth century found little response when an attempt was made to revive them last year, but the fashion experts said the women will strive for the pinched-waist effect without the traditional discomfort. Bathing suits, sun suits and slacks will be more feminine.
Gowns will have small high waists, draped fullness and "sweetheart" necklaces, the exhibit here revealed. Evening gowns will revive the hoop-skirt effect in crinoline; with a rival trend of sophisticated figure-fitting jerseys, peasant blouses and harem skirts.
Full skirts, although still abbreviated, will replace shorts in many play suits. Bathing suits will be streamlined but many will have matching circular skirts and fitted jackets.
Women who attended the exhibit here said that street and business clothing had a "fullness which has been lacking for years" and that the new summer styles would have trimmings with unusual feminine appeal.
Dave Robins, of Dallas, well-known southwest milliner, said that the influence of "Gone With the Wind" and Scarlett O'Hara has been felt also in women's hats. Dressy straws with flowers and veiling are the most popular type hats for next summer, he said.
Today
Authorized Parties---
Pi Kappa Alpha, dance at chapter house, 12 p.m.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, dance at Union building, 12 p.m.
Watkins hall, dance at the hall,
12 p.m.
| Wesley Foundation, skating party at the church and rink, 12 p.m.
Fireside Forum, dance and penny carnival at the Congregational Church at 12 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 10, 1940
Phi Gamma Delta, dance at chapter house, 12 p.m.
Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser of Women for the joint committee for student affairs
Christian Church Forum, skating party at the rink, 12 p.m.
I. S.A., dance at the Union ball-zoom, 12 p.m.
This gown will make evening history with its wasp-waist, bornewed from Scarlett O'Hara, its square neckline and its rich satin fabrics.
Oh, Johnny! Oh, Johnny! Bonnie Baker's Hit Song Was a Flop in 1917
"Oh, Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh," a song that has been on every juke box on the Hill for many months, was a flop for several weeks when it appeared in 1917.
This song, now known all over the country due to the singing of "wee" Bonnie Baker and Orrin Tucker's orchestra, was ignored by audiences who first heard it.
A month or two later it began to go over with the same people who first turned it down. More than 1,002,000 copies were sold.
Last spring in Chicago Orrin Tucker wanted to feature Bonnie Baker in a number at the Palmer House. One day he was whistling a song that he used to hear his mother sing. It was "Oh Johnny." The next step was to find a copy of the song which had almost completely disappeared. Finally one copy was found and he decided that it fit the shy voice of Bonnie.
On KFKU---
2:30 Introduction to the Vocational Guidance Program. Mr. W. T. Markham, Supervisor of Occupational Information and Guidance, State Board for Vocational Education.
Friday-Feb.9
2:45 Violin Recital, Eugene Ninninger, studio Karl Kuersteiner.
6:00 University of Kansas Mens' Glee Club, directed by Joseph Wilkins.
The rest of the story is history. The song spread over the country in a flood of popularity. It was one of the first 10 on "The Hit Parade" and the disc and sheet music sale is said to have broken many records.
The music was written by Abe Olman of New York and the lyrics by the late Ed Rose.
Representatives of women's intramural teams received entry blanks for the spring sports, deck tennis, swimming, and ping pong yesterday.
Spring Sports Blanks to Coeds
Swimming meets will take place Feb. 21, 22, and 28. Dates for deck tennis and ping pong matches have not been announced.
The basketball tournament is still in progress. Games between E.T.C. and I.W.W., Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Delta Pi will be played Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 9 p.m. Kappa Kappa Gamma will play Gamma Phi Beta, and Watkins hall will play Corbin hall Thursday, Feb. 16 at 9 p.m.
Phi Gam Pig Dinner Set For Tomorrow Night
By Virginia Gray, c'41 Kansan Society Editor
Society life on the Hill will be under full swing this week with several dances scheduled each night. The Pi K. A.'s costumed Twelfth Street party, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon's InterFraternity Ball are tonight.
Saturday, the I.S.A. is combining politics with pleasure at its dance in the Memorial Union ballroom, when it will hold an election to select a new president and a supporting cabinet. Eilil's to Fat Pig
Fiji's to Eat Pig
One of the oldest traditions that belong to the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity will be reenacted Saturday night at the chapter house when members, their dates, and alumni hold the annual Pig Dinner. This dinner, one of the most formal of the entire
about 160 persons from Lawrence and the surrounding towns.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Crafton, Mrs.
N. M. Hopkins and Mrs. W. Y. Morgan will act as chaperons. Mrs.
Morgan has been at the Pig Dinner every year since it started. Her husband was the first student to pledge Phi Gamma Delta at the University and he became known as the father of this chapter.
The seven-course dinner will be opened ceremoniously as Lee Pitts, head waiter at all Pig Dinners, carves the head from the whole roast pig and passes it on a platter around the tables, to be kissed on the nose by all present. The tail will then be removed and presented to the youngest at the party, and the pig then will be sliced and passed to the guests.
Music will be furnished during and after dinner by Clyde Smith and his band.
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Jean Brock, fa 43, was a dinner guest last night at the Pi Beta Phi sorority.
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Virginia Bantleon, c'43, was a guest for dinner last night at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Dinner guests last night at the Kappa Sigma fraternity were Paul
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Three Staff Members Will Attend Lecture
Three members of the University staff and a Lawrence surgeon will attend the William W. Root lecture to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Children's Pavilion auditorium of the University of Kansas hospitals at Kansas City. They are: Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the student health service; Prof. O. O. Stoland, chairman of the department of physiology; Prof. Parke Woodard, associate professor in the department of physiology; and Dr. M. T. Sudler, local physician.
The lecture will be given by Dr. Franklin G. Ebaugh, director of the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital in Denver, Colo., and his subject is "The Psychoneuroses in the General Practice of Medicine."
Extension Division Holds Party
Member of the administrative staff of the Extension Division held an informal party at Evan's Hearth last night. Suggestions of Valentine's day were carried out in the table decorations.
Chancellor and Mrs. Deane Malott were guests.