UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
Z-229
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1839.
NUMBER 32
Senate Decrees Friday Holiday
Two Plays Open Stage Season Tomorrow Night
- 'Emperor Jones' and 'My Heart's in the Highlands'
Have Attracted Large
Ticket Sale
"First night" is tomorrow night at Fraser theater, when the University dramatic season opens with two shows by Michael C. Mewburn and "My Hearts in the Highlands."
The play deals with the adventures of an American Negro convict who escapes to a West Indies island, and there sets himself up as emperor over the colored population. He then proceeds to cheat them at his own expense. The villagers aroused and he is forced to flee. Much of the action of the play takes place in the dense forest, where he is haunted by visions of the crimes he has committed. The beat of the tom-tons and the wall of the Negro chants lend to the effectiveness of the scene.
Nuckles Is Director
Rolla Nuckles, instructor in the department of speech and dramatic art, is director of the show, and plays the part of Smithers. There are 29 in the cast, and of these, 18 are Negros. Lorenzo Faul, for 40, has been a regular on seven scenes, and many weird effects are achieved.
"My Heart's in the Highlands," will be given as the second play of the evening. This Broadway hit of last season, written by William W. Cobb, has won a Grammy Award largely as a result of George Nathan's enthusiasm for the play.
This Kansas Players production carrying a cast of 24, is directed by Allan Cranston, head of the departing Seventy-Seventh Art. Seventy-Seventh for Crafton
"My Heart's in the Highlands" is the seventy-seventh play which Professor Crafton has directed since he has been at the University Much of the actiou and mood of this play is left to the director.
The action of this play revolves about a poet and his son, who attempt to live beyond reality. They are unusually successful in their attempts, though the reality of hunger forces them sometimes to buy groceries without cash. An actor in one of Ole Shakespearian act, played by Prof. Robert Calderwood, when he comes to visit the poet and his son
The presentation of two one-act plays instead of one long three-act play has not been attempted for several years. However the popularity of both of these plays promo'd as entertainment.
Advance Sales Good
The advance ticket sales have been exceptionally good, and are now ahead of last year's sales of this same time.
The best available seats at the present are for the opening night Monday, and for Thursday, Nov 2. Some seats, however, are left for Friday.
Activity tickets will not admit at the door of Fraser theater, and must be exchanged for green seats in the basement of Green hall.
The ticket office is open in the mornings from 9 a.m. to 12, and in the afternoons from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Pass Is Byword
Bridge
"Bye" was the password in the University bridge tournament yesterday as teams rested after five days of intensive competition.
First round matches will be completed Monday night. Of 50 teams entered in the meet, 10 have been eliminated. Winford Ferry, c'41, chairman of the tournament committee, announced a new ruling had been made that any team 20 minutes late must forfeit and that arrangements for postponing a match must be made at least one day before the scheduled time of playing. Remaining pairings for first round
Experts Rest a Day
Beebe To Speak Tuesday Night
play at 4:30 Monday; Hedges-Fla-
vii. Aul-Brook; Weidman-Banker
vii. Sinnage-Tate; McKay-Mallone
vii. Hansman-Bradley.
- Ocean Depths Explorer To Open Lecture Series in Hoch Auditorium
William Beeble, author and scientist, will cross-sectionalize the oceist, will cross - sectionalize the ocean depths in his lecture, the first of the year's community lecture series, in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 c'clock Tuesday evening.
The strange creatures, seen by no other man in their natural environment, are the subjects of still and moving pictures, which Doctor Beebe took through the fused quartz of his bathysphere. They will be shown in connection with his lecture here.
Tuesday, 4:30, players of the second round are: Burton-Butler vs Krause-Langworthy; Diegel-Weatherwax vs. Perry-Allen; Black-Muntford vs. Rice-Gear; Hoffman Lewis vs. Lander-Cast.
Doctor Beebe, the author of "Five Hundred Fathoms Down," and numerous other books and pamphlets will describe his adventures in seeking and cataloguing the "denizens of the deep." He used a diving bell, or "bathysphere," built to increase the depth of pressure at a depth of more than a half mile below the surface of the ocean.
Fairings for Monday evening at 7:30 are: Green-Brooks vs. William-Williams; Faulbion-Taylor vs. Feee-Houcex; Lucian Harness vs. Willingham; Billie Barker; Banker vs. Hambric-Clinger; Hoffman-Lewis vs. O'Drisher. Means
Critics have adjudged him as one of the best examples of scientist, speaker and author. He was born in Brooklyn in 1877, has received degrees in law and science, and has held positions with the foremost zoological societies of the nation.
An increased enrollment of 80 men in the R.O.T.C. this year has necessitated the acquiring of 90 additional rifles from Rock Island Arsenal Rock Island, Ill. These guns will arrive soon.
R.O.T.C. To Get Ninety New Guns
In addition the war department his provided a 16-millimeter sound machine, for which the Seventh Corps Area headquarters at Ormah, Nebo, will furnish films. Also a slide projector and silver screens are provided. This equipment will make possible a new and modern type of instruction for the military classes.
Geology Students Study Stern Oil Field Elevation
To determine the elevation of oil wells in the Stern oil field near El Dorado a class of 21 geology students and Dr. K. K. Landes, chairman, University geology department, left Friday afternoon for El Dorado.
Playing Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the second round are: Cole-Kelly vs. Johnson-Hall; Goodjohn-Lacey vs. Screnson-Johnstone; Reece-Soler vs. Fuggitt-Sussex; Poje-lupfer vs. Bommer-Willer.
The second round will begin.
Tuesday, but will be discontinued
then until Nov. 6 because of the
University play and the Cornhushb
content. This round will end
with Nov. 9; this round will begin
Nov. 8 and end Nov. 9.
Dating from 1895 to the present time, all great films of the motion picture industry are now included in the film library at the University. The film deposit is the only one west of the Mississippi and is to serve the western part of the United States.
All Great Films Now in Library At University
The University library now contains 1,800,000 feet of film. Pictures n the library are available to chools or cultural institutions, and undreeds of reels are sent out each week.
Two hundred twenty-five students and teachers from 25 high schools attended the annual Kansas State High School Debate and Speech Institute held on the Campus Friday and Saturday.
Debate Institute Draws 225 Here For Two-Day Meet
Teams from 13 schools debated the non-decision question, "Resolved: That the government shall own and operate the railroads." Teams from Chanute and Wyan-dotte gave a demonstration debate Friday afternoon, and the Fort Scott team met the University's freshman debate squad in a demonstration debate Saturday morning
If the players continue to play a their scheduled times, the contest will be over about one week before Thanksgiving vacation.
The following towns were represented by teams in the practice debates: Reading, Newton, Valley Falls, Fort Scott, Effingham, Toelae, Lawrence, Salina, Oskaloosa, Atchison and Marysville.
Varsity debate tryouts will be held Wednesday evening at 7:30 in hite Little theater of Green hall Speeches, limited to five minutes, will be on the subject "American Isolation."
"Quality of the speakers will be the basis for choosing new members," and Prof E. C. Bucher. The debate square will judge the troutys.
Possibilities for a successful debate schedule are as promising as they have been in the past according to Prof. Buehler.
Debate Tryouts
Start Wednesday
The squand will also make trips to the University of Missouri, Iowa State College, South Dakota, Oklahoma University and Kansas State College.
Chemistry Head Is Honored
★ Gold Watches Presented Dr. and Mrs. Cady by 220 at Banquet
Two hundred twenty professional men honored Dr. H. P. Cady, head of the department of chemistry, for his 40 years of service to the University and his outstanding chemical achievements during that time at a dinner Friday night in the Memoria Union building.
Doctor and Mrs. Cady were presented with gold watches by A. W. Division, professor of chemistry, in behalf of the group. Because of his intense in short wave reception, Dr. Cady was given a short wave radio wave.
Dr. E.B. Dains, professor of chemistry, was totaMaster. A congratulatory message from Chancellor Deane W. Malott was read.
Speakers on the program wert Dr. E. B. Dains, professor of chemistry; Dr. C. M. Suter, Northwestern University; Dr. Robert D. Coghil, United States department of agriculture; Dr. Robert G. O'Connor, officer of the Kansas City section of the American Chemical Society, and Professor Davidson.
H. T. Smith Talks On Geology Find
One of Kansas' most important contributions to geology was the main topic of discussion at a meeting of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, proximal to the University of Oklahoma Friday in the Men's lounge of the Memorial Union building.
Using camera slides to illustrate his talk, Dr. H, T. U. Smith, associate professor of geology, disclosed the significance of a recent discovery in Smith county made by Bernard Frazier, sculptor for Dyche museum. The excavations revealed the existence of archeologically important bison heards there about 2500 to 3500 years ago.
R. L. Grider, associate professor of engineering, gave a detailed account of the founding of Sigma Gamma Epsilon fraternity at the university where he discussed the growth of the organization nationally since that time.
The first issue of the Jayhawk,
for 1938-40 will be ready for distribution
Wednesday instead of Monday as previously announced, Chad Case, e'41, business manager, said yesterday.
But Body Kills Half-Day Recess For Hobo Parade
Jayhawker Out Wednesday
★ Nov. 3 Date Opened So Students May Attend National Cornhusking Contest Here
"No school Friday" was the decision of the University Senate last Friday but the vacation was only a half-triumph for holiday-seeking students.
When the Senate abolished classes they did the same thing with Hobo Day, and tacky clothes which formerly dignified a class-less Campus before Homecoming, will stay in the closet this year.
Friday's recess was granted in response to petitions from several Campus organizations which asked a free day Nov. 3 for the Cornhusking contest. Classes in the afternoon already had been suspended.
Hobo Day is the day before Homecoming when students become bums and the worst-dressed is kind.
P.S.G.L. To Back 5-Point Platform
F. S.G.L. freshmen announced last night they would support the following program in the Nov. 9 election:
1. Freshman caps at cost. Set up a committee to recommend a method of selling freshman caps.
2. A real Freshman Frolic—a dinner dance for freshmen only during December. 3. Recommendations for the Memorial Union building; a. Enlarge the facilities of the recreation room. b. Reduce the cost of pool games. c. Install a bowling alley. d. Library open on Sunday nights. 5. An independent student quiz file. 6. Incorporation of more information for freshmen on extra-curricular activities in the K-Book.
Elmo Maiden, P.S.G.L. candidate for president of the freshman class said, "With this practical and workable platform and a slate of independent, qualified candidates, the freshman P.S.G.L. council feels that it has presented to the independent freshmen the type of organization he will want to support in the election Nov. 9."
Mrs. Moody Marries
Las Vegas, Nev. Oct. 28—(UAP) Helen Wills Moody, former tennis champion and Adrian Rourke, polie player, eloped late today.
Storer Takes Pictures During Lunar Blackout
Last eclipse of the moon until 1941 occurred Friday night, beginning at 10:54 p.m. and continuing until 2:18 o'clock a.m. The maximum of the eclipse was reached at 12:28, when orbit of the satellite was blackened.
Clear weather here made observation of the successive stages of the lunar body through the earth's shadow favorable. Although the University observatory was not open to the public, the naked eye served almost as well as a telescope.
Dr. N Wyman Storer, professor of astronomy at the University photographed the eclipse.
Radford Named Intramural Head
★ Nire Others Are Chosen For Student Board To Supervise Sports
Earl Radford, b'40, has been selected as senior manager of the recently established Student Intramural Managerial System which has been discontinued since 1934-1935. Dr. E. R. Elber, director of intramuraals, announced yesterday. Other managers of the system are: Lee Huddleton, b'41; George Cheatham, c'41; Maurice Baringer, c'42; Larry Smith, c'42; Bill Collison, c'42; ConRoel Voerner, c'42; Bob Knox, c'45; Rex Watkins, c'43; and Bob McCarty, c'43.
Re-establishment of the board is due to the efforts of Doctor Elbe, and a committee from the Men's Financial support from the council.
Managers for the system were selected by Doctor Elbeel, the M.S.C. committee, and Jim Raport, physical education instructor. Duties of the board include keeping individual records, assisting the faculty, assisting in all mechanics of administration of the program, and arranging schedules for games.
Doctor Elbel said, "I was very impressed with the apparent high calibre of the applicants chosen. The task of the committee in making the selections was a difficult one. I have absolute confidence that this board of managers as chosen will make an outstanding contribution to the men's intramural program."
Advancement of the managers will be decided on the basis of interest and industry, he said.
A Directory Monday
Student directories will be available at the registrar's office in Frank Strong hall, starting Monday morning at 8 o'clock. The office closes at noon and reopens at 1:30 p.m. Students may call at the office for their copies of the directory.
Four Booths For University At Big Contest
- Students Will Play Large
Part in Success of Three-
Day Program for Corn-
husking Event
The crimson and blue will fly over four combined booths at the Resource-Full Kansas exhibit to be held here Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in connection with the National Cornhuskong Contest.
A crimson outline of the University Campus against a blue profile will form the background for the booths, according to Verner F. Smith, associate professor of architecture and director of the University exhibit. The central attraction of the booth will be the automatic baliopter which will show 70 slides of Campus scenes and student activity. Two University students will be present at all times to add sidelights and explanations to the pictures.
To Extract New Vitamin
At one end of the booth the School of Pharmacy will demonstrate the extracting of a newly-discovered vitamin from alfalfa which is a preventative of the common cold.
At the opposite end of the booth the School of Education will demonstrate a muromcope, a device for aiding slow readers.
The following static exhibits will occupy the remainder of the booth: department of architecture, building model; department of drawing and painting; paintings; department of bacteriology, cultures of bacteria found on the grounds; department of botany, wood comparison—prepared for demonstration—model of civil engineering, steel truss model; department of electrical engineering, strobezoo (color wheel); department of entomology, butterfly and beetle exhibit; department of mechanical engineering, working model of steam engine; School of Medicine, model of human eye and heart; department of psychology, human behavior chart; and the department of zoology, comparative skeletons of man and apes.
Oven at 9 A.M.
The exhibit will be open from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m., until 6 p.m. Friday. There will be no admission either at the gate or the individual exhibits, accring to Dr. R. C. Moore, professor of geology and director of the exhibit.
Members of the R.O.T.C. may volunteer as honor guards for the National Cornhusking Contest. Two or three men, in uniform, are designed to accompany each of the 22 contestants.
Volunteers will have to be at the field by 9 a.m. and serve until 105 p.m. at which time they may go to the stadium for the Kansas State game. Ushers and stilten for the
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Barn Dance Winds Up Folk Festival As Students Cut Old-Time Figures
Three hundred disciples of the old-fashioned folk dances wound up the last session of the Folk Festival last night with a rip-snorting Barn Dance in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building.
The dances used last night seemed to prove that jitterbugging is not a
To Kiss a Miss Is Bliss After You Read This
Editor's Note: The following article was written by a student in rhetoric as a class assignment. It is published with her permis-
By Mary Helen Huff, c.14
To kiss or not to kiss a man good-night is not the question. The problem lies in the method of doing it.
If a fellow is taller than you, you can tilt your face up and lower your eyelashes.
You then gently in the breeze shaven a glamour-girl effect. It really
takes a perfected technique to create the same effect on a fellow your own height, for as you stand there glaring in the him face that fragile effect is gone. To kiss a boy shorter than you, it is better to be sitting down, or have a stool handy for him to hop on. In the latter case it is possible to bend your knees—if no one is standing behind you. Even a sidewise tilt of the head will give the same effect without the resultant crick in the back.
My problem, however, is usually
reaching the portion of the male anatomy which one usually kisses "goodnight." In a situation like this it is usually best to say the sweet word on the front steps for obvious reasons, as a single step adds at least six inches to my five feet and no inches.
A possibility always exists that your date doesn't, or hasn't, given you any desire to be kissed. In this event the usual method is to stall until time to dash into the house. This leaves the man in a frustrated
mood which he will be anxious to erase by coming back again. Another way to preserve your lipstick is to develop a sudden interest in the scenery turning your head rapidly from one side to the other until the boy gets dizzy and goes home. When you turn around, the anmused interest in the wooing of couples about you as they whisper sweet nothes in each others ears.
If you are an introvert and "vant to be alone" with the man, something which is impossible to find
around a sorority house at closing hours, it is best to do your "good-nighting" before you get home.
Taking everything into consideration, it's really "not what you do but the way that you do it."
Undoubtedly the way to settle the question for good, and your dating-hash also, is to run into the house slamming the door when the matter is brought up. This will probably prevent you from seeing this particular man again unless you have a class with him.
Representatives from nearly every Hill organization took part in the festival. Men were scarce at the morning part of the celebration,
Decorations had a country motif, with shocks of corn and hay placed generously about the balcony. Ted West and his Kaw Valley Ranch Bogs furnished the rural rhythm for the schottie, polks, round and square dances that made up the program for the evening.
The dance festival started yesterday morning with over 100 couples, mostly women, taking instruction in folk dancing, square dancing, and round dancing from Dr. Anne Schley Dugan, chairman of the department of physical education at Texas State College for Women.
new craze but an old one returned, perhaps in a crazier vein. Some of the couples found it difficult to distinguish between folk dancing and the modern steps. The Beer Barrel Polka seemed most popular with the crowd, everyone entered into its hopping and jumping with a relish.
evidently sending their dates to get instructions for them. Both young and old took part in the celebration of the old days. Rev. Joseph King, pastor of the Congregational church was dancing the Beer Barrel yesterday morning with unconcealed pleasure.
Doctor Duggan had the couples learning the dances of nearly all nations. The dauseuse introduced a dance which was not a dance but a "folk song," so named because its originators objected to dancing and sought to hide their sin by naming it a "singer game."
More decorum was practiced at the Barn Dance last night than at the usual Kansas barn dance, probably because Doctor Duggan was a better master of ceremonies than the national country "a n'ce caller."
Barn dancing may have gone out with the turn of the century, but it came back, if but momentarily, at Mount Owen over the weekend.