UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
Hofmann Plays Second Concert In Auditorium
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1930
★ Captures Imagination of Large Audience With Music of His Polish Countrymen
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By John Randolph Tye, c.39
A short, squat little man patterned out on the platform, seated himself at the piano, and for two hours with the magic and fire of his fingers captured the rumpled exquisit audien t which crowded Hoch audien last night to hear him.
Himself a Pole, Hofmann was an ideal interpreter for an all-Chopin program. By birth and temperament, he seemed able to recapture and vivify with raucen the dreamy romantic nature and the undercurrent of melancholy which is the music of Chopin.
The poignant genius of the Pole who looked into the human heart and produced the G minor Ballade could not have found a better exponent than in Josef Hofmann, who last night made his second appearance on the University Concert course.
An all-Chopin program is no longer a novelty in the musical world although they are still rare enough in the Mid-west to make the event a memorable one, especially so if the artist is a man of Hoffmann's calibre. An evening of music by the same composer is apt to be tense—, but Hoffmann so admirably arranged his program that polonaise with him, majors with ballads, that he was able to bring out with startling contrast the originality and many-sidedness of the Polish composer.
All-Chopin Program
In his performance, the artist avoided on one hand the sickly, sentimental approach to Chopin which is so often heard, and on the other, the overly virile and rugged interpretations which of late seem to have found favor in the concert ball.
Plays Ballade in G Minor
The program began with the Polonaise Fantasie, one of the lesser known pieces. The rest of the first group was devoted to the Impromptu in A flat. It consists of the C major, and the famous Ballade in G minor.
It was in this, the Premier Ballade, that the artist first manifested the magical technique and deep tenderness that was to follow. From the large beginning, through the exquisite lyric passages, to the brilliant ending. Holding the flourish, the deep tenderness, and a preciseness of loveliness which the composer himself could scarcely have realized.
After a short pause, the artist returned to the stage to play the Sonata in B minor. He played the work with no pauses between the various movements. He infused the first movement, allegro maestoso, with the impression of magnitude and majesty which contrasted favorably to the melodic pattern which followed.
The second movement, Scherzo molto vivares, was replete with runs, moat of the work being executed by the left hand. The large introduced a mood of mournful solemnity, and the finale suggested a return to the original theme, rhythmic and melodic.
After the intermission, Hofmann returned to play the Polonaise in C sharp minor, displaying a brisk firmness of touch which accentuated the tension. Then followed the well-known Grande Valse Brillante, the only representative of Chopin's waltzes on the program. This was followed by the Nocturne in E major, plays with deflated coloration of the strings and beauty of the program concluded with the Sheerzo in C sharp minor.
The Steinway used by Hofman is his own private piano and is shipped everywhere he goes. He even carries his own tuner with him in order to see that it is in perfect shape.
ON THE SHIN
Freshman Robert Taylor is presented with this week's laurea (Continued on page two)
by jimmy robertson
Captures Audience--
He presented an ideal interpretation of Chopin's works in Hoch auditorium last night.
Y.W.C.A. Cabinet Officers Named
★ Present Cabinet Assists President in Selecting New Staff Members
The new Y.W.C.A. cabinet for 1939-40 has just been announced by "Eddie" Parks, c'40, president of the organization. The selection was made by the president in consultation with Ellen Payne, general secretary, acting upon suggestions made by the present cabinet.
The other officers of the Y.W.C.A are Mary James, c'42, vice-president Joan Moorehead, c'42, secretary; and Viliol Knoche, c'41, treasurer.
The cabinet members selected for next year are: Elizabeth Barclay, c41; Marjorie Wiley, c41; Mary Pierce, c40; Ruth Knoche, c41; Van Dewater, c41; Ewers, c42; Margaret June Gray, c41;
Doris Twente, c#4; Alice Ann Jones, c#4; Jean Steele, c#4; Margarine Learned, c#1;uncul; Rose Marie Holiday, c#4; Marjorie Cook, c#4; Alas Magill, c#1; Betty Joyce Milker, c#4; Corrine Martin, c#4.
This group will go to Wichita for the state cabinet training conference next weekend, leaving Friday afternoon and returning Sunday. Wichita University and Friends University will act as hosts. Paul Moritz, c39, has been chosen as speaker for the Estes banquet to be held on Saturday evening. Eddie Parks is to lead the commission on economics and labor at the conference.
The position of point system manger on the W.S.G.A. is open to university women, owing to the assignation of Delos Woods, c'unel
Woods Turns in Resignation As Point System Manager
A committee of senior women will interview interested women Friday evening at 7 o'clock in the Pine room. The committee will reemploy women to the Council, which in turn will select the new manager.
Woods resigned last night upon learning she will be graduated before the end of her two-year term. She will then be a successor will finish out the term.
To be eligible, a candidate must have a C average and must be of junior standing. If she cannot appear before the committee she may call Gevene Landrith, president of W.S.G.A.
W.S.G.A. Passes New Forum Bill In Council
★ Bill Must Be Passed
On by University Senate
And M.S.C. Before Being
Formally Accepted
Crawford Too Tired, Tone Pouts. Marriage 'Canned'
After a week's consideration, the W.S.G.A. passes the Forums bill last night at the weekly council meeting.
When approved by the M.S.C. and the Senate, the bill will repeal the existing student forum bill set up by the men. Although it is not expected to effect any sweeping changes, it will provide a close tie-up between the committee in charge of the Community Lecture Series and the new board. In previous years the presidents of the two councils were the only students represented on the committee which is in charge of contacting speakers to lecture in Hoch auditorium.
The bill, parts of which must be approved by the University Senate, was presented last week but was tabled when the women learned the M.S.C. had not come through with their appropriation. The W.S.G.A. donated $250, and the Men's Council as contributed $100.
Hollywood, March 22. —(UP)—Joan Crawford's divorce from Franctite Tone was almost as neatly "canned" today as the film of her latest motion picture. In an unusual procedure, her sworn testimony that the actor putted because she was too tired to make the rounds of the Hollywood gay spots after long days before the movie cameras, will be read in court next Tuesday while she is on the high seas, Tone in New York City.
The new bill establishes a Student Forum Board composed of six members, three of which are appointed by the M.S.C. president and three by the W. S. G. A. president. Both presidents must be members from their own council. Main powers of the board are to:
2. Assist the committee in charge of planning the Community Lecture Series, upon their request or approval.
1. Provide free educational movies to students through cooperation with the department of visual侵入 and the University Extension Division.
3. Grant sums to assist University organizations which desire to hold forums or present lectures, provide presentations, or without the assistance of the board.
Her disposition for the almost automatic divorce was given yesterday at the office of her agent. She was questioned by her lawyer, Ellis I. Hirschfeld, who will read the testimony to the judge in her stead next week. Tone has agreed to give her the decree by default.
Under the substitute bill, both Councils agree to appropriate $100 or more to the board to facilitate activities during the following year.
In last night's meeting the W. S. G. A. discussed plans for the national convention to be held here from April 3 to 5. Organizing the convention will be the duties of the present governing body. New officers, elected in the spring contest, will be formally installed at Evans Hearth on April
4. Arrange student forums under its own management.
The mid-semester advisory period for freshmen and sophomore students in the College will be immediately after Easter vacation, it was announced by J. H. Johnson, associate dean of the College.
On the days between and including On April 11 and 14, all freshman and sophomore students are urged to see their respective advisers about the condition of their work. The office of the Office of Office hours are posted on the bulletin board across from the College office in room 121, Frank Hall.
Advisory Period After Easter
"I must appear at the studio at 6 a.m. when a picture is in production," the deposition said. "Often when I came home and was so tired I asked him to cancel social engagements, he would sulk and pout. Once he wouldn't speak to me for three or four days."
Miss Crawford, fetching in an expensive mink coat and brown sports ensemble, walked into the agent's office and looked pensive for a man of her own. She held herself and Tone—before she started testifying. A one-time chorus girl who climbed to the top of the cinema payroll, she had married the suave young actor, heir to an abusive fortune. Oct. 11, 1958, N.Y., her novel "The New Yorker" had been married to Douglas Fair banks, JR.
NUMBER 118
Journalism is the subject chosen for the first in a series of Freshman Occupational Guidance Forums to be held in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall at 8:30 Thursday evening. Three speakers will present the different aspects in this field of work.
Journalism Will Be First Topic of Freshman Forums
"Reporting and News Photography" will be discussed by Henry Ladd Smith, assistant professor of journalism.
Henry C. Haskell, Jr., who has worked on the Baltimore Sun and is now on the editorial staff of the *New York Times*, said a speech on "Foreign Correspondents."
Roy Moore, advertising manager of the Copper publications, will present the "Business Aspects of Journalism."
The feature attraction of the series of speeches to be given by the Kansas Academy of Science will be "Exploration in the Antarctic," by Dr Laurence McKinley Gould, professor of geology at Northfield, Minn. The lecture is planned for March 31, at 8 o'clock in Hoch auditorium.
Academy Presents Byrd Explorer
Gould is being sponsored both by the Academy of Science and by the University of Kansas. It is largely through the efforts of R. H. Wheeler, professor of psychology, a close friend of the explorer's, that it is possible to have Dr. Gould lecture here.
Moving pictures and many slides that the famous explorer has made on his various trips will make the lecture very colorful and interesting Doctor Gould was the second in command of the Byrd Antarctic expedition of 1927 and the expeditions of 1927 and on the Michigan Greenland expedition of 1928.
Company May Take Senior Engineers
Fifteen seniors of the department of mechanical and electrical engineering were interviewed yesterday at Marvin hall by officials of the Chicago Commonwealth Edison company in connection with the student training course, offered by that company.
M. J. Mairs, of the training division, and M. Bacon, of the personnel department of the Chicago firm, talked to the students on the images they would receive in the training course that lasts for one year.
While taking the course, students will have a chance to see the "inside" of every department of the company. This is urgent so that the person might have a better idea of department he would want to choose.
A round table discussion of the building of a larger navy will be held over WREN at 8 o'clock Thursday night. The round table, which is sponsored by the University Student Forum Board in conjunction with the University College, will be headed by Omer Voss, 139, who will lead the informal discussion.
None of the students interviewed have been accepted yet. Thomas F McKale, 38, an electrical engineer with the company for the past year.
James Martin, c98. Eugene Gosney, b39. Clem Fairchild, b39 and Richard Kane, c29. will present their opinions on the question "Should the United States have the biggest navy in the world?", in answer to the extermaneous questions put to them by Voss.
'Do We Need the Biggest Navy' Is Radio Subject
Fire Destroys Tool House At Hosford Farm Today
A tool house, containing cans of oil and farm implements, was burned to the ground about 11 o'clock this morning on the Hosford farm, a mile and a half west of No. 6 school house on Highway 69. The cause of the fire is unknown.
R. C. Jackman, tenant of the farm,
said that the loss as yet is unestimated.
WEATHER
Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight in east and southeast portions with rising temperatures tomorrow.
University I.S.A. Will Be Host To 300 Delegates
- National Barb Forum Meet March 31- April 1; U.S. Education Regions To Be Represented
Noted speakers and more than 300 students from colleges and universities representing all sections of the United States will be guests of the University when the second annual convention of the National Independent Student Association is held at the Campus March 31 and April 1.
The convention will be called to order in Hoch auditorium at 10 a.m. Friday, March 31, by David Gambill from the University of Colorado chairman of the national executive board. Following the introduction of delegations, there will be a speech of welcome by Chancellor E. H. Lindley, Mr. Marco Morrow, vice-president and assistant publisher of The Capper Publications, Topela, under the keynote speech of the crown.
To Hold Discussion Groups
Elaborate plans for discussion of the problems of independent associations and student have been made. Discussion groups will be presided over by delegates from many of the colleges represented.
Sidney Reagan, member of the executive board from the University of Texas, will preside at the dinner Friday night. Dean of Men Arno Nowayt of Texas, and Assistant Secretary of Defense Jack University of Illinois, will speak.
Following the dinner, delegates to the convention will be guests at a special presentation of the comedy "Hay Fever" in Fraser theater.
John Ise To Speak
Saturday morning roundtable discussions will continue. At lunchcon in the Memorial Union building, Bruce Skaggs, member of the Executive board from George Washington University, will preside. Student leadership will discuss the value of a national independent student's organization.
The convention will be climaxed by the semi-formal convention dance held in the Memorial Union ballroom with Clyde Smith and his orchestra, followed the last act at which John Lee will be guest speaker.
Membership Cards Admit
Members of the Kauas LEA. will be admitted by their membership cards to all the activities of the convention. If local members, however, wish to attend convention meetings, they must be necessary for them to pay the registration fee of $29. Registration will be held Thursday March 30.
I. S. A. officers this morning expressed their enthusiasm about the convention. It is their wish that every local member attend the meeting and learn from them how in itself organizational last progressed.
May Reserve 'Outward Bound' Tickets Tomorrow
Tickets for "Outward Bound" may be reserved beginning Thursday by calling K.U174, or by making reservations at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall. Students are cautioned to make reservations early for other than aisle seats. Activity, tickets admit.
A. I.E.E. Features Talk by Weiser C. H. Weiser, personal supervisor of the Southwestern Bell Telephone company, Kansas City, Mo., will discuss placement problems of the Electrical Engineers at 7:30 tomorrow night at Marvin hall.
Student Says Prize Hospital Visitor Is a Loyal Canine
Mitzi was admitted to Watkins Memorial hospital yesterday. At first Mitzi was dubious about entering the hospital but upon finding Edward Kriepe, *c*40, her enthusiasm mounted by leaps and bounds. Mitzi, a white, 4-year-old collie, took one jump and landed in the middle of her master's bed.
Mitzi came all the way from Tecumshie to see Kriepe, who has been in the hospital since the attack with inflammatory thrombosis.
"I was certainly glad to see Mizi." Edward remarked, gazing fondly at his dog. "She is my best girl, and when she comes for a visit, it is only to see me, not two other guys."
K.U. Flying Club Gains Momentum
"Steep Banking and Turms" will be the topic of discussion at an informal meeting to be held in the workshop at the Lawrence Municipal airport at 8 p.m. Thursday under the supervision of Bill Ashlar, c24, and Robertson, instructors of the Civil Aeronautics Authority compilts Airborn.
\* 'Steep Banking and Turns
To Be Discussed Tomor-
ow; Three Have Soled
The K. U. Flying Club will hold its annual election of officers for next year during the session. Every University student interested in aviation is invited. The Flying Club members, the 20 governmental board members, those who have the C.A.A.'s waiting list are especially urged to come.
Flying club officials said that the students who are now taking the C.A.A. training should take advantage of this opportunity. While they learn how to take a plane to pieces and inspect its make-up, when they get into the aircraft, they can actually see a plane taken apart by attending the discussion periods.
According to Asheraft, the Club will sponsor dances at the airport as well as picnics and other forms of entertainment for air-minded youths.
Another plane, an Aeronca 50, has been purchased by the Club bringing the total up to two planes to be used in training.
Three of the students in the C.A.
A. training course have made solo
flights. They are: Daryl Wagner, c-
4o; Tom Graybill, c4o; and Clyde
Pace cunel, Rushall Chitwood,
c4o.expected to solo late this
afternoon.
Each flyer receives eight hours of dual instruction before he is permitted to solo. During the eight hour period, he is more or less "on his own" but will be checked before each flight by his instructor. Each flight from 35 to 40 hours on his credit by the time the course is completed.
Two University women, Jeannette January, c'39, and Barbara Daniels, c'41, have both received fly-in邀请，their will take her third lesson Friday.
R.O.T.C. Roll at Harvard Increases 50 per Cent
Cambridge, Mass, March 22—(UP) —Enrollments in military science courses at Harvard University for the first time. The cent, it was announced today.
Lieut. Col. Arthur R. Harris, military science instructor, said that nearly 450 students already had enrolled for the next term. A total of 297 now are in the Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps unit.
Fliers Get Another Plane--
Pictured above is an Aeronica 50 recently purchased by the K, U Flying Club. The organization also bought a similar plane before Christmas. Tentative plans are under way to purchase another plane. This would make three 128S planes available for training purposes.
Memel Goes Back To Germany As Hitler Drives On
- Lithuania Gives Up Tiny Colony Which Was Taken From Reich by Treaty Of Verailles
Bulletin
Koenigsberg, East Prussia,
March 22 — (UP) — German
troops will begin to move into
the Memel area at 5 a.m. Thursday,
it was understood today.
By United Press Correspondent
Nazi Germany grabbed another
thousand square miles of Europe
today and left every power from
the Atlantic to the black sea guessing where Adolf Hitler will strike next.
The little state of Memel, another product of the treaty of Versailles, was handed over to the expanding Reich by Lithuania as the Nazii struck up the Baltic coast with the same tactics—massed troops and an ultimatum—that they used to destroy Czechoslovakia.
Nazi storm troopers occupied public buildings as Memel's 152,000 inhabitants "came home to the Reich" and Lithuania was forced so closely into the German orbit that, even if she does not become a protectorate, henceforth she is almost wholly dependent on Berlin.
Nazi Action Expected
necktion against a weak issue that has driven Great Britain to forget a quarrel of two decades with Soviet Russia, that has forced Poland to fall of abandoning her hard-won neutrality and has put almost every nation in Europe on a semi-war footing is whether the momentum is so great that Hitler will strike again at one. He's gone down a hazardous problem of diplomatic guessing is whether the 'stop Hitler' drive led by the British can capitalize on the fears of endangered European nations sufficiently to cause them to join together either in a revived system of defenders or in a league for collective security such as was abandoned by the big powers with collage of the League of Nations.
But Memel was little more than a crumb in the bites that the Nazis have been taking out of the man of Europe and its seizure by the Reich was a foregone conclusion merely because of the momentum of the "march to the east" after an exposition of Slovakia and Moravia.
Eyes on Polish Corridor
Two obvious points of danger stand out if it is assumed that the momentum of the Nazi revolution will carry on immediately.
One is in Polish territory, especially the "Polish Corridor" which the Versailles treaty-makers carried out of German soil when they divided East Prussia from the Reich. The Germans built a fortress and the steady encirclement of its territory by Nazi troops as a result of the developments of the last 10 days, is seeking to bind Britain, France and Russia to a definite pledge of military aid as the price for Polish desception in the "Stop Hitler" front.
Whether Britain and France would pledge themselves to such an alliance (although France already is a military ally of Poland) remains to be decided. Soviet-backed such a military poet by all of the powers involved.
Britain is seeking as a first step a pledge that the four powers will consult in event of further Nazi aggration on the grounds that they could then decide what action would be taken.
Graduating Engineers To Check Credits
Senior engineers are asked to
see Miss Batey in Dean Craw-
words office at Marvin hall
to check credits for graduation.
Students are to report according to the initial of their last names in the following order:
March 27 A to H
March 28 H to M
March 29 M to S
March 29 C to K
Office hours are from 8:30 to 12:00 a.m. and from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.