UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
6
Solicits Managerial Talent
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24.1937
Sigma Delta Chi Issues
Call as Plans for All-
Campus Musical Revue
Go Forward
As plans for the first annual all- Campus musical revue began to take form, the sponsoring organization, Sigma Delta Chi, today issued a call for managerial talent in an effort to secure the aid of all students interested in working on the promotion and production end of the revue.
"Anyone interested in working on the publicity; off; on the stage settings and; arts; on special lighting effects; or on the general prodigy at the revue is urged to apply at the Sour Owl! office," a Sigma Chi member said last night. "This show will be produced, directed, and presented, and without the full co-operation of everyone capable of helping. It cannot be the complete success that it should be."
Since the first announcement to the proposed show, student interest has reached such a height that it is evident that the project is an assured success. The bulk of the preliminary work will be handled by the staff of the Sour Owl, Sigma Delta Cti magazine, and those in education position at the production staff are requested to make application at the Sour Owl office, sub-base of the Union building.
Shortly after the first of December, it is planned to issue a call for musical and dramatic talent. Try-outs will, in all probability, be held before the Christmas holidays.
*'replaces W.S.G.A. Shows*
The proposed show will replace the musical comedies staged by the W.S.G.A., which were discontinued in 1933. The Sigma Delta Chi show will make possible participation by many more students than did the W.S.G.A. shows, for in its form as a musical comedy, the actors of acts, while the musical comedy consisted of a narrative interspersed with musical numbers.
One of the reasons for the changes from a comedy to a revue was that it would encourage more student aid and participation, and the plans to make it entirely a student presentation on the production staff in more responsible capacities than formerly. Committees Are Selected
The only faculty member to aid in the production of the revue will serve in the capacity of an advisory director, and, although the staff is well trained, it is certain that it will be the only position held by a faculty member.
Kenneth Morris, president of Sigma Delta Chi, has announced committees selected from the membership of that organization to work with the staff of the revue and to handle the financial detail. They are: Promotion committee; James Coleman; Financial committee; Perritte; finance committee; Quentin Martin; Marvin Goebel, and Morris Thompson; and advisory committee, J. Howard Russe, Elton Carter, and Claude Durese.
Ray's Music
Puzzles Dancers
A puzzled and bewildered crowd attended the Freshman Frolic last Friday night. Mystery shrouded the ballroom as dancers were confronted with a style of music entirely different from any heretofoer experienced on the Campus—syncoated swing.
If the students were lacking in entire enthusiasm for Ray's music, they were, however, enthusiastic for the showmanship displayed and for the soloists. Particularly outstanding was the colored singer who did most of the vocalizing, and did most of the "adult singing." Several times during the dance the whole orchestra "traicked it on down" in typical Harlem style while the trumpet play beat out the rhythm.
Throughout the evening, students were hesitant in expressing their opinion of the band, for they found it difficult to determine whether they did or did not like the peculiar style of music advanced by Floyd Ray. It seemed definite, however, that the music did not meet with the approval Fletcher Henderson evoked at the Frolic last year.
Students Are Happy The Kansan Is Happy
From the athletic office comes assurance that 4515 seats have been reserved for students on activity books for the Missouri game Thanksgiving day. These seats are in the six sections from the 50-yard line south on the east side of the stadium. Other seats are reserved on the west side. Only 150 seats have been sold in these sections, and students have the assurance that no more will be sold.
It is evident, then, that the congestion in these sections will not be as great as it was at the Kansas State game.
True, latecomers will not be in the most desirable seats, but that will also be true of other persons buying tickets to the game.
It seems the best is being made of the situation
The Kansan is happy.
Nichols Will Address Student Correspondents
"Interesting Facts and Fancies About the University," will be the topic of the speech of Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor, when he talks before members of the Student Correspondents' Association on session 10. The meeting will at 4:30 in room 102, Journalism building
Attendance at this meeting, designed to aid the 150 students who send news of the University to their home town papers, will be required of all correspondents, Chairman C. H. Mullen has announced.
Independents To Organize
'Independent Uni on
To Be Formed for Social
Purposes
Independent students of the University interested in the establishment of an independent union, for the purpose of providing more social events for independent students, will hold a meeting tomorrow night at 7:30 in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
During the meeting, at which all independent students on the Hill are invited to be present or to send representatives, officers of the union will be elected, and permanent plans of government will be formulated. A college man and woman will be elected for each executive office, and a board of directors, representative of the students will be formed.
About three hundred independent men and women attended the union dance given last Thursday, at which the plan of the organization was announced. According to the skeleton plans then announced, the union is designed only to provide additional social events for the "barbs" on the campus, and to open up the space to fraternize with each other more than is now possible. Most college campuses of the country, it was said, now have similar organizations, and they have proved most successful.
Enrollment in the organization will be effected by the payment of an initial fee, and probably small social events made for most of the social events.
Susan Maloney, c39, and Leon Reynolds, cuncl, are temporary heads of the organization, and will be in charge of the meeting tomorrow night. They have been assisted by about fifty independent students, men and women, representing 25 rooming houses.
Weather
Sifting snow last week but balmy breezes and soothing sunshine comin' up.
Twice as many students are availing themselves of the use of the Memorial Union building facilities this year as last, it was disclosed yesterday by Henry Werner, men's student adviser.
Student Use of Memorial Union Has Doubled Record of Last Year
Approximately one hundred sixty persons will participate in the fifty-fifth all-musical Vespers service which will be held in Hoch auditorium this afternoon at 4 clock. The Vespers services were begun in 1923 by Dean D. M. Swarthot. The Westminster a Capella choir will make its first concert appearance of the year in the service this spring and is made up of 72 students, and will sing three numbers, among which is Nikolsky's "The Earth is the Lord's," which it sang three years ago on one of the Kansas City Philharmonio Orchestra's concerts.
Vespers To Be Given Today
All - Musical Service
Features Solist, String
Trio Orchestra, and the
A Capella Choir
For the two months ending Nov. 13, the total number of students attending functions there was 21,680 served meals at various banquets.
The University Symphony orchestra of eight pieces will play the first and last numbers on the veers program. The University string quartet, Waldemar Gelth, Conrad McGrew, Karl Kuesteiner, and Raymond Stubl, will also make his first concert appearance of the season, playing Schubert's quartet, opus 125, number 1.
"The largest group," Mr. Werner said, "was accommodated at the free open house music and dance, which was attended by nearly two thousand and students. There have been nine performances in attendance in excess of a thousand."
Arthur Fielder, Saral Mohler, and Rita Gumausllus will play "The Requiem for Three Collos," by Popper. Mary Jane Bruce will accompany them on the piano. Miss Meribah Moore, soprano, will be the vocal soloist on the program, singing in his obliquity in obliquity by Prof. Waldeman Geltch, and with G. Criss Simpson at the organ.
The men's student adviser said that the Union's facilities had been about equally divided between fraternity and non-fraternity functions
Mr. Werner added that the Union had been the scene of several func-
Orchestra Will Play
Program Is Given
The complete program for the pro gram follows:
Ave Mara," (Kahn), vocal solo by Mirabah Mergho, soprano. Violin obligato by Waldemar Geltch, G. Criss Simpson at the organ.
Quartet, Op. 125, No. 1 (Schubert) iring quartet.
Overture to "Die Meistersinger"
(Wagner). University symphony or
oesthea. Karl Kuesteiner, director
A Cappella Choir:
"Lord, for Thy Tender Mercy's Sake" (Farrant).
"The Earth Is the Lord's" (Nikol
ky)
"Ballad of the Trees and the Master" (Thompson).
Largest Group at Mixer
sky)
Ensemble: "Requiem for Three
Cellos" (Poner).
Orchestra. Finale from the Symphony No. 6, "Pathetique," (Tschaikowsky).
tions at which no account of attendance was made. "This would probably boost the total figures four or five hundred," he said.
Student Seats Not To Be Sold
"As I see it," he stated, "this greatly increased use of the Memorial Union facilities clearly points the way to an enlarged building, by the construction of an additional wing. The Union is greatly overcrowded as it is, and I see no other way to relieve the congestion. Along with the wing wouldn't be as much use, as stands now, the cost would probably be in the neighborhood of $100,000."
Need To Enlarge Building
Plans are now under consideration by the Union operating committee for completing the third floor of the building, and furnishing it for small group meetings and social functions. At present, it serves as a storeroom for equipment, and for odds and ends.
NUMBER 53
With only 150 tickets sold to parents and in a few instances friends of students, permitting the holders to sit in the student sections, accordingly, for a day that no more such "accountation" tickets would be sold.
A student protest was raised when a statement was issued that the demand for tickets at the Kamas-Missoorie stadium is sacrilegious to reserve the entire stadium.
Following the protest against reserved seat sales in the student section, E L Falkenstein, secretary of intercollegiate athletics, stated that it was not intended to convey the message that students violently made were to be called in, and that student reservations would not be affected in any way.
Activity ticket reservations on the east side extend from the 50-yard line southward, and cover the full height of the stadium. On the west side, the activity reservation extends back 18 rows, and from the 25-yard line southward for 17 seats. Several students sitting in the west stadium for the Kansas State game were seated in a room appeared bearing reservations for the seats occupied. Investigation showed that the students were in section H instead of section G which had been reserved for them.
The seven student sections, containing more than 4100 seats on the east side, and the half-section on the west side with some 300 seats, restroom facilities will remain reserved for students, as they have been all season.
Hoboes Are Kings for Day Classes Dismissed So Students and Graduates May Frolic
With classes dismissed for the day, King Hobe will reign supreme all day Wednesday on the University Campus.
New stunts for the annual event this year will include the election of a Hobo Queen; a mouse race, in which entries of sorority women will participate; and a relay bag race for fraternities. Old "Doe" Yak, the perennial dispenser of those "pink-pills-for-pale-pie", will be on the Campus with his medicine show to instil pep and enthusiasm. Hobo Day begins officially at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning with a parade starting at the entrance of the Memorial Union building. The University band will lead the parade "Doo" Yak will have his medicine show established. Included this year on his program will be some of Doe's "finds", a torch singer, a jam band, and a troupe of truckers.
Featured will be the selection of the Hobo Day queen. Each sorority, as well as independent organizations, will be represented by members of the medicine show on the basis of the one who receives the largest applaus from the crowd. The runners-up will be selected in a like manner.
After yell, a number by the band, and singing of school songs, several brief pep talks will be given. Lewis Ward, buncil, has been elected captain for the game, and his speech, with those of Ad Lindey and Mike Getto, is expected to bring school spirit to a white heat.
The climax to the morning's celebration will be the coronation ceremony of the Hobo Day queen, which will take place at the Union building after the races are held. Winners of first, second, and third places will escort the queen to the union building where they will play "The Lady Is A Tramp." With the coronation completed, the hoboes and roboettes will tramp over to Robinson gym for a big swing session with Red Blackburn and his Swingers. The Hobo Will Issue Decree
Following the pep meetings, the mouse and relay bag races will be run off. Judges for the relay race will be the bags of the long fraternities, which will have their Greek letters inscribed on them.
Mixers, receptionis, and dances begin Wednesday night, following the annual Homecoming rally at Eighth Street Observatory. The observatory Wednesday evening Sky Night, a new Homecoming feature, will be held. Included on the program is a lecture on Mars, the earth-like planet, Edson, *Concurrent* 1 on page 11.
Lewis Ward Will Speak
Continued on page 3
Festive Homecoming Planned
Invited by 27,000 University of Kansas Newsletters, sent this week by the Homecoming committee, alumni are expected in real numbers
Invitations Are Sent to Graduates To Attend Hobo Day and Annual M.U.K. U.Game
Many alumni, coming earlier to view the Hobo Daze antities of students, and the torchlight parade down Massachusetts street Wendell's hospital, will fill fraternity houses and probably Lawrence homes for the night.
Stirred by reports of a football team that was leading the Big Six conference, this year's attendance at the annual Kansas-Missouri game or Thanksgiving Day is expected to reach 30,000. The record of 20,000, set in 1920,
Since the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce is furnishing trucks for the toltorch parade, fraternity and sorority houses, and other organizations entering floats, are expected to register with the Chamber of Commerce night concerning the type of truck needed for their individual float.
Best Floats Awarded Prizes
Twenty-five dollars prize money for the most effective floats will be divided as follows: $10 for first, $4 for second, and $7 for third. Eight awards of $8 each will be presented to other entrants in the parade. Additional prizes are to be given for the most attractive house decoration.
Postcards have been sent to 195 alumni who are parents of students now attending school. Group pictures of parents and students will be taken on the steps of the Administration Building Thursday morning. Students whose grandparents and parents attended the University are asked to report to the Alumni office this week. Photographs will also be taken of the Second and Third Generation Club of the Administration building.
Homecoming broadcasts include the Thanksgiving day DayKansas-Missouri game from stations WHB, WDAF, KMBC, and KFU. Station WHB will send a play-by-play account of the game over the Mutual Broadcasting system on a coast-to-coast network. Although the game starts at 2 p.m. central standard time, WHB goes on the air independently at 1 p.m. with a rally and stunt program.
The morning of the game, a college musical and rally program will be broadcast by KMBC at 11 o'clock. Students, alumni, and visitors will participate. Featured will be the University Glee Club and band. It will be given from the ballroom of the Memorial Union building.
To Broadcast Rally
The annual rally on Homecoming eve will be sent out by WREN at 8 o'clock. Preceeding this, the University's station, KPKU, will present
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Students To Hear Talk On 'Education by Toys'
"A Balanced Diet in Toy's" is the subject which Mrs. T. D. Jones will discuss in an address to students of the child development classes Monday at 4:20 p.m. in room 110, Fraser ball
An exhibition of toys will illustrate the talk. Mrs. Jones has had wide experience and training in the field of design and selection of toys. Mrs. Jones will bring out the fact that the right kind of toys may educate just as truly as the doing of craftsmanship. The toys provides real and essential opportunities for children's educational development.
Faculty Will Play Recital Harp and Violin Solos Featured by Anderson And Kauersteiner
Mervyn Anderson, instructor in harp, and Prof. Karl Kuesteiner, violinist, will present a faculty recital Monday evening at 8 o'clock, in the administration building auditorium. D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will accompany the musicians.
Professor Kuersteiner, with Dean Swarthout as accompanist, will play three movements of Vieutempes Concerto in D Minor. A feature of the recital will be two groups of harp selections played by Mrs. Anderson. Mrs. Anderson graduated in Harp at Oberlin Conservatory, and spent three years studying in Paris under the great harp, Grandjanty.
Professor Kueisterela, with Prof. Carl A. Preyer at the piano, will present the first performance of a Sonata for violin and piano recently composed by Professor Preyer. The work was written last summer by Professor Preyer while in the Rocky Mountains. Those who have heard the composition are decidedly enthusiastic over its beauty-
The program for the recital is as follows: "Variations Pastorales" (Samuel Rousseau), by Mrs. Anderson; Concerto in D Minor (Viettemps), by Professor Kueerstein; "Clair de Launay" (Debensy), by a d'Orsay; "Gleam" (Gleam), by Andersson; Sonata in F Major for Violin and Piano (Carl A. Preyer), by Professors Kueerstein and Preyer.
Yesterday's Grid Results
In the East
In the Mid-West
Harvard 13, Yale 7.
Navy 6, Princeton 26.
Holy Cross 0, Carnegie Tech. 0.
Lafayette 7, Lehigh 0.
Washington 0.
Minnesota 13, Wisconsin 6.
Michigan 0, Ohio State 21.
Indiana 7, Purdue 13.
In the Valley
Missouri 3, Washington 0.
Missouri 3, Washington 0
Nebraska 28, Iowa 0
Colorado 16, Kansas State 7,
Oklahoma 18, OKA. A & M 0.
in the South
Arizona 9, Kansas 7
Arizona 5, Kansas 1
Arkansas 0, Geo. Washington 0
Rice 2, Texas Christian 7.
In the Far West
Rv Bill Fey. c'40
by bar cee.
The 20-room cedar of "Elizabeth the Queen," with but three weeks left until opening night, is practicably nightly in Fraser theater. Lines learned, Director Rolla Nuckle is putting his charges through the "business" of the Dramatic Club's first production of the year, opening in the early part of December.
California 13, Stanford 0
Washington 14, Oregon 0.
'Elizabeth the Queen' Rehearsal For Premiere Early Part of December
"Many novels and biographies have been written around the love story of Elizabeth and ESSex," commuted Mr. Nuckles, "but it remained for Maxwell Anderson to write their tragic love into a play. I feel sure that Umr. ersity students will enjoy the production."
The play presents the intrigues of the English court gentlemen, including Sir Walter Raleigh and Master Bacon, which are interwoven into the love story as the plot of the death of the queen's favorite rebel, Essex. First presented by the Theater Guild on Broadway in 1930, the play featured the combination of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontane, which has become so famous as a theater team. We have have written a script about the thought, and imagination," said the New York Times" first-night critic. "Mr. Anderson has written one." Necessary to every reigning cou
in times past was the court jester. The French court knew this caustic 'allow as La Fera (the fool). One family, well sprinkled with jesters, took upon itself the family name of Lafer. When the Huguenots were driven out of France in 1855, many of them settled in New England, among them many Laufers. One branded the family name most so accolade the name of Laffer. It is an incident that, mainly because of his ability, Jack Laffler, who genealogizes his family back to that original La Fera, was chosen to play the part of the court jester in "Elizabeth the Queen."
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The scenery on the revolving stage will be of more permanent construction than the movable scenes used in the Kansas Players" "Beggar on Horseback." There are five scenes in "Elizabeth the Queen" for which the stage is segmented into three parts. Two of these are fixed and to be changed for varied scenes with however manant backdrop. Because a three-part stage lessened the amount of playing room, it was necessary to build a larger apron extending toward the audience. The new apron extends to the edge of the orchestra pit, adding about sixty square feet of stage space.
Arizona Wins 9-7 Over Jayhawkers Crippled Kansas Team, Playing Without Three Regulars, Leads Wildcats at Half
The game, with the lead changing hands twice, kept the Arizona homecoming crowd of 9,000 fans in an uprush. The capacity crowd was the largest in the history of Arizona homecomings.
Tucson, Ariz. Nov. 20—(Special to the Kansas) -A combination of Arizona climate and Arizona Wildcat was a bit too much for travel-weary Jayhawks today and will be a bit tough in 9 out of before a highly keyed Arizona crew.
The crippled Jayhawk team played without the services of three regulars, Clarence Douglass, fullback; Max Replogle, right halfback; and Forrest Hardacre, left end. The sittethird was Dave Shirk, junior left end, received an ankle injury which may keep him out of the Missouri game.
After a first quarter Arizona field goal, Kansas took the lead on the first play of the second quarter when Lyman Divens, Jayhawk halfback, threw a 30-yard pass which Quarterback Paul Mason caught on the kick. Mason scored across the goal line for a touchdown. Mason's try for the point after touchdown was good and Kansas led 7-3.
Tallies in First Quarter
"opening the game, Kansas had won the toss and chose to defend the north goal with a slight breeze at its back. Arizona counted the first tally late in the first quarter when Walt Nielsen, 210-pound Wildcat fullback, kicked a field goal from the Kansas 18-yard line. An Arizona march had been underway until just before territory, but when a bad pass from center resulted in a loss, the Wildcats tried a field goal and were successful.
Kansas scored at the start of the second period and held that lead until the middle of the third quarter, when Arizona chalked up its touchdown. On the Jayhawk touchdown play Muson caught the pass with an open field before him and raced to pay dirt.
Arizona appeared to be a new team when it came out for the second half and ripped through the Kansas line at will. The touchdown drive was a march of 70 yards, which required only six plays. Broncho Sanilanich, Wildcat halfback, who teamed with Nichon to give the Jawahays a busy afternoon, got away for a 27-yard run during this March and Woods made a 14-yard sprint. Sanilanich carried the ball over the goal line from the 3-yard stripe, on a wide sweep around left end.
Almost Score a Touchdown
Jayhawk hopes were fanned when midway in the fourth quarter Dick Amereine, sophomore Kansas speeder, broke loose for a 40-yard run and appeared teaded for a touchdown, only to be dragged to earth by a defensive play that plays later Kansas lost the ball on downs on the Wildcat 29-yard line.
The Jayhawks battled desperately, but the warm weather and the long train ride sapped their strength. Kansas backfield reserves played the larger part of the game, with the reigning MVP being the only first-string back to see much action, Douglas and Replogle not getting into the game at all and Sullivan playing only a short time. Kansas had passes intercepted frequently and the game ended following an interception by an Arizona
The Jayhawks repulsed several Arizona drives in the second half and threw Wildcat backs for rebound losses when danger threatened.
The team is scheduled to arrive back in Lawrence at 7:45 tomorrow morning.
The starting lineups:
Kansas Arizonía
Shirk LE French
Bosleave LT Temple
Stipleton C Piper
C Greenway Anderson
Anderson RG Watkins
Ward RT Mann
Silhilan RE Parker
Masoner QB Arlo
QB Smithland Richardson Woods
Richardson RH Woods
Camaddy FB Neilsen
Ends; Kinds.
Barnett; Chiwooke
Rhule; guards: Morland, Huff, Hur-
ter; center: Wilson; backs: Wien-
er; center: Sullivan; Sultan,
Sulvant, Amerine and Lanter.
Arizona—Ends: Erdhaus, Gieseke;
tackles: Steger; guards: Gray, Panas;
backs: Hardin, Ross.