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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1933
University Daily Kansan
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SUNDAY.JUNE4.1933
Dr. Bailey is dead. After fifty years as a member of the faculty of the University, he is gone. His greatness lay in the fact that he was a maker of great men.
EDGAR HENRY
SUMMERFIELD BAILEY
"Bailey's boys" have become famous in the chemical world. Among them are E. C. Franklin, former president of the American Chemical Society, E. V. MCollum, who discovered vitamins, and E. E. Slosson, the founder of Science Service. Many other names equally well known may be found on the roster of that group which has become a K. U. tradition.
Dr. Bailey's name is written in the history of the University as a pioneer. He was for a time the only teacher of chemistry in the University and has long been the head of the department. His death means a loss to the institution of which he has been so long a member, but his life of service has been an immeasurable gain.
FINAL EDITION
This is the last issue of the Kansasan for this school term, and it's time for Ye Ed to say good-bye and all the nice things she can think of about how she has enjoyed her work, etc. The truth of the matter is that she is so bewildered by now that nothing she writes or says makes sense. Making up back work for her classes has got her down, and finals are parking on the foot of the bed.
It has been an exciting job, getting blamed for all the things that go wrong, getting scolled and lectured and argued at, and just naturally appropriating the praise for all the good things that happen. And now that things are in a mess it is more exciting than ever. But it's all ending in this issue. Goodbye readers and happy landings. Now is the time to say, "Don't forget your next year's subscription to the Kansan," but we'll skip it.
END-OF-SCHOOL BLUES
We always start to get sentimental at the close of the school year. No matter how hard-boiled we are supposed to be, we can't help going soft at the thought of June and commencement and farewell, etc.
We've griped all year about having to go to school, about papers and term themes over-due, but we dismiss all such things when we realize that classes are nearly over.
The only thing that spoils our sentimentalizing and brings us back to reality is the fact that our professors are always reminding us, gently of course, that if we don't finish up some of that back work, we'll have to spend our vacation in summer school making up incompletes.
Campus Opinion
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The following letters were received in answer to the ediberial and letter printed in the last issue of the Kansan concerning the type of moving picture being shown and the taste of the public services. They are opinions from students.
Although the time has been too short for the question to be given much consideration in the editorial columns this week, plans to re-open the discussion next fall.
Editor Daily Kansan:
May I congratulate you upon an editorial which recently appeared in the Kansan under the caption "Is It Too Much to Ask?" This was an excellent setting forth of the vulgarizing influence of modern moving picture shows and I hope it is but the first of many such that may be a means of showing students the degrading effects of the modern moving picture, and thus lead them to something of a higher type. I trust you will keep up the good work.
Cordially yours,
Rosemary Ketcham,
Director of Design.
Editor Daily Kansas:
I was very much interested in the reply that came to you from the Motion Picture Producers of America in answer to your editorial decrying the type of motion picture that is prevalent.
Perhaps from your high and mighty throne of defender of the public good, no matter what the cost, you fail to realize that "money talks." You might well ask yourself why it is that the public will attend these "awful" pictures in preference to the "good" ones. Your only answer is that you should not foisted on the public, but reflect very sincerely the public demand.
If you "just can't stand" the films of today I suggest that you spend your time encouraging the public to appreciate good films rather than running down business men who perhaps are more sensitive to the cry of public demand than any other one group.
Yours for less argle-bargle
Yours for less argue=bargie,
J. B. M.
I. B. M.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Cheap—that's the word that describes the modern American taste in movies. If it is true, as Mr. Hays' office so kindly points out, that we prefer the vivid sex drama to the less dramatic but socially more beneficial picture, what are our reasons for such a choice and why are we like we are?
We can't honestly say that it is the story; so contorted and weird are most of the sexy pictures that we are sick with disgust. It can't be that they are an inspiration to most of us, because we don't want to be so far removed from our own ideals.
These movies are neither amusing nor entertaining. Their main attraction must be excitement, and after we have been sufficiently prodded by their stimuli, they will show that we have new appreciation to the better acted better plot, better pictures. —M.I.
Editor Daily Kansan:
So long as people are what they are, that sort of stuff is going to go over, great guns. And chances are, people aren't going to change. Maybe some sort of solution could be worked out whereby really good pictures could be made for the discriminating, and the familiar drive and clap-trap could be shown for the great masses who could not and wouldn't enjoy anything else. So maybe this idea can be done, although the ideal solution would be slowly and insidiously to raise the standard of pictures so that in a hundred or so years, say, people would have gradually been taught to appreciate the really fine. But where's the 'angel' to finance such a venture? The motion picture producers aren't going to experiment. They have their dividends to think of. —P.V.M.
I think that movie moguls are giving the great American public what it wants in the way of entertainment when they offer "sexy" pictures, but I also believe that the movies had a great deal to do with molding that taste. By making a deliberate appeal to the lower instincts of man, and filming pictures that pander to the less cultured appeties, the motion picture tcycons have built up a desire for that type of cinema. It has been good business for them to do this. Sex is good box office, don't forget that it "stands them up," isn't in the movie world, aren't in the thing for the money. They were not going to take a chance on this "art" stuff, when they knew they had a surefire thing in the old, elemental appeals; to wit: a trim ankle, a shapely thigh, and a story of double entendre.
Editor Daily Kansan:
In even the wholehouse film ever produced, there can be found something that is objectionable because every person's sense of appreciation is determined by his own experience or difficult task to produce a flawless film.
One of the most important features in writing a story or producing a picture is the element of emphasis. Through emphasis of one sort, a picture can produce an entirely different effect from the same picture with another dominant emphasis.
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In "Farewell to Arms" there were situations which, with the wrong emphasis, could have been highly objectiveable. But, as it was, the finer emotions were stressed, and the picture was a credit to the screen.
But in other pictures, the emphasis has been turned loose "full steam ahead" on the risque elements of the story. Many times the intelligence and keenness of the picture-goer have been insulted by the repeated hammering at his feet. He had become more cleverly presented by a more subtle handling of it.
People like to feel that it is their own clearness that has detected the laughs in a picture and dislike to be reminded that "Here is something. Now laugh!"
Editor Daily Kansan:
I am thoroughly in accord with the opinion expressed by the writer of the editorial "It's a Bit Tiresome." The movies today, while they do in a few isolated instances bring to the American movie-going public real artists and real literary gems in their stories, for the most part confine their efforts to produce plays that call them to exploit sex is to produce a good box-office play, and they do not hesitate. Their course is mapped out.
It would be useless to make an appeal to the public to stop the explo-
Whether the blame for this sort of thing lies wholly with the producers or in some measure with the public for attending such pictures is almost a moot question. Probably the only basis for a decision must come from the fact that we want to eliminate such pictures could eliminate such pictures from the bill of fare, while the public is obviously, from long experience, too weak even to want to eliminate them.
tation of sex in the movies. Boards of censors seem incapable of doing it. Hence, if anything is actually to be done, it must be done through the producers. But personally, I have my doubts. C.C.
In regard to the controversy between the Daily Kansan and the Motion Picture Producers, Publishers and Distributors of America, Inc, I agree with the writer of the editorial, "It's a Bit Tiresome."
Editor Daily Kansan:
All this talk about the motion picture industry wanting to give the public the right sort of pictures would have a lot more weight with me if I could see a little more action and hear less talk. The argument used for not publishing more good clean pictures is that the managers of the theaters have a larger ticket sale to these "sexy, morbid" shows.
Admitting that all this is true, might I ask, who educated the people into wanting this sex type of pictures that have no especial value except to satisfy the animal emotions of those ever born? You know, such a picture. Such trash has been thrown on the picture market for so long that people have been practically forced to like it.
If the producers are really serious about wanting to give better pictures to the public they could do so without any arguments. People have to take what is offered. Give them the type of shows which the publishers "regret" aren't accepted by the public and their acceptance will soon be as natural and as much in evidence as the acceptance of the shows of today.
These so-called "sexy" shows are not wicked as some would like to make out, it is true. The whole trend has been of this nature for so long, how awful it is in society to them. Let's have a clean up and a little more variety. —V.P.
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