THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Theodore Roberts Doesn't Care What Part He Plays In Movies; Got In Pictures Accidentally
Many K. U. students who were in Kansas City, Mo., over the week-end ended the Orpheum Theater where Theodore Roberts, the Paramount character actor, appeared, by special permission of Jesse L. Lasky, in a William C. DeMille playlet, "The Mar High Up."
The sketch was especially prepared for Mr. Roberts so that he might demonstrate to the vaudeville-going public his skill on the legitimate stage, and also prove that he is a real "flesh and blood" actor.
A five weeks' leaks of absence from the Laukey studios made possible Mr. Roberts' personal appearance in Kansas City. In January he will be special permission appear in Chicago and New York. Later he plans to appear in some sort of short play in New York, and he willUpper Up" is a thoroughly German sketch, it is doubtful whether it will be produced in London.
Mr. Roberts was born on a California farm and acquired an early knowledge of dramas in San Francisco where he attended elementary school. When 16 years old he was teaching elocation to aspiring young actors, and three years later was playing in New York vaudeville.
"My entrance into the movies," said Mr. Roberta, when interviewed by a Kansan reporter, "was purely accidental. I had played with a wande-ville troupe in New York during an eager schedule of series of engagements in Australia. Passing through Los Angeles, enroute, I met a motion picture director who made me an offer which presented so many possibilities that I was forced to accept. Since then, I have been working on the number of years, but he would pass for about fifty—I have been directly or indirectly transmitting motion t
R. O. T. C. Picks Twin Color Guards For Parade Appearance
Robert S. and William L. Patterson, twins, have been appointed color guards in the local R. O. T. C. unit, and will serve in that capacity at parade drill next Wednesday after noon.
The unit is very fortunate in having these men, according to Sergeant D'Ambran, since, if any military organization is to make a good appearance on the battlefield, other guards be as nearly alike as possible. In the popular army, he says, the commanding officers will often search an entire regiment to find two men, of even approximately the same stature and facial expression.
The same system of recognizing honor students in the unit will be followed this year as was in effect last year. Any student in either the basic or advanced course, who attains a certain subject during one semester will be given the privilege of wearing, during the following semester, a blue ribbon similar to the army campaign ribbon. About a dozen men are wearing the ribbon this semester in recognition of work done during last semester.
Non-Com Officers Will Be Chosen Wednesday on Basis of Drill Performance
Police Interfere When "Jelly Beans" Get Rough
The appointment of non-commissioned officers will be made next week. The performance of the eligible men at drill next Wednesday will determine, to a considerable degree, the future status of the men will be six sergeants and six corporals appointed for each of the three companies in the unit.
Drumright, Okla., Oct. 20, (United Press)—local police have put a stop to the war waged here recently between squads of "jelly beans" and "anti-jelly beans," it is believed. In the second engagement between the opposing factions, police claim they snatched victory from a troop of "beams" who had just administered a beating to two enemy leaders.
Trouble is reported to have started when "anits" objected to silk multi-colored Mata for saashes worn by the "beans" on a local dance floor. The "first gun of the war" was "fired" when a hunky "anit" unwound a sash from the shapely form of a "beam" leader. An attempt to burn the confiscated saush resulted in calling of "reserves" of both factions.
movie audiences in about one hundred plays, of all sorts and descriptions." Mr. Roberts' first trial before the camera was in the filming of "The Call of the North," which featured Robert Edison. "That play," said Mr. Roberts in regard to the Edison picture, "is an old timer which may possibly be remembered by some of your faculty members."
Irene Peabody and Mary Smith went to Kannas City to hear the concert given by Roan Raisa on Friday evening.
When asked what type of character he liked best to portray in pictures, Mr. Roberts said: "I am careless with my ability and take chances at anything villains, farmer, father, blind blacksmith, gambler, and prosperous manufacturer. I can't say off-hand what sort of part I like to play best," he continued; "I have done equally well in them all."
In "The Old Homestead," the story of which is made up of a series of connected "Yankeesisms," Mr. Roberts admitted he played the strangest and most violent team in history.
Besides leads Mr. Roberts has played a great number and variety of subordinate parts. "In one picture," he says, "the blow on the foam off a glass of beer."
According to his own confession,
Mr. Roberts is a faithful fisherman,
and, when business at the studio is
not too pressuring, likes to cruise about
in Golden Gate Harbor. "I catch only
one or two fish a week," he said, "but
they are nearly always man-sized and
that number is sufficient."
Mr. Roberts is a close friend of Frank McGlynn, who played the title role in Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln," which appeared in Lawrence a short time ago. For some years the film has been neighbors in Californias.
Mr. Roberts left Kansas City yee
tday, and Wednesday will again be
at work before the camera in the
Lasky studio at Hollywood.
New Oil Burning System to be Installed Here
The new Greenfield Automatic Oil Burning System will be installed in the mechanical laboratory, if plans now under way are carried out, Dear P. F. Walker has received a letter from the Empire Oil Company, stating that the system may be installed here.
This new device for keeping a boiler at the proper pressure and insuring a maximum amount of fuel economy from the oil was developed by Benjamin F. Greenfield, a former student in the School of Engineering. It is being adapted and used by the largest independent company operating in the middle section of the country.
The new burner will be installed here in connection with the service boiler in the laboratory and is also to be used for experimental purposes.
Forum Hears Sternberg
"Paper Money Is Nations' Only Resource"
Why nations continue to issue almost worthless paper money was one f the questions answered by Prof. W. Sternberg of the department f economics at the student forum n the Unitarian Church Sunday.
Professor Sternberg expressed the opinion that this depreciated currency will never rise to its former value and that the paper money can never be justly redeemed. Either it will have to be entirely repudiated or a new standard of value will have to be created.
Paper money is their only resource to meet national expenses, according to Professor Sternberg. These nations have reached the extremity where they cannot further reduce expense or increase income. They must compel the purchase of bond issues. Paper money is their only alternative.
The Forum programs for next month will be: November 5, "Modern Faith Healers," by Prof. W. S. Hunter, department of psychology; November 12, "China," by Prof. D. L. Patterson, department of history; November 19, "Invention," by Prof. R. Fanser, department of drawing and painting; November 26, "National Selflessness," by Prof. F. W. Blackwar, department of sociology.
Freshman medical students at the University of Oklahoma are having a hard time to find some means of identification. First they tried wearing moustaches, but abandoned this upon imperative recommendations from their brethren of the legal process. Next they decided to wear masks, but immediately the wrath of the engineers. Now they are seeking some distinctive mark that won't trespass on other schools.
Y. M. C. A. to Secure Prominent Men Every Week Until Thanksgiving
First One Of Noon Luncheon Is To Be Held Tuesday, Oct.31
The first of the fall series of the K, U, Y. M, C. A. noonday luncheons will be given Wednesday, November 1, at 12:00 o'clock in Myers Hall. Dr. Schweiger of the department of education will speak, and those in charge say that the luncheon will be well worth 25 cents.
After this week, these luncheons will be given on Thursday, and will continue until Thanksgiving.
Tickets can be bought at any time at the M. Y. C. A. office in Myers Hall, or from students on the hill, or from the office in Myers Hall, beignet, tickets mounted on the lapel.
The announcement of this week's luncheon for Wednesday noon is a change from the first announcement, which placed the first of the series
These noonday lunchouts at which noted men over the state speak to men students of the University are not new. They were held regularly last year and so much interest was evidenced and the attendance was so good that the Y. M. C. A. decided to continue them. Their revival this year means an important addition to the University program for the promotion of good fellowship in the student body.
Fewer Smokers This Year
Freshman Records Show That Majority Are Non-Smokers
Taking as authority a questionnaire of college freshmen enrolled in hygiene, the non-smoker out numbers the smoker in a ratio of two to one. To determine if the results of physical education, gives the results as 218 abstainers against 102 users of the "weed." This percentage is rather remarkable, when it is remembered that two years ago an annual survey gave 31% smokers to 49% non-smakers.
The department has announced its statistics on the freshman physical examination, for this year, as to height and weight. The average height is 68.3 inches; average weight 140 (slightly underweight); maximum weight 232; minimum weight 50.8 inches; minimum weight 103.
Dr. Naismith has put the freshmen into ten classes according to the percentage of total development. In the list below is the percentage of total development and the number classified in each division.
Percentage of total
Numbers
development Numbers
1 to 9 7
10 to 19 41
20 to 29 60
30 to 39 67
40 to 49 61
50 to 59 57
60 to 68 49
70 to 79 46
80 to 89 37
90 to 100 23
It is interesting to note that the greatest number have a percentage of between 38 and 39 percent. From each class in each class begins to decrease
Indian Girls Given Surprise Party
Saturday evening at 6 o'clock a
surprise Halloween dinner was given
for the twelve Indian girls that are
staying at the Esther House. The
Social Service committee of the Y. W.
C. A., under the direction of Margar-
dale Dale, cooked the dinner and
the buffet. Patti Putnam took the
kids down town. These Indian girls come from various places over the United States to attend Lawrence High School.
Elizabeth Dumkel, chairman of the Ways and Moans committee of the Y. W. C. A., entertained the cast of "Adam and Eva" and Mrs. Myrtle Halloween dinner party Saturday evening at her home, 631 Ohio Street.
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K. U. Tramps Reach Aggieville By Signs
"Yeh, think they may need me," and wavered Hal.
You goin' to Manhattan?" asked Dan of Harold as they started down the Hill Friday afternoon.
"How're you goin?"
"I don't know. How're you goin?" "Why, I can't go unless I walk." "I'm just about that way my way," I tell you what, let's do walk!" Two hours later late at the forty-two o'clock lunch, two loyal K. U. freshen trumped along wearing two large signs: "K. U. to Argroville," and "Rides Accepted."
Dan Daring and Harold Lauer reached Manhattan at 3 o'clock Saturday morning. They report that they did little walking, and that cars along the road were all in sympathy with their novel scheme of getting to the game as economically as possible.
Nu Sigma Nu, professional medical femalefraternity announces the pledging of the following men: John Philipin, Muskogee, Oka; Clarence Schaffer, Kansas City, Mo.; Paul Hunt, Paola, Kan; Harold O'Donnell, Ellsworth, Kan; Gerald Smith, Pittsburgh, Kan; Robert Bell, St. Joseph, Mo.; Kenneth Conklin, Anken, Kan; Williss Elinger, Kansas
"We're going to all the games now," said Dan, as he told the long hike Sunday morning. "It's a dead cindh there'll be nothing to keep us home."
New Secretary for Dean Kent Ruth Lichen, A. B'14, of Leavenworth, who has been working in Kansas City, has accepted a position in Dean Kent's office. Miss Lichen is Grand Secretary of the Sigma Kappa sorority and she will stay at the Sigma Kappa house while she is here.
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Your body . . . . .
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