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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Dec. 9, 1959
Bill Butler
Bill Butter . . former Kansan will direct KU opera.
Guest Director To Stage Opera
A young Broadway director who was born in Kansas will direct the University Theatre's production of the opera, "The Ballad of Baby Doe," in March.
He is Bill Butler, the third guest theater personality to visit KU.
Award-Winning Opera
Mr. Butler has done everything in the theater world from traveling with tent shows as a youth to directing Shakespearean productions and writing for theater magazines.
He will direct John LaToucne's opera, which won the Music Critics Circle Award as the finest original opera of 1958.
Previous guest performers were Jerome Kilty in 1957 and Virginia Copeland in 1958. Kilty played Falstefen in "Henry IV, Part One" and Mrs Copeland sang the lead in "The Saint of Bleecker Street."
Mr. Butler will arrive here Feb. 1 and remain until the middle of March.
Lewin Goff, director of University Theatre, said that a permanent guest star program has not been established.
"The Ballad of Baby Doe" will be presented March 8, 10 and 11. Work has been started on the settings and music, but no staging of actors is scheduled until Mr. Butler's arrival.
Colorado Setting
The opera recreates the days of
Five Exempted From Speech I
Five out of nine KU students passed the oral Speech I exemption test Monday.
They will not have to take Speech I, a required course.
The students first passed a written test over speech material. Yesterday they presented seven-minute argumentative problem-solution speeches as the second part of the exemption examination.
The students who passed are:
Cheryl A. Payer, Ei Dorado freshman; Phillip Higginbottom, Winfield sophomore; Janet M. Lange, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Susan R. Heil, Topeka freshman; and Richard M. Wewinshulbom, Augusta sophomore.
gold and silver mining in Colorado when fortunes were made overnight, spending was lavish and living was high.
It is a true story about a silver king who left his wife for the love of Baby Doe, the sweetheart of the miners.
In addition to directing the opera, Mr. Butler will be an assistant instructor of the beginning acting, student directing and style of acting classes.
Mr. Butler has worked in the legitimate theater and in the stage direction of musicals and opera. He is known for his imaginative use of new stage techniques.
The young director first won recognition on Broadway as assistant to Owen Carlo-Menotti in staging "The Clerk" and "The Saint of Bleecker Street."
Versatility Lauded
He staged the NBC touring production of "Madam Butterfly" and has been engaged repeatedly to direct New York City Center productions.
He directed "The Adding Machine" and "The Mother of Us All" in New York's off-Broadway Phoenix Theater.
Mr. Butler is also an actor. He once appeared on 12 successive weekly television programs for the Hollywood Screen Test series and was described by the director as an actor of great versatility.
KU opened its own travel agency today under the sponsorship of the All Student Council.
Called the Campus Travel Office, the service is operated by Educational Travel, Inc. (ETI), a subsidiary of the National Students Association. Its headquarters is in the ASC office in the Kansas Union.
KU Opens a Travel Agency
Tonya Kurt, Pratt sophomore and KU coordinator for the NSA, is in charge of the new service.
Dean Named to National Council
She and her staff of four can ar-
Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of the school of education, was appointed to the National Committee for Education in Family Finance. The appointment will become effective June 1, 1960. The appointment is for three years.
The National Committee for Education in Family Finance was started 12 years ago. It was founded on the idea that American youth and adults need help in understanding and managing their personal and family finances.
Each community program consists of lectures on family finance given by specialists in various fields, discussions and study of textbooks.
Last year 17 universities took part in the program.
The National Committee for Education in Family Finance is a committee developed to improve instruction in personal and family financial management. The program has dual objectives: first, it tries to improve classroom teaching of family finance, and second, it aids in developing more community and regional programs.
Dean Anderson said the University of Kansas would not join the program this year, but it may in the future.
U.S. Scientists Supply Soviet Sattelite Data
MOSCOW —(UPI)— American scientists have supplied Soviets with data from more than 700 observations of the third Soviet satellite, a Russian astronomer said today.
The Tass News Agency quoted Atla Masevich, vice president of the Soviet Astronomical Council as saying the Russians want to cooperate with foreign scientists on all problems of science including outer space.
Masevich said the USSR Astronomical Council had recently stepped up its contacts with the Smithsonian Observatory, the center of optical tracking of satellites in the United States.
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range travel-study tours for students to Europe, the Mediterranean, Russia, Latin America, Bermuda, and most foreign countries. The office also is able to secure information about any area which a student might desire to visit.
One of the more interesting available tours is called the Experimental Tour. On that plan, arrangements are made for the visiting student to live with a family in the country he visits, and to travel for a month with a person of his age.
"The ETI tours usually leave in late June and return sometime in August. They leave the student a week of leisure at the end of the trip. Last year a couple of fellows took advantage of that week and went big-game hunting in Africa," Miss Kurt said.
Some of the other tours provide for summer jobs in work camps, study at foreign schools, Volkswagen jaunts, summer music and art festivals, or simply leading a vagabond life for a couple of months.
She added that the tour office is able to secure movies taken by students on their tours to show to interested groups.
Previously, many departments of the University handled their own
No Wisdom;
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TRENTON, N.J. — (UPI) — The state supreme court today voted unanimously to dismiss action by a former college student who sued Columbia University for failing to teach him wisdom.
Roy G. Jacobsen, 28, of Hackettstown, N.J., had sought $8,065 in damages from the University because, he said, it failed to teach him wisdom.
Jacobsen said the damages would cover three years tuition, loss of earnings while he was a student at Columbia and $16 for legal advice.
He pleaded his own case when he appeared before the state's highest court to present his arguments last month in an appeal against a lower court ruling that there was no cause for action.
Attorney Charles Egan who represented Columbia University quoted Superior Court Judge Gerald T. Foley that "wisdom cannot be taught, if in fact it can be defined."
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