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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1959
. . Books in Review ..
By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL, by Ray Lawler. Signet 35 cents.
LOOK BACK IN ANGER, by John Osborne. Bantam, 35 cents.
Hollywood buys a play. It completes the motion picture version. A paperback publisher issues the play in book form. This pattern is becoming one that can be readily counted upon. And here are two more plays, both ready for release soon in their film form.
They have little in common, though each deals in elementary terms with the subject of passion, and though each appeared successfully in the British Commonwealth before coming to these shores. "Summer" is by an Australian, "Anger" by one of Britain's more publicized angry young men. Each is powerful, meaty stuff.
"Summer of the Seventeenth Doll" concerns three people, in their late forties, who have successfully recaptured, for 16 summers, the mood of youth that they first knew in their off-season reunions. Roo and Barney are cane cutters, who spend five months out of 12 with their lady friends in suburban Melbourne. Olive is Roo's "girl," afraid of marriage because she fears it will break the spell of the 16 summers. Pearl is a matron yearning for respectability, who accepts Barney as her five-month sweetheart, but does so very warily.
In mood and theme "Summer" recalls certain aspects of "Come Back, Little Sheba," for there too we find characters who yearn for the past, and refuse to accept the present. But Lola in "Sheba" knows the past is dead; Olive in "Summer" refuses to move into a frightening future.
Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" is a sharp and shocking commentary on the young men of England—and America—who scorn middle-class respectability, sneer at society, and play their jazz instruments. But Osborne's hero, Jimmy, is more than a beatnik who sit back and drink his coffee and ignore the world about him Like a venomous snake he lashes out at those about him, Alison, his wife, and Cliff, his friend. His tongue is savage, and occasionally witter. His animalism exerts a horrible fascination upon all about him
Jimmy is like another famous character in recent drama, Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire." As Stanley berated Stella and Blanche, Jimmy berates Alison and her actress friend, Helena Like Stanley he turns to Helena, as Stanley turned to Blanche, when Alison leaves. One may despise Jimmy, but it is impossible not to be tremendously affected by him, as he shrieks and complains and sneers and cuts into everyone who enters his life.
Auditions for "Ballad of Baby Doc" are scheduled Dec. 9 and 10 at Swarthout Recital Hall in the Music and Dramatic Arts building.
Auditions Scheduled For Theatre Opera
Hours Dec. 9 will be 4 to 6 and 7 to 10 p.m. and hours Dec. 10 will be 4 to 6 p.m.
Lewin Goff, director of University Theatre, will be in charge of the auditions. Any student is eligible to tryout for parts.
A New York director, Bill Butler, will visit KU to direct the production.
Official Bulletin
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 222 Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication, not bring Bulletin material to The Day Kansan Station should include name, place, date, and time of function.
Beta Gamma Sigma, 4 p.m., Dean Stockton Room, Summerfield. Initiation of new members, followed by a social hour.
TODAY
Humanities Forum, 7:30 p.m. Oread College, 10:25 a.m. Associate professor of Romance languages, will speak on "The Experimental Composite Latin Republic."
Quill Editorial Board. 7:30 p.m. Parlor
Union, Union Go over final make-up.
of Quill
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
TOMORROW
Mr. Dick Brooks, Southwestern Investment Company, will interview for finance management trainees and adjuster trainees in 202 Summerfield.
Inter - Varsity Christian Fellowship,
Donforton Chapel
Speaker and prayer.
Mathematics Colloquium, 3:50 p.m.
coffee, 117 Strong. 4:15 p.m., 103 Strong.
Dr. Alex Robertson will speak on "Rearrangement of Infinite Series."
Newman Club Daily Mass, 6:30 a.m.
St. John's Church.
Episcopal Morning Prayer, 6:45 a.m.
breakfast, following, Capetbury House.
Student Union Activities dance lessons at 10 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Union
Advent Services at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 17th and Vermont, at 7:30 p.m. instead of Lutheran Gamma Delta Vespers at Danforth Chapel at 5:00 p.m.
Latin-American Dance Lessons, 7:30 to
8:15. Classes offered by SUA in
sponsored, refreshments served.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(UPI)—A fellow Missouri Democrat, Rep. Charles Brown, last night described Sen. Stuart Symington as "the best qualified man in America for the presidency."
Symington Presidential Campaign Is Launched
Speaking at a "kickoff" meeting to launch Symington-for-President clubs, Brown asked State Democratic Chairman Wilbur Daniels to schedule a meeting of the state committee and all congressional district
Demo Legislators To Study Budget
Kansas Democratic legislators will be given a preview of Gov. George Docking's tax and budget proposals to be submitted to the 1960 legislature late this month.
The Topeka Daily Capital said this morning that Gov. Docking is planning a luncheon at the executive mansion to go over a tentative draft of his budget recommendations. A date has not been set.
Docking said before he started work on his own over-all state budget for submission to the legislature he would also talk with his representatives at the budget hearings.
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chairmen Dec. 18 in Jefferson City to "initiate a drive for 'We Want Symington' clubs throughout the state."
"From Missouri we will branch out into other states and cities," Brown said.
He emphasized that "here tonight we sow the seed that will grow and flourish into a full size oak on the White House lawn."
The Springfield Democrat made his address at the Stuart Symington Elementary School at suburban Hickman Mills. The school was named for Symington for his aid following a tornado that nearly razed the community and caused more than 40 deaths in May, 1957.
"You have asked me to be national director of a Symington-fow-President campaign," Brown said. "I accept with pleasure and deep gratitude."
"Stuart Symington is the new leader we are looking for. We Missourians know it...we must tell others about it."
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