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Oscar Wilde Comedy Is On Film Series Friday
A double feature of fantasy and humor will open the 1958-60 Film Series Friday night in Hoch Auditorium.
"The Importance of Being Earnest," one of Oscar Wilde's best comedies, and "Red Balloon," a French short film written, produced and directed by Albert Lamorisse, will be shown beginning at 7:30 p.m.
There is No Charge
All students, faculty and staff members may attend free of charge.
members may attend free of charge.
The Wilde play was filmed in 1952.
The cast includes Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Joan Greenwood, Dame Edith Evans, Margaret Rutherford and Dorothy Tutin.
Anthony Asquith, director of the J. Arthur Rank film, has termed the story "a piece of pure nonsense." It has been called the best of Wilde's "stilted, epigrammatic and highly improbable comedy."
Second Film Was Added
New Yorker magazine said of "Red Balloon":
The movie is in Technicolor and runs for 95 minutes. Because it is short, the second film was added to the program.
"It is a very small fantasy, but a delightful one, in which M. Lamorisse's son Pascal is wonderfully amusing."
Honor Recital To Be Tonight
Four KU music students will appear in an honor recital at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall.
They are Irving Carlson, Wayne, Neb., junior, violinist; Harriet Kagay, Larned sophomore, flutist; Judith Gorton, Lawrence junior, violinist, and Joyce Malicky, Baldwin junior, mezzo-soprano.
Accompanists will be Janet Willoughby, Western Springs, Ill., junior; Loretta Nauman, Alton senior, and Floyd Chronister, Lawrence graduate student.
The students who play in the honor recital are selected by vote by the faculty of The School of Fine Arts.
The program will include the Bach solo sonata for flute; "Sonatine" by Dutilleux; "Sonata for Violin in D Major" by Handel; shorter works by Kreisler and Nin, and songs by Peterkin, Vaughan Williams and Dello Jolo.
It is the story of a small Parisian boy who finds an enormous red balloon.
The strongest winds ever recorded in the world blew atop 6,288-foot Mt. Washington in New Hampshire in 1934. They were clocked at 231 miles an hour.
The balloon has a mind of its own, following the boy to school, attacking his enemies and escorting him home. A group of hostile school boys set out to fell the balloon with slingshots, but the boy's rare quality of imagination saves the film from an unhappy ending.
Pages Assigned for Western Civilization
Two editions of Machiavelli's "The Prince" are now being used in the Western Civilization program. The pages assigned in the "Student Manual" are correct for the old edition (orange edge). However, students who purchased the new edition (gold edge) should read pages 7-30, 33-34, 81-104, 116-127.
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History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over—Sir Walter Raleigh.
Glamour Debs
Several styles and colors to choose from. Brushed leathers in black, red, con cobb-smooth leather in red and bone. Printed leather in tan or gray. This week only.
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French Club to Hear Prof. Carman
J. Neale Carman, professor of Romance Languages and chairman of the department, will show slides and speak to the French Club at 4 p.m. today in 11 Frasier. His talk is entitled "Les Frontieres Linguistiques de la France."
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STUDYING CAN BE SCREAMS
If studying is bugging you, try mnemonics.
Mnemonics, as we all know, was invented by the great Greek philosopher Mnemon in 526 B.C. (Mnemonies, incidentally, was only one of the inventions of this fertile Athenian. He also invented the staircase which, as you may imagine, was of inestimable value to mankind. Before the staircase people who wished to go from floor to floor were forced to live out their lives, willy-nilly, on the ground floor, and many of them grew cross as bears. Especially Demosthenes who was elected Consul of Athens three times but never served because he was unable to get up to the office of Commissioner of Oaths on the third floor to be sworn in. But after Mnemon's staircase, Demosthenes got up to the third floor easy as pie—to Athens' sorrow, as it turned out. Demosthenes, his temper shortened by years of confinement to the ground floor, soon embroiled his countrymen in a series of senseless wars with the Persians, the Visigoths and the Ogallala Sioux. He was voted out of office in 517 B.C. and Mnemon, who had made his accession possible, was pelted to death with fruit salad in the Duomo. This later became known as the Missouri Compromise.)
--he was unable to get to the third floor to be sworn in.
But I digress. We were discussing mnemonies, which are nothing more than aids to memory—catchwords or jingles that help you remember names, dates and places. For example:
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
In fourteen hundred ninety-two.
See how simple? Make up your own jingles. What, for instance, is the important event immediately following Columbus's discovery of America? The Boston Tea Party, of course. Try this;
Samuel Adams flung the tea Into the briny Zuyder Zee.
(NOTE: The Zuyder Zee was located in Boston Harbor until 1904 when Salmon P. Chase traded it to Holland for Louisiana and two outfielders.)
But I digress. To get back to mnemonics, you can see how simple and useful they are—not only for history but also for everyday living; for instance:
In nineteen hundred fifty-nine The smoke to look for is Alpine.
"Why Alpine?" you ask. Taste that fine, fresh flavor. Enjoy that subtle coolness. Until Alpine you needed two cigarettes to reap the benefits of Alpine—one for flavor, one for high filtration—and smoking two cigarettes is never graceful; in fact, with mittens it is nigh impossible. Now you need only one cigarette-Alpine. Get some. You'll see.
© 1959 Max Shulma
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