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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1960
Cid Corman Discusses Japanese No Theatre
In an atmosphere much like that of an executive board meeting, Cid Corman spoke to a small group yesterday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union about his impressions of the Japanese No theater.
"The Japanese theater is much like the Japanese home," Mr. Corman said. "It is bare and uncluttered. There are no wood paneled walls or plush seats to keep you comfortable during a performance. The patrons sit on straw mats and remove their shoes to watch the drama.
"YOU HAVE TO go away from the United States for a while before the neon signs, radio and advertisements become blatantly unbearable," he said. Bareness and simplicity are essential to the Japanese homes so that a single flower placed within the room gains its natural delicacy and beauty.
"It is very hard to convey a unique experience to a group that has never seen No drama." Mr. Corman said. "Once you see No drama you will see that it is the only true theater. English plays back to Shakespeare are only verbal. The Japanese have added music and dance to tell the story."
We have lost contact with the earth by laying heavy cement floors and covering them with plush rugs, Mr. Corman said. We can't even enjoy the landscape any more because our cars go too fast to see it.
"THE BARE SQUARE stage greets the eyes as a person comes into the theater to watch a performance of No drama," he said. "This is an exact theater with no director, no producer and no star. The language in the script is in the elevated old Japanese style and many of the modern citizens must follow a printed text to understand it. These texts can be bought for about 15 cents and show not only the lines but also the costuming, stage motions and headaddresses."
Although the viewer may be a student of No drama the action is so perfect that it always seems to be the first time you have seen it, he said. The music which provides the rhythm for the entire performance consists of a very shrill flute and two drums.
"THE JAPANESE PEOPLE are very quiet people who respect their children." Mr. Corman said. "Families form the groups which give No performances and the children start in the theater at the age of four but I have never heard a single parent force his child onto the stage. I never once heard a voice raised above a speaking tone. As the child grows up in the theater he learns all of the parts of all of the more than 200 No dramas. Nobody ever repeats a role after he has once performed it."
Mr. Corman concluded the meeting by playing a record of two actors performing the musical, poetic parts in a typical No drama.
30 Die In Crash Near Moscow
MOSCOW — (UPI) — An Austrian airlines plane with 37 persons aboard crashed and burned near Moscow last night, killing 30 including three Americans, it was announced today. Of the seven survivors, two were Americans.
The airline office in Vienna issued a casualty list this evening, which listed a Dr. and Mrs. Ganulin, of Los Angeles, Calif., and a Miss Simone, an employee of Pan American World Airways, as the three Americans killed.
Earlier, the two American survivors had been identified as Maj. Edward Wootten, of Wilmington, N.C., assistant U.S. air attache in Moscow, and Maj. William H. Knipe, of Kokomo, Ind., the assistant military attach here. Both were burned in the crash and were hospitalized in Moscow's Vishnezky Clinic. Wootten was reported in good condition, but Knipe was reported in serious condition.
The British-built Viscount was on a regular flight from Vienna to Moscow with 31 passengers and a crew of six when it crashed in fog and rain into a wooded area near the village of Krukovo, seven miles from Moscow.
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Nasser Wants Disarmament
By Bruce W. Munn
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. —(UPI)
President Gamel Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic called today for a personal meeting between President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to start the world toward complete disarmament.
Nasser, a neutral leader in world affairs, said he was taking the initiative in demanding such a meeting because the big powers "do not alone have the right to speak about peace and war." It was the first major demand by an emerging neutral "third force."
Nasser also demanded admission of Communist China to the United Nations and asked the pro-Soviet Premier Patrice Lumumba of the Congo be returned to power.
Nasser did not take sides over the Soviet and Communist satellite demands that Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold be fired and his post abolished in favor of a three-man presidium. The United States and Britain appeared to be winning their pro-Hammarskjold fight.'
The Soviet Union countered this by announcing today they would seek to add leading neutral nations to the 10-nation disarmament committee whose talks in Geneva were wrecked by a Communist walkout last June. They were India, Indonesia, the U.A.R., Ghana and Mexico.
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Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, 44, former KU chancellor, was installed Saturday as the youngest chancellor in the history of UCLA. According to the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Murphy took over the post at an outdoor ceremony attended by students and faculty members from 87 California educational institutions.
"I contemplate with real excitement the prospect of becoming deeply involved in the life of Los Angeles, a community well on its way to its manifest destiny as one of the great and vital cities of the world," the new chancellor declared.
Edwin Pauley, chairman of the University of California board of regents, presented Dr. Murphy for the inaugural. In his introduction, Pauley said a committee of university officials selected Dr. Murphy as the best man in the nation to direct UCLA as the school embarked on its most important period.
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Pep Club Smoker In Union Tonight
The KU men's pep club, KuKu's, will hold a rush smoker at 7 p.m. today in the Kansas Union.
President of the club, Walt Brauer, said the KuKu's want more members and he expressed his hope that there would be a large turnout for the smoker.
The pep club is for upperclassmen, and all interested sophomores, juniors, and seniors are urged to attend.
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