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Striptease to Pictures Paris Is a Moral City
Summer Session Kansan
Special to the Summer Kansan By Jerry Knudson
Editor's Note: Jerry Knudson, a former instructor in the School of Journalism, is touring Europe this summer. This is the second of a series.
From my experiences here, decidedly not.
PARIS, France—Is it true what they say about Paris?
Item: The French are extremely moral. Children under 16 cannot see "High School Confidential" or "Al Capone."
Item: Parisienne striptasee is about as wholesome as the Monday morning wash. French girls (and fellows, too) are so un-self-conscious about their bodies that it seems perfectly natural for them to appear nude.
The French are rather a chanish lot. They are not nearly as friendly as the Spanish. The friendliest, of course, are prostitutes who ply their trade with a brisk efficiency and good cheer that command respect.
It is true that dirty pictures are sold in Paris. The only hitch is that they are simply reproductions of works of art which may be seen at any museum.
Speaking of art museums, the Louvre is no disappointment. It is probably the finest art showplace in the world. Here one may see the "Mona Lisa," "Venus de Milo," "Victory of Samathrace," and other famous works.
But current French art is perplexing. For a country which consistently led in the great art revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries the French art world today seems curiously old-fashioned.
I attended a current showing at the Grand Palais—and left quickly
An initiation team from Kappa chapter at the University of Kansas installed the 117th campus chapter of Phi Delta Kappa international fraternity Saturday.
KU Team Aids In Initiation
The installation was at the University of Wichita. Phi Delta Kappa is a professional fraternity for men in education, with campus chapters at approved colleges and universities engaged in teacher preparation.
Carl Fahrback, past president of Kappa chapter, was in charge. Installation followed a banquet Herold Regier, instructor of education, Phi Delta Kappa coordinator of Kansas delivered a welcome and challenge to the men forming the chapter.
Goldwater Hits Pact with Unions
SOUTH BEND, Ind—(UPI)—Sen Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz) says it was "humiliating" that Congress negotiated with "union grandees" and applied "sweeteners" to make the Kennedy labor bill palatable to them.
"How humiliating it is for the Congress of the United States to have to conduct a sort of treaty negotiation with a great internal political power almost as with a foreign power to find out what these union grandes would be willing to tolerate in the way of mild corrections," he said Sunday.
"What level has this Congress reached when even a mild and inoffensive reform bill (such as the Kennedy bill) must be loaded with 'sweeteners' to make it sufficiently attractive to the labor politicians so that they may be persuaded to permit its passage?" he asked.
Normal Temperature Is Outlook for Week
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Temperatures averaging near normal for July's beginning are predicted for Kansas in the coming five-day period.
Forecasters said precipitation during the period would range from little if any in the southeast to amounts totaling about half an inch in western and extreme northern Kansas.
Maximum temperatures in the 85 to 95-degree range were forecast for today.
after a whirlwind tour. Everything was painstakingly realistic—simply pretty calendar art. Of course; it may have been simply the taste of the judges who arranged the show, but sidewalk exhibits along the Seine are similar.
This August institution has been the target of a virulent attack by the young avant-garde group for many decades. One outraged young painter once called it a "national graveyard" of French art. Another once throw a rock at the "Mona Lisa" and broke the glass which covers the painting. But that gallant lady continued smiling.
The Folies Bergere proved up to its reputation; a glittering flashy spectacle, a hopped-up Radio City Music Hall. Elvis Presley on a pass from the Army in Germany, shows up, and the entire French audience urns from the beautiful naked women on the stage to stare at Elvis in the balcony. I'll never understand he French.
Here is Paris, all of it...Place Pagalle, Are de Triomphe, Eifel Tower, Versailles, Tuilleries, Montmartre, Notre Dame, Bastille, and the bustling Champs Elysees.
The French have always been embarrassed by their own artistic prowess, however. You still will find no Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Futurist, Cubist, or Abstract paintings in the Louvre.
Kansas cities of over 10,000 population are less likely than cities of similar size in other states to provide fire protection service without charge to areas outside the city limits, reports the Governmental Research Center at the University of Kansas.
In a nation-wide survey made by the International City Manager's Assn., it was found that 608 of 1,002 cities with a population of over 10,000 extended fire protection outside city limits.
Fire Aid Survey Results Cited
The 21 cities which charge for fire service require at least one of four general types of contracts as a basis for extension. Most frequently negotiated is the township contract, which is utilized by 11 cities. Nine cities contract with individual property owners, four make agreements with rural industries, and one city, Emporia, contracts for county-wide fire protection.
Charge for the service was made by 51.8 per cent of the cities. In Kansas all but one of the 22 cities extending the service, or 95.5 per cent, charge for fire protection to fringe areas.
Other cities are in the process of revising their extension policies in order to distribute a more equitable share of fire service costs to rural areas.
Sarge says Zebus are man's best friend.
Tuesday, June 30, 1959
Lorelei Lee Adventure Begins Starlight Run
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," the musical comedy about the voaring Twenties that catapulted actress Carol Channing to stardom on Broadway, opened last night at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City for a one-week run.
The stars of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," which is based on the Anita Loos story, are Iva Withers and Joan Kibrig.
The musical describes the adventures of Lorelei Lee and her friend, Dorothy Shaw, aboard the luxury liner Ile de France on a voyage to Europe. Their trip is financed by Lorelei's current fiance, Gus Esmond, who is prevented from taking the trip by his father, a tycoon in the button industry.
Lorelei is just "a little girl from Little Rock" (which is one of the show's most famous songs) who works in the Follies and has a knack of making friends with the right people, especially rich men. Her theme song, of course, is "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."
As soon as the ship gets underway, Lorecle takes on the assignment of finding friends—rich ones—for Dorothy. She decides that Henry Spoelford is just right. This romance launched, she tries to forget Gus, and becomes interested in Josephus Gage, a zipper manufacturer. She also turns her attention to a diamond tiara belonging to a Lady Beckman.
And then Paris, where everything happens, including the arrival of Lorelei's old fiance, and his father.
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" first opened on Broadway about a decade ago. It follows "The Firefly" into the Starlight, the Rudofif Frimal-Otto Harbach which starred Anna Marie Alberghetti.
Bartle Back in Office
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - (UPI) — Mayor H. Roe Bartle returned to the job Monday after 12 days of hospitalization because of extreme fatigue.
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