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Summer Session Kansan Friday. June 12.1959
Starlight Theater Opens Monday With "Oklahoma"
With a schedule of nine shows to play during the 77 night season, rehearsals have been going on since May 25. Singers and dancers have been working long hours, and scenic artists have completed settings for the first production.
The excitement of a world premiere will spark the opening night performance of "Oklahoma!" at 8:15 p.m. Monday, as the Starlight Theater in Kansas City's Swowe Park opens the 1959 season.
The stars of the show, singers Bill Haves and Gogi Grant, arrived at the 7,600-seat playhouse Monday morning and plunged into a tight rehearsal schedule. They take the leading roles of Curly and Laurey, respectively, with Joan Kibrig as
Ado Annie, Will B. Able as Will Parker, Mike Kermoyan as Jud, and Ted Bienades as Ali Hakim.
A cast of more than 50 professionals will sing the Rodgers and Hammerstein songs that have made the musical not only a classic of the American theater, but the biggest box-office attraction in theatrical history.
With "My Fair Lady" only recently celebrating its third year on Broadway, the musical play that started a new and popular art form hasn't been seriously challenged yet on its record shattering run of over five years in New York. It is conservatively estimated that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
have grossed more than 40 million dollars from the Broadway company, the touring companies, and motion picture and foreign royalties.
Located in Oklahoma at the turn of the century, the story was the first to have integrated music that followed the plot of the play. In writing their tunes, "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," "People Will Say We're in Love," "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top," "Everything's Up to Date in Kansas City," "Pore Jud is Daid," "Oklaham!".
"Out of My Dreams," and other songs now as familiar as the national anthem, the team made the lyries and music follow the feeling carried in the dialogue.
Visiting Professor Says 'School Is for Studying'
Dr. T. Charles Helvey, visiting professor of biophysics, believes that university students should stop wasting so much time dating and playing varsity sports and should study while they're in school.
"As soon as we win the cold war that we are in now, we can relax somewhat, but right now students must work hard," said Dr. Helvey, who had studied or taught in over six universities, including the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin.
"In Germany it is very unusual when any university student goes out on a date during the weekdays," he said. "The students there work on their studies every night during the week until time to go to bed."
Dr. Helvey said he considered himself fortunate because most of his students had been "eager beavers."
"I think two or three hours a week of physical education activity classes should be required of every student during his college career."
Students go to college to learn, but besides learning they should keep their bodies fit, he said. Some, however, spend too much time on sports activities while others spend no time at all, he added.
1 "Girls are to be blamed for the heavy emphasis on sports today because they run after the athletic heroes," charged Dr. Helvie. "If they
would go after men of high scholastic standing first, they could change the whole academic society. Men then wouldn't be so anxious to be heroes in the field and would work harder on their studies."
The sport is what the individual is doing when he's out playing ball on the field, and the real goal is a sound body, he explained.
"I think many persons marry too early in American universities when they marry before they are finished with their schooling." Dr. Helvey said.
Each student should know that if he gets married while he is still in school, either his studies or his marriage and home life will suffer, he said.
Theatre to Offer French Comedy
For the first time in the history of the University, the University Theatre will couple its theater offerings with films.
Admission is free to all registered students. Faculty and townpeople are admitted by season coupon available from the University Theatre Box Office, Bell's Music Store, and the Union Ticket Center.
Saturday's attraction will be "Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis)." a tale of the dramatic lives of the pantomimists of the traditional French vaudeville of the 19th century. Featured will be Jean-Louis Barrault, Arlettie, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, and dozens of other top French stars.
ID. cards must be exchanged for reserved seats. There are only a limited number of seats available.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Jonathan Swift
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Bacteriologist Due at Oxford
Cora Downs, professor of bacteriology, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Research Fellowship at Oxford University in England for the 1959-60 academic year. Dr. Downs has received an invitation from Sir Howard Flory and Dr. G. P. Gladstone to work with them in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford.
Sir Flory worked with Sir Alexander Flemming, the discoverer of penicillin.
Dr. Downs has become recognized throughout the world for her development and improvement of the fluorescent antibody technique, a new method for rapid identification of certain communicable diseases.
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Now and Saturday Gregory Peck in "PORK CHOP HILL"
Starts Sunday
This Year's Academy Award Winner
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John Saxon in
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co-hit—Eighteen Top Recording
Stars in "BIG BEAT"
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