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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Dec. 16, 1958
A New Danny Kaye Shines In "Me and the Colonel"
By Robert Harwi
It is a subdued Danny Kaye who is on view in the new Columbia film, "Me and the Colonel," now being shown at the Varsity.
The double talk, the scat singing, the rubber face and the frantic clowning—all Kaye trademarks—are absent this time.
What is seen is a quiet impersonation of a warm-hearted Jew who is stranded in Paris just as the Hitler war machine is about to swoop down on the city in 1940.
Kaye's problem is simply how to get out of the city before the Germans can get him. There are no cars, no trains, no planes, not even any bicycles.
Kaye tries to team up with a Polish colonel, played by the German actor Curt Jurgens. The colonel feels that he can do just as well without Kaye.
But Kaye produces a car and gasoline and since the colonel is not exactly anxious to be caught by the Germans either, the two finally join forces and start their flight.
Here is where the fun begins. The colonel drives into the German lines rather than away from them.
He not only has to rescue his sweetheart from the Germans. He has to serenade her in the process. The colonel has what Kaye calls "one of the finest minds of the 12th century."
The film presents one incongruous situation after another, building up a restrained hilarity that finally ends in a chase scene that sees the colonel and Kaye outwitting the Germans and making their escape.
It is hard to decide who should have acting honors. Both Kaye and Jurgens play their roles to perfection. They appear to be different types of men, but they are actually brothers under the skin.
It has been a long time since we have seen a role played with the wit and wisdom that Danny Kaye gives this one. And it is not often that one will meet, whether on the screen or in real life, a man like Colonel Tadeusz Prokoszny.
Their situation is hilarious because it is desperate. And it is desperate because they are the kind of men they are. They can be nothing else. Between them they have warmth, bravery, wisdom, humor, genius and sentimentality. This is quite a combination for even the Germans to conquer.
German Nativity Play To Be Given Tomorrow
A centuries-old nativity play will be presented by the department of Germanic languages at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser Theater.
A chair of junior high and grade school children under the direction of Mrs. Henry Buller will open the program with Christmas carols.
The play will be directed by Sidney M. Johnson, associate professor of German and acting chairman of the department, and Ingeborg von Konschegg, visiting instructor of German from Salzburg, Austria.
They will be followed by a choir under the direction of Sam Anderson, instructor in German, which will sing Russian Christmas liturgical music.
It will feature choir music in German and Russian. There is no admission charge.
A choir directed by Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, will sing German Christmas music between and during the scenes of the play. Organ accompanist for the choirs will be Robert Schaaf, Herington senior.
Included in the cast are Donald Sexton, Lawrence junior; Janet Engleson, Leavenworth freshman; Astrida Blukis, Prairie Village freshman; Carol Yagher, Oakley sophomore; Joe Bayless, Wichita senior; Donald Mitts, Bonner Springs sophomore; Lucy Remple, Lawrence graduate student; Donald Pady, Lawrence junior; Robert Tedrick,
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Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada, junior; Earl Headings, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore; Michael Jefferis, Ottawa freshman; Gerald Holmberg, Lenexa junior; Larry Kevan, Kansas City junior.
George Beier, Lawrence sophomore; John Richards, Council Grove sophomore; Barbara Gerlash, Tarkio Mo., freshman; Frances Haggard, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., freshman; Bruce Wells, Winfield sophomore; Stephen B. Kurtz, Las Vegas, N. M. sophomore; Norman Misner, Colby sophomore; Montgomery Roberts, Mission senior; Robert Hirst, Luray sophomore.
David Elliott, Merriam freshman; Trudy Gier, McPhrerson junior; Cheryl Payer, El Dorado sophomore; Judy Clausen, Prairie Village freshman; Linda Scifers, Pittsburg freshman; David Warren, Toronto junior.
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The bill to authorize the Student Health Commission to enter into a contract with a commercial health insurance company will be voted on tonight by the All Student Council.
If the bill passes, a resolution will be introduced and voted on which will permit the commission to sign a contract with Blue Cross-Blue Shield. This is the company chosen by the commission to offer health insurance to the students in addition to the Student Health Program.
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Other business on the ASC agenda includes hearing a report from the two KU delegates to the Fourth Student Conference on National Affairs.
Sign Now for Western Civ.
Registration is in 130 Strong. The test will be given in Bailey Auditorium.
Students must register for the Western Civilization examination before Dec. 31 if they wish to take the test Jan. 10.
The test will have alternate questions. Under this system, the student who finished the course last spring, summer, or this fall, will not be at a disadvantage. The questions will cover both this year's and last year's material.
The spring examination will cover only the material of the new syllabus adopted this fall.
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Good Grief, Sing For Old Beethoven
Today is Beethoven's birthday.
Ludwig von, that is—not Johann.
Faculty Meeting Set for Today
In commemoration of the great composer's 188th anniversary, young Shroeder, one of the heroes of Charles M. Schulz' comic strip "Peanuts," is getting up a celebration.
A faculty meeting will be held at 4 p.m. today in Bailey Auditorium.
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Avidly following the antics of Mr. Schulz' characters, the Daily Kansan has impatiently awaited this great day, and happily joins Shroeder, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, et al in triumphantly singing, "Happy Birthday, dear Johann—oops! Ludwig—Happy birthday to yooo0."
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