Creative Drama Brings Out Participants' Own Ideas
By Saundra Sue Hayn
Creative drama courses are a fairly new concept to the KU dramatic arts students. Courses in creative drama have been offered here only three years. Only a few students have taken them.
Mrs. Bernice Harvey, instructor of speech and drama, worked her way through KU by teaching creative drama in summer school.
Mrs. Bernice Harvey
She said creative drama offers an opportunity for anyone interested in recreational or camp work to develop ideas without long hours of preparation and rehearsal.
Mrs. Harvey is director of the Experimental Theatre production, "Treasure Island," which is being presented this week. This play is directed toward children of the 9-14 age group.
Creative drama gives each member of the group a chance to participate. It is usually the brighter
Delegates Learn Of Planning Task
Delegates to the fifth annual Kansas Planning Conference learned Tuesday it is up to individual cities to use initiative and assume responsibility for urban renewal.
Leonard Church, field representative in charge of urban renewal for the Housing and Home Finance Agency, Ft. Worth, Tex., spoke on the subject at the Kansas Union.
Mr. Church said slums and blight areas must be erased and prevented from recurring. Most slums can be traced to either bad planning or no planning, he said.
Planning to clear existing slums and blighted areas is not enough to prevent the same situation in future years, he added.
The state legislature must create a state planning committee or delegate such powers to an already existing organization. Mr. Church said Kansas does not have this organization.
A city of 25,000 or less desiring urban renewal aid must provide a sketch of a plan, a neighborhood analysis, and an outline of codes and ordinances for building and zoning.
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children who come up with the ideas, Mrs. Harvey said.
"Then the other children have the opportunity to help make the ideas work out," she continued.
How to select a cast? This is the simplest task of all, said Mrs. Harvey.
"The children invariably select the best people for each role because they are unmerciful in their criticism."
Each has a chance to play almost any role that he chooses because there are no fixed lines to memorize.
If the princess misses a performance, another person can play the role since all of the children have an idea of how the part is supposed to be acted.
In creative drama, the teacher or instructor gives the group a base. This base may be a situation, the first line of a poem or the simple structure of a story.
From this point on, the teacher's function is merely to provide a structural framework for the children to enlarge with their own ideas.
By Doug Parker
KU Geologists Spend Summer in Antarctica
Two KU Antarctica venturers have returned to Kansas terra firma after spending a month on the frozen land and never experiencing darkness.
E. J. Zeller, associate professor of geology, and William Pearn, Sinclair, Mo., graduate student, saw the strange sight of an Antarctic summer while on a month's field trip for the department of geology.
Temperatures were usually in the 15-degree range on the frozen continent, but at times were six below.
"It really seems colder in Kansas than in Antarctica," Pearn said after his return. "The cold here is much more wet."
Prof. Zeller and Pearn went to Antarctica Nov. 6 to find rock specimens which could be examined for clues to the age of the continent.
"We usually stayed at American bases, such as McMurdo Sound and Little America, between our ventures into the inland." Pearn said.
A plane would pick them up and take them to where they wanted to go, and then would leave and come back at a designated time.
"Once, because of bad weather, the plane couldn't come back for 24 hours, and we became a little excited. You never know if the next day will stretch into another day. But it came back on schedule, landed on its skis, and took us back to Marble Landing." Pearn said.
The area around Marble Landing is known as the Banana Belt because it has the warmest temperatures on the continent—about 15 degrees when Prof. Zeller and Pearn were there.
"In walking from building to building, a person could wear shirt-
sleeves, provided he had on long underwear." Pearn said.
"Almost all the continent is wild, barren and uninhabited, but still I don't feel like an Antarctic explorer," Pearn said. "In retrospect, though, it was a magnificent trip."
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Canadian Geologist Lectures Tomorrow
Dr. Ralph W. Edie, consulting geologist from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, will address a meeting of the department of geology tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m. in 124 Lindley Hall.
Dr. Edie, who is one of the eight distinguished scientists sponsored by the Distinguished Lecture Committee of the American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists, will speak on "Limestone Facies and Stratigraphic Trans."
The lecture is open to all students and faculty members.
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THE GIFT HORSE
I know how busy you are—studying, going to class, catching night crawlers—but let me interrupt your multifarious activities—studying, going to class, helping old grads find their dentures after Homecoming—to remind you that busy as you are—studying, going to class, searching for meat in the dormitory stew—time and tide wait for no man, and the Yuletide will soon be upon us. Busy or not, we must turn our thoughts to Christmas shopping. Let us, therefore, pause for a moment in our busy schedules—studying, going to class, rolling drunks—to examine a number of interesting gift suggestions.
We will start with the hardest gift problem of all: What do you give to the person who has everything? Well sir, there follows a list of a half dozen gifts which I will flatly guarantee the person who has everything does not have:
1. A dentist's chair.
2. A low hurdle.
3. A street map of Perth.
4. Fifty pounds of chicken fat.
5. A carton of filter-tin Marlboros.
6. A carton of non-filter Philip Morris.
"What?" you exclaim, your young eyebrows rising in will incredulity. "The person who has everything does not have cartons of filter Marlboros and non-filter Philip Morris?" you shriek, your young lips curling mockingly. "What arrant nonsense!" you rasp, making a coarse gesture.
And I reply with an emphatic no! The person who has everything does not have filter Marlboros and non-filter Philip Morris—not for long anyhow—because if he has Marlboros and Philip Morris and if he is a person who likes a mild, mellow, fresh, flavorful cigarette—and who does not? eh? who does not?—why, then he doesn't have Marlboros and Philip Morris; he smokes them. He might possibly have a large collection of Marlboro and Philip Morris buts, but whole Marlboros and Philip Morris? No. An emphatic no!
Now we take up another thorny gift problem: What do you buy your girl if you are broke? Quite a challenge, you will agree, but there is an answer—an ingenious, exciting answer! Surprise your girl with a beautiful bronze head of herself!
Oh, I know you're not a sculptor, but that doesn't matter. All you have to do is endear yourself to your girl's roommate, so she will be willing to do you a favor. Then some night when your girl is fast asleep, have the roommate butter your girl's face—quietly, so as not to wake her—and then quietly pour plaster of Paris on top of the butter and then quietly wait till it hardens and quietly lift it off—the butter will keep it from sticking—and then bring you the mold, and you will pour bronze in it and make a beautiful bust to surprise your girl with!
Remember, it is important -very important- to endear yourself to the roommate, because if anything should go wrong, you don't want to be without a girl for the holiday season.
© 1958 Max Shulman
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