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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Oct. 3, 1958
Poet to Express Works With Jazz
Poetry read to a jazz background will be one of the features of author Langston Hughes' program in the Kansas Union Ballroom at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
A small combo will be furnished by the KU Jazz Club for Hughes' performance.
Hughes has been regarded as an expert on both jazz and poetry. He wrote the "First Book of Jazz," which appeared in 1954.
His television program of poetry and jazz received wide notice and he has made an album of his early poems read to a jazz background.
An exhibition of his books and records will be installed in the Union Lounge for next week's program.
The works of Hughes have been translated into Russian, Yiddish, French, Spanish and German.
He has made English translations of the poems of Negro writers in Cuba and Haiti, and has translated Cuban and Mexican short stories.
KU Gets $10,350 For Vision Study
A fourth payment of $10,350 on a 5-year grant allotted for the study of central and peripheral control of visual accommodation has been received by the University. The grant is from the U.S. Public Health Service.
The project is a study of pathways and mechanisms in the brain which are involved in adjustments in the eye for near and far vision.
Dr. G. N. Loofbourrow, assistant professor of physiology, is the principal investigator and Dr. James L. Hall, assistant professor of anatomy, is associate investigator.
Also assisting with the project are Robert Nichols, Leawood graduate student; Benjamin Edwards, Wichita senior; and Mrs. Ruth Hotton, Lawrence.
in Pennsylvania with an LLD. degree in 1943.
He has done much writing and lecturing on the place of the Negro in America. He was selected by historian Dr. Charles A. Beard in 1934 as one of America's 25 personages with a "socially conscious" attitude.
He has published novels, short stories and plays as well as poetry, and has done motion picture work in both Moscow and Hollywood.
His plays include "Mulatto," which ran for two years on Broadway, "Little Ham" and "The Sun Do Move." He was lyricist for the musical version of Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," and also for another musical, "Just Around the Corner."
Smith to Describe Island Exploration
Carlyle S. Smith, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, will speak to the Circle K Club at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union.
Prof. Smith will describe and show movies of his explorations in the Easter Island and other islands in the Polynesian group. An account of Dr. Smith's findings was featured in the Sept. 21 issue of The Kansas City Star.
Members of the Lawrence Kiwanis Club will be guests at this meeting. The Circle K Club, a service organization, is currently working with the Lawrence Traffic Commission in a survey of hazardous intersections.
During the first nine months of New York state's compulsory auto insurance law, the registration plates of nearly 100,000 car-owners were revoked for allowing their liability insurance to lapse.
TONITE!
AND SATURDAY!
ENTERTAINMENT
UNDER THE STARS!
Our Snack Bar and Playground are Always Open!!
Student Straw Poll Okays Bill for Right to Work'
A straw poll taken this week on the right to work amendment showed 33 "for" and 18 "against" in political science 48. International Politics, taught by Clifford Ketzel, assistant professor of political science.
To work out a statistical report students polled were asked to note their sex, marital status, parents' business, and whether they came from urban or rural areas and had ever belonged to a union.
The amendment, one of three important issues to be decided by the Nov. 4 elections, will determine whether Kansas will join 18 other states which already have such a law. Five states are voting on the issue this fall.
The bill, in effect, says no person shall be denied the opportunity to obtain or retain employment because of membership or non-membership in any labor organization.
POSITIVELY 1 DAY ONLY!
ONE PERFORMANCE!
Varsity Theatre
Thursday Evening Oct. 9th at 8:15 o'clock
Seats on sale at the Varsity Theatre NOW!
HURRY! ONLY CAPACITY SOLD!
First 6 rows lower floor and upper balcony—$1.50. Remainder lower floor and lower balcony—$2.00.
Enclosed is ... (total) for ... seats at ... (price).
Send check or money order to Varsity Theatre, Box 452, Lawrence, Kansas. Only capacity will be sold!
HELD OVER! Now & Saturday! Please Note: The Kansas State Censor Board says "La Parisienne" can be shown to Adults Only!!
Shows 7:15 8:56 Adults 90c
Starts
SUNDAY!
The wonderful story of a Sergeant who "promoted"
himself
Shows Continuous on Sunday—Adults 75c Kids 25c
Although the milk of Zebus is not as good as cow's milk, it is different.
DUCK'S For SEA FOOD
Chicken - Steaks OPEN 11:00-11:00 824 Vermont
TONITE
SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY!
Note: Double Owl Show
Saturday Nite!
WARNER BROS. PRESENT
THOMAS B. COSTAIN'S
VICTOR SAVILLE CINEMASCOPE
WARNERCOLOR-STEREOPHONIC SOUND
VIRGINIA PIER JACK
MAYO ANGELI PALANCE
AND INTRODUCTION TO PAUL
NEWMAN
WETTER FOR THE SCREEN BY
LESSER SAUMALES
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
VICTOR SAVILLE
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