Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 9, 1957
Musical Hit On Starlight Stage
Slapstick comedy in all its glory took over the Starlight Theatre stage here Monday with the opening of "High Button Shoes," and will continue through Sunday. With Comic Paul Gilbert in charge of the mad happenings, and dancer Hal LeRoy and television stars Denise Lor and Jill Corey to enliven the proceedings, the gala show is expected to be one of the most hilarious of the season.
The lightning wit Gilbert displays in his television routines and supper club engagements across the nation are put to good use in his portrait of Harrison Floy. Floy, a con man who sells water-logged real estate in New Jersey, in no way resembles the "medic" Gilbert so ably mimics in his take-off of the television drama, but the comedy is just as riotous. As Floy, he is aided and abetted by Mort Marshall in the role of Mr. Pondue.
United Funds Head Elected
Joseph Cohen, Kansas attorney, was elected chairman of the Kansas Conference of United Funds, Chestis and Councils at the close of the group's first meeting at KU Saturday. He will serve until April 1958 when the next conference is scheduled.
Other officers are Bill Adams, manager, Pratt Chamber of Commerce, vice chairman; and John Harrell, executive director, United Community Campaign, Kansas City, secretary. Two more members will be appointed to the committee by Cohen. This group will work in cooperation with E. A. McFarland, manager, Lawrence Center, University Extension, in planning the April meeting.
Twenty-nine persons from 16 cities attended the program Friday and Saturday. Topics discussed were: "How to Organize a United Fund Campaign;" "How to Campaign;" "The One Campaign Plan and Its Growth;" "How to Get Publicity," and "Fund Raising Related to Budgeting and Planning."
Professor Given Honorary Degree
John Robinson Frazier, former professor of drawing and painting at KU has received the honorary degree Doctor of Fine Arts from Brown University in Providence, RI.
Frazier, who taught at KU from 1917 to 1923, is now president of the Rhode Island School of Design, also in Providence.
The citation reads: "In one decade of your middle years your painting earned you a permanent position among American artists. Since then you have successively sacrificed your own interests and desires to the demands of teaching and administration; finally, as President of the Rhode Island School of Design, you have assumed new and exhausting duties at a time when most men think only of rest.
"We who are enriched by the resources of the School of Design rejoice in both your actions and your words, which together provide a sound program for the present and a set of guiding principles for the future."
Illustrator Joins Museum Staff
Gene Pacheco of Santa Fe, N. M., has joined the staff of the Museum of Natural History as taxidermist and scientific illustrator.
He fills the position vacated several months ago by Victor Hogg, who went to Michigan State University. Pacheco will work with George P. Young, chief taxi-dermist at KU.
Pacheco has been doing illustration work for the New Mexico State Game Commission and the widely distributed "New Mexico" magazine.
Mrs. Pacheco and three children will move from Santa Fe later this summer.
Miss Lor, feminine singing star of the daily "Gary Moore Show" on CBS-TV, is making her first Starlight appearance. This follows another recent success, her first supper club engagement, which was at New York's swank Hotel Plaza Persian Room.
In "High Button Shoes," she joins with LeRoy as Mama and Papa Longstreet, unsuspecting dupes in the land-selling schemes of the two crooks. A Starlight favorite, LeRoy returns to the Swope Park stage after an absence of two years. This will be his fourth Starlight appearance.
A jittery goorilla frightens lovely bathing beauties while cops chase robbers in and out of bathhouse doors.
Miss Corey, as the sister who lives with the Longstreets, becomes romantically involved not only with the con man but also with the big, handsome football player from Rutgers, played by Ralph Lowe. The petite brunette recording star is making her musical comedy debut in Kansas City before returning to New York to begin preparations for "Your Hit Parade" this fall.
A Mack Sennett-type ballet and beach frolic at Atlantic City will provide the highlight of the show.
Nobody Ever Died For Dear Old Rutgers and Papa, Won't You Dance With Me? are two of the big musical numbers in the show, which also will feature LeRoy in two dance specialties and Gilbert, Miss Lor and Miss Corey in special musical routines.
One of the most valuable properties ever to be shown on the Starlight stage is a feature of the show. It is a 1911 Ford "Torpedo Roadster," the sports car of the "Brass Era" in motoring. Owned by E. B. McCormack of Kansas City, it is a restored model, complete with 4-cylinder, 22-horsepower engine, acetylene headlights, kerosene-fuelled side and tail lights, and a crank. It will be the center of attraction during a big number entitled There's Nothing Like A Model "T."
Dean Attends Conferences
Theatre officials report good seats available for all performances, which begin nightly at 8:15 p.m. Tickets may be ordered by writing the Starlight Theatre Ticket Office at 1217 Walnut or by calling Grand 1-5510. Prices range from fifty cents to $3.50.
Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts has returned from a 10-day business trip to Washington, D.C., and St. Louis.
In Washington, June 25-26, he attended a workshop on accrediting conducted by the National Committee on Accrediting. Participants were representatives from 21 national professional accrediting agencies. Dean Gorton was one of two from the National Association of Schools of Music.
Also in Washington, June 27-28 he attended a conference on chamber music, in universities, conducted by the Coolidge Foundation at the Library of Congress.
From June 27 through July 2 he attended an executive committee meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music in St. Louis, Mo.
Receives Assistantship
George El Jakway, Twin Falls, Idaho graduate student in zoology, has been awarded a Research Assistantship in Vertebrate Paleontology to the University of Nebraska State Museum. Jakway will study Pleistocene Cave Faunas from New Mexico and Texas.
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