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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 9, 1957
- Two On The Aisle -
Anyone wishing to retreat from the heat or the subsiding pains of mid-term exams will find acceptable diversion downtown at Filmland's Flickerhouses this week. With a couple of westerns, a sea story, and two dramas currently airing, no one should be anything but pleased as punch.
If we use aroma as a basis for judgment, then the sweetest smell in town is at the Jayhawker: "Sweet Smell of Success." A top-notch drama, this photographic piece of cinematography brings into sharp focus the brutal dealings of the gossips, scandalongers and press agents operating in New York. If the picture smells of success, it reeks even more strongly of paralleling the life of Walter Winchell. As the powerful columnist J. J. Hunsecker, Burt Lancaster is impressive, curt, and loaded with acid remarks.
As his stooge who scoops up dirt for publication, Tony Curtis is equally impressive in his first acting role. Prior to this film, Mr. Curtis had been suffering from delusions of adequacy, but as the snake-in-the-grasslands of Broadway, he is charmingly revolting.
Newcomer Susan Harrison is the mongoose who finally flushes Curtis out of his hole in time to clash hotly with Uncle Burt for the climax. Miss Harrison does nothing that could appropriately be called acting and she has a face that resembles an unmade bed; however, her assignment is small, and the picture's fast pacing and surprising climax should place it on the movie-going list.
The companion feature, "Buckskin Lady" is a western noteworthy only for the fact that a rather withered Medina furnishes viewers with a complexion that seems to fully justify the title.
At the Varsity theatre is a pair of contrasting productions: "Stagecoach to Fury" and "The Big Boodle."
As the more clever reader may have guessed, the first of these is a western. It features Forrest Tucker and Mari Blanchard as the hero and the schoolmarm. For a low budget picture, the suspense is fairly well sustained but the climax is a trifle mundane. On the other hand, "The Big Boodle" marks the welcome return of Errol Flynn. For 20 years Mr. Flynn's virility and boudou antics have been the focal point for millions of adoring feminine fans. However, the drag of nearly fifty years has taken its toll, for in this epic Errol, the maiden's peril, has only enough poop left to romance three young lovelies. Two of these, Gia Scala and Rosanna Rory, are certainly not without their decorative charms.
In this tale of counterfeiters in Havana, the redoubtable Mr. Flynn is beaten, blackjacked, robbed, stabbed, and shot, but manages to traverse the island of Cuba often enough to furnish some very beautiful scenery. The plot is a little different and not bad entertainment, mainly because it is nurtured by Pedro Armendairez as the chief of police.
Mr. Magoo in a short subject rounds out this compact bill.
Ensconced at the Granada today and tomorrow is a soggy sea drama, "Battle Hell," which boasts Richard Todd and Akim Tamir-off as the "goodie" and "baddie" respectively. Mid shot and shell and much sea-spray, we find the semi-documentary story of the H.M.S. Amethyst of the British Navy. This is the frigate that in 1949 got stuck in the Yangtze River and, in lieu of something better to do, got into an artillery duel with 150 miles of Communist shore batteries. Good battle scenes coupled with much blood and mud help make this recap of the incident a fair-to-middling salty tale. William Hartnell as the comic relief is ably supported by Mr. Todd and a good cast of English actors. Verdict: a seafarer's delight.
The above cinematic milestones will be shown today and tomorrow. The Varsity will show Jack Webb in "The D. I." presumably an account of Friday's sojourn with the United States Marine Corps. The Granada will replace "Battle Heli" with "The Night Runner" featuring Ray Danton; it is a story of people who are sick, sick, sick. Beginning Thursday at the Jayhawker will be Jerry Lewis in the "Delicate Delinquent;" it is his first effort sans Dean Martin. And the drive-ins are still running continuously night and day.
—Tom Sawyer
... Letters
Editor:
I fear I can make little historical sense out of the vague tradition you called "pragmatic liberalism" and blamed for the ills to which the generation of silent sufferers is heir. Whoever or whatever constitutes this intellectual heritage of liberalism, I gather it is opposed by such "traditional thinkers" as Socrates, Voltaire, Jefferson and John Stuart Mill. (Western Civ Examiners please take note.)
But about those "old liberals" of the thirties more immediately to blame for the confusions of our time: what a pity they always wanted to compromise with the enemy, as when they gave blood and money to the Spanish Republic, sent bundles to Britain, and joined the Royal Air Force before Pearl Harbor. Mudd-headed, they felt totalitarian government. Right or Left, was bad for people. When I think of how they "never could wholeheartedly agree with either side" I realize the dishonesty of going on principles and not joining crowds. It makes me so ashamed for these compromisers I could cheer.
Kenneth Innis
Kenneth Inns
Lawrence graduate student
Editor:
Trusting that others will step forward to discuss the extent to which the term "liberal" may be misused, I would like to comment upon the lack of understanding of the editorial "we" implicit in Tuesday's "Conformity: Blame the Liberals."
However, it is, I believe, journalistic practice to use "we" to refer to the editorial policy, to the weight of staff opinion behind the statements on the editorial page. Total consistency and mutual staff agreement cannot be expected, but the editorial page is no place to hash over intra-staff concerns.
That Dale Morsch is one of the editors of the Summer Session Kansas as well as the writer of the editorials which occasioned my comments is evident from the masthead. Ordinarily, he would be using the editorial "we" properly in either capacity.
In Tuesday's editorial Morsch assumes a petulant attitude regarding the publication of two student letters to the editor and an editorial that disagree with his statements in the original "Conformity" editorial and seems to regard these publications as a personal affront. Now he
One of the major literary themes of the day is the battle of the individual vs. conformism. The organization man, the gray flannel suiter are obvious examples. Ernst Pawel, expatriate German freelance writer, takes issue with one of the dominant facets of conformism—the drive for "security"—in From the Dark Tower (Macmillan), a fine, though sometimes too heady, statement of the individual's necessity to be himself, rather than a stereotype
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Abe Rogoff, poet turned insurance salesman, does well enough by the latter trade to support a wife and son, and become a minor sort of pillar in his vaguely exclusive suburban town. But the suicide of his friend and immediate superior, Bill Norden, leads to the sooner-or-later inevitable questioning of the set of values he has been living by.
Abe's problem is slightly different from that of the run-of-the-mill gray flannel suiter in revolt; the latter merely discovers that the standards of conformism by which he has been living ultimately do not apply. Abe, however, has never accepted these standards. Working nine to five in his insurance mill, he had believed he was the master of the rest of his time, that he could live a double life as it were, with the world of poetry and art occupying him when he was not chained to the Tower.
The answer is the same, however; he finds that the Tower controls him 24 hours a day.
Pawel has little new to offer here, but what he does give he delivers well and in a form readable enough to glide effortlessly over the occasional intellectual stumbling blocks in his way. . . .
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Possibly Morsch was "forced" to print the letters, and "had to" run the back-stabbing editorial, but it would seem that the compelling agency, if external, would protect Morsch from such flagrant semantic lapses.
certainly has a right to defend himself and his views, or at least to clarify his original statements. He does not have the right to regard a signed editorial, which he has presumably read, as a "double-cross" to "us." He himself may feel betrayed, but certainly the editorial policy remained more or less intact, and certainly the "we" could not refer to the staff.
R. M. Davis Lawrence graduate student
Russian composer Peter Iich Tchaikovsky was guest conductor when New York City's famous Carnegie Hall was opened on May 5, 1891.
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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
(Published Tuesdays and Fridays)
Ed. Phone 251 Bus. Phone 376
Editors ... Dale Morsch
John Eaton
Business Mgrs... Colby Rehnert
Bill Irvine
Reporters ... Martha Crosier
John Husar
Janet Juneau
Manager ... James E. Dykes
TV Notes
"This Is Your Life" is showing 13 weeks of selected re-runs of kinescopes during the summer. The new stuff, on the usual live basis, will begin Sept. 25.
Presentation of "The Long Flight" on NBC's "Kraft Television Theatre" July 3 marked the golden anniversary of the Air Force, which gave technical assistance in production of this drama about the Strategic Air Command.
The Al Collins who is conducting the final stages of NBC's current "Tonight" format is a disk jockey who had not been billed until he attained this job as "Jazzbo" Collins. He and the format exit July 26 and comedian Jack Parr, takes over a revised "Tonight" July 29.
June Havoc's appearance July 2 in "Moth and Flame," a drama on NBC's "Panic!" program, was sort of a family affair. Husband William Spier wrote the play.
Ed Sullivan has welcomed his
hird grandchild, a son born to his
laughter. Mrs. Robert H. Precht.
He now has two grandsons and a
granddaughter.
The ABC "Wednesday Night Fights" program will feature undefeated Eddie Machen, Redding, Calif., heavyweight, against Pittsburgh's Bob Baker at Chicago Stadium on July 10.
The Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson heavyweight title fight in New York, July 29 will be telecast by NBC, with the New York area blacked out.
Famed sportscaster Ted Husing, seriously ill for several years, has been signed for his telefilm debut in one of the "Father Knows Best" shows for next season. He'll play himself.
Choreographer for the new CBS show next fall, "The Big Record," starring Patti Page, will be James Starbuck, remembered for his seasons of such service on the old "Your Show of Shows" series.
It is final that Jack Paar will take over NBC's "Tonight" show in mid-July. A variety format, with studio audience, will replace the program the network instituted during the past season to replace Steve Allen.
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