SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
45th Year, No. 5
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, June 25, 1957
DRAMATIC HIGHLIGHT — Bill Kuhke, Denver, Colo. as the drunken Doc, attacks his wife, Lola, played by Lee MacMorris, Hutchinson, with a hatchet during a rehearsal of "Come Back, Little Sheba." Both are graduate students. The play, now in dress rehearsal, won praise from New York drama critics as having
"a most realistic script." A warm drama depicting the conflicts of alcoholism and neuroticism, the play received the Drama Critics Circle Award when on Broadway. Shirley Booth, who played Lola both on Broadway and in the movie, won an Academy Award for her role.
Final Troupe Is Chosen For 'Come Back Little Sheba'
The troupe for the opening KU Summer Theater performance, "Come Back, Little Sheba," will begin dress rehearsals tonight and will leave Friday for Joplin, Mo., where they will open the season June 28 and 29 in the Community Playhouse.
The play, directed by Lewin Goff, associate professor of speech and drama, will be presented at KU in the Student Union Ballroom July 11 and 12.
Written by William Inge, KU graduate, "Come Back, Little Sheba," played on Broadway for several years and later was made into a movie.
The leading roles are played by Bill Kuhlke, Denver, Cloe., graduate student. as Doc, a failure who turns to alcohol; Lee MacMorris, Hutchinson graduate student, as Lola, his unkempt wife; Kay Ewert, Abilene senior, as Marie, a girl with few morals, and John Husar, Chicago. Ill. junior, as Turk, a playboy-athlete.
Other members of the cast are Bernice Schear, Oberlin graduate
student, as Mrs. Coffman; Frank Moon, Pratt, as the Milkman; Brad Lashbrook, Kansas City, Kan., as Elmo Huston; Lloyd Karnes, Sabetha, as Ed Anderson, and John Branigan, Kansas City, Mo., as the Radio Voice, seniors.
The production is staged by Dr. Goff, His assistants are Kay Brown, Larned junior, and John Branigan, Kansas City, Mo., senior. Mary Jo Lowman, Lawrence junior, is in charge of costumes. Virgil Godfrey, assistant professor of sneech and drama, is set designer.
The remainder of the crew is composed of Karnes, sound; Branigan, lighting; Kuhlke, makeup; Ewert, music; Husar, props (traveling); MacMorris, costumes (traveling), and Schear, publicity.
12 Kansas Schools Receive Ford Foundation Grants
Twelve Kansas colleges and universities are among the 630 privately-supported schools that this week will receive checks totaling $130,172,500 as the Ford Foundation's second and final payment under its program to help raise faculty salaries.
The Kansas institutions will receive a total of $1,551,000 to complete the total grant. The schools receiving the final payment are Baker University, Baldwin City; Bethany College, Lindsborg; Bethel College, North Newton; College of Emporia, Emporia; Friends University, Wichita; McPherson College, McPherson; Marymount College, Salina; Mount St. Scholastica College, Atchison; Ottawa University, Ottawa; St. Benedict's College, Atchison; Saint Mary College, Xavier; Southwestern College, Winfield.
The sum represents approximately one half of a $260 million appropriation voted by the Foundation in 1955. Initial payments were made in July, 1956.
Of the total amount, $210 million has been disbursed in Endowment Grants to all four year, regionally-
accredited, privately-supported colleges and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico which grant bachelor's and advanced degrees in the liberal arts and sciences and bachelor's degrees in a number of allied professional fields.
Visual Instruction Movies Scheduled
Grant Equals Instructional Costs Each of the 630 institutions was granted a sum approximately equal to its undergraduate instructional costs for the 1954-55 academic year. This sum will be added to the institution's endowment fund and the income from it applied to increase faculty salaries. Each college or university will decide the manner of distributing increases. After ten years the principal sum may be used either for further salary support or for any other academic purpose.
The summer program of film features, sponsored by the bureau of visual instruction, will show movies twice daily at 2 and 4 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Bailey Auditorium.
Today's movie will be "The Titan" and Wednesday movies will be "Death of Socrates" and "Tragic Hour of Dr. Simmelweiss." No admission will be charged.
Lockwood Named Morgan Lecturer
Ward Lockwood, distinguished American painter, will be the Rose Morgan Visiting Professor and artist-in-residence at KU during the 1957-58 year, the Chancellor's office announced Monday.
Lockwood, a native of Atchison who belongs to the KU class of 1916, has been professor of art at the University of California, at Berkeley, since 1949. He previously was on the faculty of the University of Texas, where he was chairman of the art department.
The Rose Morgan Visiting Professorship is filled each year by a distinguished American or foreign scholar. Miss Rose Morgan, for many years a professor of English at KU, bequeathed her residence to the KU Endowment Association. The hillside house on West 11th above memorial Stadium is the home for the visiting scholar during his year at KU.
Cited By KU Alumni Association
Lockwood's work as a painter and muralist earned him the citation for distinguished service from the KU Alumni Association. His citation was voted in 1942, placing him among the first few accorded this honor, which is the equivalent of an honorary degree.
Lockwood's formal painting education was obtained at KU, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and the Academy Ransom in Paris, France.
Among the prizes won by Lockwood are the Logan prize of the Chicago Art Institute's International Water Color exhibition, the purchase prize of the first annual Western Water Color Exhibition at San Francisco, the commission for murals in the Post Office Department building in Washington, D. C., in 1936; the government competition for murals in the Post Office at Wichita, in 1935; first prizes in water color for the Texas Fine Arts Association in 1946 and the San Francisco Art Association in 1950, and a purchase prize in the 1950 art festival of the City of San Francisco.
NOW EVERYBODY - SING—Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, seems to be saying this as he conducts his 142 voice Midwestern Music and Art Camp Chorus through one of its four days of rehearsal.
His Works Are Widely Shown
Earlier this year he received the purchase prize of the 76th annual Painting and Sculpture exhibition of the San Francisco Museum of Art.
His works are owned by at least 15 public art galleries. Besides the Washington and Wichita Post Office buildings, he painted murals in the Post Offices at Lexington, Ky.; Edinburg and Hamilton, Texas; the court-house at Taos, N.M., and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
WARD LOCKWOOD
His most recent one-man shows in this area were at the Wichita Museum of Art in 1953 and the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Mo., in 1954.
Lockwood's paintings have been accepted in nearly 40 major exhibitions in the United States and abroad. He has been honored with nearly 30 one-man shows, with another scheduled for October at the Rabow Gallery in San Francisco.
He currently is living in Berkeley. Calif.
Rose Ruth Morgan was an associate professor of English. She was born in Leavenworth and after graduating from Leavenworth High School she attended KU and was a member of the graduating class of 1894. From 1895 to 1910 she taught Latin in the Leavenworth High School and in the Topeka High School. In 1910 she came to KU to teach. She died in 1951.
Dr. Dean On KES Board
Her home, which she called "The Hillside" is used by the visiting professor and is rent free. This is an inducement above salary considerations to professors from other schools.
Dr. Donald L. Dean, assistant dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, was elected last week to the board of directors of the Kansas Engineering Society, Inc. The Topeka chapter elected Dr. Dean to represent that chapter on the board. The board is composed of officers of the state organization, the past state president, and a director from each of eight districts.
Weather
Generally fair today and tonight except scattered thunderstorms northwest portion tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy with scattered afternoon thundershowers west portion. Rising temperatures through Tuesday. Low tonight 60-65. High Tuesday 85-92.