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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 21, 1957
South Pacific' To Feature Howard Keel, Martha Wright
The second attraction of the 1957 season at the Starlight theatre will be a revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical hit, "South Pacific," starring two newcomers to the Swope Park Playhouse—Howard Keel and Martha Wright.
Keel will be cast as Emile de Becque, the French planter, and Miss Wright will be in her familiar role of Nurse Nellie Forbush. She performed as Miss Forbush for three years on Broadway after replacing Mary Martin.
"South Pacific," which established a Starlight two-week attendance record of 91,731 paid patrons in closing the 1955 season, will run for two weeks, through July 7. Nightly performances begin at 8:15 o'clock.
Others in the cast include Benny Baker as Luther Billis, the seabee whose connivings put so many laughs into the show; Gloria Lane as Bloody Mary, Jim Hawthorne, long-time Starlight favorite, as Lt. Cable; George Irving as Harbison; Mort Marshall as Stewpot; Pat Kleovic of the Starlight dancing chorus as Liat, the Tonkinese maiden who falls in love with Lt. Cable, and Joe Macaulay as Capt. Brackett.
Cast Listed
Baker, in his Starlight debut, will be cast in the role he was assigned in the original New York company.
Opening at the Majestic theater in New York, April 7, 1949, "South Pacific" ran for 1,925 performances, making it at the time the second longest running musical in Broadway history, exceeded only by "Oklahoma!" "South Pacific" won the Pulitzer prize in 1949-50 as the best drama and the New York Critics' Circle Award as the best musical.
Won Pulitzer Prize
The score features such songs as "Some Enchanted Evening," "I'm In Love With A Wonderful Guy," "Bali Hai!" "Younger Than Springtime," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" "There Is Nothing Like A Dame," and others.
The story concerns Nellie Forbush, an American nurse stationed
on a South Pacific island during World War II. The book was adapted by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan from James A. Michener's Pulitzer prize-winning novel, "Tales of the South Pacific."
Miss Forbush falls in love with the middle-aged Emile de Becque, and a secondary love story involves Lt. Cable and Liat, daughter of Bloody Mary.
Court Reporters To Hear Moreau
Frederick J. Moreau, resigning dean of the School of Law, and Mrs. Moreau will be honored by the Kansas Court Reporters' Association during the Seminar banquet tonight in the Student Union.
Reporters from many parts of the United States are participating in this advanced study group, coming from as far as California and New York.
Dean Moreau, who has headed the KU School of Law for 20 years, will take a sabbatical leave next year and hold a Fulbright lectureship in law at the University of Teheran in Iran.
Charles H. Oldfather, associate professor of law at KU and a well known ballad singer, will entertain during the evening.
CHICAGO—(UP)—Two 17-year-old girls working in a local ice cream parlor think their boss is a good skate. The girls, Ruth Toorner and Sharon Anderson, wear roller skates on the job because "it makes it easier to get from the chocolate to the vanilla." The boss never has complained.
Good Skate On The Job
Former Teacher Receives Award
Dr. Paul V. Faragher, alumnus and former teacher at KU, is one of 12 technical leaders in the field of engineering materials who received awards of merit from the American Society for Testing Materials at the 60th annual meeting this week in Atlantic City, NJ.
A native of Sabetha, Dr. Faragher received the A.B. degree from KU in 1909. After earning the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1913, he joined the KU chemistry faculty.
He was an associate professor in 1919 when he left to accept an industrial fellowship at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, Pa. A year later he joined the Aluminum Company of America and in its metallurgical division assumed responsibility for the specifications for Alcoa products. He retired in 1956 and lives at Oakmont, Pa.
Burglar Marked On Entry
CHICAGO—(UP)—Police hope to solve a burglary by finding an intoxicated man with a big black spot on the seat of his pants. He also may be armed. A burglar entered a tavern yesterday by sliding down a coar chute and stole two antique muskets and 35 bottles of whisky, police said.
Coan To Be Assistant Dean
Clark Coan, an assistant coach, boys' adviser and American government teacher in Lawrence High School the past two years, will become assistant dean of men at KU on a full-time basis August 1, the Chancellor's office announced Monday.
Coan, a native of Barnes, Kan., is a Navy veteran of World War II. He earned the B.S. in education degree from KU in 1948 and the M.S. degree in 1953. He has taught and coached at Jetmore and was at Wellington High School for five years before coming to Lawrence
Coan will succeed Dr. William R. Butler, assistant to the dean the past four years, who has been named dean of men for the Milwaukee campus of the University of Wisconsin. Butler received the doctor of education degree from KU last October.
He plans to continue study at KU for a doctorate degree, with emphasis
on curriculum analysis and political science.
Coan is a member of Phi Delta Kappa professional fraternity for men in education, the Kansas State Teachers Association, the American Council for Social Studies, the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers, and a life member of the National Education Association.
Proficiency Exam Set For Saturday
Proficiency Examinations in English Composition will be given those of Junior or Senior standing who registered June 17 or 18. No student who has failed to register will be admitted to the exam which will be given Saturday, June 22, from 9:00-12:00 in Bailey Auditorium.