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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 16, 1957
—(Daily Kansan photo)
DANCING ON A STRING — These mari-nettes are being manipulated by students in an art education class whose "giant" legs can be
seen in the background. The student-built marionettes will perform fairy tales for Lawrence grade school children in Fraser Theater.
Children To See Marionette Show
Lawrence grade school children will see a marionette show at 10 a.m. Saturday in Fraser Theater. The show consists of four fairy tales, "Rumpelstiltskin," "The Sleeping Beauty," "The Dancing Princess" and "Three Billy Goats Gruff."
It was produced entirely by students in an art methods class taught by Miss Maud Ellsworth, associate professor of education.
Class work for the semester consists of preparing for the show. Students design marionettes from reference material.
They choose the theme for their show, re-write the stories used for dialogue, decide on scale for heights of the characters and make a detailed working plan for their marionette.
Each doll is carved by hand.
jointed, sanded and put together. The heads are made of papier-mache or cast in plastic wood. Each student in the class makes a marionette.
The dolls are manipulated by a wooden control. The strings run from the control bar to the limbs of the marionette. Students must practice giving the dolls life-like movement.
After the clothes are made, the wigs placed on the doll, and the strings arranged, students practice developing their voices to be in character with their particular doll.
The whole process, from the planning of the show to the production, takes the entire semester.
"The importance of the class lies in the fact that many phases of art can be taught to children by making marionettes. Properties of human
figure, stage design and color are taught." said one of the students, Janice Brown, Colby junior.
27 Awarded German Prizes, Scholarships
Twenty-seven students in German classes were awarded German and Slavic prizes and scholarships for 1956-57 Wednesday night at a banquet in the Castle Tea Room.
Aage-Schilotz-Christensen, Fulbright professor in the German department, who spoke on "A Dane Abroad" stressed the great similarities between Denmark and the United States.
He said that KU, with 19 undergraduate majors in German, has the third largest number of undergraduate German majors in United States colleges and universities.
Freshman Gets $50
The Paris-Flollet German prize of $50 was awarded to Marilyn R. Bell, McPherson freshman, Schlegel-Carruth scholarship of $100 went to Robert Bee and Kathryn K. Kasky, Lawrence freshmen.
Book prizes donated by the Federal German Government and the American Assn. of Teachers of German for outstanding work in German were awarded to: James Millikan, freshman; Raymond Pipert, Lawrence freshman; Freddie Wilson, Bucyrus junior. All are German I students.
Spencer Dickson, Topeka freshman; Fred Harry Faas, Mission sophomore; Con Henderson, Stanberry, Mo., freshman; Sara Jane Hopkins, Eoonville, Mo., sophomore; Patricia A. Triopi, St. Louis, Mo., seniors. All are German II students.
Robert D. Woodruff, Cedar Vale sophomore, was awarded a book prize for German III.
Herbert M. Hilgers Jr., Plainville
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junior; Robert Warnock, Sterling senior; Eileen Hoover, Lawrence junior. All are in advanced courses in German.
4 Awarded Fulbrights
The Delta Phi Alpha (honorary German fraternity) award was presented to Donald W. Martin, Emporia senior.
Fulbright scholarships were awarded to Leonard Duroche, Topeka graduate student; Donald Martin, Emoria; Carolyn Craft, Junction City; Robert Schimke, Leavenworth. All are seniors.
Delta Phi Alpha initiates are Mrs. Buller and Duroche.
University scholarships were awarded to Mrs. Beatrice Buller, Lawrence graduate student, for study at KU; Duroche, for study at Stanford University, and Martin, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
Donald E. Nease, Lawrence senior and Miss Craft. Burley D. Channer, Hutchinson; Gilbert Cuthbertson, Leavenworth; Patricia Duncan, Iola; Hilgers; Miss Hoover; Andrea Paul. Topeka; Mary Ellen Roger. Tulsa, Okla., and Jane Ziesenis, Lawrence. All are juniors.
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