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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1957
Class Of 1956 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Next To Go
The class of 1956 $ \frac{1}{2} $ will soon come into its own
The class of 1956/2 will soon come into its own. With the end of another semester of grinding out an education not more than a half-calendar page away, the University will graduate a group of unsung seniors who in their own right deserve the mention given them here.
These are the people who have labored for $3\frac{1}{2}$ or $4\frac{1}{2}$ years, who have to literally step out into the cold January world only a diploma richer.
If they so desire, they can come back in June to participate in the only graduation ceremonies of the year, or they can be satisfied with their new tutor, Life, and hie themselves away.
This year more than 300 seniors are expected
to graduate at half time. Those in education may find jobs a little scarce until the annual demand for teachers next fall. Those in engineering probably will have less difficulty, for they are in demand.
Otherwise, the seniors' problems will be no more nor less than those of the June graduates.
But still, for them something is missing. All these years in the education mill mean only a feeling of relief and a yard long sheepskin—no caps nor gowns, no spring weather, no gushing parents and relatives, and no visions of a summer's relaxation before job-hunting begins in earnest.
Anastasia' Said Worth The Price
Once in a great, great while Hollywood remotely approaches its credo of "movies are better than ever." For "Anastasia," currently installed downtown, by virtue of its brilliant cast certainly cannot be ignored or condemned for its lack of entertainment value.
Before moviemakers bought the film rights, the original stage success told the sad and enigmal story of the Grand Duchess Anastasia, supposedly the only surviving member of the murdered Romanovs. As symbols of aristocratic Russia, Czar Nicholas II and his family were shot by drunken revolutionaries on July 17, 1918; historical fact ends here.
Author Marcelle Maurette, scenarist Arthur Laurents and director Anatole Litkvul would have us believe one princess survived this slaughter. Their film tells of the wily conspirator (Yul Brynner) who tries to get his share of the $30,000,000 inheritance by convincing the dowager Empress (Helen Hayes) and us that the psychopathic Anastasia (Ingrid Bergman) is the true heir. Although the woman (or imposter?) upon whom the story is based is now living in Germany, no conclusions are ever reached in the film.
The picture's biggest single asset is, of course, the much-heralded return of the incomparable Bergman to the screen. Old fans will be satisfied to learn that age has not withered her and that as Anastasia she enthusiastically ranges from drunken giggling to tearful hysteria. However, it remains to be seen whether the hypocrites and bigots who formerly attacked her personal life will rob us of her great art by stupidly equating the two again.
Jerry Dawson
Except for the climatic "recognition scene" of Miss Hayes and Miss Bergman, the film, like the play, is actually a weak story. Litvak, obviously very impressed with such an array of talent, has forgotten (or perhaps is afraid) to direct Miss Hayes, as she apparently does as she pleases. She is, nonetheless, as above reproach as she was in the similar 1937 stage play "Victoria Regina," but unfortunately her part is too small to completely save the vehicle.
Brynner seems a shade too villainous for a hero and, after several seasons as a Siamese king, is somewhat uncomfortable in his first pair of shoes. Striking support is offered him by the ever-reliable Akim Timiroff as a minor plotter and the versatile English veteran, Martita Hunt, in the role of a comic baroness.
Cinemascope and color only slightly outweigh the detractions of several inserted bits of aristocratic repartee and the usual happy ending to a story that is essentially tragic. However, considering the current offerings of "Love Me Tender" and "Zarak," the Hayes-Bergman scene is worth the admission price if one doesn't mind shedding tears while waiting for it.
Tom Sawyer
In the empty desert of Ladakh, near Tibet, a $ \frac{1}{2} $ -mile-long wall guards nothing, shuts out nothing, the National Geographic Society says. Instead, with carved inscriptions it "prays" for passers-by.
Rhode Island, the nation's smallest state, would fit into Texas, as the nation's biggest, more than 200 times.
The finals' squeeze is here, so with the boundless knowledge gained from six such trying times, we forthwith offer suggestions on how to play Horatio Alger with the exams:
erase cuffs; crib notes can be snuffed out in an instant when the pedagogue patters proximate.
2. Devote at least 30 minutes of good solid cramming to the next day's final (cramming is not intended to help you)
Wear a shirt or blouse with Ez-
Dawson
imply "cramming," as of beer).
3. Refer to the house files at all times. Be sure that the file you are looking in corresponds to the subject matter of the quiz; viz. for a test in "organic chemistry," look under the heading "organic chemistry."
4. A preview of the final is always desirable. However, some instructors view student previews of the test with alarm, and even go so far as to threaten extreme action if preview perpetrators or other such tort feasors are apprehended, caught, or otherwise nabbed.
5. If time permits, read back copies of this column and Walt's to determine the best way to write (as in answer to an essay question) without really saving anything.
6. If, after the foregoing are followed and you still flunk, go to the Registrar's Office early next semester, ask for your transcript, and quickly change all the D's and F's to A's and B's when no one is looking.
—Jerry Dawson
One of the highest annual productions of coal in the United States took place in 1947 when 630,623,722 tons of bituminous were produced.
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The "mad bomber" from New York City has a fellow eccentric in the same city who makes not bombs, but music. The music maker calls himself Moondog, and he has a new album out under the same name.
Modern Music Makes Odd Music
. .
To gather the method in his music's madness, the listener must see Mr. Moondog on a New York City street corner, clad in Army blankets, selling sheet music hung from his waist while composing music, unobserved, on a braille board beneath his garments.
The music he composes is determined by the sounds he hears, whether he is on the street, at the zoo or in a nursery. All this is logical for a man who hears music in everyday sounds as Moondog does.
One of his 13 tunes in this LP album is "Street Scene" and it includes, besides music, sounds of downtown traffic in New York and a policeman's whistle, as well as sage comments on life in general by an oriental philosopher.
Another song, titled "Frog Bog," begins with frog and cricket noises and is followed by drums and strings picking up a rhythm that goes on and on but doesn't seem to go anywhere particularly.
Mr. Moondog's music also has in it other common noises of the day, like a crying baby, a snarling cat, or chattering jungle birds.
Working with a duo or sexet or by himself, Mr. Moondog uses a variety of tempos for his sofhs, which are played on drums, piano and strings mostly. He has a couple of his own instruments in play, too—the oo and the trimba. The oo is a triangular stringed instrument struck with a clava and the trimba is a triangular drum.
Because the style of the music is unique, it is impossible to measure it in any but subjective terms.
Listeners will either like it or be bored with its seemingly lack of unity and comprehension. Some will find the unity and comprehension therein and enjoy Mr. Moondog's creations, but with the public's tastes in view, the admirers will be like those of Dave Brubeck—a few but devoted.
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