Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
54th. Year, No. 43
Friday, Nov. 9, 1956
Play Scenes Well Interpreted By Workshop
An entertaining and varied program of scenes from six plays was presented by the Actors Workshop Wednesday night to an audience of 65 in the Student Union.
Nearly every type of staging an technique was covered by the experimental group in its first presentation of the season. The origina Workshop in New York, upon which this group models itself, could never hope for a wider range of talen or directing than was seen during the two hour standard, arena, and pantomine production.
Beginning with a scene from "Our Town," the program moved into an arena production of "The Informer" directed by William Kuhlke, Denver Colo., graduate student, whose cas was the evening's best. No less interesting was the third offering "Compliments of the House," which was a pantomime of the foibles of a college girls' dormitory, written and directed by James Kohlenberg Louisburg senior.
Louisburg senior "The Innocents," directed by Tomi Yadon, Lawrence junior ranked fourth in order only as i starred Miss Lynn Corn, who with all of her eight years stole the show
A second pantomine, "Incident in the Park" was presented under the direction of Lee MacMorris, Hutchinson senior, who also arranged and introduced the Workshop's first efforts of the year. The series was climaxed by a segment of the current Broadway success, "Cat on Hot Tin Roof," which though too long was indicative of the drama by Tennessee Williams.
The same student section seating policy of the All Student Council will be effective for the Homecoming game, Jim Schultz, Salina junior and ASC president, said.
Seating Policy Same For Game
Seats between the south 40 and north 40 yard line will be open on a first come, first served basis. The pep organizations will be seated in their usual section. Organized groups may reserve sections between the 30 yard line and the goal line. The remainder of the section and unreserved seats will be open to anyone.
"With the same cooperation the students showed at the Oklahoma game the problem can again be solved." said Schultz.
Students Involved In 2-Car Accident
It will also be possible for students to exchange their ID card at the Jayhawk Boulevard information booth between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Saturday. The exchange will admit high school students and persons of college age.
A two-car accident on Jayhawk Boubevard Tuesday involving two University students resulted in $100 damages to both cars.
Police said Maurice L. Kliwer, Lawrence freshman, was pulling away from the curb when his car was hit by one car driven by Claude W. Betty, Hazelton freshman, who was going west on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Mexico Trip Deposit Due
The $10 deposit for the Mexico trip, to be sponsored by the International Relations Club during Christmas, must be paid to Sally Schroeder, 1220 Ohio St. or Byron Hershey, 1216 Louisiana St., before Wednesday.
—(Dally Kansan photo)
WIND NO HELP TO ADPi's—A strong gust of wind Thursday night caused slight damage to Homecoming decorations at the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Helping to repair the damage caused by the wind are two members of the sorority, Rachael Chambers, Osawatomie senior (seated) and Billie Dowdell, Junction City
sophomore.
Jayhawk Jamboree Practices For Tonight's Performance
Soft strumming piano in an empty field house, Muted whirring of a brush on a snare drum. The faint, metallic clicking of tap shoes on wood. A male voice punctuating the hollowness of the air with a "testing, 1.2.3...
Spotlights, harsh white, now glowing red. A pony-tailed dancer dressed in khakis, sweat shirt, white ballet slippers, swinging into a torchy dance. Laughing voices, singing voices, low voices, high ones, all happy, all waiting . . .
"And now, ladies and gentlemen, we present the 1956 Jayhawk Follies."
Thus, 16 KU students began dress rehearsal for the annual variety show presented on theight before Homecomig. This year the program has a professional touch, for the cast presenting it spent the summer touring Europe with the show they called Jayhawk Jamboree which servicemen greeted with enthusiasm.
Roger Brown, Topeka junior,
master of ceremonies for Friday
night's performance, will first introduce
Manuel Jackson, Kansas City,
Kan., sophomore, "the boy with the
flashing feet," who will tap dance.
He will be followed by the girl's quintet, composed of Beverly Run-
Girls' Quintet To Sing
kle, Pittsburg, and Merrilyn Coleman, Lawrence, seniors; Bonnie Dinsmore, Overland Park and Sheila Nation, Chanute, junior, and Martha Crowley, Pittsburg sophomore, singing "Lullaby of Birdland" and "Ain't Misbehavin'."
Three To Dance
The program continues with "Steam Heat" and "Heat Wave," danced by Francie Aronhalt, and Ruth Taggart, Topeka seniors, and the True Binford, Overland Park sophomore, followed by the Combo with "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "When the Saints Go Marchin' In." Combo musicians are Nathan Davis, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore; Roger Brown, Topeka, Warren George, Merriam, Don Farrar, Kansas City, Mo, junior, Bill Littell, Rolla, and Paul Worley, Topeka, seniors.
Moving out from the Combo, Brown, George, Carey and Farrar will sing "Day by Day" and "How Can I Tell Her?" to be followed by "Standin' On the Corner", sung while the girls dance. Roger Brown will then occupy the spot light as he sings several well-known folk ballads.
Hours of rehearsal time and performance time have gone into this production which should provide an appropriate "prelude" to the weekend's activites.
Wilt, Follies Start Alumni Welcome
Its time for pennant waving and wild cheering. Its time organized houses and various committees have been planning, waiting and working on for many weeks. This js KU's Homecoming weekend.
Chance Favors KU Beauties
If every woman wants to be queen at least once in her life, chances at KU are high that if she is a reasonably good looking coed she may get her wish.
Each year queens are selected for the Military Ball, Homecoming, Lawyer's Homecoming, the Student Union Activities Carnival, the senior Calendar, Miss Santa Claus contest, the KU Relays, The Jayhawker, Greek Week, the Independent Student Assn., and numerous fraternity parties.
This is plus such extras as the American Royal and the Miss America preliminary contests.
Considering the fact that each queen usually has at least two attendants, there are 30 opportunities a year for a coed to receive recognition as a campus beauty.
With a feminine enrollment of around 2,000, almost one out of every $62\%$ girls will be honored. Add to this the various fraternity contests, and the chances are even better.
The ratio sometimes gets cut down, though, by beauties like Mary Ann McGrew, Lawrence senior, and Sharon Sue Stout, Wichita sophomore, who have won several contests.
Miss McGrew was Miss Santa Claus one year and also found herself among the top five beauties in the nation at the Miss America contest in Atlantic City this fall.
Now reigning as Homecoming Queen, Miss Stout has been Jayhawker Queen and was an attendant to the queen of the American Royal last year. ___
The University debate squad will send eight novice debaters to Manhattan Saturday to compete in the ninth annual Novices' Tournament sponsored by Kansas State College,
Debate Squad To Speak At K-State
They will debate the 1956 national topic, "Resolved, that the U.S. should discontinue direct economic aid to foreign countries."
Squad members are Norman Grove, Larned, and Michael Gibson, Hutchinson, juniors; Ray Nichols, Lawrence; William Sheldon, Salina; Sharon Hagman, Pittsburg; Janice Chelf, St. Joseph, Mo.; Alry Allen, Lawrence, and Evelyn Komarek Ellinwood. All are freshmen.
1st Jayhawk-He Kicked MU's Dog
At that time the most popular song was "You Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Around." It was picked up by KU students, who applied it to the Missouri Hound Dogs, as they were then called.
Elvis may not have been around in 1912, but a "hound dog" was. The hound, in fact, was the inspiration for the first pictorial jay-hawk, drawn by Hank Maloy, a University student that year.
"I decided to have a jayhawk kicking the Missouri hound dog around, so I put human legs and heavy shoes on him so he could get a better kick," he said.
That year Mr. Maloy was depicting in cartoons for the first time the already famous Jayhawk.
Used in Rock Chalk Yell Before these cartoons were drawn, this mythical bird had been used in
the famous Rock Chalk yell at football games. But no one seemed to know what he looked like.
Mr. Maloy's idea for making the jayhawk a bird b cure when he passed a photographer's display window and saw a stuffed chicken hawk holding a KU pennant in its claws.
The jayhawk has been drawn many ways. He has had shoes and been shoeless, has been fat and lean. frisky and quiet, duck-like and hawk-like, and arrogant and meek
only symbol of the University. In the early 1900's the football team was known as the Bulldogs. The origin of this name is not known but at football rallies a bulldog would be led on the field along with a stuffed tiger.
Once Known As Bulldogs
...Yet the jayhawk has not been the
When Maloy was drawing his first jayhawk, he created two other figures that were associated with KU for a long time, the "faculty man" and the "jinx."
The faculty man was drawn as the result of Mr. Maloy's dislike for a certain professor, and the jinx was a symbol of any bad luck that came to the University, especially during football season.
It is the jayhawk, however, that is associated with both KU and Kansas the world over.
Students who spent the night frantically stuffing crepe paper in chicken wire may step back and admire their work, while the judges are in action from 3-5 p.m. today and again at 7 p.m. for the night judging.
Meanwhile alumni will be registering in the main lounge of the Student Union beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Basketball will take the spotlight at 7 p.m. today at the Varsity-Freshman game in Allen Field House. The game will be broadcast for the second year by KUOK at 7:25 p.m.
Following the game the Jayhawk Follies will present the Jayhawk Jamboree, a KU troupe that toured Europe and North Africa this summer for the USO.
Queen Crowning Twice
Homecoming Queen, Susie Stout,
Wichita sophomore, and her attendants,
Nancy Squyres, Wakeeye senior,
and Sandra Muntzel, Prairie Village sophomore, will be crowned during the evening. The official coronation will take place at the half time Saturday when Gov. Fred Hall will be on hand to do the honors.
The Football Buffet in the Student Union Ballroom for students, faculty and alumni will be held from 11 a.m. to noon.
Registration and a reception and coffee hour for the alumni will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the Student Union. Campus bus tours will leave from the Student Union every 20 minutes from 9 to 11 a.m.
Jay Janes will be on hand at the football game to sell white, yellow and bronze Homecoming chrysanthemums for $1.50.
After the game there will be a reception in the main lounge of the Student Union.
Frankie Carle and his band will provide a more mellow touch to the festivities from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday at the dance in the Student Union Ballroom. Tickets for the dance are on sale for $2 a couple at the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard and in the Student Union.
These Houses Decorating
These Houses Decorating The following 47 houses will have Homecoming decorations:
Sororities — Alpha Chi Omega,
Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Omicron Pi,
Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Delta
Delta, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi
Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa
Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, and
Sigma Kappa.
Women's independent houses -- Corbin, Douthart, Gertrude Sellars Pearson, Miller, North College, and Sellars.
Fraternities — Acacia, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha KappaLambda, Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Chi, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Tau, Pii Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Theta Tau, and Triangle.
Independent men's houses — Carruth-O'Leary, Delta Sigma Pi (professional business fraternity), Grace Pearson, Oread Hall, Varsity House and McCook Hall.
Weather
Fair and warmer today, tonight and Saturday. High today near 55. Low tonight 35-40.