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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 20, 1956
Back Political Emphasis Week; Become Conscious Politically
In October Political Emphasis Week will be held at the University. The KU-Y (YMCA-YWCA). Young Democrats, Young Republicans SUA, Pi Sigma Alpha, and the Kansas Citizenship Clearinghouse are sponsoring the week to familiarize students with the pertinent political issues of the coming campaign.
Present plans call for a tentative debate between Main's Democratic Gov. Edmund Muskie and Indiana's Republican Gov. George Craig. If details can be worked out it should be an interesting session. Both men are influential in their states and are good speakers.
Last year former Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado debated with Marvin Harder, past Kansas Democrat state chairman, on the campus. The debate proved stimulating and brought out campaign issues before the students.
The basic idea behind the entire project is to make the student more willing to take part in the political activities which lead to the election of local, state and national government officials.
If the student becomes interested in the actual political maneuvers of a campaign, he can add that to his academic background and become an effective person in future political life. However,
if he ignores political participation now,he probably will not be interested later because he will concentrate on his life work.
The most important phase of learning political life is not only in watching the professional politician operate, but also in participating in active debate in important political issues and in being familiar with how an individual wins political office.
Activity in political life does not always mean seeking political office. A person is participating in politics when he writes or visits government officials and expresses his view on pending legislation.
Rep. Dewey Short (R-Mo.) recently said that he had enough letters from veterans opposing the mandatory requirement of the National Reserve Plan to change his view on the issue. As a member of the Armed Services Committee in the House he was able to eliminate the mandatory requirements for the veterans in the bill.
There are many methods open to the student in starting his political activity, and one of the best ways is to watch the expert perform. With a close campaign approaching on both the national and state levels, it would be wise to start at this time. David Webb
Movie Review
David Webb
Welles' 'Othello' Not To Be Forgotten
Orson Welles' "Othello" is as moody, flamboyant and full of contradictions as its producer- adapter-director-star. Nevertheless, and notwithstanding many imperfections, it is a worthy attempt to bring Shakespeare to the screen.
The text has been industriously deleted and rearranged. Granted, an uncut "Othello" would be very dull on the screen, for, like most of the Bard's melodramas, the tale of the Moor can stand pruning. But in some passages Welles cut too deeply.
While avoiding the average producer's pitfall of showing all the scenes and episodes that the dramatist has, with artistic economy, laboriously succeeded in keeping off the stage. Welles has not, for example, succeeded in properly establishing the character of Emilia, and her relationship with Iago is not made clear until quite late.
Cutting also harms Desdemona's part, though Suzanne Cloutier's remarkably warm and vivid performance almost disguises the damage. Although sympathy for the Moor is frequently generated, the interpretation might be better understood if Welles had relied more on Shakespeare's lines than on brooding, wide-eyed, close-ups of himself. Welles is almost too detachable, cold-
Sharp eyes can detect celebrated walk-ons in the midnight convocation of the Venetian senate. One senator is portrayed fleetingly by Joseph Cotten, and Joan Fontaine flashes through as a page boy.
blooded, and watchful in his portrayal. His reading of the closing speech, however, is masterly.
Iago is entrusted to Michael MacLiammoir who seems waspish and almost feminine, and offers Welles no suitable foil. Doris Dowling has a brief appearance as the slut, Bianca, and Robert Coote is alternately effective and dazed as Roderigo.
Shot over many months under trying conditions, "Othello's" photography is varied indeed. Many scenes are brilliantly composed, lighted, and photographed; others are trembling, pale, and even out of focus. Excellent use is made of Venetian architecture. Although the original music helps to evoke the medieval spirit, the recording is ragged, and lip synchronization is rarely achieved.
"Othello" is stamped with Orson Welles' amazing insight and gross negligence. But it is not a film that will be forgotten. Should he become able to discipline his genius, he might yet provide the screen with its best Shakespeare.
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In the first place, beautiful little dollies don't walk (or stroll) down the campus here. They usually drive big Caddies given to them by their father or belonging to their 6-foot 6-inch, 225ound boy friend. (If they walk, they walk in tribes.
We overheard several members of the All Student Council in a bull session the other night, and they were discussing alleged weaknesses in the orientation program of the University. They were complaining that most new students aren't well educated concerning the traditions of KU.
So, in line with our policy of helping everyone do everything, we herewith present an article which should be required reading for every new male student on the campus at the University.
It deals with one of the finest and most honored traditions on the campus—the coke date.
Just pick up a beautiful little dollie strolling down the campus, boldly ask to carry her books, and lead her over to the peachy-keen Student. Union for cokes (or coffee) and much witty, sophisticated conversation. It's cheap, too.
Sound good? You bet it does.
But it's stricty from the too-good-to-be-true department.
Lesson begins:
Tom Sawyer
In the fourth place, girls don't know what witty conversation means. Oh, they'll talk, all right. They'll tell you about the date they had last weekend, about how horrible that other l.d. looks in that tight skirt, how much money their dates usually spend on them, and other interesting facts. You listen.
In the second place, ld's on this campus don't carry books. Sometimes they carry a golf club, or a tennis racket, or some music, or a little blue fishing tackle box, but never books. Our experts inform us it's a sign of social inferiority.
In the third place, if you've made it this far, girls don't drink cokes (or coffee) in the student union. They drink milk-shakes, eat hamburgers, and demand you buy them cigarettes. When you return from your safari, chances are that your booth, if you were lucky enough to find one, will be overflowing with tall, dark and you-know-whatmen, or with giggling fat females.
In the fifth place, it isn't cheap, as we told you when we were at that third place a while ago.
The moral: Go out with the boys, or, (heaven forbid) go to the library and study. As a last resort, go to class.
-Dick Walt
There were 519,190 burglaries in the United States in 1954.
Not Cricket
NORTH SACRAMENTO. Calif.
— (UP) — Police rushed to an apartment where a woman was reported screaming for help. She was screaming all right, but at a cricket that had hopped into her room.
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