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Tuesday, July 1, 1958 Summer Session Kansan
Summer Stock
Thorton Wilder's, "The Skin of Our Teeth," was voted second best play of its opening year, 1942, by the Critics' Circle and the Pulitzer Prize Committee.
The season, 1942, had been on the whole an unimpiring one for the theatre. With the exception of "The Skin of Our Teeth," there was little to arouse unqualified enthusiasm. It became a hit overnight.
It had in it the poetry and imagination the stage too often lacks, and manages to be intelligent, literate, provocative and entertaining all at the same time.
Gerhard Schroth, composer-conductor-arranger, will be guest director this week at the Midwestern Music and Art camp.
From the theatrical highlinks and intellectual handstands and flip-flops with which he spices his comedy, there emerges not only laughter and good will but that
Quite aside from the question of the degree of literary allusions contained in it, "The Skin of Our Teeth." stirred up the kind of violence which any radical departure from the norm, even as disarmingly merry a one as this, is sure to arouse.
Mr. Schroth, who makes his home in Chicago, was conductor of the Kraft Music Hall for 11 years and conductor of the St. Louis Philharmonic for four years.
Guest, Soloist Mark Program
Mr. Schroth is making his thirteenth appearance here this week.
The concert next Sunday will feature Marlan Carlson, Wayne, Nebr. senior, violin soloist, in St. Saens" "Danse Macabre."
Also included in the program will be Sousa's "Stars and Strips" march, "Irish Suite" by LeRoy Anderson, "Lincoln Portrait" by Aaron Copeland and "American Salute" by Morton Gould.
Rattlesnakes get a new rattle every time they shed their skin—about three times a year.
note of certitude and hope, that lift of the heart which is the theatre's main gift to mankind.
All this Mr. Wilder presents with the deftest and most engaging gaiety. His concern with the human race is second only to his delight in the nonsense and the magic of theatre. His play is as much theatre burlesque as it is a satire on some of the foibles of the human race.
It will be brought to life once again by the Summer Theatre students at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.
Tickets are available at Bells Music Store, Kansas Union box office or the University Theatre box office. Exchange on student and faculty I.D. cards will be only at the theatre box office, for free reserved seats. —Gordon Clay
Maynard P. Bauleke and William B. Hladik, ceramists of the State Geological Survey at KU, will visit clay products plants in central Kansas next week.
Ceramists To Visit Clay Products Plants
The two men will be engaged in special Geological Survey projects on central Kansas clays. Their particular concern will be with the use of the Dakota formation clays in refractories. They will confer with officials at the plants concerning manufacturing techniques and characteristics of the clays used in clay products of existing industries.
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Oklahoma County Leads University Fund Giving
For the third consecutive year, KU alumni in Washington County, Okla., have led all counties of comparable size in the number and percentage of alumni giving to the Greater University Fund, according to Robert H. Royer, Abilene, retiring chairman of the advisory board governing fund operations.
V. L. Costello, Bartlesville, Okla,
served as Washington County chair-
man of the fund drive, which is
KU's annual giving program. Miss
Lois Straight, Howard Pankratz
and Claude H. Trotter were vice
chairmen. Miss Suzanne Rewerts
was secretary.
The number and amount of contributions received from Bartlesville and Dewey, Okla., reached new highs and the gifts from 152 alumni represented 77 per cent of alumni in the county.
"We are grateful," said Costello, "to alumni and former KU students in Washington County for the splendid support they have given during the year. The contributions of Bartlesville and Dewey alumni will help build a greater University."
University Fund are used in many ways to help KU students and the University itself. These include student loans, additions to the libraries,
Mr. Royer said gifts to the Greater
underwriting faculty research, granting awards to outstanding students and other programs which are, by law, outside the scope of state support vet which are essential at any distinguished university.
At the beginning of 1958 about 6.8 per cent of all phones in the country were in New England.
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