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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 11, 1958
Interesting Exhibit
Saturday evening the Museum of Art will open an exhibition that should be of interest to many students. This exhibition will be of the works of Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri artist.
Benton is one of the best known Mid-American painters. He was born in Missouri, and after studying in Chicago and Paris, and working in New York, he came back to Missouri.
Benton is the only surviving member of the so-called "regionalist painters," which included John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood. Curry was born in Kansas and was known for his paintings of Kansas life. Wood was born in Iowa and was famous for his Middle Western paintings.
This exhibition of Benton's paintings, which will include over 70 of his works, was not easily obtained. These paintings were borrowed from leading museums and private collectors throughout the country as well as from Benton himself. It's not a simple task to convince the owner of a painting worth several hundred to several thousand dollars to loan them for exhibition. One painting, a controversial nude, "Persephone," is worth $25,000.
This exhibition is not only very valuable and the paintings well-known nationally, but the artist is an area resident. This should provide a point of interest to the students who are not too art-minded.
This exhibition is the second to be presented of one of the "regionalist painters." The works of John Stewart Curry were exhibited in the Museum of Art in April and May of 1957. Edward Maser, director of the Museum, hopes to present an exhibition of the works of Grant Wood next year.
The students who appreciate such fine exhibitions as Mr. Maser is continually bringing to the Museum of Art are grateful for the chance to view the fine paintings. We feel he should be thanked for his efforts to put together exhibits that will be of interest to the student body.
To the students that don't understand or are unacquainted with art, this five week exhibition will be a good opportunity to get a better understanding of art. And the works of Thomas Hart Benton should provide an interesting source from which to obtain this knowledge.
No Rock Chalk Here
—Del Haley
When KU students and faculty decided to incorporate the phrase "rock chalk" into our student yell 'way back in 1866, little did they know that no authentic chalk existed under the soil of Mt. Oread.
Although Kansas is one of the few areas in North America where extensive chalk deposits can be found, the majority of the fine-grained limestone is located in the north-central and western parts of the state.
According to the State Geological Survey, Kansas chalk is of the highest grade—the only chalk in America comparable to that found in the white cliffs of Dover.
So, even though our Hill doesn't have any rock chalk, we can still proudly chant our famous yell, for the state rock of Kansas is, appropriately enough, chalk.
New TV Hero: The Tax Collector
—John Husar
You've heard of G-men and T-
men. They've been lionized in films
and TV for years. Now comes the
$-man, another federal hero.
Ghastly though it may seem, a new video offering will glorify the exploits of the nation's tax collectors. It's possible the hero will be equipped with a flock of 1040 forms instead of a trusty pistol.
To convince us the tax man is, after all, a sweet character, MCA, which is producing "Special Agent 7" has chosen sweet-faced Lloyd Nolan.
This being income tax season, the soft-spoken actor barely managed a grin when he said he was acquainted with several tax agents ($-men) and they appeared, on the surface at least, to be human. Then he began to ad lib recklessly.
Nolan, whose motives are as guileless as his kisser, is somewhat uneasy about his assignment.
"I think we can sell the public
that the burden of internal revenue really is working for the people, not against them," he said.
"Basically it will be a cops and robbers series." Then, proudly,
"Did you know that Internal Revenue makes 75 per cent of federal arrests while the FBI and other agencies account for the rest."
Nolan feels right at home in a cops and robbers story. He was Detective Martin Kane one season on TV. He portrayed Michael Shane, another sleuth, in a series of nine movies 15 years ago. On two occasions he's been an FBI man, and he's played innumerable city cops.
"I play a roving agent whose duty it is to track down tax dodgers. Some of the villains are criminals, others are ordinary citizens who get too fancy with the tax laws," Nolan said.
As part owner of "Special Agent 7" Noian thinks the chances of selling it will improve after the April
United Press
15 tax deadline. His thinking is that people, sponsors included, have short memories.
There is another illogical move by the School of Fine Arts to go along with other illogical moves on the campus.
The theatres down there brought in professional Jerome Kilty for "King Henry IV," Part I and Virginia Copeland, another professional, to play in "The Saint of Bleecker Street."
How Do You Explain It?
Why didn't the theatre bring in TV professional Richard Greene to play the part he knows so well in "Robin Hood?"
How do you explain it?
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
By Dick Bibler
"SOME GUYS NEVER HAVE ANY TROUBLE GETTIN' A GIRL."
The national territory of Ecuador is of uncertain area because of recent changes in the boundaries and the lack of precise surveys. It has been computed as 104,510 square miles.
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Show Business Briefs
Ed Wynn says he has turned down seven publishers who want to print his life story. The aging comedian said he is putting his biography down on tape and will leave it to his son, Keenan.
and has patched up his quarrel at Warner Brothers by agreeing to continue in the video series for another year.
Clint Walter, TVs "Cheyenne" star, gets his first break in a major film role in "Yellowstone Kelly."
It pays to win Oscars. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" reaped its biggest Los Angeles box office take this week, after 15 weeks of showings.
SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: No. 3
Once again the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, bless their tattooed hearts, have consented to let me use this space, normally intended for levity, to bring you a brief lesson in science.
They are generous, openhanded men, the makers of Marlboro, hearty, ruddy, and full of the joy of living, as anyone can tell who has sampled their wares. In Marlboro you will find no stinting, no stinginess. Marlboro's pleasures are rich, manifold, and bountiful. You get a lot to like with a Marlboro-filter, flavor, flip-top box, and, in some models, power steering.
The science that we take up today is called astronomy, from the Greek words astro meaning "sore" and nomy meaning "back". Sore backs were the occupational disease of the early Greek astronomers, and no wonder! They used to spend every blessed night lying on the damp ground and looking up at the sky, and if there's a better way to get a sore back, I'd like to hear about it. Especially in the moist Mediterranean area, where Greece is generally considered to be.
Lumbago and related disorders kept astronomy from becoming very popular until Galileo, an unemployed muleteer of Pamplona, fashioned a homemade telescope in 1924 out of three Social Security cards and an ordinary ice cube. What schoolboy does not know that stirring story—how Galileo stepped up to his telescope, how he looked heavenward, how his face filled with wonder, how he stepped back and whispered the words heard round the world: "Let them eat cake!"
Well sir, you can imagine what happened then! William Jennings Bryan snatched Nell Gwynne from the shadow of the guillotine at Oslo; Chancellor Bismarck brought in four gushers in a single afternoon; Enos Slaughter was signed by the Hanseatic League; Crete was declared off limits to Wellington's army; and William Faulkner won the Davis Cup for his immortal Penrod and Sam.
But after a while things calmed down and astronomers began the staggering task of naming all the heavenly bodies. First man to name a star was Sigafoes of Mt. Wilson, and the name he chose was Betelgeuse, after his dear wife, Betelgeuse Sigafoos, prom queen at Michigan from 1919 to 1931.
Then the Major Brothers of Yerkes Observatory named stars after their wives, Ursa and Canis, and Witnick of Harvard named one after his wife, Big Dipper, and soon all the stars were named.
Astronomers then turned to the question: is there life on other planets? The answer was a flat, unequivocal no. Spectroscopic studies proved without a doubt that the atmosphere on the other planets was far too harsh to permit the culture of the fine tobacco that go into Marlboro Cigarettes . . . And who can live without Marlboro?
$ \textcircled{c} $ 1958 Max Shulman
This celestial column—like the author's more earthy ones is brought to you by the makers of Marlboro, the filter cigarette with the long white ash. And in all the solar system you won't find a better smoke.