Students can get reserved seats by presenting their ID cards at the Fine Arts office or the Kansas Union concessions counter.
Friday, Feb. 21, 1958
Now in his 33rd American season, Mr. Szigeti, a Hungarian, made his debut in this country in 1925 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
Joseph Szigeti, violinist, will present a concert at 8:20 p.m. Monday in the University Theatre.
Mr. Szigeti has been around the world twice on concert tours. After this season he will retire from touring.
The program will include Sonata No. 7 in C minor (Beethoven); Adagio and Fugue from the Sonata in C minor (Bach); Nigun from Baal Schem Suite (Bloch); Prelude and Allegro in the style of Paganini (Kreisler); Duo Concertante (Stravinsky); Maidens in the Garden (Mompou), arranged by Szigeti; and Hungarian Rhapsody (Habay).
Violinist Here Monday
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Masterworks of university and college art collections will be presented to the public at an open house from 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday as part of the Museum of Art's 30th anniversary celebration. Loaned to the museum especially for this occasion by 43 Americal colleges and universities in 27 states and the District of Columbia, the collection will be on display until March 30.
The exhibition is composed of 91 pieces, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures. The date of the oldest piece, an alabaster head from Saudi Arabia and loaned to KU by the University of Pennsylvania, is dated about 100 B. C. The most recent is the bronze "Head of Wynne Godley" by the American sculptor Jacob Epstein, furnished by the College of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Illinois.
Many famous American and foreign artists are represented in the rest of the collection. Pictures include works by such artists as Bernardo Strozzi, Rembrandt, John Singleton Copley, Pablo Picasso, Louis Cranach the Elder, Winslow Homer, and Paul Gauguin.
"All the museums were very cooperative about lending us the works of art," said Edward A. Maser, director of the Museum of Art.
He said the collection has been insured for $500,000.
Art Museum Display Set
High Scouting Award To Nichols
Raymond F. Nichols, executive secretary of the University, received the silver beaver award, the highest adult scouting award, at the annual appreciation dinner of the Kaw council, Boy Scouts of America, in Kansas City, Kan., Thursday evening.
The silver beaver is given in recognition of extraordinary leadership and service to boyhood.
Elizabeth Townsley, assistant professor of voice, has been selected to be soprano soloist with the Oklahoma City symphony orchestra when it presents Beethoven's Ninth "Choral" Symphony March 11.
Miss Townsley is winner of the central region auditions sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs with the Oklahoma City Symphony.
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Locally cooler north portion tonight and west and north portions Saturday. Low tonight 30 north to 40 southeast. High Saturday 45 extreme northeast to 60 southwest.
KU Professor To Be Symphony Soloist
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City-campus projects start Saturday morning. Women canvass the city for multiple sclerosis fund donations. Men will help buildings and grounds crews with dirt spreading, rock moving and street painting on the campus.
On March 19 five faculty members and their wives or husbands will be dinner guests at each sorority and fraternity house. Panel discussions of pledge training, rush rules and scholarship will be held in various rooms of the Union Wednesday night.
There Will Be Music
Greek Week Gets Herman
On March 20 Greeks will hold an interfraternity sing. Both men's and women's group singing will be judged by the School of Fine Arts faculty members. Trophies will be given in three divisions.
Flaming torches, racing chariots and dance music by Woody Herman will climax KU's Greek Week March 16-22.
Woody Herman's orchestra, known for its recorded theme song, "Wood Choppers Ball" will play for the Greek dance from 9 until midnight Saturday, March 22 in the Kansas Union ballroom. Tickets will be available next week.
Chairmen for the week's eight events have been appointed by the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils, governing bodies of the 13 sororities and 28 fraternities.
Greeks will have no special events March 21, but Saturday, March 22 offers a fuli schedule.
General co- chairmen are Mary Claire Purcell, Kansas City and Richard P. Patterson, Kansas City, Mo., juniors.
Greek Week is planned to benefit the city or campus, stimulate scholarship, acquaint new faculty members with Greek life, air rush and pledge rules and to entertain said Miss Purcell.
To make it official a queen will be chosen Sunday, March 16. Three Lawrence businessmen will judge the 13 candidates. Three finalists will be announced Monday March 17, but the queen's identity will be kept secret until the Greek Week dance.
Saturday afternoon fraternities will compete in traditional chariot races. After the races the three queen finalists will be introduced during prize award ceremonies.
Kress Foundation Trustee Action: What It Means
Trustees of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation believe that funds for it can be increased by improving the management of S. H. Kress & Co., according to Donald I. Rogers, financial writer for the New York Herald Tribune. The foundation is a philanthropic institution.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy is a trustee of the foundation.
"Privately, some of the trustees differing with Mr. Kress think that a constructive step would consist of placing new directors on the board of the Kress company." Mr. Rogers writes in his copyrighted column Wednesday. He says the company's dividend was cut from $3 annually to $2 in the fall of 1956, which "fails to sit well with certain trustees."
"This attitude may lead to a full-scale proxy fight for control at the annual meeting on May 13," Mr. Rogers says. (A proxy is written authority from one stockholder to another to vote his stock at a stockholders' meeting.)
Mr. Rogers calls the situation "one of the most unusual business stories of the decade."
The basis of the conflict, Mr. Rogers writes, is that Rush H. Kress, 80-year-old board chairman of the company and president of the foundation—a tax exempt institution—believes it should take a "hands off" attitude toward the company, although "he is a close friend of the eight other trustees...and, in fact, invited them to join the foundation for 3-year terms."
Basis of Conflict
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KU-Iowa State Game To Be Televised
Topeka station WIBW-TV announced today it would telecast the Kansas University-Iowa State Big Eight basketball game Monday from Ames, Iowa.
Sportscaster Dev Nelson will handle the play-by-play live telecast The game is being carried on televison under the Big Eight rule which permits telecasts of sellout games.
MUSICAL SWIMMING—Rehearsals for the Quack Club's water ballet show, "Music, Music, Music," continued Thursday night. The show
will be presented next Wednesday and Thursday night in Robinson Gymnasium. (Daily Kansan photo)
Basie Plays Saturday
Harlequin murals and Basic blues will change the Kansas Union ballroom to a night club Saturday for the sixth annual Student Union Activities party.
Dinner will be served to 150 couples at 7 p.m. Count Basie's orchestra will play at the dinner from 7:30-8:30 p.m. and the dance from 9 to midnight.
Michael D. Rody, Topeka freshman and dance publicity chairman, said Thursday that he expects L200 couples for the dance. Dinner ticket sales ended Thursday night. Couples with dinner reservations will be allowed to keep their seats for the dance. Tickets for the dance will be sold at the campus information booth and the Kansas Union Friday. Saturday sales will be in the Union.
COUNT BASIE
"America's Incomparable Rhythmic Stylist," William (Count) Basie, will lead his 16-piece orchestra at the piano. Music will include jump rhythms, blues, ballads and jazz. Mr. Basie's rhythm section boasts such jazz names as Eddie Jones, Sonny Payne and Freddie Green.
Blues shouter, Joe Williams, who has a unique way with a ballad too, is Basiic the soloist. His record of "Every Day" won the down beat international critic's award in 1944. He was also named the outstanding new star in the 1956 encyclopedia of Jazz Yearbook.
Mr Basie's career as a band leader started in 1936 at the Reno Club in Kansas City, Mo. His first records were made in New York in 1937. Some of his largest selling records have been, "One O'Clock Jump," "Lester Leaps In," "Let's Go To Prez," and "April in Paris." His record sales have often totaled from 1 to 3 million copies in a single year.
After playing for several months in Birdland, New York's modern jazz center, he and his group toured Europe in the fall of 1956.
He won several international awards and was listed in the international Who's Who.
Also a motion picture star, Basie has been in "Stage Door Canteen," "Command Performance," and "Mister Big."
Former members of Basie's band who appeared at KU in 1957 with Jazz at The Philharmonic are Joe Jones, Lester Young and Illinois Jacquet.
Floyd V. Palmer, Independence junior, is general chairman of the dance. Other dance committee chairmen are David L. Hall, Wichita sophomore, ticket and reservations; Judy Woods, El Dorado sophomore, chaperones and refreshments, and Harry G. Gray, Lawrence senior, decorations committee chairman.