THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
THEATRE VARSITY
TODAY
JANE GREY
Supported by
WILLIAM DESMOND
Who played opposite Billie Burke in "Peggy"
"THE WAIFS"
WEDNESDAY MAE MARSH and ROB HERRON IN "The Child of the Paris Streets"
THURSDAY
CARLYLE BLACKWELL and ETHEL CLAYTON IN
"His Brother's Wife"
ACTOR EXPLAINDRAMA
University Education Not Needed to Appreciate Dramatic Art, Says Coburn
"It does not take a university education to appreciate the drama," said Mr. C, D. Coburn Friday morning in Fraser Chapel. "All that is needed is intelligence and appreciative activity on the part of the audience."
"The drama," said Mr. Coburn, "exists only in the imagination of the audience, and their whole attitude as a people is superficial. It is by suggestions that we are driven up the alleys of research in dramatic art. The medium of the drama is speech. The drama must be interpreted in language that the audience can understand. This is why drama with an abnormal mind and we cannot be educated to it against our wills.
"The theater of today is not the theater of twenty-five years ago. Then, the actors made the play and now it is made in the box office." "The Three Hundred days on Broadway" has eliminated the drama. The plays produced on Broadway have very short lives and cater to the abnormal mind inasmuch as the people are not educated to real art.
"The importance of the open-air theater is that it is a free expression, more or less governed by the intelligent, and created for an intelligent public. The Government could just as well support an institution of this kind as it can support its schools and universities, if it could only be made
to see the need of such an institution. This need must be proved to the Government by the public. What we demand we shall receive.
"When we buy we create, if we pay two dollars to see a Broadway production that money aids in the creation of our art," he spent for the best will create the best."
M. K. STILL A MYSTERY
Summer Session Picnic Plans Not Yet Revealed
All students are wondering in their hearts who the mysterious M. K. is who proposes such good times in her editorials and after being given the "All Aboard" sign by Dean Kelly in a printed communication to the Kanan modestly clings to the unknown. The student body is awaiting anxiously her further plans. The mysterious M. K. has been found. She has the plans all right but is rather frightened about getting the support she needs. We dream dreams come true. She imagines all kind of dire calamities. "Some are going home, some wouldn't care to come, nobody is talking picnic."
The time to enlist is today at Room 110 Fraser at two o'clock. The mysterious M. K. has promised to come in with the crowd and if the crowd is too small to carry out her plans for entrance, he will meet an important about making her plaus known, and may pass out as she came unknown.
A letter home—the Summer Session Kansan.
STUDENTS HEAR WILSON
Topeka Superintendent Talks on Main Springs of Life
"Civilization and progress are the results that have come from people's purposes and views," said Superin-endant Wilson of the Topea schools Monday afternoon in Fraser Hall in his talk on the "Main Spring of Life."
"All wonderful things, discoveries, and inventions are the results of somebody's purpose or life in life. These motives may be attributed to commercial gain, self development, a desire on the part of the individual to develop some talent; the relationship which he bears with his particular surroundings; the obligation under which the individual is placed when he checks up with people, locality or nation."
HEAD OF K. C. SCHOOL
FOR BLIND HERE TODAY
E. T. Jentzen, principal of the School for the Blind at Kansas City, Kansas, is here today to meet with the Board of Administration. Mr. Jentzen spends his summers in traveling over the state, speaking at teachers' meetings in the interest of the school for the blind. He is very anxious that the school should be better known over the state, so that all blind children will be sent there at the school age.
"There is as much difference between an educated and an uneducated blind person, as there is between an educated and an uneducated person with sight," said Mr. Jentzen, "and that is why we are so anxious that all blind people come to us at an early age."
PAUL BRINDEL ENLISTS IN AMBULANCE CORPS
Paul Brindel, a student in the Summer Session, after failing to pass the eye-sight test for enlisting in Company M of the Kansas National Guards went to Kansas City last Thursday and enlisted in the ambulance corps of the Missouri National Guards. Mr. Brindel said that the eye-sight test for enlistment in the ambulance corps was not so stringent. The ambulance corps is being rushed to the border as they are needed at once. Mr. Brindel was temporary editor of the Summer Session Kansas and a correspondent for the Kansas City Star. His home is in Kansas City. He is a member of the Siera Phi Sigma fraternity.
Four kinds of ice cream served every day at Reynolds--Adv.
Tennis balls—new ones at Car voll's. Adv.
Send the S. S. Kansan home
Scenes From Company M's Camp Life at the Fort
The Repertoire Ranged From Chinese Comedy to Elizabethan Tragedy
LIKE COBURN TRILOGY
TT WAS SO DIFFERENT."
Use Oriental Stage-Craft in Presenting "Yellow Jacket"
The Coburn Players came last week and gave three performances on the campus west of Snow Hall, Friday and Saturday and escaped before J. Pluvis the rainstaker awoke to give his usual part of the performances.
mis usual part of the performances,
"So different," is the phrase that characterizes "The Yellow Jacket and the Red Hat," which saw it gone Friday evening. The play of ancient Chinese origin was presented in the manner of oriental theaters and by actors clad in robes some of which are three hundred years old. The success of the play and its manner of presentation depends much on the imaginative powers of the audience. Grown ups appreciate fairy tales as well as children, a fact rarely admitted but proved true by the delighted audience on this occasion. The stage director and the property man insisted on "starring" since there is no "behind the scenes" in a Chinese play. Mountains made out of piled chairs, castles made out of common screens, a bunch of wilted flowers hung on the arm of a non-committal property man for a flower garden and the transcendency to Heaven on a ladder, were only a few of the things that made demands on
"The Rivals" said by critics to be the best comedy in existence, was given in the cool of the afternoon on Saturday. There was not a dull moment in it. The audience from the crowds loved the secret and it soon learns the trick that is being played on Mrs. Malaprop and Sir Anthony Absolute.
Rejoicing in its superior knowledge, the audience is delighted in seeing how mistified characters act in correlations they could not forsee. They are amused when Bob Acers tries to bolster up a sinking courage and is treated as if he were a reckless fireeater. Bob Acers with his inflated courage, Mrs. Malaprop with her heranged epithets, Sir Anthony with his loathsome acquaintance of a captain, and the miscalculating of Captain Absolute were a few of the things that keeps the audience laughing.
But the audience got its biggest thrill on the second night, when stalking out from the wings, came a black clothed, black browed incarnation of evil, saying, in defiance of all the critics who denounce the soliloquy as "something to be feared." "Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of
York:
And all the clouds that lowred upon
In the deep bison of the ocean buried.
Now are our brow bound with vice-
trousness.
Our bruised arms hung up for monument:
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Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings
The Chineest are "different"; Sheridan is a delight; but here was Shakespeare's Richard, presented with rare distinction.
It is to be regretted that either "The Rivals" or Richard III" should have had to be cut down. The Coburn Players should have given it all, or, by less excellent work, have given the audience less reason to regret the omissions.
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