The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 12, 1910
VOLUME VI.
"TAG" SALE A SURPRISE
Preparations Being Made for Gala Day Celebration—Men Sell Tags Tomorrow.
FIRST THOUSAND SOLD IN
TWO HOURS.
Extensive preparations for the Girls' Gala Day and the performance of "Alice in Wonderland" are under way this afternoon. Workmen are constructing an open-air stage in the amphitheater west of Green hall. Seats will be placed for an audience of 2,000. A stage is also being built in the gymnasium and the seating arranged so that if bad weather prevents an outdoor performance, the play can be given in doors without delay. Booths are being erected in Marvin grove and on top of the hill, where freshments will be sold.
The remarkable sale of tags which are tickets of admission to the performance of "Alice in Wonderland," astonished ever the managers of the campaign They had ordered one thousand tags in the first lot. These had all been sold by chapel time yesterday morning, and there was a hull of two hours in the selling, while an additional supply was being printed. The sale yesterday afternoon and today has run well into the second thousand of tags. Forty young women sold tags to the men on the hill yesterday and today. The tables will be turned tomorrow morning when a band of young men will sell tags to the young women.
The members of the cast held their last rehearsal in the gymnasium this afternoon. A dress rehearsal was held last night There are sixteen main characters in the cast and a chorus of sixty
Following is the case:
"Alice" ... Leoti McFarlin
Queen of Hearts ... Edith Barnhill
King of Hearts ... Alma Manley
White Queen ... Ruby Flinn
Tweedle Dee ... Helen Martin
Tweedle Dum ... Helen Burdick
Chesire Cat ... Hermione Sterling
White Knight ... Grace Elmore
Hatter ... Anna Williams
Mock Turtle ... Margaret Ford
Gryphon ... Helen Brunner
Dormouse ...Isabel Thames
White Rabbit...Vera Atkinson
March Hare...Marienne Sapp
Knave of Hearts...
...Evalyne Ragsdale
The proceeds from the sale of
tags will be placed in charge of
the custodian of the Students'
Loan Fund, to be devoted to the
purpose of assisting deserving
and needy women students.
PRACTICE BEGINS.
Spring Football Workouts Began Yesterday Afternoon — Two Teams Will Be Organized.
The thud of the pig skin as it was being booted around MeCook was heard over the golf links last night and the hearts of the football devotees were glad. In answer to the call sent out by Coach Kennedy, twelve men donned the padded adornments and journeyed over the hill for the first real spring football practice of the year. Kennedy and Mosse were on the receiving line and set each man to work handling the ball. No strenuous work was done and there will be none until Saturday when two teams will be organized and some real practice work started.
"We expect to have at least thirty men in the line-up Saturday," said Coach Kennedy this morning. "Many of the regulars are now engaged in baseball or track work, but before we quit we will have them all in the game."
CHOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
NUMBER 91
At a meeting held yesterday the women of the junior class elected Grace Wilkie and Agnes Husband as their representatives on the Women's Student Government association for next year. Carrie Calhoun and Glendale Griffiths were elected to represent the sophomore class.
Juniors and Sophomore Members Ected Yesterday.
The freshman meeting was not well attended and the election was postponed until next Monday at 12:15.
PROM TO HAVE TWO FEATURES
NO RECEIVING LINE AND A FARCE THIS SPRING.
There will be two original features in this year's Sophomore Prom, which is to be given at Fraternal Aid hall tomorrow night. One is the fact that there will be no receiving line and the second, a farce, will be added to the evening's entertainment.
Sophomores' Annual Party Will Be Given in Fraternal Aid Hall Tomorrow Night.
All is now in readiness for the big party of the second year students. Tomorrow morning the hall will be decorated with pennants and palms, ferns, and flowers, and the chairs placed on the first floor for the farce-goers. The refreshments will be served in three courses under the same direction as the Junior Prom refreshments. The farce will begin promptly at 9 o'clock and the grand march at 10:15.
The farce, it is said, is original in every detail. The play is a two-act musical comedy, written by George II. Bowles. Through it a number of song hits by the same author will be introduced. They include three choruses and seven solos.
All have been published in book form and will be sold at the Prom Among them are "I'm in Love With the Man in Front," "At the Doghouse," a local hit, "Castilian Love," "My Dream World," "I'm Not Used to That," "Floie" and "The Athletic Man."
The first act of the play has a local setting and the second is set in Chicago. The cast of characters includes 25 people and the chorus twelve. The leading girl's part will be taken by Nina Pilkenton and the leading man will be James Boring. Kelly's orchestra will furnish the music for the farce as well as for the dance. The farce is under the direction of Miss Gertrude Mossler, head of the department of expression.
Generally fair tonight and Friday, continuing cool.
THE WEATHER.
Juniors Get Receipts. Juniors who are entitled to Prom receipts, will receive them tomorrow at the check stand during chapel time. At this time the receipts will be exchanged for senior play tickets.
NEBRASKA SATURDAY
Varsity Tennis Men Will Play the Cornhuskers—Baker Tournament Postponed.
While the Nebraska and Kansas track teams are fighting it out on MeCook Field Saturday afternoon the Varsity tennis team will be doing battle with the same opponents on the courts at Lincoln. The Nebraska team is made up of old timers who are expecting to take the visitors into camp. On the Husker team will be Ralph Weaverling, who was for a year on the K. U. tennis squad and who will make things exceedingly warm for his old team-mates.
At the northern school much interest is being taken in the coming match and the tennis association expects to sell 500 tickets for the match.
At this time no other date has been set for the match, but it will probably take place some day next week.
The men from whom the team that will go to Nebraska will be picked are: Watson, Bigelow, Wood, Hawes Motz and Seddon.
The tennis match between the Baker and K. U. teams which has been postponed several times and was to have been played today, has again been called off. One of Baker's players is in Manhattan and will not return in time to play the game.
Verna Rowe of Wilson is visiting Gertrude Murphy this week. She was a student in the Fine Arts School last year.
JAYHAWKERS SEE VICTORY
Anna Powers of Paola is visiting friends here this week.
The Nebraska team's record in a recent meet with Dakota and Morningside appear to be much the same as our men have been making. Each school has five points that the other cannot take from it. The performance of the rivals in the other departments are nearly identical. The Nebraska pole vaulter did eleven feet three inches in the recent meet, assuring the visitors first place in that event. Kansas' sure points come in the high jump. Reed of the northern school has developed a great deal this year, and is running the hundred around 10 seconds. In the Triangular meet Saturday he equaled the varsity record in the 220 dash, running the distance in twenty-two and one-fifth seconds.
As the time for the Nebraska meet approaches the local speeders feel that victory is almost in their grasp. The men are, with the exception of a couple who have bad ankles, in excellent condition and every man on the squad has been working like a fiend.
These marks show that the local sprint artists will have to move along. The time in the quarter that Burke, the Nebraskan made, is not beyond the reach of the locals and the long distance events were run in about the time that the home marathoners are acustomed to travel in.
Varsity Track Men Are All in Good Condition.
Chancellor Strong Ill.
Sophomore Prom
Chancellor Strong has been con fined to his home for two or three days on account of a severe cold contracted while on his recent trip to Illinois. He is now recovering and expects to be on the hill again tomorrow.
Cornhuskers Have Fast Records, but Hamilton's Men Should Take Big End of Score.
Tomorrow, Friday Night
A Good Farce, Kelly's Orchestra, Three-Course Dinner. Get one of the Souvenir Books, words and music of the Farce.
Miss N. R. Cushing of Kansas City, Mo., is visiting Miss Laurine Steven. She will stay to see "Alice in Wonderland" tomorrow.
All Senior Girls must place their orders for Caps and Gowns Friday morning, or Wednesday from 10 a. m. till 12:30, with Miss Edith Meyers or Miss Laurene Steven, at the Rest Room, Fraser Hall.
Boys place orders at Check Stand 10:00, 11:15 or 11:30 every day until May 18th. Absolutely no orders taken after May 18th
Preserve Your "Alice in Wonderland" Tags. They are good for Admission Tomorrow
MEN AND WOMEN MUST HAVE TAGS
Washington vs. Kansas Base Ball Game McCook Field
FRIDAY, 4 O'CLOCK, SATURDAY, 2 O'CLOCK
Nebraska-Kansas TRACK MEET, - McCOOK FIELD SATURDAY, 3:30 O'CLOCK