THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1911
NUMBER 45
ALL IN READINESS FOR "IDLE IDOL"
MUSICAL COMEDY THURSDAY AND FRIDAYS.
The producers of "The Idle Idol," which will appear at the Bowersock opera house Thursday and Friday nights, have worked until their play is now whipped into shape. With a few pats and touches here and there, at dress rehearsals tonight and tomorrow night, with full orchestra, "The Idle Idol" will be ready to "go."
Professional Writers Will Be Here to Witness the Red Domino's First Performance.
As the training has gone along, slight changes have been made in the comedy as originally written. These have been mostly in the direction of adding specialties calculated to make the performance livelier. Just this week two specialty dances have been added, one for each act.
The complete musical score of the play has been published by the Franklin Hudson company of Kansas City, and will be on sale Thursday and Friday nights at the opera house. The orchestrations also have been prepared by Matt Graham, one of the song writers.
"The Idle Idol" is attracting attention not only among the student body, but among the producers of musical comedy who are on the lookout for new hits. Joe Howard, who appeared in Lawrence in "The Goddess of Liberty" a few weeks ago, is much interested in the forthcoming play by the student song-writers. He has announced his intention to be present at the Red Domino production if possible, and has requested that all newspaper clippings on the play be sent him if he can not be here. Howard played the music of "The Idle Idol" while in Lawrence and was much taken with some of the songs. Mort H. Singer of Chicago the producer of the Howard plays, will have a representative at the production. Charles Dillingham of the Knickerbocker theater, New York, also will have a representative see the Red Domino play.
Seats for both performances wil go on sale tomorrow morning.
Told of Cement Mills.
Tryout for "The Bachelor.
Mr. W. H. Kniskern, who addressed the Civil Engineering society Thursday night, gave one of the most interesting talks of the year. His subject, "The Design and Construction of Cement Mills," was ably handled and illustrated with more than fifty lantern slides.
The tryout for parts in "The Bachelor" will be held this evening in Fraser hall, room 110, at 7:30 o'clock. The play will be presented by the Thespians early this spring.
MOVE DATE DOWNWARD
Plan to Change Next Fall's Foot ball Schedule.
The apprehension that rests in the minds of the students with reference to the proximity of the Nebraska and Missouri football games next fall, may be somewhat relieved by the statement of Coach A. R. Kennedy to the effect that the Nebraska game can possibly be changed to a date a week earlier than provided in the present schedule. Manager Lansdon explains the fact that the Nebraska game was scheduled for a week before the Missouri game by the statement that this date had been contracted by the managements of the universities before the Board of Regents took the action last winter changing the Missouri game to the Saturday before Thanksgiving. This date would have proved advantageous for Kansas if the last game of the season would be played on Thanksgiving, but under present conditions the Kansas team will be placed in a very precarious position as is proved by the result of the Iowa game five days before Missouri two years ago and the subsequent defeat at the hands of the Tiger team. However, ex-Coach Kennedy says that the result of a discussion of this subject by Manager Eager of Nebraska and himself confirmed his belief that the date could be moved forward a week at the convenience of both universities.
Gave German Play.
At the regular meeting of the German Verein Monday afternoon, five students of the department of Germany gave a one-act comedy entitled "Ein Knopf."
The comedy, as the name implies, consists of a hunt for a valuable button, coupled together with a romance between some students. Mrs. Newport of the department trained the cast. The following students composed the cast: Miss Tess Critchfield and Miss Hazel Leslie, Allen Wilber and Edwin Kohman.
Lecture to Engineers.
W. H. Knistern, secretary of the Freeborn Engineering and Construction company of Kansas City, gave an illustrated lecture on "Design and Operation of Cement Plants" at the Civil Engineering society meeting Thursday night. A committee consisting of Haller, Finney and Cone, was appointed to look after arrangements for the engineers' holiday.
D. C. Downton, assistant superintendent of the Westinghouse Electrical Manufacturing Co. of East Pittsburg, Pa., will speak on "Apprenticeship Courses" at the company's plant, in the lecture room of Marvin hall, at 1:30 p.m., Friday, February 3.
L. L. Stanley, '10, is in Lawrence visiting University friends. He will return Monday to Montana, where he is working on government irrigation projects.
NORMAN HAPGOOD SPEAKS TOMORROW
EDITOR OF COLLIER'S TO ADDRESS STUDENTS.
Later He Will Address Journalistic Students—A Luncheon in His Honor at Noon.
Norman Hapgood, editorial writer for Collier's, who will speak in chapel tomorrow besides being one of the best known of American journalists, has the additional advantage of possessing an interesting and likeable personality. His editorials are noted for their keen satire when the subject of attack is a dishonest politician or take the form of a literary essay when Hapgood wishes to discuss the beauties of nature or the utilities of some new invention.
Norman Hapgood is a middle-Westerner who received his education at Harvard University. By his senior year he had acquired considerable renown in school at least as a writer. After taking his A. B. degree he went to the Harvard law school for three years, but failed to do more than mediore work. His first attempt to practice his profession in Chieago proved to be a lamentable failure, and he started work as a reporter on the Chicago Post at five dollars a week. Later one of his old college friends gave him a job on the Milwaukee Sentinel at twenty dollars a week. A desire to see New York impelled him to go to that metropolis and obtain the job of reporter on the Evening Post at ten dollars a week While working on this paper as an obscure reporter he wrote a series of articles entitled "Literary Statesmen" for the Contemporary Review. From the Post Hapgood went to the Commercial Advertiser and later was promoted to the editorship of the same paper. When Robert J. Collier started Collier's Weekly he chose Hapgod to write the editorials.
H. J. Gleason writing of Hapgood in the American Magazine, says: "Hapgood is a well poised old-young man a little world-weary, who finds it better fun to dive in and out of the main currents and taste the swirl than to read and dream by the break.Dear Norman is nothing if not judicial. He keeps the approaches to his reason cleared up, in fact some of them every day, so that truth shall get in without stumbling over a rut or a speck of dust.
"He is ready for any conversational venture if you will only be frank and to the point," says Gleason, "and cut out posing. He will discuss immortality in a swift motor car ride from Fourteenth street to Twenty-sixth street, going up Broadway and then radiate kindly thoughts on the bast ball score in his musical monotone, and that without a break in the flow.
Mr. Hapgood comes here on the invitation of Professor C. M. Harger, director of the department of journalism. He will be the guest of honor at a luncheon given at the Eldridge house by Professor Har-
ger and others in the department.
Mr. Hapgood will go from here to Topeka where he is one of the speakers at a meeting of the State Editorial Association.
THE PROM ON APRIL 28.
Plans Being Formed—Farce I Nearly Ready.
Friday evening, April 28, has been selected as the date upon which the Junior Prom will be given this year. Donald McKay and Roscoe Redmond, managers of the Prom, have made some preliminary arrangements and have announced that, as last year, the farce will be given down stairs and that the dancing will be on the main floor of the gymnasium. Dates for the prom may be handed in any time to any one of the invitation committee, which consists of George Beezley, chairman; Roy Hoskins, Don Davis, Tom DeForest, Carleton Armsby, Bertha Mix ,Winifred Fisher, Mae Rossman, Nina Pilkenton, Elsie Smith.
George Bowles, chairman of the Junior Faree committee, also announces that the farce is about completed and that it will consist of a musical comedy with a chorus of twenty and about fifteen principals. It consists of two acts and it will require about two and a half hours to stage the performance. The tryout for places will be held the first week in March.
TOMMY JOHNSON RETIRES.
Has Tossed His Last Basket in K.
U. Athletics.
"Tommy" Johnson has closed the long career in which he has won athletic honors for himself and the University, by withdrawing from any further participation in athletics at the University of Kansas. The news will come as a disappointment to the students of the University who witnessed "Tommy's" phenomenal form in the first basket-ball games of the season and who hoped to have him continue a member of the varsity squad throughout the season.
A report has been circulating at the University for several days that Johnson is ineligible for athletics on account of failure in his studies. As a matter of fact,some of the athletic star's courses are in precarious shape, but no report has been turned in to the athletic board, and as Johnson has voluntarily withdrawn from athletics, no official action will be taken.
Concert Tomorrow Night.
The annual concert of Miss Elizabeth Wilson will be given next Wednesday evening, January 25, in Fraser hall, at 8 o'clock. The concert has been advertised for Thursday evening and all those who hold course tickets are asked to notice the change.
Miss Wilson is a noted contralto who, probably because she has a sister living in Lawrence, gives a concert annually before University audiences. By request Miss Wilson will sing one or two old ballads which she has used on former occasions here.
A MEMORIAL FOR PROF. F. E. BRYANT
LIFE AND HONORS REVIEWED IN CHAPEL.
Professors Hopkins and Becker Spoke on Professor Bryant's Scholarship and Character.
Memorial services for Professor Frank Egbert Bryant, who died from typhoid fever last October, were held in chapel this morning. Professor E. M. Hopkins spoke on the scholastic career of Professor Bryant and Prof. C. L. Becker read an appreciation of Professor Bryant as a man and a friend.
"Professor Bryant had already at the time of his death made his mark," said Professor Hopkins. "Although his work was not more than fairly begun he was known to linguistic scholars everywhere. The story of his life and deed is a record of labor almost uninterrupted until the fatal illness; all addressed to a definite end, and every part of it bringing desired success and deserved and high honor."
Professor Hopkins reviewed the events of Professor Bryant's life as a student and teacher. He was graduated from the Grand Rapids, Mich., high school in 1895 and from the University of Michigan in 1899. He taught a year in the Grand Rapids high school, then re-entered the University and received his master's degree in 1901. During the year 1901-2 he held a fellowship at Yale, but declined reappointment to become assistant professor of English at the University of Kansas. In September, 1910 he was made associate professor of English at the University of Kansas.In June, 1910, Harvard University made him a doctor of philosophy.
"The record of his publication is not long," said Professor Hopkins, "because he had not come to the time when publication was more than an incident. But he had a cultivated taste and a love for exact science that are not always found together. A published criticism of a German scholar's work on phonetics, showing errors of method was accepted as authoritative. The discovery of an erasure in an original manuscript of Beowulf was denied at first but afterward established, and now Professor Bryant's name is incorporated in the standard edition of Beowulf.
"Professor Bryant's most noted published work was a monograph criticising statements in Lessing's Lacocoon, which Professor Bryant discovered to be at variance with the facts in modern perience as recognized in modern psychology. European scholars recognized the truth of Professor Bryant's contentions.
"He was accurate in things infinitely small," said Professor Hopkins. "He was sensitive on minute points. He had the head of a sage and the heart of a child."
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"THE IDLE IDOL" Wednesday and Thursday Nights. JANUARY 26 AND 27 SEATS ON SALE WEDNESDAY MORNING