OPERA TO KU — Director Jose Quintero, center, demonstrates a point of action to Vernon Shinall and Maralin Niska as the Metropolitan Opera National Company stars rehearse Carlisle Floyd's opera "Susannah."
'Susannah' will open centennial celebration
The Metropolitan Opera National Company will open KU's centennial celebration March 31 in Hoch Auditorium. The company, formed last fall, is making its inaugural tour of the country.
The company will present "Susannah," an American opera by Carlisle Floyd, who won the New York Music Critics Circle Award.
The musical drama is based on the Apocryphal book, "Susannah," with the locale transferred to present-day Tennessee Valley.
THE STORY TELLS of Elder's discovery of Susannah bathing in the creek sought as a baptical font. Because of their guilt, the Elders brand Susannah as evil and set forth to announce their discovery to the valley's people and a visiting evangelist.
Susannah is soon an outcast, and the evangelist, failing to obtain a confession from the broken and exhausted Susannah, seduces her.
Candidates vie for queen of Engineering Exposition
Names of 22 candidates for queen of the Engineering Exposition were announced today by Gene Bollin, Raytown, Mo., junior and chairman of the queen committee.
Preliminary judging will take place at a tea at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union. Six finalists will be chosen at this time. The queen will be selected in final judging March 14 in the Kansas Union.
THE QUEEN will be announced on Engineering Day, March 18, and will be crowned at the Exposition April 23.
Candidates for the title are:
Joan Danielson, Leawood senior,
Alpha Chi Omega; Mary Allan,
Ralston, Neb., sophomore, Alpha
Delta Pi; Sherri Coleman, Prairie
Village sophomore, Alpha Gamma
Delta; Rita Rosander, Shawne
Mission sophomore, Alpha
Omicron Pi; Tobi Jones, Coffey-
ville sophomore, Alpha Phi.
Barbara Gyulavics, Topeka sophomore, Chi Omega; Mary Lynne Smart, Lawrence freshman, Corbin Hall; Deborah Campbell, Prairie Village sophomore, Delta Delta Delta; Beverly Smith, Pherson sophomore, Delta Gamma; Carol Krivo, Kansas City freshman, Douthart Hall.
For that reason, he asked the Office of Economic Opportunity to delay a decision to use a motel as a Job Corps Center for the girls, average age 17.
JACQUELINE BABCOCK, Overland Park junior, Ellsworth Hall; Phyllis Howard, Gardena, Calif.; sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta; Kathryn Peuter, Shawnee Mission freshman, Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall; Sandra Fike, St. Louis, Mo., senior, Hashinger Hall; Carole McConnell, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, Kappa Alpha
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WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Put 450 teen-age girls in a motel and what do you get? "Traffic impact of 450 boys driving up in autos at night," says Stan Parris, a county official in suburban Fairfax, Va.
Theta; Sue Ketcham, Leawood junior, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Judges for the contest will be Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe; David Kohlman, assistant professor of engineering; C. J. Choliastemen, assistant professor of engineering; William Lucas, assistant professor of architecture; Lewis Linzell, assistant professor of engineering, and Robert Taylor, assistant professor of architecture.
Barbara Burnett, Parsons freshman, Lewis Hall; Margaret Vratil, Larned freshman, Miller Hall; Karen Wight, Tulsa, Okla., junior, Pi Beta Phi; Sheryl Rickard, Lyons freshman, Sellards Hall; Diane Anderson, Kansas City senior, Sigma Kappa, and Nancy Hull, Sedgwick freshman, Watkins Hall.
William Frawley dies after long film career
HOLLYWOOD —(UPI) — William Frawley, the gravelly-voiced cynic with the nimble wint in the "I Love Lucy" and "My Three Sons" series, suffered a fatal heart attack on Hollywood Boulevard.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I lost one of my dearest friends. Show business has lost one of its great character actors. Those of us who knew him and loved him will miss him."
Police said Frawley, 73, had just left a movie theater near the famed corner of Hollywood and Vine and was waiting for a friend when stricken. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Hollywood receiving hospital.
GENERALLY HE WAS cast as a soft-hearted gruff character with a sardonic sense of humor. This was the role he played in television in "I Love Lucy," as Desi Arnaz' pal, Fred Mertz, and Bub the housekeeper in "My Three Sons."
Away from the screen, Frawley was a familiar figure at Hollywood sporting events as a race horse owner, stockholder in the old Hollywood Stars baseball team of the Pacific Coast League
SHAKEN BY THE NEWS, actress Lucille Ball, star of the "Lucy" show, said:
Frawley's last television costar, Fred MacMurray, termed the comedian's death "a great loss." Frawley had left the "My Three Sons" series in 1964 to undergo surgery.
and member of the advisory board of the American League California Angels.
Funeral arrangements for Frawley are pending.
Tickets have been set aside for the public.
The remaining story details the evangelist's downfall and death and Susannah's resistance to efforts forcing her to leave the valley.
presented as part of KU's annual Concert Course.
Starring in the production are Vernon Shinall and Maralin Niska. The director is Jose Quintero.
The opera has received rave reviews during the tour and is
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