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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 13, 1968
King Vidor, film director will speak here Thursday
"War and Peace" was said to "defy" film direction, but King Vidor made a movie out of it. He has been nominated for an Academy Award, has directed a long line of successful films and has written "one of the very first fraternate books about motion pictures."
Vidor will lecture on "40 Years of Hollywood Directing" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Dyche Auditorium.
Vidor has directed some of Hollywood's most famous motion pictures, including "The Crowd," "The Big Parade," "The Champ," "Stella Dallas," "Northwest Passage," "Duel In the Sun," "The Fountainhead," "Beyond the Forest," "War and Peace" and "The Citadel," for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
Vidor, a native Texan, came to Hollywood in 1915 and directed
Power hookup complex at KU Medical Center
What happens when the power fails in a large hospital where the balance between life and death is kept by a steady supply of electricity?
The primary source of electricity for the large hospital and research complex is the Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City, Kansas.
The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City has three sources of power and a fourth back-up expedient.
But thanks to its proximity to the state line, another hook-up provides automatic switching to the Kansas City (Mo.) Power & Light Co. if the primary source fails.
his first full-length production 10 years later, "The Big Parade" grossed over $15,000,000, made John Gilbert a star and put MGM studios on firm ground.
The Medical Center's own stand-by power unit goes on if
both sources fail. This source cannot supply the entire Medical Center but will sustain the central hospital unit including the operating rooms, certain other crucial areas, the telephone equipment network, the paging system, the area hospitals' radio network, and a few outside lights.
Battery-powered emergency lights which come on automatically in a power failure have been put in areas important to the safety of patients.
From then on he was in the "big time" of Hollywood. "The Crowd" took nearly two years to make, with Vidor himself gathering the material, writing the story and directing the film. In 1929 he directed his first sound picture, "Hallelujah," with an all-Negro cast.
Vidor has spanned the era from silent films to that of the Big Screen which he first used as early as 1931 for "Billy the Kid." Another western, "Duel In the Sun," started out as a moderatesized film, but became one of the most spectacular technicolor films ever made.
In 1953 Vidor wrote his autobiography, "A Tree is a Tree." The Christian Science Monitor has called it "one of the very few first-rate books about motion pictures."
In 1964, New Hampshire voted for Lyndon Johnson in the presidential election; before that, the last Democrat it had supported for the presidency was Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944.
Vidor will show excerpts from two of his films, "The Crowd" and "War and Peace," Thursday night.
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