Tuesday, July 24, 1962 Summer Session Kansar
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'Insect Comedy' Termed a Success
The key word to the Midwestern Music and Art Camp's drama division's production "Insect Comedy" directed by Jed Davis, assistant professor of speech and drama, was vitality.
By Carol Ann McCoy
"INSECT COMEDY" depends on a believable performance of the Vagrant. Even though a difficult part for a high school performer, it was played well. He had an excellent stage presence and most important, an understanding of his part which was certainly unexpected.
There was evidence of vitality in every scene. At times it even overshadowed the actor's lines (as during the Ant scene) but the audience appeared captivated, and even charmed by it, and not disappointed to lose lines momentarily.
The play was, technically very enjoyable. The costumes were colorful and interesting to observe, the lighting was excellent, as were the sets and the choreography. The music added much to create a mood for the audience.
The blocking was one of the strongest parts of the production. Davis is to be highly commended for his imagination in this respect. There was no movement which lacked a purpose, as one often finds in a performance.
THE BEST PART of the blocking was that it was perfectly tune with the energy these young people exhibited. They seemed to comprehend the reason behind each movement.
The only part of the drama which did not meet expectations was the epilogue. For some reason the characters seemed to lack an interest in what they were saying. Many persons left the theatre thinking about the end of act three rather than what had been said only moments before.
In summary, the play was undeniably a success. All of the characters were believable at one time or another. The butterflies appealed especially. The performance as a whole showed a great deal of talent combined with a will to work hard under skillful direction.
Fellowship to Hadley
Elinor Hadley, rated "the best graduate in recent years" by the Department of English at KU, has been named recipient of the 1962 fellowship award of $1,000 from the Kate Stephens Bequest In The New York Community Trust. She will pursue the study of English literature at Yale University.
Miss Hadley attended the University of Kansas under a scholarship program established by Roy Roberts, publisher of the Kansas City Star, for children of employees of that newspaper.
As an undergraduate, "she earned every academic honor available" according to Associate Dean Francis H. Heller and was the winner of a
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for her first year of graduate study.
The appointment of Kate Stephens as professor of Greek at the University of Kansas in 1879 at the age of twenty-six made her one of the first women in America to attain a university professorship.
Since her death in 1938, the Community Trust has administered the Stephens Bequest of $45,000 for specified educational purposes in cycles of seven years. In this sixth year of the third cycle, the scholarship is given for post-graduate work by a Kansas University student "east of the Allegheny Mountains or west of the Rocky Mountains."
New Map Publication On Basement Rocks
Oilmen and all persons having interest in exploration of deeply buried mineral resources in Kansas will want to examine the latest map publication completed under the guidance of the Kansas Geological Society's Basement Rocks Committee — "Configuration of Top of Precambrian Basement Rocks in Kansas" by Virgil B. Cole, issued as "Oil and Gas Investigations No. 26 of the State Geological Survey of Kansas at The University of Kansas.
Probable fault zones, shown on the map by red lines, are prominent along the Nemaha Anticline and the Central Kansas Uplift—in the state's major oil and gas producing areas. Map scale is 1 inch equals about 10 miles. Sea level is the datum used in showing contours.
The top, or surface, of the Precambrian, at the base of the lavered sedimentary rocks of Kansas, in places along the Nemaha Anticline is no more than about 600 feet below the present Kansas surface. In places in southwestern Kansas, the depth approaches 10,000 feet. Sub-surface studies until relatively recently have been confined to the sedimentary rocks.
Currently, in view of the need to increase the frontier for exploration of oil and gas and other valuable minerals, emphasis is being placed on the Precambrian as related to overlying structure. Economic possibilities both of the overlying rocks and of the basement itself are being considered.
Based on data from 4,950 wells, about 2,200 of which penetrated the Precambrian, the map contours, spaced at 100-foot intervals, delineate the Nemaha Anticline, the Central Kansas Uplift, and other major structural features as they probably appear at the top of the Precambrian.
An index map accompanying the map publication shows density of well control, greatest in central, west-central, and south-central
Kansas. Lists of the wells used in construction of the map are published in State Geological Survey Bulletin 150 (Wells Drilled into Precambrian Rock in Kansas) and Bulletin 157 Part 2 (Progress Report of the Kansas Basement Rocks Committee and Additional Precambrian Wells), priced at $1.25 and $0.25 respectively.
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