"MAD MOTHER" PLAYS HERE—This is the "sleep scene" from Ann Jellicoe's "The Sport of My Mad Mother," at the experimental Theatre each night through Sunday. Sleepers left to right are Gerard Duffin, Leavenworth freshman; Celia Candlin, London, England, junior; Larry Ketchum, Twin Falls, Idaho, freshman; Lorraine Crew, Lawrence junior, and Vincent Angotti, Lawrence graduate student.
Experimental Play Based on Proverb
The first American presentation of "The Sport of My Mad Mother" is now being played at the University Experimental Theatre. The performance will run at 8 p.m. through Sunday, March. 31.
Tickets are on sale at the University Theatre Box Office, Murphy Hall.
A play in two acts by an English writer, Ann Jellicoe, has been popular with University and experimental theatrical groups in England since it won the London Observer Playwriting Contest in 1957.
"THIS PLAY was chosen for presentation because it is extremely experimental, quite modern, and unusual," said John S. Callahan, assistant instructor of speech and drama and director of the play.
Callahan explained the play was one of violence, both physical and verbal. He commented that observers of rehearsals have become very upset over some scenes.
Scenery for the presentation consists of one set which Callahan described as "full of nowhere." It was designed for mood, and does not indicate a specific location.
Tuesday. March 26, 1953
THE TITLE of "The Sport of My Mad Mother," is derived from the ancient Hindu proverb, "All creations are the sport of my mad mother, Kali."
Kali is the Hindu goddess of destruction.
GRETA, THE LEADER of the gang, stands for Kali, the symbol of creation, destruction, and incarnation.
The play deals with a gang of juvenile delinquents in the London slums, and with an American who tries to understand them.
Action takes place on Guy Fawks Night, an English holiday that celebrates the failure of an attempt to blow up Parliament several hundred years ago. The holiday might be described as a combination of the American Halloween and Fourth of July. Children carrying dummies of Guy Fawk, beg for pennies to buy firecrackers.
Ira Wade To Give Humanities Lecture
A Humanities Series lecture on "Civilization and the Humanities" will be presented at 8 p.m. today in Fraser Theater by Dr. Ira Wade, director of the Special Program in European Civilization at Princeton University.
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The distinguished French literature scholar has been on the campus since Sunday. He lectured to classes in history of art and history and will speak tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. to a history of modern philosophy class and at 11:30 a.m. to classes in French literature.
Bidault Believed In Portugal To Continue De Gaulle Fight
destination in Latin America. It was thought he would contact leaders of the anti-De Gaulle movement who are believed to have come to Portugal from Spain.
LISBON, Portugal — (UFI)— Fugitive former French Premier Georges Bidault, refused political asylum in West Germany on his own terms, was believed in Portugal today to continue his fight to overthrow President Charles de Gaulle.
Subcommittee questioning also centered around Sylvester's controversial remark last December that a government has an inherent right to lie to save itself when confronted with a nuclear disaster.
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Moss said yesterday that he believed the basic problem was not "news management" but "that of access to information, to facts."
BOTH AGREED to supply information for the subcommittee's check into the field of censorship policies. Sylvester said the defense department had plans "for armed forces censorship and field censorship in case of war." Manning was less definite about what the state department had in mind.
A police report said the sworn enemy of De Gaulle could not possibly have entered Portugal unless he used a false name. However, it said, if Bidault entered Portugal illegally, he would be prohibited from carrying out political activities here.
Airline officials in Zurich said Bidault actually was traveling under the name of Auberger. A Lisbon airport spokesman confirmed a passenger with that name arrived last night aboard a K.LM. Royal Dutch Airlines plane from Switzerland.
Sylvester declined to back down on his remark, made at a dinner meeting of Sigma Delta Chi, the journalism society. He said it was a "brutal answer to a brutal question," but insisted that he was talking just about the Cuban crisis and not overall government information policy.
"Obviously there is no right for a government to lie or for any member of that government to lie," he said. But he insisted that any government asdly elected and representing the people—had the right to take whatever measures it thought necessary to save a nation from nuclear disaster.
Manning, when asked about this, said a government official should either tell the truth or keep his lip buttoned.
Foreign observers in the Portuguese capital do not believe that Bidault, if he is here, intends to stay.
They are convinced he is merely stopping over on his way to some
In the past two weeks the committee looked into charges that the Kennedy Administration "manages" the news. Yesterday they heard disclaimers from two of the government's top spokesmen, Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Manning.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humphrey said today he expects President Kennedy to cut his original $4.9 billion foreign aid request by an amount "honestly attributable" to the Clay Committee report.
Humphrey Expects Kennedy To Heed Committee Report
Humphrey said the report "fortifies some of the doubts in Congress about foreign aid and will bring
The study is one of the next items on the agenda of a House subcommittee on government operations, headed by Rep. John E. Moss, D-California.
US Investigates War Censorship
WASHINGTON—(UPI)A Congressional committee investigating government information policies made plans today to study official censorship operations which would be put into effect if the United States went to war.
He said he felt the government had this right "when faced with a nuclear holocaust, and that is what this government was facing in the Cuban crisis."
about some reduction in appropriations."
He indicated that he expected the President's reduction to exceed the $200 million already forecast as likely.
HUMPHREY SAID "I would not expect the appropriation this year to be less than that of last year ($3.9 billion). But I predict the Clay report will result in a reduction in the President's request — honestly attributable to the Clay report."
He said he thought it would be "good sense" to do this. Speaking to reporters after today's Democratic leadership conference with Kennedy, Humphrey said that "I don't think the Clay report can be ignored."
In a related development, Foreign Aid Director David E. Bell gave his personal endorsement to the Clay report. It recommended stricter standards in insisting on "self-help" and free enterprise economic policies by countries receiving aid and the curtailment of non-essential programs.
N.Y. Publishers Accept New Contract Proposal
BELL. ANSWERING questions before the Magazine Publishers Association, said he thought the judgments, policies and attitudes expressed in the Clay report were "sound appropriate and proper."
NEW YORK — (UPI) - Publishers today accepted a contract proposal by Mayor Robert F. Wagner to end the city's longest newspaper walkout, but striking photoengravers asked for more time to consider the settlement suggestion.
Photoengravers President Frank McGowan said there was "no particular point" in question on Wagner's proposal but the union wanted to consider it as a whole. He said if the settlement is accepted, a ratification meeting could be held "Wednesday at the earliest."
Amory Bradford, vice-president of the Times, said his paper could be on the streets within 8 to 12 hours after the union members accepted a contract. Asked if newspapers would raise their newsstand prices, Bradford said, "All the papers must con-
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"We do not have any substantial differences of judgment on the main lines of recommendations the committee made," he said.
Walter Thayer, president of the Herald Tribune and one of the management negotiators, said after a long negotiating session that although the publishers didn't like the mayor's terms, "We accepted because we wanted to end the strike."
Generally fair weather is forecast for today through tomorrow. It will be windy and a little cooler today. Warmer temperatures in the 60's are expected tomorrow. The highs today will range in the upper 50's to lower 60's with the lows tonight from 35 to 40.
It was the second proposal made by Wagner as a third party in the 109-day blackout. The printers accepted his settlement terms after first rejecting them.
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WAGNER SAID the publishers, who deliberated on the settlement for more than three hours, had been concerned about "grave questions" in the proposal. The photoengravers were to consider the proposal at a caucus later today, then give him their decision later this afternoon.
Congressional supporters of foreign aid feared that the program might be on the way to a record cut.
TOPEKA —(UPI)— A second attempt to force a statewide referendum on whether the state should assume control of Wichita University was beaten down in the Kansas Legislature today by a vote of 57 to 49.
Rep. Odd Williams, R-Lawrence, attempted to amend the bill to bring Wichita University into the state system to submit the question in a state referendum which would have been held the 4th Tuesday in June.
WILLIAMS TOLD the House, sitting as the Committee of the Whole, that the people of the state had a right to decide whether they wanted
to "assume the burden of a third state university."
Prior to his move to amend the bill, Williams had discussed the Wichita situation at length. He called it an expensive school to administer and added, "before a school comes to the state for help it should try everything possible to economize."
Williams continued, "Wichita has built an expensive palace and now they want to let the state pay the bill. But they say they will continue to live in the palace and that we cannot close any of the rooms and lay off any of the help.
"THEY SAY WICHITA is proud of its university. I tell you I am proud of the school that believes in pride only when the proud are able to pay for it," the Lawrence Representative said.
He quoted from a letter he said was written by Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, author of the controversial Erich Report on higher education in Kansas, to the late state Sen. August Lauterbach, R-Colbv.
Williams quoted Eurich as saying that the development of a third state university in Kansas would be "extremely undesirable."
sider all means possible of raising their revenues but we have not discussed this problem at length."
THE STRIKE by the 320 photo- engravers, the last stumbling block in getting the 20,000 newspaper employee back to work, began March 6.
Wagner's proposal called for a $12.63 weekly package increase during a two-year contract. The photoengravers would receive a fourth week of vacation and a reduction in the work week from 36 and $\frac{1}{4}$ hours to 35 during the second year.
McGowan has called the hours reduction the major issue in the negotiations. He said his union would not "budge" in this demand.
SOURCES CLOSE to the talks believed the photoengravers would accept the proposed settlement.
The printers ratified their contract Sunday after rejecting the same settlement a week ago.
But Bertram A. Powers, president of Printers Local 6, said his men would continue to picket and would not return to work until the photo-engravers had settled.
WORK CONTINUES-Men work on the addition to Memorial Stadium as the construction nears the height of the present structure.