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Bloodmobile Unit Slated
To Be At SUB Wednesday
A Red, Cros~ Bloodmobile Operation will be set up in the Stu­dent
Union Building next Wednesday, March 29.
Fifteen workers, consisting of
doctors, nurses, aides, and recep­tionists,
will be on hand to attend
the students who will donate
blood at that time. The station
will be open from 8:00 a.m. until
3:00p.m.
Mrs. Olga Hoertz, recruitment
secretary of the Louisville Re­gional
Blood Center, stated this
week that they hope to have 150
or more students donate blood.
Since its beginning last spring,
the Center has supplied 16,000
pints of blood to hospitals of
Louisville and those winthin a 75
mile radius of the city. The
Bloodmobile services this area,
usually going out into the county
three days a week.
This unit has made available
such large quantities of blood that
operations demanding many trans­fusions
are now performed where
they were impossible in the past
due to the shortage of available
blood. Whereas a year ago one
pint of blood to a patient seemed
difficult to procure, the Center
has now furnished as much as six
to twenty-five pints to one pat­ient.
The Bloodmobile unit of the
Center was on campus in October
through the cooperation of the
University Student Council Blood
Donor Commission.
A RED CROSS NURSE attends a student blood donor during :the
Bloodmobile's s:to,p at the campus last fall. The unit will again be
set up in the Student Union Building next Wednesday. March 29.
Near East Group Opens
Meetings In Court Room
The Institute on the Near East to which the University will be
host will open formally in the Allen Court Room at 8:00p.m. next
Tuesday, March 28. It will continue throughout Wednesday, March
29.
Washington envoys from Le­banon
Egypt, and Israel will be
in attendance for the institute,
which has attracted the world­famous
Dr. Charles Malik, minis­ter
and envoy of Lebanon and the
recognized spokesman for Arab
interests.
Also participating will be the
Counsellor of the Embassy of Is­rael,
Mr. Moshe Keren, as well as
Mr. A. M. Ramadan, envoy for
the Royal Egyptian Embassy.
Dr. Robert A. Warner, chairman
of the Social Sciences Division,
and Dr. George Brodschi, execu­tive
secretary of the International
Center, will be University hosts
to the Institute and will also par­ticipate
on the program.
Art exhibits and displays of
Near East Art will be held
throughout the city in conjuction
with the Institute.
Rare art objects and ceramics
loaned through the courtesy of
the president of th~ Presby~erian
Seminary will be diSplayed m the
Art Library of the University.
Miller To Speak
At Dent School
Dr. A. J . Miller will deliver a
lecture, "Malignant Versus Be­nigh
Growths," at the Dental
School this evening at 4:00 p.m.
The lecture will be the second
in a series of three given on this
subject by Dr. Miller, histo-path­ologist
at the U of L School of
Medicine. The third is scheduled
for next Friday.
Dr. Miller's lectures are a part
of series on the subject of cancer
under the direction of Dr. Dan Y.
Burrill, who serves as director.
The lectures are under the au­spices
of the Cancer Teaching
Grant, Federal Service Agency,
U. S. Public Health Service. They
are supplemented with slides,
teaching matter (booklets), and
observation of cancer patients
from clinics at General Hospital
and St. Joseph Infirmary.
"History of the Animated Car­toon
in America" will be shown
in the Playhouse Thursday, March
30, at 8 p.m. and Friday noon.
' Did The Scottish Lassie
Shear Th' Sheep, Or Will
'Jrheir· Suits Materialize?
By BOB PANTHER
How allergic to wool can you be? Some of the athletes and
dorm boys on campus are so sensitive to it that they cringe at the
mere mention of the sheep's shearings. ·
Their allergy to wool has re­sulted
from fear that they've
been fleeced by an attractive
young brunette who was on cam­pus
last week selling Scotch wool­ens.
The young lady and her fam­ily
conspirators will face the
courts tomorrow on charges of
swindling, according to the Bet­ter
:Business Bureau. The boys are ·
anxious to recover the money they
put out' for suits which as yet
haven't "materialized", and which,
as rumor has it, probably won't.
Sterling, Ky., where money,
goods, and sales gal disappeared
. . . 'nere to return agane'.
Aroused suspicions prompted
the victims to con tact the Better
Business Bureau which told them,
after proper description and in­dentification
were given, that the
same girl was wanted in Kansas
City for pulling off the age-old
swindle there last year.
May Recover Money
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Ten Students
' Are Selected
To Go Abroad
Ten University of Louisville
students have been selected by a
board composed of Dr. George
Brodschi, Dean Morton Walker,
Mrs. Arthur Welsh, and Dean Hil­da
Threlkeld to travel to Europe
and the British Isles this summer.
They will be on International
Center scholarships.
The five boys and five girls
who will make the trip are Karl
Gruen, Peggy Willings, James
Senn, Evie Kinnaird, Ben Pence,
Carol Steibling, Ben Fonaroff,
Debby Blair, Ronald Almgren,
and Dot Bridgewater.
The alleged fleecing occurred
when the young brunette appear­ed
at the gym last week with
yards and yards of fine woolen
fabrics, (tweeds and plaids), of­ferilllg
to make tailor-made suits
for :$50.00. The girl was attractive,
the offer was attractive, -and the
deals were closed.
Police soon rounded up the
members of the group, consisting
of father, mother, daughter, son,
and daughter-in-law, all of whom
are now out on bail and facing
charges tomorrow.
If they make a court appear­ance,
there's a good chance that
the students will recover their
money or receive suits of "im­ported
Scotland woolens." And if
they don't. . . well, people still
like to be fooled!
WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER SCHOLARSHIPS which will :take :them to Europe
for :two months discuss the trip with Dr. John W. Taylor. president of :the University, and Dr. George
Brodschi. executive secretary of the International Center. From left: Karl Gruen, Ben Fonaroff. Peg­gy
Willings. Carol Stiebling. Evie Kinnaird. Debby Blair. Ben Pence, Dr. Taylor. (arm on desk).
Jimmy Senn, Dr. Brodschi, Dot Bridgewater, and Ronnie Almgren.
The group will sail from the
United States on June 26 to Hol­land
where they will spend a few
days before going to England
where they will live and work
for the next five or six weeks at a
harvester camp with students
from the various nations partici­pating
in the program.
The idea originated in 1945
when the British Student Associ­ation
invited groups of students
from Western Europe to live and
work with them during the har­vesting
season. Later similar
groups from the United States
were invited, but this is the first
time that any Kentucky students
have taken part in the project.
Nine boys, two girls, and a
house-mother all took advantage
of the offer, and over $400.00 left
the campus.
The sales talk that the 'Scottish'
lassie put on reads like a tale out
of Don Quixote and might well
have been, according to a campus
authority on "con" games.
Had Scottish Brogue
It seems that the girl had re­cently
arrived from Scotland with
six sisters and her grandmother,
who had brought to this country
to teach weaving. Upon arrival
they found that the duty on the
woolen materials which they'd
brought with them to sell amount­ed
to $800.00 which they didn't
have.
Sooooo, Miss Scotl-and Yarn and
her family were selling materials
in order to raise the 800 potatoes.
Equipped with a thick brogue,
centering around "aye, lassie" and
"only a wee bit", the lady seemed
quite convincing.
Some gave her $50.00, the price
of both material and tailoring,
while some gave only $30.00, the
cost of the material alone. All
were given their goods and said
young- lady was to return three
days later for measurements and
materials. The story varied slight­ly
at Robbins Hall where the mo­ther
of the girl accompanied her.
Kentucky Gal Suspicious
One of the dorm girls who
heard about this "amazing offer"
r·ecalled a similar business deal
which occurred last year in Mt.
A & S Elections
To Be Held Today
Voting on the candidates for the
Arts and Sciences Student Coun­cil
takes place in the Women's
Building from 9 a.m. until 3:30.
The ten applicants for the six
positions open on the Council are:
Juanita Mattingly; Cardinalette;
Inge Hirscheimer, Delta Phi Epsi­lon;
La Quaeti Goodman, Indepen­dent
Women; Jerry Brenzel, Delta
Upsilon; William Graves, Kappa
Alpha; Joe Staten, Lambda Chi
Alpha; Jim Eckert, Phi Kappa
Tau; William Reagan, Pi Kappa
Phi:: Jesse Wilbur Duke, Jr., Sig­ma
·Phi Epsilon; and Charles Mc­Carthy,
Tau Kappa Epsilon.
L'3.st Wednesday the candidates
presented their campaign speech­es
to the student body in a noon
convocation at the Playhouse.
Music Students
Collect Funds For
Schweitzer Fund
More than $120.00 has been col­lected
by music students for the
Albert Schwietzer Fund. The stu­dents
are collecting the money in
honor of Brotherhood Week.
The money will be used to buy
supplies and equipment for an
hospital which Schwietzer estab­lished
in Africa.
Albert Schwietzer, the world's
greatest critic and biographer of
Bach, is known for his humani­tarian
and Christian works.
Anyone who wishes to donate
to the fund can. take his contri­bution
to Dr. Herz, Mr. Perle, or
Mr. Peltier in the Music Building.
Horszowski Will
Be LO Soloist
Mieczyslaw Horszowski, emi­nent
pianist, will be the solist at
the last pair of concerts to be giv­en
by the Louisville Orchestra on
March 29 and 30 in the Columbia
Auditorium.
He will be featured in the pro­gram
and will play Beethoven's
Concerto Number 4.
Widely known in Europe for his
concerts with cellist Pablo Ca­sals,
Horszowski made his debut
in this country with the NBC
Symphony Orchestra conducted
by Arturo Toscanini. He appeared
in Louisville last Saturday night
with the New York Piano Quar­tet.
For several years he has been a
member of the Piano Faculty at
Curtis Institute. One of his pu­pils,
well-known to Kentucky, is
George Henry who last year play­ed
with the Orchestra as winner
of the Philharmonic Society's
State-wide competition for the
most outstanding young talent.
'Queen Of Queens' Election
To Be Held Here March 31
U of L's "Queen of Queens" will be chosen in Revlon's "Miss
Fashion Plate of 1950" contest to be held on campus Friday, March
31. Candidates for this title have been selected from past winners
of beauty, charm, or personality contests. The winner frqm U of L
will compete in the national contest which will have candidates
from leading colleges throughout the country.
Each campus finalist will re- selected by a committee of five
ceive a full year's supply of Rev- composed of Kay Hardy, editor of
Ion's cosmetics plus the opportun- the Thoroughbred, Bettie Speicher
ity to compete for the national and Bob Panther, co-editors of
title which includes an expense- the Cardinal, Dick Barnett, Tho­free
week in Bermuda via Pan- roughbred business manager, and
American Clipper; a Lane "18th Peggy Moll, Revlon representative
Century" Mahogany hope chest; on campus.
a fashionable Amelia Earhart The final winner will be chosen
party case; a necklace, bracelet by popular vote in the same man­and
earring set, styled by Trifari; ner in which A&S Student Coun­a
silver plated "Waldorf lighter; cil officers are elected.
cigarette urn and tray set by Ron- Ten Candidates
son; a full year's supply of Berk­shire's
nylon stockings; and a
Wittnauer watch.
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Tryouts for the Little Theater's
next production will be held on
Monday evening, March 27, in the
Playhouse. The final show of the
current season will be The Vil­lage
Green by Carl Allenworth.
Mrs. Cooper Gives Fine
Performance As Medea
In Little Theater's Hit
By TOMMY HUDSON
Those who attended the opening of the Little Theater produc­tion
of Robinson Jeffers' Medea saw p erhaps the best single per­formance
of the season, and on the whole, a good play, although
it was marred in spots by acting that was only amateur.
Mrs. Wray Thomas Cooper gave
the tremendous title role an ex­cellent
interpretation, and was the
biggest reason for the opening's
success. She grasped well the
principal facet of Medea's cha­racter
(in both Euripides and Jef­fers),
that is, the coupling of the
Subtle and sensitive with the bar­barian
and vicious, and got this
across to her audience by a read­ing
of the lines which varied
from the tempestuous to the se­rene.
The wonderful ambiguity of
Medea's character which height­ens
the effect of the moral prob­lem
involved in her sin remained
intact in Mrs. Cooper's hands, and
Medea was again (as she ever
should be) the witch-angel. the
villainess-heroine, for whom we
feel the utmost horror and respect.
Hunn and Wheeler Excel
It was this lack of subtlety, I
think, which made the role of
Jason as played by Mr. Jimmie
Driskell, Jr., somewhat less sat­isfying.
It must never be forgot­ten
that J ason was a strong man:
that when he says he married
Creon's daughter "to achieve
power here; and I'd have used
that power to protect you and
our sons," we can never be sure
that this is untrue.
This side of Jason-the side
which thinks of the future, prac­tical,
yes, but nonetheless nobly
motivated-was not sufficiently
articulated in the opening per­formance.
Jason emerged as too
much an oaf and too completely a
cad for the full power of his part
to be realized.
to it. Likewise with Mrs. Wheel­er;
she made a small part signifi­cant
from the very first when
she transformed the opening soli­loquy
from a necessary plot fill­in
into a speech which set the
atmosphere of the whole play.
Mr. James Willis as Aegeus was
the best among the male support­ing
players.
The set, designed under the su­pervision
of Mr. Rollo Wayne,
certainly deserves mention as
very effective. Consisting mainly
of the facade and porch of Med­ea's
house in Corinth, it was real,
plain and tasteful enough to give
much support to the plight and
fury of the woman of stone.
"Since this is the first experi­ence,"
stated Dr. Brodschi, "we
are very anxious that the project
will succeed."
To Have Own Projects
After the harvesting is com­pleted,
the students will have the
remaining three or four weeks,
until September 15, to explore
England on their own. Although
some of this time will be taken up
by planned tours, each member
of the group will have time to
work on individual projects which
they are expected to plan in ad­vance.
The harvesting wages will cover
room and board while at the
camp, and the International Cen­ter
is contributing part of the
travel expenses. But the balance
of the passage and all personal
expenses occurred by the group
will have to be borne by the in­dividual.
In preparation for the project
each of the students is expected
to read several books on the
countries they are to visit, so that
they may enter into the program
with a wider knowledge and thus
get more out of it.
Outstanding among the sup­porting
cast were Miss Betty
Hunn as the First Woman of Co­rinth
and Mrs. Katryn Wheeler as
the Nurse. Miss Hunn's subdued
reading of the quasi-choral com­ments
was perfect both in inflex­ion
and in tone.
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"WHAR"S DE 'GROOM?" from Lambda Chi Alpha's "'Panics of
1950"' was snapped during :the first performance of :the show at
:the Student Union Building last week. Three skits made up :the
program for the show which is planned as an annual affair, S:tory
on page 3.
Ethridge Collection Displayed
Paintings lent by Dr. Naamani
from the Israeli Information Ser­vice
will be shown on the library
rotunda, and the archeological col­lection
of the Louisville Museum
has been loaned by the Museum
Curator, Colonel Lucien Bec~e.r.
Art objects and memorab1ha
from Biblical times will be dis­played
at the Speed Museum
through the courtesy of Mr. M13!k
Ethridge publisher of the Cour1er
Journal ~d the Louisville Times.
who made the collection while in
Palestine on the UN Conciliation
Commission.
Mrs. Eleanor Roo~evelt Spends A Busy Day
The candidates selected are
Jean Atherton, Kappa Alpha
Rose; Cathy Barra, Tau Kappa
Epsilon Sweetheart; Debby Blair,
Homecoming Queen; JoAnne Ha­verstock,
Miss Kentucky; Rosie
Hawkins, Best Dressed Girl on
Campus; Mary Lee Jones, Sweet­heart
of Lambda Chi Alpha; Sara
Mimms, Miss Thoroughbred; Pat
Payne, Phi Kappa Tau Dream
Girl; Marguerite Stevens, U of L's
candidate for National Indepen­dent
Student Association Queen;
and Speed School's Queen, who
will be announceq tonight at the
Engineers' Ball.
The stress and tension which
Jeffers wrote into the part were
also in her acting, and the very
texture of her voice added much
Playshop Records
for English Class
'Art Criticism Has Lagged
Behind Artist' Says D. C. Rich
Louisville sponsors of the In­stitute
include Dr. Robert A. War­ner,
Dr. George Brodschi, Dr. I.
T. Naamani, Dr. Ellis A. Fuller,
Dr. Frank H. Caldwell, Rev. F. N.
Pitt, Dr. Joseph Rauch, Dr. ~mer
Carmichael, Mr. Mark Ethr1dge,
Mr Charles Morris, Mr. Arthur S.
Kilng, and Mr. H. Frederick Will-kle.
.
The schedule of the Inshtute ap­pears
on page 2 of this issue.
Museum Features
Sculpture Exhibit
Selected pieces from the 14th
National Exhibition of Contempo­rary
American Ceramics are now
on display at the Speed Museum.
The Juggler and the Performer
by Thelma ~er Win~r, who
won first prlZe m ceranuc sculp­ture,
is featured among those
shown. 1
Designs of chinaware, clay pot­tery
metalwork and enamel pieces,
and sculptures of terra cotta clay
are some of the works exhibited.
The exhibition il sponsored by
The Sryracuse Museum of Art.
Onondaga PotterY Co., and The
Makers of Sryracuse CbiDL
"My day in Louisville was a
crowded day" could have been
the comment of Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt by midnight, March 15.
She arrived by plane at 9:54,
and shortly afterward, addressed
a U of L convocation at Memorial
Auditorium. Lunch at the Pen­dennis,
a press conference at the
Courier Building, an appearance
on a radio forum, and a recep­tion
at Seagram's came in order.
Her main address at Memorial
Auditorium that night followed
dinner at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Wilson Wyatt, where she
spent the night.
She returned to New York the
following morning, leaving be­hind
the impression that Mr.
Wyatt was right when he called
her, "the first lady of the world."
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Mcintosh Appointed
As Department Head
Dean R. C. Ernst of the Speed
Scientific School recently an­nounced
the appointment of Pro­fessor
W. R. Mcintosh as execu­tive
head of the school's Civil En­gineering
Department. He re­places
Professor W. B. Wendt,
who resigned the position after
25 years of service.
Professor Mcintosh received his
baccalaureate, master's and pro­fessional
degrees in civil engineer­ing
at Rose Polytechnic Institute.
He came to the University of Lou­isville
in July, 1927, as a professor
of civil eng·ineering. '
Is Engineering ConsuUani
Besides his teaching duties, he
has been instrumental in the con­struction
of the new engineering
building on campus, acting as re­sident
engineer for the projects.
He is also engineering consul­tant
for the Institute of Industrial
Research.
A registered engineer in the
state of Kentucky, Professor Mc­Intosh
is past president of both
the Kentucky Society of Profes­~
onal Engineen and the Kentuc­ky
Section of the American So­ciety
of Civil Engineers.
The Playshop recordings of Le
Misanthrope and Phaedre were
completed this week and heard by
Mr. Chester Garrison's English
150 class on Saturday and Tues­day.
These plays by the French
Classicists Moliere and Racine,
are experimental and are the first
of several recordings that are be­ing
made by the student group for
the English Department and Hu­manities
Division.
The recordings were well re­ceived
and have created interest
in other classes. Dr. Edmond Sch­lesinger
and Dr. John Weisert
have requested works by Goethe
and Hauptmann.
Mr. Garrison plans to build a
library of wire recordings in his
desk. This library will belong
permanently to the English De­partment
and is available to all
of the teachers of the University.
He is also collecting recordings
of radio plays and outstanding
speeches Imide in public speaking
class. ·
The cast of Le MiaaDihrope in­cludes
Christy Hassold, George
Morrison, Betty Thompson and
Bill Walther.
Mitzi Bomwasser, Bettie Spei­cher,
Frank Leo and Bill Walther
make up the cast of PIIMcln. Wal­ther
was director and producer of
both plays.
The facts that "we are in the
midst of a shift in the style of
American art" and that "art critic­ism
has lagged far behind the art­ist"
were the subjects of a lecture
by Daniel Catton Rich in the
Allen Court Room last Tuesday
evening.
Rich, who is the director of the
Chicago Art Institute, was the
fourth speaker in the annual Al­wine
Hallenberg Memorial lecture
series sponsored by Mrs. E. S.
Tachau.
According to Rich, who is also
judging paintings submitted for
the annual Kentucky-Southern
Indiana art exhibit to be held at
t h e Speed Museum April 1
through April 30; the shift is away
from representAtional art to non­representational,
or "abstract"
art. He said he was particularly
impressed by the number of ab­stract
paintings submitted to the
Speed exhibit.
Several reasons for the shift in
the style of American art were
cited by Rich. Among them were
the fact that the American artist
since the discontinuance of the
WJ'.A. national art projects has
felt much less a sense of social
CODSCiousness and has thus be­caine
much less concerned with
the general public and the fact
that durina the '30's many Eur­opean
abstract artists and many
teechen tra.iDed in the contlnen-
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tal tradition arrived in this coun­try
and that their influence was
very great in determining the
direction of modern art.
Rich said that the usual objec­tions
to modern art take the form
of bemoaning the fact that mod­ern
ilrt is daily becoming more
unintelligible. And then, he said,
the- critics accuse the artist of
being the one responsible for the
breakdown in communication.
Rich countered these criticisms
by stating that "we are on rather
dubious grounds when we use in­stant
communication as the test
for good art." He said that there
have been very few artists, in any
period, that have been appreciated
by the great majority of the peo­pJe
of their own period. He also
said that most of the objections
voiced against the abstract paint­ers
of today ... that they are indi­vidualistic,
experimental, revolu­tionary,
unrealistic . . • could
have been levelled against the
classical painters by their con­temporary
critics.
Rich closed his lecture by say­ing
that it is "lamentable that the
critics have failed to live up to
their appointed role, that of ex­plaining
the artist to the public"
but he feels certain that the 8pirit
and eneru of modem art .m
make it "in • few yean. beeome
much more intearated bato our ao-cieQ-."
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