WAGE SIX

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

WNESDAY, APRMT 21, 1949

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LEAN YEARS WAX FAT
Kenton Cin'
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By DICK ARNESEN
When news reached us that
Stan Kenton, the "Artistry in
Rhythm" boy, was bringing his
progressive jazzmen to the cam-
pus in a couple of weeks, we
thought it would be interesting
to check here and there and find
out a bit about Kenton before he
started climbing the "ladder of
success.,,
Pageant Opens
international
Week Activity
'U Foreign Students
Represent Countries
Playing to a near capacity au-
dience, a 76-member cast opened
a week of International activities
Monday with a presentation of
the "International Pageant."
The pageant; which was staged
in Pattengill Auditorium present-
ed seven scenes from as many
nations. The cast was composed
almost exclusively of University
foreign students, representing
their respective countries.
An introductory address was de-
livered by Dr. Esson M. Gale, di-
rector of the International Cen-
ter. He described the program as
"an album of the past in costume,
song and dance . . . the culture
of nations."
Beginning with Hawaii, the pa-
geant took the audience on an
imaginary tour around the globe.
The various countries visited were
introduced by Lloyd Van Valken-
burgh, a Play Production major.
After the "visit" to Hawaii, a
Chinese opera scene was present-
ed, followed by an Indian dance
interpreted by Shakuntala Deva-
nesen. An Arab village scene was
next, followed by two songs from
Italian opera, sung by Anna Val-
lone Weeks. The concluding num-
bers were a Rumanian folk dance
and a repdouction of Latin
American carnival life.
The production was directed by
Margaret J. Underwood. The book
was written by Homer Underwood,
assistant director of the Center.
'Good Earth'
To Be Shown
This weekend
"The Good Earth" will be pre-
sented at 8 p.m. Fniday, Saturday,
and Sunday in the Kellogg Audi-
torium by the Art Cinema League
and the IRA.
A screen translation of Pearl
Buck's Nobel Prize-winning novel,
it was one of the films most re-
quested by students in a recent
p lLcondubted.by.:.t ALCinema
League.
The film tells the eternal story
f man and the soil-the drama
of his struggles under perverse
conditions set against a bacgdrop
of lavish oriental splendor.
Luise Rainer and Paul Muni
share the acting honors in "The
Good Earth." Miss Rainer, who
won two Academy Awards in her
three-year film career, plays the
role of O-lan, the slave girl.
Tickets will be available at Uni-

versity Hall from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. today through Saturday.
Tickets will also be sold at Kel-
logg Auditorium before the per -
formances.
Technic on Sale
The April issue of the Michigan
Technic, official magazine of the
engineering school, will go on
sale today and Thursday under
the West Engineering Arch.
The Technic will contain ar-
ticles on television and advanced
home heating. In addition, the
Engineering Council's Activities
Program will be explained.
Business and
Secretarial Training
DAY AND EVENING
CLASSES
You can prepare in from 9
months to 18 months for one of
the fine positions which are be-
ing offered to our grafuates.
Starting salaries range from
$141 to $179 per month. Secre-
tarial, Accounting and other of-
fice positions provide excellent
opportunities for advancement.
dignified employment, pleasant

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Kenton's public owes a debt of
gratitude to the bandsman's per-
severing piano-teacher mother
who almost had to bribe Stan to
study music.
She won out in the long run,
and by the time he was 14 years
old he had plinked piano keys,
twanged banjo strings, mooed
through a saxophone, and kissed
the trumpet lightly.
23 Skidoo
Back in 1926, when fashioaable
women were wearing the "tube.
dress, and the high-school young-
sters were screaming "23 skidoo,"
Stanley Newcomb Kenton, (that's
right, Newcomb), was seriously
concerned as to whether or not
he would be able to inhabit the
rarified atmosphere where once
dwelt his idol, Earl "Father"
Hines.
Through the doors of Bell NighI
School in Los Angeles stumbled
a tall, gangling, awkward( kid o
18, clutching the only diploma he
ever got, and a little sad that
his folks couldn't put him through
college where he wanted to con-
tinue studying music.
Played in Beer-Joints
During the early years of tis
Roosevelt Administration, when
you had to learn the alphabet to
know whio you were working for,
Kenton was playin in every beer-
joint from San Diego to Bakers-
field, just eking out a daily meal-
ticket.
Things picked up. however, and
he finally ended up as assistant
musical director at Earl Carroll's
theatre restaurant. Every spare
moment he had at the piano he
spent in writing arrangements for
the band he had made up his
mind to have.
Early in 1941, after discarding
numerous misfits who didn't take
to his progressive jazz, Kenton
formed his own band. There was
only one hitch . . . he had no
place to play.
Finally Gets Start
Finally through a fanatic and
insistent belief in himself and his
band, he talked his way into the
Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa,
California. This gave him the
start that led to a Band of the
Yeartyaward in 194 afe some
pretty lean years sandwiched in
between.
With the exception of a few
grey hairs, Stan is still the same
tall, awkward, gangling boy he
was at graduation. He still finds
it hard to walk without stumbling
over his feet, and he has fallen
off the, bandstand more times
than Carter has pills.
Although his ideas of music are
still hotly debated, the contro-
versy is well worth the gold it
brings into the Kenton coffers,

Cam us
Calendar
Young Democrats-Closed meet-
Discussion of presidential
candidates; 7:30 p~m., Rln. 323,
Union.
MCAF Meeting - Report on
SLID ban at Wayne; 4:15 p.m.,
League.
Michigras Booths-House spon-
sors meeting at 5 p.m., Union.
Radio - Hopwood Room, 2:30
p.m., WKAR.
Inter Co-op Council-Board of,
Directors, 7:30 p.m., League.
A.Ph.A.--Student branch meet-
ing for annual spring banquet
nnL: ''::l n.m., Rm. 300,
Chemistry Building.
CCpeLWnt ivioMers Class -
"How Your Baby Grows Before
Birth," 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., Child
Health Building.
NSA Meeting-4:15 p.m., Union.
Play---"Importance of Being
Earnest," 8 p.m. Lydia Mendels-
sohn.
University Lecture - Edgar De-
wt Jones. 4 p.m..'Ra'Rkha nLee-
State Theatre-- "I Walk Alone,'
1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 p.m.
Michigan Theatre-"Voice of
the Turtle," 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 p.m.
,ermu Department
!Nantes Contest Winners
The German Department has
,neunced the winners of its an-
nual Kothe-Hildner translation
contest and Bronson - Thomas
essay contest.
Bernard M. Bueche and Sybil A.
Widmann won first and second
place in the translation contest
respectively and Ursula Maister
took the prize in the essay con-
est for a theme on German lit-
erature in the 19th century.
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Teacher-Needs To Be Outlined

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Michigan's teacher-needs will be
outlined by Dr. Eugene B. Elliott,
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, at a meeting here of
300 city, county, college and uni-
versity school officials Friday.
Presentation of the summary of
the seventh annual report on the
state's supply, demand and place-
ment of teachers will be the main
event of the meeting.
The report was prepared by the
University Bureau of Appoint-
ments and Occupational Informa-
tion, with the cooperation of all
public and private schools, col-
leges and universities in the state.
Bureau Director Dr. T. Luther
Purdom, the first speaker, will
present the summary. The meet-

ing will be held in conjunction
with the 82nd meeting of the
Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, be-
ing held here April 22-23. Ap-
proximately, 2,500 teachers and
administrators are expected to at-
tend.
The final address will be given
by Robert P. Briggs, University
vice-president, whose topic will be
"The University of Michigan To-
day and Tomorrow."
New Officers Named
Mert Siegal, Herbert Balin,
Gene Paul, and Morton Weissman
have been elected officers of the
recently reactivated fraternity,
Tau Delta Phi.

China Art Gifts
Now on Display
Students who are looking for
unusual gifts or furnishings will
find them on sale at the Interna-
tional Center.
The Center now has on display
an assortment of fine Chinese art
objects. Articles include silver
filigree jewelry set witu semi-
precious stones, purses and bill-
folds of alligator and python skin,
glass and pewter drinking mugs,
ivory jewelry, hand-made lace and
embroidered linens, sandalwood
fans, silk tapestries, and ivory
chopsticks and backscratchers.
Motifs most frequently used in-
clude dragons, birds, and padoga-
style houses.

ROMANTIC LEADS-Shirley Loeblich and John Momeyer have
leading roles in the speech department's production "The Im-
portance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde. The play opens a
four-day run tonight at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
TIlE 'BO1f) WOK':
,Cfowns'Way to Easy Money

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Mildly surprised students are#
wondering about the strangely
garbed young man strolling about
campus, jauntily pointing out ob-
jects of interest to friends with
a fashionable walking stick.
The object of amused glances
is George Whitehorn, '49, who is
determined to go oddly-appareled
until the end of the week to win
a $50 bet underwritten by a face-
tious group of fraternity brothers.
Reading from top to bottom, or
rather, from head to foot, White-
horn wears a sporty white tennis
cap, sun glasses, and a Tyrone
Power scarf of blue silk, knotted
artistically about the throat and

disappearing into a common gar-
den-variety white shirt.
The most arresting note in the
"bold look" is a pair of trousers
of generous dimensions reminis-
cent of children's ski pants. They
are done in blue, black, and white
checks, each about the size of a
ten-cent piece.
The trousers are fastidiously
tucked into horizontal - striped
socks of black, white and blue,
which in turn are encaseG in two
tired-looking brown shoes. A non-
descript brownish sport coat,
clashing nauseatingly with the
pants, completes the costume.

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