Thursday, November 21, 194S
THE DAILY NEBRASKA
Maryla Jonas
Polish Pianist
Of Hope to Perform in Japan
BY SAM WARREN
Amidst curtain pulleys and
riggings backstage at the Stuart
theater yesterday morning, Mary
la Jonas looked up from the con
cert Steinway to welcome press
reporters. "We are old frineds.
she smiled warmly, pulling chairs
up around her piano bench for
the three reporters. "What you
will know?" she asked in her two
month old English.
"Do nod ask me how the United
States I like," she began, "I do
nod know yetf I like it more and
more. I begin to speck da langu
age. I travel, I have successes,
we love it!" If there was one
thing that she definitely did not
like, it was gigantic, outrageous
hats. When her initial New York
recitals assured her box office
success, her manager told her to
buy whatever she wanted. "You
know who is Lili Dache?" she
asked reporters. "She brings me
50 rjats and I nearly forget the
everting concert trying them all
on." And as might be expected,
her manager thought her final
choice was insanely crazy.
Something new in musicians'
special interests is Miss Jones'
desire to visit and perform in
Japan! "It is my dream to study
Japanese," exclaimed this Polish
linguist who already speaks nine
languages, not including English.
Many of the men, whom she met
in Panama while giving 47 USO
concerts there, are now stationed
in Japan with the military gov
ernment. Letters from them have
Dr. Paul Jannke
Speaks to Group
Of Gamma Deltas
Gamma Delta will hear Dr. Paul
Jannke of the Pharmacy college
speak at their regular meeting at
7:15 p. m. today. Dr. Jannke will
speak on the subject, "The Criti
cal Need For Pleasure in Living."
The Song and Pep Committee,
headed by Ruth Vortman, Harold
Echtenkamp, and Myra Hauge,
will present its first report, in-
eluding a number of recommenda
tions, at this meeting.
University Theater
Thanks All Donors
Of Naval Suits
The University Theatre wishes
to express its thanks to those stu
dents who loaned white navy
suits for use in the production of
"My Sster Eileen," stated direc
tor Daceas Williams.
These suits have been cleaned
and may now be picked up at the
costume room in the Temple
Theatre Thursday from 10 a. m
till noon, or Friday from 1 p. m.
till 3 in the afternoon.
Phi Sigma Iota Discusses
Language Papers Tuesday
Members of Phi Sigma Iota,
honorary modern language soci
ety. heard a discussion of two pa
pers presented at a meeting Tues
day night.
Mary Rumbolz talked on "Mys
tery Plays of the Middle Ages'
and Mrs. S. G. Easter, university
Spanish instructor, discussed Pa
lacio Valdes."
Following the discussion, a
short business meeting was held
with Mary Louise Hanson presid
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Presents Concert at Stuart Theater
Tells ReportersSympathetic Feeling Keynotes
aroused her interest in Japanese
culture. "It sounds fascinating!"
Piano is AIL
When someone asked just how
she, as a pianist, felt about her
instrument, she .thought momen
tarily and said, "It is very diffi
cult problem. The piano it is
heart, sensibility, an enemy, my
critic, sometimes my teacher. It
is all my life." And when the
query came about how early she
began studying, her lively retort
was a laughing "I think that I
am BORN inside piano!"
Flying into Lincoln on a strenu
ous concert tour that averages
three appearances a week, Miss
Jonas readily admitter her par
tiality to flying. "I have about
400 flys. I should get medal-from
airlines, no?" Flying makes it
easy for her to reach her new
home 20 minutes from the heart
of Mexico City. "I cultivate roses
with American vitamins so that
they grow enormous," she ges
tured. She also has two dogs
whose breed names are not in
cluded in her limited English vo
cabulary. She would like to spend the
Christmas holidays in Mexico, but
instead she will be recording
Chopin and Rachmaninoff con
certs with the New York Phil
harmonic as well as Beethoven
and Schubert sonatas. Her only
holiday recreation will be in her
apartment kitchen. Tossing her
hands joyously in the air, she
said, "And I will cook and cook
and cook!"
Campus Vesper
Hour Will Feature
Choral Speaking
Featured at this week's all Uni
versity vesper service to be held
Thursday in room 315 of the Stu
dent Union will be a special choral
speaking program.
The World Student Service
Fund will be the basis of the
speaking which will be led by
members of the vesper planning
committee. All students are in
vited to attend.
Gamma Mu Theta
Hears Geography
Instructor Today
Dr. Esther S. Anderson of the
geography department will dis
cuss some of the geographic fac
tors concerning1 the distribution of
diseases when members of Gamma
Mu Theta meet today in room 315
of the Union.
Dr. Anderson, faculty advisor of
the organization, returned recently
from four years war service in
Washington, D. C.
Actives and initiates of the hon
orary women s pre-medical soro
rity will meet at 5:30, and all pre
medical girls intending to Join will
meet at 6:30. Glenda Baack, pub
licity chairman, has announced
that the meeting will adjourn
early because of the concert at
the Stuart.
Pike Announces
New Lottery Plan
For Free Dancing
Beginning Friday, Nov. 2i, one
organized student group will be
admitted free to an evening of
dancing at the Turnpike, accordi
ing to manager George Dinsdale.
Every Thursday one sorority,
fraternity or organized house will
be chosen by lot, and announced
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Jonas Recital Presentation
BY SAM WARREN
It would be difficult to imagine
a pianist who plays with more
genuine and encompassing feeling
than does Maryla Jonas who ap
peared as the second artist of the
Lincoln Symphony series last
night at the Stuart theater.
At times she bent . close over
her keyboard or again drew away
from it in contemplative mood.
Eqmetimes she played with an ef
fortless ease, at others she labored
intently to bring out the fullness
of a work. At all times her coun
tenance indicated her complete
absorption in the piece she was
playing, and indicated her per
sonal feeling toward the music.
Now it was tenderness, now it was
near-anguish.
Attention was seldom lacking
from the opening Handel "Passa
caglia" to the closing Chopin
group and final modern Spanish
encores. The passacaglia was
played entirely without pedal and
depended upon the stream of in
ner voices to achieve continuity.
The "Capriccio" of W. F. Bach
combined a forceful ness that came
from co-ordination of the entire
body and a lightness of touch
that came from complete arm re
laxation. First nigh Point
This combination of power and
relaxation was especially noticable
in the Beethoven "Sonata, Op. 31,
No. 2," subtitled "The Tempest."
ine sonata was the first of sev
eral high points in the evening.
Flayed without pause between
movements, it held the audience
engrossed much as did Guiomar
Novae's rendition of Beethoven's
so-called "Funeral" sonata last
month. The encore following this
group was a contradance by the
same composer.
Mqying into her second group,
Miss Jonas played two waltzes,
an impromptu and "Ecossais"
(pieces in Scottish style) by Schu
bert plus "Poem" by Prokofieff
N ow here was sureness and
strength of attack more positive
than in the Schubert group of
studies. Here was charm with a
punch! The Prokofieff poem may
easily have pleased many people
mosr ior the composer s devices
plus Miss Jonas' handling pro
vided the first sharp contrast of
the program. "Music Box, an as-
yet unpublished delicacy by Villa-
lodos, was perhaps the cleverest
and best-received encore.
Chopin Group
In her final group, Miss Jonas
sampled for the audience the full
range of sojo Chopin numbers
Instructor Dies
William Kelland Homey, 36,
instructor of reolory, died sud
denly Wednesday morninr at
Us home because of a heart at
tack. He had previously served
la the reolory deiaartment as
graduate assistant from 1942
to 1943.
on the Turnpike's regular Thurs
day evening program over station
KFOR from 11:00 to 11:30.
Each member of the group will
be asked to check off his or her
name at the box office, and each
may bring a date.
George Wnslow and his or
chestra will play tomorrow night,
and Chuck Foster and his hand
will furnish the music, Friday,
Nov. 29.
FRIDAY, NOV. 22
COLLEGE
NIGHT
HANK WINDER
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She gave them polonaises, mazur
kas, a valse and a nocture, re
vealing a seldom-heard intimacy
with her Polish compatriot. For
all the contrasting casualness and
intensity, singing and brooding of
her interpretations, one could not
help but wonder at times -if some
undue sentimentality did not
creep into her lyricism.
Feeling, evidently, an obligation
to include some moderns in her
program, Miss Jonas encored with
four contemporary selections
which brought a pleasant concert
to a close. They were "Soldier's
March," "Dance Lesson," and
"Bolero and Galope" by the Ital
ian Casella, and Rachimanoff s
"Song of Love."
Military Ball . . .
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of honorary colonel presentation
ceremonies, said the program will
follow traditional lines with the
advance corps officers and their
sponsors forming a guard of honcr
while the cadet commanding of
ficer dances with the honorary
colonel.
Doors Open
Doors to the coliseum will open
at 8:0'0, Cotton added, to allow
spectators to enter the coliseum
for the program preceding the
dance. Actual dancing will not
begin until about 9:15, he said.
Cadet Lt. Col. Bill Hammond,
chairman of the Ball's publicity
committee, in a recent statement
on the Foster band noted that Fos
ter's aggregation is "riding on a
new wave of popularity." The
publicity chai-man predicted Fos
ter's band to be one of the "best
ever heard."
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Vet Thanksgiving
Dinner Will Honor
R. G. Gustavson
Chancellor and Mrs. Gustavson
will be the honored guests at the
Veterans Thanksgiving Dinner,
which is to be held in Parlors
XYZ of the Union on Saturday, at
6:30 p. m., according to an an
nouncement by Richard Sinsel,
Public Relations Chairman of the
Veterans' Organization.
Tickets for this affair, are $1
per person and can be obtained
at the Veterans' Organization of
fice, 209 Nebraska Hall, or from
Bill Thorton and Social Chairman
Iona Sherman.
Dean W. W. Burr
Attends Agronomy
Meet In Omaha
Dean W. W. Burr of the col
lege of agriculture, along with
Dr. F. D. Keim and other men
from the agronomy department
are attending the annual meeting
of the American Society of
Agronomy in Omaha this week.
Dean Burr reports the number
of former and present Nebraskans
in attendance at the meetings as
unusually high. The meetings
give a number of former students
a reason to visit the state and
the ag campus.
Among the former departmen
tal instructors present at the first
meetings were Karl Quisenberry
and H. M. Tysdal, recently of
the University of Nebraska, now
with the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. The conference will
last all week, with the last meet
ing being held Friday.
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