Vol. 49-No. 162
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Tuesday, July 12, 1949
Page, Stone Dance Concert
Concludes Artist Series
When Ruth Page and Bently
Stone dance on the stage of the
Union ballroom Thursday at 8
p. m. students will witness the
final concert of the summer art
ist series.
Former stars of the Chicago
Opera company, Page and Stone
will perform several novelty num
bers. "Flora and Zephyr," a cari
cature of the old-school ballet,
will be followed by "Tropic," a
Page-interpretation of a South
Sea Island number. Stone will do
a "Punch Drunk" number about
a prize fighter who has entered
the ring too many times.
PAGE AND STONE'S perform
ance represents a background' of
long years of training, similar to
the training of a gridiron Jiero.
"Dancers are not hot-house
flowers to be carefully nurtured,
covered early at night with cloth,
and ordained to live in a constant
temperature," Miss Page told the
Paris (France) Herald in an in
terview. "Plenty of beefsteak, cream and
anything you want to eat," was
her answer to the "training table'
question.
"Training, of course," she em
phasized, "is a serious thing, but
training consists of at least two
hours' exercise every day. It puts
no rules on dieting. Sleep, while
fairly important, is not a neces
sity." AND, if dancers manage to
keep happy in their work, they
should be able to continue indefi
nitely. "Good ballet dancers
should start between 10 and 13. If
they work hard, they should be
supple and nimble enough to ap
pear on the stage until 50. Many
have made a hit, and are still
popular at 60."
"These stories about dancers
Dance. Ballerina
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Kl'TII PAGE, of the Page and Stone dance duo, will appear on the
stage of the Union ballroom Thursday night. The Page and Stone
show is sponsored by the summer session committee and the Union
activities committee. It is the final performance of the artist series.
Miss Page will be seen with her partner, Bently Stone.
dying right after they leave the
stage are played up too much. The
important thing is to keep on ex
ercising. To stop dancing sud
denly is like going without a
bath, it can't be missed without its
ill-effects," Miss Page said.
Miss Page would not be sur
prised to see the future home of
the ballet in the United States.
American girls figures are na
turally, and quite justly, famous,
and they have a love of athletic
endeavor which is vastly impor
tant," she said.
THE THEATRE dancing mar
ket, Miss Page hinted, is in dan
ger, nevertheless, of becoming
glutted.
"There are plenty of good danc
ers, too many of them, but there
is a scarcity of dancers with ideas.
Thinking up the ideas is really the
difficult thing. It is absolutely
necessary to be happy when com
posing a routine. When actually
dancing, the person should be
nothing but a healthy machine
with lots of life," she said.
IN ADDITION to her work
work with the Chicago Opera
company, Miss Page has ap
peared in Europe and in the
Orient. Her description of Japan
presents an interesting contrast in
eastern and western styles.
"Americans and Europeans now
take modern dance so much as a
matter of course, that it seemed
strange to arrive in a country
which had seen so little that could
be called modern dancing, Miss
Page said, in describing ter Japa
nese sojourn.
For any European dancer to ap
pear in Japan is a unique expe
rience, according to miss i'age.
"The Japanese handle publicity
in a most expert way. Performers
are photographed thruout the day
the perform-
MISS PAGE found photographs
of herself, enlarged to life-size in
the entrances of Tokyo's largest
dry goods store. In her honor the
top floor of the store was entirely
given to an exhibition of enor
See "Page & Stone," Paee 3
4 University
Scientists Get
Federal Aid
Three grants totaling $27,976
from the Atomic Energy Commis
sion and the U. S. Public Health
Service have been made to 'our
University of Nebraska scientists
-for research work, according to
Dean R. W. Goss of the Graduate
College.
A grant of $10,000 from the
Atomic Energy Commission will
go to Dr. Theodore Jorgensen,
Jr., of the Physics department. His
study is concerned with attempt
ing to explain why, and how fast,
the slow-moving energy particles,
with which Dr. Jorgensen's funda
mental study is concerned, project
through space at a rate about 10,
000 times faster than the speed of
a rifle bullet.
THE TWO OTHER grants are
from the U. S. Public Health
Service. One, for $8,500, was
made to Dr. Walter E. Militzer,
chemist, and Dr.. Carl Georgi,
bacteriologist, for "a continuation
of their work on enmzymes of
bacteria which live at high tem
peratures. Last year the same
agency gave these scientists a
grant of $7,645. The second, for
$9,476. was made to Dr. Carl Ol
son, Jr., animal pathologist, for
a continuation of his research on
the origin and development of
listerellosis. Last year the Health
Service granted Dr. Olson $14,796
for this work.
Two of these projects were
started by gifts from private in-
dividuals in Nebraska. Dr. Jorg-
ensens' work began with a $2,000
I grant from Nathan Gold, Lincoln
i merchant, and the work of Dr.
Militzer and Dr. Georgi began
with a gift of $1,500 from L. J.
Welsh, Omaha, member of the
University's Board of Regents.
I and also during
lances," she told.
Gladwin Young Labels Missouri Basin
Project "Undeveloped National Asset"
The Missouri river basin is a
national asset still awaiting full
development, Gladwin Young,
field representative of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, told
members of the University fac
ulty at a luncheon yesterday.
The hazards of weather, ex
tremes in production and income,
and population instability pres
sent a challenge to the nation,
he said.
In reviewing the history of
basin development, Young said,
the flood control act of 1944,
which authorized the Pick
Sloan plan, was designed to
partially meet this challenge.
Through this act the nation gave
concrete expression to a policy
of investment in basin-wide re
source development for this im
portant area.
...
HOWEVER he believes that
comprehensive resource deve
lopment cannot be attained alone
Wishnoiv to Conduct
University Orchestra
On Open-Air Concert
Music-lovers will have a chance to hear many of their
favorites at the fourth annual "Pops" concert which the
University Summer Session orchestra will present on Wed
nesday, July 13. The program, which will begin at 8 p. m.
in the stadium, is free and open to the public.
A varied program has been built around music which
is well-known and well-liked by concert goers everywhere.
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EMANUEL WISHNOW
Y Sponsors
German Film
In Library
"Die Fledermaus," based on the
world famous operetta by Johann
Strauss, will be the next presen
tation jn the series of foreign
films sponsored by the University
YMCA.
The film, directed by Geza von
Eolvary, and starring Marte Ha
rell and Will Dohm, I will be
shown in Love Library auditor
ium, Thursday, July 14, at 8 p. m.
Tickets are 50c.
"Die Fledermaus'' is a comedy,
centering around the antics of a
married couple, a wealthy prince,
and the couple's maid ,at a Vien
nese masked ball.
Although the dialogue is in
German. English sub-titles are
provided for the American aud
ience. by engineering development to
impound and use the waters of
the rivers. The rivers and water
shed lands must be considered to
gether. This fad was recognized
early by the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency
committee, according
to Young.
"A new and outstanding land
mark in coordinated river basin
planning has been accomplished
by the preparation of an agricul
tural plan for the Missouri River
Basin. It is drafted in a form
that, when approved by Congress,
will become the basic authoriza
tion under which the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture and the
agricultural colleges can more
adequately carry out the agricul
tural phases of Missouri Basin
development," he told University
personnel.
''a
THE PLAN proposes an au
thorization for a 30-year period,
the details of which are specifi
i -twin rig IvaJ
Among the selections which con-
ductor Emanuel Wishnow has
chosen are overtures, a portion of
a symphony, a Spanish dance and
a Jamaican rhumba.
.
TO OPEN the concert the orch
estra will play Cimarosa's over
ture to "The Secret Marriage."
This will be followed by the
Adagio Allegro Molto from
Dvorak's Symphony in E Minor,
"From the New World."
To be heard next are the Span
ish dance from "La Vidi Breve",
by de Folia and "Jamaican
Rhumba" by Benjamin. These se
lections will be followed by Cop
land's "An Outdoor Overture,"
"The Gypsy Baron" by Strauss
and "Espana Rhapsody" by Cha
brier. The concert is sponsored joint
ly by the school of fine arts and
the Union. Free refreshments will
be served at intermission, accord
ing to Duane Lake, Union direc
tor. CHAIRS FOR the audience will
be set up in front of the stadium's
east entrance, where the orchestra
will be seated. In case of rain the
concert will be given at the same
time and place on July 20, a week
later. Lake also said that the sta
dium grounds will be sprayed
with DDT before the concert to
combat insect pests.
In years past the concerts have
been well-attended and called "a
huge success" by the audience.
The University is one of the few
schools which features these out
door concerts in connection with
summer school. Members in the
orchestra rehearse daily in addi
tion to attending regular summer
school classes.
Prof. Wishnow directs the orch
estra during regular session and
teaches string classes at the Uni
versity. One of the midwest's
most vigorous champions of orch
estral music, he makes many trips
throughout this section of the
country to encourage the current
renaissance of string instrument
j playing in high schools. He is
! concertmaster of the Lincoln Sym
phony orchestra.
cally set forth for authorization,
Young explained. It is based on
established principles of partici
pation of government with coop
crating land owners and opeia
tors. It would accelerate and
complement existing agriculture
programs, he added. It would
telescope the job of conservation
of cropland and grassland into a
30-ycar period instead of a hun
dred years. It would increase
shelterbelts and improve the for
ests that protect valuable water
supplies, he said.
The proposed project "would
contribute to flood control and re
duce siltalion by retarding flood
waters at their very source. Thus,
it would enhance the efficiency
and increase the effective life of
reservoirs. It would assist in the
job of fitting Irrigation and farm
drainage into efficient farm pro
duction pattern, contributing to
(See "Basin" page 4)
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