Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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LAP BIG SIX CONFER-SUBJECT, CURLI-Q BACKSTAGE MANAHAN AND MATHENY To CURLI-Q , 3 G . Q , my gl -lli Kane Keen sfar of Dragnef proclucfion Dragnel sliared llwe limeliglil willi a slfiorl slcil by +l'1e Drama Deparrmenl, enlilled Kane Keen, Privale Eye. Girls, Girls, Girls inlroduced Prof. Wal- Jron wl'1o inlroduced lo llie audience Jrlwe folly girls, exlravaganlly cos+umed-any- way, no plol was necessary for Huis acl. The final producfion of flue show, as if is rumored, brouglwl an end lo Troubles for llfie Big Five-Pllaum, Bruder, l-lendricks, Cremer, and lVlcCullougl'1, and il also brouglwf relief lo exlwausled minds depleled ol: ideas. Homecoming plans were laid wilb Jrlwe naming of +l'1e gueen candidales. Afrer an array of dinners, posing, and personal ap- pearances, llwe five candidales were pre- senled +o flue sludenf body for vole. An- -IO ONE WILL FORGET CURLI-Q THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES-MODERN RENDITION BY RHYTHMIC CIRCLE

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E-STATES OWN HOMER AND JETHRO CRAZY MAN KANE curfain up on lasf Curli-Q Afler a prelude of mood-selling music. 'rhe curlain wenl up on a well-pracliced. well-organized l953 version of Curli-Q, E- S+aJre's lradilional I6-acl variely show lhal has become a homecoming lradilion. The producrion included a variely of music, dancing, slci'rs, painling, and all were sprin- lcled wilh girls. rhapsody and birfh of fhe blues Oulslanding were Phil Keller, a Freshman, playing The Tamous Rhapsody in Blue, and ihe resounding rendilion by 73 voices of Ba+'rle l-iymn of 'rhe Republic. The slage was se'r and lhe blues are here 'ro slay, as evidenced by Par Waldron's singing and lvliss Benson and her girls inler- preling The Birlh of The Blues. 0 6 Hats off ..- r ITS BENSON AND THE BLUES WITH A CHORUS LIKE THI

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Q u e e n nouncemenl was maole in llwe Bullelin llwal Rullw Slalom, Joann Kirk, Maxine Hubbard, E-S'ra+e's own Queen Elizabellw lBe++y Kip- ancl Alice Mae Clark, slanding by for moral penbergerl would reign willw ner allendanls, supporl. RUTH STATON, MAXINE HUBBARD, ALICE MAE CLARK, BETTY KIPPENBERGER, JO KIRK 24 .?,