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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN THREE SUNDAY. MARCH fl, 19.11. SOCIETY V ' At a dinucr at the, Paxton hotel last night, four couples from the university Mere entertained by the hotel management in honor of Dorothy Silvia of Wagner, S. Dak., Prom girl. The dinner ' guests "were Dorothy Cihln ml Hobeit Kcliy, Ruih Smith and Frank Chapin, Franecs Holyoke and Leonard Conk lin, De Lcllis Shramek and Bernard Refshauge. The party motored to umana late fcainraay w I . M 1 u . I . .J . . MISS oiivib nnu urru mviicu w the formal dinner the night of the Junior-Senior prom after her election as Prom gtrl. She waa aaked then by the Hotel Paxton to bring some friend as guests. .The original plan had been for the group to go to Omaha by airplane, but weather conditions changed the arrangements. Theta Sigma Phi to Give Annual Tea. Frederick C. Collins, assistant curator of the museum, will speak rt a' Theta Sigma Phi tea at the Kappa ' Alpha Theta house on Sunday from 3:30 to 5:30. His subject will be "Ingoldsby Leg- LAUGH AT FASHION It'a the funniest show you've seen , . , leering villains . . . beautiful heroine driven out into the snow , , , shades of Little Nell. Popcorn and peanuts sold in the aisles . . . pop the sacks . . . throw shells at the villain. Tie your horses outside ... it's an" old-time affair. AND THEY KICK ABOUT THE YOUNGER GENERATION . "FASHION" Temple Theater starting tomorrow night and scoring all week University Players CURTAIN AT 7:30 I Laugh Tjt Ut i laVgh tm jjP Wj 1 fcilv lookingfor a Don a jUM! BUBteri9e8 fP WITH DfTCTiro H CHARLOTTE REGINALD DENNY r'-- te-UNIT I l J Stage Show . is " o J? Featuring li WJ2rSk Stuart Stage Band 5Iarlce11 n( raun jF Li '""jj! 1 'Vj PEK0 Tour 4 . anernoon. . . Social Calendar lHHlllMBBMaMMMiJMaBfJMMOTBa Monday. Reception and tea for Miss Maude Gwinn and Miss Eugenia Hsia from 3:30 to 4:30 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall. Friday. Sigma Kappa spring party at the Corahuaker hotel. Delta Sigma Delta spring party at the Corahuaker hotel Saturday. Alpha Omlcron PI spring party at the Cornhusker hotel. Delta Delta Delta pledge house party. Sunday. Theta Sigma Phi tea at the Kap pa Alpha Theta house. ends." Active members of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary women's Journalistic sorority, and Chi Delta Phi, university literary so ciety ,are Invited. Pledges of Theta Sigma Phi will serve. Coeds Entertained at Dinner Party. Mary Young was hostess to six guests at a dinner party at her home Thursday evening. A green and white rolor motif was em ployed in the table appointments with a St. Patrick's day theme. Following the dinner at 6 o'clock, the evening was spent Informally. The guest list included Dorothy Proudfit, Betty Burnham, Jane Sunderland. Thelma McPherson, Janet Smith and Eunice Harding. D. S. L. Observes Founder's Day. In commemoration of Founder's day, fifty-two members of Delta Sigma Lambda fraternity at tended a banquet at the chapter house Friday evening. D. S. L. was founded ten years ago on the University of California campus, and the Nebraska chapter is the fifth chapter to be installed. Toasts were given, with Roiand Miller, president, acting as toast master, and Mrs. H. C. M. Bur gess, housemother, sponsoring the dinner. Mrs. L. J. Schill of Alliance arrived Wednesday to be the guest of her daughters, Ruth and Leola. She will return to her home Sunday afternoon. Victor Sylvan of Gothenburg, '29, was a guest at the Sigma Phi Sigma house for several days during the week while he Is spending a month's vacation. Hazel and Helen Struble of Fremont were week end guests at the Kappa Alpha Theta house. TFATftN GREENWOOD CLIFF tDWAKU I STUART AMONG THE LEADERS OF STUDENT li hi " v.; atSU: ... r . - If . J- l 4 LUCILE KELLY. Miss Lucile Kellv has been home is in Grand Island, and she is a member of Gamma Phi Beta. Miss Christine Carlson, of Lincoln, ia the new president of Y. W. C A. at the college of agricul ture. She is affiliated with Sigma Kappa sorority. Miss Marjorie Peterson of Fremont has been elected president of the University Y, W. C A, the city campus. Miss Peterson has been a leader of the Nebraska in Shanghai staff of the organization. ANNA MOWATT, AUTHOR OF FASHION, HAS TCK FORMANCE REVIEWED BY P0E. (Continued from Page 1.) Lucy Ashton In "The Bride of Lammermoor," both . plays re nri of Mrs. Mowatt's histronic viewed by Poe in enthusiastic ability. Poe suggested that Mrs. Mowatt was wen nttea ror me part of Juliet which he said would "render her immortal ' shouk. sne play it. "tasmon" wnjen wui pe pre sented every night this week tftrtlnp- Mondav was first produced at the Royal Olym pic theater on Jan. w, ioou. The play had a successful three weeks run and was withdrawn nniv because of other engage ments at the theater. It was re vived by the Provincetown thea ter in New York city In 1824 and then went successively to the Greenwich Village and Cort thea ters where it ran ror aaa consecu tive performances. University Players will present h Pmvinpptown arrangement of the five-act comedy. Members of the state legislature ana ineir families will De emenunw cniMt of the University Players Saturday evening at a premier showing or "Jfasmon. NEBRASKA IN CHINA WEEK BEGINS TODAY rviTitinnpd from Pa.ee 1.1 ka in Shanghai staff will be pres ent. Mina Maude Gwinn. national ..xrotarv nf the Y. W. and MiSS Eugenia Hsia of Shanghai. China, who is studying in Cedar Falls will be the speakers from out of the city. They will speak about the various activities of the Y. W. in China and of the need for a suc cessful Grace Coppock drive. Miss Violet Chan, a student at this school and T. W. Elliott, who has mrnt twentv vears as a secretary in China will be the special guesU for this weeK. Hnnnrln? Miss Gwinn and Miss Hsia there will be a tea on Mon day afternoon at 3:30 to 4:30 o'clock, at Ellen Smith hall. All imiversitv women are invited to attend this tea. During this time they will have the opportunity to become acquaintea witn me visi tors. Following- the social tea there will be a mass meeting for the up perclass commission, vesper choir. publicity, vesper, ana memoersiup staffs. On Tuesday at vespers, Mr. Elliott and Miss Gwinn will speak. The V W of arricultural col lege will have as their speaker at convocation on Tuesday, Miss Gwinn and during the afternoon Miss Gwinn and Miss Chan will be the special guests at a tea given at the home economics panors. Mr Kliiott will make his last appearance on Wednesday at the World Forum luncheon. A special luncheon has been planned for this time and it will take place at 12 o'clock at the Annex cafe. Sophomore commissions, inter church, racial and social staffs I Unattainable girl Dmrllag of her dfcl mi: "V.V.V. ... . . ' f it Hndaom, dashing mollionaira! Equal ly unattainable! But wait! You'll have the time of your life watching her put blm thru the pacea making him lortret hla mil lion In the mad race to win her! DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS in United Artiste' Racy Comedy Koenanoe "Reaching for th? Moon' .with BEBE DANIELS - JackMuIhall Claud Alliater Edward .Everett Hortou Added Subjects TREE SAP" "MOVIE MEMORIES" "PATHE NEWS- CHRISTINE CARLSON. chosen president of W. A. A. st the They Passed the Candy and Cigars Virginia Guthrie, Central City, Sigma Kappa, and Russell Paine, Edison, Delta Sigma Phi. Mildred Stannard, Ithaca, S. D., Sigma Kappa, and Clyde Yost, Billings, Mont, Delta Sigma Phi. Mary Jane Pinkerton, Omaha, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Howard Cogswell, Alliance Delta Tau Delta. will meet together on Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock and at this time these staffs will have the work of China's Y. W. presented to them. The freshmen will meet in the evening and as their speak ers they will have Miss Chan and Miss Gwinn. The money that is obtained from this drive goes to pay the salary of Miss Ting Shu Ching, general secretary of the Y. W. C. A. in China. For seventeen years Ne braska has been interested in this work and as there is more need of help than in previous years it is hoped for a successful drive. All university women are invited to attend any of the meetings. RAY RAMSAY TO ADDRESS JUNIOR CLASS TUESDAY (Continued from Page 1.) the university had paid him for traveling expenses. Ramsay re plied that he would give $500 and asked Jensen how much he would give. Jensen answered that he had twenty questions to ask before he would give anything. Ramsay then requested that Jensen present his questions "in the usual mimeo graphed form." Ramsay said yes terday that he has seen nothing of the questions as yet. Juniors Important. Robert Kelly, president of the Student council, in addressing a Joint meeting of the three campus political factions Thursday night stressed the importance of the Ju niors in the union drive. He said that the seniors are important be cause they will be alumni next year when the actual union build ing drive gets under way, but that it must be remembered that the present Juniors will be seniors next year and that upon them will fall the actual work of pushing the project. BURNETT TO ADDRESS COSMOPOLITAN CLUB Chancellor E. A. Burnett will address the Cosmopolitan club on Friday. March 3 at 8 o'clock in room 203 of the Temple building. The chancellor's address will be followed by an open forum. A number of musical selections will be given by representatives of var ious nationalities. Oh, Is Shad So Fishermen report that the her ring shoals have now moved to their winter grounds. The last roes of summer. lie thinks he's got her number, fyttut she's got his! ao- NOTE: Effective Monday. Theater Opens 1 O'Clock! AU Week HOUSE OF HITS" ORGANIZATIONS li ir Li Pourteny f Th Jmimal. MARJORIE PETERSON. University of Nebraska. Her FARM ANNUAUS PUNNED 'Faijm Op Spotlight' Will Be Put Out by Students in Short Course. If present plans are successful, the farm operator's short course students at the agricultural col lege will publish another edition of their newspaper in printed form within the next two weeks. Mer ton Kuhr of Blair, editor, and George Round, Jr., who instructed the boys in news writing are con ferring with printing establish ments to get their price on the sheet and will know definitely by the end of the week whether the paper will be published. It is the plan of Round and Kuhr to publish a four page sheet in which the pictures of the bas ketball team, graduating class, and class officers would be re produced. The paper would serve as an annual for the 100 farm boys who conclude their course at the college the latter part of this month. The first issue of the farm oper ator's newspaper, "The Farm Op Spotlight," appeared on the agri cultural college campus several weeks ago in mimeographed form. Maurice Kramer or Aurora is the managing editor of the farm boys' paper. HILDA BURKE, NEDDA OP I PAGLIACCL HAS HAD PHENOMENAL RISE AS SOPRANO. (Continued from Page 1.1 However, when she was sixteen, he announced to her she roust not take piano lessons from him any more. Much as it cost him to lose his favorite pupil, he said be could no longer give her piano lessons with a clear conscience, after he had discovered it was her voice that would make her career. Until that time, she had sung in children's choirs without realizing she might have a voice some day. She now left the old German who had been her teacher, and went to a vocal instructor. Her progress was rapid, so that before many years had passed she was winning a contest for the privilege of ap pearing as soloist with the Balti more symphoiryi with Rosa Raisa and Charles Hackett sitting as Judges. At that time Mme. Raisa predicted Miss Burke would soon be with the Chicago company. A year later she entered con tests of the National Federation of Music clubs, as Marylands' repre sentative, and shared the first prize with one other singer. In 1328 came the contest that led directly to the fulfillment of Rosa Raisa's prophecy. This was the contest of the Julliard founda tion of New York, which requested all large musical institutions to send one pupil each ico take part. The five winners were to have one or two years of training in Dres den, with appearances there. Misa Burke was one of (the five win ners. She had never failed in any fnntooi sh pntpred: and now a higher honor was in store for her. A part of the Jumara prize wnicn cVio hurt wnn ru an audition be fore Herbert M. Johnson of the Chicago Civic Opera company. She sang lor mm me x-aue, rate Min Din" from "La Forma del Destino," with which she had suc ceeded before. After the audition, she was told a contract would be given her with the Chicago Civic Opera company. She immediately declinea tne resi oi me juiimru prize. Miss Burke made her debut In November, 1928, in the role of Aida, four other parte being ruiea by Americans, Coe Glade, Charles Marshall, Robert Ringling and Chase Baromeo. In addition to her Nedda in which she will be heard by Uni versity of Nebraska students, her other roles include Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni." Elsa in "Lo hengrin" and Micaela in "Car men. With Miss Burke on the opera program at the coliseum will be Claudia Muzio, Richard Bonelli, Antonio Cortis, Constance Eber hart, Charles Marshall, Giuseppe Cavadore, Desire Defrere and Mario Florella. DANCE AT Starlit Arcade 8 Miles South on 14th Sunday Night with HAROLD JONES . and His Brown Skins or Wednesday Night with CHARLES CHARLESTON One of the Largest and Best Floors in the State II Entrants May Choose From Seven Subjects for Essays. W. E. Boeing, chairman of the board of United Aircraft and Transport corporation, and of the various Roolne aeronautical manu facturing and operating companies, has announced the second annual W. E. Boeing scholarship contest. uniranu are given uicir cnoice oi even subjects on which to write a 2,000 word essay. Essays are due not later than midnight, May 1, 1931. Anv undergraduate student is eligible. Each student will be ask d to nresent from the nresident or dean of hid college a letter stat ing that the candidate nas main tained a scholastic standing suffi ciently high to classify him in the upper one-third of his class during the entire period of his college or university enrollment. The essay subjects as announced are: Trends of Development in Air Transportation; Progress of Safety in Aviation; Importance of Proper Co-ordination of Federal and State Laws Governing Air Transporta tion, and Radio as an Aid to Avia tion. The first award is a scholar ship for a ground and flying course. C W'illard Sharp, of the Univer sitv of Nebraska, won third prize in this contest last year. Further information on tne suDjeci can m obtained from Dean O. J. Ferguson of the engineering college. IOWA UNION, KNOWN AS HEARTHSTONE OF OLD GOLD.' IS CRADLE OF SPIRIT. (Continued from Page 1.) sons the same year. Large social gatherings of student groups, fac ulty groups, and state organiza tions added 10,000 more to the to tal number who used the buildings. The building itself is a structure of beautiful white stone, overlook ing the Iowa river. It is sur rounded by well kept lawns. An enclosed porch, running around the structure, serves as a lounpe when parties are in progress in the main hall. A soda grill, cafeteria and cafe service, and reading room provide for students' comfort. Two Units Completed. Altho only two units of the building have been completed, un numbered facilities are offered. The large lounge, pictured above, which is 90 by 136 feet, is used for young men to come in contact with other young men, for young women to visit with young men, for students to entertain parents, and for concerts, dramatic read ings, vespers, bsnquets, large par ties and reception rooms. It also serves as headquarters for return ing alumni. A women's lounge in the build ing is used for teas, receptions and group meetings. Overlooking the river is the large sun porch, used for teas and parties. The porch will accommodate 100 couples. No charge is made for its use by uni versity organizations. Hat Religion Unit. A carefully selected list of li brary books covers a large variety of subjects. In addition, a good selection of magazines and news papers is offered to students free of charre. Some of the most valu- I able floor space in the two units has been devoted to religious worn with the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. organizations having large and complete offices. Two private dining rooms are available for group meetings at meal time. There is no charge ex cept for the meal. A grill is op erated in addition to a caretena. where meals are available every day in the week. Special grill serv ice is offered during parties. Table d'hote dinners are served on Sun days. Committee rooms are available. They accomodate from six to thir ty persons. Faculty members have rooms on the second and third floors, in charge of members of men's and women's faculty clubs. Other facilities include women's rest roms, men's and women's coat rooms, and general meeting places. In all, some twenty activities are housed in the building. It will pro vide for forty-four distinct activi ties when completed. Begun In 1919. Plans for the Iowa Memorial Greatest Musical Event THE POPULAR DOUBLE PROGRAM CAALLEEIA i i i - LI and I PAGLIACCII Evening of Tuesday, March 17 PIE MILLION DOLLAR carsvan of the Chicago Civic Opera company, consisting of two apecial trains comes to Lincoln direct from Portland, Ore- , i i i ncri w.nr.l.i i rm 1 1 1 fl i Tl .T a Eon, Bringing k cuuiiittii.v ui w . . i 1 HW.v.A-.m .h,,Mii and pnrcreoue scenery. ON SALE MONDAY GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS priced at One Dollar will bo on sale Monday. March 8, at the College Boole 3tore and at the Student Activities office, coliseum, une number of dollar seats is limited and students are advised to buy early. BEAT SCALE-41, r5 (cr8)ll!JiliJJjiXi union were first discussed In 1919, and a campaign to raise $1,000,000 for a building was started that fall among alumni, student and friends of the school. Year after year a group of students went to newcomers to the university for subscriptions. The drive waa car ried on among alumni and friends of the university. By 1924, nearly $600,000 had been pledged, and the board of trustees let the contract fui Uiill out uuruitf September. The unit waa dedicated in 1926. Each year students kept adding to the sum pledged. In April, 1926. the contract for the second unit waa let. It was finished in March 1927. The next unit will be one to house a university theater. Is Real Home. According to Iowa officials, the building has provided a home for the university family. In addition, it offers a pleasant environment for parents to visit sons and daughters. One of its greatest ad vantages, according to an official bulletin of the building, is that it provides a wholesome atmosphere where young men and women may come together, and a hearth stone for returning alumni. The cultural influence of the building also is pointed to by uni versity heads. This is added to by wholesome recreation. Develops Spirit. Development of community spir it, the passing on of ideals of past and present generations to future students, housing of extra curricu lar activities, development of stu dent. thru srwial rnnt-t mnA im provement of social life in general on the campus are other advan tages which the Iowa bulldinc has brought. . . . The building serves the highest interests of the university by drawing together in a common fel lowship the students and faculties of the various colleges," a book let on the building concludes. OPERA TICKETS TO BE ON SALE MONDAY (Continued from Page 1.) of tickets in this section will be sold, Selleck states. Tickets will be on sale at the College book store and at the stu dent activities office in the coli seum. Opportunity for students to pur chase the better tickets at reduced prices will be closed this week Sel leck declared Saturday as he urged student groups to make their reservations immediately. ALICE STORMS TO GIVE TALES HERE (Continued from Page 1.) trated lecture of French life, the time and place of which will be announced later. She may also speak to French students at the university. Miss Storms is coming here un der the auspices of Omicron Nu, Phi Upsilon Omicron and the Horns Economics club. She is vis iting a number of American col leges and universities while on her lecture tour. Miss Morton became acquainted with Miss Storms while abroad last summer. Your Drug Store It won't be lone now "till Spring. ? Stop at our Soda Fountain ' on the way. 4 WHITMAN CHOCOLATES j GILLAN'S CANDIES The Owl Pharmacy I 143 No. 14 . P Sta. Phone B1068 J PEP! JOY! SNAP! ... at the Dances every Sat urday and Sunday night held at the PLA-MOR. 12 O'clock ends the perfect evening of danr.icg to a RED HOT band. 5 Miles West on "O" i BKfltaHBiS W, $3, 4. 6. J ... i Adm. 25c. Dancing Free.