II A. KAN THE WEATHEU Partly Cloudy ." U.1 Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska NEBRAS I tlE DAILY VOL. XXXIII NO. 113. UST DM OF YEAR IS Beth Langford and Conaway Have Leads in 'The Curtain Rises.' SCENE LAID IN AUSTRIA Players to Present Special Matinee on Saturday Afternoon. With Beth Langford and Clifton Conaway in the leading roles, the University Players presented the opening perform ance of the year's final produc tion, B. M. Kayes "The Cur tain Rises'," at the Temple theater Monday night. This comedy hit will run thru the week, with the final production being: staged Sat urday evening. A special matinee will be presented Saturday after noon. , . The scene of the entire play Is laid in the historic Austrian city, Vienna, known as the center of Europe's theatrical worldjftBd as one of the cultural cenlefToTthe world. The plot is centered around & stage-struck young woman, Elsa Karling, who fears she is on the verge of being an old maid, and Jet? out to .vin WUhelm Meis slnger, matinee idol of the contin cnt She sets out to engage him as her dramatic teacher, but to her dismay Meisslnger spurns her of fer of high wages, and gives the 1ob of instruction to Franz Kern mann. Beth Langford P"forrned in the role of Elsa Karling, Clifton Conawav appeared as Franz Kern SZT aVMelvin Fielder played the part of Meisslnger, the great actor. Plot Develops Rapidly. The plot develops rapidly from the time when Fraulein Karling a, wilting flower, begins to learn the dramatic art from Kernmann. She learns rapidly, finds herself in a quandary as to whether or not she loves her instructor, who still retains the dream of Mcis--slnger as a lover. At the end of three months in struction, Elsa Karling's friend, Thona Landorf (Blanche Carr). declares that Elsa has developed into a fine actress, and quick to follow in stating this opinion are Thona's sweetheart. Rudolf Dort nund (Armand Hunter); Arny Zander (Irving Hill); and Poldl (Marjorie Filley). Elsa s maid. In an emergency, the cast mem ber and understudy being 11, the theatrical company begs Elsa to Uke the part of Juliet opposite Meisslnger as Romeo. She com plies with the request after much urging performs brilliantly, and receives abundant popular praise In that play she approaches the conclusion that she doesn't love Meisslnger. The next day she definitely determines that Kern mann is her true love, and they declare their mutual affection Miss Alice Howell is director of this weeks preformance. The cast for this weekTTpcr formance is as follows: WHlwlm Meiwlnger Beth "langford KIm Karllnu c.)ff conaway Krani Kermann. irmand Hunter Rudolf Dortmund branch Carr Thonda Landorf lrv)ng Hill rny Zander .'.Mtrjorl Filley Polat TODAY'S NEWS Briefly Reviewed m A .jMUfetrfitnr HUPh S Johnson, yesterday met with dele gates of the automobile industry, Si an effort to iron out difficul ties between automobile manufac turers and their laborers. The meeting took place in New York City. The delegates had been con ferring for five hours in a secret session to bring peace to the trou bled waters. If the conference fails tomorrow the industry will be paralyzed when 250,000 workers are scneauiea 10 sirmc. Declaring that the persons of the country's underworld are more heavily armed than the combined army and navy, United States Attorney General Horner S. Cummlngs, issued a rathe startling statement Monday. Hit statement came during an ap pearance before the senate judi ciary committee dealing with anti-gangster and anti-racket-erring bills. Samuel Insull" isstill in trouble. Reports recently Indicate that he is still at large, but has expressed fears of being kidnaped in Medi terranean waters, and by Ameri can gangsters at that. He has asked Influential friends in this country to seek aid from the pres ident. " Governor Bryan has sent his message to Secretary Ickes. His message indicated that he is nearing an agreement on the Co lumbus and Sutherland water projects. He has asked that the agreement between himself and Ickes be changed somewhat, however. The house yesterday approved rhilippme independence to come (Continued on Page 3.) OPENED MOHD AY EVENING SCHOONER SALES PASS 200 Literary Magazine Salesmen Schedule Pep Meeting For Wednesday. Checkup Monday afternoon showed that a total of 201 sub scriptions to the Prairie Schooner had been sold to date. Frances Kalln continues to be high sales man and the team headed by Bash Perkins is still in the lead. A pep meeting of the salesmen has been scheduled for 4:30 Wed nesday in Ellen Smith Hall. Of ficials of the drive are planning to secure a speaker and, arrange ments for closing the campaign will be completed. LAFARGE DECLARES STATES CAPITOL IS Architects Are Escaping the Renaissance - Influence Asserts Speaker. Declaring the Nebraska state capitol the greatest triumph in American architecture, C. Grant LaFarge, New York architect, ad dressed a capacity audience in So cial Science auditorium yester day. "I differ with those," affirmed Mr. LaFarge, "who claim that American architects are conserva tive and bound over and influenced by tradition and former styles in architecture, indicating as proof the Nebraska state capitol." Mr. LaFarge, designer of many famous buildines. indicated im portant points In the development or me moaernisuc moae to me architectural and fine art students who gathered to hear him. With the use of selected slides of famous modern dwellings, office buildings and schools, the development of the modern style was forcifully emphasized. He declared that American architects are gradually escaping from the influence of the Renaissance style. The speaker, the son of the late John LaFarge, celebrated mural painter and stained glass designer, is sponsored by the American In stitute of Architects and has vis ited the larger universities of the eastern" and western coast. ; His son Oliver II, has written several novels including the Pulitzer prize winner, "Laughing Boy." Mr. LaFarge thoroly inspected the cap itol which impressed him deeply. SIXTH ANNUAL WELL TO 21 Chancellor E. A. Burnett to Deliver Address of Welcome. Members of Nebraska Well Drillers' association from Ne braska, Kansas and western Iowa will convene in Nebraska hall for the sixth annual short course and convention on Wednesday and Thursday, March 21 and 22. A number of representatives from well drilling supply houses will also be present. The two day program that has been planned for the members of the association will be opened Wednesday morning by the ad dress of welcome by Chancellor E. A. Burnett. Andrew Olson, president of the association, will deliver the response. Short ta.ks, discussions and re ports coupled with luncheons and several exhibits in Nebraska hall constitute the major part of the program. A novel and interesting portion of the program will be the taking of still and motion pictures of the meeting at 11 a. m. Wednes day. A lunch at 3 p. m. Thursday afternoon following the election of officers will close the convention. CORN COBS TO PLAN SPRING INITIATION Final Arrangements Will Be Made at Meeting on Thursday. Final arrangements for initia-a.-.n cil new members into Corn Cobs, men's pep organization, will be made at a meeting of the group in the Temple Thursday evening at 7:30. initiation win do neiu vu Thursday, March 29, according to Henry Kosman, president of the organization. All fraternities as well as barb msmWi must have the names of their pledges in no later than - . - w i , : : v.: i .' ... Thursday in oraer ubi eiigiiMuiy of all candidates may be checked. Ordinary eligibility rules apply. Fraternities not having a man initiated at the sprjng ceremonies will automatically forfeit their right to representation in the or ganization next year, Kosman de clared. ' i Further discussion of the pep club's spring party to be held Ap ril 13, will also be held Thursday. DRILLERS CONCLAVE MARCH LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH REVISIONS MADE IN POINT SYSTEM BY AM BOARD Members of Barb League to Receive One; Leaders Get Two. NONE FOR H0N0RARIES Junior and Senior Women Are Not Allowed More Than Fifteen. Several revisions have been made in the point system for women it was announced Mon day by the A. W. S. board. Members of the board believed the changes, which were made according to the amount of work connected -with the varta-us offices, were in order since the rules had not been gone over for some time and so did not adequately meet the requirements. The new system provides for members of the Barb League, re cently organized by the A. W. S. board, to receive 1 point, while group leaders of the association will receive 2 points. Members of the freshman A; W. S. activities group will hereafter receive 1 point instead of 2 as was previously the case. Instead of 3 roint w form erly, heads of sport clubs spon sored by W. A. A. will receive oniy 2 points. Nine for Tassel Head. The office of president of Tas sel's now carries 9 points with it instead of 8, while the League of Women Voters has been removed from the list since it no longer ex ists. The chairman of the judiciary committee in the student council (Continued on Page 2.) AFFILiAWIl SIGMA KAPPA, SIGMA Groups Announce Completion Of Arrangements for Immediate Union. The second . fraternity disap peared from the campus this year when it was officially announced Monday that members of Sigma Phi Sigma had affiliated them selves with Phi Sigma Kappa, with the former immediately taking up residence in the Phi Sigma Kappa chapter house. Affiliation came as a result of negotiations which had been car ried on between officers and alumni of the two groups for some time. Officers indicated that they believed the affiliation was an other forward step in fraternity life on the university campus. Sigma Phi Sigma was organized on the campus in 1928 when a lo cal fraternity Kappa Rho Sigma was taken into the national or ganization. Officers of the two affiliating groups were: Sigma Phi Sigma: Lamoine Bible, president; Henry Larsen,. custodian: Phi Sigma Kappa Willard Humpal, president, and Joe Nelson, steward. The first such move was taken this year when the local chapter of Delta Chi merged with Sigma Phi Epsilon. TO HEAR DR. E. B. BROOKS Dr. Harold Manter Guest of - Honor at Monthly Banquet. Dr. E. B. Brooks, Lincoln phy sician, will address the regular monthly Nu-Med banquet to be held at the Grand Hotel, next Wednesday evening at 6:15. Dr. Brooks will talk on "Costs of Med ical Care." Dr. Harold Manter, associate professor of Zoology, who recently returned from a scientific expedi tion to the south seas, will be a guest of honor at the banquet H. Ivan Stearns, president of the Nu-Med society, urges all pre medic members of the Boclety to attend the affair. "The subject of Dr. Brooks' talk is not only inter esting." Stearns stated, "but is of vital importance to students who Intend to make the field of medi cine their profession." KOCH PUSSEXPERIMEKTS Professor Will Aid Revision At Beatrice in Social Science Studies. Dr. H. C Koch of the university Teachers college faculty is aiding in the reorganization of the social sciences studied at Beatrice high school. Planning the experiment in study and teaching of the sub jects to run over two or more years. Dr. Koch is acting as ad viser and consultant to the instruc-. tors and superintendent of the school, 4 Rig Sister Board's Carnival Features One Cent Articles A fortune teller, a fish pond, a atage show, dancing, clowns these are only a tew of the attrac tions to lie presented at the Big Sister Board penny carnival which will be held Saturday afternoon, March 24, from 2 until 5:30 o'clock in the Armory. Candy and balloons will also be available and everything is one cent. The carnival was so sue seccful last year that it is hoped it will be established as a tradi tion at the university. Lucille Relllv is general chair man, and Anne Pickett is publicity chairman for the affair. E L E Aldcn-G.- Alley to Address University Groups Wednesday. IS SPONSORED BY CLUB Frequent Trips to Germany GTve'"Him First Hand Information. Ahlen G. Alley will address university and Nebraska Wcs leyan groups on "What Is Happening: in Kurope and What it Means to America" when he appears before the League of Nations association at the Y. W. C. A. and before the Methodist students Wednesday, March 21. Authority on Europe. Mr. Alley is a well Known stu dent and speaker on foreign at fairs and comes as an authority on the subject, having been for many years professor of history at Dana college in New Jersey. His travels have csrried him fre quently to Europe where he has attended sessions of the League of Nations. . His talk will follow a dinner at UJe "Y.; W.--Tti'lCh "is 6pen to the public. At the Grand hotel at noon Wednesday, Mr. Alley will speak to the International Relations club who secured him for their fourth reguar meeting. Mr. Alley's frequent trips to Germany have acquainted him with the various political aspects of the Hitler regime, and his visits to the other European countries have made him familiar with the important problems facing these nations. The International Relations club secured the speaker through the Y. M. C. A. and, according to Harry E. Terrell, regional secre tary, he is one of the foremost lec turers in t his country on interna tional problems. LH. Former Fine Arts Professor Traces Trends of Art Modernism. Tracing the trends of modernism in art, Paul H. Grumman a ad dressed an open meeting of the Ne braska Art association at Morrill hall Sunday. Mr. Grummann spoke particularly concerning the exhibit of contemporary American paintings which the association sponsored. The speaker, author of several articles, books and translations, is well known by Lincoln citizens thru his connection for thirty-one years with the university as pro fessor of literature and director of the school of fine arts. Since 1931 Mr. Grummann has served as di rector of the Joslyn memorial in Omaha. The Nebraska Art association will hold an exhibit for two weeks on "Two Centuries of American Paintings" which will contain the work of many famous artists of the past and present century. This policy departs from tne society s accustomed single exhibit season, the paintings to appear immedi ately following the close of the contemporary exhibit. Raid Eagle Latest Gift To University Museum From the taxidermist to Morrill hall and the university museum has been sent a bald eagle shot near Bassett by Cecil McCullough. Not mounted, the eagle is made up into what is known to museum workers as study-skin. It will be placed in the case with the other birds of prey. Mrs. Rice to Speak Before Church Club Mrs. Merle Thomas Rice, who has for several years been a mis sionary in India, will speak at the meeting of the ChOrch Relations club Wednesday at 5 o'clock In Ellen Smith hall. Her topic will be "Hinduism and the Religion of India," FOR N AFFAIRS AUTHORITY DISCUSS UROPE 20. 1931. REVISED RUSHING RULES ACCEPTED BY PANHELLENIG Three Changes Are Made in Council's Constitution At Meeting. NEW IDEAS ON PLEDGING Matter of Summer Rushing Left by Group Until Later Date. In an effort to remove all rules in connection with rush ing and the constitution which have become obsolete the by laws committee of the Panhel lenic council submitted a list of revised rules to the council at a special meeting held in Ellen Smith hall Monday at 5 o'clock. All of these revised rules were ac cepted. Three changes were made in the constitution. The title of vice chairman was changed to presi dent of the panhellenic council be cause It was felt that this title was more representative of the duties of the officer. The definition of rush party was revised to read as follows: Any mixed gathering is a rush party where four or more mpmbprs of a single sorority are present New Ideas in Pledging. The matter of pledging was given much attention by the com mittee and several new ideas in re gard to pledging were brought in Pan hellenic considers a girl pledged whenever a group pins its ribbons on her or by any similar device announces to the campus her preference for the group. Other rules adopted were as fol lows: 1. Rushing will begin the week before school starts and the preferential party will take place (Continued on Page 2.) TO I May Queen, Attendant Will Also Be Chosen at Election. Members of Mortar Board will be in charge of the polls on both the downtown and agriculture col lege campus on Wednesday, March 21, when senior women vote for Mortar Board candidates and with junior women select the May Queen and her Maid of Honor. The voting place on agricultural campus will be Ag hall while bal loting on the downtown campus will take place at Ellen Smith hall. Polls will be open from 9 to 5 o'clock. Committee Counts Votes. Students voting for candidates for senior women's honorary soci ety must designate not less than five nor more than twenty choices or her ballot will not be accepted. Votes will be counted by the fac ulty advisory committee of Mortar Board and the 30 junior women who receive the highest number of votes will be considered for mem bership by present members of the organization. Membership, which rests upon scholarship, service, and leader ship, fluctuates between 6 and 20. Lists of senior women eligible for May Queen will be posted in both balloting places. The candi date receiving the highest number of votes will be queen while the person who receives the next high est number will become maid of honor. Last year's May Queen was Delores Deadman, Fairbury, while the Maid of Honor was Margaret Upson from Odell. FIRST PLACE WINNER 'Hall of Elephants' Best Panorama Picture in National Contest. "The Hall of Elephants," a photograph by Professor A. L. Lughn, assistant professor of geology, was a first prize winner in a photography contest sponsored by the E. . Leitz & Co., re cently. The photograph took first place in the panorama division of the contest and was a view of the Hall of Elephants in Morrill hall. There were fourteen classifica tions of photographs entered in the contest by amateur photog raphers over the - entire North America. The contest was held for the purpose of securing photo graphs to be used in tiie future ad vertising literature of the com pany. Professor Lughn's " winning photograph was composed of seven pictures made into a single view of tn"e museum hall. It was taken with a Leica camera and ap peared in the latest number of Leica Photography, a periodical is sued by the E. Leitz & Co. ANOTHER STAMP AUCTION Club Schedules Second Sale For Thursday Evening Meeting. Several matters of importance to stamp collectors will be dis cussed at the next regular meeting of the University Stamp club, which will be held Thursday evening, in Social Sciences 312 at 7:30 p. m. Another auction sale of mint and used U. S. and foreign stamps will be held. All men and women faculty members, students and university employes are invited to attend, take part in the discussions, and bring any stamps they may wish to put up for sale at the auction. WILL PLAY BEFORE Twenty-First Assembly Will Be Held in Temple Wednesday. Twenty-first convocation to be given by the school of music will be a senior recital by Garnette Mayhew, cello student with Miss Bettie Kabriskie, Wednesday aft ernoon, March 21, at the Temple theater. The program is as follows: Ari ose, by Bach; Sonata in G Major, Allegro, Grave, Vivace, by Sam martini; Concerto in D Major, Adagio, Romanze Allegro by Mo zart; Meditation by Squire; Lulla by, by Scott; Piece en forme de Habanera, by Ravel; and Guitarre, by Moszkowski. Reba Jones will present a junior recital with Henrietta Sanderson on Thursday afternoon, March 22, at 3 o'clock at the Temple. Miss Jones is a student with Lura Schuler Smith and Miss Sanderson is a student with Maude Fender Gutzmer. Program which they will pre sent, accompanied by Marian Stamp, is as follows: Prelude and Furue in F Sham Maior. bv Bach: and Sonata in E Flat Major, and Alleero. bv Beethoven, riven bv Miss Jones: Kennst du das Land, by Beethoven; Wie Meiodien zient es mir, Meine Liebe 1st grun, by Rmhms. sune- bv Miss Sanderson; Prelude, A minor by Debussy; Ro mance, snarp major Dy acnu mann: and Waltz. "A Flat Maior, op. 42, by Chopin, sung by Miss .Tones; LandscaDe and A Feast of the Lanterns by Griffes; The Rev elation by Scott; Moon-Marketing by weaver; ana tJira feongs, Dy Piirrftn. suns- bv Miss Sanderson. Ornld O. Mott. tenor, a student with Mary Hall Thomas, win oe presented m a recital sunaay ait ernnon March 25. at 3 o'clock at the Agricultural College activities building. Marian vvuuamson win accompany him on the piano, and Eunice Bingnam, vionnisi. win tilav. The following program will be given: Mendelssohn: Rec. Ye peo- pie, rend your neares. Aria, n with all your Hearts, from Eli' iah:" Brahms. Wiee-eenlied ; Dvor ak, Als die aite Mutter; scnuoen, Serenade f violin oblieato); Toselli, Rempianto; Thomas, Romance (Pure as a Bud or spring) rrom "Mignon:" Speaks, Morning; Kountz, The Sleigh; Mana-Zucca, I Love Life. ORCHESTRA APPEARS AT FINAL CONCERT OF Program of Five Groups Is Played Under Direction Of Steckelberg. Last concert of the winter sea son was presented by the univer sity concert orchestra at the coli seum Sunday. A crowd estimated at more than 2.500 persons heard the concert which was under the direction of Carl Steckelberg. The concert was the climax of the season for the orchestra, which already had appeared in other towns in the state. The orchestra played a program made up of five groups. A fa vorite with ihe audience was the Tschaikowsky "Sixth Symphony" (Pathetique) allegro con grazie, allegro molto vivace, adagio la mentoso (finale); Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue. At the piano, Gene Ellsworth and Wilgus Eber ly; Tschaikowsky, Valse des Fleurs; Rimsky-Korsakow, Dance des Bouffons (Dance of the Clowns I. KIRSCH TOJHOW SLIDES Sigma Gamma Epsilon Will . Hold Open House in Morrill Hall. Dwight Kirscb, chairman of the department of fine arts, will show slides of the World's Fair in nat ural colors at an open house, spon sored by Sigma Gamma Epsilon. geology honorary, to be held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the Merrill HaU auditorium. - Ushers will be present to escort the public through the building. Everyone is invited and Keith Rathurn, president of Sigma Gamma ' Epsilon. is in charge ' of the arrangements. ... . PRICE 5 CENTS. PHI BETA KAPPA, T Societies to Reveal Names In Joint Convocation At 11 O'clock. SCHOLARSHIP IS BASIS Program in Temple Theater Features Short Talks, Music Numbers. New members of Phi lleU Kappa and Sigma Xi will be announced this morninp at eleven o'clock. In u joint con vocation of the two societies in the Temple theatre secretaries of the organizations will reveal their .names at - the-close f - the morning meeting. Prof. H. J. Kesner and Prof. T. A. Kiesselbach, presidents of the two groups will precede announce ment of the new honorees with brief remarks. The custom of recognizing scholastic achievement in joint session was established last year by Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa. Play Dvorak's Compositions. Emanuel Wisiinow. Dorothy Hol comb, Lee Hemingway, Bettie Zabriskie, and Ernest Harrison will feature two of Dvorak's com positions during the morning's program. Selections to Phi Beta Kappa are made on a basis of scholasticV standing. Only those in the upper one-seventh of students who have completed Arts and Science group requirements are eligible for mem bership. Rarely is the scholastia average of that group below 88. Emphasis on Research. Sigma Xi memberships are not based entirely on scholastic attain .s?entT special- emphasis being placed upon interest in scientific research. Neither is membership confined to college students. Two divisions provide for active mem bers, those who have gaduated, and associate members, under graduate students. Candidates for membership in Sigma Xi must have written rec ommendations from three mem bers of the honorary and must show promise in two scientific de partments. To become active members undergraduates must have completed valuable research work. A list of students to be honored this morning will not be available until after the eleven o'clock con vocation. T IS SET FOR MARCH 25 Annual Event Is Sponsored By Student Church Leagues. The Ag college Easter break fast, a tradition on the Ag campus, has been announced for Sunday morning, March 25. The breakfast will be served promptly at 8.00 a. m. and will be followed by a program, according to the an nouncement. An annual event on Ag campus, the Easter breakfast is sponsored by the student leauges at the War ren and Epworth Methodist churches. Milan Austin, graduate student, has charge of the pro gram for the morning and Irene Leech, Ag sophomore, is chairman of the committee in charge of the menue. The speaker for the Sunday morning breakfast will be Dr. Roy Spooner, superindentdent of the Lincoln district Methodist churches, Chairman Austin has an nounced. Ward Bauder. Ag jun ior, will be master of ceremonies. The attendence at these annual pre-Easter gatherings has been growing every year, members of the committee say. Last year nearly 125 students attended, and the committee this year expects to serve 150. The breakfast and program, they say, last a little more than an hour. . . . from Paris . . . from f ifll , Avenue . . . from eastern campi . . . from the fashion centers of" Lincoln ... all in the Sprwj Fashion Edition of the Daily Nebraskan ... out tomorrow! IMA HONOR STUDENTS DAY