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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1938'
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Dave Haun's
Band Plays
Friday Night
Fred Gund, Nan Reilly
Win Bridge Tourney
At Student Union
Friday night dancers will
hear again the music of Dave
Haun and his band in the sixth
dance of the summer session in
the Student Union ballroom.
Large crowds of students con
tinue to attest to their prefer
ence for this type of entertain
ment, according to Miss Marian
Steele, Student Union social di
rector. The price as usual will
be 10 cents, with identification
card necessary.
Saturday afternoon a matinee
dance is scheduled from 3:30 to
5:30 in the ballroom, with no
admission charge. An hour
dance has also been arranged
for next Wednesday afternoon
from 5 to 6.
Winners of the bridge tour
nament, played off Monday
night, were Fred Gund, men's
champion and Nan Reilly
women's champion. Semi-finals
in the combined men's and wo
men's checker tournament were
played off Tuesday, with Her
bert Owen defeating Russell
Henderson to meet Elsie Hoat
son in the finals.
Chess semi-finals saw Miles
Eioe defeating S. B. Shively
and E. H. Suhr winning over J.
L. Fowler for places in the finai
round.
On July 21 a novel demon
stration with liquid air will be
given by Walter Everman, who
is here during the summer and
who in the winter travels to
different sections demonstrat
ing unusual and difficult feats
with this substance.
Everman will freeze flowers
with liquid air, which is 300 de
grees below zero and which will
freeze kerosene so that it may
be lighted as a candle. He will
take some of it into his mouth.
He will explain how a steam
engine Li run by the evapora
tion of the liquid. A short sub
ject of Everman and his experi
ments was made for a recent
, iasue of Popular Science.
Five States Send
Summer Students
To Teachers High
Checking over the teachers
college high school summer en
rollment this year. Dr. W. H.
Morton, principal, found that
high school students have ma
triculated from five other
states E n t e r p r i s,e, Kan. ;
Hluominglon, Ind.; Faielmul.l,
Minn.; Vermillion. S. Dak., and
Cleveland. Ohio. This summer's
registration figure is one of the
Urgent in history, there being
130 students this year as com
pared with 12i in 1937.
In addition to Htudents from
Lincoln and the five out-of-state
towns, several Nebraska
communities are al.j repre
sented Omaha, Jackson. Dun
bar. Auburn. Milligan and
Waverly. Dr. Morton also an
nounced that during the regu
lar fall term teachers college
high school can accommodate
only 200 students and that he
has already received 180 ap
plications. Dr. Mclntyre To Co
To Medical Meet
in Switzerland
Dr. A. R. Mclntyre, professor
1 pharmacology at the medirtal
allege, is abroad this summer
nspecting various scientific lab
oratories and hospitals in Eng
tnd and the continent. He will
ppear on the program of the
nternatlonal congress for physi
ology sad medicine In Zurich,
JwlUerland, August 14-19, dla
usstng his recent research with
Jtamln B and insulin.
Miss Covington,
Please on Play
Continuing its summer the
ater season last night, the
speech department offered an
other evening of four one-act
play-i before a large audience in
the Studio theater. Abandoning
the arena stage used for last
week's program, production re
verted to the more conventional
end-of-the-room platform.
Most unusual, most dramatic,
and on the whole most effective
of the plays on the program
was "His Wife" featuring Mar
jorie Corrington and Armand
Hunter. The old story of the
nagging wife appeared in a
fresh presentation here in that
the audience never saw any
thing of Mr. Hunter except his
hand thru the curtains. As the
sole occupant of the stage, Miss
Corrington gave a very able
portrayal of the wife whose un
fortunate habit finally drives
her husband to his death.
Incidentally, Miss Corrington
is known professionally on the
stage as Rosita Royce. She is
spending the summer in Lincoln
with her parents and taking
speech work under Mr. Yenne.
In the fall she expects to head
Dr. Rosenlof Speaks
At Administrators' Meet
Dr. George Rosenlof, profes
sor of secondary education,
spoke at the University of Mis
souri's annual school adminis
trators conference the past
week. He talked on "The Prob
lems of Adapting the Results
of the Co-operative Study of
Standards to the Individual
School" and on "New Stan
dards for Secondary Schools."
J. E. Cox Talks
To Speech Class
Former Student Explains
Technical, Practical
Radio Writing
James E. Cox, in charge of
KFAB-KFOR radio continuity,
dismussed technical and practi
cal radio writing before Ar
mand Hunter's Radio Speech
class yesterday morning at
eleven.
Mr. Cox, who wrote and pro
duced "Gettysburg, The Battle
That Shouldn't Have Been" for
the Mutual Broadcasting Sys
tem's coast to coast network on
July 2, is well known as a radio
dramatist, although he did his
first serious writing in the field
of poetry.
This radio production was
built around a book written by
Cox while he was a student at
the University. The book, in
turn, was an enlargement of a
term paper written for a fresh
man Knglish class. The radio
production, book and term
paper all carry the same title.
The paper had the distinction
of being the first freshman
term paper to be bound anil
placed in the University library
on the same status as masters'
and doctors' theses.
"Mirage" Only
Sky's Reflection
Says Prof. Blair
What looks to be water ahead
as you drive down a paved road
during a scorching day is noth
ing but the image of the sky,
says Professor Thomas A.
Blair, associate professor of
meteorology. These "mirages,"
Professor Blair explains, are
due to a thin heated surface
layer of air about three or four
feet in thickness, with consid
erably cooler and denser air
above It The phenomena occur
only when there are strong tem
peratures contrast In adjacent
air layeia.
Hunter
Program
westward to Hollywood, for she
is the possessor of a contract
with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor pic
tures. "Wrong Numbers" was a
crook play with a neatly done
surprise ending. Competent per.
formances were given by mem
bers of the cast including La
Vern Munger, Wanda Crawmer,
and Clyde Rosseter, all students
in the directing class turned
actresses.
"Ten Flights Up" concerned
the amusing adventures of two
ex-chorus girls played by Eloise
Otto and Leila Massie. A rather
clever turn in the action fea
tured a song and dance number
by the two. Also featured in the
cast were Maxine Titler and
Ruth Carr. Clydene Rosseter
was the director.
Reminiscent of last week's
"Rollo" was the only comedy,
"Eggs," which was amusingly
played by a cast including John
Gaeth, Virginia Nolte, and Rob
ert Johnston. The action is laid
several generations in the fu
ture when the price of eggs will
supposedly run around some
mere miliion dollars.
WPA Teachers
Open Conclave
Here Next Week
Members Of University
Staff To Assist; 250
Persons Expected
Approximately 250 supervis
ors, teachers and workers on
WPA adult education and nur
sery school projects will gather
at the university from July 18
to 29 for a state WPA teach
ers' education conference, ac
cording' to announcement by
D. F. Felton, WPA administra
tor. Various members of the uni
versity faculty will assist in
the conducting of the meetings.
Mrs. Gladys E. Bradley. WPA
state director of education, will
supervise the work of the con
ference, and Miss Isabel Robin
son of the WPA educational di
vision at Washington will at
tend July 25 to 27. Much in
terest has been aroused in the
coming conference, with a total
of 18,052 persons enrolled in
May attesting to the impor
tance of the WPA educational
program.
Among those who will con
duct meetings during the con
ference are:
ttr. O. H. Werner, arolriwar of edn
ratfcHi, Irr. K. O. rlroaay, pnttimnr at
arhmil ftdmjnliitrmtbta, Itr. I). A. Wnor
ratrr, prafrMor f ra'aratkinal pnyrkol
ri; Dr. i. W. Raeilaf, prafeiwar
f eaaury eaaealam; Mr. ',
Hmilili, oeaa af Trarhrra mHmr Bad
aralfMMtr af arhanl aemtnUtratlua, I nl
veraily af .N'raraaaa; lr. I'.. r. l-adrr,
aim-ur af Utr alLtoa af maternal
aaa rhHa brail a, atatc health depart
ntrat: Dr. J. R. Tlwmpaon, Mat dlrer
r af aaUI ayitrar; Dr. C. A.
r ulmrr, alrrrtar af varalleaal eaura
Itaa, ft (air depart meat of voratlnnal
rdaraUio; Mtaa Birdie Vorhie. aaprr-
trior af varattamal awmnmaJilnc; 4. K.
rwHI, auprrvtaar af varatMHtal re
hab II tal am ; Mtaa NrHir M. tarry,
eieruOre arrrrlary at earaaa aaallr
library rmmlilna; Mr. Harry H.
Kranuad, aMlrtt-1 edaratMmal advtaer,
Neraka-Math Dakota t.irtrl .
art I raok, and Dr. A. A. Kerd.
dlreetar, I arrerally af .Nebraaaa e
fraataa alytalaa.
Burnett, Dr. Boucher,
Families Leave For East
Chancellor and Mrs. E. A.
Burnett and Dr. C. S. Boucher,
chancellor-elect at the univer
sity left last week for the east.
Chancellor and Mrs. Burnett
will spend the summer with
their son, Knox, and his wife
in New York City. They plan
to return to Lincoln early in
the fall. Dr. Boucher will re
turn to his home at Morgan
town, West Va., to terminate
hU affairs there. He and his
family will come to Lincoln
September 1. Dean H. H. Foster
of the law college will be act
ing chancellor during the sum
mer months.
Haney Appointed
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Lincoln Journal
Prof. J. W. Haney
Professor Jiles W. Haney,
chairman of hte department of
mechanical engineering, was
elected chairman of the entire
mechanical engineering division
of the society for the promo
tion of engineering education at
the national convention of the
group at Texas A & M. col
lege recently.
Professor Haney will have
complete charge of next year's
sessions which will be held in
June at Pennsylvania State
college.
Stoner To Show
Carribbean Film
Geography Department
Brings Second Movie
To Union Tonight
With a crowd of approxi
mately 200 turning out for the
showing last week of colored
films of national parks, the
geography department is spon
soring a second showing to
night, this time of the Carib
bean and West Indian region.
W. M. Stoner, Lincoln business
man, will explain the films,
which he took on a cruise last
winter to the Panama Canal
area, the northern part of South
America, Jamaica, the West In
dies, the Barbados, Cuba and
the Virgin islands. Parlors A,
B and C of the Student Union
building will be used for the
showing, with the program be
ginning at 9 o'clock.
Following the illustrated talk,
opportunity will be given to vi
sitors to ask questions on the
trip. All students interested are
invited, according to Dr. K. K.
Lackey of the geography de
partment, who is in general
charge of the meeting. A spe
cial invitation is extended to
corespondence students. Should
the meeting prove as popular as
the previous one. Dr. Lackey
states that others will be ar
ranged. Summer Student
Movie Contract
Back from Hollywood to
spend the summer with her
parents and to study speech at
the Unlvcristy with Herb
Yenne is Marorle Corrington,
known professionally as Rosita
Royce. Tested and given a
stock contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor
pictures last
winter, Miss Corrington hopes
to change her status In the en
tertainment world from dancer
to actress when she returns to
the coast in November.
Girls on the Nebraska cam
pus are far prettier taken as a
group than are most of the
women In Hollywood, believe
Miss Corrington, thus refuting
the statement that the film
capital contains the most beau
tiful girls in the world. "Even
the stars often look much dif
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Old Comedy
Next Week
Farce, 'Gammer Gurton's
Needle' to Appear
On Temple Stage
Departing- from its usual n.
formal programs of one-an
plays, the speech department
will undertake a snmowhot
more elaborate mode of pro
duction next Wednesday eve
ning in the presentation of the
iwo-act comedy, "Gammer Gur
ton's Needle."
Present plans call for use nt
the large auditorium in tht
Temple rother than the Studio
theater, according to Herb
Yenne, director of the univer
sity summer theater, and an
admission charge of jossibly 2r
cents will be asked, with no
seats reserved.
Curtain Raiser Precedes.
A brief curtain raiser entitled
"All on a Summer's Day" will
precede the longer play. Undei
the direction of LaVern Mun
ger. the cast includes Leila
Massie, Eloise Otto, Ruth Mc
Dufee and Maxine Titler.
"Gammer Gurton's Needle"
will be directed by Mr. Yenne
It is known thruout the world
as an old English classic and
the first farce ever to be writ
ten in the English language.
Consistently read in college
history of English literature
courses, the play is expected to
be of special interest to English
majors. It is extremely funny
thruout, according to Mr.
Yenne, and will be enacted in
costume.
Although the original version
calls for three acts, Mr. Yenne
has rearranged and rewritten
the play to adapt it better for
college presentation. The all
feminine cast is as follows:
DU Inez Thompson
Peo Ruth Can
HodK GUuJyi Nefl
"b Jane Krefei
Rammer Gurton ....... .Elirta Coleman
Cock Mary Hlbbanl
Pame Chat Janrttr SMbcr.'
Or. Rat Maxine TlOei
Maitrr Bailey Mildred Bureham
St&xe Manager J run Glat
Three one-act plays will
again be presented on Wednes
day evening, July 17. They will
be "Star Struck," "Cul-de-Sac,"
and "Amazons on Broadway,"
the latter described as a very
amusing play about lady gang
sters. On August 3, Mr. Yenne
will deliver a lecture on New
York plays during the past sea
son. C. B. Schultz Leaves
To Inspect Museum Sites
C. B. Schultz, assistant di
rector of the museum, left last
week for another visit to the
diggings now in progress in
western Nebraska. He will in
spect the work at each of the
three piles and return probably
by the end of the month.
Holds
With MGAT
ferent in real life, because th
camera puts on from 15 to 2:
pounds to an actress's looks
Therefore they are compelled t
undergo strenuous dieting
which leaves them painfully
thin-looking off the screen.'
Anita Louise, Kay Francis, an
Madge Evans are among UV
exceptions, according to Mls
Corrington' observation.
It was while dancing at a
well-known night spot In Culvei
City last winter that she war
seen by an MGM scout and of
fered a screen test. Such a test
really means dozens of teat
and la not nearly so glamorou
as one might think, states Mis
Corrington.
Before facing a camera, f
prospect must undergo a "per
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