Players bring
'Dodsworth'
next veek
Pruden, Hill lead large
cast in stage version
of Sinclair Lewis' novel
Sinclair Lewis' novel "Dods
worth" as dramatized by Sidney
Howard will be presented in the
University Players production
opening next Tuesday evening In
Temple. Jon Pruden and Grace
Elizabeth Hill are playing the lead
as Dodsworth and his wife.
The story is of a middle-aged
couple, with the husband looking
forward to the coming years, and
the wife afraid of growing old.
Against his wish they travel to
Europe to "regain their youth."
Form triangle.
Dodsworth meets a sensible middle-aged
woman, and a triangle
is formed. Then Mrs. Dodsworth
becomes interested in a young
man. whose mother manages to
persuade Mrs. Dodsworth to stay
away from her son. Dodsworth
finally becomes disgusted and
leaves his wife for good.
The cast includes:
Saiiurl DodKWorth. inn Prndrn
MIp Man&icr Arthur Klrinhan
ruhlirlty Man Hon Kchwli
Hrcrriary . 1-oulw Imrn
Hrnry K. H7iri Omrnr Mirk
fr.n rtodswoiih Grare Kllxabr-ih Hill
Tnhhy lamon Louis WUklna
Mr. 1'earnoa (Mstey)
t'onManrr Houriian
Knilly MrKre Virginia Thrdf
Marry Mr.Kre Warn Bralnartf
JrnlKh Gentleman Wnrren Krnlnard
Meeond JrwMi (.entlemaa Robert tielwiel.
tljde lrkrrt Day Glllant
Kclilh ortrtRlit Iori I'oelliH
Steward Arthur Klrinhan
H?rnd Steward erll Kichinond
Barman Clarence Mirk
A. B. Hard erll Rlrinnd
Rcnr-e de Penable Mildred Manning
Arnold Israel Smith Davis
Knrt von Oberwlnrf. Max Whlttaker
Mary. Emily s Maid Ruth Mr.Millaa
(achier Belle 1-ou Rancrler
Inlormatlon Clerk Gwendolyn Guest
Rarmirss vo Obrrsdnrf Onrathjr Ward
Tere'.a Irdnia Nark
Bell Boy Hubert Ocden
Office and shop employees are I-overne
Kmida, Millard arleon, Klnier Jix-kson ana
Ion Nnlllvan.
Amrrlran tourists are I e a a Snahr,
I.loyd Hall, Hulxrt Oitdrn, Jay Norris,
Marjnrlc Jane Adams, Hath McMillan,
Gwendolyn tiurst, Jane Benson, Belle l-ou
Ranaeler, Norma Johnson, I em Kiriunouo
Louise Lemea, and Joyce Burke.
Intramural
debate filings
due today
White calls for Greek,
barb teams to argue
auto insurance question
Names of all entrants in the in
tramural debate tournament to be
held next week must be left at
Andrews 111 immediately, if the
teams wish to enter, Prof. H. A.
White, debate coach, announced
yesterday.
Subject for the debates is "Re
solved, that the various states
should adopt a plan of compulsory
automobile insurance to cover per
sonal injuries."
If there are sufficient entries in
each group, two sections will be
provided, one for fraternity
groups, and one for non-fraternity
organizations. The two groups will
not compete. Bibliographes will be
supplied by Professor White, and
the books listed will be on reserve
In the library.
No veterans allowed.
No competitor with intercol
legiate debate experience is elig
(See DEBATE, page 2)
Annual graduate
fellowship open
to bixad seniors
Seniors in the bizad college must
have applications for the John E.
Miller graduate fellowship filed in
the Dean's office by March 10th.
This $500 fellowship is given an
nually to the member of the senior
class who has made the most out
standing record and who desires to
do graduate work in business
administration.
Only those filing applications
are considered, and since top
ranking seniors often have other
plans, those with sHfihtly lower
average should have no hesitancy
In making applications. The grad
uate work may be done at Ne
braska or any other approved
college of business administration.
t Iaily Nebraska
Vol. 39, No. 101
Ag Goddess
to make debut
Saturday
Spring party features
'southern lawn festival'
theme; to be broadcast
Presentation of the Goddess of
Agriculture of 1940 will climax
the annual Ag Spring party to be
held Saturday night in the Activi
ties building. Open to all univer
sity students, the party also fea
tures Lee William's and his step
ping tone music.
Broadcast of the presentation
will be made over KFOR from
10:30 to 11 p. m. Saturday. Ac
cording to Ben Alice Day, chair
man of the presentation commit
tee, a "southern lawn party"
theme will be carried out for re
vealing the Goddess, and for dec
orating the building.
Rules Farmers' Fair.
The Goddess, who is to reign for
a year, and preside royally over
this year's Farmer's Fair, was re
cently elected by the popular vote
of all home economics students.
Her identity and that of her at
tendants will not be revealed until
the presentation Sat day night.
All candidates for the throne were
senior women majoring in home
economics and will at least an 80
average.
Sponsored by the ag executive
board, the party is being directed
by Co-chairmen Ople Hedlund and
Ganis Richmond. Marvin Kruse
and Oscar Tegtmeier comprise the
publicity committee, Gwen Jack,
Rhoda Chesley, Milo Tesar and El
len Ann Armstrong the decora
tions, Betty Jo Smith and Will
Pitner, presentation, and Ruth
Sheldon and Keith Gilinore, tick
ets. Daily calls reporters
for meeting tomorrow
All members of the DAILY
staff will meet in the NEBRAS
KAN office for a staff meeting
tomorrow at 5 p. m. Students
wishing to become reporters are
asked to attend -the meeting.
New beats will be assigned to
reporters.
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RICHARD DE BROWN, EDITOR THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN NEBRASKA
PLEASE ADVISE IF PETITION FROM STUDENTS IS IN PROGRESS
REGARDING OUR WRITING AND PRESENTING A SONG FOR NEBRASKA
UNIVERSITY. WE ARE HOLDING MARCH 22ND OPEN BUT WANT FULL
COOPERATION IF WE DO SONG. BEST REGARDS.
FRED WARING 1G07 BROADWAY NYC
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Waring will write song for Nebraska-IF!
Fred Waring will write a song
for Nebraska and present it on a
program dedicated to the Corn
huskers. if students show enough
interest.
Dick de Erown, DAILY editor,
received a telegram from the lead
er of the Pennsylvania Tuesday
asking if student Interest war
rants his doing the original song.
The DAILY will have petitions
Otticial Newspaper Of More Than 7,000
Lincoln, Nebraska
Rosita Royce to show
chorus big time dance
Kosmet Klub's male dancers see dove girl Friday;
tryouts for chorus positions set for 7:30 today
Rosita Royce, doves and all, will
take a night off Friday to show
the pony chorus of the Kosmet
Klub how dance routines are pro-
Dewey speaks
on ag policy
here tonight
Thomas E. Dewey, New York
republican presidential candi
date and racket buster, will an
nounce his national farm policy
tonight in the University Coli
seum before a Nebraska foun
ders' day audience of approxi
mately eight thousand. The oc
casion of observance, which is
sponsored by the republican
founders' day organization,
the anniversary of the admission
of Nebraska to the union.
Tassels will greet the visiting
nominee and will hold a brief con
fab with him in the Student Un
ion at noon today prior to the
annual Founders day luncheon.
His talk thi3 evening will be
broadcast over the NBC blue net
work. Dewey is a close associate
of Herbert Brownell who ad
dressed the university Charter day
audience three week ago.
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circulating within a day or two.
De Brown aroused Waring'a in
terest in the idea a few days ago
when he asked the band leader in
a letter whether he would do a
song for the Cornhusker's.
Fred told de Browa he would be
glad to do a Nebraska song but
that similar songs had been done
at the request of students, usually
Students
Wednesday, March 6, 1940
duced in the "big time." The try
outs for the chorus will be at 7:30
tonight in 201 Temple at 5 p. m.
There will be a meeting of all in
terested in writing songs for the
show, in the Kosmet Klub office
in the Union.
The former Lincoln girl sky
rocketted to fame last summer
with her specialty dance, a major
hit attraction at the New York
World's fair. She is here spending
several days at her home, and at
the invitation of Armand Hunter,
director of the show, will attend
the Kosmet Klub rehearsal Friday
night in the Temple to give the
pony chorus professional tips on
their dance routine, and to help
make selections for the chorus.
She brought the doves!
Miss Royce will bring along sev
eral of her doves to give the boys
an idea of how they performed in
her New York debut.
The Kosmet Klub show, "The
Ski Stealers," will be presented in
the Temple the week of April 8 to
13. It is a satire on the Russian
Finnish situation written by Rob
ert Leadley of Lincoln.
Leads are being taken by Louis
Wilkins, Fremont, senior in busi
ness administration; Jim Minnick
Edwin Smith, Robert Aldrich and
Tom Phillips, Arthur Kleinhans
Jack Bittner, and Jack Cole.
The weather
Partly cloudy and little change
in temperature is the weather
man's prediction for Lincoln and
vicinity today.
Beauty queen ballots
select NU candidate
Candidates for the all Amer
ican beauty queen contest
should be submitted to the
DAILY office at once. A nomi
nation blank will be found on
page 3 of today's paper.
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by means of petitions.
Waring'a telegram Tuesday
shows his interest in the idea.
Aware of the importance of the
project from the standpoint of
value to Nebraska, the DAILY is
backing the plan full force.
Waring and his Pennsylvanians
are on Ihe a Monlay thru Fri
day from 6 to 6:15 p. m.
Greek houses
enter Union
quiz contest
Nineteen fraternities
and sororities register
for preliminary rounds
Nineteen fraternities and soror
ities have entered their teams in
the Interfraternity quiz which will
be held in the Union during this
month. Organizations which have
not entered their teams should do
so at once as the preliminaries will
begin next week and the finals
will be on Sunday, March 31.
Houses list contestants.
Fraternities and sororities who
have entered their teams and the
members of the teams are:
Alpha Gamma Rho, Arlo Wirth,
Rex Brown, and Wendell Thacker.
Alpha Chi Omega, Nancy Mauck,
Betty Green, and Elinor Eisen
hnrt. Theta Xi, Lowell Michael, Dick
Thoene, and Gordon Worley.
Delta Sigma Pi, Lloyd Jeffrey,
William Albrecht, and Neal B.
Hadsell.
Phi Delta Theta, James Falloon,
Charles Harris, Charles Oldfather.
Beta Sigma Psi, Charles Otto,
Don Meixel, and Robert Seidel.
Zeta Beta Tau, Robert Silver
man, George Frischer, and Earn
est Wintroub.
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Bill Burk
lund, Clint Jurgensen, and Verne
Rawalt.
Delta TJpsilon, Tom Phillips,
Clyde Martz, and Bob Hunt.
Delta Delta Delta, Priscilla
Wicks, Mary Jo Henn, and Frances
Keefer.
Gamma Phi Beta, Caroline Ken
nedy, Elaine Pearson, and Mary
Jean Lauvetz.
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Dorothy
Campbell, Elizabeth Waugh, and
Louise Benson.
Chi Omega, Matilda Halley,
(See QUIZ, page 3)
Coeds choose
Counselors
tomorrow
Bullock, Clark compete
for president; polls open
9 to 5 in Ellen Smith
Women of the campus will go
to the polls tomorrow to elect the
officers of the Co-ed Counselors,
and the Counselor board.
Candidates for the prexy's po
sition are Mary Bullock, Alpha
Chi Omega, and Ruth Clark, Alpha
XI Delta.
The election will be held from
9 until 5 Thursday in Ellen Smith
and in Home Economics building
on ag campus. In charge of the
election are present officers and
board members.
Positions to be filled at T irs
day's election are those of presi
dent, six senior board member,
four junior board members, and
two sophomore board members.
The Junior board member who re
ceives the highest number of voles
automatically becomes vice-president
of the organization, and the
highest candidate for sophomore
member becomes secretary ami
treasurer. Board positions are di
vided equally between affiliated
and unaffiliated girls. The two af
filiated candidates for the presi
dency automatically fill two of the
senior affiliated posts.
Candidates ior the one open af
filiated senior post on the board
are Pris Chain, Theta. and Iren
Hollenbeck, Gamma Phi Beta.
Unaffiliated candidates for sen
ior board members, of whom three
will 1m? elected, are Ruth Ann Shel
don, Jane dcLatour, Beth Howie j',
Victoria Ekblad, Betty Schmidt,
and Betty Pierce.
Candidates for the two junior
posts open to affiliated women are
Frances Keefer, Tri Delta; Na
talie Burns, Phi Mu; Harriet Tal
bot, Delta Gamma, and Eilen Wil
kins, Kappa Delta.
Unaffiliated Junior candidate
for the other two posts are Ruth
(See COUNSELOR page 3).