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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Wednesday, March 13, 1940 Comes a time . . When snow and tests turn thougths to sunnier climes By Agnes Wanek. There comes a time when the snow is on the ground, and a young man's thoughts are south ward bound. When you think about it, a quick trip to Florida wouldn't be hard to take at this point. This is the time when you begin to envy people like Ralph Bristol, Paul Brown, and Bruce Duncan, who managed to take a short trip to Mexico City recently. But... day dreams don't help, not with a cou ple of six weeks tests ahead. FATAL CHARM must be a part of Kappa Mary Beeson's attraction, since she set a new high Monday night when ten Sigma Nus, no less, came to the Kappa house to see her. SIGMA NUS' big weekend includes initiation Saturday, alumni luncheon and a fraternity banquet Saturday night at the Cornhusker. HOW TRUE is the rumor that Pi Phi Virginia Haney and Harold Schrag are go ing steady every other night? This fall Ginny was seen around with Butch Luther, DU, who now has his pin on Kappa Marion Bowers, and the Beth Howley-Schrag com bination was definitely on the up swing. Tlje question now, is where does all this leave Phi Delt Al Ashworth who has gone with Vir ginia for years and years. THE AFFAIR between Max Wieland and A.O. Pi Pat Rosenbaum is doing all right these days, since it was not so long ago that they first started dating. They now have a standing date for Saturday nights. CAMPUS NOTES: Bill Williams, Phi Delt, has an nounced that he is going to have his third date of the year... won der who it'll be?. . .Congratula tions to Beta Bruce Harper for his appointment to Annapolis and also Husker debaters meet Wesleyan Nebraska debaters will meet af firmative and negative teams from Wesleyan today at 4 at Wesleyan. Another debate will be held Fri day in the Union with Park col lege of Chicago. Nebraska affirm ative team will debate at 11 in parlor X, and the negative at 1 p. m. in X. The subject for both debates is "Resolved, that the U. S. should maintain a strict pol icy of military and economic iso lation." Ben Novicoff and Howard Bes sire will debate on the affirmative side and Jack Stewart and Lloyd Shubert on the negative side for Nebraska. to Phi Gam Bob Davenport for his appointment to West Point ... in case you hadn't noticed, you're seeing Sig Alph Burdette Wertman and Thcta Marie Anderson to gether a lot... Ditto Beta Harold Howell and D.G. Betty Holtorf. April fool's doy is final deadline for photo entries (ACP) for college amateur pho tographers, April 1 is more than a day of pranks and practical jokes. April 1 is also the final deadline for mailing entries in the third annual national collegiate photo competition being conducted by Collegiate Digest a contest that is held annually to select pictures for the rotogravure section's an nual Salon Edition published each spring. To compete for national recog nition and money prizes, all Ne braska students are urged to send in their entries immediately. Enter your pictures in one of the fol lowing divisions: still life, scenes, candid, portraits or "college life." Collegiate Digest announces that there is no entry fee for the con test, and that each student or faculty photographer may send in as many entries as he wishes. Phi Sigma lota stages contest The second annual declamatory contest for university French and Spanish students will be held April 2. Sponsored by Phi Sigma Iota, honorary language fraternity, the contest will have several groups in which all students are eligible to compete. The three groups are: One for French 2 and Spanish 53 students, one for students taking courses beyond those in group 1 and below courses numbered 101. Students above 101 will be entered in group 3. Six prizes, consisting of French and Spanish novels, will be awarded. Yesterday waa the deadline for the entries which the contestants could choose from a list sponsors had posted in the department library. Donald and Maurine Nordlund, brother and sister, earned perfect grades at Midland College last semester. Vocational series features Schemel for fourth talk Miss Lucille Schemel, teacher of English and history at Whittier Junior High, will speak to univer sity women tomorrow at 4 p. m. in Ellen Smith. Her subject will be "Advantages and Disadvant ages of Teaching; Preparation for and Varieties of Specialization." This is the fourth talk on the present vocational series being sponsored by the AWS board and the office of the dean of women. Miss Schemel, recently re-elected president of the Lincoln Teach ers association, is an active parti cipant in the work being done to further the teacher's retirement legislation. She has taught in all erades and has done demonstra tion work in the university; facts contributing to her versatility and well-rounded teaching accomplishments. Players (Continued From Page 1.) verv convincing: throughout most of the play, although in spots he evinced a little discomfort at be ing pushed into the role of a suc cessful retired automobile mag nate. The rest of the cast was aptly elected by the director, H. Alice Howell. Doris Poellet. as Edith Cortwright, the woman who un derstood and loved Sam Dods worth was nerfectlv suited to ber part, and with her portrayal of a weet and mature woman proved a perfect foil for the childish, vain Fran. Story pleases audience. The audience roared at the typl cal American, A. B. Hurd, sketched as only the vituneric Lewia can Smythe Davis both looked and acted the part of the philandering Frenchman. Arnold Israel, who became Fran Dods worth's lover, and Kurt von Obersdorf, played by Max WWttaker, was as nearly a German baron as any iMeDrasxan with a mid-western drawl could be Despite the thirteen set changes required, the play moved along rapidly and held the attention of the audience throughout Setting and lighting were entirely in keep ing with the mood and the theme of the production. The Universitj of Nebraska University Players Present '.V.WAW.'WVAW.WW,W Dartmouth Undergraduate Reports on American Assault on Worlds Second Highest Mountain Peak Today's Pott records the assault on K-2 28,250 feat of rock, ice, storm and wind. Four members of the party disappeared in theflying mists of this unclimbed summitand were never seen again ... An extraordinary story of the Second American Karakoram Expedition, told by George C. Sheldon, a Dartmouth senior, one of the survivors. iimym i.i mi .a uiwijuMMWiiimwuiim ' -!w"' l - u" inm,m 1 o I L U ru J - U ' k W s ' ej, i I IV J U V UJ 4VVf S'i 59- am 11 k r-Jhr I :vc): iihj LLLL ; 1 A LADY SPENDS THE NIGHT She was afraid be would and afraid he wouldn't, and yet when they were trapped by a blizzard, Mias Ruth prepared to defend her name and honor with every artifice at her disposal. A abort story by M. ft. CHUTE. RED RUFFING'S SECRET How does a guy with four toes missing, and a pain in hi arm, pitch a 4-hit World Series game? The amazing tory of the man who won 175 games for the Yanks. As Good As He Hat To Be, by Stanley frank. fc IS IT EASY TO DIE? When John Blagden awoke in a hospital bed he felt pretty good. Then the doctor came in and casually sprang the sur prise . . . The story of the hour which has do end. No Vititort, by STEPHEN VINCENT KNET. "I INTEND TO CE PRESIDENT" JfM. Who i.thu -tail. tan, terrific'' Hoosier who plans to aeep into the White House by osmosis? ALVA JOHNSTON gives you the high-light of that Indiana charmer who may mias in 1940, but still has '44, '48 and '52 ahead. NEW MYSTERY NOVEL BY MIGN0N G. EBERHART . .. Hangman's Whip. With three women determined to possess the same man, somebody engineers a hanging! Start the second of seven Installments in the Poet tonight! GERMANY'S GAME IN FIMLAND-Wby is Germany privately gloating at the Finnish exposure of Russia's military and economic weak nesses? From diplomatic reports of events in Moscow, the Post brings you details of how Nazi Germany encouraged Russia end secretly aided the Finns at th same time! BENARES: BESS. ill skiffs a nur.i blossom K2D 1 How one of Mr. Glen cannon's finest alcoholic inspirations turned the S. S. Inchcliffe Castle into a seagoing arbore tum, a floating jungle. Read The Rum Blouom. by GUY GILPATRIC 7 ir' fSSsggasSs?? -SSSs? "DODSUORTH" By Sinclair Lewis Dramatized by Sidney Howard Tonight at 7:30 Temple Theatre 12th and B Sts. i