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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1940)
f f I Broadway Colle man By Joe Whitley NEW YORK CITY, There is a strange quietness come over Flushing Meadows, as the na tives call the late World fair site. About all that is left are empty buildings that give forth a hollow sound and drip gray rain. Except, perhaps, the faint echo of two years' tumult and shouting that you probably contributed to. They've hauled most of it away to some misty destination, along with the dormant dreams of inter national good will that such fairs are supposed to generate. Perhaps they will both be resur rected one of these days. ORPHANS OF THE FAIR. Follow the dim trails of the academy refugees, thrown out in the cold world when their jobs ended with the fair, and you strike a bonanza. Ex-collegians, who have drunk too deeply of the city lights and shadows to ever find the campus or paternal board attractive again, are catching on at all sorts of places. Taking tickets at one of the burlesque theaters on 42nd street, you 11 find an alumna of the Uni versity of Oklahoma. Two years ago she was taking a goodly por tion of the male hearts at Norman. Acting with the Bulgakov Play ers, an up-and-coming semi-pro fessional company, is a former Phi Sigma Sigma from the University of Wisconsin, once a valuable as set to the University Players in Madison. Drop in at La Conga any night and see the same smile you saw on the beauty page of the U. of Cincinnati yearbook. Only now she's using it to help sell cigarets If you attended the University of Tennessee from 1935-1939, are at loose ends in New York, and have a hankering to dance, trot up to Roseland. For ten cents a throw you can swing out with sometime belle of the campus ball at Knoxville. Aristotle with your coffee? Then pause at the Commodore hotel at Lexington and 42nd street. They ve gone in for Higher run theism, replacing the unlettered waitresses in their grill, with graduates from the University of Syracuse, Denver university, Hun dolph-Macon, the University of Akron, the University of Vermont the University of Arkansas, the University of South Carolina. Mi ami (Ohio l university, Iowa State yes, and East Texas State Teach' ers college. BOOK DEPARTMENT. City college comes charging to the rescue of all local college swains who are at loss at how to entertain their ladies. They have rushed a book into print called "Where to Take Your Girl in New York on One Dollar to Twenty Dollars." Waxing lyric on the subieet they offer 700 possible frontal and flank attacks on boredom, ranging from bus excursion about the city to an evening at the Stork club. Topics include such items as "For Rubbernecks." "Just Bis tros," "Alimentary," "My Dear Watson and "You're Fed to the Teeth." The book is fine except that it completely ignores two basic prob lems. How to raise the one dollar to twenty dollar item und where to get a girl. STATE OF THE THEATER A drama of social siinifican at once moving and thoughtful "Rig White Fog" traces the l terloiatlon and collapse of a Negro family thru the futile attempt to escape race barriers. Mr. Ward makes it plain that he believes the one hope for his race is to seek salvation in communism. On Friday, "Cabin in the Sky,' another Negro-acted but white That Christmas Gift For the Pan-Hellenic lears convention reports tonight Members of the campus Pan- Hellenic and sorority alumni ad visers will meet at dinner tonight at 6 in the Union to hear reports of the recent Iowa Pan-Hellenic convention. Mrs. Joseph Seacrest, delegate from the city council, will speak on Pan-Hellenic Relations, and Jane Bird, president of the campus council, will relate her experiences as a delegate. All sororities are asked to sub mit names of those attending, in cluding chapter president, Pan Hellenic adviser, Pan-Hellenic rep resentatives and alumni advisers. (R&coAcL dtinfrfoA By Bob Phillips BAND BYLINES.. Will Bradley's sequel to "Beat Me Daddy" named 'Scrub Me Mama" Bon Bon, Jan Savitt's temperamental singer finally calling it quits after months of threatening .. "Cootie ' Williams, Duke Ellington s ace trumpeter for many, many years, finally leav ing him to join Benny Goodman He will be featured with B. G., Lionel Hampton, and Terry Wilson in a small combination. . .Metro nome, the musician's trade jour nal, mentions Segar Ellis and his new band as touring (quote) "The no man's land of America at the present time." SWING YOU'VE GOT ME THIS WAY I'D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE MAKE ME KNOW IT WHEN I SAW YOU. .T. Dorsey (Victor) The A side of this bunch is one of the best vocals ever put out by the Pied Pipers. On both the first side and the second Tommy s in comparable trombone is heard The second side is a Sinatra vocal of which there have been too. many lately. "Make Me Know It" is Tommy's concession to the swing addicts of the nation. On this side he gives out with some nice Ell ington riffs and allows Elman to demonstrate his talents. "When I Saw You" is just another pop fea turing Connie Haines. A SONG OF OLD HAWAII FRENESI Woody Herman (Decca ) I think the first side was Her man's answer to the good neighbor policy the nation is now embark ing on. The second is Art Shaw's tune done over completely with Woody singing the lyrics. Both tunes are done at a very slow tempo. man inspired musical drama (John LaTouche wrote the words; Ver non Duke, the music) was touched off. With Ethel Waters balancing most of the fantasy on her compe tent head, the production could not help but come off well. Clitics were rather lyric, to which rare mood Katherine Dunham and her colored ballet, and Rex Ingram who played "De Lawd" in the movie version of "Green Tas tures," contributed. THE ETERNAL BALLET. If you are within 100 miles of an invasion point of that organiza tion called the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, for heaven's sake go pay them a visit. Verily this is fionor Ponce de Leon's vaunted fountain of youth. The sight of these airy creatures making a sap out of Newton's law of gravitation is something positively out of the world. Also if you're disenchanted with women, it provides an oppor tunity for that wonderful agony a crush on a ballerina. New numbers: "Poker Game," "The New Yorker," "Nutcracker Suite" and others. Incomparable tonic: "Gaicte Parisienne," Boy Friend DAILY NEBRASKAN Texas Rangers 4 V Petite Martha Mears and the Texas Rangers make an out standing song and music team for the program in which they're costarrew. Altho there are onl y eight Rangers, they play 20 dif ferent musical instruments and surrounding Martha, left to right, are Gomer Cool, Joe Strand, Clarence Hartman, and Herb Kratoska. Herb claims the world's championship for speed playing of banjo and guitar. The Texas Rangers' programs are he ard regularly over KFOR. Jacka, Fairley elected o frosh WAA council A special business meeting of the ag college WAA organization was held yesterday afternoon, at 2:30, in the college activities building, for the purpose of elect ing two members to the WAA Freshman Council. The two girls who were elected to this honor are Eleanor Jacka and Barbara Fair ley, both freshman home eco nomics majors. Hunter college recently dedi cated its $6,500,000 building. Evening Skirfs. . . .3.95 Evening Blouses, Sweaters and Jackets 3.95 Third Floor. Versatile Group AV fW7 do plenty of fine singing. Halfback Warren Panushka, 22 year old senior at Macalester college who never played football in either high school or college is in the Macalester st rating line up this year. ivf. i j LEARN TO DANCE Be prepared for the Military Ball Dec. 6 Learn the New La Conga 1210 p IRVING KUKLIN 2-16I6 , Formal Gowns Jj'f Sfffi !! 12.95 . 0 29.50 fM Sllm-as-a-colunin model or nltely-appcnllnf bouffant to dine and dance la . , Infl. ttylci . bat every one let there fleam I Frothy rhlffoni and eU, rayon taffeta, rayon rep and Jrrney. Flattering okr , . . white or black. Evening Wraps 10.95 to 22.50 Born to he worn with your favorite formali. Black velvet hooded itylee or white wooleni heavily enacrollrd with gold hid. Bice 1Z to 10. to 5.95 o 5.95 Wednesday, November 27, 1940 Song and dance man Allen goes into dance tonight The nimble mind of Fred Allen has no equal, but to make bom ends meet, the "Texaco Star. The ater" Boss-Man invites Arthur- Murray-dance-instructress Ruth Hopkins before the Columbia net work microphones tonight to see what can be done about producing some fast footwork for Fred. The program will be heard over KFAB. All the regulars, tenor star Kenny Baker, pert Portland Hoffa, the Martin Singers, the Mighty Allen Art Players and Al Good man's orchestra are to be on hand to take turns 'twixt the terpsicho rean teaching. Miss Hopkins is a Hunter col lege girl and one of hundreds of young women who have chosen prance-pedagogy as a career. There are some 30 Arthur Mur ray schools thruout the nation and they're pretty busy day and night showing people how to move gracefully around the ballroom floor. In the organization for which Miss Hopkins drills and discourses on tango, rhumba, conga and waltz, there are 110 girls and 90 men who each average 5 or 6 les sons a day. The people who take lessons. Miss Hopkins says, usually are successful businessmen men who were too busy carving careers In their youth, and now are catching up with relaxation. New York university will ob serve its centennial next year. be I: I t J V A Nice Fine Quality Key Chain Priced from 1.00 to 10.00 Sartor Jewelry Co. 1301 0 St. Lincoln, Nebr. r :'-v'f S'Tt