Friday, February 7, 1941
DAILY NEBRASKAN
London paper
among journals
in Book Nook
Files of Sunday editions of
leading newspapers is the latest
addition to the reading material
row available in the Union Book
Nook. A London paper, the Man
chester Guardian, is included, as
well as the New York Times, the
Omaha World Herald, the Kansas
City Star, the Chicago Tribune
and various student publications.
"Out of the Night," Jan Valtin's
new Book of the Month, which is
the story of a communist in Ger
many, is now also on the Book
Nook shelves.
The water-color sketches will
remain on display for another
week. These were done by a stu
dent, Robert Wolfe, and picture
scenes near Red Cloud, Neb.
Orchestra leader acquires
rhythm of Oklahoma Indians
The influence of solid, exciting
Indian ryhthms can still be heard
in Joe Sanders' arrangements for
the rhythm section of his orches
tra as a result of Joe's first ac
quaintance with rhythm, back in
his kindergarten days.
Joe went to kindergarten in
Centrfclia, Oklahoma, then still
Indian territory, and when he was
six, he saved the life of an Indian
schoolmate who was near drown
ing in a river. As a reward the
chief of the child's tribe presented
Group elects
Eugene C. Reed, conservation
and survey division and assistant
state geologist, and C. Bertrand
Schultz, assistant director of the
university museum and instructor
in the geology department, were
honored by election to fellowship
in the Geological Society of Amer
ica at the annual meeting of the
society in Austin, Tex., according
to official confirmation received
from the secretary of the society.
The society has ,a membership
of only about 700 out of the total
five or six thousand active profes
sional geologists in the United
States. Election is considered the
highest honor which a geologist
can receive in this country except
for the Penrose medal, which is
given by the society to one dis
tinguished geologist every year.
This year it was awarded to Nel
son H. Darton of the United
States Geological Survey who
spent some time doing survey and
map work in Nebraska and lid
joining states about 1900. '
Sponsors for Trofessor Reed
Daily critic sees . . .
Clare Boothe's 'Europe in
By Marjorie Bruning.
Playwright Clare Boothe achiev
ed unusual heights for a woman in
her field when she wrote her re
cent book, "Europe in the Spring,"
which rolled "off the presses this
fall, giving to
Americans a
vivid, yet re
served piece of
reporting which
shows its au
thor as an alert,
i n te 1 1 i g e n t
woman with
fears for the
safety of her
country's dem
ocracy. Miss Boothe,
who dedicates
her book to her
journalist hus
band, "Time"
editor Henry R.
Luce who "un
Journal.
Clnra Booth.
derstood why" she wanted to go to
Joe with a beautifully wrought
tom-tom and inducted him into the
tribe as a blood-brother to the
other boy.
After that Joe was trained by
the best drummers in the tribe,
learning from each his specialty.
By the time he was 14, he knew
more ways of beating a tom-tom
than any three Indian -drummers
put together.
Sanders, the "Ole Left Hander,"
and his orchestra will play for the
Interfraternity Ball, Feb. 15.
professors
and Mr. Schultz were Prof. A. L.
Lugn, Dr. G. E. Condra, and Dr.
M. K. Elias, all of the University
of Nebraska and fellows of the
society. . In addition, Professor
Reed was sponsored by R. C.
Moore, state geologist of Kansas,
and Carl O. Dunbar of Yale uni
versity, and Mr. Schultz was spon
sored by W. E. Scott and Paul
McClintock of Princeton univer
sity. Other Nebraska members of
the society include Dr. E. H. Bar
bour, director of the university
museum, and Dr. C. H. Wegemann
of Omaha.
Vassar college is completing a
topographical map of the world,
covering a wall space 16 by 48
feet.
Texas Technological college is
holing a "give a brick" cam
paign to complete its West Texas
museum building.
Connecticut college recently ob
served its twenty-fifth anniversary.
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Europe during such a crucial pe
riod, spent February to June,
1940, in Italy, France, the Low
Countries, and England, trying to
determine exactly what was going
on in Europe. She talked with
peasants and diplomats; had a
wild ride across the Spanish bor
der, chauffeured by two Portu
gese; witnessed the German inva
sion into Belgium and air raids in
London; saw Paris, stripped of its
gaiety, its democracy, and its
morale; and then returned to
America to write a brilliant,
startling book about Europe and
its fears and hopes.
Sometimes a man's work.
Although Miss Boothe, as an
analytical, sometimes cynical New
Yorker, does the job of a man in
her interpretative account of Eu
rope in the spring, the reader is
ever aware that he is also seeing
Europe as it was through the eyes
of a charming, sympathetic
woman.
What Miss Boothe wrote of what
she saw turned out to be a book
bearing shocking reality and
truth, intermingled with phrases
of hope and enthusiasm. Her chief
purpose in writing this bit of
timely European history was to
explain why what she saw hap
pening to Europe is so important
to Americans, and their position
in world affairs.
An interventionist.
Miss Boothe is frankly an in
terventionist but certainly not a
radical agitator for her cause.
Dialights
4:30 p. m. Merryle Stanley
Rukeyser, financial news column
ist discusses the national economy
as affected by the present world
disturbance CBS.
6 p. m. Fred Waring and his
Pennsylvanians in "Chesterfield
Pleasure Time" WOW.
6:30 p. m. Al Pearce and his
Gang KFAB.
7:55 p. m. Elmer Davis and the
News - KFAB.
8:00 p. m. "Johnny Presents"
with music by Ray Blocks or
chestra and the Swing Fourteen
KFAB.
8:30 p. m. Campbell Playhouse
starring Douglas Fairbanks, jr.,
in an adventure drama in the Car
ibbean. 9:45 News of the World, a
summary and analysis of the de
velopment of the news of the day
by CBS correspondents -CBS.
Family complains
of drafts, prof
seals self in attic
Professor Chester J. Prince of
William Jewell college, Liberty,
Mo., has qualified as a college
professor.
His family complained that cold
drafts were coming from the at
tic of their home, so the self-sufficing
prof took hammer and nails
and went to work.
When he was done he found that
he had sealed himself in and no
manner of prying could get the
boards loose again.
Then he pounded for help. His
two daughters and a boy friend
rescued him.
Weeks ten
best sellers
Fiction.
FOR WHOM THE BELL
TOLLS, by Ernest Heming
way. OLIVER WISWELL, by Ken
neth Roberts.
S A P P H I R A AND THE
SLAVE GIRL, by Willa
Cather.
MRS. MINIVER, by Jan
Struther.
RALEIGH'S EDEN, by Ing
lis Fletcher.
Non-Fiction.
A TREASURY OF THE
WORLD'S GREAT LETTERS,
edited by M. Lincoln Schuster.
TRELAWNY, by Margaret
Armstrong.
PILGRIM'S WAY, by John
Buchan.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, Ly
Rene Kraus.
REPORT ON ENGLAND, by
Ralph Ingersoll.
the Spring'
writers best work
Every thought which came to life
on her typewriter is typified by its
sanity, clarity, and the important
truth it carries. She is so sincere
in her belief that democracy can
be saved if quick action is taken
and backs up her argument so well
with her accounts of the fall of
France and stories of corrupt
politicians and weakened public
morale, that her readers, though
they may not agree in full, at
least see a lesson for America in
the futile struggles of France and
the Low Countries against inva
sion and are ready to follow her
in an American crusade to estab
lish world democracy.
Hard-boiled, cynical critics, with
an aversion to giving women writ
ers credit for achievements which
rank with those of men, acclaim
Miss Boothe, without reservation,
as a woman worthy to be placed
in the ranks of today's most ag
gressive and talented historians,
the foreign correspondents.
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Bob Montgomery, as Mr. Smith, submits to being shaved with an
old-fashioned razor by Carole Lombard, Mrs. Smith, while Gene Ray.
mond, the loyal friend, looks on in a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's
comedy, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," now playing at the Varsity.
one With the Wind9 movie
ranks first in student survey
By Student Opinion Surveys.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 4 Choice
of more than one-fourth of the
nation's college students, "Gone
With the Wind" was easily ranked
the collegians' No. 1 motion pic
ture shown in 1940, a poll con
ducted by Student Opinion Sur
veys of America, reveals.
Based on a scientifically repre
sentative cross section of the U. S.
college enrollment, the survey
showed "G. W. T. W." the choice
of 27 percent. Only one other pic
ture was the preference of even
half that many "Rebecca" was
selected by 14 percent.
Other national surveys of critics
and editors in the motion picture
field have not included "Gone
With the Wind" because it has not
yet been released for general dis
tribution over the entire country.
Among college students, however,
David O. Selznick's production
was such an overwhelming fa
vorite that it could not be ignored
until the 1941 poll comes around.
The top ten pictures of the year,
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Afternoon of art
bores freshmen
English students
Discovered vesterdav in mvste
rious gallery B Morrill hall,
third floor, left was a group of
fellows apparently engaged in the
old-fashioned African sport
dominoes.
But alas, what seemed to be a
cultural afternoon of dice throw
ing turned out to be an afternoon
of mental inspiration for half a
dozen freshmen English students.
Waiting for an inspiration to
overwhelm them while they looked
at the Midtown art exhibits in the
gallery, members in all the fresh
men English classes taught by
Prof. Melvin Van Den Bark were
rather dubious of the inspirational
value of art as emphasized by
their teacher. He required them
to gaze at the pictures until struck
by an idea for a theme.
Final tally revealed: One stu
dent had a vague feeling that an
inspiration would hit him any mo
ment; four students' minds were
tota' blanks; the last was sound
asleep on the gallery floor.
according to collegiate opinion,
were:
1. Gone With the Wind.
2. Rebecca.
3. Grapes of Wrath.
4. All This and Heaven, Too.
5. Foreign Correspondent.
6. Knute Rockne, All-American.
7. Northwest Passage.
8. Northwest Mounted Police.
9. The Mortal Storm.
10. Boom Town.
Interviewers asked students to
name the best picture "they had
seen" during 1940; so many of the
favorites mentioned were not
necessarily released during the
last year.
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