the Stretch
Ckhu vfc WjluJcoL SpAciattuLA
After weeks of extensive tryouts
rareful deliberations, changes of
directors and loss of tentative cast
members, the war council-sponsored
annual show has gathered its
legs under it and is pounding down
the stretch to a spectacular finish.
featuring war time entertain
ment, the show will be divided into
two acts. The first will take place
in the year 1918 in a "smokey
little cabaret" and the second act
will emerge from a "smooth night
Club" of 1944.
Back from Graves.
In the first act, that old 1918
spirit will be dragged from the
grave by the popular mustached
barber shop quartet, consisting of
Llewelyn, Money, Zaworski and
Greguska. Way and Westover, the
jam-kids, will quicken the pace
with a piano duo.
Smaha, a dark-haired flashing
soubrette, will perform a song and
dance number, and more dancing
toes will feature Cowden on the
billboard. In keeping with the
gallant old days, Andrews, Broady
Junior Division
Students Call
For Schedules
Others Register
From Jan. 10-15
Junior division students who
have already prepared their sec
cond semester class schedules
should call for their 'applications
at the junicr division office some
time between Jan. 10 and noon of
Jan. 15.
Ag students should report to
their advisers for the applications
and take them personally to Dean
Burr's office.
City Campus.
On the city campus, all pro
grams for the second semester
must be taken personally by stu
dents to the assignment commit
tee in the Temple during the week
of Jan. 10.
Alphabetical arrangement of
subjects according to department
titles (Mod. Lang. 3, not German
3; Math. 12, not trigonometry) on
(See JR. DIVISION, Page 2.)
Social Welfare
Thanks Students
For Toy Drive
"On the Beam's" toy drive
was a successful project, accord
ing to the committee In charge,
as was evidenced by the great
amount of toys which were do
nated by organized and individ
ual groups on the campus.
A truck was needed to haul
the variety of toys from the
main hall of the Union to the
Lincoln toy shop sponsored by
the Social Welfare society. .
"The university donation was
greatly appreciated as our sup
plies were running low and we
had yet to accommodate 40 more
families," said Miss Harriet
Towne, chairman of the toy
shop. "The drive was a fine
idea, well carried out by the
Nebraska students."
Ellsworth DuTcau
Speaks at Charm
School Tuesday
Mr. Elbworth DuTeau, national
secretary and director of alumni
activities, will speak to the Coed
Counselor Charm School at Ellen
Smith hall Tuesday night at 7,
His topic will be "Voice in Per
sonality." In previous years Mr.
DuTeau has spoken before the
group and the members have
found the program most instruc
tive and enjoyable.
Mary Bonebright and Jean
Guenzel, leaders of the Charm
School, urge all girls to be there
promptly at 7.
and Lamb will beat out the mili
tary tap.
No vaudeville show could be
complete without the two tradi
tional bull slingers. Kamm and
Larsen take over this job.
Sinatra-a-la 1918.
Nothing could be more entertain
ing than the Broder, Fronzik,
Smith trio to refresh our knowl
edge of the first introduction of
swing. Ackerman and Huffman
will sing the blues and the torch
ers. And that lilting Irish tenor,
O'Reilly, becomes the Frank Si
natra of yesterday. Of course,
there will be the Beatrice Kay of
'18 mimicked by Marx.
From the old to the new, a quick
change of time and scenery brings
us to the vear 1944 in act two.
The Irish tenor will be replaced
by Gregoras, that vagabond singer
we all love to hear.
Hula Dancing.
Modern ball room dancing by
Smaha, Lopez and McDonald out-
(See WAR SHOW, Page 4.)
Seliooner Sets
Contest Dates
Dec. 15-Jan. 30
Entries for the literary contest
being sponsored by the English
department in collaboration with
the Prairie Schooner may be sub
Tiitted o the office of Dr. L. C
Wimberly between Dec. 15 and
Jan. 30.
The best short story writer will
be awarded a prize of $10 and
the author of the best poem will
receive a $5 award. The winning
entries will be published in an is
sue of the Prairie Schooner. Run-ners-up
will receive a year's sub
scription to the Schooner.
Professors Judge.
Judging the contest will be pro
fessors of English, Miss Louise
Pound, Kenneth Forward and Orin
Stepanek.
In connection with the subscrip
tion drive for the Prairie Schooner
the committee for the ag campus
drive is being headed by Blanche
Reid. Other members of the com
mittee are Margaret Ruth Heim.
Phyllis Dodge, Arlene Casey.
Betty Huston, Monica Ann Al
berty, Mary Jean Jones, and
Peggy Larson.
Bancroft Speaks
At Nu Med Meet
Wednesday at YW
Nu Meds will hold a banquet
and meeting at the YWCA, Wed
nesday, at which Dr. Bancroft will
be the main speaker.
Tickets are 65 cents and should
be purchased from Dr. Wade or
some student by Tuesday noon
Officers will be elected during the
meeting.
A Bit of Arsenic and
W
Creeps Into Poison
By Eleanor Knoll.
"The Poison Register" has gone
to press. In fact "The Poison" has
been on the campus since the col
lege of pharmacy had its Christ
mas nartv. The editors explained
that readers should "blame it' on
to old St. Nick, and his ruddy
Christmas spirit." St. -Nik gets
blamed or sets credit for lots of
things, doesn't he ?
The little paper has everything,
simply everything, from "Poison
alities" to classified ads. On sale:
of interest to many, is a "little
black book full of choice ad
dresses and telephone numbers to
the highest bidder." Those inter
ested should call 5-8607 and ask
for Bob, Ed, or Rollie. One won
ders where they found a black
cover for a telephone book in
these times? And then there are
somebodies' confessions, "when we
came to college all we could do
Vol. 85, No. 75
Mebirasbaira Bmp
for
Needed!
(Desperately )
Men are needed! When the
government drew up plans for
the draft they forgot one sig
nificant detail drafting men
for Dr. Westbrook's chorus!
At least 50 men are wanted
for the chorus in order to put
on the annual spring musical
program and they will have to
be supplied by civilian students.
Many schools thruout the coun
try have converted their singing
groups to girls glee clubs and if
the civilian men on this campus
do not answer the call, Nebraska
will have to do the same.
Chorus classes, for one hour
credit, are held Tuesday eve
ning at 7:15 and Thursday after
noon at 5:00, or Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday mornings at
11. Students may either register
for these classes next semester
or they may attend the classes
voluntarily without credit. In
the latter case they should see
Dr. Westbrook within the next
two weeks.
Union Presents
Flicker Show
Program Sunday
An old-fashioned "flicker show"
will be held in the Union ballroom
Sunday afternoon at 4.
Previous "flicker shows" have
proved so successful that Sunday
afternoon's program will include
four "old timers" of the wild and
wooley variety. First of these is
entitled "A Total Loss," starring
Ben Turkin. Others will be Charlie
Chase in "The Sleuth," Mary
Pickford in a picture called "Sav
age Love" made in 1929, and a
wild western, "Border Law."
Peg Shelley will entertain at the
piano, and peanuts and popcorn
will be on sale for 5 cents a sack.
was snore in class B flat."
The "Ode to a First Aider" is
introduced by a squat little un
derstatement which begins, "de
signed to be hung beside the pre
scription counter and proving that
all men are created free and equal
and mortal!"
"The Poison ... ah ... ah ..
Register" explains how some of
the great generals got to that way.
"The ... ah ... ah .. . Regis
ter," quoting R. Cadwallader in
the Journal of the American Med-
Lt. Viebrook Leaves UN
Second Lieutenant Walter A.
Viebrook left last week for duty at
Ft. Belvoir, Va., where he will be
on the engineering staff. He has
been temporarily.. attached to the
university military units as an
ROTC instructor in engineering
and to now ordered back to his
former post.
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ODD
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA,
iLBiratiDom) mily7
Nebraskan now, Nebraskan for
ever Daily now, but not forever.
The university paper changes its
title with this issue for the dura
tion only after word received from
the Third Assistant Postmaster
General at Washington, D. C.
When the paper goes back on
Junior, Senior
Receive Triple
Delta Awards
Hazel Steam and Dorothy Wolfe
have been announced as winners
of the Tri Delt scholarship for
juniors and seniors. A cash award
representative of the scholarship
was made the first of January.
Hazel Steam is a junior in Teach
ers college and Dorothy Wolfe, a
senior in the college of Arts and
Sciences. '
In order to qualify for the
award, the coeds had to be work
ing toward a degree, be useful to
the war effort at the present time
or be able to contribute to the
postwar reconstruction period, and
be in need of financial assistance
because of economic dislocation
resulting from the war. Applica
tions were received and announce
ment of winners made thru the
dean of women's office.
SAI Sponsors
Alumni Recital
Wednesday at 4
School of fine arts will present
a recital sponsorea dv me ioia
Kappa alumni chapter of Sigma
Alpha Iota, national music so
rority, Wednesday, Jan. 12, at '.
p. m. in tne Temple tneaier.
Mrs. Otto Mallat, soprano, Fran
ces Morley, flutist, Mrs. David Ja
cabs, violinist, Mrs. Paul Gillan,
contralto and Ruth Dreamer, pia
nist, will be featured. Accom
panists for the program are: Mrs
L H. Babst and Mrs. Frank Dar
ling. The program will include:
My Sweet Love Call, Crunn.
(See SAI, Page 2.)
Old Lace
a mm
Register
ical association, showed that many
would not have been able to re
peat their exploits today because
the draft wouldn t have accepted
them. Gosh, imagine the draft do
ing that. Moses would be over
age (they re telling us) 80 when
he took command. Saul was in
sane. (One could think of several
other dictators today who wouldn't
be accepted here then.) George
Washington had no opposing mo
lars. (They didn't tell that in the
second grade when they told the
cherry tree story.) Stonewall
Jackson had paralysis of a hand
from gunshot. (That isn't all he
paralyzed by gunshot either.)
Kaiser Wilhelm had both palsy
and atrophy of one arm. (Tell it
to the Germans; they still think
they are supermen.)
The Poison Register" lives up
and down to its name. The best
quotation yet is "Give War Stamps
for Xmas." (Easter, too.)
Sunday, January 9, 1944
s
its peace-time basis as a daily is
sue of all university news, it will
resume its former name, "The
Daily Nebraskan."
"The word 'daily' in the title is
not consistent with the tri-weekly
frequency under which the publi
cation is being published," writes
the Postmaster," and should be
changed to meet the number of
times the paper is being issuer."
As of today the masthead and
the flag will read "The Nebras
kan" instead of "The Daily Ne
braskan." War Council
Asks Stamp
Sales Ideas
. . . Fouth War Loan
Stamp sales on city campus
totaled $77.30 in the last week's
sales before Christmas vacation,
a let-down of $95.85 from the pre
vious week's sales.
The fourth national war loan
drive will begin Jan. 18, and the
UN war council will discuss war
bond and stamp sale promotional
schemes'for a campus drive at its
meeting Tuesday at 5 p. m. The
council is interested in any pro
motion ideas the students .may
have concerning such a drive.
Schemes may be turned in to any
war council representative before
the meeting.
All four new war stamp sale
booths have been completed by
Mary Russel and Marylouise Good
win, Tassel and war council
members in charge respectively,
and they will be placed in Sosh,
Andrews, ag campus and the
Union for use during the regular
Wednesday war stamps sales cam
paigns. The design used for the
booths was submitted by Pat Par
rish, architecture student.
Pvt. John M.
Larson Killed
In Action
In a navy department casualty
list released Friday, Marine Pvt.
John M. Larson, former university
student was reported killed in ac
tion, according to word received by
his mother, Mrs. Beulah M. Larson
of Lincoln.
Mrs. Larson, however, has not
accepted the news as final for al
though her son was reported killed
on Nov. 9, 1943, another son, Lt.
William Larson, received a letter
from his brother dated Nov. 19.
UN Student.
Private Larson, 21, attended the
university for a year in 1941 after
graduating from Lincoln high
school. He was also employed in
the circulation department of the
Lincoln Star.
In the last letter written to his
mother, Private Larson told of
meeting Lt. Marvin Plock,- former
university grid star, "somewhere
overseas last fall.
Major Schmidt, Faculty
Member on Leave, Visits
UN College of Dentistry
Major A. H. Schmidt, faculty
member on leave of absence for
the duration, visited the college
of dentistry last week. Major
Schmidt is Btationed at Fitzsim-
mons Hospital- in Denver, Colo.,
as an instructor. While here he
gave a lecture for the students.
