Vol. 44, No. 52
Sunday, February 4, 1945
Coed Houses
Vie for '45
Follies Spots
Tryouts for Coed Follies skits
and curtain acts are scheduled
for Tuesday and Wednesday nights
at the organized houses, accord
ing to Midge Holtzscherer, chair
man of the Follies committee.
Skits and curtain acts of par
ticipating organizations will be
judged by a student committee
consisting of Dorothy Carnahan,
Mimi Ann Johnson, Mary Lou
Holtz, Midge Holtzscherer, Mary
Ann Mattoon, Natalie Neumann,
Hazel Stearn and Jessie Lou
.Tyler. A committee of faculty
women with Miss Irene Moke,
Miss Jeannette Frazier, Miss
Mary Guthrie, Miss Clara Rausch
and Miss Agnes Jensen will make
final selection of skits.
Committee Chooses 5 Skits, 4 Acts
Five skits and 4 curtain acts
will be chosen by the committee.
Either a skit or a curtain act
may be chosen as the entering
act by the judges. Skits will bo
5 minutes in length while cur
tain acts will be 4 minutes long.
Midge Holtzscherer requests
that participating organizations
be ready to give their perform
ances promptly at the time sched
uled. Tuesday Night Tryouts.
fi:45 Alpha Chi Omega
7:00 Sigma Delta Tau
7:15 Kappa Kappa Gamma
7:30 Rresidence Halls for
Women
7:45 Alpha Phi
8:00 Alpha Omicron Pi
8:15 Kappa Alpha Theta
8:30 Gamma Phi Beta
8:45 International House
Wednesday Night Tryouts
6:45 Chi Omega
7:00 Pi Beta Phi
7:15 Roca Bouton hall
7:30 Sigma Kappa
7:45 Dalta Gamma
8:00 Alpha Xi Delta
8:30 Ton ne Club '
Navy Officers
Outline Special
College Course
Ail men who are interested in
the possibilities of navy enlist
ment with university schooling
may attend the meeting which
will be led by Chief A. G. Good
win and Petty Officer 1c Joe
Winterhalter in room 206, Ne
braska hall, at 8:50 a. m. Tues
day. They will present the navy
plan for extended college educa
tion available to UN students.
Two programs will be ex
plained by the officers Tuesday
morning. One permits the en
listee, in uniform, to attend some
accredited college for varying
periods of time. The other pro
gram permits the enlistee to com
plete his current semester at Ne
braska as a civilian and be put
into uniform at the end of the
semester in May.
Student Authors
Magazine Article
For March Post
Senior bizad student Larry
Wentz, recently returned from
more than two years as a navy
photographer, is co-author of an
article, "Captain's Mast," soon to
appear in the Saturday Evening
Post. . ,
His start as a free lance writer
or the Post began in New York
ity when he was introduced to
Graeme Lorimer, famous writer
for the magazine. Wentz is now
contributing fiction based on real
happenings, sending his articles to
an agent connected with the Curtis-Browne
Publishing company.
Covered Saipan Campaign.
elbatoirs Sweep Homers
M Midi-west!: Soonifeireinice
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Lincoln Journal.
Umm. MrKeaaie.
. . Coach and top scoring member
of winning debate team.
AWS Board Clarifies Rules
Reviewed in Recent Meeting
Wentz received a medical dis
charge as a result of a shell ex
plosion some 60 yards from a
camera crew with which he was
working at Camp Pendleton, Ore
As photographer he took motion
picture shots and covered various
features of the Saipan campaign.
He spent several months with Col.
Jimmy Roosevelt's warfare train
ing film crew with headquarters
Jin California.
AWS board in a Thursday
meeting further clarified recent
discussion on the women's rules
brought up at the semi-annual
house council meeting Jan. 29.
The board explained that the dis
cussion of rules had simply been
an emphasis of current rules.
Late minutes are given only
when necessary and are not to
be taken because "I have not
been late all semester." This re
lation to late minutes is a con
tinuation of a standing rule for
university women. The empha
sis, the board explained, has been
necessary because of the disre
gard of the housemothers who
must wait for the late coed.
Purpose of "Special" Slips.
Special permission slips have
been introduced so that the coed
who desires a special privilege
will have a written permission
as a safeguard of her right to
the special permission. The slips
put into writing what has always
been done verbally by all who
desire a special privilege. Special
Ten Colleges Succumb to Two
Undefeated Nebraska Teams
Smashing victory over ten outstanding eolleges fell to
the UN debate squad at the Northwestern University De
bate and Discussion Conference, Wednesday through Fri
day at Evanston, 111.
"Nebraska debaters swept top honors in both individ
ual and school competition to bring home a record higher
than any previous squad in my four years of coaching at
the University of Nebraska," said Dr. L. T. Laase, director
of debating.
Only undefeated teams in debate were the two UN
teams consisting of Gerry Mc
Kensie and Mary Ann Mattoon,
and Tom Sorensen and Bill Miller.
In discussion ratings, Nebraska
was the only school to earn the
distinction of having all four
members of its squad included in
the discussion honor roll which
was made up of the 18 highest
individuals from a field of 78.
woman wants the permission to
exceed the written AWS rules;
such as, an 11 o'clock on a week
night.
permission is needed only when a the AWS board.
Senior AWS board members
as well as the AWS president,
Dorothy Carnahan, may be con
tacted for the permission. Senior
board members include Ghita Hill,
Natalie Neumann, Jesse Lou Ty
ler, Mary Lou Holtz, and Hazel
Stern.
Reiterate Standing: Rules.
The emphasis for signing out to
a definite destination is a reitera
tion of a standing rule. The
board explained that the reason
for signing out is to inform the
housemother where she can con
tact a coed in an emergency.
Unless the specific destination is
listed, signing out becomes superfluous.
The stand of the University
Senate committee on corsages was
explained as applying only to of
ficial house parties. Since this is
a rule of the senate committee,
and it outside the jurisdiction of
8:15 Love Memorial hall
Houses Work
On Scrapbooks
For Soldiers
All organized houses will be
contacted within the next week to
arrange for the hours each chap
ter will work to carry out the!
new war council plan of send
ing scrapbooks to servicemen
overseas arid in hospitals.
The scrapbooks will contain a
condensed and organized selec
tion of short stories, jokes and
humorous poems, which will be
more convenient for reading and
shipping purposes than magazines
in the bulk.
A room in the Student Union
will be reserved where the work
will be done and everyone is
urged' to contribute magazines.
The war council will obtain the
scrapbooks from the USO. '
Coriiliiiskcr Adds
Staff Members
New members of the staff of
the 1945 Cornhusker have been
announced by Myra Col berg,
editor.
Lorene Novotny is assistant
business manager, Doug Nelaon
nd Ken Hollinds are sports
editors and Beverly Marcus is
index editor. t . i
While still on the west coast,
Lany traveled with the show
Keep 'Em in Stitches," the first
J naval production to go on the
road.
He met such film celebrities
as Wally Eeery, Phil Harris, Alice
Faye, Jimmy Durante and George
Murphy in the production, di
rected by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Takes Job With Pathe News.
m
Sent to the ear specialist cen
ter in Philadelphia, Pa., as a re
sult of the shell explosion, Larry
went to work as writer lor the
See STUDENT AUTHOR, pace 2
Tells Adventures
Of South Pacific
"Singapore Joe" Fisher, busi
nessman, philosopher, lecturer,
and adventurer, will present a
color film, "The Pacific Aflame,"
at 3 this afternoon in the Union
ballroom. I
The film completed just five
days before Pearl Harbor, covers
a 30.000-mile tour of the far east.
showing some of the outstanding
scenes of that Land. His running
commentary to the film points out
the role of Honolulu, Pearl Har
bor, Guam, Hongkong, the Malay
Jangle, Shanghai, and numerous
other places in the present war.
Ride Thru J uncle.
Some of the highlights of the
film are a ride through the Malay
Jungle in the vicinity of Kuala
Lumpur, the apartment hunting
lobsters that amused the marines
on Wake Island, a native cere
mony at Sarawak, and a flight
over the Burma Road to Rangoon.
Variety Spolliles
Coed Counselor
Annual Carnival
Black markets, side shows,
candy land, games, fortune tell
ing all will be featured by the
Coed Counselors at the annual
Penny Carnival Saturday aft
ernoon from 2:30 to 4:30 in Grant
Memorial hall.
The door admission of 15 cents
will entitle ticket holders to
chances at all the booths. There
will be free dancing and refresh
mcnts to fill out the program.
Originality Counts.
Twenty booths designed and set
up by organized houses will pro
vide entertainment. Prizes will be
awarded lor the best and most
original booth The trophy for
the winning booth is awarded
each year. Delta Delta Delta was
the winner in 1944.
Tickets are now on sale by Coed
Counselors. Barbara Griswold is
in charge of publicity.
Director of War
Sbow Schedules
Rehearsal Dates
Rehearsal schedules for the
1945 War Show, "Till Johnny
Comes Marching Home," have
been set by Lucy Ann Hapeman,
director of the show, for the week
of February 4-10.
All rehearsals will be in thej
Union ballroom. Miss Hapeman
urges all members of the cast to
be on time for rehearsals.
Rehearsal Times:
McKenzie Rates Highest.
Highest individual honors went
to Gerry McKensie who received
ratings of "highly superior" in
discussion and first place in ex
temporaneous speaking in addi
tion to being one of the four un
defeated debaters. Ratings of "su
perior" in discussion went to
Mary Ann Mattoon and Tom
Sorensen, and an "excellent" to
Bill Miller.
Especially gratifying to the
squad according to Dr. Laase, was
the double defeat of first debate
teams of Northwestern university,
a feat which enabled UN to out
weigh Northwestern for the first
time in two vears.
Prepare General Topic.
An innovation was made this
year in the method of forming the
question for debate. Squads ar
rived at the conference prepared
only to discuss the general topic,
"What Shall We Do With Ger
many'. After three rounds of dis
cussion had been completed, the
debate proposition, "Resolved;
that the United Nations should
control the government and econ-
(See DEBATORS, page 2.)
Tuesday, February 6: Act 3,
7:00 p. m. Act 4, 8:00 p. m.
Wednesday, February 7: Act 1,
7:00 p. m. Act 2, 8 p. m.
Thursday, February 8: Act 3,
7:00 p. m. Act 4, 8 p. m.
Saturday, February 10: Act 1,
10:00 a. m. Act 2, 11:00 a. m.
Symphonic Band
Plays in Annual
Winter Concert
A clarinet octet and a trumpet
sextet will be featured at the an
nual winter concert of the uni
versity ROTC Symphonic Band to
be held in the Coliseum, Febru
ary 18, at 3 o'clock.
Members of the clarinet octet
are Marian Maple, Ava Brom
wich, Mary McCord, Lela Mae
Jacobson, Doris Westfall, Rudy
Srb, John Hardy, Tom Green,
John Burt and Vaughn Gaddis.
The trumpet sextet includes Mar
garet Modlin, Dorothy Lowery,
Jack Killian, Carl Painter, Sterl
ing Seaton and Donald Lewi.
The Symphonic Band
reeled by Donald Lentz.
is 3i-
New Play Demands Ingen u ity
BV MARJORY ROSS.
Theater-goers can
thrill when "The Skin of Our
Teeth," the most startling and un
usual production the University
Players have ever presented,
opens Feb. 15.
Demanding one of the most ex
traordinary lists of props that
could be assembled, the play has
been taxing the Ingenuity of the
technical director, D. W. Mullens,
and his construction crew. Per
haps the most difficult problems
confronting them is the disap
pearance of large pieces of scen
ery from the stage. Whole walls.
manipulated by wires, must sud
denly disappear.
Faces Difficulty.
a challenge in the second act. The, for acl three. In this act. to
Pt a SlJJrepresent the world being rebuilt.
whole walls spring up like magic
to repiescnt new buildings being
put up. This again will be no
small task for the production
ci4w.
Age, and act two represents the
wild Babylon of the world before
the deluge.
This act paints man in his
gaudiest colors. The scenery de
picts a gay carnival. Shocking
ly bright and clashing are the
colors of the Turkish bath, ,Eingo
parlor, and the fortune teller's
stand. Among other things, the
construction crew has to build a
light tower which collapses along
with the buildings at the end of
act two when the flood begins
Trap Door Built.
A trap door out of
After attempting to conquer
problems such as these, the usual
sound effects of wind and rain
and the lighting effects are be
ing taken pretty much in stride.
There are other things that will
amaze and delight the play-goer
such as seeing characters seated
in the audience, and in the or
chestra pit and running up a rtmp
from the pit to the stage, but a
which few of the tricks of fie trade
emerges the human race follow-(will have to be kept a secret until
The1 technical crew faces quite jing the war wwi, built especially, opening night.