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Vol. 44, No. 76
Lincoln 8, Nebraska
Sunday, March 25, 1945
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Rev. Finegan
Emphasizes
Holy Week
Emphasizing Holy Week on thej
UN campus will be a series of
addresses and discussions to be
held at 5 o'clock ench afternoon,
Monday through Friday, in the.
Union.
"The purpose of our Holy Week
program is to help students to
deepen and clarify their religious
thinkine." said Rev. Robert Drew.
chairman of the committee. The
sneaker will be Rev. Jack Fine
gan, head of the department of
(See FINEGAN, page 4.)
WAA Frolic
Shakes Coeds
Into Activities
BY ELEANOR KNOLL.
Are you single? Do you have
spring fever? Have you shaken off
the last tinges of winter? Do you
need vim, vigor, vitality? Then
plan to attend the Spring Spree
the activity week-end for April 6,
7, and 8 planned by WAA.
The Spring Spree will be cen
tered around a single ping-pong
tournament beginning on April 6
and concluding on April 8. The
Big Day for ye-enthusiasts is April
7 when the entire facilities of
WAA will be open to coeds. Bi
cycles, by the way, will be used
free!
Those interested in entering the
singles ping-pong tournament
must sign up in the WAA office
by Thursday. The entrees should
leave at the office a schedule of
the times she can play on Friday
and plan to play all day Saturday
Come one, come all. Knock
those cob-webs off and enter the
fun at the Spring Spree.
Episcopal Church
Reveals Services
For Holy Week
Holy week services at the
University Episcopal church have
been announced by Rev. L. W
McMillin.
There will be a service every
day during the week, according
to Rev. McMillin. The services
are:
Palm Sunday
8:30 a. m. Blessing of palms
and Holy Communion.
11 a. m. Procession of Palms
Choral Eucharist and Sermon.
Monday 10 a. m. Holy Com
munion. Tuesday 7 a. m. Holy Com
munion. Wednesday 10 a. m. Holy
Communion.
Thursday 7 a. m. Holy Com
munion. Good Friday
10 a. m. Mass of the Pre
Santified. 12 noon to 3 p. m. Passion
Service with addresses on ."The
Seven Last Words from the
Cross."
Easter Sunday
8:30 a. m. Holy Communion.
11 a. m. Choral Eucharist and
Sermon.
Progressives Meet
Thursday in Union
Delegates of the Progressive
Party will meet next Thurs
day at 7:30 p. m. in Parlors
X, Y and Z of the Union to
nominate a slate of candidates
for student council and pub
lications board to be presented
at the party convention.
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REV. JACK FINEGAX
, speaks at Holy Week observ
ances. AWS Enforces
Activity System
For UN Coeds
Since the last women's elec
tion has been completed, enforce
ment of the co-curricular activity
system for coeds will begin im
mediately, according to Nat Neu
mann, chairman of the system.
When the system was an
nounced that the enforcement
would begin after the last worn
en's election.
Coeds are asked to adjust their
activities to conform to the reg
ulations which stale that they
are allowed to carry any of the
following
combinations of ac-
tivities:
One A activity, one B, and
one C.
Three B activities.
Two E activities, two
ac
tivities.
One B activity and thre
activities.
Four C activities.
Language Film
Shows Colorful
Venezuela Scene
A colorful analysis of Venezuela
is the modern language depart
ment-sponsored technicolor film
scheduled for this week, Monday
and Thursday at 4 p. m., in Sosh
auditorium.
Entitled "Venezuela Moves
Ahead," the film presents a "sur
vey of the economic, historic and
geographic features of the South
American country. Use is made of
animated maps, and much of the
film is devoted to Venezuela's
principal industry oil. The cap
ital city, Caracas, is also pictured.
Appreciative Audience of 6,000 Sees Brilliant
Performance of 'Aida9 Presented Friday Night
BY SAM WARREN.
Grand opera at its grandest was
presented to 6,000 opera-hungry
music fans Friday night when the
San Carlo opera company gave
Verdi s celebrated "Aida, the first
grand opera to appear in Lincoln
in 16 years. The entire produc
tion was skillfully staged and
seemed musically flawless.
The sheer breathtaking beauty
of "Aida" alone will be remem
bered for a long time to come.
Using six different sets for the
seven scene opera, the scenery in
cluded halls in the Egyptian king's
spacious palace at Memphis, the
Temple of Isis on the shores of
the Nile, the Gate of Thebes, and
the Temple of Vulcan beneath
which was the fatal tomb "where
the hero and heroine are left toj
die at the fall of the' last curtain.
Spring Concert
Includes Three
Original Pieces
. . . Today in Temple
An All-A m e r i c a n program,
featuring original compositions by
chapter members, will be pre
sented at the annual spring con
cert of Sigma Alpha Iota, national
music sorority, today at 3 p. m.
in the Temple theater.
The original compositions fea
ture a duo-piano variation on an
old French tune "Frere Jacques"
by Miss Marguerite Klinker, in
structor in piano at the School
of Music, and faculty advisor to
the Sigma Alpha Iota chapter.
Marion Rapp and Marjory Horst
mann will play the number.
Other Originals.
The other original numbers afle
written by pledge Maxine Stone.
A music major in Teachers Col
lege, Miss Stone's compositions
which will open the program
include "Nocturne" and "Polka
A quartet composed of Joan Fank
hauser, Del Thomas, Mary Jean
Way and the composer will per
form the numbers.
Two songs appropriate to the
Easter season are also pro
grammed, "Christ Went Up Into
the Hills," a vocal duet, and the
American folk song 'I Wonder as
I Wander" by the ensemble.
Shirley Walsh and Rita Maginn
are the duetists, and Carol Peek
directs the ensemble, which will
also sing "Silhouettes" and "The
Reed," a . sorority song.
'Cello, trumpet' and vocal num
bers comprise the solo numbers.
'Cellist Janet Douthit plays 'Ro-
(See CONCERT, pare 2.)
Vesper Service
At Church Uses
Student Talent
The university singers, under
the direction of Arthur E. West
brook, will participate in vespers
at the First Plymouth Congrega
tional church today at 5 p. m. Dr.
Raymond A. McConnei is minister
of the church.
Participants in the service, from
the university, are: Miss Charlotte
Filter and Roy Edward Johnson,
soloists; Miss Barbara Payne,
pianist; Myron Roberts, organist;
Miles Dresskell, first violinist;
Miss Mary Alice Ziegler, second
violinist; Earnest Harrison, vocal
ist; and Miss Anne Glotz, cellist.
Presentation of the "Requiem"
marks the first time that .the
musical work has been given in
Lincoln. Ninety-six singers are
included in the presentation.
The program:
Fatasy in A Franck
Myron Roberts
Requiem Faure
The enormous stage of the Coli -
seum lent itself beautifully to the
staging 01 mis pageant-nice opera
But the beauty of the Egyptan
scenes will not be the only
memory that Lincolnites will keep
of Friday s performance. The vocal
excellence of each of the six prin
ciples was unusually artistic and
completely pleasing. Altho none
of them could be said to be
"name" stars, each has the mak
ings of great artists. Especial
praise should go to American so
prano Willa Stewart who sang the
title role of Aida. Never straining,
she "projected her clear soprano
so adeptly that every note within
the wide range of the ro"; was
heard throughout the Coliseum.
Her most beautiful aria was the
sad Numi, pieta which ends both
the first and second scenes. In the
aria, Aida bemoans the unhappy
Pub Board Appoints
1945 Awgwan Staff
The university's recently revived humor magazine will
go to press for the second time in the near future with a
permanent staff headed by Phyllis Johnson, editor-in-chief,
according to an appointment made Friday by the publica
tions board.
R Street Frats
Name Goodwin
As Sweetheart
Helen Goodwin danced the first
dance after the intermission of
the Fraternity Spring Ball Friday
night in the Union as Fraternity
Sweetheart with Colonel J. P.
HELEN GOODWIN.
presented as Sweetheart at
Fraternity Spring: Ball.
Murphy, who presented
Goodwin to" the guests.
Miss
Chosen by representatives of
five fraternities from a field of
five coeds, Miss Goodwin was
presented with roses by Colonel
Murphy. She is a member of
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Russel Leger, member of the
dance committee, presented the
other candidates, who were:
Esther Blanchard, Shirley Corsby,
Helen Johnson and Margaret
Munson.
The dance' was given by the
"R" street fraternities. Beta Theta
Pi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma
Delta, Alpha Tau Omega and Del
ta Tau DeltaT
Westhrook Conducts
High School Concert
Arthur E. Westbrook, director
of the school of fine arts, was in
Aurora, Neb., on Wednesday,
where he conducted a choral clinic
for several high schools, organ
ized by the Aurora high school
A concert was given at night.
i situation which divides her loyalty
between her father and Rhadames,
her lover.
Outstanding: Voice.
The resonant basso of Harold
Kravitt as the High Priest, Ramfis,
remained one of the outstanding
voices from the opening scene to
the final scene. His rather wooden
role did not lend itself to the in
terpretive acting as did the role
of Amonasro, the captive Ethio
pian king. Mostyn Thomas cer
tainly made the most of Amonas
ro's part, both dramatically and
vocally. His scene with his daugh
ter, Aida, in the third act was the
best acting of the entire perform
ance on the part of both Amonasro
and. Aida. Here he reveals .his
plans for revenge upon the Fgyp-
(See APl-KcCiATlVE, pag;e 2.)
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Ruth Korb and Bill Miller were
chosen as managing editors, and
F.d Robinson will serve in the
capacity of business and advertis
ing manager. His two assistants
are Bill Olson, business, and
Stuart Goldberg, advertising.
The remaining staff personnel
was selected by the four Awgwan
heads at a meeting Saturday
morning. Included in the staff
are Gaynelle Tusha, exchange;
Margaret Munson, art editor, with
Barbara Mach, Audrey Wallace
and Jean Smith as art staff ; Matt
Russel, Larry Wentz and Jim
McEachen as photographers; Jane
McElhaney, copy editor; Sam
Warren, music editor; Carl Zieg
ler, poetry editor; Marilyn Boett-
cher and Jo Kinsey, fashion ed
itors; Fred Teller, publicity.
Wednesday Deadline.
Wednesday has been set as the
deadline for copy to be printed in
(See PUB BOARD, page 4.)
USO, Red Cross
Ask Coeds' Help
In New Project
Because of the need for girls
to help care for children of serv
icemen who are living in Lin
coln, the War Council is sponsor
ing a baby-sitters project at the
request of the USO and the Red
Cross, according to Ghita Hill,
president of War Council.
The dean of women has the
plan for sophomores, juniors and
seniors. They must conform to ac
cepted university hours and are
asked to give two or more hours
every other week. Girls are
needed for anytime during the
day and they will be called by
the wives when they are needed.
Fees will be 25c per hour.
Letters and registration cards
will be sent to houses Monday
night, according to Alice Abel
and Barbara Griswold, co-chairman.
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Ministers Speak
At Presbyterian
House This Week
Holy week services will be held
daily at tne Presbyterian student
house starting Monday and con
tinuing thru Friday. Program for
the Lenten services is:
Monday Rev. Sam B. Maier
"The Cross and Faith."
Priscilla Flagg student
leader. "
Tuesday Rev. Harold F.
Wonder "The Cross and
Power." Alaska Reed stu
dent leader.
Wednesday Rev. Robert
Drew "The Cross and
Love." Myrlee Holler
student leader.
Thursday Dr. W. F. Perry
"The Cross and Prayer."
Wallace Becker student
leader.
Friday Dr. Arthur L. Miller
"The Cross and Suffering."
Mary Ann Mattoon stu
dent leader.
Rev. R. Warren Speaks
In connection with Holy
Week observances, Rev. Robert
Warren, assistant pastor at St.
Paul's Methodist church, will
speak Monday evening- at 8 in
the faculty lounge of the
Union. While the meetinc is
especially for unaffiliated stu
dents, it Is open to the public.
Hazel Steam. BABW
dent, announced Saturday.