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Vol. 47 No. 37
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Wednesday, November 13, 1946
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One-Act Play Casts
Named by Theatre
In final tryouts Monday night.
casts were selected for "Gloria
Mundi" and "He," two one-act
plays to be presented by the uni
versity experimental theatre Dec.
5 in the studio theatre.
"Gloria Mundi," under the di
rection of Dorothea Duxbury,
takes place In an insane asylum.
The plot is set in the reception
room where a strange assortment
of people meet to discuss the ac
tivities of the institution. The cast
includes: Gertrude Cloit as Miss
Jebb, a nurse; Norm Leger as
Robert Cartwell, a doctor; Lorma
Bullock as Virginia Blake; Gladys
Jackson as Mrs. Farnsworth; Jim
Welch as Mr. LJoyd, and Mercedes
James as Miss Dunn.
"He" Setting.
The setting for "lie," Eugene
Italian Guest
Pianist Will
Play Sunday
Pianist Mario Braggiotti, who
will appear as guest artist with
the university orchestra in the
Union ballroom Sunday, has
played for the wounded of two
world wars during an outstanding
international musical career.
Born in Florence, Italy, Brag
giotti was the son of American
MARIO BRAGGIOTTI
parents both of whom were sing
ers. He, and seven brothers and
sisters, took" naturnlly to the at
mosphere of music with which
they were surrounded.
Played for World War I Men.
When World War I came, Brag
giotti's mother became a nurse
in an Italian hospital and he
See ITALIAN, pare 4.
Ball Announces
Revised System
InUnioiiBridge
Dale Ball, supervisor of Union
activities, has announced a re
vised contract bridge program to
accomodate both beginners and
advanced contract players.
A series of five advanced con
tract classes has been planned
with the first class to be held
tomorrow afternoon at 4 in room
313 in the Union. Two classes in
contract fundamentals will be held
for beginners in the same room
tomorrow at 5. and Thursday,
Nov. 21st.
In the second monthly con
tract tournament sponsored by
the Union Saturday, Vern Holmes
and Ben Karas were awarded
prizes as the winning team. Wil
liam Tyson and Jerome Druliner
were the runners-up.
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-AW
O'Nein's drama of an Arctic sea
voyage", is aboard a whaling
schooner, the Arctic Queen. Wear
ied by two long and monotonous
years at sea, the crew members
as well as the skipper's wife be
come intensely dissatisfied and at
tempt to persuade the captain to
turn back. The captain, set on
getting his usual full cargo of ile,
is determined to stay on until
enough whales are captured to
supply the large amount of ile for"
which he has won fame mmong
other whaleboat skippers.
Dean Graunke, director, will
have as his cast: Herb Spence,
steward; G. Bergoffen, Ben; John
Wenstrand, Captain Keeney; Har
old Anderson, mate; MaryO'Don
nell, Mrs. Keeney; Milton Surface,
Joe, and Shirley Sabin and Mark
Wittenberg, crew members.
Architects
Build Scale
City Model
Plans for a civic planning proj
ect have been adopted by the
policy committee of the Architec
tural Society of the university.
The intent of the project is to
study various phases of city plan
ning in Lincoln.
The proposal, suggested by John
H. Chalmers, secretary of the so
ciety, entails the building of scale
model of the city of Lincoln ap
proximately 12 feet square. This
archetype will have a two-fold
ourpose, primarily as a laboratory
for comprehensive long range
study of the future development
problems of Lincoln, and secondly
as a display for Engineers' Week,
.being observed from April 28 to
May 3, 1947.
f Smith Directs.
Under the direction of Prof,
Linus R. Smith, students in city
planning will use this miniature
representation for research and
for development of pictorial and
statistical material covering vari
ous pertinent problems confront
ing the city. The extent and ar
rangement of zoning, traffic, in
dustrial sites, low income housing
nlus a survey of school, church.
shopping and amusement centers
will be analyzed and interpreted
Vets Broadcast
Religious Views
On Air Tonite
The weekly radio broadcast,
"Veteran's Views," sponsored by
the Veteran's Organization will be
held from 6:30 to 7 p. m. this
evening in room 201 Temple. This
is a change from the regular time
of 7:30 p. m.
"Is Organized Religon Accept
ing its Challenge?" will be the
question discussed on tonight's
program, which is in keeping with
the spirit of Religious Emphasis
week on the university campus.
Speakers on the program are to
be Father Obrist, pastor of the
Holy Family Church; Rabbi Jolt,
director of the Tiforeth Israel
Synagogue; and Dr. Reinehardt,
chairman of the university's So
ciology department.
Letters inviting interested peo
ple to attend the broadcast and to
take part in veterans' discussions
on imporant issues were sent to
88 pastors in Lincoln and were
read in churches last Sunday. It
is for this reason that an unusu
ally large audience is expected to
attend the discussion.
After the program a regular,
meeting of the Veteran's Organ
ization will be held.
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Five Section
RecitalQiven
By Students
Following last week's senior re
cital in the school of music stu
dent recital series today's depart
mental recital will be held simul
taneously in five sections in the
Temple and School of Music. A
total of 61 vocal and instrumental
students will take part. The
sections, which begin at 4 p. m.,
are open to the public.
The room numbers for each
section and a few typical selec
tions are as follows:
Voice, Temple 24: Among the
27 titles are "A Little China Fig
ure," Shirley Stapleton; "Chere
Nuit," Cleve Genzlinger; "Let All
My Life Be Music," Betty
Bracken; "The Night Has a Thou
sand Eyes," Donna Jean Wage
man; and Grieg's "I Love Thee,"
Joan Elliot.
Piano, School 11: Nine stu
dents will play selections includ
ing a Chopin "Polonaise," Pat
Lee; "Claire du lune," Marilyn
Voorhees ;and "Prelude in Me
morium to Rachmaninoff," Mar
jorie Squire.
Organ, School 105: From five
organ numbers are Karg-Elert's
"Pastel," Mary Alice Peterson;
"Exultemus," faculty member
Mary Berner; and a Bach
"Chorale and Variation," Dora
Lee Niedenthal.
Wind instruments, Temple 103:
A flute trio, brass sextette and
brass quartet will be featured
from 11 selections for trumpet,
trombone, French horn, flute and
clarinet.
Strings, School 17: Movements
from two Handel sonatas will be
played by Pat Felger and Shirley
Lafhn. Four other students will
offer sonata and concerto excerpts.
Today's is the third depart
mental recital of the year.
Position Open
On Ag Student
Union Board
Any Ag student interested In
serving on the Ag Union Advis
ory committee are to apply with
Mrs. Richard E.'Hiatt at the city
campus union office, Mrs. Hiatt
announced.
The purpose of the board is to
plan union activities. On the board
so far are Mr. Gooding, agron
omy department; Mary Guthrie, of
the home ec department; LoiS
Opper, graduate student who
served on the union board of
managers; Ned Raun, of the Ag
Ex board; and Marrianne Srb, cf
the Home Ec club.
Veter-Aims, New
Service Women's
Club Meets Tonite
Veter-Anns, newly -formed
group if ex-service women on
campus will elect a secretary and
treasurer at their third meeting,
tonite at the Methodist Student
House.
Originally scheduled for 6:30,
the meeting will be at 7 p.m. in
order that those who wish, may
hear "Veteran's Views," according
to Ula Scholl, chairman.
Organization for future -meet
ings will be discussed, and in
structions about ticket sales for
the veteran's organization ban
quet November 23 will be given.
One of America's foremost authors, historians, and
journalists will speak this afternoon at 3 p. m. when Ber
nard DeVoto addresses a student convocation in the Union
ballroom on "The Maturity of American Literature."
This is a topic with which Mr. DeVoto is familiar. He
it
Means UutUnes
Student Health
Service Plans
In order that students may
understand their health service,
Louis E. Means, director of Stu
dent Physical Welfare, has re
leased the following outline of
services and schedules.
1. The student clinic closes at
5 p. m. daily and et 12 noon on
Saturday. If the clinic is closed,
students should call 2-2216 in an
emergency. A nurse will then tel
ephone for them and arrange for
needed services, altho nurses are
not available on off hours to call
at campus homes.
2. A full time nurse, Miss Mary
Fager, will be available to the
women's Residence halls and to
students who cannot reach the
pharmacy building. She will also
make daily routine calls at other
nearby women's dormitories.
Ag Health.
3. Dr. Samuel Feunning wil be
at the Health service in Ag Ac
tivities building from 1 to 2 daily,
Tuesday thru Friday. Dr. Ruth
Warner's office hours there will
remain 8 to 8:45 a. m. daily.
4. Two physicians will try to be
on duty at almost all hours at
Student Health.
5 .From 5 to 6 p. m. during in
tramural athletics, emergency tel
ephone service to Dr. Feunning
will be available. Students must
betar the cost of this special med
ical service call.
Ad Solicitors
Students are needed to solicit
ads for the Daily Nebraskan.
This is an opportunity for stu
dents to gain practical expe
rience in the advertising field,
in addition to earning: money.
All ad solicitors earn a ten per
cent commission. Persons
should apply to J. C. Van Lan
dingham, business manager of
the Daily Nebraskan, Tuesday
at 3 p. m.
Church Leaders Will
Address Convocation
Highlighting Religion in Life
Week activities today will be an
interfaith convocaiton at 7:30 p. m.
in tlv Union ballroom, with Dr.
Amos Thornburg, of Grace
Methodist Church, St Louis,
Father Edward Tuchck, Holy
Rosary Church, Plattsmouth, and
Rabbi Samuel Wohl, Isaac M.
Wise Temple, Cincinnati, discuss
ing the topic, "How My Faith
Makes a Difference in the Way I
Live."
Dr. Thornburg, who will repre
sent the Protestant faith, is popu
lar among university church
groups, and has been active in Re
ligious Emphasis Weeks in various
schools. During the time he was
minister at a Methodist church in
Providence, R. I., he was a radio
minister.
Father Tuchek, representing the
Catholic faith, was an assistant
at St. Mary's Cathedral, Lincoln,
before being transferred to Platts
mouth. He conducted Religious
Emphasis Week on the campus
for Catholic students two years
ago. 1
Rabbi Wohl.
Rabbi Wohl, presenting the
Jewish faith, has traveled exten
was one of the earliest and most
persistent opponents of a literary
BERNARD DE VOTO
belief common in the "twenties"
that American literature was im
mature and unimportant. DeVoto
See DE VOTO, page 2.
AER, National
Radio Society,
Initiates Five
MU chapter of Alpha Epsilon
Rho, national honorary radio fra
ternity, was recently installed on
the campus by Miss Betty Girling
of the University of Minnesota
who is the national vice presi
dent of Alpha Epsilon Rho.
After the installation services,
president of local chapter, presided
at an initiation ceremony for five
new members: Pat Lathen
Pat Heynen, B. J. Holcomb, Gloria
McDermott, and Dorthea Dux
bury. Nev? pledges to Alpha Epsilon
Rho are : Mimi Hahn, Shirley
Eskilsen, Pat Guhin, Margaret
Hancock, and Henry Lee.
Bud Levison is vice president
of the organization; Marilyn
Davis, secretary; and Bill Line,
treasurer. The faculty advisor
for the organization is Paul
Bogan.
sively in Germany, France, Italy,
Egypt, Poland, Russia and Pales
tine. He is associate editor of
"Jewish Frontier," and spent the
past summer in South America as
a representative of the Jewish
Press.
The Rev. Samuel B. Maier,
Presbyterian student pastor on the
campus, will preside at the convo
cation. Another special feature of to
day's program is the transcription
of "Veteran's View," forum pro
gram to be broadcast over KFAB
Saturday at 10:30 p. m. The topic
for discussion on the program
which will be transcribed from
Room 201 Temple at 6:30 p. m.,
will be "Is Organized Religion
Accepting Its Challenge?"
Taking part in the forum will
be Dr. John O. Nelson, director of
the commission on the ministry, of
the Federal Council of Churches;
Father Lawrence Obrist, chaplain
of the local Amei'can Legion
Post; Rabbi Harry .sblt, director
of the Hillel Foundation on the
campus; Dr. James Rinehardt,
head of the university sociology
department on the campus. Paul
See CHURCH, pae 2.
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