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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, December. 17, 1947j
Straight
Stuff
By Hue Lilly and Susie Reed
Up and coming musician on the
campus is Walt Davis. Knowing
that practice makes perfect. Mae
stro Davis puts in many hours
with his horn. Or is it Walt's horn
that takes up so much of his time
and makes him so beet red around
the mouth?
Where do Kappa pledge Mary
Ryons and Beta Bill Siboldt spend
their Tuesday, afternoons? Mary';
room-mate Jan Graves also takes
off the same day to entertain eli
gible bachelor Nome Anderson,
Christmas Candy.
When the word got around that
Santa was paying an early visit
to little Robert LeRoy Cochrane
last bunday, Bobs little friends
hurried over to place their or
ders. Christmas joy was bubbling
over out Cochrane way as the
kiddies saw the surprise Santa
had for them in his pack.
And Santa was also on hand in
a red union suit for the Alpha Xi
Xmas party. After entertaining
the delighted kiddies there, the
red-nosed little fellow called his
roly-poly reindeer and went back
to the D. U. house.
But Wheeler couldn't wait till
tinsel time to give his Christmas
gift to Kappa pledge Pris Knud
sen and Tuesday night he pre
sented her with a sparkling Sig
Alph pin. Several of Bud s broth
ers are holding back with their
pins to hang them on Christmas
trees later.
Recovery.
The Alpha Xi's enjoyed a candy
cane passing Monday night when
Jeanne Ann McLaughlin an
nounced that she was one again
in possession of Herb Frandsen's
pin. It seems that Jeanne Ann
was feeling poetic ealier in the
day and composed a poem appro
priate for a candy passing. She
could hardly be expected to let
such talent go to waste, and when
she saw Herb at her four o'clock,
she recovered the pin. Herb wore
old clothes over to the Sig Alph
house that night, but his brothers
not having recuperated from the
week-end were walking around
with their eyes closed, and were
unaware of what had taken place.
Tears were in order for Sig
Chi John Anderson when his pin
was returned last week. But Cas
anova Anderson was not one to
be stuck with his pin, and within
24 hours he had hung it again on
the same sweater.
Theta Xi's and their dates en
joyed their anual Christmas din
ner at their house last Saturday.
After dinner the party migrated
to the Cornhusker for the annual
Theta Xi Christmas formal.
I to-
Cosmo Club.
Cosmopolitan Club meeting on
Wednesday at 7 p. m., in Parlor
A, Union.
The following material for stor
ies must be in by January 9th if
it is to be used in the Cornhusker.
GIFT WRAP
Large aunt, to choose from
Ribbons, tags, seals, enclosures.
Goldenrod Stationery Store
215 North 14th Street
CHRISTMAS
HINTS
From lloijall
Beautiful Gifts to Gladden
the Heart on
Xmas Morning!
Diamond Watches
$39.75 up
Telechron Radios $31.95
Kreisler Costume
Jewelry $5.95 up
Dresser Sets $32.50
Eversharp pens $3.95 up
Elfin watches $35.00 up
Westclox clocks $3.25 up
Community and
1847 Rogers Bros.
Silverware $49.50 up
City Symphony Opens Season
With Beethoven9 s 6 Pastoral9
BY SAM WARREN.
In its first appearance of the
season, the Lincoln Symphony Or
chestra under its new director,
Rudolph Fellner, provided its au
dience of students and townspeo
ple with a musical evening that
had its ups and downs, to say the
least, ranging as it did from Bee
thovens delightful and pictorial
"Pastoral'; symphony to all man
ner of Vienese, Slavonic and Lat
in danme rhytms.
Pupil of the eminent conductor
Felix Weingartner. Fellner proved
himself remarkably capable un
der the limitations afforded by the
60-piece orchestra (whose high
standing reputation as a semi
professional orchestra, he said on
Monday, had reached him in Chi
cago prior to his engagement as
its conductor). Apparently well
acquainted with the requirements
of the various compositions, Fell
ner sought straight-forward in
terpretations from his players,
one-third of whom, incidentally,
are university personnel.
Despite disappointingly unen-
thusiastic rounds of applause it
received, the Beethoven symph
ony which formed the first por
tion of the concert was the choice
offering of the program. Particu
larly outstanding were the indi
vidual solo passages within the
general framework, with oboe an
swering flue, and clarinet reply
ing to French horn.
Altho the nuances were for from
finely drawn, the shading intent
was generally well balanced, and
the prevailing moods of cheerful
ness, tranquility, rustic gaiety and
content were adequately con
veyed. Mr. Fellner's seating ar
rangement, placing first and sec
ond violins on either side of his
podium with the cellos in the mid
dle, may have helped achieve the
tonal balance of strings.
The thing to get excited over
about the Beethoven work is the
mere fact that it was attempted
all. The sheer musical worth of
a first-rate symphonic composi
tion (however compromisingly
played) is preferably to a finished
performance of the musically
mediocre fare that symphony pa
trons have put up with in recent
years. To Conductor Fellner and
the symphony board (which
chooses the numbers to be
played), ten bravissimos for encouragement.
Most ably-handled of the re
maining four compositions with
Saint-Saens' fanciful graveyard
merry-maker, "Danse Macabre,"
whose subtelties and eerie tonali
ties (with skeletal xylaphone ef
fects and all) revealed the or
chestra's capabilities. Responsible
for the thunderous applause
which Johann Strauss's "Die Fle
dermaus" overture received was
its zest and lilting fervor.
A similar nationalistic bravado
was clearly evident in Dvorak's
trio of Slavonic dances which pro-
'Commerce Group
Hears FBI Agent
. James L. Dalton, special agent
in charge of the Omaha oifice
of the FBI, gave an interesting
account of the varied functions
of the agency in war and peace
at a dinner meeting of Delta
Sigma Pi, professional commerce
fraternity, Monday night in the
Union.
The speaker said that his office
periodically accepts applications
from those interested in special
agent training. The basic re
quirements are that the man hold
a college degree (the former law
degree requirement has been re
laxed), be between the ages of
25 and 40, and be in sound phys
ical condition.
Stressing that the bureau's
work involved not only investigat
ing violations and apprehending
violators of federal laws but the
protection of each citizen's civil
rights and liberties. Dalton re
viewed the details of a number of
prominent cases, chief among
these being the apprehension of
eight nazi saboteurs who landed
from a submarine on the east
coast during the war . with the
intent of disrupting operations in
war plants.
vided the triangle player a hey
day he surely will not forget.
Contemporary Darius Milhaud's
"Le Bal Martiniquais," with its
use of jazz and South American
idiom, was unfortunately too
much for this orchestra to handle,
though the addition of current
musical thought was welcome.
This Week
In The Union
12:00
4:00
5:00
5:30
6:00
7:00
8:00
12:00
4 :O0
5:00
7:00
7:30
7:45
5.00
6:00
Union
T3iirhiay, Dec. TTT
Phi Alpha Delta, Parlor
Christian Fellowship, Koom 31$ '
Student Council, Koom 316
Phi Chi Theta. Koom 313
Dental Faculty, Parlor B
Department of Puhlic Welfare, Par
lora XYZ
Alpna Kappa Psl, Room 313
Hinma Eta Chi, Room 316
HiMperia, Parlor
Cosmopolitan Club. Parlor A
Dami'a Bridge Class. Faculty Lounfr
Architect Wives. Room 315
Thursday, Dec. 18.
Sinfonia, Parlor X
Variety Matinee, Ballroom
F.ntineerinK Exec. Board, Room 316
Union Employees' Christmas Party
Union Closed to Puhlic
Gamma Delta, Room 315
Christian Science, Room 31
Intervarsity Piano, Room 313
Spanish Club, Room 316
Friday, Dec. 19.
Hlllel. Parlors XY
Chinese Group, Parlors BC
Saturday, Dee. 20.
closes to re-open January S, 1948.
Freshmen Criticize Instruction
A report from the senior high
college relations conferences in
dicates that instruction was one
of the important topics discussed.
Freshmen had criticized college
profs who teach introductory
courses and "frighten the lone
some, homesick, bewildered stu
dent by threatening to fail a cer
tain number in the class and tell
ing him to take it or leave it."
Other criticisms include failing
to synchronize lecture notes with
lab, no orientation regarding ob
jectives of the course, and giv
ing mid-term and final exams ex
clusively as a basis for grading.
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