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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, March 9, 1949
Alliance Francaise (Students Get
Fresentera Comedie
"Le Tabiaue Taboque," French
comedy by Marcelle Capron, will
be presented by the Alliance
Franchise Wednesday at 7:30 p. m.
in the Love library auditorium.
The pla,y, winner of a 1938
priza competition, is under the di
rection of Scleuk Demet, student
from Turkey.
THE CAST of the comedy con
sists of four members of the Al
liance. Claude Hannezo, French
exchange student, will play the
part of Monsieur Castagne, a re
tired, henpecked lawyer whose
desires for the pleasure cf life
are constantly frustrated by an
overbearing wife. Castagne's wife
will be played by Mrs. Mimi
Telle. Madame Castagne is a
woman whose justification in life
is to guide, to her satisfaction,
her poor, unfortunate husband
dcnvn life's rocky road.
Gillette, niece and summer
ihsL
by Frank Jacobs
Ciimpus dramatic circles are
again taking it on the chin. First
it was the banning of the Temple
auditorium for University Thea
tre production. This meant a
hasty maneuver to the Nebraska
Vesleyan Plainsman Theatre
which has resulted in a conglom
eration of dates, debates and re
bates. Now, the Experimental Thea
tre, last stage left untouched on
campus, has been purged. Due
to a pre-war administration rul
ing preventing freshmen from
participating in extra-curricular
activities, no first-year student
can work in any theatrical pro
duction outside of class work.
This final, seemingly ir
revocable, action by the Com
mittee on Student Organizations
and Social Functions has visibly
eaten a lftige hole in the long
range dramatic building program
at the Temple. From now on.
no freshman will be able to par
ticipate in any staged produc
tion. In a letter explaining its action
to the speech department, the
committee acknowledged, "The
results will be disappointing, but
the committee feels that in the
long run it will go down to the
credit and advantage of not only
the University Players and the
Experimental Theatre but also
the University."
This writer does not sec the
same results. Instead, the follow
ing consequences:
1. The Experimental Theatre
serves as a stepping stone for
freshmen and new students for
climbing to the realm of the Uni
versity Theatre. This stepping
stone has been removed.
2. Ambituous and talented
actors and actresses must wait an
entire year before they may par
ticipate in any play.
3. The drawing power of the
dramatic department for first
year students of theatrical caliber
has been drastically reduced.
It is hoped that the committee,
realizing the present state of af
fairs in the Experimental Thea
tre, will revise the rule to en
able capable and scholastically
qualified first-year students to
realize at least a part of their
dramatic ambitions.
guest of the Castagnes, will be
played by Mrs. Daisy Georgescu.
Gillette's beauty and agreeable
temperament have made her the
center of the social set. Walter
Willi, exchange student, will play
the part of Francois, Gillette's
fellow medical student, who has
attracted the attention of both
Gillette and hor aunt.
GILLETTE IS afraid that the
constant quarrels between her
aunt and uncle will discourage
Francois in any intentions he
might have of marrying her. The
Castagnes, in a "put-up" show of
sweet conjugal life, bring Fran
cois to the belief that he will be
unable to live a life of pure hap
piness such as the older couple
apparently live.
Francois fortunately becomes
witness to a quarrel which occurs
when the Castagnes fall out of
their roles. Relieved, Francois ex
plains his conception of conjugal
life: the give and take, the sweet
with the bitter, the "tablique
taboque" a concept which Gil
lette will divide with him.
The performance, which will
last over an hour, will be open
to the public. It will be in cos
Itume and modern stage setting,
j Admission charge is 25 cents.
V Slas lo Party
Tonight at Temple
YM stag party will be held on
Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.
m., in the Temple building. All
male students, members and non
members have been invited.
Dave Kcene is in charge of the
games, and Hal Scheidt, the sing
ing. Bill Reuter, YM president,
will welcome the guests and Hal
Nebelsiek will explain the entire
Y program.
Tentative plans are being made
to have Coach Harry Good give
a talk and show basketball movies.
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University Bases Budget Raise
On Vet Enrollment Distribution
The University has explained
its request for a 20 per cent in
crease in its operating budget in
terms of veteran enrollment and
distribution.
Many Nebraska men returned
from World War II to enter the
University. The pre-war average
enrollment was 2,000 freshmen,
1,400 sophomores, 1,300 juniors,
950 seniors and 425 grads. Dur
ing 1943-'44 enrollment dropped
to 1,295 freshmen, 453 sophomores,
417 juniors, 441 seniors and 151
grads.
ITON THE return of veterans,
the University took steps to meet
problems of immediate staff ex
pansion, books, supplies, housing
and other details. The buik of the
vets in 1944 were in the fresh
man class which numbered 5,259.
Sophomores numbered 1,405; jun
iors, 1,428; seniors, 951; and grads,
518.
The veteran is still the domi
nant figure on the campus today.
There are enough of them for
five and one-half full-strength in
fantry battalions. This is over
half of the student enrollment.
But the weight of veteran en
rollment has shifted to the upper
classes. In 1947 the bulge of vet
erans was at the freshman and
sophomore level. Freshman en
rollment stood at 3,576; sophomore
enrollemnt increased to 2,133. Jun
ior, senior and grad classes num
bered 1,883, 1,565 and 655, re
spectively. TODAY the bulge is in the jun
ior and senior classes. Junior and
senior class enrollment stands at
2,251 and 1,864. Freshman enroll
ment dropped to 2,913, and sopho
mores number 1,462. Grad enroll
ment is 712. (These figures do
not include Colleges of Medicine
and Denistry.)
It is in the upper classes that
instructional costs are greater.
This is because upper class sub
jects are more specialized, and
classes must be broken up into
smaller groups. Instructional costs
per student per classroom hour
are: Freshmen and sophomores, 32
cents; juniors, 52 cents; seniors,
54 cents; and grads, $2.63.
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Did someone, say today's
college campus has the new
look? You said a megaphone-full,
brother. Our
old rah-rah brethren of the
raccoon twenties and fran
tic thirties would hardly recognize it.
These days, Joe College
and Betty Co-ed are fre
quently Mr. and Mrs., with
junior minding the Quon
set hut.
20th century- fox has come up
with a novel and delightful twist
on the new theme with a charm
ing contribution entitled "Mother
is a Freshman." And this 1949
version of Alma Mater turns out
to be Loretta Yeufhg.
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Hold that wolf-whistle, Fra
ternity Row! Because what we
didn't tell you is that mother
the college widow has a full
fledged sophomore daughter at
tending the same school. Okay,
wolves . . . whistle!
Intriguing? The
plot really starts to
perk when they both
go after the same
guy. Who's the lucky boy? He looks like Van
Johnson! He it Van Johnson! And wh
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get a liberal education in an insti
tution of higher yearning! Even the
Technicolor tells tales out of school.
Color by TRCHNICOLOR with RUDY VALLEE BARBARA
LAWRENCE Robert Arthur Betty Lynn Oriff Barnett
Kathleen Hughe Directed by LLOYD BACON Produced by
WALTER MOROSCO Screen Play by Mary Loot and Richard
ale Baaed on Story by Raphael Blau
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