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Vol. 49 Nod. 158
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Friday, June 24, 1949
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XL' ALUM Jack Rank appears
Macbeih in the seccnd of the summer artist series. Rank w ill be
the only cast member in a shortened version of the Shakespearean
drama to be presented at the Union June 29.
Jack Rank Portrays Entire
Cast in Macbeth June 29
A one-man portrayl of Mac
beth will mark the second feat
ure in the summer artist series.
The play will be held in the
Union ballroom June 29 at 7
p.m. The cast will consist of one
man. Jack Rank.
Rank is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Nebraska. He is a
member of the class of 1927. He
All-State Choir
Will Present
Final Concert
The All-State chorus will pre
sent its final conceit in the
Union ballroom at 7:30 p. m. this
Frday.
. Under the direction of Prof.
David Foltz, the chorus will pre
. sent a variety of numbers, rang
ing from music of the fifth cen
tury to a Porter-Warnick version
of ' Blow Gabriel Blow."
The program will be dedicated
to the memory of Norman Bruce
and William Harnsberger, both
former members of All-State.
The parents of these men have
established All-State scholar
ships in their memory. This
year Rosemary Castner and
James Turner are attending All
State on a scholarship fund
established six years ago in Ash
land high school by Mr. and Mrs.
W .E. HarnsbergQr.
The chorus will be accom
panied by Dorothy Schneider
and Jean Leisy, university stu
dents who are acting as coun
cilors for the All-Staters.
Immediately following the
choru program, transcription
will be cut of the band and
chorus. This transcription will
be made in the ballroom. It will
be heard over WOW on June 26
at 3:30 p. m.
The choral concert includes:
Caligaverunt Oeuli Mei (1540
1611) Victoria; O Man Thy Grief
and Sin Bemoan, Williams; All
Glory Be to God on High, 5th
Century Gregorian Melody-Ma-lin.
Chorus,
A Dream, Grieg Trio.
A Little Song of Life, Malotte
Trio.
Matona, Charming Maiden,
English-Di Lasso; Go 'Way From
My Window, Kentucky-Niles;
Charlottown, Southern-Bryan
Conducted by Mr. Morris Hayes,
Scottsbluff, Nebraska,
Black Is the Color of My True
Love's Hair, Appalachian
Churchill; A Merry Christmas,
West Country English-Warrell
Chorus.
Celtic Lullaby, Robertson
Triple trio.
Which Is the Properest Day to
Sing? Aine-Anderson; I'm Fall
See "CHORUS,- Pare 4. i
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above as Macbeth and as Lady
was associated with the drama
tics department and later went
into professional work.
RANK RETURNS to his alma
mater as a part of an extra
curricular service sponsored
jointly by the Union and the
summer session committee.
He will portray 16 different
charatcrs in his shortened ver
sion of the classic. They range
frorrr Ikfacbcih to a gentlewo
women. A master of the quick
change. Rank is renown for his
portrayal of as many as three
different characters, requiring
complete recosl uming, in the
same scene.
DESIGNING ALL his own
costumes. Rank also handles
his own scenery and props.
In his perfomance Rank will
play the following parts: the
witches, Duncan, Macbeth, Ban
quo, Lady Macbeth, a porter,
Macduff, a gentlewoman and a
doctor. He will use cutting from
acts I, II and III.
Preceding Rank's evening per
formance, the Lnion will spon
sor a 4 o'clock coffee hour. The
hour will provide an opportunity
for students and faculty mem
bers to meet Jack Rank.
The performance is free of
charge.
Congress May
Grant University
65 Thousand
Nebraskan Representative Carl
Curtis stated in Washington Tues
day that he expects the house
administration committee ap
proval this week of his bill to
allot $65,000 to the University of
Nebraska, for paleontological re
search.
The interior department funds
would be used for research on
areas in Nebraaska to be flooded
by federal dams. The bill was
approved by a subcommittee last
week.
Mr. Curtis said "marked sav
ings" would result thru the uni
versity's co-operation.
"In the Medicine creek reser
vior are, some of the sites will be
flooded, at least partially, by . Au
gust of this year," he added.
"Therefore, speed in approving
these funds is essential if some of
the world's most important scien
tific data and specimens are to be
salvaged."
Presby House . .
I n t e rdenon inational services
this week will be held at Presby
house at 5:30 p. m., June 26. The
topic is "Education for Failure,"
a discussion of the use of charac
ter. Luncheon will b terved for
23 cents.
Well peim Sessooinis
Don Lobirairy Jinn one
Exams Knock
Out iV.Y. Student
Exams can be taketi too seri
ously! A case in point the red
headed high school girl in New
York City, who plunged to her
death from the window of a high
school washroom Monday, a few
minutes before she was to have
taken her regents examination in
geometry.
Teachers described the girl,
Dorothy Donner, 15, as an ex
ceptionally bright student. She
had recently received psychiatric
treatment at Bellcvue Hospital.
Uni Theater
Chooses Noel
Coward Plav
Noel Coward's sparkling com
edy. Hay Fever has been chosen
as the University Theater's sum
mer production. Max Whittakcr,
director, announced. The play is
a lively, fast-paced comedy built
on a series of climactic incidents
which relate the events of a week
end with the Bliss family.
The family lives a free sort of
life which can best be described
as ultra-Bohemian. It includes
Judith, the mother, a retired ac
tress to whom all the world is
literally a stage: David, her hus
band, novelist; Sorel, their daugh
ter, and Simon, their son, both
good-looking, but ill-mannered.
THE PLAY REVOLVES around
the fact that each member of the
family casually announces one
Saturday alternoon that he is ex
pecting a guest for the weekend.
As might be foreseen, this com
plicates matters somewhat, and
various amusing and romantic
scenes follow. Each member of
the family pairs off with some
one else's guest, not surprising the
rest of the family, but greatly con
fusing the guests.
The three-act comedy has a cast
of nine four men and five wo
men and will be given on July 21
in the Union ballroom.
Tryouts will be held on Monday
and Tuesday, June 27 and 28, from
3 to 5 o'clock p. m. in Room 201
at the Temple. Scripts arc avail
able for advance study in Whit
takers office in the Temple. Any
one registered in summer school
is eligible to attend tryouts.
All-State Enters
Final Stages
A big week of concerts and
programs is in store for All
Staters.
The 256 boys and girls from
all parts of Nebraska who have
been taking part in the Univer
sity's fine arts course for high
school students will wind-up
their activities during the com
ing week.
In addition to the choral con
cert tonight, music students will
present an orchestral concert at
3 p. m. Sunday in the Union
ballroom. At 7:30 p. m., that
same day, speech students will
give the first of two one-act
plays.
At 1 p. m. on Monday, the
All-State band will parade
throughdowotown Lincoln. That
evening the plays will be con
tinued at 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday will feature debates
at 2 p. m. and a band concert at
7:30 p. m.
AU-Staters will get together
Thursday for a final banquet and
a final concert, to be held in the
Coliseum. The concert will com
bine all three musical groups.
Deputy Director of Argonne
Laboratory to Discuss Atom
What is the fate of atomic energy?
This subject will be discussed by national experts at
the summer session's second all-University clinic, which
opens June 28. The clinic is the second in a series of three,
designed to bring important national and international is
sues to the student.
The clinic's title, "A Calendar for Atomic Energy,"
clearly suggests its nature.
IT WILL open at noon on June 28 with a luncheon.
Chancellor R. G. Gustavson will preside at the luncheon
which will be held in the Union. At the luncheon faculty
members will hear Norman Hilberry, deputy director of
Argonne National laboratory, who will be the conference's
main speaker.
A native of Ohio, Hilberry attended Oberlin College
and the University of Chicago. Hilberry began his 30-year
career in the field of physics at Chicago University, where
he was an instructor in that subject.
LATER he was associated with New York University.
In 1941 Hilberry accepted a position with the U. S. state
department. In this capacity he worked with a cosmic ray
expedition to South America. In 1942 he was made asso
ciate director of the metallurgical project which was con
nected with atomic research. Until 1946 Hilberry was asso
ciated with various phases of atomic work.
He was appointed associate director of the Argonne
laboratory after the war and later became deputy director.
Hilberry will discuss the progress and future of atomic
research from the laymen's point of view. He will also ex
plain its significance from 'a sociological aspect.
He will address the student body in Love Library at
7:30 p.m. He will also speak at a forum to be held in the
library Tuesday at 9 a.m. The forums will feature a hort
talk by Hilberry and a question and answer period for
students.
THE ATOMIC ENERGY clinic is the second in a series
of summer session extra-curricular activities. The first,
held two weeks ago, dealt with the United Nations and
featured John Fletcher-Cooke, British delegate to the UN
trusteeship council.
The third clinic of the series will deal with Missouri
river development. It will be held in July and will assume
the same form as preceeding clinics.
Hilsberry will be aided in his discussion of atomic en
ergy by Howard Baldwin, also of Argonne Laboratory, and
Hew Roberts, professor of education at the University of
Iowa.
University Denies Opposition
To Normal School Decree Bill
The University of Nebraska and
the University of Nebraska Alum
ni association made clear Wed
nesday that they are not the
sponsors, directly or indirectly, of
a proposed referendum to over
ride a 1949 legislative act giving
Nebraska State Teachers colleges
the right to grant liberal arts de
grees. Statements came simultaneously
from Chancellor R. G. Gustavson
and from W. V. "Bill" Day, Lin
coln, president of the Alumni as
sociation. The Chancellor's state
ment carried the endorsement of
the Board of Regents.
BOTH STATEMENTS said the
University of Nebraska and its
Alumni association are taking no
part in the proposed referendum
and warned that solicitors or pe
tition circulators have no author
ity to assert or imply the Univer
sity is back of their efforts.
"The University of Nebraska
has never taken an official po
sition either for or against the
granting of liberal arts degree by
the the State Teachers Colleges,"
the Chancellor said. "The Uni
versity administration believes the
granting of liberal arts degrees by
the State Teachers Colleges is a j
matter for the State, not the Uni
versity of Nebraska, to decide.
"During the Legislature's de
liberations on the liberal arts bill,
no representative of the University
appeared either in favor of, or op
posed to the measure.
"THE FACT THAT the Legis
lature saw Tit to authorize the
State Teachers Colleges to grant
liberal arts degrees does not
change the University's position
on this question," Chancellor Gus
tavson said.
Mr. Day said:
"Recent press reports have in
dicated that the University of Ne
braska Alumni association is spon
soring a referendum to revoke
the authority of Nebraska State
Teachers Colleges to grant liberal
arts degrees.
"The Association has never dis
cussed or authorized such a move.
Certainly, we are not opposed to
the democratic process of refer
endum but the Association has
not endorsed, or even discussed,
repeal by referendum of the new
law giving the State Teachers Col
leges the right to gr-U liberal rU
degrees."