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LJ SUU
Vol. 49 No. 163
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Friday, July 15, 1949
The Man Behind
The Man Behind
Those Footlights
As they sit backstage during
one of those brief moments wnen
they are not very, very busy,
crew members sometimes smile
and wonder if anyone in that
auidence beyond the blazing foot
lights realize that there are other
people back of the scenery be
sides the actors waiting to go on.
In a few, very few productions,
the director reminds the audience
by letting crews take a curtain
call or by being very radical and
leaving the curtain up between
scenes so that the audience can
watch the organization and effi
ciency of a stage crew changing
sets. But these occasions are rare,
for the crews are the original
"unsung heroes." This is as it
should be, in a way, for a show
is considered a flop if many peo
ple come backstage to congratu
late i director on the sets or the
lighting. "The play's the thing"
and if the illusion is well-created,
the audience will have only a
vegue remembrance of the- tech
nical work and will retain the im
pression of the play as a whole.
IT'S INTERESTING to the
story back of a story in some
cases, however, and there's a lot
of amusing and unusual events
that happen during preparation
for a show that an audience never
sees.
Like if you'd happened to walk
down the alley back , of the
Temple on a sunny afternoon last
week. You would have seen Milt
Hoffman, doubling in brass as
both a cast member and a mem
ber of the construction crews,
and Dennis Vernon, last seen in
the cast of Iue Unto Caesar, but
a newcomer to the field of stage
construction, with a hose and
scrub brush in hand, scrubbing
layers of paint from a frencn
door. Watch for that piece it
will be in the back corner of the
stage and painted cream when
you see it in Hay Fever.
UPSTAIRS, ON the fire escape
you could have seen Ginny Sea
crest, ex-Wave and a master of
the art of using a ratmhet screw
driver, and Christine Phillips, an
other cast member doing double
duty, "taking a break" from
building and coverning the sets.
Inside, executing a neat pirouette,
with tack hammer in hand was
Ruth Ann Richmond, sound man
ager and member of the construc
tion crew. Watching and pound
ing tacks at the same time, a feat
only the best set builders can do,
was Mary Sigler, technical di
rector. Jo Zolot, stage property man
General Sturgis
Area America's
The Missouri Basin was envis
ioned here Monday night as the
heart of America's future food
producing enterprise.
The speakers were Brig. Gen.
S. D. Sturgis, Jr., Division head
of the Corps of Engineers at
Omaha, and Shelton H. Streater,
"chief of the program and reports
section of the Bureau of Reclama
tion regional office in Denver.
THEY ADDRESSED a public
lecture audience which concluded
thefirst day of a two-day discus
sion of Missouri Valley Develop
ment sponsored by the University
summer session.
The Missouri Basin Develop
ment program, the speakers said,
has set in motion a tremendous
wealth-producing program as sig
nificant as the railroad and auto
mobile in transportation, and the
tractor in mechanizing farm op
erations. GENERAL STURGIS, describ
ing the huge flood control pro
gram involving 105 dams and
ager and crew, keeps herself busy
getting the furniture and visible
stage equipment ready. So far her
biggest problem is getting furni
ture of the right color and size,
for you can't use just any kind of
furniture on a stage. It must
match the color of the set and fit
any "business" in the play.
ANOTHER PROBLEM is the
hand properties. The crew must
get everything used by the actors
such as suitcases, umbrellas or
flowers. Kirk Sorenson, crew
manager, however, said that "due
to the extreme efficiency and
bravery of himself and his crew,
Jack Thornberg, no difficulties
had teen encountered."
The light crew, consisting of
Morris Hayes, music instructor
from Scottsbluff, and Walt Mur
rish, Wesleyan's debate coach for
next year, hides away in the light
room under the Temple stage, pre
paring exciting lighting effects.
Their biggest job has been to move
the portable (?) switchboard to
the Union stage.
IF YOU were to say that cos
tume crew sounds easy, Mrs. Bow
lin, literature teacher from North
east High and Mrs. Faling, an
English teacher at Lewiston, Idaho
last year, would tell you differ
ently. It is their duty to clothe
all of the actors to fit their roles.
At the moment they are issuing
a plea for gardening gloves. Does
anyone have a pair of gardening
gloves they would like to see go
on the stage?
The make-up crew's work does
not start taking too much time
until the few days before the pro
duction, during technical rehear
sals, but Trudy Page, who taught
in the Denver high schools last
year, and Walt Simon must make
out charts of just what shade of
make up to use on each character.
Would number 6 look best under
the light we're using or would
number 23?
LAST, BUT certainly one of the
most interesting of the crew mem
bers, is Viola Drath, a graduate
student from Berlin who is act
ing as prompter.
And so you see there is much
more work and many more inter
esting people behind the scenes
of a production than the audience
dreams. There's hard work and
organization, and a lot of planning
by many people. When you see the
curtain go up on Hay Fever next
Thursday, give a moment of
thought to the workers behind
the scenes that helped to create
the illusion that will be before
you.
Labels Basin
Bread Basket
reservoirs to be built in coopera
tion with various other state and
federal agencies in the 529,000
square mile Missouri basin, cited
these causes and effects of the
Pick-Sloan plan:
(1) When completed the basin
dams and reservoirs will control
110,000,000 acre feet of water, a
significant figure when you con
sider an acre foot of water will
supply a town of 10,000 people for
one day.
(2) The engineering program
was developea on exhaustive
studies made by various state and
federal agencies during the past
several decades and is not a has
tily conceived project.
(3) The program will help
stabilize floods which cost $300,
000,000 and destroyed 260 human
lives in the past decade.
(4) Stored water will stabilize
agricultural production in years
of drought which in the 1930s
cost Missouri Basin states untold
millions lost in farm and business
(See GEM. STURGIS . P 4)
MdDD Eon Ymwmnj
Graduates
Your attention is called to
the following dates which ap
pear on the graduate calendar
for the 1949 Summer Session.
July 23 Foreign Language Ex
aminations (final date for
second language for those ex
pecting the doctor's degree
in January.)
July 26 Final date to deposit
thesis and file final report
for degrees.
R. W. Gross, Dean
Graduate College.
98 Cadets
Leave For
ROTC Camps
Ninety-eight cadet officers in
the University of Nebraska Army
ROTC advanced corps are attend
ing four summer training camps,
Col. J. W. Clyburn, Commandant,
announced Wednesday.
Infantry, Field Artillery and
Military Police cadets attending
camp at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin,
are:
Bnhprt P Buss. Richard L. Beattie,
Gerald F. Bluteliford. William K. Brink-
man, Donald D. Calvin. Kooert K. camp,
Dwain H. Ehrllch, Herber L. Frandnn.
Robert H. Greene. Sheldon J. Harris, Ced-
ric J. Hartman, Robert E. Johnson, Wil
liam T Kimball, Thomas J. Koweber,
Richard J. Kohan. Milton Maisel. Orval A.
Milder. David C. Myers. Kenneth F.
Oehrle. Klmer H. Petrasek, Robert C.
Pfeller, Alan G. Potter. Donald A. Kiee,
Phillln L. Sheridan. Robert D. Vander-
sllce, Robert K. Vopler. Paul R. Weltchek.
William W. Wkkenkamp, Len W. Allen.
Fred Bauer, Robert H. Bush, John B.
Christopulos, John R. Connlcy, Donald F.
Copes, Dean M. Dcllinper. Glenn W. Elliott,
Ernest J. Ootschell, Paul L. Holm, John R.
Lilly, James L. Lotspetch. Paul W.
Mecham KdKor F. Steele, Robert G. Stein
hoff, Eugene E. Taylor, Richard L. Torc
zon. John E. Wilson, Lawrence L. Wilson.
Thomas Avner. Harlan G. Beideck, Donald
G. Canaday, John R. Brogan, Janvrs W.
Ferris, Wlllard B. Gelwlck, Kirk W Gil
lespie. Philip D. Grimm, Charles D. Hues-
tls. Ralph E. KelloEK. Dcrald L. Lembrich.
Gordon O. Luhrs, James D, Lutes, James
C. Lyle, William C. Marbaker. Louis
Meyre, Jack L. Moore, Congdon E. Paul
son. Fred W. Phifer, Robert E. Reid. Rich
ard P. Russell, Andy A. Schlias, Howard
E. Schneider, Robert M. Swanson, Robert
L. Wait, Lester P. Wescolt, Ward E. Zim
merman. Engineers corps cadets attend
ing camp at Ft. Belvoir Va., are:
John W. Campbell, Donate, F. Flesher.
James R. Holiness, Luther J. Johnson,
Vencent A. Kamrath, Ralph R. Koch,
Dwlht S. McVlcker, Jr., Ben A. Shaw,
William L. Mulder, Richard 8. Renard,
Charles A. Wilscam, Jr.
Ordnance cadets attending camp
at the Aberdeen Proving Ground,
Aberdeen, Maryland, are:
David N. Armstrong, Donald D. Augustln,
Rodnetr a. Benson, Vincent T. Goeres,
Donald W. Hodder. Mark F. Radke, Pat
rick T. Ranee, Raymond V. Real, Norman
F. Vlcek Wiley D. Vogt, John B. Wescott,
William D. Welson.
Medical corps cadets, all attend
ing the College of Medicine in
Omaha, taking summer camp
training at Fitzsimmons General
Hospital in Denver are:
John N. Baker, Harris W. . Barber,
(See 98 CADETS ..Page 3)
Fur st Things
Always First
Dr. Lyle Furst of York is the
first dentist in the state to con
tribute to the University of Ne
braska College of Dentistry fund,
the dental college alumni asso
ciation's fund committee rerorted
Friday.
The association began a drive
this week for $50,000 from the 750
graduates of the college, about 500
of whom live fn Nebraska. The
fund will be used for loans to
needy and deserving students and
for the purchase of special ex
periment equipment.
The fund was given a special
gift of $1,000 earlier this year by
Dr. George Nakagawa of Hono
lulu, but the campaign to solicit
all graduates of the dental college
did not start until this week.
Saturday Classes Scheduled
For Six-Weeks Student
It's over.
The University of Nebraska summer session will be
over for many students when classes for the six weeks
session end at noon on Saturday, July 16. The official an
nouncement came from the office of Dr. Frank E. Sorenson,
director of the summer session.
The registrar's office does not have an official calcula
Capi
t. Huffaker
Assigi
ned to NU
ROTC Staff
Capi. Robert L. Huffaker, for
merly of the Panama Canal
Zone, has been assigned to the
University Army ROTC staff,
Col. J. W. Clyburn, commandant,
announced Tuesday.
Capt. Huffaker will be an as
sistant professor of military
science and tactics in the Mili
tary Police unit of the ROTC.
He is a native of Lanagan, Mo.,
and a graduate of the Missouri
State Teachers College.
In the Panama Canal Zone,
Capt. Huffaker served sixteen
months as a company com
mander, and eight months as a
criminal investigator for Head
quarters, Atlantic Sector, U. S.
Army Carribean Zone.
Capt. and Mrs. Huffaker and
their two children will reside at
3142 North Cotner street.
Grades in Mail
Next Week, Says
Registrar's Office
There is good news, for those of
you eagerly awaiting last se
mester grades.
They will be in the mail by next
week, the registrar office prom-
ises. Much of the delaycan be at-
tributed to the new method of mittee is responsible for the ar
recording grades, that was put into I tists series and a variety of
effect this year. clinics.
Basin Agriculture Development
Condenses 100-Year Program
The Missouri Basin agricul
tural development program will
telescope a 100-year job into 30
years, Gladwin E. Young, field
representative of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, said
here Monday.
He spoke at a session of the
two-day Missouri basin develop
ment cilinic being held at the
University. The clinic is the third
in a series of Universit y summer
session programs dedicated to is
sues of public interest.
Young said the agricultural
program for the Missouri basin
now being readied for congres
sional authorization, will "ac
celerate and complement exist
ing agriculture programs" be
ing carried on now by the De
partment of Agriculture and Col
leges of Agriculture.
"THE MISSOURI river basin
is a great national asset still
awaiting full development,"
Young said. "The hazards of
weather, extremes in production
and income, and population in
stability present a challenge to
the nation. The flood control
act of 1944, which authorized the
Pick-Sloan plan, was designed to
partially meet this challenge.
"But comprehensive resource
development cannot be attained
alone by engineering develop
ment to impound and use the
waters of the rivers. The rivers
and watersheds must be con
sidered together, a fact which
tion of the number of students
who will leave campus at the
end of the short term, but the
drop is expected to be substan
tial. SATURDAY CLASSES will be
held for short term students.
Those students who are enrolled
in eight week classes will not be
affected by the Saturday re
quirement on July 16, but will
go to class on Saturday, July 30.
The following departments will
end all classes on July 16: Home
Economics, Agricutural Voca
tional Education, Art, Educational
Services, Geology, Physical Edu
cation. A number of departments
offer courses in both the six and
eight weeks session. These
courses carry two credit hours
in the six weeks session and
three credit hours in the eight
weeks session.
THE UNIVERSITY'S summer
school curriculum also includes a '
post-session course at the Col
lege of Agriculture.
Although no system of final
exams is set up for the summer
session, finals will be given dur
ingthe regular classroom periods.
Grades and credits for summer
school courses will be mailed to
the student in the fall.
The University's summer ses
sion program, which this year
is under the direction of a sum
mer session committee headed
by Dr. Frank Sorenson, of Teach
ers College. The committee is
composed of heads of the vari
ous departments in which sum
mer session courses are offered.
In addition to setting up the sum-
mer session curriculum, this com-
was considered early by the Mis
souri Basin Inter-Agency Com
mittee." Young said the agricultural de
velopment program was prepared
to "telescope the job of con
servation of cropland and grass
land into a 30-year period in
stead of a hundred years."
"THE PROGRAM would in
crease shelterbelts and improve
a forests that protect valuable
water supplies," Young said. "It
would contribute to flood control
and reduce siltation by retard
ing flood waters at their very
source. Thus, it would enhance
the efficiency and increase the
effective life of reservoirs.
"It would assist in the job of
fitting irrigation and farm drain
age into an efficient farm pro
duction pattern, contributing to
stabilization of population and
the basin economy. It would
hasten completion of rural elec
trification and increase efficcint
use of electricity on farms. It
would supply sources of credit to
farmers for investments in con
servation and irrigation.
"IT WOULD extend educa
tional efforts on all phases of
land, water and forest resource
development, and throucrh soil
surveys and specific research on
these problems would expand
our technical knowledge. In all
(See BASIN AGRI. . .Pag-e 3)
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