SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1932
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Religious Group Produces
Nagel's 'Barter'
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DEPICTS CHRIST'S LIFE
"Barter," prize winning religious
drama by Urban Nagel, will be
presented by Wesley Players at
Grace Methodist church this eve
ning at 7:30 p. m. This play deals
with the lifo and times of Christ,
especially at His crucifixion, show-
ing Biblical and Jewish characters
bartering in the shadow of the
cross with principles that shape
human destiny.
Jobal, of the Sanhedrin, played
by Reuben Hecht, "33, Curtis, sells
his soul and defies the law in his
consuming ambition to be great
in Israel. Miriam, his daughter,
portrayed by Marian Higbee, '33,
Omaha, puts devotion to the Christ
' before life. She seeks and finds
forgiveness for having unwittingly
caused Christ to be delivered to the
Jewish mob for cruciflxon. Varrus,
the Roman captain, and rival of
Phanuel for the hand of Miriam
'(Clifford Russell, '32, Falconer,
N. Y.) follows the inner light of
the divine which leads him to give
up all In the shadow of the cross.
Judas Is portrayed in the terrific
influence and reactions of the be
trayal. His temptation, his strug
gle, his remorse, and suffering are
made human and very forceful.
Irving Walker, '33, Waverly. has
the part of Judas, the traitor.
Esther Adds to Plot.
Esther, the blind sister of Miriam
adds to the plot thru her beautiful
response to the life and teachings
of the Nazarene. She receives her
sight which is interpreted as a spe-
Y cial sign of favor from Christ.
Esther is portrayed by Aloise
Johnsen, '32, Lebanon, Kas. Mary,
of Magdala, played by Wilma Dell
Smith, '32, Chadron, has an impor
tant part in interpreting to other
characters of the play the deeper
significance of the Christ, the
promised one, from her cwn expe
rience and relation to the Master.
Oreb, the servant to Varrus,
(Ray Lichtenwalter, '34, Hebron)
adds much to the drama, in his de
votion to his chief and the prin
ciples for which he stands. Rhea,
Jobal's second wife, played by
Mary Ware Morton, '32, Seward,
trampled under the sacred values
of life in her marriage to Jobal for
his money. She reaps the bitter re
ward of her action. She is a strong
character and one that barters in,
a selfish way wilh life's greatest;
DrinciDles.
Margaret Huston, "34, Polk, has
the part of Mother of Judas. She
plays an Important part in inter
preting the real motives back of
Judas' action. She shows the ut
most devotion and faith in her son
as a faithful flower of tire Naza
rene. Phanuel, of Judea. a Jewish
vouth (Harold Bates, '32. Wood
River. 111.) is a rival of Varrus for
the hand of Miriam, and uses
treachery, shredwness and political
power to undermine his rival.
Other parts In this four act produc
tion are Lora, also played by Ma
garet Huston.
Revenge 1$ Plot.
The plot of this drama deals
with Rhea's plot to revenge herself
on Phanuel because he has
spurned her for Miriam. She se
cures Jobal's sanction for the mar
riage between Miriam and Varrus,
thru having her husband make
bond with Varrus. The latter, at
the instigation of Miriam, who un
wittingly asks a favor for her
father, allows soldiers to go thru
Jerusalem unmolested. They are
really emissaries to arrest the
Christ. Phanuel, a witness to the
bond, reports to Pilate Varrus' ac
tion, for which the latter is placed
in the dungeon. Miriam holds her
self responsible for this bit of in
trigue, the details of which Varrus
was not acquainted with.
In the last act, Jobal is por
trayed as an old man who realizes
that he has bartered tragically
with life's most sacred principles.
Rhea has no sympathy for him.
Jooal goes out to seek his daugh
ter, Miriam, because she is the
only one left to him now. Finally,
in desperation, he bows in prayer
saying, "Call forth my soul to
damn it If Thou wilt but make
my battle with the Wonder
worker one between two Fpmts
not between a mighty spirit and
this trembling flesh."
Chi O'u Defeat K-B-B'k
In Paddle Tennis Finals
Chi Omega won the women's
paddle tennis tournament when
they defeated the K-B-B team
Thursday evening 6-4, 6-2. The
Chi Omega team was composed of
Agnes Grover and Jeanne Russell.
The K-B-B team members were
Helen Eby and Laura McAlister.
Morton Gives Talk on
Plan of Leisure Time
Dr. W. H. S. Morton, principal of
teachers college high school and
director of teacher training, will
speak Tuesday evening before the
Vi'hittier Parent Teachers associa
tion at Whi' tier Junior high school
on 'Training for Leisure Time."
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Veteran Astronomer Swezey Enters
Eighty-First Year Today; Is Oldest
Teacher With 51 Years of Service
BY LEONARD CASTLE.
Willi a record of being Nebraska University's oldest pro
fessor, both in age and length of service here, Prof. tt. I).
Swezey, liend of the astronomy department, will observe his
eighty-first birthday today. Fifty-two of these years have been
spent as a professor at Nebraska.
Prof. Swezey has never missed a class because of sickness
in all these years. He says
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feeis as fit today as ever and can
never remember a day in his long
lifo when he was really sick. The
professor attributes his long and
active life to "well chosen ances
tors, the fact I have never tasted
strong drink and to the effects of
my first attempt to use tobacco
which dissuaded me from using it
again."
Nebraska's oldest professor has
just about given up hope that he
will ever use the fine twelve inch
telescope which was made for the
astronomy department in 1900 but
which has never been used because
of lack of a building. The tele
scope has been stored away for
many years on the campus. A
four inch telescope is now in use
in the astronomy observatory
which is a small stucco building
located on tho west side of the
campus.
SKITS FEATURE MEETING
Dramatic Club Pladges Give
Two Plays ; Arrange
Formal Dinner.
Second and third of the series of
skits being presented before the
Dramatic club by the pledges were
given at the regular meeting
Thursday night Lola Recknor,
captain of the second skit, and her
cast consisting of Rege Porter,
Marjorie Ley, and John Mulligan,
gave a twenty minute play entitled
"Adam and Eve." The play con
sisted of the predicaments of Adam
and Eve, and Cain over the appear
ance of children.
The second play was captained by
Jean Magill, who had as her cast
Leo Mossholder. Charles Owens,
and Celesta Cooper. Their story
concerned a New York bachelor
who had trouble with his many
girls. He lost his fiancee to his but
ler and swore off girls for life. The
parts were ably played and the
theme was humorous.
Plans for a formal dinner party
were discussed, but no date has
been set as yet.
ART EXHIBITION
OF WATER COLORS
PUT ON DISPLAY
An all-American water color
exhibit based on the theme "In the
Modern Idiom," is on display in
Morrill haU gallery B. The thirty
nine exhibits which will be shown
during the remainder of the month
include the works of such artists
as Rockwell Kent, Stuart Davis
and Ernest Fiene. The exhibit is
circulated by the American Fed
eration of Arts.
I'alladians Hold Annual
Boys' Banquet on Friday
Dale Weiss was toast master at
the annual boys' oanquet of the
Palladian Literary society in the
Lancaster room of the Cornhusker
hotel Friday evening. Other mem
bers of the society appearing on
the program were Harold Gilman,
Ervin Watson. Burton Marvin.
Ca'.mar Reedy, Kenneth Millet.
Betsy Benedict and Verne Mae
Easton.
Teachers May Register
During Coming Semei-ter
Former registrants at the
teachers' placement bureau in the
department of educational service,
teachers college, who plan to leach
beginning in the fall term of 1932
will not be registered in the bureau
until after the beginning of the
second seemster. Dr. R. D. Mouty
announces. Notices will be posted
and published giving the proper
time for registration. Another call
will be made for the completion of
registration by new registrants, he
states.
RAMPAGING NEBRASKAN3
TAKE MEASURE OF DRAKZ
(Continued from Page 1.)
scoring .honors of the game, but
got insufficient help from his
team mates to wtay even with the
visitors during the second half.
Henrion with eight points and
Lunney and Mason with seven each'
were close behind Hartley and
King for second and third positions
in the Bcoring column. "
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lovable characters of world-wide radio
fa inc. bring to the people of Nebraska
fin evening of unusually beautiful and
amusing entertainment.
Reierved $1.00
Years ago the state legislature
promised the university a new
astronomy building, a building
large enough to house the "new"
telescope but the possibilities seem
to be as remote today as they ever
were.
Professor Swezey was graduated
from Beloit university in Wiscon
sin in 1873 and receiver his mas
ters degree from the same achool
two years later. He received a
bachelor of divinity degree in the
east in 1880 and preached through
the following summer. He came
to Doane college at Crete the next
fall where he 3pent. fourteen years.
In 1894 he came to the univer
sity as a meteorologist and two
years later was given the rank of
professor which he has held ever
since. Professor Swezey is the
only full time professor in the
astronomy department and the old
est in the university.
Plays Lead
Courtwv of The Journal.
RAY RAMSEY.
Who plays the lead in "Beg
gars on Horseback" which opens
a week's run in the Temple the
ater tomorrow night as the Jan
uary production of the Univer
sity Players.
SOCIAL CALENDAR
Friday, Jan. 15.
Kappa Delta formal, Cornhusker.
Saturday, Jan. 16.
Acacia formal dinner dance,
Cornhusker.
Alpha Phi formal, Cornhusker.
Shrine club followed by dance at
Methodist winter sports party.
Trinity church.
Avery Is Co-Author
of Chemical Article
Dr. Samuel Avery, chancellor
emeritus, in collaboration with M.
J. Hall, who received his masters
degree at the univeisity last year,
are the co-author3 of the article,
"Isomeric Alpha - Phenyl - Beta -Para-Tolyl-Delta-Ketonic
Acids,"
which has been published by the
Journal of the American Chemical
Society in its December Issue.
Former Student Pastor
Talks at Kiwanis Cluh
Dr. Harry Huntington, Long
mont, Colo., former Methodist stu
dent pastor here, urged co-operative
endeavors in all lines, espe
cially in farming, in a talk before
the Lincoln Kiwanis club Friday.
Cornhusker pictures are now
being taken at Hauck's, 1216 O st
Adv.
UNKNOWN DONOR GIVES
ENGINEERS LAW DERBY
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tations from the Royal Super
Exalted Order of the Mystic
Knights of the Oil Can. This
great and honorable organization
has long had the desire to do
something for the college of en
gineering. Among its past works
are the establishment of a fel
lowship in the Synthetic Acad
emy of Lubricous Imbecility, agi
tation for the repeal of the Laws
of Gravitation, development of
the Magnetic Divining Rod for
locating Lost Bugles, and the in
vention of the three phase, multi-complex
dispenser of male
bovine.
Now an opportunity has come
for us to present this college a
trophy that is has longed to pos
sess for many moons. At the
risk of human life the gift was
obtained. Our members are oily
and our methods are slick, but
even so, it was necessary to risk
life itself in procuring this gift.
We are happy indeed to present
this to the College of Engineer
ing to be kept as an enduring in
spiration and cherished posses
sion. We present you with the Law
yers' Brown Derby, traditional to
the College of Law, and a prize
which Engineers have long de
sired to possess.
The hat wan last known to be in
the keeping of H. H. Foster, dean
j of the law college, to whom it was
j presented laxt Tuesday for the best
"wwe-crack of tne week.
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Scripps College Professor
Noted as Musician,
Scholar.
Dr. Henry Purmont Eames who
will address an all university con
vocation at the Temple theater at
11 o'clock, Tuesday is well known
for both his musical and scholar
ship ability, Dean Henzich of
Teachers college said yesterday,
His lecture will be Interpreted with
piano music.
Among the honors conferred
upon Dr. Fames have been re
peated presidencies of national
musical organizations, the 1925
medal for opera in English, and the
honorary degree of Doctor of
Music. A feature or nis worn is an
annual lecture recital and concert
tour.
Dr. Eames is now professor of
musical art and aesthetics in
Scripps college, Claremont, Cal. In
fluential in his going to this school
was Dr. Hartley Burr Alexander,
a former Nebraska man, who de
sired that Dr. Eames and his as
sociates introduce the "Scripps"
idea which they have done with
marked success. This idea of ed
ucation is that the student shall
gain a broad cultural knowledge
during bis nrst lour years or col
lege, as against the more technical
or professional plan.
GRADS TO JREAD PAPERS
Three Former Nebraskans to
Appear at Conclave
of A.I.E.E.
Three Nebraska graduates in
electrical engineering will read
papers at the mid-winter conven
tion of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, Jan. 25 to 29,
in New York Citv.
E. I. Pollard, '28, now affiliated
with the Westinghouse Electrical
and Manufacturing company. Pitts
burg, Pa., will discuss "Calcula
tions of the No-Load Damper
Winding Loss, in Synchronous Ma
chines." L. P. Shildneck. '24. in the em
ploy of the General Electric com
pany, Schenectady, N. Y., will have
the topic of "Sine-Wave Genera
tors." A. M. Candy. '09 and '28. of the
Westinghouse company, will speak
on "An Improved A-C Arc Wel
der." LUTHERAN CLLB
RIDES BOBSLED.
ELECTS OFFICERS
About sixty-five students at
tended the business meeting and
bobsled party of the university
Lutheran club Friday evening.
The main feature of the business
meeting, held in room 203 of the
Temple, was the election of of
ficers of the club for the second
semester. The following were
chosen: Kenneth Rubrecht, Lin
coln, president: Walter Wick, Lin
coln, vice president; Edith Carlson,
Oakland, secretary, and Charles
De Vore, Lincoln, treasurer. New
committees for the semester will
be announced later.
The next meeting of the club will
be held on the first Friday in
February.
ANNUAL AO FUNFEST
TEY0UTS SCHEDULED
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deal of difficulty was experienced
in securing suitable acts for the oc
casion in former years, but with
the prizes as an added incentive,
the committee expects to have dif
ficulty only in the elimination
process.
In previous years a half dozen
acts of vaudeville were selected
during special tryouts and the best
of the college dramatic artists
were sent before the limelight.
This year, however, everyone will
have a chance at the prize money.
There is still time. Burton an
nounced for individuals and groups
to enter an act or skit. A brief out
line, though, must be in the hands
of some member of the committee
before Wednesday evening.
V0LD TREATS SALES
IN LATEST WORK
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ranty obligations may be inde
pendently imposed by law.
The materials dealt wi ii in the
new treatise have been drawn
largely from present day litigation
under the Uniform Sales act which
now is in force in a large major
ity of states.
Prof. Samuel Wllliston, of the
Harvard law school, the draftsman
of the Uniform Sales act and the
recognized outstanding authority
on the law of sales makes the fol
lowing comment on the new trea
tise: "I am sure it will lie, without
competition, the best treatise on
the subject of moderate size, and
one of the best of the Hornbook
series."
UNIVERSITY of NEBRASKA
presents
THE UNIVERSITY PLAYERS
in
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK
A COMEDY
by
George 8. Kaufman and
Mare Connelly
Featuring
AY E.
AND HERBERT YENNE
Temple Theatre
February & to 13
7:30 P. M.
TICKETS AT LAT8CH BROS.
Announces Betrothal
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Photo ly Hauok.
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MISS VIOLA MULCAHY.
Who recently revealed her
informal betrothal to Elmer
Rakow of Neligh. Miss Mul
cahy is affiliated with Theta
Phi Alpha, and Mr. Rakow is
a member of Theta Xi and Phi
Alpha Delta. Miss Mulcahy re
sides In Casper, Wyo.
AT THE STUDIO.
Monday at 12:15 Kappa Phi.
Tuesday at 12:00 1st, 2nd, 3rd
battalion staffs, retakes.
Thiv.. ay at 12:00 Pi Lambda
Theta.
Friday at 12:00 A. S. M. E.
$100 PUYHME OFFERED
Zeta Phi Eta to Give Award
For Best Creative
One-Act Play.
A one hundred dollar prize will
be awarded to a student in the
United States by Zeta Phi Eta. na
tional playwriting organization,
for a creative play, according to
an announcement made by the
English department last week. Tne
prize comes from the Wilda Spen
cer Goode award. A silver cup
will be awarded for second place
and a bronze medallion for third.
Contributors for the prizes must
be resident, graduate or under
graduate students in any univer
sity or college in the United Stales.
The play must be one act. unpub
lished, unproduced and original.
The acting time is not to exceed
forty-five minutes.
Judges for the contest will be
nationally known playwrights se
lected by Zeta Phi Eta. The con
test closes on March 13. and the
results will be announced June 1.
ROBERT QLTCK is
GUEST ARTIST ON
TODAY'S PROGRAM
Robert Quick, concertmeister of
the Seattle symphony orchestra,
will appear as guest artist and
soloist with the Lincoln symphony
orchestra in its second concert of
the winter season in the Stuart
theater at 3 o'clock today. Rudolph
Siedl will conduct the orchestra.
The program is:
Prelude: Choral Fum. Bah.
Symphony Number 4. Tchuikii.
IntermlMion.
Concert In O minor (vioiinnndorclie'Vre i.
Bruch.
Pause Macahr. Salt Sanf.
Overature. The Mel.-temingr. Wag
ner.
MORE FUNDS SOUGHT
FOR STUDENT LOANS
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by student and alumni groups.
In addition to the regular stu
dent loan fund, there has been do
nated at various times, a total of
157,899 which is catalogued in the
official bulletin of student loan and
trust funds as "trust lunds, prize
and scholarships." There is also
$51,477 of permament endow
ments. Although there is now only S5.
117 actual cash available for stu
dent loans, $19,475 is outstanding
in student notes.
DANCING
TONIGHT
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THEY PASSED THE
CANDY AND CIGAKS
Elolse Real, McCook, Alpha Chi
Omega, and Herrol J. Skldmote,
McCook, Tau Kappa Epsilon, now
West Point academy.
Doris King, Hastings, and Vance
Anderson, Hastings, Sigma Nu.
Mildred Overholzer, Lincoln,
Delta Zeta, and Bernard Malcolm,
Lincoln, Delta Sigma Lamda.
Viola Mulcahy. Cnsper, Wyo.,
Theta Phi Alpha, and Elmer
Rakow, Neligh, Phi Alpha Delta
and Theta Xi.
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words that he is wiser today than
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