THURSDAY, JANUARY 11. 1Q.lt.
FOUR
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Three cheers hikI a couple of
more! A new swell-elegant
social affair . . . informal
only student party that
week-end . . . not expensive
. . . darn irood band ... an
end to after-exam-ldut'S . ,
Yes, I'll be there!
O-O-
" What s this:
Myron Lowther'
Why he played
at the Hotel
Lowrle in St.
Paul and the
Rttz-Carlton i n
New York City.
Plenty slick?
Well, I'll say."
Mid-Year Frolic
Get A Date Today
"Thank goodness!
It's after finals
are over. I'm
really going to let
loose and take in
the biggest of the
big affairs the
Mid-Year Frolic."
Mid-Year Frolic
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"An informal
party. That
means comfort
plus and no laun
dry bills the next
morning. Why,
it's a breather in
the formal sea
son as well as
for exam week."
Mid-Year Frolic
Get A Date Today
"1 was surprised,
too. It's a new
affair, you know.
And they're do
ing everything to
make it a suc
cess. Most cer
tainly, I'm going.
Who wouldn't ?
I've already got
a date!"
Mid-Year Frolic
Get A Date Today
"Good golly!
J 1 mminy crick
ets! Such a short
time away. To
day is the date
for me to call
for a date. So
I'll get a date for
the biggest date
of the year."
Mid-Year Frolic
Get A Date Today
"And the price is
so reasonable.
Only a dollar plus
tax. Much less
than most parties.
And it's going to
be much better. So
hold a ticket for
Mid-Year Frolic
Get a date today
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Friday ami Saturdav nights.
dance at the (Joinhusker, and
Saturday there is another formal, one house party, and an Ag
mixer. Sunday three fraternities are planning suppers at tbdr
houses, ami an afternoon tea is
have all three weekend days been so full.
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HEADLINING the events for
Friday evening is the Chi Phi
formal at the Cornhusker hotel, to
which about 250 couples have been
invited. Preceding the dance, the
active members of the fraternity
and their guests will attend a din
ner dance at the hotel at which
fifty couples are expected. Chap
eroning the party are Professor
and Mrs. R J. Poole, Dr. and Mrs.
H. W. Stoke, and Mrs. Melsina
Daniels. Bill Crabill is in charge
of the arrangements.
AN AG MIXER will be given
Friday night by the Varsity Dairy
club at the Student Activities
building. Professor and Mrs. P.
A. Downs and Mr. I. L. Hathaway
are the chaperones. Arthur Peter
son is making the plans.
A SOCIAL will be held in the
Temple building at 8:30 tomorrow
evening by the Lutheran students.
Reverend and Mrs. Arthur Klink
and Reverend H. Erck will chap
eron. Professor C. H. Patterson
will speak on the subject "Does
Education Pay?"
AT THE meeting of Pi Lambda
Theta, teachers college honorary,
this evening at Ellen Smith, Pro
fessor R. D. Moritz will be the
guest speaker. The subject of his
talk will be "The Work of the De
partment of Educational Service;
and Recent Retrenchments in Ed
ucation." WHEN the Chi Chi auxiliary
held their last meeting at the home
of Mrs. H. W. Stoke, plans were
made for a dinner at the chapter
house Sunday evening. Mrs. H.
Winnett Orr, Mrs. Stoke and Mrs.
Herbert Potter will be the hos
tesses. They also made arrange
ments for a bridge benefit to be
given at the house Jan. 19, with
Mrs. C. A. Ross, Mrs. M. Daniels,
and Mrs. Potter as hostesses. J
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UNIVERSITY professors are
very much in demand nowadays as
speakers at all sorts of functions.
Last Tuesday Dr.'C. H. Patterson
addressed fifty members of the
Bible department of the Lincoln
Woman's club at the Y. W. C. A. on
"Origin and Growth of the Hebrew
Writers Becoming Rational-Minded
Declares Stanford Post and Critic
Thf Dukf Chronical.
Young writers of today are be
coming rational-minded, according
to Yvor Winters, Stanford poet
and critic, who sees in this quality
the prediction of a new and better
era in English literature.
"Our age is by no means a back
ward one in the literary sense .Its
thought gives promise of work that
will take its place among the best
that has been written," Winters
said yesterday.
Editor, educator, poet and critic,
Winters has molded the literary
principles of many. In his capacity
as western divisional editor of
Hound and Horn, Winters has
come into contact with the "cream
of the literary crop," and the ex
perience has left him hopeful for
the future.
Three Books of Poetry Published
by Yvor Winters.
He has published three volumes
of poetry, "Bare Hills," "The Jour
ney,, and "Proof." and is a regular
contributor to The American Cara
van. Mrs. Winters, writing under
the pseudonym of Janet Lewis, has
also achieved distinction. Her best
known work is "Invasion," a novel
of pioneering days.
Comparing him to such men as
Allen Tate and R. P. Blackmer
Winters declared Prof. Howard
Baker of the English department
one of the six leading poets of the
country. "I believe Allen Tate and
Howard Baker to be the two best
American poets under thirty-five,"
RICHARD HARRISON, NE
GRO WHO HOLDS LEAD
IN 'THE GREEN PAS
TURES' HAS COLORFUL
LIFE; GOT ROLE AT 66.
(Continued from Page I.)
churches and schools. He selected
bis repertory with the utmost care.
His reading of "The Merchant of
Venice" brought him more praise
perhaps than anything else and it
has been said that if he had not
happened to be a Negro he would
have been one of the great "Shy
locks" of our time. Success in the
entertainment field was not easy of
attainment for a Negro in those
days, regardless -of the genius he
might possess and the vicissitudes
through which Mr. Harrison passed
would have crushed a less cour
ageous soul. Again and again he
was driven to distasteful employ
ment to eke out a precarious living.
A most important episode of the
period was the meeting with Paul
Laurence Dunbar, the Negro poet.
The two men formed a sort of mutual-aid
alliance. Dunbar's poems
provided Harrison with dignified
and appropriate material for plat
form recitations and Harrison, by
those recitations widely extended
Dunbar's audience ami reputation.
They even established a home to
gether in Chicago. A friend who
i had a glimpse or two into their
I private life as partners and allies
1. ..u. ,w vnni i,mii& pi-v.-ic iiu&ii.r itti-uiiuiij; n iiiuiuuri i luui-ic. ;ui culture. witlj imp
aspects. The two men were comple- of the faculty at the agricultural I explanation, "study of pecans, wal
mentary in many respects. Dun-1 and technical college in Greens-1 nuta, etc., not maniacs."
reports upon one ot its charming
UNEXPECTED RETURN OF
the festivity of the pre-ChriNtmas season
takes place this weekend, when about
seven organizations have scheduled par
ties, formal, informal, small and large
be the last social eevnts befort
the exams, and everyone seems to be
planning' to attend them for a little re
laxation and relief from the worries of
the "student." Freshmen struggling to
make averages are doing the most tearing
of hair and groaning this week, but even
thev anticipate a gay intermission on
Friday there is one formal dinner
three informal parties, and on
scheduled. Not for a long time
Law", This afternoon Professor
J. E. Lawrence will speak to the
Lincoln League of Women Voters
on the "NRA" at the home of Mrs,
Ellen Gere.
SIG ALPHA mothers will moot
at a covered dish luncheon at the
home of Mrs. Arthur North this
afternoon at 1 o'clock. The color
scheme will be in pink and yellow
with cut flowers carrying out the
motir on the luncheon tables.
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A VERY attractive Tri Delt an
nounced her engagement last Mon
day night when she passed the
candy at the house, Marian Goudy
revealed her approaching marriage
to Dr. A. E. Eyres, who is practic
ing medicine in Pullman, Washing
ton. AND THE engagement of one of
last years graduates was recently
announced. Miss Irene Nash, Kap
pa Delt, will soon be married to
Glen Gage, Theta Chi at the Uni
versity of Idaho. Miss Nash is
teaching school at Albion, Idaho.
IN LINCOLN until Saturday
morning is Mrs. Lester Rice of
Kansas City, governor of Alpha
Phi, who arrived Tuesday after
noon and who will be a guest of
the chapter during her visit. To
morrow she will be honored at a
formal tea at the house. Mrs.
Rice, Mrs. Leo Schmittel, house
mothere, and Janet Vlcek, presi
dent will receive. That evening the
alumnae will hold a meeting at the
home of Mrs. Wesley C. Becker in
courtesy to Mrs. Rice.
DINNER AT the Lindell hotel
last night entertained the members
of Delta Sigma Pi, professional bi
zad fraternity. Harold Winquest
was the toastmaster, and a talk
was given by Fred D. Stone. Mr.
Winquest, Edward Gildner, and
William Wimpenny were in charge.
ONE O'CLOCK is the time set
for the benefit bridge luncheon to
be given by the Newman mothers
club this afternoon at the club
rooms. Mrs S. J. Spaulding will
be hostess to the eighty guests
who are expected to attend. Cut
flowers will be used in the decor
ations. he said, adding, "Bakers best
work has not yet been published,
but I have had occasion to read it
and find it excellent." He par
ticularly commended Professor
Baker's poem "Travelouge."
Self-Expression Belief of Roman
ticists, Says Poet.
Winters dismissed the problem
of collegiate work with an expres
sive gesture, "The children are too
young!" he declared. Equally un
enthusiastic about college literary
magazines, Winters deplored the
fact that they are not usually in
the hands of the most capable
people. He advocated faculty
supervision.
Winters thinks of poetry not as
a matter of feeling but one laigelv
of comprehension, preferring as
the ba?is of good poetry the phi
losophical principle that man is
naturally evil or bestially stupid
and attains a measure of goodness
thru his own effort.
"Romanticists believe that self
expression is naturally good. This
results in a large amount of feel
ing and little communication." he
said, citing much of the work of
Byron and Shelley as being bad for
this reason.
"Rationalism is opposed to Ro
manticism," he said in conclusion.
"However, the new Rationalism
must not be confused with that of
Pope and his contemporaries which
was more classical and severe in
character."
bar, with the temperament of a
poet, was given to excesses of hope
and despair. Harrison, as serene
and benign then as he appears
today in "The Green Pastures,"
was the sober influence. It was ap
parently a very touching friend
ship. Worked On Santa Fe Road.
During this period Mr. Harrison
was driven from his chosen field
by poverty and found employment
with the Santa Fe railroad as a
member of a train crew. The run
brought him to Los Angeles where
he came under the attention of
A. C. Wells, then general manager
of the Santa Fe railroad, stationed
in Los Angeles, and more recently
elevated to the post of vice presi
dent with headquarters in Chicago.
Mr. Wells gave the youth a good
position in the office and when he
discovered his- talent, had Harri
son entertain aesthetic and cul
tured bodies, in which Mrs. Wells
was an active worker. Thru this
circumstance, L. F. Behymer, Cali
fornia impressario, heard Harrison
read Dunbar's poems. He took the
colored artist under his manage
ment. This proved the turning
point and for nearly a decade Har
rison was a conspicuous figure in
club, church and Chautauqua pro
grams. Works as Teacher.
All of this unusual experience
made him invaluable when he de-
cided to become a teacher of his
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Heralded as one of the most unique productions of dramatic
a cast of more than 100. with its famous "Heavenly choir" instead
engagement in Lincoln on Jan. 15 at the Liberty theater.
boro, N. C. He had been actively
engaged in that work for seven
years when the opportunity to play
de Lawd was offered him.
At first Harrison hesitated. He
had, like as many others, the un
comfortable feeling that it might
be interpreted as impertinent to
attempt to play such a role. It was
Right Rev. Herbert Shipman, Bisii-
op o fthe Episcopal diocese of New
York, who finally persuaded him
that he might labor in "The Green
Pastures" with the complete as
surance that only good could come
from so entirely reverent a play.
Didn't Want the Part.
Among the colorful incidents
surrounding the production and
success of Marc Connelly's play,
nothing is more glamorous than
the story of Harrison's struggle to
escape playing "The Lord," a side
light heietofore unpublished in de
tail.
"I was contracted at that time
to the Lyceum Bureau as a drama
tic reader" he related, with the re
laxing aid of a 10 cent cigar such
as he toys with in the heavenly
fish-fry of "The Green Pastures."
'I had arrived in New York to
visit some of the dramatic clubs in
our colored churches when the
casting agent of Mr. Stebbins'
production looked me up. I was of
fered the part and accepted the
script for a reading, impelled main
ly bv curiousity.
"First of all, I told them the
Negro dialect was faulty. Privately
I was certain the play was or
religious. I showed the script to
some of my preacher friends. They
made no particular criticism on
sacriligious grounds just didn't
see anything in the play. To them
it seemed scarcely worthwhile cri
tizing. A lew others found fault
ecclesiastically, but Bishop Ship
man held a different view and ad
vised me to accept the role.
Declined to Accept.
"Meanwhile, I had twice return
ed the script and declined to do
anything about it. Each time 1
was told bv the producer to keep
it anyhow. After another refusal
I was asked to help in rehearsal
of the play and agreed to do so
until my bureau season arrived.
"The day came for me to give a
final answer concerning the role.
My mind was definitely made up
against accepting. The strangest
part of it all is that when the fa
miliar question was again put to
me, I said, 'Yes, I'll go ahead with
it.' I haven t yet been able to
fathom that answer. It must be,
'There's a destiny .'
Education Helps in Part.
"At once, in studying the role,
1 fixed the interpretation from a
religious negro's viewpoint one of
reverence, of course,, and of humor.
1 haven't deviated from that ori
ginal conception. Only the shad
ings of speech have undergone
change. I re-read the books of the
Old Testament. I discovered that
everything in my education, exper
ience and work as a dramatic
teacher helped in my creation of
the part.
"Whatever success I have won in
it, I can't regard as a personal
thing, but rather a compliment to
my race. I can scarcely realize
what has come to me, or that it
is I, out there on the stage.
"It is my hope to keep this com
pany intact with its fine family of
friends and artists. Tho this is my
first play, I've always loved the
theatre, so much so that I can say
I've never seen what I thought was
a really bad play or actor. There
was some good in the worst of
them."
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NIGHT. (Continued from Page 1.1
but the "consolation" will be prob
ably a pillow to the individual tak
ing the hardest fall!
Exhibition Skating.
Another feature of the show will
be some very fancy skating by one
team and several individual exhi
bition skaters procured by J. D.
Lau, well known Lincoln fancy
skater.
Climaxing the evening's enter
tainment will be a spirited hockey
game between those ancient rivals
the two political factions of the
campus. Broomsticks and a h.tll
will be substituted for the regular
hockey implements in this till. An
engraved cup will be presented to
the victorious side.
Refreshments in the form of hot
dogs and coffee may also be pro
cured at me grounds so you
needn't be afraid of getting
hungry. All in all the affair prom
ises to be one of the high spots
of the season, so don't fail to be
there and see the fun.
The Catalogue' published by the
Oklahoma A. & M. college lists a
Present 'The Green Pastures9
COLLEGE
LOUIES
With the winter season at its
height and spring very, very far
around the so-called corner, we
can think of no better time for a
style resume of the high fashion
notes of the fall season than at
this particular moment.
Brown snap-brim hats are sport
ing black bands. This particular
fashion at the moment seems to be
an entirely eastern idiosyncrasy,
as these hats were seen only at
Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Wall
street, and suggest a good way to
give a variation to the indispens
able brown snap-brim.
No matter what your private
opinion of the Balmaccan may be.
this military mouarea top coai is
verv much of the up and up. It
has appeared in greater numbers
each week at various fashion cen
ters both on the eastern seaboard
and on the Pacific coast. Its pop
ularity is undoubtedly due to its
stvle features, plus the fact that
it is a most practical top coat for
fair and stormy weather (b,tnei
Waters please note!)
Rough fabrics, such as Shet-
lands, fveeos and Donegals, have
gained a most pronounced favor.
Rough and soft materials lend
themselves particularly to sports
wear and the only important ex
ception to this present fashion was
the smooth material worn by the
armv cadets and navy midshipmen
at footr"-.".! games, who, strange as
it may seem, are still adhering to
their own individual fashion ways.
Concurrently with sportsminded
thinking, the development of the
button-down collar, cotton flannel
shirt in checks and plain colors,
was practically inevitable. Of the
solid colors lemon yellow and hunt
ing yellow are quite an interesting
departure and one worth watch
ing. The shirt with round-cornered
collar with eyelets which is
snugly pinned with bar pin, has
added to its significance as a fash
ion, by appearing in heavy, striped
materials.
Looks like all the coeds will be
knitting one and purling two if the
obviously indicated popularity of
crocheted ties continues. Most
popular of these are bias and hori
zontal stripes, altho a few plain
colors have cropped up here and
there. Speaking of striped ties
striped rep silks are staging a very
definite comeback, and from the
tendencies which a few very well
dressed men have indicated, they
will be as popular in bow ties as
they will in four-in-hands. Some
of the younger college men who
have never learned the art of tying
a bow might do well to start prac
ticing. The best brogues are usually
credited to the flat-footed traffic
cop on the corner. The present
vogue for brogues of heavy brown
leather is much more a fashion
than a traffic problem. After all,
any old pair of shoes will get you
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word . . . beautifully made .
fine quality novelty tricot
ravons. clove silks, silk
pique weaves . . . bloomers
in band or elastic knee styles . . . some yoke
others elastic waist! Open lee panties. Htep-ins
medium snd large bizes. . .pink and tearose.
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ar t, "'ine ureen i-asiures piayeu uy
of an orchestra, will play a one day
there, but If you are a fashion
minute man who's interested in
footwear that is both smart and
comfortable, you will acquire a
couple of brogues for yourself. A
further indication of the popularity
of brogues and shoes of the sports
type (and by sport shoes we do not
mean summer sport shoes), is evi
denced by the fact that brown
shoes outnumber black in the pro
portions of approximately five to
one.
Now that we have arrived at the
bottom of fashion, assuring you
that we have covered everything of
major importance we might
just as well be honest and tell you
that we completely neglected to
mention a new knitted sleeveless
six-button Cardigan jacket which
has been seen in wine, blue and
yellow, worn as a vest and looks
like one of the outstanding smart
ideas which should be of interest
to undergraduates.
Another fashion footnote is
Argyle hose which speak for them
selves in bright color contrasts.
In all probability, while you are
reading these notes, we'll be down
in Palm Beach gathering more
fashion data which we will report
to you at a later date.
BIZAD CLUB HOLDS INITIATION
Norman Prucka Has Charge
Of Function; Makes
Plans for Party.
At a meeting of the Men's Com
mercial club held Wednesday eve
ning in the club rooms four new
members were initiated. They were j
Ray Brody, Lester estbrook.
Keith Weyer and Ross Martin.
Clair Bosse, president of the or
ganization, presided at the meet
ing. Harold Barnes, secretary, and
Norman Prucka had charge of the 1
initiation. The club is planning a '
party to be given on Jan. 13. Max
Nusbaum, Gerald Spurlock and i
Howard Roberts are planning the ,
event. i
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Agricultural Journalism and
Creative Thinking
Transferred.
For the first time all of Prof.
R. P. Crawford's courses will ho
offered at the beginning of the
second semester on the city cam
pus of the university, including his
course in creative thinking, agri
cultural journalism 101, which has
always attracted a number of stu
dents from the city campus of tlic
university. His course in agricul
tural editing, agricultural journal
ism 12, has been completely made
over and will bear little resem
blance to the former course. Pub
lic opinion, mediums and methods
of promotion, publicity and public
relations, and sound and unsound
principles will be taken up, with
opportunity for the student to
carry out ideas. Both courses will
be given on Monday afternoons.
These two courses were devel
oped by Professor Crawford be
cause he felt that there was a real
need for them on the part of many
students. "Observation of univer
sity students for several years con
vinces me that most of the failures
in after life of brilliant students
occur because of two deficiencies."
he stated. "One is the inability to
create original ideas. Many stu
dents have an excellent back
ground of knowledge, wonderful
memories, but when it comes to
thinking up a new way to do any
thing they are completely at a loss
how to proceed. The result is that
they are more or less like parrots,
always repeating and doing what
other people have told them.
"The other difficulty with stu
dents is that they lack nowledge
of how to promote their undertak
ings, whether in business or in
professions. Many individuals
never succeed in pushing to a suc
cessful conclusion anything they
start.
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