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KOUK THE DAILY WBUASKAN .su.M)Y. i)i:r.i:MHi:if mi. CAMIPILISCDCTY w ITH of it find if they've been bad -well we'll skip that. Even sophisti cated coeds' hearts will soften as they see the joy that's brought, bv the age old Christmas tradition. PHI GAMS will entertain the children of poor families when they hold their annual "urchin" party at the chapter house Wednesday af ternoon. The tots will be presented with horns, confetti, caps, gifts, and a substantial meal. Jack Hou ston is making plans for the affair. DELTA DELTA DELTA alliance held a Christmas party for the children of the alumnae at the chapter house Saturday evening. Mrs. J. P. Colbert was in charge of the arrangements. ONCE AGAIN the Sifi Alphs and the Sigma Nu's celebrated their annual field day yesterday afternoon. It all started with a parade thru i.he streets of the city by the members of both fraterni ties in ridiculous costumes. The next place they invaded was the coliseum where they participated in water polo, basketball, hand ball, and a tug-of-war. An ex change dinner between the two fraternities was followed by a "hard time" dance at the Avalon at which Mr. Ray Dcin, Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Smith, and Captain i Lilly chaperoned. DELTA OMICRON active and alumnae members observed their founders day with a 12:15 o'clock luncheon Saturday at the Univer sity club. Miss uoicita Aiuen, representing the alumnae, w a s chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements. She was assisted by Dorothy Orcutt, of the actives, and Jeanne Palmer of the pledges. About forty were pres ent. DELTA 2ETA entertained at a house party it the chapter house last night at 8:30 o'clock. The party was given by the actives to honor the pledges. The house was decorated in a Christmas theme with a tree, and Christmas favors. Chaperones were Mr. and Mrs. El mer K. Young, and Mrs. Eloise Tebbetts. Dorothy Cathcrs was in charge of arrangements. THE HOME of Earl Carter was . the scene of a Christmas party when the Fellowship of the West minster Presbyterian church enter tained there iast evening at 7:30 o'clock. ALPHA OMICRON PI will hold its annual founder's day banquet at the chapter house tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock. Christmas decorations will adorn the house as well as the dining tables. Mem bers of the alumnae association will be present and Mrs. Hugh Drake is in charge of the affair. Freshmen under the direction of Margaret Kerl, will present a skit. A Christmas motif will be carried out in the program that will fol low. DELTA SIGMA LAMBDA wishes to announce the recent pledging of Harold Lutton of Ash land and William Schneiderwind of Omaha. MEMBERS of the Phi Delt chap ter and their dates will be guests when the mothers' club entertains them at a buffet supper at the chapter house this evening at 6:30 o'clock. Places will be laid at the tables decorated in a Christmas theme for about forty guests. Mrs. Charles M. Chowins, president of the mothers' club, is making the arrangements. GEORGIA NELSON of Ben nington became the bride of Car roll Eisenhart of Culbertson Dec. 6 at a ceremony performed In Ben nington. Both members of the couple attended the university where the bride joined Chi Omega and the groom became affiliated with Delta Sigma Lambda. Mr. Eisenhart is employed by the Met ropolitan Life Insurance company in Omaha, where the couple will reside. RECENTLY Sigma Alpha lota held a musical at the home of Miss Follow the Crowd! To the Best Place to Eat EKIusker inn Cafe 14th and Q Sts. FREE DELIVERY SERVICE B5313 Complete Meal, Sandwich and Fountain Service Tlie Place trifi fw Student Pulne" Some of Sunday's Menu Specials 25 Thick Malted Milk Virginia Ham Saudwith Potato Chips mgt Cream? Waffle Brookfleld SausaK"- Hot SjTup Choice of Drinks Hunker Inn With all r i CHRISTMAS SO NEAR MOST the fraternity and sorority houses on the campus are planning Christ inns en tertainment for the ehihlren of the alumni ami parties for themselves. Pledges will he responsihle for skits. Many a Santa Clans garb will he rented and used to dis guise some benevolent student. The tiny tots will be sueeessfully deceived, their voices will quaver, their eyes will pop. and they'll want to sit on the knee iu the jolly old fellow who's responsible for nil their presents if they've been good Mariel Jones. Those who appeared on the program were Miss Velora Beck, Miss Esther Kinnett, accom panied by Miss Ruth Greiss, Mi.ss Virginia Galchouse, and Miss Helen Naeve, accompanied by Miss Ev elyn Stowell. The pledges fur nished entertainment before the musical and the remainder of the evening was spent informally. THIS AFTERNOON the Tri Delt house will be the scene of a book tea when the alumnae enter tain the actives and present them with some new books for their li brary. The rooms will be deco rated in a Christmas motif andj about fifty guests will be present. Mrs. Paul Ream and Miss Mila J Bald arc in charge of the arrange ments. I LAST OF CHILDREN'S ... , ,, . n , 1 Miss Shanafelt to Present Puppet Plays After Christmas. The last in the series of weekly children's progTams was present ed Saturday by Miss Marjorie Shanafelt, curator of visual educa tion, before an overflow crowd. Al though this was the last of the weekly T)rociams. which have been ; nrontPrl f-flrh Saturday since the ! beginning of the school year, Miss Shanafelt will present one week of 1 . l puppet plays, to begin the day aft er Christmas. These programs, scheduled every afternoon at 2:30. will depict the famous story cf ! Hansel and Gretel. The program presented Satur day consisted of a talk, entitled "Mr. and Mrs. Camel in Arabia;" harp music, apropos of Christmas, by Miss Shanafelt; a puppet dance, following which the children were shown how the puppet worked, and were tol(j j,ow to make them: and two films, entitled "The Little Swiss Wood-Carver," and "Hand ling Animals in the Zoo." Miss Shanafelt stated that the programs had been exceptionally well received this year, as evi denced by the fact that over four hundred children were present for this, the last and concluding pro gram of the year. OFFICIAL BULLETIN L,ornnusKer. j Second installments on the 1935 . Cornhusker are now due. J nost deiinauent are ursred to make pay ment at the office in the basement of IT hall immediately. Evangelical Club. Members of the Nebraska Evan gelical club will meet Tuesday. Dec. 18, at 7:30 at the Calvary E-vangelical church. Miss Shanafelt Gives a Talk. Miss Marjorie Shanafelt. cura tor of visual education at the uni versity, will speak at Luther col lege in Waboo on Thursday, Dec. 20. She will present an illustrated lecture on "Old Christmas." CLASSIFIED ADVERTISBIENTS Classified! Ara Cash 102 PEE LINE Minimum of a Lisa LOST White prold Bapuette Elpin mris' -watch. Lort around colineum. Liheral reward. Call B5332. LOST In or near "Moon," Chi Pl.i pin. P.eturn to the Daily Nebraclcari office. Reward. T-Bone Steak the Trimmings Business Sorority Inducts Thirteen; LeRossignol Is Honorary Member. Thirteen girls were initiated into Phi Chi Theta, honorary women's business sorority, at the formal ini tiation and banquet held at the Lincoln hotel last week. Dean J, K. LeRossignol was presented with the crest of Phi Chi Theta and was made an honorary member. Mrs. LeRossignol was a guest at the affair. Alfreda Johnson, grand vice president of Phi Chi Theta wel comed the girls. Mrs. V. A. Rob bins, president of the Lincoln school of commerce, spoke on "Sell ing Yourself." Girls initiated are Ruth Pierce, Margaret Standiford, Eleanor Worthman, Miriam Butler. Bar bara DePutron, Carol Galloway, Barbara Burt. Harriet Wolfe, Eunice Camp, Alice Crowley, Helen O'Gara, Cornelia Madison and Ruth Shankland. F. L. ROTH RIVALS WONDER MAN IN PHYSICS LECTURE I (Continued from Page It. colored chalk on a big graph he ! outlined the theory of harmonic ' motion and told why the figures went thru a constant, cycle of j shaping and reshaping, produein i a fantastic effect on the screen. Group Hear Middle "C." Then, with mirrors mounted on the end of tuning forks which were pointed at the reflector along lines at right angles to each others he Hashed off the lights in the room. light! Attention was focused on the sphere of projected light. One fork was made to vibrate and in truth the group not only heard, but .sow middle "C" as the sphere became a line. With the vibration a glit tering beam raced from one end of the line to the other forming an unbroken band of light. Mr. Roth began to tune in with the second fork and the tiilver band became an ever changing figure of fidgity light, first a circle, then an ell'Pse like 8rpat dirigible with a ctfir at nanYi nn.1 ihpn haflr to a straight line again. After making another set of di-awings on the graph Mr. Roth went back to his fascinating pro- jpcuir, run 10 narmoiuze two noies. dui wis lime to produce a sym phony of dancing ligh beams... a figure eight with its narrow mid dle weaving back and forth: a movement by Director Roth and the shape becomes a changing "S" that keeps turning the onlookers eyeballs inside out. Getting past the introduction, the light overa ture changed to a crazy pretzel pattern that led the eve' thru un precedented gymnastics. Then, ' from pretzels to a chicken-wire plan of ever-original design. I Many Designs Formed. After another pause in the light i symphony the finale was launched j into with a slightly altered instru- ; mentation, the tuning forks being replaced by electric motors whose I shafts were fitted with eccentri- 1 cally mounted mirrors. This time I the light played in an even gTeater ! range of patterns with small cir- ! cles rolling around the inside rim j of larger ones, replicas of pointed leaves, shamrocks, many-leaved ! clovers, and a multitude of dis- i tinrt JinH Hiffrnt Hoaiona that ! havp nQ fac.simile in nature. Following this picturesque ex- position, Mr. Roth explained the application of the phenomena to . polarized light and also answered questions on the more complicated phases of simple harmonic motion. Refreshments were served after the informal discussion. Announcement Mr. G. Robert Longa baugh, a world travel ex pert, will be in Lincoln on December 18th. He will make his headquarters on the first floor of the Rudge & Guenzel Department Store and will be avail able between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 5:45 P. M. Every one interested iii travel is cordially invited to call upon Mr. Long a -baug'h and discuss travel without any obligation or expense whatsoever. Mr. Long-abaugh is com ing to Lincoln at the re quest of local steam sh:ji agsnts and is fully equip ped to give expert advic? and full information on the many and varied fascinating- cruises of long or short duration, and other travel progTams which are now being presented by transportation companies. If it is not convenient for you to call upon Mr. Longabaug-h you may tel ephone him at B7141 for an appointment and he will visit you at your home. This is a real opportu nity to discuss your travel plans with an expert. CUNARD WHITE STAR LIMITED -Movie Directory , LINCOLN THtATRE CORP. STUART (Mat. 25c; Evt. 40c) "THB TAINTED VEIL," V. Somerset Maugham's novel with tiarho, Gorpe Brent, Herbert Marshall, Warner Gland. Extra, I.eon Errol I'l "GOOD MORNING K V E. " another "Dumbell Letter" ami l'ete S ni i t h ' "Ruicy Football." LINCOLN (Mat. 15c: Nitt 85c t "PECK'S BAP ROY" with .laokle Cooper, Tlioa. Meichau. lly Oaffy Dean In ,Tl7.zy and Daffy." Popeye Cartoon. ORPHEUM (Mat. 15c; Nite 25c) MAMIE SMITH In person with Colored Show featuring Andv Kirk nml HH 12 Clouds of Joy. "LOVE TIME ' on thij screen. COLONIAL (Mat. 10c; Nlte 15c) "THE SECRET OF THU CHATEAU." Alice White, Claire Dodd, Osgood Perkins. LIBERTY (Mat. 15c; Eve. 80cl ' WE'RE NOT DRESSING" King Crosby. Carole Lombard, Burns Allen. SUN (Mat. 10c: Eve. 15c) ' INTERNATIONAL HOl-SK ' V. C. Fields. "PCRSVED- Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory. WESTLAND THEATRE CORP VARSI rY (?5c Any Time) POWER" with Conrad Veidt and Bcuita Hume. KIVA (Mat. 10c; Nite 15c) "THE TOMBSTONE TER ROR" Kith B.ib Steele. Mrtlioriixt Organizations Hold Joint inas Mooting Four Methodist organizations, Weslcvan players. Kappa Phi. Methodist student council, and Phi Tau Theta, are holding a joint Christmas meeting, 7 o'clock Tues day, Dec. 18 at the Wesleyan foun dation. Rev. and Mrs. A. K. Wil liams are in charge of arrange ments. The funeral service which stands out strongest in the memory of I a certain class at the University of ' Kansas was one conducted for an eccentric, but beloved old profes- ; sor. At the height of his oratory ; the minister said, "The shell has j broken and the nut is gone." LEARN TO DANCE YOU TO DANCE Guarantee (N 6 lessons ALSO $ LESSON COURSE Private Letsona by Appointment LEE A. TH0RNBERRY B3635 5th Year S300 Y St. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvwvvvv We Can Help Those Less Tortuuate Than Ourselves And at Utile bother and no expense! THIS WEEK TO GIVE XMAS PARTY Prof. Joseph Alexis to Open Program on Thursday With Speech. ' Christmas party of the Depart ment of Germanic languages, planned to follow a German-Scandinavian theme, will be held in the Morrill hall auditorium from 4 to 6 p. m. Thursday, according to plans for the event announced Sat urday. Prof. Joseph Alexis, chairman of the department, will open the pro gram with a short introductory talk," to be followed by several musical numbers. "Ihr Kindlein Kommet," sung by Vance Leininger, will open the pro gram, while the Temple quartette will present "Es ist ein Reis ent sprungen" and "Wanderers Nacht lied." Dr. W. K. Pfeiler will give several readings in German, while Wilgus Eberly will conclude that part of the program. Erik Wahlgren will provide the Scandinavian touch to the affair, featuring a group of Swedish folk songs as his part of the program. ONE DAY REMAINS IN Y. W. CLOTHING RELIEF CAMPAIGN (Continued from Page 1 1. will be turned fiver to the Y. W. C. A. for distribution, according to Sancha Kilbourn, Nebraskan committeewoman for party ar rangements. Fraternity response was de scribed as meager by Richard Schmidt, business manager of the Daily Nebraskan, which is coop erating in the drive. "Although the bulk of contributions have been made by sororities, fraternity houses still have time to turn in some discarded clothing on Mon day," he stated. "We also wish that any Christmas toys that K byname Always i I asK tor It's Christmas time! But Christmas to main will mean little more than any other day of the year. For it is they on whom fate has not smiled kindly. In cooperation with Lincoln charity or ganizations, the Daily Nehraskan is conduct in a campus-wide campaign for old clothes. Things for which you no longer have any use, w ill prove most useful to Lincoln needy;, during cold winter months. Those old shoes vou can't wear, whicli at the present time merely clutter up your clothes closet, may just as well he given to charity That dress you thought had seen its last day weeks ago. will see manv more when given to folks who never get to buy pretty new things. So give and help sombody have a mer rier Christmas. Xs'e'M be glad to call for even the smallest contribution. It's the little bits that eventually count. We can all do a little to help. Organized House Presidents 100 representation in the campus Honor Roll is the goal for or ganized houses. So why not talk oer the charity drive at your meet ins Monday night. We want you to be included. Our delivery service will call for your contribution- might be left over from the holi day parties be donated for dis tribution among children who would otherwise receive none," Schmidt added. Clothes that have already been sorted, repaired, and packed will be distributed this week by fresh man commission workers, who will visit individual families, accompa nied by a social . worker. Names of dependent families were ob tained from the Social Welfare of fices. All clothes not used by these families will be turned over to the Red Cross, according to Miss Winquist. Results thus far are very grati fying, in the opinion of Miss Bernice Miller, secretary of the campus V. W. C. A. "We Bra pleased with the results so far in the campaign, but we still request any donations that can be made in order to supply the nine families that the commission groups will visit," Miss Miller stated. She also urged immediate action in order to make the donations available to the commissions who will meet at the first of the week. Contributions may be turned fn at the Y. W. C. A. offices in Ellen Smith hall, the Y. M. C. A. offices in the Temple, and the Daily Ne braskan offices. I Scientist Einstein would have no examinations in the ideal univer sity, no drilling of the memory. "It would be mainly a process of ap peal to the senses in order to draw out delicate reactions," he says. 1 Piftrl ou avent seen III I IS! anything yet! WHITE LAMPS Junior. Floor and Table. NVw Tvp of Veeoration 51.45 to 6.75. DESK LAMPS in nil tfce Latest Finishes. All Sizes-1.50 to $8.50. DOOR KNOCKERS 60c to $1.00. LEATHER Bill Folds. Book A Telephone. Covers, Scrap RooKs, Albums. Diaries, To liarreo Cases and many other items. 15c to $5.00. BOOK ENDS Black & While. Alabaster. Bronze. Verdi, Colonial Bronze Finlfh. 90c to $5.00. ASH TRAYS Elark A White, and many new desifms for Home or Office, 30c to $2.50. ALABASTER COLLECTION Verv beautiful numbers. Pnoed 75c to $7.50. Must be seen to be appreciated. POTTERY A fine selection White, Blue and Blaik. in .lues, small and larpe Vases, small Pots, Lamps, Etc., 25c to $5.00 OFFICE SUPPLIES Eventhins for the office. Waste Bas kets. V o r k Orpanizers, Cushions. Pads. Etc. CHRISTMAS CARDS Personal and Individual. 1c each to 50c. We meet competition. George Eros. PRINTERS STATIONERS '213 N St. B1313 VJ STUDENTS TAKE PART IN HONORING SHELDON University Representatives Give Program Musical Selections. Several university representa tives participated in the program held by the Lincoln Kiwanis club to Addison Erwln Sheldon the Ki wanis medal for distinguisnea ser vice as pioneer, statesman and his torian bv presenting some musical selections. The instrumental quintet, which consists of Margaret Baker, piano; Rinphlm. first violin: Mar jorie Smith, second violin; Con stance Baker, lime, ana aiary Mary Louise Baker, cello, will play "Serenade Espagnalc" by Bizet. "Liebesleid" by Krieslor and "Three Dances from Nell Gwyn" by German, including "Country Dance," "Pastoral Dance" and Merry Makers Dance." Also on the program was Prof. R. P. Craw- tora, assistant to me ciieuiceiiur. 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