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From Hollywood.
Announcing quietly Unit she
couldn't tell us the favorite Holly
wood recreation "at the table,"
Virginia Faulkner, former student
here and erstwhile scenario writer
for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, allowed
herself to be drawn out on the
movie situation and film folk over
a relative-lined luncheon table.
Our inquiry, in the face of the
adoring members of the Meyer
clan, breaking bread with the great
cousin, had been directed coyly at
Santa Anita, but at that reply we
pulled in our ears and plunged to
the deep end.
Sparkling conversationalists
of New York and the cinema
center have many times found
themselves caught flat-footed, or
t least suddenly deprived of
their wind, in the face of the
quick sallies of our Ginny. No
Tess Slessinger ourself, we were
constantly left at the post by
the lightning change of direc
tion of Faulkner reactions. While
we would be reverently tucking
into our memory one comment,
another would come flying by,
to be handled as best we dazedly
could.
Expressionistic.
Of an intricate photostatic ma
chine enshrined in her brother's in
surance office she exclaimed.
"Golly, that's charming." Of
beauty and popularity contests
with movie contracts at the end
of the rainbow she commented:
"Grand publicity for the studios,
to keep the people interested.'' Her
just completed, first non-collaborative
scenario, "I Made a Bargain,"
she describes as a "stinker." Vir
ginia exposes the yipping o
Broadway writers, actors and di
rectors that they are prostituting
their art to the god gold: "That's
the way they talk, but they'd
rallier be shot than leave." Her
hours for her $350 a week job, are
enumerated as "five minutes" a
day. And her concept of "the
grandest place in the United
States" is a farm in Connecticut,
where one may "putter and paint
fences and things."
Usually eight or ten writers
collaborate, with all this sur
plus of literary light, on a single
script the process is a get-together,
"on call," and a discus
sion of the "secrets" of the pro
duction and the general lines
of the story. One of the scenar
ists then works out the dia
logue, there is another confer
ence, the script is done over,
there is another conference it
can go on indefinitely. There is
loads of time; it may take six
' or seven weeks." Or two or
three big authors may write
stories for the tame movie, the
script for which will be a com
bination of them all. It's all
very easy, that way.
Foreign Talent.
It seems that Hollywood is
crawling with all sorts of talent,
with hundreds of persons for
every conceivable type of position.
Many of the actors and dancers
"eventually wind up at one of
those curb service places." And
those landing a job in one of the
lesser tasks of behind-scenes pro
duction arc grossly underpaid.
There has been a great wave of
imported genius, not only from
Broadway, but from Europe,
especially Germany. These Jewish
master minds "they're the
smartest people in the world"
arc the top directors, technical i
wondermcn, and chief executives, i
And the cinema caliber is neccs
sarily whoopsed by their art.
Loath to forecast anything
for the future of the industry,
Virginia ventured that Doris
Nolan, appearing locally in a
fairish film "Top of The Town,"
is one of the new coming stars.
Technicolor is not sufficiently
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Ag Cafe Revives
'Old South 9 With
Plantation Menu
Fried chicken. Southern hot
breads and up-side down pudding
will be the "order of the day" in
the Ag cafeteria, transformed into
a "Cabin in the Cotton" for the
Farmers' Fair, May 8.
Attractive Home Economics
students in old colonial costumes
will serve guests at tables decor
ated with red checked table cloths
and minature cabins. A large cab
in stands in the middle of the
dining room. The entrance is
planned as a reproduction of the
front of a cabin, complete with
white latticework entwined with
wisteria.
Plantation Style.
Negro mammies will serve Fair
visitors who prefer the great out-of-doors,
at a sidewalk cafe in
front of the Home Ec building.
The menu to be served outside
will be the sort that the common
working classes In the BQUth en
joy, while the food prepared for
customers of the "Cabin in the
Cotton" will be plantation fare.
The project has been planned in
conjunction with the southern
theme of the Fair by the Home
Economics Institutional Adminis
tration students, under the general
direction of Truma McClcllan.
The sidewalk cafe will be open
from 11:30 a. m. to midnight The
"Cabin in trc Cotton" will serve
from 11:30 a. m. to 1 p. m. and
from 5 to 7 p. m.
SENIOR HONORARY
ACTIVES 10 TAP.
Intcrsorority Sing, Dance
At Antelope Complete
Afternoon Events.
Hopeful expectancy and a thrill
packed afternoon will reach a
fever pitch at 2:30 this afternoon
when Mortar Boards begin their
eventful march around the tri
angular green to mask those
chosen few of feminine activity
leaders who will act as members
of the senior honorary for the
coming year. At 3:30 even more
anticipation will be culminated
when members of the Innocents
society single out those favored
individuals who will participate In
the senior men's honorary for the
next term.
Jean Walt, president of the
women's honorary will lead the
march of the 12 Mortar Boards
around the green and Bill Marsh,
head of the men'o society, with the
12 other active Innocents will con
duct the tapping of new members.
Dinners Planned.
Newly masked members of Mor
tar Board and their mothers will
be entertained by the active chap
tor at a dinner this evening at
the University club, while newly
tapped Inaocent members will be
honored at a banquet at the Lin
coln hotel.
Preceding the Mortar Board and
Innocent ceremonies in the after
noon will be the intersorority sing
which is scheduled for presenta
tion at 1:15. Thirteen sororities
will participate in the contest in
cluding: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha
Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi
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DELEGATES FRIDAY
Chancellor to Give Opening
Address Before Annual
Convention Here.
Chancellor Edgar A. Burnett
will give the welcoming address
to numerous delegates from sev
eral mid-western universities who
will assemble here Friday and
Saturday, May 7 and 8 for the
26th annual meeting of the Society
for the Advancement of Scandi
navian Study. The first day's pro
gram will consist of the reading
and discussing of papers, while
Saturday will be devoted to the
election of officers and other busi
ness. The. first meeting, to begin at
2:00 in the afternoon in Andrews
Hall 229, will consist of talks by
Prof. Karl Litzenberg, University
of Michigan: Prof. Einar Haugcn.
University of Wisconsin: Prof.
Richard Beck, University of North
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Students May Secure
Free I'ontiac Tickets
Free tickets of admission to
the university's broadcast of the
Pontiac Varsity Show Friday
night at 8:30 o'clock from the
Cornhusker coliseum may be
secured from the following:
Daily Nebraskan office in U
Hall.
Student activities office in
the coliseum.
Alumni office in Temple
theater.
Daily Nebraskan booth in
Temple theater.
Miss Schnurr in Ag hall on
ag campus.
Mrs Erickson in School of
Music office.
MASK
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Pharmacy Exhibits Review
Scientific March of Time
Time will make quite a march at
the college of pharmacy tonight.
The progress of pharmacology dur
ing the last 6.000 years will be
depicted in a multitude of Inter
esting exhibits.
The practical minded person will
be interested in the methods of
testing food in the homes, which
will be demonstrated. There will
be experiments shown which the
housewife can do in her kitchen to
test her milk, cream, butter, and
the like for impurities or adulter
ants. Show Old Formula.
The oiuest known pla.mi.:ut.
ica formula, recorded in the Bible,
Exodua XXX:34-35, Is shown. The
passage reads: "And the Lord said
unto Moses, take unto thee sweet
spices, stacte, and oncha. and gal
banum; these sweet spice with
pure frankincense: of each shall
there be a like weight. And thou
make Is a perfume, a confection
after the art of the apothecary,
tempered together, pure and holy."
In Biblical times, the apothecaries
devoted most of their time to the
Direct Science Academy
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DR. J. E. WEAVER.
FIVE NEBRASKANS
Mathematics, Geography,
Dietetics Teachers
Gather May 7, 8.
Nebraska professors will figure
prominently in the proceedings of
the 47th annual dinner of the Ne
braska Academy ot Sciences which
will be held at the Lincoln hotel
Friday and Saturday. The acad
emy meetings will be held jointly
with the Nebraska section of the
Mathematical Associat'' 1 of
America, the Nebraska Cv..ncil of
Geography Teachers, the Nebraska
Science Teachers association and
the Nebraska Dietetic association.
Prof. J. E. Weaver of the plant
ecology department is president of
the society and will preside at all
the general sessions. M. P. Brunig
of th agricultural engineering de
partment is secretary, and Prof.
P. K. Slaymaker, prefessor of ma
chine design, is treasurer.
Deming, Bell to Speak.
Among the guest speakers who
will appear on the general pro
gram is Dr. H. G. Deming of the
chemistry department who will
address the general session Fri
day monring at 11:20 on "Current
Trends in Chemical Progress." Dr.
Earl H. Bell, university anthropol
ogist, will preside over the earth
sciences section in th group meet
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PUNS REACH FINISH
Interest- Soars in Student
, Faculty Softball Game
For Friday.
Final arrangments are being
made for the annual faculty-student
business administration col
lege picnic Friday afternoon at
Antelope park and interest in the
softball game between professors
and their pupils has soared to an
unprecedented height, Bob Wil
liams of the bizad executive board
announced Wednesday.
"Ticket sales are going along
nicely with about 200 alrtady sold,"
Williams said. "All bizad students
are urged to purchase tickets Im
mediately at the first floor booth
In social sciences, as ticket sales
must close at ten o'clock Friday."
Predicts Faculty Victory.
Winner of the guessing contest
on the faculty-student softball
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production of perfumes, which
were used in the religious cere
monies in their temples.
The wide variance In the sizes of
doses of different drugs and medi
cines is also shown. The smallest
dose of solid given Is 1-150 of a
grain of atrophine, while a four
drachm dose of Epsom Salts is
36,000 times as large. In liquids
the variance is even greater, the
largest, about a quart, is 129,840
tfrncs as large as the smallest
dose.
Rx Symbol Explained.
Dr. J. B. Burt explained the sig
nificance of several of the univer-
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The one, written Rx, is an abbrevi
ation of the Latin "recipe" mean
ing "Take thou!" Another fre
quent symbol is the sign of
Jupiter, which looks something
like a cross between a 4 and a 2.
The ancient pharmacists affixed
this sign because they believed
that it would brlr.g good luck and
give the potion curative powers.
There are many more equally
interesting displays beside those
enumerated above, (
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Hifflll
ight Happenings
For Ivy Day Program
9:00 a. m Interfraternity sing. At close of competition the fra
ternity groups join in the singing of "Hail Varsity,"
new university song compossd by Wilbur Chenoweth,
10:15 a.m. Ivy Day Oration by Frank Landis.
10:30 a. m. Ivy Day Procession.
11:00 a. m. Crowning of the May Queen,
11:05 a.m. Reading of the Ivy Day Poem, winner to be announced
at the time of the reading.
11:10 a.m. Planting of the Ivy by Bob Wadhams, junior class
president, and Floyd Baker, senior class president.
11:15 a.m. Recessional of the May Queen's Court.
1:15 p. m. Intersorority sing.
2:30 p. m. Masking of Mortar Boards.
3:30 p.m. Tapping of Innocents.
4:30 p.m. All-University dance at Antelope Park.
7:00 p. m. Open house, demonstrations and exhibits by students
in ten different buildings on the campus,
Visitors May View Marvels
Of Modern
Engineers.
Pharmacists,
Geologists Sponsor
Exhibitions.
By Dick deBrown.
Ingenious and amazing examples
of the modern magic of science
will be amply demonstrated to
night by engineers, geologists, and
pharmacists from 7 to 10 o'clock
at Open House in the various de
partment buildings. In a preview
snoop, a number of exhibits which
should have the crowds open-
SPOTLIGHT TURNS TO
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15 Women File Entries for
Intersorority Riding
Competition.
With all the thrills of the big
time steeple chase, and with all
the color of the nation's greatest
shows, the 1937 Farmers' Fair
horse show, will open activities
for one of the largest ag college
festivals in history Friday night.
The modified Olympic event which
promises to supply plenty of ex
citement for the evening, will con
sist of ten jumps, varying from
stone walls to plum thickets.
The Olympic event is open to
all entries and some of the na
tion's foremost jumping horses
have been secured to assure a
colorful race. Each horse will tour
the hurdle course against time
and the times compared to decide
the final winner.
Want More Entries.
Fifteen girls have registered for
the intersorority ride, and al
though entries were supposed to
have closed Wednesday night.
Manager Earl Hedlund, stated
that there is still room for a few
more riders. The girls and the
sororities they will represent are
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Ode to Nebraska
Ivy Plants-a la
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By Marjorie Churchill.
Respectfully dedicated: To the
approximately 23 ivy plants which
might have, but did not, come up.
One score and five years ago,
our grandpappies brought forth on
this campus a little wizened ivy
plant, conceived in the horticulture
department and dedicated to the
proposition that what goes down
must come up.
Who'll Plant Ivy?
Now we are engaged in a post
depression hang-over, testing
whether this independent spirit, or
any creature which does not belong
to the democratic party, can long
endure. We are met between the
Administration building and U.
Hall. We have come to dedicate
the northwest corner of that field
as a formal resting place for the
successor to all those who hereto
fore gave their lives that the ivy
and daisy chains mipht sing, "Who
will plart the ivy?" It is sort of
fitting and proper that we do
this.
Resistant to Mower.
The world will little note nor
give a whoop what we say here,
but it can never forget that once
in 25 years the ivy started to
grow, but was cut off with a lawn
mower. It is for us, the more or
less living, rather, to be dedicated
here to the unfinished work of
re-plantlng the ivy for the 26th
time. It is rather for us to be
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and we here highly resolve that
these dead shall not have died in
vain, that this ivy plant, subject
to the O. K. of the dean, the Board
of Regents, and the caretaker,
shall have a new birth of free
dom, and that this slip of ivy
planted on the allotted 12 square
inches, by Bob Wadhams and
Floyd Baker, and for the aes
thetic uplift of our posterity, shall
not Derinh from the ravaees of
'wind, rain, and lawn-mowers.
Science
Tonight
mouthed and crowding around
were unearthed.
Sound Transmits Light.
Sound transmission by light will
, comprise one of the startling dis
; plays set up by electrical engi
neers. The equipment consists of
a phonograph from which recorded
music goes thru an amplifier to
be picked up by a light beam: the
beam shoots the sound (still un
heard by the ear, of course I
across the room to a photo-electric
cell from which it passes thru
a filter over to another amplifier I
and finally to a loud speaker from I
which the music issues in tones j
perfectly audible to the gaping I
spectator unacquainted with the
powers of electricity.
The filter has three frequency
ranges, one normal, one of high
pass frequency, and one of low
pass frequency. By switch control,
an operator can thus force the
music go thru any one of these
frequencies with the result that
one will hear either all of the mu
sic, only the high notes, or only
the low notes. At the time your
reporter was previewing the dis
play, a recording of the "Stars and
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Extra Mav .Wpwans Still
Available U Hall Office
There will be a few extra
copies of the May issue of the
Awgwan today during the Ivy
day ceremonies for those who
were unable to secure them
yesterday. All alumni and visi
tors may obtain a copy at the
stands or at the Awgwan office.
Get yours early! This is the
special Ivy day and Pontiac
broadcast issue.
ESSAY CONTEST PIE
Omaha Professor Awards
$50 for Best Paper on
Racial Tolerance.
Robert Lloyd Jeffrey. Herbert
Clarke and Norman Bolker were
awarded prizes of $00, S30, and
$20 respectively for their essays
submitted on the general topic:
"Racial and Religious Tolerance."
The awards were made available
!thru tne generosity and public
! sp.rit of Dj. phi)ip gher of Qmaha
who sponsored the contest
Jeffrey's winning paper was de
voted to a treatment of the social
conditions of the American Negro,
being entitled "Racial Tolerance
The Negro Problem." Clarke and
Bolker used for their subjects:
"The Negro and our Prejudice
Against Him," and "Racial and
Religious Toleration."
Professors Lane W. Lancaster.
G. W. Gray, and J. M. Reinhardt
comprised the committee of ,
judges.
Mrs. Martin Johnson Views,
Admires Nebraska Museum
ruinous African Explorer
Tells KxperiMices in
Wild of Juiifilo.
Met at the street entrance by
young men of the department, who
carried her into a wheelchair in
the building, young Mrs. Martin
Johnson began her inspection tour i
of the bones and fossils of Morrill
hall with delighted expectancy of
a girl about to choose her first
ba n sown. i
She was enchanted by the ele- j
phants.
Other fossils caught her aiten-1
Hon ton hut none nf them ranked '
in the same class with the ele- J
phants. In graduated sizes, from
the earliest species, found in Fay-
ume of Africa, no larger than do-,
mestic pigs, thru a second group j
the size of calves and others the j
stature of full-grown cattle, up to ;
the largest mamoth known, called
Archidiskodon. Mrs. Johnson
found the complete collection In
triguing. Surrounded by Impressed young
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DR. HARRY KURZ.
Dr. Harry Kurz, chuiriuun of the
Romance languages department,
was named president of Phi Beta
Kappa, honorary scholastic fra
ternity, according to announce
ment "by Prof. Clifford Hicks, of
the college of business administra
tion at the university, who was
re-elected secretary.
COUNCIL PLACES
VETO ON CLOSED
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Ruling Excludes Good Friday,
Chancellor's Reception.
Church Night.
Closed night privileges will not
be granted to any campus organ
ization during the 1937-38 school
year.
This departure from social cus
tom on the campus was unani
mously endorsed by the student
council in the regular weekly meet
ing of that body in U hall. Wed
nesday afternoon.
Due to the new ruling, only three
nights will be entered on the 1937
3S school calendar as closed nights.
Those three are church night.
Good Friday and the evening of
the chancellor's all university re
ception. Faculty Endorses Plan.
In refusing to grant the closed
night privilege to all campus
groups, excepting the three named,
the council found faculty opinion
endorsing its action.
"The chancellor has long main
tained, along with many other fac
ulty members," Dave Bernstein, in
troducer of the motion, pointed out,
"that there should only be three
night. closed and that the prac
tice of granting closed nights for
other purposes is thoroly undemo
cratic." Five Requests Denied.
Requests for closed nights which
had been put before the student
council included those for the Mili
tary Ball, Innocents' Homecoming
Dance, Mortar Board Party, Inter
fraternity Ball, and Junior-Senior
PronO Under the new ruling, the
nights on which those events come
will be open and other parties may
be scheduled for the same evening.
The method of the filing and
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May 10 for Next Year
Students enrolled in the uni
versity this semester may regis
ter for the first semester 1937
1938 during the week May 10
to 15th (noon). College of agri
culture students may register
May 11, 12 and 13 only.
Class schedule books will be
distributed Friday, May 7
in the registrar's office.
Florence McGahey,
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MAY QUEEN AT 1 1
Ceremony to Reveal Maid
Of Honor, Attendants.
Daisy Chain Leaders.
Identity of Nebraska's 1937 May
Queen will be made known this
morning at 11 o'clock. Amid the
traditional pomp and ceremony
that will be one of the many Ivy
day climaxes, some senior womanj
elected by the campus at large
more than two months ago will as
cend the dais to become queen of
the eventful day.
Down the white walk, bordered
on both sides by chains, pages, and
the masked Mortar Boards, the
queen will proceed to the throne
where she will be crowned by the
Maid of Honor. With coronation
splendor, the ceremonies will he
the highlight of this morning's ac
tivities. Processional Participants.
The event will open when the 13
masked members of the women
seniority honorary organization
march to the foot of the throne
and form a line on both sides of
the walk. The. Ivy Day chain will
then march into the grassy trian
gle bordered by the white lath
fence, and finally form a semicircle
about the front of the dais. The
chain is composed of all senior
women in the university who care
to participate.
Next in the schedule for the
ceremonies services will be the pro
cession of the daisy chain which
will be composed of a senior, jun
ior, and sophomore member of
each organized sorority. The daisy
chain will also march to the cen
ter of interest and form another
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PONTIAC TO SELECT
VARSITY SHOW CAST
Gordon Whyte Will Make
Final Eliminations
At 8 Tonight.
Cast for the Friday broadcast
of Pontiac's Varsity Show will b
finally selected tonight at 8 o'clock
in the dress rehearsal at the coli
seum, Gordon Whyte, program di
rector, announced Wednesday eve
ning. Enthusiastic over the prospects
of the broadcast from the Nebras
ka campus after rehearsing with
the university R. O. T. C. band,
symphony orchestra and men's
glee club Wednesday afternoon,
Mr. Whyte is confident that thn
Friday coast-to-coast broadcast
will be successful.
Outstanding Talent.
"Everything is shaping up ex
ceedingly well for the program
and some outstanding collegiate
talent will be heard by a great
national audience," Mr. Whytn
said. "We expect Nebraska alumni
all over the country to hear the
broadcast and hope to have a larg
crowd hear and see the actual
thing at the coliseum."
To secure the "proper balance
of the show," Mr. Whyte said that
Thursday evening's final dress re
hearsal would determine the num
bers that will appear in the show,
which may necessitate cutting the
tentative list.
The following are scheduled to
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MORRILL HALL DISPLAYS
EXTENSJONEXHIBITIONS
Maps Indicating Activities,
Collection of Pictures
Compose Showing.
Contributing its share to the
college days exhibits, the extension
division is bhowing a display in
dicative of its activities today in
Gallery B of Morrill hall. Maps
showing the extent of the exten
sion service in Nebraska and
thruout the United States make
up one part of the exhibit. The
collections of pictures that Mrs.
M. E. Vance, state extension art
leader, has been showing in Ne
i braska towns this winter will com
plete the exhibit.
The extension material has been
on dii-play in Chicago and Denver
I and after today will be sent to
St. Louis where it will be shown
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versity Extcn:
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turned from
at a meeting ct i:ie .-aiionai uni-
Extension association. Airs.
exhibit has just re-
recent showings in
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The Weather
Weatherman Blair hinted at
unsettled weather for Ivy Day.
For the benefit of the Innocents
and Mortor Boards who will be
slinking around in heavy cloaks,
he announces the gUo news
that It will be v..-. icr.
a-