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Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebrasla
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VOLUME XXXXI, NO. 45.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 19387
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'Can't Take
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Set Tonight
Geissinger, Miss Burt
Take Leading Roles in
Kauffman-Hart Play
Out of the usual pre-openlng
confusion which culminated in
last night's dress rehearsal comes
"You Can't Take It With You,"
the funniest play to appear on the
oft-trod stage of the University
Players for many a season. A
heavy advance sale of tickets In
dicates a large crowd tor tonight's
opening and throughout the week.
Leading the all-student cast in
the "actor-proof" comedy by
George Kauffman and Moss Hart
are Verne Geissinger as eccentric
"Grandpa" Vanderhoff and Clau
Q dine Burt In the part of Penelope
Sycamore, Grandpa's daughter.
John Gaeth will portray Paul Sy
camore, Penelope's husband.
"Nuts" to You.
The word "eccentric" cannot be
limited to Grandpa alone. The
whole Sycamore family and their
friends are definitely "queer"
from Penelope, who writes novels
because a typewriter was left her
by mistake, to Mr. do Pinna, the
iceman, who came one day and
remained eight years.
Seven members of the All-Unl-
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Concert Fans
Hear Schmidt
N.U. Pianist Appears
With City Symphony
Herbert Schmidt of the Univer
sity piano faculty was guest solo
ist at the Lincoln Symphony or
chestra's first concert of the sea
son last evening. His part in the
program consisted of playing
Rubinstein's "Concerto in D minor
for Piano and Orchestra."
Another portion of the program
of great Interest was a series of
works composed by members of
European royalty. The entire
group was arranged for orchestra
and arranged into a uite by Ma
Among these numbers was Louis
famous "Amaryllis :
Passetyme with Goode Com
pany," by Henry VIII; "I Lan
guish and Die" composed by Ge
sualdo, prince of Venosa; and a
group of military marches com
posed or arranged by Frederick
the Great of Prussia.
Hellenic Groups
jtN To Receive Cups
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Scholars At Tea Friday
Scholarship cups will be pre
sented to the seven leading so
rorities and the five Greek women
will receive scholarships at the
annual scholarship tea Friday
from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock at the
Union. The affair Is sponsored by
the city Panhellenlc society. Six
hundred are expected to attend.
A skit In charge of Mrs. Joyce
Ayrcs will be presented at 4:15
o'clock at which time sororities
leading in scholarship for the last
two semesters and the one making
the greatest ndvance in scholar
ship since 193G-37 will receive
cups. The scholarship winners,
whose idently will not be revealed
until Friday, will also be honored
at this time.
Disc and Needle Club
Postpones Meeting
The second meeting of the
Union Dlso and Needle club
scheduled for tonight at 7:30
In parlor C, has been cancelled.
Snyder To Publish
'Verbal Newspaper'
Thieves Take
Ag Turkeys
Watchman Fires Shot
In Dark, But Misses
Ag college night watchman,
Perry Wolfe, reported the theft
of 25 turkeys, prize fowls worth
two and three hundred dollars
apiece, out of the turkey pen at
Ag College campus Sunday night.
The Incident occurred about
10:15, when Wolfe was making
his nightly rounds of the build
ings. On inspecting the turkey pen
he found that the door had been
pried open and several turkeys
taken. After closing the door he
telephoned the city campus cop
and told him of the theft. Return
ing to the pen he found the door
open again and heard two per
sons running away from the pen.
Wolfe Immediately drew his pistol
and fired at the fleeing two, but
due to the number of houses
around the campus he had to
shoot low and he missed his
target.
The campus cop arrived about
fifteen minutes later and an in
spection of the grounds was
started. Upon close inspection they
found twenty-three strangled turk
eys behind the pen and twenty
five missing.
The watchman said that the
men had a truck and headed for
Omaha.
Miss Pound
Reports Trip
East Remembers N.U.
Teacher As Net Champ
Lunch with H. L. Mencken, din
ner at the new Johns Hopkins
faculty clubhouse, writing her
name beside those of the day's
net stars on the flyleaf of a vol
ume tracing the development of
tennis these were the thrills
which came to Dr. Louise Pound
as she attended a meeting of the
executive board of the American
Association of University Women
at Washington. Dr. Pound return
ed to the campus Sunday.
Miss Pound reports that one of
her most interesting experiences
occurred when a New England
tennis fan sent her a book and a
request. Reading that she was in
Washington, he remembered that
when a student at a summer ses
sion of the University of Chicago,
she had met and defeated the re
gional tennis champion, taken hon
ors as western champion, defeated
the national doubles champion and
both the western champ of the
preceding year and the Illinois
title-holder.
Her correspondent asked for her
autograph in his copy of Julius
Myrick's "Fifty Years of Tennis
in the United States." Miss Pound
added her autograph to those of
the world's ranking players-
BONNIE BURN TO TALK
BEFORE FROSH A.W.S.
Bonnie Burn, president of W.
A. A., women's athletic associa
tion, will tell the freshmen A. W,
S. clubs of the organization, its
aims, intra murals, concessions for
the football gaiiies, and of the dif
ferent clubs within the bigger club
at this week's meetings.
Peggy Beyl and Mary Day will
serve as president and secretary
respectively at the ag college
meeting which will be held in the
home economics building Wednes
day at 4 o'clock.
The position of president will be
filled by Marian Moffett and that
of secretary by Cay Deurmyer at
the city meeting, which will be
held on the same day at 5 o'clock
in Ellen Smith.
Noted Commentator
Appears This Evening;
Dr. Koo Also To Speak
Frederic Snyder, nationally
known lecturer and journalist, will
present his famous "Verbal News
paper" lecture tonight at 8:15 in
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FREDERIC SNYDER.
..To Deliver 'Verbal Newspaper.
the Union ballroom. Snyder will
be the second well known figure
presented by the Union In their
current "celebrity series," which
will later in the year offer Will
Durant, noted philospoher, and
former Governor Hoffman of New
Jersey, who played an important
role In the Lindbergh kidnap case.
Admission to tonight's lecture will
be free and many students are ex
pected to attend.
Snyder's "Verbal Newspaper"
lectures have been delivered be
fore thousands from coast to coast.
Each lecture is prepared In news
paper style and contains headline
facts, inspirational editorials, and
other features of a city newspaper.
Snyder keeps abreast of the
world's news by constant contact
with great world personalities and
events. Described by the National
Editorial Association as "one of
the nation's great orators," Snyder
is well known as a humorist and
his remarks are quoted nationally.
Tou Can't Take It With You' on Set
Ready for a real "firs nlahter"
In the city of Lincoln, the cast
of "You Can't Take It With
You" puts the last touches on
the lines hilariously written and
presented by George S. Kauff
man and Moss Hart. The show
will be the first presentation In
Lincoln and the University
Players Is the first non-professional
organization to stage the
UNION ACTIVITIES.
Tuesday.
6:00 Lutreran students din
ner, parlor A.
6:00 Meredith dinner, parlor
B.
7:00 Newman club, parlors X,
Y, Z.
7:00 Sigma Eta Chi, room
313.
7:00 Tassels, room 316.
7:00 Phalanx, room 315.
7:00 League of Evangelical
students, room 209.
7:00 Alpha Phi Omega, room
309.
7:30 Music group, parlor C.
Ag College
Offers Drama
Plan Short Instruction
Period for Farmers
Farm folks from Lancaster and
surrounding counties today will
begin a four-day training in
dramatics at the college of agri
culture. More than thirty have
already registered and fifty are
expected to attend the Instruc
tional session.
Third annual school of its kind,
the four day session is being spon
sored by the Nebraska agricul
tural college extension service and
county farm bureaus in coopera
tion with the national recreation
association. Purpose of the school
Is to introduce dramatics as a
form of recreation in farm,
church, and school groups. Those
attending the swsion will receive
actual practice in all phases of
play production.
Guild Presents
'Schooner' Plays
Radio Dramatists Use
U. Magazine Fiction
Two of the stories which have
appeared in the University's
Prairie Schooner were presented
by KFOR Radio Guild during its
broadcast last night.
The first story, presented In
dramatized form, was Edward
Kaveny's "Survival of the Fleet
est," a light-hearted satire. The
second, "Where the Mules Rolled,"
by Marguerite Polk, appears in
the current issue of the Schooner.
comedy. It opens tonight In the
Temple theater.
In the cast, left to right, you
can figure who's who, are: Bob
Alexander, "Kolenkhov;" John
Goeth, "Paul Sycamore;" Ber
nard Mcnke, "Tony Klrby;"
John Williams (holding tray),
"Donald ;' Verne Geissinger
(foreground), "Grandpa; Jean
Morgan, 'Alice Sycamore;" Don
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ICoo Speaks
On Orient
This Evening
Chinese Statesman
To Give Last Campus
Appearance in Union
Diminutive Dr. T. Z. Koo. small,
modest man and great Christian
statesman, will address students
and faculty tonight at 7:15 o'clock
Lincoln Journal.
T. Z. KOO
Addresses Convocation.
in the Union ballroom, giving his
last contribution to Religion and
Life Week at Nebraska.
Able Interpreter of the oriental
situation today, Dr. Koo, a quiet
Chinese who plays a 10 cent bam
boo tlute for relaxation, is a
leader in New China with special
responsibilities for colleges and
universities.
Koo leaves tonight for New
York, from where he will sail Fri
day for India to attend the world
wide Madras conference of Chris
tian missions. Dr. E. Stanley
Jones, who stirred some 6.500 peo
ple Sunday night in the coliseum,
left at 6:00 this morning by plane
for New York, where he wiil make
a speech and return immediately
via the air to the Nebraska cam
pus for the remainder of Religion
and Life Week.
Science, Religion in Wedlock.
"I'd like to perform a marriage
service between science and re
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Sunday Journal and Star.
Meier, "Mr. Kirby;" Tex-Roselle
Rounds (practically hidden back
there), "Essie;" Doris Poellet
(foreground), "Olga;" Elizabeth
Ann Davis (holding tray),
"Rheba," La Rue Sorrell (fore
ground), "Ed Carmichael;" Ray
mond Brown, "Mr. de Pinna;"
Claudine Burt (extreme right),
"Penelope Sycamore."
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