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Tuesday, February 6. 1940 The DAILY NFUR ASKAN MUSIC Symphonic band Promises plenty of 'oomph7 in tuba octet Sunday, Feb. 1 1 A band concert with plenty of musical perns of the acres. One of "oomph" will be presented by the these is an especially fine arrange- university R. O. T. C. symphonic ment of the Bach "Organ Fugue band Sunday afternoon Feb. 11 in in G minor." Another is from the Coliseum. The "oomph" will Richard Wagner's dramatic mu- be provided by the band's eight sic, "Wotan's Farewell," and his new tubas which will be heard in "Magic Fire Music." an octet arrangement of "Pom- Soloists with the band next Sun- poso" with band accompaniment, day are Robert Slemmor.s of Don A. Lentz will conduct the Mitchell, freshman in the College 88-piece ensemble, of select play- of Engineering, who will sing "At- ers from the 120 piece marching lantic Zephyrs" by Simons, and band and the 100 piece regimen- Neil Short of York, trumpeter, tal band. The program will be sophomore in Teachers College, open to the public. who will present "Concert in E Music of masters. flat" by Williams. In addition to the rollicking Syncopated rhythm, strains of the tuba solo, the pro- For those who like their synco- gram will include several of the pation there will be a clever ar Nash appears Feb. 9 to 16 Young English scholar and noted clergyman to hold Union seminars Father Arnold Nash, young Eng lish scholar already considered a distinguished clergyman, will ap pear on the Nebraska campus for a week, Feb. 9 to 16, under the sponsorship of the religious wel fare council. Nash will speak in a seminar in the Union everday at 4 p. m. Mon day thru Wednesday, leading dis cussion on such topics as "The British Labor Party and the War in Europe" and "The University and its Place in the Social Order, and other subjects on which he is regarded as a "thoroly open minded liberal." Arrives Fridry. Arriving Friday morning, the Episcoplalian and his sociologist wife will appear at a dinner meet ing of the Lincoln youth council, of university students from each church Friday night at Vine Con gregational church. Nash will also appear in several university classes -according to C. A. Forbes, who is in charge of ar rangements. Climax of the clergy man's stay will be his appearance at the annual interfaith banquet to be held Wednesday night under the auspices of the religious welfare council. Spongier studies insurance trends The trend in life insurance sales for the nation and for the state will be the basis of an exhaustive study by Prof. Clifford D. Spang ler of the department of econom ics. Spanglcr, who will conduct the survey, expects to gather data which will show the amounts of whole life, en lowments and term insurance that are being pur chased in the country today. Spanglcr and his assistants will secure thoir facts from the an nual rcpoits of the ,r0 leading insurance companies which oper ate in the state who arc required by law to file a copy of the an nual report in the office of the etate department of insurance. The university study will be based upon the records of at least the last 10 years. Professor Spanglcr expects to publish his findings in a bulletin. Data will also be used as supplementary material in the classroom. Professors attend young citizen contest meeting Miss Clara I. Iliiusch of the de partment of physical education for women; Dr. D. A. Worcester, pro fessor of ' educational psychology and measurements; Dr. R. C. Clapp, director of physical educa tion for men. and Mrs. Ruth Tike, associate editor in the extension division, attended a conference on the j'oung citizen's contest in Om aha Wednesday evening. They were guests of the Omaha World Hcrald r.t a dinner that evening at the Paxton Hotel. LEARN TO DANCE Itallronni Tnp ... Guaranteed To Tmrh You Can Teach Yon to Dance in One Hour Private Lron nv Appointment RrrMrr (or CUnttl LUELLA WILLIAMS 1M N. SELECT STl DIO 1-43.1? !-4;s DRAMA rangement of Bennett's "Rhythms of Rio," better described as an ultra modern South American rhapsody. "Rhythms of Rio" is really a compilation of current popular tunes in the countries of the southern hemisphere, says Mr. Lentz. Other numbers include "Brava- do-Faso Doble," Curzon; "Rou manian Rhapsody No. 1," Enesco; "Valse Bluette, " Dngo; and "Sky- liner," Alford. Reviewer hails eccentric 'Thoreau by Margaret Ann Osborn. "Thoreau" is an illuminating biography of a great American written hv Dr. Honrv Soidol Can- by. This peculiar man who sat in company "with a certain iron- pokerish-ness," this ugly man with puckered, expressive lips and "ter- rible eyes" of gleaming gray-blue, this friend of woodchucks and enemy of the state, was not easy to be understood even by his clos- est friends, Emerson and Chan- ning Ccnhv nirhiro him on tc- CMitric man cf dual nature nno -----j i- ... - . .;. 7 - yearning, one half negative, satiri cal, and really perverse. His ec centricity was to keep out of the greeds, the brawls, the current enthusiasms, and the blind stren uosities of his time. Too rustic to feel at ease in the world, he thumbed his nose at tvia u.ni-'M on1 r-oenu,A tn k. 'Z 7" .7r. v l l"u. all of his life in Concord village in New England. Thoreau's indi vidualism was his life, being called the Concord "skulker" by Stev enson. Dr. Canby has presented two aspects of Thoreau, the creative thinker with weighted wings, and the ascetic with a passion for liv ing. He believes Thoreau was a life-long apprentice to the art of during the decade from 1810 to good writing. This narrative, con- 1S20, years that mark a well de trary to common opinion, is not fined period in the development of a iuuiuy oijl a success siory, me history, not of an ascetic hermit but of a man of letters of deep and troubling emotions. .And with the closing words of Emerson's ad- diess at Thoi can's funeral, we leave you with the pure, puritan- ical New Englander, Henry Thor- cau. "The country knows not yet. or in the least part, how great a Fon it has lost.. It seems an injury that he should leave in the midst his broken task, which none else can finish... But he, at least, is content. His soul was made for the noblest society; he had in a short life exhausted the capabili ties of this world; wherever there is knowledge, wherever there is virtue, wherever there is beauty, he will firfd a home." Wisdom of the Fast Scries pre sents "The Persian Mystics: An sari" by Sardar Sir Jogcndra Singh. This is a tianslation into English of the "Sayings of thei Mystic, Abdullah Ansari." As Gandhi has said: "Islam has given the world mystics no less than Hinduism of Christianity. In these days when irreligion masquerades as religion, it is well to remind ourselves of what the best mind of all the religions of the world has thoupht and said. We must not, like the frog in the well, who imag ines that the universe ends with the wall surrounding his well, BOOKS Soloists star with strings Bingham, Furr play violin, piano in Lincoln orchestra tomorrow Eunice Bingham, violinist, and Houghton Furr, pianist, will ap pear as soloists with the Lincoln string orchestra in a concert to be Eunice Bingham. HmiKhtun Furr. held tomorrow night at 8:15 in the Cornhusker ballroom. Bach, Bloch and Elgar will be featured on the program. Under the direction of Dorothy Holcomb, the orchestra will play Bach's think that our religion alone rep- resents the whole truth and all tne others are false. A reverent study of the other religions of the wor,d would show that they are equally true as our own; though a11 are .necessarily imperfect. Abdullah Ansari was born on Friday at sunset in 936 Hyri, or A- D- 1005 w01 knowledge. He did not have to seek and discover Jt anew. At the age of nine he dis- PlaKd a remarkable mastery, and v seemed to know all that was ever 10.wn of reliSion and philosophy, ,t . saul inar ma nan nrtnur. a t . wuw " It la caiii rnof Via no H a Vvm if o - - nunarea tnousana fersian verses mf sen t,uuu verses in Arabic. He gatnerea a Dana or aevotea ais- cipies around him, forming the so- ciety called Silsila-i-Ansari, and it is said to have survived up to the present time. no real value, and becomes a world x- i u , . - tl lui civca uu LIlilL which litis w nr. ac- "What is its joy, what is its woe But scented ash that used to glow? A sandal wood of long ago... A camphor of the past." "A Pioneer Merchant of St. Louis, 1810-1820" is a thesis by Sister Marietta Jennings. It pre sents an account of Christian Welt, a pioneer merchant of St. Louis me western community. In 1S10 the Louisiana territory had been in the possession of the U. S. for only six years and St. Louis had been a chartered village in that terri- tory for one year; in 1&20 the Tcr- ritoiy of Missouri, carved out of the Louisiana Purchase, was rapid ly being settled, and St. Louis, emerging from the pioneer stage, assumed the duties and responsi bilities of a city in 1S22, one year after Missouri had been admitted into the Union as a sitae. The book shows the role played Coming! On Our STAGE . . . Hollywood's fa mous adviser to the stars 1 . . i Here to answer all your questions from the stage! I "1 Kb ; fS On the Screen Spencer TRACY iirdr LEMARR in l Take This Woman' Starting Thnrtday LINCOLN Lincoln symphony Sways audience to 'Southern Roses7; Wishnow shines The audience at the Lincoln viols took a vigorous beating. The Symphony concert last night in last movement under Leo Kucin St. Paul church won a rare en- ski's baton, became truly "Pathe core from the orchestra and bow tique." after bow from Violinist Emanuel Plays modern concerto. Wishnow after they had ably re- Wishnow, of the school of mu laxed the listeners with a Strauss sic faculty, created artistic ter waltz and stirred them with sion with his rendition of the Tschaikowsky's Sixth symphony concerto in E Minor by Jules Con and a Conus concerto. us, and made many of its sym- Responding intently to the four pathetic strains into a love song, movements of the "Symphonie The outstanding Lincoln violinist Pathetique" the audience found carried the burden of the intricate the second section most brilliant concerto much of the way, the or and haunting, though the bass chestra remaining silent. "Concerto in E Major" and Bloch's "Concerto Grosso." Play Bach Aria. An "Aria" and the "Prelude and Fugue in D Major" by Bach will also be played, as well as an "In troduction and Allegro" by Elgar. The orchestra appeared in New York last summer, playing two concerts at the World's Fair, in the Temple of Religion and in the Equitable Gardens. Miss Bingham is a university school of music graduate, and Furr is a senior and appears as organist with the Lincoln Cathedral choir. by the business man in the growth and development of pioneer life, The merchant was an outstanding member of his frontier community. Asa distributor of merchandise, as a pioneer in building industry, as a banker, as an advocate, and patron of social institutions, as a patriot, he was a citizen of importance, Renon's Life of Jesus, translated by Hutchinson, is filled with at- mosphere of the East. It is the work of a man with the Bible and theology, and no less acquainted with the inscriptions, monuments, e o. : j j uiiu .liinjij-d in .j vi to , I n. tvro an kn sKsnoo Ci-i-ii a,,u un.-a ui oyna Renon was the first French writer v. i v aviii vviiiui jf w uian ii iv. attention of a wider public than that of scholars, and his success was due to his characteristics of insistent idealism, and his diver gence from hte sceptics of the pre vious century. r ,:u fo "the two elements which con iorce me iw o elements wnicn con- tributed to the success of Chris tianity, they are: a miraculous ele ment and a moral element. The first gave the necessary initial im petus, the second made the move ment endure. In addition to these two powerful causes was the greatest cause of all -the asser tion by Jesus of love as the prin ciple that should underlie the whole conduct of life. The Greek and Roman philoso phers had made justice the under lying principle. Hut justice is too abstiact to be understood by all people. Everyone, on the other hand, can understand the love which Jesus taught as the greatest of all commandments. Student Supply Headquarters Where you can save money while buying qual ity nieich.indise at competitive low prices. HISTORY PAPER A competitive History Faper , 27C SEE OUR LAW UOTE BOOKS HISTORY COVERS Black Paper, inside rings 10c and 13; Green Canvas with one inch rings 35c Flexible Black Texhicie with one inch rings 5c Stiff Black Tcxhide with one inch rings 53c Heavy Green Waterproof Canvas, booster rings.. 33c Black Imitation Leather with one inoh rings 33: Black or Brown Imitation Leather with booster rings 93c Genuine Leather Black and Brown . . with Your Name in Gold, $1.45 ALSO Largest Line of Zipper Covers in the City Priced from $1.00 to $6.00 Buy Your Engineering Drawing Supplies LATSCH BROTHERS STUDENT SUPPLIES 1124 O Street THE ARTS Smiles for Strauss. Both audience and orchestra relaxed, enjoyed the "beer garten" mt of Johann Strauss' "Roses From the South," went away smiling. Many thought it most ably presented endeavor of the musicians since their "best" ren dition of Sibelius "Val3e Triste' at the last concert. Opening the ever. La? was the overture to "Oberon," by Carl von Weber, which overcame a weak and rather thin bainning of "fairy music and the magic horn of Oberon, to give form and body to the finish a the regal overture. The orchestra will play again on March 25, for the last per formance of the year. Rise Stev ens, mezzo-soprano of the Met ropolitan opera, will sing on March 6. German faculty shows 'Maulkorb' 'The Muzzle," an outstanding German talking picture, will be presented under tha sponsorship of the Germanics faculty Thurs day afternoon and evening. Shows will begin at 4:30, 7:30, and 9 p. m. in the Union ballroom. "Maulkorb" is an international comedy hit, stars German Actors Ralph Arthur Roberts. Hilde Weissner, Charlotte Schellhorn, Theodore Loos, Paul Henkels and Ludwig Schmitz. D. A. goes gsy. The story of the film is that of a district attorney who, return ing home in a gay r.iood, puts a muzzle on the statue of the reign ing duke. When he is assigned to discover the offender, he proceeds energetically, and is saved from disgrace by the interve.ition of a helpful family. Book nook session schedules Louise Snaff Miss Louise Snaff of the Prairie Schooner book shop will ask "What are you real.::? now?" in speaking for the C.J Counselors' book review session Thursday. The meeting, to i v?:A in the Union book nook, wui begin at 7:00 p. m. THE Whitedse History Paper. Here is the iffrt most for your Oj 1 "V -1'