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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, March 7, 1940
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MUSIC
DRAMA
Rise Stevens shows herself
actress and singer in concert
Rise Stevens is one low voice
who escapes being heavy. She
proved her Metropolitan-operatic
merit last night in St. Paul church
by lightly, tenderly, with the lilt,
singing the songs that make most
mezzos boom. And she was pretty.
Peak performance on her pro
gram wa3 her singing of "Con-nais-tue
pays," the wistful aria
from Ambroise Thomas'" Mignon."
When the Lincoln Symphony audi
ence called her back she gave it
'Le Habanera" from "Carmen."
That she had appeared on the op
eratic stage was obvious; she
acted as she sang, confirmed her
listeners that she was as much
actress as she was singer.
German lieder.
Lightest and most gentle of
the German lieder section was
Hugo Wolfe's "Silent Love," for
she sang "Mein liebe ist versch
wiegene und schoene" mysterious
ly. She also sang Brahm "Sonn
tag" and for an encore to the
group of German songs made a
light rollicking song out of the
heavy smithy's hammerings of
Brahms "Der Schmied." Included
in the group were "Die Post" by
Schubert and Richard Strauss'
"Cecilie."
A full quarter of the program
was centered around Dvorak's
gypsy songs, which didn't sound
like gypsy songs, seemed not to be
suited to her low voice. The songs
pleased, though, for the charming
Miss Stevens squinted with geni
ality as she sang. For the last
group of songs, however, her co
quettishness ceased to fit her low
voice, which came out strongly in
Tschaiwowsky's "Pilgrim's Song."
Laughter.
First laughter was drawn from
the audience when the young ar
tist sang George Butterworth's
"Roving in the Dew" ditty. And
they laughed when she sang the
Handelian version of "Little Jack
Horner" by J. Michael Diack. Also
included in the groups were "A
Christmas Folk Sons" by Ivy
Frances Klein, and "Love went
a-riding," by Frank Bridge.
The aria "Vol che sapete," from
Mozart's "The Marriage of Fi
garo," was most appealing of the
group of selections with which
Miss Stevens opened the evening.
Thomas Lindleys "Still the lark
finds repose," and "Bois Epais,"
by Lully, came first.
H. G. Schick assisted the artist
at the piano, and played alone
Brahms "Rhapsodie in G minor"
and the Chopin "Valse in E
minor."
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and women are divided into two
districts, those north of "O" street
and those south. Funds are dis
tributed accordingly due to the
variance in living costs. Housing
costs near the campus are higher
than those further out.
According to federal administra
tor Aubrey Williams the college
and graduate work program of the
National Youth Administration for
1939-40 is reaching 18.8 percent
more youths than during the pre
ceding academic year. The in
crease has been made possible due
to the Relief Appropriations Act of
1939.
Quotas assigned.
Colleges and universities were
assigned quotas of students on the
basis of the total number of resi
dent undergraduate and graduate
students enrolled as of Oct. 1,
1938. For the current academic
year 1939-40, the national student
quota is 104,379 as compared with
a student quota of 87.88G during
the year 1938-1939. In November
preliminary figures show that
NYA paid an average wage of
$13.28 to college and graduate stu
dents. The average wage of the
undergraduates was $12.93, while
that of the graduate students was
$21.31.
The total allotment of college
and graduate work funds for the
academic year 1939-1940 amounts
to $14,038,268. The allotments to
the states are made on a monthly
basis usually over a nine month
but sometimes over an eight month
period. The monthly allotment to
all the states, District of Columbia,
Alaska, Hawaii and Tuerto Rico
is $1,562,007. Participating in the
College and Graduto Work Pro
pram are 1,698 educational institutions.
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RISE STEVENS
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Elliot to talk
on series
Towne hall to. feature
author of defense book
Maj. George Fielding Elliot will
lecture on the Lincoln Town Hall
series March 12 at St. Paul's
Methodist church. His recent book,
"The Ramparts We Watch," deal
ing with the subject of the de
fense of America, is the topic of
his discussion.
Following Major Elliot's speech
will be an open panel discussion.
The panel consists of members se
lected from several leading occu
pations. They are Dr. James Lee
Sellers, historian; J. E. Lawrence,
editor of The Star; Col. Clarence
Jackson Frankforter, military au
thority; Stanley Maley, economist;
Dr. Edmund Miller, minister, and
Lieut. Daniel Stubbs of the United
States naval reserves, naval au
thority. Major Elliot, since the advent
of the war, has been broadcasting
regularly over the Columbian net
work commenting on current mili
tary affairs.
Union to show
mystery picture
"The Thirty-nine Steps," film to
be shown in tho Union ballroom
Saturday at 8 p. m., is a thrilling
mystery and spy story. The lead
ing stars are Meadlinc Carroll and
Robert Donat. The director of the
picture, Alfred Hitchcock, is the
English man who won the highest
directing honors award for 1938.
The story of the film centers
around an amateur detective hero
who Is always just one step ahead
of the police while trailing and
outwitting a clever gang of spies.
This motion picture promises to
present an interesting and enter
taining performance.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Superintendent of buildings re
ceived a complaint about the ven
tilating system on the fourth floor
of University hall from the editor
of the "Nebraska Blueprint." The
editor claimed that the smoke from
the "Cornhusker" office next door
came through the ventilator so
bad that no one could work in
the "Blueprint" office. "Unless
something is done," lie threatened,
"I will use my engineering ingenu
ity to reverse the process."
TEN YEARS AGO
Administration officials an
nounced that spring vacation would
be extended nn extra day so that
Btudents would not have to travel
on Sunday to make their first
classes after spring vacation. The
vacation was eight days in all.
Junior-Senior Prom, closing the
formal season, was held in the two
ballrooms of the Lincoln hotel.
'Palm Beach' was the motif of the
affair which attracted about 300
couples.
The editor of the DAILY advo
cated a system of drafting stu
dents for activities, lie cited the
method uaed ut Ag college in the
Looking Back
Orchestra
gives coeiceii
on Sunday
Symphony to feature
Emanuel Wishnow
as guest violinist
Feature of the program to be
presented by the University
Symphony orchestra in its annual
winter concert Sunday afternoon,
March 10, in the Union ballroom
will be the appearance of Eman
uel Wishnow, of the violin faculty,
as guest soloist.
Mr. Wishnow has chosen to play
Beethoven's "Concerto in D Major
for Violin." This is considered one
of the greatest works of its kind.
Lentz to conduct.
Don A. Lentz will conduct the
ensemble and has chosen a pro
gram of classics and better-known
numbers of later years.
The program will open with the
"Overture to Iphigenia en Aulie"
by Gluck. Gluck wrote no great
music for orchestras, but excerpts
from his operas for modern or
chestra supply beautiful material
to the conductors of today's sym
phonic organizations.
To lend variation to the pro
gram, Mr. Lentz has chosen the
ballet music from Schubert s
"Rosamunde." This opera was not
successful and the music disap
peared until Sir Arthur Sullivan
rejuvenated it. The music is lovely
and expressive and often wistful.
Overture-fantasie.
Another highlight of the concert
is Tschaikowsky's overture-fantasie
from "Romeo and Juliet."
This overture-fantasie was in
spired by Shakespeare's deathless
tragedy and was written when the
composer was only 29. The over
ture outlines musically the char
acter and themes to be developed
later in the opera.
Also included is the dramatic
and stirring prelude and love
death from Wagner's "Tristan and
Isolde."
Music set to play
Gilbert-Sullivan
Trial by Jury'
Records for "Trial by Jury" by
Gilbert and Sullivan are to be
played on the Union request pro
gram by the Carnegie Music set
in the Faculty Lounge, Friday at
4 p. m.
Comments say that Gilbert's
libretto of "Trial by Jury" is "ex
cruciatingly funny by reason of
his ridiculous treatment of legal
procedure." Gilbert knew a great
deal about legal procedure after
having worked for five years in
the office of the privy council, and
then practicing law, therefore
"Trial by Jury," a breach of prom
ise suit, is tunefully treated in rich
burlesque.
planning of Farmer's Fair where
everyone in the college must work.
He said it would build up a spirit
of friendship between the students
enrolled in the different colleges.
FIVE YEARS AGO
Dr. T. A. Pierce, began con
struction of a telescope on ag cam
pus. The new instrument, slated
to be as large as any owned by
any state university, was to have
a 12 and a half Inch lens.
Attorneys for Senator H. Awyre
Blower offered to settle a libel
suit against the DAILY out of
court for $75,000. DAILY law
yers refused to accept the offer,
and the mock trial, staged by law
Btudents over the mock libel suit
got underway.
ONE YEAR AGO
Fern Steuteville was elected
president of the coed counselors at
the annual election held in Ellen
Smith.
Professors Arniand Hunter and
Karl Arndt were gathering their
forces for a "battle of wits'' to be
presented on the Union stage. The
contest was" in the form of a quiz
program. Each professor cap
tained u team.
Democracy has key to future
of Negro race, says Pickens
NORMAN, Okla., March 6 The
future of the Negro race in the
United States depends upon the
development of the fundamental
basis of American democracy,
equality. Dr. Williams Pickens,
noted Negro educator and author,
.said in a speech at an open meet
ing of the Norman Forum Mon
day night.
"If the American civilization
continue to be a democracy on
the fundamental basis of democ
racy, we must raise the Negro to
the level of the white people,"
Picken told an audience of more
than 250 persons.
"I believe that the future will
Phi Sigma Iota
holds contest
Language honorary
asks entries by Tuesday
Phi Sigma Iota, honorary lan
guage fraternity, is sponsoring its
second annual declamatory con
test for university French and
Spanish students. It will be held
April 2.
All students are eligible to com
pete in one of the groups of the
contest. There are three groups:
One for French 2 and Spanish 52
students, one for students taking
courses beyond those in group 1
and below courses numbered 101.
Above 101 students will be entered
in group 3.
Reading material.
Contestants may choose their
own reading material from the
list the sponsors have posted in
the department library. Six prizes
will be awarded, consisting of
French and Spanish novels.
Entries in the declamatory con
test must be made In the depart
ment office on or before next
Tuesday, March 12.
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"3. The members of the com
mittee must be juniors.
"4. The man who receives the
most votes of those cast for men
and the woman who receives the
most votes of those cast for
women will be co-chairmen of
the committee.
"5. The purpose of the com
mittee shall be to plan for and
conduct a Junior-Senior Prom."
An amendment to the motion
was presented by Merrill Eng
lund, Kappa Sigma. Englund's
amendment read: "I move to
amend the motion as made by add
ing: "6. That herewith the Student
Council's responsibility for back
ing of the staging of the Prom
shall cease." The amended amend
ment was passed unanimously by
the Council.
Since the Student Council has
washed its hands entirely of the
affair by unanimous vote, the fac
ulty sub-committee on student af
fairs, which gave the responsibil
ity to the Council, will now be in
charge of appointing a new
sponsor for the Prom.
The Council set April 16 as the
date for the annual nominations
of Innocents and election of Ivy
Day orator, with filings for the
latter opening April 8. Student
Council election was set for May
16 with filings to open May 6.
Ballots must be early.
Lowell Michael suggested that
in the future all ballots to be
voted on at any regular election
should be placed in his hands at
least two weeks before the elec
tion, and that they be passed by
the Student Council before they
are voted on by the student body
as a whole.
Taking up the other business
of the day, the constitutions com
mittee of the Council reported as
approved the constitutions of
Towne Club and Young Advo
cates, a pre-law organization.
Lowell Michael, Thcta Xi, re
ported that Dean Hosp is favor
ably Inclined toward some plun
of closer student-faculty relat uiis,
and suggested a large student
faculty picnic..
see the development of equality
and the Negro and the white will
be walking side by side down the
road of progress," he added.
Labeling history as "propaga
da," Pickens, field secretary of the
National Association of Advance
ment of Colored People, hit hard
at the exclusion of the Negro from
the story of the development of
the United States.
"I was a professor before I
found out that George Washing
ton had 5,000 Negroes with him
when he defeated the British Gen
eral Cornwallis, at Yorktown," re
marked Pickens, a graduate of
Yale university.
"History is so distorted that the
Daughters of the American Revo
lution which prevented a Negro
singer, Marion Anderson, from
presenting a conceit in the Con
stitutional hall, doesn't know only
that the Negro singer has a right
to sing there but that Negro wom
en have a right to belong to the
D.A.R.," the Negro author added.
Sharply criticizing the practice
of lynching, the Nogro leader
pointed out that "a fight on lynch
ing is not a fight for the lynching
victim but a fight to save the souls
of the lynchers."
He aluo predicted that "if con
gress doesn't pass a law against
lynching the individual states' will,
for the people will force them to
do so.'
Pickens criticized the "Jim Crow
law'' of the southern states saying
"The same man who objects to
sitting in a motion picture theater
with a Negro probably has a Ne
gro cook at home who is "twice as
dirty as the Negro Hitting in the
motion picture show."
The Negro educator snid he was
against laws which prevent the in
termarriage of races "because they
make the weak people weaker and
foster amalgamation of the
stronger race."
"Equality in law for the Negro
women gives her more defense
against the white man and pre
vents the inter-racial natural mar
riages,' he said.
Eleven students
present recital
Seven soloists and a brass
quartet presented the weekly stu
dent musical recital yesterday in
the Temple Theater.
Instrumental soloists were
PeK&y Cowan, piano; Margaret
Porter, violin; Robert Buddenberg,
trumpet; Betty O'Brian, cello;
Mary Jane Chambers, piano.
Betty Bennett, mewio-soprano,
and Herbert Owen, baritone, sang.
A brass quartet composed of Rob
ert Buddenberg, composed of Rob
Robert Krejci, and Herbert Cecil,
played a march by McKay. Ac
companists were Keith Sturdevant,
Fay Massie and Marian Percy.
Aetna Life offers
training scholarships
Howard Moreen of Omaha will
discuss the training course schol
arships offered by the Aetna Life
Insurance Company in a group
meeting Thursday at 1 p. m. in
SS309. These are not the same
scholarships offered by the Aetna
Casualty and Insurance Company
which was represented by Ibsen
of Des Moines last week.
Delts celebrate
47th birthday
Delta Tau Delta observed its
47th anniversary Tuondny night.
Five members of the firt pledge
group were prenont including
Adam McMullen of Beatrice and
Arthur Weaver, Falls City, for
mer governors and now running
for senator.
Ed Baumann, West Point, re
publican candidate for governor,
was also present. J. L. Teeters, nn
Iowa university alumnus, related
the story of the founding.
Alma Imhoff to review
'Capital City' tonight
Members of the Coed Counselor
Book Review group will hear a
review of "Capital City," by Marl
Sandoz, in the Union Book Nook
at 7 tonight Alma Imhoff will give
the review, and all women stu
dents may attend.
"Capital City" is Marl Sandoz'
latest novel. It concerns life in a
midwes" . rn , apitol city, ils uni
versity, Hi. I its political and so
cial problems.