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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 40, No. 105
Lincoln, Nebraska
Tuesday, March 12, 1940
COEDS!
Win a free trip to a gla
morous Hollywood premiere by
entering the DAILY'S Campus
Queen Contest. Nomination
blank on page 2. Deadline Is
Wednesday at 5 p. m.
Honor Doane,
uni women at
annual tea
Senior coeds from two
schools feted at party
in governor's mansion
Senior girls at the university tog-ether
with those from Doane col
lege, will be honored at the annual
tea to be given Saturday afternoon
"T from 3 to 5 at the governor's man
' " sion. The tea, which is under the
auspices of the Lincoln and Crete
branches of the AA.UW, will be
attended by approximately 400
girls.
Mrs Victor Toft is general
chairman of the tea and will be
assisted by Mrs. C. L. Clark. Musi
cal sororities from the university
will furnish music for the tea. A
duet from Ma Phi Epsilon, com
posed of June Meek, cello, Rosalind
Lefferdink, violin, and piano, will
play from 3 to 3:40.
Delta Omicron trio.
A -Delta Omicron trio consisting
of Marylouise Baker, cello; Mar
garet Porter, violin and Marian
Percy, piano, will play from 3:40
to 4:20 and a third trio, composed
of Sigma Alpha Iota members
with Harriet Meyer as celloist,
Ada Charlotte Miller, violinist and
Betty Jo Koehler, pianist will play
from 4:20 to 5:00.
In the receiving line will be:
Mrs. R. L. Cochran, Mrs. C. S.
(See TEA on page 2.)
Barb women elect
activities board
Barb women will vote today for
officers of the Barb activities
board. Polls, located in Ellen Smith
hall and in the Home Economics
building on ag campus will be open
from 9 a. m. to 5 p. nv with senior
women supervising the balloting.
Candidates for board positions
for the coming year are Victoria
Ekblad and Jeanet Swenson, for
president; Jane DeLatour, Patricia
McMahen and Carolyn Pauley,
seniors; Bettle Cox, Dorothy Jean
Bryan, Jean Ecktenkamp, - Betty
Jean Spaulding, Betty Hutchinson
and Norma Jean Campbell, Jun
iors; Laurel Morrison, Marie
Louise Drake, Louise Woerner.
Ruth Good, Bonie W'ennersten and
Dorothy LuckhardL sophomores.
Coeds . . .
Five of America's top artists
to pick movies' college queen
Five of America's best illustra- j
, tors and drawers of beautiful girls
were selected yesterday to judge
the Ail-American College Queen
contest sponsored locally by the
DAILY and nationally by Para
mount studios. Deadliae for en
tries of girls from Nebraska is
Wednesday at 5.
The five artists selected are
Russel Patterson, Dean Cornwell,
McClelland Barclay, Jaro Fabry
and Armando.
Publish pictures.
Winners of the individual con
tests staged in colleges and uni
versities will submit their photo
praghs to this board of artists.
The noted illustrators will pick
one candidate from each state,
and the winning girls' pictures
will be published in three issues
of Movie and Radio Guide. Read
ers of the magazine will ballot to
pick twelve girls. These girls will
be sent to the premiere of "Those
Were the Days," adapted from the
stories "Old Siwash." The pre
miere will be held at Knox college,
Galesburg, Illinois.
Movie star hosts.'
At Ga'eaburg, the girls will be
entertained by movie stars and
Knox students. The All-American
College Queen will be picked by
the picture's director and a committer.
Complete one;
round of quiz
Six houses still in race;
other prelims this week
Do you know who composed
"Caprice Vionnois?" Who was the
youngest president of the U. S.,
the difference between carousal
and carousel, who Is the first lord
of the British Admiralty, and who
said "Women and elephants never
forget?"
The Gamma Phi Beta's, Alpha
Xi Delta's, AGR'a, Farm House
boys, Kappa Sigma's, and Delt's
knew these and similar questions
well enough to win in the first
round of the interfraternity quiz
held in the Union yesterday.
More to come.
The fraternities and sororities
who won first yesterday, and other
houses who will win other first
rounds later this week, gain by
their knowledge entry in the semi
final rounds of the tournament of
knowledge. From the semifinal
group, two fraternities and two
sororities will be chosen to com
pete in the final contest.
In a contest held at 4 in Parlor
(See QUIZ on page 4.)
Coeds ballot
on WAA slate
Casady, Sprague seek
president position
Hortense Casady, Kappa Alpha
Theta, and Elnora Sprague, un
affiliated, will vie for the presi
dency of the WAA today as all
WAA intramural representatives,
sports board members, and WAA
council members vote for the or
ganization's new officers.
Remainder of the slate is com
prised of Jean Mac Allister, Alpha
Xi Delta, and Maryellen Robison,
Gamma Phi Beta for secretary;
Jeannette Mickey, Delta Delta
Delta for treasurer; Mary Ros
borough. Kappa Alpha Theta for
concessions manager. The defeated
candidate for presidency will be
come vice president
The election will be held from
9 to 5:30 at the WAA office. Ruth
Mathews, office secretary will be
in charge, and identification cards
will be required for voters.
University Players conclude season with satire
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Sunday Journal and 8tr.
In the picture, left to right, axe Max Whitaker. "Kurt von Obersdorf," whom Mrs. Dodsworth meets
abroad; Jon Pruden; Milded Manning. "Renee de P enable," another met on tbe grand tour of the Doda
worths; Miss Hill; and Doris Poellot, "Edith Cortright,- a Dodsworth friend.
Scholars must
clear records
No name will be included among
the honor students for the annual
Honors Convocation, to be held
April 23, if the records containing
reports of incompletes, conditions
or no reports are not cleared by
March 18, according to an an
nouncement made by the regis
trar's office yesterday.
Each student should check with
the instructor to see that removals
of incompletes, conditions or no re
ports are sent to the registrar's
office as soon as cleared.
Judd speaks
on Pivot of
Pacific1 today
Hawaiian representative
addresses convocation
in Union ballroom at 1 1
Lawrence M. Judd, Hawaiian
ambassador of good will, will
speak at a convocation in the
Union ballroom Wednesday at 11
a. m. His address, the topic of
which will be "Hawaii, Pivot of
the Pacific," is a part of the good
will tour which he is making in
the United States in behalf of the
interests of the islands.
Judd is the third generation of
a distinguished family in Hawaii,
and both his father and grand
father were prominent in Hawai
ian politics. During the World war,
Judd enlisted as a private and ad
vaced to the rank of malor in th
i first Hawaiian infantry. In 1918 he
was coionei in command of all the
troops of the Hawaiian National
Guard, and was later commission
ed colonel of the infantry re
serves. President Hoover appointed
Judd to the governorship of Ha
waii in 1929 and he served in this
capacity until 1934, when he as
sumed his present position as the
territory's unofficial ambassador
of understanding.
Sinfonia plays
Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn's symphony No. 4
in A major, recorded by the Bos
ton Symphony orchestra, will be
played on Sinfonia's harmony hour
today at 4 p. m. in the faculty
lounge of the Union. Mendelssohn
wrote this symphony during a so
journ in Rome but never heard it
played, as it was left in a mass of
manuscript after his death.
The symphony is an expression
of the impressions, sights, and
sounds which delighted the com
poser in Italy.
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Krause heads
pep group
Miller, Russcl, Rubnitx,
are other officers
Tassels, women's pep organiza
tion, elected Margaret Krause, arts
and science junior from Albion,
Monday night, to serve as their
president for the coming year.
Marion Miller, Lincoln, also an arts
and science junior, was chosen as
the new vice president. Shirley
Russel, Lincoln, was elected secre
tary; Miriam Rubnitz, Omaha,
treasurer; Marion Cramer, Gales
burg, 111., will be notification chair
man, and Mary Ellen Robison, Elk
Creek, will serve as publicity chair
man. Miss Krau.se, a member of the
Delta Gamma sorority, formerly
held the office of secretary in Tas
sels. She is a DAILY NEBRAS
KAN radio society editor, and a
contributing editor on the Awgwan
staff.
Miller's activities.
Marion Miller's activities include
the YWCA cabinet, the freshman
commission, the Cornhusker staff,
Vestals of the Lamp, freshman at
tendant to the May queen, and was
the former treasurer of Tassels.
(See TASSELS on page 4.)
Paul Popenoe
to speak here
Geneticist tells 'How
to know love' Sunday
Dr. Paul Popenoe, general direc
tor of the Log Angeles Institute of
Family Relations, will address stu
dents in a general convocation
Sunday afternoon in the Union
ballroom on the subject, "How Do
You Know It's Love?" He will
also speak at a forum for women
at 7 p. m. Sunday with "Of
Course, Men Don't Understand
Women" as his subject. He is be
ing brought to this campus as the
result of Union's student opinion
survey which indicated a desire
for able lecturers in the field of
domestic relations.
Biology lecturer
Dr. Popenoe is a lecturer in
biology at the University of
Southern California and i ai
of many research books on sociafl
Dioiogy. me institute of Family
(See TOPENOE on page 2.)
AWS board . . .
Picks models,
girl for annual
Players give
'Dodsworth'
as final show
Hill, Poellet, Davis end
uni dramatic careers
with stage play tonight
With Jon Pruden and Grace
Elizabeth Hill in the leading roles.
University Players will present
"Dodsworth," their last production
of the season, this evening in the
Temple theater, running through
Friday night
The play by Sinclair Lewis, was
dramatized by Sidney Howard and
was one of the more powerful
stage productions of the current
season. It was prepared as a
stage play for Walter Huston and
Fay Ba inter, and later was pro
duced as a motion picture.
Wont get old.
The drama portrays Dodsworth
as an automobile magnate who re
tires at the request of his wife,
middle-aged but refusing to admit
it. She convinces him that they
should tour Europe, and as the
tour begins, so begins trouble.
On their travels, Mrs. Dods
worth has several flirtations which
end disastrously. Dodsworth, no
longer able to stand by her be
cause of her affairs, returns to
America, but is unable to get
along without his wife, and goes
to Paris where his wife is having
(See PLAYERS on page 2.)
Teacher to talk
on AWS series
"Advantages and disadvantages
of teaching; preparation for and
varieties of specialization," will b
the subject of the talk given by
Miss Lucille Schemel, teacher of
English and history at Whittier
junior High on Thursday at 4
p. m. Miss Schemel is the fourth
speaker on the present vocational
series of talks being sponsored by
the AWS board and the office of
the dean of women.
Teacher president.
Miss Schemel was recently re
elected president of the Lincoln
Teachers association. She is an ac
tive participant in the work be
ing done to further the teacher's
retirement legislation. A versatile
(See SERIES on page 4.)
best dressed
Coed Follies
! Aspirants for Best Dressed 0rl
on the campus Sunday passed in
review before the AWS board,
which selected the winning candi
date. The board also picked 23
girls to model in the annual
spring style show to be held at the
Coed Follies. March 29.
Best Dressed candidate will also
model, and both candidates and
models will serve as a court for
the Best Dressed Girl. The identity
if the winning candidate will not
be revealed until the night of the
Follies.
Girls selected as models are:
Frances Green, Alpha Chi Omega:
Lorraine Chant, Alpha Omicron
Pi; Patricia Prime, Alpha Phi;
Catharine Smith, Alpha Xi Delta;
Yvonne Costello. Chi Omcca: Oliv
Spieth, Delta Delta Delta; Betty
namDurn, Delta Gamma; Ger
aldine Wiemers, Gamma Phi Beta;
Pat Wood, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Others are Mae Peterson, Kappa
Delta; Betty Jane Burgess, Kappa
Kappa Gamma: Ruth Hult. Phi
Mu; Mary Louise Simpson, Pi Beta
rni; Kr.oaa Krasne, Sigma Delta
Tau; Carole Peterson, Sigma
Kappa; Anita Jones and Carlene
Hohensee, Raymond hall; Gweu
jacK, Loomis hall; Marilyn Barr,
Rosa Bouton hall: Lucille Bartel-
son, Wilson hall: Marv Llovd-
Home Ec association; Nadena
Arnold, barb: Laura Finner.
Towne club.