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Officio Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 39, No. 132,
Lincoln, Nebraska
Tuesday, April 23, 1940
Convo honors upper 10
percent; Allen speaks
All 10, 1 1 o'clocks dismissed for annual convocation;
632 students to receive recognition for scholarship
Faculty stars
in 'Enchanted
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Proceeds of production
will be used for annual
student scholarship
Deans and faculty members will
cavort across the stage of the
Temple tonight and Wednesday in
the AAUW-sponsored presentation
of Arthur Wing Pinero'a clever
comedy, "Enchanted Cottage."
Money raised by the play will
be used for AAUW scholarships
given annually to worthy students.
Academic leaders starring for
the first time in a theatrical pro
duction in Lincoln will be Mrs.
C. S. Boucher, psychology instruc
tors Gregory and Russell, Mrs.
J. O. Hartzler, and arts college
Dean Charles H. Oidfather. The
speech department lends such tal
ented actors to the production as
department head Herb Yenrue and
Armand Hunter.
Mrs. Griffin to direct
Claudine Burt of Lincoln will
appear in the production, which is
directed by Mis. Thomas D. Grif
, fin and Miss Fern Hubbard, play
and stage directors respectively.
AAUW members will not be af
fected with the proverbial stage
fright, for almost all of them have
had a wide theatrical experience.
For Miss Hosp, dean of women,
acting will be no new thrill. A
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Fans of Larry Clinton, who will
play the Union's second anniver
sary party May 1, will have an op
portunity this week to use their
knowledge of h's music to advan
tage. The Student Union is con
ducting a contest, the winner of
which will receive a free ticket to
the dance. Contestants must guess
the most popular of the six Clin
ton arrangements which are now
on the Corn Crib Music box, and
how many times it is played from
Wednesday, April 24, to Wednes
day noon, May 1.
Open to students.
The contest is open to all stu
dents, though no Student Union
employees may vote. Voting slips
are available in the Corn Crib and
are to be turned in to the cashier.
In the event of a tie, duplicate
prizes will be offered. The Clinton
tunes now on the machine are
"Parade of Wooden Soldiers,"
"From Another World," "How
High the Moon," "In a Persian
Market," "It's Wonderful," and
"Study in Scarlet."
Clinton is famous for his rear
rangement of classical tunes and
recently adapted a Tschaikowsky
melody from the Romeo and Juliet
l-M debaters
argue insurance
Two of the three teams remain
ing in the Intramural debate
tournament will argue the in
surance question tonight at 7.
3eta Theta Pi will meet Delta
Theta Phi on the subject, "Re
solved, that the states should
adopt a plan of compulsory auto
mobile insurance to cover personal
injuries."
Tappa Kegga, the other team
remaining in the tournament, will
not debate tonight.
Debates are judged on the sub
ject material, manner of presenta
tion, and preparation. One Judge,
who has been an intercollegiate
debater at Nebraska for the past
few years is used in all debates.
Three judges will be used in the
final debate.
Debaters are: Beta Theta PI;
Keith Howard, Gene Bradley;
Delta Theta Phi; James Brogan,
Don Farrena.
Fantasy overture into the song
"Our Love." His arrangement of
Debussy's "My Reverie," was the
best selling hit of 1938-39.
Original lyrics.
After re-writing the piano solo
and adding original lyrics, heirs
to Debussy's estate finally con
sented to the publication of the
song, and to date it has grossed
more for their estate than De
bussy's music earned for him dur
ing his life. A conservative esti
mate from the publisher on the
total income to be eventually
earned by the song is one-quarter
of a million dollars.
Tickets for the anniversary
dance are now on advance sale in
the Union for $1.35 a couple.
NU women
to AWS meet
Ten delegates attend
four day convention
Ten women left Lincoln Sunday
for Iowa City where they are at
tending the regional AWS conven
tion. The convention, which
opened yesterday, and will last
thru Thursday, will take under
consideration questions of campus
problems and student government.
They will discuss common and
vexing problems ts the relation
ship of town, dormitory and sor
ority girls.
The delegates from Nebraska,
who are all either past or present
AWS board members, attending
the convention are: Jean Simmons,
Virginia Clemans, Marian Brad
street, Pat Sternberg, Marion
Stone, Ann Hustead, Ben Alice
Day, Mary Bullock, Elizabeth
Waugh and Janet Lau.
Westbrook represents
NU at Sinfonra meet
Dr. A. E. Westbrook, director
of the school of fine arts, spent
Saturday on the University of
Minnesota campus at Minneapolis,
representing the national execu
tive committee of Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia, national professional
music fraternity, at a province
convention.
Nebraska's honor students,
those ranking in the upper 10 per
cent of their colleges, and organ
izations with outstanding scholas
tic records will be awarded spe
cial distinction today at 10:15
a. m. at the annual Honors Con
vocation in the coliseum.
Only woman member of the
United States circuit court of ap
peals, Judge Florence Allen of
Cleveland, is speaker for-the occa
sion. All 10 and 11 o'clock classes
will be dismissed.
No pictures.
Photographers are requested to
take no pictures of Miss Allen
during the program. Pictures may
be taken between 10 and 10:15
a. m according to Prof. Linus
Burr Smith, chairman of the hon
ors committee.
Three hundred and sixty-eight
men and 264 women will receive
recognition for their scholastic av
erages. Ranking among the upper
three percent of the senior class
or having been included on the
list for four years are 75 persons.
Chancellor presides.
Chancellor C. S. Boucher will
preside. Prof. L. B. Smith, chair
man of the department of archi
tecture, is in charge of the con
vocation. The seniors to be especially hon
ored will be seated upon the stage
and will receive leather bound cer
tificates from the chancellor. Also
to be honored during the program
are those who have received spe
cial medals and awards for vari
ous campus activities and achieve
ments. Faculty luncheon.
Officials of the bar association,
and judges of the courts are in
(See HONORS, on page 2)
ROTC to parade
en masse on mall
in first practice
The entire Nebraska ROTC unit
will parade on the mall in front
of the coliseum today in the
first mass maneuver this spring
in anticipation of the annual in
spection and competition in May.
The reviewing stand will be on
the south side of the mall. Per
shing Rifles intend to march as a
unit falling in behind the junior
battalion. They will be distin
guished by their white shirts,
white belts, and white caps. If
there is no flag flying from Ne
braska hall this morning, there
will be no parade.
Kid gang of . . .
Lincoln operates 'protection
racket1 at Luncef ord dance
By Hubert Ogden.
A "protective organization"
flourishing on the campus and
controlled by a bunch of kids was
exposed Friday night during the
Jimmy Lunceford-'N' Club dance.
The "Little Caesars" were op
erating on a certain section of the
campus, according to Sergeant
Regler of the university police,
and whenever a car was parked
there, the driver was given an op
portunity to contribute a dime for
complete "protection" of it.
Drivers of "unprotected" autos
came back after the dance and
New York Husker . .
Alumni to be in audience
when Waring plays NU song
When Fred Waring and his
Pennsylvanians dedicate Nebras
ka's new song over the college
smoker broadcast of May 17, pres
ent in the audience at the Vander
bilt theatre will be the New York
alumni chapter of the university.
In a letter to Ellsworth DuTeau.
alumni secretary, Waring invited
all members of the New York as
sociation to be in the audience
when the song, composed by War
ing, is played for the first time.
When Waring, in a telegram to
Dick deBrown, DAILY editor, of
fered to compose a song for Ne
braska, petitions asking the noted
band leader to do so were circu
lated. Over 1.600 signatures were
obtained on the petitions which
were bound and sent to Waring.
DuTeau communicated Waring's
Clark addresses
Young Advocates
Rush Clark, assistant attorney
general for Nebraska, has chosen
"The Prosecutor" as the subject
of his speech to be delivered be
fore the young advocates this eve
ning. The Young Advocates, a
pre-law Bociety, will hold this
regular monthly meeting in Social
Sciences, room 201 at 7 p. m. All
pre-law students are invited to at
tend. Mr. Clark comes from Scotts
bluff where he was formerly
county prosecutor.
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FRED WARING.
Lincoln Journal and Star.
invitation to Richard Patterson,
jr., president of New York alumni
association, and reservation cou
pons were sent to all New York
alumni.
found tires deflated. The window
of one car was smashed.
Regler goei into aotion.
Campus Gang Busters went
into action, determined to crush,
the organization. Racketsmasher
Regler got hold of one of the lit
tle fellows, the alleged "brain" of
the gang and questioned him.
The boy denied all knowledge
of the window smashing incident.
He readily admitted, though, that
they did have a protective organi
zation to watch cars. The young
ster promised Regler that his pro
tective service would pick up the
guilty person and bring him to
campus police headquarters.
The sergeant, still unconvinced
and not wanting the organization
to bring in a "guilty" party, told
the boy he didn't need his services,
but that he did want to question
him more later regarding the pro
tective group. Just what the na
ture of the operations of the boys
were, still remains to be defi
nitely learned.
Poem entries due
tomorrow at 5
Five p. m. tomorrow is the
deadline for entries in the Ivy Day
poem contest. The successful con
testant in this annual contest will
receive a prize of five dollars, and
the poem will be read at the pre
sentation of the May Queen's court
on May 1. Three faculty members
will make the decision of which
poem will be used at this Ivy Day
celebration.
All poems should be handed in
at Ellen Smith to Mrs. Westover'a
office.
Girl Reserve leaders
training course holds
final meeting today
The final meeting of the Girl Re
serve Leadership Training course
will be held at 3:30 this afternoon
In Ellen Smith hall. The subject
to be discussed is "Camp Fire
and Camp Counseling." Speakers
will be Miss Fan Casford, assis
tant to the Camp Fire executive
secretary in Lincoln, and Miss Es
ther Ostlund, executive secretary
of the university YWCA.
