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Vol. 39, No. 133
Music groups
give barmen1
in coliseum
Choral Union brings
guest stars for opera
presentation, April 30
One of the moat distinguished
of the great operas "Carmen"
will be presented by the university
Choral' Union Tuesday evening,
-sXpril 30. in the colLseum. The
Choral Union's performance is
being sponsored by four musical
groups on the campus Mu Phi
Epsilon. Delta Omicron, Sigma
Alpha Iota, and Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia. There will be a 25 cent
admission charge to pay for the
cost of renting orchestrations.
" 'Carmen" ' is regarded as one
of the finest of the great operas,
aays Dr. A. E. Westbrook, director
of the School of Fine Arts, who
will conduct the performance,
"first because it is extremely mu
sical; and second, because it nar
rates one of the most fascinating
and romantic stories." "Carmen
was given for the first time at the
Opera Comique in Paris March 3,
1875. It was adapted from the
famous novel by Prosper Merimee.
Features nine soloists.
The Choral Union's performance
will feature nine soloists with the
250 voice choir, seven of the solo
ists are students, and two of them
are guests artists from out of the
city. The accompaniment will be
played by the university Sym-
tony Orchestra.
Principal roles of the opera are
those of Carmen, the beautiful,
but faithless gypsy girl, and her
two lovers Don Jose, a brigadier
in the Dragoons: and Kscamillo,
a popular toreador. The scene of
the opera is Spain of 1820.
Plot of the opera.
Jose and Carmen fall in love at
first sight. After several escapades
aiiucii jjuiauducn ajuntr to join tile
I gypsy band, but her love for him
I aoon wanes and she falls in love
I vith Escamillo while Jose is away.
(See CARMEN, page 3.)
Colleges, universities . .
Meet institutional needs
by publishing student papers
By Hubert Ogden. .
There are certain Institutional J
needs met in colleges and univer
sities by the publication and dis
tribution of a student newspaper,
115 students from nearly a hun
dred schools. Including Nebraska,
declare unanimously.
These needs listed in the order
of importance, as the students saw
it, are the serving as a bulletin
board, a worthwhile extra-curricular
activity, publicity for the col
lege, developing creative writing,
vocational possibilities, and other
needs.
Matter thesis.
This summary of opinion on col
lege papers was the basis for the
master thesis of Dolores Freitas,
Santa Clara, Calif., which was ac
cepted by Stanford university and
entitled "A Survey of College
Newspapers, to Determine Exist
ing and Desirable Standards."
The colleges were classified by
group and by denomination or
type. There were six groups of
schools, Nebraska university be
ing placed in the West group,
which Included nine other schools.
Censorship pro and con.
College papers should be sub
jected to censorship believe 52 of
the students: 50 say no. This cen
sorship should be moderate say 28
or just at certain times say 12
others, but three would be very
strict.
Ijl i ne censoring, nowever, say
At the students, should be done by
a student editor. Others, varying
rv i . .
l f In number from 15 to 11 would
V 'v n'a Pwer to various groups,
1 Including among them editors and
l adviser, an editorial board, jour
(See SURVEY, page 4.)
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Lincoln, Nebraska
Greeks plan
frat 'Digest7
Council appoints group
to investigate project
Members of the Interfraternity
Council Monday night appointed
a committee of four to investigate
the possibilities of publishing a
Nebraska Fraternity Digest, a
magazine designed to acquaint in
coming freshmen with the fratern
ity system of this campus.
The committee is made up of
Chris Petersen, chairman; Phil
Grant, Jack Cole, and Leonard
Friedel.
At the same time, February 15
was set as the date for next year's
Interfraternity Ball. A report on
this year's ball showed a profit of
more than $200.
Huskers to play
in youth band
Seven Nebraska musicians have
been selected in preliminary audi
tions to play for Leopold Stow
kowski. The musicians' are com
peting for a position in the All
American Youth Orchestra which
will tour Central and South Amer
ica on a good-will tour this sum
mer. Henry Brahin.ski, Jane Welch,
Mary Louise Baker, Don Hartman,
Harry Geiger, Richard White,
Willys Neustrom, are the musi
cians selected to play in Kansas
City, Mo., before Stokowski on
May 23.
These musicians were picked by
Tor Hylbom, Stowkowski's official
representative when he was here
Monday, April 15. Auditions were
arranged for by the school of
music.
The Weather
Weather, being always with us,
is here again; therefore we say
unto thee: Tomorrow will be
cloudy with probable showers and
rising temperatures.
Allen calls Constitution
for freedom' as honors
The 12th annual honors convo
cation held yesterday morning In
recognition of the high scholastic
standing of 632 students, pre
sented as part of its Impressive
program Judge Florence Allen,
who discussed "The Constitution,
An Instrument of Freedom."
Introducing Miss Allen, Chan
cellor C. S. Boucher remarked that
she is the only woman on the
United States Circuit Court of
Appeals, has been selected by the
' National Federation of Business
and Professional Women as the
leading professional woman in
America, and was the first wom
an in Ohio to be appointed a coun
ty prosecuting attorney.
Recalls forebear.
Her forebears who sought free
dom, Miss Allen recalled, were un
able to leave Holland without tak
ing their plants, Including some
pie plant. In America, they moved
from state to state, dropping their
furniture but continued to take the
rhubarb. "I like to think," she
said, "that I am from a kind of
family that left the furniture be
hind and took along the pie plant."
"We know a nation by the
things that they abandon, and by
the things they take with them,"
she said.
The United States," she contin
ued, "abolished the doctrine that
the King could do no wrong and
substituted a new doctrine, that
Iebhaskm
Wednesday, April 24, 1940
Art honorary
to hold sketch
carnival
Delta Phi Delta plans
booths at Larry Clinton
dance in coliseum May 1
Delta Phi Delta, honorary fine
arts fraternity, will hold its an
nual sketch carnival at the Union
birthday celebration with Larry
Clinton and his orchestra on May
1 in the coliseum. The fraternity
will have four sketch booths at
which those attending the dance
may have their portraits drawn
for twenty-five cents. There will
also be two booths of student art
work displayed for sale and sev
eral free portraits will be distrib
uted during the evening among
the dancers.
Clinton presents beauties.
Besides the art carnival, the
Cornhusker beauty queens will be
presented by Larry Clinton, named
in the 939 poll of "Downbeat" as
America's best arranger. To Clin
ton may be attributed the vogue
of swinging the classics, as he
rewrote "Martha," "Our Love,"
and "My Reverie." He composed
such popular novelty tunes as
"Dipsy Doodle." "Satan Takes a
Holiday," and "In a Persian Mar
ket." Clinton and his "Dipsy Doodl-
ers" established an all-time at
tendance high when they shattered
Tommy Dorsey's previous mark
at the Glen Island Casino last
summer.
! Brackett named national
prexy of ag engineers
The Journal of Agricultural En
gineering announced in its April
issue that Prof. E. E. Brackett,
chairman of the department of
agricultural engineering, has been
named president of the American
Society of Agricutural Engineers.
Brackett will assume the duties
of his new office at the close of
the annual convention at State
College, Pa., in June. He has been
a member of the society for
twenty-four years, and in that
time has held most of the offices
and has been on many of the im
portant committees.
the Slate should do no wrong."
"We did not define the scope of
the doctrine nor establish it in the
popular mind as faith. , . Faith is
the essential element. . . There is
no constructive action without
faith behind it. If constitutionalism
is to be a vital force in our gov
ernment, we must believe in the
ideals which constitutionalism em
bodies, otherwise the Federal Con
stitution becomes a mere political
gesture. Its great value is that
it is an instrument for freedom."
"Not forgetting the orgies of
graft and corruption which have
called forth the criticism of as
Ag women to choose
representatives for
coed pep organization
Ag college women will select
the girls whom they wish to rep
resent ag college In Tassela In an
election, Monday, April 29.
Girls Interested In becoming
Tassels may place their names In
the ballot box in ag activities
building from April 24 to 26.
Eligibility requirements are an
80 average, no outstanding delin
quencies held over from last se
mester, attendance at the univer
sity last semester, and a present
scholastic load of twelve hours.
A tea will be givan to girls
elected on May 7,
Faculty play
wonts acelaam
Daily reviewer lauds work of cast
in Pinero's 'Enchanted Cottage'
By Ralph S. Combs.
Love that eternal, infinite something proved to be more than
a match for even haggard face and shrmken body for lonely spirit
and shriveled carcass last night in the Temple theater when the play,
"Enchanted Cottage," opened with Armand Hunter and Helen M.
Hosp in the leads.
Not to be outdone by recent Kosmet Klub caperings, the local
faculty greasepainters came forward with a presentation of Sir Ar
thur Pinero's play that was professional in air and atmosphere, bril
liant in acting and directing, and excellent in casting.
Bizad group
initiates 13
Prof Void speaks on
regulation of business
Thirteen seniors were initiated
into Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary
business administration fraternity,
last night at a dinner program held
in the Union.
Initiation ceremony preceeded
the dinner. Prof. Lawrence Void,
of the Law college addressed the
group on "A Lawyer's Perspective
In regard to the Regulation of
Business."
The newly initiated members
are: William Albrecht, Arthur Au
ble, Kenneth Egger, Charles Fow
ler, Donald Giffin, Orval Hager,
Lillie Luttgen, Roy Proffit, Frank
Pustaeri, Harold Swan, John Saye,
Agnes Wanek, and Ralph Wood
ruff. Earlier initiates.
This group is the second such
group to be initiated this year.
The first group of high-ranking
bizad seniors was initiated in the
first semester. Members of the
senior class who were initiated
during the first semester are:
Beatrice Andrews. Alexander
Damm. Mary Louise Speidell, Ar
thur Hill. Sylvester Wright, Ken
neth Worland, R. Lloyd Jeffrey,
and Neil Hadsell.
Earle Constable at ted as toast
master and Kenneth Weiland ar
ranged the program.
Grand Dean of K6P . . .
Elizabeth Reed leads legal
sorority problem discussion
'living force
announced
fair an observer as Biyce, the fact
remains that vastly more money
paid by the taxpayers has been
expended in public enterprise. ac
cessible to all than has been wasted
or stolen. . . Nowhere in the world
are there so many public institu
tions of higher learning accessible
to all. . . Nowhere In the world
are there so many books so con
stantly and freely circulated in
public libraries, paid for by all ard
accessible to all."
Turning to war, Miss Allen dis
closed that the principles that we
violate no nation's honor and at
tack no nation's freedom "was em
bodied in and made possible by
the Constitution, when the war
power was taken from the execu
tive and confided to the represent
atives of the people. . . It was a
revolutionary dortrine that the
war power should be exercised for
the general welfare. . . Never so
long as the Constitution Is in ef
fect, will a President dare to send
the men of our country to fight
the quarrels of another country
and receive cash for their blood."
The famed barrister concluded
her talk reminding that "liberty
cannot be written ready-mad.s into
a charter. It must be written Into
our hearts and sent on as a living
force to the next generation. . .
Whether we maintain this freedom
l lip to us, the American people
(See HONORS, page 2.)
Armand Hunter, turned from
his recent directorial duties with
the Kosmet Klub to the role of
Oliver Bashfofrth, a crippled and
shriveled ex-lieutenant, wrapped
up and carried home the applause
of the Temple first-nighters that
was due him for his fine work.
Hunter seemed to live the part.
The nervous twitchings of his
neck, his stiff leg, and his grumpy
temper were so ingrained in him
that there was no Armand Hunter
there was only Oliver Bash
forth!
Laura Pennington, later Mrs.
Bashforth, was played by Helen
M. Hosp. The part of Miss Pen
nington is one of a plain woman
plain to the point of ugliness.
Plain in face and feature, but good
and gracious in soul. Miss Hosp,
being attractive, suffered a handi
cap at having to play the part of
a not-so attractive woman... but
that was her only handicap in the
play. As to speaking, to gestures,
to emotions expressed, to vividness
of characterization we can merely
say that Miss Hosp should never
have been a Dean of Women. . .
she should have gone to the uni
versity of Broadway and 42nd!
Mrs. C. S. Boucher and Dean
Oldfather were Mr. and Mrs.
Smalhvood, Bashforth's mother
and step-father. And it was with
ease that they interjected fine
comedy-relief into the plot. Mrs.
Smallwood's ever-present refer
ences to her fir. st husband put Mr.
Smalhvood in constant consterna
tion and the audience in constant
laughs. Step-father Smalhvood
will be remembered for his sagacious-like
comments and patient
"pepartec" wilh his wife. Mrs.
Boucher's interpretation of the
flighty-minded mother was su-
(See COTTAGE, page 2.1
Leading a discussion on sorority
problems. Miss F.lizabeth F. Reed
of Washington, D. C, Grand Dean
of Knppa Beta Pi, international
legal sorority, visited here Satur
day and Sunday. Miss Ree l held
several meetings with members of
Alpha Lambda chapter here and
was entertained by them.
Sarah Bonnie Miller, freshman
in the law college, was initiate!
by Miss Reed on Saturday. Mis
Miller is president of Sigma Delta
Tan sorority und is a member of
Phi Beta Kappa.
Miss Reed described her trips to
western chapters at a meeting of
the chapter with Miss Breta Pet
erson, dean of the Lincoln chapter,
Saturday evening. She told of new
ones which were installed at
Dallas, Texas and Drake univer
sity at Des Moines.
Norence Allen club.
Judge Florence Alien, speaker
at the honors convocation Tues
day, is an outstanding member of
Kappa Beta Pi. The original
group of women lawyers and stu
dents at Nebraska were called tlis
' Florence Allen Law Club." Later
they became associated with
Kappa Beta Pi as the Alpha
Lambda chapter in 1925.
Students interview Falcon
for sales opportunities
Opporuntitles in sales, merchan
dizing, secretarial and accounting
work are open In the Jewel Ten
company of Barrington, 111., ac
cording to Mr. Garnett, of the Chi
cago stores, and Mrs. Fproul, chief
of the accounting division, who
will rcprcHetit the company on th
campus tomorrow. Students wish
ing Interviews should make ar
rangements in Social Sciences 306.