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BY CHRIS PETERSEN.
Shakespeare or Tony Galento, and T can't re
member which, once sat down on a stump and
wrote "Comes the verdant springtime, there wells
up within my barren, yet capricious soul, a tingling,
a titillation, which predicts wintef philanderings
will be put to nugatory shame by spring loves and
fascinations."
Me? There is spring in my soul but I can't
give. I'm too full of illusions of pursuing a muse
who scampers, giggling, over wealds and runs un
draped through open fields. But that is the spirit of
spring.
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Vol. 4(3, No. 105
University Theatre's . .
6Boy Meets
Hollywood came to the stage of
the Temple theater last night as
the University Theatre Players,
under the direction of Armand
Hunter, gave a near capacity
house of first-nighters 120 minutes
of fast moving comedy in the form
of "Boy Meets Girl," a play well
performed and excellently cast.
It was a fitting opening night
for the Theatre's last performance
of the current season and it was
the speed of action that kept the
audience in almost continual
laughter from start to finish.
Many laughs.
Particularly outstanding were
the characters portrayed by Ro
mulo Soldevilla, Clarence Flick,
Robert Black, and Dorothy Tip
ton. Soldevilla and Flick, as the
horse play loving script writers
provided the bulk of the laughs
while Miss Tipton's performance
in the role of a naive, angelic, yet
Bar) Council
sponsors annual
picnic April 19
Annual spring picnic sponsored
by Barb Council has been set for
April 19. Tickets will go on sale
lifter April 1.
Committees appointed for the
affair are: Ida Schweiger, Jean
Ecktencamp and Jeanet Swenson;
games, Budd Walker, Boyd Mac
Dougall, Bob Simmons; transpor
tation. Harold Alexis, Blaine Sloan,
George Gostas; chaperons, Gilbert
Hueftle, Louise Woerner, Betty
Hutchinson.
Because of the success of last
Saturday's party sponsored by In
terhouse Council, Barb Council
will sponsor something new in the
way of the regular weekly dance
with a program, favor dances and
other novelties. Ida Sweiger is
chairman of the committee to
complete plans aided by Budd
Walker, Jeanet Swenson, Jean
' "Suite-IE;4 - Gilbert Hueftle.
Blaine Sloan.
Weather
The day before the first day of
spring brings increasing cloudiness
followed by showers.
Insurance man
holds interviews
' Mr. T. J. Butler, syperin
tendent of agencies, of the
Travelers Insurance company
will be on the campus to in
terview seniors and graduate
students today. Additional in
formation regarding the possi
bilities with this company has
been posted on the bulletin
board outside social sciences
306. Appointment for inter
views with Mr. Butler should
be made immediately in social
sciences 306.
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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
GirV brings laughs
victimized studio waitress was
outstanding for the perfect char
acterization of her role.
Black, in the role of a harassed
studio executive provided a defi
nite "Hollywoodish" aspect to the
performance. Also deserving of
credit is Delford Brummer whose
settings helped to add tar the gen
eral atmosphere associated with
the movie capital.
Louis Meyer, in the role of the
manager for the star cowboy
actor, of the studio performed well,
while Neale Morrow in the part of
the cowboy, added a great deal to
the humor of the play. Rosemary
Survey reveals . . .
One-fourth of
education is overemphasized
BY JOE BELDEN, Editor.
AUSTIN, Tex. Last year the
National Education association
had Dr. George Gallup conduct a
survey that revealed only 17 per
cent of the adults in this country
feel too much importance is being
placed on education these days.
What about college training? It
is the advisability of higher educa
tion that often causes debate
'The colleges are overcrowded...
we are grinding out bachelors of
arts as if by machinery. . .look at
men like Ford and Knudsen who
never went to college." Student
Pre-Fair rally
initiates work
on Ag affair
First pre-Falr rally at Ag will
be held Thursday night, March 20,
at 6:45 p. m., in the auditorium
of ag hall. The rally, sponsored
hltiVitS the Fair board,
will be held to acquaint new" liu
dents with Farmers Fair, and to
kindle t he flame of enthusiasm in
veterans of past Fairs.
Plans for the program include
a showing of scenes of last year's
Fair by Dr. Keim. Prof. Ross
Miller, member of the faculty ad
visory committee to the . Fair
board, will give a brief talk, and
Keith Gilmore, manager of the
board, will explain the functions
of Farmer's Fair and some of the
new plans for the '41 Fair. This
year each student will be given
a chance to express his preference
as to the committee he works on,
according to Manager Gilmore.
The rally, open to all ag stu
dents, is-tthe first of a series to
be held this spring. All students
are urged to attend to help start
things rolling toward a bigger and
better "Farmer's Fair." .
The season of picnics is coming. Picnics would
be pleasant if it weren't for the bugs, gnats, mos
quitoes, junebugs, flies, bees, ants, caterpillars, cen
tipedes, spiders, dragonflies, water bugs who
squirm, twist, crawl, slither, climb, bite, buzz, sting,
wriggle, and slide zig-zag up and down your legs,
arms, spine and itch like the devil. Hut a woman
is enough atonement for these sins of nature.
This, reader is the season when the girls show
the new styles and the new styles show the girls.
This is the season of sweaters sweaters that are
fitting and proper, most of them just fitting. This
is the season of fashions and philanderings.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Owens' characterization was also
well portrayed.
Supporting cast good.
Adding to the general atmos
phere of comedy which made the
play a success were the remaining
members of the cast, all of them
indispensable to the play itself.
Included in this group are Mildred
Manning, Glenn Nelson, Max
Whittaker, Cecil Richmond, Betty
Newman. William Green, Robert
Veach, Richard Putney, Jack Hen
drix, and Joyce Burke.
Opening curtain for tonight and
tomorrow night's performance i3
7:30 p. m.
collegians think
in lushes brackets
Opinion Surveys of America has
taken the question directly to that
group of nearly a million and a
half young Americans now going
thru the process of higher educa
tion. A question of emphasis.
Do they feel that the idea of
going to college is being empha
sized too much, about right, or too
little?
Every fourth student that the
Interviewers contacted answered
"yes, there is too much emphasis."
(See SURVEY, page 2.)
UN men view
Stephens pictures
with anticipation
"It they'd all look like that it
would be all right."
"Say, that one in the snow isn't
bad."
"Aw , the rest of 'em are prob
ably just the opposite."
'"Mm
dh ItWdV
2 came from
some men on this campus wnue
viewing the bulletin board in the
lobby of the Union picturing the
Stephens college girls, due in Lin
coln next Tuesday.
A crowd of fellows were gath
ered around the board all Tues
day afternoon, and quite a few
signed up for dates. The four
pictures on the board showed the
girls in action poses which defi
nitely made an impression.
The "Hey, boy! Take a date with
a Stephens girl" sign resulted in
comments from many of the sign
ers who not only wrote their de
scriptions but also added remarks
such as Allen Zikmund's, "I'm a
good dancer, too."
Meanwhile, most of the Ne
braska coeds,, eyes frot.t strode
coldly by the bulleti.:.' board; ' 1
Now is the time when everyone is clothes
minded. Include, here one cuddling who takes it for
granted that eternal triangles are something that
babies wear. And the girls who will continue to
wear silk stockings for millions of reasons, every
one of them a man. And the style experts who make
women feel modest when they aren't. Why can't
we all be like Adam who's only worry was what
the well dressed fig tree would wear.
No truer sentiment towards spring can be
found that that forwarded by my insincere friend,
McCarthy, known far and wide for the adage he
(See SPRING, page 2.)
Noted English comedienne
Grade Fields
gives benefit show today
Students and Lincoln residents will have an opportunity to laugh
and appluud as England's besl -loved comedienne, Gracie Fields, makes
her only appearance in the coliseum at 8 p. m. today.
The Widely-known comedienne, who sings as well, passed her
four millionth box office mark in 1938, and was awarded that year the
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GRACIE FIELDS
. . . wants to help British.
Ag Dairy club's
annual contest
set for Saturday
Saturday wil mark the opening
day in the anual dairy cattle and
dairy products judging contest,
sponsored by the Varsity Dairy
club.
To be held in the cattle barns
and the dairy prducts building, the
contest will bring medals and rib
bons to winners in the competing
classes. The dairy cattle judging
contest will begin at 8 a. m. and
the products judging contest will
begin at 5 p. m.
Sinfonia gives
show
The school of fine arts will pre
sent Sinfonia, national professional
music fraternity in a concert at
the Temple on Sunday, March 23,
at 3 p. m. Participating will be
the sinfonletta, brass ensembles,
male quartet, string quartet, and
the glee club.
The program:
Fracludlum, Jarnefott; Serenade, Op. 7,
Btrauai; Hpanlnh Dance, Herbert, the Sin
fonletta, Mr. Keith 8turdevaut conductor.
Hnmoreaque '(quintet), Buwhj The
Kiitf'i Fanfare (quintet), aePret; Aequale
(trio), Bruchner; Sinfonia (quartet) Ban.
chlenl, Bras Knaemblci.
My Lady Walk In I-oTellnrM, Charlei;
The lord's Prayer, Malotte; Tally-Ho,
I.eonl, Male quartet.
Quartet In It Major, Nocture, Borodlne;
The Mill. Raff-Pochon, String quartet.
Hall rlinfonla! (words by l.atton, Iota)
Nulllvan; Rare Old Wine (word by Oavli,
Kla) Rcddlck (Kta); Sinfonia Partlnt
.Hong (word by Pendleton, Alpha) Tat
tlpnllon), the Glee Club, Mr, Richard
Monte, conductor.
Thursday, March 20, 1941
badge of Commander of Most Ex-
cellent Order of the British Em
pire by King George VI.
Miss Fields is donating the en
tire amount received for her per
formances to aid disabled British
children who have suffering from
the war.
Contributing to her wide repute
as an actress, singer and comedi
enne, as well as supporting it, is
the fact that she appeared for
two and one-half years in "It's a
Bargain," and seven years in "Mr.
Tower of London," playing 4,000
performances without a break.
Miss Fields was born in Roch
dale, England, in 1898, and, start
ing her career as a mill girl, ad
vancing to small touring revues,
she now possesses the orders of
Freedom of Rochdale and the Or
der of St. John of Jerusalem.
Engineers plan
annual week
of festivity
A list of departmental and
special chairmen of Engineers'
Week Is practically complete, John
Gates, general chairman of the
event announced yesterday, and
plans for the annual affair have
been started.
Vice chairman and treasurer
for the event are Earl Cox and Al
fred Novak. Don Kruse, agricul
tural engineers; David Wink,
architectural engineers; Richard
Schuelter, chemical engineers; Bill
Milek, civil engineers; Frank Slay
maker, electrical engineers; Wade
Paschke, mechanical engineers;
and Harry Seagren, military en
gineers, are departmental chair
men. Speciaf chairmen
Special chairmen include George
Short, in charge of the ball,
Charles Roberts for the banquet
committee, Ernest Munter for
campus structure, Garth Kennedy
of the contest committee, and Jack
Rohrbough in charge of the con
vocation. Fred Meier will be chair
man for field day, Joe Parker will
be photographer, Oswin Eyre in
charge of progress, and Don
Melxel, publicity director.
Warren Day will promote rib
bon sales, Gerald Adams will be
chairman of the sledge committee,
Paul Reddy will direct traffic,
Merrell Rogers will be in charge
of window displays, and Norria
Schick will be chairman of the in
quiries committee.