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Vol. 41, No. 118
Lincoln, Nebraska
Sunday, March 29, 1942
Kosmet Klub Selects Fun
Cast for 'Football Crazy'
Thoy'll W wuloiiing the aisles of tho Tem
j)K theater to make room for Kosmet Klub
iilnw-jioers to roll with laughter in, for Prof.
1.. A. Martin, director of this year's show, an
Nouixed a east yesterday that includes every
funnyman on the campus.
Hit of every spring show is the pony
chorus, and here are the names of the men in
it this year: dim Shelley, Sheldon Kaufman,
Kod Mice, Kosrer Cannel, Jim St ill well, Ken
I'.ukarek, l?b l'ast an ke Seizor.
And as sincinjr, dancing, romantic females
in the show, "Foot hall Crazy"' from the crazy
p. n of lob Aldrich will be Hill MeHrule, vet
eran of male parts in University Theater pro
d , id ions, who will be a female glamour girl
and Bill Smutz, track star, whose lovely legs
rt portedly won him the role as oomph coed of
tls. crazy college. They will be wooed by Par
rel Peters as Stanley, the male romantic lead.
Fat and talkative, nervous and ambitious,
the part of Mrs. Updike, wife of the president
of the college, will bo taken by Norris Swan.
Pick Arnold will be the president, Horace P.
Updike.
Like Throttlebottom in "Louisiana Pur
chase" the part of Maximillian "I'm in cor
sets" Potts will be taken by (Jeorge Black
stone who had everybody attending try-outs
giggling.
Football players taking parts as football
players will be Bob Hyde as Klmer Glutz,
I.lynn Meyers as -"Scarf ace" Uasputin, and
Randall Salisbury as Tuff. ; '
Selzer Is Zip.
Xon-football players taking parts as foot
ball players will be Jim Seizor, Zip O'Hara
and Hob tJelwick, Ruff. Active but not play
ing at the football game will be Spence Porter,
(See CRAZY, page 3)
Mrs. Lucille Aron Named
In Bogen's Place; Begins
Casting of 'Seven Sisters'
Mrs. Lucille Aron. whose appoiutment as director of the
University Theatre and instructor in speech and dramatic art
taeame officially effective yesterday, will replace Paul Hogen
was recently called to duty in the Officers Reserve Corps.
Mrs. Aron comes from Doane college at Crete where she
nss been director of the theater group for a number of years.
She received her A. IV degree from Doane and her M. A. from
1 the Northwestern university de-
Ceinniiniiieiniceinnieirali
Adldliress Dim ROay
Guy K. Reed, Chicago banker and graduate of the univer
sity in 1911, will deliver the commencement day address May
25. Reed was honored at commencement two years ago when
the university bestowed a distinguished service award upon him.
The Rt. Rev. Howard R. Brinker of Omaha, Episcopal
bishop of Nebraska, will give the baccalaureate sermon May '24.
Following his graduation from the university, the com
mencement speaker was manager of university athletics from
1912 to 1917. He was secretary of the Nebraska Alumni asso
ciation from 1913 to 1915 and served as assistant cashier in
the Lincoln First National Bank
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Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star.
Guy Reed
...speaks at convocation
Ivy Poem
Contest Open
To All Coeds
AH underrraduate cirli are
f':giWe to tnter the Ivy Day Poem
r-rtc?t. The winning author will
r her poem to the May Queen
during the ceremonies the morn
ing of May 2.
The poem must be relevant to
Ivy Day and to its traditions
Thro manuscripts must be handed
inti the office of the Dean of
Wmen and no name may appear
or. any of the manuscripts. En
O. .end must be a sealed envelope
containing the name of the poet
The judges m-ill be Drs France,
W.mtx-rly. and Louise Pound. The
d-adline will be soon after Easter.
partment of speech. She has done
additional study at the Pasadena
Play House and at Columbia uni
versity. Announces Next Play
Immediately upon assuming her
new duties, she announced that
the next and last play of the Uni
versitv Theatre's season will be
Ed.th Ellis' ' Seven Sisters.
This plav is a farcical comedy
at times hilariously funny, with
the military return- aiid the au
thentic Hungarian settiag adding
much to the comedy which centers
about a tradition.
"Seven Sisters' concerns a
mother and seven daughters. It
is her task to marrv off her
dauehters. but still keep the tra
dition of marrying the eldest first.
From this tradition comes many
complications, with the younger
daughters having to play an im
portant part in the attempts to
(See SISTERS, page 4)
Clark Talks
On Russia
Monday at 5
Dean John D. Clark of bizad
college will speak on "Russia: Its
Human, Economic, and Military
Resources," at the next lecture in
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from 1917 to 1923.
After joining the Harris Trust
and Savings Bank in Chicago in
1923. he was made assistant
cashier in 1925. assistant vice
president in 1926, and vice presi
dent in 1928. Reed is 8I30 a mem
ber of the board of directors, the
executive committee, and the ad
visory policy committee of the
Chicago Association of Commerce.
A leader in boys' work. Reed
has interviewed more than 10.000
boys in the last 25 years helping
them to find their place in the
world. He has served as treasurer
of the Chicago Association of
Commerce for two years and as
secretary for three years. In 1924
he reorganized the Chicago
Alumni club of the University of
Nebraska and was its president
for two years.
Reverend Brinker was elected
Episcopal bishop of Nebraska Oct.
(See MAY, page 3)
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(Pep Group Names
UN as Home Office
Nebraska was named national home office for Tin Sigma
Chi, national women's pep organization, at the group's conven
tion here yesterday morning. Tassels make up the I N chapter.
In the election of officers for next year, Dorothv Weirich
of Nebraska was named treasurer. Other officers are Mildred
Coleman, president, Washburn; Caroline Baker, vice president,
Kansas; Hermajene Polenski, corresponding secretary, Kansas
State; Barbara Finlayson, record-
Ojl Cy. (fantpiUt
Chance of A Price Boom
Is Tug-of-War Proposition
'"It '.ook like a tug-of-war prop
osition," said Dr. II. C FiUey.
chairman f rural economic, ta
rurd to the question of whether
or not land prices will boom tn
Nebraska- On one end of the rope
ire such factors &s the recent in-T-i.He
in pricea of farm products,
proiifctj for a return to more
nesrly normal weather conditions,
nd the natural reactioa t the
vTy low land value of recent
yeki-s. which tend to shove the
pnces of Nebraska, farm land up
war J.
Kxjualiriiif the pull by the
euriteractir.g forces are such
t tangs 4 incre&sed production
c-Bl, price ceilings cm farm prod
"ts, fcnd high taxes, -which tend
to hold land prices down. The
l4re number of farms now beld
by unwilling owners, such as mort
gage bankers and other former
mortgage holders, is acting as a
brake on land prkes. Until those
farms are sold, there can be no
great competition for land.
Adams Remembers Wars
About 100 3-ears ago, John Ad
ams, second president of the
United States, made this state
ment: "I am old enough to re
member ae war of 1745 and Its
end, the war of 1755 and its close,
tbe war of 1775 and its termina
tion, the war of 1S12 and its pa
fication. Every one of those wars
was followed by general distress,
embarrassment of commerce, de
ttructjon of manufacture, and the
fall of prices of produce and
lands"
Courtrty Ltaccla Joarnal
Dr. J. D. Clark.
...lectures tomorrow
the 'America and Wold War IT
series Monday at 5 p. m. in the
Student Union ballroom.
Dr. Clark became dean of biz
aj college last fall after many
years of experience in business
and teaching. After receiving his
B. A. degree from Nebraska In
1905 and his LL.B. degree from
Columbia university in 1907, he
practiced law until 1919. He be
came a director and vice presi
dent of the Midwest Refining com
pany, and later of the Standard
Oil company of Indiana,
Dean Clark received his doctor's
degree in 1931 after two years'
graduate work in political econ
omy and political science at Johns
Hopkins university. Following that
he was professor of ecnomics at
the University of Denver before
coming to the University of Ne
braska, String Ensemble
Plays for Four
Hifih School Shows
The university string ensemble
under the direction or Emanuel
Wishnow played at four assem
blies In Lincoln schools Thursday.
Tra anoear&nces were made at
lincoln Central high school and
one each at Northeast bih and
Irving Junior high.
ROTC Band
Will Present
Concert at 3
'Battle Scene,' 'Victory
Bell' Highlight Program
Todav In Union Ballroom
Mr. Ward Moore, assisted by
Mr. Lyman Lorenson, trombonist,
will conduct the university's sec
ond ROTC band in a concert at 3
p. m. Sunday in the Union ball
room. Outstanding selections of the
program are Schelling's "'Battle
Scene" from the "Victory Ball."
and Bennett's "The Leeend of
Sleepy Hollow." Both numbers
have a stirring story. "The Battle
Scene" tells the tale of marching
troops who never falter, regard
less of the distractions, but keep
on marching to victory. The Le
gend of Sleepy Hollow is the mu
sical portrayal of the well-known
story of Ichabod Crane, the poor
country school teacher. The pro
gram will be presented as follows:
If Thou be Near: Bach.
Sunday Morning at Glion:
Bendet.
(See BAND, page 3)
ing treasurer, Omaha.
Following a breakfast Saturday
morning at the Union, a business
meeting was held at wh'ch the
Wheaties of Wichita univei sity and
the Varsettes of South Dakota,
not now affiliated with Phi Sigma
Chi, were placed on probation for
a year after which they would be
come eligible for charters in the
national organization.
Jean Humphrey Reed, president
of Tassels, presided at the busi
ness meeting. Discussed was the
possibility of equal representation
of all sororities in the individaul
chapters, and also adoption of a
more efficient merit system. A
news-letter may be published.
Friday night the group attended
the Uni Theatre's "Androcles and
the Lion" and spent Saturday aft
ernoon at the University club.
Next year's convention will "e
held at Topeka. Kas.
Library Exams
For Jobs Begin
Students wht with part-time
employment in the library may
take the annual competitive ex
amination on Saturday, April
18. Students are asked to apply
as soon as possible to Miss
Rutledge at her office near the
loan desk on the main floor of
the library. The examination
will be held in the reserve read
ing room at 9 a. m.
Harvard Prof to Speak
At PBK, Sigma Xi Dinner
. Prof. Lionel S. Marks, profes
sor of mechanical engineering at
Harvard university until his re
tirement in 1940, will address the
annual joint banquet meeting of
the university chapters of Phi
Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi April
13.
Names of newly elected student
members of the honorary scholas
tic societies In arts and sciences
and in science will be announced
at the dinner. At 7:30 the groups
will adjourn to the Union ball
room where the public is invited
to join them in hearing Professor
Marks.
B. Sc. From London.
The speaker, a member of both
PBK and Sigma Xi, received his B.
Sc. degree in 1892 from London
university. Coming to the United
(See DINNER, page 4)