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University Theatre Season Ticket Sale Extends to Friday Tassels are continuing their sale campaign of season tick ets for the University Theatre as the cast of the first production begins rehearsal. Season tickets will be offered by the pep organization until Friday. The booklets contain five tickets for five productions selling for $2 plus a 20 cent federal tax. This year several of the tickets may be used for one performance if a student wishes to take someone with him. New Reserve Plan. In contrast to former years seats for the play do not have to be reserved until the week before the performance instead of the old plan of having the same seat for the same night for each one of the productions. Even the cast hasn't been able to go thru certain parts of the first play, "Out of the Frying Pan" without laughing as yet, according to players director Joe R. Zimmer man. Sample situations in the play are those when Larry Taylor's part requires him to appear on stage clad only in a hat, shoes and stockings and a brightly colored pair of underwear shorts, and when Mary Huffman gives Janice Marx a Mickey Finn. Opens Nov. 4. To be presented, Nov. 4, 5, and 6, and the comedy was a big hit on Broadway and in many summer theatres. "A cross between 'Char ley's Aunt' and 'Hellzapoppin' " was New York Times critic Brooks Atkisson's comment on the show. PM, the New York newspaper called the play "One of those romps thru bedlam highly recom mended." "It kept an appreciative audience laughing almost contin uously both for its sheer artless ne.ss and humouress situation" said the New York Journal and American. Twice as Many Men as Women Enroll at UN Almost twice as many men as women are registered this fall at the University of Nebraska, ac cording to the latest figures from the office of admissions. On the Lincoln and Omaha campuses are 3.361 men and 1,855 women, altho the proportion of women is some higher this year than last. Total registration recorded up until today is 5,216, which includes all except a few late comers. This figure is slightly more than a 10 percent drop from first semester registration last year. All classes have shared in the drop except the sophomore, where a slight increase rs shown. Col (See MORE MEN, page 4.) Vol. 42, No, 18 Lincoln, Nebraska. Wednesday, October 14, 1942 YW Begins Membership Finance, Drive Duncan Talks At Honor arv's First Meeting In their first regular meeting of the school year, members, pledges and rushees of Scabbard and Blade will hear Col. Early E. W. Duncan, ( X V - ! ' 4 " X ( t --Vv-- Setting $1,000 as this year's goal, univer sity Y.W.O.A. begins its annual membership and finance drive tomorrow in which a YW member will contact every sophomore, junior and senior woman on the campus. Freshmen cannot be contacted until after the six weeks period. Membership of the YW has doubled in the ast year, and it is the plan of the cabinet to make the organization as useful as possible to university women during the wartime period. According to Helen Kelley, president of the organization, "The drive will need the co operation of all coeds to be successful because the Y is on the campus to meet the demands of all university women. It is the women who keep the l W in operation, just as it is the YW which may guide and help them during this crucial period." A YW membership ticket, formerly, has cost 2 tor the four-year period, but this Courtesy Lincoln Journal. COL. EARLY E. W. DUNCAN. . . . Speaks at Meeting. commander of Lincoln Air Base as principal speaker at a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight in the Union All advanced course cadets who were invited to the first rush smoker are urged to attend this meeting by Dick Arnold, captain of the organization who will pre side at tonight's session. Cadets who were pledged Oct. 8, and those who signify their in tention to pledge at the meeting will be formally pledged following Colonel Duncan s talk. 'Glacier 'Priest' Hubbard Sees Americans In Kiska Before Christmas 'Glacier Priest" Father Hub bard has a Christmas date with 'his boys" in Kiska. Speaking i Monday night before the opening crowd of the Town Hall series sponsored by the Junior league, the famed Alaska explorer said that he was "dead sure that the Ameiican boys will replace the Japs in Kiska before the holiday." Re. Bernard Hubbard, who for the past 16 years has explored and recorded geological data of Alaska, is a professor of geology in Santa Clara college, California. He is now civilian adviser to the West ern War Defense council. "End In Pacific" "Our war started in the Pacific and I think it will end there. Our boys in Alaska have the situation well in hand. Their only need is for recreational means now," he stated. "Furthermore, Americans are not complacent." Speaking in vivid football terms he compared the Jap and U. S. efforts in the Pacific and declared the Jap attacks on Alaska "un successful." Because everything the army needs in the defense of Alaska has had to be imported, he said, it has been mainly a navy Job. He added that the new road to Alaska should be finished by December, somewhat relieving the navy of this task, which is risky (See PRIEST, page 4.) amount may be changed at a mass meeting to be held soon. The group is also counting on individual contributions from old members. Money from the ticket sale is used in the pur chase of books, stationery, printing of tickets, and the publishing of the "Tiny Y" which will be distributed to all coeds at the beginning of the drive. Members of the central committee hand ling the drive are Sylvia Katzman, budget ex port; Wanda Lee, Helen Gogela and Marjorie Mengshol, sororities; Lauralee Mundel, dorm, uppcrclassmen ; Hazel Stearn, organized houses; Besie Hiebenthal, unaffiliated town girls; Esther Mae Calhoun, Love Memorial hall (ag campus), and Ann Wellensick, dorm, freshmen. The drive will end Oct. 28. All volunteer workers for the drive will meet in Ellen Smith hall today at 5:30. War Council Plans Weekly War Stamp Savings Campaign Realizing the need on the cam pus for an effective and handy way to facilitate the buying of war stamps by students, the Stu dent War Council has instituted a novel "Thursday Stamp Drive," to first go into operation a week from this Thursday, Oct. 22. Setting an all-out drive of 100 percent for the first Thursday, the Council has placed four patri otic booths of red, white and blue on both the city and ag cam puses. These booths will make available to every student the pur case of at least one stamp a week. Booths will be located in the Ag Activities building, and on the city campus in the Union, Social Science, and the M. A. building. Stamps will be sold in denomina tions of 10c and 25c. Rachel Ann Lock, Council rep resentative from AWS, has charge of the booths in Sosh and at Ag college, while Morton Zuber, rep resentative from Corn Cobs, has been appointed head of the Union and M. A. booths. In charge of apportioning among organized groups the work of sell ing in these booths each Thurs day will be Jacqueline Woodhouse, newly appointed head of the Coun cil's Manpower Commission. She will contact different groups each drive day, and these groups will have the responsibility of sending salesmen to a particular booth at the required hour. In planning this stamp drive, the Council had in mind the frequent complaints of students who found (See WAR COUNCIL, page 4.) I-F Alumni Board Dinner Held Tonight University - appointed Interfra- temity Board of Control will en tertain the presidents and treas urers of the university fraternities at a dinner tonight. The meeting is set for 6 p. m. in the Student Union. The purpose of this meeting is to explain the purpose and function of the Board to those present. The Board is composed of a group of alumni chosen by the Dean of Student Affairs to aid in fraternity management. '42 Yearbook First Class in ACP Rating Official Associated Collegiate Press rating on the 1942 college year book was received yesterday by the Cornhuser office. Accord ing to this report the 1942 Corn husker was given a rating of first class. Last year's book was edited by Shirley Russel and Ed Calhoun was the business manager. A first class rating is given only to books of special merit. University Rifle Club Begins Twenty-Second Active Year BY JOHN BAUERMEISTER. Possessing one of the finest records and the proud holder of more trophies and individual awards than any other university military or ganization, the university rifle club is launch ing another program of activities for this year's members. Starting inauspiciously in 1920 as nothing more than a group of cadets uniting to better their niarluiianship averages, the club was for mally organized and admitted into the Na tional Kifle Association in 1925. Since that date the club has continued to function as one of the leading campus activities each year. Now some 150 members strong, the club holds competitive matches and from these choose their four rifle teams to compete in the Corps Area Intercollegiate Match, the National Intercollegiate Match, Hearst Trophy Matches, National Rifle Association matches and So ciety of American Engineers match. Range Now Open. The range for this year's members has al ready been opened and will remain open every afternoon from three to five, except Saturdays. During this period time is demoted chiefly to preliminary firing by the members of the club, upon payment of a $1 membership fee. After a short period of preliminary firing, intra mural competition between the members of the team will begin. This serves as a means of bringing out the entire membership of the club early in the year to help the coach and the (See RIFLE CLUB, page 4.) Becker Calls All Staff Appointees To Meet Today All newly appointed members of the 1543 Cornhusker staff are requested to meet in the year book office at 4:30 this afternoon, by Alice Louise Becker, editor. UN Students Ride Winners In Horse Show Several University of Nebraska students rode in the Colonial Court horse show Sunday after noon. The show was sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hudson, owners of Colonial Court farm. Pat Chamberlin, Nebraska co ed, riding Gold Lace, owned by Colonial Court farm, won first in the ladies' seat and hand class. John McCormick, on Patches, ownsd by the Lincoln Riding school, placed second in the senior stock horse class. The three gaited class was won by Bob Hudson, jr., on Gold Lace, owned by Colonial Court farm. Jack (See WINNERS, page 2.) Red Guidon Holds Annual Rush Smoker Red Guidon, honorary mili tary fraternity, is holding an annual rush smoker tomorrow night at 8 in room 315 of the Union. All members and pros pective members are asked to be there.
