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James, in the role of Claudia, smiles at being: found in the arms
of the frightened British author, portrayed by David Andrews.,
Vol. 43, No. 60
Thursday, April 29, 1943
BY BILL PALMER.
As i fitting climax to a successful University
theater season, Director Joe Zimmerman's players
gave a sparkling performance of Rose Frankin's
"Claudia" to an enthusiastic first-night audience
at Temple theatre last night.
Repeat performances will be given tonight and
Friday evenings of this story of the mental growth
of Dorothy James as Claudia from a lovable but
utterly irresponsible elfin vixen to a mature
woman ready to face and live life as it must be.
"Make Friends With Pain
In the space of two days, through a rendezvous
with a British author and the realization that she
is going to become a mother and that her own
mother has but a short time to live, Claudia
changes from the girl typified by her concern over
whether she has appeal for her husband and for
other men to the woman ready to "make friends
with pain" and not only give up that which she
most loves but also to make that sacrifice without
sham.
Dorothy James, although a freshman in her
first appearance in a theater' role, gives her lead
ing role the zest combined with naturalness needed
to put across the play. Marjorie Christensen, as
Claudia's mother, brings the mature understanding
of a mother who worships her daughter but knows
that her child must be torn from the traditional
Nebraska Scientists Hold
Annual Meeting on Campus
. . . 250 to Attend Week-end Session
Approximately 250 Nebraska
scientists will be on the university
campus Friday and Saturday,
April 30 and May 1, for the 53rd
annual meeting of the Nebraska
Academy of Sciences. Headquar
ters will be Morrill hall.
Speaker for the general session
Friday night is Prof. Harry N.
Holmes of Oberlin college, Ober
lin. Ohio His topic "Strategic
Materials and the National De
fense." Holmes was president of
the American Chemical Society in
1942.
All Sciences Represented.
Several sectional meetings will
be held on both days. Depart
ments represented are those of
biology, chemistry, earth science,
history of science, mathematics,
Bocial sciences, ' the Nebraska
council of geography teachers, and
the junior division of the academy.
In each sectional meeting, short
talks of from 10 to 25 minutes
are to be given covering various
sub-topics.
Hold Banquet in Ellen Smith
The annual banquet is to be
held in Ellen Smith hall at 6
p. m. April 30. L. M. Garlough
of the University of Omaha will
speak on "Superstructures." From
there the academy will adjourn
to the auditorium of the Avery
hall for a joint meeting with the
Nebraska section of the American
Chemical Society and the address
of Professor Holmes.
Because of a lack of funds,
abstracts of papers will not be
Alumni Club
Pldnts Trees
On
printed this year, academy or
ficials announced. H. W. Manter
of the university, is president of
the society.
apron-strings and given completely to her hus
band. Black Lives His Role.
A veteran of the theater, Bob Black knows all
of the tricks of acting. As David Naughton, who
must be a father as well as a husband to Claudia,
Black for the first time convinced me that he was
living a character rather than using his knowledge
of histronics.
Betty Heine and Henry Lee as the Naughton's
cook and gardener portrayed realistically the
humble, kindly couple concerned with their em
ployers' troubles though their own son was a
criminal.
Flirt Shocked by Claudia.
David Andrews in the part of Jerry Seymoure,
the British author, got many laughs as the frank:
flirt shocked by the bolder flirtation of Claudia.
Bobbette Burke as the opera singer, Madame
Daruschka, was amusing in the role of the gay
divorcee in search for her fifth husband.
Mabel Jean Schmer, portraying the sister "of
Naughton, delivered an able performance as the
sophisticated woman who had experienced a
broken marriage.
Humor throughout the play centers upon.
Claudia's ignorance and frankness about life. The
set, that of a colonial living room, was the best
looking of the season and was the result of weeks
of labor by student technical assistant Larry
Taylor and Zimmerman.
DoudDa at War Today in Union
As Home Ec
Group Takes
Refresher Class
A refresher course to prepare
for community service in food pre
servation is being offered to home
ec students. In two meetings held
yesterday and May 4, the foods
division will concentrate on these
five points:
1. How to give a demonstra
tion on canning, 2. Organizing a
community canning center, 3.
Testing pressure gauges, 4. Hear
ing what extension 4-H will stress,
5. Home drying equipment.
Meetings are held at 7 p. m. in
room 206 in the Home Economics
building.
"India and the World Crisis"
will be discussed by a native of
India, Mr. Thomas Yahkub, in the
Union this morning at 11. His
address is sponsored by the University-Union
convocation commit
tee. Yahkub has been a resident of
the United States for several years
but has been in close association
with problems of his native land.
He is personally acquainted with
many of the men now prominent
in the political scene in India. For
three months he was resident at
Santiniketan with Tagore, and in
1936 he accompanied Gandhi on a
trip thru South India.
Educated in. India and U. S.
A native of Travancore, India,
the author and lecturer was edu
cated at Malabar and Madras
Christian colleges -in India. He
has taken special work with Rob
ert Frost and John Erskine at
Amherst college and received an
MA degree from Middlebury col'
lege in English literature. -
Members of the ancient Nesto
rian church in Travancore, a
Christian community for more
than 600 years. Yahkub's immedi
ate family is closely associated
with both the governmental and
educational activities of India.
Yahkub's diversified experiences
in the United States include work
at the South End Settlement
House in Boston, five years as re
search fellow on the Rockefeller
Foundation at the state prison col
ony at Norfolk, Mass., and found
er and head of India House id
Boston.
(UN Grad deceives
Executive Army Post
At Williams Field
Campi
IS
The Lincoln alumni club, spon
sors of a campus beautification
program, planted trees contributed
by alumni in Colorado, Texas and
Kentucky last week. The "plant
ing was directed by Carl Donald
son, chairman of the club.
A blue spruce donated by the
Denver alumni clum was planted
west of the new Don L. Love
memorial library. A magnolia
from the Houston club, several
redbuds from Mrs. Homer O.
Hewitt of Houston and a dogwood
and a redbud from the club at
Lexington, Ky., were planted on
the east tide of Social Science
hall.
MaJ. Harold H. Hinds, Nebraska
graduate of( 1933, has recently
been appointed executive officer at
Williams Field, Chandler, Ariz.,
according to Col. Herbert L. Grills,
Williams Field commanding offi
cer. Major Hinds has been commis
sioned since 1933, and was sta
tioned at Mather Field, Calif., be
fore going to Williams Field in
December, 1941. Prior to his ap
pointment as assistant executive,
he was commandant of cadets at
Williams.
During his senior year at the
university, Hinds was awarded the
Pershing medal for excellence In
scholastic and military activities.
He was a member of Kappa Sig
ma, PI Epsilon PI, Alpha Kappa
Pi, and Scabbard and Blade,
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MAJ. H. H. HINDS.
New Assistant Executive at
Williams Field.
Dorsey'sHarpistGradof
Urn; Only Girl in Band
Conspicuous as the only girl in
the Tommy Dorsey orchestra is
Ruth Hill, harpist and graduate
of the University of Nebraska.
Miss Hill is appearing at the Or
pheum theater in Omaha during
this week with the Dorsey show.
A graduate also of the Julliard
School of Music in New York City,
Miss Hill majored in piano and
took harp lessons as a minor in
terest. "As competition was keen
among many accomplished pian
ists, I realized that my best op
portunities for the future lay in
the harp," she explained.
Before she joined the Dorsey
troupe, she was substitute harpist
at the Radio City music hall.
Play Six Shows a Day.
"It's a fine band and the boys
are a lot of fun" she said, "but
it's hard work. too. Six shows a
day and sometimes seven in addi
tion to weekly broadcasts and
benefits, leaves us little time to
ourselves. It is certainly a life
that keeps one from becoming
bored, however.
With her bright smile, dark hair,
and small figure, she becomes an
attractive feature of the band as
well as making herself invaluable
on the harp as she accompanies
the solo vocals and furnishes back
ground music for the string sec
tion. Famed from Coast to Coast.
Miss Hill has been with the band
for a year during which time they
have toured the country from coast
to coast staying at the west coast
long enough to make three movies.
From Omaha they journey to
Miinneaopils and Chicago nd will
return to Hollywood for more pic
tures. Her career as a harpist began
at Lincoln hlgft school, when In
order to enter the national con
test, a harp was needed in the
Lincoln high orchestra. Ruth Hill
became the first Lincoln high
harpist Her first year with the
(orchestra and the year following,
Lincoln high won the national high
school orchestra contest.
During her Nebraska college
days, she was harpist with the
Lincoln symphony orchestra and a
member of Sigma Alpha Iota, mu
sic sorority.
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now she plays with T. Dorsey.
Ensign M. Gregg
Speaks to C of C
Tonight at 7 p.m.
Ensign Margaret Gregg, a
WAVE from the office of naval
officer procurement at Chicago,
will speak in the Indian room at
the Chamber of Commerce at t
p. m. tomorrow night.
All university women art Jo
vited to attend this address.
