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Is ID UuoJ U UUL Vol. 44, No. 47 Lincoln 8, Nebraska Wednesday, January 17, 1945 War Show Crew Heads Meet Jan. 18 Cast members and crew chair men for the 1945 War Show, "Till Johnny Comes Marching Home," will meet at 7 Thursday evening In room 313 of the Union to begin actual production work for the show, Ghita Hill, War Council " president, announced Tuesday. The script has been completed and practices are scheduled to be gin the week following finals. Miss Hill also stated that all mem bers of the cast would be notified before the meeting Thursday evening and that costume meas urements would be taken at that time. The only vacancy yet to be filled is the position of stage manager which will be announced later this week. The remainder of the directors and crew chair men follows: Student director, Lucy Ann Hapeman. Faculty director, W. S. Mor gan. Business manager, Mary Louise Goodwin, assistant Jackie Gordon. Script chairman, Harold An dersen. Properties, Fred Teller, as sistant Irwin Chesen. Make up, Dorothea Duxbury. Costumes, Min Beede, assis tant Donna Todd. Technician, Art Beindorff. Publicity, Betty Huston. Dance directors, Jo Kinsey and Billie Trombla. Vocal chorus, Peg Shelly. Supervision of music, Dopald Glattly. Students interested in working on the War Show crews may sign the lists posted in the War Coun cil office in the basement of the Union any time this week. Home Ec club will make the customes. Nelda Oltman Wins Tri Dclt Scholarship Delta Delta Delta sorority, of fering scholarships to university coeds in connection with the war effort and postwar work, last week presented a scholarship to Nelda Oltman, teachers college senior. The scholarships, as stated by the national committee of Delta Delta Delta, provide a gift of money not to exceed $200 to be given to a junior or senior in any university or college, fahe must be working toward a degree in a field of study concerned with the war effort or postwar work. Her use for the scholarship must also be caused by some upset due to financial need in connection with the war. The scholarships are made up of funds raised by each chapter, to which the national committee contributes a certain amount Groups Try-out For Coed Follies On February 6-7 Try-outs for Coed Follies will be held on February 6 and 7, Midge Holtzscherer, chairman of the follies committee, has an nounced. The try-outs have been sched uled early so that activities bit ill s fit in more easily. Follies ehair ' men should jreturn their rough drafts and candidates in to Miss Johnston at Ellen Smith hall by E:00 p. m., January 31. UN Lacks $145 Toward Goal In War Stamps With just today to go, UN stu dents are still $145 short of the $1,950 goal set for war stamp sales for this semester. Tassel salesmen have sold approximate ly $1,805 worth of stamps toward the goal, which is the purchase of an ambulance for field service units. In order to make the ambul ance a reality, the remaining $145 worth of war stamps must be purchased today from the stamp booths in the Union, Andrews, Sosh, and at ag, according to Mary Lou Weaver, stamp sales chair man. Ag YW Elects Opper To Head Lois Opper was elected presi dent of the ag YWCA for the next year after two scheduled days of voting on ag campus. Her right hand man for the coming year will be Geraldine uowen. Sue Fishwood will take over the duties of secretary-treasurer and Julia Crom is the new dis trict representative. Election on ag campus took place in the home economics building Monday and Tuesday, with polls open from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. Annual Dramatic Writing Contests Open to Students Four contests in dramatic writ ing are being sponsored by the Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford university in the tenth annual competitions of the organization which are open to all persons who write. The Stevens Award of $100 is offered for serious plays of full length in either prose or verse and the Etherege award of $100 will go to the writer of the best full-length comedy. Brief plays of one act or in short unified scenes may compete for the Alden award of $50. The Gray award of $25 is offered for dramatic criticism in lucid, vigorous style. Plays Staged In 1945. The most produceable of the plays among these competitions will be staged in the summer of 1945 during the Dramatists' as sembly. Final date of this season's com petitions is March 25, 1945. Writ ers should send for registration forms and information to Drama tists' Alliance, Box 200 -Z, Stan ford university, Calif. Conscientious Reporter on Assignment Finds Abbott Collection of Paintings Unsurpassed BY SHIRLEY JENKINS. After being given an assign ment to go to Morrill hall and see Professor Dwight Kirsch, chairman of the art department, I, being the conscientious reporter that I am, immediately dropped everything and headed for the hall. Since Professor Kirsch was busy, I stopped in Gallery B, second floor,- to see the Abbott Collection of war paintings, un surpassed in this campus. As my eyes travelled around the walls, I stopped short. The action, color and drama shown in those paintings was so striking that it took me a few seconds to take it all in. Many Artists Exhibit. On the south and east walls are hung the oil paintings-of Thomas Benton and Georees Schreiber of 'The Silent Service." Th inorth' find fwest walls have Kert Eby's ''Marines at War," pencil sketches " the life of the marines on Tarawa. Mattoon Gerry McKinsey Home Ec Club Delegates Elect UN Coed Head Edith Pumphrey, junior from ag, has been selected by the dele gates of the home ec clubs of four states to act as chairman of the planning committee for a pro vince worship to be held in February. Miss Pumphrey will leave for Kansas City Friday night to meet with the planning committee and organize the coming worship, which will be attended by dele gates from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska. The meeting will be held on Saturday. The university home ec club at ag chose Miss Pumphrey to repre sent the U N chapter as a dele gate and she was notified of her selection as chairman of the planning committee January 15. The voting was carried on by mail. Student-Faculty Council Chooses Coed Members Newly elected class representa tives to the ag college student- faculty council are Pat Gillespie and Helen Wulf for the sopho mores, and Virginia Babbitt and Gerry Gowen for the juniors. Marolyn Hartsook, sophomore, and Monica Alberty, junior, were re-elected and will remain on the council. The council works to co-ordinate and better faculty-student re lations on ag campus. Midge Holtzscherer, president, announced that senior members will hold over until May and freshmen do not elect their rep resentatives until November. Of ficers for the council will be elected in the first meeting to be held in February. Polls were open Monday and Tuesday in the home ec building for all ag sophomore and junior coeds. Student Council Meets Today Student Council will hold a regular meeting: Wednesday at 5 p. m. in room 315 of the Union. Council president Harold Andersen asks every member to attend. Benton, of Missouri, and Schreiber, from Brussels, lived abroad the U. S. S. Dorado, a submarine operating in the south Pacific. Since these paintings were completed, the Dorado has been lost in action with all of its crew. The artists ate, slept and laughed with the submariners. They worked with the men and stood watches with the officers. Every phase of life aboard a sub has been transferred to canvas in fall detail. After looking at each picture, I tried to decide which was the most outstanding. Action and tension are so vividly presented in each of these oils that choos ing one of the 25 paintings was impossible. Eye-Catching: Color. "Up Periscope" and "Eighty Feet Below" by Schreiber, both with the red lighting of the in terior of a sub predominating, are eye-catching with their color. "Tbi Kill," with an enemy ship Heads Nebraskan Staff Filings Due Jan. 20 All applications for positions on the staff of The Nebraskan or as assistant business manager for the Cornhusker must be turned in to the journalism office in U hall by 9 Saturday morning, Prof. For rest Blood, publications board chairman, announced. Applicants must be present for interviews when the board meets. The board will meet at 9 Sat urday morning in the journalism office in U hall. To be eligible for positions, students must be carry ing 12 hours in good standing. Applications may be obtained in the journalism office. Vacant Positions. Positions open are: Editor, two managing editors, four news edi tors, society editor, sports editor, business manager and two as sistant business managers for the Nebraskan and one assistant busi ness manager for the CornhusRer Members of the publications board are: Professors Blood, David Fellman and H. E. Brad ford, John K. Selleck, Varro Ty ler, Mary Ralston and Al Red dish. Sigma Xi Hears Dr. Donald Pace At Morrill Hall Dr. Donald M. Pace, associate professor of physiology, spoke Tuesday evening on "The Produc tion of Growth-Inhibiting Sub stances by Living Cells," to an open meeting of Sigma Xi in the Morrill hall auditorium. Dr. Pace discussed in a general way cellular problems and meth ods of investigation pertaining to them. Experimental results were presented which supported the contention that growth of cells is partially controlled by means of a chemical substance, or sub stances produced by the cells themselves. National headquarters of the Society of Sigma Xi granted Dr. Pace $250 last spring to con tinue research work on this sub ject in which he has been par ticularly interested for several years. sinking in flames as the captain of the sub watches thru bino culars; "Going Home;" "Stand by to Fire;" and "Surface," to me dominate this part of the exhi bit of the Abbott collection. "Marines at War," by Kerr Eby, next took my attention. Eby lived with the marines and shared their dangerous life on Tarawa. With rapid on-the-spot sketches, he captured the feeling of the marines and their war. The in tensity and spirit of the men, the heat, the savagery, the terror, an 1 the exhaustion of battle are ah caught in these 20 sketches. Shock Complacent Americans. "Scant Shelter," showing ex hausted men clinging together under a pier, with some marines too tired to even hang on, "Bul lets and Barbed Wire," and "March Macabre" should shock the complacent American intc realizing what - war really is. Every one of these sketches is (See ART EXHIBIT, page 4.) City YWCA; Vice Prexy With a total of 366 votes cast, Mary Ann Mattoon became presi dent of the city campus YWCA for the coming year as a result of yesterday's election. Vice pres ident is Gerry McKinsey. Other officers are Shirley Hinds, district representative; Margaret Neumann, secretary, and Jacquel ine Eagleton, treasurer. The newly elected president was district representative of the YW, is a member of the Religious Welfare Council, and co-chairman f rom Lincoln journal MARY ANN MATTOON. Assumes duties as newly elected president of city campus Y. W. C. A. of the Nebraska district of the YWCA. She also attended the Estes conference in Colorado last summer. Gerry McKinsey is staff leader of the Inter-American affairs YW group and originator of the peace conference idea, of which she is vice chairman of the execu tive committee. Shirley Hinds' activities include (See ELECTION, page 3.) Lt. R. J. Fast Receives Army Se rvice Medal Second Lt. Robert J. Fast has been awarded the army bronze star medal for "heroic service in connection with military oper ations against an enemy of the United States in France. Leiutenant Fast graduated from bizad college in 1943. He was president of his senior class and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The story behind the award is told in the army citation as fol lows: "When the platoon commanded by Lieutenant Fast was sub jected to intense enemy fire as it reached a stream during an at tack in France, he immediately began a search for materials needed to construct a bridge for a hasty crossing without thought for his personal safety. He then personally supervised and helped in the building of the bridge so that his men succeeded in cross ing the stream. While assisting in the placement of the planks during the construction, Lieuten ant Fast was swept under water but managed to reach the op posite bank and led his platoon in successful assaults on enemy strongholds. Lieutenant Fast's re sourceful leadership reflects cre dit upon his character as an of ficer." YW Group Hears Rev. Ray Kearns Using as his topic "Today and Tomorrow in Protestantism," Ray Kearns, student pastor, will ad dress the comparative religions group of the Y.W.C.A. today at 5 p. m. in Ellen Smith. Rev. Kearns is leaving the uni versity in two weeks to become pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Manhattan, Kas. The meeting is open to the public. 1 "J ) ,ss