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Vol. 44, No. 69
Lincoln 8, Nebraska
Wednesday, March 14, 1945
AUF Passes
Goal of Red
Cross Drive
The university AUF Red Cross
campaign again exceeded its goal,
reaching a total of $2,799.20, aft
er an extension of time from Sat
urday to Tuesday in order to con
tact all members of organized
houses.
In speaking of the drive, Min
Beede, AUF director, said: "The
drive was a success. I appre
ciate the co-operation of students
and organizations on the cam
pus." Activity organizations contri
buted $665, putting the campaign
$299.20 over the goal. Sororities
and fraternities contributed $1,
190.95 to the fund and Co-ops
gave $378,65.
On the down town campus con
tributions amounted to $321.50,
while Ag students gave $243.
Announce Staff.
Director of AUF is Margaret
Beede; treasurer, Jan Engle; head
solicitor, Alice Abel; publicity,
Betty Lou Huston; clerical, Pat
Garton; ag director, Edith Pum
phrey; sororities, Phyl Teagarden;
fraternities, Jean Compton; co-ops
and boarding houses, uorotny
Duncan;' Lincoln, Mildred Eng
strom: activity organizations,
Mary Clare Phillips; dormitory,
Ann Phillips. Members of the
advisory council are: Dororthy
Carnahan, Ghita Hill, Harold
Andersen, Blanche Reid, and
Nelda Oltman. Faculty advisor
is Curtis M. Elliott.
Williams Holds
Theatre Tryouts
For 'Moor Born'
Tryouts will be held Friday and
Saturday for the last University
Theater lay, "Moor Born", by
Dan Totherton, it was announced
today by Dallas Williams, theater
director.
The play will be presented
April 26, 27 and 28 and requires
five women and three men in the
cast. It is a tragedy which is a
challenge to potential actors, ac
cording to Director Williams who
deemed it the most difficult play
of the season.
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All students at the university
are welcome to try out whether in
the speech department or not, Mr.
Williams stressed. Tryouts will be
held in room 201 of Temple from
3 to 6 p. m. Friday f,rom 9 to 12
a. m. Saturday.
Harold J. Kennedy Discusses
Highlights in Versatile Career
"No one ever helps or starts
you in show business. You do it
yourself." These were words of
Harold J. Kennedy, noted play
wright and lecturer, to aspiring
young actors and playwrights, in
a press interview yesterday.
Laughingly admitting that he
was still searching for a title for
the new play he has just finished,
Kennedy said that he expects to
open the play in Chicago about
July 1.
Makes Lone Tour.
Lamenting the present day
traveling conditions, Mr. Kennedy
thinks that delivering eleven lec
tures weekly in different cities is
a difficult task. He recently left
New York to begin a speaking
tour from coast to coast and spoke
at Irving Junior High last night
on "Backstage Adventures," as a
guest of the Town Hall Concert
series.
His first full length play, "A
Goose for the Gander," played on
Broadway this summer with
Gloria Swanson and Noel Coward
as lead performers. The play
also had long runs in Washing
ton and Chicago.
CannibalKing,
Cinderella Vie
In Coed Follies
Five skits and four curtain
acts, portraying everything from
Cinderella to the cannibal king,
will entertain coeds Thursday
night at 7:30 in the Temple
Theater at the annual Coed Fol
lies, Midge Holtzscher, chairman
announced today. Peggy Larson,
ag college senior and 1944 Pep
Queen will preside as Dame Fas
hion. Organized houses vying for the
skit cud have selected a variety
of subiects for their acts. The
Alpha Xi's have turned "Bare
foot Boy with Check" into "Shoe
less Youth With Lip." Poor Mr.
Yarndt, who has to cope with Asa
Roy Johnson and his troubles
with Handy Anderson and Pixie
Dixon, members of Sick epi
demic. Wellensiek Is Hero.
"Malereen's" with Anne Wel
lensiek as the drug store hero
shows how International House
regards that 13th and O haven
for the homeless, Walgreen's
Drugstore.
Prince Charming Pee Shelley
searches for Cinderella Betsy Ed
Strain in Alpha Chi's story of
'Cindy." A good way to brush
up on Spanish is to listen to
Jackie Jane Anderson sing her
Spanish tunes in "La Fiesta,"
presented by the Tri ueits. some
thing different in skits is "The
Cannibal King" given by the
Alpha Phi s. Using a verse choir
instead of music, the Alpha Phi's
tell the tale of the king of canni
bals. Rivals for the curtain act
award are four organized houses.
A take-off on the life of an
artist presents Chi Omego Marth
Atkinson as the lead in the
"Artist's Studio." Mr. Petty can
learn about art from the Chi O s.
Dark mystery surrounds the
Gamma Phi's as they work on
in a "Blackout."
Repetition of Helen Vennum
and Dorothea Duxbury's hilarious
deadface singing in "A Little
Horse Play" offered by the Pi
Phi's. A different type of music
will be dramatized by the Kappa's
in their curtain act.
(See FOLLIES, pajre 3.)
Service Paper Workers
AH Nebraskans for service
men workers must complete
their assignments and report
to the Nebraskan office Tues
day at 7 p. m., according: to
Marilyn Adler, business man
ager. The versatile . artist expressed
hopes that Una Merkel and Allan
Jones would be able to take the
lead parts in his new play. Ken
nedy stated Jones would be able
to take the lead parts in his new
play. Kennedy stated that actors
will accept a good part in a play
(for a small salary) before they
will take a poor part for a large
salary. The main characteristics
of an actor must be sincerity
and he cited President Roosevelt
as the greatest actor in America.
Is Dartmouth Graduate.
Kennedy graduated from Dart
mouth wher he directed many
school productions and later at
tended Yale for graduate work
He explained that work in sum
mer stock shows is invaluable ex
perience. Definitely refuting the
idea that the theater is dead,
Kennedy said tht New York is
now experiencing the best legiti
mate season in years. Long run
plays are showing and Include,
"VMce of the Turtle," "Dear
Ruth," and "Oklahoma."
Kennedy formerly, worked with
Orson Wells in radio programs
(See KENNEDY, pare 3.)
Eligible Coeds
Vote for WAA
Leaders Today
Eligible women vote today for
WAA officers in the first women's
spring election scheduled to date.
Voting will be from 8 a. m. t noon
and 1 p. m. to 5, in the physical
education department office
Grant Memorial.
Those allowed to vote are: mem-j
bers of the concession board,
members of the Activities board,
(sports heads), intra-mural rep-J
resentatives, heads and presidents
of all clubs, council members, and
any coed who has participated in
three intra-mural sports, one club,
and worked on concessions, ac
cording to Mickey McPherson,
present WAA president.
Announce Candidates.
The slate of candidates is:
President, Mary Jo Gish and Eu
nice Way; Secretary, Les Glotfelty
and Midge Holtzscherer; Treas-
urer, Shirley Bacon and Isadorejwill be recommended by the
Brown; Publicity, Eleanor Knolliheads of the English and Speech
and Barbara Sprow; Social, Lo
rene Novotny and Peg Shelley.
The defeated candidate for
president will automatically be
come vice-president of WAA.
Both candidates for president
are juniors, have oeen on xne
council, and have worked in WAA
intra-murals and concessions for
three years.
Les Glotfelty, candidate for sec
retary, has been treasurer for
WAA for the past year, and her
opponent, Midge Holtzencherer,
has served on the council since
last spring.
Candidates for the other three
elective offices are sophomores
with the exception of Barbara
Sprow, freshman.
War Stamp Sales
Plunge to Lowest
Total of Semester
Less than one per cent of the
students at UN are buying war
stamps," stated Mary Lou Weaver,
Tassel and War Council stamp
chairman.
With one-third of the semester
gone, the goal for the liason plane
that the Tassels and War Coun
cil are sponsoring is far from be
ing reached, according to Miss
Weaver. Two hundred dollars a
week is the quota set, but last
week only $28.70 in stamps was
sold. In the first six weeks of the
drive only one-tenth of the goal
has been reached.
Tassels are selling the stamps
from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. each Wed
nesday in Andrews, Sosh and Ag,
and from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. in the
Union.
Boucher Confers
With Army Men
Chancellor C. S. Boucher, as
president of the Association of
Land Grant Colleges and Uni
versities, has been called to Wash
ington, D. C, by the Army Execu
tive for Reserve and ROTC Af
fairs for a conference on postwar
plans for ROTC. He left Sunday to
be gone for a week. While in
Washington he will also confer
with the Navy on postwar plans
for ROTC.
Coed Follies Participants
Rehearse Skits Tonight
Skit and certain act par
ticipants for Coed Follies are
to appear for dress rehearsal
15 minutes before the ap
pointed time and remain in
dressing: rooms until called, ac
cording to Midge Holtscherer,
chairman.
The order of ' presentation
will be as follows:
Alpha Chi Omea :45
Gamma Phi Beta 7:0o
International House ........ .7:18
PI Beta PM 7:50
Alpha Phi 7:4ft
Kanpa Kappa damni S:M
Alpha XI Delta :
Chi Omega S:M
Delta Delta Delta S:4S
First Awgwan KoIIs
Off (Press Thursday
UN Foundation
Offers Award
iniTo Debators
Speech students, primarily in
terested in debating, are eligible
for the new $450 Mary C. Lee
English and debating perpetual
scholarship, it was announced to
day by Perry W. Branch, director-
secretary of the University r oun
dation.
Mr. Branch stated that the
scholarship is directed toward
aiding the developing of outstand
ing students interested in debat
ing and speech. The name of the
donor will not be released.
Candidates for the scholarship
departments. The annual winner
will be selected from these recom
mendations by the general uni
versity scholarship committee. The
scholarship is to go to a worthy
and deserving student each year
who is in need of help and who
is primarily interested in debating.
Song Fest, Talent
Program Ilighlite
Home Ec Meeting
Home economics club will hold
a mass meeting, featuring a song
fest and talent hour, tomorrow at
4 p. m. in room 306 of Ag hall.
The ag fine arts committee has
charge of the program, and all
participants in the talent hour are
home economics club members.
Monica Ann Alberty, president;
Edith Pumphrey, vice president;
and Mrs. Angeline Anderson,
home economics instructor, will
give a brief report on their trip
to the home economics convention
at Kansas University.
American Artisls Release
Art Color Prints to Union
Nine art color reproductions
and seven lithograph prints line
the walls in the card room at
the Union during March.
The prints are released by the
Association of the American
Artists. Anyone may purchase a
print by ordering it through the
Union office. The Lithographs,
matted, are $5 apiece and the
colored prints are $7.50.
Single Dates, Unarmed Escorts
Rate Taboo in WAC Theaters
BY ANN CONVERSE.
"In foreign theaters of war no
WAC girl may have a date un
less she is going to double date
and then not unless the men are
armed sufficiently to protect her
in case of an emergency," stated
Miss Mabel Lee, director of
physical education for women at
the university, in a report after
attending a meeting of the na
tional civilian advisory commit
tee for WAC under the sponsor
ship of Gen. George C. Marshall,
held at Ft. Des Moines.
At this meeting were WAC
commanding officers from India,
China. Paris and Africa war
theaters. Altogether. Miss Lee
thought there must have been
about 50 to 60 top ranking WAC
officers at this meeting, and with
other military personnel and
civilians represented, approxim
ately 100 people attended the
meeting.
The WAC commanding officer
from the Indian and south Pa
ficic theater, Maj. Marjorie Lud
wigson, who took the first con
tingent of WAC to New Guinea,
gave the rules concerning the so
cial life of the WAC in New
Guinea. She went on to say that.
With Pat Winter, Delta Gamma,
as a cover girl, and 24 pages of
features, illustrations and car
toons, the March issue of the
Awgwan, recently revived campus
humor magazine, comes off the
press tomorrow and will be mailed
to all subscribers.
After an absence of throe years,
the Awgwan will make its first
appearance on the campus tomor
row. The first cover girl was chosen
from 'the organized house which
first had 100 subscription to the
Awgwan. Suceeding issues will
use cover girls from other houses
which subscribed 100.
Offers Variety.
In this first issue, Bob Gillan
reveals a "Page from the Loose
leaf Notebook of Leonidas W.
Silch"; Grace Steckley solves the
mystery of "The Man Who Died? ';
the cigaret shortage is discussed
by Stu Goldberg; and students
are told how to behave in discus
sions. "The Lament of an Omoeba" is
aired, along with a music column,
a 'Gore" column and a column by
an anonymous author, one Trip
hammer Peepash. Another feature
of the March issue is "A Typical
Coed Signs Out."
Subscriptions for all four issues
of the Awgwan may still be ob
tained at the war stamp booths
in the Union or in Sosh or from
ahy Awgwan staff member, ac
cording to Phyllis Johnson, editor.
Alpha Phi Ranks
First in Volunteer
Bandage Rolling
Mary E. Richards, surgical
dressings chairman, has an
nounced the ratings of organized
houses according to the number
of hours spent at the Red Cross
during the months of January and
February.
The rankings are as follows:
Alpha Phi 1S' j
Slicnia Kappa ISM
Delia Delta Delta 12H
Kappa Kappa Gamma ISII'i
Chi Omeea 9" ' i
PI Beta Phi M
Gamma Phi Beta
Alpha Chi Onu-KH ''
Kappa Alpha Thi'ta i
Alpha Xi Delta 4S
Alpha Omleron Pi '. 4J
Wnmrn's Reitenee Halls 4n'i
International House 14' j
Delta Gamma , 1
Car Hall '
Tnwne Club H
Mir ma Delta Tail H'i
Howard Hall
Ummis Hall
the names of the men must be
given to their commanding offi
cers 24 hours before the date so
that the army intelligence can
investigate the men who are to
be out with them. '
Dutch New Guinea.
Major Ludwigson stated that
Dutch New Guinea is one of the
most beautiful spots in the world
and that the girls there had very
good health despite reports to the
contrary. She thought this was
due to the fact that the girls take
much better care of themselves
than the men do.
The WAC girls themselves built
one of the recreation halls in
New Guinea. The natives in New
Guinea love the hobby hats.
Major Ludwigson said that the
first fuzzy-wuzzy she saw had on
one of these hobby hats.
From the European theater, Lt.
Col. Ann Wilson reported that
one-sixth of all WAC are now
overseas and are now in seven
different theaters of war. How
ever, if the WAC could have their
way, there would be five-sixths
overseas and one-sixth at home.
Quoting Colonel Wilson, "The high
(See WAC, pase 3.)
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