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'In The Balance9 . . .
The future of the University of Nebraska for years to
come may well be decided by the state legislature within
the next few weeks.
The legislature is currently considering the faculty ap
propriation committee's request for a general salary in
crease for all University employees. Chief object of the re
quest, of course, is to raise salaries of UN faculty mem
bers to a fair, reasonable level, assure that in the future
the University will be able to pay salaries adequate to
maintain a first-rate faculty.
The faculty request, embodied in a lengthy report to
the legislature s appropriation committee, is entirely rea
sonable and justified, backed by hard facts. The report to
the legislature points out, for example, the fact that living
costs have climbed 25 to 30 percent during the past five
years, while salaries of faculty members have remained
static. Indeed, the report continues, most faculty mem
bers have been restored only 7 percent of the 22 percent
salary cut they suffered in the depression year of 1932.
Nearly all neighboring state universities are far ahead
of Nebraska in the matter of restoring salary cuts made
during the depression and raising salaries to meet the ever
increasing cost of living, the report points out, citing fig
ures gathered from Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota,
Missouri, South Dakota and Texas.
If Nebraska continues to lag behind, the report con
cludes, if the faculty's request for a $176,860 yearly in
crease in appropriations is denied, these situationss will
arise: (1) Faculty morale will sink even lower. (2) Many
younger professors will leave Nebraska for better-paying
position. (3) Many faculty members now in the armed
forces or in war work will find employment elsewhere after
the war. (4) The University will not be able to maintain
the strong faculty necessary to meet that great increase in
enrollment which will undoubtedly follow the war.
The merits of the faculty's request are obvious.
Clearly faculty salaries should be raised to a fair level. In
deed ,they MUST be raised if the University of Nebraska
is to maintain its place as a first-class educational institu
tion. The faculty has made its request. The state legisla-,
ture is considering that request. .The future of the Uni-l
versity of Nebraska hangs in the balance.
Lec Said The Better
Quip of he week, by Phyl Johnson, new
editor of the AWGWAN Speaking ot some
buddy of hers who wu a little down
hearted. Phvl remarked that aforesaid
buddy waa "just completely chest-fallen."
Friend Webster says the word is "crest
fallen" but Phyl couldn't be convinced.
And speaking of the AWGWAN, which
we are reluctant to do in uie gooa com
pany of our readers, that disreputable and
questionable humor publication is being
even more obstreperous (obnoxious, you
know) since pub board appointed a perma
nent staff Friday and gave the AWGWAN
ers the unholy impression that they are here
to stay. While they were gone Saturday
morning, enterprising Nebraskanites moved
the humor mag desks and general accou
trements out of the Nebraskan office and
far down the hall in the Union basement.
We then put up a sign, "Vacancy For
Rent See AWGWAN." But, unfortunate-
y, it didn't work. Like death and taxes,
the AWGWAN is destined to be always
with us and no more pleasant, either!!
Bill Miller, new humor mag (question
mark) managing editor, gets purple cigar,
however, for general nuisance value. He
actually had the temerity to expose the Ne
braskan secret of two years that Les
Glotfelty does not exist and that Donaldine
(her last name is Flip) is the one who actu
ally does exist. For two years this fact
has been the carefully guarded secret or tne
Nebraskan staff, and now this upstart from
the unknown AWGWAN staff gives it away.
Oh, the pity of it all. Anyway, now that the
story is out, aM we can decently do Is ex
pose a picture of Donaldine, who is really
a quiet, shy, retiring child, to the eyes of
our readers, and then perhaps they will un
derstand why we have kept her identity a
secret for so long.-
Now Donaldine ie like March, a sort of
combination of hon and lamb. This is
March, but the following picture is t
Donaldine.
Oh heck, we kept this suspense up long
enough. Everything is set for the big un
veiling, and here she is. Donaldine, meet
the university and stop trying to crawl back
behind the tree with the rabbit.
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So there, Mr. Miller.
Down Beat, Jr.
Now that its recording studios
in New York, Chicago and Holly
wood are once more humming
with activity, you'll be glad to
learn that RCA Victor is not over
looking promising "young talent
when it comes to adding to its list
of distinguished artists recording
exclusively for the famous Victor
label.
The composer, conductor and
pianist Leonard Bernstein, for ex
ample, is only 26; "Time" maga
zine calls him the brightest
young man in the U. S. musical
world and for. cause. Last win
ter he conducted the New York
Philharmonic symphony in the
world premiere of his "Jeremiah
Symphony" which the New York
Music Critics' Circle promptly
voted "the most outstanding or
chestral work by an American
composer" introduced during the
season. Next came his smash hit
ballet, "Fancy Free," which as
danced by the Ballet Theatre
from coast to coast all winter has
been widely acclaimed as the best
ballet by an American. And now
his new musical comedy, "On the
Town, which opened on Broad
way just after Christmas, is one
of the season s biggest sensations,
and has already been sold to Hol
lywood. You'll be hearing some of
his recordings shortly.
Then there's the young New
York symphony, whose personnel
was picked and trained by the
great Leopold Stokowski in the
course of hundreds of auditions
last winter. This orchestra was
heard in the first of a series of
popular priced concerts last
March. It was an instant success
with critics and the fastidious
New York music public alike. Al
ways a pioneer in program-making,
Stokowski has led his new
orchestra through dramatic per
formances of much new music as
well as standard repertoire fa
vorites. The orchestra has already
recorded several of both kinds of
compositions for Victor. You can
look forward to their first re
leases. Three young singers have been
added to the great galaxy of Vic
tor's stars of concert and opera.
The newcomers are the Metropoli
tan Opera lyric coloratura Licia
Albanese, the Metropolitan con
tralto Margaret Harshaw, and the
concert baritone Robert Merrill.
Miss Albanese, who has already
appeared on records in Victor's
new "Heart of La Boheme rec
ord a ma album, made her debut
at the Metropolitan in 1940. At
that time already a veteran of the
famous La Sea la Opera company
in Milan, and of Covent Garden
in London, Miss . Albanese fol
lowed up her Met appearances
with successful engagements with
the Chicago and San Francisco
Opera companies; she has been
one of the most frequently heard
stars of the Metropolitan season
now drawing a close.
Margaret Harshaw has been
called the Ernestine Schumann
Heink of tomorrow. Her rich con
tralto is of such distinctive qual-
ty that Edward Johnson, director
of the Metropolitan, personally fi
nanced her musical education
after hearing her on the Metro
politan Auditions of the Air radio
program. She first appeared at
the Met last season; when she
made her debut with the San
Francisco Opera company last
fall, Alfred Frankenstein, the in
fluential San Francisco Chronicle
music critic, hailed her as "the
outstanding find among the new
artists of the season."
Concert
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mance" by Walter Golz, Margaret
Modlin plays "Rondo Caprissio"
by Fitzgerald on the trumpet, and
chapter president Helen Laird
sings Oscar Rosbach's "When I
Am Dead, My Dearest" and "Pos
session." Program.
The program, beginning at 3
p. m., occurs in the following or
der. Nocturne Maxine Stone
Polka Maxine Stone
Quartet
Christ Went Up Into the Hills
Richard Hageman
At Parting... James H. Rogers
Duet
Romance Walter Golz
Cowboy Tune. . . .Brodsky and
Triggs
Variations of Frere Jacques .
Marguerite Klinker
Tango at Midnight Robert
Simmons .... Duo-Piano Team
When I Am Dead, My Dearest
Oscar Rosback
Possession . Henry Cloughlighter
Ronda Capriccio
Bernard Fitzgerald
Silhouettes Gordon Nevin
I Wonder As I Wander
Niles Hobton
The Reed Palmer Clark.
Ensemble.
Appreciative . . .
(Continued from Page 1.)
tians and tells Aida how she must
help if Ethiopia is to be saved.
When she hesitates, he throws her
to the ground with cries of "You
are no longer my daughter, only
the slave of the Pharaohs." Aida
then pleads for forgiveness and
pledges to do her part.
To Marie Powers as Amneris
the Egyptian princess, and to
fHawaiian tenor Tandy MacKen-
zie as Rhadames should be given
the credit for binding the work
harmoniously together. Their act
ing was more than commendable
and their singing was artistically
done, especially that of MacKen
zie. At times Miss Powers' voice
went unpleasingly back in her
throat, but on the whole her per
formance was excellent. The role
of Amneris itself comes very near
to being that of the heroine.
Final Scene.
The traditional horizontal di
vision of the stage in the final
scene was perhaps the least ef
fective of all the scenes, with the
priests above standing practically
motionless and not conducting the
ritual usually presented in this
scene, and the lovers in the tomb
below almost entirely hidden from
view by poorly-arranged light
ing even tho the tomb was. sup
posed to be darkened.
There was only one other fea
ture to be criticized in this per
formance which on the whole was
so expertly staged. In the Trium
phal second act scene when the
'armies were returning victorious
ly, there just wasn't any army!
Perhaps this was due to the lack
of response to the call for univer
sity men to act as extras, or
"supers" as they are called in
opera lingo.
No rtport on "Aida" would be
complete without mentioning the
three different ballet routines
danced by the Corps de Ballet.
The dance of the white-robed
priestesses, the Triumphal Scene
number and the clever dance of
the little Moorish slaves were
done by an exceptionally-well-trained
group. Lydia Arlova and
Lucien Prideaux, solo dancers, ex-
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The facile tongue and persua
sive gavel of Dr. Harry F. Skor
nia, director of radio at Indiana
university, chalked up a Red
Cross fund of $2,147.75 at a re
cent benefit auction.
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