Vol. 45, No. 14
THE NEBRASKAN
Friday, October 19, 1945
Junior, Senior Class
Prexy Filings Close
With filings for junior and sen
ior class presidents closing tonight
at 5 p. m., two seniors and two
juniors are registered as candi
dates with the student activities
office.
Juniors and seniors who wish
to file must be carrying 12 hours
or more, having received 24 hours
credit during the last school year,
and in good standing.
Students may file with the stu
dent activities office located in
the Coliseum. There is no scho
lastic average specification, ac
cording to Dean W. C. Harper, as
sistant dean of student affairs.
No Party Registration.
According to Edith Pumphrey,
president of the Student Council,
there has been no registration for
political parties because no polit
ical organization has applied for
approval of the council. If there
are to be political parties, each
Audience Laud
Tivo N. Coward
Theatre Plays
BY BOB GILLAN.
University theater goers claimed
successful the intimate theater
type of performance last night as
University Experimental Theater
presented "Ways and Means" and
"Hands Across the Sea," both by
Noel Coward.
In the first selection, "Ways
and Means," the leads were cap
ably handled by Mimi Hahn and
Bill Fein. Both carried thru the
flipancy and fresh charm so nec
essary for the proper setting of a
Coward play. This appeal was, for
the most part, lacking in the sup
porting roles, however. These
roles were well done in other re
spects. Particularly effective was the
characterization done by Bernard
Suits as the erring chauffeur
whose crimes paid off for Stella
and Toby Cartwright. Too little
was seen of Murdock, the sueve
butler, portrayed by Don Ashford.
Handle Parts Well.
Rex Coslor, as Lord Chapworth,
and Joanne Johnston as Olive
Lloyd-Ransome handled their
parts as idle rich in an adequate
manner. They displayed some
stiffness, however, and this is
very noticeable in the intimate
theater where the audience is
seated right next to the action.
Marjory Ross and Peggy Kirsh
man also carried the minor roles
well.
The final production of the eve
ning was "Hands Across the Sea,"
another typical Noel Coward
play. The roles were done in a
uniformly fine manner. To men
tion a few high points credit
should be given to Dede Wells for
his excellent handling of the part
of Mister Wadhurst, the hen
pecked husband. It was Jean
Bernstein, however, who kept the
play running at a high pitch. Her
See AUDIENCE, Page 6.
Cornhusker Pic
Schedule Includes
Hesperia, Frats
This week's Cornhusker picture
schedule includes Hesperia and
four fraternities. Pictures will be
taken from 9:30 to 4:30 at the
Cornhusker studio in the sixth
floor of Millers.
The pictures must be taken
within the three day deadline and
the group having the most pic
tures taken first, will win a free
Cornhusker, announced Joyce
Crosbie, Cornhusker editor.
October 22-23-24
Hesperia
Alpha Tau Omega
Beta Sigma Psi
Delta Sigma Psi
group must draw up a platform to
be submitted to the Council for
approval each year. Then and
then only can political organiza
tions be recognized, party regis
trations take place, and political
candidates be nominated for of
fice, according to council rulings.
Under the auspices of the Stu
dent Council, class elections will
be held Tuesday, October 22, in
the basement of the Union. Bal
lotting will take place from 9
a. m. to 6 p. m. Every student
must present his identification in
order to vote.
Mary L. Boelim
Opens Faculty
Recital Series
Mary Louise Boehm, instructor
in piano, will open the year's fac
ulty recital series this Sunday aft
ernoon assisted by Miss Kathryn
Dean, contralto, who will be ac-
c o m panied by
E a r n est Har
rison. The pro
gram begins at
3 p. m. in the
Union b a 1 1
room. Miss Boehm, Lf
who comes to
the university
from her teach-
ine post at
Nor thwestern - 4L-rmmS,
University, has Lincoln Journal.
chosen selec-Mary L- Boehm.
tions by Bach, Chopin and Ravel
for her first appearance in Lin
coln. Miss Dean will offer a group
of German songs by Brahms,
Wolf and Strauss.
Soloist three times with the
Evanston Symphony Orchestra,
Mary Louise Boehm has given a
series of recitals in Chicago's Or
chestra Hall. Last April Miss
Boehm appeared with the Civic
Orchestra of Chicago under Hans
Lange's direction. Before joining
the UN school of music this fall
she studied during the summer
with Robert Casadesus, French
pianist.
The complete program as it will
be given Sunday includes:
Chaconne in D minor, Bach
Busoni, Miss Boehm.
Wie Melodien zieht rs mir,
Brahms; Meine Liebe ist grun,
Brahms; Verborgenheit, Wolf;
Standchen, Strauss, Miss Dean,
Mr. Harrison.
Nocturntf, Op. 48, No. 1,
Chopin; Etude, Op. 25, No. 1,
Chopin; Ballade, Op. 38, Chopin;
Jcux d'Eau, Ravel; Toccata,
Ravel, Miss Boehm.
Cornhusker Fans
Prepare for Trip
To Ames Game
"We're aiming for Ames!"
screams the poster in the Union
and the number of names written
on the sign indicate th?.t the
Cornhuskers are aiming for Ames.
Students who attend the game
will meet in the lobby of the
Ames hotel in Ames, la., at 12
noon Saturday to cheer for the
team and send them off to the
game with the winning spirit, ac
cording to Dodee Easterbrook,
cheerleader in charge of the rally.
The time for the rally was so
See CORNHUSKER, Page 6.
Upper class Privileges
Second semester sophomores
may receive upperclassmen
privileges, including 10:30
nights, Monday through Thurs
day if they " have no delin
quencies and a weighted 80
average. Application must be
made to AWS, acocrding o
Midge Holtzscher, AWS president.
' ' T if
y
AUF Drive
Nears Goal
With $2,140
Assembled AUF workers heard
Gordou Lippitt, YMCA secretary,
tell of the need for funds for the
World Student Service fund, in
cluded in the AUF drive, at a
meeting Wednesday.
Mr. Lippitt gave the workers
more information to use in con
tinuing the drive for the $3,000
goal. So far, $2,140 has been col
lected and the drive will end Sat
urday. Give!
Of this $3,000, one-half goes to
the World Student Service fund
to be used for travel aid for stu
dents, food grants, medical proj
ects and national reconstruction
scholarships for students in China
and Europe. Mr. Lippitt stressed
the fact that American college stu
dents have no conception of the
hardships that students in coun
tries ruled by dictators have gone
thru and are still going thru. Even
yet, he stated, students must read
in bed because that is the only
place they can keep warm. They
are reading ancient books since
those are the only ones they can
gett their hands on.
Give!
In addition to contributing to
the WSSF, students who donate
to the AUF drive give to the Na
tional War Fund. Included in the
See AUF, Page 5.
Students Trek
To Hastings
SCM Meeting
Approximately 25 men and
women students, active in YWCA
and YMCA work, will leave for
Hastings this afternoon to attend
the Nebraska Student Christian
Movement conference to- be held
there this weekend.
Mr. Edmund Peter Wellenstein,
who has just arrived in this coun
try from Holland, will bring first
hand news of students' life in
wartime Holland to delegates at
the Saturday banquet commemo
rating the 50th anniversary of
the World Student Christian fed
eration, which combines the stu
dent Christian movement of 40
countries.
Mr. Wellenstein was engaged in
underground activities in Holland
and was held in a German con
centration camp for many months.
Kennedy Speaks.
Saturday morning's platform
will be presented by Dr. Gerald
Kennedy of St. Paul's church.
Emphasizing evangelism and
Christian heritage, four work
shops will be held Saturday.
Charles Hulac, 1940 graduate of
the university and regional di
rector for the Rocky mountain
region, will conduct a group on
"Christian Heritage."
Another regional director, Lois
Corzier, will lead a discussion on
"Personal Relations." Mrs. Ray
Rice, adviser to freshman YWCA
work and former missionary to
India, will lead a group on "World
Relations." A discussion on "Eco
nomic Justice" will be led by
Gordon Lippitt, YMCA secretary.
Estes Conference.
Events at the Rocky mountain
See STUDENTS, Page 6.
Awgwan Crawls Out
ITnhcraldrd. unannounced and unwanted,
the AwKwan appeared on the eninui
aeene Wednesday.
Jnf In eane there are frew frenhmen
and atlll-brwlldrred uierclaHmen who
haven't yet aeen the liuhl and learned f?
appreciate literature whirh they read It
(e. The Nehraakan), the campus humor
magazine In on aale at a booth near the
dour of the C'rih In the I'nion.
The brkiilghtrd mortal who ait la that
booth aim ran a few old left-over mib
criptton to eel for $1.79 a jrar or $1.00
a aenienter.
Fortunately, the campus will only have
to tolerate the aalea tor one day today
and we ran rent for another month un
til the Awcwm again niakea our paradlae.
lott,
OKI EmiirolllinrDeirfiS
May MM. 7,500
Registration Trend Starts
Expected Upward Move
"The upward trend in enrollment has already started,
and will probably exceed 10,000 students in the next five
years," declared George W. Rosenlof, director of admis
sions, Thursday.
"This year's enrollment will very likely top 7,500 stu
dents. This semester a 35 percent increase is shown over
1 last year," he said.
Theatre Ticket
Sales Continue
Until Monday
University theatre tickets sales
continue until Monday, Gerry Mc
Kinsey, Tassel president, said
Thursday. The sales campaign diet
not close on Wednesday as was
reported in the last issue of The
Nebraskan.
"We've had a good response
from the student body, tho all
those who will want tickets have
not as yet purchased them," Miss
McKinsey also stated.
Members of the organization
canvassed fraternity houses dur
ing the Wednesday dinner hour
and representatives of organized
houses have been covering their
own houses.
Cost $2.60.
Season tickets, $2.60, admit pur
chasers to the four major produc
tions of the University theater,
first of which is "Blithe Spirit,"
scheduled for Nov. 1, 2, and 3.
They may also attend a series of
one act plays and a Chopin pro
gram in the spring.
Several houses have been sold
100 percent by their Tassel repre
sentative and a number more
have bought blocks of tickets.
With these sales and those made
to townspeople by the agency
selling off campus groups it is ex
pected that there will be more
season tickets sold this year than
any in the recent history of the
Temple theater.
Union Weekend
Activities Include
Dances, Movie
Heading Union activities for the
week end are an orchestra dance
Saturday night, juke box dance
Friday night.
The Smith-Warren orchestra
will furnish music for the dance
to be held from 9 to 12 in th
Union ballroom Saturday night.
Admission is 44c a person. The
juke box dance is free from
9-11:30 on Friday night.
Faculty Recital.
A faculty recital will be held
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 in the
Ufion. Following this will be the
coffee hour at 5:00 in the lounge.
The variety show Sunday night
at 8:00, to be held in the ball
room, will include a vaudeville
show with Bill Murray, singer,
Beverly Hennak, acrobatic dancer,
and June Simpson, tap dancer.
The movie will be "His Butler's
Sister," starring Deanna Durbin,
Pat O'Brien and Franchot Tone.
Square dancing at Ag campus
on Thursday is to begin at 7:30
p.. m. and will be under the in
struction of David Sander.
Read and Heed
Tassels and early risers will
meet in front of the Union at
7 a. m. today to accompany the
team to the Burlington station
as they leave for the Iowa
State game.
Five Factors.
Dr. Rosenlof listed five frctors
contributing to a new record en
rollment: About 15 percent of all return
ing veterans are expected to re
sume or begin college educations
interrupted by the war; many
high school graduates will go to
the university instead of taking
high-pay war plant jobs, and
many will return to school as war
plants shut down; the nation is
entering an industrial technologi
cal era as a result of war re
search and college graduates will
find it easier to get jobs; a higher
birth rate in 1930-40 is now be
ing "felt" by universities; and Ne
braska's downward population
trend is being reversed and thou
sands who left the state during
the depression and drouth are
returning.
Analysts.
Dr. Rosenlof's analysis of stu
dents registration .at Nebraska
during 1940-45 period showed the
following totals: 1940-418,986;
1941-42 8,252; 1942-43 7,426;
1943-44 5,364; 1944-45 5,865.
Using 1940-41 as a base figure en
rollment decreased 8 percent in
1941-42, 17 percent in 1942-43;
See ENROLLMENT, Page 6.
Convo Plan
Heads Release
Program List
Releasing an incomplete list of
convocation speakers for the year,
the university convocation com
mittee announced the following
program this week:
Ray Clark, WOW war corre
spondent, will speak on the "Road
to Tokyo," Oct. 29, at 11 a. m.
in the Union ballroom, where all
convocations will be held.
A retired Russian general, Vic
tor A. Yakhontoff, will discuss
attitudes of Soviet Russia Nov. 6
at 11 a. m.
Colored Films.
Bringing colored films of Mexi
co, Robert Friers, correspondent,
has as his topic, "Mexican Holi
day," Sunday, Dec. 16, at 4 p. m.
Bentita Harding, author of "Im
perial Twilight" and "Amazone
Throne," will discuss "The Power
of the Pen," sometime during Feb
ruary. The date will be announced
later. Miss Harding has also writ
ten non-fiction material regarding
the Hapsburgs and royal families
attempting to establish dynasties
in South America.
Hallett Abend is scheduled to
appear during March to discuss
"The State of Democracy in China
and America's roll in the Far
East." Mr. Abend has written
various articles on policies of the
Far East.
YW Holds Informal Tea
For All Coeds Friday
A Get Acquainted Tea will
be held in EAen Smith from 4
to 5 Friday afternoon for all
university women. Refresh
ments will be served during
the informal one hour - get-together.