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Vol. 45, No. 49
'LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Sunday, February 10, 1946
University Plans to House
Vets at Air Base Hospital
Receiving a permit to lease the
hospital area at the Lincoln Army
Air Base the university board of
regents is making plans for the
housing of at least 300 married
veterans, Chancellor Boucher an
nounced Friday.
R. W. Devoe, president of the
board of regents and John K. Sel
leek, comptroller, members of the
special housing committee, said
the committee is considering a
proposal to convert the hospital
area into apartments which will
cost approximately $250,000. The
proposal will be submitted to tne
board of regents at its meeting
February 16.
Conduct Survey.
The university is now conduct
ing a survey of married veterans
attending the university to de
Grad College
Announces
Johnson Gift
Four Franklin E. and Orinda M.
Johnson graduate fellowships of
$750 each will be available for
the year 1946-47. These do not
carry remission of tuition.
Payments will be made in four
installments, $200 at the begin
ning and $175 at the middle of
each semester, or If registering
in summer school, five payments
of $150 each will be made at the
beginning of the summer ses
sion. Open to Graduates.
The Johnson fellowships are
open to graduates of the univer
sity or other universities and col
leges of recognized standing. The
applicant, who does not need to
be in residence, is considered on
the basis of scholarship, char
acter, aims, future promise based
on demonstrated ability, and
financial need.
A list Of 26 graduate fellow
ships in specified fields of work,
stipends varying from $250 to
$1,200, may be found on posters
distributed throughout the cam
pus, and in reprints of fellow
ship announcements which can
be obtained from graduate college
offices.
Fellowships for Non-residents.
Twenty-five fellowships remit
tee GRAD COLLEGE, page 4.)
Teachers' Notice
The second meeting for
prospective teachers for the
school year 1946-47 will be
held Thursday, February 14, in
Social Science Auditorium at
4 p. bl, according to K. D.
Moritz, director of teacher
placement.
Final instructions for com
pleting registration In the
Placement Bureau will be
riven. All students who plan
to teach next year should plan
to attend the meeting, accord
ing to Moritz.
Daily Nebraskan Staff Pleads, More Reporters Please!
BY JAN SOULEK.
Let's not be coy, children. The
Nebraskan is publishing a daily
beginning this Wednesday and the
editorial staff is knocking their
brains' out looking for reporters
who want "beats." They have
even gone so far-as to have a
meeting for all interested idiots.
If the prospect of having a
column engages your fancy, trot
down to the Nebraskan office in
the Union basement Tuesday at
1 p.m. when the staff will inter
view you.
termine how many would be in
terested in living at the air field
site while attending school.
The apartments, when com
pleted, will probably rent on a
scale of $25 to $40 a month. The
main difficulty will be the ob
taining of necessary materials to
equip the apartments, especially
plumbi.ig and furnishings, accord
ing to L. F. Soaton, member of
the special housing committee at
the university.
The permit issued to the uni
versity specifies that the lease
would operate for five years and
that housing facilities would be
only for veterans attending the
university. Seaton said the lease
was received Friday morning
from the federal housing adminis
tration in Chicago. The war de
partment last week turned the
hospital site over to the FHA.
Prof. Kirsch Notes National
Emphasis On "Regional Art
Excessive publicity of "regional
art" may seriously injure succes
ful development, in the midwest,
of talented young artists, accord
ing to Prof. Dwight Kirsch, chair
man of the university art depart
ment. As proof, he points to the recent
national publicity which featured
a controversy between two paint
ers who are "native sons" Dale
Nichols and Terence Duren.
"To those of us who are more
seriously interested in the prog
ress of art in our time," Mr. Kirsch
says, "these individual artists and
the merits of their work is not the
main issue. Rather, it is the prob
lem of creating sympathy and un
derstanding between the artist and
the public; and the question of
after-effects of art promotion and
propaganda which cause us to
stop and collider."
Emphasis on Midwestern Artists.
""After the Curry-Benton-Wood
buildup of a decade ago," Prof
Kirsch continued, "there was an
immediate heightening of interest
in America in art productions of
the mid country. The big annual
exhibitions began to include more
of the younger artists "from the
sticks" and even today these mid
west artists have more a chance
Varsity Band
Gives Concert
In Coliseum
The annual concert of the uni
versity's 100 piece ROTC band
will be held in the coliseum on
Sunday, Feb. 17, at 3 p.m.
The band, under the direction
of Donald Lentz, will present
Margaret Modlin, cornetist from
Beaver City, and Phyllis Fischer,
marimbist from Shickley, as fea
ture soloists.
Program.
The program includes The
(See VARSITY BAND, pace 4.)
Now. assuming that your I.Q.
is "slightly above the moron level
and you are assigned a column,
then your proud mamma and papa
can dream of the day when you
have a paying position on the
staff. Yes they do oh yes, they
do pay salaries. You begin as a
reporter and work up to news
editor (there are five) at $20 a
month , and then to managing
editor (two) at $30 a month and
finally (if you're good) editor
editor at $40 a month.
TNCHeads
Pick Coed
Febr. 10
Candidates for Typical Ne
braska Coed, to be crowned at
the Coed Follies Feb. 28, will be
judged beginning at 2:30 p
today in the Studio theatre.
m.
Two representatives from each
organized house, wearing date
dresses, will model for the judges
this afternoon. Winners will par
ticipate in a style show at the
Follies, followed by revelation of
the Typical Coed. Marilyn Hart
sook held the honor last year,
and appeared wearing a white
evening dress with an arm bou
quet of red roses.
Eligible Coeds.
Candidates who will appear in
(See JUDGES, pace 4.)
to exhibit in national shows than
the past generations of artists
had."
Mr. Kirsch says this over-emphasis
of regional art and over
promotion of young leaders made
it impossible for them to sur
vive and some, like Grant Wood,
have "actually been hurried to an
early grave." Few of the others
have done mature work which
equalled their early promise, he
says and both artist and promoters
"too often forgot to search for
qualities that make art last."-'
Nebraska Example of Right Art.
Prof. Kirsch, feeling that the
price of sensational buildup is too
dear, points to Nebraska as an ex
ample of what can be accomplish
ed by "quiet, steady activities
based on faith in the integrity of
American art." And he cites the
Six States Exhibition at Joslyn
Memorial in Omaha, the Lincoln
Artists Guild's annual purchase
plan, and the university Extension
Division's rural traveling art gal
lery as examples of his statement.
All these things have created a
desirable foundation for art in
Nebraska, says Prof. Kirsch. "Art
will develop fully only when the
people, great and small, know
about it, believe in it, and use it,"
he concluded.
University Grants
Summer Leaves
To Professors
Professors Lane W. Lancaster,
David Fellman and James L. Sell
ers, of the history and political
science departments, have been
granted leaves of absence to teach
at the summer sessions of Yale,
Iowa and Wisconsin universities,
Dean C. H. Old father of the arts
and science college announced
Saturday.
Professor Lancaster, chairman
of the political science depart
ment, will teach at Yale; Profes
sor Fellman will teach political
See UNIVERSITY GRANTS, p. 2.
I know it's a shock, isn't it, to
find that the university lets money
out of its clutches? I was told
these financial statistics in strict
est confidence and I don't want
you to tell your grandmother or
your Aunt Murgatroid or Uncle
Spitoonya either. But back to the
reporters the paper needs lots of
em, so be down Tuesday.
More Meetings.
Then there is another meeting
in the Nebraskan office at 1 on
Monday. Since the Nebraskan is
Wolloainnis Casts
'Twelfth NteM
The tentative cast for "Twelfth Night," by William Shakespeare,
the third major production of the University Theater this season,
has been selected, according to Dallas S. Williams, Theater director.
John Hanly will portray the handbome and romantic Duke Or
sino, and Van Westover will be Sebastian, the straightforward brother
of Viola whose part will be played by Dee Ann Richardson. Barbara
Berggren w'ill enact the character of the vixenish and gay Maria.
Prologue Characters.
Characters in the prologue will be the narrator played by Avrum
Bonderin; William Shakespeare, Bill Swanson; and Richad Burbage,
Lord Halifax
Speaks at UN
Convocation
Lord Halifax, ambassador to
the United States from Great Brit
ain, will speak in the Union ball
room at 2:00 p. m., Thursday, Feb.
21, as part of a final trip thru this
country.
When Halifax was sent to
Washington in the early days of
1941, he accepted a burden which
Winston Churchill called "as mo
mentous as any that the mon
archy has entrusted to an English
man in the lifetime of any of us."
Through the years of the isola
tionist debate and the greatest
war coalition in history ,he won the
resounding respect of the United
States for himself and for his
country, according to "Time"
magazine recently.
Lord Halifax, after completing
his present speaking tour, will
have visited 44 of the states.-He
is planning to leave for England
at the end of April. His position
now will be filled by Sir Archi
bald John Kerr Clark, who is
now on a peacemaking mission in
Java.
The convocation is open only
to students and the faculty mem
bers of the university, at the re
quest of Lord Halifax, who wishes
to speak only to a student audi
ence. Tracy Pullman,
Detroit Minister.
Talks at Vespers
Dr. Tracy Pullman, Unitarian
minister from Detroit, will ad
dress All-Campus Vespers on "Re
ligion for a Modern Age" Tues
day at 5 o'clock in the Union,
rooms XYZ.
A graduate of Tufts college, Dr.
Pullman is minister of the First
Unitarian-Universalist Church of
Detroit, one of the largest con
gregations in the denomination.
He has been active in efforts to
ward the improvement of labor
and race relations and has par
ticipated in programs of evange
lism among the industrial workers
of Detroit
Sponsoring Dr. Pullman's visit
to Lincoln is the Billings Founda
tion, a fund administered by the
Unitarian church for the purpose
of bringing prominent ministers of
the church to college towns and
campuses.
just mad about meetings, they
thought they'd have one for the
business staff too. All of the ad
vertisement solicitors from last
semester and anyone interested in
doing that type of work this se
mester should be at the meeting
Monday.
And there's a few Indian head
pennies in this deal too, as ad
solicitors have a 10 percent com
mission on their collections.
Prettv fin thinff. H' fun. and
you get paid for it. Then of
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Shakespeare's top actor will be
Larry Gilling.
Other characters in the play are
the sea captain, Bill Fein; Valen
tino and Curio, servants to the
Duke, Dean Wells and Mark Gui
nan; Sir Andrew Aguecheek, weak
witted, with romantic tendencies,
Dede Meyer; the part of rowdy
Sir Toby Belch, who is well into
his cup, will be delineated by Rex
Cosier.
Other Characters.
The refined and superior Mal
voliois, Dean Graunke; Feste, a
wise-cracking clown, Gay Marr;
Fabian is Herb Spense and Olivia,
a beautiful and sentimental count
ess, is Arlis Swanson.
The University Theater's adap
tation of "Twelfth Night," a hi
larious comedy, which will be
presented on March 14, 15 and
16, is that of Orson Wells, Direc
tor William stated.
Army Cites
Capt. Luther
For Gallantry
Capt. Walter "Butch" Luther's
Silver Star medal for gallantry in
action was presented to Mrs. Ma
rian B. Luther, widow of the for
mer Cornhusker grid star Thurs
day by Lt. Col. Merle J. Senn, act
ing director of military training.
Captain Luther was a student at
the university from 1838 to 1941,
when he left for army service. He
was commissioned a second lieu
tenant in the infantry reserve on
July 20, 1940, after completing the
advanced course of ROTC. Luther
was promising in athletic, playing
three years of varsity football at
right halfback with the Corn
huskers. The Stanford-Nebraska
(See LUTHER, page 4.)
Friday Night's
Cast Duplicates
Opera Success
BY SAM
WARREN.
The success
of Wednesday
night's performance of "Cavalleria
Rusticana" was duplicated Friday
night when an excellent second
night cast stepped into the leading
roles of Mascagni's popular opera.
This success was the result of
the expert training and direction
of the conductor, Dr. Arthur
Westbrook.
Of the soloists, four were
(See OPERA, page 4.)
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course you can work up to busi
ness staff positions such as assist
ant and business manager.
Now I don't want to hold a
pep rally here and rah-rah my
self into the state institution for
the mentally unbalanced, but I do
want you to know there are lots
of good positions open and th
Nebraskan needs lots of help. So
prospective column reporters and
ad solicitors, let's be at those
meetings.