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Vol. 47 No. 39
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Friday, November 15, 1946
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First announcement of plans for
the annual Mortar Board ball,
second event of the winter for
mal season, was made today by
Eleanor Knoll, Mortar Board pres
ident, and Virginia Demel, ball
chairman.
. Scheduled for Friday, Dec. 13,
the daoce will be held in the col
iseum and feature a nationally
known band, to be announced
later, according to Miss DemeL
Coeds Ask Dates.
Traditionally the coeds on
campus invite their favorite man
to the ball, and make it a
turn-about evening. Many groups
arrange special parties for the af
fair. In the past, girls have called
for their dates with wheelbarrows,
ambulances and hayracks. The
men, using the opportunity to
make up for their treatment by
the weaker sex, the rest of the
year, force their dates to carry
knapsacks of incidental equip
ment, wait hours in fraternity
living rooms, and feed them in
termittently during the evening.
Make Corsares.
One highlight of the dance is
the unusual corsages made for
the men. In past years, the bal
conies have been filled with
townspeople interested in the
Kosmet Klub workers are in
tensifying their campaign to sell a
record number of tickets to this
year's Kosmet Klub revue to be
presented Friday evening, Nov.
22, at 7:30 p. m. in the coliseum,
according to Klub president John
Dale.
Tickets for the revue, which will
feature the presentation of Ne
braska Sweetheart and Prince
Kosmet and skits by eight frater
nities, sell for 75 cents.
The Prince and Sweetheart will
be elected by popular vote at the
how where each ticket will en
title the ' holder to one vote for
each of the two positions. Names
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bizzare creations, featuring empty
milk bottles, football helmets,
wilted flowers and vegetables,
toothbrushes, chewing gum, and
violin strings.
Following by one week the
Military Ball, which will open
the winter formal season, the
Mortar Board presents each year
the Eligible Bachelors selected by
campus coeds for that honor
Ticket prices will be announced
in the near future.
Union Schedules
Orchestra Dance
The Union week-end schedule
will be headed by an all-university
dance in the ballroom
Friday night from 9 to 12 p. m.
Music will be furnished by John
ny Cox and his orchestra and ad
mission will be 44c per person.
Top event at the Union Sunday
will be the concert of pianist
Mario Braggiotti and the univer
sity orchestra in the ballroom at
8 p. m.
Cther events will be the coffee
hour from 5 to 6 Sunday night
in the lounge and the buffet sup
per in the dining room from 5:30
to 7 p. m. Jay Norris will fur
nish dinner music during the buf
fet supper.
of the candidates for these offices
will be announced later, Dale said.
Kosmet Klub is composed of
men of the junior class interested
in music and dramatics. Faculty
sponsor of the group is Prof. E.
F. Schramm.
Fovndlnr Date.
Kosmet Klub was founded in
1911 with the purpose of present
ing entertainment to the student
body and has functioned continu
ously since that time with the ex
ception of interruption by two
World Wars.
After the organization by six
men students in 1911, the Klub
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Experimental
Plays Reveal
Fresh Talent
By Norm Leper.
Three plays presented by the
experimental theater la'st night
revealed a wealth of new and re
freshing talent to an attentive
audience.
Noel Coward's "Fumed Oak"
gave a solution to the problem ef
a henpecked husband, harassed by
a commanding mother-in-law, a
nagging wife, and a sniveling
child, who rebelled at his acri
monious home life and his sub
jected position, and left the fam
ily to its household quarrels for
adventure on the other side of the
globe. Lorene Novotny por
trayed the dictatorial mother-in-
law, Jay Homes, the husband,
Gertrude Page, the wife, and
Betty Schultz, the child. The
play was directed by Rex Coslor.
In Anton Tchekoffs hilarious
farce, "The Boor," a widow, play
ed by Annette Segal, who avowed
never to love another but her
dead, faithless husband, is con
fronted by a young lieutenant
who demands payment of one of
her husband s debts, is infuriated
by his affrontry, challenges him
to a duel, but finds herself in his
arms, her husband quickly for
gotten. Dean Graunke, director
of the play, took the part of the
lieutenant, and Robert Scott was
the widow's servant.
In true Moliere manner, "The
Doctor in Spite of Himself" pokes
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Rally!
Enthusiastic cries of "Rally,
Rally, Rally!", noticeably ab
sent from the campus for the
past two weeks, will ring out
tonirht at 7 o'clock as the stu
dent body gathers to participate
In the last borne game rally of
the 1948 season.
Clanging of the victory bell
wiir summon students from
their houses to follow behind
the pep band to the steps of
the Union. Here the pepsters
will be given the chance to
show that the two weeks' rest
has not diminished their spirits
as they are led in school yells
and songs by the cheerleaders.
So lay aside those books,
temporarily, or postpone that
date, just for an hour, and
come out tonight when you
hear the familiar shout of
-Rally, Rally, Rally!"
presented its first, musical comedy
on May 3, 1912. The play was
"The Diplomat" written by TxoL
R. D. Scott. From that year on
Kosmet's presented an all-male
show.
The Klub became inactive from
1918 to 1921 because of the first
world war. For several years after
the society's reorganization women
were allowed to appear in the
spring musical comedy, but in
1927 the group returned to an
all-male show with a pony chorus.
The last presentation of a mus
ical comedy by Kosmet Klub was
in the spring of 1942. The play
dvea that year was "Pott Shots" ,
Music in the Foster fashion will highlight the Military
Ball December 6 in the coliseum when Chuck Foster and his
band perform at the formal opening of the winter social
season.
Foster, no stranger to the state of Nebraska, has played
Churches
Schedule
Activities
As week end activities, campus
church groups have planned regu
lar services and social doings.
Highlighting all church activi
ties in campus circles will be the
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REV. ALVIN M. PETERSON.
formal installation of the Rev.
Alvin M. Peterson as Lutheran
student pastor. The ceremony,
performed by the Rev. Paul Bier
stedt, central area director for
Lutheran student work, will take
place at the First Lutheran church.
A greeting from Chancellor Gus
tavson will be read at the in
stallation, and the L.S.A. choir,
under the director of Alfred
Blinde, will sing.
At a joint ag and city campus
LSA meeting, at 5 p. m. Sunday,
Pastor Bierstedt will give an ad
dess, and refreshments will be
served.
Chapel Service.
Lutheran students will hold
chapel service and worship in
Room 315 of the Student Union
at 10:45 a. m. Sunday. The Rev.
H. Erck will speak on the topic,
"They Knew Not the Time of
Their Visitations." Willis Kush
man will he vocalist, and Elaine
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written by Bob Aldrich, now a
reporter for the Omaha World
Herald. The musical given in 1941
was written by Clarence Flick and
Romulo Soldevilla, both of whom
are now university instructors in
the speech department.
Traditions.
Altho the sponsorship of the
musical comedy is the oldest func
tion of the Klub, conducting the
intar-fraternity Ivy Day sing, the
fall revenue and the election of
Price Kosmet and Nebraska
Sweetheart are other traditional
activities of the group.
The last regular presentation of
the fall revue was in 1942. In this
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several engagements at the Or
pheum heater in Omaha while
operating out of Chicago. The
Windy City has been Chuck's
home base where he is a peren
nial favorite at the world famed
Aragon and Trianon ballrooms.
After his release from the Army,
Foster's band soon regained the
popularity which won it a bid to
play at the Academy Awards Ball
in 1941 at the Biltmore Bowl in
Los Angeles. Returning to the
entertainment scene, the maes
tro's band is once again in stride,
recently finishing a long engage
ment at the Blackhawk re ..u
rant and appearing weekly on the
Spotlight Band program.
Styled for Public.
With a distinctive style, Foster's
band is noted for its flexibin.-y,
changing with the mood of Amer
ica's listening public,. and isaiv.ys
ready to play any request fro'n
the dance floor. Chuck feaauos
one of the more attractive aou;
tions to the female vocalist fi;:d
in Betty Clark. Miss Clark, w.io
joined the Foster aggregation t
its reformation after Foster's re
lease from the army, is said o
be one of the more agile sineers
I before the microphone today. Re
views have claimed that her ap
pearance alone is enough to sat
isfy any audience without her ex
pert thrushing of the leading bal
lads. Tickets are now on sale for
the Military Ball and can be ob
tained from representatives of the
military department. Priced at
$3.00 per couple for former serv
icemen wearing uniforms to the
Ball and $4.00 per couple for men
in civilian dress, the Ball will not
be strictly formal although the
department has requested that as
many students as possible attend
in formal dress.
R. A. Gustavson
Guest Spokesman
At Annual Dinner
Chancellor R. A. Gustavson will
be the featured speaker at the
annual Ellen H. Richards dinner
to be held Thursday, Nov. 21, in
the Chamber of Commerce dining
room, Marolyn Hartsook, Home
Ec club president, said today.
Named in honor of the founder
of hfjme economics as a science,
the dinner is open to all students.
Tickets, priced at $1.30, will bp
sold by the students of the Home
Ec department.
show, as in those preceding it,
women's organized houses as well
as men's, participated in the pro
duction. Upon the reorganization
of the Klub last year, the group
gave the revue last spring with
sKits by the fraternities only.
This year's revue will feature
eight fraternity skits including
comedy, satire, singing and a
swing band. Prince Kosmet will
be introduced and the Nebraska
Sweetheart will appear as the or
chestra plays, "Sweet Ncbraka
Sweetheart" This song was writ
ten by Lamar Burling and Klub
member Joyce Ayres in 1928 and
the copyright was Dresent to the
organization.