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Vol. 47 No. 62 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Wednesday, January 8, 1947 1 . 'V University Theater Schedules First Tryout for 6 Angel Street Histrionically inclined students will have a chance to try out from 7 to 9 tonight for "Angel Street", the University Theater's third pro duction of the school year. First tryouts will be held in room 201 of the Temple building, according to Max Whittaker, director of the play. Any university student, carrying 12 or more hours in good stand ing, is eligible to tryout. A student must attend at least two of the scheduled tryouts to be consid ered for a part. Additional tryouts are scheduled for Thursday afternoon from 3-5 p. m. and 7-9 p. m., with final try outs being held later in the week. Bergman Vehicle. "Angel Street" is probably fa miliar to students as the movie, "Gaslight", which is an adaptation of the stage play by Patrick Ham ilton, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. The plot and the characters of Federalists Will Sponsor UNO Debate Student Federalists will hold a .meeting in the faculty lounge of the Union Thursday at 7 p. m. to discuss the question of mem bership in a federal world gov ernment. Vern Anthony will discuss the question, presenting the various aspects of the problem. Following his talk, the question will be open to discussion from the floor. Debate Questions. A sample of the questions pro posed for debate are: "Should -membership be assumed on the theory that there is an interna tional community of states and any state existing in the com munity is automatically a mem ber? "'Should all members be democratic? If so, what is a fair definition of democracy?"; and "Would colonies be treated as members in their own right, as dependencies of members, or what?" Milton Field will give a sum mary of the activities of the United Nations during the past few weeks, discussing the action taken by both the general assem bly and the security council. This report is given at every meeting by a different member of the group to keep the other members well informed on the U. N. and to provide the group with an op portunity to discuss the actions taken. Following the discussions there will be a business meeting. The entire meeting is open to any in terested students and faculty members. Hoover Reveals Newly Closed Class Sections Floyd W. Hoover, assistant registrar has announced that the following classes, are cl6sed. Mr. Hoover has suggested that a stu dent list a possible substitute course if he is assigned to a class that is nearly closed. Art 22 Rec. and Lab. Biology 2. Lab B. Botany 2. Lab A. Rui. Oik. 4. Section It. Buz. Or. 4, Section X. Bun. Org. 4. Section . Bus. Org. 13, Section II. Chemistry 2, Section I. Chemistry 2. Lab. C, Chemistry 3. Lab. A. Civil Eng. 1, Sec. B. Kng. Mech. 2, Sec. B. Kng. Mech. 2, Sec. D. , Kik. Mech. 2, Sec. Y. KiiRlish 1. Bee. XIV. KngluiSi 2, Bee. VI. See HOOVER, page 2. the play are essentially the same. The play is set in the living room of gloomy old house in London, the time is the late nineteenth cen tury and the cast consists of three women and two men. Mr. Manningham, a self-assured, urbane but domineering man, is attempting to drive his wife insane as a part of a plan to recover a fortune which he believes to be hidden in the house. Detective SavesDay. Mrs. Manningham, a frail little woman easily dominated by Mr. Manningham, seems on the point of insanity when Rough, a burly detective, appears on the scene to aid Mrs. Manningham. Nancy, a flirtatious and attrac tive girl of nineteen,- sparkles through the play throwing coquet tish glances at Manningham. Eliz abeth, stout, devout and graying, is the housekeeper and cook who, like Nancy, does not suspect the I machinations of her master. YM Announces Plans of Radio Script Contest The Young Men's Christian As sociation has announced its sec ond annual YWCA Radio Script Contest which will award five hundred dollars in cash for the script that will help most, in the opinion of the judges, to stim ulate in individuals a desire to live their everyday lives in a way that will help promote interna tional peace. The award will be given to the author of the script that best meets the objectives of the contest. The winning script will also carry a guarantee of production. If other scripts are found acceptable they will be purchased by the YMCA at current market prices. Rules Available The contest is open to all writ ers, except employees of the YMCA and their families. Hen riette K. Harrison, National Radio Director for the YMCA, states that rules for the contest will be avail able upon request by writing to the Radio Department of the Na tional Council of YMCAs, 347 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. The contest will close at mid night, January 31st, and all en tries must be in on or before that date. Announcement of the win ning script will be made the early part of March. The judges are the following: Mr. Samuel Moore, president. Radio Writers' Guild; Miss Helen Sioussat, director of talks, Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem; Mr. Robert Saudek, director, of public service, American I Broadcasting Company; Mr. Frank 1 Papp, producer-director, National Broadcasting Company, and Mr. Harper Sibley, chairman, interna tional committee of the Young Men's Christian Association. Students in the university may obtain entry blanks at the radio assistant's office, radio studio of fice, in the Temple building. Dr. Bancroft Will Speak at Nu-Mcd Meeting Tonight Dr. Paul Bancroft, pediatrician, will address members of the Nu Med society at their regular meet ing, tonight at 6:15 p. m. in Par lors XYZ of the Union, accord ing to Stanley Johnson, presi dent. ! The meeting will begin with a dinner, which will be followed by a business meeting and the election of officers. VJ'P v """"" "i"? . "... 4 t .is '- . V i - -V .Z - J- ' ' Coloradan MadeDean Of Faculty Dr. Carl William Borgmann, prominent research scientist and co-ordinator of research at the University of Colorado, has been named Dean of the Faculties at the university. Appointed to aid Chancellor R. G. Gustavson in the administra tion of the university, Dr. Borg mann will assume his duties here July 1, 1947, at an annual salary of $10,000. His first projects will be to help develop and enlarge chemurgic research in agriculture and to develop co-operative proj ects in research between the uni versity and various industries of Nebraska. Head of the chemical engineer ing department at the University of Colorado since 1938, when he was made a professor of chemical engineering, Dr. Borgmann is 42 years old and a native of Mt. Washington, Mo. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Uni versity of Colorado and his Doc tor's degree from Cambridge University in England in 1934, where he was sent on an Ameri-can-Scan dinavian fellowship. Upon graduation, he studied at the Carolina Institute in Sweden and at the Metallotraphlc Institute of Oslo in Norway. On the technical staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories In New York City for two yearse, Dr. Borgmann was alos a research engineer with the National Tube company of Pittsburgh and as sistant professor of chemicaj en gineering a the University of North Carolina. Projects. Now director of the Experiment Station of the Univeristy of Colo rado, he worked on a solar heat trap which is being given a trial See COLORADAN, page 2. Vets Broadcast Student Report On Conference "Vet's Views," weekly radio broadcast of the University's Vet eran's Organization, begins its sec ond series this afternoon at 4 o'clock by transcribing a complete report of the Chicago Student Conference in the Union lounge. Don Baker, the director for the program, announced that the four panel members for the broad cast would be the conference rep resentatives. Jack Hill, Eugene Berman, and Don Geye, represen tatives, and . Peter Jernberg, ob server, will give a report of the proceedings, the general aims, the history, and the future plans of the organization, which will be trans cribed for re-broadcast Saturday at 10:30 p. m. over station KFAB. Following the brief speeches by the panel members, the audience will be given an opportunity to take nart in the discussion bv ask ing questions or expressing opin ions. The assembling of representa tives from over 300 colleges and universities at a convention for the purpose of creating a national student organization has opened a new era for students. As a result of the importance of the confer ence, a report of the activities will be made to the student body, and the Student Council will act on the possibility of having the university represented at future regional meetings and at the constitution convention which is to be held during the summer of 1947. Tryouts First tryouts for the Univer sity Theater's production of "Angel Street" will be held in room 201 of the Temple to night from 7 to 9 p. in. Any student who is carrving twelve hours or more and is in good standing is eligible to try out. m m l mm When Sol Hurok's "Original Ballet Russe" comes to the coli seum stage boards tomorrow night at 8:20, the Lincoln and campus audience will witness the first ballet attraction since the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo appeared here four years ago on the Lin coln Symphony Orchestra series. Touring the country following a successful season in New York's Metropolitan Opera house, the ballet boasts its own symphony orchestra and is under the gen eral direction of Col. W. De Basil. Selections Drawing from, their repertoire of over 100 choreographies, the ballet management has chosen four sequences. They include Rimsky - Korsakoff's "Cchehera zade." Tschaikowsky's "Swan Lake," Johann Strauss "Blue Danube," and the Pas de Deux from Richard Strauss' "Don Quix ote." Altho the price range of tickets and seating arrangement are the same as those of the Lincoln Newspaper Series, the ballet com pany of i50 members performs tomorrow under the lone sponsor ship of Arthur M. Oberfelder, UN graduate and concert manager operating out of Denver. General admission tickets, on sale at Walt's Music Store, range from $1.20 to $3.60 with 50 cent sections for students. ' Renaissance English Expert Joins Staff Paul H. Kocher, English Renais sance specialist, will join the uni versity staff as an English profes sor on September 1, 1947, it was announced by R. W. Franz, de partment chairman. Mr. Kocher was graduated from Columbia in 1926 and received the degrees of J. D. in 1929, M. A. in 1933 and Ph. D. in 1936 from Stanford. He has held the Royall Victor Fellowshrip and the Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship. On Leave of Absence. Now on leave of absence from the University of Washington, Mr. Kocher, a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fel lowship, is doing research on a book dealing with the relations between science and religion in renaissance England at the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., and the Folger Shakespeare Library Washington, D. C. He has published numerous ar ticles on the English Renaissance and his book, "Christopher Mar low: A Study of His Thought, Learning, and Character," was published this year. Record Mid-Year Commencement Is Expected First midyear commencement since 1918 will be held Saturday, Feb. 1, at 11 a. m. in the Union, for the largest graduating class in midyear history. Expected to include about 250 graduating members, the class will appear in cap and gown, and Chancellor R. G. Gustavson will present the degrees. Although there will be no pro cessional, there will be special mu sic and a speaker, not yet chosen, will deliver the commencement address. i 5? $ h u I i r- I U it it
