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NAAToHoldContemporary
Art Exhibit at Morrill Hall
BY SUE GOLDEN
Recognized by authorities as one
of the finest contemporary ex
hibits in the country, its 57th An
nual Exhibition of Contemporary
Art will be presented by the Ne
braska Art association in the uni
versity art galleries at Morrill hall,
March 2 to 30.
Including over 200 varied styles
and media oil, watercolor, draw
ing and sculpture the show is not
exclusively for any definite style
of modern art, but will give sam
ples of the work of as many new
and old favorites as is possible.
New Ideas in Art
Post-war subjects, abstract art,
spiritual and religious subjects and
fantasties are important trends in
art today, and will be emphasized
in the exhibition, Dwight Kirsch,
director of the university art gal
leries, said.
American "old masters," artists
well known for a generation, will
be represented by George Bellows,
Arthur Dove, Maurice Prendergast
and others, and by post-impressionists
such as Burchfield, Hop
per, Knhn, O'Keeffe, Boardman,
Robinson, Sloan and Weber.
Paintings by Boris Deutsch,
Philip Guston, Karl Knaths, Abra
ham Rattner, Everett Spruce,
Louis" di Valentin and others who
have won prizes in recent art
competitions and honors in other
annual exhibitions, will be shown.
European Painters
European artists now living in
America whose work will be in
cluded are Chagall, Chariot and
Tanguy, and paintings by some
TKA Speech
Plaque Won
By Don Kline
Don Kline won the Tau Kappa
Alpha Plaque for highest quality
work in competitive discussion at
the Rocky Mountain Speech Con
ference which was held at Denver
University on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, Feb. 13, 14 and 15,
Donald A. Olsen, university speech
coach, has announced.
One hundred and twenty stu
dents participated in six rounds of
that activity. Ted Sorenson and
Kline and approximately 60 de
bate teams were competing; one
of Nebraska s two teams repre
sented at the conference, defeated
the University of Chicago, Denver
University, University of New
Mexico and Arizona State, rank
ing second to University of Chi
cago in quality ratings.
'Excellent' Rating
Sorenson also received a rating
of "excellent" in public speaking
which included memorized, im
promptu and extemporaneous ma
terial. Gayle Stahl and Leo Ramer de
feated Arizona Sta, Colorado
University, Colorado A. & M., tied
Sioux Falls College and lost to the
University of Oregon.
AWS Positions
Op
en for Filing
Candidates for AWS board
should file applications at Ellen
Smith Hall before Wednesday,
Feb. 19.
Applicants must be freshman,
sophomore or junior women, not
living in organized houses, and
fulfilling university requirements
for participation in extracurricu
lar activities with the additional
requirement of an 80 average.
Candidates must be consistent ob
servers of AWS regulations.
Upon application, women should
state their qualifications and in
clude their phone numbers, as
personal interviews will be held
Saturday, Feb. 22, in Ellen Smith
hall, by the present senior board
members. i
younger artists will be presented
in Lincoln for the first time.
Eighteen paintings will be sent
for the show from the Chicago
area and 26 from California; how
ever, most of this year's exhibit
comes from New York. Private
collectors will find a large num
ber of pictures and small sculp
tures suitable for homes or offices
priced upwards from $15, Kirsch
said.
Living: Pictures
Living pictures will be shown
members of the Nebraska Art
association in the Union ballroom,
Sunday, March 2. Tea will be
served at Morrill hall after the
pictures. Gallery talks will be
given the four following Sundays;
these and other talks to club
groups are open to those who at
tend the Annual show.
University students will be ad
mitted free to the exhibition and
to the gallery talks, but a general
admission fee of 25c will be
charged others.
Gym Team
Will Perform
In Coliseum
A Danish gym team comprised
of 40 boys and girls has been
scheduled to give a presentation
of .-body building gymnastics in
the Coliseum on the night of
March 5, L. E. Means, director of
athletics, has announced.
An amateur group, the team is
making a tour of the U. S. giving
a series of presentations, to au
diences of physical educators, au
thorities' schools, active sports
people, and sports fans.
Body Building: Exhibition.
The program consists of a
series of exhibitions demonstrat
ing the strength, flexibility and
co-ordination obtained thru the
Danish fundamental gymnastics.
The leader of the team is Erik
Flensted-Jensen, a director of
physical education in Copenhagen.
He is assisted by Mrs. Lind-Boer-up
of the Roedding Peoples', col
lege, oldest among the Folk
Schools of Denmark.
Members of the t3am are from
widely scattered parts of Den
mark, from cities as well as from
farms. Many of them were ac
tive in underground resistance
during the German occupation.
The tour has been launched by
See GYM TEAM, Page 2
Home Ec Style
Show Picks
Top Designers
At the home economics club's
annual mid-winter style show, six
coeds were selected as the top
clothing designers on the Univer
sity campus.
From a group of 40 coeds who
had designed and made dresses in
classes of the clothing and textile
division of the Department of
Home Economics, these girls, who
modeled their own dresses, were
selected as winners: Carol Capek,
Lincoln, two-piece wool dress;
Marion McNaught, Parks, cotton
print summer dress; Marjorie
Moravek, Hemingford, black rayon
crepe date dress; Bess Norenberg,
Ithaca, gold rayon date dress;
Marianne Srb, Dwight, white flan
nel dress with gold accessories;
Ann Chamberlin, Lincoln, green
crepe formal.
The Judges, who wished to re
main anonymous, were a "fashion
board" composed of four promin
ent men students on the campus.
The show was held Thursday
night on the College of Agricul
ture campus. i
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Univet Plans
For Petitions
Completed
Students Agitate
For Budget Hike
Thirteen thousand petitions
dealing with the university's
status and building needs have
come off the presses and will be
ready for statewide circulation
Wednesday, according to Don
Baker, director of the Univets
Education Facilities committee.
Lewis Curling has been ap
pointed petition circulation expe
diter for the E.F.C. Tentative
plans are to contact the students
living in the critical legislative
districts and permit them to cir
culate these petitions thruout the
area. Anyone, veteran or non-veteran,
who is interested in peti
tion circulation should call the
E.F.C headquarters 3-1873, or
leave a notification in the Uni
vets office, 209 Nebraska hall.
Expands Activities.
Lobby committee chairman
Duncan Fraser has expanded his
activities at the state house and
will appear before the legisla
tive budget committee in March
when they hold hearings on the
university s budget.
Carl Booton, head of the
speakers bureau which will tour
the state, will meet with speak
ers on Tuesday at 4:00 p. m. in
room 201 of the Temple. Anyone
interested in touring the state or
in speaking within this area, all
expenses paid, should either at
tend this meeting or call chairman
Booton at 3-1873.
Charm School
To Hear Talk
By Karl Arndt
"Coeds and Charm" will be
Prof. Karl Arndt's topic when he
speaks at the Coed Counselor
Charm School meeting tonight in
Ellen Smith hall at 7.
Mr. Arndt, who is a professor
in the Biz Ad college, spoke on
the same subject at a charm
school meeting last year. Since
this talk was so well received and
enjoyed last year, he has selected
the topic again, according to
charm school chairman Betsy Ba-
hensky.
Book Reviews.
The Coed Counselors sponsor
the Charm School every other
Tuesday evening. On alternate
Tuesdays, the group presents a
review of some current and pop
ular book. Last week Mrs. Carl
Nelson reviewed Sholem Asch's
"East River."
Miss Bahensky and Jo Fank
hauser, book review chairman,
have extended an invitation to
all newcomers on the campus plus
those who have previously at
tended and are interested in these
affairs.
Louis Means Talks
At Doane College
Louis E. Means, university di
rector of physical education, ad
dressed a convocation at Doane
college Sunday. His subject was
"Education Thru the Physical."
Following the convocation Mr.
Means was the guest at a luncheon
with the Doane . college faculty
members of the .athletic board of
control of the college.
Attention Air Reserves!
Airplanes will be available
at the Lincoln air base at 12:30
today to take air reserves to
Offut Field for flying: this af
ternoon. Return transportation
by plane will also be provived.
Frosh Enrollees
In English Listed
More than 3,000 students are currently enrolled in beginning
English classes, Prof. Kenneth Forward, in charge of freshman Eng
lish, announced Monday.
Enrollment is down from the first semester this year, when 3,875
students, largest number ever registered for freshman .English,
Percy Chen
To Lecture
On Far East
Percy Chen, head of the Chinese
league of democratic parties, will
speak on "Behind the Chinese
Screen" in the Union ballroom on
Thursday at 3 p. m.
Mr. Qhen is one of the leaders
of the resurgent Chinese demo
cratic movement which is trying
to find a middle ground between
the reactionary government of
Chiang Kai-shek and the Yenan
communists. The league has pro
posed Sun Fo, the son of Sun Yat
Sen, to head a new constitutional
government patterned after that
of the United States.
Educational Experience.
Mr. Chen was educated in Eng
land, and, for a time, practiced
law there. He traveled in Russia
as a representative of the Chinese
ministry of foreign affairs but re
turned to his homeland in 1932 to
join the army and fight the Japa
nese. As foreign correspondent for
a Chinese newspaper and special
representative for General Motors,
he visited Moscow and other Eu
ropean capitals.
He returned to the foreign serv
ice and the army upon the out
break of the Sino-Japanese war
in 1937.
Besides heading the league, Mr.
Chen is a member of the legisla
tive Yuan, secretary general of
the China Society of International
Law and the holder of other gov
eminent posts.
NHSPA Holds
First Post-war
Press Meeting
Several hundred high school
journalists and their advisors from
Nebraska will attend the first
postwar convention of the Ne
braska High School Press associa
tion at the university Feb. 21-22.
Sigma Delta Chi and Theta
Sigma Phi, honorary journalism
societies for men and women, will
be in charge of the convention
program. Round table discussions
and lectures on the problems of
editing and publishing school
newspapers and yearbooks will be
the subject of most of the sessions.
Contests in Writing.
Students may either enter the
contests in newswriting, editing or
editorial writing, or help in pub
lishing a special edition of the
Daily Nebraskan. A limited num
ber of students will be assigned
to the latter project, and the edi
torial staff of the Nebraskan will
be on hand to assist. The paper
will be distributed at the luncheon
to be held Saturday noon at which
awards will be made to winners
in contests conducted during the
meeting.
Other convention plans Include
a party and dance to be held Fri
day evening and a breakfast for
publications advisors on Saturday.
Tuesday, February 18, 1947,
crowded into Andrews hall.
Drops and transfers this week
may slightly alter the total, but in
a report to the Registrar Monday
morning, Professor Forward listed
3,164 students enrolled in English
A, 1, 2, 3, and 4 classes.
Previous peaks in enrollment
were recorded the sccon I semes
ter last year, when 2,106 regis
tered for beginning English, and
the first semester 1938-39 when
1,839 enrolled for beginning Eng
lish. Professor Forward attrib
uted this prewar high to financial
recovery from the depression, and
speculated that perhaps those stu
dents were offspring of the first
See FROSII ENROLLEES, Tage 4
Experimental
Play Tryouts
Scheduled
Tryouts for "Craig's Wife," a
forthcoming Experimental Thea
ter production, will be held Wed
nesday from 3 to 6 p. m. and
7 to 9 p. m. and on Thursday from
3 to 6 p. m. in the Studio theater
of the Temple building.
The cast of George Kelly's 1926
Pulitzer prize winner includes six
women and five men. "The wom
en's parts are especially strong,"
stated Miss Margaret Scrvine,
speech instructor, who will direct
the play. "The play presents a
challenge to the actresses in it."
Selfish Spouse.
"Craig's Wife" is one of Mr.
Kelly's admirable studies of con
temporary character. Mrs. Craig
is the full-length portrait of a
woman of tremendous power, who
thru selfishness succeeds in driv
ing her husband's friends, and her
relatives from her home. The play
has been described as a biting
satire on human nature.
All students in the university
who are carrying 12 hours or more
and are in good standing are
eligible to try out. Production
dates of "Craig's Wife" are April
2 and 3.
Tracy-Hepburn
Entry Deadline
Set for Today l
All students entering the Spen
cer Tracy-Katherine Hepburn uni
versity contest for the world pre
miere of the motion picture, "Sea
of Grass," must submit their
names to Shirley Jenkins in the
Daily Nebraskan office by 4:00
p. m. today.
Preliminary judging of the can
didates will be Wednesday at 4:00
p. m. in the Temple and the final
decision is scheduled to be made
Thursday at 4:00 p. m.
Judges.
The judging board, which will
name the two students who most
resemble Katherine Hepburn and
Spencer Tracy, is composed of
Shirley Jenkins, editor of the
Daily Nebraskan, Dallas Williams,
instructor in speech and dramatic
art, and E ,D. Rich, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
representative.
Interfraternity Council
There will be a meeting of
the Interfraternity council at 5
p. m., today In Room 315 of
the Union, according to Red
Franklin, secretary.
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