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1 Vol. 47 No. 104 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Thursday, March 20, 1947 Filings for Elections Open for One Week Campus Ballots Will Include Student Council, Ivy Day Orator With 12 days remaining before spring elections, Student Council announces that filings for all elective positions open today at the Student Activities, office in the coliseum. Open for one week, filings will close Wednesday, March 26, at When the student body goes to the" polls April -1st, it will elect over 30 members to its Student Council, three members to its Publications Board, its Ivy Day Orator, and the personnel of the Ag Exec Board, Farmer s rair Board and College Agriculture Fun Board. Proposed revisions in the Student Council constitution headline this year's election. The Council is now considering other possible propositions to include on the ballot. Filings have customarily closed the Friday before the Tuesday election, but the Council has de cided that this year Wednesday will be the closing date, anticpat ing a double amount of pre-election routine resulting from the all-time enrollment record. Candidates' names may be filed either independently or by polit ical party, in the first-floor Stu dent Activities office at the coli seum. Student Council constitu tion provisions covering student election filings by political parties end with this sentence: "Noth ing in this constitution shall be so construed as to deprive any student of the right to file as an Independent candidate." GRADES Grade cards for the first se nester will be distributed from the office of admissions in the administration building be tween 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. as follows: " II lot N Inclusive Thursday, March 20; O to Z Inclusive Friday, March 21. Students must present their identification cards when call ins' for trades. 'Henry V Opens Today For One Week Showing "Fantastic," is the description Hollywood film-makers have ap plied to boxoffice reports on "Henry V," the technicolor screen version of the Shakespearean drama which begins a one-week engagement at the Nebraska the ater today. Contrary to predic tions of all film magnates, when the film was first brought over from England, all engagements thus far have been overwhelming financial successes. Shakespearean Trials. The American film makers had good reason for their pessimism. No Shakespearean film before "Henry V has had financial suc cess. And the Bard has been given a fair trial. Back in 1924 Cecil B. DeMille interpolated the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet," without dialogue, into a spectacle film entitled "Triumph,' with Rod La Rocque and Leatrice Joy. Later Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks picked up the gauntlet with "Taming of the "Shrew," an evept remembered only because of the classic credit line on the screen and in the ad vertising: "By William Shake SATURDAY NITE 8-12 5 p. m. Dot Meshier To Become WAA Prexy Dot Meshier was elected presi dent of the WAA in an election held yesterday. Kathryn Rapp will assume the office of secretary and Cleo Schmoldt will take over as treas urer. Mims Weeth will become vice president. Ballots Cast Seventy ballots were cast in the election by participants whose qualifications were set up by the WAA. Voters had to be members of the concession board of the physical education department, members of the sports board, members of the board of repres entatives from organized houses, intramural group heads, or par ticipants in a required number of intramural tournaments. Former Officers. Officers for the preceding year were Isaaore Brown, president, Joanne Rapp, vice president, Ruth Ann O'Hanlon, secretary, and Billie Steelman, treasurer. Plans are being made for the installation of the new officers. speare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor. Next came Warner's "A Mid summer Night's Dream," with a star-studded cast There was a difference of critical opinion as to whether it was a good film. All critics agreed that it was not good Shakespeare. Alterations for Appeal. Then came MGM's "Romeo and Juliet" this time with dialogue, followed by 20th Century Fox' "As You Like It " the latter star ring Laurence Olivier who also plays the title role in "Henry V." The question that arises is what accounts for the public response to "Henry V," one of Shake speare's lesser-known plays. which was not enjoyed by its pre decessors. The answer may be found in the precept which Olivier, who also produced and directed the film, borrowed from an 18th cen tury critic, named Fielding, and stuck to while every foot of "Henry V" was being "shot" Said Fielding, "Shakespeare is already good enough for people of taste. He must not be altered to the palates of those who have none." ' RAYMOND SCOTT. AND HIS KCMESTRA ALL-UNIVERISTY FORMAL SEASON FINALE AT COLISEUM Ticket Now It's My Turn! Oh, I'll sneak a meek tweak on a freak Greek cheek And seek to pique that wee pip squeak But if I shriek and squeak when I seek to speak, You'll know my clique's with the antique Sikhs. Eddie McCullough. (If you can say this aloud, cor rectly, four times in one minute, you're crazier than I thought you were.) AVC Elects New Prexy . Tuesday Nite Morris Broduin, electrical engi neering senior, was chosen chair man of the newly organized American Veterans committee chapter at the second organiza tional meeting held Tuesday eve ning in the Union. Frank Foote, ag college junior was elected treasurer and Peter P, Beelak will act as secretary. During the meeting AVC decid ed not to support Representative Leo E. Allen (r.. 111.) on his pro posal to allow immediate termi nal leave bond redemption be cause AVC felt it would Xe detri mental to the passage c4 HR 870 which would raise subsistence al lowances for college students. Thirty-five personal distress letters, asking Nebraska Congres sional representatives to support H.R. 870. were written by AVC members during the meeting. Easter Service Will Feature Choral Music Arniella choral music will -be featured at the Ag pre-Easter breakfast service which is to be held Sunday, March 30 at 7:45 a. m. in the ag college student activities building. The chorus, composed of 20 male voices, will sing a Silesian folk song entitled, "Beautiful Sa viour" and a benediction response. James A. Sears, ag junior, will di rect the chorus. Dr. C. P. HalL pastor of the First Lutheran church, will give the invocation and benediction. Tickets for the breakfast will go on sale this week, according to Don Meaders, chairman of the pre-Easter service. Priced at 50 cents each, the tickets will be limited to 350 persons. The breakfast which has been an annual event since 1927, is sponsored by the Ae Religious Council. Theatre Holds Tryouts Today Try outs for "Claudia," "Thun der Rock," and "Children of the Moon" will be held today from 3 to 5 p. m. in the Temple. These plays will be produced by the experimental theatre in May. All students are eligible to try out but they must have the hour of 3 to 5 p. m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays open for rehearsals and production work. Rose Franken's "Claudia" has a cast of five wom en and three men; "Children of the Moon," by Martin Flavin, five men and three women: and "Thunder Rock," by Robert Ar drey, six men and three women. from Corn Cob or Union Juniors, Seniors Will Meet Today Classes Will Elect Prom Queen in Temple at 5 P. M. Today at 5 p. m. members of the junior and senior classes will meet in the Temple Theatre to elect the coed who will be presented as Prom Queen at the annual Junior Senior Prom. Dake Novotny and Don Chapin, presidents of the two classes, will preside at the joint meeting. Final arrangements for the election were announced Wed nesday after members of the Prom committee had consulted with faculty representative. Secret Ballot Junior and senior students from the city and ag campuses will elect the 1947 Queen by secret ballot. Ballot counting is to be supervised by appointed faculty members. Identity of the girl se lected will not be revealed until the night of the dance. Playing for the event, the uni versity's final formal function, will be Raymond Scott, composer and band leader. Dancing will be from 8 p. m. until midnight in the coliseum. , Compositions. Among Scott's compositions are "The Tov TrumDet." "In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room," "Twilight in Turkey," and ".Birdseed bpecial." His orchestra features the sins ing voice of Dorothy Collins. The Scott aggregation has recently completed a 17-week engagement at the Hotel bherman College Inn in Chicaso. Tickets. $3.00 oer counle. mav be purchased from Corn Cobs, Masquers or at a booth in the union. Corn Cobs Close Major Activity List As their last major activity of the year, Corn Cobs, men s pep organization will join with the university speech department and Student Council in selling tickets lor the Junior-Senior prom. Corn Cob workers will be sun- plied with prom tickets starting today and will continue sales un til Saturday. Dean Skokan, Cob secretary, has announced that the speech department salesmen and Corn Cob salesmen will hold an impromptu competition today and tomorrow to decide which group can sell more of the rapidly mov ing tickets. Selling for $3.00 per couple, tickets to the prom, scheduled for Saturday night in the coliseum, are available to all university stu dents, regardless of class. Ray mond Scott and his orchestra will play at the prom which is semi- formal and marks the official close of the university formal season. Coalition Party Schedules Meet Members and students interest ed in becoming members of the Cornhusker party, only political organization in existence on the university campus, will meet to night at 7:30 in the auditorium of the Social Science building. Students will submit names of candidates to enter the spring election race. After the names have been submitted, they will be turned over to the merit commit tee for investigation. Nomina tions for the election will be veri fied at next week's meet. Booth Countryman First Issue Now Ready Copies of the first postwar is sue of the Cornhusker Country man, ag college student publi cation, will be available today, according to Marianne Srb, ed itor. Students who have purchased subscriptions may obtained the magazine in Ag Hall. Sales booths will be set up on the campus for those who do not have subscrip tions. Priced at 50 cents for three copies, the number of available subscriptions is limited. Two more issues will be published this se mester. Among the features of this month's issue is a short history of the Countryman written by the editor, an account of the Ag Stu dent Union by Berle Damkroger, and a character sketch of Yuen Chiu, graduate student in Plant Pathology, by Phil Raynard. Alumni activities will be included as another special feature. , The Countryman staff is head ed by Marianne Srb, editor and James Sears, managing editor. Other members of the staff are: Paul Eveland. business manager; Lois Thorfinnson, home econom ics editor, and Duane Munter, circulation manager. UN Graduate Meets Truman Thru Surprise An otherwise unfortunate Texas rain brought a pleasant surprise recently to UN graduate Roy Ed ward Johnson, instructor in voice since September at Baylor Uni versity in Waco, Texas. Exercises at which President Truman received an honorary de gree and delivered an address, or iginally planned for the campus lawn, were forced inside Waco Hall, the school of music build ing, by a prolonged rain. Hasty arrangements by radio technicians to set up the ABC, CBS and NBC editorial room in Mr. Johnson's voice studio pushed him into the college president's office to be-deck himself in cap and gown for the faculty pro cession. And with whom did he happen to rub robes? Why, the Presi dent of the United States, of course. Truman had joined Dr. Ness, Baylor president, there to dress for the ceremony, when out side plans changed. Graduated in '45 with a music- in-education degree, Johnson has been invited to teach during sum mer school and to return for the fall term. While an undergradu ate, he was heard in a number of university musicals, including a concert performance of "Carmen," and as a "Messiah" soloist. He was president of Sinfonia. $3.00 PER COUPLE, TAX INCU L i .