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Vol. 47 No. 117
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With only two days before the
curtain goes up on the Kosmet
Klub Spring Revue Thursday
night, less than a hundred tickets
were still available, Business
Manager Van Westover reported.
Box office is located in Temple
theater and is open from 1 to 6
p. m. daily. All seats are reserved
and all are priced at 75 cents.
"Aksarben Nights" will open for
a three night-run Thursday night
at 8 p. m.
The show, written by Dave An
drews and Bill Wiseman, is a mu
sical comedy featuring songs and
dances interlarded with spicy dia
log. Wiseman and Andrews have
composed a bolero, ballads, boogie
woogie, comedy songs and one
chorus written in the style o Gil
bert and Sullivan. The School of
Music's Willis Jahde will sing the
Large Crowd
Pleased By
M. Anderson
BT SAM WARREN.
Marian Anderson sang in Lin
coln last night.
What more can one say, but to
restate others' acclamations? Sing
ing with the restraint typical of
her intelligent musicianship, she
offered a program satisfying
enough that it demanded no en
cores, altho she returned between
groups for half a dozen. A ca
pacity audience that filled the
coliseum to the exits would have
heard any number of more en
cores.
But when Miss Anderson sang
Schubert's "Ave Maria," the bene
diction had been pronounced and
the concert was over. She closed
on the same note of religious ex
pression with which she opened
her program. Her final portion, a
group of Negro spirituals, told a
story of the faith of her people
in a number of its aspects.
There was the wonderment at
the Christchild's birth in "Behold
That Star," a jubilance of assur
ance in "My Good Lord Done
Been Here," then the groping
doubt growing out of pain in
'Where Does the Road Lead?"
end finally an exalted expression
cf conviction in "Soon I Will Be
Done."
And while these songs of emo
tion were sung with polish as well
as with feeling, it was the group
of Schubert songs that was the
most satisfying artistically. In ef
fect songs for voice and piano,
the four numbers showed a defi
nite progression, building up from
the Viennese gaiety of "Farewell"
(with its pedal-less accompani
ment that added lightness) to the
exciting drama of "The Erl King,"
sung as few women could sing it
today.
Making the most effective use
ef contrasting register colors. Miss
Anderson presented the dialogue
ef the dying son and his father in
a gripping way. It took an en
tore, the jovial "Trout," to bring
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featured number a bolero, a Span
ish song. The composers have also
written in the traditional pony
chorus.
Characters, who keep the action
moving, are Duggie Doyle, presi
dent of Aksarben university, Lynn
Reed and Doug Peters, insidious
spies from Magnolia U., a sub
versive Southern university, and
John Carson, who plays a campus
newspaperman.
"Aksarben Nights" is under the
direction of speech department in
struction Max Whittaker. Musical
director is Romulo Soldevilla,
speech instructor, who wrote the
last Kosmet Klub spring musical
comedy in 1942. Donna McCand
less, members of Orchesis and a
professional dance instructor, is in
charge of the show's dance num
ber.
Summer Term
Gym Courses
To Be Offered
L. E. Means, director of student
physical welfare, has announced
that men students may elect one
activity course in physical educa
tion for the short or the long ses
sion of summer school in addition
to their full academic load.
This will mean that a student
may elect six semester hours of
academic work f on the short ses
sion, plus a one hour activity
course for eight weeks, making a
total of 7 hours; or he may elect
nine semester hours academic
credit for the eight week session
and, in addition, take one more
semester hour of physical educa
tion, making a total of 10 hours.
Courses Open.
The following activity courses
are available to men students in
summer school. Classes are daily:
11:00, gymnastics, P.E. 21 I; 2:00,
general recreation, P.E. 22 XII;
2:00, beginning swimming, P.E.
21 VII; 3:00, intermediate swim
ming, P.E. 22 VII; 3:00, advanced
swimming, P.E. 23 VII; 3:00, ten
nis. P.E. 21 IX, or 22 IX, or 23
IX; 4:00, golf. P. E. 21 XIV. or 22
XIV, or 23 XIV.
These courses have been ap
proved by Dean MoriU and Prof.
L. E. Means.
Gustavsoii to Give
Graduation Talk
At Washington U.
Chancellor R. G. Gustavson will
present the commencement ad
dress at Washington university in
St. Louis on June 12.
Chancellor Arthur H. Compton
of Washington university will ad
dress University of Nebraska sen
iors at their commencement
June 9.
Today's Weather
Tartly cloudy and warmer
University Weather Bureau.
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
Signs Urge
Shortcutters
To Use Walk
Despite rain and light snow
that soaked campus areas yes
terday, Alpha Phi Omega work
ers staked 200 placards over the
campus to remind students to
use sidewalks instead of cutting
new paths or wearing already
started paths across lawns. Signs
were also placed where new grass
or shrubs are being planted or
where older shrubs are breaking
thru.
Working jointly with the uni
versity administration, Alpha Phi
Omega, national service frater
nity, begins today an intensive
drive to beautify the campus by
enlisting student co-operation. A
sizeable amount of funds has been
appropriated, labor, once scarce,
is now available, and growth con
ditions are favorable.
Slogan Reminders.
The campaign asks only that
students co-operate by taking
heed of the slogan reminders, une
of the five different slogans im
plores:
Help rebuild
Campus beauty.
Use the walks
Instead!
Another sign reminds:
A few seconds
Of your thought
Will beautify
This ugly spot.
A professional landscape archi
tect was hired by the university
last fall to plan new landscaping.
A faculty committee of men from
architectural horticulture and
maintenance departments will
help formulate plans, consult with
the landscape architect and inform
the chancellor of progress.
Plan Memorial
Service For
UN War Dead
A special memorial service
honoring former students, faculty
members and employees of the
university who died in the armed
services during World war II will
be held on the campus on April
27.
At 3 p. m. in the coliseum Chan
cellor R. G. Gustavson will give a
brief talk. The university choral
union will sing Verdi's Requiem.
The choral union Is composed of
the Agricultural College chorus,
the University Singers and both
University choruses. Dr. Arthur
Westbrook, director of the school
of fine arts, will conduct Assist
ing the Choral Union will be the
Symphony orchestra, conducted
by Emanual Wishnow.
Relatives, friends of stafi mem
bers and former students who
died in the serive have been ex
tended a special invitation to at
tend the service.
Big Six Bridge
Tourney Slated
Members of the Big Six confer
ence have accepted invitations to
attend a duplicate bridge tourna
ment to be held by the Univer
sity in the faculty lounge of the
Union April 25 and 26.
Union officials who inaugurated
the idea and issued the invitations
believe that the tournament will
be the first of its kind ever to
have been held and indicated that
it would become an annual event.
Since plans were laid in Jan
uary, Colorado, the latest univer
sity to enter the conference, will
be represented.
Teams
Teams which are registered for
the meet were selected from eli
mination contests held at the in
dividual schools. Kay McKay and
Val Gonzolez have been chosen as
the Nebraska entrants.
Dale Ball will supervise the.
play-offs and a trophy will be
awarded the winners.
FiresEi flo Arque
penincp Trials
Allen Moot Court Contests
Required for Law Students
This afternoon at 1:30 the Moot court room on the
second floor of the Law building will be the scene of the
first round of freshman Moot court competition.
Three cases a day will be tried until April 22, and this
will be the first contest for the frosh lawyers, There will
Uni Debaters
Take Part in
Chicago Meet
Two hundred students from 50
American universities and col
leges participated in the Delta
Sigma Rho, national honorary
forensic fraternity, student con
gress which was held in Chicago,
April 10, 11 and 12.
Nebraska representatives, ac
companied by Dr. Leroy Laase,
faculty director in charge of the
congress, were Betty Jean Hol
comb, Marthella Holcomb, Don
ald Kline and Ted Sorensen.
Miniature Congress.
Assembled as a miniature na
tional congress for the purpose of
drafting two legislative bills on
the subjects of labor and national
health, the student congress
adopted a labor bill guaranteeing
annual wages for labor and the
right of a union shop, with a fair
employment clause to assure free
dom from racial or religious dis
crimination in employment. The
national health bill provided for a
national health insurance program
modeled after social security to
provide government funds for the
payment of needed health serv
ices rendered by private physi
cians. These bills will be sent to
the president of the United States
and to the national congress.
See DEBATERS, page 2,
Tassel Filings
To Open Today
Filings for Tassels, university
women's pep organization, open
today for all women students who
do not live in organized houses,
according to Harriet Quinn, presi
dent of Tassels.
Filing slips may be obtained
in the city and ag campus union
officers ,and must be filled out
and returned to the offices with
the name and adress of each ap
plicant. All women students who
intend to file must be of sopho
more standing or above, must be
carrying 12 hours or more and
must have a weighted 80 average.
Filings will close April 22 at 6
p. m.
Magic Of Books Explained
At Butler Lecture Thursday
Students who attend Dr. C. Paul
Butler's "Book Magic" lecture at
tomorrow's 3 o'clock convocation
in the Union ballroom are prom
ised "an unusual literary treat"
by Dr. Karl Arndt, convocation
chairman. Not only will each per
son be given a souvenir program,
but there will be a musical pre
lude! "Butler's whole idea is to inter
est people in books," Arndt said,
and he pulls all the tricks to do
k! He's a most interesing char
acter and will put on a perform
ance like nothing seen here be
fore. Dr. Arndt has even had a
long distance phone call, despite
the telephone strike to inquire
about time and place. The pro
gram will open with several or
chestra recordings of the sub
classical level to put the audience
in a receptive, relaxed mood.
Wednesday, April 16, 1947
De two attorneys ror each side ot
the questions and three judges for
each case. Judges will be local at
torneys. The Thomas S. Allen court
competition was set up last year
from a fund willed to the law
college by the late Mr. Allen, a
member of the first law graduat
ing class.
Competition Rules.
As the moot court competition
is set up, all low college fresh
men must enter competition their
first semester. Competition in the
moot court trials, however, is vol
untary, and is a part of the Al
len competition. Only those law
yer teams which win their cases
in their freshman year may argue
in the following year's competi
tion. Lawyers are thus eliminated
until, in their senior year, only
two teams are left in the com
petition. The winning team is
given gold keys and winners'
names are inscribed on the me
morial placque which hangs in
law college.
Moot court competition is su
pervised by an advisory board of
three seniors and six juniors,
which fixes times of hearings and
sets up cases which the compet
See MOOT COURT, Page 2.
Fewer Vets
Ask Loans
This Year
Reports from the regional of
fices of the Veterans Administra
tion indicate that the number of
ex-GIs seeking loans in 1947 has
fallen 28.8 percent from the 1946
monthly average.
Ashley Westmoreland, manager
of the VA's Lincoln office, said
the figures show some indication
of the veterans' resistance to high
real estate prices is increasing.
Those who are applying, how
ever, are seeking slightly larger
loans. The average 1947 loan is
6.4 percent more than the average
approved in 1946.
Of the 121,000 World war IT
veterans in Nebraska, only 5,415
have acquired home loans under
the GI bill. The total borrowed
for homes in Nebraska under the
GI loans was $23,733,917.27 as of
April 1. But the right to borrow
under the bill is scheduled to con
tinue until ten years after the of
ficial end of the war.
Dr. Butler, book editor for th
New York Mirror, issues reading
lists of worthwhile current litera
ture several time a year, with spe
cial lists for certain seasons. His
list for spring, 1947, will be
handed each person as he enters
the ballroom. Current novels,
mysteries and westerns are listed
under fiction, and non-fiction en
tries include travel and adven
ture, homes and gardens, religious
and juvenile books.
Butler himself finds time to
read from three to fifteen books
a week. "Wide reading," he says,
"makes people well-rounded, af
fords relaxation and fun. For
some, reading is an escape from
reality. For others, it opens hob
bies or makes careers possible.
"He feels that parents cannot
hope to raise children wisely
without knowledge of the right
sort of books for the bottM.
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