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PAGE 4 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Sunday, February 15, 1948 E NIMBLE SPANIEL by Sam Warren The Metropolitan Opera will produce Puccini's "La Tosca" on the coliseum stage April 28th, Lincoln Symphony Orchestra as sociation members learned by let' ter this week-end. The company's Lincoln appearance wiH be the only stop between Minneapolis and Denver. Grand opera staged in the grand manner was last heard at the coliseum in 1928 when the Chicago Civic Opera staged "II Trovatore" and in 1944 when the San Carlo did "Aida." Swedish tenor Jussi Bjorling and Amer ican soprano Regina Resnik are suggested for the leading roles. Mrs.. Richard W. Smith (you'll remember her as Pat Lahr, form er Union director) is in charge of local production arrangements. Could it have been a former university casanova who pulled this one on the Aurora, Nebraska postmaster recently? A letter from Holland "in a feminine hand writing" reached Aurora addres sed to Mr. Swift P. Ham. For failing to talk politics, Sov iet music this week came in for a reprimand at the hands of the Central Committee of the Com munist Party. In a front-page Pravada spread, the committee censured seven composers includ ing Shostakovitch, Prokofiev and Khachaturian for writing music which "follows the formalist trend a trend against the peo ple." Opera, choral music and folk music and folk songs ap parently the true medium for Soviet expression has been "ne glected," the committee said, in favor of intricate instrumental symphonic forms showing "sur vivals of bourgeois ideology nu tured ... by modern decadent music of Western Europe and America." The party's Propaganda and Agitation Department, and its Art Committee were ordered to 'liquidate the defects pointed out." Just for a reminder, shall we all stand up and sing "The Star Spangled Banner?" Former Chancellor Chauncey Boucher is credited with this one, according to Dr. C. If. Patterson in a philosophy class this week: In a modern university, the pro fessor's lecture toes. from, his notebook into the student's note book without going: through the head of either! Oinicron Nu Fetes Home Ec Majors Ten soDhomore pirl with th highest averages in the home eco nomics department last vwr unil be honored with a buffet supper at the home of Miss Margaret Fedde. 3848 Dudley street, at 6 p. m. sunaay. They will be guests of Omicron ftu, national Home Ec honorary The girls are: LaVerna Acker, iois tiaine Arenson, Constance crosbie, Minnie Crowlev. Char- lene Eggert, Donna Lu Johnson, Louise Mcum, Gwen Monson, mary iravis, and Irene Wellen siek. ' Twelve other guests, actives of umicron wu, win be present. The supper is to acquaint the sopn omores with the aims and goals of Omicron Nu, Ruth Peters, presi dent, said. The girl with the top average will be announced at the supper and her name placed on the honor roll of Omicron Nu. The plaque hangs in the Home Ec social rooms. Ann Chamberlain is gen eral r"F mfi" 0f yUpper- YW Adds Bible Instruction Group A new YWCA commission group, "Teaching the Bible to Children" has been added to the city campus program this semes ter. Mrs. J. C. Wichelt will teach the six weeks course. The group will meet on Monday at 4 p. m. Certificates of study will be conferred by the International Council of Religious Education upon completion of the course. This is the only commission group awarding certificates. Mrs. Wichelt is the wife of Rev. Wichelt of the United Brethren Church. She has taught with the Lincoln Christian Education Coun cil for several years H ft I, V fit f- . vi- . .. J t ",wi ' M ' ' " , , - I - - w . - r j j " hi r r " - - ' ; "1 HvJ- T t M m fi Tr.tr m MB Ma " Wmt mm MMMHH mmlmmm 'N,. ... ' " yThe more I smoke Chesterfields the more I appreciate how good they are r 1 ( "NORTH STARRING IN IWEST STAMPEDE 'J AN EAGLE-LION rRODUCTION CO , I I smolec Chesterfield (PtOM A SCtKS OF STATEMENTS IY FtOMJMSMT TOIACCO FARJMEXS) "Wftfrt 6riflr my tobacco to market I'm always looking for the Liggett & Mgert buyers because I L-nntn irfimw frtm mnt Kuif mttl mmmltJ ' t- A V f j yvi itutywu limn, I Ifm QIWKl IIWUCCV M pay top dollar for it. il "I've been smoking Chesterfields for about 25 . years. I like their taste and I know the kind of tobacco that's in them." . AA VArvw TOIACCO FAR Mil " OtEENVKU, N.1 .1 lfl .1 .1 M Iff ilJJJJJJ. JlLWAYS B1IIDER BETTEn TASTING (goOLEIt SMOKING I J n. ns Ul. 1