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"ONCE IN A LIFETIME" Mary Bock appears as a frivolous page
in the Theatre's play which will be presented initially Monday
night at 8 p. m. in the Nebraska theatre. The Kaufman and
Hart comedy will run for three consecutive evenings.
Kaufman- Hart Satire
Begins Run Tonight
The folly of Hollywood as seen
by playwrights Kaufman and
Hart will be enlivened on stage
when the University Theater pre
sents its fourth play of the sea
son, Monday evening.
Curtain time is 8 p. m. for
"Once in a Lifetime," comedy
satire of the motion-picture in
dustry. The play, whose authors
also wrote "The Man Who Came
to Dinner," will run three straight
evenings March 27, 28 and 29 at
the Nebraska theater.
Thirty-six students will take
parts in the play which pokes
fun at the pioneering "talkie"
era. Heading the list of cast mem
bers are Michael Shanahan, Lois
Nelson and Abe Katz. These
three, initially acting as vaude
ville actors, wind up respectively
as Jerry, the business manager,
May, the silly elocution teacher,
and' George, the technician, who
accidentally helps turn out a
movie hit.
Action of the play follows to
a great extent George's antics as
he films the show. His directing
is ghastly, his choice of stars so
unsuitable, that he starts a new
precedent in bungling.
Additional Members
Additional members of the cast:
Mary Lou Thomson, Bill Line,
Clare Denton, Twila Walker,
Marilyn Morgan, Rosanna Locke,
Janet Kepner, Janice Crilly, Jane
MacCuaig, Barbara Lamm, Jean
Simmerman, Betty Boothe, Doris
Devereaux, Nancy Miller, Mary
Bock, Peggy Marble, Martha
Stratbucker, Mary Sidner, Nanci
Harrison, Dick Shubcrt, Wes
Jensby, Jerry Diebler, Harry
Decker, John Wondin, Dennis
Vernon, William Klamm, John
Moore, Robert Duckworth, Don
Ballard, Edward Prado. Dave
Sisler, Don Sobnlik and Joe
Moore. Director is Max Whit
taker. Many of the parts are quite
small, however, each have a great
significance to the plot of the
Cities Report
Increased
Retail Sales
muii 1 sines in in eimii iicuicis,
ka cities during February were
wo percent under the same
month of 1949 but over one per
cent above January of this year.
The University Business Ad
ministration college also report
ed Friday that general business
conditions in 12 of the state s
principal cities in January was
eight percent above January.
1949, nearly 12 percent below
December, 1949
The college's business research
department pointed out. how
ever, that the actual difference
between January this year and
last is much less because of the
blizzard which depressed busi
ness in 1949
Chadron Leads.
Chadron led all reporting
cities for January business with
a 26.1 percent gain this year
over last. Norfolk was second
with 18.1 percent. Scottsblulf
third with 16.2 percent and Fre
mont fourth with 14.8 percent.
All the 12 reDorting cities re
ported January business was
dawn from December. Eight in
dicators such as retail sales,
bank debits, building permits
are u,id to measure general
business activity.
In the report of February re
tail sales, the bureau said Ne
braska City showed the greatest
gain, 22.1 percent, for last month
over the February. 1949.
The complete figures for Feb
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story. The proportion is unusual
in that there are more than the
normal number parts for women.
William Ellis, technical director
and his crew of 50 students have
been busy making last minute
checks on properties and moving
the sets from the Temple to the
Nebraska theater.
According to Ellis, even the
lighting and props will add their
bit of humor to the play. Every
thing has been designed to in
crease the atmosphere of scatter
brained efficiency.
Five Different Sets
A total of five different sets
will be used on the stage and
these have been built to permit
rapid changes between scenes.
Stage props will include unique
materials such as a homemade
cactus plant and a fish pool com
plete with cattails and reeds, also
fashioned by the crew.
Heading the ten committees:
Marjorie Miller, production man
ager; Christine Phillips, promp
ter; Jim Tomasek, construction;
John Bjorklun stage; Bob Duck
worth, light; Barbara Lamm,
wardrobe; Rosanna Locke, make
up; Dick Biller, hand props; Da
vid Sisler, stage props; and Ruth
Ann Richmond, sound manager.
Four weeks of rehearsals for
the cast members have stressed
the greatest amount of humor
being produced through a series
of wisecracks which continue
during the entire play. The au
dience impression striven tor is
that nothing runs according to
schedule or plan in Hollywood
and George the original "flop"
turns out as the executive direc
tor of the great motion picture
industry.
Teachers Hili
To Host Future
Ilomeinakcrs
At least 300 home economics
students and teachers from all
parts of Nebraska will attend
the third annual state meeting of
the Future Homemakers of
America at the University Sat
urday, April 1. .
A highlight of the meeting Vill
be the awarding of the first
F.H.A. scholarship which is
worth $250 at any college otter
ing a vocational homemaking de
gree. Recipient of the scholar
ship will be chosen by a state
advisory council from the mem-
bers of the Future Homemakers. I
The winner must be in the upper
quarter of her class scholastically
and must be interested in teach
ing homemaking.
Gov. Val Peterson will be
guest speaker for a noon ban
quet in the Union ballroom. Gov
ernor Peterson's address will be
based on the theme of this year's
meeting, "Homes of Tomorrow
Lie in the Hands of the Youth
of Today."
The program also includes:
election of new state officers;
the awarding of F.H.A. honor
ary degrees to adults through
out the state who have contrib
uted to homemaking or F.H.A.;
presentation of the honor chap
ter; presentation of state degres,
highest state award offered to
F.H.A. members; and a tour of
the State House and the Gov
ernor's mansion.
There are 65 chapters of the 1
Future Homemakers of America
in Nebraska. The high school
home economics organization
claims a state membership of
2,000.
The Teacher's College high
school department of the Uni-
versity is hostess for the April .
1 meeting.
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'Carnival'
1st Prize
To AGR
Love II all IJooth
Takes Second
"Plop the Prof" was judged
the best booth at the annual
Estes Carnival, sponsored bv the
Ag YM-YWCA in the Ag Union
Friday. Alpha Gamma Rho had
the winning booth.
Second prize went to a Love
hall booth, "Monkey Rench."
Thre Honorable mentions were
awarded. The Home Ec club, !
with "Carnival Cuties"; Farm
House, with "Chuck the Buck," I
and Love hall with "Calf Rop
ing" took honorable mention
prizes.
Results of the judging was an- I
nounced by means of a skit. Co- I
chairmen of the event Mary
Francis Johnson and Paul Senska
said the students showed greater
originality this year than ever
before in the booths.
Judging Basis
Judges considered originality,
appropriateness, and attractive
ness in determining the winning
booths. Judges were the chap
erones, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Saun
der and Prof, and Mrs. Rosen
quist; Ruth Shinn, and Mrs. C. W.
Smith.
The winning AGR booth al
lowed students to throw balls
at the professor of their choice.
If the ball hit the head of an
AGR who represented that prof.,
the student was awarded a to
matoe to throw at the professor.
One of the highlights of the eve
ning came when Prof. Rosenquist
offered his personal services to
the booth.
Second place Love hall pre
sented girls behind cutouts of
monkeys, who invited carnival
goers to throw peanuts at the
"monkeys."
Other Booths
Other booths entered in the
carnival were "Fun House," by
Ag men social club; "Ag Bag
Dads," by Loomis hall; "Bean
Bag Baseball," by Amikita; a
comedy motion picture by YM;
and actual slides of Estes by YW.
The Estes carnival is held each
year to raise funds for the send
ing of delegates to the YM-YW
conference held at Estes Park,
Colo., each year in June.
Other features of the carnival
included a Spring time dance
land and confetti girls.
US Civil Service
Announces Exams
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The United States Civil Serv-
ice Commission has announced TV I T ffi4j 100
examinations to fill scientific ! U will In ltl
aid (cotton) positions in the!o. i . 4 1
fields of fiber technology and jSlllUClll AWiinlS
textile technology. These, posi
tions are located in the various
Federal agencies in Washington,
D. C, and vicinity. Salaries
range from $2,450 to $3,100 a
year.
To quality, applicants must
pass a written test. They must
also have from 1 to 4 years of
appropriate education or expe
rience, depending on the grade
level for which they wish to be
considered. A part of this ex
perience must have been in the
specialized fields of fiber tech
nology or textile technology.
Full information and applica
tion forms may be obtained from
most first- and second-class
post offices or from the U.S.
Civil Service Commission, Wash-
! ington 25, D. C. Applications
must be received in the Com
mission's Washington office not
1 later than April 18.
Six 1950 Beauties Presented at Prom;
500 Attend Annual Jr.-Sr. Dance
Reigning as the six 1950 Beau
ty Queens will be Jan Cham
pine. Shirley Gessner. Louise
McDill, Sue Samuclson. Ann
Stevenson and Ann Webster
The lovely
coeds were
1 n t r o duccd
Friday night,
climax ing
the junior
class council's
junior - sen
ior prom.
John Con
nelly, editor
of the Corn
husker year
book, which
Burmrister, s u p c r v ised
the selection of the queens, pre
sented the six coeds to an au
dience of over 500 prom-goers.
Finalists.
He revealed the names of the
other beauty queen finalists
whose photographs were sent to
Henry Fonda, stage and screen
star, for judging. They were: Po
key Bergh, Bev Deal, Nancy Dix
on, Jo Jeffers, Joan Peden and
Virginia Taylor.
winner o: tne councils con-
test for male students was Chuck
Burmeister. He was awarded a
$10 check by the junior class
sponsors for correctly naming
the six 1950 beauty queens from
24 quarter-finalists. Runner-up in
the competition was Bill Wenke.
who correctly named five of
Fonda's six choices.
The prom, the first sponsored
by the juniors in recent
years.
carried nut a rlac nnH ':r,ir-i nt
'so - theme. Dave Haw
tra Dlaved rianres for "1 tininrc
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'Bulb Switcher9
Sought by Union
Who has stolen the 300 watt
spotlight in the Union lounge?
This seems to be one of the
biggest mysteries in the Union
this week. Some desperate stu
dent has seized one of the lew
large spotlights the Union owns
from a showcase in the Union
lounge. And, on the day it was
most needed.
Apparently some harassed wife
sent her husband alter a much
needed light bulb, and the much
confused husband, after loosing
his money on a wager on the
1950 Beauty Queen, found this
the only solution.
According to Duane Lake, this
is not an unusual occurance in
the Union. About a dozen light
bulbs are taken from sockets in
the Union weekly.
Dr. Stace j
Cites Reasons
'WhyWeFaiP
Dr. W. T. Stare, Princeton
University philosopher, in ,the
final Montgomery lecture Friday
night said that wars will not end
until man decides that "things of
the spirit' are more important
than the physical comforts of life.
His topic was "Why Do We Fail?"
The speaker is the 1950 Mont
gomery lecturer at the Univer
sity. Giving the last of a series of
three public lectures on campus
this week, Dr. Stace pointed out
that "our democracy is based
upon sound values, but as every
one recognizes, it fails in a num
ber of respects."
"Our society, he continued,
"has failed to achieve the right
balance between discipline and
individualism. Lack of discipline,
in the home, in the school and in
later life is a fundamental
blemish on our society."
Turning to the values of our
individual lives, Dr. Stace said
the charge can be made that our
civilization is materialistic, and
that it is materialism which leads
to wars.
"Materialism means placing
the things of the body such as
wealth, trade and physical com
forts above the things of the
spirit in our scale of values. Evi
dence of this is our worship of
what we call 'the highest stand
ard of living' in the world," con
tinued Dr. Stace.
"Institutional machinery, such
as that of the United Nations."
maintained the lecturer, "may
help diminish wars, but the ulti
mate cause of them is our mad
pursuit of materialistic ends. Un-
til we change our values, what-
ever institutions we adopt, wars
will not end."
About 400 scholarships are
available to University students
for the 1958-51 school year.
Those scholarships include ap
proximately 300 Regents Schol
arships as well as number of
scholarships made possible by in
dividuals and colleges. The
amounts are worth $50 and more,
most of them about $100.
Application blank" can be ob
tained from the offices of the
dean of women, college deans or
chairman of the scholarship
awards committee, 104 Adminis
tration building.
All application blanks must be
returned by noon, Saturday,
April 1. in Dean T. J. Thomp
son's office.
All students with good schol
astic records were urged by Dean
Thompson to file for the scholar
ships, since many of the awards
have gone unclaimed in the past.
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SIX LOVELY COEDS Selected by Henry Fonda, current Broadway star, as the University's
prettiest coeds, these young ladies were presented at the 20th annual Junior Senior prom, Friday night,
as the new Cornhusker beauty queens. Shown after they were presented by John Connelly, editor
of the Cornhusker, they are (1. to r.): Ann Webster, Lincoln; Ann Stephenson, North Platte; Sue
Samuclson, Long Beach; Cal.; Shirley Gesner, Lincoln; Janet Champine, Omaha; and Louise Mc
DiU, Linocln. Tne six arc finalists out of an original field of 50 woman students.
Model NU Assembly
Ends 1950 Sessions
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DAVID D. T. REID Student
of the University of Glasgow,
Scotland, who will debate here
March 29.
Scottish Students
To Debate afc NU
Two schools of thought will be
presented by students from Scot
land and the United States when
two student debaters from each
nation meet at the Union ball
room, Wednesday, March 29.
Yankee participators will be
represented by University vet
eran debaters, Rodney Lindwall
and Jack Solomon. The two
Scottish representatives are
David D. T. Reid, University of
Glasgow: and Malcolm David
Webster-Low, University of
Edinburgh.
Debate Topic.
, The question to be debated is
"That This House Looks With
Favor on the Revival of Nation
alism, in Europe and Asia."
ISA Reveals
Election Slate
Sixteen students have filed for
eight offices in the Independent
Students association to be chosen
at elections on Wednesday,
March 29.
This announcement was made
by President Don Flesher. The
officers are those provided in the
recently adopted constitution of
the organization.
Nominees by office are:
President: Don Flesher.
Vice-president: Vernon Joy,
Helen Werkmeistcr, and James
Tomasek.
Secretary Jerie Ann Merritt,
Frances Hulac and Nancy Koeh
ler. Treasurer Phyllis Hceckt,
Helen Ann Vitek and Dennis
Mitchem.
Corresponding Secretary Dar
lene Imig and Phyllis Johnson.
Publicity Director Richard
Bennett.
Social C h a i r m a n Mclvin
Bates.
Intramural Sports Director
Earl Moore and Carl Fahren
bruch. Anv independent will be able
to vote in these elections, under
provisions of the new constitution.
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MALCOLM WEBSTER-L O W
a University of Edinburgh de
bater who will take part in the
campus meet.
Lindwall, an engineering sen
ior is president of Corncobs and
Sigma Alpha Epsilon social
fraternity. In addition, he is a
member of Innocents and their
representative on the Student
Council.
Solomon, sophomore Law stu
dent, is a member of Sigma Al
pha Mu fraternity and of the
Law Review. He is vice presi
dent of Delta Sigma Rho national
hoifbrary forensic society.
Veteran Speakers.
Debate experience for both
U. N. students includes member
ship on the debate squad for four
years. The two each won super
ior ratings at the University of
Iowa conference and at the Uni
versity conference held recently.
Reid, 24, is ex-president of the
Glasgow University Scottish Na
tionalist Association. A lieuten
ant during the war, Reid served
in Persia, Iran and Egypt. He
obtained his masters degree from
Glasgow in 1948.
Low, 29, is presently an intern
at St. Luke's hospital, Bradford,
Yorks. He graduated from Edin
burgh with a M.B. (Bachelor of
Medicine) and a Ch.B. (Bachelor
of Surgery) in 1949. He was
president of the Royal Medical
Society in 1948-49.
7T to Bookstore
Change Starts
Construction is under way for
the new University bookstore
which will be located in Temo
rary B, south of Andrews hall.
The present location of the
store in the Temple will be oc
cupied by t'-.e YMCA. The speech
department will take over the
area occupied by the YMCA, and
student pastors will have their
offices elsewhere in the build
ing. According to Noel L. Smith,
maintenance engineer for the di
vision of buildings and grounds,
construction necessary to change
the temporary building to a
bookstore should be finished
around April 15. "From then on,"
he said, "it's up to the manager
of the store to decide when the
move will take place."
Sunday, March 26, 1950
Reds Tab
U.S. Report
Capitalistic
The final gavel of this year'i
model United Nations General
Assembly was sounded by Presi
dent Ted Sorensen Friday after
noon after the delegations ap
proved reports of the second and
fourth committees.
In a reversal of its previous
stand on the report, Russian dele
gate Glenn Rosenquist explained
that the previous approval of hi
country was given on the "wrong
report." Rosenquist called the
proposal by the United States
one "backed by so-called monop
polistic and big business inter
ests." He urged rejection of the re
port on the basis that the "capi
talistic countries are trying their
best to make the United Nations
a tool for their work."
Amendments Approved
A series of amendments pro
posed by the United States dele
gation under the chairmanship
of Irene Hunter were approved
by the assembly.
A proposal by Panama to pro
vide for fellowships to be given
to promising students in coun
tries lacking qualified personnel
was given the nod by the as
sembly. Ruth Sorensen, head of th
Ukraine delegation, unsuccess
fully asked the assembly to table
"indefinitely" the report with the
appeal that the assembly should
not allow the United States "to
use the cloak of th United Na
tions to disguise their imperial
istic moves."
Delegates at the sixth plenary
session also approved a motion
by the Greek delegate, Dick Mil
ler, to appoint a United Nations
commission to study the situation
on the island of Cypress.
Miller maintained that wider
the rule of Great Britain that
nothing had been done to de
velop and improve the country.
He explained that the commis
sion was to study "the wills and
desires of the people and report
at next year's assembly."
'Poor Conditions'
Chuck Bergoffen, head Yugo
slav delegate, and chairman of
the trusteeship committee urged
adoption of the majority report
which would condemn the ad
ministration of South West Af
rica by the Union of South Af
rica, and urge the government of
the Union of South Africa to
propose for the consideration of
the General Assembly a trustee
ship agreement for the territory.
Bergoffen pointed to the "poor
conditions" in South West Africa
and the lack of aid and develop
ment that the Union of South
West Africa had directed toward
the country.
Opposing the majority report,
Wayne Wells of the Union of
South Africa delegation, asked
the assembly to substitute a mi
nority report which would rec
ommend annexation of the terri
tory to his country.
Report Rejected
Wells told the assembly to
"look at the economic develop
ments and improved educational
systems in the territory." The
assembly rejected the report of
the Union of South Africa.
A proposal by China to add to
the report a recommendation to
submit the following question to
the International Court of Jus
tice for an advisory opinion was
approved. The question was
whether a nation holding a pre
vious mandate under the League
of Nations is under any legal
obligation to submit the territory
to trusteeship under the United
Nations.
Union Summer
School Bulletin
Work Begins
Work has begun on the an
nual Union Summer School bul
letin under the editorship of Lee
Best, according to G n e n e
Grimm, Union activities direc
tor. The bulletin, will include a
calendar of all summer school
events including fine arts col
lege, sports. Union schedule.
Teachers college, and University
workshops.
This year's bulletin will be
printed in folder form, with a
calendar printed on the inside
pages. The calendar will include
all events for each date, plus
space for personal data to be
written in.
Other material included in the
bulletin will be features of the
different colleges open for study
in summer school. According to
Dr. Frank Sorenson. director of
the 1950 summer session, the
program planned for summer
school will be "better than in
previous years with some 500
subjects offered."
Other members of the publi
cation staff of the bulletin are
Knox Jones, athletic schedules;
Kent Axtell. feature material,
Fran Wallace, artist; and Pooch
ie Rediger, calendar schedules
and general layout.
The bulletins will be published
late in May and will ' i avail
able to summer session students
in the Union.