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PAGE 4 TH DAILY NEBRASKAN Friday June 30, 1950 Air Flights to Omalia in DC3 Thrilling' to Teachers 200 Nebraska Instructors Take Part in Air Education in DRAMA . . . the HAYLOFT BY W. E. Kl'XHART. The opening of the "Hayloft." summer theater, was ushered" into Lincoln with tremendous ap plause. The introduction of "The Patsy," a rollicking farce-comedy to a capacity audience was a splendid beginning for the Miland Lincoln Stock company. Undoubtedly one of the most pooular plavs of the past two decades. "The Patsy," is the story of a girl who runs second to her older sister. The play is an up roarious farce-comedy packed full of laughs. A brilliant per formance was given by a superb cast. Judith Hunter as Patricia Har rington, was magnifieient. Her fine characterization of the girl who is placed aside for the "big sister" to look down upon, is the illustrious background of the comedv. AS THE belated boy friend of the older sister, David Andrews as Tonv Anderson, falls madly in love with "The Patsy" and all is in complete confusion when the sister trys to regain Tony's af fection. David Andrews, playing splendily a humorous supporting nart as" the young nuan of prop er: v. kept the audience amused with his fine ability in smoothly functioning comedy. With reference to a fine char acter performance, Alexandra Jack, as Mrs. Harrington pre sented a mother favoring the older daughter, and not under standing the younger, gayer, and rollicking, -Patsy."' With Miss Jack. Arthur Howe was sublime as the hen-pecked father, Mr. Harringiton. Both Miss Jack and Mr. Howe were excellent as the parents concerned over the frus trations of their two daughters. The fine supporting cast of Mary Lou Blattspieler as, -Grace-,'' the older sister, and Richard Miller as Billy Caldwell her fiancee, added considerably to the Sine performance of "The Patsv." I FEEL that an expression of gratitude should be extended to those persons responsible for bringing this marvelous summer theater group to Lincoln- This summer theater is the only group of its kind an the middle-westena states this year. We, the people of Lincoln should feel very proud that such a group is bringing the best in stage production to our capital city. Under the excellent direction of Lou Cirard. the Hayloft the ater group wall present, "ueorge J illustrated in the photographs and Margaret," for next weeks I include the United Airlines ticket nroduction. This is a British 1 nice, the lobby of the air field comedy with a brand new twist office, the United States weather in play writing technique. A sparkling British drawing room laugh-riot that mill leave you happy for a week after you see it ! The Havloft Theater affords us a concise and comfortable place r f $ be reached by traveling east on South street to 5tb street. You wall see some cf the outstanding Broadway plays during the cur rent season of the Hayloft summer theater.- une meaning of iir travel - is being brought home almost 200 Nebraska school teachers and su perintendents attending the Uni versity summer session Flights to Omaha in a DC-3 United Airlines ainliner 180 and a tour of the facilities of the Omaha airport, weather bureau, and control tower are being spon sored by the summer session and the Nebraska Department of Aer onautics, in cooperation with United Airlines. Designed to acquaint elementary and secondary teachers with the mechanics and scope of air travel today, the program provides for ten flights to Omaha in June and July. According to Dr. Frank E. Sorenson, director of the summer session, "It is hoped tim the pro gram will help the teachers of Ne braska catch a vision of the world as a unit wnicn uiey can con vey to their pupils. Too Many Applicants The flights are und?r the di rection of Dr. H. R. Partridge, superintendent of the Alliance schools, who is with the Univer sity extension division this sum mer. More teachers have applied to go on the flights than can be accomodated this year in the scheduled trips, according to Dr. Partridge. The teachers who participate in the program have a chance to learn about air travel and its ef fects from three angles First, for man;, of them, the trip is ineir nrsi experience iiyi'.z. That in itself, in the words of one teacher "is enough of a thrill for the afternoon." Second, the view of the earth possible from the 2,500 to 8.000 feet above sea level at which the planes fly makes it possible to point out the effects of soil erosion, crop rotation, and conservation practices fn a way not possible from any other point. Lastly, the tours of the air field facilities in Omaha provide the teachers with a detailed, first hand view of the complicated ma chinery which goes into the opera tion cf a modem commercial air field. Smaller Scale The flight program began last year on a much smaller scale when groups of six teachers were taken to Omaha in small cabin planes. This year, five of the flights were made in June, and five more mill be made the week of July 10 to 14. Twenty-one passengers go on each flight, on a plane staffed by a stewardess, captain, and first officer. During the flight, the passengers are permitted to visit the cockpit two at a time and watch the actual flying procedure. Points visited by the goups not bureau and the warehouses. Commissary Twenty-One Teachers . . . 1 0& n tiki .,... 1 RE.DY TO LEAVE Ten flights of 21 passengers each are being made this summer in the air edu cation program sponsored by the University, the Nebraska Department of Aeronafutics. and United Airlines. Shown preparing to leave on the first flight are: (not in order) E. Louise Beeson, Mary Burnham, Mildred Russell, Faye Camp, Willis Jones, Wayne Kaeding. Barton Kline, Don Potter, and Wilma Sawyer, all of Beatrice; Glen Corum, Wymore; Vera Earl, Glenn James, and H. V. Taylor, of Hastings; Kenneth Freeman, Jack Riggle, and Dr. Joe Smith, of the University of Nebraska; Floyd Miller. Lincoln; Nels Sullivan, Loup City; Neal Witherow, Department of Aeronautics; and Dr. H. R. Partridge, Alliance, who is in charge of the flights. Flights to Omaha were made June 15, 17, 20, 21 and 22. Five more are planned for July 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. Tickets Please . . fj. l" " -f V- -3- -1 , . . "-'".-i a ..J . ' kTTk " "' ? .. .-s , -!."(. rCl A .. .. ... ... . . -, i .. it. L S. -rf--" k ' i TlH EKE TO? Reservations are handled quickly and efficiently in the United Airlines reservation room shown above. A revolving table with files containing information on each flight into and out of Omaha makes it possible for She reservations clerks to handle calls for plane tickets with a mini mum of waste time. The Omaha office handles on the average of 125 passengers a day, though on a peak day as many as 3&0 passengers may leave the field on United Airlines planes. In addition to handling Omaha requests, the clerks keep in touch with a central office in Denver, and other branch offices, to make sure each flight has the proper number of reservations. No "standing room only" is possible on airplanes, and it is essential that reservations from other parts of the country be checked by the Omaha office. Local calls are handled by a switchboard in the room above. A private phone line keeps the various airfields in touch with each other. Pi Lambda Theta Announces Tea Pi Lambda Theta, Teachers Col lege scholastic honorary, has in vited all University women en rolled in education courses to a tea Thursday, July 6, from 4 to pm. in Ellen Smith haHL Mrs. Ruth R. Wagner, coordi nator of mstxiKtkMii at West high school, Denver, Cola, will be toe speaker.. Union lo Close Al 1 p.m. Friday The Union tood service facilities .ill go n vacation with students, beginning at 1 p.rn.. Friday, June S8. The Crib -mill also close at that time. The Union will reopen at 7 a.m. "We&nes&ay, JuHj a. hi i A mm !!. .miLMMmani.., im ... . i i n m.m.,mw..M And Control Tower . . A BALANCED HEAL In toe United Airlines oororraissary, food lor all flights leaving Omalja is prepared in large kitchens equipped wrath the latest devices to large scale cwMiag. Here Edward Melker, airlines fffacial mho takes the teachers on a tour of the field, show-s a sample meal, each item of which is individually boxed for eating while in flight. A typical meal on a flight leaving Omaha would include am entree, a meat dish such as roast sirloin of beef, two vegetable dishes, rolls, salads, and dessert, in addition C a beverage. Meals are planned by expert dieticians, arid are suit able Iw eatiing at high aliitiitdes. i" iuMM(ii . FLYEVG LVSTErCTlOXS In the Control tower, men are on duty 24-hours z day to guide ocairoereLal and private air craft to safe Landings and take-oils. Radio operators keep tuned in to several channels at all tiroes, thus remaining in contact with planes in a twenty-five mile radius of the field. The round appearing objects in the upper right and left comers of the picture are lights which are used to signal to planes not equipped with radios. In addition to flight instructions, tine control tower relays information from the U. weather bureau about Cihi conditions to the pilots.