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TH DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday June 30, 1950
Air Flights to Omalia in DC3 Thrilling' to Teachers
200 Nebraska Instructors
Take Part in Air Education
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DRAMA . . .
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
