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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, March 21, 1951
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Meaning of Easter
Bunny Resents Being
Business Brainstorm
By Jane Randall
v Horns honked. The traffic lights
flipped from red to green. Car en
gines roared in response.
... Yet amid all the mechanized
" activity at the corner of 14th
"and R, a small dejected figure sat
slumped on the curb close to the
sidewalk.
To passers-by, he appeared to
be muttering to himself about
eomething.
" Finally one of the more inter
ested observers stopped, stooped
and asked the little individual,
'Why for are you sitting there
$o disheartened-like?"
r I Just An Effigy
"I'm an effigy! That's all I am
to people anymore!" the little ball
of mottled white and gray fuzz
spluttered resentfully.
The inquirer, a little puzzled
over the attitude of his newly ac
juired acquaintance, suggested
"What, say we go have coffee in
the Crib, and after you've warmed
up, maybe you can tell me a little
more about your problem."
He helped the long-eard ani
mal up from its curbstone seat.
- Once in the Union and having
been warmed up to his hero-corn'
panion who has rescued him, the
bunny began to unfold his sor
rowful story.
. "You see, they those horrible
people who think money is so im
portant have dangled me before
the public eyes as a symbol of
Easter. Can you imagine it.'"
"Sure! Why not?" the student
quickly replied.
"Oh-h-h h!" groaned the rab
bit. "You mean you actually LIKE
those big globs of chocolate, those
epongy maishmallow things and
those paper mache images that
manufacturers put out every
year, which they think looks so
much like me?"
"They do look like you, don't
they?" came the query.
Business Brain Storms
"Well, maybe," the Easter ef
figy retaliated, "but all these big
business brainstorms over me are
hollow on the inside. They're
meaningless, even though they're
filled with some kind of sweet
stuff or gooey junk called candy.
You can even see thorugh the pa
per that artists use to paint my
portrait.
. " I don't get it simply don't."
"They even take my little
brothers, sisters and the rest of
my relatives and dye them rain
bow colors and call them 'cute!'
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"What does that have to do
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Meaning: Of Easter
"Just this," said the irate hare,
seeing tnat, alter all this discus
sion, his coffee compaion still
hadn't wakened to the nature of
the situation. "They hold me up
as a forerunner of Easter sure.
Yet, people go happily on their
merry way not knowing that
there is actually something there
besides, sugar, sweetness and
cutness. They are ignorant of it,
so what s the use? I wish they d
leave me alone!"
"Look, cottontail," pleaded the
downtrodden observer, "your tra
ditional origin has been almost
completely lost. How were "we
supposed to know about it?"
"If you don't, it's about time
you were finding out about it,"
the disgusted long-ears shot back,
"Way back in the dim recesses of
mythology, the hare was a bird
whom Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon
dawn goddess, changed to a four'
footed creature."
Dawn Is Beginning
"I'm beginning to see the light
the dawn!" exclaimed the lis
tener. "Dawn is a beginning, just
as Easter is the emergence of life
from darkness and death."
As the two friends parted, the
one-time rescuer assuredly re
turned, "From now on, you won't
dangle as a meaningless effigy.
you will be held in the same es
teem as your friend, Santa Claus
and your companion, the Thanks
giving turkey."
Both man and rabbit had a
look of satisfaction as they parted
the same way they had met in
the rumble and roar of traffic in
the workaday world.
KNU
Wednesday, March 21
3:00 Music from Everywhere
3:15 Sweet and Lowdown
3:30 Your Student Union
3:45 Johnny's Pop Shop
4:00 Curtain Call
4:30 Shake Hands with the
World
4:45 Blues and Boogie
5:00 Sign Off
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Today Last Day for 'Henry
Classic Shakesperean Play
By D. E. Wehrman
The last showings of "Henry
V," the most sensible and most
interesting adaptation ever made
to the screen of a Shakespearean
play, may be seen today at the
Mate theatre.
Laurence Olivier, who produced
and directed the movie, was able
to make it a far more vibrant
work than his cautious and somer
times insipid filming of "Hamlet."
Some scenes are memorable the
panorama of Elizabethan London,
over which the camera moves to
discover and settle upon the
Globe Theatre; the Battle of Ag
incourt, where English resource
fulness is dramatically victorious
over the numerically greater
French army; the courting of the
French Princess Katherine, which
takes place against an appropri
ate painted background. ,..
Characters, Action
But the film moves with ease
from one tour de force to another.
For the characters have certain
and consistent personalities, ac
tion and chit chat are related to
each other in appropriate
amounts, suspense is imagina
tively developed and Henry's
strength . is constantly revealed
further as it carries him and his
men through battle and into vic-
tory.
Music for "Henry V" is played
by the London Symphony Or
chestra, conducted by Muir Math
eson. The film is in technicolor.
It is sponsored by the Theatre
Guild and released by United
Artists.
'Two Lost Worlds'
For those who are staying in
Lincoln over the week-end and
have a delinquent frame of mind,
a double feature at the State
theatre will offer an intriguing
escape from the challenge of civ
ilization. "Two Lost Worlds" fea
tures battling clipper ships and
battling prehistoric monsters of
uncertain origin. "Prehistoric
Women' illustrates its subjects at
their savage best, draped in ani
mal skins of an emotionally en
couraging cut. It is a color film
released by Eagle Lion Classics.
If one wants to find out what
sort of entertainment the screen
has provided while we were
studying,' the double feature at
the Capitol theatre deserves to be
seen.
September Affair
"September Affair" deals with
the socially cautious and emo
tionally uncertain activities of
Jessica Tandy as a wife, of Jo
seph Cotten as her errant hus
band and of Joan Fontaine as his
mistress. The action takes place
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in an antiseptic environment,
where ' Naples, Florence, Rome
and Capri emerge bright, clean
and purified.
It is paced by the music of
Kurt Weill's "September Song,"
so eloquently sung by Walter
nousion in "Knickerbocker Holi
day." As ;an antidote to the so
phistication of "September Af
fair," one mav watch Richard
Widmark leading a platoon of the
u.. Marine Corps into vigorous
battle in "Halls of Montezuma."
Here,, the Marine .Corps hymn,
played well and ; repeatedly by
that omnipresent orchestra on the
screen's battlefields, is the motif.
f'Halls of Montezuma" is a Tech
nicolor film!
Royal Wedding
; Finally, at the Stuart theatre
this week-end, "Royal Wedding"
will entertain those who want to
recover from last-hour examina
tions. The comedy of this movie
is excellent; the color photog
raphy ts enjoyable in itself. But
the individual numbers are most
outstanding. Lyrics have been
written by Alan Jay Lerner, who
wrote for 'fBrigadoon"; Fred As
taire's talent proves itself again
and Jane Powell performs well
enough as his partner. Support
ing the team between numbers is
a cast which includes Peter Law
ford, Keenan Wynn and Winston
Churchill's daughter, Sarah.
NU Geologists
Will Hear Oil
Representative
Oil in the Middle East, a sub
ject of more than usual interest
in the present day world situa
tion, will be discussed by Dr. F.
R. S. Henson, research geologist
of the Iraq Petroleum company,
London, England, at a 8 p. m.
Wednesday in Morrill Hall audi
torium. Dr. Henson, whose home is in
London, is an outstanding auth
ority on the geology of the Mid
die East. He is in charge of
the Geological Research Center
of Iraq Petroleum company and
technical supedvisor of all pal-
eontologic and stratigraphic
work fn field laboratories of the
Iraq Petroleum company in the
Middle Eastern countries.
He is making a lecture tour of
the United States and Canada
under the auspices of the distin
guished lecture committee of the
American Association of Petrols
eum Geologists.
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Whisker King Hopefuls Ignore Razors;
Sprout Beards for April farmers fair
To shave or not to shave has
been a man's question for years
past. But there's not much ques
tion about it on Ag campus today.
Beard growth is one of the first
evidences of Ag student support
for the Farmers' Fair. Most Ag
men grow one!
In some cases, grow one or else!
The Whisker King contest star
ted on Ag a week ago Monday
and already the fuzz is beginning
to sprout.
The winning beard will be
judged for length, uniqueness and
general appearance by faculty
members on a date prior to the
Cotton and Denim dance. The
Youth Groups
Open Filings
For Counselors
Applications for summer coun
seling jobs in "Y" camps, Girl
Scout camps and Campfire camps
are now open to interested stu
dents. Counseling jobs provide oppor
tunity and experience in today's
social and economic Drohlpms
which will help students to bet
ter understand our complex
world.
There are openings for service
work in St. Louis, New York and
many other leading cities.
The project involves wnrir with
children and social agencies on
recreational projects. The coun
selors nave a 30-hour work week.
The rest of the time they visit
service agencies and go to semi
nars.
A registration fee of $10 is due
upon acceptance of the project
and a tuition fee of $30 on the
St. Louis project.
Membership in the project is
open to all races and creeds.
Further information on these
projects may be obtained Wednes
day at noon and from 3:30 to 5
p.m. in the Union, where the
YWCA has four booths set up to
illustrate the various types of
service jobs.
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dance is scheduled to be in the
coliseum this year in correlation
with College Days and Engineers
Week.
Roland (Monty) Monteith,
boasting a generous growth of
sandy side burns, beard and mus
tache, walked away with the
crown last year.
Junior Beard Men
Aggie junior beard men are not
alone in their lust for the stubble
growth.
Consider the case of one United
States division in Korea. Not long
ago, its general was urging his
men to grow beards as a morale
booster and also to distinguish
them from their sparsely-whiskered
foes in night fighting.' Then
a new commander took charge
and frowned on the idea.
Foreign Legionnaires consider
their full beards the badge of a
fighting mans' profession.
Razors (straight, safety and
electric) were never in wider
use thran they are in the generally
bare-faced Western World of to
day. Beardless cycles, . however, are
old stuff. For centuries, the anci
ent Egyptians despised whiskers
in any form, and archeologists
have unearthed keen- edged
blades of obsidian (volcanic glass)
which presumably took care of
the 5-o'clock-shadow problem in
Mesopatomia more than five
thousand years ago.
Ruler Banned Them
Alexander The Great banned
beards for his warriors so that
enemies would have no chin
whiskers to grab for advantage
in close-quarter combat.
Another Great, Peter of Rus
sia, levied taxes on beards to put
them out of fashion. In the end,
stronger measures were required I
since the tax , only marked the
poor from the rich who paid up
rather than shave.
Shaving was chivalrous under
England's Queen Anne, but
beards flourished In Elizabeth's
day and again during the second
half of the long reign of Victoria.
From ancient times, devout
Arabs and Jews alike have cher
ished beards in obedience to
church laws. In their eyes, there
can be no greater humiliation
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than loss of a beard. Many true
followers of Islam dye their
beards orange-red as an added
sign of their devotion.
Much of the world still takes
its oaths "by the beard of the
Prophet." At one time the Turks
even measured veracity by the
fullness of the beard, and a hir
sute witness needed to give no
oath.
Ideas Like Beards
Manly Americans, pushing their
frontiers westward throughout
the nineteenth century, seemed
to agree with Voltair's observa
tion that "ideas are like beards
children and women never have
them."
Abraham Lincoln obviously
recognized the dignity of going
unshaven sinve he grew his fa
mous beard in 1860, the year of
his first Presidential campaign.
Men of Canterbury, England,
plan to grow beards this summer
to add a medieval touch to the
Festival of Britain.
Pioneer celebrations made
whiskers the rage in scorns of
Nebraska towns which have re
cently reached one hundredth an
niversaries. So bewhiskered Aggies are not
alone .in their beardedness.
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