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Page 4 THE TAR 'HEEL Saturday, February 27, lggg "BLACK AND WHITE" SETS MERITED PRECEDENT HERE (Continued front page one) sent a show of this kind in the next two years without their assistance. The clog dancing of Boone and Vaddell was uniformly good, and'the buck dance by a team of seven men was one of the higli spots of the show. , The success of the clog dancers is the more remnrkable " due to the fact that the greater part of - the audience, especially those who paid the highest admission, could not see the feet of the dancers. tIt is a pity that the short-comings of Memorial Hall as a theatre prevent the use of soft-shoe, djtncing. . The quartette composed of Itruner, McLeod, Baker and Richardson appear . ed to please the audience and turned in a tatch of encores, the ensemble sing ing was good, and the several musical numbers were pleasing enough, consid ering the lack of any outstanding voices. Graham and Horton.made a good' sing ing team, Horton's voice being especial ly suited to that brand of singing pe culiar to glorified vaudeville, which is what a revue is. . But most of their chatter went for naught on account of Miss Graham's drawing room speaking voice. Horton also teamed well with Miss MJriam Sauls. The comedy of the show was carried almost entirely by Booney Boone, ex . cept in the opening dialogue, where Charles, Duke God rendered able as sistance, and in the delicious " numb scene, where Boone shared honors with Paul Transuu. I Except for the two iiv stances mentioned, the comedy value of the show, outside Kooney, was negligible. - Practically unassisted, he made the show funny. r Almost concealed (?) down at one corner of the stage Mr. J. Kike Kyser Himself, with the old Kyser drive and with the assistance of a folding rule and (probably) an occasional 'cuss word, goose-stfepped the slightly un certain ' orchestra and kept the whole production on its toes. His one appear ance on the stage, as the Hebraic pro prietor of a Florida hotel, was not so happy. The use of "My Goodness" as a Yiddish expletive in a new one on us, and so everwhelmed a brain habituated to the stage Hebrews of the Columbia and Gaiety, that we lost sight of any counter-balancing merits the skit may have had. The minstrel tail piece of the first hfllf was old stuff and except for the comedy furnished by Boone might as well hav? been omitted. The skit entitled "Keep ing the Wolfe from the Door" sounded strangely familiar and most decidedly should have been omitted. Kike is to be congratulated from keep ing the percentage of Charleston as. low as he did. The seven-man Charleston team danced well, but the popularity of this form of vicarious daily dozen is already on the wane and unless exceed ingly well done, provides pretty poor entertainment. The second appearance of the team, however, was well worth while and a nicely climaxed dance. The performance of the team was almost as tonishing in view of the narrow stage . front and the fact that they danced in Voluminous dominoes superimposed on tuxedoes. '-. ' The settings for Roue Time. Dance of the Daggers. My Lady of the Silvery ' Moon, and ' Ragtime Cinderella were ambitious and, except for poor lighting of the first two, excellent. A beauti ful opportunity for a silhouette scent in Hone timet was lost, and most of its color value was also lost through in adequacy of lighting equipment. Even poor lighting, however, could not dull the beauty of My Lady of the Silvery Moan. This set merited the applause which it got. Unfortunately, since we are of short stature, since we sat behind two homhres of long stature, and since we were too polite to stand up, we lost the benefit of most of M iss I,eather wood's dancing. We have heard varying comments about it; hence, we refuse to commit ourself. The Ragtime Cinderella (outside of several unfortunate clashes of color, due chiefly to the lights, and the fact that certain Ladies of the Court really should learn how to walk when on stage) was superb, and with its well drilled ensembles, formed a fitting cli max to the show. All in all, Mack and While, working under the handicap- of presentation in an antiquated mausoleum, had pep, movement, color, and cleverness. " It was a good show. . FLYING PHANTOMS END SEA SON WITH SPLENDID RECORD (Continued from page one); 93 point between them. Coach Sunburn used every substitute he had in uniform the night of the Clcmson game,' the fourth team finishing the game for the Tar Heels. Then came the heartbreaking loss to Wake Forest on the Baptist court. The Tar Heels could never hit their strides in that game after the first few minutes of play, and the Deacons won out by the score of 29 to 28, marking up the first defeat against the Carolina team in the state in four seasons. Following the Wake Forest game the team played three on the home floor be fore "leaving 'on the annual invasion of the North. Duke came to the "Hill after holding Uie State College quint to a" one point win, and everyone ex pected a hard and close game, but the Hillians put the Methodists away easily to the tune of 38 to 20. Bob Sides did the stellar work for the Tar Heels in that game. Elon was taken into camp 40 to 25, and the Red Terrors from State came, saw and were conquered 31 to 21. The Carolina outfit got better than an even break on the seven game road trip , through the North. ' Four games won and three lost gave them a good average for the invasion and stamped the trip a success. Virginia was swamped under the biggest score ever made against Cavalier five in the opening game. 7 to 16 was. the final score Catholic 4'niversity was beaten in Wash ington the following night 32 to 25, and then came the three hard defeats in a row. The Navy took' two extra five minute periods to win by a 31 to : 30 score, while it took Harvard's Crimson one extra period to get their three point win 40 to 37. Maryland took the third game by 23 to 22 and checked up the first defeat of the year by a Southern Conference team. AH of these games were lost after long days and nights on the road and after the players had been playing for four or five consecutive nights. . ; The two final games were won by overwhelming scores from V. .M". I. and Washington and Lee. The scrubs played practically all of the game against the Cadets and piled up a 39 to 22 score, while the following nights they buried the Generals under a 43 to 26 count. Artie Newcomb broke loose in both of those games with a scoring attack that stamped him as a good prespeet for the 1027 quint. j Florida and Wake Forest were met at home before the loss to StfKe on the Raleigh court. The 'Gators were com pletely outclassed, and Coach Sanburri used his subs for the third straight game. , The final count gave the Tar Heels their win 42 to 6. The Baptists never threatened in their game here at the "Hill", and the Tar Heels got sweet revenge for their defeat earlier in the season, by the score of 32 to 22. The defeat by - State by a IT to 8 score marked the lowest score ever tal lied by a Carolina team in fourteen years of basketball. The 'entire team was off that night while the Techmen had a good night, and the score tells' the story. There was no alibis for the Tech men clearly outplayed the Tar Heels. However the lads from the University came back and redeemed themselves in the two final games. Duke was decisive ly beaten at Durham 44 to 21, while the Davidson Wildcats were put away in the final game in the Tin Can by a score of 53 to IS. The' Davidson game marked the final appearance of Cobb, Devin and possibly Dodderer. Records of the season up to the time the team left for the Tourna ment show that "Sproddie" Cobb led the scoring for the team-for. the. third consecutive season. Cobb tallied 246 points in 21 games, while Buhn Hackney caged 152 points for second place in the scoring. 1 VIEWS GIVEN ON OXFORD DEBATE (Continued from page one) even they (our men) were so hopelessly outclassed from every standpoint that the situation took on a somewhat ludi crous aspect' are misleading and sig nify a rather summary judgment. While admitting cheerfully that our .men (in cluding myself) did not reflect credit upon ourselves nor add much to the University's glory, I do feel that some things should be known before an alum nus hangs his head in shame when the Oxford debate is mentioned. " In all masters of delivery and plat form procedure, the Britons did "hope lessly outclass" our men. They were fluent, polished, and wonderfully enter taining speakers. But when one con siders arguments presented, any fair minded person must conclude that here the Carolinas excelled. The impreis sion which the Europeans gave to some, of infinite knowledge of details and "world-mindcdness" came from urban ity of manner, felicity of expression, and wholesale dealing in generalities. Certainly these men did not show any great knowledge of detail in their speeches; . possibly .this later ' action caused some to assume that details were at their tongue's ends. Yet I must say that details and especially argu ments showing a real grasp of the question and leading unmistakbly to one conclusion, were sadly lacking on both sides. This absence was due to the fact that the Englishmen came to discuss the question in a genial, round table manner and to make a good im pression, and to the attempt of the Uni versity men to adapt themselves to a new type of debating, which caused them to miss the advantages of both the new and the old, and to conditions prevalent here on the campus. , While we all should wholeheartedly praise the visitors' delivery, possibly we should in comparing it with that of the University's representatives bear,, sev eral things in mind. Not only were the Oxonians, from five to ten years older than their opponents, but they had completed the work ' required for an Oxford B. A., which ranks as high as an American M. A, and were exper ienced speakers, one of . them having "stumped" England in a late political campaign. : One wonders what our men might have done with like training. So much for correcting certain false impressions that have gone abroad. Let us now turn to the real significance of the debate. The contest rendered a great service by affording a mirror or the campus. Our men represented Jhe University and their showing was a manifestation, of campus life. At this point, it may be well to "say that the Debate Council ar ranged the debate, not, as is widely sup posed, 'to add another victory to Caro lina"s credit, but to stimulate interest in collegiate forensics, to get out of the narrow sphere in which we. have been living, and to learn . the C. University's Teal strength by pitting her against men from a great institution in another part of the world. The Council succeeded to some extent in the first two of these CHASE RETURNS TO CHAPEL HILL (Continued from page one) which they unanimously requested him to stick to his post here. A similar de cision .was reached by the faculty of North Carolina College for Women. The ; executive committee of the" University ; passed a resolution in which they showed I) themselves to be well pleased with Dr. Chase's administration. At the Uni versity first the senior class and then the student body passed resolutions in which they showed that they desired no change. Other smaller organizations have passed similar resolutions so if Dr. Chase decides to remain he should find the state well behind him. Atwater Kent , RADIOS ; TAKE REAL .ENTERTAINMENT OUT OF THE AIR It is a real pleasure to sit at home on a cold night in front of a big open fire and hear beautiful music. All you have to do is to turn your radio on, then sit down and enjoy the program of some large broad casting station. AVith an Atwater Kent radio you can hear programs from Pittsburg, Miami, New York, Chicago, Atlanta and other large cities. See Our New Models University Consolidated Service Plants ' Next to Western Union aims; regarding the last we learned what others thought of us. Responsibility for the delivery of the University debaters lies mostly in a campus which brands eloquence, ear nestness, and the use of polysyllabled words and figures of speech as "bull", and cares little for excellence of dic tion. Naturally the speech of men nur tured in such an environment disap pointed and shacked those accustomed to the intercollegiate debates of two or three decades ago. Probably the pres ent state of affairs has'come about grad ually : ivossihly things a re not much worse'than they were thirty years ago, and the alumni are only doing that com mon thing talking of the good old days; but that conditions are much as described above, stares one In the face. While we speakers were partly to blame for not doing better, the campus must take much of the censure, for the absence of basic and sound argument leading logically to a conclusion. We have far too much superficial handling of subjects, poor scholarship, and loose thinking. As we do little original work and real thmking in preparation, our debates, are of low standard, from the point of view of logic; as the campus encourages it, they are poor in methods of presentation of ideas, and inaccurate in questions of fact giving slight good to the audience, conferring little benefit upon the participants, and bestowing no real credit upon he institution repre sented. It is true that the above conditions prevail at most of the universities and colleges today ami especially in those which have just undergone a period of great expansion. Carolina is no worse off than other institutions of its kind. But simply because matters are bad is no reason why they should continue so. The Debate Council is striving to raise standards. -It appeals to the alumni for active help and support. .1. F. Coopkk. See Our Line of Spring Suits Tlicy are being sold atrsglit prices. S. Berman Weems' European Tours FOR STUDENTS FOURTH SEASON 1926 ' ENGLAND FRANCE . 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