CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12y 1929
NUMBER 50
MODERN YOUTH IS
PLAYMAKER TOPIC
Three Original Folk Plays Pre
sented By Playmakers Draw
Large Crowd.
By JOE JONES
The twenty-second bill of original
plays of the Carolina Playmakers
was favorably received by a packed
house on Friday and Saturday nights
in the Playmakers Theatre. Each
night . long before the rising of the
curtain ." standing room only was
available at the ticket window.
The audiences thoroughly enjoyed
the three plays. The characters in
their ease and skill were up to the
usual high standards of the members
of the Carolina Playmaker casts.
Testifying to the success ' of the bill
was the fact that the spectators in
variably allowed the plays to govern
their emotions. Adding much to this
influence was the pleasing execution
of" the settings of the three plays.
The actors and settings seemed made
for each other, and the two were one.
Rendering the . intermissions ex
tremely pleasant and abidable was
the music of the University Faculty
Orchestra. This was the first public
appearance of this group of faculty
musicians."" The music was good.
. In this bill the Playmakers continue
to uphold their unusual reputation
among the Little Theatres of the
country in producing their own
original plays. They -are perhaps
unique in this field, having always
devoted themselves primarily to pro
ducing plays written by their own
student playwrights, and haying dur
ing their history produced sixty of
their own Folk plays written by
forty-two different authors.
The-three plays of the" twenty-second
bill presentf the work of two new
playwrights, Curtis Benjamin of Ken
tucky and Arizona, and Catherine Wil
son Nolen of Michigan and t Chapel
Hill, and a new play by Edith Dasek
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Carolina PlajncnaKers r
Feature Program Over
Station WPTF Monday
Henry Colette and His Carolinians
Furnished Music for the Afternoon.
Yackety Yack Notice
It is. absolutely necessary v that
,all German Club Dance Leaders
and Commencement Ball Man
agers have pictures of their part
ners at the Yackety Yack office
immediately. The Dance Sec
tion of the Yackety Yack will be
closed within a few days, so it
is imperative that , the Leaders
and Ball Managers heed this ur
gent request. ,
All persons wishing to submit
pictures of girls for the Vanity
Fair Section of the Yackety Yack
are requested to turn the photo
graphs in at the Yackety Yack
office at oncei, as selections for
this section will be made shortly.
PERRY WRITES
PRIZE LETTER
University -Student Writes on
the Most Useful Woman in
His Community.
Yesterday afternoon the Carolina
Playmakers broadcast. "Job's Kin
folks," a one-act play, from station
WPTF, and last night at eight o'clock
Henry Colette and his Carolinians put
on a program of dance music from
the same station. '
Samuel Selden, technical director of
the Playmakers, introduced the char
acters of the play, while Hubert Heff
ner, assistant director, did the an
nouncing and made a short talk on
the work of the Playmakers.
The cast for the radio production
was composed of the author, Loretto
Carroll Bailey, of Chapel HilU Helen
Dorteh of Chapel Hill; Nettina Stro
bach of Yadkima, Wash.; Lois War
den of Lexington, Kentucky; and
Block Bryson of Asheville.
The offering was undoubtedly one
of the most popular entertainments
the University has yet put oyer
WPTF at University hour, which
comes every Monday afternoon.
Henry Collete's Carolinians broad
cast their usual good dance music.
The organization is composed entirely
of North Carolinians with the excep
tion of Collete, who was formerly
with Enrico Leide, conductor of the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The
Carolinians have had many engage
ments in the eastern part of the state
where they have been received with
great enthusiasm.
The personnel is as follows: Henry
Collete, trombone, director and mana
ger; Thomas Hearne, trumpet and
entertainer; Alton Barnes, reeds and
arranger; Mickey Swinborne, reeds
and vocalist ; George Moore, banjo ;
Raymond Tanner, drums, vocalist,
and entertainer; BenN Barnes, piano;
William Shaw, violin and piano; John
Moore, bass.
Senate To Discuss
Student Government
The Dialectic Senate meets tonight
to discuss the plan offered by J. M.
Booker for reorganizing student gov
ernment at the University of North
Carolina. Interest in the matter, is
running high due to the fact that the
bill has been on the calendar of the
Senate for about two months. In all
probability the entire session of the
Senate will be given over to a con
sideration of this bill. v-
Last week's Elizabeth City Inde-Y
pendent carried a prize winning let
ter by Bill Perry, senior in the Uni
versity ) and editor of the Buccaneer.
Perry's letter, however, was not at
all Buccaneerish, being a story of
the person Bill considers to be the
most useful woman in the Elizabeth
City community, which is Bill's home
town.
Perry, in the course of his letter,
declares that the most useful people
in Elizabeth City are not the bank
presidents, corporation directors, go
getters, refined back-slappers, and
ministers. He goes on to say that
the preson he considers to be the
most useful to Elizabeth City is a
woman who most pebple would pass
over in making their selection!
He says, "This woman about
whom I shall tell you has done more
real good in making Elizabeth City
a more congenial and healthful place
in which to live than our paid wel
fare officers, preachers, or sanita
tronxpe.rts.' --- ----- ; .-y cr-
He, continues with an enumeration
of her many kind and thoughtful
deeds, and closes his letter with this
paragraph: , "'
"If Elizabeth City had more Miss
Maggies it would be a more friendly
and cheerful town in which to live.
The factories probably wouldn't
come in such great numbers but
any enterprising hamlet can bring
factories. Instead we would have an
unrivalled fame for being a town of
simple and brotherly living. It may
take the orator and the booster to
get us on top, but it takes the Mag
gies,Blouts to keep us there."
Y Deputation Teams
Return to University
- V y'
Four Speakers Accompanied by Quar-
' tet Make Four-Day Trip to
"- Wilmington.
The University Deputation Team
returned to the campus yesterday af
ter a four day trip to Wilmington.
Prior to leaving eight men had been
selected to make the trip, four going
as speakers and four as a quartet
to sing before the various groups
visiting in that city.
Among the activities arranged for
the University team were: a banquet
Thursday night, a tour of the city
schools Friday and a banquet Friday
night, a steak fry and an. oyster ? oast
Saturday afternodn and evening,
broadcasting over station WRBT Sat
urday night,' and the conducting of
Sunday school and church services
Sunday.
The purpose of deputation trips is
with the importance of education in
with the imortance of education in
general and higher education in par
ticular. An unusual amount of pub
licity was given the team by the
radio station and the two daily news
papers of the city.
Making the trip as speakers were
Aubrey Perkins, Jimmie Williams, F.
M. James, and John Dungan. The
quartet was composed of the fol
lowing: Elbert Holmes, Jack ConnoLy,
Wofford Humphrey, and John Miller,
LAUDS LINCOLN
IN CHAPEL TALK
Executive Secretary Delivers
Address on Eve of Birth
day of War President.
Praising. Lincoln as one of the
greatest men the English race has
produced, as the first man to be perf
ectly honest about the great question
of" nationalism as opposed to State's
Rights, - and as a great American
rather than a partisan leader, R. B.
House, Executive Secretary, at Uni
versity chapel exercises here this
morning delivered a short but force
ful address on the . great American,
the occasion being the eve of the an
niversary, of his birth.
" 'First of all I want to save the
Union'," Mr. House quoted Lincoln's
statement to Horace Greely when
asked what he intended to do about
slavery. ;
This was his main idea, Mr. House
declared. Slavery was a thing foisted
on the nation by England and the
North because the slave trade was
profitable as well as by the South
because slavery prospered econom
ically in the South. When slavery
threatened to dissolve union, Lincoln
was for saving the Union, by keeping
slavery or by abolishing it, it mat
tered not. . "-
"In the beginning we were not
honest about the. Union," said Mr.
House., "It was to the advantage of
some to have a strong central Union,
to the advantage of others not to
have such a government. Nobody
though .was perfectly honest about
these things until Abraham Lincoln."
This perfect, honesty Mr. House
praised to the utmost. It caused Lin
coln's defeat" for the Senate, after
his friends had warned him of the
dangers of such open' frankness, but
he came back to win the Presidency
and continue his fight for Union.
Mr. House further prajsed his gen
erous attitude of reconcilation with
the defeated South. "He was not
just a partisan leader, tie was a
great American, the greatest friend
the South has ever had."
Summarizing his contribution to
American history, Mr. House declared
that he had "removed from America
three great splinters pointed at . the
heart of Union: the argument about
secession, the evil of slavery, and
class privilege as against democracy."
From Lincoln's great truthfulness
of thinking and acting Mr. House
drew a lesson for University students.
- "Try to go about your problems
honestly as he faced them, with the
same, fearless integrity of mind and
heart as he. . No nation's problems
are ever solved once and for all.
Problems of the. American Revolution
live today, and they are for clear,
honest thinkers to settle.
Fellowships Now
Available for
Graduate Students
LAWYERS TO
STAGE DANCE
Will Be High Light of Week-end
of Social Events; Elaborate
Decorations.
Venable-Wescoat
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Miss Frances Venable,
daughter of Drl F. P. Venable, former
president of the University, and Mrs.
Venable, to Dr. G. N. A. Wescoat, of
Moorestown, N. J.
Dr. Wescoat is . a " prominent phy
sician. The wedding will take place
in the spring.
The Graduate School of the Uni
versity has just issued an announce
ment about the fellowships and oth
er appointments for 1929-30.
There are twenty-four fellowships
available to graduates of American
colleges and universities who now
hold the Bachelor's degree. Each fel
low is expected to -give a limited
amount of his time to instruction or
such work as may be prescribed for
him. Each fellowship carries $500
with it. -
There are a limited number of ap
pointments open, for teaching assis
tants. The holders of these will de
vote' half their time to teaching in
the department of their chief study.
These carry stipends of $500 to $800
with tuition free.
There are fifteen scholarships
caring for tuition open to graduate
students. "
There are from eight; to twelve
scholarships available in the Institute
for Research in Social Science. One
year graduate work is required for
these appointments. The holder de
votes all h's time to research in the
problems of social science. Applica
tion blanks for these may be obtained
fror- the director of the School of
Public Welfare.
A'T a vacations with supporting
testin onials must be filed with the
I i'rrn i ' Graduate school not later
1 than March 15.
D"1 Charles T McCormick of the
a-" r :h""- will . rtk over station
WPTF during tl University hour
The Law school association will hold
its second annual ball on Friday
night, September 22nd, in the gym;
Each student in the Law school will
have the privilege of extending "one
invitation for the ball.
The ball will be held the night be
fore the Grail dance, and the decora
tions will Be used for both; of the af
fairs. In this way- elaborate decora
tions are assured, since the joint ef
fort of the Law school and the Grail
will both be directed toward the deco
rations. The music will be furnished
by the Carolina Buccaneers, who have
acquired quite a reputation here .at
the dances before. ' .
The figure will be 'led by Phil Whit
ley, as leader, with Charlie Rouse as
first assistant and Ray Armstrong
as second assistant.
The ball will be held on a week-end
which is to be the time of several
other dances. The Engineering stu
dents are to give a formal ball the
same night at the Carolina Inn, and
the Grail is to hold a dance the fol
lowing night in the gymnasium. All
of these events assure; a full week
end at that time.
Cards for the guests invited by the
Law students will be' issued some
time in the latter part of this week.
EDUCATION MEET
OPENS TOMORROW
Sessions to Be Held in Raleigh
And Will 'Continue through ,
: ' S v Friday. '
The complete program for the sec
ond annual Institute on Parental Edu
cation, to be held in Raleigh next
Wednesday, Thursday' and Friday,
February 13, 14, and 15, was released
here toddy and shows a splendid ar
ray of speakers out-of-state and
home folk for the three-day gath
ering of parents, research workers,
teachers, ministers, physicians, and
welfare and health workers.
Nine state agencies are cooperat
ing in giving this year's Institute.
There will be full sessions morning,
afternoon and evening Wednesday
and Thursday, and morning and af
ternoon sessions Friday.' The social
side of the program,, includes luncheon
gatherings each of three days and
dinner meetings on Wednesday and
Thursday.
Emphasis has been placed upon the
growing child and adolescents. Sev
eral prominent specialists have been
secured from out-of-state agencies to
address the gathering, among 'them
Dr. E. C. Lindeman, Consulting Di
rector National Council of Parental
Education; Dr. Phyllis Blanchard, of
the Child Guidance Clinic of Phila
delphia; and Dr. Caroline Hedger, of
the Elizabeth McCormick' Memorial
Hall Fund, Chicago.
Among the prominent state speak
ers to give addresses or lead discus
sions are T. E. Browne, Chairman
State Council on Parental Education;
W. L. Poteat, president emeritus of
Wake Forest College; Guy Phillips,
Supt. State Association on Physical
Education; Frank H. Richardson, of
the Frank Howard Richardson Clinic,
Black Mountain; Dr. Chase O'H.
Laughinghouse, Secretary State
Board of Health ; Mrs. Kate Burr
Johnson, of the State Board of Chari
ties. - ' : -
A number of professors, authori
ties on parental education, child de
velopment, and related subjects from
colleges of, the state, will cooperate
in the program. Among these arc
Dr. Harold Meyer, Dr. Harry Crane,
Dr. Ernest R. Groves, Dr. English
Bagby, and Prof. Frank Graham of
the University; Prof. John F. Miller,
Prof. E W. Boshart, Dr. Carl C. Gar-
rlson, and Prof. S. R. Winston, of
State College; Prof. Holland Hoiton,
of Duke U niversity ; "and Miss Mary
Coleman, of North Carolina College
for Women.
Tho h.eetings will be held in thi
Woman':. C ub Budding and the Audi
to. ium cf the' United Church. " Meet
ir v are o4 n to .the public and thare
a,, tu; ).. charge
Freshmen to Meet
"Deans Tomorrow
Contrary to the announcement
in chapel yesterday morning, all
' freshmen, those entering last
fall as well as those entering this
quarter, will meet with the dean v
of their respective schools to
morrow at chapel period. As is
usually the case the deans meet
once each quarter with the fresh
men in their school about mid
term. '
. Freshmen in the school of Com
merce will meet with Dr. Carroll ,
in Murphey; those in the school
of Education with Dean ; Walker
in Peabody; Liberal Arts students
will meet Dean Hibbard in Ger
rard Hall; students in the school
of Applied Science will meet Dr.
Bell in Phillips Auditorium; engi
neering students will meet Dean.
Braune in 319 Phillips. ,
BIG PARTY AT
COUNTRY CLUB
Dinner Takes Form of Cabaret
And Varied Program Is
Given Large Crowd.
Dean : 'pneis Bradshaw has . been
at tho Ur . ty of South Carolina
f sevei . '')yz giving a course of
i'. tiv.L-ti n ,'. vi ,i nnel direction.
One of the season's most brilliant
affairs' took place on last Saturday
night at the Chapel Hill Country Club
when the seasonal dinner dance for
members -and invited guests was held.
The dinner was in the : form of v a
cabaret, with" entertainers from
among the student body and others
volunteering to make the- affair a
success. The Club - rooms were
beautifully decorated, with tables,
upon which lighted candles had been
placed, around the sides of them. The
ceiling was one mass of , balloons,
which added a festive note to the oc
casion.
After the first course had been
served, Mr and Mrs. Jerry Slade
were presented in a program of Mex
ican folk songs, Mr. Slade accompany
ing on the guitar. This group of
songs was sung in Spanish and con
sisted of several love songs and folk
tunes; Following this Dr. and Mrs.
English Bagby came into the spot
light, Dr. Bagby being dressed as a
young debutante and Mrs. Bagby
taking the part of the youthful suitor.
They gave a novelty song skit en
titled, "If You Would Find Cupid."
Following the serving of the second
course, Mary Lynn Giles and Andy
Mcintosh, accompanied at the piano
by Wexley Malone, gave a clog dance
exhibition. Then Dr. and Mrs. Mc
Clamrock gave an impersonation of
several radio personalities inter
spersed by solo dancing.
After the third course, Arnold and
Jean, the two small children of Pro
fessor Breckenridge," of the Univer
sity Law Faculty, were presented in
a -Dutch dance. They were accom
panied, at the piano by Donald Wood.
Following this, Sidney Glickman, for
merly of ZiegfieldFollies, and now a
student here at the University, played
several numbers on the harmonica,
receiving thunderous applause from
the listeners. Perhaps his best num
ber ws his jown interpretation of
"Rhapsody in Blue."
The fourth course was then served,
after which Carl Griggs, a freshman
here, accompanied at the piano by
Donald Wood, gave a female imper
sonation of a grand opera singer.
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Meyer Will Attend
Frat Convention
Prof. Harold D. Meyer, acting
head of the University Sociology de
partment, will attend the convention
of the Southern DJvision of the Delta
Tau Delta fraternity to be, held in
Nashville, Tenn., Friday and Satur
day, February 15 and 16.
Professor Meyer is national vice
president of the fraternity. Attend
ing also from the University will be
Kermit Wheary, Norfolk, Va. , stu
dent, who will represent the Univer
sity chapter of the fraternity at the
convention. -
Dean Visits Dean
It was not a case of Greek meeting
Greek, but rather a case of dean call
ing on dean when Chester A. Phil
lipps, Dean of the School of Com
; merce of the University of Iowa re
j cently paid a visit to Dean Carrol of
the School of Commerce.
The call was in 1 the main a social
one,. but much time was spent in dis
cussing mutual problems and things
of interest. -
LARGE NUMBER IN
DEBATE CONTEST
. Y '
Secretary- Rankin -Attributes
r Great Interest to Timeliness
of Subject.
A record number of high schools
will compete in the seventeenth an
nual North Carolina High School De
bating Contest to be held this spring.
Last year's record registration was
195. Two hundred schools have al
ready 'enrolled for this year's con
test, and enrollments siill coming in
should swell the number even farther.
E ,R. Rankin, Secretary of the
committee1 in charge of arrangements,
expained the immense interest being
manifested in terms of the exception
al timeliness of this year's subject
United States entrance into the World
Court under the Harding-Hughes
reservations, a topic wlch has been
in the center of public opinion and
discussion now for several years and
becomes more talked each year.
Teams in schools entered are al
ready working on debates, and Mr.
Rankin announced that triangular
schedules have already -been ar
ranged for 150 of the schools.
Debates will be held between mem
bers of the triangles, and schools
having both affirmative and negative
teams victorious will be privileged
to enter teams to compete in the
finals -here at the University. April
18 and 19 for the Aycock Memorial
Cup and the State Championship,
won last year by the Washington Col
legiate Institute. -
The debating contest is sponsored
by the Dialectic and Philanthropic
literary" societies of the University
Extension Division.
Finals of the contest come each
year during High School Week, an
annual affair at the University, which
will have again as features this year
the seventeenth annual high school
track meet and the fourteenth annual
high school tennis tournament.
University Press to
Have Special Display"
t At Book Exposition
All Books Dealing With the South's
Activities Will Be on Display.
The Book Department of M. Rich
& Bros., Atlanta, Ga., will hold the
first Book Exposition ever to be held
in the South at Atlanta, Ga., from
March 16th to 23rd.
It is of special interest to the Uni
versity to note that the University
of North Carolina Press is being ac-1
corded a special display as the fore
most Southern publishers.
The display will be of Modern
Southern Literature by authors of
Southern origin or authors living in
the South. v The latest Current Lit
erature of the Southland will be pres
ent, and all books that deal with the
South's activities will be in this dis
play. An interesting extra at this Ex
position will be a display of the Ori
ginal Southern Manuscripts. Joel
Chandler Harris's original Manu
scripts, will be loaned by Emory Uni
versity to add to this display
Many prominent authors are ex
pected to attend this Exposition, and
Howard Mumf ord Jones, of Chapel
HilL will be a guest of the Exposir
tion along with other Chapel Hill
authors of note: notably, Frederick.
Koch, Addison Hibbard, deRoulhac
Hamilton, and Archibald Henderson.
Many other authors besides those
mentioned are expected as guests of
honor, among them being -the New
Orleans group of writers; the Charles
ton group; the Virginia group; and
Julia Peterkin. '
Airport Marker Is
Visible at 2,000 Feet
Aviators have reported that the
marker on top of the Carolina
theatre here giving location and di
rection to the local airport for passing
pilots is visible at .a height of 2,000
feet. ,.
Yellow letters on a background of
black, 12 feet long, spell out the words
"Chapel Hill" to inform pilots of loca
tion,; And a large circle with an ar
row and the figure. "2" indicates di
rection to, the local airport, distance
of 2 miles, and the fact that a land
ing can be made from any angle.
The marking was carried through
by the local post of the American
Legion Post cooperating with the Gug
genheim Fund for-the Promotion of
Aviation, the Ford Motor Company,
and the United States Post-Office.