North Carolina Newspapers

Page Two W$t Wax HM Published tri-weekly during the -col-lege year, except one issue Thanks giving, -the last two weeks of De cember (holiday period) and the last two weeks of March (examina tion period and spring holidays). The official newsnaoer of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. -' - " - - Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Walter Spearman Editor Will Yarborough . .. ...-Mr. Ed. Marion Alexander ...Sua. Mgr. editorial department ; Associate Editor . ' H.J. Galland Assistant Editors B. C. Moore J. E. Dungan J. D. McNairy J. C. Williams J. P. Jones Sports Editors J. C. Eagles C. B. MeKethan Reporters Holmes Davis George Dannenbaum Sherman Shore W. C. Dunn Lawrence Miller L. R. Harris G. E. French J. J. Brooks Larry Johnson E. H. Denning Henry Anderson J. R. Knott 1 D. L. Wood Dick McGlohon B. H. Whitton Stowe Hoody Bill Atkinson U. Hodges R. E. Jietts J. E. Huffman Elizabeth Johnson Milton Greenblatt K. C. Ramsay Wesley Montgomery E. P. Yarborough v ; V BUSINESS DEPARTMENT - Executive, Staff t 'Z-, B. M. Parker w Leonard Lewis . Sidney Brick H. N. Patterson T. R. Karriker Ben Aycock Asst. Bus, Mgr. ; Adv. Mgr. Asst. Adv. Mgr. Collection Mgr. Asst. CoL Mgr. Subscription Mgr. Advertising Staff ' ' Harry Latta " H. Merrell Hubert O'Donnell v w ;JL;Schnlman Jim Harris J. G. deR. Hamilton, Jr. Tom Badger , ; , . W. G, Boger Thursday, May 23, 1929 PARAGRAPHICS "Strong Faculty . To Be. Here For Summer School" headlines the -Tar Heel and we wonder " if -s that"' im plies that some of our professors have been taking Lionel Strongfort's cor respondence courses in physical de velopment. ' - When the Engineering Department begins its course in aeronautics next fall, it won't do to be late for lab for aeroplanes aren't like classes; you can't catch them after the bell rings, Senior week started off with jus enough bad weather to, rival the old traditions of High School Week. v. Every school, to "keep alive and! growing, must ba up -with the times and ever wideawake. Particularly is - this true of such schools as the en gineering, for there new developments spring up -constantly, new inventions are made, new methods of activity discovered, and new learning and knowledge therefore become neces sary. We -welcome the latest addition to the University and await with eagerness the first graduates. No doubt they will come through with flying colors! The Playmaker Production Campus drama-lovers have a treat in store for them tomorrow and Sat urday -nights when Professor Koch presents his production of "Rip Van Winkle." It is understood from authoritative sources that every effort is "being made to make the per formances complete. Professor Koch himself is directing the play, Sam Selden is designing the scenery, and that accomplished actor, Hubert Heff rier, is talcing the leading role. Aside from this, the fact that the perform ance is to be held in the forest theatre, one of the village beauty spots, is enough to warrant the theatre-goer that his money will not be spent in vain. Last year the Playmakers pre sented Shapespeare's "The Tempest." Those who attended were very much pleasd with the performance, and praise of the play as a whole was unstinted. Bouccicault's version of Rip Van Winkle," the play that made Jefferson famous, or rather the play that Jefferson made famous, ) gives promise of equaling, if not of sur passing, the production of last spring. Attendance at these affairs is al- ways good. But the performances merit packed-houses. We think the student body should support drama tics "here Imt not to the extent that the individual student should feel it Ms duty to attend performances. At tendance should be caused by sheer interest on the student's part and not ty airy sense of duty which com pels active support oi a thing m which lie has absolutely no interest. However, there ' are many on the campus wno nave never neen to a Playmaker production and should at least attend one if for no other reason than to find out whether or not they have a taste for the theatre. If all expectations are fulfilled, "Rip Van Winkle" will be one of the most nota ble offerings of the year on the stu dent body's entertainment program. - : B. C M. favorable for travel by automobile, and the "beauty of 'the Hill' and its location have "been deciding factors in its selection." We are glad the Hill and the Uni versity are appreciated. It goes to show that perhaps we are .not so egotistic as we may have imagined. H. J. G. Really though, it is terribly diffi cult for the seniors to reign supreme when they can't even control; the weather reins sufficiently to , prevent these rains. . " ; An Ear Full J stopped mine ears For they were full By J. C. WILLIAMS It occurs to us that in the relation ship between youth at college and parents back at home'tis a good thing that one half of . the world noesn't know what the other half is doing, Incidently, we wonder if the seniors realize that it won't bes long now." Which prompts us to say that 'tis a pity Seniors have to decorate them selves to be distinguishable from Freshmen. 9 ' We are told that the human jaw can exert a pressure of 450 pounds While on class the other day listen ing to a lecture it occurred to us that this MUST refer to pounds of air pressure. Scotch Plaid By DICK McGLOHON For the man who can't see through women these days we suggest SEE AN OCCULIST. When we consider, the fact that kidnapping is in vogue these days w wonder how some professors have been overlooked. ''' WOULDN'T YOU TOO? I kissed her on and on and on Never did she seem at all to care Or any harm at length to fear So I kissed her on and on and on. BUMMER'S SLOGAN Travel is the principal thing Therefore, get travel. And with all thy getting Get a ride. JUST A MOMENT Oft' the biggest beams of light r Seem to dance and fade in flight Oft' the gayest plans assured -' Seem alas to have endured 5 Just a moment. To the student of statistics 'pears like some of us seniors look rather non-statistical in the Yackety Yack, Since it has become necessary, for the Buildings Department to install screens 1 in fourth floor ' dormitory windows to keep the boys in rather than flies out, we've begun to won der whether our students are consid ered inmates of an ' asylum or just "birds in a gilded cage".. The Engineers Plan To Go Up In the Air The establishment of the Chapel Hill flying field brough home to us the realization that aeronautics was more than a flying fancy. It is ob viously a remarkably active new in dustry and one which is with us to stay. ; Whereas a few years ago a '.plane in the air overhead was an'ob- ject to be watched, admired, and marvelled at, now it makes no im pression. " It is merely a part of the day's routine. And" now the Engineering School recognizes the place in our' modern life taken by aeronautics and plans special instruction in that field for next year. An instructor will be se cured; the war department is to fur nish a Liberty engine and other equipment; certain courses in flying have been arranged and will be of fered here for the first time in the fall. Co-op work in the junior year will allow for : practical expereience on the flying field just as other en gineers now obtain their actual ex perience out on the job. We Get a Word of Praise : The American Association for Adult "Education1 last night completed its fourth Annual Meeting, held this year in Chapel Hill. The conference was divided into eighteen sections, each treating some topic pertinent to the general subject of the education of adults." There were speakers and delegates from all parts of the United States, may of them nationally known. The work done and the ideas pre sented were undoubtedly of the first importance. Dr. Harry W. Chase headed the list of University speak ers and delegates, and the name of the University and what it has done in various" adult education fields was frequently cited during the meetings. We are pleased with all this, of course. We are glad to know that the University is considered among the leading educational institutions in the South, and, if we are to believe everything said during the course of the conference, in the country. But what pleases us most, perhaps, is the paragraph in the program of the con ference which explains why Chapel Hill was chosen as the place for the meetings to be held. ' "This, the fourth annual ' meeting of the Association," it says, "is . the fifth national conference on adult education so far held in the United States. It is the first of more than regional importance held in a South ern state. The University of North Carolina is a leading intellectual and cultural center of the South, and Chapel Hill is a frequent choice for meetings of state, regional and na tional organizations. Conditions are Statistics offered by Northwestern University show that the men are dumber than the girls. Is it possible that there are no good-looking co-eds at that school? We understand that fifteen coun tries of - Europe have presidents and thirteen have - mbnarchs. We' pre sume that the rest have peace. Which reminds us that nothing is which isn't. - f We dare say that when the meek inherit the Earth they won't believe it. " ' And talking about governments, we observe that the United States hasn't any. ' According to this paper the class of 1928 is going to hold its BABY REUNION on June 8, just one year from the time that they graduated. Indeed, the boys of '28 are a speedy bunch. All of .this stough about poets get ting a lot of kique out of nature's making this, that, and the other thing sounds like ze bunque to us. And we might add that maybe women wear high heel shoes because that's the only way they can raise their minds to higher level. Personally, we don't have - much trouble meeting expenses. In fact, we meet them everyweher w go. W prophesy that just as soon as Paris gives the order women will be completely exposed. By the way, We took our girl out the other night and she said "Oh, I'm so afraid". And we said "Why are you afraid; I'm here." And our girl said "That's just why I'm afraid." Dear Liz, Your sweet letter was received yesterday " and I must 'say that I am real jealous over your falling for Joe Mitchell. I know this lonely little sophomore hasn't got a chance with you now. If I had known that you were going to fall for Joe, I surely wouldn't have told you that Joe was a member of the Carolina litterai and a promising young writer. But, of course, you have read Joe's stories in the Carolina Magazine all about the tobacco morket in Joe's home town and how the greasy niggers wander som nolently down the dusty thorough fare to sell their "craps" in the big, evil-smelling tobacco warehouses; how niggers can't get away from being niggers; and how they plow and work like sun-uv-a-guns. Joe knows his stuff, along with Luther Byrd and Byron White don't forget that. But why should one of these students who handles words a little more : dexter ously than the rest of us be hero-worshipped and set up on a pedestal with the rest of our contemporary writers such as Oats McCullen, Wallace Shel- ton, Jerry Slade, and Paul Green. And why should all these '30 model flap pers have to always fall for the great and mighty of words? Here I, like a darn fool, haul Joe over; to see you and you immediately fall for him and give me the gate, so to speak. In answering your questions fur ther, let me say that Joe sure is a good writer. However, his writings are a lots different from what they used to be, for his early productions were chock full of this sentimental, jlovey-dovey stuff. When Joe first started writing he wrote about nature and birds and clouds just like Byron (not Byron White). Since he came to the . University and began criticis ing the Playmakers in the Tar Heel, he got to be a little more sophisticated. Professor Howard - Mumf ord Jones gave Joe a few lessons in Realism and now he writes about the stench of hot dog joints and how, the niggers sweat out the mid-day sun. -. Back in 1922, when Joe was in high school and used to . correspond ,with me as a Boy Scout, he wrote quite a bunch of stuff for the "Boy Leader," a small 12 page sheet published in Kinston,, where all the wierd, super natural things happen, according ; to Charles Warren McDevett. Now Joe put a whole lot of feeling and human sympathy in his copy then, y One of his articles was "FOUR BIRDS WITH ONE STONE:" "Could you kill four birds with one stone?" ;- j' - ; "Impossible, you will cry, but it isn't. Listen and I will tell you how it is done." "First, get a stone and go to some place where there are plenty of birds. Then as soon as you see a mother bird, sling the stone at her. "If you have killed her you have killed three other birds in the mo ther's nest, because these three little birds are waiting for their mother coming with their meals. Alter a painful waiting she never comes, of course, so they starve. ' "Brother Scouts, let's quit killing four birds with one stone." I was telling Joe only yesterday that I was going to write you about some of his works just for spite, and hb said if I did he'd break my neck. I started to write up a feature story sometime ago about this for the Tar Heel and somebody went and told Joe what I was up to. t He raved around and made threats in spite of the fact that Glenn Holder and Elwih Dungan, both Tar Heel journalists, said the story was all right and should be run. Joe's threats sorta scared me for have been m trouble before over writing such stories. As long as you have fallen for Joe so hard, I decided to send you a wee glimpse of his early style, regardless, and take the consequences. However, I'm warning you mum's the word. And for God's sake don't let this lit tle bird article get in the Carolinian, your college weekly newspaper. If it ever gets in the Tar Heel while Joe's here, my name's mud. Don't forget that. As I said before, I am indeed sorry that you fell so hard for Joe, for still love you and will be over Satur day night if I can break my date here. With love, Mack. Former Playmaker Makes Good Start On Broadway Stage Shepherd Strudwick, former star in several Playmaker productions, tells aH interesting story of how he got his start on the professional stage in an article in the Chapel Hill WTeek- ly of last week. When he arrived in New York after being graduated last June, Strudwick says he had never seen a Broadway production. Soon after his arrival he was introduced to Charles Coburn, who was casting for the "Yellow Jacket." Following an interview with Mr. Coburn he was given a job as assistant stage manager and a small "walk-on" part at a salary of fif teen dollars a week. Understudy rehearsals gave the Carolinian a chance to work for a better ' part in the play. Then the actor who was playing the juvenile lead left to take a leading part in a Theatre Guild production, and Strudwick redoubled his efforts in understudy rehearsals. "Nothing happened," he says, "un til the day before there were to be tryouts for the parC Then, by acci dent, Benrimo, the co-author of the play, happened to be in the theatre while an understudy rehearsal was in progress. He called me to him after ward and told me he wanted Mr. and Mrs. Coburn to see me do the part the next day." . "I don't believe I have ever been as scared as I was then. They each read the part before Mr. and Mrs. Coburn, and then Benrimo, who had always called me 'Carolina' as though it were a curse, shouted the name with a more venemous inflection than ever. I walked on the stage and did the entrance scene. As soon as I finished, a thunderous voice said, 'Do it again.' I did, and got exactly the same, 'Do it again' as response. Af ter. the third attempt Benrimo said 'Rotten!' and then smiled." Strudwick was given the part and played it for the three and a half month period that the "Yellow Jacket1 ran in New York. He has since ap peared in two other productions, "Fal- staff," and "Under the . Gaslight," which also played on Broadway. This summer he will act with one of the leading stock companies in the coun try at Bar Harbor, Maine and will return to Broadway in the.falL Noted Artist Shows ; Here This Week . ' " ; . Ten brilliant v canvasses by " Guy Wiggins depicting glimpses of Cen tral Park, Wall Street with Old Trin ity in the background, as well as, beau ful vistas of Connecticut landscapes are to be shown at a private exhibi tion in the studio of William Steene, well known Chapel Hill artist, : on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. Mr. Wiggins is a native of New York and for many years has lived and painted during, the summer near Lyme, Connecticut, a parties larly sequestered part of New. Eng land, and most of, his canvasses are interpretations of that varied counY tryside. . He is associate member of the National Academy, president of the Connecticut Academy of . Fine Arts, member of the National Arts Club, Allied Artists of America, Lyme Art Association and the Salamagun di Club. , Hamilton Collecting Materials While away on a trip to South Carolina this week, J. G. de R. Ham ilton, head of the History Depart ment, will collect historical material to . be added to the Southern Collec tion, a collection of historical materia dealing with the South. Which reminds us that an apple a day may keep the doctor away, but ten apples won't keep ten doctors away. , We note with grief that a FRESH MAn is not always a FRESH MAN. And now, that we've said all that we intended to say we persuade ous self to lay down the pen. Commerce Faculty Have a Picnic Last Saturday afternoon and evening the faculty of the Department of Commerce and Economics . had a picnic supper at Camp Hollow Rock, as the last social get-together of the year. Some of those attending, said that in spite of the rain, the group had a very enjoyable time. Rozzelle to Attend Rotary Convention C. E. Rozzelle, paster of the local Methodist church, will attend the world-wide convention of Rotary International at Dallas, Texas, the latter part of this week. Mr. Roz zelle is going to the convention as the representative of the Chapel Hill Rotary Club. It is expected that at this con vention, Mr. Gene Newsone, of Durham will be elected president of the international organization. This is the first time that anyone from North Carolina has ever been nominated for this important office. Seniors Are Guests Of Carolina Theatre The entire Senior Class was the guest last night of E. Carnngton Smith of the Carolina Theatre at a special performance given m their honor. This is the latest guesture of friendliness and appreciation by the theatre, following many other com plimentary performances during the course of the school year. Letters were prepared to be sent out to each Senior by Mr. Smith, but it was found impossible to mail them in time. Instead, the letter was read to the class as a whole before the picture was shown. He said in part: Congratulations: To you, as a member of the Class of 1929, the Carolina Theatre ex tends heartiest congratulations on your graduation. You are probably graduating with mingled feelings of. joy and regret. Joy in having successfully completed your studies and stepping out to find your place in the world regrets at leaving old friends, old associates and friendly places. . Most sincerely, E. C. Smith, Manager Carolina Theatre Read Tar Heel advertisements. HOUSE FOR RENT SUITABLE FOR FRATERNITY 10 Rooms -AH Modern 2 Baths Splendid Heating Plant . 'i , for information write MISS AVA CRAWFORD 215 Franklin Street Rocky Mount, N. C. Tar Heel Advertisers offer the best classes of merchandise. you fiss lULJJlljiJi TODAY DOROTHY MACKAILL :2 MILTON SILLS in "HIS CAPTIVE WOMAN" Strange Drama of a cop who marries a murderess and then brings her back to the law. Added Features Chorus Girl Comedy "Stage Struck Susie" -; ' also . 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