EDITORIALS International House Bookworm Blues Gift To Humanity NEWS Glee Club Recital Playmaker Experimental Machicado Speaks Serving: Civilian and Military Students at UNC VOLUME LIII SW CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1945 NUMBER SW 105 1; Glee Club Concert Set For Tonight Few Tickets Left For Joint Recital Tickets for the joint Christmas con cert to be presented tonight by the men's and women's glee clubs have been almost completely sold. NROTC and Marine units have been released from study restrictions to attend the concert which will begin at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Hall. Four selections sung by the men's club will open the concert. In this group of songs will be "Ave Maria" by Arca- delt, "Come Again Sweet Love" by Dowlahd, "Adoramus te, Christe" by Mozart and "Let Their Celestial Con certs All Unite" by Handel. This will be followed with "Kyrie (From Mass VII)" by Lotti. "Alleluia (From For Us A Child Is Born)" by Bach, "Chorus of Polovetzian Maidens (From Prince Igor)" by A. P. Boro din, sung by the women's club. In the third section the men's club will render "Angels O'er The Fields Were Flying" "Christmas Hymn" by Jungst, "01' Man River" by Kern and "The Battle of Jericho" by Bartholo mew. Christmas Music The last half of the concert will be entirely Christmas music. "Christians, Hark!", "Hush-a-by Darling," arrang- ed by Gwynn S. Song" by K. K. Christmastide In Reinbecke and Bement, "Wassail Davis, "On That the Long Ago" by "Holy Day Holly Carol", arranged by Channing Le- f ebvre, will be presented by the wo men's club. Both the men and women will sing "Carol of The Russian Children" by Gaul, "A Joyful Christmas Song" by Gevaert, "Alleluia" by Thompscn,'The First Noel" and "0 Holy Night" by Adam. ' The last two. . are familiar Christmas carols. Broom As Partner Highlights Dance For Smith Sirens Friday night the girls of Smith Dorm and their dates stepped into a land of merriment as they danced in a fairyland of shimmering evergreens and gay red ribbons. - " - - w J The lively entertainment planned by Marie Holman, social chairman of the dorm and ' Cecile ' Morgan, chairman ! of the entertainment committee con sisted of a lively card dance, a Paul Jones, and the hilarious broom dance, during which the "extra" man was left dancing with a broom. During the evening, white frosted buns were served with punch from a crystal bowl. The highlight of the evening 'was the special number given by Emily Writenhour, Pat Anderson, and Marie Hrlman who sang the soft strains of Silent Night, Holy Night," and "White Christmas." In the soft glow of candle light the evening drew to a close as the guests sang Christmas carols in unison. Veterans To Hold Christmas Party Saturday Night Saturday nieht from 8-12 p.m. the walls of the Vets' club here .will rock to Christmas carols sung in true bar bershop style and to the easy strains of dance music by the Carolina Rhythm Five, as the University Vet erans Association plays host at their Christmas party. ' Tickets, at 50 cents per couple, may be purchased by veterans in the "Y" any day after Monday, or they may be obtained at the club. The Carolina Rhythm Five is a new campus quintet making ' its first ap pearance this weekr its members are vets from several service bands, and they have wide experience. Interdorm CenmeW Mptinr ' The Interdormitorv Council will meet Tuesday night at 7 in Roland Parker Lounge. The Yack picture will be taken at that time, and a report will be given from the committee that has been investigating the Book Ex change. ! ' , Willis Gates, former instruc tor of music m Livingston State Teachers College in Alabama, who has just received his discharge from the Army after four and a half years' service, has been appointed a graduate assistant in violin in the University Music Department. Mr. Gates received his B.M. de gree fromPeabody Conservatory of Music in 1939 and attended Penn sylvania State College and Johns Hopkins University. He studied vio lin under Frank Gittelson. He will work towards his graduate degree here. v " Union Plans Gala Party AH Students Urged To Bring Gifts Early Plans for the gala Christmas party to be sponsored by Graham Memorial next Sunday night are rapidly taking shape, and director Martha Rice especially urged all students to turn in their presents early this week, to have them distributed by Santa Claus Commencing immediately after the "Messiah": recital in Hill Hall on Sun day evening,? the party will be held in the main lounge of Graham Memorial as the final student event of the quarter and the campus Christmas season be fore exams. Presents Due Main feature of. the event will be Santa Claus giving out the Christmas presents to all the kiddies, under the huge Christmas tree" in the " main Iounerel: Miss Rice emphasized that students should bring their presents. either serious or funny ones, to the student union office all during the week, and have Santa give them out to their friends Also featured on the colorful pro gram will be a "Community sing" of Christmas carols and musical enter tainment. Refreshments of cider and cookies will be served in the 24 Below Club. : ' The regular Friday Night Frollic will be held in the main lounge from 9-12 Friday night. Music will be furn ished by recordings. South Building Releases Figures On Registration A breakdown of enrollment figures i i ji fnf fViis term, lust released dv me office of the registrar, reveals a total of 1,576 civilian men students, 904 coeds and 477 military students now on campus. Ficiired in the count of military men are 367 ROTC's and 110 Marine V-12's. Total number oi stuuencs at Carolina at the end of November was 2,957. Enrolled in the freshman class are 580 civilian men and 22 coeds; in the sophomore class, 317 civilian men and 37 coeds; in the junior class, 147 civi lian men and 275 coeds; and in the senior' class, 123 civilian men and 313 women, mere f ibuuok; ce dents and 152 special students. The General College has the larg est registration, with 947 students. The College of Arts and Sciences comes next with 721 enrollees, accord ing to-the registrar's figures. Chi Psi-Phi Party The newly reorganized local of Chi Phi' fraternity was entertained Witn a supper puny uu o&er Friday night by the members of the Chi Psi fraternity at the Chi Psi Lodge. : -' Playmakers Plan To Produce X Experimental Bill Thursday Campus To See Three Original Plays iWritten And Produced By Students Samuel Selden, director of the Carolina Playmakers, will introduce the second bill of experimental plays in the 1945-46 season Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Playmakers Theatre. The campus is invited to see these three " original one-act plays written and produced by students in Dramatic Art under the general supervision of -"Cornbread," a domestic farce, John Fries Blair is the first play on the bill. Mr. Blair is an assistant director in the Institute of Govern ment here. Since last spring he has had several leading roles in Playmak ers' major productions, and has had a one-act play produced in the Win ston-Salem Little Theatre ''Cornbread," the scene of which is laid in a cornfield by a public road will be directed by Wayne Bowman a graduate student in Dramatic Art who has previously directed shows a North Georgia College. The cast in eludes: Farmer Brown, Jim Geiger Mullican, Harvey Baumgardner; Ma loney, John Bridges; First Player, James Crutchfield; Second Player, Ray Levine; A Hunter, Jim Moos Steve, Raikes Slinkard; JLem, James Riley; Bob Lawton, Jack Atkins Cicily Weatherby, Alice Flory; Mr, Lawton, Lawrence Berry. "Egypt Land," a tragedy of a negro chain gang, by Robert Armstrong, Jr., is the second play to be presented Mr. Armstrong has written one-act plays before and had them produced at Howard College in Birmingham Frank Hamson, a graduate student in Dramatic Art who has done profes sional and little theatre directing, will direct "Egypt Land." , in tne cast lor "iJgypt .Land ' are: Robert Armstrong as Mose Rivers, Jim Moos as Jig Salter, James Riley as Jim Tidwell, Harvey Baumgardner as Sim Thomas, Jack Mauney as Harve Rankins, Lawrence Berry as John King, Chuck Borton as Captain Frank, Rue Guthrie as Mammie Lou John son, J ames Crutchfield as Jackson La tham, Thomas Heath as a trusty. "St. Magdalen's Guild," a comedy of situation, by Mimi MacGowan is the ast play on the bill. Miss MacGowan has had other plays in experimental productions. The scene of this play is laid in the parlor of Madame Hexe's exclusive establishment in a small southern city. Lynn Leonard, a graduate student m Dramatic Art wno last year naa a directorship with the University of Denver, will direct "St. Magdalen's Guild." Following is the cast: Man, im Warren; Lilli, Tree Fidel; Sheila, Hallie Dockery; Francme, Alice lory; Cissy, Rue Guthrie; Mabel (Madame Hexe), Lenny Eyster; Ora ohnson, Mildred Danforth; Kathryn Worth, Lois Wernshuis. Tubercular Drive Opened By Chairman By Marianne Browne Tables and chairs were being vig rously pushed into place. With the ad dition of a stack of Christmas Seals, the Tuberculosis Booth was ready for use. Yesterday the Annual TB Drive opened, with seals going on daily sale in the "Y", the Bank and the Post Office. The drive will continue until Saturday, December 15. A booth has been set up at the Y which will be open each day from 9 until 5 o'clock. About 50 coeds are dividing this time on one-hour shifts. In addition a canvass of every dormi tory, fraternity and sorority will be made during the week. One sheet of 100 seals costs $1 and the committee's goal is to sell one sheet to every student on campus. Nancy McClendon, chairman of the YWCA Social Service Committee, heads the drive. "There will be 60 girls selling Christmas Seals in town. We are getting college girls to do this, because they appeal more to people buying." She is working with Dr. S. A. Emery in the sale of .seals in town. Jane Richardson is in charge of the booths, and John Lineweaver is managing the sale in the men's dorms. UNC Senior Nancy McClendon, or Fenner, as she is known, is a senior at UNC. She attended Hollins College for her first two years. At Hollins, as at Carolina, she was active in the YWCA. Here at Carolina she is also an assistant Kai Jurgensen. byftr Awards To Be Given Stanford r The Dramatic Alliance of Stanford University i3 offering four awards for outstanding dramatic writing in its eleventh annual competition. ine maxwell Anderson award o $100 will be given to the best verse drama submitted, which may be either in full length or one-act form. The 1942 winner of this award, "Dark of the Moon," a drama of the Carolina Smokies, ran on Broadway for 200 performances and excited much favor able comment in theatrical circles. Full-Length Drama Another of the prizes offered is the 100-dollar Miles McKinnon Anderson award for a full length prose drama to be based on those sturdy, construc tive qualities which underlie the daily life of our American scene. For the best radio play submitted in prose or verse, tnere is tne Stephen Vmcnet Benet award of $50 given in memory of the late beloved poet. The Henry David Gray award also $50, is to be present ed for lucid, vigorous dramatic criti cism. wniie no second prizes are given all prize-winning material, and leading honors plays are recommended to first rate producing and publishing units. Other privileges open to contributers include opportunity to ohtaih " brief critiques of their wrok for $4 beyond the registration fee, the introduction of promising young dramatists to mem bers of the Alliance already placed prominently in the theatre and mo tion pictures and the appearance of every item contributed in the lists of ;he Alliance Bulletin which is circu ated nationally to libraries and pro ducing groups. These Carolina dramatists interest ed in keeping up the tradition of the past should send for information and registration forms as early as pos sible. Address all communications to Dramatists Alliance, Box 200Z, Stan- brd University, California. March 20," 946 is the final date of this season's competition. McClendon girl scout leader. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Fenner is a collector of clocks. She has two Se th Thomas clocks in her collection; one is 135 years old. In spite of its age and its wooden works, it still runs. Another in her collection shows the house of the first governor of Virginia. Forte Is Swimming While at Hollins, she studied hard for as Fenner says, "There wasn't much else to relieve the tension. While there she almost made the hockey team. But her real sports success was in swimming. The teacher would send her out into the pool to demonstrate the trudgeon." Very interesting. Look at that, do just the opposite, and you'll get an "A". Fenner is from Shreveport, Louisi anaa city known for its oil and cot ton. Progressive School Southfield, is where Fenner hopes to teach some day. Her major is Eng lish but, "I'll just teach them rest period or feed them milkshakes three times. a day. They have rest periods between each subject and two hours of gym to fill up' the day." v Other postgraduate plans include raising bulldogs. KA Initiates New KA's initiated Sunday morn- ing are r ranic vr enaeii oaunuers, Reidsyille; Paul Barnard," Forest City; and Mac Hobkirk, Ogdensburg, N. Y. , UNI I II I.U..H.I II I II . I .1.1.1.11 LIM.III . II,..,,., - .... ,- ! -"::;:;.-. . . j Commander H. W. Carroll, Jr., of Bennettsville, S. C, Executive Officer of the Naval ROTC and V-12 unit at the University was recently pro moted from lieutenant commander to his present rank. Hill Recital Set Tomorrow Sonata From Brahms Highlights Program The fifth in a series of Student Af ternoon Recitals will be presented to morrow at 4 p.m. in Hill Husic Hall Students appearing on tne program are Jean Youngblood, soprano; Alice Summers, soprano; William Smith, tenor; Dolly Donelson, soprano; Wil liam Fitzgerald, clarinet; William Waters, piano; Pauline Bell, soprano; Mary Stringfield, violin; Monte Ho well, organ; Charles Stevens, Durema Fitzgerald. Ruth von Bramer, and Carolyn Bowman, accompanists. One of the highlights of this recital will be the performance of the Third Movement of Brahm's "Second Clari net Sonata" by William Fitzgerald on the clarinet and Carolyn Bowman at he .piano. This is one of four .things written for the clarinet by Brahms and is heard infrequently. Repeat Performance Fitzgerald has appeared on each of the five recitals this year, four times as clarinetist and once as tenor. He is one oi tne youngest promising stu dents of Dr. Haydon. Miss Bowman also appears frequently on the stu dent recitals and plans to give a junior recital this Spring. Another interesting instrumental number will be Wieniawaki's "Ko- ii n r fii ! C Al J mance piayea Dy mary omngueiu, the Kay Kyser Scholarship winner for his , year. Mary is well known here as a pianist and vocalist as well as a violinist. Books Are Released By University Press For Christmas Sales The University Press has released i ii 1 I - J 1 O i. l.a a nail dozen lilies Since oepieuiuei , three of them have been second print ings. "Freedom Under Planning" by Wootton and "Mexican Village" by Josephina Niggli have had second printings during December. A sec ond printing of "Memories of an Old Time Tar Heel" by Kemp Plummer Battle, who was once president of the University, will be ready soon after Christmas. Released earlier in the fall was the first of the Sesquicentennial Volumes, "A State University Surveys the Hu manities," edited by Mr. MacKinney, Mr. N. B. Adams and Mr. H. K. Rus sell; Paul Green's new "Forever Grow ing"; "Reading and Speaking For eign Languages" by H. R. Hughes; and "Oil" and Deep Water" by Kaj Klitgaard. Both the first and second printings of Josephina Niggli's "Mexican Vil lage" were of 5,000 copies each. The book appeared in two different lists of ten books, five fiction and five non- fiction, picked by ten prominent per-J sons as those published during the year that they would most like to give for Christmas; the lists were printed in the New York Times Book Review Section. Orville Prescott, co-editor of "Books of the Times" chose 'the book, and the president of the Ameri can Booksellers Association, Joseph A. Margolies, had it on his list.' Anyone wishing to order books as Christmas gifts may do so at any bookstore or direct from the Univer sity Press. Bolivia Topic Of Machicado Address Here Public Health Man On Clinical Tour Doctor L. F. Pierola Machicado of La Paz, Bolivia, will lecture tomorrow night at 8:30 in Graham Memorial about life in Bolivia. Dr. Machicado, who is completing courses in the School of Public Health here, is in this country to study and make observations on V-D control and skin diseases. He will leave Thursday morning to observe clinics in other parts of the country. The Institute of inter-American Af fairs is supplying a one-year fellow ship for Dr. Machicado to study. Writes Article In Bolivia he is a private physician and a medical instructor at La Paz University. Dr. Machicado is also the author of medical articles for Bolivian newspapers. The University of La Paz gave him his academic degree and the Sorbonne in Paris, France, granted him his medical degree. At various times Dr. Machicado has lived in England and Germany. While serving as an army doctor he received the Distinguished Service Medal for outstanding medical service. Phi To Choose New Officers At Meeting Tonight Officers of the Philanthropic Assem bly for the winter quarter will be elected tonight at a special closed ses sion, Speaker Jack Lackey has an nounced. The present slate of Phi officers were installed two weeks ago to serve for the remainder of this term. The new. officers -will, servo during the quarter ending in March. The election of officers will com prise the only business of the meet ing, and Lackey has urged all mem bers to be present. Members of the Phi voted at an un official discussion last week in favor of establishing a student committee to meet with faculty and administration eaders to consider the present Uni versity curriculum, making any ad ditions or changes that the group might agree upon. The discussion was ruled unofficial since a quorum was not present. Dr. Nathan Sinai To Give Lectures On Public Health Dr. Nathan Sinai, professor of pub ic health administration at the Uni versity of Michigan, will give a series of lectures on public health economics in the auditorium of the Med building December 11 through December 15. On the first four days he will speak at 10 a.m. and on December 15 at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. AIL sessions are open to the public. Dr. Sinai, a native of Stockton, Calif., received his M.S. and Dr. of Public Health degrees from the uni versity of Michigan. At various times in his career he has been a local di rector of sanitation, a local health of ficer, a university professor and a consultant to various government agencies in this country and in Can ada. He is a member of Tau Kappa Ep silon, Phi Kappa Phi and Delta Omega, and is a fellow of the Amer ican Public Health Association. A member of the committee on Medi cal Care of the American Public Health Association, Dr. Sinai is a noted lecturer and the author of many articles. This is the third consecutive year that he has lectured here. All Dormitory Men Must Register Now ..mm : ' Bob Gavin, manager of dormi tories, announced today that all male students desiring dormitory rooms next term must register with the cashier in South Building before noon , December 15. This registration will be . required by students now occupying dormitories as well as new students.

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