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JULIUS CAESAR PLAYMAKERS THEATRE 8:30 TONIGHT JULIUS CAESAR PLAYMAKERS THEATRE 8:30 TONIGHT ! f VX)LUBIE XXXVIII CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1930 NIBIBER 131 s J J X1 1 )S I ! I - h Shakespearean Give Pre Caesar T i w H CaroKna Playmakers Presenting Weil-Known Troupe As -Part Of Regular Season Program. SHOW BEGINS AT 8:30 Organization Specializes In Showing Before College and School Audiences; University Students To Take Small Parts. As a particular feature on the regular program of the Carolina Playmakers, the Shakespeare Players will offer their produc tion of Julius Caesar in the thea tre Saturday night at 8 :30 o'clock. j Known originally as the Stratford Players, this troupe, which is a traveling organiza tion, is in the third year of its existence. Appearing chiefly before school and college audi ences, these players have had as their outstanding ' productions Julius Caesar and Macbeth - Composed of seven experi enced players, the group is un der the direction of James Hen- drickson and Claire Bruce. Al though they give all duo credit to the dramatic genius of the Stratford bard for the success of their productions, the i Play ers have reason to be proud of the personnel of their troupe. Mr. Hendrickson has had ten years of varied experience, in cluding two' ' years "with ' Mr. Fritz Leiber's Shakespearean company. More recently he had the honor of appearing with Mr. Robert B. Mantell in his last two seasons. Mr. Hendrickson played the part of Brutus dur ing Mr. Mantell's illness. . Miss Bruce, also for two sea sons in the Mantell company, has appeared in u many New York companies, notably those of John Cort, Maurice Gest, and a season with the far-famed Theatre Guild. Other of the players are Web ster Patterson, who has appear ed with prominent companies in New York and San Francisco; Miss Mary Glover, another ar tist from the Mantell company; Stanley Cobley, who is in his sec ond season with the players ; Emmet Shields, a former mem ber of the Barbizin Players of Continued on last page) SIX ENGINEERING . SENIORS OFFERED ELECTRICAL JOBS Through L. H. , Means, a fac tory representative who was in Chapel Hill Thursday, the Gen eral Electric company has of fered positions to six members of the senior' class in electrical engineering. If the students ac cept the offered positions, they will enter the one-year training course which the company gives to graduates of technical schools. In the training school the stu dents, all of whom will graduate this spring, will take advanced training in electrical engineer ing, specializing in so far as is possible in the field . of their special interest. During a period of approxi mately five years 26 graduates of the electrical engineering de partment have accepted posi tions with the General Electri cal company. Last spring the company offered positions to nine men, and of these several accepted and are now taking the advanced instruction ottered in theitraining course. "PI Plavers Wl otation .vlml- Jiiiiiis . Ok TM Bingham Debate Query Is Being Considered At present the Bingham de bate committees of the Di and Phi are considering the follow ing queries : "Resolved, that the United States should recognize the present government of Rus sia," "Resolved,! that the Prohi bition Act should be repealed," and "Resolved, that modern science tends to destroy theistic faith." immediately after the meetings of the Di and Phi Tues day night the committees will meet jointly and decide upon one of these queries, and the side which each will uphold. The Bingham Debate is al ways held during the commence ment week. The contestants are representatives of the Di and Phi literary societies and are limited to the junior class. The Bingham medal was first awarded in 1899, being given by the late Colonel Bingham. Since that date it has been awarded annually at commencement. Re latives of the original donor now sponsor the contest. The medal was won last year by J. C. Wil liams, of the Di. - Carolina Magazine To Appear April 6 ,.. The next issue of the Carolina Magazine which will appear April 6 will feature a one-act play, "The Mask : A Fantasy," by Richard A. Chace, and an ar ticle, "Rupert Brook : The Great Lover," by Jay Curtis. Arthur Riding also has a story, "Prome theus" in this issue. Other features to appear will be "Psaltery," a sonnet sequence by Margaret Beaufort Miller; "The Ending of a Letter Writ ten Between Midnight and Dawn," by N. C. B. ; and verse by Lewis Alexander, Dorothy Mumford and others. . Following this issue will ap pear the annual Negro Number, edited with the help of Lewis Alexander, who ; in preceding years has secured the material for this particular issue. The editors have received this year numerous requests for. copies of the Negro Numbers of 1928 and 1929 from libraries and colleges over the entire country. Sometime in May will be pub lished an issue to which former contributors and University alumni now successfully engaged in writing have promised to sub mit material. DeGrouchy Visiting Wilbur Daniel Steele Mr. DeGrouchy, one of the editors of, the Curtis Publish ing Company in Philadelphia, is here on a visit to Wilbur Dan iel Steele. He is a distant rela tive of the celebrated French general of the same name who defeated part of Blucher's army at Wavre June 18, 1815, and whom Napoleon would have been glad to welcome at Waterloo. Mr. Steele has embarked upon the writing of a series of stories for the Curtis company, and Mr. DeGrouchy came to Chapel Hill to confer with him about them. They commune through the day and far into the night upon lit erature and philosophy, some times calling in O. J. Coffin and Paul Green to pass upon disput ed points. ., MOVEMENT BEGIN: TO START SCOUT MATERNITY HERE Meeting of Former Scouts To Be Held Next Thursday Evening. A meeting of students who were boy scouts prior to their coming to the University was held Thursday evening at the Y. M. C. A. to make plans for in corporating on the campus a chapter of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity. It was decided that on the next Thursday evening a meeting should be held again at the "Y" for all those students who desire to join the local chapter and those who have al ready designated that; they have decided to join. The object of the coming meeting, which will be presided over by R. B. Hubbard, tem porary chairman, will be to elect the officers of the local chapter, to appoint a committee to draft a constitution, and to discuss further plans for the de velopment and progress of the local chapter. ' Alpha Phi Omega is not a so cial fraternity, but an honorary- professional national college fraternity. There are no local or national dues which might limit the membership, but only a membership fee of ten dollars after the local chapter has re ceived its charter from the na tional organization. The purpose and nature of this organization are incorporat ed in the following quotation : "The honor of membership in this fraternity is, granted only to those who at some time have come under the scout oath and law as a registered scout of the rank of Tenderfoot or higher, or a scout leader. The purpose of the fraternity is to assemble those who have experience and training under the scout oath and law, to develop friendship, leadership, character building, citizenship, good college spirit, and strong manhood in general." The following students have already become members of the local organization: A. D.,Korne- gay, Charlie Powell, Harold Smith, Henry Weiland, Well and, Wellard Hayes,, J, G. Zag lin, D. C. McClue, J. W. Long, Donald Sewell, R. H. Hubbard, and H. F. Beam. ' Work on Glandon Road Glandon Road driveway is be ing resurfaced by the Chapel Hill Public Works department. Besides the resurfacing of the road, a new drainage system is being planned, for which pipes have already been ordered. Chapel Hillians Should Go To Bed Early Says U. S. Executive The belief of the Post Office! Department that all good Chapel Hillians should be in bed by nine o'clock is the interesting discovery of John A.' Livingston, Washington correspondent of the News and Observer. In re sponse to a letter irom Louis Graves, Charles Woollen, Mayor Council, and other notables of Chapel Hill relative to obtain ing longer hours for the remain ing open for- the local post office, -, the executive assis tant to Postmaster-General Brown advanced the belief that the closing of the lobby two and a half hours after the last dis onorary Scientific Society Will Hold Special Meeting -s SCHOOL DEBATES SET FOR FIRST PE111N APRIL Annual Triangle Affairs Will Be Held Next Thursday States Rankin. FINALS TO BE HELD HERE The triangular debates in the contest of the High School De bating Union of North Caro lina will b6 held in participating high schools throughout the state on April 4, it was announc ed yesterday by E. R. Rankin, secretary of the High School De bating Union. The high schools which win both sides in their triangular de bates on April 4 will send their teams to the University to com pete on April 17 and 18 in the final contest for the Aycock Memorial Cup, the trophy pro vided by the intercollegiate de baters of the University of North Carolina. - ' The query which will be dis cussed by all schools in the state-wide contest this year is : "Resolved, that North Carolina should adopt the proposed con stitutional amendment, author izing the classification of pro perty for taxation." : - - , It is expected that the annual debating contest on the question as to whether North Carolina should adopt the proposed con stitutional amendment, which comes up for decision on the part of the voters next fall and which would authorize the General Assembly to classify property for purposes of taxa tion, will be one of unusual in terest. The Jiigh school debates on Friday evening will bring to a culmination several months of steady effort which has been put forth by the representatives of the various high schools which are entering the contest. The j youthful debaters have engaged in a careful studv of all available material bearing on the subject of the classification of property for purposes of taxation. For the use of the debaters the Uni versity Extension Division has published a 93-page debate hand book, Volume 9, No. 4, of the University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin,- entitled "The Classification of Property for Taxation." This handbook contains a brief history of the High School Debating Union, a statement of the query with explanations and limitations, selected articles on the (Continued on page four) tribution of mail allowed suffi cient time for the citizens of the village to swap gossip and ob tain their mail. Quite plain was the inference that there is no reason for anyone to remain up in Chapel Hill long after the chickens go to roost. - Upon receipt of this informing missive, Senator Simmons im mediately forwarded to the post office department the informa tion that the aforesaid gentle men are citizens of some conse quence in the state, and not to be lightly considered in their re quests, nor was the language employed liable to be misinterpreted., Four University Professors Will Feature Call Meeting of Sigma XL TO MEET TUESDAY NIGHT Cards Mailed To All Local and State Members of Organiza tion ; Special Program Is Arranged. The Sigma Xi, national honor ary scientific fraternity, will hold a special meeting next Tues day night, April 1, at 6 :15 o'clock. Cards are being mailed! to all local members and mem bers throughout the state. A special program has been arranged and four of the most noted Geologists at the Universi ty will give talks. The princi pal speakers are Drs. Collier Cobb, W. F. Prouty, J. H. Schwartz, and G. I. MacCarthy. Dr. Cobb will speak on the Dome Structures in the Coastal plains of North Carolina, and Deflections of Streams toward the right. Dr. Prouty will dis cuss the Structure and Charac teristics of the Triassic Deposits of . this state, and Occurance, and Origin of Certain Serpentine De posits in Maryland and - Penn sylvania. Dr. Swartz will talk on the methods of determining Geological . structures with Geo physical instrument. The last speech will be given by Dr. Mac Carthy, who will discuss the Beach sands of the Atlantic coastal plains in respect to their Origin and relation to shore cur rents. All of the speeches of this occasion pertain to problems which the members of the Geo logical departments have spent much time . ; in research. Dr. Prouty has worked several years doing research work on the Tri assic deposits in North Carolina and the other states between here and the New England states. He is said to have a more thorough understanding of thus subject than any other one man. The local chapter of the Sig ma Xi is the only one in this state, and its members are scat tered throughout the state and in the south. This scientific so cietv functions in the field of Geology as the Phi Beta Kappa does in the scholastic field. Meeting are held regularly every month, but this is to be the largest meeting yet held. Plates for the occasion are seventy-five cents. Boy Scout Activities The Boy Scout troop of Chap el Hill held a meeting last Fri day evening. A contest in first aid splints and slings was on the schedule. Dr. R. B. Lawson, the judge, was unable to attend, but this (Fridav) evening he V will pass decision on the per formance. In the inter-patrol contest the standings are as follows : Eagle, 710 ; Fox, 676 ; Panther, 617 ; Wildcat, 578. The patrols are judged for attendance, for be havior, for the wearing of uni forms, for the payment of dues, and for skill in various kinds of tests. Judge Winston Is Here Judge Robert W. Winston is in Chapel Hill. He is on his an nual hegira from the golfing grounds of South Carolina to the golfing grounds of New England. This year, as usual, he 'is writing a book in the in tervals of golf. PRE-LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION TO HEAR WCODHOUSE Organization of Students Plan ning To Enter Law School Will Gather Monday Night. MEET IN MANNING HALL "The regular meeting of the Pre-Law School Association will be held Monday evening, March 31, at 7 :30f in nhe 3rd year class room in Matr Jng hall. Mr. E. J. Woodhouse, professor of gov ernment m the University fac ulty, and who is also a member of the bar, will speak on 'The Study of Government as a Prep aration for the Legal Profes sion.' An open forum discus sion by the audience will follow. Please be on hand. Program committee: W. W. Speight, W. H. Jarman, Chas. H. Whedbee." The above notice is being mailed to all members of the Pre-Law Association during the week-end. President Speight extends an invitation to all who , have registered in the pre-law course, those who intend to en ter the law school, and those who may be interested in the work, to be present at this and other meetings. The purpose of the association is to acquaint the prospective law students with, the law school and the study of law, and to aid them in planning courses of study in preparation. The first meeting was held dur- ing the winter quarter, at which time "Professor Connor, of the -" " history department, inaugurat ed the series of talks, and of f i- cers of the organization were chosen. j Much interest has been shown in the activity of the group, and it is hoped tha the membership of all interested members of the student body may be gained. . F10WERSH0WT0 BESTAMMY1 Committee Completes Final Ar-, rangements For Local Affair. - " " Arrangements for the Flower k. Show Thursday, May 1, in the Tin Can have been completed by Mrs. H. R. Totten and her asso ciates on the committee. The doors will be open from 12 noon to 12 midnight. Everybody who wants to make a display should give notice to the appropriate chairman as soon as possible, so that ade quate floor space may be allotted to each section. Information about the prize list will be pub lished later. ' . - There will be an admission fee of 10 cents. ; The various departments of the show and the directors thereof are as follows: American home, Mrs. Trimble ; art department, Mrs. Caldwell; folk dancing, Miss Sharkey; doorkeepers, Mrs. Clyde Eu banks and Mrs. Brodie Thomp son; registrars, Mrs. Thrall and Mrs. Carter; junior club, Mrs. Logan; listing and labeling dis plays : 8 to 10 o'clock, Mrs. George, Mrs. A. W. Hobbs, Mrs. F. P. Brooks; 10 to 12 o'clock Mrs. Ferger, airs. Grumman, Mrs. Harland. Preparation of display hall : Mrs.: Clyde Eubanks, Mrs. Wal-' lace Smith, Mrs. J. V. Jordan, Mrs. John E. Lear. The display chairmen are: Aquilegia, cactus, and win dow boxes: Mrs. H. F. Munch (Continued on page four)
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