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" DRAMA FESTIVAL PLAYMAKERS THEATRE 2:30-8:00 O'CLOCK EDITORIAL STAFF MEETS FOR NOMINATIONS 3:00 O'CLOCK VOLUME XLI CHAPEL HILL, N. O, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1933 NUMBER 137 Ir Ir DRAMA FESTIVAL (JETS UNDER WAY HERE LAST NIGHT four High Schools and Three Colleges Begin Tenth Annual Dramatic Contests. preliminary contests by four "iigh schools and three colleges initiated the program of the tenth Dramatic Festival here last night. 4 The program will je continued with the junior high school finals this afternoon .at 2:00 o'clock. Among the high schools con testing last night were Hugh llorson of Raleigh, Southern Pines high school, Broughton of Raleigh and Coon high school of "Wilson. In the college division plays were presented by Duke University, Elon College, and the Woman's College. The win ner of this competition will meet the winner of the Catawba-Len- oir-Rhyne contest on Saturday night. Junior Contests Tomorrow The junior high school con test opens this afternoon with North junior high school of Winston presenting Thompkin's Sham in competition with South junior high school presenting Tilden's Enter Dora, Exit Dad. At 3 :00 o'clock county high school finals begin with Garner offering Jerome's Barbara, Hallsboro playing Tarkington's TKe Ghost Story and Paw Creek presenting Giorloff's Jazz and Minuet. Following these the Durham Y. W. C. A. dramatic dub -will present Wilbur Stout's ' JDogivood Bushes. Final contests in Little Thea- ire and Community Organiza tion productions are scheduled ior 8:00 o'clock tonight. Con testants will be the Durham community players with Tother jroh's In The Darkness, Lenoir Little Theatre with Thruit's (Co-ntinued on last page) COMMITTEE WILL PRESENT CONCERT TO RAISE FUNDS Directors of Dogwood Festival Will Offer Second Concert April 10 to Raise Money. lhe Dogwood festival com mittee will present a concert by Lamar Stringfield, flutist, Ade line McCall, pianist, and Ralph Veatherf ord, cellist, Monday evening, April 10, at 8:30 o'clock in Hill Music hall. The concert has been arranged in or der to raise funds for the stag Jngof the Dogwood Festival here this spring. The program will consist of flute and cello solos in addition to a group of trios. Composi tions played will represent com posers from Bach to the modern French and American writers. A trio by Eugene Gossens, Prominent living conductor and composer, will be featured. The festival is being arrang ed as a celebration of the bloom ing of the dogwood. It will con tinue an entire day in which sic, dancing, and athletic events will be featured. The committee in charge of arrange ments for the festival recently sponsored Helen McGraw here. Year Book Staff to Meet Members of the business staff of the Yackety-Yack will meet this afternoon at 2 :00 o'clock at aham Memorial. Student Opinion Varies Regarding '--'Negroes1 Attendance At Carolina -s Co-eds Plan Varsity Show For April 26 The varsity show which the woman's association is planning to present April 26 at Memorial hall is creating much interest among women students on the campus. According to the co eds, the purpose of the show is to raise money for a loan fund. A definite program has not yet been arranged, but it is plan ned to have a one-act play and a number of stunts by groups of women students. Miss Jose phine Orendorff, chairman of the woman's dramatic associa tion, and a committee of co-eds maioriner m dramatics are m charge. TENTATIVE CAST PICKEDFORPLAY Junior Playmakers to Present "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" April 21-22. The probable cast for the Junior Playmakers production of the season, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, which will be presented April 21-22, was an nounced yesterday, by Mrs. Harry Davis. Several fascinating Oriental dances in the production, ex ecuted by alluring young slave girls from the community, are being directed by Phoebe Barr Three elaborate sets of scenery are nearing completion in the Playmakers scene shop under the direction of Foster Fitz- Simons. The sets are All Baba s hovel, a robbers' cave glittering with gold and diamonds, and the sumptious mansion of wealthy Abou Cassim. Selections for Cast The tentative cast for Ali Baba includes the following Junior Playmakers : Ned Hamil ton, Ali Baba; Harry Brooks All's son Ishak; Virginia Clark All's wife Zulieka; Julia Pee bles, Fatvmah; Lindon Correll, Abou Cassim; Jean Breckin ridge, Morgiana; Kimball Dyer, Koja Hassan; H. Hobbs, Abdul lah; the robbers, Lauren McKin ney, Cameron Murchison, Jun ior Whitfield, George Hogan, Sunny Kenfield; hand-maids to Morgiana, Carolina House, Ele anor Carroll, Edith Crockford, Jewel Hogan; dancing-girls, Jean Hogan, Phyllis Bradshaw, Lila Marie Wright; black slaves, Billy Koch, Sandy McClamroch, Richard Bradshaw; attendants to Zulieka, Mollie Holmes, Jane Knight. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF PHI BETA KAPPA MEETS The executive committee of Phi Beta Kappa met last night to consider possible candidates for membership. The election will probably take place April 10. To be eligible for member ship, a student must have aver aged the grade of 92.5 for eight consecutive quarters and have never failed a course. Fifteen in Infirmary . I T ... teen WV cism and review of Max Nor- was closed by the police. Af ned to the .Jl' dau's "Entartung," translated ter an extended ..trial the case They were: J.U Wc)odard Degeneration, ghaw defend -against Daly and the cast was t11?; R H Proc- ed many modern writers, includ-1 dismissed, and the judge in his hardt J. ' ? ' jTrank ing Ibsen and Tolstoi, from Nor- mmary of the case stated that tor, Jr., H. &. n : dau's charges that manv mod-!the play's moral was distinctly ausey' J. . .rsLt'J w m Fitt, Virginia .neuuutw, Snruill C L Royster, Ralph B. Cheekand Katherin Jamison. Daily Tar Heel Survey Reveals That Feeling Is Definitely Op posed to Race Equaltiy. That, on a whole, campus opinion here is hostile to the en trance of Negroes into the Uni versity of North Carolina, be came apparent from the result of a symposium of student opin ion recently conducted by the Daily Tar Heel feature staff member. Such hostility runs all the way from a mild distaste for such social and racial equal ity up to wild emotional talk of ynching, tarring and feather ing, and the like. In between are those who feel that, if the col ored applicants did gain admis sion to the college, life would be made so unpleasant for him by the student body that he would soon leave. I just don't believe in that much equality," replied one stu dent after being asked for his reaction to Thomas R. Hocutt's application. Numerous replies opposing his entrance were put in the sort of language which, while far from being uncertain, could not be printed here. "Tickled" One self -professed "Yankee" from Maryland declared that the whole thing "tickled" him, and that in the north people have forgotten that there ever was a Civil, War and a Negro question. Some of the North erners interrogated seemed to take the passive attitude of "Jet 'em in," while others manifest ed as much social and racial (Continued on last page) World Cruise Brings Playwright To United States For First Time -o- George. Bernard Shaw Stops in Twenty-Four Hours in New York on First Trip to Country Whose Acclaim Has Made Him World Famous. -o- George Bernard Shaw first set foot on the soil of America, to which he owes so much, March 24 of this month. After two days in San Francisco, where he landed from the Em press of Britain, he went to Los Angeles, leaving there March 27 for the remainder of the world cruise which will take him through the Panama Canal, and land him in New York April 11, here he will spend twenty-four hours, and, as his present plans are constructed, according to Dr. Archibald Henderson, after addressing the Academy of Po litical Science at the Metropoli tan Opera house, he is scheduled to return to England the follow ing day. Although this is the first time Shaw has ever visited America his connection witn tms coun try covers a period of nearly half a century. Wrote for American Magazines As early as 1887 he began contributing to tne magazine Liberty, a publication long since defunct, and not to be confused with the present-day popular magazine, on Socialist subjects. The most important of his ar ticles which appeared in this magazine was a slashing- criti- em artists were dewnmte . their writings. Shaw ranks , himself as an artist on the side TAR HEEL EDITOR TO BE NOMINATED BY STAFF TODAY Eligible Members of Editorial Staff to Meet at 3:00 O'clock To Nominate Candidate. Annual nominations for the editorship of the Daily Tar Heel for next year will be made today at a meeting of the edi torial and reportorial staffs at 3 :00 o'clock 'in Graham Me morial. All members of the staff in good standing will be able to make nominations and cast their votes for the official nominee at this meeting. Work on the staff of the paper for the past quarter constitutes good-standing at the meeting. Every member of the staff is expected to attend the meeting and previous excusal by the edi tor will be required in case a man finds himself unable to at tend. A member of the staff may leave a written nomination, vote, or proxy in case he cannot be present at the meeting this af ternoon. Although editorship of the Daily Tar Heel will be decided by the student body in the gen eral elections next week, nomi nations by the staff today will be considered official. Accord ing to a ruling of the student's activities committee, all nomina tions for editors of publications will be made by active members of the staff of which the candi date is a part. Other items of business have been slated for consideration at the meeting this afternoon. Los Angeles and Will Spend oi lbsen and Tolstoi, ana in their ranks, and titled his ar ticle "A Degenerate's View of Nordau." This essay, which filled nearly an entire issue of the old Liberty, afterwards ap peared in various forms in Eng land and America under the title "The Sanity of Art." Shaw's real contact with the theatre-going public of the United States began in 1894 with the nroduction of Arms and the Man by Richard Mans field, followed in 1897 by the production of The Devil's Dis ciple. Early Play Censored Aside from the publication of Shaw's novels, which won slight hearing in America, little inter est was displayed in his writ ing until Arnold Daly's produc tion of many of his plays, be ginning with Candida, and in cluding nroductions of Arms A. and the Man, The Man of Des tiny, How He Lied to Her Hus band. John Bull's Other Island and finally Mrs. Warrenys Pro fession. This last was first pro duced in New Haven, and caused great excitement because dealt with the forbidden subject of prostitution. When produced in New York a few days later, in,d rather than evil. This banning of Mrs. War (Continued on last page) State Senate Increases University Allotments By $72,000 To $832,240 -s Julian S. Miller Will Address Assembly Julian S. Miller, associate edi tor of the Charlotte Observer, will speak tomorrow morning in Memorial hall at 10:30 o'clock. Freshman attendance will be checked. Miller is a well-known news- . xt- paperman m the state. His col-1 umn, "Events and Comment," annears dailv ir his naTwr. Mil- lor wM fm-rlv Ktnr nf , Charlotte News, which position he left to fill the role of relief director under Governor O. MaxP011. ""W T J?lnt Gardner. GIRLS IN DEBATES OUTNUMBERBOYS Team Elimination by Triangular Debating in High Schools Begins Tomorrow. Girls will outnumber hnvs in the triangular debates March 31 of the high school debating union of North Carolina, it was .ttr.AiitAri vAflfprdnv hv Spore- ary E. R, Rankin. Statistic win-rf, Wa hem compiled show that 208 high schools, out of the total 215 par- ticipating schools, will be rep- resented by 468 girls and 364 boys The query .which will be dis- cussed in all of the debates, in high schools scattered from Mur- phy to Beaufort, is: Resolved, That North Carolina should adopt the sales tax as a feature of its state system of revenue. The schools which win both debates in the triangular Con- test Fridav will send their teams to Chapel Hill to enter the com- petition April 13 and 14 for the Aycock Cup, the trophy which has been donated by the inter collegiate debaters of the Uni versity. Complete Teams of Girls Thirty-three high schools will be represented by four girls each in the debating contest. This list is as follows : Almond, Arthur, Banoak, Beaufort, Burlington, Conetoe, Edward Best, Engelhard, Fair field, Farmville, Four Oaks, Franklinton High Fjpint , Jasper, Kings .Mountain, Lville, Lin- riuI 7vcuLm' New London, Newport, Paw Creek, Pine Level, Rockingham, T- 1 3 "T 1, Qnnd XT-Ill mmianu, rTr'. ' Whiteville, and Union. CONSTRUCTION OF WALKS IS PROGRESSING STEADILY Construction on the new walks in front of Graham Memorial is progressing steadily and is ex- pected to be completed some g D0hery of the Yale engineer time next week, pending favor- :no. Rrhool able weather. The walk imme diately before Graham Memorial must yet be graded and laid with , . ,. . xt gxavcl. laiunici aeunuii w cyv Dorms has been begun. Groves' Book Recommended The Catholic magazine Ameri- ca has recommended Dr. E. R. has been named will meet at an Groves' book Sex in Marriage to early date, probably in New Catholic Confessors. The maga- Haven or Boston, to formulate zine states that priests "may plans for the survey, find certain materials in the it is felt that recognition of book helpful in counseling the State College in the personnel of maladjusted." Groves wrote the this committee is due to prog volume in co-operation with ress made by the school in Gladys Hoagland Groves. Upper House Settles Down to Business and Pushes Appro priation Amendment. BILL IS OPPOSED BY MOORE Senators Sign Amendment to Appropriate $16,000,000 for Eight Months School. .The North Carolina Senate, meeting yesterday as a commit- ' , , tee of the whole, laid aside the tea-party quibbling of Tuesday's Mission to et doWn to business L"0 .f University I?8"" ll inied in its committee figures to the bien nial appropriations bill. Senator Larry Moore came to the fore again, however, and waged a stubborn though hope less fight against the amend ment calling for the raised Uni versity allotment. The New bernite's defeat on this pro posal which was offered by Sen- ar donn aprunt nm gives mm a clean sheet to date for having consistently failed to receive the senate's support on any of the I A ! 11 A 1 "ll ms oi me appropriation out. It was Senator Moore who thrW th monkey wrench into5 Tuesday's session and refused to the tea cakes offered &enator cement, chairman of the investigating committee. Amendment Adopted -Lfie Moore-Hill fight, which seemea ime a continuation oi tneir battle ot the previous day waxed furious as the Gentle- man trom Craven stubbornly refused to weaken after an nour s debate. The whole con- trversy, however, seemed to be I a.. a-l o i i i suluuuuas uie senate aaopt- ed Senator Hill s amendment without a record vote. This action of the Senate as (Continued on last page) DR. BROOKS GIVEN PLACE ON TEXTILE SURVEYING GROUP Head of State College Placed on Committee to Determine Ex tent of Textile Education. Dr. E. C. Brooks, vice-president, nf fhp PnlpiorVi unit vf fVio Greater Universit of North Caroli ha3 been selected by the Textile Foundation as one . ... , , vsx a uiiiiiiiibcc ui lance aj iiiais? a survey of textile education in the United State a yiew to broadening and raising the standard of such education in the nation. The other two educators to be associated with Dr. Brooks are Dr Karl T ComDto Dresident of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dean Robert' Authorized by Congress The Textile Foundation is an .n , , ni(yoti.,. incorporated organization cre ated by Congress to conduct sci entific and economic research for the development of the nation's textile industry. The advisory committee to which Dr. Brooks broadening textile education.
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