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CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1942
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Japs Suffer
Reverses
In Indies
FBI Strikes Suddenly
At Fifth Columnists
In West Coast Areas
BANDOENG, Java. (Sunday) -
(UP) American and Dutch air and
sea forces, it was revealed today, have
hurled probably the most punishing
- blow of the war at Japanese invasion
forces circling in toward Java, sink
ing or damaging at least 90 and possi
bly many more war ships and trans
ports. CALCUTTA, India, Feb. 21. (UP)
The Rangoon radio reported tonight
that Japanese bombers had attacked
Bassein in the Irawaddy delta, 100
miles west of Rangoon, and appealed
to the populace to turn Rangoon "into
another Moscow."
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21. (UP)
FBI and local officers, striking sud
denly and without warning in a four-
state area, seized hundreds of enemy
aliens and contraband, guns, dynamite
and ammunition today in the greatest
Pacific coast drive against fifth col
umn activities since the war began.
MOSCOW, Feb. 21. (UP) Front
dispatches tonight reported German
defense lines cracking under terrific
Russian pressure and it was believed
that sensational Russian victory an
nouncements would be made on the
Red Army's 24th anniversary Mon
day. VICHY, Feb. 21. (UP) Vice Pre
mier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan
reported today that the 26,500-ton
Dunkerque has arrived under its own
steam at the south France naval base
of Toulon after 18 months of repair
work at Oran, where it was badly dam
aged in the British fleet attack of
July, 1940.
WASHINGTON, Feb." 21. (UP)
The resistance of Filipino civilians to
the Japanese in conquered areas of the
Philippines is growing bolder and be
See NEWS BRIEFS, page k
Haymakers Select
Kaufman-Hart Hit
As Spring Comedy
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S&F's 'Bagdad Baddy' Show
Goes Into Final Rehearsals
Tickets on Sale
For Three-Day Run
Opening Wednesday
Final arrangements have been com-.
pleted for Sound and Fury's lavish
musical spectacle, "Bagdad Daddy," to-
be presented Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday nights in Memorial Hall
at 8:30, club President Randy Mebane
announced yesterday.
The musical comedy, written by
George Latshaw of Akron, Ohio, is a
combination of a Hollywood preview
and an Arabian Night's tale. The set
ting is in Bagdad with an Oriental
atmosphere into which a Hollywood
movie company on location is taken.
Student-Composed Score
Original songs for the production V
were composed by Bob Richards, direc- tS'
tor of Sound and Fury, Tom Waldman,
Jane Dickinson, Stuart Baesel, San- . ' Kanay flieDane
ford Stein, and Tom A vera. Freddie Memorial every afternoon.
Johnson and his campus orchestra will are reserved and telephone reserva-
piay tne student-written musical tions may be made by calling F-3142
scores. -; from 2 until 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
The stupendous production is being Taking the feminine lead in "Bagdad
produced by George Grotz and directed Daddy" is Diddy Kelly, recently acting
by Bob Richards. Choreography is in "Pirates of Penzance." She will
under the direction of Shirley Brim- portray the character of Barbara. Tak
berg, former member of the profession- ing the part of Smythe, the movie com
al troupe, Dancer en Route. pany director, is George Latshaw, au-
Opening night prices for "the most thor of the Sound and Fury produc
collosal show ever'' are $1.00, $.75, and tion.
$.50. Prices for the subsequent two A benefit performance of "Bagdad
nights are $.75, $.65, and $.50. Tickets Daddy" will be presented by the cast
are on sale at the YMCA daily during of 200 at Fort Bragg on March 1. In
the morning chapel period and at the addition, a .four-city tour throughout
Sound and Fury offices in Graham the state is now pending.
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Juegisiauye
Bill to Cut
Committee Drafts
Dance Expenses
Pre-Induction Training
CVTC Commended
At. Chicago Conference
(Special to the Daily Tar Heel, the following story was wired yesterday
from Chicago by Assistant Dean of Students Roland Parker, who with Henry
Wisebram, student head of the CVTC, is attending the Institute of Military
Studies there.)
CHICAGO, 111., February 21 The snow-clad walls of the University of
Chicago's famed oriental institute echoed yesterday and today with conflicting
and ardent pedagogical voices as the conference on pre-induction military
training hit its full stride.
Representatives including many presidents from 160 universities and col-
eges, largely non-ROTC, shared the
Student Opinion Tapped
By CPU in Poll Tuesday
Campus Issues, Post-War Problems Queried
In First Balloting Since War Declaration
By Paul Komisaruk
Two months before Pearl Harbor, 1,800 students went to the polls in the
Carolina Political union's fall quarter balloting. Results showed: Carolina's
student body advocated all-out aid to Russia; voiced firm objections to par
ticipating in an active shooting war with Germany; showed a willingness to
war with Japan if the Nipponese attacked Dutch or British possessions in
the Far East, or American possessions; reversed a decision made last May
and advocated America's assumption of post-war peace problems; over
whelmingly favored repeal of the Neu-
trality Act.
platform and forum with high officials
of the Army and Navy departments.
Henry Wisebram, sparkplug of the
CVTC, was catapulted into the midst
of a heated forum when he was asked
publicly by Roland Parker to explain
the Carolina Volunteer Corps. Wide
commendation and condemnation met
his plan. Wisebram is the only stu
dent delegate here.
The die hard business-as-usual wing
as represented by Yale collided head-on
with the militant "all out for the dura
tion" wing, led by Chicago and North
Carolina. Almost unanimous support
greeted a motion to petition the War
department to initiate speedily a pro
gram of deferred enlistments for col
lege men comparable to the V-7 ar
rangement of the naval reserve.
The Navy department's Barker and
the War department's Venable set the
stage this morning for education's
Francis Brown this afternoon. Fiery
Lieutenant General Ben Lear holds
the spotlight at tonight's dinner forum
in the swank Hotel Shoreland.
Phi Committee
Presents Plan
Local Playwright
Seeks Army Leave
To Witness Play
"George Washington Slept Here," a
rip-roaring comedy, fresh off Broad
way, by that inimitable team of prank
sters, George Kaufman and Moss Hart,
will be the first production of spring
quarter, the fifth production of the
Playmakers 1941-42 season.
Tryouts for the play's 16 parts will
be held on Wednesday, at 3 o'clock
and on Thursday at 4 o'clock at the
Playmakers Theatre.
Professor Earl Wynn, director of fall
quarter's hit, "The Male Animal," is
also directing this comedy. Wynn
states that copies of the play will be
on reserve at the library beginning
Tuesday.
He further states that because of
the two days of tryouts it will be pos
sible for people interested to come in
on Wednesday in order to acquaint
themselves with the play and the char
acters and then return on Thusrday
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Tuesday from 8:30 to 6:30, Carolina
student opinion undergoes its first ma
jor test since the war. Over 2,000 stu
dents are expected to vote in Tues
day's poll. Two voting booths will be
kept open the entire day to handle the
voting, one in front of the YMCA, and
one in the Lenoir Dining hall, CPU
officials announced.
War Changes Questions
The questions have changed for the
most part. December 7 and the weeks
following have cleared up all issues
regarding war with the Axis, aid to
Russia, repeal of the Neutrality Act.
Campus issues, grown up as a result
of defense spendings and the national
emergency, now find a prominent place
on the CPU's ballot. Questions that
students must act on, together with
issues troubling Capitol Hill will be
answered Tuesday.
Queries on the Union's ballot in
clude: "Do you favor a drastic reduc-
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Behind the Scenes , 1
S&F Technical Crew Wrestles
With Huge Scenery, Curtains
By Westy Fenhagen the morning until rehearsal at 4:30
Yo-ho, heave ho ! To the vocal re- in the afternoon,
frain of the Volera Boat song, seven- At one time or another the entire
Sound and Fury stage hands headed cast has worked on the technical end
by energetic George Grotz, technical of the production. Some have spent
producer, tugged mightily on ropes long hours painting the scenery while
moving sets into place yesterday in Evelyn Waldman and her group of
preparation for the grand opening costumers have already turned out over
Wednesday night of Sound and Fury's forty custumes in their headquarters
musical spectacle, "Bagdad Daddy." an old shower room m Emerson sta-
Assemblying the largest set ever dium.
used in a Sound and Fury production Among the collection of scenery now
is no easy job according to Grotz and assembled backstage in Memorial hall
his assistants. Pieces of scenery six- are several items which strike the. eye
teen feet high must be moved around on first glance. Instead of the us
the stage and heavy curtains are con- ual rectangular main curtain, "Bag
stantly being raised and lowered. dad Daddy" calls for "rococo," a cur
Midnight Oil tain curved around the edge. This,
Late every night after the cast has assures the Sound and Fury heads,
finished a long rehearsal, the stage "adds a very novel touch."
managers take over the scene for at Also being used are several micro
least three hours work. Yesterday phones into which the catchy songs
they worked steadily from 8 o'clock in ' See SOUND & FURY, page U
, Joseph Feldman, author of "Behold
The Brethren!", drama about to be
tJlUUCnt UniOn OpOnS0rSimakers is already. well-known on the
Joe is now in the army. Stationed
at Scott Field, Illinois, he is training
to become a bomber radio operator.
He reports that he can already send
eighteen words a minute for Uuncle
Sam, but that he is trying his leve!
best to get a short leave of absence, so
that he may come here and witness the
world premiere of his play.
Joe, who attend school here as an un
dergraduate and returned last year as
a Rockefeller Assistant connected with
the Southern Film Service, was very
active in the Playmakers organization
during his years here. His one-act
play, "Sermon On a Monday," a play
of a democratic ideal, was performed
December 10, 1940, and later that same
season, March 22, 1941, his radio-play,
In Time, In Space," was broadcast
over the national hook-up.
While here, he acted in many plays,
making a particular success of his char
acterization of the old lawn-mower in
"Love's Old Sweet Song" by William
Saroyan. Though the part is only
small, he managed to give it such scope
and depth that the audience burst into
a spontaneous roar of approval when
he left the stage after a short scene
Negro Vocalists Today
In Music Hall Recital
Datie Mae Bridgeforth, negro so
prano and.Isador Boyd Oglesby, negro
tenor, will appear in a joint recital
this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Hill
music hall. The concert, open to the
public, is one of the regular Sunday
programs brought here under the aus
pices of Graham Memo'rial.
The program includes: "Help Me,
Man of God" by Mendelssohn, "Sigh
ing, Weeping, Sorrow, Need" by Bach,
to be sung by Miss Bridgeforth ; "Have
You Seen But a Whyte Lillie Grow"
and "When Love is Kind" to be sung
by Mr. Oglesby. Continuing her por
tion of the program, the negro soprano
will sing Hahn's "L'Heure Exquise"
and Charpenier's "Depuis Le Jour,"
to be followed by Oglesby chanting of
"On Wings of Song" by Mendelssohn,
"With A. Water Lily" by Grieg, "Three
Riders" by Sachs and "A Furtive
Tear" by Donizetti.
Duet Concludes Concert
Wolf's "Iris," Burleigh's "Weepin'
Mary" and "Tis Snowing" by Bem
burg will be sung by Miss Bridgeforth;
and "Where You There," arrange
ment by Manney, "Oh! What A Beau
tiful City" by Boatner, "His Name So
Sweet" by Johnson, and "New Born
Again," arrangement by Heilman will
be sung by Oglesby. A duet, "Friend
ship" by Marzials will conclude! the
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Both singers were pupils of Clyde
Keutzer of the University music de
partment during the past year. Miss
Bridgeforth has also had voice train
ing at the University of Chicago, and
with Frank G. Harrison, Talladega
College, Alabama. Oglesby has stud
ied, with Dr. R. Nathaniel Dett, Mrs.
Antoinette Casonova, formerly of the
Chicago Opera and Mrs. Nell Hunter,
director of NYA music division.
Delta Students Meet
There will be a meeting of Carolina
students from Mississippi in the Grail
room of Graham Memorial at 2:15 this
afternoon.
Rankin to Speak
From Local Studio
Ed Rankin, graduate of Carolina n
1940, will broadcast. at 2:30 over sta
tions WBIG and WDNC, on life in the
Navy. The broadcast will eminate
from the campus studio in Phillips
hall. ,
The former columnist on the Daily
Tar Heel and past president of the
PU board, Rankin has been given
special permission by the Navy to come
from Raleigh to Chapel Hill in order
to make the broadcast.
Several Carolina men in the armed
services will be on the same program
and a story about the British sailors
who visited Chapel Hill in the fall
will be heard.
Campus politics will have their first
radio expose at the same time and a
feature on Randy Mebane, S&F presi
dent, and the radio club will be pre
sented. J
Reorganization
Of Group Proposed
The new reorganization plan of the
Phi Assembly will be introduced at
the meeting tomorrow night at 7 o'clock
in the Phi Hall of New East building.
The plan, drawn up during the past
week by a reorganization committee,
will provide for an entirely new jtype
of organization, yet retaining the same
general external form of the old
Assembly. Under the new plan, all
rules that are maintained will be
strictly enforced, and all useless tra
ditions discarded.
The reorganization committee,
chairmaned by Speaker Pro-Tem Elton
Edwards, and consisting of Speaker
Horace Ives and assemblymen Doug
Carlyle, Joe Lehman, and Eo Brogdon,
held several lengthly meetings last
week to draw up a new internal or
ganization to replace the old form,
which has brought campus disfavor on
the Assembly. The committee prom
ises that "from now on the Phi Assemb
ly will serve its real purpose on the
campus ; that of prompting intelligent
discussion of questions of student in
terest, and of encouraging the exer
cise of public speaking.
Yackety Yack Pictures
Much comment has been raised on
the device used by some students in
the fall of getting their pictures and
names in the Yackety-Yack through
Phi membership. The Assembly will
discuss a proposal to indicate in the
Yackety-Yack those who are not bona
fide members of the Assembly due to
failure to live up to financial and at
tendance requirements.
"All members are warned to be at
the meeting tomorrow night, for all
members absent from this special meet
ing without written excuses presented
to an officer before the meeting will
See PHI ASSEMBLY, page h
Legislature
To Hear Bill
Wednesday
Expense Ceiling .
Fixed at $2,200
For Dance Sets
By Harden Carruth
Taking definite action on the cir
culating question of dance expendi
tures, the Ways and Means committee
of the Student legislature L?s prepar
ed a bill cutting expenditures, which
will , be presented to the legislature
Wednesday night.
"During this time of national war
effort the University administration
and the student body should curb er
penses as much as possible," said Tru
man Hobbs, student body president
who fostered the bill. "Civilian defu.se
and other campus activities connected
with the war needs greater funds than
they are able to obtain at present.
Saving in dance and other social ex
penses could be applied to such pro
jects," he added.
Officials hinted that opinion
thorughout the state "indicated dis
approval of the continuance of heavy
social expenditures at this time.
The bill as it now stands (Ways
and Means Committeemen indicated
that the figures are subject to change)
will reduce expenditures for any set
of dances to $2,200 excluding possible
$300 for concessions. Expenses for
any single dance will be reduced to
$1,100 excluding $150 for cancessions.
Committeemen emphasized that
these figures may be changed before
appear feasible. It is also expected
the bill is finally presented to the leg- -islature
and that even greater cuts
that this bill would be only the first
in a series that would gradually re
duce dance expenditures and apply the
savings to defense programs and other
war projects.
Legislature heads last night said
that little difficulty is expected in
quick and easy passage of the proposal.
Campus opinion has veered in the di
rection of cutting social budgets and
favoring student defense activities
during the winter quarter.
Emergency Committee
Meets Tonight at 10
All 64 associates of the Emergency
Committee, the new non-political or
ganization formed to clean up politics
and improve student government effi
ciency, will assemble tonight at 10
o'clock in the small lounge of Graham
Memorial.
Final seven planks of the Commit
tee's platform will be put up for ap
proval at tonight's session.
Curriculum Addition
Pinto, Brazilian Educator,
Teaches Portuguese Here
By Joseph Leslie, III
A new language has been introduced to the University curriculum as a re
sult of the winter "Summer School" here for South Americans.
The new course is Portuguese, and it is being taught by Dr. Antonio Pithon
Pinto, who is State Superintendent of Education in his native Brazil, and
whose first contact with the University was through the 1941 South Ameri
can "Summer School."
Portuguese has taken 'on new importance since the war, as Brazil is the
largest country in South America as
well as one of the United States' best
riends. This is the first such course
ever offered at Carolina, and Dr. Pinto
has a large and enthusiastic class.
Graduate Study
Dr. Pinto, who is at the University
under a fellowship from the Institute
of International Education, is also do
ing graduate study on tne unitea
States system of education and school
administration.
Up until his first visit here last
year, he had studied "the written but
not the spoken English," but after one
short year, Dr. Pinto uses the new
tongue well though not fluently.
"That first school gave us all a
fine impression of the American way,"
he said today. "Our people took back
with them a much better understand
ing which is spreading daily from per
son to person and group to group. And
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Dr. Antonio Pithon Pinto