VOLUME XXXIII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER' 3, 1924
NUMBER 21
RUSHING SEASON
COMES TO CLOSE
THURSDAY NIGHT
Dooking, Von Counting, and
Rushing Ends With Pledge
Tomorrow Night.
eleventbFh'our rush
Long Perod of Fraternity Strife Ends
Students Allowed to Resume
Their Studies.
Tomorrow night as the sun slinks down
behind the stone pillars that stand guard
at west gate and hides its face from the
campus, the ' culmination of two long
months of rushing, von counting and
dooking comes to a sudden end when
the hunted freshmen makes his ' final
choice and says, "I will."
In this manner will end the rushing
season of 1924. After" tomorrow the old
men can settle down to their books and
make last minute attempts to save them
selves from being engulfed in a swarm
Of xY and w's. And the freshman, he
can now study in peace, for the contin
ual rapping at his chamber door has now
ceased, no more dates are thrust upon
him, no more nightly v"picks," no more
trips to Durham, Greensboro and Ral
eigh. The usual disturbing upheaval of ex
pectations will come to pass. Nasty
glances and dirty .digs will be exchanged
and bad feelings will spring up-and last
for a week or two, and then die away.
To the Innocent bystanders the whole
affair is a source of much merriment,
but to the fraternity men it appears al
most as a case of life and death.
. Within two weeks the campus will
have forgotten that were ever was a
pledge night The rushees will have be
come full-fledged pledgees. The campus
will settle down to its usual tranquil
state and grades will improve. But for
the rest of the week, professors, no mat
ter how hard-boiled they be, will have
to be content with sleepy and unpre
pared students.
FALL DANCES ARE
RATED lUCCESS
Many Beautiful Girls for the
Occasion.
WAS HELD IN GYMNASIUM
Music and Decorations Highly Compli
mented by Dancers.
The fall dances held last Friday and
Saturday in . Bynum ; gymnasium , have
been receiving an unusual amount . of
praise from those that remained in the
Old North State and attended the annual
Thanksgiving foot-shaking. .
The bevy of beautiful girls has ytf to
be equalled. : Dazzling dresses of appro
priate design graced the beautiful ladies
that were in attendance, and as the
dancers glided here and there wonderful
color schemes could easily be detected.
The gym was marvelously decorated
in keeping with the season and the oc
casion. Lights of all colors flashed over
the floor, intensifying the glamor which
prevailed, while Father , Time used his
scythe in a fashion far too quick to suit
'those present.
No better music could have been wish
ed for and there were but few couples
that sat any of the dances out Every
thing went off successfully and the 1924
.fall , dances certainly went down in his
tory as being among the best ever held
uhere.
Prof. Koch Placed
On Magazine Board
A signal honor has been paid to Pro
fessor Frederick H. Koch by Dr. S. Mar
lon Tucker, the editor of The Little The
atre Monthly, which appeared for the
first time in November.
The magazine is published by the New
York Drama League and carried Items
of Interest concerning the Little Thea
tres in the country and articles by au
thorities in the dramatic world.
" Mr.; Koch has been put on the board
of associate editor This board consists
of . Gilmore Brown, director of the fam
ous Little Theatre at Pasadena, Cali
fornia Alexander Dean, head of the de
partment of drama at Northwestern uni
versity j Walter Hartwig, director of
Manhattan Players, and Oliver Hinsdell,
director of the Little Theatre in New
Orleans.
This same board of associate editors
publish a weekly sheet, known as the
Little Theatre Ifewe. Dr. Tucker, the
editor, has been for many years presi
dent of the New York Drama league and
gave up his work as an editor of the
Theatre Arte Monthly to take over the
new Little Theatre Monthly.
The freshman team at Alabama Is call
ed the ."baby tide" after the varsity
name of "crimson tide."
PffiATE NUMBER
THE BUCCANEER
IS A GOOD BOOK
Carolina's Comic Comes Forth
From Press With a Cork
ing Good Number.
THE COVER' IS PRAISED
The Reviewer Praises Cover, Cartoons,
Contributions, and Even Likes
the Ads and Editorials.
By The Crossroads
Carolina's comic improves steadily; the
Pirate Number is just' from 'the press,
with the best general make-up and con
tent that the publication has yet offered.
The cover is the most elaborate cloth
ing that the Buccaneer has boasted. It
is excellently drawn and well printed;
its colorfulness and power of suggestion
prepare the reader for something unusu
ally good inside, and best of all the
inside lives up to expectations and does
not disappoint. ...
The most striking thing about the
number is the large amount of art work
and good art work at that. Strud
wick's frontispiece is especially notable.
McCarty and Wright have done excel
lent work. Gene Erwin's "Reel and Real"
is rather clever. :
The copy proves our recent conten
tion that the type of .talent necessary to
make a good college comic is present at
Carolina. If the Buccaneer can in the
future, as in the present issue, keep it
in evidence, the University -will have a
comic of the kind that it should have.
The jokes are new and for the most part
have appreciable points to them; they
are of an originality that is not so dis
tinctly local as is usually observable.
The short squibs and skits are snappy
and clever. The smattering of verse is
above par, "The Captain's Kids" being
the best of the lot.
The advertising sections are made at
tractive with well selected and repre
sentative exchanges, and the editorials
are really interesting. From cover to
cover the Parate Number of the Bucca
neer is the best yet and compares favor
ably with the best college comics in the
country. Praise is due both the editors
and business managers.
Barbers Ban
Valentino
Because Rudolph Valentino, moving
picture actor, bas grown a beard, the
convention of the associated master bar
bers in Chicago adopted a resolution that
its members "be pledged not to attend
a showing of his photoplays as long as
he remains bewhiskered."
The resolution expressed the fear that
the "male population of America is very
likely to be guided by Valentino to the
extent of .making whiskers fashionable
again," and that "such a fashion would
not only work harmful injury to barbers,
but .would so utterly deface America as
to make American citizens difficult to
distinguish, from Russians." ;"Be it re
solved, that Rudolph Valentino be con
demned," the resolution concluded.
Picnic Supper
For Playmakers
The cast of Miss Martha Boswell's
play, "Politicin' in Horse Cove," was
entertained on a most delightful picnic
supper last Sunday night. Miss Boswell
and Miss Katherine Batts, who directed
the play, were joint hostesses. Besides
the hostesses the members Of the party
were Louise Sawyer, Aileen Sherrill,
Margaret Jones, B. C. Wilson, Brook
Todd and John Farrior.
The party met at Miss Boswell's house
at 5:30 o'clock and proceeded to Battle
park. A fire was kindled and the sup
per ws cooked camp fashion. After sup
per stories were told and songs were
sung.. The party broke up just in time
to come to the Kipling reading which
was given in Gerrard hall.
CAROLINA BUCCANEER
ON SALE YESTERDAY
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Cover Design Makes Big Hit and Col
lege Comic Seems to Be
Going Good.
The third number of the Carolina Buc
caneer to appear this fall came from the
press late yesterday afternoon and was
immediately put on sale at local and out
side news-stands. . Much favorable com
ment has been heard on this issue, which
is dedicated to the Pirates, and which
carried a full-fledged man-o-waf, manned
by he-men pirates, sailing down the mid
dle of the cover on the Spanish main,
s The chief officer of the captured fri
gate called the Buccaneer is Robert Lee
Felton, Jr, of Fayetteville. The crew
is listed as being composed of G. A.
Cardwell, first mate; C. T. Smith, sec
ond mate; H. N. Parker, T. B. Freeman,
W. S. Mclver, E. R. Patterson, Spencer
Murphy, J. M. Saunders and W. K.
Fowler.
PLAYMAKER SCENE
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Scene from "The Scuffletown Outlaws,"
new Carolina Folk-Plays to be given in
nights. ,
CURTAIN FALLS ON
SEASON WITH DEFEAT BY VIRGINIA
Cavaliers Overcome. Tar Heels
Touchdown Too Much Carter Dittey Jack Merntt
Kept Out by Bad Ankle Large Crowd Wit
nessed Thanksgiving Classic.
Playing before one of the largest and
most colorful crowds, that has ever wit
nessed a Carolina-Virginia Thanksgiving
grid-iron classic, the Cavaliers annexed
their second football victory over the
Tar Heels in the last seven years, when
a Carolina fumble paved the way for a
Virginia touchdown. This lone touch
down and the additional point added by
the drop-kick of Carter Diffey, Vir
ginia's outstanding star of the game,
marked the difference between the two
ancient rivals.
Although the Virginians won the game
as the direct result of the costly Caro
lina fumble, yet they played better ball
and had an edge over the visitors
throughout the contest. The work of
Quarterback Diffey did much to bring
about the Virginia victory. His ability
to gain ground was matched only by his
rare generalship in the execution of
plays. Captain Maphis, playing his last
game for Virginia, was a tower of
strength on the defense.
The game proved to be a defensive
game throughout. The two lines dem
onstrated wonderful exhibitions of de
fensive tactics.' Virginia's offense was
uncorked in the second quarter but was
presumably halted when Maphis' drop
kick from the field failed by inches to
score. With the ball on the 20-yard line
Davin resorted to a double pass which
he threw wild to Sparrow who fumbled.
The ball was recovered on Carolina's
seven yard line by Cuddy. Diffey ran
it over in two line plays, and then
kicked goal for the added point.
: Carolina did not seriously threaten
on the offensive although a try at a field
goal was attempted.. With Merritt badly
hindered by an injured leg, the Carolina
offense did not materialize. Merritt was
taken, from the game in the second pe
riod when it was seen that he was pow
erless. Sparrow ' did ihe punting for
Carolina and acquitted himself well, for
with the flashy run-backs by Bonner the
punts of Maphis and Diffey were off-set
considerably. . The Carolina game was
defensive throughout and but one first
down was registered up, this being by
Devin who was' the only Tar Heel to
make consistent gains."' Robinson and
Jackson made some beautiful tackles'.
The Carolina 'aerial attack was a com
plete fizzle. One attempt was success
ful, Devin to Cobb, but the latter
hurled passes at random on several oc
casions. The play by periods follows t
First quarter The first few minutes
consisted, of a duel of punts between the
two teams. Virginia lost some on off
side penalties. Devin ripped off 11 yards
around end for first down and then
gained 3 more after Merritt had failed
to gain. Merritt went 2 yards, Abner
recovered a Carolina fumble and Diffey
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by William N. Cox, one of the trio of
Memorial hall Thursday and Friday
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1924 FOOTBALL
7-0 Fumble Paved Way for
made 6 yards1' on two plays before Ma
phis punted tb Bonner who returned the
ball 15 yards to his own 41 yard line.
After attempts to gain Carolina punted.
After an exchange of punts the ball was
given' to Virginia on her 20 yard line
following a touchbac. On the first play
Robinson threw Diffey for a 4-yard loss,
but the Virginia "back made 8 yards just
as the period ended. Carolina 0; Vir
ginia 0. i .1
Second quarter. Abner went through
center on a trick play for 17 yards. Frost
lost 3 yards. Diffey circled right end for
24 yards. After two attempts at gains
by Virginia, Diffey again circled end,
this time for , 20 yards. Maphis ' at
tempted a drop kick from the 30-yard
line but the ball went wide. ' Sparrow
punted. The punt was returned after
three plays. Carolina's ball on her 20
yard linei Merritt failed to gain. Devin
threw a lateral pass to Sparrow who
fumbled, the ball being recovered by
Cuddy on the 7-yard line. Diffey gained
6 yards and pushed the oval over on next
play. Diffey drop-kicked for the extra
point. .The remainder of the quarter was
taken up by exchanges of punts, one by
Maphis being for nearly 70 ' yards.
Neither team made a first down after
the1 touchdown, although Devin and
Hackney, substituting for Merritt, once
rushed the ball 9 yards but were forced
to punt.
Third quarter. Abner received the
kick-off and ran the ball to his 34-yard
line. Maphis punted after line bucks
had failed. Sparrow was colled on to
punt after two attempts to gain had
failed following a Virginia penalty for
off-sides. However, Virginia was guilty
of holding and Carolina was given a first
down with the ball on Virginia's 43-yard
line. Hackney's pass to Bonner failed.
Bonner and Devin made 9 yards between
them. ' Hackney's attempt at a field goal
fell short and Diffey received the ball on
his 17-yard line. Cuddy and Diffey gained
5 yards before Maphis punted to Bonner
who returned the ball to Virginia's 49
yard line. Gains fell short and Sparrow
punted. Diffey got 8 yards on a fake
kick, and then 3 yards more on a fake
criss-cross. Maphis ; punted when at
tempts to gain fell short. Devin lost 1
yard. On the next play Hayman recov
ered a Tar Heel fumble. Diffey snitched
off 16 yards on his criss-cross play, Ho
gan threw Diffey for a 3-yard loss. Caro
lina 0 Virginia 7. v
Fourth quarter. Cuddy tore off 8 yards
around end. Pass failed. Diffey punted
and Cuddy fell on the ball on Carolina's
1-yard line. Sparrow punted and Diffey
returned to Carolina's 31-yard line. Dif
fey gained 14 yards off tackle and fum
bled, Carolina recovering on her 17-yard
line. Sparrow's punt went outside on
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CAROLINA PLAYMAKERS OPEN HOME
SEASON WITH A PROGRAM OF THREE
ONE ACT PLAYS IN MEMORIAL HALL
ANNOUNCEMENT
AH manuscripts for the coming
Wigue and Masque production
should be sent In not later than
Friday night, December 5, to Pro
fessor P. J. Weaver of the music
department or to Erskine Duff, Box
282, Chapel HiH. Prizes will be
awarded for the accepted manu
scripts, and if the skits are good
enough to warrant production Wigue
and Masque will present a musical
revue as its J 924-25 production.
NOTED ACTOR IS
COMING DEC. 6TH
Frederick Ward to Tell of His
' Experiences.
FIFTY YEARS OF ACTING
Leading Actor in the "Oberammagau
of America."
Frederick Warde, one of the most
noted living actors, will tell of his 50
years' experiences before the footlights
on Saturday evening, , December 6, in
Gerrard hall. 1 '
For more than 50 years Frederick
Warde has closely allied himself with
the classical drama, even at his own fin
ancial loss. He believed in the art of
the stage and he believed that this art
could only be exploited through the pre
sentation of the classical drama. He
has-always been especially interested in
Shakespearean drama. For this reason
he today is beloved by thousands of
admirers from one end of the country
to the other.
' For his lecture on December 6 he has
chosen ; a fascinating subject, "Fifty
Years of Make Believe;", In which he
tells of the romance of the footlights
as enjoyed through his own experiences,
covering more than half a century.' Mr.
Warde's rich memories, clothed in the
choice language of the scholar and de
livered . with. the consummate - skill of
an accomplished actor, will prove one of
the season's treats. His lecture should
especially attract the large group of
embryonic actors who came out by the
scores to the Playmaker try-outs in the
fall.
During the past year Mr. Warde as
sumed the leading role of the great mis
sion play in Los Angeles, which has been
called "The Oberammergau ' of Amer
ica." Western newspapers were extreme
ly lavish in their comment concerning
Mr. Warde's wonderful interpretation
of the part of Junipero Serra in this
mammoth pageant: ' y.
Mr. Warde is probably the best known
living actor of. the old schooL He has
played with such well known stage folk
as Charlotte Cushinan, Adelaide Neil
son, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, .and
others. His lecture will be a refreshing j
discussion of the romance of the drama
from one who is eminently qualified. j
CMKTMASMMC to ,
BE RENDERED SUNDAY
The A Capella Choir Will Give "When
the Christ Child Came" and '
Folk-Songs.
The monthly recital sponsored by the
Music Department of the University will
be composed of Christmas music. The
December program will be given in Me
morial Hall on Sunday afternoon,' De
cember, the 7th, at 4 o'clock, by the a
capella choir.
The a capella choir was organized In
Chapel Hill several years ago. Last year
It had a most successful season under
the direction of Mr. Paul John Weaver.
Its province, as the name indicates, Is to
give choral music unaccompanied. . At
their recital given in the Presbyterian
church last year the most popular num
ber was a cantata, "when the Christ
Child Came" by Cloxkey. This is to be
repeated on Sunday afternoon.
The solo parts will be taken by Mrs.
H. D. Learned, Miss Margaret Eubanks,
Mrs. Herbert Wettach, Mr. Augustus
Harrer, and Mr. Theodore Fitch. There
are about thirty voices in the chorus.
Beside the cantata,' there will be
Christmas carols from the folk-songs of
many countries, Including Austria, Rus
sia, . France, Bohemia, Normandy and
England. The club has met with such
success in its past seasons, that beside
the performance to be given in Memorial
Hall on Sunday, there will be recitals
in Durham and Greensboro.
Trinity college Will soon have an ath
letic bowl, according to reports from the
Methodist college; This bowl will cover
some seven' acres and will be the second
one to be constructed in the South, Van
derbilt having the only' one at present
To Present Recent Tour Pro
gram Tomorrow and Friday.
TOOK ROAD TOUR FIRST
Plays by Judge Winston, Mar
tha Boswell and William Cox
Made a Big Hit on Tour.
A WELL BALANCED PROGRAM
New Theatre Not Completed in Time
for Opening Series of Plays So Man
agement Is Using Memorial Hall.
The home performance of the Carolina
Playmakers will be presented tomorrow
night and Friday night in Memorial hall
at 8:30. The three plays carried on the
recent tour of the eastern part of the
state will be presented. : These plays
are "The Honor of Bonava," a picture
of the reconstruction days in the old
South, by Judge Robert W. Winston;
"Politicin' in Horse Cove," a comedy of
mountain characters, by Martha Boswell,
and "The Scuffletown Outlaws," a trag
edy of the Lowrie outlaws, by William
Norment Cox.
This series of plays has been pro
I nounced one of the best ever to be staged
by the Playmakers. On their recent
tour of eastern North Carolina they re
ceived very much favorable Comment
from the press of the towns in which
they played. This program has been
called one of the best balanced in moods
that has been presented to any audience.
New and attractive scenery has been
built especially for this trio of fqlk-plays,
and" no effort has been spared to give
them their proper setting. All the scen
ery for the plays was made by the mem
bers of the play production class of Mr.
Denny. " ' '
It was at first planned to have the
opening performance of the Playmakers
in their new theatre building, but be
cause of its lack of completion the man
agement has been forced to" present the
program in Memorial hall. Tickets for
the performance1 go on sale today, and a
heavy rush -sale- Is expected, -especially
since the fame of the three plays has
been made on the eight-day trip Just
before Thanksgiving. v
The casts of the three plays are as
follows I
THE HONOR OF BONAVA
; Colonel Thomas Pettigrew, the master
of Bonava plantation George Denny.
Jane,' his daughter, engaged to Wil
liam Curtis Margaret Winston.
Dick, his son George Winston.
William Curtis, a cousin, the newly
arrived minister -William Norment Cox.
Ned Wilson, brother to the Colonel's
deceased wife Bob Proctor.
Aunt Charlotte, an old negro mammy
Louise Sawyer. '
Sheriff Bell, a carpet-bagger Ben
Hicks.
Cuffee, formerly the Colonel's slave,
now a deputy sheriff Brook Todd.
POLITICIN' IN HORSE COVE
Ralney Fortune, the "biggest Demo
crat" in Horse Cove John Farrior.
Sairy Fortune, his wife Louise Saw
yer. Sally, their daughter Frances Gray.
Nat Goodman, a banjo-picker Ted
Wilson.
, Joe Riley, his buddie Brook Todd.
Hannah Staymie, the mother of five
children Aileen Sherrill.
Zero SIssoms, a limber politician Law
rence Wallace.
THE SCUPFLETOWW OtTTT.AWS
Henry Berry Lowrie, chief of the Cro
atan outlaws William Norment Cox.
Steve Lowrie, Henry Berry's brother
Ted Wilson.
:" Rhody, Henry Berry's wife Frances
Gray.
June, Henry Berry's niece Louise
Sawyer. "
Luke Locklear, a young Croatan Law
rence Wallace.
John Sanders, a white man from Nova
Scotia Bob Proctor.
; James McQueen, alias Donahoe, a
white man of Robeson county Problen
Elmore.
Grail Offers Prize to
Athletic Scholars of '28
."The Order of the Grail wishes to call
attention to the prise that It offered last
year to the best ' freshman student-ath
lete. The Grail offers to that freshman
athlete who makes the highest grade in
his school work a prize of (25. The
term "freshman athlete" is construed to
mean any member of the class of 1928
who makes his numeral in any one branch
of athletics.
This prize offered by the Grail Is in
line with the desire of the membership
that athletics' and scholarship should be
on more "intimate terms. ' ' " '"',' '
Miss Pearl Setzer left today for Ox
ford to help organize a dramatic club
and to give a lecture. ' , f