UNIVERSITY SERMON
GERRARD HALL ,
v 8:00 P. Mi SUNDAY
BASKETBALL
U. N. C. vs. Hampden-Sydney
TIN CAN ; 8:30 TONIGHT
TOLUME XXXV
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1927
NUMBER 39
Paul Green's "In Abraham's
Bosom" Receives High Praise
from Critics on Its First Night
XONG RUN LIKELY
Hange of Drama Runs 1 from
Comedy to Tragic Study of
Frustrated Negro Educator.
CALLED SECOND O'NEILL
"In Abraham's Bpsom," the
rfirst full length play written by
Paul Green to be produced by a
professional company, opened at
the Provincetown Playhouse in
New York the last Thursday in
December. At the close of the
opening performance the audi
ence vociferously expressed its
Approval of the play, the author
and the actors. Prof. Green was
persuaded to make a modest
speech in which he admitted that
he was "from v the provinces,"
and that he was surprised -that
a play from the provinces could
so well please a New York audi
ence. - N - -
Paul Green has been hailed as
another Eugene O'Neill, and
there are certain points of sim
ilarity. But however well Prof.
Green may convey the at
mosphere, the mannerisms and
the language of the negroes to
the stage, he never allows his
audience to lose sight of the
,fact that it is a white man's in
terpretation. With , the exception of two
white actors who portrayed the
characters of Colonel McCranie
and his son Lonnie the cast is
composed completely of negroes;
As Abraham, Julius' Bledsoe
impersonates a man whose "white
blood fought with his black,
whose struggle for education
was handicapped by an irrevo
cable environment, and whose
pitiful hope that' his son might
carry on toward race leadership
was dashed by a reversion ' to
type in the boy. .
It was inevitable that most of
the forces against which Abra
ham struggled should be sym
bolized by his half-brother, his
white master. Likewise it was
inevitable that the two should
meet in mortal combat. Abra
ham emerges as a fratricide
whose remorse is so great that
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BOXING SCHEDULE
' Jan. 17. Unw of Florida,
at Chapel Hill.
Jan. 22. V. P. I., at Chapel
Hill.
Jan. 29. Univ. of - Georgia,
at Athens.
Feb. 5. Univ. of Virginia,
at Chapel Hill.
Feb. 17. Washington and
Lee, at Lexington.
Feb. 19. V. M. I., at Lex
ington. . i
March 4-5. S. I. C. Tourna
ment, at Charlottesville, Va.
LA SCALA OPERA
COMPANY PLAYS
DURHAM JAN. 27
Impressive Group of Artists
Here Under Auspices of
Grand Opera Association.
THREE DAY PERFORMANCE
Will Present Rigoletto, Aida,
Barber of Seville and Faust
In Auditorium.
STUDENT COUNCIL
ENFORCES QUIET
Plan To Enforce Curfew and
Rid Dormitories of Unnec
essary Noises.
At a meeting of the Dormi
tory Association held on Thurs
day night several important and
essential resolutions pertaining
to the welfare of the dormito
ries were passed. A
Chairman Williams brought
before the body the complaint
of the deans, freshman discus
sion groups, and dormitory pres
idents in reference to the noise
and general disturbance in some
of the dormitories. The stu
dents are unable to study and
in' some cases they have carried
their grievances to the deans of
their respective departments.
A resolution was" adopted that
in the future the dormitory pres
ident would handle the situation
as best he could, then in case
of continued' disturbance ' he
must report the matter and the
persons concerned to the STU
DENT COUNCIL. The Dor
mitory Association warns " all
that this resolution will be strict
ly observed and carried out.
Beginning Thursday evening,
January 27th, the Philadelphia-
La Scala Grand Opera Company
will present, under the auspices
of the Durham-Chapel Hill
Grand Opera Association, the
operas Rigoletto, Aida, Barber
of Seville, and Faust, in the City
Auditorium of Durham.
pThe Durham-Chapen" Hill
Grand Opera Association was
formed as a result of the efforts
made by Paul John Weaver, di
rector of the University Depart
ment of Music, when he found
that, due; to lack of sufficient
staging materials and dressing
rooms, it would be impossible for
the Company .to present their
operas successfully at Chapel
Hill. The Association thus
formed has' elected the follow
ing permanent officers : Mr. Paul
John Weaver, president; Mrs
S. W. Venable, vice-president ;
Mr. Gilmore W. Bryant, secre
tary-treasurer. There is a board
of about thirty-five directors,
every organized club or institu
tion of civic or educational na
ture in Durham and Chapel Hill
having one representative.
The Philadelphia - La Scala
Grand Opera Company is now
in its third year. This tour,
which begins at Richmond, mak
ing its second stop at Durham,
continues through North Caro
lina and Florida to Cuba, Mexico
City and South America.
The Company carries a staff
of nearly two hundred artists.
Among them are many artists
of first rank: James de Gaviria,
tenor, who is said to be the only
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Finley White Will
Lead Senior Finals
German Club Elects Leader and As
sistant Managers at Meeting
, Friday.
The Senior members of the
German Club met yesterday af
ternoon in Memorial Hall and
elected Ball managers for he
Final Dances. President Sniith
presided over the;" meeting and
in a smoothly conducted election
the Seniors made Finley White
Chief Ball Manager with the fol
lowing seven Assistant ' Ball
Managers : Bob Mason, Gus Mc
pherson, John Finley, Tom Pear
sall, Worth Joyner, J. Marshall,
and Horace Strickland.
TAR HEEL BOXERS
will clash vara
FLORIDA MONDAY
Veterans Fill Four of the Seven
Places on Varsity Team, -
EMORY PROFESSOR
TO SPEAK SUNDAY
Will Deliver Second . of Series
on Interpretation of
God.
SHUFORD'S NOSE INJURED
Southern Conference Now Rec
ognizes Boxing as In tor
collegiate Sport. '
(By Henry C. Lay) I
' The Carolina Boxing team will
meet the University of Floridd
artists of the squared circle in
the Tin Can here Monday night,
January 17. This, will be the
first meet of the year. The en
tire squad has been training
long and hard for the coming
bouts and the affair should af
ford some fast and furious
clashes.
The Tar Heel aggregation is
made up nearly entirely of vet
erans, all of the men having had
experience before coming to Car
olina. Four of the seven berths
will be filled by lettermen from
last year. These are Shaw, But
ler, Warren, and Captain Shu
ford. Carpenter attended school
here when the first boxing team
was formed and although he
has been out of school, he has
kept up his pugilistic train
ing... Brown came up from last
year's freshman team, while
Nash Johnson advanced from
the reserves of last year. All of
these men are the best in their
class and are really going to ex
tend themselves to win.
- It is-probable-r that1" Captain
Ox Shuford will be kept out of
the fray on account of an infect-,
ed nose.. Ox received this in
jury during the football season
along with a couple of cracked
ribs. The ribs are no longer
troubling him, but the nose
trouble is holding on with bull
dog tenacity. Three days spent
in Watts Hospital did him worlds
of good, but the ailment has not
entirely disappeared yet. In the
event that he will not be able to
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CAST SELECTED
FOR NEW PLAYS
THEOLOGIAN IS LIBERAL
The second of the series of in
terpretations of God will be giv
en by Dr. W. A. Smart at 8
o'clock "tomorrow night in Ger-
rard Hall.
The speaker Is professor of
Biblical Theology at Emory Uni-
versity. He has preached com
mencement sermons at N. C. C
W. and Sweet Briar, and, at these
places won the favor of many
students. He talks of a vigor
ous Christianity which appeals to
college men and women.
The professor is considered
one of the most progressive pro
fessors at Emory University,
and has been there since the
founding of the Theological
School in Atlanta. He was
student at the, Webb "school in
Bellbuckle,' Tenn., and was grad
uated from Vanderbilt Univer
sity, University of Chicago and
the Union Theological Seminary,
For several years he was pastor
of Methodist churches in Lynch
burg and Charlottesville, Va.
PHI DELTA THETA
Thirteen-Year-Old House Burns
On Thirteenth Day of
Month.
TREE USED AS LONE EXIT
Playmakers Will Present Three
One-Act Plays This Season.
TRYOUTS HELD THURSDAY
The tentative cast for the
three plays to'be given this quar
ter by the Playmakers were
chosen at tryouts Thursday.
Those chosen for parts In
Dixon's Kitchen, a comedy by
Wilbur Stout, are Eral Thomp
son, Josephine Sharkley, D. M.
Currie, Laurence Wallace, H. Z.
Hanner, Clyde Smith, G. Fred
erick Cole, and George Koch.
The parts for Lighted Can
dles, the tragedy of the Carolina
mountains by Margaret Bland,
were given to Ellen Melick, Jo
sephine Sharkley, Winfred Den
gate, J. W. Harden, and C. S.
Lipscomb..
For The Muse of the Unpub
lished Writer., a comedy of
Greenwich -village life by Alice
Radewald, are Mary Margaret
Wray, Bill Atlee, Winfred Den
gate, and Lionel Stander. The
cast is subject to change during
production if it is deemed nec
essary. ,
In Dixon' 8 Kitchen and Light
ed Candles will be carried on
;our, the third play not having
been decided on as yet. The tour
will include southern cities as
far down as Atlanta, Georgia.
.Fire, which broke out on the
first floor of the Phi Delta Theta
house shortly after midnight,
on Thursday the 13, left the f ra-
ternity home in a complete
wreck, and destroyed most all
the personal belongings of the
boys who roomed there. ' '-
The building was not fully
covered with insurance. The
amount held, according to a
member of the fraternity, was
approximately $3,000, which fell
several thousand dollars short
of the value of the house and
equally as much in personal
property and documents 'of. his
torical interest. The charter
granted the fraternity, together
with the signatures of the char
ter members was burnedV
Only four students were room
ing in the house Carrigan Wil
son, Ed Fulcher, Bill Freeze and
Graham McKinnon. Wilson dis
covered the fire when he came
out of a room on the second floor
where the whole group had been
together. It was about 12 :30
and he stated that he intended
to go to his bgdroom when he
saw flames spreading up the
stairway. It appeared that the
fire had originated in the closet
at the foot of the stairs so he
concluded that the entire pas
sageway was cut off by flames.
He jumped out the second story
window and the other boys slid
down the tree.
Wilson had a few minutes time
to rescue a few belongings be
fore the fire department had ar
rived. Trunks and clothes of
the other three and ,the trunks
of two boys who had recently
moved out were destroyed. With
the aid of the crowd the furni
ture on the first floor was saved.
After an hour of fighting the
firemen had the blaze under con
trol and by 2:30 it was entirely
extinguished.
Only a few students who had
arisen from their warm beds,
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White Phantoms Meet Hampden
Sydney Five in Tin Can Tonight
Registration Cards
Must Be Out Tonight
All students will be re
quired to present their
membership card or pay
regular . admission to see
the Carolina-Hampden Sid
ney basketball game at the
Tin Can tonight. Every
one who has, not paid his
registration will be requir
ed to show some notice to
that effect. . . (
SOCIAL ACTIVITY
BLAZES STRONG
NEXT WEEK-END
Junior Prom and Grail Dance
Will Be Held on Succes
sive Nights.
MANY GIRLS EXPECTED
Will Be Peak of Winter Quarter
Social Calendar.
Although snow and ice mush
underfoot today and the outlook
is drab, next week-end the
clouds will part and the winter
social session will make its entry
into the campus schedule with a
full program of ballroom activi
ties. The long heralded Junior
dance blossoms into reality next
Friday night, January 21, with
a dance by the Order of the Grail
Saturday evening coming close
on its heels. To add to the social
attractions the basketball game
with Clemson will be on the pro
gram for Saturday.
The Juniors, at their meeting
Tuesday night, completed final
plans for the Ball at which they
are honoring themselves next
Friday evening and the appoint
ed committees are making the
necessary arrangements for car
rying out the plans in an elabor
ate manner. The class officials
are emphatic in their statements
that this is to be'the most bril
liant social event of the year,
certainly of the winter season.'
The decorations, for which the
contract has been given to Doyle,
will be of a nature rarely seen in
Bynum Gymnasium. Favors
have been bought to be given to
the girls and the unusual re
freshments planned will be a de
light to the entire assemblage.
Every effort is being made to
make the affair equally as inter
esting for those who do not
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WILL START AT 8:30
Visitors WiD Wind Up Tour of
North Carolina With Eve
ning's Contest.
NEW TAR HEEL UNIFORMS
Spotless 'White Suits With Blue
Letters Make Appearance
This Evening:.
School of Religion
Changes Schedule
Case Studies in Christian Living Will
Meet Friday Evenings.
Religion 102 (seminar: Case
Studies in Christian Living) will
meet this quarter on Friday
evenings (instead of Tuesday),
from seven to nine, at the Meth
odist Church, second floor.
The, group will meet Friday
evening, January 13.
The aim in this course is to
discover the ethical principles of
Christianity in their relation to
present-day personal problems,
by the comparison of actual life
situations with the teaching of
Jesus. Marriage and Divorce,
overty and Wealth, Chivalry,
Citizenship and Patriotism, Rec
reation and Amusements, the
Church these are typical sub
jects. Students of psychology
and sociology will be especially
interested. '
The Tar Heel basketball team
will blow the lid off its inter
collegiate season tonight at the
tin can, when it will face the
basketeers' from Hampden-Sid-ney.
The game is scheduled to
start promptly at 8 :30, and all
students are urged to bring their
registration cards or they might
find it difficult to gain admission
to the huge tin "Ice box." It
has already been suggested to
the Varsity managers that in-"
stead of cards, each student be
identified by the belt he is wear
ing that is if he has on a Car
olina belt, he will be admitted-,
but the management have not
expressed themselves as very
eager to follow out the belt idea,
so the students will have to have
their cards or else be forced to
remain out in the snow, listen
ing to the basketball game in
stead of witnessing it! v
The Hampden-Sidney aggre
gation has been making an ex
tensive tour of North Carolina,
meeting several powerful teams,
and will wind up its excursion
with tonight's contest. The Ti
gers as the lads frbm Hampden-Sidney
are called are reck
oned as a powerful team up Vir
ginia way. They have literally
opened their season with the
tour of the state, and their play
on the trip, coming as it has
so early in the year, has been a
bit ragged. Tonight's game,
however, should find the Tigers '
at the top of their game since
they are now thoroughly warm
ed up as a result of their clash
es with other North Carolina
fives. They will go into the
game with the idea in view of
giving everything they have as
tonight's game will be their last
of the trip and they are eager
to upset the dope.
"Thursday night the Tigers
were entertained at Wake For
est and were, defeated rather
easily by the five men who con-
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SAPP ELECTED TO
LEAD JUNIOR HOP
Fowler and Delancey Will Be
Assistant Prom Leaders.
OPEN ONLY TO JUNIORS
At a meeting of the Junior
Class last Wednesday evening in ,
Gerrard Hall, Odell Sapp was
ilected leader of the Junior Prom
which is to be held in, Bynum
Gymnasium on the twenty-first
of January. Mack Fowler and
Richard Delancey were ' elected
as assistants.
The prom, open only to mem
bers of the Junior Class, is to
be informal. Kyke Kyser and
his Orchestra will provide the
music for the dance and there
will be ample entertainment on
the balcony for those members
who do not dance.
President Kelly announced
that there is a possibility that no
dues will be collected during the
Spring quarter since ' there are
ample funds in the treasury to
take care of all expenses for the
rest of the year.
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