Chapel Hill, N. C.
GRADES MAY BE OBTAINED
AT
REGISTRAR'S OFFICE
"BARBER OF SEVILLE"
IN FRENCH
Playmaker Bldg. 8:30 P. M.
VOLUME XXXV
CHAPEL HILL, N. O, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927
"? NUMBER 68
Hampton Quartet Sings
Way Into Hearts of
Both Black and White
Negro Singers Present Excellent
Program of American Folk
Spirituals Before Huge
Crowd Tuesday Night.
Dr. Odum in Introduc
ing the Quartet Said,
"Wouldn't It Be a Fine
Thing If the Negro
Could Sing the White
Peoples iiito the Chris
tian Way of Life?"
The Audience, How
ever, Took a Patroniz
ing: Air Toward the
Performance.
Singing before an overflowing
house, made up of 2,000 or more
people, Monday evening in the
huge Memorial Hall, the Hamp
ton Singers of Hampton Insti
tute gave a delightful program
of negro spirituals. Both black
and white gave evidence of their
appreciation by hearty arid pro
longed applause.
Mr. , Comer introduced Dr.
Odum who in turn presented the
quartet. Dr. Odum, in speaking
about the negro spiritual said:
"Wouldn't it be a fine thing if
the negro could sing the white
people into the Christian ways
of life? Their songs, which
come from the soul in praise of
God, embodies a fervor, a humor,
an idealism, and a pathos which
we find absent in other folk
songs. The negro sang the
morale into our doughboys over
seas, why not let them sing re
ligion into us?" v
Included in the program of
sixteen songs were Deep River;
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Go
Down Moses; Roll, Jordan, Roll;
and Adam Never Had No Mam
my. The latter two were the
hits of the evening. The pro
gram was divided into four
parts and in the second part,
one could notice the increased
amount of syncopation over the
other spirituals. There was al
so present a trace of what is
now called the "blues."
The harmony was excellent
and each member of the quartet
executed his part well. The pro
longed hum of the bass as the
blosing notes of the songs died
away remained one of the mel
low, full notes of an organ; the
pathetic, appealing, and haunt
ing melody of the group brought
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Carolina Loses!
The Durham Bulls defeated
the Tar Heel baseball team at
Durham yesterday afternoon, 11
to 2. Unusual wildness on the
part of the Tar Heel pitchers,
coupled with an abundance of
errors by the Carolina infield,
were largely responsible for the
Durham victory.
In the third inning, the Bulls
counted five runs without get
ting a single clean hit. Young's
long triple in the third scored
both Carolina runs. The Tar
Heels outhit the professionals,
11 bingles to 7.
Mackie and Hatley led the Tar
Heel hitting, each getting two
hits out for four trips to the
plate. Brown. Whisnant, and
Fulcher did the Carolina hurl
ing.
GRADES ARE OUT!
Academic students may
get their grades for the
winter quarter by calling at
the Registrr's office today,
PLAY IN FRENCH
GOES OVER WELL
WITH BIG HOUSE
PLAYMAKER CASTS
ARE REHEARSING
The Three Spring Offerings Will
Be Presented on May
5 and 6.
The tentative casts for the
plays to be given during the
spring have been chosen. Those
being held tentavely for parts
are Mary Margaret Wray, Eral
Thompson, Marilee Shaw, L. H,
Wallace, D. M. Currie, J. Z. Han-
ner, John Harden, Bill Perry, A.
D. Austin, T. P.-Harrison, Shep-
pard Strudwick, R. G. Walser,
Glenn Ireton, and Bill Atlee.
The plays to be given are The
Marvelous Romance of Wen
Chun Chin, a Chinese play of a
girl who dresses as a boy to se
cure a degree from the Univer
sity, by Chen Chin Hsiung;
Quare Medicine, a comedy of vil
lage life and a hen-pecked hus
band who becomes master, by
Paul Green; and His First, a
satiric burlesque of a boy who
writes his first " 'tain't no use"
tragedy of the mountains, by Bill
Perry.
Rehearsals are being held
daily for these plays which will
be produced in the Playmaker
Theatre on May 5 and 6.
The scheduled session of the
Phi Assembly was suspended
last Tuesday night due to the
mass meeting of the student
body held at that time. .
DEAD BUCCANEER IS NO BETTER
AND YET NO WORSE THAN USUAL
The Dead Number of the Buc
caneer has just been lifted from
the press. As usual, or almost
as usual, it is late but we learn
from the editorial that the copy
was lost. Probably some well
meaning soul tried to ; destroy
the issue completely.
But again, as usual, 'it has its
good points. Probably the most
outstanding feature is the art
work. The art editor has again
shown himself to be a master
imitator and the cover smacks
f the famous Rea, artist in
Judge. .On the inside, we notice
an exact imitation of Rea, so ex
cellent that to our eye it is as
Perfect as if it were drawn by
the man himself. The other
cuts range from the 'generally,
Sood' to the 'better than com
mon.' The full page wood cuts
and the smaller drawings show
a marked improvement of the
art staff.
. There can be little said about
our famous campus comic as it
has struggled, along in the same
rut as the year it was instituted.
This issue is no exception. There
is nothing new, there has been
only one innovation in the past
three years, no two, the advent
of Brown Derby and the issuing
of several numbers of the Buc
caneer that did not labor under
any special title. So far as it
goes, this issue lives up to its
name. There has been, and al
ways will be, we suppose, & few
new jokes in each number of
the laughable sheet. These few,
coupled with the revamping of
numerous old ones make an issue
once a month. The copy this
time, as usual (again), embraces
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Holmes, Lyons, Radoff, arid
Haronian Star Minor ...
Characters Fair.
(By Burymore)
The Barber of Seville was pre
sented at the Playmakers The
atre last night to a well-filled
house. Dr. Holmes as Fiquaro
and J. C. Lyons as Eartholo were
the stars of the evening. Mr.
Lyons had a roll which was long
and fatiguing, but he acquitted
himself admirably. , His voice
was most effective at the' close
of the third act, where he rose
to a high pitch of frenzy to the
accompaniment of an electrical
storm, without.
The setting for the first act,
painted by the Lash Studios in
New York, charmed the audi
ence. It aided materially in this
long first act which was depend.
ent otherwise solely upon the
splendid pantomime and voice of
Dr. Holmes as Figaro. Mr. Wiley
as Almaviva did good work but
his voice was monotonous at
times. Miss Henderson was
very charming though she was
not always sure of her lines.
J. A. Downs as Seville and
F. J. Haronian played their
small comic roles excellently,
They gave the second act a good
sendoff.v M. L. Radoff as1 Don
Hazzle, the scheming music mas
ter and semi-cleric, won much
applause. His work with the
Playmakers has been good and
he will be much missed next
year.' G. W. Finley as Alcade
and W. C. Sally as Notary should
be congratulated for their good
work in small but effective roles
The play wad long but Profes
sor Holmes should be felicitated
upon his vivid characterization
of the play. There was not a
colorless character in the cast,
There were forty patronesses
among the ladies of Chapel Hill
It is to be hoped that the French
play will become a yearly event
Student Body Votes Friday on Recent -Gambling
Sentences and Council's Acts
Grail Again Promises a Better,
Non-Crowded Hop for Week-end
Graduates Will Learn
How to Write Theses
The Graduate Club will
meet Friday, April 1st, at
8 p. m. in the Episcopal
Parish House. Dr. A. C.
Howell will address the club
on "The Preparation of
Theses." The talk should
be of interest to all students
who expect to write M. A.
or Ph. D. theses.
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Vining to Read from
Ring Lardner's Work
Tnis alternoon at 4:dU in
Murphey 215, Mr. Vining, of
the University Extension Divi
sion, will read selections from
Ring Lardner. This is the
week's regular reading given by
the English Department under
the direction of Mr. Potter.
Ring Lardner is undoubtedly
the best of contemporary Amer
ican humorists, and has pub
lished several books in recent
years. Mr. Vining will read two
short stories, "Haircut" and
Champion", a' parody, "Enoch
Arden," several one act plays
from Vanity Fair, and selections
from "How to Write Short
Stories, with samples."
Many students oh the Univer
sity campus will be interested to
learn that Durham High School,
state basketball champions, jour
neyed to Chicago to represent
North Carolina in the national
interscholastic basketball cham
pionship tournament. The South
erners were nosed out in the first
round of the tournament by a
team from Pocatello, Idaho 26 to
24.
UNIVERSITY NINE
! LICKSJULLS 4-5
Pitching of Westmoreland and
Ellison Is Big Factor in
Carolina's Triumph. .
.j The Tar Heel baseball1 team
opened its season with a prac
tice game on Emerson field Tues
day, winning a well earned 4 to
2 victory over the Durham Pied
mont league club. The game,
witnessed by a crowd of around
1500, was featured by the splen-r
did work of the two Carolina
pitchers, Westmoreland and Elli
son, who allowed only one clean
single and three measly infield
hits to the hard hitting profes
sional nine.
All four of the winning Car
olina runs were secured in the
second inning as a result of two
hits, four bases on balls, a wild
pitch and an infield error. Tom
Young opened the eventful in
ning with a long single' to cen
ter and went on to second when
the Durham pitcher threw wild
to first to catch him napping.
Young counted the first marker
when Webb punched a hard
grounder through the second
baseman. Sharpe sacrificed
Webb, who was tagged out a
minute later when h attempted
to go from second to third on
Jonas' tap to short. With Jonas
on first, Haury, veteran pitcher
for the Bulls, lost control long
enough to fill the bases by walk
ing Westmoreland and Cox. The
second baseman errored a
hard-hit grounder of Mackie's
and Jonas and Westmoreland
scored. Cox came home with the
fourth and last run of the in
ning a few seconds later on
Haury's wild pitch over the
catcher's head. Two more
walks filled the bases again but
nothing happened.
Durham Threatens
The Bulls coasted along never
threatening until the seventh
when they scored their only two
runs of the day on Young's
muff of Burt's throw from sec
ond. In the ninth, with only one
man out, the losers placed two
runners on bases, but Captain
Hatley came in fast to make a
surprising running eaten oi
Uhlian's Texas leaguer and
tossed the ball to second, doub
ling Harvell by several feet.
Ed Mackie, Tar Heel left
fielder, led both outfits at the bat
by securing three hits out of
five trips to the plate. He was
closely followed by Bear Webb
with two hits out of four at
tempts. Hatley and Mackie,
Carolina outfielders, and Cook,
Durham outer gardner, contri
buted several nice catches of
fly balls. Akers' hard-hit drive
to left in the seventh inning off
Ellison was the only clean bin
gle made by the professionals, i
More Women and Fewer Men!
The Order of 'the Grail will
give its first dance of the spring
quarter Saturday night in By
num Gymnasium.
; The dance Saturday evening,
following a private affair at the
Inn Friday night, will likely be
featured by the presence of
many visiting girls coming here
for a local house party and at
the invitation of the Grailmen.
The Grail will Continue its re
cent policy of elevating the tone
of the dances. There will be
decorations, solo dances, and
specialty acts for the entertain
ment of the dancers during in
termission. The stag3 will be
limited at the discretion of man
at the door in order to prevent
overcrowding. The Buccaneers
will play.
MEN DISCUSS
HONOR SYSTEM
Lawrence Watt, Syd Chappell,
Lee Kennett, Walter Criss
man, and Other Campus
Leaders Give Their Views
on Honor.
The meeting of the Y. M. C.
A. cabinets Monday night was
occupied with a discussion on the
honor system and the theory of
student government, and the re
port of the treasurer.
Lawrence Watt, student coun
cilman, led the discussion with
a brief talk on his interpretation
of the honor system. Discussion
from members of the cabinet,
including Syd Chappell, student
body president, Lee Kennett,
vice-president of the "Y", and
Walter Crissman, assistant em
ployed secretary, followed.
The treasurer, Bill Neal, re
ported that there are still uh
paid "Y" pledges amounting to
$1900, which must be collected
to insure the successful opera
tion of the Y. M. C. A. for the
remainder of, the year.
The Student Conference at
Blue Ridge will open June 16,
and will continue for ten days
to June 26, it was announced.
Tuesday's Open Forum
Meeting Results in
Much Confusion; By
ChappelPs Orders It Is
Adjourned Until that
Night; Evening Meet
ing Is More Compli
cated than the Morn
ing Affair; F. B. Ay
cock, However, Final
ly Gets Across a Bal
lot Incorporating 3
Motions Which Will
Be Voted on Tomor
row. ,
(By Joe Mitchell)
The motions to be voted on as
they will be printed on the bal
lot are: (Students vote twice,
once for first choice of the mo
tions,' another for second choice.)
1. To support the council in
its actions except in the case of
"D," and accept the recommen
dations of the committee in this
man's case. ,. .
2. That the decision of the
council be disregarded and the
men found guilty be put on
strict probation.
3. That the decision of the
council to stand in the case of
the four men who lied, others ,
found guilty to be put on pro
bation. 4- . ' .
Roundtree to Speak
Here This Evening
Visiting Judge Will Lecture on "The
Examination of Witnesses."
Judge George Roundtree, Wil
mington, will speak this evening
at 7:30 in Manning Hall on "The
Examination of Witnesses."
Judge Roundtree's address is the
third of the series given here
this year under the auspices of
the Law Association, Mr. Pou,
Raleigh; and Mr. Royalls, Golds-
boro, were the other two pre
vious speakers.
Judge Roundtree is a man of
state-wide prominence. He has
served as a judge of the Super
ior Court for thirteen years, and
has been engaged in practice for
forty-four years. He served as
counsel for North Carolina sev
eral years ago in the famous
case of South Dakota vs. North
Carolina, was active in the leg
islature at the time of the adop
tion of the Grandfather's clause,
and has been prominently asso
ciated with a large number
the biggest railroad suits of
cent years in this state.
Tuesday morning in Memorial
Hall the student body meeting
called for the report of the com
mittee investigating the student
council's action in the recent af
fair involving the suspension of
13 men for gambling was car
ried 'over to Gerrard Hall that
night, and it was decided that
the question would be passed up
on by the student body voting
with the Australian ballot sys
tem Friday. The matter could
not be fully considered during
the morning because the meet
ing was held at chapel period
and Jeff Fordham, chairman of
the committee investigating the
Student Council's action, used
the time reading the report
which was published in the Tar
Heel.
At the beginning of the night
meeting four motions were made
and the factions backing each
of these motions disagreed as to
combining the four and voting
on one. The first motion to
be decided was the motion made
by H. N. Brown in Memorial
Hall Tuesday morning, Resolv
ed that: "The decision of the
Council be disregarded and the
men found guilty of gambling
be put on strict probation." Sev
eral speakers pointed out that
it would be unfair to the major
ity of the students to decide the
matter with only a minority
present, and they asserted that
a motion of this kind would not
be valid if passed.
Second on the floor was F; B.
Aycock's motion, reading: "That
the sentence on the men who lied
to save themselves be made to
stand ; that the man referred to
as "D" in the . committee's re
port, who lied to save the others
after they had already lied to.
save themselves, be changed to
losing last quarter's work and
strict probation for the rest of
the quarter; and third, that the
men who gambled and did not
lie, have their sentences commut
ed to strict probation for the rest
of the present quarter without
losing anv TC'r.V.V"v finished
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