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Pass Ttto THE TAR HEEL Saturday, September 24, 1927 Glee':Glub:'MaIies-;Big'-Hit-m' 1 Europe and Gets Return Offer London Firm of Managers Offer Tar Heel Singers Tour Next Summer CRITICS PRAISE MUSIC Travelers Relate Interesting Ex periences in Europe -Highly Received on Foreign Concert Stages Offer Expenses With Tour Next Year. The University of North Carolina's famous Glee Club, just back from a six-week tour of Europe, made such a fine impression abroad that a re sponsible firm of London managers has offered the club an eleven-week tour next summer, with all expenses paid. Such is the good news that Prof. Paul John Weaver, director of the club, brings home as he and Nelson O. Kennedy, accompanist, and 30 stu dents return to take up the work of another college year. . The singers brought back gobs of newspaper clippings extolling their work abroad,, but the London offer, paving the way f,or another foreign tour, is accepted here as the most tangible evidence of the warm wel come extended the Tar Heels. Plan Eleven-Week Tour The tour next summer would call for concerts in London for three weeks, for five weeks in sea coast resorts and for three weeks in Ger many. The contract us very definite in its terms, Mr. Weaver says, and it will be held open all fall, that the club may have ample time .in which to accept. Mr. Weaver believes the tour will be made. Meanwhile, like the football coach es, he is casting about to see what the new year will bring forth in the way of material. He lost a number of veterans by graduation last year, and he must replace them. Training a new group of singers each year is no easy matter, but he hopes to be able up to the high standard set by his other clubs of recent years. In which case it seems more than likely that the European jaunt proposed for next summer will be made. "The London offer was far more than we had dared to hope for," Mr. Weaver said in commenting on the proposed trip. "The music critics were exceedingly generous in their praise, but the invitation to return, with all financial responsibilities tak en care of, is the most gratifying thing of all." Concerts Aboard Ship Mr. Weaver and his collegians land ed in New York Saturday and came on 'here after spending several days in the metropolis. They returned a board the Vollendam and gave one concert during their crossing. There were 400 students among the passen gers who heard this concert, and they represented 30 different colleges and universities. There were no unpleasant incidents of any sort to mar the trip. Some of the boys got a bit seasick, but they were in fine fettle as long as they stayed on land, and all of them were present at the concerts. Following half a dozen concerts in this state and Virginia, the club reached New York July 27. There the singers broadcast a program from station WE AF under the auspices of 'American Shapespeare Foundation. Six other high poweerd stations were hooked up, making the concert audi ble throughout the country. The next thing on the program was to make movietone records and reels for the Fox Studios, to be shown on the Fox circuits. Their last concert before sailing was at the Oriental Beach Club near New York. Experience at Plymouth They crossed aboard the Nieuw Am sterdam and gave five concerts on the way over, four in the student class cabins and one in first-class v ooiuu ad tuc iil VI Lit Ui. UltS snip S captain. The singers had a very uncomfort able though interesting experience on their arrival in Plymouth, England, where they landed. A special car had been ordered attached to the boat train to take them to London, but for some reason or other, the car failed to show up' and the collegians were faced with the alternative of riding in the third-class coaches from n id night until dawn or waiting over in Plymouth until next day. They were packed like sardines in those third class compartments, and few of them got a wink of sleep, but they reached Londdn early next day and then loss of sleep didn't matter much. Sang Ten Extras The Tar Heel singers were in Eng land ten days. They gave two con certs in London, one at the American Club and the other at Wigmore Hall. Both were private. Then they i-' -nt to Stratford-on-Avon and sang their most pretentious program of the tour. Kike Kyser Changes Name of Orchestra Spend Summer Playing in. Pennsyl vania and Ohio. "Kike" Kyser and His Orchestra have returned to the "Hill" and are at present furnishing music every night this week at the "Pick." "Kike" and the boys left last June immediately after the close of school and started on a tour through Penn sylvania and Ohio. While on the trip the boys found that the significance of the word "kike" in the north would make it necessary to change the name of the orchestra. Consequently they have returned to the Hill as "Kay Kyser and His Orchestra." The orchestra played many popular dance pavillions and summer resorts throughout the two states. The trip was declared a success. The boys returned to North Carolina early in September, and played for several hops in the state. They are now back on the Hill, and are expected to enliven many dances during the fall quarter. , . Buccaneers Play at Beach During Summer Back from Successful Engagement at Morehead City. The Buccaneers, popular Carolina musicians, are back on the Hill af ter a successful all-summer engage ment at Morehead City. During their eleven week sojourn at the v beach, they played for dances and concerts at the Atlantic Hotel and furnished music for several summer hops in eastern North Carolina. This orchestra, under the manage ment of Mickey Block, is open for engagements during the fall. The personnel of the organization will be increased, and applicants for the posi tions will see the manager. It was a concert under the auspices of the Society for the Rebuilding of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. A large audience attended, and the enthusiasm was so great that the club had to sing 10 extras on a program that was already two and one-quarter hours long. The critics who heard the concert were high in their praise. The next two days were spent in sightseeing in the Stratford-Oxford country. Warwick Castle and the ruins of Kennilworth Castle were a mong the places visited. Four Concerts in Paris The clubs crossed the English chan nel to Paris on August 21, and spent 17 days in and near the French cap ital. The first program was a pri vate concert given at the Hotel Lu tetia, at which were present a num ber of Tar Heels and other southern- ers. The next program was a sacred concert given in the American Church of Paris. The church was filled and very favorable reviews of the con cert appeared in the American and English newspapers. A program of Negro music was broadcast from the Compagnie Francaise Eadiophone, the strongest sending station on the Con tinent. A number of American tour ists told of their delight in hearing the concert. The Paris , program was concluded with a concert at the American Uni versity Women's Club under the aus pices of the United States Students and Artists Club. There was an over flow audience that spread out into the hallways and courtyard. Eight extra numbers were sung. Met, Many Tar Heels Ernest F. Young, of Charlotte, bus iness manager of the club, was ac companied by Ms mother, Mrs. E. F. Young, Sr., of Charlotte. Miss Betsy Bain and Miss Alice Noble of Chapel Hill were also members of the party. After spending some time in Paris and London, they took side-trips to Scotland, Belgium, and Holland. Mr. Young and his mother went from Paris to spend a few days in Swit zerland. Bill Way, Buck Beasley, C. Brantley Aycock, and John Parks al so took side-trips. A number of Tar Heel tourists heard some of the club's concerts. Among those seen were Mr. and Mrs. Max Gardner and Judge Yates Webb of Shelby; Miss Mary Reynolds, of Winston-Salem; Dr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Opie, of Burlington; Robert B. Gwynn, formerly of Leaksville, now with the National City Bank in Paris; Miss Louise Jackson of Asheville; Dr. Harry W. Chase, president of the University, and Mrs. Chase, who will remain in Europe until Christmas and who are now in Paris; Dr. A. W. Hobbs of the University faculty and Mrs. Hobbs who came back on the same boat with the club; Mr. and Mrs. Jake Morehead of Charlotte; Billy Vanstory, Jack Davis and Har ry Lassiter, University students. Frats Hake Changes In House Locations During the Summer Several changes of note have been made in the locations of campus fra ternities this year. Acquisition of new houses and movements of quar ters have caused a considerable shake up in the Greek letter organizations. The Zeta Psis have moved into their new home on Cameron avenue, and their former house is now occu pied by the Phi Delta Thetas. The Kappa Alphas have moved into quar ters in the Kluttz building, and their previous home on Fraternity Row has been obtained by Tau Epsilon Phi. The Alpha Tau Omegas are occupy ing the , stone cottage next to the home of Mrs. A,. A. Kluttz on Frank lin street, and the Zeta Beta Tau lodge has taken up abode in a new home at 211 Rosemary street. The Sigma Phi Epsilons have established themselves in the former Chi Tau house1, the previous owners of which have moved into a new home next to the Chapel Hill High School. Masons of New Bern Establish Loan Fund The University has received from J. A. Vache, Secretary of the Scot tish Right Masons of New' Bern, a check for $100 to establish a loan fund to be known as the Masonic Theater Educational Loan Fund of New Bern. This fund will be added to in the future and the proceeds of it will be used as other loan funds of the University, according to R. B. House, Executive Secretary of the University. To be sitting on top of the world isn't such a hot ambition. Consider the Eskimo. Fort Worth Press. Post. iLf5 1U V XJ v AND MORS J PRITCHARD-PATTE ) 1 YV ) UNIVERSITY OUTFITTERS j 1 HsZ . Chapel Hill, N. C. JLqV t,...imi..,....... ,...W,..iS -.. Governor Richard's enforcement of Sunday blue laws has made South Carolina famous as the state of miss ing links. Tampa Tribune. 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