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TJ " f - ft PLAYBIAKER BILL 3:30 P. TONIGHT THEATRE GRAIL DANCE 9-12 TONIGHT BYNUM GYM i f f VOLUME XXXVI CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1927 NUMBER 19 ft i POET ENTERTAINS LARGE AUDIENCE MTIIREADMGS Selections from Shorter Lyrics Compose Bliss Carman's Pro gram Thursday Night. POEM EXTOLLS LINDBERGH Lack of Vocal Carrying Power Hinders Carman, But Selec tions Well Received Looked 'the Part of Adventure and Nature Poet. ' Interspersing the reading of '.. some fifteen or sixteen selections from a mong his shorter lyrics with bits of personal comment upon them, Bliss Carman, one of the best known cf present day American poets, made a favorable impression upon a fairly large audience in Gerrard HaV "!Thurs day night. Tall and spare of frame 'and rather imposing in appearance, Mr. Carman, who is hailed by many critics as the poet laureate of the spirit of .wan derlust and love of nomadic adven ture "characteristic of college youth through the centuries, looked the part of the interpreter of adventure and nature love in poetry. His read 'ing was marred to some extent, how ever, by the lack of carrying power of his voice, although his enunciation was good. A group of four short nature lyrics were the selections' read by the poet. They were "Vestigia," a sunset idyll, "Marigolds," "The Iris," "in which the simple, patrician loveliness of that flower was described in very beautiful phrases, and "Roadside Flowers." The latter deals with the type of flowers that Carman de scribed as having escaped from cul tivation and gone wandering down ; the dusty ; road ' of iif Cf of "rid one knows what reason--vagabonds of the plant world. Boy Poem Next came "The Skeptic," a rather humorous sketch of a conversation be tween some of nature's creatures "The Old Gray Wall," an imposing lyric of the stone hedges which dot the New England landscape, and a stirring bit of vsrse descriptive of the gypsy lure of October and its call, to the gay life of the open road. "The Ships., of Youth," something of a poem of boy life, is woven around childhood cruises in minature ships of fancy launched in the pools left by the tide upon the beach. "My Teach ers" was written for. an annual pub-: lished by. the graduating class of a high school in California, and person ifies trees as character symbols. v "Nature Lore" presents some of the benefits and bounties bestowed by nature upon man. It was the most abstract of the entire group of selec tions. Two poems followed dealing with the Order of St. Francis and the work of its members, especially with the missions founded, by , them in California-. The latter of them was a simple rendering of an old legend (Continued on page four) OTOSRSUPFOR FRESHMAN CLASS Nominations Held Thursday With Elections to Be Run Off November 11. With Ed Hudgins, president of the Senior class, presiding as chairman in the absence of Charlie Jonas, the Freshman class nominated candidates for four class offices Thursday morn ing in Memorial hall. After a short talk to the class, in which he Advised it as to the type of men it needed for leaders, Dean Brad shaw turned proceedings over to Ed Hudgins, who received nominations for offices. The nominees for the four positions were as follows: For President:- Strudwick Nash', Worth Helm, Ed Ferrell, Alston Wat kins, and O. B. Hobbs. For Vice-President: Ned Lipscomb, Henry Baggs, C. R. Baucom, "Sonny" Jordan, Alec Yarborough, and Stanley Moore.- V ' For Secretary: Wayne Albright, Bill Carbine, Ikey Manning, and Ly man Cotten. '')';' : - For Treasurer: Bill Bateman, Paul Wimbish, Clyde Dunn, Norman Brian, Dick Speer, and Elwood Goodson. The election of these officers will be held on Armistice Day, November lith. . ' ' Lusty-Lunged Cheerios With Band and Students Will Be at V. M. I. to Cheer for Team Special Train Takes Petty Waddill and Cheering Unit to Lexing ton,, Virginia Expenses Are Being Met by Athletic Association- Last night, at ten-thirty, a special train pulled out of Chapel Hill, carrying two hundred and fifty of Peddy Waddill's lusty lunged Cheerios and a good num ber of the student body to Lex ington, Va., where the Tar Heels will face V. M. I.'s Flying Cadets today at eleven o'clock. The Cheerio's, well known and fam ous cheering unit of the Univer sity, have been undergoing an in tense schedule : of practice and training for the past week pre paring for this occasion. A short meeting of the Cheer ios was held Friday morning in Memorial Hall for a few last min ute instructions and yells, and the unit, was dismissed to meet again Saturday morning in Lexington. Cheer Leader . Waddill stated that the same stunts would be used in Lexington that were per formed sq effectively in Raleigh last Saturday. He also said that one or two new. ones had been added to the repertoire. The Ath letic Association is paying the ex- Tar aoy nieven wins From State Frosh 18-0 Second Grail Dance Of Quarter Will Be Held in Gym Tonight The comparatively dull fall social season will be enlivened to-.. -night when the Order of the Grail gives its second dance of the quar ter, in Bynum Gymnasium. Al though many frequenters of the ballroom will follow the call of the . pig-skin to Lexington, Va., to witness the V. M. I.-Carolina struggle, the N. C. State-Carolina freshman game, is expected to at tract a good crowd to the Hill for the week-end. The dance is slated to begin at : nine o'clock, when the Buccaneers are to begin their playing, and will be over at twelve o'clock. . At tractive decorations -will be put in the gymn and some special entertainment provided; The num ber of stags will be limited if . found necessary. THREE ORIGINAL PLAYSTONIGHT Haymakers Present Bill They Take on Northern Tour Season Tickets on Sale. At eight-thirty o'clock tonight in the Playmaker Theatre the Carolina Playmakers will present a bill of three original plays which they will" give on the nothera tour. .The bill is given mainly for new students and a small admission price of fifty cents will be charged. Holders of season tickets will be admitted free. The three plays to be given are On Dixon's Porch, a revised edition of In Dixon's Kitchen where the scene is laid on the back porch of the Dix on's home instead of in the kitchen. For this play Samuel Seldon has de signed a set of scenery which is es pecially beautiful. In it there is the back porch closed in with a trellis covered with climbing roses. Scuffle town Outlaws is one of the most suc cessful plays ever given by the Play makers and this also will be , played tonight. The other play wil be Fix in's, by Erma and Paul Green, one of the most famous of the Playmaker productions. Season tickets will be on sale at the ticket window. Culbreth to Preach Dr.1 J. Marvin Culbreth, of Nash ville, Tenn., will preach at the morn ing and evening services in the. Meth odist Church next Sunday, Nov. 6th. Dr. Culbreth is the Religious Educa tion secretary of the Methodist church in the South, and has been in direct touch with the development of church work in state school communities for a number of years. , The visitor is a North' Carolina man and has spoken previously in Chapel Hill and other towns of the, state. ' - I penses of those Cheerios who made the Raleigh trip, and sev eral more are accompanying them at their own expense. . With the memory of the Mary land game, which Carolina won in one of the biggest upsets of the season, still fresh in their minds, the Cheerios are making the jour ney to Lexington in hope tfiat their presence and their moral support will inspire the Tar Heels to do the unexpected. With their blue, and white service caps, their over-size .bows, their blue and white flags, ,. and their, powerful lungs which are certainly not the least effective part of their equip ment, and with the University band to lend rhythm and har mony, the Cheerios left last night to flaunt Carolina's colors in the faces of the Flying Cadets, and to sing the songs and the praises of both Carolina and V. M. I. The special which brings the cheering unit and the students back, will arrive at Chapel Hill at eight-thirty Sunday morning. Carolina Freshmen Completely Outclass and Outplay Wolf lets, Gaining at Will FROSH HAVE IMPROVED In the face of" weather "more icy than has been observed jhere this season, the Tar Baby foot-! ball team avenged to some ex tent the varsity defeat of " the past week by scoring a decisive 18 to 0 victory over the State College freshmen yesterday. The Carolina yearlings gained al most at will during the first half but it was a fumble that gave them their touchdown when Hudson picked a loose ball on the sixty yard line and ran forty yards for the first score. It was a fumble, however, or rather several fumbles, that kept them from further goals. The big Tar Heel line opened up holes time after time for Nash and House to crash thru for substantial gains. Can't Dropkick C During the second half the Caro linians played much better ball with better interference and less fumbling. They bunched several good gains and with' House and Michael carrying the ball chalked up two more touchdowns. Like the varsity, the yearlings lack a man to dropkick. Consequently they (Continued on page four) Playmakers Off Tovember 11 With Strong Program to Offer On Initial Famous Tar Heel Troupe Will Present Four Native Plays to North ern Audiences New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia ' Among Most Important Cities to Be Played , v Tour Is Climax of Nine Year Struggle. - - o ' . (By Joseph Q. Mitchell) The Carolina Playmakers, the dra matic group at the University of North Carolina that recently estab lished the first state-supported thea tre in America to be devoted to the development of a native drama, will journey northward on November 11 to appear for the first time before a theatrical-hardened, cynical New York audience. . Southern dramatic circles are eager ly awaiting the event, wondering just how students acting in classroom written plays will be received by the sophisticated metropolitans. Three performances are to be given in New Ybrk in Earl Hall at Colum bia University, the stage for which was designed by Hatcher Hughes, na tive Tar Heel, and Milton Smith, both members of the Columbia faculty. One performance is to be given under the auspices of the University of NorthCarolina Alumni Association in New York and two are under the aus pices of the Writers Club. The dates weidemeyerand swam hall for holidaydances Plans Completed for Thanksgiv ing Hops Given Annually By German Club. FEES DUE BY NOVEMBER 15 New Finance Plan Effective in German Club This Year Five i Dances on Schedule Friday and Saturday of Holiday. . l Finishing touches have been put on, the plans for Thanksgiving dances, and the German Club Executive com mittee expects this set 'of hops to be highly successful. Weidemeyer has been engaged to play for the five dan ces to be held in : Swain .Hall. These dances will take place Friday after noon, November the twenty-fifth, from four until six o'clock, Friday evening from ten until .two, Saturday morn ing from eleven till one, Saturday afternoon from four until six, and Saturday evening from ten until twelve. The 1 sponsors of these hops will be decided upon sometime in the near future. , Members and prospective members of the German Club are requested to pay their dues as soon as possible. Section II, paragraph six of the Con stitution, of the German Club reads as follows : "The dues of the members of the German Club for each college year shall be paid on or before the first day in November. Failure to pay by the specified date shall operate as an au tomatic suspension of membership, suspended members being allowed none of the privileges of the club. Suspended members may be reinstat ed into the enjoyment of fuli privi leges of. the club by the payment of a sum of money equal to the amount of the yearly dues and one-half the amount of the membership fee. Any person whose membership is allowed to lapse for the period of one college year, while said person is a student at the University of North Carolina, shall lose his former membership, and must make application as any 'other person not a member of the club." However, as a new finance plan was worked out this- year and was only recently adopted, the time limit for the payment of dues has been extend ed to November the fifteenth. , The new finance plan effective this year is: .'. "I. That every man who wishes to become a member of the U. N. C. German Club shall pay ten dollars as an initiation fee. , "II. That every member, having paid his initiation fee, shall pay twelve dollars as his yearly dues. III. For each of three sets of dances namely, Thanksgiving, Eas ter and Finals an additional fee of three dollars shall be pai by each member, provided that he is exempt from this when not in attendance. "IV. That the above plan be regu (Continued on page four) Northern Invasion are Friday night, November 18, and Saturday : afternoon and ' night, Nov, 19. In Philadelphia the Tar Heels will play in the 'Forum, for Which an audience of 3,000 has already been guaranteed. Growth of Playmakers . - ine in ew xork engagement is m striking contrast to the seven long years in which the Playmakers pion eered on the simple platform stage of Chapel Hill graded school here. It demonstrates in- a colorful way the progress the group has made under the guidance of Prof. Frederick' H Koch, the founder, in developing na tive dramatic talent, and in giving the people a means of expressing their lives and the legends . and - history which have colored their days. The organization has -already made 25 tours, playing in every section of the state, and into Georgia and Vir ginia. They have gone as far north as Baltimore and Washington and as far . south as Savannah. Everywhere (Continued on page thre) Galaxy of Stars Battle In Lexington Today as Carolina Meets !! Defensive Halfback f ""VMS; Harry Lassiter has been playing a good game at half this year, though bis best work has been on defense and running intereference rather than in spectacular offensive play. This is his second year in varsity togs,' and indications are that he will be a val uable man to remain over for next year. Grid-O-Graph Will Record Results of Game This Morning This morning at eleven o'clock Grid-O-Graph reports of the Car-olina-V. M. I. game will be given in Memorial Hall as each play is sent over the wires from Lex ington, it .was announced by C. W. Woollen, graduate manager of athletics, last night. A nominal admission will be charged. The Carolina-V. M. I. game will be the curtain raiser of a rare novelty in the sports world, a football double header. Today the annual home-coming celebra tion of W. & L. and V. M. I. graduates is being carried -out in Lexington, and Washington and ; Lee will clash with Virginia jn the afternoon, after the V. M. I. Carolina game. . BIG GRAIL DANCE FOR NOVEMBER 12 Kay Kyser to Furnish Music Other Entertainment. Kav Kvser and his Orchestra will - i lurnisn music, lur nic uiau luiuce i -c j-v. : l j next Saturday night, it was announced yesterday by the treasurer of the Grail. Entertainment of a special nature is being planned for intermis sion while the decorations for the oc casion are expected to follow out Dav idson and Carolina color schemes. Bynum gymnasium will be the scene of the hop, in all probability, as it is not" thought likely now that Swain hall can be secured. There will be a dance in Durham that night, however. This may tend to relieve congestion. . It is planned to make this the big gest and most successful dance of the season. Already indications are that there will be an abundance of girls here for the week-end, the Davidson game attracting many visitors to the Hill. Junior Prom Leaders Are Elected Thursday The German Club members of the Junior class met in Metoorial Hall at one-thirty o'clock Thursday after noon, November th? third, and elected the following men as leaders of the Junior Prom: 'leader, Charles Grimes; assistant leaders, Tom Coxe and John Anderson. The New Ford ( There is a report, which seems to have some authority behind it, that one of the new Ford models will be in Charlotte this week. J , S ... . Today's Clash Marks Nineteenth Meeting over 34 Year . Period. TAR HEELS WIN ELEVEN Majority of Games in Past Marked By Spectacular Indi vidual Playing Both Teams Have Stars on Field Today. Today the Tar Heels are in Lexington, Va., to meet the Fly-, ing Cadets of Virginia Military Institute in a game that has al ways been one of the most color ful of all Dixie intercollegiate, gridiron matches. " Almost always the two elevens pre sent a coterie of stars to vie with each other for individual honors, and those same luminaries have contrib uted play in years past that fairly' scintillated. "Today's clash marks the nineteenth meeting over a " period of 34 years, and during that three and a half decades the Tar Heels show eleven games won, five lost and two tied. The Cadets carried off the bacon in the first game way back in 1894 when Coff een, their' star halfback, galloped the' length of the field twice to gain a 10 to 4 victory. Since that time, however, the rival ry has assumed a distinct Blue and White tint. Since the World War Carolina has taken four games and dropped three, with, the Cadets win ning two of their three in 1919 and 1920. Their other win was in 1923 by a 9 to 0 count. "Red" Johnson Runs. Grid fans of a reminiscent bent will remember a flying dervish named Leach who romped almost single handed to a 29-7 victory in 1919, and in 1920 he collaborated with Jimmy Stuart in swamping the Heels on Em erson Field 23 to 0. In 1921 the recent coloring was changed. A dash of red from the sor rel topknot of "Red" Johnson, Caro lina's All-Southern halfback, mingled with, the gray of a chill November afternoon to leave a dominant color of Blue and White. Johnson reeled off 353 yards from scrimmage that day and was instrumental in. all the Tar Heel scores in a 2C to 7 win. In 1922 the laurels rested -on the classic brow of Jack Merritt, North Carolina fullback; Merritt carried the. ball every time for eight straight plays and bucked the line the length of the field in the final four minutes to" give the Tar Heels their winning margin in a 9 to . 7 victory. That game gave the Carolinians, a Con ference title and earned Merritt an All-South Atlantic berth. (Continued on page four) TRACK MEN WIN FROM DUKE TEAM Cross-Country and Relay Teams Beat Visitors Decisively - ' Here Yesterday. The Tar Heel cross country and i-e-lay teams both turned in decisive vic tories over the Duke Blue Devils yes terday afternoon. In the cross country race the Caro lina harriers won by the score of 20 to 37.' Two Tar Heel men, Pritchett and Henderson, tied for first and sec ond places, while Fisher, another Tar Heel, took third place. The order in which the runners finished follows : -Pritchet (C), Henderson (C), Fish er -(C), Tuttle (D)Woodard (D), Barkiey (C), Doxey (D), Elliott (C), Winecoff (D),' Brown (C), Coxe (C), Owens (D), Long (D), and Swain (D). Elliott, ne of Carolina's out standing track stars, seemed out of his usual form this afternoon, finish ing eighth. The time of the race was 21 minutes 55 seconds. . , .The Carolina . relay , team . romped away with the Duke quartet, taking the lead in the first quarter and hold ing it throughout the other quarters. The teams were: for Carolina, Hor- ney, JHarrison, Smith, and Nims; for Duke, Pegram, Gibson, Baum, and Erwin. The time was 3 minutes 35 seconds. - . ' 3 The next meet for the Tar Heels will.be the Southern Conference cross-' : country meet, scheduled for Chapel Hill, November 19.