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T H E TAR HEE L
Tuesday, April 9, 1923
Leading Southern College Tri
weekly Newspaper
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cember (holiday period) and the
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$3.00 out of town, for. the college
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Harry Galland .....-. Assistant Editor
Assistant aaxtor
Assistant Editor
Sports JZditor
Glenn Holder
John Mebane
Will Yarborough
Reporters
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Sherman Shore
W. C. Dunn
J. P. Jones
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J. C. Williams
E. H. Denning
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J. E. Dungan
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v J. P. Huskins
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Advertising Staff
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Tuesday, April 9, 1929
TAR HEEL TOPICS
Because we don t like the word
paragraphics, with its contorted form;
pair of gripics; because we always
did like to be a-changing things; in
other words, for no good reason a
all. we have re-named this column
Tar Heel Topics. So be it!
Own
, "Students Will Pick Their
Entertainment" headlines our mus
tached managing editor. A darn fine
chance for a good leg show to secure
-a booking.
No one will deny that the
Senior president, Red Green,
colorful character.
new
is a
the dictate of our personal knowledge
and inclinations. Whatever else our
editorials may be, they will convey our
honest'i and candid opinions. It is
doubtful indeed that much of bur time
and space will be devoted to prosely
tizing. ,
Thus begins another long run of the
Tar Heel limited. We have cut off
he air, opened the throttle, and pull
ed her out of the division station.
Next fall she is to become a daily ex-
TTM1 1 1 " ' "LI-
press, witn tne neip 01 our capauie
crew, composed of Alexander, Ehr
hart, Galland, Mebane and many
another stalwart typewriter pounder,
we hope to bring her to the end of
this journey in fine style.
Shades of Carrie
Nation and W. J. Bryan!
You can't buy cigarettes or a
Coca-Cola in Chapel Hill during
church hours Sunday mornings and
evenings. But the devotee of Luckies
may. secure his favorite substitute for
a sweet at Sutton's during these
hours, free gratis for nothing; and
they'll sell you a dope anywhere in
town if you permit them to put a
little cherry syrup into it, hus add
ing the dignity of the title "cherry
dope" to the concoction.
Probably the village fathers pre
supposed that church attendance
here would be stimulated by the
passage 01 "JBlue .Laws." 11 tne
modern collegian is prevented from
lighting a fag or drinking a dope
he will turn his attention to considera
tion of the higher concerns of the
spiritual man! Maybe; but our ex
perience is that tremendously more
than prohibition of the sale of
dopes and fags during a few hours
each Sunday is necessary if collegi
ate morals are to be improved.
No, we aren't getting all hot and
bothered about the Chapel Hill blue
laws, as a John Held flapper would
express it. Indeed, the anti-cigarette
ordinance appeals strongly to our
Scotch instincts, since it has given
rise to the distribution of free
smokes. ,
All ordinances of the so-called blue
law variety seem to us inane, how
ever, and the Chapel Hill ordinances
are so utterly inane that the term
asinine describes them quite ade
quately. Laws or ordinances can
hardly make a collegian any less a
sinner. Indeed, most collegians, like
newspaper men, are lost anyway: so
what's the use ?
The Theatre
An umpire was killed last week
while riding in a bus with the Cornell
University baseball team. He should
have known better.
Love is a disease, declares a French
scientist. Better put some more beds
in the infirmary, Doc Ab.
Two of the campus politicians car
ried .a banjo and a guitar to the co
ed shack Thursday, entertained the
fair ones with dulcet strains, and then
transported them to the polls to vote
for "the right man." To what depths
of iniquity these politicians stoop ! -
The Tar Heel
Limited Pulls Out
baturday the Spearman heaved a
prodigious sigh of relief, wiped the
sweat from his bald brow, and threw
a handful of sand upon his smoking
typewriter. ,
"Here you are, my boy," he chort
led, grinning with demoniacal glee.
"I'd give you the office keys, but all
the locks are busted. The Tar Heel's
yours- and may God have mercy upon
your soul!"
In this manner did the South's so-
called premier collegiate tri-weekly
change hands. And it is with a full
sense of the task ahead that we take
over the battered contraption known
as the Tar Heel editor's desk.
We have no illusions about the job
facing us; therefore we shall have no
definite editorial policy. To have the
news columns present clearly and con
cisely all campus happenings of in
terest, excepting only the ndecent;
to keep our editorial page readable
and free from narrow prejudices;
these things we shall attempt to do,
and they will be our primary concerns
We shall cuss or praise entirely at
The Student Body Corpse
Shows Some Life
With an unexpectedly high total of
1250 votes, last Thursday's election
conclusively demonstrated that inter
est in politics and outside activities
here is not in the corpse-like condition
pictured by the calamity howlers.
After twenty-one of the thirty
three student offices had been auto
matically filled the preceding Friday
when but one candidate was nominat
ed for each of the places, past-mortem
was held over outside activities here.
by the local pessimists. Their dole
ful lamentations were silenced by the
size of Thursday's vote.
Last year when all but five or six
offices were warmly contested in the
general elections, thetotal vote was
in the neighborhood of fourteen
hundred. At the time the enrollmen
was two or three hundred more than
at present. In comparison the vote
in this year's election, considering the
large number of uncontested offices
was exceptionally large. The mos
liberal of the pre-election estimates
placed the vote at not more than a
thousand.
Yep, there is a lot of life in tha
student activities corpse yet. Caro
lina men are not so lazy and disinter
ested as superficial appearances would
seem to indicate.
Mrs. Hulda Wills
Weds R. R. Benson
By J. E. DUNGAN
The Twenty-third Bill of Original
Plays presented at the Carolina Play
maker Theatre, Friday and Saturday
nights, April 5 and 6. Produced by
Hubert Heffner.
The Playmakers brought out a new
bill of "one-acts" last, Friday and
Saturday nights. Comparatively
speaking, it was not as good as any
of their other bills, shown so far this
year. The performances held your
attention, but the Playmaker elan
vital of other times was lacking. This
year (critics always say it) has been
a poor one for the local theatre, and
not being well enough acquainted with
the cause we merely aim at pointing
out that the result could be far bet
ter. From the point of view of sub
ject matter the plays would have been
well chosen had, however, they been
better plays.
To say that The Lie is the worst
play that the Carolina Playmakers
have produced this year is altogether
too mild. Thirty good minutes were
wasted on a patient characteristically
Playmaker audience during which
time puppet characters creaked on
their hinges back and forth across the
stage. Miss O'Connell had an oppor
tunity to do some excellent character-
ization when she wrote the play but
instead she gave us an exasperatingly
slow and tedious play with the bare
suggestion of a plot.
The motive compelling Reverend
Blanton to lie seemed rather weak,
but perhaps that was due to the act-
1 1 it 1 1
mg, wnacn wasn t aitogetner so
smooth. If "the play's the thing"
then we lost some good time seeing
The Lie.
THE LIE
By WUkenson O'Connell
The Reverend Mr. David
Blanton......:........ Howard Bailey
Alexander Blanton Lawrence Miller
Captain James
Wrenn Whitner Bissel
Captain James
Hmdle : ...Feter Henderson
Mistress Rachel
Blanton ...Elizabeth Farrar
ieut. Mix C. M. Edson
Sergt. Smellers... ..Marvin Hunter
SCENE: David Blanton's home m
Guilford county, 1 North Carolina.
TIME. The fifth year of the War
for Independence.
Our friend, Howard Bailey, he of
the Little Theatre voice, was either
miscast or . failed in his interpretat
ion, as his piety and sincerity were
not at all convincing. ; Mr. Bailey has
remarkable voice, but we have a
faint suspicion that he rather rests
upon that plane, because his charac
terizations are inevitably the same.
There is the same pitch to his voice,
the same expression of his eyes, and
when he acts with his face you al
ways remember Dr. Emanuel, or
Charlie, or some other of the numer
ous characters that he has played. It
appears that the Playmakers impose
upon Mr. Bailey by including him
in everyone of their bills, squeezing
him in whether or not he fits. The
actor is there in 'Mr. Bailey but it
doesn't always come out.
Miss Farrar is an excellent actress,
and last week-end she took an insipid
role and together with that estimable
amateur, Peter Henderson, pumped,
by dint of good acting, some sem
blance of life into the puppets of
The Lie. Henderson, himself, was
perfect.
Whitner Bissell, capital in vacillat
ing characterizations, did well, how
ever, in his role as the Continental
Captain. Bissel is careful of his
diction and makes the best of every
part, however meager.
Marvin Hunter, a new Playmaker,
enacted the part of Captain Hindle's
today with excellent finish, while
Lawrence Miller and C. M. Edson as
Alexander Blanton and Lieutenant
Mix filled in well.
un the acting m the play as a
whole, the various hand to hand strug
gles that occur throughout the piece
remind one of a baby playing "pat-a-
cake."
Elizabeth Farrar's setting for the
play was the best set used for the
bill, although the solitary hew chair
glared out at the audience from all
the old ones.
BLACK WATER
By Loretto Carroll Bailey
Kizziej- Loretto Carroll Bailey
A wedding of much interest was
solemnized here last night when Mrs,
Hulda Wills and R. R. Benson, both
of Chapel Hill, were united in mar
riage in a quiet ceremony performed
in the home of the bride.
. The ceremony was mtormal and
was witnessed only by members of the
bTides' family and a few close
friends. Rev. C. Excell Rozzelle, o:
the University Methodist Church, of
ficiated.
Kate Nettina Strobach
Katherine.... ......Lois Warden
Carl Rogers.... George Ehrhart
Danny. .:... .........Lawrence Thompson
SCENE : The living room of the
Matthews, home in a mill section of
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
TIME : Three years following Kath
erine's marriage to Carl Rogers.
Mrs. Bailey plans to make a long
playout of the cycle of plays she is
writing. , It started way back when
Loretto Carroll-was in high school at
which time she wrote a play called
The Deserter around the same set of
characters. She has, however, des
troyed The Deserter, and what puz
zles us now. is whether Black Water is
the bicycle or the tricycle of the
group.
Job's Kinfolks is better than Black
Water, and Black Water was the
best of the three plays given on the
Twenty-third bill. Mrs. Bailey has
a knack for writing masterful dia
logue, that strikes deep into the
hearts of her audience. Black Water
is unbalanced however. Kizzie, enact
ed by the author herself, is the one
outstanding character in the script,
despite the fact that the plot makes
the story Katherine's. I do not know
whether .this is Mrs. Bailey's fault
or not, but if the play goes north next
fall it should be re-written, unless
its author is prepared to be disap
pointed.
Lois Warden is a splendid actress,
and it is enough to say that she acted
up to her standard in Black Water.
Nettina Strobach has interpreted the
part of the , world-weary mother in
the two Bailey plays with finish.
George Ehrhart's part . was small,
but there has never been a better
characterization of a self ish, clumsy
mill hand to take the front right of
the Playmaker stage.
COMPANION-MATE MAGGIE
By Helen Dortch
Maggie Pollock. ...Helen Dortch
Ira...".... ......... Walter Spearman
Kate Penelope Alexander
Wilbur Johnson... ...Thomas Badger
Leonidas Norwood. John Wessel
SCENE: A farm near Goldsboro.
TIME: The present
Companion-Mate Maggie lacks the
punch that the end play of any good
bill should have. The dialogue is
fair, and the plot rotten. The situa
tion around which this play was
built is entirely too thin. Neverthe
less, on account of some capable act
ing on the part of Misses Alexander
and Dortch the play was made quite
interesting." The Playmakers shouldn't
produce it again, though.
Miss Dortch wrote the play, but
Miss Alexander ran away with the
honors in the acting department, not
that Miss Dortch wasn't good, be
cause she was. Miss Alexander did
the finest bit of acting of the entire
bill and she was on the stage for less
than six minutes.
Thomas (Tom) Badger was "some
gemmen m his white gloves and his
derby. This was Badger's first Play
maker appearance and it was a good
one.
Then there ws Walter Spearman
cast as the father of the show girl.
He was hiding behind some Play
maker whiskers and a peculiar muddy
make up, but we knew it was Spear
man. These Phi Beta Kappa Tar
Heel editors - just simply can't hide
behind negro make-up and speech
John Wessel the other actor in the
play was cast as the true love of the
"artist".
The colored makeup with the single
exception of Msis Alexander's was of
a very strange shade. We have
never seen any colored boys or' gals
around "these hyah parts with none
sich."
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The numbers played by the Univer
sity Faculty Orchestra provided .a
very definite relief from the groans
of the borrowed phonograph used oc
casionally by the Playmakers.
pay either all or part of their college
expenses from part time jobs.
Glee Club Rehearsal
; There will be a very important re
hearsal of the Glee Club this after
noon at-5 o'clock in the lecture room
of Person Hall, Mr. Troxell, guest
director of the club will conduct the
rehearsal. . Numbers to be sung on
the forthcoming tour will be prac
ticed, and a full attendance of regu
lar members is necessary.
Influenza has broughjb out more
relief suggestions than any other re
cent malady.
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No man ever had any luck making
love to a woman who was conscious
of looking her worst.
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advertising in the TAR HEEL.
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Monday, April is, 8 p.m.
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Student Bureaus
To Aid Collegians
Professional Guidance and Employ
ment Bureaus Established at
University of Florida.
Gainesville, Fla. -Students at the
University of Florida are to profit by
professional guidance and employ
ment bureaus established by the
university president, Dr. John J.
Tigert, former national commissioner
of education.
Dr. Tigert says many students drift
from one course to another, seeking
easy subjects, rather than trying to
fit themselves for useful careers. He
believes a service of professional
guidance will aid the student during
his first year m school, and that
fewer students will skip from one
college to another, to cause economic
waste to the universities and to the
students themselves. '
Freshman intelligence tests have
been given at the University here
several years and have proved help
ful to the deans in cases where men
have failed in their studies. Ac
cording to Dr. Tigert's plan, the scope
of these tests will be increased with
special attention given to the indi
vidual's background and special apti
tudes. ...
In the past? graduates have depend
ed on their particular deans to obtain
employment for them. The new
bureau will take over much of that
work. Numbers of students here
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pleased. Mrs. Vickers has the happy faculty for assisting in the
preparation for such functions and will cheerfully render her as
sistance to make such gatherings a huge success. For those as
sociations and organizations which like to have dancing as a
feature of their program we offer our dance floor. For a simple
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