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BUTTITTA'S PLAYTHINGS PLAYMAKERS THEATRE TONIGHT 8:30 r 7 X WRESTLING TONIGHT CAROLINA-V. M. I. TIN CAN 7:00 fir1l v "f,f f I IT" rr ; - ' rs I W) ' I Hi VOLUME XXXIX CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931 NUMBER US DELEGATES FROM: STATE COLLEGES OPEN Y MEETING prominent Speakers To Address Student Volunteer Conference In Session Here Today. The State Student Volunteer -Conference of North Carolina y. M. C. A.'s opened here yes terday afternoon at two o'clock. Delegates were registered at the llethodist church, after which they were carried to the homes -where they will stay while in Chapel Hill. After registrations, the dele gates were entertained at an in formal tea in the Methodist church, in which all sessions of the conference will be held. In the evening, the delegates as sembled for the first time to or ganize, and at nine o'clock, the conference was formally open ed with an address by Prof essor J. M. Connally, of Payne col lege, Augusta, Georgia. His topic was: "Human TJNeed and World Christianity." The program for today opens . with the morning worship from eight-thirty to eight-forty-five which will be led by Mrs. J. E. K. Aggery. Following this, ad dresses and group discussions will be in progress until twelve thirty o'clock. The first talk, "Economic Disorders in the World," will be given by Fay Campbell, the director of the Y. M. C. A. at Yale University. Fol lowing Miss Campbell's talk, Dr. Elbert Russell, dean of the school of religion at Duke 'Uni versity, will deliver an address on "Ignorance and Superstition in the World." Dr. McNeall Po teat, pastor of the ' Pullen Memorial church in Raleigh, will conclude the morning program with an address, using as his subject "The Inadequacies of Non-Christian Religions." In the afternoon, Lee Phillips, a young negro student and poet from Howard university at Washington will speak on "The (Continued on next page) . Experienced Cast Will Enact Parts In Unusual Play Playthings, Anthony Buttit- ta's three act comedy of illusion, which is to be presented as an experimental production at the Playmakers Theatre this even ing at eight-thirty, has an un usually rlne cast. Walter Groty ohann, director of the produc tion, has selected a versatile and competent company composed of Whitner Bissell, Eve Brickman, and Harold Baumstone. These three actors play the roles of seven characters. This, of course, is made possible only by the unique technique employed by the author in writing the play. Whitner Bissell is cast in the roles of Shirley and Cecil In gram. He has appeared in many Play maker productions during the past three years. Bis sell played the part of Aslaksen, j-i a j i me moderation printer, in : LAW ASSOCIATION: DANCE PRESENT! Presidents of Three Law Classes Lead Annual Ball in Bynum Gymnasium. TAR HEEL STAFF GETS FREE SHO' Budget Recommends Last night the Law School Association held their annuil dance in Bynum gymnasium be tween nine and one o'clock. Th'3 gym was beautifully decorated in. the law school's colors of red and. white. Illumination for the affair was provided by box lights. The chaperones at the dance were Dean and Mrs. Charles T. McCormick; Professor and Mrs. R. H. Wettach; Professor and Mrs. A. C. Mcintosh; Professor and Mrs. M. T. Van Hecke; Professor and Mrs. H. P. Win ston; Professor and Mrs. Albert Coates; Professor and Mrs. M. S. Breckenridge; and Professor and Mrs. F. B. McCall. Henrik Ibsen's famous play, An Wimnma w,w j Enemy of the People m the fall School: Association, with Lxiss ar;n! ea xne Martha Goodrich of Henderson- roie or joe, the youthiul invent- ville; Martin Kellogg, president or, in George Kelly's clever do- nf thfi vpar law , H mestic comedy, The Show Off. Miaa jQT1 Oni fof i,ess tnan a month ago Bissell ville ; MacDonald Gray, presi t L P18 in dent of the second year class, a-'wu& uy,ub and Jack Ward, vice-president of the first year class, with Miss isisseii nas also appeared as Captain James Wrenn in The Lie, a play of the American Rev olution, and as Louie Nichols in Graveyard Shift. Molly Allen of Raleigh. This, evening the tea-dance of the three law fraternities, Phi Delta Phi, Delta Theta Phi, and Manager Smith Entertains at Preview of "Scandal Sheet," a Newspaper Story. - The entire staff of the Daily Tar Heel was entertained last night by E. Carrington . Smith, manager of the Carolina Thea tre, at a pre-showing of the pic ture, "Scandal Sheet," starring George Bancroft, Kay Francis, and Clive Brook. The picture immediately followed the last showing of "Inspiration." Man aging Editor Dungan and about twenty staff , members were present. The manager of the theatre chose this picture since it is a very realistic romance of the newspaper world. It presents the rise and fall of Mark Flint in his thrilling career as news boss of the "Scandal Sheet." Many of the adventures and fates of the newspaper business are illustrated in the picture. George Bancroft played the part of the editorial boss in his two-fisted quest for news; Kay Francis takes the part of Mrs. Flint ; and' Clive Brook repre sents the banker, Noel Adams. The whole cast was well picked, and exhibited a superior style of acting! Flint's rule in the game of digging up and revealing all the scandal possible was, "If it's $800,000 For University Upkeep APPROPRIATION IS MORE THAN THAT RECEIVED IN 1930 Eve Brickman plays the roles Phi Alpha win take place of Sarah and Sonia Ingram in Playthings. She was cast in the role of Mrs. Hinkle in Joe Fox's comedy Sam r Hinkler-Fire maw, which was presented last fall. " Harold Braumstone, a new comer to the Playmaker stage, takes the part of three charac ters, a different character in each act. Braumstone plays the Man, Stanley, and Busch. Walter Grpttyohann has been in the gym between six and' seven-thirty. The decorations will be the sa,-,,;-. - . - s ' - ---- - - - same as those used for the Law School Association's dance. Jelly Leftwich ! and his University Club Orchestra will provide the music for both affairs. Construction Begun On Memorial Tower The bell tower which is being connected with the Playmakers constructed on the campus back for the past four years in almost of the library as a gift of John every conceivable position- actor, technical worker, and di The leading magazines and periodicals of America have Praised the art of Miss Gay Mac Laren, who will appear here Monday at eight-thirty in Memo rial hall under the auspicies of the student entertainment com mittee. At that time she will Present Helen's Boys, Ida Lubenski's well known play, in its entirety, From The Billboard we read : "Gay MacLaren is really a dra matic medium through which every type of character from 'Juliet' to 'Simon Legree' can speak and act with perfect free dom and uncanny reality. No artist in recent years has had the phenomenal success achieved fcy Miss MacLaren. She is con sidered by many the most U1e artist presented to the American public." After Miss MacLaren gradu atd from Mrs.. Manning's school in Minneapolis, Mrs. Man ning hastened with her girl pro to New York. Brooklyn institute, where genius was ont to disport itself, wasn't in terested in juveniles. But it happened that Leland Powers, faster monologist, was there jlving Twelfth Night, and after - J6 had finished his performance he said he would listen to the & from Minneapolis. She un itatingly went upon the Motley Morehead and Ruf us Patterson is to be 176 feet tall to the top and approximately twenty feet square. The base will be a pedestal of limestone steps surrounded at the bottom by an arcade of twelve feet. At ; the top will be a four face clock stage just vacated and before with glass dials illuminated from Towers, Director Franklin the rear, and with a beacon Hooper, and the editor of The light on the top. The date set for Brooklyn Daily Eagle, she gave the completion of this structure scenes from the play. is the Thanksgiving game be- The men were so favorably tween Carolina and Virginia at Gay MacLaren Stands Unique Among Dramatic Recitalists impressed that they at once ad vised the authorities at the Brooklyn Institute to put her on the program. that she was the most unusual girl he had ever seen, and add ed that she was an artist. which time it will be dedicated. FACULTY ORCHESTRA WILL Powers declared PLAY CONCERT IN RALEIGH The Senior Class of Meredith College is sponsoring a program to be played by the University They put her in the Brooklyn Faculty Chamber Orchestra un A? il. - J? I institute repeating xne perior- der the direction of Lamar mance to audiences that over- strinerfield at the Mprprlith f!nl- filled the auditorium. The hge auditorium tonight at eteht-J Brooklyn Eagle tront-paged her, thirty. anu uuiw f - - The program will be the as a aiseovery. r rum inai snTT1p ih . nnfX vono1,r X 4-1, MnnT o fart Vi o a KftOTI " uus yxj iua-u xx. sented in the Carolina Play- known m tne papers aim uux- makers theatre stringfield will zines as what General Smedley be assisted by Adeline McCall; Girl Show Company," and has been busy before audiences mar velling at her unique gifts. Powers lived his characters; iiUtler CaiieO ner, XIIC V1AC" and D. A MnPorann lir'cf Campen Elected At a meeting of the sopho readers, impersonators, actors more class yesterday morning, create their parts, but Gay Mac Laren does none of this. Her peculiar mentality photographs the play, the words, tones, move ments, personalities, all that the audience sees and hears on the stage on a memory film. Then when she goes on the stage, she reproduces all this from memory. T. Ben Camnen was elected over Jim Hubbard for second assistant dance leader for the sophomore hop by a vote of 109 to 64. The election was .held as result ot a close race for this position at the sophomore smok er in which no one received a majority. news, print it." This he prac ticed unscrupulously, and never spared anyone from the shame of his paper. All his staff ibved -him ' in his v humor - and feared him in his wrath. No person had seen him flinch un til he was faced by the fact that his wife had betrayed him for the love of the banker, Adams. When he discovered the infi delity of his wife and her affair with the banker, he did not for get his policy. Tt was news, and he printed it. His staff was as-. tonished when he sat down and dictated a story scandalizing himself, his wife and the bank er, but that Was his creed and he stood by it. " The grief was too much for even the flint-hearted Flint. ' He ended his romantic career when he killed Adams and was sent to prison to face the penalty for first degree murder. It is hard to sympathize with such a man, but easy to admire his courage. After the show many of the staff expressed their pleasure with the film, praising the act ing as well as the impressive plot. A.S.M.E. Will Show Westinghouse Moyie Monday, night at seven-thirty o'clock, members of the Univer sity chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will see a Westinghouse picture on the steam turbine. This meeting will serve as the regu lar meeting of the . A. S. M. E and will convene in room 206 Phillips hall. W. M. Gallant, field represen tative for the Westinghouse company in Raleigh is bringing the picture here. The film shows many important and interesting details of' the steam turbine. - The A. S. M. E. welcomes stu dents of the other engineering schools to be present also. Hobbs Announces Requirements For Spring Registration . Announcement has been made by . Dean A. , W. Hobbs, of the college of liberal, arts, in regard to the regulations concerning registration in the spring quart er. ; Dr. Hobbs calls attention to the University rules in regard to eligibility for registration. The rule reads : "A freshman must pass two courses in the first two quarters, and five courses in the first three quarters. After the freshman year, a student must pass at least one course each quarter, four courses in two suc cessive quarters and seven courses in three, consecutive quarters. Deficiencies may be made up by correspondence or in summer school, in which case only credit exceeding one course credit so obtained shall count for readmission. "By two successive quarters is meant the last two quarters of residence, and by three succes sive quarters is meant the last three quarters of residence." "All students," the dean said, "should assure themselves that they have complied with the above ruling before registering or the spring quarter; if this is not done and the student re gisters without fulfilling these requirements, the registration will have to be canceled. State College Gets Recommenda tion for $415,000 and N. C. . C. W. for $408,000. VOTING IS CLOSE The regular monthly meeting of the "Friends of German" will take place Sunday afternoon at he home of Dr. E. C. Metzen- thin, on Hillsboro .avenue, at four o'clock. The meeting will be' spent with the practice of German songs and the playing of German games. The discus sion for the afternoon will be 'Methods and Opportunities for Travel in Central Germany." Anyone interested in the study of German is cordially invited. Koch in Alabama Jends of German After an all-afternoon argu ment between widely divergent factions, the joint appropria tions committee Thursday voted to recommend an appropriation of $800,000 for the University, and approximately $415,00 for State College, and $408,000 for N. C. C. W. The vote was 17 to 14. The committee had previous ly raised the appropriation of the University from the $573, 600 recommended by the Ad visory Budget Commission to $875,00, the appropriation of State College from $332,000 to $450,000, and the appropriation of N. C. C. W. to $450,000 also. This is the same as the present appropriation which were re duced twenty per cent by hori zontal cuts. But when the com mittee had finished going over the bill for the first time, the increases it had made caused it to reconsider and a reconsidera tion of the institution and other appropriations were taken. The effect of the reconsideration is indicated by the fact that though the vote to increase the appro priation for the University to $875,000 was passed by a vote of over two to one, the vote Thursday was close and the friends of the University had accepted the $800,000, indicating that there were few if any among the minority who voted "no" in an effort to hold out for the $875,000. By cutting the University to $800,000 from the $875,000 re commended a week ago, the members of the committee be- ( Continued on next page) Laboratory Apparatus Bought By Caldwell In 1824 Is Still In Use Professor Frederick H. Koch left Chapel Hill Thursday for Marion, Alabama, where he will lecture at Judson College. He is expected back Sunday night. By Jack Riley Students of Dr. TCarl H. Fuss ier 's Physics 2 class were some what surprised when they were informed that some of the ap paratus they were using dated back to the beginning of the University. But this is indeed a fact. The matter was first brought up when someone commented on the age of a concave mirror used in class. An investigation re vealed the fact that not only this mirror, but several other instru ments that are still serviceable, have been used for over a hundred years. The first president of the Uni versity, Dr. Joseph Caldwell, suggested to the state legisla ture February 1824 that they ap propriate a sum of money to be used to buy books and appara tus in Europe. At that time the University was small, and peo ple throughout the state were adverse to spending much money on the little school at Chapel Hill, but the legislature finally decided to rease $6,000 to be spent for the materials suggest ed by the president. It was difficult to secure the desired things in America, and they were much more expensive in this country than in 'England, so in the summer of 1824 Dr. Caldwell left for the latter country. He purchased 979 books at a cost of $3,234.74, physical and astronomical ap paratus at a cost of $3,361.35, and the shipping made a total expense of $7,238.01, of which he paid from his own pocket $1,238.01 or the amount he ex ceeded the appropriation. This was later returned to him by the state. Dr. Caldwell bought his ap paratus from W. and S. Jones, philosophical, mathematical, and optical instrument makers, at the Archimedes No. 30, Lower Holborn, London, and the ma terial was considered the best obtainable at that time. Today, after 107 years of hard handling and abuse, there are several articles which are still serviceable, and some still carry the trade mark of W. and S. Jones. Dr. Fussier has posi tively identified one concave mirror, one convex mirror in a blackened frame, and one dia mond spotted jar as being part of the material which Dr. Cald well brought back from his trip to England. There is also one three-foot plate electric machine and one jointed electrical dis charger in the physics room which the physics professor be lieves are the same ones men tioned by Caldwell in his memo randum. -
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