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(3 CAEOLINA-VANDEBBILT GRID-GRAPH REPORT MEMORIAL HALL 3:30 CAEOLINA-VANDERBILT GRID-GRAPH REPORT MEMORIAL HALL 3:30 fi ll ' l W ii lie 1 lining CRITICS ACCLAIM OPENING OF NEW PLAY BY GREEN Enthusiastic Reception Accord ad ""House of Connelly" by Metropolitan Critics. Press reports received from New York indicate that Paul Green's new play, The House of Connelly, has received enthusias tic endorsement from the dra jnatic critics of the metropolis. The Martin Beck theatre was packed for the first performance presented Monday night by the Group Theatre under the aus pices of the Theatre Guild. Laudatory Reviews J. Brooks Atkinson, New York Times critic, who described is as "abidingly beautiful," re marked on its marvelous char acter portrayal. "It is not too much to hope that something fine and true has been started in the American theatre?-" he wrote. Percy Hammond of the New York Herald Tribune, acclaims the presentation as "notable" and adds: "The play is interest ing, the acting is fine.". Burns Mantle, reviewing for the Daily News, says enthusias tically that the actors "played it with an intensity that was fairly feverish and with Results , that were greatly to their credit." Contrasting the effect of , Mr. Green's Pulitzer prize winner, In Abraham's Bosom, and his second theatre production, The Field God, with this third play to gain a New York audience's at tention, Gilbert W. Gabreil, of the New York American, says The House of Connelly is, in his opinion, "worth all the rest of Paul Green's plays combined." He denominates it as "ten times finer" than the other two. "It is, all told," he says, "the, eve ning to be remembered as the first fine contribution of this dramatic year." The New York Evening ( Continued on page two) DR. ELISHA KANE PAYS VISIT HERE Elisha Kent Kane, former pro fessor in the Spanish depart ment of the University, who is facing indictment, in Virginia on a charge of murdering his wife Toy drowning, was in Chapel Hill a week ago. The purpose of his visit was to consult with mem bers of the faculty and physi cians who were acquainted with him and his wife with a view to obtaining evidence in the trial. Many University professors who knew MfC Kane hold the opinion that "he was not the sort of man" to commit a murder. There has been considerable speculation here as to whether or not some of the professors would be called as character wit nesses. Xeslie Reid Will Represent University At Inaugural 'The University of North Carolina will be represented by Dr. S. Leslie Reid, University Presbyterian church, 'Buffalo, New York, at the inauguration of the youngest president of the class A college in United States to head one of the oldest colleges west of the Alleghany moun tains, when William Pearson Tolley, AiM., Ph.D., is formally inducted into the .presidency of Alleghany college, a Methodist Episcopal institution, at Mead ville, Pennsylvania, Friday, Oc tober 9. .Dr. Tolley is thirty-one ;years old. Alleghany college .is 116 years, old. GARDEN CLUB TO JOIN STATE GROUP In order that the garden club of Chapel Hill may become one of the constituent units of the North Carolina Garden club it is to withdraw from the Com munity club. Its first meeting of the fall season will take place at 8 :00 o'clock Monday eve ning in the lecture room of Davie hall. ' , . A. F. Ramsey, landscape gard ener for the Lindley nurseries, will speak on "Some Principles of Landscape Gardening." KIRBY PAGE WILL MAKE TWO TALKS HERE NEXT WEEK Editor of "The World Tornor row" Will Lecture m Chanel Hill Thursday. x Kirby Page, author and lec turer on international and eco nomic problems, will address the faculty and students in both a morning assembly Thursday and a mass meeting that night at 8 o'clock. His subjects will be "Economic Stress in the World" and "Prospects of Another War." Kirby ifage, a graduate of Drake university where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, has taken graduate work at the University of Chicago, and Col umbia university. At present, he is editor of The World To morrow. Versatile Lecturer Page is widely known as au thor and lecturer on a -great va riety of social, religious, eco nomic, and international ques tions, having investigated social conditions throughout the world. Following his work as a Y. M. C. A. secretary during the World War with both the British and American forces, he became a thorough pacifist and refused to support the World War. He has been an author of a long list of religious, economic, and paci fical works. This program is expected to be of interest for. students and faculty, and all are invited to at tend. ' Manly Dormitory Election The election for Manly dor mitory took place Wednesday night with the following officers being cliosen: G. L. Thomas son, president; Ennis Collier, vice-president; B. P. Blount, ath letic manager; and the follow ing councilmen for the upper three floors: Hubert Price, How ard T. Lyon and S. E. Morton. The duty of these councilors is to preserve order every night of the school week during the quiet period which begins at 8:30 in the evening. Wilsons Entertain Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Wilson en tertained the members of -the library school at a tea given yes terday in their, home at 607 Rosemary street. ' Members of the library staff and adminis trative board also attended. The main purpose of the reception was' to welcome library students to North Carolina. Chess Players There will.be a meeting of all persons interested in forming a chess club and team in the ban quet hall of the Graham Memo. rial tonight at 7:30. .. Everyone coming to the meeting' is asked to bring a .board and men. CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1931 Program Is Completed For 1932 ; Olympic Games At Los Angele California Plans to Slake This Modern Sport Spectacle of the Xth Olympiad Surpass All Previous Events of This Nature. ; o ': First announcement of the finaland complete official v pro gram of the games of the Xth Olympiad to take place in Los Angeles from July 30 to August 14, inclusive, 1932, was made by the Los Angeles Organizing Committee, following receipt of a cable of confirmation from Count de Baillet-Latour, presi dent of the International Olym pic Committee from Lausanne, Switzerland. The program will open in Olympic stadium (coliseum) on Saturday, afternoon, July 30, with the historic opening cere mony, a part of which will be the Impressive parade of nations, in which 2000 sons and daughters of thirty-five nations, led by their respective national flags, will participate in the march past the tribune of honor. - Olympic Oath One athlete will then step from the drawn-up ranks to take the Olympic oath for all the teams of the participating na tions. As the oath is administer ed the Olympic flag will be raised;. the Olympic torch will blaze forth atop the massive peristyle of the stadium and in the presence of representatives of foreign countries, world-wide Olympic organizations, and of ficials of state, the games of the Xth Olympiad will be declared officially opened. Many other beautiful features of pageantry will mark the opening ceremony. The Olympic ga'mes will bring to Los Angeles the greatest gath ering of dignitaries ever to as semble on the Pacific coast. Mem bers of royal houses from all parts of the world will attend the opening ceremony as will official delegations from their govern ments. In accordance with Olympic traditions that the rul ing head of the nation pronounce the games opened, President Hoover will be officially invited to open the games of the Xth Olympiad. 135 Different Programs Something of the magnitude of the program is suggested by the fact that during the sixteen days the games are in progress, more than 135 distinct pro grams of competitions from fif teen branches of sports will be held mornings, afternoons and evenings at nine or more sta diumsr auditoriums or water courses. Competitions will take place DAVIDSON FRATERNITIES PLEDGE NINETY-EIGHT Ninety-eight men were this week pledged to membership in Davidson college's ten national social fraternities. The pledg ing came as the climax of two weeks of intensive rushing ac tivities which, have been in progress since the beginning of the school. The number pledged includes four men who are juniors, two who are sophomores, and ninety- tw'o members of the freshman class. This year's pledge list falls an even dozen short of the number who were so honored last year, when 110 joined the Davidson fraternities. Infirmary List The following were confined in the infirmary yesterday : S. P. Marsh, F. G. Worke, Lin woocj Ersernberg, Pete Gilchrist and Jean Lane. in the following world-wide sports : track, and field athletics, boxing, cycling, equestrian sports, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, modern pentathlon shooting, rowing, swimming, diving and water polo, weight lifting, wrestling, yachting, na tional demonstration,- interna tional demonstration and fine arts. Olympic stadium (coliseum) in Olympic Park (Exposition Park) with a seating capacity for 105,000 persons, will be the center of Olympic activity. In it will be presented, in addition to the opening and closing cere monies, the track and field ath letics, gymnastics, field hockey semi-finals and finals, equestrian jumping events and the demon strations of national and inter national sports. In addition to these competi tions the first and official an nouncements of the final results of all Olympic events regardless of where they are held, followed by the historic ceremony honor ing the countries represented by the victorious athletes, will oc cur several times daily in Olym pic stadium. Most Popular Sports Track and field, boxing, wrest ling, swimming, diving and wa ter polo and rowing are the most popular sports on the official program. . Beginning July 31 and lasting for eight days, ; Olympic stadium will be the scene of one of the world's greatest programs of track and field athletics, with champion performers of every country participating. Trials and finals will take place in the men's 400-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 100-meter race, 800-meter race, 10,000-meter .race, hammer throw, 3000-meter steeple-chase, 110-meter hurdles, broad jump, 200-meter race, 5000-meter race, pole vault, discus throw, 1,500 meter race, 400-meter race, javelin, throw, hop,; step and jump, 4xl00-meter relay, 4x400 meter relay, decathlon events and the marathon. - Events for women in Olympip stadium during the same period will include javelin throw, 100 meter dash, discus throw, 80 meter hurdles, high jump and 4xl00-meter relay. Huge Auditorium Olympic auditorium with seat (Continued on last page) GRAHAM GIVES TALK TO INTER-STATE ROTARIANS Speaking at the inter-city Ro tary Club gathering at the Caro lina Inn last Thursday night President Frank Porter Graham asserted that despite the - busi ness depression, he would strain every effort to maintain the standard of the University. He further stated that it was our duty not to lose hope in what might seem a dark hour of our history; Ted Johnson of Raleigh, was the principal Rotarian speaker; addressing the body on the sub ject of boosting the Rotary Club everywhere. Parson Gilmore of Sanf ord, talked on "Community Service." The singing was led by F.oster Barnes of Durham, while Ben Lassiter. of Oxford was toast master. Rev. Excel Rozzelle, president of the Chapel Hill club, extended a welcome to the guests. FORTY GATHER AT A.I.E.E. MEETING Professor J. E. Lear, acting head of the electrical depart ment, addressed a group of forty electrical students Thursday night in Phillips hall at the first meeting of the American Insti tute of Electrical Engineers for the year. R, F. Stainback and E. W. Winkler also delivered short talks. The objects and aims of the A. I. E. E. and its programs for the coming year were the principal matters discussed. HOUSE STRESSES INDIVIDUALISM AT PRIDAY ASSEMBLY Executive Secretary of Univer sity Gives Concept of Stu dent Life in Chapel Talk. Speaking of a university stu dent's life, the executive secre tary of the University, Robert B. House, addressed the fresh men and sophomores assembled for chapel yesterday morning. The speaker began by telling something of the English uni versity student of the fourteenth century, calling attention to the fact that the life of the scholar at that time was in many ways similar to that led by the pres ent college student. He men tioned that many Cambridge un dergraduates of long ago worked their way through college. Individualism Stressed The executive secretary urged those present to allow themselves ample time to participate in stu dent life to the fullest and best of their ability. Three things pointed out by Mr. House, to be followed by the college student were: "be yourself;" "train your self" ; and "invest yourself." The matter of. individualism was stressed by the speaker, after which he said that a university student must learn to adapt him self to varying circumstances. Discipline of study was also mentioned. In conclusion, the speaker la beled three other essentials the college man should possess, which were: a good use of the English language, executive abil ity, and an idea of what to do after finishing college. Fellowship League Meets Tomorrow evening at 7:30 students and young people, of the Methodist church will present a special program in the church auditorium. This program will consist of numbers rendered by the large Sunday school orches tra under the direction of Thor Johnson. There will also be sev eral selections by the student male quartet. The program topic is "Living Examples." - Cobbs Will Arrive Monday Wter a summer spent in sci entific work in Paris, Dr. and Mrs. Collier Cobb will arrive in New York on the Cunard liner, Sumaria, October 5. Although Mrs. Cobb will stop off in New York for a few days, Dr. . Cobb will return to Chapel Hill immedately. Henderson Reads5 Paper Dr. Archibald Henderson read a paper, "An Interesting Prob lem in Differential Equations," at the mathematics seminar held in Phillips hall Wednesday af ternoon at 3 :00 o'clock.- The staff of the mathematics depart ment and graduate students composed the audience. , NUMBER 12 PRATT LEADS IN ORGANIZATION TO AID UNEMPLOYED Theatre to Run Special Matinees at Which Flour May Be Sub stituted for Admission. A central committee has been organized with J. H. Pratt as chairman, to coordinate the ac tivities of the several charitable organizations in Chapel Hill and to direct the community's efforts for the relief of the unemployed. It will supersede the emergency unemployment committee ap pointed by the mayor last year. The keynote of the campaign is: Try to find work for those who need it. Food, clothing, and sometimes money will be given to people in distress par ticularly to "families in which there is no breadwinner but able-bodied men will be expected to return some sort of service for whatever stfpport they receive; for example, they may work up on 1 the streets or upon the re storation of Battle Park. A "flour matinee" for children at the Carolina theatre today will start the movement to establish a store of supplies Every child who brings a substantial amount of flour (say, from around 10 pounds upward) will be admit ted to the show. The flour will be deposited in the lobby and later will be stored in a room, across the street in the Pickwick, offered to the committee by E. Carrington Smith, the Carolina manager. A, family without chil dren may contribute by sending Mr. Smith an order upon a gro cery store for flour. There will be a "canned goods" matinee the next Satur day morning, October 10, and a potato matinee" Saturday morning, October 17, managed upon the same plan. The central committee Was or (Continued on lart page) DUKE MED SCHOOL DOUBLES IN SIZE With a more than doubled en rollment, the Duke university school of medicine opened Thurs day, inaugurating the second year of Its existence. Last year, the medical school enrolled but seventy students, while this year's roster includes 146, an in crease of approximately 109 per cent. This year marks the first time that students are being admit ted to all four classes. In the 1930-31 term only first and third year men were enrolled. Sixty-three freshmen, f orty seven sophomores, eighteen ju niors, and eighteen seniors com pose the school. At commence ment next June, the first gradu ating class will receive their de grees of doctor of medicine. Fifty-seven colleges and uni versities scattered over the en tire nation are represented in the medical school. There are also five foreign countries with one representative each: name ico, and Scotland. Among the well-represented colleges and universities are Duke twenty-" five, University of Pittsburgh seven, University of North Caro line six, Davidson college five, Columbia university four, Uni versity of Alabama three, New York university three, Wake Forest college three, University of Florida twoj, University of Michigan two, Tulkne Univer sity' two, West .Virginia univer sity two, and Yale two. All the others are represented by one student.
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