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The Periodical Boon University Library Chapel Hill. II C. Whi LITERARY SOCIETIES TONIGHT NEW EAST, NEW WEST MAX MONTOR 8:45 P.M. PLAYMAKERS THEATRE VOLUME XLI CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1933 NUMBER 86 (UJ R IT MAX MONTOR TO OFFER DRAMATIC READ1GT0NIGHT Distinguished German Reader And Actor Will Appear at Playmakers Theatre. Max Montor, the distinguish ed German actor, will render selections from the best of Ger man and English literature in the Playmakers theatre tonight The program includes a selec- tion from Goethe's Prometheus an German, dealing with the re fusal of Prometheus to accept the soverign power of Zeus, and Schiller's poem, Die Kraniche des Ibykus, also to be rendered in German. Die Kraniche des Ibykus is the story of a celebrat ed singer who was loved by a flock of cranes, who attended him on a journey. When., the singer, Ibykus, was murdered the faithful cranes hovered above the guilty persons, who were mingling with the crowds, and caused the murderers to be discovered by the indignant pop ulace. English Readings In English, Montor will give a selection from Hamlet, the drama which anticipated the modern psychyo-analytical ex planation of actions by more than three hundred years. Les sing's Minna von Barnhelm, the first German drama of perman ent value produced in the eigh teenth century will be-read. The theme of Lessing's play centers around the conflict in an officer's mind between duty and honor. The structure of the play is de scribed as admirable. A selection from Schnitzler's Lieutenant s Gustl, a novelett which presents a study of the ( Continued on page two ) WO OFTER L AUDED FOR CHAPTER ON RACIAL PROBLEMS Sociology Professor Contributes To Report of Committee On Social Trends. Dr. Thomas J. Woofter, Jr., professor of sociology and statis tician in the Institute for Re search in Social Science at the University, has received recog nition for his chapter on "The Status of Racial and Ethnic Groups" in the report of the President's research committee on social trends, just published. "Under the quotas for 1924," Dr. Woofter states, "23,868 ttota immigrants were admissi ble from countries of the so- called new immigration and 140,794 from the old. The net change provided by the national orierins not. was r increase the new countries' quotas from 24, 000 to 29,000 and the decrease of the old from 141,000 to 112,- G00." "The immigrants from the new sources," continues Dr. Woofter, "continued forty-five per cent of the European foreign born in this country in 1910. This proportion increased to fif ty-four per cent in 1920 and re mained at that point in 1930." The report shows that the mrniber of immigrants from Austria is on the decline, Italians are increasing, the Greeks de clined shVhtlv. the Portuguese remained virtually the same, the Rumanians- increased consider ably, the Russians showed a de cline, and Spaniards increased. Assembly To Discuss Technocracy Tonight The much debated subject, "Technocracy," will be discuss ed at the meeting of the Phi as sembly tonight at 7:15 o'clock in New East building. The Phi will discuss the fol lowing bills: "Resolved: That the plan advocated by the Tech nocrats t reduce the number of hours in the work day and num ber of days in the work week be favored"; "Resolved: That the University continue the quarter pstel" rather than install the semester system": and "Re solved : That the . Farm Relief act as proposed bv Senator Jones be condemned." Members are requested to re turn unsold Open Forum tickets. DECORATORS WILL SUBMIT BIDS FOR GROUP OF DANCES Committee for Junior-Senior Dances Will Hear Bids for Decorat ing Job Tuesday. Bids, plans, and specifications for decorating the Tin Can for the annual Junior-Senior dances, May 12-13, will be received next Tuesday night at a meeting of the dance committee in Graham Memorial. The meeting will convene at 9:00 o'clock. Bids for printing tickets and purchasing favors will be considered. Firms or groups submitting bids for the Tin Can decoration project should plan to decorate a floor 160 feet by 85 feet that will extend from the pillars on the south side of the building to the wall on thi north. The floor will be long enough to include eight pillars on the actual danc ing space, and eight on the op posite boundary. The bids should also cover the construction of a tea garden forty, feet by sixty feet. The organization should also present full data as to the quality of material to be used, as well as the amount, and be able to submit sketches of the completed project for the com mittee. Bids should cover all trellis work, building department ex penses, electrical wiring, instal lations of amplifiers, a sound board for the orchestra, waxing of the floors, and all other inci dental expenses. The installa tion of a piano will be handled by the committee. The firms who plan to submit prices for this work are urged to bear in mind that the Tin Can shall be left in the same condition after the dances as when work is begun. Dr. Heer Will Address Local Parent-Teachers The Chapel Hill Parent- Teacher Association will conduct a meeting tonight at 7 : 45 o'clock in the high school auditorium. The principal speaker of the evening will be Dr. Clarence Heer of the University faculty and a member of the state tax commission. He' will address the group on the topic "The Fin ancial Outlook for the Public Schools During the Next Bien nial." Plans will also be made for at tendance at the state-wide Parent-Teacher meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 31 in Ra leigh. Meeting Postponed The 'meeting of Epsilon Phi Delta Cosmopolitan club, origi nally scheduled for tonight at 8:15, has been changed to next Tuesday night at the same hour. . . . Playmakers' Offerings Reflect Folk Life Outside Of This State Yet Fulfilling Purpose of Group to Present Plays for North Caro lina, Out-of -State Authors Lay Background of Plays' Among People With Whom They Are Familiar. -O- V When the Carolina Playmak ers make their twenty-ninth tour this week, the entire bill will be written bv students other than North Carolinians. Yet, the program will be one which is es sentially folk in its conception. This situation is the answer to Professor Koch's oft-repeated admonition to students to write about people and backgrounds with which they are familiar. A constant influx of out-of-state students to the playwriting classes has produced for -the Playmakers a sizable repertbrie of original plays with scenes laid outside the Tar Heel state. The dramatic organization has ex tended the significance of the expression "native drama" from the North Carolina hills to a vast national expanse. Drama of Crockett's Life Opening the bill is Davy Crockett, by John Philip Mil hous, a native of the Tennessee country in which the chief char acter of his play became famous. With a background of those hardy pioneers who pushed the early American frontier west ward, the author is thoroughly qualified to treat one of the most romantic figures in American history. Completely different in its origin is- v oster ltz-simons Four on a Heath. The writer, who comes from Atlanta, Geor gia, has defended his work as a native folk play on the grounds that his most real experiences have been in the company of such glamorous figures as John Silver, Robin Hood, and Otto of the Silver Hand. These charac PHYSICS SECTIONS WILL MEET HERE Departments From Duke, Davidson, State, and Other Colleges Will Conduct Colloquium. The physics department of the University in connection with the departments of Duke, Dav idson, State College, and other colleges of the state will conduct a colloquium at 5 :00 o'clock in Phillips hall this afternoon. The program which has been arranged by the University phy sics department includes brief talks by five members of the faculty. W. D. Williams will dis cuss the co-efficient of friction ; C. J. Craven will talk on infra red absorbition; Scott Barr on spectrum photography; and Sherwood Githens on high fre quency magnetic fields. The main address of the afternoon will be made by W. H. Basker- ville of the chemistry depart ment. He will report on his work with Professor Allison of the University of Alabama on the discovery of isotopes of ele ments. FIRE BURNS CELLAR OF MURCHISON HOME A spontaneous combustion ex plosion of gasoline in the base ment of Professor C. T. Mur chison's home yesterday after noon set fire to clothes and wood in the basement of the building. Mrs. Murchison was cleaning clothes with gasoline at the time. She immediately called the fire department which soon had the fire under control. No one was injured, but Mrs. Murchison lost a number of dresses. ters were partners in the shap ing of his fantastic interlude. Not North Carolinian, not even of the south, yet unques tionably native is George Brown's play about Tin Pan Al ley. Born and raised in New York City, he wrote Stumbling in Dreams out of his own ex periences' with his homefolks, who, in this case, happen to be songwriters. Actors From Many States The cosmopolitan motif is maintained in the casts of the plays which will resume the Playmaker custom of touring. Students from many different states will comprise the acting group for these native produc tions. In addition to North Carolina there are represented Florida, Georgia, New " Jersey, New York, and Porto Rico. The present three-day tour is the first that the Playmakers have made in two years. Trips had been abandoned because the organization felt itself financial ly unable to give the state its customary standard of enter tainment. Expense of transport ing the usual technical equip ment and the general uncertain ly of the period restrained the society from the activity which had brought it national recogni tion. - - However, at the annual meet ing of the board of incorporators of the Playmakers last spring, faculty members, University of ficials, and the president of the University, emphatically urged the directors of the dramatic group to "go on tour again, even (Continued on page two) DR. BOND'S BOOK RECEIVES PRAISE Herald Tribune Says Professor's Work On English Burlesque Poetry Is "Scholarly Investigation." English Burlesque Poetry; 1700-1750, the newly released book by Richmond P. Bond, pro fessor of English, was reviewed by the New York Herald Tri bune as a "scholarly and exhaus tive investigation into thisjpoetic form during the period when it especially flourished." A few samples of burlesque poetry were pointed out as being of special interest to the general reader, among which is "The Rape of the Lock," "that exquis ite production which can be en joyed by readers who knew noth ing of the social 'set' portrayed in the poem," and "the piece de resistance of Mr. Bond's ban quet." Other poems praised'' were "The Dunciad," Philip's "Splen did Shilling," and Henry Carey's "Namby Pamby." Bond's care ful discriminations also received praise in the review. ART STUDENTS' GUILD WILL CONVENE TODAY The art students' guild will meet with James A. McLean, North Carolina artist, at 3 :00 o'clock this afternoon in room 10 Hill music hall, in one of a series of recently established art classes. The guild, established by Mc Lean and Professor Koch, con ducts these classes under Mc Lean twice a week as the first steD in forming a school of fine arts in the University. Di Senate Will Meet To Discuss War Debts Three bills are on the calen dar for discussion tonight by the Di senate at the regular weekly meeting in New West at 7 :00 o'clock. They are : Resolved : That the inter-ally war debts be cancelled. Resolved: That the Di senate go on record in favor of rent ing Graham dormitory to self help students at cost until such a time when the University shall! need it for students who are will ing to rent it at the present ren tal rates. Resolved : That the Di senate go on record as favoring the es tablishment of a cooperative book market to replace the pres ent book exchange. LEADERS PREPARE FOR LARGE CROWD TO HEAR SPEAKER Forum Heads Expect Large Gather ing to. Be Beyond Gerrard Hall Capacity. Members of the Open Forum discussion group stated yester-' day that preparations are being made to accomodate a capacity crowd for the third lecture of the Forum series which will feature Dr. Harry W. Laidler Thursday night. Though Ger rard hall has been designated as the permanent meeting place for the series, it is probable that a larger hall may be dbtained to accomodate the large group ex pected. Scholar, master economist, and author, Laidler is perhaps one oi tne oesz autnorities in the economic field today. He is the author of several dozen vol umes, notably Unemployment and Its Remedies, How America Lives, Public Ownership Here and Abroad, Boads to Freedom, and he is co-author with Nor man Thomas of Prosperity. A thorough student of the eco nomic question, Laidler was re cently designated as one of seven Americans who foresaw the crash of 1928 and made his prophecies public prior to that time. Aside from his duties as chairman of the board of the National Bureau of Economic Research and executive director of the League for Industrial De mocracy, Laidler has found time to study law and win admittance to the New York Bar. He was awarded the degree of Ph. D. in the department of political eco nomy at Columbia University. Graduate Club Dance Plans Now Announced A formal dinner dance for members of the Shirley Graves graduate club was announced to day by Max Campbell, chairman of the social committee. The dance is set for Saturday, Jan uary 28, at 7:30 o'clock, and is limited to the men living in Smith building. Following the dinner dance will be an informal dance from 9 :00 to 12 :00, to which all grad uate students are invited. Jack Wardlaw and his varsity six or chestra will play for both dances. New Dorms to Have Smoker Residents of New Dorms will meet for their smoker Wednes day night in Graham Memorial. Following the smoker they will be the guests of E. Carrington Smith at the Carolina theatre. This is the third in the series of dormitory smokers, the men of Lewis and Old -West having al ready been entertained. TRUSTEES WILL MAKE EXECUTIVE SELECTION TODAY Heads of University Branches To Appear Before Postponed Appropriations Meeting. The full board of trustees of the University will meet this morning in the office of the gov ernor in Raleigh. A meeting of the executive committee of the trustees took place last night preliminary to this morning's convention. Because of the con flict with this trustee meeting the legislative hearing on the Greater University's budget re quest before the joint appropria tions committee of the general assembly, also set for today, has been postponed al the request of authorities acting for the Uni versity and the trustees. Besides the routine matters ;to come before the board this morn ing, action will be taken on the rocommendation of the special committee that Dr. Louis Round Wilson be elected vice-president for the Chapel Hill unit of the Greater University to succeed Dr. Frank P. Graham, who was elected president of the consoli dated university. Dr. Graham will make his annual report at this meeting. No definite date has been set for the hearing of the University before the appropriations com mittee, but it is expected to come up this week. Appearing with President Frank P..Graham be fore the body will be Dr. J. I. Foust and Dr. E. C. Brooks, heads respectively of the Greens boro and Raleigh units of the Greater University. They will speak for the divisions they rep resent while President Graham will speak for the Chapel Hill di- (Continued on page two) RITES OBSERVED FOR MOTHER; OF DEANBRADSHAW Mrs. H. S. Bradshaw Interred in Hillsboro Cemetery Sun day Afternoon. Funeral services for the mother of Dean Francis . F. Bradshaw, Mrs. H. S. Bradshaw, who died Saturday in Watts hos pital, Durham, were conducted Sunday afternoon in Hillsboro. Rev. David H. Scanlon, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Durham, officiated. Mrs. Bradshaw, who was held in high esteem and affection, was before her marriage Mary Nash, member of a.family prom inent in the history of the state. Her father, Frederick Nash, was a Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and her great uncle, General Francis Nash, was famous as a -Revdlu-tionary leader. Her great-great grandfather was North Caro lina's second governor;- Abner Nash. Her mother was Anne McLean. Mrs. Bradshaw was born at Floral College, Robeson county, and spent her childhood in Hills boro at the Nash-Kolioek school which was conducted by' her aunt. Mrs. Bradshaw was a teacher of music there for many years. She is survived by her hus band, the Rev. H. S. Bradshaw; one daughter, Mrs. J. P. Raw lings, of Mount Kisco, N. Y.; and one son, Dean F. F. Brad shaw, dean of students at the University.
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