PLAYMAKER PRODUCTION
8:30 P.M.
PLAYMAKERS THEATRE
vf
LEE AND GRUENING
8:00 P.M.
GERRARD HALL
TOLUME XLI
ROMAN'S LODGE
LEADS AVERAGES
FOR UNIVERSITY
Pi Beta Phi Leads in Scholarship
With Sigma Delta and Theta
Chi Second and Third.
Pi Beta Phi, national 'woman's
fraternity, had the highest
scholastic average of the thirty
one campus fraternities during
the fall quarter, according to of
ficial information received yes
terday. The leading . lodge's
-score was 2.41, based on a sys
tem stipulating the score 1.00
as the highest possible grade
and 6.00 as the lowest.
Sigma Delta, with a 2.44 av
erage, and Theta Chi, with 2.53,
-were second and third, respect
ively, m the standing.
Fraternity Average
The fraternity average, ob
tained from the available grades
of 429 fraternity members, was
3.14, and the general academic
average was 3.30. The lodge av
erage is the same as that of the
fall quarter last year, and the
academic score a trifle better.
Grades of professional students
in medicine and law were not
taken into account for the fall
standing.
The following fraternities
were above the fraternity aver
age besides the aforementioned
leading three: Tau Epsilon Phi,
2.56; Zeta Beta Tau, 2.71; Sig
v -ma Alpha Epsilon, 2.75; Delta
Xappa Epsilon, 2.76 ; Chi Phi,
) 2.90; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 2.94;
Thi Alpha, 3.02; Zeta Psi, 3.07;
Sigma "Nu, 3.12; Phi Kappa Sig
ma, 3.12.
Four other fraternities were
above the general academic av
erage ; Phi Sigma Kappa, 3.16 ;
Beta Theta Pi, 3.27; Delta Tau
I)elta, 3.28; Sigma Chi, 3.29.
SYMPHONY MUSIC
COMMITTEE WILL
MEET SATURDAY
Advance Programs for Music Groups
Of State Symphony Society
Will Be Chosen!
The music committee of the
Nprth Carolina Symphony soci
ety will meet at 4:00 o'clock Sat
urday in Hill music hall for the
purpose of selecting advance
programs for the musical organ
izations of the soeiety according
to an announcement by Dr. llr
S. Dyer, chairman of the com
mittee. The executive board of the so
ciety, under Colonel Joseph
Hyde Pratt, president of the
society, has ruled that all pro
grams be. planned in advance of
the rehearsal period for each
concert in order that music may
be procured and issued to the in
dividual members of the orches
tra scattered over the state. The
present committee meeting is to
comply with this ruling in se
lecting programs for a series of
presentations.
The little symphony of. the so
ciety will present its next pro
gram in Southern Pines, Febru
ary 23. Lamar Stringfield will
appear as conductor and soloist.
The concert is to. feature two
compositions which were re
cently given their premier per
formance here by the same
group. They are Prelude Aubal
Nathaniel Burt whose father,
Struthers Burt, the novelist, is
a resident of Southern Pines,
and Herbert Hazelman's Logy
March. The remainder of the
Program will be divided between
standard classic 'compositions
and modern American works.'
enderson Explains Significance
Of Shaw's 'You Never Can Tell1
EL'S, Dyer To Address
Musical Club Monday
Professor Harold S. Dyer,
head of the department of
music, will speak before the
Thomasville music club Monday
evening, February 6. His sub
ject will be "Festival Movements
in America," and will deal with
the current progress being made
through the efforts of the Na
tional Federation of Music Clubs
in organizing musical festivals
throughout the country.
Professor Dyer was recently
appointed to the post of national
chairman of choral festivals for
the federation, and in this ca
pacity has already begun the or
ganization of numerous such
events in the counties and dis
tricts of this state as well as in
other states. Professor Dyer
will direct a series of demonstra
tion festivals in miniature at the
meet in Minneapolis next May.
STUDENTS ISSUE LARGE
NUMBER OF BAD CHECKS
According to a report issued
yesterday by William Medford,
chairman of the bad check com
mittee, there were 260 checks,
drawn for a total amount of
$2,761.08, returned during the
period December 1, 1932 to Jan
uary 26, 1933. All those who
have been reported have been
taken up except twenty-three.
Of this twenty-three, however,
six were drawn by boys who are
no longer students.
PLAYMAKERS, TO
PRESENT DRAMA
0PENINGT0NIGHT
"You Never Can Tell," Part of
Shaw-Henderson Festival,
Plays Three Times.
As their part in the observ
ance of the Shaw-Henderson
festival which will honor George
Bernard Shaw and his official
biographer, Dr. Archibald Hen
derson of the University mathe
matics department, the Play
makers will present Shaw's You
Never Can Tell in a three days'
run in their theatre beginning
at 8:30 o'clock tonight.
: The performance tonight, Fri
day night, and Saturday night,
will be the Playmaker's first
public offering of the quarter.
You Never Can Tell, written in
1897, was first produced at the
Royalty Theatre, London, and
was offered in this country for
the first time by the. Hart-Conway
School of Acting in Chi
cago. Harry Davis Directing
The play is under the direcr
tion of Harry Davis,, with Thor
Johnson conducting 'the music
Thursday and' Friday and La
mar Stringfield conducting, the
Faculty Chamber Orchestra Sat
urday. ' : . ' ,'
The . main part of the play is
to be centered around an Eng
lish seaside resort in the year
1886.
. Included in the cast are :
Aileeri Ewart as Dolly, Foster
Fitz-Simbns' as : Valentine, Wil
liam Wang as Phillip, Olive
Newell as a maid, Sudie Creech
as Mrs. ' Cldndon, Martha Hat
ton as Gloria, John Whitehead
as Crampton, Daniel Weiner as
McComas, Samuel Selden as
William, James Thompson as
second waiter,' and Irving Katz
as Bohun.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1933
Biographer of Dramatist Tells
How Play Presented Here
This WeekWas Written.
"The real clash in Shaw's
career as a dramatist pivots on
the play You Never Can Tell,"
declared Dr. Archibald Hender
son, official biographer of the
dramatist, yesterday in an in
terview with a member of the
feature board of the Daily Tar
Heel. You Never Can Tell is be
ing presented by the Playmak
ers this week-end in connection
with the Shaw-Henderson Fes
tival. At the very time when Shaw
had impressed the important
theatrical managers in the West
End - of London that he had
money-making plays to offer
them, Cyril Maude, famous actor-manager
of the Haymarket,
(a theatre historic in the life of
the English drama) asked Shaw
to submit to him the text of
Candida for consideration. The
dramatist, knowing that the
conservative West End of Lon
don was not educated up to the
sophistication and modernity of
the type of drama which he had
written, decided to write an al
together new play for Cyril
Maude and his company.
Accordingly in the summer of
1897, Shaw hired a public chair
(similar to the principle of hir
ing a deck chair , on an ocean
liner) in Regent's park, and
proceeded to write You Never
Can Tell. When this play was
completed he submitted it to
Maude, who accepted it, and be
gan to put it into rehearsal. At
this point the trouble began.
Many of the character's speech
es, the social philosophy in gen
eral, and even the dramatic tech
nique necessary for putting it
across the footlights to a Lon
don audience was quite incom
prehensible to the old fashioned
pont x)f view. Shaw went on
patiently week after week en
deavoring to explain to the cast
how the lines should be deliver
ed, but to no avail. His cor-
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DR. R. W. WILCOGKS
VISITS UNIVERSITY
Distinguished Psychologist From
Africa Is Studying Social Con
ditions in America.
Dr. R. W. Wilcocks, a dis
tinguished psychologist from the
Union of South Africa has visit
ed the University during the
past few days. Dr. Wilcocks,
who is an authority on social
conditions in South Africa, came
to this country with assistance
from the Carnegie corporation
in order to make a comparative
survey of the problem of the
poorer white people in this sec
tion of the country. During his
two day stay in Chapel Hill, he
has interviewed members of the
departments of, sociology, eco
nomics, and psychology in order
to find out their views in regard
to this subject.
He spent a day traveling
around this county with a mem
ber of the school of public ad
ministration in order to see at
first hand the condition' of . some
of the small tenant farmers
here.
While at the University, Dr.
Wilcocks 1 talked particularly
with the members of the staff of
the institute' for research in the
social sciences and the depart-
. ment of rural social economics
and discussed with them the va
rious phases of this question.'
FORM SPEAKERS
LECTURE TONIGHT
ON POWER TOPIC
W. S. Lee and Dr. Gruening
Through Occupations Know
Subject Thoroughly.
W. S. Lee and Dr. Earnest R.
Gruening will lecture tonight at
the fourth of the series of lec
tures sponsored by the Open
Forum discussion group. The
subject of the lectures is
"Power." Both men are well
qualified to lecture on this sub
ject inasmuch as Lee is chief
engineer of the Duke Power
Company, and Dr. Gruening in
his newspaper work has made
an intensive study of the power
situation.
Lee is a pioneer in. the high
tension hydro-electric power de
velopment. For this and many
other achievements he was made
a fellow of the American Insti
tute of Electrical Engineers,
and a member of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers,
the American Society of Civil
Engineers, the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers,
and the Canadian Electrical In
stitute. Dr. Gruening, the leader in
the fight against the power
trust, was graduated from Har
vard in 1908 and received his
M. D. degree in 1912. However,
he has never practiced medicine,
but as his interest led him to
enter the journalistic field. He
became managing editor of the
New York Tribune in 1917.
Survey Of College Dailies Shows
That Staffs Usually Elect Editor
o
Letters From Editors at Texas, Princeton, Ohio State, Wisconsin,
And Illinois Reveal That Head of Paper Is Generally Chosen
By Paper's Staff or Appointed by Governing Board.
o '
A survey of five of the lead
ing college dailies indicates that
the elections of the editor of
those publications is generally
either the privilege of the staff
or is limited to specially elected
delegates. This information has
been obtained from letters to
the Daily Tar Heel from the
editors of the Wisconsin, Texas,
Princeton, Illinois, and Ohio
State university daily news
papers. The University of Texas
is the only one of the above
schools which elects its editor by
popular ballot. The remainder
of the schools have discarded the
system in favor of staff selection
or appointment by boards of
control.
An excerpt from the letter of
Frederick J. Noer, editor of the
Wisconsin Daily Cardinal, is as
follows : "The control of college
and university publications by
campus political organizations
through the selection of their
editors by popular vote has long
been a thing of the past at the
University of Wisconsin. Stu
dents and faculty alike realize
that election of editors and busi
ness managers and their staffs
can, by this method, be too
easily controlled by small ma
chines that are neither compet
ent nor responsible. : " "L
No Politics Is New Plan
"Political machines controlled
by a small minority of head
strong, glory-seeking . sWents
have the habit of selecting men
and women to head organiza
tions and to fill duties for which'
they are not in the least fitted.
Frankly, editors, business man
agers, and their staffs, receive
ability to carry their duties only
through study and hard work,
Leaders Make
igher Education Cause
Phi Favors Election
Of Editor By -Staff
After a heated, extended dis
cussion Tuesday night the Phi
assembly voted 14-13 in favor
of selection of editors of the
campus publications by their
staffs.
Representatives John Wilkin
son, L. L. Hutchison, and Rub
in upheld the resolution, Re
solved: That the editors of the
student publications at the Uni
versity be chosen by their re
spective staffs. Representatives
Edwin Lanier, Cecil Carmichael, ate and house yesterday after
L. H. Fountain, and A. S. Kap- noon in Raleigh with an elo-
lan opposed the measure.
Plans for the attendance of
members of the assembly upon
a night session of the legislature
were presented and accepted by
Representative Ralto Farlow.
John Formy-Duval and John
Munden were accepted as candi
dates for initiation.
UNIVERSITY DEBATERS
SPEAK ON WAR DEBTS
R. P. Russell and W. R. Eddie
man represented the University
in a no decision debate Wednes
day night against speakers of
the University of Pittsburgh on
the subject of cancellation of
war debts. Debaters ' , Leonard
Boreman and John P. Bracken
of Pittsburgh upheld the affirm
ative side of the query, Re
solved: That the war debts
should be cancelled.-
and not through licking the
boots of some vote magnate ....
Politics, strange as it may seem,
has been almost entirely di
vorced from the' work of this
board, and even from its elec
tion. By this I mean machine
politics. The members do not
run on coalition tickets. I be
lieve this has come about
through their active interest in
the paper and its problems, for
they clearly see that politics has
no place in determining the
management or policy of any
campus publication."
Ohio State Method
From William W. Ware, editor-in-chief
of the Ohio State
Daily Lantern, come's this in
formation: "In the first place,
the Lantern is directly under
the control of the School of
Journalism . . . . As such, the
paper acts as a laboratory for
all students who are enrolled in
the school, who are taking jour
nalism laboratory courses.
"Students do not enter the
School of Journalism until their
second year. They then take the
elementary, journalism courses
reporting, desk work, etc. . . .
Thus, during the entire sopho
more year tne students interest
ed in ' Lantern competition do
iiothmg'but reporting and desk
'-i-i" 11 ' jt . .
work. From this' entire group
of 'reporters the editorn-chief
picks 'usually about twenty as
sistant hews editors . . . . from
this group of assistants the new
editor-ih-chie'l picks ten news
editors. Fiye of these news edi
tors are chosen for the autumn
quarter . . . . the remaining five
then go through the same pro-
cedure (giving assignments,
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NUMBER 94
Plea For
Appropriations Committee Hears
Appeal From North Caro
lina's Foremost Sons.
GRAHAM PRESENTS CASE
Brooks, Foust, Parker, Battle,
And Daniels Assist Gra
ham in His Work.
By Don Shoemaker
North Carolina's leading' sons
in the field of education, states
manship, journalism, and law
plead the case of higher educa
tion before the joint committee
on appropriations from the sen-
quence and sincerity unpreced-
ented
in the history of their
state.
Dr. E. C. Brooks, presi-
dent of North' Carolina State
College, Dr. J. I. Foust, presi
dent of N. C. C. W., and Dr.
Frank Graham, president of the
University- of North Carolina,
spoke as representatives of the
three great "state institutions.
Kemp Battle, University . alum
nus and president of the North
Carolina Bar Association, plead
the cause of higher education as
a citizen, lawyer, and member
of the board of trustees; Judge
John J. Parker, judge of the U.
S. Circuit Court of Appeals and
the Hon. Josephus Daniels, edi
tor of the Raleigh News and Ob
server, presented their pleas for
a cause which has rocked the
state and. nation.
In his simple, yet dignified
and emphatic manner so charac
teristic of his address to that
same assemblage of legislators
two years ago, when he fought
successfully for the lif ev of the
oldest state university, Dr.
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GRADUATE GROUPS
ANNOUNCE PLANS
FOR TWO DANCES
Law and Medical Societies Combine to
Stage Series of Entertainments
February 16 and 17.
Plans for the annual dances
given by the law association and
the medical society have been
announced by a committee in
charge of dances.' Jelly Lef t
wich and his orchestra have been
signed to furnish the music for
this series pf dances which will
take place in Bynum gymnasium
Friday and Saturday, February
16 and 17.
Several dinners and private
receptions will be conducted in
connection with these dances,
among which will be a dinner to
be staged by the members of the
local chapter of Phi Delta Phi,
international legal fraternity.
Their dinner will take place at
the Carolina Inn Friday evening
before the first dance of the
law association. '
This series will consist of
three dances, at two of which
the law association will be hosts
while at the third the medical
society "will entertain.' The law
dances are to consist of a formal
evening dance Friday night. Feb
ruar? 16' and tea nce the
oftom
afternoon of the following day,
and the medical students will
complete the 'program with an
evening dance the same day.
To Attend Conference
Bill McKee and H. F." Comer
will attend a meeting -of the ex
ecutive committee of thp
Y. M. C. A.-Y. W. C. A. confer
ence in
night.
Greensboro tomorrow