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If JUNIOR-SENIOR DANCES 4:30 AND 9:00 TIN CAN U. N. C. vs. V. P. L 4:00 O'CLOCK EMERSON FIELD VOLUME XLII CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1934 NUMBER ICS TV r l ''1 -J f i ! -slr'N r , f t Tola I Tea Dance Opens Junior-Senior Series Today; Eleven Fraternities To Sponsor House Parties NEW RECORD IS SET FOR HOUSE AFFAIRS Many Girls Visiting Chapel Hill As Guests of Fraternities. Eleven of the 27 fraternities on the University campus are conducting house parties during the annual junior-senior set of dances here this week-end. No complete check could be made yesterday, but it is believed that this number is a new high record for house parties being given at . any one time. The fraternities having par ties this week-end are Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Delta, Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa" Alpha, Phi Kap pa Sigma, Chi Psi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Theta Kappa Nu, ' and Theta Chi. . Phi Delta Theta Those girls invited to the dances by members of. Phi Delta Theta are : Jacqueline Moore, Richmond, Va. ; Margaret Hass, Charles ton, S. C; Alma Lloyd Ranson, Charlotte ; Marjorie Rainey, At lanta; Carolina Ward, Warren ton; Josephine Davis, Atlanta; Connie Patten, Fayetteville; Beverly Burgess, Greensboro; Anne Bevill, Greensboro; Beth Caraway, Greensboro; Helen Peck, Decatur, Ga.; Edith Gillispie, Chapel Hill; Nell Jos uin, Raleigh; Stella Thompson, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Sue Jen Irins, Chapel Hill; Nell Peake, Norfolk, Va. ; Catherine Proc lor, Lumberton; Vernice Jones, Farmville ; .' Helen McGinnis, Greenville ; Dorothy Acee, Ashe ville; Eleanor Rogers, Ashe Trille; Jane Holman, Charlotte; Laura Mace, Beaufort; Mari anne Taylor, Beaufort; Betty Harkness, Newport, R. L; Mar garet Bundy, High Point; Mar tha Skinner, Winston-Salem; -Almedia McGinnis, Charlotte. Sigma Delta Dorothy Converse, New Roch lle, N. Y.; Jane Goodwin, Greensboro ; Louise Bullard, Fayetteville; Sara Seawell, Chapel 'Hill; Mary Moser, Gas tonia; LaVerne Comer, Winston-Salem; Jeanne Stevenson, Chillicothe, Ohio; Nannie Biggs, Fayetteville ; Dorothy Norris, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Joan Boat wright, Metuchen, N. J.; Vir ginia Lewis, Memphis, Tenn.; and Edith Noble, New Canaan, Conn. Alpha Tau Omega Lucy Marshall Goode, Din- widdie, Va.; Sara Walser, Lex ington; Gary Armstrong, Sel ma, Ala. ; Dorothy Clarke,' Fay etteville; Choice Chase, Char lotte; Louisa Rankin, Fayette ville; Rose Allen White, Char lotte; Betty Tuttle, Leaksville; Elizabeth Gant, Burlington; Ruth Crowell, Newton ; Court landt Preston, Washington, D. C. ; Carolyn Mann, Raleigh ; Jane Carlton, Greensboro ; Mary Wisdom Lambeth, Charlotte ; Genevieve Ramsaur, Jackson ville, Fla.; Peggy Moore, Fay etteville; Hazel Emery, Jack sonville, Fla.; Betty Power, At lanta, Ga.; Eleanor Bell, Char lotte; Sara Atkinson, Doyles town, Pa. ; Betty Felton, Golds feoro; Ethel Highsmith, Fayette ville; Alice Estill, Miami, Fla; Mebane Hollaman; Weldon; (Continued on last page; : , Last Bids Today All those who have not yet procured their bids for the dance set which begins today must get them in the "Y" lob by between 10:30 and 1:00 o'clock this afternoon. PLAYERS TO GIVE DRAMAS TONIGHT Second of Playmaker Series to Be Presented at 8:30 O'clock. The second group of plays of the current Playmaker public productions will be presented this evening at 8:30 o'clock in the Playmakers theatre. The performance includes "Where There Is Faith," writ ten and directed by Kathleen Krahenbuhl; "The Proposal," by Anton Chekov and directed by John Walker; and "Rosalie," by Max Maurey and directed by Don Pope. The latter play will replace a performance of Wil bur Dorsett's "Third Verse," which was postponed because of unforeseen difficulties with ' the cast. - The plays being presented this week-end are directed by members of Professor Selden's class in play production. With the exception of "The Proposal" and "Rosalie," they are the ori ginal work of Professor Koch's playwriting class. The public productions will be concluded tomorrow night, and a private performance of plays not chosen for this bill will be held Monday night. SOCIETY TO MP TOUR TOMORROW Symphony Orchestra Will Meet Here to Discuss Program Of 100 Concerts. Lamar Stringfield, director of the North Carolina Symphony society, yesterday announced that an ambitious program call ing for lOO concerts before Jan uary 1 and the expenditure of a recent federal grant of $45,000, will be mapped out here tomorrow afternoon at the an nual meeting of the society. The meeting will be held in Hill Music hall at 2:00 o'clock and all members are expected to attend. The early recruiting of the orchestra to its full strength of 60 instruments and the open ing of its concert program on May 25 at - Chapel Hill are among the announcements ex pected to be made. Money for Salaries It is a part of the present plan to make the orchestra a box of fice attraction which will pay its own way. With the exception of an item of slightly more than $2,000, the entire amount of the federal grant will be used for salaries. The orchestra will remain in Chapel Hill from the time of the opening concert on May 25 through the summer session at the University. It will then go to Asheville for a six-week stay. After this the group will return to Chapel Hill in preparation for a tour of the entire state. While there may be some performances - (Continued on page two HAL KEMP TO PLAY FOR FOUR DANCES Formal Affair Scheduled for Tin Can Tonight at 9:00 O'clock. With an informal tea- dance this afternoon from 4 :30 to 6 :30 o'clock and the junior prom to night from 9 :00 to 1:00 o'clock, the annual junior-senior set of dances will get underway in the Tin Can. - Hal Kemp and his orchestra will furnish music for the dances. Tomorrow afternoon from 4:30 to 6:30 o'clock another tea dance will be staged, and the senior ball will be held tomor row night from 9 :00 to 12 :00 o'clock in the Tin Can, bringing the set to a close. Both of the tea dances will be informal affairs but the dances at night will be of a formal na ture. Aitken to Lead Figure Leading the figure in the jun ior prom tonight will be Stuart Cruickshank Aitken, president of the third-year class, with Margaret Short of Charlotte. Assisting Aitken will be the following: Robert Drane and Mary Ethridge of Norfolk, Vir gina; James Cordon with Ma tilda Ehringhaus, Raleigh, Tom Bost with Elizabeth Davidson, Raleigh ; D on o h Hanks with Mary Kinser, Tam pa, Florida; George Moore with Ruth Waller, Portsmouth, Vir ginia; and Ed Broadhurst with Katherine H. Jamieson, Oxford. Senior Ball Tomorrow Tomorrow the senior ball will be led by Virgil Weathers, presi dent of the senior class, and Elizabeth Hewett of Shelby. Other senior assistant leaders are as follows: Jack Robinson' with Primrose McPherson of Raleigh; Ed Kerr with Clara Margaret Grantham, Raleigh; Jimmy Rogers with Joyce Say re, Asheville ; John Barrow with Mary Myers, Athens, Georgia; J. H. Barnes with Jane Hess Weaver, High Point; Ernest Hunt with Mary King Fountain of Fountain. -Kemp's Career Hal Kemp, whose orchestra is furnishing music for the af fair, is an alumnus of the Uni versity and will be returning here for the first time in about ten years. Kemp, a Charlotte boy, organ ized a band during his stay in the University and played for the best dances in the south. In Chapel Hill he played daily in the old Pickwick theatre. Starting his musical training at the age of three, the former University student specialized in the clarinet and later took up the saxaphone. After leaving the University, Kemp went to New York to the former Hotel Manger ; but he soon journied to London where he played in numerous hotels. At his return to the United States," Kemp was employed by the Black Hawk restaurant in Chicago and later by Lucky Strike and Pennzoil programs. The band has eight North Carolinians in it. "Skinny1 Ennes, vocalist and drummer from Salisbury, is one of the most noted of the musicians from this state. STUDENT LEAGUE DRAFTS PETITION TOU.SJMCIALS Foreign Policy League to Write Roosevelt in Attempt to Pro mote Disarmament. SOLICITS OTHER SCHOOLS Definite action was taken Wednesday night at the meeting of the Foreign Policy league on the disarmament question, in the form of a petition to be pre sented to the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the State department. The petition reads: We, the undersigned, do hereby memo rialize the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the State department (1) to actively support the ob jectives of, and the participants in, the conference on the limita tion and reduction of arma ments to be reassembled at Ge neva on May 29th, and (2) to insist that some disarmament agreement, however small, but providing future conferences for further reductions, be reached this time. Writes Other Schools The members of the league pledged their unanimous sup port to this measure, which was presented by the executive com mittee. Definite action toward soliciting the backing of other educational institutions in the south in this move was taken yesterday 'with the making of contacts by mail with 36 other colleges and universities. Plans are being pushed to bring a prominent speaker on foreign affairs to the University before the end of the present term. Every effort is being made to secure the right Hon orable Josephus Daniels, the United States ambassador to Mexico, to speak. Daniels is a North Carolinian and has long (Continued on page two) UNIVERSITY CLUB TO HAVE DINNER Retiring Members Have Banquet Tonight in Carolina Inn; to Be Formal Affair. The retiring members of the University club will have a Founders' banquet tonight at 7 :30 o'clock in the Carolina Inn, establishing, they hope, the cus tom of having such an affair each year during the Junior Senior dances. Ernest Hunt and Harold Ben- net, who are in charge of the entertainment, have provided humorous skits and will call for impromptu speeches from the various members. . In addition, Dick Somers and James Gossler will play piano and cornet solos, respectively. The banquet will be a formal affair and each member is al lowed to bring a date. - ; - Bedtime , Dancers are reminded of the University regulation which re quires, girls to be at their re spective residences two hours after a dance. The affair tonight , night's dance will be over at 12:00 o'clock. - State Official M ain Address At Ritual Students Will Offer Recital Wednesday The music "department an nounced that the first of a series of five student recitals for the spring quarter will begin next week. These recitals will com pose one senior recital, two jun ior, and two general recitals. Next Wednesday evening, May 16, at 8:30 o'clock, Misses Isa belle and Virginia Buckles will play a junior recital for violin and piano in Hill Music hall. , The public is invited to these recitals. Y.M.C.A. CABINETS TO DISCUSS WAR "Stand Students Should Take in Outlawing War" to Be Topic "The Stand Students Should Take in Outlawing War" will be the subject of a discussion at the meeting of the junior-senior Y. M. C. A. cabinet next Mon day night at 7:15 o'clock, it was announced yesterday by "J. D. Winslow, president. Ralph Gardner, president of the recently organized Foreign Policy league, and Ezra Griffin, prominent member .of the organ ization, will make brief , talks on the subject and then lead a discussion in which all members will take part. Both " Gardner and Griffin have been instrumental on the University campus in further ing the cause for world peace. Gardner was one of the organ izers of the Foreign Policy league, and has done much to put the organization in the eyes of the campus. Griffin, a rising senior, has for the past three weeks been leading discussions before the Foreign Policy group on "The Factors Which Enter into a Disarmament - Confer ence." BOARD CONSIDERS MAGAZINECHANGE Will Make Final Settlement on Form of Magazine at the Next Meeting. Final settlement on the ques tion of changing the Carolina Magazine from its present form into that of a regular magazine issued eight times a year was deferred by the Publications Un ion board yesterday until its forthcoming meeting next week. In the meantime, it was an nounced, bids for printing the publication in either the old or the new form will be received by the board for consideration at the next meeting. All bids on the other publica tions must also be in at the next session. Report by Eddleman Bill Eddleman, president of the board, made reports on the subject of changing the publica tion's appearance, and estimated that the proposed plan would cause an additional cost of $275 per year, most of which could probably be covered by adver tising. " - - The board also made the final arrangements for the presenta tion of publication keys which will take place on Awards night. Delivers Lieutenant-Governor A. H. Gra ham Sums Up Changes by De claring "Future Is Here." BANQUET AFTER TAPPING Aitken. Abernethy, Patterson, Bahn son, Drane, Dill, Andrews, Sugar man, Johnson, Gardner Picked. The Order of the Golden Fleece, highest honorary organi zation on the campus, bestowed the honor of membership on ten campus leaders last night in Memorial hall at its 32nd annual tapping ceremony. , The men taken into member ship were : Stuart Aitken of Charlotte; Frank Abernethy of Greensboro; Simmons Patterson of New Bern; Agnew Bahnson, Jr. of Winston Salem; Robert Drane of Charlotte; Lonnie Dill of New Bern ; Alex Andrews, III of Raleigh; Joe Sugarman of Newark, N. J. ; Thor Johnson of Winston Salem; and Ralph Gardner of Shelby. Graham Speaks Preceeding the tapping ritual Lieutenant-Governor A. H. Gra ham delivered the principal speech of the evening. Harper Barnes, Jason of the Order, pre sided and introduced Dean Francis F. Bradshaw, who in turn introduced Lieutenant-Gov ernor Graham. Graham, an alumnus of the University, stressed the change that has occurred within the last 14 months in our philosophy of government. Referring to the recent enactments of congress i i i -I? i , their most ardent advocates did not expect to see adopted for an other 25 or 50 years, he sum med up the situation with the expression, "the future is here." Be Individualistic "Embrace the new order, give study and thought to the prob lems unsolved, but do not hesi tate to be individualistic, re membering that all changes are opposed, but that this nation has changed, is changing, and will change and that you are the ones best trained and qualified to take your place as leaders of the various forward movements," concluded Mr. Graham. Immediately after the cere mony in Memorial hall the ten new members were guests of the old members at a banquet in Graham Memorial. For the second successive year the son of a member, of Golden Fleece was tapped when mem bership was awarded to Agnew Bahnson, Jr. The first son of a member to be tapped was Clai born M. Carr, who was taken in last year. KENNEDY WILL PRESENT FINAL CONCERT SUNDAY Professor Nelson O. Kennedy will play the last vesper organ concert of the season at 4:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Hill Music halL This concert will terminate a series of eight programs for the year. The numbers to be played Sunday will include: "Sonate Pontificale, by' J. Lemmens; Keverie," by, Dickinson ; Nun danket alle Gott," by Karg Elert; "In the Church," by No vak ; "Will o' the Wisp," by Ke vin; and "Finale first Sympho ny," by Vierne.