CAROLINA PLAYS
8:30 P.M.
PLAYMAKERS THEATRE
HARDIN CRAIG LECTURE
8:30 P.M.
GERRARD HALL
SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS
-VOLUME XLIII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1935
NUMBER tttn
STATE ASSEMBLY
WILL HEAR PLEA
FOR BUSROUTES
Long Postponed Hearing Is Sec
ond Step in Inaugurating Bus
Line Through Chapel Hill. -
STUDENTS WILL ATTEND
The North Carolina Public
Utilities Commission's long
nnstDoned hearing on the pro-
Dosed Atlantic Greyhound Lines
new bus connections for Greens
boro, Chapel Hill and Raleigh,
will be held Tuesday at 11 a. m
in Raleigh. ,
The first step in the move
ment for the new line was the
meeting January 5 of officials of
-the bus company with a special
student committee appointed by
the administration of the Uni
versity. Students Aid
Since that date most of the
-work on the campus,' which has
consisted of circulating and col
lecting petitions to be presented
at the hearing, has been done
by the University Club. The
clab will be in charge of providing
transportation for the number
of students who are expected to
attend the hearing.
The petitions were signed by
1,135 students and 97 townspeo
pie, the drive for signatures be
ing made on the campus rather
than in the town.
There is reported to be con
siderable objection in Durham to
the proposed new line, and it is
indicated that the hearing Tues
Iay will be warm. - "
The Greyhound bus company
will furnish transportation to
and from Raleigh for the hear-
ing. The bus will leave Chapel
Hill at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday.
Any interested in attending
should get in touch, with A. H.
Shepard at the business office,
D. E. Carroll at the Sigma Delta
house, or Frank Willingham at
the S. A. E. house.
CLUB TO SPONSOR
HOUDAYSMOKERS
University Club Again to Help
Give Entertainments for Pros
pective U. N. C. Students.
The Universitv Club at its
1 meeting last night began exten
sive plans for co-operating with
the alumni in sponsoring smok
ers for prospective students in
30 towns and cities throughout
the state during the spring vaca
tion. This plan was conceived by
the organization last year, and
the present club is continuing
the precedent begun with so
ftuch success at that time.
Members of the group are act-
ln2 as chairmen of student com
ttees to co-ODerate with , the
alumni in the various localities.
ther students will be called
uPon to assist the Universitv
Club men and alumni in carrv.
out the plans.
To Distribute Annuals
In line with the program the
ganization has taken steps to
nave placed in each bigh school
ani outstanding prep school of
e state" a copy of the 1935
Yackety Yack, Frank Willing
hai, president of the club, an
nounced last night.
Alumni throughout the state
ve already been contacted to
bi this venture, which "was
tested to the erouD bv Ag-
Bahnson, last year's presi-
and now business .manager
n the annual.
Hardin Craig To
On Hamlet In
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Dr. Hardin Craig of. Stanford
University, a noted authority on
Elizabethan "literature, who is
visiting professor at the Univer
sity this quarter, is to lecture
tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Ger
rard hall on Shakespeare's Ham
let. It will be one of a series of
lectures he has given in colleges
of the state this winter.
PLAYERS TO GIVE
SECOND SHOWING
OF NEWDRAMAS
Three New All-Student Plays
Will Be Presented Again To
night and Tomorrow.
MUSIC DEPARTMENT AIDS
Three student authors, three
student-written plays and three
student directors arrived on the
top of the Playmakers ladder
last night when the dramatic
group presented their second
public production for the winter
quarter, new Carolina plays.
Included on the bill which will
play again tonight and tomor
row night at 8:30 o'clock are
Patsy McMullan's '''Cottie
Mourns," Ella Mae Daniel's
"Yours and Mine," and Philip
Parker's "Acient Heritage."
Student Directors
Graduate Students Alton Wil
liams, Douglas Hume and Ella
Mae Daniel , are (directing the
productions under the general
supervision of Samuel Selden,
technical director of the Caro
lina Playmakers.
Co-operating with the Koch
outfit, the University music de
partment is furnishing the mu
sic for the production.
Casts for the plays are:
"Yours and Mine," a modern ro
mantic comedy, Ellen Deppe as
Katherine Fox Flowers; Carl
Thompson as Dr. James Flow
ers ; Helen Hodges as Mrs. Hop
per, and William Fletcher as
Dad Flowers.
"Cottie Mourns," a comedy of
Carolina sea-folk, Patsy McMul
lan, the author, as Cottie Cul
pepper; Mildred McMullan as
Nellie Merkle Beaseley; Robert
Barrett as Felix Wise; and
Wilton Mason as Jerd Culpep
per. "Ancient Heritage," a play of
New England aristocracy, Jane
Cover as Sarah Bancroft; Mil
dred Howard as Carrie Ban
croft; Philip Parker, the author,
as Edward Kendall, and William
Wang as Richard Kendall.
The stage workers include:
Margaret Wallace, Henry Page,
Jean Walker, John Larsen,
Frances Caffey, Ralph Burgin,
Willard Miller, Billie Robertson,
Bill Crayton,, John Shulz, and
Joyce Sayre.
Air Theory
Speech Tonight
Visiting Professor of English
From Stanford to Speak in
Gerrard Hall at 8:30.
By Nelson Lansdale
"There are hundreds of theo
ries about Hamlet, and I am
naturally anxious to air my
own," Dr. Hardin Craig, visit
ing professor of English at the
University, and one of the coun
try's leading authorities on the
Renaissance in England, chuck
led jovially. "I'm not giving
the lecture with any idea of set
tling the question, of course,"
he added, filling his pipe.
The celebrated author-teacher-scholar
will lecture tonight in
Gerrard hall on "Why 'Hamlet?'
An Attempt to Account for the
Importance of Shakespeare's
Play." The lecture will be open!
to everybody who cares to at
tend and is scheduled for 8 :30
o'clock.
University Affiliations
Craig's scholarly and personal
affiliations with the Universi
ty began when he was a student
under John M. Manly at the
University of Chicago, along
with George R. Taylor of the
University English department,
the late T S. Graves, noted
Carolina teacher and scholar,
and Drs. Royster and Edwin
Greenlaw, both former heads of
the English department here.
The present head of the depart
ment, George R. Coffman, began
his graduate study under Dr.
Craig at Chicago.
On" the death" of T. S. Graves
here more than a decade ago,
Hardin Craig took up the tre
mendous task of finishing the
compilation of a bibliography of
the literature of the English
Renaissance, and his works in
this field has appeared yearly
in the April issues of Studies in
Philology, the English quarterly
issued from Chapel Hill. Be
side the bibliography, he jhas
contributed numerous articles to
this and other scholarly jour
nals in this country and abroad.
"On the basis of my associa
tion with the editors of Studies
in Philology and my friendships
here, I thought Chapel Hill
would be a charming place to
spend my vacation." He leaned
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Chapel Hill Weekly
Marks Twelfth Year
Of Publication Today
Editor Louis Graves Says His
Celebrated Paper Has Not
Changed Since 1923.
Today is the 12th birthday of
Louis Graves' newspaper, the
celebrated Chapel Hill Weekly.
It made its initial appearance
March 1,1923.
"How are you celebrating the
event?" the editor was asked
yesterday.
"Not at all except by throw
ing away the Volume 12 slug on
the front page and putting Vol
ume 13 in its place. Does that
sound like inviting bad luck?
Well, I can't help it. I had to
face the 13 th year sometime,
and here it is.
. Every Year Same
"For a while, when the pa
per's birthday came around, I
used to write something about
my experience as editor. But I
found I was writing the same
stuff over and over again, and
so I quit that. In the great world
outside strange new things are
happening, but as far as the
Weekly is concerned every year
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DEPUTATION GOES
TO FAYETTEVILLE
Comer's Group to Make 14 Ap
pearances; Pool's Team Back
From Winston-Salem.
In again, out again, the Uni
versity Y. M. C. A. deputation
team set out for eastern North
Carolina last night headed for
Fayetteville and a four-day set
of talks, visits, and basketball.
Jack Pool, chairman of the
deputation teams, and his Win
ston-Salem group returned to
Chapel Hill last night to find
that Harry Comer, general "Y"
secretary, had just sent a new
set of spreader-of-"Y"-cheer on
to Fayetteville.
14 Appearances
Comer's group is scheduled to
make 14 appearances in Fayette
ville, including programs at a
f ather-and-son banquet, at the
high school assembly, at a Ki
wanis club luncheon, and each
of the Sunday schools, and visits
to the Confederate Home and to
the county home.
The Fayetteville team will ap
pear at five schools and six
churches in' their four days
there, returning to Chapel Hil
Sunday afternoon. Members of
the team include Lee Greer,
Franeis Fairley, Don McKee
and Harry F. Comer, speakers,
and the University quartet com
posed of Claude Ballard, James
Dees, Sam Lane and Harold
Gavin.
Pool recently announced that
deputation trips were being ar
ranged for every week-end be
tween now and the end of the
regular school year, except dur
ing examinations and holidays. .
Theilade First Taught Dancing
In Childhood By Aged Servant
Dancer's Mother at First Disap
proved Strenuously of Daugh
ter's Studying the Art.
Nini Theilade's great-grandmother,
daughter of the Sultan
of Java, was put to death for
eloping with a Polish officer.
Such a disgrace to the royal
family could only be wiped out
by the extreme penalty.
Nini herself was born in Java
and lived there for her first nine
years. It was in Java that she
laid the foundation for her later
career, learning native hand and
body rhythms from Krama,an
old servant who tended her
when she was a baby.
"Krama was very, very old -no
one, not even he, knew just
how old," the young dancer re
lates. "He knew the native
movements. By the time I was
nine he had ' taught me many
dances. I knew all the rhythms
of Bali and Tahiti. I danced
while Krama played to the weird
sounds of the gammelang, which
is something like a xylophone."
Off to Denmark
Then Java was suddenly left
behind, and Nini was taken to
Denmark by her parents. jhe
was eager to go on with her
dancing, but her mother object
ed, not wishing her to become
prof essional. So Nini bided
her time until an opportune mo
ment when illness forced .her
mother to spend a considerable
period in the hospital. Then
she went and took lessons every
day.
"When mother got well," she
explains simply, "she saw that I
had talent and wasn't angry."
Indeed far from being angry,
from this point on her mother
encouraged Nini in every way,
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Tar Heel Circulation
Sometime today or tomor
row a boy will call at every
house in town to secure the
name of every subscriber to
the Daily Tar Heel. Please
co-operate with us by giving
him the necessary information
desired in order that you will
receive your paper regularly.
When failing to receive
your paper call 4356 between
8:15 and 9 a. m. or between
4 and 5 p. m.
ERICSON DEPICTS
CHINESE AFFAIRS
Foreign Policy League Discusses
Communism in Far East.
Dr. E. E. Ericson of the Uni
yersity English department ad
dressed a meeting of the Foreign
Policy League in Graham Memo
rial last night.
Using as the topic of his dis
cussion "China," he described
the power of Communism in
China, and told of the strike
which Communists are now wag
ing against Chiang Kai-shek
conservative war lord now head
ing the Nanking government.
Dr. Ericson brought out the
fact that the uprising was no
of rural populations but distinct
ly urban.
After a few prophesies con
cerning the outcome of the af
fair, a short informal discussion
followed. Tsu-Yuan Koo, Chi
nese student taking graduate
work at the University who ad
dressed ; the League : Jast . week
engaged in an impromptu de
bate with Dr. Ericson concern
ing the Eastern situation.
Dancer
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Nineteen-year-old Nini Thei
lade, who will dance in recital
here next Wednesday on4he sec
ond of the winter quarter series
of student entertainment pro
gramsvhas established an inter
national reputation as a dancer
and also holds the record of be
ing the youngest ballet artist in
the world. 1
CREECH ELECTED HONOR
COURT REPRESENTATIVE
Finally succeeding in getting
enough members together to
vote, the pharmacy freshmen
afelected Jimmy Creech to repre-
sent them on the freshman Hon
or Council. Kemp Nye acted as
chairman of the group.
Because of misinformation,
Bobby Horton was listed yester
day as one of the representatives
from the engineering school on
the council. The man who will
serve with Randall Berg, the
other engineering councilman, is
John Sloop.
The election of Creech com
pletes the membership of the
Honor Court.
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DEMOCRAT MADE
HEAD OF SENATE
INQUIRYMTONRA
Administration Leaders in Con
gress Control Investigation;
Harrison Heads Committee.
LABORITES STILL FIGHTING
Washington, Feb. 28. (UP)
-Administration leaders of
Congress won control of the
proposed investigation of the
NRA today when the Senate de
cided to entrust it to the finance
committee, headed by loyal Sen
ator Pat Harrison, Democrat, of
Mississippi.
Tomorrow will be the Senate's
second recess in a five-day week.
The deadlock over the works re
lief bill and, until today, a threat
of a fight over the NRA inves
tigation, held up all but most of
the minor business in the upper
House. v
The Senate insular affairs
committee authorized a resolu
tion providing an investigation
into the administration of the
Virgin Islands.
The House of Representatives
refused to allow Secretary Ickes
$10,000 to pay an undersecre
tary. The House postoffice
subcommittee voted to report
favorable to the airmail bill.
Fight Wage Amendment
Washington, Feb. 28. (UP)
Organized labor took its fight
for a prevailing wage amend,
mentto the HMQQfiM work
relief bill to the nation tonight
as President Roosevelt failed in
his first personal attempt to
settle the controversy raging
about an embattled proposal.
A few hours after Senate Ma-
jority Leader Joseph T. Robin
son left the White House with a
curt "no comment" to newspa
permen, William Green, presi
dent of the American Federation
of Labor, went on the air to de
clare that "the economic status
of every wage earner in the
country" rests on the fate of the
amendment.
He described the issue as cru
cial, adding that it is more vital
to the economic welfare of the
nation than any other issue
which has faced us since the in
ception of the ' recovery pro
gram. DRAMA CONTESTS
DATESANNOUNCED
Will Hold Preliminary Contests
For Carolina Dramatic Tour-
nament Here in March.
Preliminary contests for coun
ty and city high schools entered
in the production contests of the
12th annual festival and state
tournament of the Carolina
Dramatic Association to be held
at Chapel Hill March 27, 28, 29
and 30, were announced yester
day by Mrs. Irene H. Fussier,
secretary of the Dramatic Asso
ciation. All county high school prelimi
naries should be concluded by
March 6, Mrs. Fussier said. .
Contests in the county groups
will be held at Whiteville for
Hallsboro, Whiteville, St. Pauls
and Tabor; at Paw . Creek for
Marshville, Paw Creek, and Ca
barrus ; and at Chapel Hill for
Swannanoah, Pinehurst, and
Zebulon.
In the city high school groups,
Rocky Mount, Henderson, and
Wilson will compete at Rocky
Mount on March 6 ; Albemarle,
Concord, and Shelby will meet
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