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WOLUME XLIV
EDITOUAX, FHOXX 4IS1
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1936
NUMBER 153
I III 1 I
RECENT DECISION
FORMS DRAMATIC
ART DEPARTMENT
-Administrative Edict Provides
Separate Department for
Koch's Organization
PLAYERS PUT OUT
DRABIAMAGAZINE
Carolina Dramatic Association
Issues First Number of Its
Own Publication
TAUL GREEN TO RETURN
A separate department of dra
matic art to begin activities next
fall has been formed by the Uni
versity with Dr. Frederick H.
Koch as head, the Playmakers as
the producing- organization, and
ra. "faculty consisting of Paul
Green, Samuel Selden, Harry
T)avis, and John W. Parker, it
was announced by the adminis
tration yesterday.
The, formation of. the depart
ment will mark Paul Green's re
turn to active professional dut
ies at the University since he
has gained national prominence
.as one of the leading playwrights
of the country.
Broadened Scope
Both graduate and undergrad
uate degrees will be given by the
new department to students in
dramatic art. Several new cours
es will be added to the curricu
lum and students will be given
training in the practical, liter
.ary, and scholarly aspects of the
drama.
The new department has been
created because of the grea
number oi students wno come
to the University from all over
the United States and from sev
eral foreign countries especially
for wTork in the drama. This
-year there are students from all
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itr
ine uaronna stage," a new
bulletin for members of the Car
olina Dramatic Association, has
been distributed for the first
time during the last month.
ine mimeograpnea magazine
is a supplement to tne eignt
y cai -vju Kjckx uiiiitv i. my -uwr..
Edited by John W. Parker, it
will feature reviews of state
wide dramatic activities, and
will offer suggestions for dra
matic problems.
First Issue
The .. magazine's first issue
contains an introduction by
Frederick Koch, director of the
Carolina Playmakers. In the
suggestion columns is an article
by Professor Walter Spearman.
Staff members of the new pub
lication include Frederick Koch,
R. M. Grumman, Irene H. Fuss
ier, and Harry Davis.
The magazine's next issue will
appear in June.
CAMPUS TO HEAR
CUMMMGS TALK
IN CHAPEL TODAY
U. S. Attorney General Wffl
Speak This Morning in Me
morial Hall at 11:30
KOCH TO DIRECT
FOREST COMEDY
'lawmakers to Produce" "Lysis-
trata," Old Greek Comedy,
As Forest Theatre Play
CLASSES TO BE LET OUT
Hussell Announces
Seqond Cash Award
For Student Library
Contest
$25
Committee Now Offers
and $5 Prizes for
Best Collection
Seniors To Give
Semi-Comic Play
As Final Spurt
A play to end plays is one of
the features of Senior Week
The performance will be in Me-
moriai nail Wednesday even
ingMay 6. .'
The play is a gift, as it were,
to the student body and faculty
of the University. It is an ex
pression of the heartfelt thanks
and gratitude outgoing seniors
owe to their professors and fel
low students. It is also a token
of their esteem.
Besides the play, which is to
be an antique melodrama, sev
A sewwid nf in nrlrliJeral acts, including Betty Tandy
tion to the first prize of $25, will from Durham, will be vulnerable
he awarded in June by the stu- to the audience's applause,
dent library contest committee : Merry Trio
for the best student library. Billy Yandell, Parks Austin,
Dr. H. K. Russell, English pro- Hazel Beacham, and a mammoth
f essor, announced recently that committee had been working on
awards will also be presented for arrangements for a Senior Car
the best collection of books made nival, but Swain hall was not
7y a student while in college available and it was thought best
rather than for those acquired to abandon the idea of a carni
during the year. val. As an alternative, it was
Rules decided to have a special evening
Eight principal rules will be program in Memorial hall.
considered in judging. - A comic play has been order-
i. All books shall be the personal ed from a New York publishing
property of the contestant and shall company. Participating in the
bear a suitable book plate or other mei0drama will 'be several cam-
evidence of having been used profit- PUS hhts and satellltesv A dl"
-ably. rector who knows nothing about
2. Neither the total number of directing plays has been engag
books nor their money value shall be ed Local and semi-local talent
LtrdTminiDS faCtr iU will occupy the stage between the
3. " Titles of a distinctly text book acts.
character shall be excluded. The play is expected to arrive
4. Consideration will be given to from New York either today or
-well edited and effectively printed tomorrow, but as yet not but two
- t m x
United States Attorney Gen
eral Homer S. Cummings will
make a special address this
morning before a student con
vocation in Memorial hall at
11:30.
Dean M. T. Van Hecke of the
University law school, instru
mental in bringing the attorney
general to the University, stat
ed, that as yet no announcement
had been made on the topic of
Cumming's talk.
The 11 o'clock classes will be
dismissed in time for the ad
dress. The 12 o'clock classes
will meet at the regular time.
Attorney General
Cummings has risen steadily
m the legal -profession. From
corporation counsel of . Stam
ford 'and legal representative of
Fairfield County, Conn., he be
came a prominent member of the
New York bar and was then
made chairman of the commit
tee on state prison conditions in
Connecticut. For the past three
years he has held one of the
highest legal positions in the
United States that of Attorney
General.
Cummings arrived in Durham
yesterday, and" delivered the
principal address at the North
Carolina: Social: Service Confer
ence there last night. He spoke
on "Progress Toward- a Mod
ern Administration of Criminal
Justice in the United States." -Following
his address here
the Attorney General will leave
for Pinehurst.
Candidate John McRae To Talk
Tomorrow On C.P.U. Program
Lysistrata," an old Greek
comedy wnicn is considered as
modern as the latest comedy hit
on Broadway, (has been selec
ted by the Playmakers for their
annual Forest theatre produc
tion, it was announced yester
day by Professor Koch. He will
personally direct the production.
The play is an anti-war dra
ma, but uniiKe similar plays oi
today it is comic in treatment,
It shows the women of Athens
and Sparta uniting to keep
their husbands at home and to
put a stop to the continual war
fare.
Revel Scene
Professor Koch says the play
ends with a revel scene which
promises to be one of the mos
interesting seen on local stages
Additional tryrouts for "Lysis
trata" will be held this after
noon at 4:30 in the Play
makers theatre. All inter
ested in appearing in the play
are asked to be present. Abou
50 actors win be needed and
there will be an opportunity for
many to take part.
MAY DAY GIRLS MEET
All girls who have been asked
to take part in the May Day cele
bration are urged to appear for
the rehearsals now being held.
it is also asiced tnat every
one be on-time to the rehearsals
All girls who want to be in
May Day, and who have not been
asked to take part in it, are
requested to meet Frances Caf
fey in Graham Memorial this
afternoon at 4:30. Additiona
girls are needed for the dances
Late Bulletins
Student Council
Definite action on the honor
principle code was postponed for
one week by the Student Council
ast night.
Utner activity at last night's
session included reinstatement of
two suspended students, the ac
quittal of one student accused
of honor code violation, and the
denial of admission to one pre
viously suspended student A
ruling was also passed that no
suspended students will be al
lowed at University social func
tions in the future.
Alumnus Will Speak
Here In Hill Hall
Gubernatorial Aspirant is. Third
On Series Sponsored by Re
juvenated Political Union
SON IS SOPHOMORE HERE
John Albert McRae, Univer
sity alumnus and state guber
natorial candidate, will speak
here tomorrow night at 8:30 in
Hill Music hall, according to an
announcement made last night
by Floyd Fletcher, president of
the rejuvenated Carolina Politi
cal Union.
Third in Series
The prominent Charlotte law
yer will be the third in the series
of candidates for the governor
ship of the state to speak on the
campus under the sponsorship
A. S. U.
An informal meeting of the
American Student Union was
held last night, with R. W. Link
er, professor of French, making of the revived Political Union.
a talk on his reactions to war Lawvpr MrRaf has not onlv
and the way to combat it sue- been connected with the TJniver-
cessf ully. sity since he graduated, but he i3
Elections will be held at the also the father of John McRae,
next meeting of the A. S. U. to- Jr., who is a member of the soph-
morrow night at 8 :30 in Graham omore class and of the Chi Psi
Memorial to select permanent of- fraternity.
ficers for next year.
Campus Men Air
Different Views
On Co-ed Status
In his talk here he is expected
to outline the major planks of
his platform. He will probably
include his views on the liquor
and the sales tax. He is known
to favor local-option liquor con
trol and abolition of the present
sales tax, if other means of re
venue are discovered to replace
it. . s
By Allen Merrill
While co-eds whole-heartedly
?i!ap?!?:;L0-the ?Ies ?eban STUDENT OPINION
nig xxesiiiiuiii uiiu sopnoniore
Stewart To Discuss
Scepticism With Phi
Di Senate Declines to Debate
Upon Topic Without Data
The Rev. Mr. Donald Stewart
will lead a discussion tonight at
7:30 in the wreekly meeting of
the Phi Assembly on "Scepticism
and Is There a Life After
Death."
The Phi Assembly had antic
ipated a debate with the Di Sen
ate tonight on this subject, but
the Di complained that they did
not know enough about it. The
topic was voted down in meet
ing.
Speaker Durf ee of the Phi re
plied that neither were the mem
bers of the Phi well informed
on the question, but that they
were willing to learn. :
lussie Ouesses:
Selassie says he's going to
birfld a big Ethiopian air
force. Only trouble is that
he's starting a litte late. When
they get it built there won't
TMa be enough of
w -pAMnnia left to
take off from.
Fair, $ ome wh a t
cooler.
Have Yon W ritten
Your Essay Yet?
Today is the last day on which
essays may be contributed in the
essay contest being sponsored by
E.- Carrington Smith on "How
to Spent S20,000,000 on This
University."
Essays will be received at the
Carolina theater or in the Daily
Tab Heel office until 6 o'clock
this afternoon.
Prizes will be : first, one week
pass to the theater ; second, three
day pass; third, two day pass;
fourth, one day pass.
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Noted Artist Holds
Classes In Painting
Woodward Will Give Three-
Weeks Watercolor Course
women from admission to the
University, campus men disagree
among themselves as to the ad
visability of requiring upper
class status of all co-eds.
John Parker, president-elect
of the student body, although he
favors the admittance of local
girls to freshman and
GROUP INACTIVE
DUE TO ABSENCES
Three Members of Committee
Investigating Comprehensives
Fail to Return
Stanley Woodward, Boston
artist, yesterday began a three-
weeks course in watercolor
painting with headquarters in
Hill hall.
Mr. Woodward's class is com
posed of students and townspeo
ple. Painting instruction will be
given on various parts of the
campus.
ine instructor is noted as a
painter, illustrator, and an etch
er. He has exhibited with the
Grand Central Art Galleries of
New York and with the Guild
of Boston artists.
Classes are held six days week
ii Y Cabinets Have Elections, Talks
Freshman Friendship Council
Elects Sophomore Officers;
Plans Relief Project
The Freshman Friendship
council held its election for of
ficers of the rising sophomore
cabinet last night at its regular
weekly meeting. The following
officers were elected : President,
Bob' Dalton; Vice-President,
Mace Gwyer; Secretary, Don
Ward ; Treasurer, George Neth
ercutt. Each fraternity and dormitory
is urged to get a bundle of old
clothes together which will be
committee of the council. These
clothes are to be turned over to
the relief committee of Orange
county. '
Upper YMCA Cabinets Hear
Government Professor Fraz
er; Hold General Discussion
K. C. Frazer, government pro
fessor, last night addressed the
meeting of the upper Y. M. C.
A. cabinets to explain the new
Institute on International Secur
ity and the League of Nations
which is being sponsored by the
Y. M. C. A. and the Foreign
Policy League.
Following his talk, a general
discussion of current foreign af
fairs was held.
Mr. Frazer said that the pur
pose of the institute is to create
an opportunity to study world
weal and enlighten public opin
ion on world relations and for
eign affairs. ,
The student committee ap
pointed last quarter to study
sopho- student opinion concerning the
more classes, is against admit-1 value of comprehensive examina-
ing women who live in other tions as a pre-requisite to gradu
parts of the state for the first ation has become inactive since
two years of their college career, three of its six members failed
Go to Greensboro to return to school this quarer.
Parker stated "I'm not much The group is now awaiting
in favor of freshman and sopho- Dean R. B. House's appointment
more co-eds, personally. There 0f new student representatives
is a girls' college in Greensboro, to fill the places left vacant.
branch of the Greater Universi- pnnim;Hpp nf
ty, and sufficient enough reason Trip Rand chairmant Jake
for them to go tnere. Snvdpr. Irvine- Suss. Jack Pool.
much c uuCii o Harper Barnes and Cnariie Jfoe,
junior or a senior, ne conxmu- advocated in a meeting with
ed, "there's a different problem. the facuitv a revision of the com-
They need courses of a higher prehensive system with the in-
elusion of a course which would
education which are available
here."
Fairley Opposes Parker
Francis Fairley, president of
the student body, definitely op
poses his successor with the
statement, "I'm all for 'em. The
women might want courses that
they can't get anywhere else and
must come here."
Fairley claims that freshman
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Ball Moose Horn
Breaks Air Valve
Residents of Chapel Hill heard
a new series of sounds from
Chapel Hill's loud-mouthed fire
horn yesterday as it failed to
stop after the regular momen
tary blast denoting 12 o'clock
noon. . :
At the moment its regular
blast was set off, the control
valve broke and several minutes
of blasts followed before the
noise was stopped.
All afternoon one of the town's
two paid firemen worked over
the broken part.
serve as a general review for the
examinations.
The committee felt that this
revision was necessary because
few students were able to pre
pare for the examinations and
that they were thus useless in
the student's eyes.
"Under the present system,"
said Committee Member Jake
Snyder, "these examinations
serve absolutely no purpose ex
cept as a time waster.
The faculty was convinced
that the system might be im
proved, but it held that the ex
aminations themselves were not
responsible for the deficiency as
much as the individual departments.
PI PHI INITIATES
Pi Beta Phi initiated five neo
phytes last night and entertain
ed them at a banquet afterwards.
The new initiates are Mildred
LeFevre, Patty Penn, Martha
Wyant, Julia Folsom, and Caro
lyn Winston.