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CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1937.
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NUMBER 163
Ex-Governor Brewster Will
Debate On Supreme Court
With Congressman Maverick
Political Unibn Holds
Birthday Banquet
Tuesday Night
Notables To Talk
The Carolina Political Union
will close a year of unprecedent
ed activity by bringing to the
'campus next Tuesday ex-Governor
Ralph 0. Brewster, Senator
whom President Roosevelt in a
press conference called "Am
bassador" from the state of
.-Maine, and Maury Maverick,
Texas representative in the na
tional congress.
These two national political
figures will debate in Hill Music
nail on new angles oi tne su-
.preme court issue, with Maver
ick defending the president.
Birthday Dinner
Preceding the debate, the Un
jon will have its first anniver--sary
birthday party in the form
of a banquet in the Carolina inn.
Over 200 political notables
liave been invited. C. P. U.
1 W v -a
cnairmen v ranic Mcunnn re
quests that men wishing to a-
itend the informal banquet con
tact Union members for admis
sion tickets which vwill be sold
' it $1.25.
- 20-Inch Cake
Largely through the efforts
-of Nancy Nesbit, Union member
-and president" of the Woman's
Association, a cake with a dla-i
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;us
Display Explains
"How It's Done
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Private Collection Of Charles F
Chute Is On Exhibit In
Library Lobby
, Magic is the word to describe
the display that was put on ex
hibition yesterday in the show
cases of the lobby at the main
entrance of the library.
The display of apparatus used
by magicians and books explain
ing "how it's done" comes from
the private collection of Charl
ton F. Chute, chief finance ex
aminer with the local PWA of
fice. Mr. Chute, a well known
amateur magician who has a
bag packed full of tricks has
carried his magic to audiences
in may parts of this state. He
delighted a gathering in Me
morial hall here last year when
lie appeared on the student-faculty
day program.
Among the books on the his
tory and technique of magic is
L biography of Robert Houden,
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Rain, Conflict
Senior-Faculty Ball Game
Coach Harry Comer Will Use
Woir And Vaught For Faculty
Battery Monday
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Because of rain and a con
flicting varsity game, the annu
al . senior-faculty, sof tball game
was postponed Wednesday, but
according to faculty coach, Har
ry Comer, it definitely will be
played Monday afternoon at 5
o'clock on Intramural field no. 2.
Football Coach Ray Wolf, pre
viously an ace . pitcher, of the
southern conference, and his
"back stop" equal, Sir Vaught
will be the batteries for the fa
culty. Lengthy 'fCorkey" Corn
well, has been obtained to cover
Hanson Wishes V
Squad Insured
Coach Dale Ranson is
thinking seriously of taking-
out insurance on his
track men. Walter (Boo
zie) Off, freshman and an
aspirant for the post of
team manager, narrowly
missed being slugged with a
huge boulder not long ago.
' The gnomes who are
building the new gym were
so zealous to speed up their
work that they forgot to lay
their blasting mats proper
ly, and fired a barrage of
stoney shrapnel 1 over the
track stadium!
FormalDance
Closes Senior
Kaye Concludes Annual
Junior-beilior bet
At Midnight
Sammy Kaye and his 'swing
and sway orchestra will com-
plete the Junior-Senior dance set
and Senior Week festivities to-
night with Senior Ball in .the
Tin Can from 9 to 12 o'clock,
The set opened with a tea dance
and th a Junior Prom vpsterdav.
and" will include a tea dance this
afternoon from 4:15 to 6 :30.
Through arrangement with
the Junior-Senior dance commit
tee, Kaye's band played at a con
cert in Hill Music Hall last night
in addition to the prom, and will
play for a dinner dance at the
A. T. O. house tonight.
The following young ladies are
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Groves Will Teach
M
University Professor To Offer
Course Next -Year
According to an announcement
made, yesterday, Dr. Ernest
Groves of the University sociol
ogy .department, will give a
course in the sociology depart
ment at Duke university on mar
riage and the family in the sec
ond semester of the next col
lege year.
Dr. Charles A. Ellwood, head
of the department of sociology,
Dean Elbert Russell, of the
school of religion, and Alice
Baldwin, Dean of. women, have
been interested in having the
course offered at Duke.
Postpones
the sack for the profs.
Rest Of Line-Up.
"The rest of the line-up would
be a waste of words and space,"
said Coach Comer yesterday,
"for with these three aces in ac
tion, there will be no need of
filling the positions near first
base." ' .' ' ' .
Faculty members represent
ing f colleges and universities
from all over the globe will be
on hand to get "one more
chance" at the bat and to cheer
for the old conglomerate " Cy-
wash team.,
Coach Mary Lindsay and her
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WeekTonight
New Campus Governing Body
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The fathers of campus legislature for the coming year who
were this week installed into office are: front row, Warren Had
daway, senior class representative; Dick Worley, sophomore re
presentative; Keith Eutsler, holdover member; Charles Oates,
Pharmacy school representative;
hill, holdover member; Bud Huson, junior representative; Presi
dent Bob Ma&rill: and Bill Carter,
President Reuben Graham was
Van.Cise, Speck, Rowell, Southerland,
Schallert, Mqnroe,
WigUe, MaSqUe
Southerland studies Mae west
To Get Right "Atmosphere"
For College Vamp .
y Cise Loved Bv TWO
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l Taking the leads Tuesday
night in "Say the Word", the
Wigue and Masque's first pro
duction in seven years, are
Stanley Van Cise, Mary Lillian
Speck, Audrey Rowell, Geddie
LMonroe,- Nancy . Schallert" and
Sue Southerland. L i 1 hi a n
Hughes, contralto-blues singer,
does many of the specialty songs
including "Never to Love
Again." . v ;
: Miss Southerland plays the
college vamp in this, all-student-produced
and written musical
comedy. She enters the scene of
action when she is paid $500 by
the mother of " the heroine to
break up an undesirable love af
fair. To complicate matters she
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Blue arid White
Band Boys Play
To Full Houses
Fortv-Six Band Members Com
plete Eight Concerts During
National Music Week
In their blue and white uni
forms the University band play
ed to packed houses in each of
the eight concerts they gave in
High Point, Winston-Salem, and
Durham Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Forty-six members of the
band left Chapel Hill Wednes
day for a strenuous schedule. In
Greensboro on that day they
played at Lindley Junior high
at 10:30 a. m. At the High
school at 2:30 p. m. they gave
another , concert, and at 5:00
p. m. the Women's College of the
University of North Carolina
attended their next concert in
Greensboro in large numbers.
At 7:30 at the Greensboro col
lege for women the long-winded
band boys gave another concert
ending a crowded day. Thursday
in Winston-Salem a similar
schedule of concerts was arrang
ed. A -final concert was present
ed Thursday night in the Jun
ior high school auditorium in
High Point after the members
of the High Point alumni asso-
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back row, James Brown Craig
law school representative. Vice
not. present for the picture.
Will Star In New
Play Tuesday Night
Pulitzer Prize
Awarded Scribes
Who Wrote Here
Reporters Attribute Attainment
Of Award Largely To
Chemist Convention
J. O'Neill, science reporters for
the New York1 Times and' Her
ald Tribune, last week captured
the annual Pulitzer prizes for
the best newspaper reporting in
the nation . and attribute their
attainment largely to the cover
age of the chemical convention
at the University, April 12-15.
Among the 14,000 words sent
out daily during the-convention
to individual newspapers
throughout the countrythe New
York newspapermen wrote the
most capable stories. Each day,
the Times and Tribune carried
a complete column describing
the proceedings.'
Headquarters Here
Science journalists for a num
ber of years Hon the two metro
politan papers, the ace reporters
made their writing headquar
ters here at the University Jour
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Swalin To Offer
Musical Concert
Mrs. Swalin To Accompany Mu
sic Professor Tomorrow
Benjamin Swalin of the mus
ic department and his wife, also
a talented musician, will present
the next in the series of Sunday
afternoon concerts in Graham
memorial at 5 .o'clock, tomor
row. '
Maxme Swalin -is a former
member of the faculty of the
tw- ij " 1
naraora scnoor oi jviusic in
Hartford. Conn. She has stu
died at the University of Iowa,
the-Institute of Musical Art of
the Juilliard school of - Music,
New York city, and holds an
M. A. degree' from Radcliff col
lege.
Dr. Swalin came to the Uni
versity after obtaining degrees
from Columbia university, the
University of Vienna, the Insti
tute of Musical Art of the Juil
Hard school of Music, New York,
and the Staatsakademie fur
Musik in Vienna. .', .
Dormitory.
Plans Nominations
We See Double
Sometime Too?
A note of recognition,
from West Virginia receiv
ed by the editor yesterday
proves that the Tab Heel
is read. The letter:
Gentlemen: I have seen
the March issue of the Tar
Heel, and I am very much
. interested in your school.
Will you please send me the
next issue?
Sincerely yours,
Lois 0. Green
New Campus
Heads' School
Opens May 10
Annual Training Course
On Parliamentary
Law To Begin
All newly-elected campus of-
ficers of any and all activities,
including fraternities, are re- j
minded by University officials
that the annual officers train-
ing course will begin Monday
night at 8 o'clock in the main
lecture room Of New West.
Presidents
ana vice-presi-
-
dents are urged to take advan
x w ill ill f-A c -t ill rvui at n i n i a na.
signed to clear up all questions
aoout , parliamentary law and
procedure. Mimeographed out-
ines of instructions will be dis
tnbuted to the officers in the
Y. M. C. A office beginning this
afternoon.
Technical Procedure
There will also be
a course
for treasurers, arranged to give
the most efficient methods of
handling finances and of record-
keeping. Under the same course
will be explanation of the laws
of the Student Audit bureau,
and the technical procedure
which every treasurer must
know in dealing with the bu
reau. -
A one hour discussion will
also be given for all recording
secretaries, as to responsibili
ties and functions of the office
and methods of record-keeping.
Both courses will be given in
New West at the same time.
"Androcles And The Lion ' '
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Delighted London Children
Playmakers To Present Shaw's
Drama In Forest Theater .
May 21 And 22
When Shaw's satire, "Andro
cles and the Lion", was first
presented in London the children !
were delighted, the serious pub
lic was interested, and the har
dened playgoers did not know
what to make of it. However,
Professor Koch believes that the
Carolina student body will be
thoroughly delighted with the
play as the year's Forest theater
production to be produced May
21 and 22 by the Carolina Play
makers. "Androcles and the Lion" is
the dramatization of the old fa
ble of the little man who remov
ed a thorn from the foot of a
lion and won the beast's endur-j
Council .
Individual Dorms, Set
Monday To Name
' Candidates
Elecjions Tuesday
After unanimously electing
University Junior Tommy Hall
to . head the inter-dormitory
council for 1937-38 at Its last
meeting, the present dormitory
governing bqdy has set Monday
night as the date for nominating
officers for individual dorms.
The constitution, first of
its kind in the United
States, recently adopted by
the Inter-dormitory gov
erning body will be found
on page 4.
Finel voting on the candidates
chosen will come on the follow
ing day. It was necessary to
elect next year's council head at
the meeting last week, because
of a by-law recently adopted by
the group forbidding its presi-
Uent to be head of a dormitory"
at present, president of
Lewis.
Under the statutes of the new
constitution, recently drawn up
by Jim Joyner and adopted by
the council, elections of dorm of- ,
ficers and officials will be uni-
form throughout the campus,
and the council will continue to
consist of the presidents, vice-
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Skinner Selected'
manager Ul inn,
Succeeding Duke
Kirby Smith, Also On Inn Per
sonnel, Promoted Assistant
Acting Manager
Leigh Skinner, for five years
an employee at the Carolina inn,
was yesterday chosen . manager
of the inn, succeeding Haywood
Duke who becomes manager of
the King Cotton hotel in Greens-
boro May 10.
Skinner is a native of Raleigh
and attended both Columbia and
Emory universities. He is mar
ried, his wife being the former
Miss Sally Milton Carter, who
took her paster's degree at the
University in 1935.
Kirby Smith, also on the per
sonnel at the inn, was promoted
to assistant acting manager. He
was a member of the University
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ing friendship. A Roman per
secution of the Christians and
a bloody battle of gladiators also '
figure in the story, which has
its setting in both the interior
and exterior of a Roman arena.
Satirical Treatment ' '
With this as his framework,
Shaw has built what is consider
ed one of the most bitingly sa
tirical treatments of the reli
gion, conventions, and beliefs of
mankind. The play is consider
ed by Dr. Archibald Henderson,
Shaw's official biographer, to be
second "only to "Saint Joan." It
was first produced in America
by the Theater Guild.
: One of the unusual features
of the play, says Dr. Koch, who
will personally direct the pro
duction, is the creation of a
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