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Vol. 6. No. 41 THE NEW FORD IS YET A STRANGER TO CHAPEL HILL But People Enjoy the Pretty Pic tures at Strowd’s, and Many Orders Are Booked JOHN CREEL ELUCIDATES The new Ford car hasn’t reached Chapel Hill yet. This village may be in Class A in the matter of education, culture, and various other praiseworthy in tangibles, but in the contest for priority as a Ford show-place it ranks along with other little hamlets almost concealed among the sticks. This needn’t worry Bruce Strowd, however. He has been liooking orders just as rapidly as if he had a whole bevy of Lizzie’s younger sisters on display. The words on the placard, “Orders will be filled strictly in the or; der received,” have had their magic effect, and more than fifty citizens have stepped up and signed on the dotted line. A purchaser doesn’t know when he is going to get his car. It nuty be two, three, four months, or more. With a like rush on all over the UnitAf States, the Ford factories will probably be a long time catching up with the de mand. Every hour of every day peo ple have been asking Mr. Strowd when he would have a new model to show. “I can’t tell,” he said yester day. “It may be next week. It may be the week after. It may not be till New Year’s.” There is a .umor afloat that a big shipment is on its way from Detroit to the Ford sub-! plant in Charlotte, which would probably bring Chapel Hill a quota of at least one specimen. But it’s only a rumor. Despite the steady rain last Friday, 2,-100 persons crowded into the show-room of the Strowd Motor Co. They had hoped to see a car, but they seemed pretty w-ell satisfied with the pretty pictures and the (Continued on hint page) Study Tours in Europe t niversity Ik Despatching Groups to Both France and Germany Two foreign study tours will be conducted next summer by the University’s extension divi sion. The schedules are an nounced by William M. Dey, chairman of the faculty commit tee on foreign study. J. C. Lyons will be the direc tor of the Baris residential tour. His group will sail from New York June 16 and will be in the French capital for about six weeks. The students will have the opportunity of attending lec tures at the Sorbonne, and there will be trips to Versailles, Mal maison, Rheims, Rouen, and Touraine. The German tour will be di rected by E. C. Metzenthin. The date of sailing from New York is June 20, and the itinarary in cludes Berlin, Weimar, Munich, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Bonn, Cologne, and Paris. On both the tours regular uni versity courses in language and literature will be given, and teachers completing them Will receive certifications of credit from the state department of public instruction. Anybody who wants detailed information, as to cost and other matters, should apply to the extension division. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff Drew Pauerson showed me the other day a sheet which he had found when looking through j his mother’s papers. It was a supplement to a w-eekly news paper in Salem, dated May 4, 1865, and was entitled “People’s Press—Extra.” It was printed on one side, only, -and was two columns wide and about 15 inches deep. The paper is still firm, and the ink unblurred. The reading matter consists of the orders of the Union and Confed j erate generals declaring the Civil War at an end. There were the famous General Order No. 9 of Lee’s—the Farewell Address of April 10; the order issued by J. E. Johnston from his headquarters near Greens boro April 27; Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 65 is sued “in the field, near Raleigh,” April 27; and Grant’s order of April 10 for passing the parole of Confederate soldiers to their homes. This little “extra” gave the Salem people their first of ficial and authentic news of the two surrenders, Lee’s and John ston’s. * * * Bishop Joseph B. Cheshire and Rev. Sidney Bost were walk ing along the street in Durham, and Mr. Bost remarked that he was getting too old to hunt and was going to sell his shotgun. “I’ll buy if from you,” said the Bishop, who is old enough to be Mr. Bust’s father; “I’m not too old to hunt.” And the transac tion was put through. Recent ly the Bishop acquired his first real hunting coat, and within the last week or so he has been out with his gun and dogs j around Scotland Neck. * * * Although he is around 75, the Bishop’s vigor is impressive. Not long ago when he and his son, Joseph 8., Jr., were going off on a hunting trip, the negro servant said to his son’s wife: “Miss Ida, you better tell the Bishop to take good keer o’ Mis ter Jo.” To Tell of Excavations Harland, Archaeologist, Will Give Il lustrated Lecture Monday Night J, Penrose Harland, professor in the University, will give a lec ture at 8 o’clock Monday eve ning, at the Playmakers Theatre, on the unearthing of art treas ures and buried cities. He will show, for the first time in Amer ica, a lantern slide picture of the bronze statue of the Youth from Marathon. This famous statue was found by some fish ermen and has been the object of great interest among artists and archaeologists all over the world. Mr. Harland recently returned from a stay of several months in Europe, where he carried on his excavations and der a fellowship of the Guggen heim Foundation. In his talk Monday evening he will tell how cities have come to be buried one on top of the other and how the art objects in them are brought to light. He will also tell of the discovery of temples and statues which were lost in the wilder ness or perhaps buried under the sea. He has many lantern slides. auspices of the art department of the Community Club. Stu dents in the University and school children, as well as club members, are invited. AU kind* of printing don* prompt 1y at the Orange Printshop on Roie wary lane, Chapel Hill. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1927 Jones’s Portrayal of Drunkard Is a Powerful Sermon on Evils of Drink Howard Mumford Jones, member of the University fac ulty and creator and director of the Bull’s Head Book Shop, will appear ps Joe Morgan the Drunkard in the Carolina Play makers’ production of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room this (Fri day) and tomorrow evenings. Mr. Jones’s portrayal of the character, according to those who have seen rehearsals, con stitutes a powerful sermon on the evils of drink. ' In the course of the five acts the drunkard is redeemed; and after the fall of the final cur tain Mr. Jones recites the epi logue : “As some poor stranger wreck ed upon the coast With fear and wonder views the dangers past, So I with dreadful apprehen sions stand And thank the powers that brought me safe to land; A drunkard now no longer— that is o’er, Free, disenthralled, I stand a man once more.” Mrs. Emily Slade and Miss Tarasa Graham will play the roles of the drunkard’s wife and daughter. Shepherd Strudwick will appear as Romaine the philanthropist, Moore Bryson as Simon Slade the innkeeper, Ri L. Zealy as Willie Hammond 1| ifie squire’s son, H. K. Russefl-a* Sample Switchel the tippler* T. B. Harrison as Harvey Green the gambler, A. T. Cutler 'rite Frank Slade the innkeeper’s son, Miss Mary Holland as the inn keeper’s wife, and Miss Ruth Rogers as Mehitable Cartright, a* sentimental girl. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, with George E. (“Yankee”) Locke in the leading role, was presented at the Chatham The atre in New York August 23, 1858; and the printed program for the Blaymakers’ perform ance is a reproduction,in shape, phraseology, and typography, of the sheets used in those days of the eighteen-fifties. At the top is the line “EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION!”, and the rest Automatic Phones in Use Eight Days from Now Midnight of Saturday, Decern, her 17—that is, one week from tomorrow night—has been set as the time when Chapel Hill’s automatic telephone system will go into operation. The new mechanism was to be hooked up tomorrow night; the indoor in stallations are all completed, but the rain and snow storms inter fered with the outdoor work and compelled the one-week post ponement. The dial instruments have been placed in homes, stores and offices throughout the village, and J. S! Bennett is distributing copies of a little pamphlet tell ing just how to call numbers by the dial method. The subscrib ers are informed not only about Labor Chief Speaks Here T. A. Winston, head of the state federation of labor, was to speak last night in Saunders hall under the auspices of the school of commerce. The Weekly went to press before the meeting, so that no report is possible in this issue. Something about it will perhaps be printed next week. Halls on Flight South Dr. and Mrs. James K. Hall of the two-feet-long sheet a bounds in superlatives, bold-face type, and, exclamation points. In the first act Little Mary (Miss Graham) will sing the famous song, “Father, Dear Father, Come Home w’ith Me Now,” and M. H. Fann will dance the popular “Turkey in the Straw.” Between the sec ond and third acts Morgan (Mr. Jones) will recitP“The Face on the Bar-Room Floor.” Other be intro duced during the evening are quartette numbers by J. B. Seur lock, W. L. Hunt. R. A. Hovis, and S. S. Schorr; songs, dances, and instrumental numbers by K. W. Sears and W. Kessler; banjo novelties by J. Wardlaw and his Carolina Banjo Boys; popular songs by E. S. Day; and saw and violin specialties by Misses Noel Walker and Isabel Wenhold. The scenery, footlights and pictorial embellishments were executed under the superintend ence of Samuel Selden by a corps of artists including Miss Mary Dirnberger, and Messrs. Adams, Johnson, Ashburn, Coxe, and Constantine. Mr. Selden has ap peared in the play with various stock companies. Nelson O. Kennedy w ill be the pianist. James Turner, Jr., did the illustrations for the pro gram. In a brief comment accom panying the program, Director Frederick 11. Koch says: “There seems to be a revival of interest in {Tie Victorian era, and'Tf TiaT occurred to us that the present generation would be interested in a revival of this classic play of temperance propaganda, which we all know by name but which very few of us are old enough to remember in its hey day of success. Sam Selden says that it is a tradition among stock folks: ‘lf you are broke and want to eat a week longer, put on ten Nights in a Bar-Room.’ The Blaymakers are not broke yet, but we think we have suf ficient reason for offering the play seriously as typical of the popular drama of the Victorian era.” ordinary calls but what to do when they want to call long dis tance, to give the lire alarm, or to summon the police. It is a rather simple procedure and can be caught on to in a few minutes. Many citizens of Chapel Hill have already become familiar with automatic telephones through the use of those in Dur ham. The directory is in process of being printed at the Orange Printshop and a copy of it will be given to each subscriber by Saturday of next week. There is a special University list in the book, separate from the general list, and this and other duplica tions bring the number of names to around 1,000. of Richmond drove into Chapel Hill yesterday afternoon on their way to Southern Pines. They will move on thence to Charles ton, and perhaps Dr. Hall—who has been ill and is taking a rest —will spend a while in Augusta. Reading of Carol Postponed Frederick H. Koch’s reading of. Pickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has been postponed from Sun day, December 11, to Friday, December 16.' The hour is 8:30. Russell's Visit Lindsay Russell, of Wilming ! ton and New York, hit upon a j day of terrible weather for his ! return to Chapel Hill after an absence of about 35 years. It was last Saturday, when the air was chill and the rain was fall ing slantwise before a strong Iwind. He saw Chapei Hill at its 1 worst. ♦ * # We went out to the stadium j where the high school boys of l Wilmington and Greensboro ! were sloshing around in the mud in a so-called football game; and drove in Mr. Russell’s lux urious sedan through the cam pus ; and stopped to inspect the j South building and the Plav j maker Theatre. His cheerfui ; ness was proof against the mean | weather, and he seemed to enjoy renewing acquaintance with the ; University and the village. * * * He recalled a rather amusing j bit of history. “My uncle was I dismissed from the University,” I he said, “I think for general in j corrigibility. Some thirty or | forty years later he came back here as governor of the state to j install a president of the insti tution.” The president to whom the visitor alluded was Edwin A. Alderman, and I remember well the occasion. Governor Russell and the members of the legislature came up to. Chapel Hill from Raleigh for the inau guration ceremonies. The trip was an arduous one ' in those days, and it happened that the day was stormy and bitterly cold *—•jfTTTvmi worse day than the governor’s nephew struck last week. * * * People who lament the lack of a leisure class in America would have nothing to complain of if (Continued on taut page) Training for His Fight Ad Warren Gets Ready to Meet Lou Carpenter in Durham Tuesday Ad Warren, the University’s champion boxer, is training vig orously for his debut in the pro fessional ring: a ten-round bout with Lou Carpenter in the Dur ham City Auditorium next Tuesday night. A tackle on the Carolina football team, he kept himself in excellent physical con dition during the fall ; but foot ball left him little opportunity for boxing practice, and so now he has to Up for lost time. Incidentally, the candidates for the University boxing team, under the direction of Crayton Rowe, are getting some valuable experience from their sparring with the big fellow. It is said that Warren is the .first University graduate, of un questioned potential ability as a pugilist, to enter the profession al ring. He won the amateur heavy weight title in Philadelphia in 1926. In the tournament last March in Cincinnati, after hav ing knocked out Joe Hoffman, he was declared out of the contest under a rule that nobody who had once won a title was eli gible to compete in another nmateur tournament. He has been in more than 40 fights, having appeared in Phila delphia, Boston, Baltimore, Cin cinnati and several Southern cities. He has been outpointed three times but has never been knocked off his feet. A few days ago Warren signed up with Jimmy Bronson of New York. Bronson is an old-timer with a reputation as an astute and successful manager. $1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. a Copy SHORT-CUT ROAD CONTRACT TO BE LET ONTUESD AY State Has Already Taken over the Stretch from Nelson on to Chapei Hill GRADING TO BEGIN SOON The contract for the new state highway from Chapel Hill across the end of Durham county to Nelson—the short cut to Ra leigh—is to be let next Tuesday, December 13. This is according to the official schedule of the highway commission. Grading w'ork will begin soon after the contract is signed and will proceed through the win-, ter. It is to be expected, of course, that bad weather will cause .interruptions within the next two or three months, but advantage will be taken of all the fair spells that permit of digging and filling and hauling. If this winter turns out to be like that of a year ago, the contract ors ought to get the job well on toward completion by spring. As the road now lies, it is 13 miles from here to Nelson. But the commission’s survey pro vides for new alignments near Chapel Hill and also in Durham county, so that several hundred yards will be saved. If as much as half a mile is gained, then the distance from Chapel Hill to Ra leigh will be 29 1-2 miles—or 8 1-2 miles less than the route byway of Durham. Ilwue w uncertainty about a paved surface for the short cut. (Continued on tout, page) “Les Miserables” Elaborate French-Made Film to Be Shown Here Next Week A French motion picture play —made in France and with a cast of French actors—will be at the Carolina Theatre on Thursday and Friday of next week. It is Les Miserables, the screen version of Victor Hugo’s famous novel. Gabriel Gabrio, for years a prominent figure on the Parisian stage, plays the part of Jean Val jean; and Jean Toulot portrays Javert, the tireless and terrible pursuer of Valjean. Mademoi selle Andree Rolane appears as Cosette the child, Paul Jorge as Bishop Myriel, and Madame . Sandra Milowanoff as Fanline and the grown-up Cosette. Les Miserables is probably the most ambitious motion picture enterprise ever undertaken by the French. It is said to have cost more than 6,000,000 francs. Three Paris streets—the rue St. Denis, the rue des Chanvriers, and the rue Montedour—were reconstructed as they appeared in 1830. In the rue des Chan vriers are paving-stone, barrels, ladders, and furniture, heaped up to form a barricade. Sol diers pass through the barricade, while red flags flap in the wind against placards on which the insurgents have written: “Death td the Tyrant!”# The film was oiginally produc ed in such great length that it nus exhibited throughout France in a series of six separate show ings. The American producer has reduced it to a length suit able for one evening’s entertain ment. Thorpe Milks 2 Goats Now fhf One of the bits of news brought by visitors from eastern North Carolina is that Dr. Adam Thorpe of Rocky Mount is now milking two goats instead of one as heretofore.
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