Miami Hurricane, January 04, 1928

              THE UNIVERSITY NEWS
JSZm--------------Coral Gables, Florida, Jyuary~4. ,928	N„mber Thirtt.-
U. of M. Opera Association Is Formed
SIX LECTURES ARE PLANNED
University Faculty Will Rotate Programs At P. T. A.’s
A musical lecture course containing six programs will be given under the auspices of the University of Miami and the Parent Teachers Association of the Miami District. The first will be held Tuesday evening, January 17 in the following schools: Andrew Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Ada Merritt, Coral Gables Elementary school, Lemon City and Miami Beach. The lectures will be routed so that every school will have the benefit of each program. They will be given every other Tuesday.
Five professors of the University have been chosen to speak.
1 Dr. Lincoln R. Gibbs will speak on “Robert Browning and the Christian Faith.” Dr. Henry S. West’s subject ¡3, “School Discipline, Old and New.” Dr. English will talk on “Modern Movements and Philosophic Thought.” Dr. James J. Marshall will speak on “Peoples in Other Worlds Than Ours.” Jay F. W. Pearson will talk en “Sea Life in Mid-Ocean.” These topics are subject to change and may be altered as the lectures progress.
Miss Bertha M. Foster has charge of the musical programs to be given.
ALASKAN
IS VISITOR
Most Northern University President Guest of Zeigens
Miami Chamber of Commerce Gives Check To University
A check for $5,000 was pre-
9«ntKdlwe. University, December ¿o, by the Miami Chamber of Commerce. L. J. Conant, executive vice-president of the chamber of commerce presented the check, which was formally accepted by Ur. B. F. Ashe in the presence Chamber of Commerce. ■The money is the first payment of a $25,000 publicity fund voted the Chamber by Dade county commissioners, on the provision that it be given the University.
Mr. Conant said that support of the University would always be one of the planks of the Chamber of Commerce platform.
COMMITTEE
APPOINTED
Faculty To Advise Public Speaking Extension Work
DR. ASHE SPEAKS AT C.*G. CLUB
University Gives. Musical Program FoßVisiting Editors
President B. F. ,Ashe of the University was the principal speaker Saturday evening January 7, at the dinner and dance held in the Coral Gables Ckmntry Club for the visiting editors and their wives given by the cit/.of Coral Gables and the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce. The .musical program included a tenor solo by Fred Huffsmith, a duet by Helen Flanagan and Fred Huffsmith, a trio by Helen Flanagan, Margaret Mc-Lanahan and Eleanor Van Sco-ten, and a selection by the University quartet com|pse'd of Thomas Edward DunhanK Margaret Mc-Lanahar., EleanorVan Scoten and Fred Huffsmith, accompanied by Miss Bertha Foster.
Seventeen Girls Form
University Riding Club
Seventeen girls, interested in the Riding Club being formed, met with Mrs. Howard P. Buck Tuesday at 12:30 in Room 233.
Those present at the meeting were: Mary Holgate, Frances Rum bo, Louise MacCallman, Jean Muir, Mildred Avery, Laura Newton, Peggy Helser, Mildred Hohler, Ruth Linder, Pat Arnold, Leona Matthews, Helen Hutchinson, Marjorie Runde, Dorothy Lipe, Virginia Briggs, Eileen Pharmer and 1 Aldine Hartman.
The club will begin riding Saturday.
‘MARTHA” TO BE PRESENTED
Dr. Frederic Zeigen, regent of the University of Miami, and Mrs. Zeigen, have as their guest Judge Charles E. Bunnell, president of the University of Alaska, at Fairbanks.
Judge Bunnell came South principally to interest Congress in extending the laws covering education and experimental work :n Alaska and Hawaii. His visit to Miami is of particular interest because he represents the northernmost university in the world and is visiting a representative of | the southernmost university in the United States. The next farthest north university is the University of Iceland, which is about 100 miles farther south than the University of Alaska.
The Judge speaks highly of the work at the University of Miami. He was guest of honor at a luncheon given by the Board of Regents of the University, at which Judge William E. Walsh, presided.
A faculty committee to confer with and advise the students who are to take part in the public speaking extension work has been appointed by President B. F. Ashe. Members of the committee will hear the speakers and decide which ones are sufficiently well qualified to represent the University.
Three subjects will be discussed “The Spirit of South Florida,” “Modern Youth,” and “Politics and Education.” Teams with a speaker on each of the three subjects and a musician from the Conservatory department will visit women's clubs, chambers of commerce and civic clubs along the East Coast. Members of Rho Beta Omicron« and the three public speaking classes will participate.
The committee to judge the speeches includes Dr. L. R. Gibbs, chairman, Dr. Henry S. West, Dr. Robert B. English, Dr. O. J. Siep-lein, Mary B. Merritt and Rufus Steele.
University Regent Has
New Book Off the Press
Clayton Sedgwftk Cooper, regent of the Univeijuty df Miami, has a new book just Mf the press. It is entitled “Laon-America—Men and Markets.” holds a vital message to Miami and Florida, as well as to all of the United States.
( It indulges the hope of those who are working lor a closer unity, commercially and intellectually, between the United States and South America.
Miami expects her deep harbor to figure in thii'commereial development and her'University to be a leading factor in the cultural intercourse.
0MMITTEE
HEADS NAMED
LAW SCHOOL
RECOGNIZED
University ot Miami Meets Approval of Law School Faculties

Dean R. A. Rasco of the University of Miami Law school returned the first of the year from a short trip to Chicago, made in the interests of the Law School. He stated that the course of study adopted by the University of Miami law department had been favorably passed on by the convention of law school faculties, and would later be given the official approval of the American Association of Law Schools.
This is in direct line with a letter received December 22 from he Supreme Court of Florida recognizing the course of study offered by the law department of the University of Miami and admitting graduates to the practice of law without being examined by :he state board. This places the University of Miami Law School ,n an equal basis with the University of Florida and John B. Stetson University.
University of Miami Opera Association Works For “Martha"
Mu Phi Epsilon Has Charge Of Afternoon Musicale
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Welcomes Editors’ Wives
Dr. Owen Will Be Speaker On Non-Partisan Forum
Dr. Ruth Bryan Owen is one of the speakers who will appear at a nun-partisan political forum which is to be organized soon.
William G. Blanchard, a candidate for tha state senate, has announced the organization of this forum. Meetings will be held uther weekly or bi-weekly in the t ontral Grammar school, beginning January 16. Other speakers from throughout the state are, Governor John W. Martin, Senator Park l ammell, Congressman Joe Sears, Fred H. Davis, attorney general, Lrnest Amos, state comptroller, and J. C, Luning, state treasurer.
Civic Theater Repeats
Performance With Success
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, nationally known short story writer, and former newspaper woman, who is conducting a class in short story writing at the University, made the welcoming speech at the musical breakfast given by the Hotel Everglades for wives of the visiting editors in Miami, Friday, January 6.
Mrs. Douglas conveyed Miami’s delight in entertaining the guests. She expressed the belief that Miami needs and expects to develop her own individuality as she grows older, so as not to become standardized.
Wing and Wig to Present Two Plavs For Lions Club
Two one act plays, “Lima Beans and "Suppressed Desires" will be given by members of the Wing and Wig Club at the second of the Friendly Night meetings of the uioral Gables Lions Club, which will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hopkins on Avenue Santa Maria, Wednesday evening, January 11. The Wing and Wig Club is a University organization but a few months old and is under the direction of Howard Southgate, professor of dramatics.
More than three hundred people are expected to attend including the Lions, their wives and friends.
University Should Send
Delegates To Havana
The University of Miami Opera Association held its first of a series of organization meetings Thursday morning at the University building. Different committees were appointed to work with the various clubs of greater Miami in placing the tickets for the performance of “Martha” at the Coliseum. February 11.
Mrs. William E. Walsh, chairman of the patron and patroness committee. Mrs. Cryus Wicker, and Mrs. Franklin Harris, committee to interest groups in Coconut Grove, Mrs. Don Peabody, president of Coral Gables Woman’s Club, will appoint their own ticket cemmittees. Mrs. Walter Bruns, chairman to take charge of Coral Gabies Administration Building and Coral Gables City Hall and Mrs. J. R. Williams, president of Coral Gables Garden club, will also appoint their own ticket committees. Mrs. H. P. Buck, is chairman of the committee of members of the University and Mrs. L.. V. Safford is representing the Junior Music Club.
The majority of boxes have already been reserved by well-known citizens who plan to make this one of tne leading social events of the season.
The work of the principals and the Glee Clubs is progressing most satisfactorily. Chorus rehearsals ..ic iailed for Mondays and Thursdays, beginning Monday evening, February 9 at 8:00 o’clock, at the University auditorium, under the direction of Arnold Volpe.
Members of the Phi Alpha chapter of the Mu Phi Epsilon sorority were in charge of the regular Tuesday afternoon musical in Cromer-Cassell's yesterday.
The program follows: address, May. Brigel, president; soprano solo. Margaret McLanahan; violin solo, Charlene Stearns; dance, Louise Sterling Shelley; contralto solo, Elinor Van Scoten; duet, Margaret McLanahan, Elinor Van Scoten, accompanied by Dorothy Clower; and a trio, assisted by George LeMere and Joe Tarpley.
Branson de Cou’s Dream
Pictures Delight Audience
Organization To Sponsor Production At Coliseum
Of momentous importance to the people of Greater Miami is the announcement which comes from the newly-formed Opera Association of the University of Miami, of the production of the opera “Martha" by Flotow, under the able direction of Arnold Volpe, who is now marshalling the forces of chorus, orchestra and principals together.
Miami can look forward with genuine pride to the first performance of this opera, which will be given February 11 at the Miami Coliseum, Coral Gables. Assisting Mr. Volpe_ in this work will be Enrica Clay Dillon of New York, and Howard Southgate of the dramatic department of the University, who will have complete charge of the stage directing, costumes, etc. Bertha Foster and Dr. James
C.	Cochran will be in charge of the chorus, and Louise Sterling Shelley of the dancing department of the University will supervise the ballet.
The two glee clubs of the University and the Aeolian Chorus will comprise the grand opera chorus, which will be augmented by outside talent desirous of joining this work. Mr. Volpe will meet all those interested in joining the opera chorus, Monday evenings at 8 o’clock at the University.
The earnest cooperation of all the people in the Greater Miami district is being enlisted to help make this opera presentation a ; great artistic, as well as a social and financial success.
The principals selected are all artists of established reputation, and include the following:
Martha, Rachel Jane Hamilton; Lionel, Frederick Huffsmith; Nancy, Elinor Van Scoten; Plun-kitt, Percy Long; the Sheriff, H.
D.	Hodgson; Tristrom, Thomas Dunham.
The complete University Symphony Orchestra of 53 members, already well organized under the direction of Arnold Volpe, will be used for the occasion. Rehearsals are already in progress and Miami can look forward to a per-1 formance of opera of the highest standard.
Mrs. Arnold Volpe is the general j chairman and manager and has j under her supervision all the details of the management.
Tickets can already be secured by applying to the office of the University Opera Association, Room 246, University Building, Coral Gables.
The audience who greeted Bran-sen de Cou and his dream pictures at the University of Miami Auditorium Monday evening was most enthusiastic.
The South Sea wonderlands are from Mr. de Cou's latest tour. He ,.a developed the travelogue into hat amounts to a new art, in his ynchrcnization of appropriate musk with the display of his beautifully colored pktures. It is armchair travel raised to the highest degree —adequate description, comments and explanation combined with faithful reproduction in the screen plus the uplift and emotional interpretation of music. The Mason and Hamlin Ampico furnished the music.
Chamber Music Society
To Present Artists Trio
The Greater Miami Civic Thea-wr repeated its latest production, ■ *n u . ^ext Room,” last night ln University auditorium.
An exciting mystery drama, the Play was favorably received in its iffst presentation last week at the University. 'It was ably super-'hsed by Howard Southgate, instructor of dramatics at the University.
The University of Miami should send delegates to the Pan-American congress in Havana is the opinion expressed by J. Bernard frisbie, former secretary of the American Chamber in Havana, at a luncheon at the Coral Gables Country Club, Tuesday, January 3. Mr. Frisbie spent Tuesday as the guest of President B. F. Ashe, Cyrus F. Wicker, associate professor of international law, Rufus Steele, his uncle, who is coach of feature story writing at the University, and Walter W. Bruns.
Miami Beach Woman’s Club Welcomes Mrs. C. S. Cooper
Miami Beach Woman's Club welcomed home its first president, .».is. Clayton Cooper, author and ¡rife of cne of the regents of the University of Miami. Friday, January 6.
Mrs. Cooper, returned to Miami Beach after a tour of Europe, Africa, and the Holy Lands. “Returning voyagers are 500 per cent American after traveling or living aoroad. They appreciate America, and 1 appreciate Miami. Although I enjoyed the trip, I am very glad to be back in Miami,” she said.
DR. HOLDSWORTH SPEAKS Dr. Jchn T. Holdsworth, professor of economics of the University of Miami spoke before members of the Masonic Luncheon Club at the Alcazar Hotel, Saturday, January 7. His subject was “Economics Today.”
DR. OWEN VISITS MOTHER
Dr, Ruth Bryan Owen left last Monday for Los Angeles to visit her mother, Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, who is ill at the home of her son, W. J. Bryan. Dr. Owen will return within two weeks to resume her work at the University.
The Chamber Music Society will present the University Artists Trio in the second concert of their series Thursday evening, January 19, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Zeigen, Silver Bluff. Helen Flanagan, soprano, will assist the trio, which is composed of Arnold Volpe violn; Walter Grossman, cello; and Hannah Epiro Asher, piano.
The program follows: 1. Trio-A Major, Op. 40 (Mana-Zucca) 1. Allegro Moderate, II. Adagio, Marche Funebre, III. Allegro cor. trio; 2. a. The Crying of Waters (Campbell-Tipton), b. The lark now leaves his watery next (Horatio Parker), c. Thine image, ever in my eight (Arnold Volpe by Helen Flanagan; 3. Trio-B • Flat Major, Op. 52 (Anton Rubinstein) 1. Moderate assai, II Andante, III Allegro moderate, IV. Moderate.
PHI ALPHA
The Phi Alphas are petitioning the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity for a charter.
lecture To Be Sponsored
By Honor Science Club
Professor O. P. Hart, head of the : physics department will give a lecture under the auspices of the Honor Science Club Wednesday : evening, January 18 at 8 p. m in Room 218.
The lecture is open to anyone who wishes to attend. Students of the University are asked to tell their friends and parents about this and are asked to come themselves.
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