Miami Hurricane, January 12, 1939

              The Miami
Hurricane
Volume XII
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER O^F THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Coral Gables, Florida, Thursdav, January 12, 1939
Number 14
University On View at Open^House
University Day Extended To Four-Day Entertainment For Winter Visitors
Winter visitors and residents of the Greater Miami area will be guests of the University next week at a four-day open house extending from Wednesday through Saturday, administration officials announced yesterday.
Classrooms will be opened for inspection, special exhibits and musical '■ programs are planned, and athletic contests scheduled for Saturday to entertain the visitors. The Fairchild Tropical Garden Palm exhibit, the herbarium, the general library, and the science laboratories are to be on display in addition to regular classrooms.
Saturday’s tentative sports program includes swimming exhibitions at the Venetian pools, boxing matches in the patio, tennis at the Biltmore club, and basketball games on the intramural court.
The open house to be held next week will take the place of the traditional one-day University Day during the spring semester when the University invited outsiders to look it over. This year, according to Lewis Leary, faculty committee member, the entertainment was set at the earlier date in order to give Miami winter visitors the opportunity of inspecting the buildings.
Faculty committee now working on the open house program is headed by Harry H. Provin, registrar, and includes Dr. Walter E. Phillips, professor of botany; Miss Mary B. Merritt, dean of women; Mrs. Melanie Rosborough, instructor in German; E. Morton Miller, instructor in zoology; and Robert E. Downes, instructor in history.
Members of the student body will participate in the entertainment of the visitors. Already planned are fraternity open houses with city high school boys as special guests.
'CampusGhosts’ Are Scored by YWCA Official
Stressing the necessity of "alive-ness in college girls,” Miss Augusta Roberts, Y.W.C.A. student secretary of the University of Texas, spoke to sixty-five girls Tuesday on "Campus Ghosts” during a visit in Miami.
In order to take a position soon as student secretary for the Southern Region of Y.W.C.A., Miss Roberts is making a tour of universities and colleges in the South. She came here from Rollins College with the primary purpose of becoming acquainted with the University of Miami, Y.W. C.A. cabinet members and advisory board, and the faculty. She has a negro college in St. Augustine listed as her next stop.
Following her talk, Miss Roberts, together with members of the advisory board, was guest at a luncheon given by Mrs. J. P. Reed. Board members include Mrs. Reed, Miss Mary B. Merritt, dean of women; Mrs. W.
A.	Lawerence, faculty member; Mrs.
B.	F. Ashe; Miss Fay Taylor; Mrs. H. E. Chamberlain, Y.W.C.A. board; Mrs. Joseph E. McLain, Y.W.C.A. staff.
After attending the regular cabinet meeting of the "Y” in the afternoon, and giving helpful hints as to program material gathered from other cabinet*.
Achron, Karina Are Next Soloists
ARTIS
Lea Karina
Isidor Achron
Head Gives Reading From Pepys’ Diary
Sidney Head, member of the English faculty, will deliver a dramatic reading based upon the life of Samuel Pepys at 8 p.m. tonight at the third monthly meeting of the English Honors society in the social hall.
At a rental rate of two cents a day, it is announced, students may utilize a new rental library in room 207 sponsored by the society. Included among recent additions of current literature are: "All This, and Heaven Too” by Rachel Field, "Danger Is My Business” by John D. Craig, "The Yearling” by Marjorie Rinnans Rawlings, "With Malice Toward Some” by Margaret Halsey, "The Citadel” by A. J. Cronin, "The Coming Victory of Democracy” by Thomas Mann, "Philosopher’s Holiday” by Irwin Edman and "Transgressor in the Tropics” by Negley Farson.
NEWMAN CLUB HEARS FISCHER
John J. Fischer, instructor at Gesu high school, will address the Newman Club at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the social hall. His topic will be "Religious Education in Secular Schools.”
Fresh From Alaskan Wilds, Dave Sets Out on World-Girdling Cruise
By Dorothy Hawkins
Marco Polo is off again! Slinging his camera over his back, and tucking his dainty diving equipment under his arm, Dave Duncan, University of Miami, ’38, will leave in February for South America, Asia, Africa, and all points north, south, east, and west, by way of a 42 ft. ketch. Young and good-looking, Dave is best known by University students for his good photography shots, his pearl-diving experiences, his fishing technique, and his handsome tan.
While in New York this summer, he negotiated with the American Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic magazine, and the Eastman Kodak company. While he free-lances in photography, these companies will furnish his equipment. Expense of the trip however, is entirely up to him. Leaving here with a practically nil wardrobe, he plans to buy his clothes, as he proceeds, to suit the climate. His only baggage will be fishing and diving equipment, cameras, and a scientific library.
Dave, a Kansas City native, has already seen Alaska, Mexico, and
Singapore. His coming trip will include many countries and many occupations. He will mine for gems in the Dutch East Indies, dive for pears in the Gulf of Mexico, the South Seas, Austria, and the Coral Sea; he will dive for zoological specimens, and fish for his dinner off the various islands where he stays.
Before leaving on his world cruise, he will go up to Ocala, Florida, to shoot snake farms and then to Nicar-augua to photograph turtles. When you ask him his ambition, he smiles shyly, and says, "This IS my ambition.”
Dave and his party of three plan to drift about in their boat from— "oh, anywhere from three to five years.” Says Dave, "I’m afraid I’ll be an old man when I get back.”
MEETINGS CALLED
Milton Feller, president, announces a meeting of the Interfraternity council at 12:30 Monday in the social hall.
Freshmen are asked by Class President Frank Sessler to attend a special meeting at 12:30 tomorrow in the auditorium.
Noted Pianist Will Present Own Concerto
Pianist Isidor Achron, fresh from a musical triumph at New York’s Carnegie Hall, will play his original First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the University symphony orchestra in the season’s second concert next Monday night in orchestra hall. Assisting the orchestra as second guest artist will be Mme. Lea Karina, Finnish .soprano, who will sing an aria from Danizetti’s "La Favorita”.
Orchestral portion of the program will be composed of such popular compositions as Ravel’s Bolero and Da Falla’s "Danse Espagnole.” Special feature will be the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Organ Prelude and Fugue, orchestrated for the University orchestra by Tom Steunenberg of the Music School faculty.
Dr. Arnold S. Volpe, director, this week expressed himself as honored to be among the first orchestra conductors to perform Achron’s Concerto. “The fact that Mr. Achron himself will play the solo part should lend an authoritative touch to the occasion and make the performance a memorable one,” he declared. The work was written in a record time of 29 days.
Achron, born in Poland, was a seasoned veteran at the age of 12. At this early age he was heard by Anton Rubinstein who granted him a personal scholarship. Since the Great War he has lived in the United States.
Mme. Karina, also a child prodigy, is the possessor of a voice with the combined ranges of a soprano and a contralto. In addition to this remarkable gift, she can speak nine languages fluently and proudly exhibits a prize she once won in a cooking contest conducted by a local newspaper.
Both balconies of the hall will be reserved for the exclusive use of University students, Mrs. Marie Volpe announces.
Complete program follows:
1.	Prelude and Fugue in E Minor	Bach
(•The Cathedral")
Transcribed for full orchestra by Tom Steunenberg
2.	Symphony No. 7 in A Major	Beethoven
I. Poco sostenuto. Vivace.
II. Allegretto
III.	Presto
IV.	Allegretto con brio
3.	First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Achron
Isidor Achron INTERMISSION
4.	"Danse Espagnole" from "La Vida Breve”
Da Falla
5.	Aria "O. Mio Fernando" from "La Favorita"
.	Donizetti
Mme. Karina
6.	Bolero	Ravel
Sororities Pool Efforts For Big Ball
Nine Greek-Letter Groups Honor Pledge Classes At Panhellenic Dance Sat.
Sorority neophytes will be honored Saturday night when nine University Greek-letter groups join forces for the second annual Panhellenic dance to be held from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Miami Women’s Club, N.E. 17th terrace and Biscayne boulevard.
For the second consecutive year, the sororities, members of the University Panhellenic councli, have combined to sponsor one large ball for their pledge classes, rather than a number^ of individual sorority dances.
Chairman Betty Mae Serpas, Zeta Tau Alpha president, is assisted by Valerie Howitt, president of Kappa Kappa Gamma; Rubilou Jackson, president of Chi Omega; and Joan Goeser, president of Delta Tau, in arranging for the function.
In the receiving line will be Eleanor E. Matteson, president of the Panhellenic council and her escort, Bud McLinden; Lucille Lefkowitz and Isador Kline; June Burr, and Tommy Murphy; Miss Jackson and Bob Olson; Miss Serpas and Dave
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Forensic Team Opens Tour February23
Leaving Miami February 23, the University debate team will open its schedule at Furman university the following day, and will meet seven other northern schools, said Faculty Coach Sidney Head in a statement this week.
The Hurricanes encounter Johns Hopkins February 25; St. Peter’s, February 27; N.Y.U., February 28; Rutgers, March 1; University of Pennsylvania, March 2; Bucknell, March 3; and Pittsburgh, March 4. N.Y.U. and Johns Hopkins will debate here late in March, while tentative contests have been arranged with St. Vincents’ and Lafayette.
Pi Kappa Delta, national debating fraternity, has fixed as this season’s intercollegiate debate subject the question: "Resolved: the United States should cease spending public funds for the purpose of stimulating business.” Furman, however, has arranged a special subject for its debate: "Resolved; that intercollegiate athletics should be banned.” Since the Furman football team emerged victors in only two out of ten games, Furman requests the affirmative.
Institute Speakers Stress Pan American Friendship
Spain Is Subject Of Next Week’s Lecture Series
Homero Seris, noted for his work at the Centro de Estudios Historíeos Madrid, will be third lecturer of the first annual Winter Institute of Hispanic-American Studies, inaugurating the second week of the session with lectures Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoons.
Dr. Seris’ titles include "Experiences of War-Time Spain,” "Second Golden Age of Spanish Literature,” and "Libraries and Archives of Madrid”.
Eye-witness To Spanish War
During the bombardment of Madrid, Dr. Seris served on the commission appointed by the Loyalist government to safeguard the city’s museums and libraries. At present the international secretary of the Spanish Library association, he is the author of several works of literary criticism, among them an edition of the Rimas of Becquer.
Dr. John Tate Lanning, author, editor, and authority on Hispanic-American history, is to occupy the latter half of the week’s lecture series with addresses Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings at 8:30 p.m.
Lanning History Scholar
His subjects will be "Founding of the Scholastic University in Hispanic America, "Last Stand of the Schoolmen,” and "Rise of Modern Medicine in Spanish America.”
Dr. Lanning, a graduate of Duke University and the University of California, occupies a chair at Duke. He is a recognized authority on Spanish American colonial universities and has recently read a paper on the subject at a meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago.
Educator I* Speaker At Tomorrow'« Asiembly
Atsembly speaker tomorrow at 10:10 a.m. will be Dr. H. C. Morrison, editor, publisher, and president of Asbury college in Louisville, Kentucky.
Following Dr. Morrison’s address, Joe Thomas, president of the student body, will report to the assembly on the state of the student government.
A short musical presentation, to include band numbers and a violin solo, will complete the convocation program.
Bell Excellent, Audience Wacky, 'Petrified Forest' Pleases Adults
AUTHORITY
Dr. J. Fred Rippy
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By Virginia Witters Those of you who saw Leslie Howard’s performance in "The Petrified Forest” by Robert E. Sherwood were probably more than anxious to see the presentation as staged by the University Players, Monday and Tuesday evenings. Those who didn’t really care to see it must have all gone on Monday night, for the loud talking, jeers, laughter, and scuffling noises during the entire performance managed to make the actors nervous and ill at ease. Consequently the play seemed much more poorly presented than it really was.
Gabby Finds Love Set way off in the eastern Arizona desert, the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q is a gas station and lunch room at a lonely crossroads. Owned by old Gramp Maple and run by his son, Jason, the place barely struggles along. Jason’s daughter, Gabby, finds life there very dull until the day of the action of our play. In a few hours she finds love and then loses it again, tends the pumps, is in quest of romance but Gabby cannot see him. Then the dull routine life of Black Mesa is disturbed by the arrival of Public Enemy Duke Mantee and his gang of killers. The vigil they keep and the developments during these
Reinert Calls Daily Chorus Practice
Bob Reinert, chorus director, announces that daily practices will be held in preparation for the presentation of the Saint-Saëns opera Sampson and Delilah” less than six weeks away.
Men students participating in the choruses are asked to report 9:00 a.m. Monday and Tuesday; women, Wednesday and Thursday at the same hour. Mixed voices will practice at noon Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and 7:15 p.m. Wednesday evening.
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tense hours strike the tone of the play.
Marvin Merely Adequate
To anyone who had expected a top performance from Maxwell Marvin in his role of Alan Squier, the wandering author, his portrayal seemed mediocre. Admittedly, the part was a difficult one. In it Marvin was adequate and no more — thus the audience quickly lost interest in his long wooden speeches and became bored. In contrast was their interest in Bob Masterson. He managed his part well and despite a few mumbled lines, put over his characterization of Boze Hertzlinger convincingly.
Dorothy Bell was excellent. She had the appealing quality that the part of Gabby Maple required and she relied on no twist of lines to make the scenes emotional. Profane expressions sprang from her lips as from a hardened sports addict. So wrapped up was she in her part that no rudeness on the part of the audience broke the spell.
Supporting Player» Shine Denise Penchina as well, flung herself into her characterization of Paula, the Mexican servant woman, with an abandon that left her free to fulfill the part to its utmost. When Maybelle Gilbert finally warmed up to being Mrs. Chisholm she was excellent, though the fact that she remained unmoved during all the gunfire led one to realize that she hadn’t forgotten that it was all make-believe. Her dry spouse, William Eak-ins, looked stiff and taciturn enough to be the tight old millionaire.
The audience found in Sidney Cas-ell a fine figure of the gangster Duke Mantee. He and his men Jackie (George Dawkins did an excellent piece of acting here and dominated the scene during every speech that came his way) and Ruby (Ed Turner) were tough enough to inject into the play the life it needed. The very fact that Casell was so sure of himself, made Marvin seem like a faltering schoolboy.
Bouquet For Mr*. Motter While speaking of good perform- j
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ances, no one could forget Gramp Maple. Jerry Weinkle went through the whole play with the ease of a veteran, making the old man easily the finest character. Jack Madigan was very successfully himself, American Legion or no American Legion.
Honorable mention should go to Lloyd Whyte, Stuart Cohen, Dick Roberts, C. A. Motter, Chas. Eisen-winter, C. A. Cold, and Tom Baumgartner who had small but important parts. They slipped into their cues with commendable ease and kept things running smoothly. Robert Downes and Brad Boyle were beautifully packed into American Legion uniforms. Mr. Downes’ gruff tone was suitable, though of course quite in contrast to his natural one.
The set was well done and lines came fast with no cueing necessary. Tribute must be paid to Mrs. Motter for her fine directing and excellent handling of a difficult but vastly entertaining opus.
Dr. McMaster First Speaker on Forum
Dr. W. H. McMaster, head of the department of Religious Education, will open the Third Annual Winter Forum on World Problems at Tam-iami Temple Church, Tamiami Trail at 14th avenue, with an address entitled "Gulf Streams of Modern Thought” Sunday evening, at 7:45 p.m.
Dr. McMaster’s lecture will be a critical survey of noteworthy current social and political philosophies. An open forum will follow the address. Other University professors to be featured on the forum which is sponsored by the International Relations Club will include Dr. Jacob Kaplan, Dr. Robert E. McNicoll, Dr. Paul Reed, and Paul E. Eckel.
Bishop Francis J. McConnell will be the featured speaker January 22. His subject will be "Preservation of Democracy.”
Barrett Library Presented to University
John W. Barrett, nephew of the late Dr. John Barrett, formally presented to the University the diplomat’s entire library as provided for in his will, at the opening meeting of the Winter Institute of Hispanic American Studies, which was dedicated to his memory.
Dr. Barrett, who died last October 17 was during his life director general of the Pan American Union and U. S. envoy and minister to Argentina, Colombia, and Panama.
Several days after his death it was announced in his will that he bequeathed his personal library, some photographs, and $2000 in cash, the interest from which was to be used as an annual prize to be awarded to the student writing the best paper on some phase of Pan-Americanism.
Already in the hands of the University are the six hundred volumes of Dr. Barrett’s library that were kept in his Coral Gables home. The remainder, which fill six packing cases, are being shipped from his home in Vermont.
Included in the University’s new library are many rare volumes invaluable because they are no longer in print. In addition to these, there are 4 complete sets of books containing the records of the Pan American conferences since their inauguration. They are printed in the four languages of the Pan American Union: English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
Numerous pamphlets were included in the donation. Literary treatises of the Hispanic Society of America, and a complete Journal of International Law, the latter originally bequeathed to Leland Hyzer, Dr. Barrett’s lawyer but turned over to the University, are destined to add considerably to the facilities of students of Spanish and Law.
Most interesting part of the collection to the layman is the collection of autographed photographs, certificates and testimonials that were
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Rippy, Boggs Occupy First W eek’sPlatform
Ideals of the New Pan Americanism are essentially the ideals of domestic and international democracy, according to Dr. J. Fred Rippy, first Hispanic-American Institute speaker, who sees in the new friendliness between the Americas hope for peace in an otherwise war-torn world.
The distinguished scholar, a member of the University of Chicago faculty, opened the first annual session of the Winter Institute of Hispanic-American Studies Monday afternoon, speaking on the subject, "Economic Trends in Latin America.” Tuesday and Wednesday lectures concerned the subjects, "Totalitarianism or Democracy” and “World Relationships.”
Folklorist Second Speaker
“Folklore in Pan Americanism” was the subject of Dr. Ralph S. Boggs, second Institute speaker, last night in the first of a series of three lectures on Spanish American folklore, a field in which he is recognized the greatest American authority.
Folklore is a medium of international understanding, Dr. Boggs told members of the Institute last night.
Any regularly enrolled student desiring to attend any lecture or group of lectures of the Winter Institute of Hispanic American Studies whether for credit or as audit is entitled to do so without an admittance charge.
A general knowledge of Pan American folklore will make for friendlier relations in the Americas. "The kitchen is a better place to get acquainted than in the parlor,” said Dr. Boggs in summing up his point.
Will Lecture Tonight Dr. Boggs will speak tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. on the subjects, "Spanish Folklore in America” and "Latin-American Folklore Awaits the Conquistadores.”
On the faculty of the University of North Carolina since 1929, he has assembled an impressive bibliography of Spanish and Hispanic-American literature. It contains close to 2000,-000 items, and is the most comprehensive work of its kind in existence.
He did his graduate work at the University of Chicago. His extensive research in Spanish-American folklore has resulted in a number of publications in various learned journals, and given him a reputation as an outstanding American authority.
John W. Barrett, nephew of the late Dr. John Barrett, great Pan American, last Monday officially presented his uncle’s library and collection of pictures to the University of Miami.
String Quartette MakesDebut Sunday
Playing for the first time during the present University year, the Faculty String Quartette, coached by Joel Belov, professor of violin, will make its official debut at 4 p.m. next Sunday in band hall.
First recital program will include Mozart’s C minor Quartette and Beethoven’s Quartette in F Major. Admission is free, it is announced.
Mrs. Downes Crawls Out on Limb, Says Runyon Could Do Better at U
‘The girls at the University of Miami are the prettiest I have ever photographed,” Mrs. Robert E. Downes, official photographer for the Ibis, said this week. And that means they’re prettier than the girls at Wellesley, Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Colby college, Green Mountain Junior college, Middlebury college, and other New England schools.
Mrs. Downes, herself no slouch in the good looks’ line, is willing to go Writer Damon Runyan one better. Runyan said he could walk down Flagler street and pick out ten prettier girls than he could find on Broadway. Mrs. Downes has only to walk down the University corridors and select ten who would rate way high up .in any beauty contest.
Climbing far out on a limb, Mrs. Downes is even willing to name the ten most beautiful co-eds at the University of Miami — photographically speaking, of course.
The ten prettiest girls, according to the photographer, are Alberta Burke, striking Chi Omega and Queen of Clubs; Glamour Girl Virginia Miles, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Pat Cluney, demure Delta Tau; pet-
ite Ruth Davis, student of the School of Music; Janet Seerth, Kappa Kappa Gamma pledge and '37 Queen of Clubs; Helene Putnam, classic beauty and Alpha Theta pledge; impeccable Lorraine Roll, titian-haired Delta Tau; Elsie Trulick, lovely freshman; madonna-like Naomi Anderson, Alpha Theta; and Virginia Witters, vivacious Telta Tau.
A few days after Miss Witters’ portrait appeared in a local newspaper, she was approached by a talent scout from a Hollywood movie studio. But Ginny scorned the lure of the Cinema Capitol; she’ll stick to her Hurricane society desk.
Mrs. Downes also fights down an almost daily temptation to sell portraits of Miss Burke, Miss Miles, and Miss Davis, whose pictures are exhibited in the window of her Biltmore studio. More than one wealthy gentleman has tried to purchase the pictures, just to adorn their office desks —at Mrs. Downes’ own price. "Unfortunately for us, our ethics don’t permit selling portraits without the subjects’ permission,” sighs Mrs. Downes, watching a small fortune slipping out of her grasp.