Miami Hurricane, March 24, 1938

              The Miami
Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XI
Coral Gables, Florida, Thursday, March 24, 1938
Number 22
Hofmann Plays With Orchestra In Season Finale
Cuba Greets U. Students At Capitol
Vacationers Received By Havana Dignitaries At Official Reception
By David Elsasser
Cuba welcomed the University of Miami first annual tour with an official reception in its great Capitol building last Saturday afternoon with all the honors bestowed on visiting diplomats.
In charge of the reception was Senator Enrique Reccio, acting president of the Senate; Doctor Pedrozo, vice-president of Cuba; and a group of Cuban senators and dignitarieB. Also acting on the reception committee were Senator Reccio’s son, Henry, and his beautiful daughter who holds the title of Miss Cuba.
Inspected Capitol
After the reception at which the party was officially welcomed and feted, the members of the party made a tour of the building and were extended the special courtesy of being permitted to photograph the interior, a privilege rarely granted to visitors.
The special vacation party, which included forty-Beven students and their friends, left Miami last Friday afternoon on the S.S. Florida and arrived in Havana early Saturday morning, where it was met by officials of the Cuban government and a battery of reporters and news photographers. Cuba extended the courtesy of her port and waived the regular customs inspection.
University of Havana Visited
Saturday was spent in the traditional sightseeing jaunts. The party visited La Merced church with its elaborately painted ceilings and beautiful shrines, the Bacardi House, the Corona cigar factory, and the Capitol building where the official reception was held. From there the group went to the University of Havana and Tropical Park. The remainder of the afternoon was spent in shopping.
The evening offered diversified entertainment. From the Centro Asturiano, Spanish educational and social society, the party proceeded to Sloppy Joe’s, famous American bar, and then to Eden Concert, typical Cuban night club, where both Cuban and American orchestras provided dance music.
Alumni Welcome Visitors
University students on the tour renewed acquaintance with University alumni, now attending the University of Havana, when Cardona, Escobar, Armand, and Migoya stopped at the hotel to extend an unofficial welcome. The group was also visited by Dr. Juan Clemente Zamora, professor at both the University of Havana and the University of Miami.
Sunday w'as spent in an inspection tour of historic Morro Castle, in shopping, and packing. The party left Havana Sunday night and arrived in Miami early Monday morning.
Dr. William Morales, president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Robert McNicoll of the University were in charge of the trip. Miss Mary B. Merrit, Dean of Women, and Miss Nina McAdams, Dean of Girls at Miami High School, acted as chaperones.
Chi Omega Carnival Comes To Town WithDancing,SideShows,andQueen
Gay booths, side shows, and hot dog stands will lend a festive and unfamiliar air to the University patio when Chi Omega sorority presents its annual spring Carnival April 2 from eight until one.
Coronation of the Carnival Queen at midnight will climax the evening of informal entertainment and dancing under the stars. A gong will sound to signal the end of the voting and announce the winner of the title.
Pennies to Elect Queen Voting, which is to begin next Monday, will be conducted on the same penny-a-vote plan used last year. Any co-ed may be nominated for 25c. Only candidates announced at this date are Virginia Miles, Lambda Phi; Denise Caravasios, Alpha Theta; and Virginia Witters, Delta Tau.
In addition to the Carnival Queen contest, a dancing and a booth decorations contest are planned to lend variety to the entertainment.
Organizations Have Booths Each campus social organization has spoken for a place in the carnival grounds. Beta Phi Alpha will hold a bingo party; Delta Tau will vend hot dogs and conduct a $5 raffle; Lambda Phi will offer a milk bottle game; and Alpha Epsilon Phi, penny-pitching.
Theta Alpha Phi expects to roll them in the aisles with a play or side show. Chi Omega alumnae will sell coca-colas and soft drinks while active Chi Omegas will hold down the ice cream concession.
Plans of campus fraternities and remaining two sororities are clothed in mystery. Eddie Baumgarten will again act as master-of-ceremonies.
'Prom Plans Are Now Completed’ States Thomas
Arrangements For Favors, Decorations of Annual Affair Well Under Way
President Joe Thomas announced yesterday that the junior class has completed plans for the eleventh annual junior prom which will be held Friday evening, April 8, from ten until one at the Biltmore Country Club.
The juniors, he says, are bent on making the prom “the” event of the year. Striking decorations have been prepared by the prom committee, which, it is hoped, will make the prom a finer and more dignified event.
As in the past, all girls attending will receive favors — favors which have never been given at any other prom in the history of the University. Traditional secrecy veils the nature of the gifts, but they are reputed to be something girls will sincerely appreciate.
Maestro Bob Reinert and his Mi-amilodiuns have been engaged for the event and will offer specialty numbers as well as a well-balanced variety of music for dancing.
The admission price is $2.20 per couple, and the juniors believe it’s u reasonable tariff indeed, considering the quality of the entertainment and the favors to be offered!
Miss Foster Has Charge Of Assembly
Miss Bertha Foster, in charge charge of tomorrow’s assembly, will present a musical program which will include a well-known concert group from Tampa. Featured on the program will be a two-piano recital, a reader, a dancer and a soprano.
Bulletins Ready For Dispersal On April First
Information Will Include Faculty Additions, Changes In Tuition Rates, Calendar
The official University of Miami bulletin for 1938-39 will be ready for distribution April 1, the administration office announced yesterday.
The new bulletin will announce additions to the faculty Btaff, changes in tuition rates, and dates of registration and semester endings.
Sociology Teacher Joins Staff
Dr. J. Paul Reed, now teaching at Southern Methodist University at Dallas, Texas, will join the faculty next fall as associate professor of sociology. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Central College, Fayette, Missouri, his M.A. and Ph.D., at the University of Chicago, and has served as a teacher in Japan.
Alan Collins, from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, will be an addition to the Music School faculty as a teacher of theory and cello.
Sidney Maynard, now working towards his doctor’s degree at the University of Minnesota, and Lewis Leary, at Columbia University, will return to the University staff after a year’s leave of absence.
Registration Sept. 19 and 20
Registration for the first semester will be held September 19 and 20. The semester will begin Wednesday, September 21, and will close February 1. Second semester registration will be held February 6 and 7 and classes will begin Wednesday, February 8, and will end June 3.
The Bulletin will also carry announcements of a change in the tuition rates and revisions of University curricula, resulting from the adoption of the semester plan.
Band Plays At Formal Opening Of Fairchild Tropical Garden
Collage Year Book Will Not Be Printed
Notice Hat been received that the American College Yearbook, which was to contain a selected number of outstanding June 1938 graduates from a selected group of American colleges and universities, will not be published this year.
Reason given for the change of plans were, first, that Harry E. Fry, editor and publisher, could not assume the heavy financial loss attendant to completing the publication, and second, the colleges and universities invited to be represented failed to cooperate with the editors.
Seniors elected to represent the University of Miami in the publication included Bob Masterson, Tom Condon, Helene Couch, Audrey Rothenberg, Gardnar Mulloy, James McLaughlin, Carl Fien, Allen Baker, Dave Hendrick and Florence Fowler.
By Joseph Title
The University of Miami Symphonic Band with Walter E. Sheaffer conducting, officiated at the dedication of the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Coconut Grove yesterday. The band engaged special busses for their sojourn and their entrance into the Garden through the narrow entrance was not without difficulty.
A tremendous audience representing the wealth of Miami cast friendly eyes and ears upon the University organization. It will be remembered that Mr. Fairchild, chief sponsor and founder of the Fairchild Tropical Garden, has long been a friend of the University and a most encouraging booster of our musical organizations. Mr. Fairchild even went to the extent of making a statement to the press to the effect that as long as the University of Miami Band and Orchestra maintained its standards, there was no need in bringing a P.W.A. musical organization here.
Program of Marches
The program consisted of a group of marches which began with one of Mr. Sheaffer’s favorites, “The Free Lance,” by John Philip Sousa. The next selection was by the English march king, Kenneth Alford. “The Vanished Army,” a march dedicated to the first one hundred British soldiers to enter France during the war
and never to return. Upon the suggestion of the president of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, honorary band fraternity, Stanley Biedron, the band next played a march by Alexander entitled “From Tropic to Tropic.” Mr. Sheaffer, discerning that the audience wanted something they were familiar with, gave them the Navy’s song, “Anchors Aweigh” by Lieutenant Zimmerman. Reverting to his favorite march writer again, Mr. Sheaffer chose Sousa’s “Semper Fidelia” and “The Invincible Eagle.” Thunderous applause greeted the familiar Sousa marches.
Today, 8:30 a.m. Beginning of Spring Term.
Friday, 10:10 a.m. Assembly—Tampa musical group to present program. Meeting of Junior Prom committee in room 219.
Saturday, 1:00 p.m. A.A.U.W. luncheon for senior girls at Tiffin.
Monday, 1:00 p.m. Girls’ Athletic Council meeting in athletic office. 8:30 p.m. Symphonic concert with Josef Hofmann, pianist, under direction of Dr. Arnold Volpe.
Girls Get Inning In 'Stage Door’
Ferber-Kaufman Stage Hit SlatedforT wo-NightStand Now In Final Rehearsals
An almost manless cast is in final rehearsals for the Edna Ferber-George Kaufman stage hit, “Stage Door,” to be presented by the University Players in the University theater March 31 and April 1, instead of this week as originally announced.
In the cast are Dorothy Bell as Terry Randall; Jean Moore as Judith; Adele Rickel as Kaye; Freda Born-stein, Bernice; Dah Frantz, Pat; Beatrice Bernstein, Linda; Aileen Murphy, Kendall; Susan Barnes, Bobby; Peggy O’Donnell, Louise; Lynn Whalen, Jean; Phyllis Young, Madeline; Betty Mae Serpas, Little Mary; Becky Parham, Big Mary; and Denise Penchena, Olga.
Lilo Oyarzan, as the playwright, and Jack Madigan, as the lumberman, have the lone male roles.
The three-act play is laid in a theatrical women’s boarding house where old stage veterans and would-be actresses strive for a foothold on the Broadway stage. All the action takes place in Terry’s dingy bedroom and in the living room of the rehearsal club.
After a successful New York run, the play was adapted for the movies. In the motion picture version the central theme of the drama, the struggle of legitimate actors to withstand the corrupting commercialism of Hollywood, was subordinated to the personal conflict between the principals of the cast.
Tour of Inspection Of Phi Mu Chapters Completed By Dean
Miss Mary B. Merritt, dean of women and for four years national president of Phi Mu national sorority, returned last week from a two weeks’ inspection tour of the Phi Mu chapters in the Southeastern district.
On her way north she stopped off at Jacksonville where she spoke at the Phi Mu Founders’ Day dinner. Among the chapters she visited were Millsap college at Jackson, Mississippi; Sophie Newcombe at New Orleans; University of Louisiana at Baton Rouge; and Florida State College for Women at Tallahassee.
Red Herring College To Be Investigated By Legislature
Lawrence, Kans. (ACP) — State legislators, controllers of funds that support state colleges and universities, are not often concerned with the subject-matter taught in these institutions — but let somebody whisper “communism,” and the investigation is on.
Most noted for its red-herring career before its legislature is Wisconsin’s famed state university in Madison. However, latest university to grab the glare of legislative searchlights is the University of Kansas, alma mater of Republican Alf M. Landon’s daughter, Peggy.
It all started when Don Henry, a young student, enlisted in the Loyalist army in Spain, was killed in action. At the time of his death it was reported he had joined the Spanish forces because of red doctrines taught him while a student.
Now the state legislature has appropriated $7,500 to investigate these charges, causing faculty members and students to first lampoon the act, then settle down to await the inquiry that is certain to do the name of the university little good, no matter what results are reported by the committee.
PREXY FOR PRESIDENT
Washington, D.C. (ACP) — Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, youthful president of the University of Chicago, should be the next president of the United States.
At least this is the opinion of Novelist Sinclair Lewis, who said in a recent lecture here that the famed educator is “the kind of man who could face Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler and make them feel a little ashamed.”
Josef Hofmann, this year celebrating his golden jubilee as a concert pianist, who will play with the University symphony orchestra in its final winter concert.
Degrees May Be Withheld For Unpaid Dues
Dt. Ashe Cautions Members of Fraternities to Pay Debts In Order to Be Graduated
A new ruling that says graduating fraternity men must pay back dues and debts before receiving their degree is being considered this week by the University executive and organizations committees.
Dr. Ashe Calls Meeting
At a special meeting called by Dr. B. F. Ashe for the last Friday of the winter term, the inter-fraternity council discussed the matter of fraternity financial losses due to the graduation of members with unpaid bills.
The ruling to withhold degrees to fraternity debtors was passed by the council and approved by President Ashe. Approval by the executive and organizations committees of the University, however, must be obtained before the ruling becomes effective.
A committee composed of Jack Sitta, Phi Alpha, Henry Warshavsky, Tau Epsilon Phi, and Dick Gostowski, Pi Chi, was appointed to collect and submit complete data on fraternity losses.
Keys To Be Ordered
The motion was made and carried that keys be ordered for the interfraternity council group. The participation in intramurals by men ineligible scholastically was also discussed.
Representatives from Pi Chi, Phi Alpha, Tau Epsilon Phi, Pi Epsilon Phi, Delta Sigma Kappa, and Phi Mu Alpha attended the meeting. President Myron Broder presided.
Summer School Will Introduce Semester Plan
Dr. Owre, Acting Director, Announces That Session Begins June 6, Ends July 30
Dr. J. Riis Owre, acting director of the University summer session, announces the semester plan will become effective June 6, when the summer session opens. Registration will be held June 3 and 4. The session closes, Saturday, July 30.
New courses in language, education, and business writing have already been scheduled. A course on Spanish masterpieces will be conducted in English for the benefit of students wishing to read Spanish literature in translation.
The department of education is to offer a course in elementary graphics and statistics for classroom teacher«, and a course in remedial reading t. diagnose and correct defecH in read ing in elementary schools.
Dr. John Thom Holdsworth will conduct a course in business writing and communication. Students will be taught how to write business letters and how to address a business meeting or a board of directors.
Celebrates Fifty Years As Pianist
World Famous Pianist Will Play Beethoven Concerto; House Sold Out For Weeks
Josef Hofmann, considered the greatest of living pianists, will play jwith the University symphony orchestra, Dr. Arnold Volpe directing, in I the last of the season’s regular subscription concerts next Monday in Orchestra Hall.
A half-century of concert experience stretches behind the sixty-one-year old artist, who this year is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Powers Undiminished
In spite of the staggering total of his concert appearances, Hofmann’s powers are undiminished. After his jubilee concert at the Metropolitan, which grossed $22,000 for the Musicians’ Emergency Fund, the New York Herald Tribune wrote:
“Last evening in the same Metropolitan Opera House, before another huge audience, the same master of music and of the keyboard, now in his sixty-second year, reserved and grey, and slightly bald, but still a wonder-working genius, again swept his listeners off their feet.”
Seats Are Sold Out
As a result of his appearance last year with Dr. Volpe and the orchestra, Hofmann’s popularity in Miami is so great that seats for the Monday concert have been completely sold out for the past three weeks.
The symphony orchestra is preparing the most difficult program yet attempted by the organization. Rehearsals, however, are progressing satisfactorily and promise a concert worthy of the great artist who will be soloist.
The program follows:
Sakuntala Overture	Goldmark
Symphony in C minor	Brahms
Concerto in G major Beethoven
NOTICE
All members of the University Co-ed Club must attend a meeting in the social hall, Friday at 12:40, which will larft until 1:00. Several important matters are to be discussed, including the date for the use of the ballroom.
All Staff Members Must Attend Meeting
All Hurricane staff members wishing to keep their positions on the paper are expected to be present at the first staff meeting of the spring term tomorrow afternoon at two-thirty in room 216. No excuses whatsoever for absences will be accepted. Any staff member not attending the meeting will be automatically dropped.
Several staff positions are now open. Any students desiring to work on the Hurricane are invited to attend the meeting and receive an assignment.
Students interested in soliciting advertising for the Hurricane are asked to get in touch with George Wheeler in the Hurricane office, room 237.
CuniLaudeGraduate Succeeds In Chorus
Barbara Palmer, a chorus girl at the Beverly Hill Country Club, Cincinnati, Ohio, is better known to the University of Miami as Flossie Bell Pearson, A.B., ’36.
While at the University, the beautiful Zeta Phi, teamed as an acrobatic dancer with Harriet Crim, to support herself, her mother and invalid sister. Few students realized that this quiet, studious girl was dancing until three in the morning, and getting up at six order to make an eight-thirty class. Despite all this hard work, she was graduated Magna Cum Laude, and presented with a gold medal from Chile because of the excellence of her thesis “Social and Economic Aspects of Chile.” Upon graduation Miss Pearson or Palmer, was given an assistant professorship in Spanish at the University.
A dancing tour in South America with Boughem, led to this present engagement. She states that she will leave teaching to her old age, but dance while she is young.
She has been receiving favorable press notices, more recently in the Cincinnati Times Star.
Dapper Debonair Diletante Duly Defi nes Degrees of Drunkenness
By Ray Reiner
■ EDITOR’S NOTE: While we deplore the subject matter of the following unsolic-I ited article, the Hurricane cannot ques-I tlon the writer’s authority. Such authority, coming us it does from exhaustive per-j sonal study in beer gardens uml barbecue stands, can only be respected and admired.
j For the past few years expressions pertinent to the various stages of intoxication have been on the increase. But some confusion still exists in the average layman’s mind concerning the fine points of each stage which could stand clearing up. To reach this end, the following classifications have been formulated:
“Mellow” — A comfortable, fortified condition usually produced by two or three drinks. A person in this state of mind is generally “happy about the whole thing.”
“Tipsy” — Probably the result of five or six “quick ones.” Persons in this condition have been seen to wobble. Also expressed as muddled, elevated, high, and raddled.
“Tight”—In this case, the quantity consumed happens to be one too many. The term derives its name from the pressing sensation that assails the temples. Removal of the hat does not alleviate the condition!
“Primed” — Extremely well forti-
fied. Men in this state are usually on their way home to meet their wife, face to face, undaunted, and defiant! The condition is also conducive to philosophical inspiration. Also expressed as oiled, whittled, and organized.
“Stinking” — Gross intoxication, but fun! A person who gets “stinking” always manages to be the life of the party. Brilliant ideas come readily, such as cramming bicycles into manholes, etc.
“Barreled”—One degree of blood-pressure higher than the aforementioned. The tongue seems to swell to the size of a sack of potatoes and the law of gravity is completely disregarded. Also known as a fool, a piper, a lord.
“D.T.s” — Unhppy individuals in this stage usually see things: colored animals, especially pink elephants, dragons, etc.
“Blotto”—An old fashioned custom rapidly going into disuse. The victim collpses and goes “out.” Usually immediately preceded by unhappy sym-toms of which one remembers noth-ing. Also known as cemented, embalmed.
So with this group of definitions, you may increase your vocabulary by using the word three times!