Miami Hurricane, January 13, 1938

              The Miami
Hurricane
Volume XI
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Coral Gables, Florida, Thursday, January 13, 1938
Number 13
Josef and Rosina Lhevinne Appear InMonday Concert
Noted Pianists Share Billing With Symphony
Guest Artists World Famous As Masters of Craft; Have Interesting History
On Monday evening, January 17, music lovers in the Greater Miami area will again enjoy the unique experience of listening to Josef and Rosina Lhevinne, world's outstanding piano team, in a recital with the University symphony orchestra, Dr. Arnold Volpe, conducting.
The artists in question have performed before all the crowned heads of Europe and have been acclaimed masters of their craft. The story of how the Lhevinnes came to unite their talents is an interesting one well worth repeating.
Rosina and Josef Lhevinne first met when they were children in Moscow. She was nine and he fourteen. At that age he was already a star pupil at the Conservatory of Moscow. She had just entered.
Rosina had been studying at the Conservatory for only a few months when her teacher became ill. The director advised her mother to let the child study with his star pupil for the duration of the illness. This arrangement continued for two months, and when Rosina resumed her lessons with her regular teacher, young Josef continued to see his former pupil as a freqeunt visitor in her home.
Josef graduated brilliantly at the age of eighteen, capturing the coveted gold medal as the outstanding student of the Conservatory. Five years later Rosina duplicated Josef’s feat by graduating at the same age and winning the gold medal award. Eight days later they were married. In the meantime Josef had won the Rubinstein Prize and had been playing all over Europe both in recital and as guest artist with major symphony orchestras. He had already won for himself the reputation of being one of the great pianists of the day. Rosina while still at the Conservatory had also made many outstanding successful appearances. Cesar Cui, a close friend of the Lhevinnes prevailed upon her to appear with Josef in a two-piano performance at a charity concert. At this function the Lhevinnes gave the first performance of a new suite for two pianos by Arensky. This concert revealed them to be superb masters of the difficult art of ensemble playing and aroused such overwhelming en-thusism that they were literally forced to continue their joint playing professionally. Since that time, they have been acclaimed as the foremost exponents of two-piano art.
Such is the history of the artists who are going to perform with the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra in what is expected to be one of the outstanding musical events of the season.
The program is as follows:
1.	Overture "L*onor*" No. J —	Bnthovm
2.	Concerto for Two Pianoi --- Motatt
I. Allegro
II.	Andante
III.	Rondo. Allegro ROSINA AND JOSEP LHEVINNE
INTERMISSION
3.	"Romeo and Joliet" —--Tichuikowtkv
4.	Concerto in E Flat major --Liist
JOSEF LHEVINNE
Students of the University will be admitted to the concert upon the presentation of their activity books on the night of the concert. Tickets for the general public may be procured from Mrs. Arnold Volpe, 4-1691; from Philpitt’s Music Store, 2-0678; and from the Morgan Piano Company, 2-4325.
SOPRANO SINGS OUT
A coed at Texas A. & I. college yelled at the psychological moment and as a result is soprano soloist in the college choir.
The director of the choir was walking dejectedly up the walk towards the main building one day, wondering where he was to find a suitable
first soprano.
The coed, just then began yelling lustily to her roommate half a block
away.
A few minutes later she was running scales in the director’s studio. Now she sings first soprano in the choir — all becuase she wanted her roommate to bring her a package of gum.
Josef and Rosina Lhevinne, world-famous piano duo, who will appear with the University symphony orchestra in the first concert of the season Monday night at Orchestra Hall.
McNicol lNamed Head of Spanish Teachers Ass’n
Owre, West Also Participate In Saturday Meeting Held Under Joint Auspices
Dr. Robert E. McNicoll, instructor in Latin-American relations, was elected president of the southeastern section of the Florida chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish which was inaugurated under the joint auspices of the University and the Dade County School system at an all-day meeting at the McAllister Hotel last Saturday. Other officers elected at the afternoon session include vice president, Jane Waters, Dade County representative; second vice president, Montoya, Palm Beach County representative; third vice president, Bryant of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County representative; recording secretary, Patterson of Ponce de Leon High School; corresponding secretary, Peterson from Robert E. Lee Junior High School; and treasurer, Snare of Dade County.
Widen Educational Scope
The morning session, at which Dr. J. Riis Owre presided, was featured by speeches of welcome by Mr. J. T. Pearson on behalf of the Dade County Schools and by Dean Henry S. West on behalf of the University. Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin delivered an address in Spanish on recent trends in the culture of Cuba. “Cuba,” he said, “is in need of the cultural orientation of a university with the double function of investigating and teaching. In the world in general today, there is a tendency to limit schools to the single function of transmitting through teaching the settled and uncontroversial knowledge of the past. The other function, that of investigating and enlarging the frontiers of knowledge should not be neglected or trammeled in the troublous times which surround us.” Dr. Kenneth A. Van-derford, instructor in Spanish, read a paper on the role of “Alfonso el Sabio in the Development of Spanish Literature.” Dr. Vanderford’s article will, by vote of the section, be submitted to the national organization for publication in its journal.
A luncheon in the Flagler room of the McAllister preceded the afternoon session at which Doctor McNicoll presented a report on the national meeting.
University Represented
University representatives included Dr. Max F. Meyer, Dr. Walter Dis-mukes, Mrs. Melanie Rosborough, Maria Alvarez, Miguel Colds, Betty Curran, Allan Ringblom, and Mrs. Cabrera-Milner.
Students interested in Spanish or in teaching Spanish may join the local chapter by paying fifty cents dues annually.
Three Students Take Prizes In Poster Contest
Naomi Anderson Receives First Award In Symphony Orchestra Ticket Drive
Three art students were awarded first, second, and third prizes in the symphony concert poster contest sponsored jointly by the University School of Music and the art department. The winners were Naomi Anderson, Arnold Newman, and Edna Raymond. All are students in the art department.
Dr. Arnold S. Volpe, symphony orchestra director, Denman Fink and Richard Merrick, art instructors, acted as judges. The purpose of the contest was to advertise the idea of giving symphony concert subscriptions as Christmas gifts.
The winning posters, which included an impressionistic design of violin and hands, a full orchestra with director, and one with printed design, were displayed at Philpitt’s music store, Burdine’s, and Southern Cafeteria during the Christmas vacation term.
“All the designs submitted,” commented Mrs. Arnold S. Volpe, “showed unusual talent and ingenuity. Such contests, encouraging interest in our winter concert season, are of great benefit to our University, and this one was a complete success.”
Staff Meeting Friday
The regular weekly meeting of the Hurricane staff will be held tomorrow afternoon at two-thirty in room 216. All members of the staff are required to be present and are asked to bring a copy of the Hurricane with them.
Anyone interested in joining the staff may do so at this time.
Final Rites For Dr. Lowe Are Held
Services For Professor Conducted by J. D. Kuykendall, Close Friend and Colleague
Dr. Orton Lowe, beloved professor at the University of Miami, was quietly laid to rest Saturday afternoon at Miami Memorial Park. Dr. J. D. Kuykendall, close friend and colleague, uttered the benediction.
His death, attributed to heart disease, came as a crushing blow to his friends and students. The news of his illness and hospital confinement had scarcely spread throughout the student body returning from holiday recess when news was received of his death Thursday night. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Coral Lowe, and a daughter, Esther Parsons.
Member of the Board of Trustees and head of the English department of the University, Doctor Lowe was founder and director of the Winter Institute of Literature. His last work for the University was the planning und assembling of this year’s session.
Born in Pennsylvania, he received his bachelor of science degree at Waynesburg College and was later awarded an honorary Litt. D. from the same college. He had also done graduate work at Yale, Harvard, Wisconsin and Pittsburgh, and at Cambridge and Oxford in England.
He began his teaching career as school principal and assistant county superintendent of schools in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, succeeding to the position of director of English in the Pennsylvania state department of public instruction, which he held for eight years.
Later, in extension teaching at Pennsylvania State College, Doctor Lowe conceived the plan of organizing a series of lectures by outstanding living authors—a plan which he successful introduced and executed at the University when he came here in 1928 to become head of the English department.
Among his publications are “Literature for Children,” released by the Macmillan Company and “Our Land and Its Literature,” published by Harper’s. He was co-editor of a Doubleday and Doran school reader series entitled “Adventure in Reading” and editor of several anthologies of short stories, Coleridge’s poems, The Arabian Nights tales and other classics. He was poetry editor of “The Scholastic,” a school magazine, advisory editor of the “English Journal” and the “Elementary English Review,” a member of The Committee on the Place of English in American Life, an association of college professors, and also a member of the Committee on the Reorganization of English in Secondary Schools.
Students To Elect Vice-President Jan.21
An election will be held on January 21 for the office of vice-president of the student body to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Florence Fowler, editor of the Hurricane.
An opportunity to hear speeches outlining the policies of the candidates will be offered when those aspiring for the position will speak in assembly tomorrow.
Those contemplating running for the office must have their petitions in to the proper authorities by Wednesday, January 19.
The election, to be conducted by the Honor Court, will be held at the ticket office of the auditorium from 8:30 to 1:30 next Friday.
Paul Green Inaugurates Winter Institute Monday
Werrenratli To Teach Singing At University
Concert Artist To Conduct Four-Week Master Course Beginning Next Week
Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, called “The Dean of American Sing ers,” will direct a course in master singing at the University from Jan uary 17 to February 11, under the auspices of the University of Miami School of Music, Dean Bertha Foster announced Tuesday. Vocal technique and repetoire and radio technique will be included in the class study.
Over 2500 Concerts
Mr. Werrenrath has been noted as a concert artist for more than thirty years, having made over 2500 concert appearances both in this country and in Europe. He has appeared with the Metropolitan and Chicago opera companies, and as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of New York, Philadelphia, and other key cities of the United States.
Noted as Teacher
His success as a concert artist has not obscured his reputation as teacher of singing. In his years of teaching in New York City, he has produced innumerable fine artists, and has recently completed a summer term of eight weeks at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
Classes will be conducted in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Three dollars will be charged for a single class lesson, $20.00 for eight classes, and $35.00 for the full course of sixteen lessons. Private lessons may be arranged by appointment.
Freshman Frolics To Feature Local, National Talent
“With the plans for the 1938 edition of the freshman frolics nearing completion, the committee feels that this year’s frolics, to be held Saturday, January 15, in the cafeteria will equal, if not surpass, all past presentations,” Robert Stuyverson, chairman of the freshman frolics committee, announced yesterday.
“Besides the regular traditional array of freshman talent, which includes Tom Kearns, Dick Roberts, Winona Whele and Marie Coleman, the committee has obtained the services of several outstanding celebrities of the entertainment world for the frolics. We are proud to announce that Michael Doyle, singing star of the production ‘Naughty Marietta’ will be on the program,” Stuyverson said.
Another feature of the evening will be a singer from the largest traveling tent musicale in Ameria.
Stuyverson expressed the hope that he would be able to add to the bill the name of Judy Canova, movie actress, but could make no promises concerning her appearance.
Looking forward to the frolics with optimism, the committee expects record crowd, and plans on playing host to many fun-seekers. Music will be supplied by Teddy Mack’s orchestra.
Paul Green, playwright and authority on the drama, whose lecture opens the Winter Institute of Literature Monday afternoon.
Ten Cubans Get Scholarships To University
Owre To Continue Project Annually; Zamora Heads Arrangements in Cuba
With Dr. Juan Clemente Zamora, formerly a member of the University faculty, and Dr. Perez Cabrera, director of secondary education in Cuba, Dr. J. Riis Owre has arranged to have ten Cuban students receive scholarships at the University of Miami, a custom which will be continued each year, and which eventually will include other Spanish American countries. Arrangements in Cuba will be in charge of Doctor Zamora.
Three prominent educators, Dr. Colin English, Mr. J. T. Wilson, and Dr. Terry, who accompanied Doctor Owre on his recent goodwill tour, have arranged to engage a Cuban teacher of English who will come to Miami, take English courses at the University, and assist the Spanish teachers in the local high schools. In turn a Miami teacher of Spanish will receive free instruction in Spanish at the University of Havana and will help the high school teachers with assist the high school teachers.
Dr. Owre was deeply impressed by a visit to the new hospital, Calixto Garciá. “We think that other nations are backward in their methods and ideas of health,” he commented.
But this is one of the most modern hospitals I have ever seen. It contains 1200 beds, and is a charity hospital operated by the Cuban government.”
Another feature of his visit that impressed him, Doctor Owre stated, was the Centro Asturiano, a club begun by a few persons from Asturia, which has now grown to a membership of 43,000. Dues of $3.00 per month covers free medical care and hospitalizatiop; free schooling for children of the members; various game rooms; social functions — the Club has a large and magnificent ballroom; and a library, the second in size in Cuba, which contains the first edition of “History of the Indies,” by Bartolomé de las Casas, 1522.

Ambitious Hurricane Reporter Comes Through With Details On Life As She Is Lived In The French Village
One hundred and ten men, ten houses, twenty-three automobiles, twenty-four radios, one phonograph and one motorcycle compose the French Village, men’s Idormitorfes, during the current term. Twenty-one states and four foreign nations are represented—as great a variety of students as any university may boast.
New York state sends twenty-five representatives to this congenial group, while Pennsylvania follows with twenty-three. New Jersey and Michigan garner third honors with eleven each, and the remaining states send from one to ten representatives each. Of the foreign nations Cuba, Canada, and Curacao each have one student registered. Troubled China has given us a young man who has already received his master’s degree and is here to receive more know-
ledge as well as to partake of the ideal weather that Miami is able to offer.
Credit for maintaining an assem-blance or order must go to Mr. and Mrs. Turner who give willingly of their time to straighten out any of the difficulties which may arise. Mrs. Turner is constantly looking to the welfare of the boys, while Mr. Turner takes care of the buildings which always seem to need some minor repair. He, too, is willing to do anything for the boys from framing their girl’s picture to fixing broken bed springs.
It is quite a task to take care of all the rooms and Cora, the colored girl, deserves all the credit for this. She makes it possible to walk into a room without falling over books, slippers, sweaters, and whatever else may have been carelessly tossed on
the floor. To some, Cora is an alarm clock for when she arrives they know it's time to gallop off in pursuit of knowledge.
Football men, band men, and nonathletes are for the most part quartered in separate houses, but one may see any or all of them in a “bull session” in the club house or somebody’s room at most any time of the day or night. The football boys seem to have the most stamina as many of their “sessions” continue on until the milkman joins them.
What with the enrollment increasing so rapidly, plans are now being made to build new dormitories to house prospective collegians; but those now in the Village will never forget their good times nor their friends made in the dormitories in 1938.
ocal Group Pledged To Zeta Tau Alpha
Sigma Phi local sorority, founded by Ruth Bryan Owen, January 10, 1925, was formally pledged to Zeta Tau Alpha, national social sorority, Monday in the sorority room. After six weeks’ instruction period, the group will be known as Gamma Alpha chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha.
1 ' The pledge service was conducted by Mrs. David Ott of Cleveland, Ohio, Grand First Vice-President. The Miami alumnae chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha assisted with the ceremony. Following the ceremony, the pledges were entertained by the local alumnae group at the Banana Tree restaurant.
Twenty-four pledges, actives, and alumnae of Sigma Phi were pledged. They include: Mary Frohberg, Fay Taylor, Dorothy Smith, Helen Knowles, Helen Kesinger, Miriam Pope, Martha Dorn, Betty Mae Serpas, Betty Lou Baker, Kathleen Wilson, Barbara Norris, Ann Gunter, Linda Wingate, Doris Doyle, Betty Johnson, Patricia Overbaugh, Virginia Spalding, Nina Kitchens, Evelyn Estridge, Mrs. Lewis Buzzell, Mrs. Florence Brownelle, Ethel Pellagatta, Mrs. Mary Frances Lyon, and Mrs. Irving Grau.
Five Lectures To Be Offered By Dramatist
Virgil Barker, Art Critic, Scheduled For Tuesday On Illustration of Literature
Paul Creen, 1927 Pulitzer prize winner in drama and America’s foremost authority on play production, will arrive in Miami this week-end to open the sixth session of the University of Miami Winter Institute of Literature which is to begin Monday at 2:30 p.m. in the auditorium.
Five lectures on aspects of American drama to be delivered by Mr. Green and one by Virgil Barker, noted art critic, on the illustration of literature, are scheduled for the first week of the three-week session.
Mr. Green’s subjects include : “Playwriting,” Monday, 2:30 p.m.; “Play-Producing,” Tuesday, 2:30 p.m. ; “The Movies and the Theater,” Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. ; “The Theater Unbounded,” Thursday, 8:30 p.m.; and “A Lecture Reading,” Friday, 8:30 p.m. Mr. Barker will speak at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Is Professor of Philosophy
Born in North Carolina forty-four years ago, Mr. Green saw service with the American army during the World War, returned to his native state to complete his studies at the University of North Carolina, took a graduate course at Columbia University, and now occupies the chair of philosophy at Chapel Hill.
Always keenly alive to the drama in the Negro folklore of his native South and becoming interested in the work of the Carolina Playmakers, he turned to the writing and producing of plays. His play, “In Abraham’s Bosom,” took the Pulitzer prize in drama in 1927.
Other dramatic works for which he is known are: “Lonesome Road”; “In the Valley”; “The House of Connelly”; “Roll, Sweet Chariot,” a symphonic play of the Negro people; “Shroud My Body Down”; “Johnny Johnson”; and “The Common Glory,” a play of the birth of the American nation. He has also written “Wide Fields,” a book of short stories, and two novels, “Laughing Pioneer” and “This Body the Earth.”
He has alike distinguished himself in motion picture scenario writing, having adapted the scripts for “Cabin in the Cotton,” “Dr. Bull,” “Voltaire,” and “State Fair.”
Called Foremost Drama Authority
“Paul Green is unquestionably one of the greatest dramatic teachers and the foremost authority on play production in the country,” commented Mr. Walter Scott Mason, acting director, in expressing his confidence in the success of the Institute’s sixth session.
“Although we are handicapped by the loss of Dr. Lowe,” he said, “I do not see how the Institute can fail, so well had he planned and arranged the
program.”
University women, under the direction of Audrey Rothenberg, will assist in conducting the afternoon sessions. Members of the Miami Junior League will sponsor the evening sessions*
All students majoring or minoring in English are required to enroll in the Winter Institute, which is listed as English 403. For attendance at both afternoon and evening lectures a credit and a half will be given. Students not enrolled in the course will be charged fifty cents admission. General admission is seventy-five cents.
Campus Calendar
Friday, 10:10 a.m.—Assembly to introduce candidates for vice-president of student government.
Saturday, 8:30 p.m.—Freshman Frolics in University cafeteria.
Monday, 2:30 p.m.—Opening of Winter Institute of Literature with Paul Green as first lecturer.
8:30 p.m. — Symphony orchestra concert. Josef and Rosina Lhevinne, soloists.
Tuesday, 2:30 p.m. — Winter Institute, Paul Green, lecturer.
Wednesday, 12 noon—Deadline for
vice-president petitions. Must be submitted to Tom Condon, president of student government.
2:30 p.m.—Virgil Barker to speak at Winter Institute session.
8:30 p.m.—Winter Institute, Paul Green, lecturer.