Miami Hurricane, May 16, 1940

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The Miami
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEW
Hurricane
THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XIII
Coral Gables, Florida, May 16, 1940
Number 31
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Experimental 1 - Acters Authored by Roth,
Nelson, Rickel
Results of World War I, psychic phenomena in the backwoods, and turkey raising as a hobby are the themes of the three original one-act plays written by the class in playwriting under the direction of Frederick H. Koch, Jr., which will be presented in the Cardboard Theatre on Wednesday evening, May 22, at 8:00 p.m. No admission charge will be made for the plays, which are the second in the series of original bills.
Roth Act*, Direct* Too
“Strange Glory” Is the title of the world war play. Manuel Roth is the author; he directs his play and will appear in it in the role of Bill, the ruffian. The scene is in a bar-room where through a combination of circumstances the life-story of an old derelict (the part is played by Robert Zeman) is re-enacted. The feeble insanity of Old Mac is the result of his service in the last world war. Robert Anthony is Ted, the stranger, and Phyllis Salter plays the part of Mae, the streetwalker. Dan Satin will play two roles during the evening, his part in “Strange Glory” being that of Joe, the bartender.
Man and wife play man and wife in “Feathered Trouble: or a Fowl Farce” as Stuart Allan and Mabelle Cohen take the roles of Nathaniel and Narcissus Newt. Written and directed by Adele Rickel the play explains the peculiar hobby of the eccentric and wealthy Newt family, raising turkeys. Other members of the family include Meade Stockdell as Nathaniel Newt, Jr., and George Dawkins as Horace Newt. Dan Satin’s other role of the evening will be that of Mr. Smith in the turkey farce.
Death Forecast
A psychic forecast of a death by reading of the cards provides the situation of “The Wild Plum,” the one-act drama written by Ralph Nelson and directed by Maxwell Marvin. The part of Aunt Phe, the old country woman whose gift of second sight shadows several lives is played by Sylvia Locke. Barbara Willock is Lott, her sister, and Myra Atkins will take the role of Lurie Potts. Mr. and Mrs. Allen in this'play will be John Bower and Penny Roth.
Since this bill of plays is scheduled for senior week, the senior class, its friends and relatives, are to be special guests. As usual the entire audience will be invited to participate in a discussion of the plays and the ways they were and could have been written. The discussion will be led by Frederick Koch, Jr., who will also introduce the authors of the three one-act plays.
Setting Designer*
Settings for the plays are being designed by members of the class in play-production. Grace Berg is in charge of the sets for “Strange Glory"; Myra Atkins will plan scenes for “The Wild Plum”; and Alma Jane Lindgren will prepare stage-settings for “Feathered Trouble.”
Law School Plans Traditional Banquet
Establishing a new tradition, the law school will hold its first annual banquet at the Yeager’s Roof Saturday night, in honor of students graduat ing in June and August, 1940.
Newly elected law school officers, Samuel Matthews, Wallace N, Maer, Frank A. Witherill, Stephen Me-Crimmon, and Mary Lineaweaver are In charge of arrangements,
Honored guests are: Myron Bro-der, Herman Berk, William T. Pro-hasco, Maurice Cromer, William B. Brickell, Jack Green, Robert Byeron Jacobs, Paul Laufer, Sam Matthews, Jack Mintrer. Robinson North, Dorothy Schoessel, Milton Wasman, Raphael Yunes, graduating June, 1940; Kenneth C. Beach, Martin Gin-et, Herbert Morris Glickman, Gilbert Newkirk, and A. F. O’Connell, who will graduate in August. Members of the law school faculty: Russell Austin Rasco, Dean of the School of Law, John M. Flowers, Lemuel A. Haalup, I.auffer T. Hayes, William J. Hester, George Edward Holt, L. Earl Curry, Robert McKenna, and Herberts Ann Leonardy. Undergraduate law students are also invited.
EPISCOPALIANS POTLUCK
i Episcopalian Student League met ■sday evening in the social hall for ,thick supper. With a few changes, onstitution submitted by the offi-i was accepted by the group. Plans another supper were made for t Tuesday evening at 6:80 p.m. in Social Hall. All Episcopalians are [ted to attend.
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Adele Rickel, graduating senior, wrote und directed “Feathered Trouble,” one of the three one-act plays to lie presented next Wednesday.
Students Solo With Orchestra For Graduation
Two Commencement concerts featuring the University symphony orchestra and outstanding student soloists are to be presented May 20 and 25 Dean Bertha Foster of the Music School announced Tuesday.
The concert of May 20 will be played in the Cardboard Theatre with Mr. Tom B. Steunenberg conducting. Eunice Preston, Sylvia Raichick, Marion Freed, pianists, Ben Lewkowitz and Peter Buonconsiglio, violinists, and Edwin Ginsburg, bass, will be the soloists. All students, members of the faculty, and their friends are invited to attend.
Mr. Henry Gregor will conduct the May 25 concert, which will he played at the Miami Senior High School auditorium. The soloists will be Carmel di Santis and Lewis Eley, violinists, Irving Laibson and Thomas Powell Smith, pianists, John Hanlon,* cellist, and Isabel Lloyd, soprano. There will be no admission charge, but tickets must be obtained at the bookstore or in Room 240-M.
Ringblom Elected Lead and Ink Head
Hedwig Ringblom was elected president of Lend and Ink, honorary journalistic fraternity, at a final meeting of the year Thursday night at the home of Simon Hochberger, faculty adviser.
Helene Putnam is vice-president; Seymour Simon, secretary; and Ira Bullock, treasurer. The ten new members met with the fraternity for the first time to discuss plans for a four-year half scholarship. It will be awarded to the graduating high school senior in Florida who writes the best essay on some journalistic topic.
Verein Picks Heads; Hears Music Quiz
Herbert Weaver was elected president of the Deutches. Verein, German language club, at its final meeting of the year last week. Sophie Ginsburg is vice-president, Billie Shabshin is secretary, and Frank Venning was named treasurer. Mrs. Melanie Ros-borough will continue ns faculty advisor.
Alidn Roochvarg and Harry Ester-sohn conducted n “So You Think You Know German Music” quiz which ended in a draw between the two teams chosen. The meeting ended in a party celebrating the birthday of Willard Albert.
Sinfonia Will
onor Volpe With Concert
All-American Program To Be Annual Event;
Stars Tenor di Filippi
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, men’s honorary music fraternity, will present an All-American concert honoring the memory of the late Dr. Arnold Volpe tomorrow evening at 8:30 in the Cardboard Theatre.
Seniors will be admitted free to the Volpe Memorial Concert as a part of the Senior Week program, Miss Bertha Foster, Dean of the School of Music, announced yesterday.
Arturo de Filippi, renowned tenor and member of the Music School faculty, will be the guest artist, and the remainder of the program will feature a string quartet playing a composition by Dr. Volpe, a woodwind quintet, a brass quartet, and the Sinfonia Chorus. American music will be played throughout.
Dr. Volpe who died in January, conducted the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra for 11 years, and was responsible for its rise to national prominence.
Tickets can be obtained from any Sinfonian or from Mr. Lebedeff in Room 240-M, and one dollar admission will be charged with students getting in for fifty cents. Phi Mu Alpha plans to make this an annual event in Dr. Volpe's memory.
Radio Workshop Course Planned For Fall Curriculum
To give students practical training in radio work, a new course called “Radio Workshop” will be offered next fall. A two credit course given both semesters, the class will prepare completely a weekly program over a local radio station. Ideas for each program, script writing, rehearsals, as well as the actual presentation will be the work of students, under the faculty direction of Sydney Head.
The work will be sectioned into writing, publicity, acting, announcing, production, and studio sound effects. Students will be permitted to specialize in the field that interests them most.
Admission to the course will be with the permission of the instructor only, so that only students with enough ability to produce broadcasts meeting adequate standards will be admitted. Listed in the catalogue as Dramatics 211 and 212, the class is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.
This afternoon’s radio broadcast features Dr. Charlton Tebeau reviewing “American Social Problems” by Howard Odem, over Critic’s Circle, WIOD at 3:30. Sydney Head will talk of “Music in Motion Pictures.” The longest University broadcast all year was made Sunday afternoon over WQAM, when the cast of the Magic Flute” sang the entire opera from 4:30 to 5:30.
Claud Corrigan, Harry Rinehart Named Editors
Managing Editor Claud Corrigan’s recommendation by the Publication Board as editor of the 1940-41 Hurricane was approved by the Senate this morning, as was the appointment 'of Harry Rinehart to the post of (business manager. Corrigan succeeds Charlie Franklin, while Rinehart takes over Charles Baake’s position.
Corrigan will be the second successive junior to edit the Hurricane, and Rinehart is the second successive sophomore business manager. Members of their respective staffs will not be appointed until next week.
Rinehart is a student in the school of Business Administration and a member of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity. He has worked 'as an ad solicitor for both Hurricane and Ibis this year. Harry is a graduate of Miami Edison High School, where he held the post of advertising 'manager.
Corrigan, who was Hurricane sports editor his freshman year, holds the position of sports editor on this 'year’s Ibis. He is in the Liberal Arts school, is affiliated with Lambda Chi Alpha, national social fraternity, is a varsity debater, and a member of Lead and Ink. Debate Council, and the Freshman Honor Society. He graduated from Ponce de Leon High School in Coral Gables.
Local Clubs Donate Books to Library
Dade County Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Southern Cross chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Smith College club recently donated books to the University library.
The Women's Clubs group has offered a sum of money from which the library can purchase books of its own selection, and “When the Whippoor-whill” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, “This is Our China” by Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and several books of essays of Henry Seidel Canby have already been bought.
The Confederate organization donated a copy of Starke’s “Life of Sidney Lanier” to the library, while the Smith College club presented a miscellaneous collection of books, both fiction and non-fiction.
Campus' Spookiest Spooks Will Strut Tomorrow at Lambda Chi Alpha Dance
By MarCfAHET Klotz Bats will swoop, spiders will crawl, and ghostly figures will glide about in the cafeteria tomorrow night when the personage of the “Campus Spook” will be disclosed at the annual spook dance presented by Lambda Chi Alpha.
The dreary side of life will be shown, as plans for the best grave-yard in the country are being made. There are rumors of a mighty spooky mummy they’re going to display, so hold your hats!
At midnight the “Spook,” who will receive five dollars as prize for his unpopularity, will be presented in a mystical ceremony to the dancers. So
far, the race for the “Spook” is wide open with Stewy Karbel setting the pace, closely followed by Inza Fripp. The term “spook” has many definitions, but it usually signifies unusualness, unpopularity, derision, or just plain “Spookism.” Duke Boyle nosed out Robert L. Rigney for the honor last year.
The dance begins it 10 o’clock and lasts until 1 or 1:30, with the music being furnished by a Phi Mu Alpha band. Favors will be the same as last year, spiders made from pipe cleaners. Admission is 49c stag or drag, so get out your best Bheet, bring the spookiest girl you can find, and help liven up ye olde graveyard.
Provin Calls in Cards For Next Registration
Every enrolled student must return his reply card to the Registrar’s Office immediately in order to be considered for entrance to the University next fall, Harry Provin, Registrar, announced this morning.
Almost 3,000 inquiries have already been received in answer to .the “Where Are You Going to-College” booklet sent to 45,000 high school seniors throughout the country last month, and new cards are coming in daily.
Since enrollment will be restricted to only 1,500 students next fall, it is imperative that all students who wish to come back next year return their reply cards within the next few days.
Gov’t Requires Social Security Card
Students and teachers who will enter commercial and industrial employment this summer must have Social Security Account numbers before beginning employment, William B. Weaver, manager of the Social Security Board’s Miami field office announced yesterday. They should apply for cards at his office or any of the 318 field offices located in cities throughout the country.
‘Whether the employment is part-time, temporary, or permanent, and although the employer has no other employee, a report of the employee’s wages together with his account number must be made to the Federal Government by the employer,” Mr. Weaver explained. “The employee is required to report his account number to his employer.”
According to estimates made recently, over a million high school and college graduates will be seeking jobs this year.
Lit. Honors Names 3 Committeemen
With the selection of Ann Evans, Roger Jarman, and Eleanor Gardnei as a nominating committee for next year, English Honors society had its final meeting of the term on May 9 in the Card Room. Miss Barrett, guest speaker, discussed children’s literature.
English Honors society is open to majors and minors in English having a “B” average. At monthly meetings topics of literary interest are discussed.
SPANISH CLUB PLANS
Spanish club discussed plans for next year at its last business meeting last night in the assembly room, after it had chosen S. B. Maynard faculty adviser.
An informal farewell meeting of the group will be held Monday night at the home of Clarice Schnatterbeck, 1157 S. W. 23rd avenue. All members are urged to be present.
Last Newman Meeting Thursday
The Newman Club will hold its last meeting of the year next Thursday, May 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Assembly Hall of the Church of the Little Flower. Following the regular business meeting, there will be a social for members and their dates.
Senior Activities Begin With Concert Monday
Miami Local Goes Pi K A On Saturday
Phi Alpha Will Become Gamma Omega Chapter; 50 to be Installed
Over fifty active and alumni members of Phi Alpha local fraternity will be officially installed as Gamma Omega chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha on Saturday afternoon.
To be held at the Country Club of Coral Gables, the installation ceremonies will be attended by Dr. Freeman H. Hart, national president; Robert M. McFarland, executive secretary; Horace F. Smith, district president, and Dr. U. S. Gordon, national chaplain. Over 100 delegates and members of the Miami Pi Kappa Alpha Alumni Association are expected to be present at the installation of the Miami chapter.
Delegates to Attend
Representatives from the University of Florida, Georgia, Emory, Mercer, and Georgia Tech Pi K A chapters will conduct the initiation sei’-vices on Saturday.
A luncheon in honor of the visiting national officers and delegates on Friday, a reception at the Phi Alpha house at 7:30 that night, and other activities will highlight the week-end ceremonies.
Oldest Greek-letter organization on the University of Miami campus, Phi Alpha will become the 80th chapter of Pi K A. Founded at the University of Virginia on March 1, 1868, Pi Kappa Alpha is one of the oldest and largest national fraternities.
Charter Members Listed
Officers of the Miami local who will be installed as charter members of the new campus national are Humes Lasher, president; Ted Jackson, vice-president; George Litchfield, secretary; and Charles Baake, treasurer.
Other charter members of the Gamma Omega chapter will include: Dave Andre, Winston Barnard, Gene Boyle, Jack Burr, Charles Carr, Victor Coleman, Bob Dillard, Charles Dumas, Morton DuPree, Lai Edwards, Lewis Fogle, Charlie Franklin, Jack Greenawalt, Bob Grimes, Bob Hart, George Hollahan, Ralph Johnson, Carl Jones, Larry Long, Jack Madigan, Paul Miller, Bob O’Reilly, Jack Plunkett, Robert Rigney, Dick Rezzolla, Donald Sapp, Bernal Schooley, Bob Starr, Grant Stockdale, Doss Tabb, Elroy True, and Henry Tonkin.
Editor Hopkins Names Staff' for 1940 Yearbook
John Hopkins, editor of the 1940 Ibis, announced his editorial staff this week, as the book nears completion. Managing editor is Lewis Dorn; business manager is Ira Bullock; and Hedwig Ringblom, Jeanne Girton, Martha Hibbs and Martha Dorn are associate editors.
Nancy Dobbins is photography editor, Stewart Cohen, assistant; sports editor, Claud Corrigan; music editors, Harry Estersohn and Don Chad-derdon; art editor, Crawford Parker , fraternity editor, Betty Serpns; sor-oroity editor, Virginia Allen; society editor, Mollie Connor; intramurals editor, Seymour Simon; organizations and picture editor, Jim Jeffrey; and copy editors, Dorothy Levin and Elaine Preston.
Dr. Clarke Olney will direct the
University’s summer session which begins June 7.
Summer School Opens Registry Friday, June 7
Registration for the summer class sessions will take place Friday, June 7, from 1:00-5:00 p.m. and Saturday, June 8, from 8:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Classes will be conducted in the University Building, beginning Monday, June 10 and continuing through August 2. Dr. Clarke Olney is director.
No Registration Fee
No registration fee is required, the tuition charge being $7.50 per semester hour. Laboratory fees of five dollars are charged l'or chemistry courses (plus a breakage supply fee of five dollars), physics courses, and botany courses. Tuition charges and fees must be paid at the time of registration.
Students enrolling in courses of instruction offered in liberal arts and sciences, business administration, music and education, as candidates for a degree from this University, must fulfill regular admission requirements. Only in exceptional cases may students carry more than eight semester hours. Information and forms may be obtained from the registrar’s office.
Full Curriculum
Courses will be offered in botany, chemistry, commerce, economics, education, English, finance, French, geography, history, mathematics, music, physics, political science, psychology, public speaking, sociology, and Spanish.
Registration for a nine-week session of the School of Law will be held Saturday, June 1, classes beginning the following Monday. Instruction will be given in the following courses: Constitutional Law, Contracts, Creditors’ Rights, Business Associations, Titles, and Wills. New students may begin their study of law by scheduling the course in Contracts.
Class Times
Classes begin at 8:00 a.m. Few classes meet after 2:00 p.m. or on Friday afternoon, with no Saturday classes. Bulletins containing general may be obtained at the registrar’s information and a schedule of courses office.
doesn’t ask its chorus to dance. As foi the ringers, they hardly had a chance. Our stage is much too smnll for arm-waving. I respectfully suggest that until our operas warrant a larger stage, we confine ourselves to the limits of our physical resources and keep away from ballet.
The opera itself was first rate entertainment. The soloists, Isabel Lloyd, Edwin Ginsburg, and John Bower, gave fine performances. Jeane Williams’ stage sets had imagination and humor well in keeping with the story.
Special mention should be mnde of Mr. Koch’s dramatic direction. His clever bits of business added sparkle and pep.
Now that Mr. Gregor has organized his forces, we may expect much better operas in the future. Nevertheless, “Papageno”' was a good show by any standards.
Program Features Plays, Receptions, Concerts, Services
Senior week for the class of 1940, May 20 to 27, will include on its program receptions at the Grant estate, M Club field day, special alumni activities, band and orchestra concerts, class breakfast, baccalaureate service, and commencement exercises.
With Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Ashe as hosts, seniors will be entertained with games and swimming Monday, May 20, at the Grant Estate. M Club field day Tuesday will feature athletic contest and the Club's annual dance at the Country Club.
Will Attend Plays
To be special guests of Mr. Koch’s playwriting class, the graduates are invited to attend three original one-act plays to be presented in the Cardboard Theatre May 22 at 8:00 p.m. Attending a picnic at the Grant Estate from 1 to 5 Thursday, senior girls will be honored. A tea dance from 5:30 to 7:30, sponsored by the alumni in the Administration Building, will be followed by the alumni dinner in the cafeteria from 7:30 to 8:30. Seniors then will be officially inducted into their new status as alumni in the Cardboard Theatre.
Dr. and Mrs. Ashe will entertain the graduates at supper on Friday evening, an event which will be followed by a band concert and dance on the Estate. Featuring student soloists, an orchestra concert will be presented for the seniors Saturday evening at 8:30 in the Miami Senior High School auditorium.
Baccalaureate Sunday
The Coral Gables Congregational Church will be the scene of the baccalaureate services Sunday morning at 9:30; Reverend Leslie J. Barnette will officiate. Seniors and their parents then will be entertained at a tea to be given by the faculty in the lounge of the Administration Building Sunday afternoon. To be given Monday morning at 9:00 in the Tiffin Tea Room, the senior breakfast will precede the reception to be held on the Grant Estate from 12 to 2 Monday afternoon. Climaxing senior week, commencement services will be held at the Miami Biltmore Country Club.
New them Course Set for Next Term
Chemistry of Daily Life is a new course, to be designated as Chemistry 95 and 96, in the General Announcement Bulletin, which will be offered for the first time in the semester beginning in September of 1940.
A laboratory course, the new class will be specially designed for students who contemplate taking only one year of Chemistry. Its purpose will be to give a well-rounded layman’s background in the subject without providing the necessary technical details for a course intended to be u basis of further study in the subject.
As a prerequisite for advanced chemistry the course will probably not be acceptable in transfers to other universities. It is designed to meet the needs of students who do not intend to continue with chemistry.
Myra Atkins Wins Oratorical Prize
Myra Atkins’ speech on “The Friends’ Service Committee” won for her the winner’s cup in the annual oratorical contest held last Thursday evening in the Social Hall.
Jerome Weinkle was runner-up with a talk on the future of the average college graduate, receiving a silver medal, while Irving Lebowitz, who spoke on “Fraternity Row,” received a bronze medal for third place. English instructor Sidney Head judged the orations.
Speeches were required to be between ten and fifteen minutes in length, and an outline had to be turned in before the talk. Contestants chose their own topics.
Reception Follows IRC Installation
Recently elected IRC officers will be officially installed Sunday evening at the home of Kenneth Keyes. Following the ritual, there will be an informal reception for’ the new officers.
To be installed are Jacques Wilson, president; Clarice Schnatterbeck, vice-president; Annella Blanton, secretary; and Andrew Choos, treasurer. Dr. Charlton Tebeau is the new faculty sponsor. All members are urged to attend this final meeting of the year.
TCA RENEWALS
All students desirous and in need of renewing TCA assignments next fall must contact Dr. E. V. Hjort in Room 137 during next week.
Dr. Hjort urges that this matter be taken care of immediately.
Estersohn Admires Operatic Improvements But Refuses To Put Ballet in That Class
By Harry Estersohn The nucleus of a future opera school at the University was founded this year by Mr. Henry Gregor, who, starting from scratch in September, laid the foundations for future work.
In all respects but one, last week’s “Papageno” was a tremendous improvement over the first semester’s “Geisha.” This one backward step was the ballet. The dancing in “The Geisha” was “purely functional.” In “Papageno,” the ballet was merely stuck in — and looked like it. The music was not part of the opera at all but two movements of the “Eine Kleine Nacht-Musik.” The necessity of slowing the tempo for the sake of the dancers killed the music very effectively. The ballet itself didn’t need anything to kill it.
Ballet can’t be taught in the space of weeks. Even the Metropolitan