Miami Hurricane, April 18, 1940

              The Miami
Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XIII
Coral Gables, Florida, April 18, 1940
Number 27
Campaign Against TB Starts Today
Skin Tests To Be Given Tuesday Afternoon; Films On Disease Are Shown
The early diagnosis campaign of the Dade County Tuberculosis Association is being joined today by the University of Miami, with the student participation campaign including such features as tuberculin skin tests and movies both in English and in Spanish explaining the value of the drive.
Today’s program began with registration by students, from 9 to 1 in the cafeteria arcade for the tuberculin skin tests. Administered without charge as part of the early diagnosis campaign of the Association, this test often shows the presence of the tubercle bacillus in the body before positive symtoms appear.
They will be given to all students who registered for them, on Tuesday afternoon from 1:30 to 3:30 in the assembly room of the administration building. A special effort is being made to have every senior tested, since they will not have the opportunity to take the test next fall as a part of the annual student physical examination. Results of the tests will be determined by inspection in the assembly room between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. next Thursday.
Next Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., a Spanish language motion picture, “Cloud in the Sky,’’ dealing with early diagnosis, will be shown to the Spanish club and any other interested students.
Today from 12:30 to 1:30 in the Cardboard Theatre three twenty minute sound films about tuberculosis were shown under the auspices of the Association in order to familiarize students with the treatment and cure of the disease.
Working on the student committee are Laura Green and Bob Rigney, chairmen ; Joe Bonano, Dot Lowe, and Lloyd Whyte. Cooperating with Mrs. Elfie Sutherland of the Tuberculosis Association in these tests are Miss Mary B. Merritt, Foster Alter and Dr. F. E. Kitchens for the faculty.
Gregor Plans Ballet With Gershwin Music
Brainchild of the gifted composer Henry Gregor, “The Beach,” a pan-tomine ballet now in rehearsal promises to be about the biggest thing about these parts when it it introduced in May. The theme of the ballet, the background music of which will be Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” was adopted from an idea which Mr. Gregor found in Europe. Millie Thompson, who did the choreography for this novel ballet, and Bill Gore will play the leads.
Snuffy Smith and Lai Edwards take the parts of two drunken sailors who are repulsed by some girls with whom they try to flirt on the beach. The girls are more interested in a dandy, Bill Gore, but when he turns his attentions to the heroine, Millie Thompson, they write him mash notes. Disgusted with these advances, the dandy turns the notes over to the delighted sailors and goes to dance with the heroine.
This is the first time any such combination of music and dance has been attempted at the University, and it is the hope of Mr. Gregor that it will be the beginning of departmental work in this particular field.
The art department is doing the scenery and the orchestra will be composed of music students conducted bv Mr. Gregor. No exact date in May has been set for the performance as yet.
SNAPSHOTS WANTED!
Any students who have snapshots they would like to have appear in the ’40 Ibis are asked to turn them in to Nancy Dobbins. These pictures must be in by Monday.
Sen. Andrews Speaks To Students at Convo
Congressman Discusses Current Domestic Issues Of U. S. in Lecture
Charles O. Andrews, Senior Senator from the state of Florida to the United Sates Congress, addressed a student assembly in the Cardboard Theatre Tuesday morning.
“You can accomplish infinitely more by diplomacy,” the senator told students as he described his career in Washington. A member of the Naval Affairs Committee, he discussed current domestic issues, including the present neutrality act.
He also discussed the recent appropriation bills passed by Congress in the expansion of the navy program and the present war crisis. The senator believes strongly in preparedness for the United States and suggested that it might be “possible for the Caribbean Sea to become the theatre of the war if the battles were transferred to this hemisphere.” He has used this argument in trying to have an important naval and military base located in Florida.
As for the overseas situation, Senator Andrews considers Italy to be one of the key countries but declares it is not logically possible for that country to combine with Germany. He explained that a country with so many years of Catholic history behind it would not be likely to want to combine with the atheistic Russian government.
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Senator Charles O. Andrews
Besides this discussion the senator also offered some moral advice to the audience suggesting two of Stonewall Jackson’s mottos: “You may be whatever you resolve to be” and “Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.”
Senator Andrews was introduced by Cliff Reeder, a pioneer in Florida politics, who had been presented to the student body by Russell A. Rasco, Dean of the University of Miami School of Law.
Singers Sweetening Up Sour Notes As Songiest Nears: Pianos Monopolized
40% Collegians Go to Church Regularly-Poll
(By Student Opinion Surveys) Austin, Texas, April 18—As churchgoers, American college students give themselves a good grade. A national poll of the Student Opinion Surveys of America just completed reveals:
1.	Only one-eighth declare they never attend church; 40 per cent say they go regularly.
2.	A majority state they go to church more often or at least about the same as they did before they came to college.
The poll, taken by personal interviewers from coast to coast, provides the first complete answer to the significant question often asked: Do college students lose some of their religiousness when they leave home? A good number, 46 per cent admit they attend services less often than they did before they arrived on the campus.
What may be surprising to some is that 15 percent of the students say they are now going to church more often than when they were home.
As was to be expected, Catholics appear in the results as the least apt to change their habits on religion upon leaving their homes, and they take honors for regular church-going.
Tabulation of church-attendance habits for the entire college and university enrollment of the nation are given below. It should be considered that Jewish church services often conflict with campus social life and scholastic schedules, thus the lower attendance shown than for Gentiles.
Do you attend church regularly, only occasionally, or never?
All Prot. Oath. Jew Other Regularly	40 % 39 % 75% 9 % 24 %
Occasionally	48	54	20	67	55
Never	12	7	5	24	21
Do you go to church more often or less often than you did before you came to college?
All Prot. Cath. Jew Other More often 15% 16% 10% 12% 18% Less often	46	49	31	52	43
About same	39	35	59	36	39
Amateur tenors and sopranos are sweetening up sour notes in feverish preparation for Phi Mu Alpha’s third annual Songfest, slated for next Friday evening at the Coral Gables Country Club.
No room with a piano in it is left vacant at noon hour or after classes, as sororities and fraternities crowd out regular music students in their anxiety to get around a keyboard and test the harmony of the notes they will sing.
Every sorority and fraternity on campus is singing two selections to compete for gold plaques which become the permanent possession of the winning groups. Last year they went to Pi Chi and Chi Omega.
The Songfest was started by Phi Mu Alpha in 1938, the first year that the fraternity was organized on campus. The event is based on such activities of northern colleges as the Northwestern annual “Sing.” This is the first time that the Songfest will be sung at the Country Club, where the boys are planning an effective setting.
“Props,” such as candles, and special lighting effects, will not count with the judges this year. However, fraternities are getting their tuxes and white ducks dry-cleáned, and sororities are sewing up new dresses for the occasion.
Richard Hiss is chairman, assisted by John Galbreath, Bill Davidson and Bill Peyrand. There will be a free dance afterwards, with the fifteen piece Sinfonía Dance band playing.
Mrs. Roosevelt Talks To Help Teachers
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will make her first public lecture in Miami at Bayfront park Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. She will discuss educational and social problems, especially those connected with modern American youth.
The First Lady’s appearance is being sponsored by the Dade County Classroom Teachers’ association. Tickets are available in the book store. General admission is priced at $1.00, while reserve seats cost $1.50 and $2.00.
Proceeds will go to the association’s welfare fund for the benefit of retired and indisposed school teachers.
Hurricane Is Discussed By Senators
Senate Debates Possible Loss; Accounting System To Be Set Up Next Year
With the finances of the Hurricane occupying the greater part of the discussion, the student senate met in its chambers Tuesday morning. It was decided that a standard accounting system for the senate and for organizations receiving appropriations next year.
In a previous unofficial inquiry, Bob Hillstead, treasurer of the student body, stated that the Hurricane is due to lose a minimum of $77 this year if it continues its present rate of production. Figures of September through March were used to find the possible loss. Hillstead was appointed by President Ray Fordham to make a further investigation of the matter and to recommend a plan for the newspaper to follow.
A special senate meeting will be held next Tuesday with Charles Baake, business manager, and Charlie Franklin, editor, present to comment upon the Hurricane’s financial statement.
That Tommy Hilbish, newly-elected student body president, shall be allowed access to all senate minutes and petitions was agreed by the sol-ons. It was suggested that a part of the money left in the student fund each year be set aside as a Senate Fund; however, a motion that the group designate $200 this year for the reserve fund died.
John Lake, law school senator, moved that instead of the regular senate write-ups which are now appearing in the student newspaper, a copy of the minutes of each meeting be printed, but his motion failed for want of a second.
'Esty' Lukewarm On Closing Concert, But Pats Belov. Call
By Harry Estersohn When Dr. Volpe died, in February, it was taken for granted that Mr. Belov would finish the season. Faced with a lack of cooperation inconceivable to anyone not connected with the Music School, he brought the season to a successful close with Monday’s concert.
Mr. Belov lacks Dr. Volpe’s conducting experience. This, a shortcoming that he is the first to admit, evidences itself most at rehearsals. However, being a sensitive musician, and having spent most of his life in the country’s best orchestras, Mr. Belov brings to his work undisputable authority and knowledge of repertoire. His performances are characterized by their musicianly phrasing and restraint. This was especially true of Monday’s concert.
The evening’s soloist, Mrs. Mary Hughes Call, collaborated with the-orchestra in an excellent performance of Schumann’s A minor piano concerto. Mrs. Call’s playing, like the orchestra’s and like Mr. Belov’s conducting, is not epoch-making. However, as one of the members of the orchestra put it, “She plays all the notes right. She phrases well. What if she isn’t the world’s greatest pianist?” With which sentiments I heartily concur. The performance of the concerto was wholly satisfying.
The rchestra’s portion of the program was devoed to Tschaikowsky’s Overture Fantasie “Romeo and Juliet” and Debussy’s “Claire de Lune.” Liszt's tone poem, “Les Preludes,” concluded the season, literally as well as figuratively, with a bang.
IBIS TO MEET
Important meetings of ’the Ibis staff will be held every Monday and Thursday afternoons at 3:30, John Hopkins, editor of the yearbook, announced last night.
CRITIC JUNIOR OVERFLOWS
SLIDES INTO A DITHER
By Dorothy Ann Levin Professional actors and students worked together to make “Outward Bound,” as directed by Mrs. Opal Motter, an outstanding success. Naturally, there were different grades of perfection in the performances, but, in some cases the actors whom the audience had known for years as students, surpassed the volunteer members of the cast drawn from outside sources.
High point of the play was the first scene of the last act, when Adele Rickel’s exit speech drew spontaneous applause. The bows she took at the end of the performance were her last
as a regular actress of the University stage. After seeing her wisely-handled, reticent, and meticulous portrayal of Mrs. Midgett add itself to her list of triumphs on this stage, no spectator could deny her right to a place in the University’s hall of dramatic fame.
Perfection of voice, even in his most difficult emotional scenes, was Maxwell Marvin’s contribution to the success of the production. The role of Tom Prior offered an opportunity to display real talent. Marvin has been accused by some of being a professional actor.
A product of the University’s cour-
ses, he, like all the other experienced actors who occasionally offer to take parts in the University productions, receives no monetary compensation for his services.
It is the venturesome opinion of this reviewer that to expel him and his kind from the University stage would be to remove from that stage one of its most valuable assets, the honest at mosphere of real dramatic competition which keeps University productions above the average collegiate level, both in performances and in training for the theatre.
Another actor to whom this so-called “stigma of professionalism” is
attached is Sidney Head, instructor of English in the University who has had stage experience. As Scrubby in the Sutton Vane play he presented a realistic and natural performance in a part which was ethereal and strange. As instructor of the dead in their new way of life (how odd that sounds!) he impressed the audience with the accuracy of his understanding of the Vane philsophy and his projections of it to the characters.
Portrayal of members of the clergy, occasionally termed the third sex, is always difficult. Few people will have any quarrel with George Dawkins as
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Theta Alpha Phi Presents Annual Follies Tomorrow
* * * * * + Buxom Beauties Grace Follies of 1940
The famous sextet pictured above in characteristic poses are, beginning at the short end and rising gradually: Miss Rose N. Blatt, Miss Charlene Guimento, Miss Josephine Krutulis, Miss Walda Kichefski, Miss Kutchie Kearns, who is the prima-donna of the chorus, and the lovely Miss Tiny Staubitz.
’40 Prom Proclaimed 'Best One We Ever Had/ As 500 Students Listen to Enoch and Peggy
By Margaret Klotz Everybody was there! Well, everybody who was a senior or had three dollars. Three dollars! Sounds like real dough, but it was a mere drop in the bucket for Enoch Light’s bit of rhythm, and I do mean Peggy Mann . . . manl
Course-we all went to the-Junior Prom. Some set out because they didn’t want to make poor Humes feel bad and not show up. Others had a new dress or a new girl to show off. Almost two hundred seniors were guests of honor. And then some really went for fun. One of the latter of the species, I* quote as an answer to the query of whether he had a good time or not. He spake, “They tell me I had a swell time and I’m inclined to agree.” No more need be said.
Five hundred men, women, and children (including some latecomers from the Lambda Chi Open House) danced to their heart’s content to Ench’s sweet swing and Enoch’s sweet Peggy. Songs dedicated to the seniors and juniors were played, and of course they beamed like kids with lolly pops. A slice of humor was dropped down from nowhere when imitations were given by an able member of the “Light Brigade,” but they were no more amusing and entertaining than that nifty piano player. Did you watch him? He was a real show.
The Grand March was really grand, and was so long traffic lights were needed. Souvenirs of little blue and silver books were given to the girls, whereas the boys had to break their necks getting a balloon which was doomed to fate in the hands of a coupla fellows named Joe, who were quick on the pins. But who are we to dispute two boxers? I ask you.
I couldn’t get used to those flash light bulbs, but they didn’t bother me much. Yes, watching them flash something like Bunny and Marion cutting the rug or maybe a table of smiling students was enough to make the last queen we crowned envious.
And the nicest part was the good times had by all. Everybody from the meekest freshman up to Joe Thomas and Dr. Ashe proclaimed it “the best Prom we’ve ever had!”
Yes sir, the Junior Prom went over big. If I were Walter Winchell, I’d give it a coupla orchids. If I were McCracken, ltd shower it wi|h a bundle of A’s, and if I were the seniors and the senators, I’d sure say thanks.
Best Seller Author Addresses Snarks
Pietro di Donato, author of “Christ in Concrete,” will speak at the next meeting of the Snarks, to be held at Mollie Connor’s house, 2653 S. W. 82 Ave., tonight at 8:30.
Members of the Snarks include Mollie Connor, Elliot Nichols, Berthe Neham, Eleanor Gardner, John Hopkins, Roger Jarman, Harold Raskis, Riva Hemphill, Frank Hopkins, A. B. Magruder. The faculty advisors are Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Leary.
Debaters Lose T o Florida; Meet GeorgiaT onight
Meeting the University of Georgia tonight, losing to the University of Florida, and winning over Rollins College, Miami’s barnstorming varsity debaters have fought the first engagements of their trip around the Southern college circuit which began this week.
Tonight’s battle will be held at Athens, Ga., with Dan Satin and Lawrence Ropes, Jr., taking the affirmative side of the question against Georgia’s negative pair.
An audience decision was made at the Florida debate giving the opponents the victory by a score of 40-27. Miami’s representatives on the Gainesville battlefield were Irving Lebo-witz and Jerome Weinkle of the negative team. They battled against Stuart Simon and Davison Dunlap of the University of Florida .
The Rollins debate was a victory for Miami, with Satin and Ropes again taking the forensic field at a judged debate. The subject used at all the debates so far has been “Resolved that: the United States Should Follow a Policy of Strict Economic and Military Isolation from All Countries Outside the Western Hemisphere Engaged in Armed International or Civil Conflict.”
Registration Opens For Speech Contest
Registration for entrants in the Debate Council’s fourth annual Oratorical contest to be held Thursday night, May 9, began April 17 and will continue through Saturday, April 27. Entries, containing the student’s name, address, and subjects for the speech, should be left in the Council’s post-office box.
The speech must be ten to fifteen minutes long, and a copy or outline of it has to be typed and handed in to a member of the Debate Council by May 6. The contest will be judged on delivery and speech manners, organization of the speech, and originality.
The winner of the oratorical contest will be presented a cup donated by Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity and speakers coming in second and third will receive medals.
Methodist Delegates Will Attend Camp
Dot Lowe will head the Miami delegation from the Methodist Student Organization to the Florida Mehodist Conference to be held at Deer Lake Camp in Ocala this weekend.
Informal reports will be featured at a pot-luck supper meeting of the group Wednesday evening at 5:30 in the social hall. Ruth Pressett is chairman of the supper committee. Members and prospective members are invited to attend.
Chorus Feature Of Program; 75 Persons In Cast
“The biggest laugh hit of the year” as the barkers term it, Theta Alpha Phi’s annual Follies, highlighted by the popular “Hurricane Chorus,” skits by the sororities and fraternities, and individual acts by enterprising students, will decorate the boards of the Cardboard Theatre tomorrow night at 8:30.
Eddie Baumgarten and Jack Mad-igan are co-directors of the show, which will include approximately twenty acts and over seventy-five persons. An admission of thirty-five cents per person will be charged, and since there is nothing reserved about this show, no seats in the audience will be reserved either. Tickets may be secured from members of Theta Alpha Phi or at the box-office, which will open for business all day today and tomorrow.
Whatta Chorua—Wow!
As in years past, the headline attraction will be the Chorus, consisting of Tommy Kearns, Walt Kichefski, Chuck Guimento, Joe Krutulis, “Tiny" Staubitz, and the elfin “Pee Wee” Rosenblatt. The most intricate oC ballet routines will be displayed by the shapely sextet, while Kutch Kearns will follow up his performance of last year’s Follies (remember “Little Sir Echo”) with an inimitable rendition of “Playmates” in a falsetto voice.
Most of the fraternities and sororities will present various skits and numbers. The Chi Omega’s will swing out on “Chiribiribin”; Tau Epsilon Phi will offer “Blackman, the Magician,” card tricks and all, as their part of the entertainment; and “Snuffy” Smith, Winona Wehle, crooning A1 Lane, Lawrence Tibbett Teeter, Betty Ann Ganger, Mildred Thompson, and many others will feature a number of individual acts.
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is furnishing a fourteen-piece swing band, which will provide the music for all the acts. In addition, they will play several arrangements of their own, including “In the Mood,” Glen Miller’s hit song.
Opera Even Cornea Back
Another revival of the program is Theta Alpha Phi’s own production of a time-honored comic opera, which got so many laughs when first presented some years ago tha when they brought out the scripts the giggle seeds had sprouted and become snicker trees and belly-laugh bushes.
Dean Russell A. Rasco, traditional MC of the Follies, will not be in town Friday night, and Eddie Baumgarten is taking over his duties.
Yep, tomorrow night’s the night for fun!
Law School Select Leaders for Year
At a recent election held by the law school, Samuel Matthews was named president; Wallace N. Maer, vice-president; Frank A. Witherill, secretary; and Stephen McCrimmon, treasurer.
These officers and Mary Linea-weaver compose a committee which will meet soon to decide on the annual banquet held each year by the law school.
Mary, who is a freshman in law school, and Dorothy Schoessel, senior, have been pledged to Phi Delta Delta, international women’s legal fraternity.
Institute Postpones Lecture Session
“Finance and Community Organization” will be the subject of tomorrow's lecture in the Social Welfare Institute to be given by A. L. Nilson, director of the Dade County Community Chest.
The lecture will be held on Friday at 3:30 in place of the lecture originally scheduled for that time, which has been postponed until April 30.
On Tuesday, Dr. James L. Anderson, a practicing psychiatrist, will lecture on “The Contribution of Psychiatry to Social Work.” All Social Welfare Institute sessions are held in the Assembly Room of the Administration Building.
Admission to these lectures may be obtained by the payment of twenty-five cents at the Registrar’s Office.
STATE BAR MEETS
The University of Miami School of Law will be represented at the State Bar Association meeting April 17-20 in Jacksonville by Dean Russell A. Rasco, Laufer T. Hayes, Robert Ken-na, J. M. Flowers, and George Holt.