Miami Hurricane, December 19, 1940

              The Miami
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Volume XÍV
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Corai. Gables. Florida, December 19, 1940
Number 11
University Becomes Member ot Southern Association ot Colleges
I niversily of Miami has hern made a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, regional accrediting association, Dean of Administration Jay F. Vi. Pearson announced Saturday. At the same time, the University School of Music became a member of the National Association of Schools of Music.
Membership in the Southern Asso
dation makes certain that University credits themselves will be unquestionably accepted by schools to which Miami students might transfer. Low quality credits, with regard to the grades, might still be questioned, as is customary. The Association now has a membership of 198 colleges and universities, and members are chosen on a set basis of standards and requirements.
The University of Miami is also affiliated with the Association of American Colleges, the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Graduates of the School of Education are fully upproved by the Florida State Department of Education, and graduates of the School of Law are automatically admitted to the bar and are able to practice without taking the state bar examination.
Religious Groups Set Higher Goal In TB Seal Sale
To reach a goal of 75 dollars instead of last year’s fifty, the Religious Council is again sponsoring the sale of Christmas seals for the benefit of the Dade County Tuberculosis Association being held today and tomorrow.
Seals are being sold at the entrance to the cafeteria. All organizations on campus paying lump sums of $2.50 or more for seals will receive special framed bonds from the association.
Movies are being shown at 12:30 ^<rdTO'Ttirthc tlreatTej Uir-the subject of tuberculosis and syphilis. The class in hygiene taught by Dr. F. E. Kitchens is scheduled for that hour, but the movies will be open to the public.
Student committee in charge of the sale of seals are Laura Green, chairman, Kathleen Wilson, Ray Ren-uart, Lloyd Whyte, Sid Kline, Betty Lou Baker, and Harry Rinehart.
English Department Plans New Courses
New English courses to be offered the second semester include The Epic, English Language, the Development of English criticism, and the American Short Story.
English 432, or The Epic, will be taught in a series of lecture periods, with different faculty members giving discussions of individual epics, Lewis Leary will be the professor of the English Language course, catalogued as English 424. The Development of English Criticism, English 437, will be taught by Sydney Head. Dr. Charles Doren Tharp will bring the American Short Story up to the present day in English 412.
Professors who will discuss epics in English 432 are Dr. J. Riis Owre, “The Cid”; Dr. William P. Dismukes, “The Divine Comedy”; Leonard Muller, “The Song of Roland”; Sydney Head, “Paradise Lost”; Mrs. Melanie Rosborough, “The Nibelungenlied”; Malcolm Beal, “The Odyssey”; Jose de Seabre, “The Lusiad”; and Lewis Leary, “The Iliad”, and "Beowulf.
IRC Delegates Report on State Convention
Guest speaker Louis James Rosenberg and a report of the state convention were highlights of last night’s meeting of the International Relations Club.
Rosenberg, who holds the decoration of Knight of the Order of Isabella of Spain, is a lawyer, author, and honorary consul of Panama at Detroit. The report on the convention was given by Jacques Wilson, president of the Miami chapter.
Held at the University of Florida at Gainesville on December 14 and 15, the convention had as its theme “Europe, War, and the Americas.” Wilson presided over the first round table session. The second round table heard papers by Sophia Dunne on Continuation of Limited Aid to Britain” and by Wilson on “Withdraw from Europe, Arm the United States.”
This is the second year in which the University of Miami has participated in the state convention of the International Relations Clubs. Miami delegates included Miss Dunne, Wilson, and Miss Margaret McKee.
Other delegates to the conference came from Florida State College for Women, the University of Florida, St, Petersburg Junior College, and Stetson. The program included an address by Dr. W. I. Mowat, professor of history at the University of Bristol, in England, a banquet at which Dr. Kathryn T. Abbey, professor of history at Florida State College for Women, spoke on “Some Inferences from the New Pan-Americanism,” and an informal reception and dance.
TEP Meets In Miami Next Week
Fraternity’s National Convention Is Here December 25, 28
National convention of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity will be held in Miami and Hollywood, Florida, from December 25 through 28. The Miami chapter of the fraternity is the first fraternity on campus ever to play host to a national meeting of its order.
The 400 active and alumni mem-members who are expected to attend will be housed at the Hollywood Beach Hotel. Opening sessions of the meeting will be held in the local chapter house at 1121 Andalusia Avenue. The first night of the convention, December 25, will be devoted to a get-together dance.
The hotel will hold a beach dinner dance on December 26. Only one day, December 27, will be taken up with business meetings. The evening of that day will be devoted to a stag banquet at which ten pledges of the local chapter will be initiated. On the final night of the convention a formal dinner dance will be held. The orchestra will be directed by Earl Reinert.
Official Miami delegates to the convention, Fred Nesbitt, chancellor of local chapter, and Irving Lebowitz, who, with Sonny Silverstein, is in charge of the dance at the fraternity house. Head of the National Convention committee is Louis Heiman, alumni advisor of the Miami chapter.
The national secretary of the fraternity, Irving Klepper, a graduate of the University of Florida, visited the local chapter recently to complete plans for the convention. Local alumni who are committee chairmen include Sidney Segall, arrangements; Joseph Schwartz, finances; Sidney Ross, tickets and favors; Arthur Shandloff, orchestra and date; Art and Bert Kahn, decorations.
Alma Jane Lindgren Chosen Pi Chi’s Queen of Cluhs
Alma Jane Lindgren, Chi Omega, was chosen Queen of Clubs last Friday night at the eleventh annual Pi Chi dance. Dotty Lightman, Alpha Epsilon Phi, and Donelda Wilson, Pyramid, were runners-up.
The queen and her attendants were selected for beauty, poise, and personality from a group of eight University sorority girls and six high school candidates.
Proceeds of the dance will be given to the Donald B. Grant Memorial Library Fund.
Integrated Arts Course Is New To Educators
Mount Vernon, Iowa (ACP)
Three professors at Cornell college have combined three classes into one and are conducting a new course in related arts, covering the fields of art, literature and music.
The idea came when the three were asked to lecture in their fields to an education class two years ago.
A simultaneous view of the three arts seemed such a natural integra tion to them that (they presented their plan for the course to the curriculum committee, which approved it.
In the classes, if the students are examining modern America, for instance, they may read Paul Engle’s “Break the Heart’s Anger,” listen to “Ballad for Americans” by John La-touche and Earl Robinson as sung by Paul Robeson, and view Thomas Hart Benton’s “Hollywood,” keeping them all in mind, watching for similarities and dissimilarities in the same trend.
Students are encouraged to do some creative work. This may develop into anything from a group project such as an opera to an individually- eanor Shields, Mrs. Georgie Nolan, created tone poem, picture, or short and Miss Helen Dick.
Dorm Girls Plan Christmas Banquet
Resident women students on campus will hold a Christmas dinner in the cafeteria tonight at 6:30, as final reunion before leaving for the holidays.
In charge of arrangements for the dinner are Billie Sabshin, Novice McClelland, and Jean Martin. A grab bag of Christmas gifts and Christmas carols will be features of the program
Violinists who are to play the carols include Carmel de Santis, Dorothy Cross, and Selma Einbinder. Special guests of the Dormitory Stu dent Council at the dinner will be Miss Mary B. Merritt, Mrs. Sarepta Terletsky, Mrs. Wilma Koch, Miss El-
Student Senate Demands Name Change for Florida Haymakers
Miami Concert Audience Approves John Bitter As Volpe's Successor
By Harry Estersohn
Two facts were clearly demon-trated at Monday’s concert by the University of Miami »Symphony Orchestra: first, that the Miami concert audience wholeheartedly approved of the choice of John Bitter to succeed the late Dr. Arnold Volpe; second, that the orchestra was better than ever.
Bitter's experience has well prepared him for his present job at the University. As assistant to Leopold Stokowski with the All-American Youth Orchestra this summer, he learned how much can be achieved by virile amateur group. He knows fully what he can expect, asks for all the orchestra has, and gets it.
Bitter brings vigor and imagination to his interpretations. Though in his ideas on phrasing, bowing, and seating, he leans heavily on Stokow-sky's practice, he might easily have picked a worse model.
The orchestra, though weak in spots, is greatly improved over last year’s group. The strings are espec-
ially strong and in the winds, the horns and flutes stand out. The boys and girls waded nobly through Brahms’ tremendous First Symphony and took Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” in their stride.
The evening’s soloists were the impressive young duo-piano team of Vronsky and Babin. With perfect coordination, they presented a widely varied group consisting of the Bach C Major concerto, Rachmaninoff’s Barcarolle, an Etude by Babin, Weinberger’s Polka and Fugue from “Schwanda,” Gluck’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits,” Rimski-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee,” and Rachmaninoff’s “Easter Bells. They were ably accompanied by Bitter and the strings in the Bnch work.
The strings also played the Andante movement from Dr. Volpe’s D Major string quartet. Although this was meant as a tribute to Dr. Volpe’s memory, a far greater tribute is the excellent manner in which the work to which he devoted the last sixteen years of his life is being carried on.
41 Ibis Seems To Be Speeding On Its Merry Way
Staff members of the 1941 Ibis will spend a few minutes in solemn thought during the holidays in an effort to perpetuate a plan whereby they can put the screws on some two hundred students who failed to have their pictures made for the book. All is not lost, because^ those students still have a chance to go to the studio at 2204 Ponce de Leon anytime they feel in a photogenic mood.
Remainder of Ibis proofs will be available in room 336 after noon today.
As far as can be determined, the Ibis is in fine shape. There are people on the staff who have assigned duties and positions. Senior statistics and sorority and fraternity information are dribbling in every day. The cover design has been decided upon. The dummy is tentatively drawn up and the number of pages, excluding advertising, has been set at 195. Group pictures for organizations will be taken immediately after Christmas vacation.
As things stand now the staff, which is subject to change, includes: Bob Linrothe, managing editor; Martha Hibbs, associate editor; Peggy Brennan, feature editor; Ed Sommers, Jim Jeffrey, staff photograph ers; Helen Gwinn, fraternity editor; Penny Roth, society. Others who have reported for active duty are Virginia Allen, Martin DeBear, Ruth McDonald, Marion Brown, Alvalyn Boege, Wilma Resnikoff, and numerous others.
Campus Calendar
Thur«., Dec. 19—General assembly, 10:30, Theatre.
Circulo Hispano, 8-10, 1137 S.W, 24 Ave.
Friday, Dec. 20 — Pan-American Cadet assembly, 7:30-9, Theatre. Zeta Tau Alpha Christmas Party (Closed)
Sunday, Dec. 22—Y.M.C.A.-Y.W.C.A. Vespers, 5-5:30, Card Room. Musicale, 5:00, Lounge.
Two Radio Shows Set For This Week By Workshop Crew
Radio programs sponsored by the University of Miami and scheduled for this week include the second unit in the Radio Workshop series, a dramatization of an incident in the life of Dickens, and the Classroom of the Air.
Frederick H. Koch, assistant professor of the drama department, will read the part of Dickens as well as those of Scrooge and Marley, characters in “A Christmas Carol,” famous work of Dickens. Other parts include Robert Zeman, Tom; Irving Lebowitz, Publisher; Frank Hopkins, Chairman; and Grace Berg, Housekeeper. Martin Greenberg is sound technician and Dick McKee is announcer.
On the Classroom of the Air program, Evelyn Plagman Jones, pianist, will play “Sonnet of Petrarch” by Liszt, and Robert Reinert, University faculty member, will sing.
Debate Council’s Petition Cut Down By Budget-Conscious Senators
After a heated discussion in the Senate chambers Tuesday, the Student Senate adopted the following resolution: "The Student Senate votes to go on record as approving a change of name for the Florida Playmakers and substituting a name more in keeping with the University of Miami.” The question came up when the Playmakers petitioned the senate for $190 in
the group’s meeting Tuesday. The Debate Council’s petition for funds was not passed in full, nor without comment.
Although the Florida Playmakers requested funds to purchase necessary electrical equipment, Grace Berg, representing the organization, was kept on her toes answering senators’ questions. “Are the Florida Playmakers affiliated with the University of Florida?” “Is the Florida Playmakers a state organization?” The main objection of senate members to the name seemed to be that the University of Miami was not given enough credit. “The townspeople don’t know that the Florida Playmakers is the University of Miami drama department,” declared one senator.
However, the senators did nothing more than to go on record as favoring a change of name. A motion that $190 be awarded the petitioners was defeated. It was decided to accept the recommendation of the Finance Committee and allot the Florida Playmakers five cents per student for each major production, the maximum amount for each play not to exceed $20.
A total of $450 was petitioned for by the Debate Council, for men’s and women’s varsity debate trips and other club expenses. The Finance Committee recommended that $150 be granted for the men’s trip, with all other parts of the petition to be tabled until more definite information is available. A motion to adopt the Finance Committee recommendation was passed. Senators also voted to appropriate to the Council $77 for the girls’ trip.
Dorm Girls To Move Into New Building
Wholesale reshuffling of the dormitory arrangements of the University will begin immediately after the Christmas holiday with the arrival of a new class of cadets in the federal school of aeronautical navigation.
The newly-acquired Stohn building on Anastasia avenue will be opened to resident women who formerly occupied the Santander avenue dormitory. They will be replaced in this dormitory by the men who will have been moved from the San Sebastian building to make room for the cadets.
The new dormitory is a set of three low buildings with eight rooms in each. Miss Eleanor Shields will be in charge of this building, which is arranged in double suites with individual showers.
All transfers of residence will be completed before the end of the present semester.
Rasco, Hester Will Attend Convention
Representing Miami at a convention of the Association of American Law Schools, to be held December 27 and 28 at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, will be Russell A. Rasco, dean of the school of law, and William J. Hester, assistant professor.
They will leave on Christmas day for the convention, which is an annual conference of the association, during which the programs and problems for ensuing year are considered.
STUDENT ONE.ACT PLAYS RANKED ON CUTLERY STANDARD
By Dorothy Levin
A bloody sword, a delicate stiletto, and a clean-bladed kitchen knife were presented to an interested audience last night, not in an armory, but in the theatre of the University of Miami. To be more specific, the weapons were to defeat the enemy, Emptiness, and were really original creations in the field of drama. As pure and simple information it should be said that last night three members of the playwriting class taught by Frederick H. Koch, Jr. presented, under the general supervision of Mrs. Opal Euard Motter, their first efforts.
The last must be immediately modified however, since it will be remembered that Manuel Roth, author of the first one-act play to be presented wrote one, on a somewhat similar theme, for presentation on the one-act playbills last year. It may be assumed that Roth did not flunk the course. He probably just likes writing plays. Certainly, he seems to enjoy writing plays about war. “The
Unpromised Land” is the bloody sword which so garishly opened this article.
Perhaps “garish” is not an unfair word to use to describe the play itself. If so, it would be difficult to fix the responsibility for the use of the term. Whether Mary Alice Kirton, the student who directed the play, or the author and principal character (one and the same person) caused the shrillness that made the audience uncomfortable is a moot point. Depicting a scene aboard a refugee boat, designed by Jeane Williams and Betty Jaeger, the play brings together a set of immigrants representing every well-known phase of refugee psychology. The Frenchman, the English Cockney, the arrogant German, the Jewish scientist, the priest, and the frightened woman are all present; this in the space of a one-act play. The story is complicated by this conglomeration and the height of the tension was developed too soon and held too long. The bloody sword of propaganda has
been presented to American audience too often to be entirely effective.
The acting and direction of the play was probably affected by the overloaded scenario. Mary Ida Zeman as Mary and Roth as Gortman almost over-acted their roles. An argument could be presented that the confusion in the play was intended as an artistic reproduction of the confusion of the state of mind in Europe and in regard to Europe. It is hnrdly fair to an audience, however, to present to that (judience only a smudged portrait of its own confusion. Nobody expected an answer to a question, but the question in the public mind should be demonstrated more clearly. Lai Edwards had the difficult death scene of the Jewish scientist to attempt, and, naturally, his portrayal was little more than that. The cockney role, played by Elton Rosenblat had an accurate dialect, but, possibly because of a paucity of lines, was unconvincing. Robert Breslin-Anthony showed improvement. His French accent, as
Pierre, may have given him more ease. In the fighting scene, he actually seemed a little angry. Given the most effective line in the play, Stewart La Motte as the Priest made the most of it. The rest of his part was strictly neutral and plays as such, Jim Orr, in the bit part of the steward, was substituted for Dan Squires, whose name appeared on the program. It is to be hoped, for Orr’s sake, that this was a last minute substitution. Another last minute addition was the prologue and epilogue, which were recited, in total darkness, by Robert Lewis Zeman. These were intended to explain the play. Whether it was clear or not, it was read with feeling and authority.
It might be more accurate, if not more orthographic, to call “The Whistlers” by William Reich, STYLEtto. Deliberately impressionistic, the play employed a device which was a combination of Eugene O’Neill’s “frozen moment” technique in “Strange Interlude” and the homey [CONTINUED ON PAGB FOURj
Women Valueless As War Pilots
Fullerton, Calif. (ACP) — When the army air corps said it needed more “manpower,” Fullerton Junior college authorities took it literally and passed a regulation to discourage co-eds from enrolling in the school’s civilian flight training program.
All prospective enrollees had to pledge themselves to seek further flight training with the army or navy air corps—thus eliminating women. Military authorities declare women are “of no military value” as pilots.
Forty-Seven Seek February Degrees
Harry Provin, registrar, announced Tuesday that forty-seven students are candidates for graduation as of February 1, 1940.
Candidates for bachelor of arts degree are: Lyman Bradford, Gertrude Brown, Hettie Carrns, Anna Dobbins, Kathleen Forrest, George Freeman, Eleanor Gardner, Erma Henry, Lucille Holmes, Roger Jarman, Opal Motter, Berthe Neham, Charles Schwartz, Mary Catherine Stewart.
Vernon Gregory will receive a degree in bachelor of science.
Candidates for bachelor of science in education are: Charlotte Anderson, Elizabeth Born, Bess Brown, Dorothy Lee Brown, Farise Fuller, lone Gwin, Marion Hall, Elizabeth Hawkins, Bella Hochberger, Nettie Jones, Naomi Keast, Paula Lingg, Arthur Messier, Mary E. Patterson, Frances Tatum, Vera Suggs.
Candidates for bachelor of science in business administration are: James Bartlett, Sadie Butts, Betty Davis, Curtis Ferrill, Seldon Goldstein, Richard Hiss, William Jawter, Alfred Lane, Inez Manning, Lawrence Ropes, Lillian Rossesr, Paul Wilensky, Peter Winegar, Verdun Arries.
William Kelley and David Phillips are candidates for bachelor of laws degree.
Oley Dietz and Ignatius Edwards will receive degree for bachelor of music in education.
IFC REPROVES ‘PLAYMAKERS’
Unanimously passing a resolution expressing disapproval of the name “Florida Playmakers” as the name of the University’s dramatic organization, the Interfraternity Council met last Thursday at the Lambda Chi house. For the rest of the year, meetings will rotate umong the fraternity houses and will be held every Thursday at 7:30.
Bob Hart, Pi Kappa Alpha, was chosen to make tentative plans for an Interfraternity Ball which the Council plans to hold next semester. Further plans for the Campus Beautification Project were discussed.
THEATRE PARTY PLANNED
Plans for a future theatre party were discussed at the French club meeting yesterday in the Cardroom of the Administration building at 3:30.
Yesterday’s program included the singing of French Christmas carols and the continuation of the reading of the play, “Tovarich.”
“Maidens” Tryouts Are Today, Friday
An all-girl cast will be selected in preliminary tryouts for “Maidens in Uniform” to be held in the theatre today and tomorrow at 2:30 p.m.
Mrs. Opal Euard Motter, instructor in the drama department, will direct the play, the third in the series of major productions of the Florida Playmakers presented this year.
February 5, 6, and 7 will be the production dates of the play, which has been produced as a movie under the name of “Maedchen in Uniform” und, originally, in German, as “Ges-tern and Heute.” Written by Christa Winslowe, the drama has 32 parts for women.
LIBRARY TO BE OPEN
During the Christmas holidays, the library will be open each day from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., except on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
Faculty Roast Selves in own Coals At Annual Dinner Despite Lost Claus
For a while Saturday night the faculty were afraid they were never going to eat the annual faculty dinner. One hundred and seventy-five ravenous people waited and waited. They got hungrier and hungrier. Finally Dr. Ashe arrived and the feast officially started.
Eventually, as at all banquets, the speakers of the evening took over. George E. Merrick, University tru9-+"
tee, reminisced about the University in the period B.A. (before Ashe). Dean Bertha Foster of the Music school said her piece. Then Dr. Ashe, according to one who was present said a “few very nice words.”
Everything buzzed right along until the faculty found out there wasn’t going to be any Santa Claus. A wail went up from the mass. When order was restored it was explained that the Santa Claus suit which has been in service for many years finally wore out. Anyway Mr. Mason, who is the perennial Santa, has lost so much weight he’s no longer convincing in that role.
Sydney Head with the aid of one of his radio students, Aaron Barken, cooked up a skit, designed on radio lines, that roasted the faculty. There follows some of the more choice samples of the gag work: Doc “Cole Slaw” was announced as a speaker, then just pure static for a few moments. The scene is laid before a log cabin where Frederick Koch, Jr. is basking. His mother says, “Look, this letter sez you’ve been accepted
by the University of Miami and are on the faculty.” Replied Fred, Jr., “Jest roll me over, ma and put it in my back pocket.” Then there was this one: “Harry Provin, registrar will accept any student who will just tear off the top of his high school principal and send him in. All students graduated are stamped with the seal of approval of the G.H.I.” (Well, it isn’t our fault—anyway the faculty laughed at it.)
Santy or no St. Nick everyone present received a gift. Said L. Gaston Leary in a droopy voice, “Some people got nice things — horns and drums. All I got was a darn little rubber ball that I brought for an extra-just-in-case.” According to reports one extremely clean woman received a cake of soap. Dr. Olney hooked a bottle of hair restorer. Dr. Saslaw (of all people) snagged a muffler.
After caroling and tnlking small talk the faculty trotted home with their little presents and the cheering thought that there were only six shopping days until pay check.