Miami Hurricane, February 06, 1941

              The Miami
Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF M 1 A M I,
Volume XIV
Coral Gables, Florida, February 6, 1941
Number 17
Winter Institute Opens Monday
Mary Ellen Chase Is First Lecturer of Series
Girls in Uniform9 Starts Tonight at 8:30
“Girls in Uniform.” third major dramatic presentation of the Florida Playmakers of the University, will open in the University Theatre tonight at 8:30. Performances will be repeated Friday and Saturday nights.
Directed by Mrs. Opal Euard Motter, the play is distinguished not only by its cast of 32 girls, but
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its nine changes of scenery. Six different sets have been designed by Charles W. Philhour, technical director.
“Girls in Uniform” is the story of life in a strict Prussian girls’ school. First a play, emphasizing the struggle between old and new Germany, then a controversial film concentrating attention on a psychological study of adolescence, the story has been recognized for its powerful development of mood and atmosphere.
The cast includes Mary Louise (Continued on Page Five)
Miami’s Hurricane eager« won their fifth consecutive game last night, defeating the Rollins Tars in Winter Park by a 45*35 score. Dick Tucker was high scorer for the game, with six field goals and one foul shot. Tom Hilbish and Red Tobin accounted for 10 points each, while for Rollins, Jones and Phillips had 11 and 9 points, respectively. The Tars never came close to the fast* moving Morrismen, trailing 15-20 at the half.
Famed Baritone, Igor Gorin, Will Sing With University Orchestra Monday Night
Igor Gorin, baritone, will be the soloist 'with the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra at its third subscription concert of the season at the Miami Senior High School Monday evening.
Gorin has, in the space of three seasons, become a star "hr"Táürti, the movies, and the concert stage. He appeared in “The Broadway Melody of 1938” and sang for over 100 weeks on the “Hollywood Hotel” program. On his first American concert tour, he was acclaimed as “The Prince of Baritones” and “The singing actor for whom this generation has been waiting.”
The orchestra, under the direction of John Bitter, will undertake its most ambitious program to date. The selections will consist of Wagner’s overture to “Die Meis-tersinger,” Rabaud’s “Procession Nocturne,” and Richard Strauss’ “Don Juan.”
Accompanied by the orchestra, Gorin will sing the Prologue from Pagliacci” by Leoncavallo, “Over the Steppe” by Gretchaninoff, “Hopak” by Moussorgsky, and his own “Caucasian Melody.”
Debaters Open 1941 Season Against Penn
Varsity debaters Irving Lebo-witz and Stewart LaMotte will open the 1941 forensic season tonight at 8:00 in the card room of the Administration Building, upholding the affirmative side of the question “Resolved: that the nations of the Western Hemisphere should enter into a permanent union” against a University of Pennsylvania team. ,
Tomorrow night, Lebowitz and LaMotte again debate, this time against a touring debate team from Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111. They will uphold the affirmative side of the same question, which is the Pi Kappa Delta forensic topic for 1941, and the arguments will take place at the same time and same place. Wheaton, which is located 25 miles west of Chicago, is sending an experienced, all-senior team on this Southern invasion which has faced or will face every major debate squad in the state of Florida.
Dr. Victor Andres Belaunde,
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Igor Gorin, famed baritone, sings with the orchestra Monday night.—News cut.
Senior Committee Members Named
Terry Fox, senior class president, yesterday named five important senior committees which will have charge of activities of the class of ’41. A meeting of the class and committees will be held next Thursday in the Theatre at 10:30 a.m.
The Class Day committee consists of Virginia Allen, Catherine Hefinger, Justine Rainey, Clarice Schnatterbeck, Pat Overbaugh, Florence Geschwind, Becky Parham, Dave Gay, Don Bleeke, Tom Hilbish, John Lipscomb, Gene Cohn, James Goeser, Sid Kline, Ted Jackson, Lucille Lefkowitz, Dorothy Ashe, Maria Dominguez, Irv Lebowitz, and Seymour Simon.
Berthe Neham, class poet, Lloyd White, writer of the will, and Seymour Simon, statistician, form a sub-Class Day committee.
Gift committee includes Betty Lou Baker, John Lipscomb, Catherine Hefinger, Betsy Moore, Ber-
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Ibis Group Photo Schedule Set
Group pictures of organizations for the Ibis are scheduled to be taken from Monday, Feb. 17 through Tuesday, Feb. 25. Except for freshman and sophomore class pictures, which will be made in the patio, all photographs will be taken in the social hall, room 235, Main Building.
The complete schedule for organization pictures is: Monday, Feb. 17: Chemical Society, 12:30; Debate Council, 12:50; German Club, 1:10; Tuesday. Feb. 18: English Honors Society, 10:30; Iron Arrow, 10:50; Lead and Ink, 11:10; Nu Kappa Tau, 12:30; Spanish Club, 12:50; Wednesday, Feb. 19; Snarks, 12:30; Theta Alpha Phi, 12:50; Cercle Française, 1:10; Thursday, Feb. 20: Newman Club, 10:30; Methodist Student Organization, 10:50; Commerce Club, 11:10;	Y.M.C.A.,
12:30; Y.W.C.A., 12:50; Alpha Phi Omega, 1:10; Friday, Feb. 21: I.R.C., 12:30; Sophomore Class, (Continued on Page Five)
Novelist Will Speak To English Honors
Famous novelist and Winter Institute speaker Mary Ellen Chase will present an informal talk on Contemporary Fiction” before the English Honors Society at its meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 2:30.
The meeting, which will not be open to non-members, will be held in the Card room of the Administration Building.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Student activity books will not be given out in time to be used for tonight’s play or Monday’s concert, Everett Liner, University auditor, announced yesterday, but second semester registration cards will be honored at both doors. Books will be given out next week.
Mary Ellen Chase will open the ninth annual Winter Institute of Literature next Monday afternoon in the Theatre, Main building, at 2:30 p.m. The three-week seminar will continue through Friday evening, February 28.
Miss chase is a noted educator and writer, who has taught at the
University of Minnesota, and is-1 • now professor of English literature at Smith college, Northhampton, Mass. She has written many novels, including “Mary Peters,”
Students registered for Winter Institute, English 400, are requested to call for attendance cards at the office of the Director of the Institute, Walter Scott Mason, 120 Administratiin building, by Saturday noon. It was previously announced that they would be distributed at the door.
and “Silas Crockett,” and among her non-fiction works are “The Art of Narration” and “Thomas Hardy from Serial to Novel.” With the exception of Wednes-(Continued on Page Five)
Kaltenborn Directs Radio; Adaptation Series Planned
Radio adaptations of short stories written by Winter Institute speakers will be presented in a special short series of weekly programs under the auspices of the Radio Workshop, beginning on Tuesday at 2:15 on WIOD. Programs of the Radio Workshop class, presented on Thursdays at 2:15, will be directed by Rolf Kaltenborn, author and lecturer on radio who will teach the University’s radio class.
The first program in the Winter Institute series will be an adaptation of “OK Toots,” by Eustace L. Adams. The adaptation for the show, which will be directed by Sidney Head, was made by Marianna Taylor.
“Contentment” will be the
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Campus Calendar
Thursday, Feb. 6—“Girls in Uniform,” Theatre, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 — “Girls in Uniform,” Theatre, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8—Pi Kappa Alpha Buffet supper and dance, House, 8:30-1:00.
Sigma Kappa- Bridge, Antilla Hotel, 2:30-5:00.
Episcopal Student League, Social Hall, 5:30-7:30.
“Girls in Uniform,” Theatre, 8:30.
Sunday, Feb. 9 — Reception for symphony artists, lounge and card room, 5-7. Y.M.C.A.-Y.W.C.A. Vespers, card room 5-5:30.
Musical, lounge, 5:00.
Monday, Feb. 10 — Winter Institute, Theatre, 2:30.
University of Miami Symphony Orchestra concert, Miami High, 9:30.
Tuesday, Feb. 11 — Women Student’s Association, Theatre, 10:30.
Winter Institute, Theatre. 8:30. English Honors Society, card room, 2:30.
Wednesday. Feb. 12—Winter Institute, Theatre, 2:30 and 8:30. Debate Council, assembly room, 7:30.
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Mary Ellen Chase, first speaker in the University’s Winter Institute of Literature.—Herald cut.
University Pilots Unable to Join "Civil Air Arm"
Humes Lasher, junior, and James “Scotty” McLachlan, alumnus. have returned to the United States after an unsuccessful attempt to join the “civilian air arm” of the Canadian Royal Air Force. Tom Schepis, alumnus, who also went to ferry planes to Britain, has joined the Canadian army.
Captain Errol Boyd, information agent for Clayton-Knight committee and Aid-to-Britain group, made the arrangements and thought the boys had sufficient training. They had 100 hours flying time and 300 is the minimum qualification for ferrying planes.
Schepis joined the Canadian army and is being trained for instructor’s rating. He is on call for service for the duration of the war. MacLachlan arrived in Miami last week. Lasher, now in Pittsburgh, is expected to return to school.
'41 Prom Tickets Go on Sale Today
Junior Prom tickets are now on sale in the Ibis office, Room 325, from 1:30 to 3:30 every afternoon, chairman Marvin Goldman announced last night. Prices are $3.30 a couple and $2.20 stag.
A list of seniors eligible for free tickets to the prom will be posted on school bulletin boards early next week after the prom committee has met with Administration officials to make final decisions.
NEXT PLAY TRYOUTS SET
Tryouts for the play, “She Stoops to Conquer” by Oliver Goldsmith, will be held on Monday afternoon at 2:30 in Room 233 and on Tuesday afteroon at 2:30 in the theatre.