Miami Hurricane, January 12, 1945

              City Planner Is Next Institute Speaker
Clarence Stein, architect and city planner, will address Miamians Monday night as the second speaker of the 1945 Winter Institute of Arts and Sciences. His talk on “The Form of Future Cities” will be given in the Miami Senior high school auditorium, 8:15 p.m.
Mr. Stein’s Mondays lecture and his conference to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons in the theater at 3:30 will be focal points of Dade County Planning Week. During this time, postwar planning activities of the Dade county area will be co-ordinated.
An international authority on architecture, Mr. Stein believes that the life of a community and its government should be integrated with its physical form.
John Erskine, first Winter Institute speaker and resident director of the series, said that he felf Mr. Stein would emphasize in his talk that a city ought to be an expression of the people who live in it.
Mr. Stein is best known for his design of large housing developments and towns. For his pioneer work in community planning, he has received many awards, the most recent in 1941. This award was the Medal of Honor of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects “for distinguished work and high professional standing, particularly in the field of low-cost housing.”
Mr. Stein is convinced that there is a “tragic shortage of adequate housing” and that the country is ripe for tremendous expansion in this field.
Included iq the public and civic activities of Mr. Stein is his work done as secretary of the Committee on Housing of the Reconstruction commission of New York state in 1920 when he wrote the first constructive housing program under governmental leadership. He was advisor to the late Gov. Alfred E. Smith as chairman of the Commission of Housing and Regional Planning.
Clarence Stein, noted New York architect and city planner, will fill the position of second speaker for this year’s Winter Institute of Arts and Sciences. His main talk, "The Form of Future Cities,” will be given Monday, 8:15 p.m., in the Miami Senior high school auditorium. His talks will be a featured part of Dade County Planning Week, Jan. 15-20.
Mr. Stein served as chairman of the Committee on Community Planning for the American Institute of Architects from 1912 to 1924. Vice-president of the International Garden Cities and Town Planning federation in 1924, he was also a member of the executive committee of the International Federation for Housing and Town Planning from 1925 to 1937.
THE MIAMI
HURRICANE
Vol. XIX
Coral Gables, Florida, January 12, 1945
No. 9
John Erskine Recommends Cold Shoulder For Isolation
Ivory Tower isolation is on the way out as a result of a new wave of self-criticism going through education, Author John Erskine feels. He expressed this opinion Tuesday night when he opened the twelfth annual Winter Institute of Arts and Sciences with his talk on “No Ivory Tower” at the Miami Senior high school auditorium.
U. Playmakers To Celebrate Twelfth Night
An* hour floor show, featuring a marionette act, imitations, musical numbers, a id exhibition dancing, has been billed for the “Twelfth Night Revels,” University Playmakers production to be given tomorrow night, 8:30 p.m. in the Ring theater.
The show, to which all students of drama and speech and those who participated in recent University productions have been invited, will be followed by dancing. Music for the dancing will be under the direction of Bob Vaughn.
Chairman Richard Hittleman has announced the following jfro-gram: Virginia Irwin, popular songs; Colin Drake, marionette act; Elliot Wollman, imitations of Danny Kaye; Si and Edith, folk dancing; a girls trio; Phil Edel-man and Melvin Michaels, a skit on Pinocchio; Arthur Barron, ac-cordian; Alice Cook, tap dance; Bob Serota and Richard Hittleman, a novelty act; Alvin Schwartz, impersonations; and Jane Mack, Spanish dance.
Assisting the chairman with the arrangements are Bob Serota, Melvin Michaels, Arthur Barron, and Phil Edelman.
The party is being given in keeping with an old English custom of celebrating the twelfth night after Christmas.
Westminster Club To Have Speaker
Caroline Hunter, president of the Westminister foundation, has announced that Dr. Nevin H. Schaaff, pastor of the Coral Gables Presbyterian church, will be the first speaker to address the group this year.
AH Presbyterian students are »eked to attend this meeting, Monday, 12:45 p.m., in room 307.
“Education should be in life,*' the speaker emphasized. “Any subject in the curriculum is worth studying if it has an approach to
life.”
It is the problem of the student, Mr. Erskine suggested, to see what knowledge we have in different fields, how far those fields are integrated, and what is the central approach of them all.
“The man in the Ivory Tower may be anybody who thinks he is superior to others and thinks he is dedicating himself to his ideals by withholding himself from life,” he said, pointing out that people are afraid to trust themselves to life.
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Playmakers To Give "Charlie’s Aunt”
Tryouts for “Charlie’s Aunt” will be held in the Ring theater Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 15 and 16, at 3:30 p.m. There are parts for seven men and four women. The tryouts are open to the general public and students. A script is available in the library.
“Charlie’s Aunt” is being sponsored by the University Playmakers and will be directed by Colin Drake. It is -expected to open about the third week in February and will run four nights a week for six weeks.
Christian Science To Have Speaker
First speaker of the Christian Science group on this campus will be Peter B. Biggins, who will speak in the University theater Fob. 1, 8 p.m. The lecture is open to the entire student body and faculty.
Mr. Biggins is fiom Seattle, Wash. He is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.
Newly elected officers of the organization are: Georgeanna Har-beson, president; Virginia Cunningham, vice president; and Betty Jane Oehler, secretary. Mrs. Marie Volpe is the group sponsor.
'Cry Havoc' Tickets Available At Box-Office
Student tickets for “Cry Havoc,” presentation of the Miami Playmakers scheduled for Jan. *18, 19, and 20, may be picked up any time at the box-office upon presentation of the student’s registration card.
'Campus Wolf To Be Star Of YWCA Dance
Voting for the “Campus Wolf/’ who will be honor guest at the Y.W.C.A. Spinster’s Stomp tonight will continue today in the slop shop until 1:30 p.m., Bobbie McCahill, chairman, has announced. The annual Y.W. dance will begin at 8:30 p.m. tonight in room H and will last until midnight.
Competing-for the title of favorite wolf are ten boys nominated by fraternities, sororities, and other campus organizations. They are: Bob Carter, nominated by Delta Zeta; Hal Goldstein, Tau Epsilon Phi; Jim Burnham, Kappa Sigma; Soule Day, Zeta Tau Alpha; Dave Duchini, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Lee Faires, Canterbury club; Pug Pinckney, Chi Omega; Frank Scruby, Pi Kappa Alpha; Paul Skelton, Sigma Chi; and Ed Szymansky, Independent girls.
Alice Cook, elected “Our Girl” during the summer trimester, will crown the “Campus Wolf.”
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Carroll Glenn To Play With Symphony Sunday
New Alumni Office Set Up In Room 211
A new alumni office has been installed in the main building, room 211, and will be devoted to keeping records of former University students.
The office will also be used as a reception room where old students visiting the University may register.
The administration has asked that any information concerning former students, such as married name, change of address, additions to the family, or deaths, be turned in to the Alumni office.
Senate Halts Investigation
Investigation of a petition submitted to the Senate for the impeachment of James Pilafian, chief justice, has been stopped, President Dick Farrior stated.
No action will be taken.
Included in the program will be the Overture “Egmont” by Ludwig von Beethoven. The “Egmont” music was written to Goethe’s play of the same name. It was first performed with the play at the Hoffburg theater, Vienna in 1810. The story of the play follows the historical figure of the Count of Egmont, a Flemish nobleman. He opposed the government which Philip tried to establish in the Netherlands and became associated with William of Orange in his struggle for the liberation of that country. Because of a treacherous conspiracy enacted by the Duke of Alva, Egmont was captured and executed in 1567. The overture portrays a nation in distress. Egmont goes forth to meet the oppressors. The people are horrified when he is killed and their wrath bursts forth anew because of the martyrdom of their hero. Triumphal sounds of victory announce the fall of the tyrant.
Following the Overture “Egmont,” will be Franz Shubert s well known “Unfinished Symphony.” The symphony was found many years after his death in an old pile of manuscripts. It is eer-(Continuod on Page Four)
Carroll Glenn, violinist, will appear as guest artist of the University of Miami Symphony Concert to be conducted by Dr. Modeste Alloo Sunday afternoon.
Miss Glenn will play Henri Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 4 in D Minor. One critic says that Vieuxtemps’ fourth concerto is filled with dramatic intensity and daring virtuousity, and that its effectiveness is unequalled.
Kurenko, Soprano, Will Sing Jan. 21
Madame Maria Kurenko, Russian soprano of stage and radio, will include a selection written by Franklin Harris, publicity director for the University and former piano instructor, in her concert at the Miami Senior high school auditorium, Jan. 21, at 4:30 p.m.
“My husband always admired Mr. Harris and considered him a gifted composer,” says Mrs. Arnold Volpe, “but Mr. Harris is too modest.”
It was necessary for Mrs. Volpe to borrow a copy of the selection, “Tears/’ which Mme. Kurenko will sing, because Mr. Harris does not have a copy of any song he has ever written.
A review in the Chicago Sun stated, “I do not believe it an exaggeration to call Mme. Kurenko a great singer. Few voices are so lovely to begin with, and even fewer are used with such dazzling, apparently effortless skill.”
Mme. Kurenko, who will be ac-(C on tinned on Page Four)