Miami Hurricane, March 16, 1945

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HURRICANE
Vol. XIX
Coral Gables, Florida, March 16, 1945
No. 16
Invitational Rush Parties Planned For Next Week
Invitational sorority parties each afternoon from 4 to 6 will begin Monday, marking the .opening of formal rush week. Girls who have paid the rush fee have been asked to call for their invitations today through Monday in Mrs. Ellis Sloan’s office in the San Sebastian building.
Kappa Kappa Gamma will entertain rushees at a swimming ”	‘	party Monday at the home of Dr.
Fraternities Scheduled For Ibis Pictures
The following schedule has been set for Ibis pictures:
Today—Sigma Alpha Iota Monday—Phi Epsilon Pi Tuesday—Sigma Chi Wednesday—Kappa Sigma Thursday—Lambda Chi Alpha Friday—Tau Epsilon Phi Monday, March 2 0—Pi Kappa
Alpha
Tuesday, March 27—RAR (Law
Fraternity)
Photographs are being made at Mileo s, 2103 Ponce de Leon blvd. in the afternoon from 1 to 5. Each person pays $1 at the time of the sitting. Any who are so qualified have been asked to have junior and senior pictures made while they are at the studio.
Junior girls may wear whatever they wish, and civilian junior boys must wear coats and ties. Seniors will be photographed in gowns. There is no charge for class photos.
Pictures for the beauty section are to be mailed March 20 to John Powers, who is to select the six which will appear on full pages in the book. The entrance fees are due no later than that date. Additional entries are Betty Passmore and Louise Maroon by Lambda Chi Alpha.
Hurricane Style To Be Discussed
Hurricane style will be the subject of the lecture by Simon Hoch-berger, assistant professor of journalism, when he addresses the Hurricane reporting class, sponsored by the editorial staff of the paper, in room 337 at 2:30 today. Students interested in becoming reporters for the Hurricane have been asked to attend.
Last week’s class was devoted to a lecture of preparation of copy. Students who were unable to attend the class have been asked to sign the paper posted on the bulletin board in the Hurricane office, room 221. Arrangements will be made to instruct.those who have regular academic classes off Fridays at 2:30 p.m. on news writing, Hurricane style, and preparation of copy.
Reporters will be chosen by the editorial staff fronK members of this class who submit a sufficient amount of satisfactory copy. Students who have had journalism courses are also asked to attend the classes on copy preparation and style. Staff appointments will oe announced at a later date.
Students who reported last trimester have been asked to notify Margaret Blue today in the Hurricane office if they wish to report
.the third trimester. Assignments jrUl be posted Monday for members of the reporting class and other students who have contacted Margaret Blue.
and Mrs. Bowman F. Ashe, 2475 S. Bayshore drive, Miami. On Tuesday Chi Omega will entertain with a tea at the home of Miss Marian Hasty, 1203 Asturia ave., Coral Gables. Alpha Epsilon Phi will also give its party on Tuesday. The affair, which will follow a George Washington theme, will be held at the home of Mrs. Sam Goldman, 1775 S. W. 16th ave., Miami.
Night Club Party
A night club party will be given by Sigma Kappa on Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Edward T. J. Parkinson, 741 N. Greenway drive, Coral Gables. Delta Zeta will hold a Mexican fiesta Thursday at 3116 Alhambra circle, the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Oeh’er.
Delta Phi Epsilon will also entertain on Thursday with an open house in their sorority room, 223, in the San Sebastian. On Friday a “Gay Nineties'-’ party will be given by Zeta Tau Alpha at the home of Mrs. Richard H. Shad-dick, 645 Alhambra circle. Coral Gables.
Invitations Deadline
Today noon has been set as the deadline for Chi Omega and Alpha Epsilon Phi invitations to be turned in to Mrs. Sloan. Kappa Kappa Gamma invitations were submitted yesterday, and all other sorority invitations are due Monday noon.
All sororities will deposit their preferential lists in Mrs. Sloan’s office by 9:30 p.m., Friday. Each rushee may obtain and fill out her preference blank in room 341 of the main building on Saturday at 9 a.m. Rushees may obtain their bids in the same room at noon Saturday. Silence between rushees and sorority girls will be observed between Friday at 7 p. m. and Saturday noon. Mrs. Joseph E. McClain will serve as the Panhellenic executive for rush week.
St. Patrick's Dance Starts Ball Rolling
A St. Patrick’s day dance under the joint sponsorship of Hil-lel, the Newman club, YMCA, and YWCA, will be held in room H, March 17 at 8:00 p.m.
Admission is $.50, stag or drag: all students have been invited. Refreshments will be served and recordings will provide music for dancing. Dt. and Mrs. H. Franklin Williams, Dr. Harold E. Briggs, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ryd-man will chaperon the affair.
Joint-sponsored dances will be held every two weeks if this dance proves successful. Proceeds will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.
Sigma Alpha Iota Elects Officers
Sigma Alpha Iota, national music fraternity, elected new officers for this trimester Tuesday night. They are: Betty Ray Durham, president; Margaret Ann Turner, vice-president; Mary Jean Fannin, corresponding secretary; Betty Mueller, recording secretary; and Jean Rascoe, chaplain.
The fraternity meets on Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m.
APO Book Deadline Set For March 21
All students who have left book* with the A. P. O. bookstore and have not collected their money or books, have been asked to do so before Wednesday, March 21. After this time the books will be given to the library.
Panhellenic Sets Workshop For April 10
Panhellenic Workshop, an annual project of inter-sorority discussion sponsored by the Panhellenic council, was scheduled for April 10 at the meeting of the council this week. Chairman of the planning committee for the Workshop is Flo Burstein, and members »f her committee are Virginia Fprbes Lovestrand and Dorothy Jsfferson.
The main speaker, who will be announced later, will address sorority girls in the theater from 4:30 to 5 p.m. Sorority subjects of general interest will be the topics for discussion groups from 5 to 5:45 p.m. Special officers’ discussion groups will be conducted from 5:45 to 6:30 p.m.
Miss Mary B. Merritt, faculty adviser of the Panhellenic council, the main speaker, sorority officers, and other sorority girls who make reservations will attend a dinner from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Further details concerning the Workshop will be announced later.
MBS Announces New Lecture Series
“Commercial Aspects of Natural Sciences in South Florida’’ will be the subject of a group of lectures sponsored by Mu Beta Sigma, honorary zoology and botany fraternity. This new topic was announced after a meeting of the society Tuesday.
The group’s tentative project for this trimester is the care and collection of museum pieces which will be gathered during field trips. Two such trips are being planned, a deep sea diving trip and a land trip. Members will classify and label specimens and place them on display.
Meetings for the third trimester will be held Tuesdays in room 132 at 12:30 p.m. Speakers will be featured every other Tuesday, and on alternate Tuesdays, there will be business meetings. At the business meeting next Tuesday, (Continued on Page Four)
University Vets To Have Dinner
A dinner for the University of Miami Veterans will be held on Thursday, March 22, at the Barcelona restaurant on Ponce de Leon Blvd., announced John Cullen, president of the association. All student-veterans who desire to attend this dinner have been asked to sign the roster in room 266 before Monday.
President Cullen stated that there has been an increase in membership due to the new student-veterans who joined at the first meeting held on Tuesday. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, at 11:30 a. m,, in room 266.____________
Groups Asked To Schedule Affair On Social Calendar
Organizations have been asked to schedule their functions one week in advance of the date on the social calendar in Mrs* Ellis Sloan’s office in the San Sebastian building. Events not scheduled on the calendar will not appear in the Hurricane.
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Classes Elect Officers; Freshmen Vote Monday
Class elections were held yesterday by the senior, junior and sophomore classes and the freshman class made nominations. The freshman class elections will be held Monday in front of
the theater.
Senior class officers are: president, Jane Mack; vice president, Flo Burstein; secretary, Sari Jane Blinn; treasurer, Betty Burns; and senators; Mary Gene Lambert, Barbara Browne, and Louise Mar-roon.
Those elected to head the junior class are: president, Mark Brown; vice president, Phyllis Maguire; secretary, Jack Feinstein; treasurer, Frances Anderson; and senators, Carol Lee Turner, Genevieve Lynch, and John Harlow.
Sophomore class officers are: president, Bob High; vice president, Bob Harrell; secretary, Bill Gundlach; treasurer, Alba Mero; and senators, Bob Carter, Bob Guthrie, and Jim Hawley.
Freshman Nominations
Nominated for president of the freshman class are: Soule Day, Elliot Wollman, Melvyn Lee Starr, John Amos, Keith MacVicar, and Mary Jo Smith.
Up for vice president are: Jack Ruffing, Richard Rice, Myron Klarfeld, Tillie Corbley, and Florence Keathley.
Nominations for treasurer include: Mike Ireland, Ruth Lane, Carita Ross, Chuck Berndt, Peggy O’Brien, and Hope Tannenbaum.
Up for senators are: John Trimble, Tula Carter, Don Gray, Nessa Gittleman, Bill Schwartzman, Don Hassler, and Jerry Schwartz; also, Abe Saltzman, Carrel Johnspn, Herb Fisher, Robert Slatko, Margaret Ann Turner, and Supe Suposa.
Annette Jones will continue as secretary.
Sophomore Advisory Council
Members of the sophomore advisory council include: Alba Mero, Jean Parker, Libby Birt, Eleanor McConnell, Mary Elizabeth Orr, Bobbye McCahill, Muriel Beepes, and Martha Nell Pugh.
$20,000Given To University
An additional 'gift of $20,000 to the University was announced recently by University officials. The donation was made by Mr. Emil Schwarzhaupt, a winter visitor who resides in New York and Chicago.
Mr. Schwarzhaupt indicated that $10,000 be applied to the expansion movement and $10,000 be allocated for a social science research objective. This gift brings the total of the expansion movement to more than $400,000. Twenty-one $10,000 gifts have been presented to the University up to the present time.
Details relative to the undertaking in the field of social science will be announced later.
Muller To Address IRC On Switzerland
“Switzerland, Center of Internationalism” is to be the subject of a talk by Leonard R. fuller, associate professor of French and Spanish, when he addresses the International Relations club Wednesday night at 7:30 in room 333. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, he spent much of his early life there and in Paris.
New books from the Carnegie foundation arrived at the University library recently and are now at the disposal of IRC members. Also available to members are summary reviews of current events, which are received by the library every two weeks from the foundation. These publications are available to students who are not members of the club for use in the library.
"Charley's Aunt” Exhumed; Reviewer Queries Why?
Aside from the question of why they dug up Charley's Aunt ' at all, it’s fifty years too late to debate about its merits as a play, and the amateurish production here last week by the University Play makers is not even debatable. However, the audience was in a generous mood and received the farce with more than a
few laughs.
The first act spent ten minutes wobbling in the hazy direction of the first laugh, and would have profited greatly from a wholesale use of thq blue-pencil. Furthermore, at least half a dozen senseless bits of business, mostly slapstick, such as the shoelace mix-up and the pouring of the tea in a top hat, were interpolated at the expense of the pace of the production. This adds up to something less than perfect direction.
Irwin Kiman, in the title role, saved the show with his delightful pantomiming, raucous voice, and judicious sense of timing. He is a true comedian. Owen Bullock was adequate as the combination villian and romantically-inclined old bachelor, but he stumbled around the’ stage as if he had one drink too many. The butler, played by Bill Martin, had only a couple of chances to show hi3 stuff, and he appeared to know what he was doing. The dual role
of actor and director was taken by Colin Drake, who acted a little better than he directed.
As for the rest of the acting it was very collegiate and very dramatic. Soule Day would rate about a B—in an elementary drama course for his performance. He was best in his romantic scenes with Carita Ross, who decorated the stage beautifully. Raveena Monheit must have been coached to talk in a high, dizzy-blonde sort of voice; if so, she followed her coaching too well. Elaine Fry was pretty, but this was not sufficient to take the mind of the audience enirely off the fact that she repeated her lines by rote. The maid, Mickey Colum, didn’t have a chance in her bit part, but spoke her five or six lines creditably.
Jack Ruffley, who had only a week’s rehearsal for the role of Charley, made sure he could be heard in the back row by shouting (Continued on Page Six)