Miami Hurricane, December 04, 1931

              The Miami © Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Vol. 6	__________________Coral Gables. Miami, Florida, December 4, 1931	'	No. 10
BIG GAME OF YEAR LOOMS TONIGHT
William J. Kopp, Former Cincinnati Conductor, Will Lead U. Symphony
STUDENT writers ELECT OFFICERS
Orfiaiution Will Publiait U .of Miami's First Literary Magazine
The Student Writers Guild met Saturday evening by special invitation at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
G. F. Newburger, 1217 Granada Boulevard, Coral Gables. There was a short business session at which the officers, who were elected list Tuesday evening, took office.
At the Tuesday evening meeting, which was held in the mezzanine room of the Everglades Hotel the following officers were elected: President, William Mabrey, Vice-President, Jean David; Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude Hardeman; Treas-urer, Clifton Treasure.
The Editorial committee, which will have charge of the publication of the Guilds magazine, Blue Sky consists of: Maynard Kniskern, Chairman, A1 de Bedts, Isador N'eham, Thelma Yeuell, and Ed Paxton. Business manager of the magazine and chairman of the business committee is Harold Humm. Already appointed to the business committee is John Allen, who will serve as advertising manager. Other appointments are pending. Mrs. L. C. Olsen is chairman of the house committee and Miss Pauline Coleman is chairman of the membership committee.
The meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Newburger was featured by an interesting literary and musical program. Mrs. Henry Salem Hubbell read a group of her poems and Mr. Newburger read several selections from one of his books.

Mrs. Otto Juel Jorgensen, a concert pianist of note who is visiting in Miami rendered selections ; from Liszt and Chopin. Dr. Orton ' Lowe of the University faculty and Don Henshaw spoke briefly to the | Guild. Mrs. Clarke read “Pap’s Birthday Present” a short story! written by Joseph Fennell of Homestead, one of her most prom-1 ising pupils.
Science Depts. To Give Program Thru Air Class
The classroom of the air, broad-1 casting daily over WIOD from the University studios has announced the following program for the week of Dec. 7: Dr. Zook, repre-senting the zoological department, will have charge Monday. Tuesday and Thursday there will be a mus-ical appreciation program. Dr. Lowe’s students will present an original program of poetry Friday. Saturday the conservatory of music will offer a special program.
The Botany Department has arranged a program under Dr. Gilbert for Wednesday. Dr. John C. Gifford, representing the department, will speak on the “Romance
a Mangrove”. This talk follows t*° Je»y interesting programs on the Romance of Mahogany” and ■The Romance of the Coco Palm”.
• Gifford is a noted authority in t e study and practice of tropical orestry and is «now associated with the University faculty as a ecturer in the department of late «ternoon classes.
Leave of Absence Granted To Volpe; Will Return Here Next Year
William J. Kopp, formerly assistant director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and well! known in the field of music, has been named successor to Arnold Volpe as conductor of the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra for the 1932 season, Dr. B. F. Ashe I announced.
Mr. Volpe, associated with the university for the past five years, and who just concluded one of the most successful seasons in the orchestra’s history, has been granted a year’s leave of absence to conduct a series of concerts at Kansas City, Missouri. He will return next year.
Mr. Kopp brings to his new post many years of work as conductor of other organizations and a broad and extensive background. He has achieved an enviable reputation through his work with the famous Cincinnati symphony as a conductor of fine technique and sensitive appreciation.
As director of university choruses, the university concert orchestra, and other musical groups, Mr. Kopp has been associated with the University of Miami for three years.
Mr. Kopp is noted for his attention to modern music and the modern school, his flair for conducting music of the lighter variety, and the great diversity of his programs. As conductor of the Cincinnati orchestra, he formed his programs with a view to the weather, holding that audiences reacted to certain pieces better according to the time of year. He is also known as having ar.anged a different program for every day of a four week period without a single repetition.
Mr. Kopp was for many years first trumpet of the Cincinnati or- j chestra as well as assistant conductor, broadcasting many concerts over WLW with distinct success. He is also a composer of note, having composed numerous delightful waltzes, marches, and concert numbers.
The University of Miami, with Mr. Kopp as conductor, is scheduled for a series of eight concerts in the Miami High School auditorium. They will be presented on alternate Sundays, beginning Jan. 3.
JUNIOR SYMPHONY PRESENTS PROGRAM
On Thanksgiving night the Junior Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Walter Gross-man, gave a concert at the Coral Gables Elementary School. It was given as a part of the Progress Week celebration of Coral Gables. The numbers were:
Suite from “Sigurd Jorsalfar”, Grieg; Concerto for Violincello in A Minor, First and Second movements, Goltermann; Unfinished Symphony, (a) Allegro moderato, (b) Andante con moto, by Shubert; I Overture “Orpheus In The Underworld”, Offenbach.
All of these numbers were well rendered,¡the Unfinished Symphony and the Orpheus Overture deserv-(Connnutd on Page Two)
C. Douglas Booth
DOUGLAS BOOTH TO SPEAK AT U. of M.
C. Douglas Booth, traveler and authority on Balkan affairs, will address the International Relations Club here in the university either on Dec. 11 or Dec. 15.
The subject of Mr. Booth’s lecture will be the present political crisis in England. He has had wide experience with political matters, having studied conditions in all parts of the world. This is the second time that he has toured the United States to address the International Relations Clubs.
Wing and Wig Club Presents New Play
At Civic Theatre
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“Show Off” To Be Followed Later In Year By “East Lynne”
The Wing and Wig Club of the University of ¡Miami presented its | first play of the year at the Civic theatre on Wednesday and Thursday nights, December 2nd and 3rd. The curtain went up at 8:30 on George Kelly’s comedy, “Show-Off”, under the direction of Opal
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Members of the cast of the play ; were Wanda Dawson, Doris Glen-denning, Virginia Hastings, Wade Stiles, James Lyons, Andy Shaw, Robbie Robertson, T. J. Grainey, and Frank Puglisi.
This is the first of a series of plays planned by the Club for the coming season. A second play, “East Lynne”, will be .presented j sometime in January at the'Civic theatre. Bruce Gheen, star of the organization’s production of “Arms and the Man” will return to play the villain, and many of the east of “East Lynne” will be included in the second play.
Belaunde Speaks Over
International Hookup
Mr. Rafael Belaunde, Jr., member of the faculty of the university, was given the singular honor last week of closing an international radio broadcast with a fifteen-minute speech addressed to the nations of Latin America. Mr. Belaunde made the speech in Spanish.
The program, which was offered on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, was in honor of the city of Miami. It was called the International Radio Party, broadcast through scores of stations. The Miami guest station was WIOD; and Mr. Belaunde was invited to make his speech by his friend, Mr. .lesse Jay, director of the station.
Debating Team Plans To
Tour Southern Colleges
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A tour has been planned for the university debating team which will include many of the southern colleges, Dr. Kenneth R. Close announced. Dr. Close, faculty advisor for the club, will accompany the team which will consist of four members, their names to be announced after the next meeting. ! The debaters have been develop- | ing the theme — “Resolved: That | Collective Control of the Means of Production and Distribution is Pre- ! ferable to Private Control.” Another trip is planned for a later date which will include colleges of Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and other ' southern states.
VACHEL LINDSAY, WHO WILL LECTURE HERE. HAS LED BOHEMIAN EXISTENCE
Author Love* Art More Than Poetry; I* Hi* Own Illustrator
Yachel Lindsay, noted American poet, will be one of several authors who will lecture this winter at the University.
Springfield, Illinois, was the scene of his birth in .18<9. When he was eighteen, he attended Hiram College and later the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York School of Art. He once remarked that it still seems strange to him that he is acclaimed as a poet for he has always been intensely interested in art. He has published a book of drawings, “Going to the Sun” and has himself illustrated several of his collections of poems.
When he was thirty-five years old, Mr. Lindsay published his first collection of poems, the well-known “The Congo and Other Poems” which brought him wide recognition and placed him in the
front rank of American poets.
For five years after this, 1905-1910 he spent much of his time j lecturing for the Anti-Saloon League. The spring of 1906 saw him tramping through the south- j ern states distributing “The Tree of Laughing Bells”.
The bohemian life again claimed him in 1912 when he walked from Illinois to New Mexico, chanting his “rhymes” and proclaiming his “Gospel of Beauty”.
Mr. Lindsay declares that, although he has learned the dialect and ways of the University, he prefers the bohemian life. Much of his life has been spent among what he calls the peasants, reciting his poems to them and doing odd jobs with them, and he avows that he is more at home in their company than with any University ■people.
Among other works, he has published “A Handy Guide for Beg-
Parris Islanders Meet Hurricanes In Tough Contest
Heavy Marine Team Boasta String of Win« Over College Teams
What promises to be the best game of the year is the contest slated for tonight when the powerful Parris Island Marines furnish the opposition for Tommy McCann’s frosh-varsity combination.
The Marines have won seven out of eight games with college teams, and are reputed to have a heavy and tricky squad, while Miami played its best game of the season last week and fans look to them to turn in another win showing the same fine brand of ball. The result should make a whale of. a scrap. Two of the Parris Island Marine's victories were rung up on teams that have played here. Georgia State was defeated, 25-12, and Bowden, another Georgia team, bowed to the South Carolinians by a 32-6 count.
Other than the above scores, information on the invaders is meagre. They are known to be an exceptionally heavy squad, the entire team averaging about 190 pounds. Many of the Marines are ex-college men, including two former students of Notre Dame and one from Stanford. They are coached by service men.
Coach McCann has been sending a pony team against the first stringers armed with Marine plays throughout the first part of the week. The Parris Islanders use a wing back offensive which had the varsity baffled for a while with a series of reverses and tripple passes, After a short practice, the first string linesmen were stopping everything that came their way. Miami will be additionally handicapped this week in that Johnny Bates, chief ground-gainer against Erskine and an able backfield performer all year, dislocated his collarbone last Friday and will be out for the remainder of the season. Bates is the latest on the crippled list, which includes Siler, Crowe, Fogg, and Buckley.
The Hurricanes are pretty certain to line up tonight with Cronin and Middleton at the ends, Puglisi and Weiss at tackles, Dansky and Graczyk at guards, Richardson at center, with Moore and Reichgott at halves in the backfield, Lee at quarter, and Hansen at full.
gars", “The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems”, and “Going to the Stars". The vitality of his poems is characteristic of the ballad form he frequently uses — a natural outgrowth of his previous wandering-minstrel mode of life. His poetry is chiefly appealing because, of its strong rhythmic, quality. To gain its full effect, it must be chanted aloud rather than read silently, and is most effective when half-sung.
In recent years, Mr. Lindsay has been travelling over the country, as he says, “singing my own songs to my own tunes for the English Departments of Universities.”