1938-02-04 The Auburn Plainsman

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Semi-Weekly
Friday THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Marionettes Will
Come Here
VOL. LXI Z-I
AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938. NUNMBER 36
Edmonson Gets Lead In Play
As Parts Are Cast Last Night
Major casting for the Auburn Player's new production,
"The Forest," was completed last night after a grueling four-hour
session at the Y Hut.
A board of judges composed of Director Telfair B. Peet,
Mrs. Peet, and Dryden Baughman selected Lem Edmonson to
play the leading role of Adrian Bastaple, power seeking fi­nancier,
in the Boer War drama the Players are to present
for the first time in this country. Edmonson is a junior in ag­ricultural
education from Montgomery, is a member of S.
P. E. social fraternity, and has been active in many produc­tions
of the Players.
Frank Samford, Birmingham, freshman in business admin­istration
and A. T. O. member, was cast as Tregay, war cor­respondent
for a London newspaper. Samford, it will be re­called,
first appeared for the Players in last semester's pro­duction
of "Oliver Oliver".
The part of John Strood, African explorer, went to Louis
Vogel, Cullman, junior in chemistry and S. P. E. member. John
Nixon, the "Judge Brack" of "Hedda Gabler," was cast as
Captain Lockyer of Strood's expedition. Nixon is a freshman
in business administration from Birmingham and is listed
among the Kappa Alpha's.
Dr. Franks, also with the Strood party, will be played by
Dawson Mullen, Birmingham, president of the Players. Mul­len,
sophomore in electrical engineering, is remembered for
his sparkling performance of "Tesman" in "Hedda Gabler."
The role of James Collie, third of Strood's compatriots, went
to James P. Thomas, Auburn, junior in textile engineering.
Arthur Elsberry, veteran of many plays and recipient of
last year's cup for the best single acting performance was
cast as Herrick, naturalist making investigations in the Congo.
W. A. Mantel, of Memphis, freshman in industrial engineer­ing,
will play Samway, the elephant hunter. Franklyn Ward,
Selma, senior in textile engineering, received the part of
Baron Zimbosch, a Belgian.
Farrell, confidential man to Adrian Bastaple, will be played
by W. H. Bridges, freshman in chemistry from West Orange,
New Jersey.
W. D. Hall, Jr., the "Justin Stock" of Oliver Oliver, was
cast as Robert Beton, advocate of English imperialism. Hall
is a junior in textile engineering from Atlanta and belongs
to Kappa Sigma social fraternity.
Part Of Amina Goes To Amy Drake
The lone girl's part in the production, that of Amina, half-caste
native, went to Amy Drake, Auburn, sophomore in
Science and Literature. Miss Drake was cast in Hedda Gab­ler
as "Aunt Julia," mother of Tesman.
Charles Stanforth, editor of a liberal London daily, will
be played by W. D. Hollis, freshman in agriculture from
Headland.
Jack Todd, Wood Ridge, New Jersey, was selected for the
part of Lord Elderleigh, nonconformist peer. Todd is a junior
in business administration and a member of Phi Kappa Tau
social fraternity.
R. E. Kierstead, Denville, New Jersey, senior in electrical
engineering, is to play Pole'Revers, of the British foreign
office. Kierstead is a Phi Kappa Tau.
Paul Duggar McCormick, Auburn, freshman in electrical
engineering, will play Samehda, brother of Amina. Howard
Workman, Ashland, senior in science and literature and mem­ber
of Pi Kappa Phi social fraternity, will be Sadig, Baberine
servant of Strood. Mahmoud, Soudanese sergeant, is W. L.
Ellner, Mobile, first-year student in chemical engineering and
Beta Kappa.
Actors Needed In Walk-On Parts
Filling minor parts as Soudanese soldiers, native carriers,
and savages were Mitchell Wadkins, Auburn, freshman in
foreign service, Landis Worthy, Fyffe, sophomore in archi­tecture;
and Burton Brooks, Auburn, junior in business ad­ministration.
Others will be cast in these capacities at a later
date.
At a short meeting after casting was completed, Director
Pee announced that rehearsals would begin with an intro­ductory
session tonight. The cast is to be split into groups
for convenience in working with the large number of charac­ters
in the play.
Rights to present the play for the first time in the United
States were secured by Prof. Peet on a trip to New York City
It is planned for two performances to be shown in order to
give all interested parties a chance to see the American Pre­mier
of "The Forest." The production date has been set seven
weeks hence although it was stated that rush practices may
enable the play to be shown in six weeks.
Cups will be given this year, as last, to the fraternity and
sorority scoring largest total of points for participation in
plays during the school year.
The point standing in fraternity dramatic competition this
year follows: Sigma Pi, 38; Alpha Tau Omega, 20; Sigma Phi
Epsilon, 18; Kappa Sigma, 15; Lambda Chi Alpha, 1; Phi
Kappa Tau, 1; Beta Kappa, 1. Sorority standings are: Kappa
Delta, 23; Chi Omega, 54; Theta Upsilon, 7.
2521 Students Have
Already Enrolled
In Institution
Total For Both Semesters
Is Greater Than Any
Previous Number
Just before noon Friday, 2521
students had registered for second
semester work, according to the
Accountant's Office of A. P. I. This
total eclipses by more than 100 all
previous records for second se­mester
enrollmjent. With regis­tration
open until February 12, it
is likely that a good many more
students will register to swell the
total even more. Taking into ac­count
the students who resigned
the first semester, those lost by
graduation, and those who failed
to return for the second semester,
the figure of 2521 is exceptionally
good.
The high second semester en­rollment
increased to almost 3000
the total number of students who
have attended Auburn during the
regular session of 1937-38.
Forty-eight students graduated
at the end of the first semester,
although they will not receive di­plomas
until the usual May grad­uation
exercises. Approximately
75 students resigned or were drop­ped
from school during the first
term.
At noon Friday 158 new students
had already enrolled. Some of
these were high school graduates
entering college for the first time,
while the remainder were trans­fers
from other colleges, including
Judson, Montevallo, Huntingdon,
University of Alabama, Univer­sity
of Georgia, Jacksonville State
Teachers College, Troy State
Teachers College, Adrian College,
Michigan State, College of the City
of New York, Mississippi State
College for Women, Mississippi
State, N. Y. U., Marion Institute,
Louisiana Tech, Georgia Tech,
South Georgia College, Agnes
Scott, Birmingham - Southern,
Tampa U., William and Mary,
Furman, Washington and Lee, and
many others.
Concert Group Has
Interesting Plans
Tony Sarg and his troup of
marionettes will be the first of a
series of campus entertainment
features brought here through
the efforts of a specially selected
committee of faculty members
which is endeavoring to bring to
Auburn the best in entertainment.
Dr. L. N. Duncan selected the
committee which is composed of
Prof. T. B. Peet, Mrs. S. L. Toom-er,
Miss Rosa Lee Walston, Dr. J.
R. Rutland, Mr. Lawrence Barnett
and Mr. Frank Appleby. The pur­pose
of the committee is to bring
to the students educational shows
lectures and musical specialists.
Mr. Rutland, reporting for the
committee, says,
"Some items of the proposed
program will, we believe, attract
more people than can be seated
in Langdon Hall. The difficulties
involved in using the Gymnasium
or W. P. A. Hall, though not in­superable,
are formidable. We
need a large auditorium equip­ped
to enable the college to put
on almost any kind of theatrical
performance as well as to provide
a small theatre, dramatic work­shop,
speech laboratories, etc. Such
a building is of course a part of
our future building program and
is an immediate need.
"Part of the financing can be
provided through the sale of sea­son
tickets and admission fees.
There should probably be student
tickets and faculty tickets at dif­ferent
prices. It would seem de­sirable
for the college (a) to make
a liberal direct appropriation and
(b) to underwrite an approved
program for session 1938-39."
Negotiations have been made
with Maurice Hindus, lecturer,
and William De Gray, noted pi­anist,
and they will come to Au­burn
sometime during this se­mester.
A regular program of en­tertainment
for each semester will
be arranged by the committee, and
students will be afforded the best
in educational entertainment.
Editorial
Tony Sarg and his marionettes
will appear here Tuesday night
in their annual appearance on
the campus. This feature is the
only big time entertainment pro­gram
appearing on Broadway
that has appeared regularly in
Auburn. In view of the fact
that the company presents pro­grams
of educational as well
as entertainment value, it be.
hooves the students and town-people
of the city to see that
they are courteously received.
The marionettes are fragile'
dolls about one foot in height
and are each fashioned by the
hand of Tony Sarg. They vary
in value from a few dollars to a
hundred dollars each. Last year
when the company was present­ing
"Taming of the Shrew" sev.
eral children shot staples and
tinfoil missies at the dolls. Sarg:
says ,"In all my travels over
the United States, I have never
had such a reception as that be­fore."
Distinction of sorts in fine,
but to have the distinction of
being the worst audience in the
country is hardly commenda­tory.
A seating arrangement
will be made to eliminate such
action this year, but the coop,
eration of parents in directing
the behavior of their children
will be greatly appreciated by
those staging the show.
Marionettes Will Be
Shown Here
Tony Sarg's famous troupe of
marionettes will return to Auburn
next Tuesday night, presenting
"Robinson Crusoe" on the stage of
Langdon Hall.
The Sarg group gave both ma­tinee
and evening performances
in Auburn last year, but, due to
long jumps between engagements
on their present tour, the show will
be given only in the evening next
Tuesday.
The unit which will present the
show here is Sarg's sole road troup
and gives exactly the same per­formances
as those which may
be seen in theatres on Broadway
in New York City.
The clever skill of the Sarg
puppeteers may readily be real­ized
when the fact is known that
the four operators have under
their command many times in the
presentation of the production as
many as twelve or fourteen ma­rionettes.
Admission for the show Tues­day
night will be 25c for adults
and college students, and 15c for
children of grammar and high
school age.
Toomer Speaks To
Pre-Law Group
Mr. Shell Toomer, prominent
Auburnite and Lee County rep­resentative
in the state legislature,
addressed the Auburn Pre-Law
Society at its meeting Thursday
night. He spoke on the operation
of the state legislature and the
practical politics involved in leg­islation.
Punctuating his entertaining
speech with amusing illustrations
of his personal experiences as a
legislator, he gave to the group
a thorough discussion of the ma­chinations
of the Alabama legis­lature
and the process by which
laws are passed. Also he warned
the Pre-Lawyers about the diffi­culties
of politics and gave them
numerous pointers about how to
proceed if they ever entered the
political field.
By mutual agreement of the
members present the election of
officers for this semester was post­poned
until the next meeting.
Present officers will continue in
their respective positions until
that time.
NOTICE
There will be a meeting of the
Varsity Swimming team in the
"A" Club room in the Gym Mon­day
night at 7:30. Plans for the
first swimming meet which is to
be held with Emory University
will be discussed.
Bafigne Is Named
I. R. C. President
For Semester
Frenchman Elected To Fill
In Unexpired Term Of
Pres. Lamar White
Lamar White, Montgomery, po­pular
senior who is graduating
from the school of science and
literature, presided over his final
meeting last night as an under­graduate
member of the Internat­ional
Relations Club.
Jean Batigne, senior in mechan­ical
engineering from Paris, France
was elected to fill the president's
chair left vacant by White's re­tirement.
In a short farewell talk, White
expressed the belief that the In­ternational
Relations Club would,
in the existing grave world sit­uation,
serve to guide campus op­inion
on the subject.
In a lengthy business session
following the election of Batigne
to the presidency, delegates were
appointed to the Southeastern Con­ference
of International Rela­tions
Clubs, which is to be held
at Vanderbilt University, Nash­ville,
Tennessee, March 3 and 4.
The four appointees included Ba­tigne,
David Wittel, junior in busi­ness
administration, J. H. Wheeler,
junior in secondary education, and
Joan Metzger Barkalow, also en­rolled-
in the school of education
as a junior.
A highly successful Southeast­ern
Relations Clubs Conference
was held here last year, and of­ficials
of the Vanderbilt Club ex­pressed
the wish in a recent com­munication
that the Auburn unit
would submit information as to
how best to make preparations for
the meeting.
Auburn Pre-Meds
Go To Frat Meet
Auburn will be well represented
at the Southeastern meeting of
the Alpha Epsilon Delta, national
pre-medicine fraternity, that is be
ing held today at the University
of Alabama.
W. B. Cantrell, senior in pre-med
and president of Alabama
Gamma, local chapter of the fra­ternity;
Earnest Rouse, of Cam­den
and a member of the Sigma
Chi fraternity and a sophomore;
C. D. Prater, a sophomore from
Sylacauga; B. F. Thomas, Jr., a
sophomore from Auburn and sec­retary
of the local chapter; A. M.
Stanton, junior in pre-med from
Sylacauga and treasurer of the
fraternity; and Beck Barnes, sen­ior
in pre-med but not a member
of the fraternity will make up the
Auburn delegation.
The purpose of the fraternity
is to encourage better work for
freshmen in pre-medicine. Mem­bers
are elected at the beginning
of their sophomore year according
to outstanding work in scholarship
in the freshman class.
The convention will last until
Friday night when a banquet will
be held to conclude the all-day
session. Dr. W. D. Partlow, sup­erintendent
of Bryce Hospital will
be the principal speaker at the
banquet. His subject will pertain
to medicine as a career.
Friday afternoon the group will
be taken on a sightseeing tour of
Tuscaloosa including such points
of interest as Bryce Hospital, the
paper mill, Veterans Hospital, and
the University Medical school.
The representatives of the Au­burn
chapter will return to school
Saturday.
Kappa Sigma Holds Second
Semi-Annual Election
Beta Eta Chapter of Kappa Sig­ma
Fraternity re-elected Emory
R. Solomon, Headland, Grand
Master; William H. Andrews,
Thomasville, Grand Procurator;
and Charles A. Harris, Montgom­ery,
Grand Treasurer at the fra­ternity's
semiannual election Wed­nesday
night.
John H. Faulk, Chipley, Fla. will
succeed William B. Campbell, De­catur,
Ga., as Grand Master of
Ceremonies, and Boiling H. Rawl-inson,
Millbrook, will succeed
Henry E. Mohns, Atlanta, as Grand
Secretary. Installation of the new
officers will be held Feb. 9.
Cavaliers, Knights Will Stage
Battle Of Music At Dance
Something new for Auburn dancers is being planned by
the "A" Club. They will stage a battle of music between the
Auburn Knights and the Cavaliers at their next "A" Club
dance Saturday, Feb. 12.
President Billy Hitchcock says that the club wants to
bring to Auburn dancegoers something new and something
the students will like. Club members discussed several novel­ties
and decided the rhythmic battle between the two col­legiate
orchestras would be an ideal form of entertainment.
When these bands come together Saturday week in this
battle of melodies it will be the first program of this nature
they have ever played, and they are looking forward to the
dance with as much anticipation as the dancers themselves.
Non-fraternity men will be the honorees of the dance, as
they are to be given a special leadout. For once the fraternity
men will look on while the non members dance. But the fra­ternity
men get a break too. Each fraternity man will sign his
name and fraternity on a card at the door, and these will be
tabulated at intermission. The lodge having the greatest
number of members and pledges there will be given a special
leadout.
The Knights will play at one end of the gym and the Cava­liers
at the other. They will present their feature numbers,
sweet and hot, and the crowd's applause will determine the
winner. It will be a musical fight to the finish.
This should be one of the best jam sessions ever played:
on stage or off stage in Auburn. Both orchestras have a wide
reputation for providing the best in dance and novelty music
that may be expected of a band composed of young musicians.
The "A" Club believes that this arrangement of a program
will attract the greater part of the dance-goers and popular
music fans of the campus.
Mrs. Stockwell, Of Vassar, Will Appear
In Langdon Hall Convocation Monday
Mrs. Frederick E. Stockwell, field secretary of the Institute
of Euthenics at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York will
be in Langdon Hall on Monday, Feb. 7 at 11 a. m. and will
discuss Vassar's unique experiment in the field of adult ed­ucation
at a special convocation for women. Mrs. Stockwell's
visit is being sponsored by Sphinx and Cardinal Key, and
these organizations invite the public to attend the meeting.
Mrs. Stockwell, a Bryn Mawr graduate, and a sister of Dr.
Henry Noble MacCracken, President of Vassar College, is a
former president of the Pennsylvania-Delaware branch of the
A. A. U. W. She has attended four sessions of the Institute
of Euthenics, one year with two of her grandchildren. She
has information on the latest developments in field to give
to her groups.
The Institute was established in 1926 as a summer course'
for men and women college graduates, who as parents, teach­ers
or community-minded citizens are interested in questions
of the family and social progress. In 1938, from June 30 to
August 11, the Institute will hold its thirteenth session. Chil­dren
from two to nine years old whose parents attend are
cared for an a 24 hour schedule in the Children's School. The
student body includes young parents, grand parents, nursery
and progressive school teachers, social workers, public health
nurses, college seniors and graduates looking forward to
any of these activities. Arrangements can be made for pro­perly
qualified teachers to obtain credit for a seminar in ed­ucation
with participation in the Children's School. The In­stitute
during the summer offers leisure for study, conference,
and recreation along many lines.
Mrs. Stockwell is one of the outstanding women speakers
that will be brought here. Arrangements are being made by
Miss Dobbs and Miss Walston, and they will be host to the
visiting speaker at a luncheon in Smith Hall, where she will
meet women of the faculty and extension service.
Miss Kirk Will Speak On 'Enrichment Of
Life Through Use Of Leisure'Here
Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, of Tuscumbia, will deliver an ad­dress
here in the Student Hall at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon,
February 9. Title of the address will be "Enrichment of Life
through Use of Leisure."
Although Miss Kirk's address has been arranged by Sphinx
and Cardinal Key honor societies especially for women stu­dents,
the public is invited. Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, academic
adviser of women students, states that members of the facul­ty,
townspeople, and students will find Miss Kirk to be an
extremely interesting speaker.
Miss Kirk, a trustee of Agnes Scott College, is both a poet
and artist of wide reputation in the South. She will illustrate
her address with some of her own etchings.
On Thursday afternoon, February 10, Miss Kirk will be
the principal speaker before the Auburn Women's Club.
PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938.
The Auburn Plainsman
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The Woman's Place
"The least crowded occupation for wo­men
today is that of the intelligent wife
of the well-to-do man. We need a lot of
her," says Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse,
Connecticut College economics professor.
"Only four or five college students out
of 100 are interested in justifying their be­liefs
and it is upon those few students that
professors should center their remarks."
Dr. D. L. Miller of University of Texas
thinks that most students have to be jerk­ed
from their old beliefs before they will
begin a critical examination of the rational
foundation of those beliefs. Most young
people are pretty well satisfied in just liv­ing,
not thinking.
Everybody Thinks
The basic object of literature is to make
one think. Of course, it may be conceived
that there are various and sundry reasons
for reading, but those reasons all may be
summed up in the range which revolves
between more thinking and less thinking
about some particular idea.
To clarify the idea just presented, take
in mind one author which gave over the
entirity of his writing to that specific ob­ject—
to make people think. That author
is Edgar Allan Poe. He used the morbid,
the harsh, and the distorted to stimulate
the thought of the reader. It may not be
correct in the most exact sense to say that
he wrote with a moral in mind. But since
the object of his writings is attributed to
making people think, it may be seen that
he presented an idea from which a more
or less definite moral or attitude must be
taken.
Now literature, in its right form, is the
presentation of life. Most of the literary
efforts make the most of their presenta­tions
of life have such a twist so as to
leave a definite impression, an impression
that lead to a definite line of thought. Em­bodied
in this line of thought is usually
the presence of a moral or some such at­titude.
In the so-called "action" or pulp" stor­ies
there is a studied absence of effort to
augment thought to the understanding of
the writing. These stories are puny pres­entations
of life. The characters are not
individual; they are stock figures who
travel along a strange course of events
that have no logical significance. This kind
of literature usually leaves an impression,
however. The impression may project the
reader's fantasy into a state where actual
consideration of the idea presented in the
reading matter takes place. In both in­stances
there is a mental process; one is
an evaluation; and the other is an ad­venture
with a possibility.
Not all the pleasure in reading comes
from the living of the story with the char­acters.
A person's vanity is flattered when
he is able to exercise some of his mental
powers in the criticising and consideration
of the material which he has just read.
It tends to give one more confidence in
his mental abilities.
It is not always the case that one sits
down and does his thinking about a piece
of literature just after the reading. For
several days, even longer periods, the ideas
that he got from the reading may pop out
time after time, maybe in different con­notations
and forms. Still the literature
has provided a great deal of mental exer­cise
in one form or another: It has served
its purpose.
Remember All This
Do you remember the ideas and pro­jects
which this paper has advocated dur­ing
the past semester? Do you remember
the changes which this paper has made in
relation to policy, form, and content? Do
you remember the errors and troubles
with which this paper has been beset dur­ing
the past semester? Do you remember
any of the good features or intentions
which this paper may take the credit for
having had during the past semester?
With all the above in mind, a clear per­spective
for the paper's operations during
this second semester is to be formed. It
is easily seen that a jumbled mass of ideas
abstract and concrete, is about the only
thing which might be expected to come
from such action. However, a quality move­ment
is expected of us. And heaven help
us, that is what is going to be dished out
if it is fairly possible. But those fair con­ditions
are not going to be fair. It is to be
felt in the very insides of the organization.
In fact, conditions are never fair. Most
every subjective thinker is a pessimist.
That is not stating that we are thinkers.
But we are pessimists, because there has
been an exposure to thought. And the
thought must needs center somewhat a-round
those things which always and nat­urally
beset us.
We intend to be realistic, not pessimistic
in our policy and general copy content.
There are many things which we think
have no possible excuse for. existence, and
these we shall disparage as much as pos­sible.
There are many things which we
think should be fostered; toward these
we shall exert every effort to encour­age
participation and establishment. At
this point, suffice it to say, it is not ex­pedient
to be specific. That would impair
the success which we hope to ascertain in
the workings of our policy.
Of course, the views taken in these edi­torials
come from individuals. Hence they
can be expected to be somewhat personal,
that is, the finished product and sometimes
the idea complete. But most of the time
you will find that the basic idea had its
birth not with this paper but with a gen­eral
consensus of opinion. That is the pro­per
opinion which this editorial policy is
expected to follow; of course, it is expected
that the ideas are to be collected, looked
over, condensed, modified, and given their
final expression for publication. If there
is any objection to an idea or attitude, or
if there is the wish for the presentation
of some new attitude or idea, a facility
has been provided by the paper to make
expression of it. The letters to the editor
space has been provided to take care of
these instances.
There is no need of expressing an excuse
for the publishing of the foregoing, though
it may appear dry and unimportant. Those
who were interested enough to read it have
already read it. Those who were not inter­ested
enough to read it will not have read
this explanation of purpose or the epilogi-cal
material which is to follow.
The aftermath of the efforts of the pa­per
may be seen as the semester progress­es.
We'cannot expect too much success, but
we shall be working for the most which is
possible to attain. There is little use to
further say with the old "cliche," "We
hope you like it."
Marvelous Moments
BY TIME
The Russian Countess' sudden interest
in nature is attributed to a certain Beta
Kappa's interest in the same outdoor sport.
(Ed Note) It is disheartening to note the
ruses to which some women stoop. Drat their
snooping and stooping to conquer.
P. Bagley seems to prefer the Mildreds,
Judging from his frequent trips to Mont­gomery—
Casanova Bagley, huh?
All of the creams are spending the week-end
across the river. Explanation—Ga. went wet.
Tis rumored that the Sigma Pi House will
be christened with water. Tish, tish, now
boys, not that.
Now at last, Billy McGee has found a last­ing
companion—money and banking ! ! !
We know for a fact that J. Handley's "se­cret
sorrow" came to the party.
Where is our hit of the week. The Ole
Red Flannel Drawers, Mayhap it has fled to
the ole country till the gossip quiets down.
It is rumored that Jane and Andy spent
their honeymoon in Mobile this week-end.
Those who haven't visited the Everglades
have definitely missed something. Eh, Kate
and Libba?
Etta's slogan these days is "Ohio miss you."
A "Prim" newcomer certainly took over
the Pi Kappa Phi house recently.
Tooker (after the dances) "I was a good
month's football workout I had."
Fenton: "You said that right, kid."
Now quoting Tony Williams: "Don't think
I am giving everyone the right and left . . .
there is one you have forgotten."
And we hear that the Knights went high,
wide and handsome during the Mid-Terms.
An item of interest: Just which of the
Hager brothers does Margaret prefer? The
one in town or the one out of town?
Lawrence Lee's theme song: Oh, where is
my wandering Wilda tonight?
Advice: Marc, for the Breeden's sake . . .
weaken!
If Kate wants to know where Rosemary's
ear is it's in the foot of Libba's car.
Maybe it's not the long hours that keep
Johnny Davis so busy . . . maybe it's Birm­ingham.
We're sorry to see Gretchen leave but we'll
be glad when she returns permanently. Oh,
professor ! !
Is it last year's love bug that makes Frank
Ellis stay so secluded?
The forgotten house . . . 348 N. College. Dot
ought to know!
We have reason to believe that Shug Young-blood
is a man of the old West.
Sixteen Ems
BY SPACER OUTER
Nothing has yet been done about the
much talked of traffic light on Toomer's
corner. We begin to doubt that anyone in­tends
to put one there.
By this time all of you studes have found
out all of your grades for the last semester.
If your grades looked like ours after the
professors got through deducting points for
our being asleep at home instead of in their
classes, a little humor would not be out of
place. So we are bringing you a little levity
in the hope that you will be very happy
about the whole thing.
But before we go into the humor and while
we are on the subject which is so distasteful
to all of us, let's go into a little bit of a dis­cussion
of the thing. (We use thing in this
case because more appropriate words would
be censored) We will present arguments that
should justify
The Cut Rule
Our professors are a sensitive lot and it
hurts them deeply when one of their beloved
pupils is absent from class. In fact, they get
so worried about an absent scholar that they
are unable to teach without their voice chok­ing
up with tears. Naturally, they wish to
be shining examples for their pupils and they
had rather not lecture when tears keep them
from enunciating properly. But our profes­sors
have that 'never say die' spirit and they
carry on the show even when their hearts
are breaking because the shining countenance
of some pupil is sadly mising.
Our professors have a deep concern for our
health and they believe in our getting proper
sleep. It is their contention that sleeping is
like practicing music . . . it must be super­vised
to get the proper results. Thus they
want all their pupils to come to class so that
' they can lull them to sleep with soft words
and phrases and then supervise their un­interrupted
slumber. It so hurts our pro­fessors
to call a pupil's name on the roll and
find him absent that they have adopted a
practice of dropping the names of the absent
pupils from the roll so that they will not ex­perience
those awful pains in their hearts
each time they look up to gaze at the shining
countenance of the pupil and find him ab­sent.
The health of the faculty became so greatly
impaired by the continual shock of seeing
vacant seats in the class rooms that the
breakdown of the entire school became em­inent
and definite action was greatly needed.
The high council was hurriedly called together
in a midnight meeting and the great document
containing the principles of the new class
attendance rule was adapted from a dream
one of the group had during the discussion
and the whole was adopted as the only means
of diverting the catastrophe that threatened
to envelop the entire institution. Thus, dear
beloved studes, the cut rule was
established. So there!
Now, so we can forget so far as possible,
we indulge in
A Bit of Humor
Telegram: Washout on line. Unable to come.
Reply: Come anyway. Borrow a shirt.
As Shakespeare once said, "Bowlegs may
not be few, but they are far between."
Cop (to drunk trying to insert key in lamp
post): I don't think there is anyone home
here tonight.
Shug: Mush be. Theresh a light upstairsh.
George: I can't see what keeps co-eds from
freezing.
Jane: You aren't supposed to, you dope.
Duncan, the spokesman: We are Sigma
Nu's and honest men.
Judge: Fine, the Sigma Nu's line up on this
side and the honest men on the other side.
Doctor: The best thing you can do is give
up cigarettes, liquor and women.
Welden: What's the next best thing?
A letter comes to Tubby Griffith asking him
to buy a new bridge for his bull fiddle so he
can get his music over.
A boy and a girl were strolling down the
street,
The girl in blue looked very sweet,
The boy's white outfit was very neat,
But the boy fell down.
Lady (coming out of hotel): Boy, call me
a taxi.
Jim Howard: All right, you're a taxi.
The student manager of the Memorial Un­ion
at the University of Kansas recently
wished he were seeing double.
But there was nothing wrong with his eyes.
Two dance bands had actually rolled into
town each bearing a contract to play at the
sophomore hop.
Unwittingly two student managers had on
the same day signed a defferent orchestra for
the dance. One band had a contract but the
other had been paid a deposit. Although one
would have been plenty, they were both in
town and had no intention of leaving.
The student manager had been in the same
pickle before. Only that time one of the bands
broke its contract by failing to show up. This
time his cross was indeed heavy—$260 for
one band, $500 for the other.
Scientific experiments at the University
of Minnesota have proved that the long-stand-ing
belief that women outtalk men is incor­rect.
A speech professor finds from a study
of 400 students that men like to talk better
I than women do.
Holler is learning to "warble" and Warble
is learning to "holler" at Butler University.
George Frederick Holler, a graduate student,
is working toward the master of music degree
with voice as his major subject. Ivan Lloyd
Warble, a sophomore, is enrolled for a course
in public speaking.
News and Views
BY L. E. FOSTER
"Sir. I would rather be right than be pres.
ident."—Henry Clay.
Poor presidents—all of them. We all look
up to the president's job and see a spacious
White House a 75,000 dollar salary, inter­national
fame and glory, the leadership of
the greatest nation in the world, and other
fantastic dreams. But who of us would like
to take over the reigns of the United States?
Certainly not this writer.
A president is the most criticized man in
any land. He is the statue mounted on the
pinnacle of a nation's people, and is the
man on whom the eyes of a nation are con­stantly
focussed. At the base of the pinnacle
there are always those who hack at the foun­dation
and try to make the statue topple.
It seems to be an inherent characteristic
in the human race that we look with jealous
eyes to those above us. Never has there been
a great man that was not criticized for some
score by the less fortunate, and nine-tenths
of the criticisms are for the benefit of the
critic, not the nation.
We ride our presidents regardless of their
platforms or personal character. We rode
Hoover. We rode Cooledge. Now we are
riding Roosevelt, and riding him perhaps as
much as any president has been ridden.
A nation's president is and always will be
the target of public criticism, sane and insane,
and we, for one, do not envy a president his
position, though it embodies honor, wealth
and nearly everything but happiness.
REMARKS AT RANDOM' — Twenty-six
good reasons why we think the anti-lynch
bill is doomed to die, are the 26 legislators
who are determined to derail the issue. These
Congressmen are filibusterers extraordinary
and will talk 'til the anti-lynch cows come
home.
NEWS UNIQUE — Animals all over the
country are rebelling against their masters,
saying "let me go to Pennsylvania," and they
have good reason. Pennsylvania has an animal
labor law on her statute books.
The labor law provides that no mules or
work horses are to be allowed to work more
than a 15 hour day or a 90 hour week. Vio­lators
of the law are fined a discretionary
amount from 10 to 50 dollars. Policemen are
authorized agents of the Society for Preven­tion
of Cruelty to Dumb Animals, and they
make arrests from time to time and law
breakers are prosecuted.
We wonder why Mr. Lewis hasn't organiz­ed
these animals into the Associated Mule
Workers of Pennsylvania, or some such group.
POPEYE NEWS — Popeye's master and
creator, E. C. Segar, is reported to be doing
very well after an operation he underwent
last week. He has been seriously ill for two
months and has refused surgery until last
week. Doctors say that the operation has
put him on the road to recovery.
Segar's comic strip, with Wimpy, Popeye,
Olive Oyl, Alice the Goon, and other charact­ers,
is one of the most popular funny strips.
NEWS ALABAMA — Governor Graves
will not give up in his fight to lower freight
rates in the South. He has worked with other
Southern governors, has been to Washington,
has spoken before clubs and assemblies all
over the state, and is doing some fine work
along this line. He has certainly made us rate
conscious, and that was his first big objective
We can back the governor one and all in this
endeavor, for it is to the advantage of all
that car rates be reduced.
SATIRE — Mrs. Eugene Talmadge's can­didacy
for the governorship of Georgia is
about as wise as Boris Karloff's entering a
Hollywood beautjr-contest.
NEWS LOCAL — Another good thing gone
—interfraternity athletics between Alabama
and Auburn seems to have faded out again.
Last year the winners of the football tourna­ments
at the schools met and played a clean
game that was enjoyed by both. The winners
of basketball never could get together, nor
could base ball. Now we hear that the win­ners
of this year's touch football competition
are not to play. These annual games are
splendid gestures of friendship between the
schools and should be kept up at any expense.
Men students prefer studying without a
conversational dressing and girl students pre­fer
their studying with, according to library
statistics of the University of California. Of
the total number of students who prefer the
library for studying where conversation is
not permitted, 75 per cent are men. The girls
prefer places where they can talk and study
at the same time.
Wellesley College students have donated
$600 for war relief in China. Wellesley is the
school from which Madame Chiang, wife of
the Chinese generalissimo, was graduated.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938. THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Varsity Track Men
Start Workouts
Varsity track got under way
Monday afternoon and a large
group of men reported. Despite
cold weather, the old and the new
men donned their track suits and
took a brisk workout.
Coach Wilbur Hutsell says that
track prospects are unusually good
this year, with Gresham, Ellis,
South, Sellers, Garrison Swan-ner,
Sprinkle, and several others
returning and with Dickinson,
Wendling, Morgan, Turner, Gunt-er,
Roberts, Porter and others com­ing
up from freshman ranks.
The first week's work has been
comparatively light with stress
being placed on form rather than
performance. The sprinters have
been drilling on leg action and
body coordination. The distance
men have been taking several
laps each day and are gradually
adding to the distances.
Captain Bill Ellis has encount­ered
scholastic difficulties but he
will probably get straightened
out when he takes a couple of
re-exams. Bill is expected to go
places in the 440 and 220 this
year, and he will be missed no
little if he is ineligible. Should he
be ineligible, Monsey Gresham
would take over the captainship
as he is the alternate captain.
Coach Hutsell stated that he is
planning to take Charlie Morgan
and Monsey Gresham up to the
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PLAINSMAN SPORTS
Bill Troup, Editor
Spring Training
Gets Underway
Spring training started Mon­day
and some 45 candidates re­ported.
Coaches Meagher, Morgan,
Hitchcock, McCollum, Grant, Jor­dan
and Chambless were on hand
to begin polishing this crop of
footballers on their fundamentals.
Pass receiving blocking and im­provement
of running form con­stitute
the greater part of the
week's work, and the men are
rapidly getting ready for the scrim
mage sessions that will be coming
up in about a week.
At present only freshmen and
new scholarship men are working
out, but the varsity will join them
soon, probably this coming Mon­day.
Most of the freshmen need
drilling on the basic fundamentals
of running and blocking. They
University of North Carolina in
about three weeks for" a series of
meets that are to be held there.
These two runners should be train­ed
into top form by that time, es­pecially
after the intensive train­ing
which is to be doled out to
them.
It is also probable that the Au­burn
runners will be taken up to
Penn State to compete in the re­lays.
These meets will take place
later on during the season. Of
course, the taking of this trip de­pends
largely upon the progress of
the team up to the date of that
meet.
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Varsity Cagers To
Meet Bottlers
The Tigers swing into action
again Friday night at 7:30 when
they meet the Nehi Bottlers from
Columbus. Nehi has a bunch of
veteran basketeers and will no
doubt put on a good game. Jack
Stewart, former Auburn star, is
playing with the Nehi men and
will return to play a new role
against his alma mater.
Auburn's cage team Is a link
weaker after the loss of Red
Childress who was injured in the
Oglethorpe game last Friday night.
Red wrenched his bad knee' and
will likely be incapacitated for the
rest of the season.
Putting out their best to se­cure
Childress' berth are Theron
Karge and Homer Gossett, two,
lanky pivotmen who are about
equally matched in ability and
determination. Tommy Edwards
has the opening center post cinch­ed,
but there is always the prob­ability
that he will foul out or
will need relief, so the reserve
center candidates are hustling for
the second position.
S p o r t s C h a t t er
By Bill Troup
Mike Trant, Jack Dempsey's old body guard, is chief of
police in the clubhouse at Hialeah . . . Cecil Cole, who ran the
mile in 4:16 last year, has enrolled at the University of Cali­fornia
. . . The correct name of Nathan Mann, Joe Louis' next
opponent, is Nathan Manchetti. . . Moe Berg, the Boston Red
Sox catcher who speaks seven languages; always begins his
breakfast with pie and finishes with grapefruit . . . Mike Ja­cobs
will promote Sonja Henie's appearance in Miami this
month . . . A major studio in Hollywood, conducting a survey
for one afternoon, counted 185 telephone calls to race horse
bookies . . . Gene Sarazen is on the high seas, homeward
bound from an oriental exhibition tour . . . larence Camp­bell,
National Hocky league referee, is a former Rhodes
scholar . . . Marced Thil, middleweight championship claim­ant
until several months ago, now weighs 190 pounds . . . Ted
Canty, widely known sports announcer, recently caught a
blue marlin, 8 feet 2 inches long, weighing 140 pounds, while
fishing near Miami . . . .
Frosh Cagers Win
Eufaula Game
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Auburn's Freshman basketball
team displayed its best form of
the season in repulsing a scrappy
Eufaula combination 28 to 22.
Coach Dell Morgan, with the able
assistance of Elmer Salter, used
ten men in. the victory that fea­tured
four changes in the lead
during the battle. All ten of the
Tigers looked impressive with
Ham and Hereford holding a
slight advantage in the scoring
department. The Bluff City boys
were led by Davis, who amassed
ten points.
Probably the deciding factor in
the close game was the excellent
work of Auburn's reserves. They
looked just as impressive as the
starters. On the other hand, Eu­faula's
reserves weakened their
team materially.
This was the first in a series of
games to be played by the Cubs
in a tour of the Southern part of
Alabama and Georgia. Other
teams that will be met are Don-aldsville,
Opp, Kingston, and Do-than.
NOTICE
All freshmen who are interested
in trying out for the swimming
team and all who were out last
semester, report to the Gym at
five o'clock Monday afternoon.
This is an important meeting.
are being taught form in these
two phases and should be able to
keep up with the varsity men in
this respect when they come out.
A number of fine prospects have
entered Auburn at mid-semester,
and Drake Field is alive with fast
and husky material. Coach Meagh­er
seems to be going in for weight
now, for nearly all of the new
men are 180 pounds or more. Most
of the new men are graduates
of prep schools where they were
well groomed for college football.
They do not appear to be as green
as freshmen usually are.
Next week Coach Hutsell will
take over the boys for about 30
minutes each day, and will in­struct
them on some of the finer
points of running. Each year
Coach Meagher sets aside a week
to concentrate on this, as running
is an all important consideration.
Alabama, which opens its 1938
schedule against Southern Cali­fornia,
hasn't lost an opening foot­ball
game since 1904 . . . Glenn
Cunningham, who weighed 185
pounds in college, now comes in
at 158 trackside . . . Capt. Car
Davidson, retiring football coach
at the Army, says there is only
one school in the country where
the football spirit exceeds that at
West Point and Annapolis . . . The
exception is Notre Dame . . .
Helen Stephen, feminine star of
the 1936 Olympics, is touring the
Pacific coast with the All-Ameri-can
Redheads, a girls' basketball
team . . . She is 6 feet tall, weighs
165 pounds, is 19 years old, and can
run 100 yards in 10.8 . . . Hunk
Anderson, who recently resigned
as assistant coach at Michigan for
a similar job at Cincinnati uni­versity,
says Big Ten football is
no tougher than the brand played
in other parts of the country . . .
He thinks backs are better than
lineman in the south . . . Norman
Alley, who photographed the
bombing of the Panay, pioneered
midget automobile racing in Chi­cago.
. . The Hollywood Turf club's
new track will have accommodat­ions
for 1,200 horses . . . Larry
In games last week Auburn
showed a fast breaking team that
is quite capable of running up a
score on the best of opponents.
Holmes and Morgan have been
the pace setters thus far, but Gib­son,
McKissick and Edwards have
come through for some fine scor­ing
performances. The team is
nearly at its peak now, as Coach
Jordan has been drilling the cage,
men on all the fundamentals, and
has put them through long prac­tice
sessions applying these fund­amentals.
Sophomore Bruce Renfroe is
back out for the team and has been
showing up well in practice. He
was one of the sparkplugs of last
year's freshmen team, and should
give the starting guards plenty to
think about, for he is a polished
player and an excellent floor man.
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French, Cub pitcher, came so near
to stepping on a rattlesnake that
Andy Devine, the movie comedian,
fainted while the two were on a
wild pig hunt at Catalina . . .
There's a prize fighter on the Pa­cific
coast who is a cinch to be
trumped . . . His name is Ace of
S p a d e s . . .
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Give my face a brilliant sheen.
Human tears are antiseptic.
Even when diluted six million
times they have been known to
destroy microbes found in the
air.
N O T I C E !
THE ELECTRICITY WILL BE OFF IN AUBURN
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1938 FROM
9:00 A. M. TO 10:30 A. M.
Alabama Power Company
Hagedorn's
Announces Spring Opening
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of many tobacco ex­perts
who smoke Luckies
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own hard-earned cash," says
Mr. Barnes. "So you can see that
the only way I've stayed in busi­ness
10 years is to know tobacco.
"Now I know Lucky Strike to­bacco
and it's top-grade. That's
why I've smoked Luckies for
eight years now.
> "Lots of other independent
buyers, auctioneers, and ware­housemen
I know smoke Luckies
for the same reason."
Yes, sworn records show that,
among independent tobacco ex­perts
like Mr. Barnes, Luckies
have over twice as many exclu­sive
smokers as have all the
other cigarettes combined.
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PAGE FOUR THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938.
Vincent Lopez Will
Present Concert
The Junior League of Mont­gomery
will sponsor a Valentine
Ball on February 14, music lor
which will be furnished by Vin­cent
Lopez and his society orches­tra.
This will mark the first ap­pearance
of this popular maestro
in the South for several years.
Famed as a piano virtuoso, large­ly
through his ever popular ren­dition
of "Nola," Lopez is also
an excellent showman. His novel­ty
numbers are unusually enter­taining
and feature musical novel­ties
more than the usual slap­stick
sideshows of mos torches-tra's.
He has a number of vo­calists,
led by Johhny Morris, and
his smooth swing style of music
is a favorite with dancers every­where.
Tickets for the ball are a dollar
and a half plus tax and may be
obtained in Auburn from Lt. B.
M. Cornell. Proceeds from the sale
of tickets will be donated to cha­rity,
including the crippled chil­dren's
clinic which the Junior
League has sponsored and which
has done remarkable work in
Delta Sigma Phi Holds
Election of Officers
At a meeting last night, Delta
Sigma Phi elected the following
men as officers for the coming
year: Joseph B. Crooks, Birming­ham,
president; Dallas Benton,
Bessemer, vice-president; John J.
Laumer, Birmingham, secretary;
Robert D. Welch, Birmingham,
treasurer; Fred L. Bass, Birming­ham,
historian; Malcolm E. Han­nah,
Pensacola, Sergeant-at-arms;
Winfrey Boyd, Guntersville Dam,
editor; Thomas P. McCabe, Dora,
Commissary manager; Marion L.
"Pug" Williams, Columbus, house
manager; and Thomas R. Mitchell,
Bessemer, Chaplain.
These new officers will take
office in March, following a formal
induction ceremony.
this field. Participants in the ball
will thus have the opportunity of
dancing to a renowned orchestra
and at the same time aid a wor­thy
charity. A number of students
and townspeople have already
signified their intention to attend
the ball and anyone wishing to
secure tickets is urged to see Lt.
Cornell before the supply is ex­hausted.
Lt. Cornell Will
SpeakAtMeet
Lieut. B. M. Cornell, professor
of aeronautical engineering, will
be the principal speaker at the
meeting of the student branch
of the American Society of Mecha­nical
Engineers to be held in Ram­say
109 Monday evening at 7.
Lt. Cornell will speak on the
subject "Naval Aviation" covering
such subjects as entrance, train­ing
of personnel at the Naval
Air Station at Pensacola, and duty
with the Fleet. His talk will be
enlivened with vivid observations
made by him during his years in
the service and with some of his
own experiences.
This is the second program put
on this year by the aeronautics
department and is believed that
favorable attention will be attract­ed.
The student branch of the A.
S. M. E. is composed of students
of the mechanical, industrial, and
aeronautical departments and all
programs are arranged by them
for the common benefit of all.
WANTED — room or rooms for
2-5 boys. Call Josh Couch at 138
or 497.
Winchell, Bernie
Star In Picture
Tomorrow's paper always- is
yesterday's news—in the editorial
room.
Walter Winchell insists there is
little likelihood of his being re­membered
for his news reporting.
Newspapermen who have reason
to think otherwise, say that he
lighted the fire under the old
journalistic hack horse.
But the "World Wizard of Broad
way" replies that today's "bless­ed
event" is tomorrow's "election
campaigner"— and the presses
grind on like the mills of the gods.
Yet Winchell has a prominent
(and permanent) reservation in
the gallery of the great. No oth­er
writer of modern times has
added so many words—of ' such
inimitable and public-fancy-catch
ing flavor—to the American Ian .
guage.
His knack of building a com­plete
story in one word has cre­ated
a crisp reporting style which'
has had myriad imitators but—
there still is only one quipologist
and his first name is Walter.
To Americanese he has added:
Cinemactor, cimemasterpiece,
Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C. A. To
Hold Joint Meeting
The Y. W. C. A. will meet with
the Y. M. C. A. for their montly
joint program on Monday night
at 7 o'clock in the student Hall.
The theme of the program will be
"Friendship."
It was stated that all co-eds are
invited to join the organization.
A fee of fifty cents is charged
each semester for furthering good
programs. The social feature of
the month will be a Valentine
party.
radiorator, infanticipating, middle
aisling, high-hatmosphere, that-way,
blessed eventing, ph-f-fft,
and TNT-tainment—to mention a
few. r
It was W. W. who popularized
"whoopee" and by dint of his ety­mological
engineering has added
spice to his copy while skirting
the pin-'em-down legal men who
might come rushing in behalf of
clients who object to the news
that they are planning a divorce,
but can do little about the sug­gestion
that they are "Renovat­ing".
Further, a couple "on-the-verge"
might be on the verge of
anything from marriage to leap­ing
off a dock or going to the
movies together.
1 .
Copyright 1938. LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO.
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more pleasure than any
cigarette I ever smoked.
And if a man isn't get­ting
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'The Hurricane' Is
Opelika Feature
Latest reports from' the regis­trar's
office at Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute show an enrollment
for the second semester of 2,505,
or a gain of 231 over the final reg­istration
for the spring semester
of 1937. Late registration will
probably raise the figure to 2,600.
Total enrollment for the year
to date is 2,984, about 500 ahead
of last year. This includes the
total for the fall semester and all
new students enrolling for the
present semester.
In the fall, enrollment was 2,-
737; new students registered to
date number 157. Enrollment in
the spring semester is normally
considerably below that of the fall
semester, but it appears that the
drop this time will be smaller
than usual.
Samuel Goldwyn knew that he
had a truly great picture in "The
Hurricane," which comes to the
Opelika Theatre for 2 days on Sun­day
and Monday with Dorothy
Lamour and Jon Hall heading a
great cast which includes Mary
Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas
Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John
Carradine and Jerome Cowan.
In this dramatic saga of the
South Seas, written by Charles
Nordhoff and James Norman Hall,
authors of "Mutiny on the Boun­ty,"
he was confident he had a
story rich in every element of
cinematic entertainment. And un­der
the virile direction of John
Ford, the story has been trans­lated
into a picture which sur­passes
even the producer's fondest
expectations.
Published first as a serial in the
Saturday Evening Post, later as a
novel, "The Hurricane" has a
ready-made audience of millions
of readers. It was Goldwyn's de­termination
not to disappoint these
old friends and to that end he en­trusted
the screen play adaption
to Dudley Nichols with instruc­tions
to adhere closely to the
original story in shaping his dra­ma.
"The Hurricane," with its tend­er
romance, its powerful drama, its
picturesque setting and its amaz­ing
spectacle climax, is ready-cut
to the screen's most heroic mea­sure.
Known as the discoverer of more
new stars than any other produc­er,
Goldwyn entrusted the role
of the native hero, Terangi, to a
Hollywood new-comer, Jon Hall,
Handsome, possessed of a mag­nificent
physique, Hall will un­doubtedly
be lifted to stellar rat­ing
by this performance. Lovely
Dorothy Lamour appears opposite
him as the native heroine Mara-ma.
It was Goldwyn's original in­tention
to film the entire produc­tion
in its actual South Sea Is­land
locale. Weather conditions
in the South Seas and the necessi­ty
of using a vast amount of
special equipment to create the
climaxing hurricane, proved to be
clinching factors in altering that
plan. The producer sent a photo­graphic
unit of 18 members to
American Samoa to film scenic
backgrounds, while the action in­volving
the cast was shot in Hol­lywood
on settings unprecedented
for size and realism.
"The Hurricane" is released
through United Artists.
Women's Athletic Association
To Have Girl Break Dance
The Women's Athletic Associa­tion
will stage their annual girl-break
dance Saturday night at
9 o'clock in the girl's gym. This
is the first girl-break dance of the
season and it is planned that an­other
shall take place later in
the semester.
Rules for the affair state that
unaccompanied girls are stags. An
admission of fifty cents is charg­ed
of all girls. The boys or "dates"
get in free as it is their evening
to be escorted, pampered, and ca­joled.
All the breaking will be
done by the girls.
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