Northwest Viking - 1933 March 10

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NORMALITE
THE PLAY
THE SWISH
THE CURE?
—By Bob Walters
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Just one momentous swish, ten
feet over our heads, for two brief
evenings - of acting, and the writer
of the Drama club's latest produc­tion
unvitttingly debunked., us., of
everything that the host of college
debunkers have worked years to do.
I t was done with such ease and su­gar-
coated so well that we all went
away happy and satisfied.
I t is so serious, so well done, that
it is amusing. In fact, from one
angle or another,., professors,., stu­dents,
and sponsors and participants
of the play are so nicely seated in
the same boat, that all would be
foolish not to laugh it off and hope
for the best.
To get to the point, the play had
an amusing, pleasing, thought-pro­voking,
intricate foundation of
choice satire that was taken home
for the treasure by about ten per
cent of the students and outsiders,
while for the other ninety per cent
this same foundation took THEM
like Grant took Richmond.
The bits of stepping-stone farce
that brought out the true thesis
were snatched up so readily the first
night that it brought down the
house; while the student actors
stood by dumfounded at the ease
and "genieness" with which the *|real
McCoy" wafted gracefully over the
heads of the audience, and out the
door to Tillbury Town.
It certainly looks as though the
audience, no matter how much they
think themselves ready for that be­yond
the high school farce play, go
to the Normal audtorium for none
other than just surface-imposed en­tertainment,
that, in sooth, is just
what they did in high school. On
the whole we were stripped clean
of that intellectual curiosity, that
ability to see behind the front, that
educators have been glorifying us
with for years.
Before we leave the subject we
wish to command, very heartily, the
- extremely well worked-out technical
fine pieces of acting, as well as the
phases of the play. All agreed that
it was an unusually good produc­tion.
W.S.N.S. —
Some esrstwhile analyzers of the
American public started a petition
to seat a new Mayor of Chicago (if
we get the story right). The petition
received the usual goodly share of
ready signers. The successor by pe­tition
was none other than the now
noted Mr. Zangara.
Take this from even a writer of
Normalite. You'll save yourself much
grief in this world if you read and
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Special!
Ne w Trustees A ppointed
Governor Clarence D. Martin
announced the appointment of
a new, board of trustees of
three members for the Belling-ham
Normal school yesterday.
The appointments were con­firmed
by the senate later in
the day.
Dr. W. D. Kirkpatrick, of
Bellingham, succeeds himself
until June 12, 1937. Dr. Kirk­patrick
is chairman of the pres-end
board. i.
Vern Brahig8&r;/^unt Verf
non attorney, wiU occupy Noah
Shakespeare's chair. .;*'.* OiV'-v
Steve Saunders, of Marys-ville,
takes the place of Walter
Whltcpmb. Mr. Saunders is
a prominent Everett business-
Allan Re-elected
Editor; Dornblut
Elected Manager
Elsie O'Donnell Chosen Secretary
to Board of Control
Melvin (Pat) Allan was reelected
editor of the Northwest Viking for
the Spring Quarter, by the Board of
Control in their regular meeting on
Monday, March 6. Julius Dornblut
was chosen to succeed Roger Chap­man
as business manager. Elsie
O'Donnell was elected secretary to
the Board of Control succeeding
Vernon Leatha.
Applicants Interviewed
Applications received for the edi­torship
were those of James Stod­dard
and Pat Allan. Those who ap­plied
for the position of business
manager were Julius Dornblut and
Roger Chapman, Vernon Leatha and
Elsie O'Donnell were applicants as
secretary. All candidates were inter­viewed
by the Board.
Baseball Discussed
Sam Carver was asked by the
Board of Control through Bert Gal-langer,
to investigate the possibility
of entering a baseball team in the
city league for the Spring and Sum­mer
quarters of 1933. Mr. Gallan-ger
reported to the Board that more
information on the matter will be
furnished at its next meeting.
A motion was passed, whereby the
Secretary of the Board of Control
makes a monthly itemized account
of the expenditure of departments
responsible to the Board of Control.
This account is to be read at the
first meeting of each month. The
Secretary was requested to make at
the next meeting of the Board a r e -
port of the expenditures for the past
month.
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MARCH 16 AND 17
TO BE TEST DAYS
Regular Classes Will Not Be
Held After Wednesday
Pinal examinations for winter
quarter will be given next Thursday
and Friday, March 16 and 17, and
only in very unusual cases will the
tests be given before those dates.
According to Miss Nora Cummins,
acting dean, if it should happen that
some students have conflicts in their
schedules, they should see their in­structors
and make arrangements to
take care of their respective situa­tions.
An attempt has been made to fol­low
a plan so that students will not
take two or more tests in succession.
All classes will be discontinued
after Wednesday and students who
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Thespian Club Gives
The Dremo Program
In Friday Broadcast
"The Dremo Program" sponsored
by the Thespian club, was presented
in the student broadcast last Friday
evening over radio station KVOS.
The program was opened with a
vocal solo, "Shine On, Harvest Moon"
by Jean Shaver. Harriet Oxford then
sang "It's Winter Again,"- after
which an orchestra, composed of
Clarence Thue, Wayne Priem, Frank
Forstrom, Dan Botts, and Art Hoer-guel
played a number. "Play, Fiddle,
Play" was then sung by Lew Love-gren;
Frank Forstrom, Dan Botts,
and Art Hoerguel played a vio­lin
trio, "When the Moon Comes ov­er
the Mountain." John Lensrud
sang "Suzanne" after which Clar­ence
Thue played a clarinet sdlo.
Lew Lovegren sang "The Voice ih
the Old Village Choir" and "Pink
Elephants?' -was played] by^the throe
violins. John Lensrud sang "Corfc
tenp^j'jls&rrlet Oxford sang 'Trji
Sure iof'Everything but You," ami
the) orchestra played a number to
close the program. The program was
under the direction of John Lensrujtl
and was announced by James Btit-ler.
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Questionnaire Furnishes Lowdown
On the Male Students in School
Two weeks ago the results of a
questionnaire circulated by this
paper were published. These results
told how much the girls of this
school spent for food, for clothing,
and for amusement, and many other
things. The boys were disregarded.
But they were not forgotten or over­looked,
because statistical evidence
of their activities was taken just as
carefully.as for the women.
Boys Pay Own Way.
One of the most significant'per­centages
from the study was the fact
that nearly every boy attending this
college pays his own way. Seventy-seven
and one-half percent of the
boys either work while going to
school, or worked at some other time
in order to pay the expenses of their
education..
Many Cars Owned.
Perhaps the number of men stu­dents
who own their own cars would
be higher in better times, but even
in times like these thirty-five per­cent
of the men maintain gasoline
carriages in which they jitney a-round.
Whether these automobiles
are used for strictly business pur­poses,
such as going to school or
going to work, was not revealed in
the survey.
Local Papers Read
Bellingham papers are scanned
with great care by the men. Eighty-two
and one-half percent of them
keep up on local and national af­fairs
through the columns of the
local newspapers. No mention was
made of what sort of reading they
prefer.
Sixty-five percent of the boys have
telephones at their disposal. The
jangle of the telephone has small
relation to the playing of musical
instruments, but musical instru­ments
were next on the list. It is
revealed that thirty-two and one-half
percent of the boys own and
play a musical instrument.
Cleaning and Pressing Done
The cleaners and pressers do
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Church Reviews
Quarterly Play
"Beggar on Horseback" Shown
to Appreciative Audience
By ETHEL CHURCH
Since the last issue of the digni­fied
Northwest Viking was publish­ed—
which was prior to the "Dream-
Edition"—something has happened
at the Normal S»3hool. The thing
was the Drama-club's Winter Quar­ter
production, "Beggar on Horse­back,"
a jazz fantasia by George
Kaufman and Marc Connelly. As
the large audience moved out of the
Auditorium last Friday night after
the Drama Club's second and frr\al
performance of the play, someone
behind me said to her escort, "I lik­ed
that play, it was just like a
dream." Higher praise could not
have been accorded the fine work of
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SPRING IS HERE
Twelve Rec Hours to be Held
During Spring Quarter
Etince spring is just about to come
out from around that corner, plans
have already been completed for the
sponsors of the spring quarter rec
hours.
These twelve dances, held every
Friday, will be in charge of the fol­lowing
organizations: March 19,
Men's club; March ,24, Vanadis
Bragi club; March 31, Social Science
club; April 7, Economics club;
April 14, W club; April 21, Scholar­ship
society; April 28, Drama club;
May 5, Women's League; May 12,
International Relations club; May
19, Thespian club; May 26, Edens
Hall; June 2, Board of Control./
Council to Revise
Cup Award Rating
Proposal Resubmitted to Clubs;
Board in Favor of Plan
At a meeting of the Inter-club
council held last Wednesday, the
much - debated - and - discussed cup
award proposal was brought up for
final consideration. Many clubs
considering the plan suggested, min­or
changes in the point system un­der
which participating clubs would
be rated. The council itself, by a
vote of eleven to two, expressed fav­or
of the plan as at present out­lined,
but voted to resubmit the
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GORRELL SPEAKS
Literature and Modern Life Is
Subject of Lecture
Lord Gorrell, the foremost liter­ary
authority of present-day Eng­land,
spoke in assembly March 1, on
Literature and Modern Life.
"I am putting 'modern' before life
rather than before literature," said
the speaker, "because I want to show
the place literature plays in modern
life."
To do this Lord Gorrell compared
many aspects of older time dramas,
poems, novels, and biographies with
those of modern times. He went on
to show how the comparison illumi-ated
a general note of superficiality
in today's literature.
"We think we can picture the liv­es
of our ancestors by reading the
books of the past, but won't our an­cestors
reading books about our
times picture a rather curious life?"
said Lord Gorrell.
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Symphony Orchestra Will Play j
in Final Assembly of the Quarter j
(Dance Grotesque) Tschakoff and
"Hungarian Lustpiel Overture" by
Keler Bela.
Students now attending Normal
who play in the orchestra include
the following: Violins, Dan Botts,
Frank Forstrom, Pauline Chetwood,
Isabel Hinman, William Fisher, Le-ta
Lawrence, Erving Easton, Megan
Price, Helen Cryer and Diane
Hershman; piano, Dorothy Mont­gomery
and Christine Albers; cello,
Paul Anson; bass, Betty Jock; clar­inet,
Ransfofd Wise; trumpet, John
Christy; and trombone, Stuart Fresk.
In addition to the Normal stu­dents,
the personnel of ttie:,orjphes-
Ipa^consjfete -.of; Wg^sc>6ti^Ju&ents
from bolli ^irhaveni and'wniafcom,
JupUsVofi i&i ^m^^^B^bomiS'
people, lionnai mernbers are- tenant­ed
a n h o u r ' s credit -inmusic for at­tending
the practises each week."r
The Bellingham Symphony, under
the direction of John Roy Williams
will be featured in the last assembly
of the quarter, March 17.
This ensemble has been together
merely since the beginning of the
quarter and according to Mr. Wil­liams,
it has made quite some pro­gress,
considering that it meets but
once a week.
The following program has been
chosen for Friday's assembly: "Ray­mond
Overture" Thomas; "Inter­mezzo"
from "Cavalieria Rusticaha"
Mascagni; "L'Arlesienne Suite No.
2" Bizet, A. "Minuet" (Miss Pauline;
Larkin, flute sOloist) B. "Faradoler'jr
ClarirrttiBpl^?f5?fio^r6jv Verdii; ( f e
Ransfon|%ise,"Miss "cai^tine &£
bers >»&bmpafts^)i;>^!7'Badtoagev:
Victor: S e r t e r t r ^ ^ a i ^ h ; ^
Schubert; "Intennezzo" from "Nai?
la" Delibes; "Cossack Revels" and
STATE LEGISLATURE PASSES
TWO-YEAR APPROPRIATION BILL
Play to be Given
in Next Assembly
The Vanishing Process Directed
by Katherine Bowden
MARCH 14 ASSEMBLY banihn
"The Vanishing Princess" direct­ed
by Katherine Bowden, will be
presented by the play production
group in assembly, Tuesday, March
14.
The setting of the play is' laid in
the quaint, musty, misty, magic shop
of Matinka, played by Roger Chap­man,
at one time' a famous master
magician, and now descended from
the brewing of pure magic to the
business of selling tricks. Whoever
cares to know how to make a rabbit
jump out of a little boy'se ear, or the
secret recipe of scrambling eggs,
may for an absurd sum, learn from
Matinka in the dim interior of his
shop.
The shop is stuffed with many
grand and gaudy mysteries made by
the deft hands of poor Matinka
when the magic was still in his
fingers.
Cindy, a new version of Cinderel­la,
played by Mildred Franz, might
upset your previous ideas of how a
Cinderella should act.
Mr. I-Say portrayed by Lester
Linton, depicts the typical "Shiloh"
who blusters into Matinka's drab
existence causing a decided fervor.
However youth and magical ro­mance
combine at the entrance of
the king, played by Nelson Brewer,
when Matinka pronounces the fatal
word, "Abracadabra."
Section to Fix Maximum Salaries
of School Heads Is Killed
by Representatives
NORMAL IS ALLOTTED $343,000
Budget in All Departments Is
Drastically Cut
LIBRARY DESIGNS
STUDIED BY CLASS
By MARIAN BRECKLEY
Although your mind may be occu­pied
with important matters when
you walk into the reading room of
the library, you cannot help but
sense the pleasing combination of
light and color which has been ac­complished
in this room. The colors
of the book bindings are repeated
ia the walls, windows and ceiling.
The small design in each of the
large windows comes from the art of
pre-Aztec times, a prehistoric per­iod
in which there were organized
libraries. This bit of color, in the
windows serves to tie up the colors
of the books with those of the ceil-
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"Recent Social Trend"
Subject of Discussion
in Faculty Broadcast
The report of President Hoover's
committee on "Recent Social Trends
in the United States" was summar­ized
over KVOS Wednesday, March
8, at 7:00 o'clock, by Edward Arnt-zen.
In his talk, Mr. Arntzen stated that
the whole picture of the past cen­tury
has been one of accelerating
social change. The report also points
out that the great chaos, confusion,
and perplexity is due to the uneven
rate of exchange among the differ­ent
factors of our national life, lead­ing
to an unbalanced situation.
Enumerates Changes
I n enumerating some of the spe­cific
changes, Mr Arntzen referred
to the population and its irate of
growth. The economic tendency to
change from the individual business
to the corporation; and the different
ratei of growth in fieldssuch as minr
mg^ transportation, \ and mventions,
were contrasted: with goverhmen^as
an institution which lags f a r behtodi
Other Institutions may lag behind
the government; -such institutions
are religion and the whole realm of
ideas and philosophy.
The 1933-35 general appropriations
bill has passed one house of the
state legislature with the exception
of the section which called for a big
reduction in the salaries of the
heads of the state educational insti­tutions
As first introduced, the bill pro­vided
for a total appropriation of
$33,000,000 for expenses of the state
government during the biennium
from April 1, 1933, to March 31, 1935.
This is about $3,000,000 less t h a n the
budget prepared by former Governor
Roland H. Hartley before he retired
from office. The appropriation for
Bellingham Normal is $343,000, com­pared
with $541,505 two years ago.
Cheney Normal will be given $239,-
996, compared with $449,341; and
Ellensburg $239,000, compared with
$379,000 in 1931. The University of
Washington is appropriated $2,336,-
160, as compared with $4,129,587 two
years ago; and Washington State
college $2,318,808, compared with
$3,152,785.
Salaries Not Fixed
The section which the legislators
voted to omit fixed the maximum:
salaries of the presidents of the
university and state college at $5,000;
deans and other'department heads
of the two state schools and the
three normals at $400 a month; and
principals and employees of public,
schools at $350 a month. The pres­idents
of the university and state
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TRACK MEN OUT
Eight Lettermen Are Returning
To Lead Cinder Squad
With outside turnout to be called
as soon as the weather permits, 30
men have been daily turning out in
the gym to gel in shape for the
track squad.
Coach Sam Carver will have his
hands full for the next month to
each many newcomers the technique
of the events they are entering. Al­though
about eight of last year's let­termen
are turning out, most of
those now. signed up are green in the
sport and will have. to be taught
much before they can represent the
school.
Schilaty and Thomas are back to
earn another letter in the sprints,
Brinkman in the discus, Lovegren,
the 2-mile. Gable, Flowers and Wil­liams,
all of whom almost made let­ters
last year, are also getting into
shape for competition.
With the lettermen returning,.
Normal appears quite strong in the
sprints and jumps. Jim Davis, rec­ord
holder of the high hurdles, may
return to school to add needed
strength to that department.
Part of the squad will get their
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Women's Music Club
To Hear Instructor
"Difficulties in Modern Litera­ture"
is t h e subject of a talk to be
given by Miss Lucy Kahgiey of the
English department' next Wednes­day
; morning before the Bellihgham
Wonien'g Music Club. The club Vill
nieet hi the B e u ^ h a m ; Hotel lbiuige
at ten.o'clock!'.. Miss'^Katigtey; will
take up some dlf;fi&ilties encbtuatef-r
ed in modem-UteMtiu^B and w ^ d i s -^
cuss Uterature t h a t bHngs tip social
questions, and other h ^ a t ^ ^ w i ^
ten to answer; the questjten^
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