The Stetson Reporter

U4IM kW.wbOMIUi-.JUUUu!i w^^a^ ".UiJ.«.«.L!)J,'i.i^..,Jt,. S=F5r^?S?S38W t&rvai&&crt!>&)mmWNI&»IMiJWPllW**. J'J.***!.*-**"*1 «,nii.!'M"« tWlW^ilUUSW Fifth Year—No. 21 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28, 1940 Z103 Price Five Cents STETSON PLAYERS CLAIM "YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU" Pulitzer Prize Play Will Be Presented Friday and Saturday Nights In Stover Theatre By G. KIPP Kaufman and Hart won a Pulitzer Prise with it. Lionel Barrympre got the screen version an Academy Award. U. of Florida captivated audiences with it last year; and Rollins repeated the success last week. Friday and Saturday nights the Stetson Players will present "You Can't Take It Yith You'''' in the Stover Theatre with Paul McEntire 139L playing the role of Grandpa Martin Vanderhof.- Love interest will be supplied by Fred KieWle '42 and Lila Martin '42, Fred playing the part of Tony Kirby and Lila, Alice Sycamore, the only conventional member of the zaney Vanderhof household. Jimmy Stewart played Tony Kirby on the screen. The part of Penny Sycamore, the mother who thought she could write plays, will be delineated by Lillian Preston '40. Lela May Jennings '41 will be Essie Carmichael, the toe-dancing member of the Vanderhof family. S. A. Smith '42 with the part of Essie's radical husband, Ed Carmichael, who gets in hot water by distributing communistic phamplets. The memorable Mr. DePinna will be portrayed by Bill Lovelace '42L, and'Hal Hall '40 will be the ballet instructor, Boris Kohlenkof. Others in the large cast are Bearden Cunningham, Hugh Latimer, David Bracey, Sara Elizabeth Clark, Helen Hooke, Clyde Coleman, John Causier, Ed Huie, Dave Lehman and Mary Elizabeth Welsh. Delight Sieg and Daphne Brownell are in charge of prop ertics for the play. PI KAPPA DELTA INDUCTS MARTIN Lila Martin '42 was initiated into membership of Pi Kappa Delta, national forensic fraternity, Sunday night. LeRoy Barkstrom '42L was schedulel to be initiated at the same time, but be was unable to attend the ceremonies. Miss Martin has participated in debate work since she started school here last year. Her outstanding record in freshman debate and additional work this year qualified her for membership in the honorary debate group. Publicity Managers Asked to Cooperate All publicity managers of campus organizations are asked to leave their name, address and telephone number with the Stetson Reporter. Robert Barnett, editor of the Reporter, has asked that activities of fraternities, sororities, and all other campus organizations be brought to the Reporter office and deposited in the box of the news editor. Deadlines for news of the week's activities are Saturday noon and Tuesday noon. Publicity managers are urged to cooperate and report all the activities of their respective organizations promptly- Dr. Haile Discusses Economic Background For War At Forum League of Nations Man Says U. S. Should Use Great Financial Power That in this "small and intimate" world in which we live we should choose the alternative of less armament, more trade, and international stabilization of currencies was the contention of Dr. Pennington Flaile, assistant dircetor of the League of Nations' association, at the weekly forum yesterday. "Wars will continue until the world is better economically," Dr. Haie told the large audience of high school students, town- people, tourists, and Stetson students. Dr. Haile does not believe the United States should enter the European struggle as a belligerent, but he thinks this country should use its tremendous financial power to discourage aggression. He further stated that the United States was so rich that it could isolate itself entirely from world trade but that such a policy would resule in regimentation, lack of democracy, and national militarization, as well as international injustice. The speaker does not favor trade at any and all costs. He be- (Continued on Page 5) Symphony Orchestra Pleases In Concert Professor Bailey Directs In Second of Three Programs The Stetson Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Professor William Ii. Bailey presented the second of thc three programs that the group will present this year in the University, last night. The orchestra under Professor Uailey's direction opened the program by playing one of Beethoven's lesser-heard works, "The Second Symphony." It is written in transition style between the earlier Beethoven who composed somewhat in the style of Hayden and Mozart and the latter Beethoven who is represented by "Symphony No. 3," "Eroica," Op. 55 which followed the "Second Symphony." The group played all four movements of this composition. The "Concerto in G Minor" by Max Bruch for violin and orchestra was played by Professor Bailey, violinist, and the (Continued on Page 5) The Florida State Music Teachers Convention takes Dr. W. E. Duckwitz, head of the Music School, to Tampa Monday for a two-day gathering. Dr. Duckwitz is the president of the state organization. s{: ^ % Duckwitz Will Lead State Convention Of Music Leaders Raymond to Speak, Swan to Play At Tampa Conference Heading a delegation from Stetson to the Florida State Music Teachers Association's sixth annual convention in Tampa on March 4 and 5, will be the association's president, Dr. W. E. Duckwitz, director of the Stetson School of Music. Dr. Duckwitz states that the Tampa Music Teachers Association which is sponsoring the con vention has arranged a program built around outstanding talent Dr. Deroy B. Campbell, internationally known as a speaker, writer, and a teacher, will con duct the piano forum. Cameron McLean, baritone, considered by many the_ outstanding baritone on America's concert platform, will conduct the voice forum and will speak at the luncheon on Tuesday. Dean Paul E. Raymond of the Stetson Law School will address the convention at the luncheon on Monday on "The Bills Before Congress Affecting the Musical Profession." The speaker at the banquet Monday night will be Colin English, State Superintendent of Education. The soloist at the banquet will be Glenn Swan, instructor in violin, who will be accompanied on the piano by Ruth Taylor Swan. Miss Opperman, Dean of the School of Music at the Florida State College for Women, Claude Murphee of the University of Florida, and Miss Bertha Foster, Dean of Music at Miami University will also be speakers at the various meetings. "In the six years thai this organization has been active," Dr. Duckwitz said, "its membership has increased from 40 persons to over 300 persons and includes most of the prominent musicians of the state in its number. Members of the Stetson Music School faculty who will attend are Miss Ethel Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Swann, Mrs. Madeline Irwin, and Dr. William Duckwitz, Fraternities Take 55 New Members Alpha Xi Tops List With 13; Tri Delt, Pi Phi Have 11 Sororities Lead Fraternities 44 to 11 In Spring Initiations With Alpha Xi Delta topping the list with 13, the seven social fraternities on the campus have initiated or will initiate 55 students this week. Running a close second to the Alpha Xis, Pi Beta Phi and Tri Delt each have 11. Zeta Tau Tlpha has nine, Sigma Nu and Pi Kappa Phi four each, and Delta Sigma Phis three. The Alpha Xis honored their 13 new members Saturday night with the season's second fraternity formal. Pi Beta Phi will i:iitiate Jl this evening, Tri Delt feta Tau Alpha plans the induction of nine Saturday, while the three „lfn's fraternities have already held their initiations Complete list of new fraternity initiates follows : Alpha Xi Delta Mary Lou Mahon and Doro- hy Jennings of Jacksonville, Dons Mihgan of Ormond Beach hanche McCord of Avon Park Mary Elizabeth Welsh of Miami Barkstrom and Clark Debate Muhlenburg Graham and Lewis Will Meet U. of Richmond Team Tonight Debating in Oregon style, LeRoy Barkstrom '42L and Harold Clark ,42L met Russell Hale and Lee Synder of Muhlenburg University in a forensic contest Monday night in the Commons lounge. The dabate was a non- decision affair. Tonight Vance Graham '42L and John Lewis '43 will journey to Pierson where they will debate a University of Richmond team in thc Lutheran Church at 8 p. in. on the subject of conscription of capital intime of war. LeRoy Barkstrom presented the 15 minute constructive speech for the Stetson team Monday night on the negative side of the question. His contention wras that isolation would paralyze certain industries and lead to economic chaos. Russell Hale gave the constructive speech for the affirmative Muhlenburg team and stated that cash and carry, or our present system of barter, would iead to economic chaos and that isolation was the only way to preserve our neutrality in the present state of world affairs. Clark cross-questioned for Stetson, and Snyder did the same for the team from Allen town, Perm. Gadi Lawton will serve as chairman of the debate in Pier- •on tlrs evening. Mary Louise Davis of Chicago, I"., Jeannette Beveridge and l-etty Latto of St. Petersburg, Mary Prances Smith and Pauline Bennett of Daytona Beach, Dorothy Gibbons of Montclair,' N. J.. Jem Rogy of West Palm Beach, and Rita Gross of De- Land. Pi Beta Phi Willeta Vranch of Ft. Lauderdale, Constance Moore and Frances Inman of DeLand, Betty Smith and Virginia Clark of Stuart, Evelyn Clarson of Jacksonville, Phylis Freeburg of Memphis, Tenn., Luella Nichols of Ft. Lauderdale, Mildred Stuart of Melbourne, Cecilia Truluck of Sanford, and Norma Gardner of Tavares. Tri Delta Edith Adams, Patty Bailey, Virginia Evans, Helen McCor- (Continued on Page Eight) Grandpa and Essie Can't Take It—With Them Outstanding personalities who have decided that "You Can't Take lit With You," are Paul McEntire '39L, (left) and Lela May Jennings '41, (right). McEntyre plays the role or Martin Vanderhoff in the Little Theatre production of that play, Friday and Saturday. Lela May Jennings is the toe-dancing member of the family, Essie by name. [