Show s’ -- is for Jan House Set Open Knapp Lecture 8:15 p m Casting Begins Town” Our 19 Assembly Star Conies Wed Opera Dance Friday Talent Auditions Reopen e 37 Volume e STUDENT 4100 See Two Major Dedication Ceremonies “Our Town” r°ught when urnbej lo I aj y- - iiy r ho the ve tatcr d the Roles Cast Officials Speak thej Evans Twitchell To Play Roles In Production fit Opening Rites search have 'en ell Fieldhouse In hilip Number 15 1940 UTAH JANUARY 11 wtb dedicatory rites conduct-b- y college and state officials and a pair of basketoall feames dedicatorial nd concert composed rrices for Utah State’s new $185-c0T(jrman’ Harfield house Monday night i capacity crowd of 4000 persons makes plans for auditions Janu- official presentation of messed to the college by !e structure representative of the ic Ryberg ute building commission and acstance of the building by Olof Ison chairman of the building mmittee of the Utah State board Formal oraing omij fl some from four' iames find of lswer if all trustees We Presides Fredrick P Champ president of te board of trustees conducted dedicatory rites held at half ae of the Utah Aetball game and introduced militaries connected with and plans for the new ildmg Those who spoke briefly luded Governor Henry H Blood esident E G Peterson and James Wade member of the University and Utah board of regents ah university representatives at ceremonies Dedicatorial prayer is offered by Alma Sonne and remonies were concluded with t raising of the flag and group iging of "America" hamp tiding anil nd t SERVICE Talent Find when them' ut More Tryouts Win Aggies ih 2d Continues Auditions Capener Releases Information On Talent Series con-ucti- our who uring :omes n ah such ather from he to be here tatet Harold Capener chairman of the talent find committee of the Public Service bureau said today that the bureau plans to continue its “talent find” auditions and announced that the first audition this quarter will be held in the auditorium college Tuesday January 22 beginning at 6:30 p Concert m to the basketball game be-e“The Talent Find of the Week” the University of Utah and will continue as a regular feature Mary’s universtiy the 120 piece in Student Life and on the Friday band under the direction assembly programs Capener said VV Christiansen f Professor N “There will be regular auditions esented a 45 minute band concert the until the latter part of ia basThe Utah as the bureau continues eball game was the feature tilt quarter its search for talented students the evening and was the last to appear on college-sponsore- d ent of the dedicatory services assembly ward and high school Utah hod the Prior and Ho the eorge but ntagi State basketball team and ntrj officials participated in the dication of the Utah university Id house a duplicate of tho one ring- who ning Mob re Tuesday night nadt ia Win argent-Bat- es Ah be n fork rnia An Debate Tourney Surmounting the difficulties of delay the annual lettermoved in’! debate tournament to action the first part of this Mis lake Kao iaho Presenting an array of top of Utah State the opening and the tourney was featured by ability of such veterans as iavid Gancheff Paul Coburn and ri tty Jean Fonnesbeck and of to the Aggie debate picture four the y team nan)' First round results give John next lay and Justin Tolton a win over ions toris Wallin and Alma Lou Lott ml Coburn and David Gencheff gion win over Ross Wheatley and mgr 'Oner Demille and Raymond Kim-- 4 ion and Mont heir Kenney a win over tty Jean Fonnesbeck and Carmen eek Ark lebaters new-ome- rs Kimball-Kenne- sigh Iu an early second round match programs Interest Will Continue “We expect interest to continue at the same high level maintained "At last quarter” he continued the first audition the bureau will select the outstanding performer who will be featured in that week’s Student Life and assembly program Toward the end of the quarter there will be a special where the assembly program talent finds of fall and winter quarters will compete for the tile and a Talent Find of 1939-4grand prize”1 Caener a Sophomore Mr Capener was chosen by the to student council last spring head "Talent Find" activities this year He is a sophomore in the and calls school of agriculture Garland his home town He was student body president of his high school and was freshman class president last year Those Interested in having an Mr contact should audition Capener or Karl Ward as soon as possible 0 Jensen Comes Back To Complete Studies team was the Allan Fonnesbeck-- s d Parkinson team Other Horton Jensen graduate of Utah round matches pit tourney State will return to the college riders in a contest in which f in March to complete studies for may happen a master's degree in botany according to Dr F B Wann head of the department asses For the past year Mr Jensen has been working with the deranch partment of interior Washington s Sargent-Bate- elimin-te- d by sec-l"- any-lm- Sponser Picture “Grande Illusion" acclaimed by Motion picture criti ational Board of Re Produced in Eut be shown Sature tovie “ and 11:20 Mol p theater The cents excellent ci actors incl avi"' Pierre Fresna' “helm and Deta' sutTb displays war usual horrors 18 an effort on Z ‘"Producer Jean Wray the “Grant 25 "J Wth an uropeaa ar in which he v VUtilifcy war Ven though the en JPokcn in French bl l £ USe take“ Frer understand English sub-h- i each scene ol af the pres th (Campus by mem encl classes F D C Darwin Evans was chosen for the part of George Gibbs and Marjorie Twitchell will play the role of Mrs Webb in the production of “Our Town” a three act drama by Thornton Wilder to be presented February 22 23 and 24 Professor Halbert Greaves said Boyd Doutre Arthur Bybee and Howard Nilsson will also take jjarts Many leading roles and more mature characters remain to be cast and tryouts will ho continued this week everyday from 4 to 6 p m and by special appointment Mr Greaves reported The play which is a Pulitzer prize winner and ran two years on Broadway has its setting in a typical small town and deals with typical small town people and situations It is unique In that it is presented almost entirely without scenery and very few properties The costuming however will be heavy and Mr Greaves stated that he would like applications from people experienced in handling costumes Other staff positions are also open to applicants Tentative plans are being made to take the play on tour throughout the state after its productions here Because of the small amount scenery the play is particularly adapted to the road Nutrition Teacher Reports For Duty Miss Florence Schoenleber who assistant was recently appointed professor of nutrition at Utah State arrived on the campus Monday to begin her duties for winter quarter Christine B Clayton dean of the school of home economics announces The position was vacated last summer when Dr Sadie O Morris went to Charles Illinois to assume head the position of department at Illinois State Teacher’s college “Professor Schoenleber comes to Utah State highly recommended by the University of Nebraska Columbia university and Michigan State college where she studied as a nutritionist” Dean Clayton said Business Fraternity Formulates Plans Plans for the annual stock markiniand for tiations formulated at a meeting of Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity Wednesday evening Keith Worley president of the fraternity announces The stock market contest will provide for members to play the New York stock market for a limited time Each member will be alloted a certain amount of capital at the beginning of the contest and transactions on the market will be followed daily initiations plans will provide for initiation of new members to the fraternity by the three Utah colleges simultaneously Mr Worley said New members for the fraternity will be elected in the near future et contest the PEN Mi the The Lion Meows — It doesn’t rain but it pours— Britain the great democracy has d again been kicked in her slats by the Republican In patriots of northern Ireland the raiding a Dublin arsenal d a irritated nationalists nation— a nation which it is fashionable these days to SWORD news items comes the decision of Dean Landis exonerating long- shoreman Harry Bridges from a number of trumped up charges— by charges variously arrayed people interested in seeing Bridges far away One can’t help but recall the colorful tales sworn by persons of "repute" attesting to all the “specious” elements of his character And in recalling one irritate that the gullible have prohopes Mountain Musi- cthe trial fited amount by Have you noticed the Mussolini Muscleing Secretary of State of publicity Probably of little significance Cordell Hull has been receiving overlords have but the Italian Precedent-consciou- s these days? been making hurriedly rather sled the on to anxious stay folks towards the Vatican overtures have reaction and not trust now that that pious group has directed many a finger at the assumed a leading role in attainthe logical capable Tennessean as We hope that Mussolini peace ing candidate does not have his feet stepped on — and Might Right —too violently Sandwiched between more juicy much-abuse- much-irritate- Tahiti Film Comes Here This Evening Intramural Department Releases Bureau Slates Tentative Open House Program Groups Will Participate In Team and Individual Competition Voters Will Elect Annual Sport Queen Twenty-Fiv- e Utah State’s enghth annual Open House will be held Friday January 19 in the Smart gymnasium beginning at 7:00 p m Ken Scott intramural sports announced today chairman-super-vis- elands t LIFE LOGAN haa Twenty-fiv- e fraternity depart- ment and club league teams will take part in the team and individual competition Feature of the evening will be the election of the Intramural Sports Queen group Madge Worlton a graduate last spring was selected queen at last year’s show The twenty-fiv- e will teams each participating present a candidate and the queen Journalists To Convene At Greely RMIPA Director Leaves For Meet January 24 the of Utah State delegates Intercollegiate Rocky Mountain a press association will attend conclave January 25 26 and 27 at Greeley Colorado at the annual press convention intercollegiate sponsored by the members of the various college publications in the Rocky Mountain region according to Bill Ward Student Life editor and a director of the association During the convention editors and business managers of the 20 schools in the association will discuss ways of fostering cooperation various colleges among through their student publications Schedules in Association Members of the association are: Utah State Utah university Brigham Young university WyoState Colorado college ming Colorado university Denver uniColoversity Colorado college rado School of Mines Montana State college Colorado State College of Education Western State Mesa Junior college college Branch Agricultural college Heights Regis college Denver Colorado Woman’s college Idaho university southern branch University of Arizona and University of New Mexico Officers Listed Officers of the association inUtah U clude: Hal Harmon president: John Muller Colorado School of Mines Bill Ward Utah State director Norma Moore Colorado Woman’s Viola Reich director college Colorado State College of Education secretary Lo-ret- Directors Accept Clinic Invitations Directors of 100 bands orchestras and choruses in five western states have acknowledged their intentions of attending the National Music Clinic for Region Ten to be held at Utah State January 21 22 23 and 24 it was announced Wednesday by Professor N W Christiansen of the music department At the clinic an all region band will be selected from high schools of Utah Idaho Wyoming Nevada states composing and Colorado region ten of the nation Professor Christiansen said the The committee arranging clinic includes Professor Christiansen Professor Walter Welti and William H Terry region chairman Pedersen Returns From Conclave Trip Dr N A Pedersen dean of the school of arts and sciences returned Sunday from the conventions of University Professors and Modem Language Association of America held in conjunction at New Orleans Louisiana where he acted as the college representative At the convention of University Professors subjects pertaining to salaries of college professors term of office and boards of control of universities and colleges in relation to teachers were discussed Dean Pedersen reports New fields of Study in modern languages and a survey of various phases of literature throughout the ages were studied at the convention of the language association will be selected by popular vote Metropolitan Opera Star Lyceum Lecture Features Traveler Knapp Wife Soprano Jamison Will Give Recital Wednesday Night Eldy Hansen’s band has been engaged to play for the dance immediately following the athletic events Admission to the dance is included on the ticket which will cost ten cents for the entire evenMr Scott ing’s entertainment said He also stated that it is Second number of the winter probable that some time during the evening there will be a quarter lyceum calendar will be broadcast of a portion of the presented Wednesday January 17 Open House program over station when Anne Jamison Metropolitan KVNU Opera soprano who appeared with the San Francisco opera company Teams Compete The program will begin with during the 1938 season will give a grand entry of the contesting a recital in the Logan tabernacle teams proceeded by a color guard Dean W L Wanlass chairman of from the ROTC and accompanied the lyceum bureau announces Miss Jamison who studied voice by the newly organized Aggie pep band The band is making its at the Toronto conservatory of 'first appearance in the recently music and later in London with purchased uniforms at student the famous voice teacher William body functions Shakespeare appeared with the Los Team competition will include Angeles Philharmonic orchestra in a performance of Brahm’s "Retumbling gymnastics badmintion quiem” under the direction of Otto basketball volleyball ping pong Klemperer in 1938 In 1934 she apbox hand golf fencing hockey badminton and foul pitching The peared as the starring vocalist on individual competition of chinning the radio program “Hollywood tire Hotel” Dean Wanlass said In weight lifting tumbling wrestle bull dog puli gymnastics addition she has served as a featurIndian wrestle push-u- p foul pitch- ed soprano for a Toronto radio program elbow wrestle ing ant The last event on the program Two years ago in her first New of athletic events lill be a pyra- York recital she met with such mid building contest A running success that since she has devoted score will be kept and the winner a part of each season to concerts of the competition announced dur- in various parts of the nation The Logan appearance is one of ing the dance a series of concerts Dean Wanlass Presented Queen said During the dance a presentation The concert will be presented of the award will be made to the under the auspices of the college new queen ValProfessor H B Hunsaker dir- lyceum bureau and the Cache ector of intramural sports Ken ley civic music association Scott intramural sports managers Conrad Burton Wayne Steed n Calls Riley Bingham and Glen sophomore managers are directing plans for the event Open house is sponsored by the men’s division of the physical education department Registrar William Bell WednesThe following teams will participate: Barbs Beta Kappa Sigma day called the attention of the reAlpha Epsilon Pi Kappa Alpha graduating class to graduation for Sigma Nu Lambda Chi Delta quirements and application Phi Sigma Chi Ag club Forest- membership in Phi Kappa Phi ers Education Mechanic Arts national honor society which annually elects to its ranks the InstiEngineers tute B A C Bear Lake Lehi highest ten per cent in scholarship Jordan Smelter Studentville rating Bell Weber Wellsviile and Dixie According to Registrar those who are eligible for membership in the Phi Kappa Phi also eligible to apply for a $500 scholarship offered by the society Applications for this scholarship are due in the office of the national chairman on or before April 1 This makes it necessary for the local Thirty agricultural and eight home demonstration agents along chapter to check the records of all dewith the resident staff of the ex- candidates for graduation to tension staff of the college are termine the eligible candidates early in attendance at the annual in the winter quarter Utah State Agricultural college Only those who have declared extension service conference their intentions to graduate by which began January 9 and will making application for graduation conclude tomorrow William Pet- and paid their diploma fee by erson director of the extension Monday will be considered possible candidates for Phi Kappa Phi department announces The conference yearly sponRegistrar Bell urged all prospectsored by the extension depart- ive graduates to file their appliment will stress what respective cations for graduation immediateextension programs can contribute ly stating that application blanks toward the solution of county could be obtained at the registrar’s needs and county planning by the office said agents Director Peterson “Neither the registrar's office Various state and national lead- nor the officers of the local chapers in agricultural programs and ter of Phi Kappa Phi will be held in county planning are featured in responsible for failure to consider addresses at the conference the records of students who do Friday the fourth and final not submit their application on day of the conference will be time” Registrar bell concluded featured by a summary of the conclave by Director Peterson Meets Success Jamison Next Mau-gha- Secretary For Graduation Fees Chem-Physi- Extension Agents Attend Convention Bell Postpones Play For Music Clinic Production dates for Twelfth Night Shakespearean play to be presented by the Little theater have been changed from originally scheduled dates Jarnary 29 30 and 31 to February 1 2 and 3 to avoid conflict between the play and the National Music Clinic on those convention scheduled dates Mrs Ruth M Bell play director announces Mrs Bell announced that Burrell Hansen has been named to the student of assistant position director for the production and that Katherine Sorenson has been put in charge of properties Positions of costume manager and stage manager for the play have not been filled Mrs Bell said and any students desiring these positions on the staff should contact her' e ' KATHERINE secretarial over student body takes post replacing Mary Lindsay ter MacKnight Takes Office As Secretary Council Chooses Office Runner-u- p To Fill Vacancy better Katherine MacKnight known as “Tink” on the Aggie campus was elected Tuesday by the student council to fill the office of student body secretary vacated by Mary Lindsay who will take the matrimonial step next month when she marries Forrest Jensen Aggie graduate of last spring according to student body president Jerold Shepherd Coming from Price Katherine was runner-u- p for the office in the elections held last spring As a result the student council selected her as the most likely candiof duties date to fullfil the secretary explains the president Much Experience “Tink” a senior has had much experience in secretarial science and this along with her pleasing personality and popularity bids well to place her in the position with no let down to the office with Kappa She is affiliated Delta national social sorority on the campus Commendable Job The retiring secretary did a commendable job during the fall quarter states Shepherd She will leave late this month for Denver where Forrest is a junior engineer in the United States reclamation service Mary a junior is affiliated with Chi Omega sorority and served on the STUDENT LIFE staff last year as society editor Vice-Preside- Names nt Master of Ceremonies Ned Clyde will act as master of ceremonies at Friday’s student body assembly announces Ruth Mae Anderson chairman of the assemblies committee The program will consist of a vocal solo by Boyd Clark a reading by Ruth Pond a trumpet sclo by Jack Dunn a dance by Fawn Smoot a banjo solo by Kenneth Keats a reading by Eldene Lewis and a song by a vocal trio Margene Hall Rosella Jorgenson and Afton Allen A student body dance is scheduled for Friday night in the Dansante o basfollowing the ketball game The story behind this film illustrates how an avocation may become a vocation Longing to see and know the world beyond their country’s confines Herbert and Gertrude Knapp sold their mercantile establishment in Boiinas California and sailed out to the South Seas to enjoy a Tahitian spring Roam Isles For two years they roamed the isles making a picture intended solely for their own and their friends’ entertainment When they returned to Boiinas “South Sea Diary” created a sensation wnerever it was shown The lure of tho South Seas was strong and “South Sea Diary" had pointed the way to a new career from an old hobby They decided to return They obtained exclusive shots of sacred temples and sacrificial altars which are taboo to most visitors Today Herbert Knapp is a photograph expert writing for technical magazines and consulted by the photographic industry Jamison Next Dean William L Wanlass announces that lyceum numbers which “ will be presented during winter quarter under the auspices of the Cache Civic Music assoeiacion and college lyceum bureau include Anne Jamison soprano of the Metropolitan opera on January 17 and Mary Ellen Chase author on January 23 January 31 the Utah State orchestra will present a concert as will the Westminster choir on February 15 March 19 Alexander Braiiousky pianist will perform followed by RoDert Frost poet on April 8 Violinist Isaac Stern will appear April 15 and H R Knickerbocker ace war correspondent will lecture April 25 Professor N W Christiansen announces that student body cards are good for these performances but are not transierable Rasmussen Arrives For College Post Dr Russel A Rasmussen recent appointee to the position of assistant professor of animal husbandry will arrive February 1 to take over his duties R H Walker dean of the school of agriculture announces Dr Rasmussen for the past year has been located at the University of Missouri where he was a member of the animal nutrition staff He has studied at the University of Idaho Pennsylvania State college and Cornell university Dean Walker said and is recognized nationally for his work in animal nutrition and in feed analysis Registrar Reports Aggie-Colorad- Tiny Titans Form Fraternity Members Lack Extra Inches NEW YORK CITY— (ACPI— “The Little Man Who Wasn't There” is here and here to stay — at least if Shikey Bard has anything to say about it While busily engaged in research for a term paper in history at Yeshiva colBard noticed in the text lege which he was using that Napoleon had nothing on him — as far as height is concerned Going back to the original sources Shikey found in a text that not only he and Napoleon but neither John' Paul Jones Chopin Beethoven Keats Milton nor Michelangelo were around when the extra inches were handed out ' Having thus justified the existence of his microscopic brethren Bard has assumed the task of organizing these concontrated dynamos into one organization The main purpose of this society is to insure the little fellows pro Herbert Knapp will show his colored film "Polynesia A Tale of Tahiti" the only feature length film ever made entirely in the South Seas in the Logan tabernacle at 8:15 p m as the first lyceum lecture of the winter quar- 3052 Registration A total of 3062 students had called for registration books Wednesday evening according to an announcement made by the registrar’s office following the completion of seven days of winter quarter registration This number represents an increase of 156 over last year's total which was quoted at 2906 A cumulative total for this year of 1939-4- 0 thus far was listed at 3217 last year's number (or the same period being 8077 Of the 2834 students who attended school last fall quarter 8592 are returning Qonssqueatly there are 383 new students enrolling far the winter quarter According to Rec'rUW there is a total of i students n who have cheeked ot Coir books who hare x :t returned He urged this gro 'p to eesplsta their registration as sues as possible avofcft-C l“r iczJt of fee for late and I rr jtraOoa -Tha rerert t ty tha rc tection from being trampled underfoot This "fraternity of the Little Fellow” as it has been named has for its raison d'etre the fact that the world which has had quantity for its standard must in the near future seek a new norm of quality And who is a better representative of this new concept than the “Little Fellow” says Bard The “Little Man Who Wasn’t There” has sent a call to colors to all collegians who have stature not exceeding 5 feet 4 Bard hopes that since all “Little Follows" are close to the ground they will be able to create a saner society for unlike their d brothers they will create which are conceptions "down to earth” totrart eToe t The motto adopted by the mlte-- y every :4 atoms is “By your feats shall ye urn w£Juh urUI that u be judged not by your feet” reotrdt til l regis-tratio- g long-legge- r aU-tia- i trritittwr ii u year’s this t ) |