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Show ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WEBER COLLEGE VOLUME 2 OGDEN, UTAH, FEBRUARY 24, 1939 NO. 11 Theodore Dreiser Guest Otyokwa Squaw Hop Tomorrow Night Otyokwa Formal Dance Tomorrow Amid twentieth-century Indian surroundings, Otyokwa will present its annual formal dance tomorrow night at nine. This women's organization, which has been active on the campus for years, will be hostesses tosev-enty-ffive couples. One of the bright evenings on the calender for this quarter is this invitational lormal. Lenny Wight's orchestra will beat out Indian chants for the evening. The crowd will dance two of the dances to the tune of the "Squaw Song" and "The Sweetheart of Otyokwa." The ballroom will be decorated in a color scheme of magenta, turquoise blue, and white. Realistic yet modern interpretation of the Indian motif of the whole affair has been created by the thirty-two members of Otyokwa. Seventy-five alumni members and their partners have been invited to open house in the Ben Lomond drawing room after the dance. Committees in charge of the plan3 are: decorations, Ellen Wilson and Barbara Reeves; programs, Irene Coombs and Evelyn Smith; invitations, Marge Robbins and Ann Danvers; favors, Velma Payne. Barbara Earls, and Kay Story; open house, Sybil Doxey; orchestra, Verna Lindsay. Otyokwa's annual assembly was held this morning at 11. An Indian sun god pageant was given by performers from Brig-ham Young university. Nadine Madsen, Aurline Osmond, Bette Mae Nelson, and June Tracy arranged the program. Weather or not this is going to be a timely subject, we have r.o way of predicting. You see we do not claim to be whether prophets. There are several kinds of weather, such as : sunny (when the sun shines), cheery (when the moonshines) and balmy. (Incidentally the latter brings many fellow students to our mind and we do mean mind.) Many factors determine the kind of weather we are to have. We shall define these in the light of our experience after taking several classes from Professor Childs. Sun: Without delay, promptly. For instance, sun-er or later we're going to regret this. Rain: A kind of deer, specially popular at Christmas. Snow: A noise one makes while sleeping on one's, back, doesn't one. Also, the first name of a movie star whose last name is White. Sleet: A kind of rock formerly made into tablets and used for writing purposes in school . . . Also, part of a song, "Sing me to Sloet." Trade Winds: Popular movie, starring Frederick March and Joan Bennett. A four-bell picture (by special permission of Jimmy Violinist, our Hollywood reporter! . Prevailing Wester-lies: Untruths typical of the wide, open (Continued on Page 3) "Friend Hannah" Attains High Art By STANLEY JOHNSON Ross Ekins and Nina Nelson and Betty Mae Nelson star in pathetic story. The curtain rose on a charming garden scene last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nimts in the college auditorium, and before that garden had resolved tself into the interior of a linen shop, a quaint parlor, and back again into the first scene, we had seen a splendid amateur production. From the moment George Tudor was presented with a red rose as a token of friendship by the Quaker maid, Hannah until he groped off the stage as a weary old man in the final act, the school play stirred the fancy and imagination of the audience. Hannah's thwarted love and her noble sacrifice for England's sake, wrung tears from the sympathetic onlookers.Ross Ekins. who was sincere and compelling as the king, created something more than a history book character. In his brilliant scarlet and white costume he made a striking picture. Nina Nelson, animated and vivacious, was lovely in herold-fashioned gowns. Her emotional temperament was far better than her variety. Betty Mae Nelson had an excellent comedy sense, but she toned it down somewhat in order to be a consistent Betty Trott. Fred Nickson as cold, sinister Lord Bute was the outstanding supporting player. His superior diction and poise were immediately recognizable. Aurline Osmond, Aaron Roy-lance, Everett Judd, Ronald Cole, Rose Burchell, John Johnson and Dick Russel gave efficient team work support. Makeup, costumes, and settings contributed an important part to the success of the play. Appreciation Expressed Mr. Thatcher Allred, director of the school play "Friend Hannah," wishes to express his appreciation for the support given by the cast, stage manager, stage crew, orchestra, and others who assisted in the presentation of the play. "The success of 'Friend Hannah' is in no small degree attributed to the splendid support of members of the entire productive staff." When proofs of the pictures taken of the cast and crew have been received, an announcement will be made so that any person desiring copies may be able to make arrangements for them. Grainger Approves Own Arrest Warsaw police, Indianna, Wednesday morning arrested Percy Grainger, concert pianist who recently played on Weber college lyceum, as a suspicious character. Mr. Grainger had just stepped from an incoming train. He was bareheaded, wore white duck trousers, a brown sport coat, and carried two suitcases and an umbrella. On his back was buckled a knapsack. After being released, Grainger said he respected the alertness of Warsaw officers. Sociological Lectures, Panels Begin March 20 Lectures and panel discussions sponsored by the sociology club will begin with the spring quarter, according to Walter Neville, Weber college sociologist. They will be conducted each Monday at 7:30 p. m. Series tickets will cost the public seventy-five cents. Individual lectures will be twenty-five cents. Marriage and Sex The schedule follows : March 20, President H. A. Dixon speaks on education; March 27, Dr. W. Thompson, Attorney David Wilson, Dr. Russel Petty, and Jacob Weese, Signpost editor, will hold panel discussion on socialized medicine; April 3, representatives of the state highway patrol, safety council, and Ogden traffic officers, Mr. Jeppson, Weber college instructor in driving, and a student will hold panql on safety; April 10, Dr. William McKay speaks on marriage and sex. Ogden's Social Conditions April 17, Dr.- Herbert Maw on city government: May 1, Ott. Romney on recreation; May 8, Warden Nebeker, Officer L. M. Hilton, Attorney Wade Johnson, Judge Cowley, and a student will hold panel on crime ; May 15, Dr. Arthur L. Beeley, U. of U., on crime; May 88, Ogden city officials Saunders and Simmons, O. H. Peterson of the coordinating council, D. T. Malan of the P. T. A., and Walter Neville will hold panel on social conditions in Ogden. Baddley's Problem During the present quarter and no doubt earlier faculty and students have interferred markedly with the maintenance of buildings. They enter the plant on holidays and week ends and at unusual hours of the night without first making arrangements with the superintendent or his men. We grant that the persons entering may have a justifiable excuse. But their methods are the next thing to burglary. And the results in vandalism, done by children or trespassers who imitate these methods, may easily become catastrophic.The entire regimen for building upkeep, sanctity of offices and property, and building schedule is destroyed by this thoughtless practice. ATale of Conquest By DONNA JENKINS One hundred hearts they left behind them 100 broken hearts! The Whip girls claim they're glad to be home, but have you noticed the vacant expressions on their faces whenever any one mentions Rexburg. Leah Stoker is just existing until summer when Dick will be down to see her. Irene Coombs found the drummer in the school band just too-too wonderful. Bev. Briem plucked hers from the five-and-ten. She lost her lipstick (she claims) and just dropped in to get some more, i It seems that Vern was the pow- j er behind the counter imagine i a man testing lipstick. "He must have liked the color or ! Speaker INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS AUTHOR SHOWS HOW LIFE HAS MOLDED HIM THEODOR.E DR.EISER. Orator Reaches Finals At Stockton; Debaters Also Show Returning Monday from a grilling debate tournament at the college of the Pacific, Stockton, Blair Burton, Howard Coray, Charles Letz, LaMoian Suttle-myre, and L. H. Monson, coach, felt that they had enhanced the speaking reputation of Weber on the west coast. Coray and Burton won four out of six debates; Letz and Zundel took three out of five. Suttlemyre reached the finals in oratory. In extempe and impromptu, he was eliminated early. Before he arrived in Stockton, he did not know what the subjects would be in these contests, it is rumored. Pleased with his teams, Mr. Monson looks forward to the national debate. It will be held in Virginia, Minnesota, early in April. Trips Sponsored Sociology club will sponsor a series of field trips to places of interest in Ogden and Utah. On February 24, it will visit the American Packing company; on March 1, the Paramount Dairy; and on March Vz, the Continental Baking company. The spring quarter, April 28, the club will visit the State Training School at American Fork and the State Mental Hospital at Provo. All interested students are invited to accompany the club on their trips, according to Mr. Walter Neville, socology instructor.something," drawls Bev.," because he asked me for a date right there!" Bev.'s 'dime store special was very attentive especially in connection with the formal Otyakwa dance coming off Saturday evening. Even promised to drive her home Sunday morning, but Bev. rushed right home to Sterling and then see what he did! What men need is a sense of appreciation. Barrow's tells of atall-dark-and-hahdsome who had won twelve letters in football. "I believed him, too," carrols Norma, "because he had them all there." It was not all sunshine and romance. The girls tell of the most unbearable customs they have such as bed by ten-thirty, breakfast at seven, hard beds, and two girls to a single bed. at W. C. "VT "(I iodines nuance as 0 A Major Influence Theodore Dreiser said Wednesday evening in the college auditorium before a crowd of 800 that the great workability of life as it is and of the physical universe causes him to believe that there is an Inventor of the greatest genius back of it all. That was his final sentence, and up until that moment no one could have been sure of the conclusion. This uncertainty was caused partly by Mr. Dreiser's reputation as an agnostic and partly by his undeviating realism of treatment. "Catch 'em Young;" For, as he would put it, life has made him accept the belief that of and within himself , man does nothing. For example, Dreiser maintained that reading newspapers, the necessity for a job, and related influence's made Not Weber's Weber college and those in charge of lyceum wish it known that the school had no part in Mr. Dreiser's comments upon countries, persons, Christianity, and speciai Christian churches. Such remarks were entirely his own and merely one man'spoint-of-view. him become a journalist. He said, "Catch 'em young and you can do anything with 'em." Then he showed how in childhood he was made a Catholic, and how at twelve because of attendance at oublic school his faith began to break. Chance Affects Men's Plans Yet instead of accepting the popular conclusion that blind force is directing the workings of behaviorism and determinism, he arrived at the equally justifiable induction that these basic systems are in the large arranged by this Genuis. Chance, he held, affects men's plans in the details, however. To illustrate, he reminded the audience that he would not have made his first success as a reporter if a stranger had not taken too many drinks ... if that stranger had not declared that McGinnis was to be president ... if Dreiser himself had not had four drinks which he could not hold ... if Dreiser had not declared loudly to a second stranger that McGinnis would certainly .be president ... if McGinnis himself had not at that moment come through the bar and heard his name called out ... ,. . if ,the man had not accosted Dreiser and subsequently told him that in reality Cleveland would - be president. "Training, however," the author asserted, "is indispensable." Without it the young man cannot take chances when they (Continued on Page 4) ' Tim JaiL By PAULINE ROGERS Lured by hazards and thrills-craving adventure. Dreiser dashed off to Chicago to become a newspaper reporter just when Chicago was becoming cluttered by potential Arthur Brisbanes. He wanted beautiful women to fall in love with him women with limpid eyes and liquid voices. He longed to loll back in sumptuous wealth and luxury. But ironically enough it was. his brother Paul who was the profligate rogue, who stumbled on (Continued on Page 3) |