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Show VOL. 1 OGDEN, UTAH, NOVEMBER 19,1937 NO. 4 Weber EXCELSIOR TO SPONSOR TURKEY TRUCK Anything Goes Hayseeds and Old Clothes Wednesday, Nov. 24, which is Thanksgiving Eve, Weber goes haywire in the hayloft. Anything goes old clothes, truckin', hayseeds, and all of Weber College. There will be punch and confetti galore to make things as enjoyable as possible. During intermission a turkey will be raffled, the size of which is reputed to be colossally stupendous gross exaggeration on the part of the committee it's Gigantic! This is student body dance sponsored by Excelsior, and the club has spent many hours planning for its success. The committee has not divulged all of its secrets, saving most of them as surprises for the dance. Decorations have been carefully planned and promise to be novel and interesting. Ax your wimmen to the Turkey Truck right away, fellows, and be sure they have some hayseed in their hair and some patches in their dresses. And fellows, wear your blue denims. No school Thursday or Friday of that week so the Thanksgiving holidays can begin with hectic hilarity by drag-gin' your woman to the TURKEY TRUCK! Reader'A fori-JeJt The end of the semester always brings forebodings to certain students. Perhaps it is fear of test-failure or some other terrible disease such as strain, over work or fatigue. If our unscrupulous teachers would give tests containing questions that the students could answer it would be all right. But they don't. Half of the time the students don't even know the answers and that is what makes test3 so impractical. For the sake of the poor students we hereby advocate the following test: 1. Who was buried in King Tut's tomb? 2. Who delivered Lincoln's Gettysburg address? 3. In what country is London, England? 4. If a house is twenty feet tall in one place and fourteen feet tall in another, and its windows are built six feet apart, how long is a two foot board? ( Continued on page 2) Dominates Coast r r ! 1 m - j J-J ir ?w . fx M ? ' ' M I W ..... j, . ... Standing, left to right: Coray-Quinn First, One tournament entered . . . one tournament won! So far so good as far as Weber College's national debate reputation is concerned.The new gold cup which now adorns ye Wildcat trophy case symbolizes the supremacy of Howard Coray and Pat Quinn, debate team deluxe, over teams representative of some 29 colleges spread geographically over California, Arizona, Oregon and Utah. Nineteen teams, in the upper division, and ten in the lower bracket, at the Bakersfield J. C, Bakersfield, Calif., Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week, after ten rounds of hectic debating finally conceded victory to Quinn and Coray. Student president Robert Poli- REAL LOW-DOWN New S. P. Correspondent Te!ls All by Alcibiades Crooning seemed to be the main diversion of the debaters going and coming from Bakersfield. Trouble was that they seldom knew whether they were going or coming. Howard "Dimples - Cuddles" Coray, the Pashionate Pushover, couldn't seem to make up his mind to go for the U. C. L. A. gals or come home to Jopie. Sooo . . . Meanwhile Polidor, the Playboy Pres, proceeded to capitalize on Coray's hesitating mind. He sent La Stone a two (?2) present . . L i Howard Coray, Pat Quin, Frank McQuown and L. H. Monson Sitting: James Andrews and Bob Polidar McQuown-Polidor Third at Bakersfield dor and Frank McQuown captured third place in the tourney, while James Andrews, competing in the extemporaneous speaking competition, was eliminated in the semifinals.Nationally applauded Leland H. Monson, English department head and Wildcat debate coach, is highly pleased with the performance of his charges. At the end of five rounds onlj eight teams were left in the com' petition. Of these, Pasadena (1) U. C. L. A. (1), and Weber () were undefeated and led fiv3 others into the final rounds. With five teams left, Weber (1) defeated Pasadena (1), and Weber (2) defeated Bakersfield (1) for the second time to eliminate this contender. At this ven ON THE DEBATE after searching all the dime stores and ending up in antique shop . . . broke all the way home except for the two bits he won playing poker. About the U. C. L. A. gals: Well, there was a dance Friday, and somehow or other Coray and Andrews dated these women. What do the frills do but show up in a Cadillac. This or some other aspect (probably a wicked gleam a la femme) frightened the Weber Casanovas . . . and they backed out. The trite excuse was the Prof l.Ionson insisted on early hours. So the two Don Juans stayed up playing poker probably to get a poker face for the next day's debates. The gals should have seen the letter to Josephin, tho . . . Debate ture U. S. C. (1) entered the finals as winners of the lower division. Pasadena drew a bye while Coray and Quinn, W. (1), lost to U. S. C. (1) and Polidor - McQuown, (2), eliminated U. C. L. A. (1). At this time victories by both Weber teams would have insured a Wildcat tie for first place. The U.S.C. team, however, took a close decision from Weber (2), while Weber (1) defeated Pasadena for the second time to eliminate another strong aspirant. In by far the best debate of the entire tournament Weber (1), Coray and Quinn, completely submerged the theretofore unbeaten U. S. C. team, Barton and Jones, to win the cup. Barton and Jones, after having Continued on page 2 And they'll probably never forget Mr. Monson walking into a liquor store and asking for an ice cream soda. Of course Andrews told him that that was the place to go . . . And Quinn . . . those coily locks did some fency slaying, but the gals couldn't digest his discussions of compulsory arbitration and the National Labor Relations Board. The only I-iubor they understood was working a fellow out of his final sou. McQuown? Well, that's the advantage of being editor of this sheet ya don't get nothin' writ about ya; I wouldn't rat on the boss. These boys, getting wind of Continued on page 2 Tourney CAST CHOSEN FOR ROMANTIC MUSICAL DRAMA Old Paris Lives In "Vagabond King" Casting for the December production of Rudolph Friml's romantic light opera, The Vagabond King was completed this week. Headed by Bernard Quinn, Ber-nice Criddle, Margene Peterson, Celinda Davidson, Ida Mason, Wayne Bundy, and James Andrews, a cast of 50 is spending every available minute in intensive rehearsal in College Hall. Old Paris, in all its surging life and action, lives again in this musical play founded on Justin Huntly McCarthy's romance, If 1 Were King. Representing an expenditure of over $500 and the combined efforts of the music and drama departments, this musical play represents Weber's most ambitious production. "The Vagabond King is a real challenge to the choruses, the orchestra, the soloists and to me," said director Roland Parry. "However, the group and the vehicle combined have the possibility of being the biggest amateur musical production the city has ever seen." The show is concerned with the defense of Paris against rebellious Burgundy by the poet and king of the vagabonds, Francois Villon. To save the tottering throne of Louis XI, he is raised from the gutter to be Grand Marshal of France, king for a day. But the gallows lie ahead unless he wins the love of the Lady Katherine. Anything can happen and does to the tune of some of the best modern music ever written. Other members of the cast are Marl Allen, Earl Read, Howard Ogden, Rose Burchell, Ronald Cole, Howard Randall, Darvil Wilcox, Ha Wright, Robert Blair, Howard Poulter, Marjorie iioggan. HIDDEN TALENT CONTEST GAINS MOMENTUM The Business Department is promoting a hidden talents program, which the members expect to continue throughout the year. This project is under the direction of Mr. Guy Hurst and Andrew Clements, business major. The purpose of this program is to uncover talents in students who are too modest to exhibit it themselves. A program is to be held once a month, given by the students entering the contest. Winners will be chosen, and the first place winner will be given $5.00. Smaller prizes will be given second and third place winners. At the end of the year, if present (Continued on page 4 ) |