Show THE STUDENT LIFE Sept 4 25 1947 - '4 Lowered Hems FEATURES Expensive Says Johnson Profs Save Helpless Aggie Prom Classless Schedule are too expensive to because the manjutfavor ufacturers longer skt is the This opinion of lengths Prof Bertha F Johnson at Utaa State “It is evident however’’ she said “that the wartime dress was too skimpy to be becoming to the curves of the female fig ure or to allow for sufficient freedom of movement From this standpoint fuller and longer skiits are to be desired” Free from waitime estriction the American woman wants her dress to be both flattering and but she will view the problem from a practical standpoint as well as one of beauty Prof Johnand functionalism son declared The continued high cost of living and high cost of clothing will prevent any radical change in skirt lengths for day time wear she believes lf A length is to the moit becoming especially mature' figure the clothing specialist averred but the young beta high-schoachieves girl her for figure ter proportion New president ol the band Ionian liruce and Grant Jenkins last with a skirt length just below year’s president watch Clair Wood in his new band uniform the knee Dominant hips are minimized by the longer skirt with fullness at the hemline “We have cycles in fashion as Prof well as in economics” Johnson generalized “After the straight-line- d military severe which accompanied season of the silhouette The dramatic schedule for the 1947-4- 8 is that the natural war it the Utah State theatre was announced today by Dr Chester mind react against miliJ Myers head of the speech department Five productions public style Adoption of the curvwill be presented at the college during the school year for tary ed softer lines and a fuller Shakesannual In the addition entertainment silhouette and longer skirt' has public Each next play already taken place w the post spring pearian drama will be presented to of a four war cycle of fashion” every total will be presented give nights Clothes discard I got up that morning and walked to the window It wan damp and sticky outside and the sun was behind a pellets and rainstorms and climbed back into bed Honking horns a rjrcve me from my slumber at last and I arose to face new exciting glorious day Registration day I mumbled something about sic ad dry-ic- e and slipped into my bathrobe Still blinking sleepily 1 Staggered to the kitchen and rinsed my face in the coffee pot Outside I noticed the sun was still behind the same cloud I ran a comb through my unruly hair and glanced at the The Yanks I morning paper found had all but clinched the pennant Thus inspired I braced my shoulders and plodded toward the hilltop college Some fiend in a ’36 coupe almost ran me down He obligingly backed off my chest and offered me a ride I wrung the mud out of my new sport coat arid happily accepted and Two minutes his offer twenty seconds later I stepped through the doors of “Old Main’’ I noticed a lot of people stand- ing in a line so I fell in at the end It was swell to be a part of such an intricate organization great to know that we were “one and all united to the end” The guy behind me hacked me Commando style for stepping on in's I s:ghed - Student Loader Joins Staff TVO-Ter- m a Dan Ludlow former USAC at stu ent body president has returned to the campus but this time as a faculty member He teaches freshman English Dan is the only student body president of the college to hold tba office for two successive years During his four years heio he attained the highest number of activity points He the citizenship also received award Besides his wife Lueen and his two children Sandra and Vi Dan’s special love is bridge two-terr- Institute Enrolls Record Crowd Dr W W Richards director of the LDS Institute announced that the Institute will in all likelihood hae over a thousand students enrolled in classes there fTh's figure will exceed those of all precious quarters in the history of the institute since its fou iding in 1929 Dr Richards said that the budding has been completely modernized and that they now Jiaxe the facilities Jo handle the expected enrollment He listed among the improvements a new central sound system which is directly connected to all of the -- rnn'en i I done him any Second:— No but Disgusted draft might keep swinging-Thgive him a cold e never do in my store— Why you hadn’t been here a we k until you had both of my ou’ll Stenographers and the out on dates! Vell didn’t you tell book-keeo- me er to get familiar with the stock? collea presidents discussing what they’d like to do When they retire) lot President: I’d like to be of an orphan superintendent so I’d never get any asylum letters from parents 2 id President: Well I’ve a Hiu h better ambition T want to be warden of a penitentiary — the alumni never come back to (Two Visit Does your husband kick about his meals? No what he kicks havng to get them is middle-of-the-ea- i ol ” Myers Announces Schedule For Dramatic Productions minutes later I could Then see the head of the line minutes more and I could make out a figure seated at a table Eight minutes later and I knew it was a man Twenty more — and I faced him “Bill these out" he said in answer to my cordial greetings “In triplicate” I wrote steadily for a half hour My hand was numb when I finished “I appreciate your interest in as I I couldn’t me" help saying JUVCU — rwkrvMrMvh though" I'm hot a GI” For a moment all was still Then T saw his hand move toward the six shooter in the table drawe and for some reason I fled He was laughing brokenly when they took him away “ I Waited two hours for a registration book When I finally got it I clasped it tightly to my bosom and muttered a few words of silent prayer I was feeling a little better now walked briskly and even whistled a litle The whistle died on my lips when I entered the library I sweated through a practice schedule and took it to my advisor for his approval He examined it and told me that all classes except Military Science were filled However when he saw me begin to tear my book apart with my teeth he patted me kindly on the head and offered to squeeze me into his “Elementary Pipe Organ” class Overcome by this generosity I found myself nuzzling his arm and licking his hand Tenderly be pushed me aside directed me to another table where I proudly added “Racial Trends Exhibited by the Mullusks” and Cultivat- ing Rice Paddies in Formosa1 Forty-fiv- e Life's Laffs Boxer—Have jclamage? non-restricti- toe the huiidinsr nfime in -- j i student and all townspeople an opportunity to see the shows I - Opening the season will be a light comedy “Out of the Frying The bv Franks Swann me Pnn” concerns r tnree young' play and three young ladies who am sharing an apartment in New York City and who are studying to be actresses ia StainislavsLi method This play will be directed by HED Redford a Utaa State dran atic student who “Dear Ruth” during the season and who has been past seen in productions staged at the college for the past two years Second play to be presented will be production of “Joan of Lorraine” by Maxwell Anderson the modern treatment of the story of the Maid of Orleans Joan of Arc This is the play which starred Ingrid Bergman on Broadway and which was presented last year as a Utah Centennial production in Sait Lake City with Miss Judith Evelyn in the title role The play will be directed by Harold I Hansen assistant professor Of speech a graduate of the USAC class of 1937 Mr Hansen is a Logan man and will be directing for bus home-tow- n He directed public this play at -- Michigan State knt year with excellent results ‘‘Years 'Ago” by Ruth Gordon a famous broadway actress and a playwright of some note will ed J J i Hiya Jack Glad yer Back! meetcha atthe RO of the actually a Miss orography- and concerns Gordon’s life when she was a young girl 'with dramatic Ideas The play takes place about 1901 and will be costume Directing the play will be Helen Farrer a new- addition to the college speech faculty and a dramatic content winner in Idaho when d a group of her students from Boise Idaho high school and college Fourth Utah State theatre pre- sentation of the year will be the sophisticated English play be the third production ear The - cuy ’ “Blithe Spirit” by Noel Coward which concerns itself with a first wife who returns from the 'dead asta spirit to distract her A and Ins second wife modern comedy me- - final-pla- y to be presented will be- the “Kiss - and broadway success Tell" by F Hugh Herbert The play has had great success : on Broadway and in the movies' as well as in production by other Little Theatre groups Mr: Clayton Cheney - a graduate student of USAC who has taught drama--ti- c art at Box Elder high school as well as directing servicemen productions in Brigham City during the war will direct “husband” g-- - - she-entere- ! 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