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VOLUME XL.
THE UNIVERSITY OP GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, MAY 19SW.
NUMBER an.
"Royal Family"
To End Current
Theater Season
Thalian-BIackfriars to Pre-
I
sent Comedy Satire as Final
Show of Year
‘‘The Royal Family of Broadway,”
comedy satire by Edna Ferber and
George S. Kaufman, will end the cur
rent University theater season, open
ing a two night run at Seney-Stovall
Memorial theater Thursday, May 23.
With the announcement of the
play by Prof. Edward C. Crouse, di
rector of the theater, also comes the
release of the cast, which, as prac
tically completed, includes the fol
lowing: Susan Falligant, Albany;
Mary Newell, Atlanta; Celeste Moore,
Sharon; Lane Timmons, Atlanta;
John Dekle, Savannah; John B. San
ford, Atlanta; D. B. Nicholson Jr.,
Athens; Montez Debnam, Atlanta;
Richard Joel, Athens; J. B. Bean,
Atlanta; Antonia Alstaetter, Savan
nah; Edwin Southerland, Athens,
and John Lester, Montezuma. Others
will be added to the cast within the
next week.
Varied Cast
The cast will offer an opportunity
for observation of both veterans of
the University stage and those who
will appear for the first time in the
forthcoming production; six members
of the cast have appeared in previous
Thalian-BIackfriars plays, while sev
en of the players are newcomers.
Work on settings for the new play
is under the direction of Mickey Ra-
dutzky, Brooklyn, N. Y., technical
director. Tom Dozier, Athens, busi
ness manager of the University the
ater, will have charge of ticket sales
and reservations. Agnes Jarnagin,
Athens, will act as properties man
ager.
“The Royal Family of Broadway”
is described as a fast and breezy
comedy, and is a satire on the Bar
rymore family, famous actors’of the
stage and screen. It ran on Broad
way for a season and drew praise
from critics of several New York
dailies. The New York Times says:
“ ‘The Royal Family of Broadway’
makes for steady entertainment.”
Alii hors Popular
The play is the work of Edna
Ferber and George S. Kaufman, au
thors and playwrights who have writ
ten previous Broadway successes
Miss Ferber was the author of
"Showboat,” which played on Broad
way and was later made into a mu
sical extravaganza on the screen.
Kaufman wrote “Butter and Egg
and collaborated with Marc
Man’
Connelly in “Of Thee I Sing” and
"Beggar on Horseback,” the latter
comedy being presented here by the
University theater in the fall of
1933.
The story of “The Royal Family
of Broadway” is based on the lives
of four generations of temperamental
Cavendishes, thinly disguised char
acterizations of the Barrymores. Fan
ny Cavendish is a portrayal of Mrs.
Maurice Drew- Barrymore, the “grand
old lady of the stage.” Antony and
Julie Cavendish are characterizations
of John and Ethel Barrymore. The
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Alec Tregone Appointed
Feature Editor by Dozier
The appointment of Alec Tre
gone, Monroe, as feature editor of
The Red and Black, was announc
ed Thursday by Tom A. Dozier,
Athens, editor-in-chief.
Tregone succeeds M. S. Bernar-
dik, New York City, who was re
cently elected associate editor.
Tregone is a senior in the Henry
W. Grady School of Journalism, a
member of Sigma Delta Chi, na
tional professional journalistic fra
ternity, and has been a member
of the campus weekly staff for
two years.
Tapping Exercises
To Be Held by ODK
In Chapel, May 14
Ben Anderson Elected Presi
dent; Tech Chapter Installs
Local Society
—
Public tapping exercises for new- I
ly elected members fo Omicron Delta
Kappa, ranking national honor so
ciety, will be held Honors day, May
14, in the University chapel at which
time the neophytes will be made
public. Only juniors will be select
ed.
The Georgia chapter was offically
installed Monday night at the Hol
man hotel when a delegation from
the Georgia Tech chapter conduct
ed the initiation of the Georgia neo
phytes. Moseley Brown, national
secretary of the honor society, flew
down from New York to be present
at the installation.
Ben Anderson, Fort Valley, a
member of ODK at Emory university
before transferring to The Univer
sity of Georgia and who was instru
mental in getting the local chapter
installed, was elected president of
the organization. Edmund Landau,
Albany, was named vice-president,
and Claud Green, Clayton, was elect
ed secretary and treasurer.
Men‘initiated into the honor club
and their honors are:
Sima Bray. Atlanta, president of the CM
I’al fraternity, president of Thaliun ltlnek-
frlars Dramatic club, president of Eco
nomic society; Itorch scholarship, flrrt
lieutenant In cavalry, treasurer of Alpha
Kappa Psi commercial fraternity. Senior
Bound table. Pan-Hellenic council. Stage
manager of the (ilee clr.b, and Cavalier
Cl a I).
Wesley Calhoun III. Macon, Phi Kappa
Phi, freshman, sophomore, and Junior pro
ficiency scholarships, freshman and var
sity track, president of Aglion. “X” club,
Intercollegiate debater. Alpha Zetn; busi
ness manager of the Georgia Agriculturist,
). M. C. A. cabinet, Demosthenian Key
council, chairman of the Ag club debate
council, and Sphinx.
Claud Green, Clayton, Phi Beta Kappa,
Phi Kappa Phi, president of Y. M. C. A.,
president of Demosthenian club, associate
editor of Pandora, editor of "G" book,
K“y council, Intercollegiate and Interna
tional debater, Student Activities council,
fophomorc declamation, Debate council
Freshman Debate kay.
Tom Dozier. Athens, editor of The Bed
and Black, business manager of the Thal
ian-BIackfriars. and University theater
vice-president of BIftad. “X" club, Ji.nlor
cabinet. Cavalier club. Pandora staff. Phi
Kappa society, Freshman debate, Student
Activities council, social life committee,
Georgia Co-op director.
William Hubbard, Rockmart, editor of
the Pandora, associate editor Pandora,
Gridiron. Campus club. Blue Key coun
cil. editorial board of publications. Sigma
Delta Chi. vice-president.
Inslee Johnson, Alma, president of Pi
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Loving Cups, Certificates of Distinction Eight Portraits
Given High School Papers This Morning r p 0 pj e Unveiled
Oil Alumni Day
Preston Arkwright to Begin
Alumni Address in Uni
versity Chapel at 12 O'clock
Reading from left to right and from top to bottom, the officers of
the Georgia Scholastic Press association are: Charles Hunter, At
lanta, president; Corinne Stephens, Athens, secretary; Carolyn Brad
shaw, Rome, second vice-president; and Eugene Wright, Savannah,
vice-president.
gspa Members Hear Promi- Little International
Names Brockinton
First Prize Winner
nent Journalists; Round
Tables, Election of Officers
Held This Afternoon
Drewrv Is Named Executive Secretary
Of Georgia Collegiate Press Association
Silver loving cups and certificates
of distinction were awarded to out
standing Georgia high school publi
cations at the eighth annual con
vention of the Georgia Scholastic
Press association at the Henry W.
Grady School of Journalism this
morning.
The Athens Banner-Herald,
through its publisher, E. B. Bras
well, presented cups to the follow
ing publications which won first
place in their respective classifica
tions:
The Girls’ High Times, Atlanta
(cities of 25,00 or above), The Rus
sell Wildcat, Russell high school,
East Point (cities of 7,500 to 25,-
000), The Green and Gold, Canton
high school (towns of 7,500 or less),
11:20 and 12:20 classes will
lint be held Sal unlay, May 4, be
cause of the meeting of the Uni
versity Alumni ussoriut Ion here
during that day, Dean L. L. Hen-
dn'n announced this morning.
Oil portraits of eight alumni of
the University, famous in the his
tory of the South will bo unvoiled
at the annual meeting of the Geor
gia Alumni association in the chapel
tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock.
The annual address of the group will
be made at the 12 o’clock meeting by
Preston Arkwright, of Atlanta, presi
dent of the Georgia Power company.
Approximately 400 alumni are ex
pected to be present for the first
meeting tomorrow nt which Harri
son Jones, of Atlanta, vice-president
of the Coca Cola company and presi
dent of the Alumni association, will
preside. At this session all busi
ness of the group will he discussed
and the reports of various commit
tees will be given.
Officers to Be Announced
Tlte elections committee making
its report will announce the officers
of the association elected for the
coming year in recent balloting. A.
Pratt Adams, Savannah attorney,
and William Y. Atkinson, Newnan
attorney, were nominated for the
presidency of the alumni.
The portraits of the famous Geor
gians to be presented at the morning
session and their donors are: Rob
ert Toombs, statesman and brigadier-
general of the Confederacy, present
ed by Pleasant. Stovall; John P.
Campbell, professor of biology at
the University 1888-1910, presented
by Phlnizy Calhoun; Dr. Sylvanus
Morris, dean of the Lumpkin law
school 1900-1929, presented by Dan
iel MacDougald and Hughes Spald
ing; Henry Lewis Bennlng. jurist and
brigadier-general of the Confederacy,
presented by his grandsons; William
E. Boggs, chancellor of fhe Univer
sity 1889-1899, presented by his
children.
Pictures Presented
James M. Wayne, justice of the
United States Supreme Court under
Chief Justice John Marshall, pre
sented by the law classes of 1922
and 1923; John A. Campbell, justice
Sponsored by Saddle and!Of the United States Supreme Court,
‘ . . J presented by Harold Hirsch and Har-
Annual Livestock Show Is
Sirloin Club
Raymond "Cowboy” Brockinton,
Brunswick, is the grand champion
winner of the fifteenth Little Inter
national Livestock show in Hardman
hall last night. Brockinton was also
the first place winner in the beef
cattle showing. The animal Brockin
ton showed to win the grand cham
pion prize was a Hereford bull
weighing 1,850 pounds.
Brockinton is vice-president of the
Saddle and Sirloin club, sponsor of
the livestock show. He is president
.and Joseph E. Brown Junior high the Ag club, a member of Aghon,
school, Atlanta (junior high school an " A , lpha Z f ta ; h 0 ' 10 ™? organiza-
j publications). [ tions for agriculture students, and a
Winburn Rogers, managing editor
of The Red and Black, was elected
vice-president of the Georgia Col
legiate Press association, and John
E. Drewry, director of the Henry W.
Grady School of Journalism, was
manent headquarters are located at
the Henry W. Grady School of Jour-
Through the Georgia Scholastic
Press association cups were also
awarded to High Life, Monroe high
school, as the best mimeographed
paper, and High School News, Thom-
asville high school, as the best school
nalism, w r ith Professor Drewry serv- j section of a local paper.
To all of these and the following,
the Grady School of Journalism
awarded certificates of distinction:
ing as executive secretary.
Two conventions of the associa
tion will be held next year, one at._.._
named permanent executive secreUry iGeorgM and one at Emory, the con- The Sparkler, Sparks-Adel high
of the organization at the annual I vention voted. Delegates from mem- school; The Clarion, LaOrange high
convention in Macon last week. [ her schools will meet with the Geor- i school: The Co-ed Leader. Commerc-
Georgia was represented by Rog- gla Press institute at the University ial high school. Atlanta; The Tatler,
ers and Tom A. Dozier, editor of in February and later in May at a Boys’high school, Atlanta; The Mod
ule Red and Black and retiring sec- separate convention at Emory univer- ern Knight, Central night school,
retary of the association. The con-, sity in Atlanta. | Atlanta; The Blue and Gold, Marist
vention lasted from Friday through Morgan Blake, sports editor of the college, Atlanta: The Blue and
Saturday, with nine of the twelve Atlanta Journal, Harry Stillwell Ed- White, Savannah high school; The
member colleges represented. The wards, Georgia author, and other Poet Leader, Lanier high for boys,
figures prominent in the Journalistic j Macon; Girls’ High Lights, Miller
world addressed the college editors. I high for girls, Macon; The Scribbler,
Other officers elected were Mur- \ Covington high school; The Wizard,
phy Holloway, Emory university, Stapleton high school, and The Blue
president, and Allan Morris, Geor-1 and Gold Chatter, Smithville high
gia Tech, secretary. school.
Rogers, Georgia’s representative j Honorable mention was given The
on the executive committee, is presi- Buccaneer, Douglas high school;
dent of Sigma Delta Chi, president The Gamilicad, Georgia Military
of the “X” club, and is a member of academy, College Park
senior in the Ag college.
The Little International was held
in conjunction with annual Live-
stock-Legume day. Over 2,000 vis
itors were here for the activities.
The visitors were shown over the col-
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Campus, Fraternity
Will Hold Elections
association delegates were the guests
of Mercer university and Wesleyan
college, sessions being held on both
campuses.
An amendment to the constitution
which would have removed the per
manent headquarters of the associa
tion from The University of Georgia
was defeated after a lengthy argu
ment on the floor of the convention.
Under the present constitution, per-
Fraternfty and campus men will
j elect officers for their respective gov-
lerning bodies Tuesday. Pan-Hellenic
president and other officers will be
named at 4 p. m., while the non-
fraternity men will gather for their
elections at 7:30.
As The Red and Black went to
press the fraternity men were divid
ed into two political camps, the Dem
ocrats and Progressives, with the
Progressives in power this year.
Men mentioned as Democratic nom
inees are Dan Bowden, Atlanta, and
Hammond Dean, Monroe. Progres-
rison Jones; and L. Q. C. Lamar,
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, presented by the law classes
of 1925 and 1926.
Preston Arkwright of Atlanta,
making the annual address of the
association at the noon session, will
be introduced by the new president,
to be announced at tho business
meeting.
Classes of the years ending in 0
and 5, holding class reunions to
morrow, will be seated together at
the annual alumni luncheon to be
held at 1:30 at Dawson hall. Presi
dent S. V. Sanford will make the
principal address at this session,
('lass Reunions Planned
In the afternoon the alumni will
attend the Georgia-Tech baseball
game as guests of tho University
Athletic association. Plans for the
various class reunions will be an
nounced at the sessions tomorrow.
The oldest alumnus known to be
coming for the meetings is I. W.
Waddell of Jacksonville, Florida, a
member of the class of 1870, accord
ing to Thomas Gray, secretary of the
association. He is a grandson of
j Moses Waddell, who was at one time
president of the University.
Excellent Rating Assured
For Military Department
Though official notice has not
j been received from government
headquarters, an excellent rating is
! practically assured the local military
department for the annual Inspec-
| tion held last week, according to
I Colonel H. E. Mann, commandant. A
grade of 80 gives an excellent rat-
the Kappa Alpha social fraternity.
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ing, and the grade received is ex-
The Roman, j sives will line up either behind Her-I pec ted to be approximately 90 per
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I cent.