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VOLUME XLV.
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THE UNIVERSITY OP GEORGIA. ATHENS, GEORGIA, DEC EMBER I. IMS.
Number 9.—7,-109.
Theater Group
To Offer Play
Next W eek-end
Curtain Going Up!
“Whistling in the Dark” to
Be Presented Thursday,
Friday, Saturday
“Whistling' in the Dark,” mystery-
comedy with George Stanley, Savan
nah, and Betty McDavid, Athens,
playing the leads, will open next
Thursday night at Seney-Stovall
Theater as the fall presentation of
the University Theater. The play
will run Friday and Saturday nights
also.
Reserved seats may be obtained
all next week at Costa’s and the Co
op, according to Milton Lesser, Ath
ens, business manager of the Thea
ter. Tickets are priced at 75 cents
with a few balcony seats at 50 cents.
Following custom, the opening
Thursday night will be formal. Cur
tain time each night will be 8:30
O’clock-
Sets Near Completion
Rehearsals under the direction of
Louis Sohn, Atlanta, are progressing
under realistic surroundings, as the
sets are nearing completion by Pro
duction Manager Bill Burson, Ath
ens, and his crew. The scene is the
country hide-out of a gangster mob.
Supporting the leading characters
will be Larry Rothman, Augusta;
Bill Riemer, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Harry
Gurewltz, Brooklyn, - N. Y.; Uly
Gunn, Athens; Charles Frasch, At
lanta; Leila Griffith, Eatonton; Sid
ney Englehardt, Highland Park, N
J.; Jack Rauers, Savannah, and Dick
Withington, Savannah.
Written by Laurence Gross and
Edward Carpenter, the melodrama
enjoyed a long run on Broadway.
Its plot deals with the adventures
of a crime novelist, played by Stan
ley, and his fiancee, McDavid, after
they stumble into the hideaway used
by a gang of killers led by Roth
man.
Full of Laughs
Full of laughs, suspense, and tick
lish situations, the story becomes in
volved when the gangsters force the
novelist to devise a perfect crime so
that they can murder a prominent
city official. The scheme he creates
involves the use of toothpaste as the
lethal weapon. After satisfying the
gang, the author attempts to double-
cross them and escape with his
fiancee. This time he uses a radio
receiver in an effort to call for help.
It all results in a breath-taking cli
max.
McDavid and Stanley are both
well-known performers on the Uni
versity stage. The former played the
young ingenue in "Vinegar Tree”
two years ago. Last year she appear
ed in a dance sequence of “Rom
ance.” Stanley made his two pre
vious hits in “Excursion” and “Rom
ance.”
Of the remainder of the cast, all
are newcomers to Seney-Stovall stage
except Riemer, Englehardt, and Rau
ers.
A student committee is in charge
of the production since Director Ed
ward C. Crouse is on leave of absence
at Yale. Crouse has aided in design
ing the bets, blocking out script, and
giving advice by mail. "Whistling
in the Dark’’ is the first play since
the founding of the University Thea
ter that Crouse has not personally
directed.
George Stanley, Savannah, niul
Betty McDavid, Athens, are shown
above wliile studying their script
for “Whistling in the Dark," fall
production of the University Thea
ter. The mystery-comedy will
open Thursday night at Seney-
Stovall Theater for a three-night
run.
5-Day Conference
For HomeWorkers
Will Begin Monday
University Faculty Members,
Farm Leaders to Speak at
Ag Hill Lectures
A number of nationally outstand
ing farm and home leaders as well
as University faculty members, will
assemble Monday for the third an
nual Extension School, sponsored by
the Agricultural Extension Service
through its home demonstration de
partment. The conference will end
Friday.
The general theme of the five-day
session to be held in Agricultural
Extension Building will be “using all
available resources and agencies for
the development of country life.”
Lectures and panel discussion group
meetings will be held throughout the
week, with an orgadizatlonal meet
ing opening the conference on Mon
day.
Personnel for the lecture programs
and authorities for the panel discus
sions include Dr. H. W. Nisonger,
professor of adult education, Ohio
State University; Miss Gladys Gal
lup, Extension Service, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.
C.; J. William Firor, head of the
agricultural economics and rural so
ciology department; Mrs- Troy Ruck
er, president of the State Home Dem
onstration Council, Alpharetta; Dr.
O. E. Baker, Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, Washington, D. C.
Lloyd Partain, Soil Conservation
Service, Washington, D. C.; Miss
Mary E. Creswell, director of the
School of Home Economics; Miss
Ruby Thompson, associate director ot
home management, Farm Security
Administration, Athens; Dr. Harmon
W. Caldwell, president of the Uni
versity; J. Phil Campbell, Soil Con
servation Service, Washington, D. C.,
and Director Walter S. Brown, of
the Extension Service.
VRA Will Hold
Annual F or um s
Tuesday Night
40 Outstanding Lay and Spir
itual Leaders to Conduct
University-wide Meetings
Approximately 40 outstanding lay
and spiritual leaders of the state
will come to the University Tuesday
to lead in University-wide forums to
be held in dormitories, fraternities
and sorority houses under the spon
sorship of the Voluntary Religious
Association.
Purpose of the forums, which will
be held Tuesday evening following
supper at the various places partici
pating, is "to be helpful to the groups
in stimulating thinking and rigln
living.” Present plans are for the
visiting speaker to make a brief ad
dress after which the floor will be
thrown open for discussion.
Prominent. Atlantians Coming
Among the prominent Atlantians
who will be here are T. C- Law,
chemist; Ellis Arnall, attorney gen
eral, State of Georgia; H. E. Rus
sell, minister; Canon Charles Schil
ling, minister; Lloyd R. KUlam, exe
cutive secretary of the National
Council of Y. M. C. A.s; R. B. Eleaz-
er, Educational Secretary of Race
Relations; Walter Paschall, editor of
the Atlanta Journal’s radio section,
Luke Green, of the Atlanta Consti
tution.
Others Listed
J. Milton Richardson, minister;
Herman L. Turner, minister; W. E.
Mitchell, vice-president and general
manager of the Georgia Power Com
pany; Ted V. Morrison, minister;
Kendall Weslgner, personnel direc
tor, Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany; Virlyn B. Moore Jr., attorney;
and Eugene Grunby, attorney.
The delegation from Agnes Scott
College will include Dr. Philip Dav
idson, Miss Carrie Scandrett, and Dr-
S. M. Christian. Glenn Messengale
and Dr. John D. Lee, of Emory Uni
versity, have also announced their
participation.
Others to attend are E. D. Ken-
(Contlnued on page 7)
On the Inside
Bulldogs Will Face Tech
In Annual Grid Classic
Saturday on Grant Field
Classes to lie Suspended
For Georgia-Tech Game
All classes will be suspended
Saturday for the annual Georgia-
Tech football game in Atlanta. No
charges will be made to students
absent from classes before or after
the suspension.
Final examinations will begin
Friday, Dec. 16, continuing through
Tuesday, Dec. 19. Immediately
following the last examinations,
Christmrs recess will begin. All
students must register for the win
ter quarter on Jan. 2, and classes
commence the following day, Jan.
3.
Examination schedules which
were released last week through
the office of the dean appear on
page 6 of this issue. Faculty mem
bers have been requested to fol
low the schedule.
CAA Trainees Get
Flying Experience
Thursday Morning
University Students Take Off
for First Time From Ath
ens Airport
Kirkoff Scheduled for 3 p. m.
E. S. T. Before Predicted
Crowd of 28,000
Pioneers out-argue Deinostlien-
liuis 2
Clip your exam schedule 0
Danfort h to s|M-ak Wednesday.... (I
Boxing Gmninmcnt begins to
night 8
8. A. K., Candler Hall play for
intrnmurul football title 9
Twonty-elght thousand spectators
will crowd Into Grant Field, Atlan
ta, Saturday afternoon to see Geor
gia's battered Bulldog machine go
up against Tech’s power-packing En
gineers in the 33rd renewal of the
bitter intra-state rivalry.
Kickoff is set for 3 o’clock (EST).
Even the most optimistic Georgia
supporters are asking, and getting,
points, for only the results of pre
vious games, showing 16 Bulldog vic
tories to 10 for Tech, with six ties,
leans In favor of the Red and Black.
While the Bulldogs have been
bounced around frequently this fall,
the powerful Jackets have come
through a tough Southeastern card
without a defeat and have lost only
to Notre Dame and Dukb, a couple
of genuine powerhouses from outside
the league, of a suicide schedule.
Tech Socks Championship
Victory over Georgia Saturday
would assure the Techs of at least
a tie for the conference champion
ship. Right now, the Jackets, along
with Tennessee and Tulane, are out
in front by a country mile.
On paper, the Atlantians rate sev
eral touchdowns ahead of Wallace
Cold Mornings, Warm Noons Caused
By Lack of Rainfall, Geographer Says
By Rill Rogers
Chilly students have been wonder
ing why it is so cold every morning
before an 8:30 class and so pleaantly
warm at mid-day.
Dr. E. S. Sell, geography profes
sor, has an antewer for the ohenom-
enon—It’s all a matter of rainfall,
or rather the lack of rainfall.
According to his explanation, the
ground ih very dry because of a de
ficiency of rain for the past two
mouths. Incidentally, only .03 of 1
inch of rain fell during October,
while just .62 of 1 inch fell in No
vember. Water, being a poor con
ductor of heat, holds heat once it is
warmed. When the ground is moist,
the water in it helps hold heat over
night. When the ground is dry, it
loses its heat more rapidly.
Since the ground is extremely dry
now, it loses heat rapidly after the
Sun goes down. Thus nights are rel
atively cold.
But how does It warm up so quick
ly by the middle of the day? Dr.
Sell has the answer for that one too.
It’s all a matter of the lack of mois
ture in the air.
As rainfall has been almost negli
gible, there is no moisture in the
air. Ordinarily, moisture-laden air
would absorb heat from the sun’s
ray* before they reach the earth.
With air "dry” for the past two
months, that excess heat has reached
the earth instead.
Both the factors explained above
lead to a wide range in tempera
ture between the highest and low
est thermometer readings fob the
day. A 38-degree range one day
this week was unusually high, said
Dr. Sell, as compared to an average
daily variation of 20 degrees over
an entire year.
Lowest temperature of Che fall
was 27 Monday, while the lowest of
the whole winter last year was 18
on Nov. 30, Dr. Sell added.
Debate Team to Represent
University in Tournament
Consisting ot four students, a de
bate team will represent the Univer
sity at the annual Dixit* Forensic
tournament to be held at Rock Hill,
S. C., from Dec. 7 through 9. The
team includes Stokes Walker, Clear
water, Fla.; Jack Meadows, Athens;
Phyllis Jenkins, Athens, and Anne
Byrd Firor, Athens.
The query to be debated is. Re
solved: That the United States should
maintain a policy of strict Isolation
toward all nations outside the Wes
tern Hemisphere engaged in civil or
international conflict. Also, the stu
dents will take part in other foren
sic contests, Walker and Firor, in
impromptu speaking; Jenkins, poet
ry reading, and Meadows, radio an
nouncing.
Claud Green, debate coach, will
accompany the representatives to the
South Carolina college.
Winter Quarter Schedules
May Be Altered This W eek
Changes in schedules for the win
ter quarter may be made through
Thursday, L. L. Hendren, dean of
administration, announced today.
After Thursday no courses will be
| changed except under extraordinary
circumstances, the announcement
said. All changes will incur the usual
$1 fee unless the original registra
tion involved an error of the regis
tering officer.
Senior division students will re
port to their major professor or to
the dean of the school or college.
Freshmen men will report to Dean
William Tate, sophomore men to
Dean Hendren, and junior division
women to Dean R. H. Powell of Co
ordinate College.
Aspiring trainees of the Univer
slty's CAA air school commenced ac
tual flying Thursday at the Athens
airport under the direct supervision
of Captain Eddie Schultz, head flight
director, and three other government
approved flying Instructors.
Final approval of applications to
take the course arrived from Wash
ington over 10 days ago, but permis
sion to fly was not received until the
middle of this week.
Flight instructions will be given
six times each week for 30-mlnute
periods, supplemented by the ground
classes in Metg’s Hall on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday nights.
The group is using four Taylor
Cub training planes especially adapt
ed to student and Instructor flying,
with their dual controls. Each plane,
painted the ofllclul CAA yellow and
black, is marked with red and black
lettering and carries the Georgia
Bulldog emblem.
This type plane has proved unusu
ally successful in previous CAA air
schools throughout the United States.
Out of over 300 students fully train
ed last year, not one flying casualty
resulted.
Inspections are made before each
flight and periodically each plane
undergoes a rigid check-up by a gov
ernment expert to insure maximum
safety to all students.
In addition, planes in the hands
of students will be limited to a 10-
mile flying radius.
M. N. Tutwiler, director of the
school, with Captain Schultz, is plan
ning an air meet in the future,
probably during the spring quarter,
with the student flyers from Georgia
Tech.
University student body will
move en masse to Atlanta today
and Saturday morning for the Tech
game at Grant Field. According
to tlu< athletic department, more
than 2,.VM» students have pureluis-
ed tickets for the game.
Butts’ Bulldog club, but Jacket back
ers are not so free with their points,
for pre-game dope means but little
when the gladiators of Georgia and
Tech take the field. This has been
evidenced the puBt two seasons when
Bulldog clubs gained ties with fav
ored Tech elevens, 6 to 6, in Atlan
ta two seasons ago, and a scoreless
deadlock here last winter.
With his squad riddled with minor
Injuries, Butts intends to make sev
eral changes in his starting eleven.
Lanky Green Keltncr is to replace
the bruised Alex McCasklll at left
end. Tommy Green will most likely
take over from Wyatt Posey at right
tackle, and Woodrow Brown may
supplant battered Robin Nowell at
blocking back.
Bulldog Lineup
Barring last-minute alterations,
here Is the way Georgia will go to
the post: Keltner, left end; Williams,
left tackle; Wllfong, left guard;
Witt, center; Johnson, right guard;
Green, right tackle; Sklpworth, right
lend; Brown or Nowell at blocking
(back; Cliff Kimsey at tailback; Cap
tain Vassa Cate at wingback, and
Jim Fordham at fullback,
Currying Georgia’s offensive hopes
will be Fordham and Kimsey on the
ground und little Heyward Allen, the
Birmingham, Ala., sophomore. In the
air. Although not listed as a start
er, the Alabama mite will see plenty
of service for the Georgians will
probably be prompt in finding the
sturdy Tech forwards a headache.
Working behind a defensive which
has a habit getting downright nasty
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Student's Attempt to Save Life Prevents
Taking Examination for Medical Aptitude
By latrry Smith
Saving a man's life was not a
valid excuse for the proctors of the
medical aptitude test given to 76
potential medical students in Le-
Conte Hall Tuesday afternoon.
Marjorie Montgomery, Manchester,
who completed degree requirements
last June and who will be graduated
from the University in June, was en
route to Athens Tuesday morning to
stand the aptitude test distributed
nationally. Between Gay and Senola
the bus in which she was the only
passenger stopped at a crossroads.
There the driver alighted to aid a
small man who was being choked
by a 250-pound man. The smaller’s
face was blue from the death grip,
according to Montgomery. The bus
operator was unsuccessful in sepa
rating the two pugilists by arbitra
tion. Montgomery then left the bus
and was successful in her attempt.
but the larger man swung his fist
and hit her in the temple. She fell
to the ground stunned.
After being revived, the trip to
Athens was continued. The Man-
cheaterite arrived too late for the
beginning of the examination, and
according to the regulations, she was
not allowed to take the quiz.
When questioned Wednesday,
Montgomery explained that she “was
only trying to save a man's life,”
but she added, “If I had thought
twice, I would never have attempted
It.”
University officials said the exam
inations are not absolutely necessary
for entrance in the medical college,
but the results, which will not be
announced, are considered with the
student’s application. Montgomery
said she will probably enter the Au
gusta institution in September, 1941,
and did not plan to enter next fall