THE CARDINAL
VOL. 2 LOUISVILLE, KY., FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934 NO. 25
HIGHLIGHTS OF
“Garden of Memories”
PLAYERS NEAR
COMPLETION OF
UNUSUAL SETS
Jack-Knife Stages, Fade Away
Scenes Of Breath Taking
Beauty Constructed
NEW MATERIALS USED
With the arrival yesterday of
forty-eight rubber-tired rollers to
facilitate construction of jack-knife
stages upon which much of
the beauty of the production of
“A Garden of Memories” de-pends,
construction on the settings
neared completion.
A hard working stage crew,
headed by Sheppard Musson and
Tom Allison, has been working
night and day on these settings,
which will provide a background
of almost breath-taking beauty for
the play.
To the audience these sets will
give the effects of a movie fade-out,
for there will be no lowering
of the curtain as the scene will
gradually fade away as another
swings in. Only new materials are
to be used in the construction; no
make-shift sets compounded out
of the materials employed* in by-gone
plays will appear.
Shift From Modern To Victorian
Scene
Opening in a modernistic set-ting,
the action of “Garden of
Memories” shifts back to the days
of Victoria’s reign and a panorama
of the leisurely and colorful life
of the day slowly unfolds.
Perhaps the loveliest of the
scenes is a great ballroom, with
marble columns in the foreground,
convex mirrors on either side and
a crystal chandelier overhead.
Paneled walls in white satin with
gold stars embossed thereon form
the background for a group of
dancers, dressed in the rustling
silks and satins of the day.
The sets were designed and
blueprints sent here from New
York by Rollo Wayne, a former
graduate of the University and a
former president of the Players
Club, and is today one of Broad-way’s
leading scenic designers.
Tickets Mailed Out
An unwary visitor, stumbling
into the Greenroom of the Play-house
during the last week—Liter-ally
stumbling down the little
flight of dark stairs which leads
from the stage—thought for a
while that he had blundered in-stead
into a classroom where an
examination was in progress. The
room was filled with students of
both sexes, each with a pen in
hand, his head bent over a dask,
busily writing.
He was reassured, however, by
Gilbert Ohlmann, Business Man-ager
of the Players, who informed
him that the students were mere-ly
associate members of the or-ganization
engaged in the Hercu-lean
labor of addressing three
thousand envelopes. Tickets to
“Garden of Memories,” the next
Jennie Lee To Speak
By Popular Demand
Dictatorship and Revolution in
Europe To Be Discussed at
Lecture Saturday
Jennie Lee, who in 1929 was
the youngest member of the Brit-ish
Parliament, will return to Lou-isville
by popular demand to speak
tomorrow evening at 8:00 at the
Y. M. H. A. Auditorium and fur-ther
develop her discussion of dic-tatorship
and revolution in Eur-ope.
Miss Lee spoke on the League
For Industrial Democrary Lecture
Series several weeks ago, and at
the Louisville Public Forum sev-eral
years ago, both times before
a capacity house. A nominal ad-mission
charge will be made.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
MEET SPONSORED
BY U.-L. AND U.-K.
Dalton, Dykstra and Ogburn to
Speak at Conference March
28-29; Professors Also
To Talk
PLANS BEING MADE NOW
A two day Conference on Pub-lic
Affairs is to be held in Louis-ville
on March 28 and 29 by the
Division of Adult Education of
the University of Louisville and
the Extension Department of the
University of Kentucky. The first
day of the Conference will be de-voted
to national and internation-al
affairs, while state and local
government problems will be dis-cussed
the second day. During
the two day conference there will
be six meetings at each of which
there will be a main speaker and
several discussion leaders. J. Paul
Druien, Director of the Division
of Adult Education, stated that
Middletons Present
Cups For Scholarship
Dr. and Mrs. Austin R. Middle-ton
will present Joving cups to the
fraternity and sorority which earn
the highest academic standings for
the second semester of the present
year. The important condition at-tached
to the awards is that the
standings must be equal to or bet-ter
than the academic average of
the college of liberal arts as a
whole, and fraternity and sorority
standings shall be computed from
the scholastic standing of both
pledges and active members.
WORK BY CORTEZ FOUND
A rare book over four centuries
old and containing the first print-ing
of one of Captain-General
Hernando Cortez’ works written
from the New World during the
conquest he conducted in Mexico
was recently acquired by Tulane
University. The book, which is
beautifully bound in tooled leath-er,
was printed in Nuremberg,
Germany in March, 1524.
FIRST INTRAMURAL NIGHT
IS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL
Liberal Arts Defeat Speed; Dents
Overcome Medical School
In Fast Games
STEIGER FUND BENEFITS
University of
Louisville’s first
Intramural
night, sponsor-ed
by Coach
Rollie Don o-van,
was unani-mously
conced-ed
a success so-cially,
athleti-cally,
and finan-cially
by ap-proximately
five
hundred people
who crowded
the gymnasium
to witness two sparkling games of
basketball and dance to the music
of Leon Hecter’s Arcadians.
With expenses kept below the
five dollar mark, over a hundred
dollars was realized to be divided
between the Steiger Memorial
Fund and equipment for intramur-al
events.
In the opening games the En-gineers
led at the half, but Liberal
Arts representatives came through
to win a 22-14 decision over their
traditional rivals from Speed
School, and the Dental team de-feated
the Doctors in the second
clash by 23-15.
Ten minutes after the close of
the Med-Dent game, the basket-ball
floor was converted into dance
floor with Leon Hecter and his
volunteer orchestra furnishing the
music. Bill Smith, known on the
campus as “Socialist Bill,” furnish-ed
color by taking Leon’s position
for a time as bandmaster and
crooner.
For the Arts, Mershon and Bax-ter
starred, scoring seven and six
tallies respectively; Wagner of
Speed counted two field shots.
Forsee, trousered wonder of the
Medicals, furnished both skill and
comedy in the game his team lost
to the Dents. Delta Sigma Delta
as a complete team substituted for
half the game in the Med-Dent
clash. Spectators were continually
in doubt as to which teams were
playing because of the continual
change in squads. First red uni-forms,
then green, performed for
the Dents.
Mr. Donovan issued the follow-ing
statement:
“May I take this oportunity to
thank the students of the Speed
School, College of Liberal Arts,
Medical and Dental Schools for
their fine support in helping me
to make the Intramural night a
successful one—Orchids to Leon
Hechter and his orchestra and the
splendid spirit shown by the four
basketball teams.”
ATTENTION SENIORS!
A meeting for the members
of the class of 1934 will be held
at noon, Tuesday, March 20, in
Gardiner Hall, Sarah Stites,
class president announced. All
seniors are urged to be present.
At this time definite plans will
be announced regarding the
dance, and other matters of im-portance,
Engineers Set Date
For Ball April 13
Nominations For Queen Must Be
Made Before March 28
The date set for the annual En-gineers’
Ball is Friday, April 13.
This year, as in the past, there
will be a
* Queen elected at the
dance. Candidates for Queen must
be students in the University of
Louisville, and must be nominated
before March 28. All nominations
must be accompanied by the writ-ten
permission of the nominee,
and turned in to Mr. Benedict at
Speed School before March 28.
The place decided upon by the
committee is Audubon Country
Club. The orchestra has not yet
been choosen. The subscription
will be $1.50 per couple.
KEATS PROGRAM
PRESENTED AT
SPEED MUSEUM
Dr. Haswell To Speak On Signifi-cance
of Holman’s Keatsiana
Exhibited String
Quartet to Play
DONAHUE IS DIRECTOR
A program devoted to John
Keats will be presented at the
Speed Museum next Thursday,
March 22 ?jt 2:30 in connection
with Louis A. Holman’s collection
of Keatsiana now on exhibition at
the Museum. Dr. Richard E. Has-well
of the Department of English
of the University of Louisville will
speak on the literary and biog-raphical
significance of the Keats-iana
being exhibited. A string
quartef from the University of
Louisville School of Music will
present several compositions of
composers contemporaneous with
Keats. The program is under the
direction of J. Kenneth Donahue
in cooperation with ? ? Speed
and Mrs. J. B. Speed. Miss Mil-dred
Shapensky, aided in the
planning of the program.
Invitations have been extended
to students of other schools as well
as to students of the University of
Louisville.
Cardinal Gets
Curious Paper
END OF WORLD DESCRIBED
Many peculiar things come into
the Cardinal office through the
mails. We are at present in re-ceipt
of a paper which predicts in
vivid terms the end of the world.
Claiming a Biblical basis for his
statements, the author of this dis-sertation
predicts that Satan will
energize the Beast, the head of
the Roman Empire, to revolt
against God. The worship of Je-hovah
at Jerusalem will according-ly
be abolished and idolatry en-forced.
The Antichrist will now
[receive divine honors.
| The “King of the North,” as
the writer calls Soviet Russia, will
war on the Antichrist, to punish
Israel for its idolatry. Asa climax,
The ten tribes will be gathered in
and all Israel will be again “unit-ed
under the sceptre of David.”
Russia will invade Palestine and
will be destroyed.
SHAW PLAYLET
TO BE GIVEN FOR
STEIGER FUND
“Passion, Poison and Petrifaction”
Will Be Repeated For Bene-fit
of Memorial
CAST OF SEVEN CHOSEN
Arrangements are being made
for the presentation of George
Bernard Shaw’s one act play “Pas-sion,
Poison, and Petrification” at
the Playhouse Friday morning,
March 23 at 11 o’clock, for the
benefit of the Steiger Memorial
Fund. A nominal charge will be
made for admission.
“Passion, Poison and Petrifac-tion,”
with an all-star cast of Uni-versity
of Louisville players, di-rected
by Louis Lusky, will be
shown for the first time before the
Players Club meeting, tomorrow
at 12:30, and will be repeated with
the same cast for the general pub-lic
at the later date.
Seven persons are cast in this
play, with six others helping in the
parts of Lady Magnesia Fitztolle-mache
and Lord Fitztollemache,
Ella Garth Choate, Phyllis, and
John Lepping, Adolphus. Richard
Dehoney is the Landlord, George
Ryan, the Policeman, and Joseph
Bauscher, the Doctor.
Settings are being made by Tom
Allison, with Ed Montgomery act-ing
as electrician and Tommy
Noonan, as technical director.
Helenruth Shatz and Courtney
Trites are in charge of properties,
and Elizabeth Wilson is Holder of
the Book.
According to Louis Lusky, pres-ident
of the U. of L. Players, “this
is the most unique play we have
ever presented.”
SAMPLE TO APPEAR
IN NEXT CONCERT
Sang Under Toscanini At La Scala
Opera House In
Italy
WILL SING OTHELLO
The University Concert Series
will present the University Sym-phony
Orchestra under the direc-tion
of H. Arthur Brown, with
John Dwight Sample, American
dramatic tenor, as soloist at the
Memorial Auditorium, Wednes-day
night, March 21.
Mr. Sample is one of America’s
foremost dramatic tenors and is
one of the few American singers
to have the honor of singing at
the La Scala Opera House in Italy
under the direction of Toscanini,
and was the first American tenor
to sing Othello in Italy.
Mr. Sample was chosen to sing
the tenor role in La Risurrezione
di Cristo by Perosi in the Au-gusteo
Series in Rome. Lately he
has been appearing in “Aida,” “II
Trovatore,” and “Othello,” at the
Berlin Opera House as well as on
a tour through the Rhine cities.
His great dramatic voice is best set
off when accompanied by a Sym-phony
orchestra.
The program will be opened by
Beethoven’s dramatic overture to
Coriolanus. This will be followed
by the “Fifth Symphony in D flat
major” of Schubert. This charm-
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