THE CARDINAL Official Student Publication of the University of Louisville
VOL. 4. LOUISVILLE, KY., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936 NO. 29
Woman’s League
Formal Banquet
Set For May 6
The Woman’s League formal
banquet will be held Wednesday
evening, May 6, at the Puritan
Apartments. Careful arrange-ments
for a very interesting and
entertaining programme are being
made. The usual campus-wide
popularity contest for the most
representative, most beautiful,
most sophisticated, and best dress-ed
girl, the best sport etc., will
be held.
The nominating committee for
the popularity contest includes:
Mary E. Jones, Jean Jones, Mil-dred
Litkenhous, and Virginia
Schoeffel.
Other committee heads are:
Jean Pleavins, programme; Anna
Frances Pirkey, arrangements;
Virginia Schoeffel, tickets; and
Emily Weigel, advertising.
Tickets are 75 cents and may
be secured from the committee in
charge or at the Dean of Women’s
office.
Orchid Increased $1
By Unknown Alumnus
The weekly orchid of $i and
two passes to Loew’s Theatre,
which are presented by the Alum-ni
Association to an outstanding
student, has been increased to $2
and two passes to Loew’s.
This increase was made possible
by an alumnus who does not wish
his name known, but who has
agreed to match the dollar which
the Alumni puts up, J. Paul
Druien, executive secretary of the
Alumni Association, said earlier
this week.
Norman Voelcker was the re-cipient
of the orchid last week,
but since the offer of the anony-mous
alumnus was retroactive,
each previous orchid recipient was
given another dollar. John Zur-fluh,
Liberal Arts Graduate in ’34
made the presentation, pointing
out Voelcker’s deeds in the field
of music. An account of these
is found on page 4.
Another award is to be made to-morrow,
Friday, at 12:30 in the
League Room.
Spring Fever Gets Students
As Belknap Campus Blooms
A pressure seems to have been
lifted from the heart of every stu-dent
on the campus. Spring is of
great importance to the University
campus this year because it means
the flowers and trees, which have
been planted and worked so care-fully,
will burst into bloom, mak-ing
the University of Louisville
one of the most romantic spots in
the city.
There are one thousand red
Pride of Harlem tulips ready to
bloom. These are planted near
the Home Economics building, the
Playhouse and the Music building.
The Mountain Laurels by the
Playhouse will soon be covered
with blooms. There will be the
odor of the highly fragrant carlesi
Viburmum near the Administra-tion
building, the Playhouse,
Speed School, and Gardiner Hall.
The ever beautiful Japanese
Weeping Cherry tree Northwest
of the Administration building will
be blooming. The Snowball trees
are north and south of this build-ing
and there are two Japanese
Snowball trees on the east. Pass-ing
motorists may be tempted to
stop and take a look at the Red
Tamarix on the Shipp street side
of the campus. A University stu-dent
can boast of the fact that
twelve magnolias have been plant-ed
on the grounds, six Chinese and
six native.
Can you blame students for
wanting to cut class to sit on the
lawn of the University and remi-nisce
or take a cat-nap?
HOW FOWLER MEMORIAL WILL LOOK
Above picture is the Fowler
Memorial Library, as it will look
when completed. Proceeds from
the skating party of April 27 will
be used to equip this room.
Skating Party Plans
Complete for April 27
Plans are being completed for
the Student Council skating party,
which will be given at the Fon-taine
Ferry rink from 8 to n p.
m., Monday, April 27. The pro-ceeds
will be used to equip the
Fowler Memorial Library, in hon-or
of the late Dr. E. B. Fowler,
head of the English department
until June, 1936.
Handbills, numbered from one
to ten for each successive day, are
being distributed at 12:30 daily.
The first ten person presenting a
full series at the gate Monday
evening will be admitted free of
charge.
An artist’s conception of the
Fowler Memorial Library appears
on this page. The library will al-legedly
be located on the second
floor of the Administration build-ing.
Anatomy Profs Attend
Convention At Duke
Dr. S. I. Kornhauser, Sydney
Evans Johnson, Arch Evan Cole,
Edmund K. Hall and Paul G.
Roffe, members of the dep’t of
anatomy of the University of Lou-isville
Medical School, attended a
meeting of the Association of
American Anatomists at Duke
University, Durham, North Caro-lina,
April 9, 10, 11. An attend-ance
of four hundred persons
made this one of the largest meet-ings
of the Association ever held.
This meeting marked an inno-vation
in the scheduling of two
sessions of round table discussions
on topics of current interest. As
many as five round tables were in
progress at one time. The anato-mists
have been invited to hold
their meeting at Louisville in the
spring of 1938.
Professor Emil Witschi of the
University of lowa and three grad-uate
assistants visited Louisville
Monday and Tuesday en route
from the Association meeting. Dr.
Witschi, one of the world’s author-ities
in the field of experimental
biology of sex determination and
sex physiology, lectured to first
year students of the medical school
on his work on the endocrine con-trol
of secondary sex characters
in birds. His lecture was illus-trated
with natural color lantern-slides.
Borowitz Gets Lead
In 'Mr. Pirn Passes By'
Morris Borowitz has been cast
as Carraway Pirn in A. A. Milne’s
play, Mr. Pirn Passes By which
the University of Louisville Play-ers
will present May 16 and 17
with matinee on the latter date.
Other members of the cast se-lected
by Boyd Martin, director
of the Players, are Hazel McLean,
Virginia McGowan, Nellie Old-acre,
Shirley Jenkins, and Ed
Groth.
SENIORS!
Reservations for senior an-nouncements
must be given to
Virginia Schoeffel, Eleanor
Bower, or Garr Burt on or be-fore
Thursday, April 30.
Speedites Visit Dam
On Birmingham Trip
Sixteen members of the Uni-versity
o f Louisville Student
Branch of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers attended
the Southern Group Conference of
that society in Birmingham, Ala-bama,
on April 6 and 7. The
party was accompanied by Dean
B. M. Brigman, of Speed School,
and Prof. R. S. Trosper, honorary
chairman of the branch.
A paper on “Smoke Abatement
Investigation of Louisville,’’ pre-sented
by Kenneth W. Scott,
chairman of the local branch, took
the third prize in the competition.
The first and second prizes were
won by the representatives from
Tulane and Vanderbilt, respective-ly.
Fourteen colleges took part
in the competition.
Various inspection trips were ar-ranged,
including and inspection
of the Ensely and Fairfield Works
of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and
Railroad Company, the largest of
its kind in the South. Here was
shown the melting of iron ore, the
operation of Bessemer converters,
and the rolling process of the steel.
A dance was given by the Bir-mingham
Section of the society,
which is made up of prominent en-gineers
of that city.
Two hundred and fifty students
from sixteen engineering colleges
in nine states attended the confer-ence,
which is held annually in
some southern city. The next con-ference
will be held in Chatta-nooga,
Tenn.
On the return trip, the local
members went through the Wilson
Dam at Muscle Shoals and the en-gineering
college of Vanderbilt
University at Nashville.
Kent Bans Peace Strike;
Assembly At 12:30 Today
The student assembly against war, nee the student strike against
war, will be the dominant student activity on the campus today.
Robert G. Spivack, editor of the University of Cincinnati Bearcat
will be the principal speaker of the assembly, set for 12:30 in the
Playhouse. William C. Turner, well-known debater of the School of
Law, is to be the other speaker.
Plans begun over a month ago
for a sweeping and impressive stu-dent
strike against war today met
sudden defeat last Friday when
President R. A. Kent called three
members of the Student Peace
Action Committee to his office and
informed them that there was to
be no strike, or demonstration.
Dr. Kent said that he had no
objections to an assembly, and
that he would even be willing to
speak himself.
Somewhere between 350,000
and half a million college and
high school students were to have
gone on strike for one hour against
war yesterday morning at 11.
Sympathy demonstrations were to
have been held in France, Spain,
Belgium, England, and Porto Ri-co.
The local peace action commit-tee,
headed by Harriet C. Harris,
has been publicizing the assembly
through a public address system,
located in the basement of Gardi-ner
Hall. For the past week son-orous
announcements have been
greeting students on all parts of
the campus in the interval between
classes.
In a talk announcing the as-sembly
over Station WAVE yes-terday
afternoon Lewis M. Cohen,
editor of the Cardinal, declared,
“We seek peace, and a future in
which we will be free to build hap-and
secure lives. We do not want
to sacrifice that future on battle-grounds
prepared for us by those
who profit from war.”
T. V. A. Flood Check
Explains T. V. A. Head
Prof. W. R. Woolrich, Director
of the Agricultural Activities of
the Tennessee Valley Authority,
spoke before the Student Branch
of the American Society of Mech-anical
Engineers at Speed School
last Friday night on “Some Prob-
‘Mrs. Moonlight’ Acclaimed
As Splendid Performance
by Ed Simon.
“Dear Mrs. Moonlight. Dear,
dear Mrs. Moonlight. . .”
These closing words of the fifth
and final Little Theatre produc-tion
this season might well be lift-ed
and presented simply as a
synopsis of what was clearly the
outstanding play of the year,
“Mrs. Moonlight,” a moving,
touching piece of pastiche.
Presented at the Playhouse
(last performance this evening),
“Mrs. Moonlight” is sentimental,
fantastic, beautiful. One is com-pletely
swept away and carried
into another world. . . and when
it is over, one sits stirred by the
play in itself, let alone the acting
that is superb. It takes the rise
of the asbestos for curtain calls,
and the flood of house lights to
bring one back from a journey to
the unreal, the fantastic that one
hates to leave.
Sarah Moonlight (Dear Mrs.
Moonlight) has been granted full-filment
of one wish and when her
child is born she asks that her ap-pearance
might forever continue
youthful. After five years she
realizes that while her friends, and
relatives are climbing the ladder
of age, she remains the same and
this begins to plague her with fear
until finally she decides to run
away.
Tom Moonlight, Sarah’s hus-band,
has married Sarah’s sister
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