The Cardinal News
Dedicated to the Advancement of the University of Louisville
VOL. I. No. 30. LOUISVILLE, KY, MAY 27, 1927. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
O’CONNELL AND
CHRESTE SATYR
HEADS FOR 1928
1927 Thoroughbred Breaks
Record With Pre-Com-mencement
Appearance.
FERRY, RICE GET CREDIT.
Co-incident with the appearance of
the 11*27 Thoroughbred, year book of
the University of Louisville was the
announcement that William Chreste
will be manaping editor and Charles
O’Connell will be editor of the Satyr,
monthly comic magazine of the Uni-versity,
for the collegiate year 1927-
28.
Miss Annie Ferry, editor and Em-ber-
t Rice, business manager of the
1927 Thoroughbred have the distine-tion
of producing an annual befoi'e
the close of the collegiate year. Here-tofore,
the annuals have come off the
press after commencement.
Mr. Chreste succeeds Clarence Jud-ah
and Mr. OConnell, leader of The
Cardinals dance orchestra, w’ho has
distinguished himself as the staff art-ist,
succeeds Smith Taylor. Mr.
Chreste was business manager during
the past year and will be succeeded in
that office by Stuart Lampe. Norvin
Greene will be treasurer.
Exams Will Start
Thursday, June 2
Final examinations of every de-partment
of the University of
Louisville with the exception of
the Speed Scientific School will be-gin
at 8 o’clock Thursday morning,
June 2 and will continue through
Wednesday June 8.
A ful 1 schedule of examination
will be iound on an inside page.
14 Receive
U. L. Players
Pins For '27
Fourteen members of the Dramatic
Club received the University Players’
pin this year, according to Mr. Boyd
Martin, director of the Players, who
makes the aw’ard.
The pin is awarded for industry or
talent, or both, to the students who
have earned twenty-five points or
over. The fourteen students are Cal-vin
Gray, Katherine Lewis, Frances
Mann, Alice Bowie, Bill Dering, Leola
Ditto, Annie Ferry, Gladys Friend,
Olivia Pragoff, Esther Ritter, Mar-guerite
Threlkle, Virginia Lee Smith,
Emil Pragoff and Thelma Dolan.
English 50
to Present
"Neighbors"
The dramatic season for'the Uni-versity
of Louisville will close Satur-day
when Mr. Boyd Martin’s English
50 class presents Zona Galess one-act
play, “Neighbors.” Although the
one-act plays this year have been di-rected
by students, Mr. Martin, him-self,
will direct this one.
Paul Druien is stage manager, Es-ther
Ritter is chief electrician, and
Nona West, assisted by Dorothy Bar-inger,
has charge of props.
The cast is as follows:
Grandma Lucy Farmer Pfau
Miss Dianthy Abel Betty Wooden
Ezra Williams Dan Thompson
Peter Richard Taylor
Inez Marie Cross
Miss Elira Moran Elizabeth Nall
Miss Trot. Margery Weinberg
Miss Carry Ellsworth Marion Stoll
U. Undergrad
Body to Lose
Incorrigible
Thompson, Non-Truckling,
Truculent Editor, Ends
Colorful Adventure.
When Daniel Harold Thompson,
non-tuckling and truculent associate
editor of The Cardinal News, and
poet .receives his Bachelor of Arts
degree in June, the University of
Louisville will lose one of its most
colorful undergradutes.
Mr. Thomson has made an impres-sion
in almost every phase of student
life except in athletics. Besides be-ing
associate editor of The Cardinal
News he has made his mark in
scholarship, being a member of the
Woodcock Society, and is the retir-ing
vice-president of the Lanthorn
chapter of Sigma Upsilon, national
honorary literary faternity, in which
are gathered the twelve best male
intellects on the Campus. His serv-ices
to the student body include the
presidency cf the Euterpean Club,
the program chairmanship of the Pat-terson
Literary Society, membership
in the Journalism and History Club.
Rumor has it that he is president of
the Shirts and a member of the
Society of Damned Souls, but this
rumor is attributed to the fact that
he isn’t afraid of college presidents.
Mr. Thompson’s editorials in The
Cardinal News have always been
treehant and virile if somewhat in-conoclastic.
His fine record at the
University is all the more credit-able
in view’ of that fact that Mr.
Thompson worked his way through
college as an employee of the The
Courier-Journal and The Louisville
Times.
Even those students who aren’t as
“incorrigible” as Dan Thompson will
miss this colorful figure.
DANIEL H. THOMPSON
Band Aids In
Unveiling of
Fitch Statue
The University of Louisville Band,
as a part of the Kentucky National
Guard, journeyed to Bardstown, Ky.,
last Wednesday to play at the unveil-ing
of the marble memorial to John
Fitch, inventor of the steamboat, who
died and was buried in Banjptown in
1798. The Band participated in the
tribute to the famous inventor at the
invitation of Governor William J.
Fields.
The members of the band, forty in
number, were in charge* of Harry Cur-
Louisville musician.
The boys made a day of it and had
a jolly good time. Mr. Wiley B. Wendt
member of the Speed School faculty
is their director.
Alumni Drama Group
Nearing Reality As
By-Laws Submitted
A University of Louisville Alumnn
dramatic club advanced another step
tow’ard realization this week when
Boyd Martin, director of the Univer-sity
of Louisville Players, presented
the Alumni committee with a prospec-tive
constitution and by-laws.
Agreement on the constitution and
by-laws was reached and the neYt or-ganization
step will be taken by the
fifty some odd graduates who have
signified their desire to become mem-bers
of a graduate dramatic group.
Complete organization is expected
before the summer is under way. The
first play will be presented in the fall,
Mr. Martin will next year direct five
graduate and five undergraduate pro-ductions.
It is understood that after
the first year of the alumni group’s
existence Mr. Martin will present re-vivals
of successful Players’ produc-tions
of the past thirteen years. He
will use all-star casts.
According to the stipulations of the
constitution as it now’ reads the Alum-ni
Association and the graduate dra-mafic
club will divide profits on a per-centage
basis but the Alumni Associa-tion
will not be responsible for any
debts incurred.
U. L. To Radiocast
During Summer
Miss Ruth Koch, who has been
directing the radio concerts radio-casted
by the University of Louisville
over WHAS, has announced that she
has arranged to continue the regular
conedKs, to be given the second Fri-day
in each month, throughout the
summer vacation.
Cardinal News
Staff For 1927
To Be Announced
The -taff of The Cardinal News
for the collegiate year 1927-28 will
soon be announced. Promotion and
appointments are made solely on a
merit basis. Members of the grad-uating
class are eligible for gradu-ate
positions of the staff.
The Cardinals News will an-nounce
in a few weeks the decision
to publish or not to publish sum-mer
editions of the paper
Psi Delta Is
Scholarship
Cup Winner
Presentation of the Pan-Hellenic
Scholarship Cup for 1925-26 to the
Psi Delta Sorority was made at a
Pan-Hellenic meeting held in the
Alumni Rooms at nopn yesterday.
Psi Delta had an average of 93 per
cent. Delta Tau Sorority, now Phi
Delta Epsilon, w'as second with 91 per,
cent, and Phi Alpha Sorority was
third with 90 per cent.
After the Epsilon Oipegas had won
the cup for four consecutive years the
Pi Phi Sorority, then Tri Xi, won it.
Theatre Magazine Reviews
Work of U. of L. Players
Theater Magazin.e for June carries!
a two page lead article in The Ama-teur
Stage, a department devoted to
the plays of Colleges, Schools, Clubs
and Little Theaters and conducted by
Miss. M. VV. Kehoe, about the Univer-sity
of Louisville Players.
The title page has a picture of the
interior of the Playhouse and of our
director, Mr. Boyd Martin.
The second page carries photo-graphs
of "Minick,” "The Swan,” and
the stage setting for Mr. Martin’s
►play “The Ugly Duckling” played in
1920 at the old Work Shop at 119
West Broadw’ay.
The article also announces the or-ganization
of the Alumni group and
declares that the formation of this
organization “should five Louisville
one of the most proficient non-pro-fessional
resident companies in the
country.”
The article was prepared by Ruth
Wilson who admits it was generously
edited, although the main facts stand.
$827,140.87 Final Figure
Reported For Endowment
Campaign headquarters in the Uni-versity’s
$2,000,000 endowmnet drive
has submitted the final report with
the announcement that the grand
total subscribed is $827,140.87 and
that the total dumber of pledges is
2,771. Of this amount, $480,500—the
amount obtained by the Preliminary
Gifts Committee—was subscribed be-fore
the intensive civic campaign
started on April 22.
The complete, itemized account sub-mitted
by headquarters follows:
Amount reported at final
report meeting May 2nd .$816,977.50
Less $6,000 credit-ed
inerror to the
Preliminary Gifts
Committee $6,000
Less $2,000 account
duplicate pledges . 2,000 8.000.00
Total pledges May
2nd 2,606 808,977.50
Pledges Received
since May 2nd 165 18,163.37
Grand total 2,771..5827,140.87
Amounts reported by the various
groups is as follows:
PRELIMINARY GIFTS... $480,500.00
Note: Approximately
$30,000 additional se-cured
by this committee
was reported by and
credited to various teams
SPECIAL GIFTS 53,100.00
STUDENTS 26,625.50
NATIONAL ALUMNI ... 24,547.50
GENERAL CAMPAIGN
COMMITTEE 242,367.87
♦ .
TOTAL 827,140.87
Summary of Pledges to May 23rd.
$50,000.00 2 $100,000.00
40,000.00 1 40.000.00
30,000.00 1 30,000.00
20,000.00 3.. 60,000.00
15,000.00 4 60,000.00
12,000.00 1 12,000.00
10,000.00 8.. 80,000.00
7,500.00 1 7,500.00
5,000.00 19- 95,000.00
1,000.00 to 5,000... 85.. 118,250.00
350.00 to 1,000... 108- 53,450.00
300.00 118- 35,400.00
100.00 to 300... 695.. 92,774.37
10.00 to 100.-1,368- 41,361.00
.50 to 10... 357.. 1,405.50
2.771..5827,140.87
HOLD S. G. B. BALLOTING TODAY
HARLOW, WEBER
PRINCIPALS IN
ANNUAL BATTLE
Balloting Starts at 10 This
Morning, Closes at
4 P. M.
FORMER RACES RECALLED
The annual election of Student Gov-erning
Board officers will be held to-day
in the Library Building from 10
o’clock in the morning until 1 o’clock
in the afternoon.
Nominees were chosen at the prim-ary
held in the Playhouse last Friday.
The presidential nominees are Fred
G. Harlow and Edward Weber.
All undergraduates are eligible to
vote. Balloting will be by the method
installed by the 1925-26 administrat-ion.
Students register their names
before receiving an offically marked
ballot. Voting is done in booths and
the secret ballot deposited in a bal-lot
box at the clerk’s table. The sys-tem
insures an absolute check and a
fair election so far as the techincal
details are concerned.
Members of the Student Governing
Board for the year now expiring will
have charge of the balloting. Nomi-ness,
however, have the right of rep-resentation
at the polls. Any voter
may be challenged.
Both presidential candidates have
been active in student affairs.
Candidates at large are: Fred Ka-rem,
Helen Anderson, Lawrence Lee
Howe, George Ragsdale, Charlie
O’Connell, Endicott Johnson, Charles
Richard McDaniel, and Stanley Ous-ley.
Today’s election is the most import-ant
of the year for Campus students.
Since the installation of the new sys-tem
of primary and balloting what
used to be a matter of life and death
has become a tame fight. The tame-ness
of last year’s and this year’s
campaigns recalls in contrast the heat-ed
battles and the many issues of
New Appointees
Decline Because
Of Controversy
The announcement made exces-sively
last Friday in The Cardinal
News that Miss Kitty Conroy, Car-ter
Davidson, and Dr. Charles
Johnson, new' faculty appointees,
had declined Mr' Colvin’s invita-tion
to come to the University of
Louisville was followed iss the
Louisville dailies with statements
to the effect that present condi-tions
at the University caused the
new’ appointees to decline.
Fred Karem
Stage Boss
For 1927-28
I /eslie Hauger, who was elected
president of the University of Louis-ville
Players for the year 1927-28 will
be succeeded in the important office
of stage manager by Fred Karem, his
assistant this year.
The choice appears to be a happy
one, for Mr. Karem is one of ths most
devoted, and indefatigable members
of the Players. In addition to excell-ent
back stage work Mr. Karem has
acquitted himself with credit in sev-eral
plays. He is a member of the
band, the Journalism Club, The Car-dinal
News staff, several literary and
other Campus organizations. He is
extremely well-liked.
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