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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Spring 4-29-1937 Maine Campus April 29 1937 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus April 29 1937" (1937). Maine Campus Archives. 3059. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/3059 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1' Attend u0 I Keep Off I the the Assemblies Grass Published Weekly by the Students of the University of Maine Vol. %XXVIII ORONO, MAINE, APRIL 29, 1937 No. 23 High School Scene From 'Petrified Forest' B. C. Track Team Gov. Barrows Will Speak Contestants To Oppose Maine At Junior Week Assembly; Bay State Team Favored Speak Here To Take Maine Bears Tapping of Senior Skulls Here Saturday - Fifty-seven Schools Was Class President By Bob Atwood Will Speak To Send Entrants Campus Sports Reporter During Junior Year For Contest The University of Maine's track team faces the toughest assignment of the year When at University MEDALS FOR PRIZES when it meets the high-flying Eagles of Boston College here Saturday afternoon. HAUCK WILL SPEAK Students To Assist Boston College, presenting one of the Maine most powerful small college teams in the Music Will Be Furnished With Preliminary east, is going to take the title "high flying" For Evening Formal Competitions very literally. It has almost certain win- ners in every race and if it is to be defeat- By Bob Richmond Sweet ed, it must be done through overwhelming By Sherley Governor Lewis 0. Barrows '16 will supremacy by Maine in the weights. Representatives from 57 secondary be the principal speaker at the annual Boston's only weak spot is in these field take Junior Week Assembly tomorrow morn- schools from all parts of the state will evems, and even this weakness does not ing at 9:30. The tapping of next year's part in the annual University of Maine extend into the shot-putting. It is in the Senior Skulls will occur directly follow- tomor- shot that Maine Speaking Contest, to be held here fans will see one of the ing the assembly. best performers in the country, and by row. Philip Rogers, president of the junior far the best in the east, in the person of The contestants will be guests of the class, will preside at the assembly and Dimmie Zaitz whose better than 50 foot their stay here from introduce President Arthur A. Hauck, University during heaves have dominated all opposition in Masque Presents Desert Drama who will present the Governor. Other Thursday evening to Saturday morning. New England track circles for the past platform guests will be the officers of the They will be tendered a banquet in the two years. As Final Production of Season junior class, Francis Smith, vice presi- at 12:00 Friday, Memorial Gymnasium Another brilliant star, Zeimetz, was an dent; Elizabeth Drummond, secretary; at which President Hauck will welcome interscholastic champion and was timed and William Thompson, treasurer; and Marion Hatch Enacts Feminine Lead, Gabby Maple, in 10 seconds flat in GOVERNOR LEWIS 0. BARROWS '16 the entrants to the Lniversity. To speak the 100 a number of John P. Williams, the chaplain. Clark Kuney Depicts Leading Male Role times during his prep school days. His on the same occasion are Hope Ashby, who will speak at the Junior Week As- Governor Barrows, who is making his teammate, Kelley, is another 10-second In Sherwood's 'Petrified Forest' sembly in Memorial Gymnasium tomor- first appearance at his alma mater since for the All-Maine Women; Sargent Rus- man although he has run second to Zei- row morning. his inauguration as chief executive, was sell, for the Debating Society; and Thom- metz in every meet. as Houghton, for the Student Senate. the president of his class in his junior By Marguerite Bannigan ture and art, and wants to go to France There is a possibility that Zeimetz may Other guests will be Dean Paul Cloke, year at the University. and was president to improve her painting and to gain ex- not compete because of muscle injuries, Dean Edward Allen, Dean Arthur L. "The Petrified Forest," a drama in two of the Interfraternity Council in his sen- perience. but outside of losing a 23 foot broad- Women Receive Deering, and Dean Olin S. Lutes. acts by Robert Sherwood, whose "Idiots ior year. Like his predecessor, Governor Boastful Boze Hertzlinger, former jumper, this should not handicap Boston Delight" won him the 1936 Pulitzer Brann, he is a member of the social fra- The preliminaries will be held in Stev- football hero, who makes love to Gabby, greatly as they have another sprinter, -Maine Honor Prize, was presented by the Maine Al1 ternity Beta Theta Pi. ens and North Stevens Hall at 2:30 p.m. stands out in marked contrast to the Cady, a former Boston schoolboy cham- Masque last night in the Little Theatre e The contest is divided into four divisions: cynical Alan Squier, ably played by Clark pion, capable of running a close second prepared for a pharmaceutical ca- as the final production of the season. The Fourteen Named Members reer at the University serious reading, humorous reading, decla- Kuney. Squier is interested in Gabby's to Kelley. Johnny Murray, Maine's hope and after being second performance of the play will be graduated entered mation, and extemporaneous speaking. ideas and he encourages her ambitions, for the century, has thus far failed to At Annual Banquet the drug business with given tonight. his father in Because of the large number of contest- but he realizes that even if he does let round out to last year's form, and even if Tues. Evening his home town, Newport. "The Petrified Forest," like Sher- For ants, each division will be divided into himself love her, he has no money, no he does, he will still have his work cut several years he served as town treas- wood's "Reunion in Vienna," is a play urer sections, A, B, C, D, and E. One con- ambitions—nothing to offer her. He rec- out for him. Seven seniors, five juniors, and two and later was elected a member of of contrasts and comparisons. The author testant will be chosen in each section to ognizes that he has outlived his usefulness. The 440 finds Sid Hurwitz the under- sophomores were tapped All-Maine Wom- the Governor's Council on which he served casts together in Black Mesa a group of for represent the division in the finals, to be He can help Gabby only by dying. She dog for the first time this year when he en at the organization's annual banquet, three terms. people representing several types, and held in the Little Theatre in the evening can then have his insurance on which to toes the mark with Gill. the long striding held at the Bangor House Tuesday eve- In 1935 he was elected by the Maine impartially, but vividly, brings out their at 7:30. The cash prizes of previous go to France and realize her dreams. eastern champion who runs under 50 sec- ning. Legislature as Secretary of State to serve different characters and philosophies. years have been dropped, and individual Duke Mantee, capably played by Dew- onds consistently. Gill has one of the The seniors elected to the society are under his fraternity brother, ex-Gover- medals will be given instead. First prize The opening scene, showing the con- ing Proctor, is the ruthless, laconic lead- longest strides in track, covering nearly Marion Larsen, Ruby Black, Hope Wing, nor Braun. As a candidate last fall On will be a gold medal; second prize, a sil- versation of two telegraph linesmen, por- er of a gang of desperados and, like ten feet each time. It is likely that the Josephine Snare, Maybelle Ashworth, the Republican ticket he defeated another ver medal; and third, fourth, and fifth trayed by Herman Billings and Harland Squier, represents obsolete rugged indi- battle for second place will be hotly con- Madeline Frazier, and Marjorie McKin- Maine graduate, F. Harold Dubord, for prizes, bronze medals. Verrill, of the blustering Jason Maple, vidualism. Mantee's bandits, played by tested as B. C. has Allan, another excep- non. the gubernatorial office. More than 100 University students will depicted by Prof. Mark Bailey, and of the I.auress Parkman, Earl Carlson, and tional quarter miler entered in the same New junior members are Catharine In the evening the Junior PTOM Will be take part in the judging, and assist in the filling station assistant, Doze Hertzlinger, Robert Bramhall represent disrespect to race. Rowe, Mary-Helen Raye, Lucy Cobb, held, with Bob Richmond's 13 piece "Cav- time-keeping, scoring, and so forth, for played by Wallace Gleason, establishes the law. The sheriff and his deputies, The array of power does not stop with Jean Kent, and Mary Deering. alcade of Modern Rhythm" from Boston the atmosphere of mental restlessness the preliminaries. Professor Mark Bail- roles taken by Robert Hussey, Samuel the shorter distances. On the contrary, The sophomore members are Ruth providing the music. Featured with Bob which dominates the entire play. The ey will be chairman for the finals. Judges Crowell, and Edward Hayes, who poke the half-mile will be strictly a Boston Pagan and Dora Stacy.