Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 5-8-1935 The aB tes Student - volume 63 number 04 - May 8, 1935 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 63 number 04 - May 8, 1935" (1935). The Bates Student. 611. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/611 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 13 In the Spring a young man s FOUNDED IN 1873 fancy turns—and turns— and turns— huVnt I PRICE, 10 CENTS VOL. LXffl No. 4 LEWISTON, MAINE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1935 State Track Meet Here This Saturday Bates Actors Billy Murphy's M. I. A. A. Directing FROM Will Produce ^Through this medium Famed Band To THE Che $ate£ stubcnt botop expresses its sympathies to Games After A "Doll's House iPresfoent atti> 0lv*. #rap Be Ivy Feature NEWS William Haver, Mar- :f or the rttent loss of their son Preparations Are Nearly garet Perkins To Play Complete For An- Year's Lapse Many Enthusiastic Fan. Leading Roles Send Dim" For Prosperity $aul J. #rap nual Spring Hop MAINE, BATES, BOWDOIN Mathematician Dope. It Out MARY ABROMSON, NEW NATURAL FLOWERS Price For All $300 PRESIDENT, TO COACH FOR DECORATIONS HAVE BALANCED FORCES Americans Crave Excitement And Violence Say. G. Stein Professors' Children To Play Bobcat Weight Debate League Reservations May Be Made Juvenile Parts At Any Time With The La Guardia Issue. Purpcef ul Kishon, Johnson, Niblock, Vey- Riot Call-Gets Wi.h In Play Men May Be In To Meet Here Class Treasurer Tomorrow night at 8:00 P. M. the Preparations for Ivy Hop, the spring sey, Good, Blacks, Among Super Secret Defense Set Up Bates Little Theatre curtain will rise 1936 Olympics This Week-end Junior prom, are well under way. By French Military Force. on Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's Billy Murphy's Arcadians, direct from House," produced by the English 4-A a season at the Arcadia Ballroom on Many Stars -NILS LENNARTSON- 43 Players on Thursday and Friday eve- Mentioned By Thomp- Garnet Squad Is Host Broadway, have been secured for nings, May 9 and 10. son In Recent Track To Representatives music. This band, consisting of twelve J. E. and S. E. Leard Qgenrt-a-Dime chain letters flooded As this will be their final production pieces and a vocalist, is one of Ifew With the possibility that six state records may be broken by some pj5t offi.vs in many of the larger cities this year, the Players are bending Talk In Chapel Of Several Colleges England's best. It has played previ- in itic Western half of the nation to- every effort to make "A Doll's House" ously at Bates, and is universally con- of the outstanding performers in an exceptionally star-studded field, and : at San Antonio, Texas, pos- one of their best. Toward this end they JONES, GREENWOOD, ceded to be one of the very finest ever with the probability that Bowdoin. Rates, and Maine will be nip-and-tuck Ul inspectors prepared to follow up have chosen their veterans for the KISHON, JOHNSON to have come here. in the point totals, the 37th Maine State Track Meet will lie held, after a the first arrests made as a result of parts, forming an all-star cast. GOOD PROSPECTS BATES DELEGATES Decorations Unique year's lapse, on Garcelon Field this Saturday. it? craze. Well-Known Players Decorations, it has been announced, Margaret Perkins '35 plays the lead The Eastern Intercollegiate Debating will be unique in that instead of the Mail i arriers at Denver. Kansas City. "It is encouraging to know we may MEET STARTED IN in the role of Nora Helmer. William be represented in the 1936 Olympics," League will hold its annual conference usual paper variety, they will consist I.os Angeles, Spokane and Seattle were Haver '35 takes the part of Torvald This year's meeting will renew the Announce Parts said Coach C. Ray Thompson, speaking on the Bates campus on Friday and entirely of natural flowers. Programs state intercollegiate meet program, i.iaded down with the missives of the Helmer. her husband. Both of these Saturday May 10th and 11th. The con- are being made up in white suede, and "prosperity club" fans. At Denver, in Chapel last Thursday morning. The which started back in 1895 at Water- For Class Day actors are well known to Bates audi- reference was, of course, to Tony ference will open with a dinner on the committee announces the prospect ville when Bowdoin won the first con- i the scheme first came to the ences, for they have appeared in vari- Friday evening and will be concluded of unusually good refreshments. attention of postal authorities, the vol- Kishon and Larry Johnson, sophomore test, and which has been continued ous productions of the Players for the weight stars who recently startled the on Saturday noon. The date of the Hop is Tuesday, May ute of mail was undiminished. past four years, as has also John Dority with only two interruptions since— sports world by their exploits at the Guest Representatives 28, 8:00 P. M. This is the last day of one in 1917-1918, on account of the '35, who plays the part of Dr. Rank. Penn Relays. Bates will be host to representatives classes, the night before Ivy Day. This war, and the other last year. The re- Still three more veteran actors help In giving his enlightening talk on from several of the colleges which are dance will last until 1:00 A. M. newal is under the direction of the to make up the cast, in the persons of what the Olympics mean, what Bates members of the league. The committee The committee in charge consists Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Asso- Q.\ mathematician has figured that Florence Nan Wells '35, who appears athletes have done in the Olympics, which has charge of the accommoda- of Roger Fredland '36, Chairman; if a 'lime letter chain worked perfectly ciation, which assumed control of track as Mrs. Linden, Frances Hayden '35, and what chances Bates has of being tions and the entertainment is com- Lenore Murphy 36, Valeria Kimball this winter after the dissolution of here i" Davidson County, everybody appearing as Ellen, and Charlotte represented. Coach Thompson gave an posed of Margaret Perkins '35, Lillian '36. Frank Manning '36. Edward Well- the old Maine Intercollegiate Track would eventually wind up with a $300 Longley '35, who takes the part of especially interesting quotation which Bean '35, and Edmund Muskie '36. man '36. and Henry Brewster '36. and Field Association. toss. Anna. was made by Lawson Robertson, coach Bates Delegates Subscription will be $2.75 per couple. Program Well Arranged . Butler Seedman '38, although a new- What started Dr. C. R. Fountain of of the University of Pennsylvania and Miss Mary Bunce of Smith College, To secure bids see Henry Brewster Under the new administration, a comer this year, will be remembered the United States Olympic track who is president ot the league, will (Room 11, East Parker Hall). one-day meet is arranged with the aim Peabody College to thinking about it for his admirable work in "Thirty was that somebody sent him one of the teams. Said Robertson, "If these boys preside at the conference. The Bates ■ o of using the minimum amount of time Minutes In A Street," given by the (Kishon and Johnson) can throw (the delegates are K. Gordon Jones '35 and without rushing the athletes from one chain letters. Players earlier this year. He will play hammer) consistently 170 feet, they William Greenwood '36. The confer- Ray Stetson Wins event to another. The program has the part of Nils Krogstad. will have no difficulty in making the ence will be open only to members of been so arranged as to occupy the time Children Play Parts Olympic team." the Debating Council and the visiting Scholarship To ordinarily necessitated by other forms Donald and Constance Sawyer, chil- Bates Olympic Stars delegates. of sport such as baseball or football, qortrnde Stein, American novelist dren of Dr. and Mrs. William H. Saw- Five Bates athletes have already o and the running events have been who lives in Paris, sailed yesterday for yer, and Carold Woodcock, daughter participated in the Olympics as mem- New York School spaced in such a way as to allow Havre on the French liner Champlain of Dr. and Mrs. Karl S. Woodcock, will bers of the United States teams, but pauses for the spectators to watch the alter a six months' visit to her native play the juvenile parts of the play. Mayor Campaign only one has placed. Bond Blanchard, Debater, Honor Student, And field events, which will be more or less lano-the first in thirty-one years— Under Professor Grosvenor G. Rob- a 120-yard high hurdler, who graduated continuous. darbg which she traveled all over the inson's supervision, Mary Abromson from Bates in 1912, was the first Is Announced By Orator Will Become Although Colby definitely has no '36. the new 4-A President, is coaching t'nttei states and lectured in thirty- Olympic prospect here. Blanchard, Theologian chance of winning, one of her dark »iv. miiversltteB. She said she found the play. who has the distinction of being the Student Council horses may be the determining factor "the American type" had not changed captain of the only Bates team to win Ray Stetson '35, Bates honor stu- in selecting the ultimate winner from in her long absence.