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VOL. IX GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 24, 1928 No. 18 GLEE CLUB DEBUT BASKETBALL SEASON MASK AND BAUBLE ANNOUNCE PLAYS FOR ENDS TONIGHT WELL ATTENDED The Georgetown basketball team PRESENTATION AT DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION will draw its season to a close to- Gaston Hall Is Filled to Capacity night, when the Virginia P. I. quin- tet will be encountered at the Ar- Georgetown's Dramatic Society Makes Debut at Strictly Formal Per- —Collegians Also Perform— cadia. A win for the Hilltoppers Shuman at Piano, Hoffenberg will make it eleven straight. formance on Gaston Hall Stage—Casts of "Allison's Lad" and on Violin and Bruce at Organ "The Golden Doom" Report Everything in Readiness for Presen- Are Roundly Applauded. tation of Plays in Honor of His Excellency, Ambassador Paul SPEAKERS CHOSEN Claudel. The Georgetown University Glee Club held its annual Mid-Winter Concert, FOR N.Y.U. DEBATE The casts of the two one-act plays to be presented tomorrow, at the reception assisted by the Georgetown Collegians, held in honor of His Excellency, Monsieur Paul Claudel, have at last been announced. George Hoffenberg, violinist, and Francis Green, McGuire and Quinn Are The first play, "Allison's Lad," by Beula Marie Dix, is concerned with that period of K. Shuman, pianist, on Sunday evening, Chosen to Represent Blue and English history following the second Civil War. February 10th. The concert was not only Gray in Contest with the Violet The characters in this play are as follows: Colonel Strickland, Mr. Frank Moran; a model of its kind, but also quite novel Captain George Bowyer, Mr. Phillip Cahill; Lieutenant Robert Goring, Mr. William in many respects. Gaston Hall was Team — Military Intervention of U. S. Is Topic to Be Dis- Buckner; Frank Hopton, Mr. James Cummiskey; Tom Winwood, Mr. Paul Lyons, packed to capacity with an audience of and the Colonel of the Roundheads, Mr. William O'Neill. Great care has been taken almost a thousand, who paid eager atten- cussed. in the staging of this play, to secure furniture in accord with the period. tion to each number. Members of the The second play, "The Golden Doom," by Lord Dunsany, the noted playwright, is fair sex attended and graced the hall in The Philodemic Society will meet the every direction. debating team of New York University a symbolical play, the scene of which is laid outside the King's great door, in the on Sunday evening, March 4, at 8 :15, in mythical kingdom of Zericon, some time before the fall of Babylon. The members The stage was very attractively of the Mask and Bauble Club who will take part in this play are: The King, Mr. dressed, thanks to the Mask and Bauble the initial forensic encounter of the year with another college. Joseph Mullen; the Chamberlain, Mr. Robert Christie; the Prophet, Mr. Deane Ben- Club. Amid loud applause the curtains son; first Boy, Mr. Peter Morgan; the second Boy, Mr. William Connolly; first were drawn back and the concert with its The question is a very important and timely one, and in view of the calibre of Prophet, Mr. John Legier; second Prophet, Mr. Louis Peake; first Sentry, Mr. Wil- entertaining numbers had begun. liam Cassin; second Sentry, Mr. Francis W. Wenzler. (Continued on page 8) the debaters, it no doubt will prove most interesting. It is: Resolved, That the There will be two pages, who will announce the numbers, and who will act as United States should not protect Amer- curtain boys, Mr. George Stout and Mr. Harry Guedelhoffer. Between the acts the ican interests in foreign countries by mili- Collegians will play for the distinguished guests. The services of Mr. Frank Brady MILE RELAY TEAM tary force. Georgetown has the negative and Mr. John O'Brien, of last year's Senior Class, have been of great help to the side of the question and New York has Mask and Bauble Club, Mr. Brady as faculty adviser for scenery and Mr. O'Brien as WIN AT BROOKLYN the affirmative. The Georgetown team faculty adviser for lighting effects. On Tuesday photographers from Washington will be composed of the veteran, Leo Mc- papers and the New York. Times will come to the Hilltop to take pictures of the Guire, Joseph E. Green, who was the win- members of the cast. Many prominent Washington critics have been invited to the ner of the Merrick medal, and James performance, including Mr. Landvoight, Mr. John Daly, Mr. John Phillips, and N. Y. U. Is Downed in 3:27 2-5— Quinn, who is making his debut in the Mr. Philip McCrae. Victory Is Easy, Though Ed- intercollegiate ranks, but who has had Invitations have been issued to about wards Did Not Run for Losers a wealth of experience in the junior in- 500 guests, including members of the dip- —Third Successive Win of tercollegiate debates. lomatic corps, prominent Government The Philodemic Society, under its Mod- GEORGETOWN MEN Sammy Reid Trophy. erator, Rev. John J. Toohey, S.J., has officials and officers of the Army and lost but two debates in sixteen years of NOTED SCIENTISTS Navy, as well as local alumni and faculty forensic competition, and the highest members. Among those who have ac- Georgetown's one-mile relay team hopes are held for the success of the cepted are Secretary of Labor James J. scored its first victory of the season Sat- team in this, its initial venture of 1928. urday night at the Crescent A. C. Games Alumni and Professors of Alma Davis, the Ambassador of Spain, the in Brooklyn, winning the famous Sammy Mater Receive Prominent Minister of Switzerland, the Minister of Reid trophy for the third consecutive R. 0. T. C. PARADES Places in Lists Compiled by J. Lithuania, the Ambassador of Peru, the year. McKeen Cattell and Jacques Ambassador of Germany, the Minister of The victory was scored in easy fashion BEFORE ALUMMUS Cattell. Rumania, the Minister of Sweden, the over the baton passers of New York Uni- Ambassador of Brazil, the Minister of the Netherlands, the Ambassador of versity, the school that defeated the Blue Former Battalion Commander and Gray at the Brooklyn College Games. In a recent book, "American Men of Chile, the Minister of Venezuela, the The victory was a most decisive one, Reviews Cadets — Colonel Science," compiled by J. McKeen Cattell Minister of Greece, Mr. and Mrs. Breck- Georgetown not being in danger at any Deems Report Lauds George- and Jacques Cattell, many scientific men inridge Long, Chairman T. V. O'Connor point of the race, but a great deal of the who are either graduates, or have been and Admiral W. S. Benson of the town Unit — To Return on Shipping Board, Senator Coleman L. glory attendant upon victory was taken March 22 for Second Inspection. affiliated with, Georgetown University away by the failure of Phil Edwards, receive no little attention. This book has Blease, Senator David L. Walsh, Repre- N. Y. U.'s anchor man, to run with his excited quite a great amount of comment sentative Theodore Burton, Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Surg. Gen. H. S. team. Major Joseph A. McDonough, New in the scientific world. York National Guard, who is a member Cumming, Judge John Barton Payne, Mr. Eddie O'Shea started the race for of the class of '22 and a former Cadet Georgetown is proud of the number and Mrs. George E. Hamilton, Repre- Georgetown and at the end of the first Battalion Commander, took his old post that represent her in this important com- sentative Mary T. Norton of New Jer- quarter he was in possession of a com- once more on Varsity field for a short pilation of America's foremost men. The sey, Admiral and Mrs. E. W. Eberle, fortable lead. Jerry Gorman started off time yesterday. Major McDonough re- list of Georgetown's representatives is as Rear Admiral and Mrs. Hilary P. Jones, ten yards to the good, -and was further viewed the battalion at 220 during the follows: Dr. Sofie A. Nordhoff-Jung and Baroness helped when the N. Y. U. man tripped regular drill period. After watching the George L. Coyle, S.J., '08, Ph.D.; Serge Koriff. and fell at the start. This mishap gave rank and file pass in sweeping lines down Francis A. Tondorf, SJ.; Edward C. the Hilltoppers ten more yards. past the reviewing stand as of old, the Phillips. SJ.; George M. Kober, '73, WHITE ANTICIPATES M.D., '06 LL.D.; John G. Hagen, S.J., With the big advantage already given Major was introduced to the unit by GASTON DEBATE them, Bob Shotter and Eddie Hoctor, Colonel Dannemiller. He then made a Director Observatory '88-'06; George T. Georgetown's third and fourth men, were few brief remarks, complimenting the Vaughan. Dr. Samuel S. Adams, Dr. The Moderator of the White Debat- not forced to extend themselves and won Cadets upon their appearance and exhort- Wilfred M. Barton, Dr. Harry S. Beni- ing Society announced today that try- just about as they pleased. The time for ing them to prevail in that old spirit, ton, Dr. John A. Foote, Dr. Walter Free- out for the annual underclass forensic the relay was 3 :27 2-5, excellent time for traditional of Georgetown men, which man, Dr. William J. Hembar, Dr. classic, the Gaston-White debate, the flat soles the runners were forced to has carried the Blue and Gray to victory Lyman J. Kebler, Dr. William A. White, would be held starting on Monday, wear. in the past. Dr. Eugene R. Whitmore, Dr. William February 27th.

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