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Sandspur, Vol. 43 No. 06, November 3, 1937 University of Central Florida STARS The Rollins Sandspur Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida 11-3-1937 Sandspur, Vol. 43 No. 06, November 3, 1937 Rollins College Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rollins Sandspur by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Rollins College, "Sandspur, Vol. 43 No. 06, November 3, 1937" (1937). The Rollins Sandspur. 502. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/502 Florida's Oldest College Now It's Over EoilinsiiSSandspur Cobwebs In Chapel (Weekly Student Newspaper) WINTER PARK, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, ig.')?. (Complete Campus Coverage) NUMBER 6. The Chapel Staff is calling Conferring on Labor's Peace Plan iOSE NAMED a meeting of all the Chapel FRATERNITIES AND committees in the Knowles "THE BARRIER" Memorial Chapel this eve­ ning at seven thirty. All SORORITIES PLEDGE students interested in serv­ m COiSIOCK, ing on any of these commit­ HAS PREMIERE 83 LAST SUNDAY tees, which include Social Service, Publicity, Program, Girls Lead With 48 Pledges Hospitality and Ushering, are While Fraternities urged to attend this meeting PLMERS ORGiIZE Take 35 at which the enrollment for K. A. TAKES MOST MEN ''McQueen Cottage Renamed the new year will be taken First Eastern Showing of Rex •*' For Benefactor of Rollins and a program outlined. Beach's Film Sponsored FRESHMAN UNIT Gamma Phi Beta Has Ten "• College The Chapel committees are By Rollins Alumni among the most active on Pledges to Head Soririties the campus and their work First Freshman Players I'll WAS CHARTER TRUSTEE SHOWN AT BABY GRAND "On the fifth Sunday after the encompasses a wide horizon. Group At Rollins opening of school the fraternities « New members will be cordial­ Residence For Seven Transfer Rex Beach Is President of Rol­ TO ELECT OFFICERS and sororities shall pledge their ly welcomed. lins Alumni Association •Hi Women Students new members—"soon October 31, On Saturday, October 30, all every house was bustling with ac­ 'ti • Rollins College Alumni Associa­ freshmen interested in dramatics tivity; preparing to greet the e; Officials of Rollins College an- tion will sponsor the eastern pre­ met in Recreation Hall to organize rushees, if and when they arrived. litinounced today that the McQi miere here of "The Barrier," writ­ the Freshmen Players. Last year the girls, by ruling iti( Cottage, now used as a dormitory ten by Rex Beach, Rollins alumnus, ,ii.,»„i for women students, has been re- Si Vario, president of the Rol­ of the Pan Hellenic Council, were ALUilDOWELL on November 10 and 11, it is an­ This genial handshake between George M. Harrison, left, leader of granted a quota of nine pledges. jjnamed the Comstock Cottage in lins Student Players, introduced nounced. the American Federation of Labor delegation, and Philip Murray, This year the sororities were per­ l.l,honor of William C. Comstock, an chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization conferees, Professor Allen, who will direct early benefactor and charter trus- The picture will be shown in the shown above, paved the way for discussion of terms of a truce be­ this new organization. Professor mitted a ten-girl quota, because of - tee of Rollins College. Mr. Com­ AT PUY HOUSE Baby Grand Theatre on a coopera­ tween the two organizations and possible termination of two Allen explained that this is the the longer list of entering women stock, who served on the board of tive arrangement under which years of strife. first time a Freshmen Players students. V( trustees for 39 years until his Four Rollins Students Are proceeds over a certain figure will group has been organized at Rol­ The Inter-Fraternity Council Pfldeath in 1924, had a record of ser- Accepted go to the funds of the Alumni As­ lins. voted, this year, to remove any lim­ I vice second only to that of Wil- sociation. Only the Freshmen who are in­ its on the number of men pledged '%am R. O'Neal, of Orlando, who WARFIELD IS DIRECTOR "The Barrier," which is a picture terested enough to form this group into the fraternity on regular of the Alaskan gold rush days, BAIILE RAGES BN pledge day. Last year the frater­ has been a trustee for fifty years. Headlines will be eligible to do backstage '4 The McQueen Cottage was ac- In the past two years no less stars Jean Parker, Jimmie Ellison, work or try out for the four play; nities were limited to twelve boys, ilquired partly through a gift, and than four Rollins students have and Leo Carrillo. Its premiere will By FRED LIBERMAN given by the Rollins Student Play­ or one fifth the entering men stu­ Blpartly through a purchase, from been accepted at the Cleveland take place in the state of Wash- ers. During the year Professor dents. "ithe McQueen estate in 1935 and has Play House to serve on the Stu­ on where it was filmed last Versus Russia Allen expects to use all of Fresh­ The list of pledges into the dif­ •ibeen used since as a sorority house dent Staff of that outstanding the­ tner and where Miss Audrey L. Any -way you look at it Soviet Upper classmen Keep Rats men Players in some phase of the ferent sororities follows: Alpha ^'ffior a woman's dormitory. An air- atre. Elfreda Wynant and Ted Packham, associate professor of Russia has gotten herself into a From Beanery technical work of a production Phi's included Helen Bothwick, *plane type bungalow situated at Ehrlich were the first two students education at Rollins, visited the hole. Today, she is nearer diplo­ These technical crews will be un­ Marjorie McQueen, Dorothea Rich, ttho comer of Chase Avenue and to enter the Play House. Last imount Pictures set to watch matic isolation than at any time RAT CAPS ARE STOLEN der the direction of the members oi Marguerite Smith, Dorothy Steele. •i^'Fairbanks Avenue, the house has year Alberto WaiTen was admit­ the picture being made. nee the start of the Spanish the members of the Stagecraft Chi Omega accepted five girls ted and did such good work that writing to Professor Alfred as pledges: Stella Mae Bowles, ^f'taccommodations for seven stu- A bloodless battle raged for ap­ class. he was given a scholarship so that anna regarding the easten pre- Peggy Cass, Alice Elliott, Eliza­ tldcnts. It is being used this year Russia alone last week refused proximately ten minutes between The purpose of the organization he could return this year. A re­ e of "The Barrier," under the beth Hall, Mary Malta Peters. ^0 accommodate women transfers to consider the granting of bellig- the Upper Classmen and the Fresh­ is to maintain an interest in dra­ cent letter from him reveals the auspices of the Alumni Associa­ The Gamma Phi Betas led the who are not affiliated with active ent rights to the opposing forces men on the steps of Beanary porch, matics during the Freshman year. fact that he is being scouted for tion, Mr. Beach gave some inter­ sororities in having ten pledges: Hsororities on the campus. the Spanish civil war. Now she Monday, October 31. Formerly without oganization iii William C. Comstock, who was movies. Frances Hyer is esting facts in connection with his is contemplating a walk-out on the there wasn't much opportunity in Jean Densmore, Jean Fairbanks, Due to the absence of a major­ ma native of New York State, was at the Play House this year, writing of the popular novel of the Non-intervention Committee. the drama for Freshmen; conse­ Claire Fontaine, Rachel Harris, ity of Rat Caps, supposedly stolen -'a prominent business leader in this season she has had The reason she gives for this quently their interest lessened. In Mary Lou Hofft, Antoinette Holz- from the Freshmen Dormitories .Chicago. Because of failing health eral small parts and has been " 'The Barrier,' " he wrote, "was action is the failure of the Com­ this way promising material was born, Marjorie Lincoln, Eleanor on Sunday, the Upper Classmen re­ *he came to Winter Park in 1877 assistant stage manager for on my second attempt at novel writ­ mittee to accomplish anything un­ lost by the Student Players. Rand, Jayne Rittenhouse, Jean fused to admit any Freshmen, and was one of this community's the productions. ing, my first being 'The Spoilers.' der its present set-up. Turner. minus caps, to the noon-day meal. To become a member of the Rol­ pioneer citizens. He was an early Robert Warfield is the director After the latter story had appear­ Italy and Germany hope for lins Student Players, it is neces- Kappa Alpha Theta included ==benefactor of Rollins College when the Little Theatre at Lynch- ed I got married and suddenly real­ just such a move on Russia's part. Hostilities commenced when the y to have a certain number of seven girls on their list: Betty it was established in 1885 and, ac­ irg, Virginia, ized that I had to get busy on an­ It would isolate Russia from the final bugle was blown for the gen­ points gained through working on Brock, Frances Jones, Margaret cording to the late Dr. i William Davis is a student at other story without loss of time. democratic allies, England and eral entrance into Beanery. Back productions either in an acting or Modine, Virginia Morgan, June rMorgan Ward, former president of the Yale School of Drama.
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