Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1943 2-3-1943 Daily Eastern News: February 03, 1943 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1943_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 03, 1943" (1943). February. 1. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1943_feb/1 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 1943 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Eastern Teach'e rs news 11Tell the Truth and Don1t Be Afraid11 EASTERN ILLINOIS STA'I;'E TEACHERS COLLEGE---CmARILESTON WEDINBSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1943 ocher Praises Katharine Cornell Air Corps Enlists Drama Boasts English Setting cAfee Reviews New Broadway 17-Year-Olds Robbins Chooses "Ladies in roductions for Student Body Lt. Tidwell Retirement" for Winter Play Visits Campus Prof Describes Small Cast Begins THE BUREAU of Naval Personnel Theater Season Stagewise in Washington announced last Leading Lady Rehearsal Schedule week the opening of enlistments in By Staff Reporter . FLORENCE McAfee, head of Naval Aviation to 17-year-old men MURJDEIR IN an old Tudor house e Women's Physical Education only, under a new program. To help on the Thames River Estuary with tment, addressed the Eastern accelerate this program, Lieut. James 1the victim's body placed in a huge mbly last Wednesday morning, N. Tidwell will visit the campus on fire place oven furnishes a :brief . 27 on the subject of "Broad­ Friday, Feb. 5. mood setting for "Ladies in Retire­ -1943." All college students over 17 and ment," the three-act psychological She began, "The New York which not yet 18 will be excused from their drama planned for presentation by have heard and read about and 9 o'clock class on Friday to attend Players on March 1 on the stage of e of you have seen is no longer a special assembly at 9 :30 at which the health eduoation building. ilxistence. Oh, there is a city time !Lieut. Tidwell will speak. Sen­ The play was a long-running New ed New York and it is on .the iors from TC high and Charleston York and London success only a few n, but it is no longer, the gay, high school will be invited to attend seasons ago. Flora Robson played orous, brilliantly ligh�ed city the assembly, the leading role of Ellen Creed in a t it was even a year ago. Mayor In f!a.Ch case, successful appli­ road production which appeared in uardia has dedared a dimout cants will be enlisted as apprentice Chicago. The play appeared under ry night in the week lest enemy seamen, V-5, but will not be called the same title as a cinema at­ es find the city an easy .target. to active duty until they have reach­ Dr. Florence McAfee traction with Ida Lupino in the rBroadway,' called the 'Great ed thei:- eighteenth birthdays, or . Broadway lures her part. 'te Way' no longer as electric they have completed .their high Ingram Plays Murderess are not permitted to be lighted, school training or the current year !Marjorie Ingram '43, will handle tre marquees are black and store of college in which they are enrolled. this role of a murderess in .the East­ ows which have lights must At the time of call .to active duty, ern production, which is dirooted by a black gauze curtain across Harden Addresses the V-5 Apprentice Seamen is trans­ Mr. C. R. Bobbins, new dramatics front. ferred to "Aviation Cadet, V-5," and director. She brings dramatic Actors Open Kappa Delta Pi begins his regular training as a Na­ Marjorie Ingram experience to ,the role, as she has J>espite everything, New York is val Avia.tion cadet, at the completion MR. E. L. Harden, principal of ...Graces stage played leading parts in several past Of which he receives his wings and , ving a good theater season, really Charleston high school, was the EI is performances. ther remarkable one. All of the commissioned as an Aviation Of­ principal speaker at the annual for­ The plot concerns one Leonora 'ng actors and actresses are ficer in the U. S. Naval Reserve or mal initiation and banquet of Kap­ Fiok, a retired music hall aotress, except Helen Hayes and she the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve. e pa Delta Pi, national honorary edu­ Magazine Publishes who lives in her Estuary house with now in rehearsal and will bring A special requirement of .the new cation fraternity, held last Tues­ Ellen -as housekeeper and •Lucy, the in a few weeks. Not only are program demands that a certificate day night, Jan. 26 at the home of News fditorials maid. Through .the hospitality of Jieat ones .there, but Katharine be obtained from the administrative Mrs. Noble Rains. Leonora, Ellen .brings her two de­ ell, the greatest of them all, head, or his designa,ted deputy, of FOUR EDITORIALS, printed earlier He said, "Five major problems fac­ mented sisters from 'London ifor a ed a new play on December 2'1 the high school, secondary school in the year by the News, were re­ ing the secondary schools can be short vacation.' the holiday visitors. or college now attended, certifying published in the January issue of met and at least partially overcome During Ellen's absence, her nep­ iss Cornell's play was 'The tha.t the applicant has been recom­ The School Press Review, a publica­ by the future teachers who are now hew, Albert Feather, appears seek­ e Sisters', by the Russian play­ mended as to moral character and tion of the Columbia Scholastic students at the teachers colleges." ing money from his aunt. iHe tells ht, Chekhov. The acting was quality of leadership by an anony­ P'ress association, with headquarters "There is an increased need for Miss Fick of Ellen's devotion .to the rb as always for Katharine Cor­ mous board composed of no less .than in New York city. work in the fields of health, citizen­ two sisters. He learns rthat Leonora gathers the very best actors she three members of the faculty. ship training, vocational training Three of the editorials were writ­ keeps her cash in the oven when for her companies. The cast and guidance, reading, and family Further information may be ob­ ten by James Hanks, News editor, she takes pity on him. so nearly perfect that one of the and marital relationships," he said. tained from Dr. Harold M. Oavins, and the other by EUgene Price, as­ Plot Thickens icswrote nei<t day, 'The cast was "Very few schools have programs dean of men. sociate editor. The ·two weeks' ·Visit of the sis­ as every director dreams of, . covering even one or two of these The editorials dealt with the sub­ ters lengthens into several montms. which few ever expect .to problems." jects of the fatalistic attitude of Leonora, desperate by the insane ·eve.' The play had so many f He pointed out that while many astern Maps Plans college students today, the over-ex­ duet, demands thait Ellen take them in it that the audience was schools have physical education pro­ pansion of school curricula, the val­ back to London. Ellen has different ping for entrances during almost grams, this •type of training will not uable service performed last fall ideas ·and takes the life of .the act­ whole first act. For Book Drive help defective teeth and VIS1on, by the visiting procurement boards, ress and hides it in the oven .. which have been the major causes EASTERN WILL participate this and the announcement by Secretary Albert Feather returns again in any critics wondered why Miss for army rejections. year in the Victory Book cam­ of War Henry L. Stimson that ,the desperate need of money and sought ell chose to revive this play at Concerning the need for reading paign, a campaign designed to col­ reserve programs, were abolished. by the police. He picks ,the lock to lect readable books for the men in present time since it is the story and interpretation problems, he said, In the introductory par,agraph to the oven and suspects 'El•len. service. which is sched­ three Russian girls who dream of "If schools give reading tests to ·the editorials, the following state­ With the aid of Lucy, Albe11t es­ g uled to begin .the lat­ to Moscow and never get sophomores in high school, scores ment was made: "This selection of tablishes Ellen's guilt but is finally ter part of February. ,to e. Of course, if you see it as will run all the way from the four.th wal'ltime editorials comes from a forced flee .to America. Ellen The college drive is .the story of three girls, it is or fifth grade level 1to junior college leading teachers college publication. realizes that she cannot escape legal sponsored by the stu­ portant. But if in these three level. Every ·teacher needs to help Reflected in these is not only the punishment and gives herself up ·to .cJent council. Mary Ell­ you see most of the human the students to form better stand� sentiment of college students but the authorities, seeing rthe two in­ len Wright '44, has of ' the ordinary ones which in­ ards of study and interpretation; the professional approach to .their sane sisters finally in a home been appointed chair­ es most of us, wanting .to do that is, they must teach them to future work which is a . necessary their own.