The Notre Dame Scholastic r Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame, Indiana. Acceptance for mailmsl Lat special rate of postage. Section 1103, October 3, 1917. Authorized June 25, 1918.J VOLUME LXVIII FEBRUARY 8, 1935 No. 15 PROCTOR HAS LEAD IN THREE NOTRE DAME STUDENTS WIN "TURN TO THE RIGHT" PUBLIC AFFAIRS INTERNSHIP PRIZE "Turn to the Right," the new opus being prepared for early production SCHOLASTIC Issues Call by the University Theatre, promises For Staff Candidates; TO STUDY IN WASHINGTON to be one of the most entertaining Six appointments Made plays to be presented on the campus for several seasons. The action is By Paul Foley divided into three acts and a prologue All members of the present fresh­ Three Notre Dame men have left and the subject matter is a pleasing man and sophomore classes who wish the campus during the week for combination of drama and comedy. to apply for positions on the news or sports staff of THE SCHOLASTIC are Washington, D.C., as the winners of The leading role of the play, Joe requested to report to the editorial Bascom, is played by Thomas G. rooms located in the Ave Maria Proctor, a veteran of the local theater Building next Tuesday evening, Feb­ group. The part is that of a mis­ ruary 12, at 7:45 o'clock. understood country youth who is im­ The editorial board announced this prisoned for a crime he did not com­ week, with the approval of the Fac­ mit. His attempt to return to his ulty Board of Publications, the ap­ home atmosphere %vithout letting any pointment of four men to the news of the home folks discover his dis­ staff and two men to the sports staff. grace forms the nucleus of the plot. The men added to the news staff are: Franklyn C. Hochreiter, Arts and Muggs and Gilly, two rather shady PARISH and ILVVANAUGH Letters senior from Buffalo, New They may see Roosevelt. friends of Joe, formed while at the York; Antony O'Boyle, Arts and pen, furnish much of the humor of Letters sophomore from Philadelphia, three month Public Affairs Intern­ the play. Muggs will be played by Pa.; Bertram J. Smith, Arts and ships awarded for the first time this Abe Zoss of "basketball announcing" Letters freshman from Hempstead, year by the National Institution of fame and Gilly will be portrayed by Long Island; and Louis DaPra, Arts Public Affairs. the versatile Joe Mansfield. and Letters freshman from East Vamum A. Parish, of Momence, • The old Jewish tailor and shop Chicago, Ind. The sports staff will be enlarged III., John C. Kavanaugh, of Bay City, keeper, Isadore, will be played by Mich., and Walter G. Layden of Mc- Irwin Goldman. John Sweeney will through the addition of Eugene Vaselett, Arts and Letters freshman Alester, Okla., are the three who re- play the part of the ambitious coun­ received appointments from the try boy, Sam, who has an idea how from Brooklyn, N. Y.; and John Cackley, Arts and Letters freshman Washington institution and will take to make a million, and who, strangely up study there. enough, comes very close to realizing from Roncevei-te, West Virginia. it. Other roles in the piece include The internships, an innovation of that of Deacon Tillinger, who is the the new Administration, are awarded Town Named in Honor of to college graduates or undergradu­ miserly gentleman to whom the Bas- Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C. coms are indebted, the Morgan youth ates majoring in economics or politics who for all melodramatic purposes in schools throughout the coimtry. could be termed the "city smoothie," The town of St. Edward, Nebraska, Three months of study and actual a detective, and another minor char­ the only town of that name in the participation in the routine affairs of governmental bureaus at the capital acter. United States, was named after Rev­ erend Edward Sorin, C.S.C, founder along with an insight into the prac­ The feminine parts will be taken of the University. This fact is re­ tical workings of government machin­ over by Miss Irene Pyle, who played vealed in the Nebraska Historical So­ ery is afforded the student chosen. Nell in i'Gold in the Hills," Miss ciety records. Of the three Notre Dame selections Charlotte Maurer, who has assisted Not only was the town founded by two, Kavanaugh and Parish, are un­ in many University productions, and a South Bend company but there dergraduates. Parish is a senior in Miss Helen Peterson, all of South were also emigrants from South the College of Arts and Letters. Lay­ Bend. Bend to the town. den also an Arts and Letters student Professor Albert Doyle is directing In 1872-73 the St. Edward Land completed his college course at the the play and Professor Frank Kelly and Emigration Company was formed end of the semester and is filling the is supervising the staging and the in South Bend with Alexis T. Co- last semester preparatory to getting designing of the sets. The definite quillard as president and Timothy his degree in the work at Washington. E. Howard, a lawyer, as secretary. dates for the presentation have not Kavanaugh, a transfer student as yet been decided upon, however the Mr. Coquillard owned a half section from the University of Michigan, is play is expected to be in shape before of the land which he deeded to the March. company. (Continued on Page 18) February 8, 1933 One John A. Breen Named Chairman FR. NIEDWLiUID WINS Qf Washington Birthday Exercises ANER. nsrmiTE MEDAL TO SECURE A NEW FLAG Two gold medals, one to the Rev. Father Hebert Leaves Julius A. Nieuwland, C.S.C, of the Notre Dame to Teach By Lindsay Phoebus University for the discovery of a Thomas G. Proctor, president of At Columbia University process for making synthetic x'ubber; and the other to Dr. Carl D. Ander­ the Senior class, has announced that son, of the California Institute of the chairman of the committee for The Reverend Peter Edward He- Technology, for the discovery of the the Washington Birthday exercises bei-t, C.S.C, head of the department positron, a new fundamental unit of •ndll be John A. Breen of Chicago, a of classics and professor of Latin at student in the College of Arts and the University, has left the Univer- Letters. The members of the com­ sitj' to teach at Columbia Univer­ mittee are Richard L. Walters, of sity, Portland, Oregon. Since his ordination in 1914, Fa­ ther Hebert has taught at the Uni­ versity mth the exception of two years, 1917-19, which he spent teach­ ing at Columbia University in Port­ land. Although Father Hebert has no de­ grees in botany or ornithology, he is a member of the Indiana Academy of Science. He humorously describes his interests as follows: "I teach the classics for a hobby, and spend the major part of my time in botany and oimithology." JOHN A. BREEN REV. JULIUS A. NIEUWLAND President appointed a president. He has in his room, hundreds of Receives another medal. botanical specimens, and a collection Chicago, and John J. Gainer, of of butterflies made by him is now a matter, were awai-ded by The Amer­ Wood River, Illinois, both students part of the museum of a large De­ ican Institute of the city of New in the College of Arts and Letters. troit school. York at the annual dinner of the The committee will secure the flag American Institute held in the Hotel for the presentation and will make Father Hebert has also compiled a Astor, Feb. 7. text, "Selections from the Latin Fa­ necessarj"^ arrangements for the use The medals, awarded by the In­ of Washington Hall for the exer­ thers," which is used at Notre Dame. The Reverend John F. O'Hara, C.S.C, stitute, are one of the oldest awards cises. in the United States. They were es­ The exercises this year will be the president of the University, said that Father Hebert would return to the tablished shortly after the Institute ninetieth celebration of Washington's was organized 107 years ago. Birthday at Notre Dame. Though University in June. the celebration of this memorable The awards were announced by a day began at the University in 1845 committee of which Di\ Fred M. when the Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., Prof. Miller Wins First Backet, Director of Research of the was president of the University, it Prize for Water Colors Union Carbide and Carbon Co., is was not until 1896 that the first flag chairman, and the members of which presentation was made by Sam Mur- are Dr. Albert F. Blakeslee, of the At the Eleventh Annual Hoosier Carnegie Institution of Washington; dock, president of the Senior class Salon held in the Marshall Field of 1896. Since the days of Father Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Galleries, in Chicago, under the aus­ the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ Sorin, when the honor of presenting pices of the Hoosier Salon Patrons the program was first bestowed on nology; Dr. E. R. Weidlein, Director Association the following Notre Dame of the Mellon Institute, Pitsburgh; the graduating class, the celebration men exhibited their work: Professor of Washington's Birthday by the Dr. William Crocker, Director of the John E. Miller of the Ai-chitectural Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant seniors has been an annual occur­ Faculty; Professor Stanley Sessler rence. Research, Yonkers, N. Y.; Mr. Wil­ of the Fine Arts Department; Wil­ liam M. Chadbourne, lawyer and All members of the graduating liam L.