& asi • H! .'J pns pee iffl ion ate Student Publication The Rice Institute km VOL. XX. HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1934 NO. 3 Girls' Tennis Club Rice YWCA Will To Organize Monday rise Hold Campus Picnic Owl Mentor Bears Down "Shirt-Tail" Parade Tennis enthusiasts are invited to at- On October 1, Monday, the Rice Y. In Preparing Squad For tend the first meeting of the Rice Girls' For Band Fans W. C. A. will hold the first meeting Tennis Club for this term in A.B. 311 of the year in the form of a picnic. All Scheduled For Friday at 1 p. m., Monday. Freshmen aie co-eds are invited to meet under the Highly Touted L.S.U. Team especially urged to attend; ability in At SMU Game trees on the campus where the May the game is not a requisite for mem- Fete is held each year. Everyone is bership, according to Kathryn Pear- to bring her own lunch and meet at Group Will Participate in Thrilling Punting Duel Expected When Bill Wallace and :i-jiffS Yell Leader John McWhirter and Soph President Frank son, president. 1 oclock. Smith Plan Big Affair at Rice Alternate Mondays are the days set Big Slime Parade Feme Bahs&ck, the National Secre- Abe Mickal Meet; Jess Fatheree, 'Ii:: ..... for regular meetings, and at each of Tonight tary of the Y. W. and Y. M. C. A., will 1933 Star, Is Injured. Hotel Corner these sessions special programs will be be present to give an address to all given explaining particular strokes and those present, The rest of the time Rice students will not know all about - Starting at the corner of Lamar and The outstanding event of the eve- other details of the game. Following will be taken up with explaining the j By Evri B. Mendel Houston if lie can spare the tune irc-ivi •: Main streets, the annual slime parade ning will be the pep meeting to be these instructive programs, members the drum major of the band until the plans for the new year to the new | Coach Jimmy Kitts' edition of the his "Battle of New Orleans" vy'WK'. ! 1934 Rice Owl football team, Vjctoti- Mayor Walrnsley Long b. contidetu will get under way at 7:30 tonight. held at the Rice Hotel corner. This will hold regular practices to develop time of the S. M. U,-Rice football game, members. ; oils in their first tUt of the season 1 that his team will also win the Battle With music furnished by the Rice rally is an annual event which precedes the strokes, The first term will be de- The annual tea given by tine Y. W. according to an announcement made against the Loyola Wolves, will try to a! Houston" this week-end. Band, with prominent speakers sched- the first home game of the Owls. John voted to this sort of work, and the last C. A. was held Monday, September 24, i , WIVE. J • . , .it ; m, >v , , , , >,,,™ by Jack Van Gundy, president of the ho,r doa 1 Tlu> vvW d nie ut of uled, and with the zest that will be McWhirter, appointed temporary yell part will be spent in regular tourna- at the Autry House. The setting and ^ i , 'IT* ", , . 5 ' " *£*<> <f leader, and his assistant, George Allen, ment. band. Thursday. decorations were carried out in a pink 'meet. Coach Biff Jones 'highly touted fray muiiis. amy serious injuries. HjM introduced by the sophomores, the joint ...t.:. , .. j Louisiana State University Tigers to- ;• Km,ike, .quarterback, is' s'tiil. :nursine are slime parade-pep meeting for the L. are in readiness to swing an eventful MISB Pea^on announces t#mt the j Keeping the plans for its drum ma- and white color sfihen and white color scheme through the | ,norWw alternoo.i at R.ce Field. The I m,ui. d shoulder but it . K«L,a l.,'i rplly, : jor u secret is just one of the many use of cava! and roses. S. U. football game promises to be a ranking tournament for girls will be I game will start at 2:150 fe, M. : This rally will be launched in the i Cuntimud on PSfie -I . f!vjji bang-up affair. held within the next three weeks. i plans (hat have been made by the band | The Owls will be in there trying to , middle of the shirt-ttail parade. Slimes j for this ensuing year The Chamber ' get some revenge from the; Stinging:'.. will be taken to the Rice Hotel for the of Commerce has appointed a com-, meeting, and the parade will be re- Morris Names Petit Theatre 13-0 defeat the Tigers plastered on Drama Group sumed after the pep rally is through. mittee that will work with the Friends | them last year at Baton Rouge. Louisi- I Rally Slimes will take a large part, accord- of Rice to encourage attendance at the j ana will fight- to continue- their untle- ing to sophomore class president Prank Campanile Rice-Purdue game which will be ' Francais Plans j- feted record of last .soa-stm, 11 Smith. played in Indiana. ! T? 11 n The Tiger - grid machine will he"' To Return To ; making their 1934 debut against the [ PP;|H John McWhirter has arranged to - Staff H eads run rrogram have Coach Kitts, Captain Percy Ar- |i Due to the fact that the arrival of j q Owls, out the Rice team Will be the ' Autry House thur, Colonel Ike Ashburn, and Mayq? the new uniforms has been delayed, j -- s-iapfe ' . i! , ' - • !under<ilogs in the, fray1 due 'to --tin, i\ew Mem Iters Oscar Holcombe as the speakers. The First Meeting of Editorial j members will wear their old uniforms | Seven Plays Will Be Given, .'strength of pre-season dope Rice Band will be on hand to furnish Staff Will Be Called | when they meet the train that comes ! i\« , mr ability of the Louisiana, team;.- Move Is Made for Presenta- the musical end of the assemblage. here for the Louisiana game. There i Uirector Vern United State.-- Stnator Huey P New Ruling Puts Faculty Soon States .; v'".1-'' • > will • ae.ompimy,- bis pet piVitbjScti;, n tion of Plays To Be j are about 45 members in the band this j Men on Committee of ; year. Songs that have been planned I Near Campus Tentative plans for the Campanile |'''Old Or ay Bonnet and Alexan- | Seven productions, the f i rst to be Selection Society Groups are being whipped into shape and ^er "s Hagtime Band. I given in October, will mark the talen- Evans Begin ;!.''!At '('isrnnvi"' ' ;ri?.ii After an absence of several years, work on the Rice Institute year book The band is also to participate in the , (l{ the petit Theatre Francais fori • Seiefc^iiili - ftii' !tht|; Kiiljy fohjlv w!ri. h-tnei-' the Dramatic Club will return to the Entertain With has been launched, according to an : slime parade scheduled for tonight. I.. First Year At u l.eit MotidiiN ,iii „i'i j,. i • i!i( Autry House for the presentation of announcement made by Irwin Morris, Plans are alsoQ under way for the ] . ' " season, accou ing o u.t,. ,, acrtvptaiu e ..f cigl t •• into its plays this season, Bob Clemens, editor. joint O. W. L. S.-Barid dance, as Miss j Vern. director. Smart Affair The 1934-35 year book will be pub- Roberta Woods, president of the so- j Andre Bourgeois. French instructor Cal if or n ia the club ,'wiK !!:;»!. W tojliiwinp president, announced at the first meet- nsch wfre J;i:ner Clark, ing of the club, which was held Thurs- lished under the direct supervisions of; ciety. and Van Gundy, representing the j at Rice Institute, has been chosen Krjtiik Snntli. swrmvr- Knox day evening at the Autry House. Autry House Is Scene of Mr. Morris, suitor; Virginia Barnes, I bond, have met to discuss it, K&isseur general, and he will direct, Former Professor (iaincil Wide assistant editor; Raymond Cook busi- ~—-1 ..-_.~X.-_ | n | y the leading role in lite Success While at B.i'WK-r. VV;.r >i Ailkios. ('I'eorge Brown, The plays were taken away from as we as p a ;' tVil'Uiirit •; r.hd Mrr:.-...n Stcl! Annual Literary ness manager and Lawrence Boone. opening comedy: "Taetiques," a two- Rice the Autry House while the club was . 'I3)i men v.ei'e broughi irite, the c'mVj under the leadership of Carmen Lewis. TtZTS perfecting I Ltg-IrOnS A(iOTTl >< comedy written for Rice students Party ine hrst step toward peifecting; 4. by Jean Sulver, In the cast will be r- a new- tuemliersliip amendment The effect of the move on the club Dr. G.riffith C. ionriei !'•' •• plans for the organisation set-up was ObStinatC FrOSk ' Mesdemoiselles Martha Ciaypool, Dor- .. ip ic- Ceijstimtieii of the Rally Clufc. was not of the best in that it took the the appomtment Thursday of the edi-1 * ,u »r< „ u -. »*• . , I<.'<M>I- <>J 'Miifhcmutu's at; The Hic< tiVTh- e ii: w rul'iti'gs provide f i u Ceni- club away from the campus and made ' The Autry House was the scene ft* torial division of the staff. Mr. Mor- .H ° m >iiuitc will ©gin hi • first y.eai .ii.-, Pi... miitce. cif Selection compose;! (,i H O it try to compete with the little theatre Thursday afternoon of the annual tea ris stated Euiord (Boo) Mounce escaped the Hander. Mary Jane Hale, Nanine Fer- .