The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Fall 11-12-1942 Maine Campus November 12 1942 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus November 12 1942" (1942). Maine Campus Archives. 2644. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/2644 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Dorms Inaugurate Naval Enlistment Meatless Tuesdays The Maine Campus Board Will Visit Starting This Week Campus Nov. /9-2/ Published Weekly by the Students of the University of Main* Vol. XLIV Z 265 Orono, Maine, November 12, 194 2 Number 3 Plaisted's Band Bowdoin's Donahue Streaks For End Zone To Score .. Fourteen Students Are Provides Music Cast in First Production At Military Ball Three Understudies Also Named For Ban on Name Bands Masque Closely Observed Comedy Show Early In Dec. By Scabbard, Blade By Martin Scher Fourteen students have been cast and three understudies named 1,Ves Plaisted and his orchestra will for the Maine Masque Theatre's forthcoming production of "Arsenic play for the Military Ball on Friday, and Old Lace," a mystery comedy scheduled for production early Nov. 27, according to an announce- in December. ment this morning by Richard Pierce, Isabel! Ansell, a sophomore in the college of president of Scabbard and Blade, hon- arts and sciences, and Elizabeth Clough, a transfer from orary military society. Pierce pointed Farmington Normal School, have been cast to play the roles of Abbie out that this selection was in keeping and Martha Brewster, two sweet, lovable, charitable with the ban on "name bands," as ap- old ladies who love too good for their fellow men. proved by the University social com- • Miss Clough has had mittee. considerable experience in both high school and at line at the annual In the receiving Farmington. While in high school formal will be President and Mrs. Radio Show To she took part in the state one-act play and Mrs. Arthur A. Hauck, Colonel contest and in senior drama. While at Francis R. Fuller, and Dean and Mrs. Feature Old Farmington she participated in many Paul Cloke, it was announced. plays, including "Pride and Preju- Chaperons will be Prof. and Mrs. dice," "Our Town," "Charlie's Aunt," Harry D. Watson and Prof. and Mrs. Maine Myth and "Ladies in Retirement.' She also Chester A. Jenkins. took part in costuming, makeup, and The various committees for the Ball, Runion To Lecture theater publicity work while there. made up of student members of the —Bangor Daily News Photo On 'Speech Clinic Robert Wilkinson, a freshman in the society, are as follows: General chair- college of technology, will play the man of the gymnasium, Sumner Cla- Of The Air' at 9:45 role of Jonathan Brewster, one of the verie; decorations, Robert Worrick old ladies' brothers. Wilkinson had Enlistment Board The University of Maine's second and Edward Etzel; publicity, David Finds Bus Transportation Is Coed Examines the lead in the senior play while in radio program of the year goes on the Harding and Edward Robinson; in- high school and has taken part in a For Naval Reserve air tonight from 9:30-10:00 over Radio formal initiation, Henry Fogler; re- number of one-act plays. He has also Squeezing Experience Nowaday Frat Hell Week Station WLBZ. The program will be freshments, William Harding; honor- Here November 19 had experience as stage manager. ary Lieutenant Colonel, Ben Graham; Its Binh divided into two parts, "This is By Bernard Marsh be! Sophomore Veteran invitations, Robert Jenkins; and cere- There are times is hen the situation Maine!" a dramatic show highlighting flaying accorded fitting obituary Those Interested There are three versions of Hell Elaine Harper, the daughter of the mony, Walter Sullivan. isn't so bad, however. For instance, Maine legends and past history, and last week to the lost art of bumming, Week, the victims', the brethren's, and Brewsters' minister, and the love in- when standing in the middle of the Must Make Advance "the Speech Clinic of the Air." the Campus reporter now turns to an the onlookers'. From the female side terest of their nephew Mortimer, will crowd and unable to reach one of the "This is Maine" will feature this investigation of the college student's Appointments Now of the fence, at least, we find the look- be portrayed by Patricia de Weyer, a Post-War Planning bars, we find that we can grasp the week the story of the "Boat that Drift- remaining modes of transportation. ing on to be quite enjoyable. In fact sophomore who took part last year in nearest blonde for support—even if Naval Reserve enlistment board ed Against the Tide." This is an orig- This is a discussion of buses, the only we think that Hell Week is a great the Masque's production of "The Gol- Now Is Urged By farther away than the post. will visit the campus November 19 inal dramatization of a murder that thing left except walking. she's institution, and if we thought we could den Apple" and "Romeo and Juliet." through 21 for the purpose of giving took place many years ago in Maine, bus is something you can Gets fee Cream get anyone to agree with us, we would Mortimer Brewster, the old ladies' Armistice Speaker Now, a physical examinations and enlisting creating a famous legend. The back- always get one more person into—price And sometimes the strangest things certainly recommend that there be nephew, will be played by Masque students in the V-1 and V-7 classes of ground of the case was taken from ac- ten cents. At least that's what we happen. Once when we were standing more of them. president Calvin Friar, who played Victory in War Not cute little one so she the Naval Reserve, it was announced tual court records by Tom Powers, the thought until the other day. A couple on the feet of a To the bystander, Hell Week is "Banjo" in "The Man Who Came to cream today by the Placement Bureau. author, who wrote the drama as part Ultimate Goal, Says of chaps were making a bet at the couldn't get away, she fed us ice about as unique an episode as most of Dinner," and had a part in "The and a Students of all four classes inter- of his radio course last semester. bus stop. One was betting that the with a little spoon for a mile us ever witness. We are sung to in Golden Apple." Friar is a sophomore Dr. Ralph B. Perry ested in enlistment in the Naval Re- Written by Students enormous crowd waiting across the half. (She thought we were starving the dining room, serenaded, proposed in the college of technology. look.) serve must make advance appoint- "This is Maine" will continue to The ‘iew of wise post-war planning road could get aboard, and the other to death, but it's only the way we to, and provided with the correct time James Haskell, a junior in the col- Oftentimes when on the way to drill ments with the Placement Bureau for present dramas written by the students 110W as an actual contribution to the was sure they couldn't. In the end they every five minutes. At almost any lege of agriculture, will have the part interviewing the board and for a phy- themselves. The cast for "The Boat war effort was emphasized here Wed- all got on but one, and the last man the little fellow beside you in the crowd time during the day, it is possible to of Teddy Brewster, the ladies' other sical. This includes those members that Drifted Against the Tide!" will nesdav morning by educator and phi- had to push with all his strength to gasps, "Gee, a sojer!" and lets go of observe a once dignified upperclassman brother who has delusions about being of the freshman and sophomore classes be composed of Bill Brown, Mary losopher Dr. Ralph Barton Perry, of get the door closed. The driver his jam sandwich with one hand to feel either dressed in shorts, skipping to Teddy Roosevelt. Haskell is best re- who by joint agreement must obtain Hempstead, Olive Rowell, Will Harvard, speaking before the faculty couldn't start until they had it fixed your newly pressed uniform. classes, or dragging a little cart for the membered for his portrayal of Mr. the approval of the Naval Reserve O'Neill, Marjorie Stritch, and Alicia and students of the University of so that half the crowd inspired while Last of all in connection with the convenience of the other students. Best Stanley in "The Man Who Came to Board before enlisting in the Army Coffin, all veterans of last year's broad- Maine at the annual Armistice Day the other half expired. bus situation let us consider the prob- ot all are the little two step numbers Dinner" last spring. He also took E.R.C.. for future transfer to the casts, and by the following newcomers: assembly. In his subject he asked, Idea! No Seats lem of the chap who brings his date that are so startling at eight o'clock part in "Cabbages and Kings." Naval Reserve at the end of their Wallace Bugbee, Therese Dumais, Jo- "Does Post-War Planning Interfere One never sits down on a bus nowa- back home on the bus.