?W)S ®oh)tr of Campus tESjoustjt anii action ftye Bufei^Cfjronttle Volume 52, Number ! Duke University, Durham, N. C. Tuesday, February 5, 1957 Woody Herman Plays For Joe College 1 * * * * * * [4th Herd To Appear WeSt LampUSSAt Dances, Concert Woody Herman's FourtFourth Herd, "most danceable jazz dance music in America," will set the tempo for the festivi­ ties of Joe College Weekend Begins Rushing April 26-27. Herman's Herd will play With the flashing of fraternity men's smiles and the ex­ for an informal dance Friday tending of "chow train" invitations, Rush Week began yes­ night, April 26, a concert in terday as the class of 1960 had its first encounter with fra­ the West Campus Main Quad ternity men. Saturday afternoon from 2 Fraternities will hold their first scheduled rush func­ to 4, and for the formal ball tions, open houses, tonight from 7 until 10:40 p.m. Fresh­ Saturday night. men going through rush will be required to visit nine fra­ Herman, who played with an ternities tonight and eight tomorrow night. Twenty minutes octet last fall, has re-formed *will be spent in each fraternity his big band for a swing through section. Freshmen must visit Dixie, where jazz was born. all 19 fraterinties in order to He will meet several engage­ Ambassadors And be eligible to continue rush. ments in North Carolina, South Only freshmen with "C" aver­ Carolina, and Florida before ages may attend any function coming in April. ROTC's Will Help of rush week. Clarinetist Herman got his Unscheduled rush functions start as a bandleader in 1935. Inaugurate Hodges began last night and will con­ Featuring young talent, Her­ tinue throughout rush. These man's bands have established a Three groups of Duke students include "chow trains," and gen­ reputation for danceable jazz. eral open relations between "C" will take part in the festivities His nationally and internation­ average freshmen and fraternity ally famous bands have ranked accompanying the inauguration men. Relations will be open be­ among the top ten in the United of Governor Luther H. Hodges tween fraternity men and fresh­ States since 1949, according to Famous Historian Will in Raleigh this week. men who did not make their Down Beat and Metronome pop­ On Wednesday, the Duke Am­ averages when rush ends on Feb. ularity ratings. bassadors dance orchestra will 20. In 1953, the Third Herd Lecture Here Thursday play for the Pre-Inaugural Ball. Non "C" average freshmen reached the top, ranking first To follow up the Ambassadors' may not enter a fraternity house in Metronome's poll. When big hands lost in popularity, Her­ Bruce Catton, Pulitzer Prize the Navy. In 1920 he became a performance, the entire Duke at any time during rush. Fra­ newspaper reporter, which was Naval Reserve Officer Training ternity men may not enter fresh­ man cut his outfit to eight men and National Book Award win­ and played the West Coast with ner for his civil war book, "A his occupation for the next 20 Corps battalion of midshipmen men dorms during Rush Week. years. and the Air Force Reserve Offi­ his octet. Now, with big bands Stillness at Appomattox," will regaining their appeal, Herman speak under the sponsorship of During World War H he cer Training Corps will take Fraternities will hold open served as Director of Information part in the inaugural parade on houses again on Wednesday, Feb. has regathered his musicians into the Educational Affairs Commit­ the Fourth Herd. According to tee of the Student Union in the for the War Production Board. Thursday. 13 from 7 until 9:50 p.m. These After the war he served for a the music magazine Jazz Ameri- " Women's College Auditorium The Raleigh appearance Wed­ apen houses will be by invitation cana, "No one will be surprised Thursday at 8:15 p.m. (•Continued on Page 5) nesday of the Duke Ambassadors and each rushing freshman must will be the musicians' second if it turns out to be the best of The title of his lecture will be (Continued on Page 5) bis career." "Fighting Men of the Civil War." performance at a North Carolina Traveling from New York Two Pages Feature Governor's Ball. City, Catton will arrive in Dur­ The Ambassadors, in their ham Thursday morning by train. New Dorm On East 24th year as a. self-perpetuat­ He will tour Durham and the In this issue the Chronicle ing campus organization, have Jose Greco's Troupe Duke campus and have lunch offers complete feature cov­ gained international recognition with members of the History De­ erage on pages four and five in recent years through over­ partment. From 3-5 p.m. the of the new dormitory on East seas entertainment missions for noted author will participate in Campus. U.S. servicemen in Iceland and an autograph session in the the Azores. Will Perform Ballet Gothic Bookshop. He will then The feature includes open­ ing dote, pictures of the dor­ The AFROTC detachment, One of the world's foremost attend a dinner given in his exponents of Spanish dance honor in the Old Trinity Room. mitory, plans for dining fa­ which will represent Duke in cilities and the sorority dis­ the inaugural parade, will con­ forms, Jose Greco, and his Born in Michigan in 1899, Cat- tribution plan for the wom­ sist of a Drum and Bugle Corps, troupe, will present a Spanish ton attended Oberlin College and en who will live in the dorm. a Color Guard, a Drill Team, ballet this Saturday at 8:15 served during World War I in and two squadrons. p.m. in Page Auditorium with the sponsorship of the Stu­ dent Union. A naturalized American, All-Star Series Brings Symphony Greco was born in small Mon- torio, Italy. It was there that The Duke University All-Star 3 in F Major, Debussy's Clouds tion. he first learned dancing and Concert Series will present the and Festivals Nocturnes, and Samuel Thaviu, concertmaster made his first attempts at imi­ Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, Strauss' Death and Transfigura- of the Pittsburgh Symphony, has tating the traveling dancer who Friday, Feb. 8, at 8:15 p.m. in established himself as one of performed in the public square. Page Auditorium. the country's leading orchestral At the age of seven he was taken to Seville, Spain, where One of the major American musicians. His career began when, as a student, he was con­ he watched the professional symphony orchestras, the Pitts­ dancers who taught him the burgh Symphony is conducted certmaster of the Chicago Little Symphony. Thaviu is a winner techniques of traditional Fla­ by William Steinberg. Dr. Stein­ menco dances. berg, a native of Germany, was of the National Federation of Music Clubs contest and a schol­ When he was 14, four years brought to the United States by after moving to America, he left the late Arturo Toscanini to con­ arship to Julliard. He has been concertmaster of the Baltimore, high school to concentrate on duct the NBC Symphony. He art study at the Leonardo da had been conducting the Pales­ Kansas City, and Cleveland Symphonies. Vinci Art School in New York. tine Symphony Orchestra. Although he showed promise of An accomplished violinist at The Pittsburgh Symphony talent in this field, his first love the age of 10, a virtuoso pianist dates back to 1896 when Victor proved to be Spanish dancing at 15, and an orchestra conductor Herbert was its conductor. At and he continued to take lessons. at 19, when he won the city of the time of World War I, the After Greco's first appearance Cologne's famed Wullner prize orchestra was disbanded and not in Carmen at New York's Hip­ for conducting. Steinberg has reorganized until 1927. Since podrome Theatre, he was ap­ appeared as guest conductor with that time, it has been conducted proached by the dancer, Escu- every major symphony orchestra by Antonio Mordarelli, Otto dero, who told him, "If I had in the country. Klemperer, Fritz Reiner, and been able to dance like that The 30-year-old orchestra will Steinberg. Steinberg and the when I was your age, I should present a program of Berlioz's Pittsburgh Symphony have been now be the marvel of the world." Overture to "Benedict and Bea­ described as one of the great The turning point in his career trice," Brahms' Symphony No. WILLIAM STEINBERG musical teams of our time. (Continued on Page 5} JOSE GRECO Page Two THE DUKE CHRONICLE Tuesday, February 5, 1957 Cljje Duke jfc Cljronirte Letters To FOUNDED IN 1905 The Tower of Campus Thought and Action Published every Tuesday and Friday of the University year by the students of Duke Uni­ The Editor versity, Durham. North Carolina. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Durham, N. C, under the Act of March 8. 1889. Delivered by mail. J3.00 for the Editor, the Chronicle; University year, $1.50 per semester; cost of postage to enrolled undergraduates not in residence on the campus. Subscriptions should be mailed to Box 4696. Duke Station. Since I've come to this SALLY W. MCINTOSH JOHN W. ZIMMER £./«£ campus, I've read most of the editorial remarks concerning dif­ ferent questions, especially those about the international situation. Requirement: Contemplation I'm sorry to state that the above mentioned article seems to be The statistical machinations of life in the hyphenated the cheapest and most unjusti­ new dorm were explained in WSGA Assembly last night. fied that ever appeared on "Page All the lists will be posted and the women will start pon­ Two" in this semester's issues.