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Poe Attracts __ ^ Much Interest Production Is Praised t . L Palmetto Players Next Presentation Drawing Nation Wide Attention The production of "Edgar Allan Poe" by the Palmetto Players is attracting nation wide attention, according to Mr. Dean, the director of the players, who has received many letters concerning the forthcoming production. Authentic reports have been received by Mr. Dean from Kansas City, Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Baltimore, and Iowa City. The Edgar Allan Poc Shrine in Richmond, whose board of directors consist of such well-known figures as James Branch Cabell, Ellen Glasgow, Cotesworthy Pinckney, and Hervey Allen, has written to Mr. Dean, "wishing you great success in your production of Poc." The cast of the production, according to Mr. Dean is one that has been carefully selected. The cast is as follows: Edgar Allan Poe, Douglas Jcppe; Virginia Poe, Rena Buchanan; Helen Osman, Mrs. Rowcna Jones Halsey; Nathaniel P. Willis, Dr. Ewing Tucker Bonn; Mr. Olivers, the Georgian poet, Richard Morgan; Miss Lynchs, Elizabeth Douglas; Margaret Fuller, Helen Middleton; Mrs. Clemn, Mary Lewis; Mrs. Bradford, mother of the famous Helen, Martha Ann Dowling; William Burton, Billy Baldwin. The cast has been rehearsing for the past week. William Dean declared that he expects "Edgar Allan Poe" to be one of the best productions the Players have put on. W l-l gr o vym-i/ To Be In Play Members of the Girls' Glee Club for the new semester, who will take part in the production of a special arrangement of the Opera "Faust" by Goethe, which will be given by the combined Boys' and Girls' Glee Club early in April under the direction of Maurice Matteson, and who will take part in numerous other activities of the Girls' Glee Club are: Nelle West, of Columbia, Aleen Horton of Union, Margaret Alderman of Columbia, Miriam Richardson, Aline Conard, Kathleen Townsend, Corrie McCullum, Margaret Quattlebaum, Sue Kibler, Flora Wald, Louise Newton, Doris Stallings, Agnes Highes, Ruth Williams, Mary Gilmore, Lucy Oliver, and Mildred Mitchell, all of Columbia. Earlina Hildebrande, of Hagood, Miriam Bradham of Sumter, Leola Fulmer of Chapin,, Emma Muller of Blythewood, Dorothy Hefner of Grafton, West Va., Faith Brewer of Winston-Salem, N. C., Elizabeth and Margaret Cornwall of Chester, Cornelia and Mary Atkinson of Hagood, Margarnet All of Branchville, Harriet Toney of Johnston, Dorothy Page of York. Sarah Pearlstein ?f Olar beth Ligon of Winnsboro, Esther Henderson of Charleston, Margaret Antry, Olive Nettles of Camden, and Cornelia Jackson of Sumter. Science Article Written By Madame D'Horvath "Art and Science," written by Mme. d'Horvath, an article dealing with the scientific principles underlying the various fine arts, has <been accepted for publication by The Etude. This article was read before the violin clinic at the recent meeting of the Music Teachers Association in Greenville. It is, in the opinion of critics, a scholarly piece of research into the comparative arts of sculpture, painting and music and their basic principles. tt. m.o. The Soviet government has ordered the entire population of three South Russian towns in Siberia. This is one way of wiping towns off the map. EMIL W. SYLVAN WATCHMAKER 1315 Senate St. Columbia, S. 0. r > COLUMBIA OFFICE SUPPLY CO. "EVERY OFFICE NEED" Offloa Furnltur*, Filing Cabin***, Safo* Printing and Rubb*r 8t*mp? 1112 Lady 8tr**t 'Phon* lit) METR0P0L1 "THE OLD B THE STUDENTS' 1 1520 MAIN STREET - , - - r , ~ ~ f t Appeal Hi B&B h0f :::::V<l^^raRflnO I Bf''- ' !- H^hK. |K; . . < ^i?|p^^| HP ; > l vjijtt. .. J Kp|;: jjgF Hf^BB^EB^: ^ -' Hk "^SSBj v ffffp'jfffiBII Hwy jjti' '> m ^p0km Martha Ann Dowling and Rena Bi Poe". Miss Dowling will play Mrs. wife of Edgar Allan Poe. Sororities Ban February Bids Pan-Hellenic Votes Out Rush Week This Semester With Exception Of Seniors There will be no rushing for the sororities this semester according tc the rule passed by the Girls' Pan-Hellenic at the beginning of this term All sororities on the campus voted nol to have "rush week" this session because of the depression. No new girls will be officially bid until September except the graduate students who maj be bid two weeks after registration. The girls' 'Pan-Hellenic will not meet at the Womens Building as before, but will meet at the different sorority houses in order of the sorori ties installations on the campus. At the last meeting of the Girls Pan-Hellenic the officers for the com ing semester were installed. Jant Bayard, Pi Beta Phi is the new president; Dena Citron, Delta Eta Sigma is the new vice-president; and Lucilh Grant, Sigma Kappa, the secretary treasurer. These officers are not elected, but follow in succession according to the order of the sororities installation on the campus. Jean Wichman Zeta Tau Alpha is the outgoing presi dent, who installed the new members Dance Given By Social Cabinet The Social Cabinet of the Universitj resumed its series of dances whicl were interrupted by examinations am registration Saturday night, February 18. The dance was given in the gym fol lowing the Duke-Carolina basketbal game. Music was furnished by Rogei Watson's orchestra. The members of the Social Cabinet are M. L. Browne, John Bowden, and W. Claude Martin, who serve with.two faculty members, Prof. Charles F Mercer and Dr. James T. Penny. Thej have requested that hereafter all men wear coats to the dances. Th?se dances, as a means of weekend entertainment, have proved to be tremendously successful in accomplishing their purpose and it is the aim ol the Cabinet to continue these functions every other Saturday nighl throughout the remainder of the session. Members of the faculty and their wives serve as chapcrones. u. a. o. The young man of long ago said tc the maiden who rejected him, "Have a little pity." The modern sheik in a like predicament says, "Aw, have a heart." If You Want Service Call University Drug Store 1204 Green St. Phones 4381-4332 TAN CAFE PLIABLE" MEETING PLAGE PHONE 7849 i m In iiEdgar Altai iHI :|H \mM uchanan who will appear in the Palmetto Bradford, mother of the famous Helen, ar Personals I Mary Howze Dillard spent last ] week-end in Newberry. Bob Avinger motored to his home in Orangeburg last Sunday. Sara Calhoun visited in Allendale. } Margaret L,ockee of Greenville, who 0 attended Carolina last year, spent v . Wednesday in Columbia. : Miriam Bradham and Ella Lynch ^ went to their homes in Sumter last * i week. * , Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Willis of Bam- * r berg spent Wednesday with their C* L o uaugmci, ociiaii. w t Frances Lybrand motored to her 1 . home in Lexington Monday. ' I "Vic" Pyle spent the week-end in ( . Greenville. 1 Maxine Walker and Lib Creighton * , attended a dance in Camden Wednesday night. i Catherine Craven and Virginia ^ [ Moore will visit their home in Ben- ( nettsville this week-end. ' Charlie Moore visited in Spartan- < ] burg last week. < Julia Pickens of Greenville, who j t was an M. A. student here last semes- ? ' ter, is spending the week in Columbia. < J. M. Williams has been called to ] ' his home in Glenn Springs due to the illness of his mother. Valrefe and Ulee Lide spent the week-end at their home in North. Bill Hawkins is going to Union this week-end to visit Helen Mixon. Joseph Joseph went to his home in Greeleyville last week. r I mt ? r\ i ? yN - - - jrneoDe oingiey, Kena sjuattieuaum, ( ' Hazclle Norris, Gordon Seastrunk, David Stoddard attended the NewT berry-Carolina basketball game in ( Newberry last Wednesday night. Yates Williams, former president of I r the Student Body who is now working * at the University, spent Sunday and Monday at his home in Orangeburg. a Edgar Sullivan visited in Statesburg ' last week. ' Robert Livingston visited in New- ^ * berry last Saturday and Sunday. Elizabeth Bird and Mary Smith were a ' in Newberry for the game Wednesday. ^ m. - u-uests Are iuntertamea ; By Alpha Beta Society c t . P The Alpha Beta society entertained c t a group of Chi Psis from Georgia and ? North Carolina last week-end and I showed them over the University, i Groups came from the University of J North Carolina, Georgia Tech, and ( Augusta, Georgia. ; Saturday afternoon a luncheon was t given at the Forest Lake club by the local Chi Psi alumni association and 1 Saturday night the group was enter- ? tained at a supper given by the Alpha ^ Beta society at the Rose Mary tearoom and afterwards were taken to the * Duke-Carolina basketball game. Among those who visited the society were the following: Howard Beebe, ? I James Bernard, and J. W. Willday of the University of North Carolina; W. D. Harden. James Gardiner, and ^ Henry Hefferan of Augusta, Georgia; H. W. Gcgcnheimer and Andrew Jack- e son of Georgia Tech. You can't judge a book by its ^ cover, neither can you judge a woman t< by what covers her. ^ tPoe" ) p fx." ', ^ J x^<?u -. ^ n Players production of "Edgar Allan id Miss Buchanan will play Virginia, Pan-Hel Council To Give Dance Fraternity Affair To Be Held At Ridgewood February 28; Gamecocks Play . The first Pan-Hellenic Council dance tf the semester will be given at Ridgevood Country Club Tuesday night, February 28, from 9:30 until 2 o'clock. According to the officers of the club, he dance will be of unusual type and he ballroom will be decorated with ap>ropriate colors. Bids will be issued to all members tnd pledges of each of the fifteen fraernities represented on the campus, intermission will be called at 12:00 >'clock and the Grand March will be ead by Joseph H. Hall and his partler. " Music for the dance will be furlishcd by Buster Spann and his University of South Carolina Gamecock Drchestra. Archibald J. Beattie, Jr., chairman >f the entertainment committee, is in :harge of the arrangements for the affair. Other officers of the council ire: President, Joseph H. Hall, of Saffney; Secretary-Treasurer, Henry D. Foster, of Columbia. u. a. o. Alice Burkette Has Chief Role Alice Lee Burkette, secretary to Dean F. W. Bradley is playing the eading adult role in "If I Were 2ueen" which is being presented at he Town Theatre under the direction )f Belford Forrest, tonight and tonorrow afternoon and night. Miss Burkette is taking the comedy >art of Delia, a negro nurse. She is mown in Columbia for her readings md the most delightful of these are hose in negro dialect. The play was written by Mrs. E. S. !ardwcll, a Columbian, and the mother if three Carolina students and one lumnus of the institution. Also conlected with the play is Jane Shaffer, yho is assisting with the direction of he Junior Town Theatre members yho form the greater part of the cast f it_ _ e . _ _ if* t~\t <v ? ?i me ianiasy. miss csnaiter nas apicared on the Town Theatre stage arlier in the year in the cast of Hamlet." IT. ft. O. Babcock Attends Patriotic Party At the recent patriotic ball given by he United Daughters of the Confcdracy and Wade Hampton Camp Jons of Confederate Veterans Dr. Jalivah Babcock of the University English Department was one of the hief members of the grand march led y Ex-Governor Harry Byrd, of Virginia. Dr. Babcock had for his partler Miss Mattie Thomas. Others in the grand march were Irs. E. Preston Carpenter who was he partner of Governor Byrd, Govrnor Ibra C. Blackwood, Mrs. A. M. aucette, Hon. Claud Sapp, Mrs. Olin ). Johnson, Hon. James Hammond, drs. Thomas Calk, Captain E. Preson Carpenter and Miss Virginia Vaters. 59E9E5S59ffSS3555S5S95255SS32B9S2?5555535 Babbit- Worrel Solemniz + Sorority News Bcnnie Grey Lewis entertained the Sigma Kappas with four tables of bridge at her home on Oak Court on | Saturday afternoon, February 18. Flowers and tallies carried out the ( color scheme of maroon and lavender j the chapter colors. A salad course ( was served later in the afternoon. ( Rose Anne Howard and Florence Dargan of Florence are visiting Sis McMaster at the Alpha Delta Pi ( house, 1500 Divine street. Zcta Tau Alpha pledges surprised Eunice Stevenson, president of the ( chapter, with a buffet dinner on her ( birthday, February 10, at the chapter house, 1807 Green street. Elizabeth Lebby visited in Green 1I~ 1~ 1. 1 VII1C IkXHl WCCK-CI1U. The Pi Beta Phis held open house on Sunday afternoon from 4:30 'till 6 at their chapter house, 1813 Divine street. Fudge cake, Russian tea, sandwiches, and nuts were served. Martha Harmon visited at her home in Prosperity last week-end. Sara Calhoun visited in Allendale last week-end. The actives and pledges of the Pi Beta Phi sorority enjoyed a buffet dinner at the home of Kathcrine Townsend, 1610 Green street on Wednesday evening, February 22. Eleanor McCall was entertaining for her little sister, Edith Pctigrue, and Kathcrine for her sponscr, Margaret Yeadon. The following pledges plan to be initiated into the Chi Omega sorority tonight: Jean Harvey, Dorothy Wilson, Rachel Miller, Mary Ellen Dozier, Margaret Heisc, and Martha Hope. On February 10, 11, and 12 Mrs. A. K. Anderson of State College, Pennsylvania, Miss Mary Broughton of Atlanta, Miss Helen Camp of Knoxville, Tcnn., and Miss Pilkington of State Teacher's College at Tallahassee, Fla., members of Alpha Omicrom Pi sorority, inspected Pi Delta Phi, local sorority petitioning Alpha Omicrom Pi.. Saturday afternoon Mrs. Charles B. Elliot gave a tea at her home for the Pi Delta Phi sorority and their visitors. While in Columbia Miss Helen Camp attended the Sigma Phi Epsilon dance, February 10. Mrs. Collins, national president of the Chi Omega sorority, was in Columbia on Tuesday and Wesdnesday of this week. Miss Julia Park is back in school. She has been suffering from an attack of influenza at her home in Greenwood. Charlotte Coker's sister, Virginia, visited her at the Phi Beta Phi house last week. Emma Gene Clowny visited in Shelton last week-end. Jane Register is planning to visit at her home in Orangeburg and Jane Schaffer at her home in Walterboro this week-end. Miss Mary Howze Dillard visited in Newberry and Miss Belle Glover Thornwell in Hartsville last week-end. The Delta Delta Delta sorority held open house from 4:30 'till 6 on Sunday afternoon, February 19. u. n. o. Mrs. William Dean and the Dean Dancers gave an exhibition dance which received a loud applause. An interesting touch was the presentation by Mrs. Carpenter to Governor Byrd of a confederate flag, in recognition of his membership in the organization. u. a. o. The best thing to do with a shiftless husband is to shift him. TOAL'S 1 AQK TMTn i r? Q4i*aa4> JL~XUV AMMU11 MIMCCl P. H. LACHICOT DEALERS FOR < DIAMONDS?WATCHES 1424 Main Street SILVER1 AT MOOEfl WATCH AND J EWE ' CAROLINA DRY Phone 8156 "IF IT CAN BE OLEANE The Canteen and Gi i >???>? ? ? .?!.?. ?.?!??? I?. "The Howe < THE R. L. BRY BOOKS, STATIONERY 1440 Main Street i *. v.. I Wedding ed In Florence Former Univ. Student ifoung Couple Popular In Florence Will Make Their Home There A wedding of much interest to a large number of people throughout the state and especially on the University Campus was that of Miss Charlotte Bobbitt and Carl Worrell, former Carolina student which took place in 5t. John's Episcopal Church Tuesday morning at half past ten at Florence. Miller Simpson, of Greer, another Carolina student and organist of the l?irst Christian Church of Columbia, dayed the wedding music. Just before the ceremony Miss Margaret Larkee af Greenville sang O'Perfect Love. Miller Simpson played the wedding inarch trom Tanhauser. The bridesmaids were: Miss Irene King of Summerton, Miss Margaret Larkce of Greenville, Miss Isobel Ferguson of Lancaster, and Miss Virginia Stowe of Spartanburg. The grooms were: Allen Jeffords, Kenneth Eaton, Murrell Saverance and Henry Stuckey of Bamberg. Miss Cecilia Black of Columbia was maid of honor and Mrs. Johnnie Bess Gregg, dame of honor. The bride was attractive in a white satin wedding gown, with shoulder corsage of brides roses and lilies of the valley. Her veil of filmy and real lace was caught with a circlet of orange blossoms. Mrs. C. P. Bobbitt, her mother who gave her in marriage wore a dress of grey, with turban to match and black velvet shoes. The bridal Chorus from "Lohengrin" was used as the processional and Mendelssohns wedding march as the recessional. The best man was Manning Worrell, brother of the groom. The Rev. William S. Poynor, rector of St. John's Church used the ritual of the Episcopal church. Immediately after the ceremony a delectable wedding breakfast was served at the S. and H. Dining Room, guests included members of the wedding party. Following the breakfast, an informal reception was held at the home of the brides' parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Bobbitt. The bride has the unique distinction of having over five hundred living relatives of the Bobbitt name who are directly descended from Revolutionaryancestors. Her grandfather, General Alpheus Bobbitt, was prominent in the war between the States. Mrs. Worrell graduated from Florence High School and continued her education at Columbia College, and the University of South Carolina. Mr. Worrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Worrell of Florence was educated at Furman University and at the University of South Carolina where he graduated in the class of 1931. He finished with honors in Commercial Art and has done some commendable work. Both young people are quite popular. They will make their home in Florence. TJ. 8. P.. The teacher in a Bii(Tn1r? crlirwol uno drilling her class on commonly used axioms by repeating parts of them and having the pupil give the rest. She said, "Where there is so much smoke there must be?" " . .vu "Some inhaling," said one. - . STUDIO | =? , ' | I COLUMBIA, S. C. ?? 1 J TE & CO., INC. I YEARS IN FINE ?JEWELRY?CLOCKS WARE Columbia, 8. O. ATE PRICES 1LRY REPAIR DEPT. CLEANING- CO. 1 AAA Tin rnuiall Bh?Aa+ AVW A#?MUTTVM VVV < D, WE CAN CLEAN IT" :' Etmecook our Agents ??? ?W of Quality" AN COMPANY STUDKMT SUPPLIES Columbia S. O. I" i I