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VIN ird NineA Closes With GmaEet P. C. Thday (Story on Page Five) University of South Carolina Z-676 Volume XXXT No. 21 Z COLUMBIA, S. C., MAY 12, 1939 Founded 1908 ODK Taps Eight Men At Chapel Irvine Belser To Be Speaker On Program Eight men are to be tapped into Omicron Delta Kappa, national lead ership fraternity, at chapel exercises today, Robert Earle Penland, presi dent, announces. The men to be tapped are George Coleman of Montgomery, Ala; Hu bert Harmon of Welch, West Va.; Billy Bryan of Columbia, S. C.; Tom McCutchen of Bishopville, S. C.; Christopher FitzSinons, I1, of Co lumbia, S. C; Coit Hendley of Colum bia, S. C.; D. A. Westmoreland of Clover, S. C.; and Heyward Belser of Columbia. S. C. Irving Belser, Columbia attorney, will speak on the same program. The newly elected 0. D. K. mem bers and their records are as fol lows: . Heyward Belser--Junior: - Mem ber of varsity boxing team, Athletic Aivisory board, member varsity ten nis team, intramural boxing champion, secretary Euphradian literary society, Kappa Sigma Kappa, Deans Honor List. Douglas Westmoreland-J u n i o r: Secretarv and treasurer of Student Body, Deans Honor List, Sigma Al pha Zeta, Kappa Sigma Kappa, critic Clariosophic literary society, band. Coit Hendley-Junior: Managing editor of The Gamecock, president of Sigma Nu Fraterniity member of Kappa Sigma Kappa, interfraternity council. George Coleman-Junior Class: President of student body, president of YMCA, treasirer Kappa Sigma Kappa, freshman basket ball, treas urer Literary society, debating team. Tom McCutchen-Junior Class: President of junior class, president Kappa Sigma Kappa, debating team, Deans Honor list, orator South Caro lina Intercollegiate Oratorical contest, Garnet and Black staff, secretary In terfraternity council. II ubert Harmon-Junior Class: E<ditor Garnet and Black, business MNIanager of Y's Bird, secretary Kap pa Sigma Kappa, treasurer Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Billy Bryan-Junior Class: Presi dent of German Club, head Cheer L-eader, intramural boxing champion, president Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra ternity, Interfraternity council, Kap pa Sigma Kappa, and Beaux Arts. Kit FitzSimons-Junior Class: Mfanager baseball team, chairman So cial Cabinet, member boxing team, asistant Cheer Leader, Carolinian staff. Art Exhibit Opens Monday The annual exhibition of the work of the Art Department will open with a reception in Flinn Hall next Mon day afternoon at four o'clock. Punch wvill be served. The exhibit will remain open to the public throughout the week. It wvill be open from nine in the morn ing until ten at night on week days and will also be open Sunday even ing from three until ten. The following students will receive certificates from the Art Department ini June: Virgie Bruce, Louise Ehr lick, Katherine Gooding, Leila Mayes, and H-elen Townsend. Last year 1,500 spectators viewed the paintings of the art students. Inside The Gamecock ALPHA KAPPA GAMMA elects new members-page 8. LEE BAKER WINS ,Keitt Medal for Oratory-page 2. BIRDS PLAY LAST base ball game with P. C. today page 5. W. A. A. RE-ORGANIZES andl elects officers-page 8. G;AMECOCK NETTERS ENTElR tourney at P. C. today Page 5. C O-E D ASSOCIATION ELECTS OFFICERS-page BLUE KEY BANQUET Page 8. WRESTLIN(4 TOURNA MENT STARTS TODAY Debaters Go Spi Aquacade; McCu World's Fair, K Johnstown really did win the Kentucl look just like ordinary baseball playei mitted to The Gamecock by Thomas member of the ubiquitous university ( the recent debating tour. McCutchen, who left Columbia with Charlie Simons, Sidney Duncan, and W. P. Baldwin, for a two weeks trip that included Davidson, John Hop kins, West Point, Columbia Univer sity, and N. Y. U., was one of the participants in the opening of Grover Whalen's Gotham Worlds' Fair. He marched in the colorful parade composed of sports representatives from the colleges of the 13 original states, from New York city's col leges, and from the Dodgers, the Yankees, and the Giants. He re ceived a souvenir of a trylon and peri sphere tie clip from the hands of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's Ace of Aces, who was master of cere monies in the huge sports arena, was introduced to Babe Ruth, Jim Crow ley, Don Budge, and a host of sports writers. Later he traded the crowded Mid way and Billy Rose's Aquacade of girls for Broadway, the Hotel Mc Alphine, and Kay Kyser's Hotel Pennsylvania Manhattan Room, Ky ser introduced the four to the au Foster Smith Elected Head Clariosophic Hair, Smoak, Sitton Hold Other Offices Foster Smith, rising senior in the college of arts and science, . was elected president of the Clariosophic I Literary Society at the regular elec tion last Tuesday night. Smith, who I is from Conway, succeeds E. Min ton Holland to the office. Named to the position of vice president was Aurice PQWell, junior in the college of Arts and Science. L. V. Hair is the retiring vice-presi dent. Powell hails from Florence. Anthony Smoak, rising senior in the school of commerce, and John Sitton, arts and science sophomore, were elected to secretary and treas urer respectively. Acting as Clariosophic representa tives to the board of publication will be Woodrow Coker and -lomer Roof. A candidate for his master of arts degree, Coker is one of the oldest active members of the society. Roof is a rising senior in the college of arts and science. Deward Brittain and Dave ,Baker were named to the debating council. Baker, who has been prominent in oratorical affairs on the campus for several years, will probably be ele ted to the chairmanship of the council. Others officers elected were: Paul Brockington, student council; Holmes Dreher, sergeant-at-arms; and Sam Jones and Joe Lever, monitors. -U. S. C. Here's Heaven Rochester, N. Y.-(ACP)-No grades, no examinations, no com pulsory class attendance! I These are the three essentials of< a new University of Rochester ed-1 ucational plan for honor students devised to give greater freedom in planning their own education ac cording to students' special needs and abilities. German Club Sig To Play For An: Blue Barron, popular orchestra leader, has been obtained to play for the Ju*ne Ball this year, it was an nounced this week by Jim Cothrjin, treasurer, in charge of the dance ar rangements. The Ball will be held June 7, from midnight to 6 a. m. in the Univer sity gymnasiuim, A tea dance will precede the Ball. It will be given at the Columbia hotel from 6:45 to 9:00 p. m. Barron's orchestra has frequently broadcast over national, networks, and has also made a number of record ings. .The orchestra first became nationally known in 1936 when it was booked at the Floating Palace, Troy, N. Y., for 21 weeksi George Hall's orchestra played for /~ the June lill last year, and Ray Noble's orchestra the year before. CEN ech less Over tchen Praises tenucky Derby cy Derby and the Brooklyn Dodgers s-these were the salient facts ad "Ulysses" McCutchen, Bishopville [bating team, upon his return from ience and his radio program and UcCutchen found himself within his ;ing distance of Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, Johnny Messner, Cab -alloway, Bill Robinson and many )ther stars. Olin and Johnston's ellzapoppin was another stop on the areat White Way. Goes to Derby The open road called soon and the -oys drove 26 hours to be among the 35,000 that tried to see Johnstown nd Columbia's Hedge Broom battle )ver seven furlongs at Louisville. Mc Cutchen, not to be outdone by the [uge crowd, climbed over several bal .onies and 'wound up watching the Fitzsimmon-trained colt's victory from the lap of a lady from Padu ah, Kentucky! Weary, wiser, and poorer, Tom and [is pals landed back in Columbia !arly this week with nothing to mar their trip but a threat of early exams. rhere were, however, reminiscent gleams in their eyes at the mention f that Aquacade! Stokes Davis Elected Pres. Euphradian MacArthur Gets Patterson Award For Good Work Stokes Davis, of Summerton, S. C., rising senior in Law, was elected resident of the Euphradian Society ast Tuesday night. Davis, elected -y acclamation, will succeed Vyvyan Nforse of Colutiibia, and will serve is president for the fall semester iext year. Other officers elected were: Lee Baker, of Columbia, who will suc -eed Douglas McKay as vke-presi Jent; Sol Blatt of Barnwell, succeed ng George Hlartness as secretary; Bernie Bass of North, succeeding Kit [itzSimons as treasurer; Felix 3reene of Columbia, succeeding -letcher Loomis as critic; Vyvyan -forse succeeding Bratton Davis as ustus Forum; Dan Hollis of Rock [li!, succeeding Bobby Browne as re porter; Cecil Schneider of George :own, succeeding Ben Geer as censor; Bratton Davis of Hartsville, succeed ng Crawford Clarkson as financial ecretary. ~Euphradian representatives-elect to :ampus governing boards are: Paul Sansbury of Da rlington, succeeding Currie MacArthur on the Student Council; Jimmy Wilson of Bishop ,ille and Jack Hendley of Columbia, ucceeding kac Singletary and( Ber iard Poliakoff on the Board of Pub ications; and Irving Karesh of Co unbia, succeeding John Norris on he Debating Council. Charles Gibbes if Hartsville was re-elected to he Debating Council. Currie MacArthur of Bennettsville vas elected to receive the Patterson ~ward as the most representative Eu nhradian. This award was received y Howard Burns last year. 'ns Blue Barron sual June Ball BLUE BARRON Scenes From BESSIE HEYWARD "Gamecock I Second Show Opening Performan With Enthusiasm B The second performance of "The sented tonii it in Drayton Hall at The show opened in Drayton last success. The hall was well filled others from Columbia and elsewher for the performanc tonight and ton in Drayton at 8:30 o'clock. Over 50 students took part in the production. Martha Monteith, Eloise Oliver and' Bessie Heyward, along with Jack Brown, Bratton Davis an< George. Bunch, took roles in the plo of the show. These six were cas as students at the University; Mar tin, played by George Bunch, gets word that he will have to finance him self through college for a year. The students get together and put on varsity show for his benefit; and the scenes which follow are the scenes in their show and backstage. Eight Little Boys Star After the opening scene, there fol. towed the "Eight Little Boys".-Johr McMillan, Willie Wiles, -Charli< Owens, Ben Polayes, Archie Var Ness, "Doc" Jones, Moon McCul tough and Corkie Griffith. Then came Frances Fetner in : "Deep Purple" toe dance, and, as e contrast, Sylvia Stern as a rough and ready "Gas House Molt." Miss Stern was assistedl by Hlelen Allen Billy Bennett, Madeline Cromwvall Witllie Wiles, Mary Conniffe, Dav( Gaston, and Jack Blackmon in a danc< routine which followed. Oscar Squirms As Local Hams Butcher Drama Oscar Wilde, whose clever come dies have been "hammed" by.- every budding Belasco in the Land of the Free, took another whirl in his cus tom-btiilt coffin last Monday when Mrs. Nathalie Owens' English class attacked his opus, Lady Windermere's Fan, in broad daylight at an early hour. The defenseless drama was literal ly clubbed into oblivion in less than an hour by a combination of dialects ranging from Gotham's East Side to Moncks Corner's cotton fields In dignant protests from drama loving bystanders were howled down by the characters themselves who entered in to the spirit of the. occasion with all the enthusiasm of first nighters at Lady indermere, the sheltered purist who loses her fan in another man's apartment but escapes with out a law suit, was played by Polly Rena Drafts, a native of Leesville, S. Q., and she was ably supported by Lucy Jowett whose "Yes, mamma's" were easily the hit of the show. Ed McGrath, so recently accused of a Brooklyn, N. Y., residence, was "adequate" *as Lord Darlington the bachelor who does all those tingi most bachelors wonld 1ike t Aon BE C Varsity Show AND BRATTON DAVIS ?evels" Has in Tonirht ce Received r Audience Gamecock Revels of 1939" will be pre 8:30 o'clock. night, and was performed with great with students, faculty members, and e. A large audience is also expected iorrow night, which will also be held In the Garden Scene, Martha Mon teith was heard singing "I'd Rather Be Alone With You" to the very attentive Sol Blatt. Seven couples joined them in a waltz danced to the strains of "Tea for Two." Carleo As Ferdinand Lou Carleo appeared as none other than Ferdinand the Bull, accompanied by several other little bulls and two very beautiful Spanish Senoritas. Haynie Prince was narrator for the story. "Dance Modernistic" featured Sylvia Sternie, Jane Crout, John Mc Millan andl "Corkie" Griffith. Dean Chase was in two of the skits; in one of them he was impersonated by Haynie Prince, pind troubled by a Russian Countess in the person of Tom Walker, who was applying for admission to the University. In another, the Dean wvas seen along with Dr. McKissick, Dean Childs, had Flynn GillandI. Louise Fry, Ed Atkinson and Dan Henderson performed in a "He-She" scene; then after a song by Billy Strickland and the "Bolero" as in terpreted by Nicky McSteen andl Jack Blackmon, the six original students came back to the stage and were (Continued on, Page Six) USC To Give ] Charleston Attog Education Is Life's Work The University of South Carolina will awvard the degree of Doctor of Laws to M. Rutledge Rivers, dis tinguished Charleston attorney, at its commencement exercises June 7, President J. Rion McKissick an nounced today. The board of trustees voted to con fer the degree upon Mr. Rivers upon' the recommendation of the Univer sity faculty, which in turn acted upon the recommendation of its com mittee on honorary degrees. President McKissick pointed out that the award of the degree comes in recognition of a lifetime of leader ship in his city and state by Mr. Rivers, particularly in the field d education. Success In Law Born in Mount Pleasant in 1868, Mr. Rivers was graduated from the College of Charleston in 1890, being admitted to the bar the same year. Since then he has practiced law in Charleston, achieving unusual success in that field. ROU Neoma New Court Mond, Buster Spann Will ] Given By Social Cab Neoma Newsome will be crow May 15, at eight o'clock. The University Field house, which for the festive occasion. Rann with Mackey King and Amelia. Dr. J. Rion McKissick, presi the crowning. FRANCES FETNER War Is Unlikely Says Wienefeld "An early war in Europe is un likely," Professor R. H. Wienefeld, of the University's history depart ment, told 200 delegates to the 39th annual convention of the South Caro lina Bankers' Association in Green ville, Wednesday. Wienefeld said that the aligning of principal European powers into two definite camps should serve to make statesmen more cautious and maintain eqIuilibriuml. Tom Jolly Heads Pi KA Fraternity Tonm Jolly was elected president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity for 1939 last Wednesday night and Hubert Harmon was named vice pre sid(1ent. The other officers are Billy Al en, Treasurer, and James Mfills, sec retary. The retiring officers are Pete Smith, piresident: Tonm Jolly, v'ice-president; Bill Mayes, treas urer, andl Peden Gardner, secretary. )egree To M.IE eney, For Outste M. RUTLEDGE RIVERS His active interest, in the educa tional betterment of the city and state has lsterd thrQnghanthi claer.. [NED' some Holds iy Night lay At Free Dance inet After Ceremony ned May Queen Monday night, ceremony will be held at the will be elaborately decorated ah Heyward is maid-of-honor Arthur the pages. dent of the University will de This marks a departure from last year, when Mary Rhodes was crowned in an afternoon ceremony held on the verdant main Campus. John Dargan Rogers, chairman of the Social Cabinet, will be master of ceremonies, while Jerry Hughes, stu dent body president, will preside. Pupils of the Ophelia Broome Har per studio of dance will furnish en tertaniment, putting on a number of novelty dance selections. The even ing's festivities will be livened up by the antics of the court jester, ru mored to be Louis Searron, After the preliminaries there will be a page ant of the attendants climaxed by the crowning. Free Dance A free dance also in the field house will be given after the ceremonies by the Social Cabinet for the entire student body. Buster Spann's famed swing or chestra will play for the dance and the coronation. The dance is infor mal and Jack Page of the Social Cab inet requests everyone to attend. The twenty-eight attendants se lected are: Frances Smith, Harriet McBrayer, Virginia Peeples, Virginia Vebb, Rebecca Mack, Gerry Shapiro, Virginia Brown, Patricia Jeter, Mar gie Collins, Eva Abbott, Beverly Bates, Martha Newman, FlvU ide Nel son, Fay Reyner, Fontie Wilson, Irene Mars, Jewel Martin, Helen Burch, Maude Byrnes Chisholm, Bet ty Whelchel, Billie Lewis, Peggy Lol lis, Margaret Mitchum, Reba Hunt, Dorothy Bramlett, Gaynelle Wilson, Sarah Harrison, and Sandy Hartman. --. 8. 0. Players Elect Jimmy Wilson President Jimmy Wilson, rising senior, was electedl to head the University Play ers of 19,39 last Wednesday night and John 1B. McCutchieon was chosen vice president. The other oe'icers are as follows: secretary, Hlen Poliakoff, assistant treasmier, Maude B3ayne Cheslec; historian. 1 lennig Cohen, and b)esi ness manager, Arnold Muir. Presidient-elect WVilson pr omised to put the organization back to its for mner pl!ace of honor on the campus by giving a eries of skits and plays w hicht will be ct intereqt to a ma jority of the studei'ts. lHe expressed the opinion~ that net year will be a great one for the Club. utledge Rivers, mnding_Service Award Is Made On June 7 Among educational posts in which Mr. Rivers has served are: president of the board of trustees and presi dent of the alumni association of the College of Charleston; member of the board of Medical College of South Carolina; chairman of the Charles-. ton board of public school commis.. sioners and president of the board of trustees, High School of Charleston; member of the state board, of educa tion. Active School Worker Mr. Rivers was active in the move ments which resulted in making the College of Charleston co-educational and mn providing free tuition for Charleston residents. 'He has been4 identified with every phase of the city school system, and ecnItion of his splendid. ork in this field has. come from matj sources The new junio high .f6lint~ i Charleston, the 'first ever In that city, has been named tI M Ii Rivers Tuniornebs