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"The -Rope"r At Lancaster By Universit By SAYE 1 After a two-night run of Pa1 tery, "The Rope," on the Dra sity Theatre plans to take th( will be presented Thursday in Prof. Merrill G. Christophersc Alumni Office Sends Report To Association Copies of the report of Pres. Norman Smith to the state legis lature for the last fiscal year have been mailed to alumni and people on the campus, Ralph Lewis, executive secretary of the alumni association, said yester day. The report summarizes the ac tivities, progress, expenses and needs of the university schools and departments through the year ending at the close of the 1947-48 fall term. Included with the president's report is a finan cial statement prepared by Frank E. Welborn, treasurer of the uni versity. The alumni association sent copies of the report to members in keeping with its policy of af fording former students an op portunity to keep up with univer sity activities. "We hope that every student, particularly every senior, at Caro lina will visit the alumni associa tion office before leaving school in order .o become acquainted with his alumni association," Lewis said. "Future success of the asso ciation depends upon students on the campus now. One U the stu dent's strongest links to his alma mater after leaving school will be alumni association and we are anxious to have the students be come acquainted with it," he con cluded. The campus office of the alumni association is on the first floor of Lieber college at the Sumter street gate to the horseshoe. RECORDS THE BLUE ROOM MUSIC SHOP 1206%A Main (Upstairs) Across from Wade Hampton Hotel Phone 2-7835 LORICK OFFICE EQUIPMENT OFFICE SUPPLIES ARCHITECTS' and ElN Phone 6176 COLUMB] STYLE MART FOR CADILLA( SLACKS ESQUIRE S FRENCH CU SPORT SHIRTS SLI CAPS WITH MEl MEN' 1219 MAI ro Be Given - Thursday y Players 3ASTON ;rick Hamilton's murder mys yton Hall stage, the Univer play to Lancaster where it the high school auditorium, n, director of the play, has announced. The play reveals the murder of a young track star by two of his fellow students merely for the risk and daring that it takes to murder a fellow human being and get away with it. The murderers invite the dead boy's father and aunt, a poet friend, and another student to their apartment for a farewell supper before they re turn to college after a holiday. The supper is served from a chest that contains the body. The murderers make some clumsy errors which leads the person they least expect to learn of their deed. "'The Rope' made its first run in London, and then played on Broadway with Brian Aherne in the leading role. The play is now being made into a movie under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock. Patrick Hamilton, the author, is also famous for his 'Gaslight ," Christophersen said. Carolina students taking part in the production are James R.1 Simmons of Columbia, Irene Krugman of Columbia, Banks Scarborough of Timmonsville, Wort Bernanke of Dillon, and Richter Moore of Mayo. Simmons, Scarborough, and Moore are mem )ers of Alpha Psi Omega, na :ional dramatic fraternity at the iniversity. The Lancaster Chamber of Com nerce and the American Legion 3ost will sponsor the trip, with 3roceeds going to the establish nent of a boy's park in Lancaster. Electrical Enrineers ro Hold Annual %leeting At Clemson The South Carolina section of :he American Institute of Elec .rical Engineers has extended an nvitation to the members of the student branch at the university :o attend its annual meeting at lemson next Friday, Joe Nelson, -hairman, announced today. Those attending the meeting will hear speakers in va rious fields related to electrical mngineering, including R. C. Cheek >f the Westinghouse Electric Cor poration, whose subject will be "Application of Power Line Car ciers." Dr. H. M. )3rowvn, dean of the textile school, Clemson College, will speak on "Vibration Studies," and "The Electron Microscope" will be the subject of Dr. A. C. Nfenus' address. Menius is a member of the Clemson College physics department. -COUCH GINEERS' SUPPLIES 924 Gervais St. [A, S. C. MEN WHO KNOW : SHOES OX SPORT COATS P'F SHIRTS DEVELESS SWEATERS SUNSHADES IICAN SSHOP ~ i STREET nlina Theatre The University Theatre, studen "The Rope," a murder drama In to right are Irene Krugman ot Co and James R. Simmons of Columi The production played to a pa( third presentation by the dramatic Bible For Is Work C By H. J. BOURGEOIS The New Testament of the Bible is being translated from Spanish to the Tseltal language, by Miss Ethel Wallis, a special student at the university and a linguistic instructor at Columbia Bible College. Before Miss Wallis and her partner in the project could start the actual translation, they had to learn the language first hand by living with the Tseltal Indians ii the Mexka, nLae uf Chiapas, which is just north of Guate mala. Next they had to construct an alphabet, dictionary, grammar and lexicon, all based on the in ternational phoenetic alphabet, in order to teach the illiterate In dians how to read and write be fore they could benefit from the Bible translation. Miss Wallis, whose home is in Los Angeles, is doing, the work under the auspices of the Sunmer Institute of Linguistics, co-spon sored by the University of Okla homa and the Mexican govern menit. Ini 1936 the Mexican govern ment, under Pr-es. Lazaro Car-de nas, having dlecided to formulath an active education program foi the 50 isolated Indian tribes de. scend(edl from the ancient Mayar nation, asked the University oi Oklahoma to help in this program The university had been doing similar work on the various Ian ''THIS IS WHAT I LIKE-GOOD FC AND BAD THOUGHTS." for Shoes that look like new visit ROBERTS SHOE REPAIRING SERVICE S * 0 NEXT TO CITY FIRE DEPT. 1319 Sumter St. "Rope" Cast t dramatic group of the university three acts by Patrick Hamilton, in lumbia, Henry Green of' Columbia, ia. :ked house Tuesday and Wednesda a group this semester. (Photo by S Tseltal Ind Universit guages of Worth American In dians. The government was especially desirous of enlisting the aid of Cameron Townsend who, for ten years previously, had been doing similar work in Guatemala. Town send laid the original framework of the- present program, and is still connected with it. Since 1936, 40 of the 50 Mexi can tribes have been gradually civilized by the field workers of the linguistic institute. Prior to their coming, the Indians were virtually isolated from civilization, living in the same manner their ancestors had before the Mayan nation fell in the ninth century, A. D. Besides teaching the Indians such fundamental things as health and sanitation, how to read and write, and modern agricultural methods, the institute workers also perform inter-denominational missionary duties by Christianiz ing them. At present there are approxi mately 160 field wvorkers among the Indians, with two or three assigned to each tribe. Miss Wallis describes her tribal area as "seven days long and four days wvide," meaning it takes that long to travel the length and wvidth of the mountainous area on mule back. Miss Wallis has been associated with the institute for several years and intends to make it her life's 0VAR$ITY MogozIne, For Youang Men OD. COOD WINC. GOOD COMPANY. 1530n1 *......... will present their prodilction of Lancaster next week. From left Mary Ann Edwards of Greenville V nights last week and was the tan Lewis of USC News Service). !ian Tribe y Student work. She finds it that interest ing and self-satisfying. At first the Indians are sus picious and reserved, Miss Wallis said, but upon being spoken to in their own language they gradu rally become friendly. They never seem to recover from their initial amPTement at a complete strang er's ability to speak their lan guage. They have been so completely isolated from civilization for cen turies, she added, that they cannot even comprehend the fact that they are a part of a nation the size of Mexico. It is completely beyond their power to visualize such a large territorial unit. The tribal unit is as far as they can go. The institute has been so suc cessful in helping the Mexican government in this civilizing pro gram, that Peru and Venezuela have asked it to do the same for them. Two outstanding men who have been connected with this project are doctors Eugene 'Nida and Kenneth Pike. The former is America's leadi ng morphologist and the latter is its foremost phoenetician. Pike has completed a transla tion of the New Testament into the Mixteeco language, which is be ing published by the American Bible Society. While teaching at the Univer sity of Michigan this semester, he is studying Russian in prepara tion for a proposed trip to study the 50 tribes of Siberia. Permis sion tu enter the Soviet states is all he needs before starting the trip. ONE-DAY DRY CLEANING ALL WORK GUARANTEED ARROW CLEANERS 1209 Gervais Phne 6471 Rooster By RUTH Exchange Wofford Bill Hynds of Sumter, Joe Er win of Rutherfordton, N. C., and Ralph Cannon of Spartanburg, have been tapped by Blue Key. -Golfers from Carolina, Clemson, Furman, The Citadel, Presbyte rian, Newberry and perhaps other colleges will go to Wofford Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday for the Second Annual South Carolina Intercollegiate Golf Tour nament. , Newberry Professor: "What would you ad minister to a person who had just taken hydrocyanic acid?" Student: "My blessing." 9 Professor of Greek: "Miss Chapman, what is meant by the LXX?" Student: "Love and kisses." Limestone Margaret Poole, Doris Hamrick, 1 Betty and Anne McNeely gave their junior recitals this week. Greville says, "Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the I only one that deserves to be I laughed at?" Furman Esther Greene, senior from Greenville, was crowned May Queen Saturday. Have Tarzan and Johnny Weiss mueller split personalities? From the letter that President Plyler received asking for some help in scouting talent for RKO, it would seem so. Physical education majors have < formed a club and elected Bill c Jeffords president, John McCrary I vice-president, Robert Scott secre - tiy, Luther DaineLL treasureu. Winthrop Lillian Adams, Seneca, Rachel Clark, Johnston, and Bertha Ross,! Sumter, were initiated into Book and Key, honorary senolastic so ciety with the same membership requirements as Phi Beta Kappa. Florence Yellow Jacket Owner (to jockey): "How did 6ister5f Your Heart .*..Anid Your ?ocket 'Book i Laughs and larceny run riot when a pair of giddy gold diggers "take'' a hick town . ..and Barry .takes them bolh...like Grant took Richmond I Paramount Presents VeOttiCS CAu4FuLP '8arryj GE( Pecking N$WELL Editor rou win? The horse was lame." Jockey: "I kept whispering in is ear, 'Roses are red, Violets are blue, Horses that lose Are made into glue.'" Old maid's laugh: "He! He! le!" "I fainted. They brought me o. So I fainted again." "Why?" "Well, they brought me two nore." rhe Collegian-Greensboro, N. C. Vhen your old caboose is laggin', nd your fringe is all askew; Vhen you feel there's something dragging; .ook around-it may be you. Miami He kissed her in the garden, It was a moonlight night, She was a marble statue He was a little tight.-The 'lainsman, Auburn. It seems that the game broke lown between Heaven and Hell. It. Peter appeared at the broken art of the gate and called to the )evil. "Hey, Satan, it's your turn to ix it this time." "Sorry," replied the boss of the and beyond the Styx, "My men re too busy to worry about fix ng a mere gate." "Well, then," growled Pete, "I'll ave to sue for breaking our greenent." "Oh, yeah,:' said the Devil, where are you going to get a awyer?"-The Plainsman, Au urn. A husband is one who lays own the law to his wife and ac epts all of her amendments.-The 'lainsman, Auburn. 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