The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 2, 1929 Page: 3 of 4
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NATIONAL DRAMA WEEK
FEBRUARY 3RD TO 9TH
There has been very much dis-
cussion and argument about the
platoon competition. Of course,
each man says that his company
can't lose. Perhaps several of the
boys are disappointed before now.
A few of the Port members have
left us. They will be missed by
every one. We hope they have
the best of luck and that they
will come back next year.
Some of the students who en-
tered for the second semester were
able to recognize a good place to
stay; they moved into the Fort.
They are very welcome, and no
doubt we will not miss those who
left since their places have been
taken, by others.
Two or three freshmen have al-
most started a rebellion. The up-
perclassmen are threatening a rev-
olution. Their purpose seems to
be namely to stop the freshmen.
We wonder why Nordyke wore
civilian clothes Sunday. He seemed
to be trying to act like a shiek.
Someone heard Fish Wright and
Fish Coleman say that church is
the place for them on Sunday
night.
Stovall and Bob are ' selling
time-savers. They are in the shape
of small cards. By making a few
check marks the sleepy student is
able to write a complete letter. No
doubt this will allow more time
for sleep and study.
Fish Gresham disappeared early
Sunday morning and was not
seen again until twenty-nine min-
utes after ten o'clock Sunday
night. He did not volunteer to
tell where he had been.
All the Fort members have re-
solved to study omre and make
better grades during the second
semester. We feel that some of
these resolutions will be kept in
the same manner the New Year's
resolutions were, but everybody
hopes for the best.
Inqtfisitivq Old Lady—"Where
did those large rocks come from?"
Tired Guide—''The glaciers
brought them down."
"But where are the glaciers?"
"They're gone back after more
rocks."
National Drama Week will be
observed throughout the country
February 3-9. The Drama League
of America has appealed to every
one interested in the theatre to set
aside this week. The purposes of
celebrating are, first, to use all pos-
sible means of publicity to secure
in every city an organized audience
of discriminating play-goers who
will support artistic productions of
professional plays and encourage
the study of published plays of
merit; second, to consider the pres-
ent status and the future prospects
of a national drama in an endea-
vor to take stock of the dramatic
resources of the country; third, to
awaken the public to, the impor-
tance of the drama as the intimate
and most comprehensive medium
of self-expression both in and out
of the theatre, and fourth, to se-
cure the active co-operation of all
organizations and individuals in-
terested in the promotion of civic
life through the means of art.
Drama week was inaugurated in
1922 by the Drama' League of Am-
erica in its effort to stimulate in-
terest along- all lines of dramatic
activity and to encourage com-
munity work and co-operation.
During the week designated,
February 3-9, John Tarleton Col-
lege will do its part in placing a
special emphasis on drama. The
Tarleton Players, under the direc-
tion of Miss Lillard, who is a mem-
ber of the Drama League of Amer-
ica, will present on Friday even-
ing, February 8th, in the College
auditorium, three one-act plays, in-
cluding "Tradition," by George
Middleton, "Suppressed Desires,"
comedy by Susan Glaspell, and
"The Man on the Kerb," by Alfred
Sutro.
The honorary sponsors of Drama
Week include some of the most dis-
tipguished actors and producers.
They are Winthrop Ames, George
Arliss, Minnie Maddern Fiske,
Lynn Fontanne, Clayton Hamilton,
Walter .Hampden,. Thetesa-Helbu m
Chrystal Heme, Arthur Hopkins,
Hatcher Hughes, Charles Rann
Kennedy, Eva Le Gallienne, Alfred
Lunt, Edith Wynne Matthison,
Otis Skinner, Woodman Thompson,
and George Tyler.
The student body and faculty of
John Tarleton College are urged to
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WE WELCOME
The Students to Stephenville.
Bank With Us
THE FIRST STATE BANK
NEW STUDENTS
We invite you to make our store,
your Store.
Old students are as welcome as ever
Come to see
G. M. CARLTON BROS. CO.
FLORSHEIM SHOES
$8.85
Sale on now at
BLAKENEY DRY GOODS CO.
I STUDENTS, We Appreciate Your
| Patronage. We have a good show
! booked for Monday and Tuesday
!
I MAJESTIC THEATRE
support the production of the three
one-act plays in the college audi-
torium, on Friday, February 8th,
in the observance of ational Drama
Week.
A LAMENT
Hard English quizzes come so fast
On epics, lyrics, ballads, odes,
Of yeoman, knight, and common
class,
Then Canterbury's martyr old.
Each Pilgrim's thoughts and how
they trend,—
Describe his features and his
dress.
On keynote sentence then depend
To tell each traveler from the
rest.
Then Hamlet master line by line
'Till each quotation's clear to
you,
And Bradley's theories each define
And how Petruchio tamed the
shrew.
Then punctuation most carefully,
Or comma blunders you will
make;
Then "dot your i's and cross your
t's,"
For spelling's where you'll meet
your fate.
No doubt our teachers can't recall
Their trials in the years long-
spent
When English they knew naught
at all;
For if they could, they might
relent.
"Do well your work, you stupid
dunce!
You've got to raise this six
weeks' test;
Now get to work this day—at
once!
Buck up and do your level best."
These words echo throughout the
night
Until my mind in such a spin,
Can think of nothing save my
plight,—
Of facts I know not one in ten.
Smile kindly on me, Wyrd, at last;
I'll try so hard, although quite
dumb,
To get this English with the class;
Oh, may I pass on four-o-one!.
, —ADA CHILDRESS.
DIDJA?
Didja ever sit down and write a
long letter to that sweet thing you
left behind, and have it mailed in
your home town by some one else,
trying to fool her by making her
think that you had been home and
then get an answer in which she
said, "If you want an answer to
your next letter, put a stamp on
it? Didja? Punch did.
NIGHT FOOTBALL
Night football will come into
national prominence in 1920, ac-
cording to an 'article in tho March
College Humor. Several schools
have played football ac night in
the past as an experiment, and so
satisfactory were the re'ju'.t^ that
it is believed that nigh; iootball
has come to stay.
At least it will be brought into
the national spotlight next Novem-
ber when Coach Knute K, Rocknc's
Notre Dame eleven meets Coach
O. M. Solem's Drake University,
Missouri Valley eleven at Soldier's
Field, Chicago, which all of us
remember as being the scene of the
Dempsey-Tunney fight.
It will be Chicago's first night
game of football. There will be
brilliant pyrotechnics. 1 here will
be spectacular devices ne\er be-
fore thought of in connection with
a gridiron contest. Just imagine
the team on defense trying to solve
the mysteries of the hidden ball at
night. It is hard enough to follow
the ball in bright daylight, so Chi-
cago is expected to turn out to the
tune of one hundred thousand spec-
tators to view this battle.
Two other Missouri Valley con-
ference schools are considering
nocturnal equipment for the 1929
season, and it won't be long before
night football will become populai.
We hear that our friend, Atlee,
is endeavoring to edit a paper next
week. Well, here's luck; he'll need
it.
The regular staff members were
very thoughtful in offering their
assistance to the Seniors. Thank
you, staff members. We can cer-
tainly appreciate your work more
since we have had the responsibil-
ity of putting out a J-Tac.
MISS LILLARD'S STUDENTS
TO PRESENT PLAY FEB, 8th
On Friday week, February 8th,
in the College Auditorium, the l
Tarleton players will observe Nat-
ional Drama Week by presenting
three popular one-act plays, includ-
ing Tradition by George Middle-
ton, The Man On The Kerb by
Alfred Sultro, and the comedy,
Suppressed Desires by Susa<i Glas-
pell.
Thomas Jean Rodgers, Leone Pat-
terson, Nell Williams, and Lola
B. Skipworth have important roles
in. these various plays. Suppress-
ed Desires is an hilarious human
comedy that treats of the import-
ant and much talked of subjcct o'.'
psycho-analysis. Leone dreaira
that she is a "hen" and Nrfll, an
ardent believer in psycho-analysis,
endeavors to interpret tho meaning
of her dreams. The play is a true
comedy, written with keen insight
into contemporaneous affairs, and
it approaches the best that Am-
erican dramatists have done. It
was one of the plays that was pre-
sented with great success and en-
thusiasm at the Little Theatre
tournament of Texas Junior Col-
leges, held at Gainesville last
spring.
Let us all do our part in Tarle-
ton to help celebrate National
Drama Week, and attend the per-
formance of the Tarleton Players
on Friday evening, February Sth,
in the College Auditorium. Ad-
mission will only be 35 cents.
"Well, I finally got into the mo-
vies!"
"You really did! And how did
you do it?"
"Oh, I paid the usual 50 cents."
"It tickles," cried the king.
"What tickles ?" asked the
queen.
"Spectacles," giggled the king.
And the joke was on the queen.
Me: "There was a time when
she could have married anyone
she pleased."
Ow: "And she never married?"
"Nope. She never pleased any-
one!" 1 -
Cox: "Is Miss Atkinson partic-
ular ? "
Nordyke: "Is she? She raves
if she finds a period upside down,"
' lie: "What do you do for sea-
sickness?"*
She: "I givo up."
Joe: "I see that- George has a
new siren for his car."
Ging: "What happened to the
blonde?"
One: "And they gave the bride
a shower ? "
Two; "Yep.' '
Three: "Well, I'll be censored.''
She was only a math prof's
daughter, but she knew her lim-
its.
Whereupon: The horseman
mounted his Ihorse and galloped
madly away in all directions.
Upper: "Got your drawing all
inked?"
Fish: "Yeah; a^id the rest of the
paper too."
Dumb: "Tell me, what is an av-
erage ? "
Smith: "It must be a thing to
lay eggs on for mother says that
our hens lay six egg's on an aver-
age."
"I call my girl 'helium'."
"Because she goes up in the air
easily and. is very expensive."
"With whom was your wife quar-
reling last night?"
"Oh er she was scolding the dog."
"Poor beast, I heard her threaten
to take the front door key away
from him."
"Go West, young man; go West."
(Miss Atkinson—"Did Tubercu-
losis say that?")
"One foot, in the grave.—And
the other on a banana peel.
Your baskets filled for your pic-
nice complete. Palace Market.
GIRLS!!
Did you ever
Go to a
Basketball game
And ask the
Boy by you
If a "Bissen"
Is a bear
And he just
Laughed and turned
His head
And your roommate
Told you later
That "Bison"
Is not a bear?
Did you ever?
Well, we know a Freshman girl
who did!
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THE RAINS
(OTIS LARNER)
The black cloud remains
And pours down its rain;
It seems to brighten the plains
yonder,
Then suddenly, there is a blast of
thunder.
Ah! in the golden, flashing light-
ning,
The clouds seem to be brig'hter
All is still, the clouds seem to move
away then pas^ along,
The clouds have surely passed to
return some other day.
Then a star serene, shining clear
and keen,
Came out through the darkness of
the night,
Just beyond was something helpful,
holy and bright,
It was the moon shining in the
night.
V. L.—"Louise, do you want to
marry a one-eyed man?"
E. L, "N.—"No."
V. L.—"Then let me carry that
Umbrella."
Book store owner—Aren't you
worrying about the ten dollars you
owe me?
Student!—Heck, no! What's the
use of both of us worrying about
it?
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PHONE No. 7
Grundy Fenner at the
Rock Barn Garage
B. F. COMPTON
Where the Students Buy Their
Sporting Goods
Shorty's Peanuts
Delicious Salted Peanuts sold
by a College student
Shorty Morgan
Sold Anywhere in Town
Call for Them
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When your shoes need repairing
Give Us a Trial
We cater to the college student.
Be Like Columbus—
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Don't Cuss—Call Us
Phone 448
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 2, 1929, newspaper, February 2, 1929; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth140048/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.