The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1927 Page: 4 of 6
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POUR
THE THRE8HEW-*H0U8T0M< TEXAS
cast for molnar
playbselected
Several New Players Get
Parts.
The cast of "The Play's the Thing"
has been selected, according to Pat-
terson Liilard, director. This play, by
Ferenc Molnar, is to be presented by
the Rice Dramatic Club before the
State Teachers' convention and Speech
Arts convention, November 25 or 26.
Mrs. Arrowwood is supervisor.
The tryouts were held Tuesday
night and the following cast was se-
lected: Reginald Tucker, William
Sears, Maxine Jeanes, Vaughn Albert-
son, Durrell Garrothers, Fletcher
Brown and Chauncej' Stewart. Jeanes,
Albertson and Stewart represent the
old members of the club; Tucker,
Sears, Carrothers and Brown are new
ones.
Reginald Tucker and William Sears
are freshmen, '27 graduates of Ban
Jacinto High school. Botii have had
previous experience in dramatics.
Tucker played in "Three Live Ghosts,"
"Gome Out of the Kitchen" and was
the leading lady of the Boys' Booster
Club's Annual Vaudeville. Sears was
a member of the cast of the "Dust of
the Road," the play which represented
the Houston high schools in the State
meet. Although the play did not place,
Hears was given third place on the
all-star east.
Rehearsals for "The Play's the
Thing" will begin as soon as the books
arrive, director Lillard has announced.
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HANOVER STUDENTS
FAIL TO BEAR OUT
EDUCATOR'S CLAIM
Xew York. The whole world has it
[By New Student Service]
on the authority of a Dr. Harvey W.
Wiley, said to be an educator and
MMtlth authority, that "one dollar ex-
I" ndc-d at Hanover, a small college
in Indiana, gives as much culture as
five at Harvard. As a graduate of
both innrit iiioi.s 1 can truly1 make
this statement." Harvard, so far as
is known,: has not ofa-red Dr. Wiley
a. refund.
The doctor sees the big 'university
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St'irA k
Aunt Eppie
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'3:06 TfarnSt-
RICE STUDENTS
We are always glad to
have you visit
our Store.
"Books for
Everybody"
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Dear Aunt Eppie:
I noticed your column of advice in
last week's Thresher, and have been
wondering ever since if you could
help me out. 1 am only a Freshman,
out 1 have a big brother named Ar-
thur who is a Senior. He runs the
Co-op. What I would like to know is
this: I am not tail enough to go with
diris nicely. Will my limited height
affect my popularity?
Yours,
Harold (Foots) Wright.
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Dear Harold:
if a girl really loves you, you will
be a gorgeous dream man to her,
dashing and magnificent, no matter
what your actual infirmities may be.
So my only advice is to stop smoking
cigarettes, as they might stunt your
growth.
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Dear Aunt Kppie:
I met a nice girl at a Sunday School
banquet, with whom 1 fell in love.
She gave me dates, accepted my pres-
ents, and then fell for a football hero,
i made no attempt to win her back. .
What should i have done? .
Milton Kckert.
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Dear Milton:
Aever let an athlete get the best
Of you. What you need is iron. Try
eating ten penny nails twice a day.
Love, Aunt Kppie.
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And now, dear students, if you have
any problems of love, etiquette, or
.Aiciai usage, feel free to write to Aunt
Kppie in care of The Thresher. Slie
\v ill tie glad to help you, for she
loves every one of you.
Aunt Kppie.
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Dearest Aunt Kppie;
We are three nice girls who would
tike for you to answer the following
questions:
1. Do boys like girls who neck?
Z is it nice to go riding at inter-
missions?
;i. What is your opinion of boys who
drive with one hand?
AOeie 'lorian
Margaret .McCarthy.
Kvetjn Kpley.
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Dear Uirls:
• To 'your questions I print the follow-
ing answers, numbered correspond-
ingly:
1. .Most certainly.
a. it all you do is ride.
3. Send self-addressed stamped en-
velope for reply.
I a
Saturday Night
Standing on tne outside — looking
• on. the inside — that's what many a
poor UnMl Oni. And various growls
were heard front the stage about lett-
er shekels in the needy pockets—but,
beyond that the dance is much the
same as ever.
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-Nunierous•• cue-rub faces are absent,
iioivei er —- solut to Dallas and sonic-
mi tne latnily sola beiore the grate—
mass butions hath charms to soothe
nit; savage lemale.
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lstfthe orchestra weaker, or are we
all just tcel.ug the efleets of three
weeks ot\ school? '.' ? ? If the
nance was pepless we were too near
fagged to know it, so what's why?
* * *
Cotton Hill has some gushing co ed
at his feet -or is it on his hands?
* * *
Our idea ot the best example of
jmutual good taste is the Carroll Hood
coii.tiiiiution. Ain't it, so?
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I he at id this wt.-ek goes to Tiny
William* ue wouibr why?
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! Virginia Coombes sent In a hurry
call for six stalwart men to subdue
I ihe crazy girl on the first floor of the
j ib'Uder—too bad the football team was
out of town.
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Guess Healey's stepping out. with
his pretty mother tonight. She's
here from Memphis for a short visit.
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Kice Fight may never win but Rice
beauties still rate. Our whole bored
anatomy was thrilled to the core
when we heard that Marjorie, our
queen, was chosen queen of them all.
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Ain't gonna be no next week—see
you in Austin — unless you see us
first.
choir of palmer
chapeformbk;
Rehearsals Being Held for
Opening Service.
The Palmer Chapel choir baa al-
ready begun practicing tor the open-
ing service ot the Chapel. These re-
hearsals are held every Friday at 7:30
p.m. at Autry House. Mr. Watkin has
promised that the Chapel will be fin-
ished by November 20. In the mean-
tmie, the choir will slug at the Autry
House services.
The soloists of the choir are, with
one exception, either Rice students or
ex-students. They are Miss Elva Kalb,
soprano; Lawrence Humason, tenor;
Bill Grace, bass, and Mrs. Greenwell.
The body of the choir will be made
up of Rice students, regardless o£ re-
ligious affiliation. In this way, the
choir will represent the desire of the
directors of the Chapel to make it in-
terdenominational rather than strictly
Episcopalian.
The Students Religious Council will
hold a service soon after the opening
of the Chapel. This, it is hoped, will
convince the Student Body that Pal-
mer Chapel is for all the students. The
Chn'pel will be open to all denomina-
tions for their use. It is sincerely the
hope of those in charge that Palmer
Book Reviews
Eaaley Wheatley, Soldier of Tlmo
One of the reader's first encounters
with the delightful character ot Eas-
ley Wheatley In Barry Benefield's
new best-selling novel, BUGLES IN
THE NIGHT (The Century Co.) oc-
curs on the scene of Mr. Wheatley's
native heath, the little town of Cre-
billon, Louisiana. Long before this
grand old soldier of time took the
hand ot fair young Alice Kibbe and
ventured out upon the most adven-
turous battle of his life, he was a ven-
erable and respected figure along the
cotton wharves of Louisiana, a cotton
buyer without a peer. In the words
of Mr. Benefield, you are asked to
contemplate this scene:
It is Christmas eve in Crebillon.
Here comes Easley Wheatley down
the street, on his noon trip to the
post-office at the outer edge of
take it on to .do warehouse.' Two
minutes and he's done It all Yassuh,
an' you can try around town all day.
It you wants to, but you won't do no
better*r Mr. Wheatley's price. Ho
shore is one cotton buyer!"
Then the quick step faltered, the
fingers snapped no longer, the spirit
of the soldier ot time waned. Easley
Wheatley grew old and retired to a
home for decrepit soldiers. But ono
rare night at Ellen Whipples place
Easley Wheatley met beautiful young
Alice Kibbe and she led him out into
the world again on the most incred-
ible adventure ot bis life.
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STORM STATE
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CAMPANILE MUGGING
PROCEEDING SLOWLY;
FROSH SHOULD HURRY
on the bulletin board,
twenty freshmen have reported to the
studio.
According to McConnell, it it not
necessary that everyone go to the
studio on the days assigned, but it is
extremely advisable that such bo done,
tor It delays continue, the big rush in
the last tew days will cause quite a
few slimes and sllmesses to get
left out.
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STORM STATE
Be sure to get your picture in the'
Campanile! That is the incessant ad-
I vice of the staff these days. By the'
the middle of November all pictures of
business section and then to midday I freshmen who wish to appear in the I
dinner at the near-by Chartrain yearbook must be taken. Herbert Mc-
House, his head bent to the left, limp-
ing slightly in his right leg, his right
arm extended, and his thumb snap-
ping against the second finger of his
band to keep time with his square
toed boots. Meeting a thickly massed
crowd of negroes, he lays a small
hand on a giant to the left and the
other hand on an orator to the right.
"Gangway, you black scalawags!
His voice is a caress, and his words
are cheered with bursts of laughter
and huge thumpings of great-muscled
! thighs.
j "Lissen at him. Did you evah see
Chapel may serve Rice ill a religious; his beat? Christmas eve git', Mr.
way as fully as Autry House has filled \ Wheatley, Chrismus eve gif. You
the physical and social needs of Rice, iain t gw'ne t0 f°rset Ole Rip, now,
„ is you, Mr. Wheatley?
; The crowd opening to let him pass,
Connell, editor, promises that there
will be no further opportunity after
that date.
Picture-taking has been deplorably
slow as yet. The Eidson studio has re-
ported no stampede—not even a rush.
Seventy-five names have by now been
drescher's
saxophone
shop
Specialists In
Saxophone and Clarinet
Repairing
Instruments
Supplies
1017Va CAPITOL AVE.
PRESTON 1206
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'STORM STATE
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After listening lo ihe Iiice-S. M. U.
game over the radio, Harpy has no
doubts whatever as to which team
the announcer had selected on which
to place his money.
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| We don't mind his winning on the
jgame, but it is a sign of restricted
I intellect that misuses such a position
for the airing of personal prejudices., j
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Among the other morons should bej
1
listed those persons who derive great
J pleasure In speaking to all persons
they may meet, not in the spirit of
good fellowship and friendliness, but
for the mere purpose of creating an
! illusion in the minds of others as to
the extensive number of their ac-
quaintances.
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"Music hath charms," etc., may
sound all right in poetry, but students
who try to study in the halls while
the latest jazz is being blared forth
! from the College Inn would probably
call for a limitation of the statement,
However, the poet still has a way
out. Whether these sounds that jar
on the fagged nerves of late students
constitute music is a subject open to
debate.
If you aspire to leadership, never
attempt the promotion of worth-while
causes, for by so doing you are cer-
tain to lose whatever- faith in human-
ity you may possess. Select only
those enterprises which appeal to
vanity, avarice, or the instinct of the
herd, and yotu- name will be extolled
as the prince of good fellows.
he walks through it as if it isn't there.
Its appeals are merely by way of
greeting. A thousand Louisiana ne-
groes have already so greeted him
since nine o'clock.
"Dar he go, de bes' cotton buyer in
Crebillon. Mos' of dose cottonbuyers
cuts a bale all to pieces an' snatches
a pound outen every hole dey cuts,
an' del], dey'll haggle around all mawn-1
in' about de price. Not Mr. Wheatley, i
naw, suh; he make one little bittie "j
cut on bofe sides, take a handful out- j
en dis side an' dat an' shake it over
de pam of his lef' hand, his haid
cocked to one side lak it always is.
Den he shred out a little bittie piece
of cotton wif his white fingers an'
pull it to see de len'th an' stren th of
de staple. 'Jes middlin', Rip,' he say
softly, 'an' I give you eight an' a bit—
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as the dangerous seat of disbelief in
God and government. At the same
Hanover College, which the doctor
lauds so highly, tbefe last year took
place a student revolt against the
university administration — a revolu-
tion founded on misbelief in 'govern-
ment—-in the form of a strike direct-
ed against a ruling prohibiting dates
after 0 o'clock. The students won
this fight against morality, evidently
unappreciatiVe of the advantages of
the small college and invkeepiflg with
the example or the large institutions.
STORM STATE
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1013 Eagle Avenue
Drop In on Your Way from Town.
G. T. Scroggins, Proprietor
the •
bluebell
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„ Sandwiches
Chicken Tamales
Etc.
MARTEL-MARKS CO.
4503 Main Had. 7187
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This industry is continually on the
threshold of new ideas, with each devel-
opment opening up a vista for its explorers.
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