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Missouri Showme 15 cents Political Issue Beech-Nut Gum Coca-Cola Gail Potter's Fencing Academy The Showme Show Month's Best The little pledge who curiously and wonderingly examined Betty Cabeen's Phi Psi pin and then asked, "What did you have to do to get that?" Unexcelled Devotion Jane Blake and Susie Benfey, Columbia Hall dwellers, waiting patiently in Gaeb's for their steady escorts, Ramsey and Cobb, A. T. O.'s. Heine Mahley, Sigma Chi, is spending his time with Rhoda Reinhold, the cutest independent on the campus. Phi Mus Wednesday Niting at the shack: Arlene Robbins and another Phi Mu who looks like Millie Winters, but isn't. Neuter Wasn't it thoughtful of Muel- ler's to send the D. U. house a floral offering with said card en- closed, "To those lovely D. U. girls with the hope of a perfectly gorgeous year." More Business. It seems that the Showme office is swamped with subscriptions from Westpoint these days. Why shouldn't the cadets want to read about the national heart interest with the smoothest line that any- one was ever lucky enough to be strung on-why you all know her -Pat Martineau. Fone Even Paul Von Osdol, Phi Delt head man, was heard calling five different houses from the shack late Friday night for a cutie to amuse him. Better luck next time, Paul. Pure Gossip Mark Cox, Phi Gam, our all- around swell boy is hitting the steps again this year with Harriet Barton, red-haired Stephens dol- lie who looks the best of all of them. Frank Schuske, Delt, is still luncheon dating Helen Mingle, D. G. The boy tried to put his pin on her after two dates. Social climber Jacoby of the Kappa Sig house is trying his best these days to get the maroon Theta car. Mary Jo Marshall, Kappa girl, should not be missing Tommy McHarg as long as she's with Jay Buckingham, the perfect looking new Phi Psi pledge. 0 Martha Biemdich, Tri Delt and Bob Hehl, Stewart roadster are Sunday niting it at the lodge. * A Toronto car stopped a crowd of college men and asked for the location of the Pi Phi annex. Chorus: "We don't know where it is but we sure know the tele- phone number." The Phi Psis complain that by the time the Delta Gammas move into their new house their play- ground will be covered with snow. 0 If you feel like laughing get next to Bob Lindsley, sword and shielder who "Burns" it with the year's best stories. Personal The girls at 502 through the co- operation of your paragrapher hereby request that the Stewart Road Nebraska transfer please stay off the second floor. Raison d'etre And there's Elaine Parker, Kappa blondie whose clothes make Conley Avenue look like the Rue De La Paix. Triangle-Geometry Flo Wilson, cute Alpha Chi pledge from Joe Town, doesn't let a heart interest from said town keep her from running the cam- pus crowd around in circles. Winner Jane Jones, Kappa, found it hard to persuade Bus Thompson, Sigma Nu, not to break a date with her the other eve, but ended up in getting him to keep it. Information It's surprising what a couple of feet of new tile flooring and a few cans of buff paint have done for Harris'. The university gang is moving in and they really have fun dancing to Johnny Rieck's peppy outfit. If you haven't heard Herman Land do his solos on the trumpet you are missing a treat. Drop down and see for yourself-see where Columbia's best jellying is going on. Incidently-Sunday dinner at Harris' candlelight room is the most romantic spot on the campus-the food's good too. page one Missouri Showme Rationale Politics! Political issues! With so many political issues coming out way, via radio, movies, maga- zines, and platform speakers on the court house lawn, we had to break down and make our second number a political issue. Campus politics, that mess on our own campus here that would dishearten Farley, Hamilton, Coughlin, Smith, Bradshaw, and all the rest of the masters, is so confused that we'll leave it to Gil Seidel to straighten it out-if it can be straightened. The combined cess pools of the two distinguished cities at either end of this state cannot compare with the situation here in the heart of this (sovereign) com- monwealth. No matter whether you or your band may be in or out, read what the editor of the MISSOURI STUDENT has to say. (Showme was scheduled to go on sale at 9:30 a. m. today. Seidel arranged to be in the basement of his home in St. Louis by 9:20). His article is supposed to be a temporizer in all political matters and; their ramifications. Organization is the keystone of politics, and you should have seen the rally held recently when the Showme staff was organized. 0. 0. MCINTYRE Godfather HOWARD BRICKEY MERRILL PANITT Editor Business Manager EDITORIAL BOARD ROBERT HANNON Carl Winter Chas. Callison EDITORIAL STAFF EDMON OLE . Feature Editor PHIL BRONSON .Feature Editor James Ragland John McNutt Dick Kanatzar Walter Gelb Margaret Servey PORTER RANDALL .Theatre Editor Jack Beck Dick Joho George Palmer Dick McCue RAY PORTILLA .Humor Editor Wendel Mayfield Josephine Synder Doyle Innis MARK Cox .Sports Editor Tom O'Byrne Charles Barker Charles Underwood CHANCE BOGGIANO .Art Editor GEORGE HAWKINS .Art Editor FRANKIE RICKSECKER .Showme Show JULIA KENNEDY . Christian Editor DOROTHY MONTGOMERY .Stephens Editor BUSINESS STAFF BOB HANNON . Advertising Mgr. Jane Arcularius Joy Smith Virginia Coulter Jane James Jane Bradford GIL SEIDEL .Promotion M gr. Maddie Breinig CHARLES CALLISON .Circulation Mgr. Ira Kohn Charles Barker JAMES WOODS .Exchange Mgr. Maddie Breinig Rationale Glance through the list of names on the new staff. Just lengthening the column in which to print the list wasn't enough- we had to expand the magazine to thirty-six pages. If the campus responds to this issue as it did to the Beginners' number, we'll have to add more pages next time. The first num- ber was a lot better than a hot cake, and sold much faster . the newsstand were cleared in six days. We predict, with reason, that the record will be bettered this time. Here's why: Have a look at what Porter Randall and his assistants turned out for this issue. Fresh, original stuff, new information. Read Walter Gelb's treatise on freshmen orientation. If you liked the picture layout last time, see the super-double- spread the political number car- ries. Get a surprise out of Dick Kan- atzar's, "My Madonna." And a shock from James Rag- land's offering. That is what organization of the Showme staff has done. It has given you more than fifteen cents worth of magazine-and it is bound to improve with time. THE EDITOR VOLUME VI 1936 NO. 2 The Missouri Showme is published monthly except during July and August by the Missouri chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity, as the official humor and literary publication of the University of Missouri. Price: $1.00 per year; 15c the single copy. Copyright 1934 by Missouri chapter of Sigma Delta Chi; original contents not be reprinted without permission. Permission given all recognized exchanging college publications. Exclusive reprint rights granted to College Humor. Editorial and Business offices, 107-109 South Ninth Street; office of publication, Artcraft Press, Virginia Bldg., Columbia, Mo. Not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts; postage must be enclosed for return. page two NOTE: In the October 14 issue of the MISSOURI STUDENT, SHOWME'S editorial on Stephens College was quoted as "Charging Stephens authorities with adopting the wrong psychological stand." Showme's editorial charges the Stephens Administrative Council, and not the authorities. Showme says nothing at all about a "rule" going into effect-we merely quote a "request." A Moral Issue Last week a new request further restricting Stephens girl's association with men issued from the Administrative Council of Stephens College. This newest attempt to make super- women out of ordinary human beings forbids the girls to "jelly" during the afternoon and night without dates. In other words, girls who are going practically steady will continue to have dates and be able to sit down to a coke in one of our many "jelly joints." But what about the other eight hundred who aren't going steady! Will they remain cooped up-denied association with members of the opposite sex? It might be well to hear what prominent psychologists have said about segregation of the sexes: Luella Cole, Ph.D., writes: "All that most young people need is a chance for plenty of association with each other under conditions that prevent in so far as possible the dangers of too great in- timacy." Does the Administrative Council believe that a dance floor or booth offers "dangers of too great intimacy?" That seems to be stretching a point too far. It does seem sad that, since the girls cannot go to classes with men, the council has asked them not to spend their recreation time with them. 0. Pfister who has had much experience with the adolescent youth writes: "When boys know only the company of other boys, and girls only that of other girls, healthy moral training becomes very difficult." Does this not prove that the wrong psy- chological stand is being adopted at Stephens by interfering with normal contacts in re- questing that the girls "stay away from men?" Their argument may be one against so-called "pick-ups." "Pick-ups" in a college town, where both parties are in Columbia for a common motive-education, can hardly be compared to illicit "pick-ups" in the big cities. How else here in Columbia, can men meet Stephens girls? Certainly not through "blind dates"- we shall not pause long enough to devote time to that stupid mos. It might be that Stephens girls are taught that contact with men is not good for them. Leta S. Hollingsworth of Columbia University has this to say on that subject: "In the case of the girl the attempt has typically been made to frighten her from intimate contact with members of the op- posite sex by implying that men are dan- gerous, mysteriously charged with ruin, and fiilled with sinister intention. The tabu thus set up is effective in proportion to the intelligence and sensitivity of the girl, and 'protects' many not only until marriage- able age, but for a life time from all possi- bilities of normal and spontaneous sex ex- pression." We feel that Stephens girls would benefit more if they were encouraged to meet univer- sity men rather than by being requested to stay away from the only places where they can possibly meet university men . Revelation: Hiding behind the bony hands is Virginia Spence, Gamma Phi, the shadow who writes the Student's "society column. Porter Randall won five ,dolars from bShows for this candM shot; MY MADONNA A short, tragedic story of a deep, tender love, that was shattered because one person was careless By DICK KANATZAR Like many other men of the campus, I take time out now and then to drop in at Harris' or Gabe's just to see what's going on. Of course, I enter with the hope that I might by chance meet up with something that is really smooth. For three years I have been doing this, but never are my hopes rewarded, that-not until-well, that's the story. It is a few nights back, a little warm perhaps, but my blood tingles with the desire for a bit of romance. I am making the rounds of the jelly joints with a few of the boys. We stop at one of the better places to listen to its new band. The orchestra sounds good as it beats away sweet rhythms, which encourages me to seek a girl with whom I might dance, But it is useless, for none of the representatives of the fairer sex look worthy of my puny atten- tions. So I return to my booth and listen to my companions tell terrible jokes. I am keeping my eye anxious- ly on the door, waiting and hop- ing that something 'classy will come in. Suddenly, after I give up all hope, the door opens and in walk two girls. One of them isn't so good, but the other- Boy! my heart stops a beat. I look and stare at her. She is a beauty, she is perfect- at least in my estimation. She has everything - class, poise, beauty, dress-brother, I'm tell- ing you, love socks me on that first sight. I can hardly believe page six that such a perfect creature exists. The band is playing "Until the Real Thing Comes Along." Well, this is the real thing. She is my ideal-just what I have been waiting for all my life. As the two girls walk down the aisle looking for a booth, they draw near the booth where I am sitting. This allbws me closer scrutiny of my ideal. She appears even more beautiful the nearer she gets to me. Her soft brown hair falls in gentle waves over her lovely head. Her face is clear and white, radiating beauty from every angle. A pleas- ant smile plays upon her soft, tender red lips. Her brown sport ensemble of expensive material fits tightly over feminine curves that would catch any man's eye. She walks down the aisle with graceful steps. Her chin is tilted slightly up, giving her a touch of arro- gance and sophistication. Fellow, it's a fact, I know that this is the answer to my dreams. I am in love in a big way. As she draws nearer me, our eyes meet and I look into eyes so beautiful that a poet couldn't describe them, so I won't try. When she breaks our lingering gaze, I scan her figure again. Her body is slim, yet with just enough curviture to set a man's pulse up a few beats-at least it does mine. My gaze follows on down a shapely calf to her slim ankle. "My Gawd!" I say to myself as I turn my head in disgust. My heaven crashes as I fall from my summit of delight into an abyss of despondency. Gawd, how ter- rible! On her well-shod foot she wears an expensive sandal. That is all right, but in the front of the capless sandal protrudes a big toe through a hole in her sock. Professor Dunn: "In this scene, my dear, the young man rushes into the room, grabs you, binds you with rope from head to foot and then smothers you with kisses." Alice Rhea: "Is the young man tall, dark and handsome?" Dunn: "Yes. Why?" Alice: "Then he won't need any rope." -Covered Wagon. 0 "Were you copying his paper?" "No, sir, I was only looking to see if he had mine right." -Harvard Lampoon. 0 "Have some peanuts." "Thanks." "Wanna neck?" "Gimme my peanuts back." -Texas Ranger. 0 Garage Attendant (as car drives up): "Juice?" Car Occupants: "Vell, vot if we are-don't ve git no gas ?" -Jester. Mother: Son, I don't want to see you going around with that wild girl any more. Son: Aw, heck, maw, she ain't wild-Anybody can pet her. -Utah Humbug. Prince Albert Tobacco POLITICS A genius political commentator gives an interesting survey of the entire campus mess, detailing exactly what everybody's chances are of gaining anything. By GIL SEIDEL To those readers of the Showme who don't know anything about student politics,-don't read this. It probably wouldn't interest you because your only connection with the "whole dirty mess" (those are your quotes not mine) is the an- nual visit to the polls that you make when your fraternity or sor- ority political genius tells you to go or get socked with a five buck fine or, if you're not in one of the glorified eating shacks, when old Joe Slunks, the son of the banker back home, suddenly discovers that you've been here in school all the time and becomes very cordial to you (which of course has no connection with the fact that Joe's frat brother is running for the Student Assembly next week and that Joe casually men- tions that if you vote for Brother Blumph you'll sure be a swell fel- low and maybe he can wangle you a bid to the next party over the house. Well, don't believe him). The Chumps Vote So like the sap you are, you vote as you're told and Brother Blumph parks his fanny in the assembly where he is merely an- other stooge to the party boss. Blumph is a good kid and would like to do a good job, but he hasn't the faintest idea of what the meeting is all about and thus can only vote if given the proper cue. But then you ask, what the hell about it? What can the politi- cians do? Well, I told you not to read this because I knew you'd page eight be asking those kind of questions. Actually he can do very little. There are only five paying jobs in the school which can be thrown one way or another by politics. They are (in order of pay receiv- ed): Student President, Savitar Editor, Savitar Business Mana- ger, Missouri Student Editor, and Clerk of the Student Assembly. They get from $100 to $300 per year. In addition the politicians can throw all kinds of non-pay- ing tidbits much more than grief, but it looks good in the Savitar under your picture and the home town paper will carry a story about it and maybe a picture of you and your folks will bust with pride over your election to the chairmanship of the grass-plant- ing committee of the S.G.A. at the State U. The Greeks Have a Hand Then too, the Greeks have to have activities to slip into their annual lies to their national chap- ters wvhereby they pqint with pride to the outstanding position good old Missouri chapter of the good old frat holds on the cam- pus. Why, we have men in the best activities on the campus and we cut a mean and fancy figure in the swirl around here, they can brag to their bored national secretaries who get the same line from every chapter. It's easy to see why a frater- nity would want the offices. Are not they mutual admiration so- cieties that take in only people exactly like those already in and don't they type their boys so that you can spot a Sig Alph a mile off by his loud socks sticking out of his knee pants or a Beta by his haircut? They have to have something to veneer their pride. But why independents want the jobs is more than I can answer. Ask the Missourian question and answer department. But what's the present set-up as regards politics? I was afraid you'd ask that. Briefly, it's a se- cret. Not only from the general public, but from the politicians. At present the Student Assembly is being run by a coalition of fra- ternities, sororities, and some in- dependents. The Greeks were all members of the old Unionist In- dependent party until last spring when, according to them, a par- ticularly dirty bit of double-cross was pulled on a deserving boy and they quit the Unionists cold. They didn't have a very large group so they merged with Paul Niedner and his group of independents in the assembly to form a majority. Flanigan Heads Minority That left the remnants of the Unionists party (still the strong- est as regards the fraternities) in the minority in the assembly un- der the tutelage of Dave Flanigan. It also left quite a few houses which had previously belonged to the old Big Caucus and which were left out in the cold at the last elections by the demise of that organization still out in the cold since they have no assembly members. (Continued on Page 20) INQUISITION When a Mr. Milquetoast character is mixed with a dash of the Don Juan complex, final results can't be guessed BY JAMES RAGLAND I don't know why I got myself on that damned committee, but I was on it and there wasn't any- thing I could do about it. So there I was waiting in the lingerie de- partment for a clerk in one of the larger department store. An old skinny schoolmarm with low shoes, black dress, straight up and down, approached. Her face had just the right serious- ness to give me nonchalance. I asked if she would take care of me. She eyed me and said, "Sorry, I'm going to lunch. I'll get someone for you." I knew ex- actly what kind of a person she would get. Sure enough, she was coming toward me. "Can I help you?" "Er. . yes. Ah. .ha. Look, I'm a college man." "Uh huh." "You know., fraternities, rah rah ?" Gad, it looked like the end. "See, I'm a college man and I'm on a committee. It's kinda funny, but gosh." "Uh huh." "Look, lady, don't act so inter- ested. I mean, oh heck." "Uh huh." "What's the latest kind of bras- sieres and panties. . . I mean. Look, I mean. ." I was looking down at the floor when my foot went through the bottom of the glass counter. The floor walker approached. "My dear sir!" I wanted to bolt. "I'm sorry." I stooped down and tried to pick up the largest pieces of glass. The floorwalker fixed it up. He called a porter. I stepped away from the dam- age and met up with the same sweet sales girl. "I'm sorry." I don't know why I said that. My face was so red I could feel the heat down to my shoulders. "Oh, that's all right." I wanted to run away, but couldn't do that; gosh, I'd busted their case. "We're going to have a follies show. You know, dancing and stripping . . ." "Uh huh." "'Please don't say 'uh huh'." "But I understand." "That's fine. Now look, we're going to put on." Gad, I could have fallen in love with the little girl. She seemed so interested. "Do you understand?" Uh huh." I decided to say something she couldn't say "uh huh" to. I said, "Where are you going tonight ?" "You wanted some information about feminine underthings?" "Er, yes. You see, my fratern- ity's gonna give a show and I'm the committee to discover just what the boys should wear when they do their stripping act. Don't you see? It's going to be a male follies, kinda. I mean we're going to be dressed like wom-I mean, girls." "Uh huh." "So we've got to know just what we should be wearing when we come on the stage. You un- derstand what I mean, don't you ?" "Uh huh." "Please don't say 'uh huh'." "But I understand perfectly just what you want to do." "Well then give me the name and style of the certain things we should wear so that I'll be able to report and come back and buy the right sizes in the things." "My dear boy, it's a long and tedious story. I-" "Listen, babe, how about com- ing with me tonight and telling me all about it?" "I-I could send you all the in- formation in a-" "No, look, kid, you've gotten my attention; maybe you'd come to the meeting tonight and ex- plain the situation to the boys?" "Uh huh, but I know that I wouldn't be allowed in your midst; I'm a sorority girl, and 1 know the ins and outs." "Yeah, but on a delicate sub- ject like this you'd be welcomed." "Uh huh, now will you explain what you want, sir?" "I want a date, babe. No! Ex- cuse me. I want some informa- tion." My shoulders could feel the heat again. "Uh huh." "Sure, I know-er no, I mean I want-" ''Uh huh!" I turned and ran. v v v v Socialist Father: What do you mean by playing truant? What makes you stay away from school? Son: Class hatred, father.' -Annapolis Log. page nine FRATERNITY AND SORORITY PLEDGE DATE LIST Here they are at a dime a dozen e FRATERNITIES ACACIA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description William Anderson Kansas City 5- 8 150 Blond Blue Quiet Chas. Stevenson Cnmbridge, N. Y. 5- 8 155 Dark Brown Brown Easterner Reed Schmidt St. Louis 5- 9 165 Brown Grey Breezy Joe Peck Tooele, Utah 6- 1 190 Light Brown Blue Genial Harry Smith Needles, Calif. 6- 0 147 Light Brown Blue Innocent Bystander Howard Oeder Stanhope, N. J. 6- 0 170 Brown Brown Plenty OK Roland Lanser St. Louis 5- 6 125 Brown Blue Quiet Bob Engleman Mendon 5- 8 135 Black Brown Studious Allan Engleman Mendon 5- 8 145 Dark Brown Brown Everywhere Bob McMillan Maplewood 5- 8 140 Dark Brown Brown Unassuming Lloyd Talmadge Coombs, Tex. 5- 7 135 Black Preponderous Ted Fitzwater Union 5- 7 135 Brown Artistic Tom Adkins Drumwright, Okla. 6- 0 165 Blond Blue Good-looking Byron Jackson Mendon 6- 1 185 Light Brown Blue Woman-hater Conrade Pralle St. Louis 5- 6 128 Blond Blue Quiziral John Warmer Marceline 5-10 145 Dark Brown Green Punaters Understudy John White Matthews 6- 2 165 Light Brown Brown Smiling Scott McLean University City 5- 8 135 Dark Brown Brown Smooth Ted Betz Chicago, 111. 5- 6 130 Blond Blue Shy Fred Howard Columbia 5-11 130 Blond Blue Home-towner ALPHA SIGMA PHI Name Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Ray Bezoni Chamois 5- 7 135 Brown Grey Genial Harold Bierman St. Louis 6- 0 150 Brown Blue Dapper Charles Crump Columbia 6- 2 170 Brown Brown Romantic Wm. DeJarnette Kansas City 5-11 139 Brown Blue Clever Donald Doll Kansas City 5-10 140 Blonde Grey Friendly Gregg Dunn St. Louis 5-10 152 Brown Grey Duchin Merle Helmkamp St. Louis 6- 0 145 Brown Grey Sincere Howard Maiwurm Maywood, Ill. 6- 0 150 Brown Grey Handsome Ray Moss Hallsville 6- 1 198 Bruwn Brown Athletic Willard Rand Kansas City 5-10 145 Brown Grey Practical Robert St. John St. Louis 5-11 171 Brown Blue Don Juan Roy Schuette St. Louis 6- 0 150 Black Brown Smoothy Gilbert Schenkel St. Louis 5- 9 150 Brown Grey Persistent Robert Snell St. Louis 5-10 152 Brown Grey Impressible ALPHA TAU OMEGA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Lee Wilder Riverside, Calif. 5- 9 140 Blond Brown Collar-ad Jim Eaton Nevada 5-11 155 Black Dark Demure Jerry Graves Neosho 6-1 158 Brown Dark Epicurean Howard Pease Wilson, N. Y. 6- 2 170 Blond Blue Cynical Glen Ramsy Tulsa, Okla. 5- 9 150 Brown Blue Lover Bill Bowers Long Beach, Calif. 5-11 145 Brown Light Horseman Herb Gore El Paso, Tex. 5- 9 150 Brown Brown Singer Harry Bridges St. Louis 6- 1 180 Black Black Brawny Guy Byrd Poplar Bluff 5-10 155 Brown Dark Restful Nile Withers Clinton 5- 8 140 Brown Brown Shy Norman Powell St. Louis 6- 0 160 Blond Brown Smooth Harry Naeter Cape Girardeau 5- 9 170 Blond Blue Lucky BETA THETA PI Gentleman Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Dick Aiken Marshall 6- 1 165 Blond Brown Versatile Harrison Baier St. Joseph 5-- 8 145 Blond Blue Contagious Springfield Baldwin Kansas City 5- 9 135 Blond Blue Rustic Walter Bohling Jefferson City 5-10 165 Black Brown Garrulous Livingston Collins Kansas City 5- 9 155 Brown Brown Young Frank Cortelyou Kansas City 5-10 130 Bald Glassy Cute Dick Craig Joplin 5- 9 145 Brown Brown Bombastic John Crichton Ft. Morgan, Colo. 6- 4 185 Black Blue Gentleman Sam Darrough Kansas City 6- 2 160 Black Brown Potentialities Dick Duncan Joe Town 6- 1 185 Blond Blue Athlete Martin Eckhart Joplin 6- 2 Tremendous Dark Blue Tiny Bill Finke Joplin 6- 0 160 Brown Brown Collich Fraser Fleming Kansas City 6- 2 165 Brown Brown Lofty George Goll Kansas City 6- 3 180 Brown Brown Slick Lawrence Kirk Joe Town 5-11 160 Red Brown Personable Don Klein Kansas City 5-11 175 Dusty Brown Vociferous Bruce McCulloch New York City, N. Y. 6- 1 185 Dark Brown Stolid Graham Porter St. Joseph 5- 8 155 Curly Blue Active J. D. Rankin Tarkio 6- 0 190 Slick Dark Squire John Slayton Joe Town 5-11 155 Black Dark Reserved Sam Walton Columbia 5-11 160 Black Nice Swell Charles Wilcox St. Joseph 6- 1 160 Black Black Bright page ten DELTA TAU DELTA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Jimmie Alford Columbia 5- 6 150 Brown Grey Little Man--Big Stuff Steve Bonney La Grange 5- 9 140 Black Blue Two Schools of Tho't Dale Bowling St. Joseph 5- 7 180 Black Blue Girls are so Nice Dick Agee Independence 5- 6 185 Black Grey 'Cabs' Competition Frank Kiefer St. Joseph 6- 0 175 Brown Blue Adonis A. L. Jones St. Joseph 5 -6 135 Blond Blue Mighty Atom Wilbur Lake La Grange 6- 2 140 Black Black String-bean Chuck Godsey Scottsbluff, Neb. 5- 8 155 Brown Blue Extra Smoothie Jake Spaulding Chicago, 11l. 5-10 135 Black Black Linguist Art Spangburg St. Joseph 6- 5 215 Black Grey Little Fellar Fred Stockdale Independence 5- 7 140 Red Green Persistent Ray Snyder St. Joseph 6- 0 179 Brown Blue Golf Course Athlete Ted Schweitzer Hannibal 5-10 187 Brown Blue Dixie Denizen Franklin Russel St. Joseph 5- 9 155 Blond Blue Kat Chaser Bill Quinn Maywood 5- 5 130 Brown Green Politician DELTA UPSILON Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Jean Berg Kansas City 5-11 160 Brown Brown Pleasant Robert Brandle University City 5- 7 140 Brown Brown Laddie Boy Dick Flanery Poplar Bluff 5-11 170 Black Blue Killer Paul Grant Cabool 5- 8 140 Brown Brown Ladies' Man Don Harris Joplin 5- 7 138 Brown Gray Subtle G. G. Lautz Carthage 5- 9 150 Brown Green Has Wheels Obie O'Byrne New York City, N. Y. 6- 1 200 Black "Dark Eyes"' Black Beauty Philpott St. Louis 5-11 185 Brown Blue Lover Boy Carl Geyer St. Louis 6- 0 165 Brown Blue Girl Crazy Tummy Austin Willow Springs 5- 8 145 Brown Blue Interesting Max Mills St. Louis 5- 9 140 Brown Brown Suave (smooth to you) Ken McLaughlin Wheaton, 11. 5- 9 155 Brown Blue Rugged Howard Birchard Cabool 6- 2 160 Blond Blue Studious FARM HOUSE Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Noland Armstrong Odessa 6- 1 _ Brown Brown Romeo Elza Barbee Platte City 5-10 . Brown Brown Knock-Knock Ernest Briakmeier Hannibal 5-10 . Red Blue Chubby Jimmie Crain East St. Louis, Ill. 5- 9 Black Black Suave Fritz Herndon Linn 5- 8 - Sandy Blue Romance Wiltner Jacob De Soto 5- 8 - Sandy Blue Pisciculturist Bob Lengain Sedalia 6-0 - Red Blue Demure Frank Longworth Butler 5- 7 - Bruwn Blue Bucolic LeRoy Meinershagan Higginsville 5-10 Blond Blue All's Well Harold Pontices Bethany 5- 8 - Blond Blue Putt-Putt Jack Lanner Ridgeway 5- 9 . Brown Brown Discreet Harlow Speckhart Payson, Ill. 5-11 - Brown Brown Indolent Zell Thompson Maryville 5- 8 - Blond Blue Tid-Bit Ben Willhoyte Maryville 5- 6 Black Brown Grandiloquence Gerald Wright Tuscumbia 6-0 . Black Brown Elongate Henry Zimmerman Maryville 5- 8 - Brown Brown Goo-Goo Clifford Bailey Maryville 5- 9 . Red Blue Foamy KAPPA SIGMA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Bud Barnes University City 5-11 150 Brown Brown Oldfieldish Marshall Coffman Marshall 5-10 140 Brown Brown Seedy Frank Erskine University City 5- 5 125 Black Black Twerpish John Esping St. Joseph 5-11 175 Black Blue Patent Leather Bill Farris St. ouis 5-10 155 Sandy Green Old Cow Hand Frank Gerow Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 5-11 155 Blond Blue "Me and Skid" Bill Hawkins Clayton 5-11 175 Brown Green Aesthetic ack Kyte Kansas City 6- 4 190 Brown Green Tired Frankenstein Walter Levvis Kansas City 5- 8 135 Brown Brown Inconspicuous Bob Mehl Columbia 6- 1 155 Red Blue Parlor Orator Evan McLean Knoxville, Tenn 6- 1 170 Sandy Green Vague Rex Nielson Kansas City 5- 8 145 Brown Brown Swedish Bob Orf Maplewood 6- 0 165 Blond Blue Mop Top I Bud Orf Maplewood 6-0 165 Blond Blue Mop Top II Joe Rood St. Louis 5- 7 140 Blond Blue Sexy Roger Sermon Independence 5-10 140 Blond Blue Oo-la-la Harland Soule Independence 5- 8 130 Sandy Green Pestiferous Tommy Hughes Parsons, Kan. 5- 8 140 Black Black Jazzy Vernon Nolte St. Louis 5- 8 140 Blond Blue Virtuoso LAMBDA CHI ALPHA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Gene Bohannon Columbia 5-11 150 Red Brown Reckless Allen Brunk Columbia 5- 8 145 Brown Hazel Speed Philip Jose Farmer Peoria, Ill. 5-11 170 Black Grenish Brown Woof Kenneth W. Hutchinson Mount Ayr Iowa 5- 8 140 Black Brown Sunbeam James Ormsby Speer Knoxville, Tenn. 6- 0 142 Blonde Baby Blue Ducky George Carter Columbia 5- 5 155 Black Brown Potty pege eleven PHI KAPPA PSI Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Joe South Birmingham, Ala. 6- 0 160 Brown Brown Southern Gentleman Bob Willits Kansas City 5-10 155 Blond Gray Playboy John Allen Pasadena, Calif. 6- 1 160 Black Brown Spanish Caballero Henry Cook Terre Haute, Ind. 6- 1 185 Blond Gray Schoolgirl's Delight Charles Witte Kirkwood 6- 0 170 Brunette Brown Serious J. Buckingham Kansas City 6- 2 190 Blond Blue Debonair Bob Creel Kansas City 5- 9 140 Blonda Brown Quiet John Motlow Long Beach, Calif. 6- 0 155 Brunette Brown Reserved Ernest Conrad Kansas City 5-10 150 Brown Brown Noisy Fred Macker Kansas City 5-11 155 Brunette Brown Comical Bill Bates Kansas City 5- 9 150 Dark Blue Cocky Dale Rogers Houston, Tex. 6- 0 160 Dark Blue Untamed Texan Gardiner Lathrop Kansas City 6- 0 175 Dark Brown He-man Jerry Roddy St. Louis 6- 0 150 Brown Gray Flighty Pete Welch St. Louis 5- 8 135 Brown Brown Joe E. Brown Wilmer Warren Kansas City 5-11 170 Brown Blue Wily PHI SIGMA DELTA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Harold Brody Kansas City 5- 9 160 Brown Brown Brute Isador Brody Kansas City 5- 9 145 Brown Blue Handsome Isador Epstein Brooklyn, N. Y. 5-11 155 Brown Brown Palooka Isador Farber St. Joseph 5- 7 140 Black Grey Wise Walter Gelb Hartford, Conn. 5-11 140 Brown Brown Uh-huh Bert Herske Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 5-10 140 Blond Grey Freshman Bill Harvey Brooklyn N. Y. 6- 0 180 Black Brown Momentous Arthur Hirsch Kansas City 5-10 165 Blond Brown Refined Morris Ruben Brooklyn N. Y. 6- 1 195 Brown Blue Huge Alex Silverman Kansas City 5- 6 160 Black Brown Gable Irving Sklar St. Louis 5- 6 140 Black Brown Alive PI KAPPA ALPHA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Addison Taylor University City 6- 0 235 Brown Brown Ducky Joe Browning Senath 5-11 155 Brown Blue Smooth Sam McAnnally Kennett 6- 3 175 Brown Brown Bert Whittson Clayton 5- 8 140 Brown Blue Built Sam Fischer Kennett 6- 0 190 Red Blue Cute Edward Scruggs Harrisonville 5- 9 140 Brown Brown Handsome L. A. Pickard Kennett 5-11 141 Brown Blue Business Charles Cowden Nashville, Tenn. 5- 8 143 Brown Brown Silent Victor Cary Alexandria, Va. 5-11 140 Brown Brown Gable Wilson Phillips New Madrid 5- 6 132 Brown Brown Static John Crosby Joplin 5- 8 142 Brown Brown Darling SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Johnny Thompson Kansas City 5-8 140 Brown Blue Straightforward Albert Waters Kansas City 5-11 155 Chestnut Blue Extrovert Jack Fray Kansas City 5-10 145 Blonde Azure Veddy nice George Brown Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. 6- 0 160 Bay Brown Polo Joe Curtis Bogasch St. Louis 6- 0 205 Wavy Black Good bet Dick Wessell St. Louis 5-11 172 Brown Trusting Typical Sig-Alph Bud Danforth St. Louis 5- 8 138 Light Brown Blood-shot Abstainer Frank Heidel St. Louis 6- 3 208 Curly Russet Muscular-lover Henry Busheyhead St. Louis 6- 0 162 Oily Open W. C. T.U. Harry Mason St. Louis 5-11 177 Light Blue Clean-cut Clyde Nelson St. Louis 6- 1 190 Black Brown Easy for blondes Miller Collings Detroit, Mich. 5- 8 137 Glossy Brown Intellectual Ed James Rockford 1ll. 6- 0 170 Brown Twinkling Tom Roverish Bob Waldor Chicago, ll. 5-10 188 Dusky Blue Casanova-like Milt Moran Alliance, Neb. 5- 8 142 Curly Grey Hard to get Hoyt Luithly Richland Iowa Little --- Short Starry Domineering Bill Macklin Litchfield, Minn. 5- 8 155 Falling Amber Barnum was right Jack Little Clarksburg Neb. 6- 0 189 Kinky Glassy Swing-time Evans S. Carroll Palm Beach, Fla. 5-11 170 Long Candid Suave SIGMA ALPHA MU Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Al Goldman New York City, N. Y. 5- 9 150 Blonde Blue A "Natural"" Les Epstein St. Louis 5- 7 130 Brown Brown Sagacious Al Werber St. Louis 6- 0 210 Brown Gray Buster Al Clemage Kansas City 6- 0 140 Black Brown Fast Elmer Price St. Louis 6- 1 140 Brown Brown Obliging Bruce Fink Kansas City 5- 8 145 Brown Blue Athletic Harvey Coppel New York City, N. Y. 5- 8 145 Brown Blue Broadway Marty Polin New York City, N. Y. 5- 7 130 Brown Blue Congenial Bob Eisenberg New York City, N. Y. 5- 8 155 Brown Blue Vigor Sid Schreiber St. Louis 5-10 160 -Brown Blue Lochinvar Mel De Hovitz Flat River 6- 0 140 Black Brown Slim Chalie Sher St. Louis 5- 7 135 Black Brown Happy Julie Sher St. Louis 5- 9 135 Brown Brown Modest George Arnstein New York City, N. Y. 5- 9 150 Blonde Blue Click Hal Nemetz New York City, N. Y. 5-11 185 Black Blue Cossack Harry Feinberg Kansas City 5- 8 135 Black Brown Okay Irv Panken New York City, N. Y. 5- 8 140 Black Brown 42nd Street Abe Tepper Webster Groves 5- 9 165 Brown Brown Sporty Cy Toder St. Louis 5- 8 140 Blonde Blue Snappy page twelve SIGMA CHI Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Forrest McCluney Jefferson City 6- 3 175 Blond Gray Intellectalia Leo J. Rozier Perryville 5-10 145 Black Gray Dreamer Allen Hosmer Kansas City 6- 1 147 Red Gray Clown Ted Mansur Jefferson City 6- 0 150 Brown Brown Quiet Augie Elbring Clayton 6- 0 175 Blond Brown Virile Jim Bauer St. Louis 5- 6 130 Black Green Reticent ddie Neal Kansas City 5- 7 145 Blond Blue Apollo Ralph Alderson St. Louis 5- 8 136 Brown Gray Petite Robert Evans Joplin 6- 0 168 Brown Brown Sandeau Richard Sheehy East St. Louis, Ill. 5- 7 150 Black Blue Exotic Charles McClure University City 6- 3 184 Brown Slate Individualist Al Williams Kansas City 5- 84 140 Brown Brown Don Juan John King Dallas, Tex. 5- 7Y2 135 Sandy Blue Suave Bill Royster Kansas City 5-11 140 Brown Brown Astaire? Gregg Bartels St. Mary's 6- 0 175 Brown Blue Lanky Joe French Columbia 6- 1 150 Brown Brown Dark Hazard Les Green Columbia 5-10 145 Blond Gray Perfect Jack Nowell Columbia 6- 3 190 Blond Blue Big Man SIGMA NU Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Descrption Jim Arnold Kansas City 6- 2 160 Brown Blue Charles Barker Fairplay 5-10Y 145 Brown Brown A Car Helps Gene Bredehoft Kansas City 5-11 3 170 Blonde Blue Naive Fred Coppock Logansport, Ind. 5-10Y2 168 Brown Brown All-Star J. H. Cordes Trenton 5-10 160 Blonde Blue Hoosier Schoolboy Buel Fisher Trenton 5-10Y2 160 Black Brown Veni, Vidi Vici Ed Goldsmith Webster Groves 6- 0 162 Blonde Blue Res Ipsa Loquitur George Grant St. Petersburg, Fla. 5-11 170 Brown Brown Sophist Bob Hamerstrom Omaha, Neb. 5- 8 135 Brown Gray Southern Style Buddy Lathrop Princeton 5- 9 185 Brown Green Wag Dick Logan Carthage 5- 8 140 Bruwn Gray Genial George Longan Kansas City 6- 2 160 Black Brown Smug Arch Lowe Springfield 6- 1 175 Black Brown Professor John Mohler Independence 5-11 155 Brown Gray Atlas J. C. Moore Columbia 5-10 140 Black Bruwn Ensembles Earnest Pringle Kansas City 6- 1 160 Dark Brown Brown Or Less Earl Proctor Columbia 5-10 158 Black Brown Bull of the Campus Gene Robinett Springfield 5- 834 138 Brown Blue Local Boy Makes Good Wzlter Schlecht Carthage 5- 5Y 124 Brown Blue Amateur Night Harry Seward Hardin 5-10 168 Brown Gray Embry Beau Brummel Bill Stone Webb City 6- 1 175 Brown Brown Virile John Stuffiebean Brookfield 6- 13 150 Black Brown Bottoms Up Mike Wells Moberly 6- 0 165 Blonde Gray Stuff Frank Williams Carthage 5- 8 135 Blonde Blue Nonchalant F. M. Wilson Marshall 5-10 160 Blonde Blue Fox SIGMA PHI EPSILON Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Charlie Wolter St. Louis 6- 0 150 Brown Hazel Innocent Al Sudholt St. Louis 6-02Y4 145 Brown Hazel Longfellow Jean Huggins Enid, Okla. 5-10 155 Red Blue Bottoms Up Ed Friedewald St. Louis 6- 0 181 Brown Blue Muscle Man Alonzo Horn St. Louis 6- 0 200 Black Brown Static Homer Maize Des Moines, Iowa 5- 9 147 Black Green Jellybean Bill Kershner Enid, Okla. 6- 0 149 Blonde Blue Wild Bill Clarence Burton Kansas City 5- 5 145 Blonde Blue Buckshot Dick Joho Farrell, Pa 6- 0 150 Brown Brown Swing-time Dick Hledik Wahoo, Neb. 5-10 155 Brown Brown Artist Warren Mollenkamp Lexington 6- 3 200 Brown Brown McGillicuddy Bob Holliday Columbia 5- 7 150 Blonde Brown Bottle Bob Ewers St. Louis 5- 8 140 Black Black Truly Mike English Monett 5-10 190 Blonde Brown Stonehammer FRATERNITY MANAGEMENT SORORITIES ALPHA CHI OMEGA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Fanchon Barbee St. Louis 5- 4 Blonde Mysterious Intriguing Frances Calvin Miles City, Mont. 5- 1 - Dusky Bruwn Sunny Barbara Carpenter Columbia tall Blonde Gray-green Peppy Byrel Edminston Elmer 5- 3 --- Brown Hazel Refreshing Barbara Hawley Marshall 5- 4 Black Brown Sparkling Dorothy Hollman North Platte, Neb. 5- 6 Brown Blue A Natural Jean Ott Sedalia tall Blonde Brown Lovely illian Petersen St. Louis 5- 3 -- Blonde Hazel Charm Georgia Raukohl Hannibal 5- 334 Blonde Blue Swingtime Ruth Regnery Julian, Calif. 5- 5Y Burnished Changeable Distinctive Reba F. Twyman Poteau, Okla. tall Brown Hazel Entertaining Virginia Voigt St. Louis 5- 5 Bronze Blue Stunning Mary Whaley St. Louis 5- 2 Brown Blue Personality Barbara White St. Joseph 5- 3 Blonde Blue-green Darling Florantine Wilson St. Joseph 5- 0 Blonde Deep Blue Adorable ALPHA EPSILON PHI Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Norma Kosovitz Kansas City 5- 3 115 Brown Brown Sweet Annette Karchmer Oklahoma City, Okla. 5- 3 95 Brown Gray Regular Jo Chasnoff St. Louis 5- 2 115 Brown Brown Interesting arion Blond Kansas City 5- 6 125 Black Brown Amiable Hortense Werby Kansas City 5- 0 120 Brown Green Charming Ilaine Scher Longview, Tex. 5- 4 120 Brown Brown Okay Ann Sonin Kansas City 5- 0 85 Brown Hazel Definitely Becca Cile Rosenberg Dallas, Tex. 5- 2 102 Brown Brown Scintillating Doris Marlin Kansas City 5- 1 103 Brown Brown Darling Mignon Levy Kansas City 5- 4 125 Brown Brown Cuddles Patty Jacobs Denver, Colo. 5- 1 96Y Black Black Striking Constance Levich Kansas City 5- 2 105 Brown Hazel Dazzling Marjorie Goldstein Hannibal 5- 3 120 Brown Green Tops Leonore Green Quincy, Ill. 5- 4 130 Brown Brown Pleasant Sylvia Selinger Dallas, Tex. 5- 2 106 Brown Brown Tweetie Adeline Singer Tulsa, Okla. 5- 3 109 Blonde Hazel Lovely Cecile Cohen St. Louis 5- 434 125 Black Brown Vivacious Irene Berliner Joplin 5- 1 129 Brown Brown Melodious Grace Wolff Dumas, Ark. 5- 6 126 Black Hazel Queenly Rosalie Fenster Tulsa, Okla. 5- 1 116 Blonde Green Quaint Inez Zerman St. Louis 5- 5 120 Brown Hazel Dashing Carolyn Saul Chattanooga, Tenn. 5- 44 113 Black Black Different Louise Froug Tulsa, Okla. 5- 2 110 Black Brown Adorable ALPHA GAMMA DELTA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Joyce Gamble Mexico 5- 0 100 Brown Brown Poise Betty Ann Matteson Columbia 5- 4 130 Blonde Blue Sincere Ann Shock Columbia 5- 3 99 Brown Brown Vivacious Helen Williams Nebraska City, Neb. 5- 5 116 Brown Blue Charming Juanita Martenson Kansas City 5- 8 118 Red Brown Friendly Ramona Crowley Kansas City 5- 4 120 Black Grey Radiant Neva McCracken Diamond 5- 3 120 Blonde Blue Lovely Mary Ligon Mayfield, Ky. 4-10 90 Brown Blue Petite Dorothy Cropper Troy 5- 8 154 Blonde Blue Gracious Dorothy Lathrop Columbia 5- 1 110 Brown Brown Adorable ALPHA PHI Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Jean Rae Adams Aberdeen, S. D. 5- 1 -__ Black Brown Personality Plus Jane Gibbs Columbia 5- 3 --- Black Brown Cute Anna Margaret Griffin Mexico 5- 6 - Brown Blue Sophisticated Dorothy Harmon Columbia 5- 5 .- Blonde Brown Smooth Ruth Harmon Columbia 5- 4 -.- Brunette Brown Friendly Martha Henderson Liberty 5- 4 - Brown Blue Sweet Lutie Holtman Columbia 5- 8 -.- Brown Brown Peppy Ort Schnaedelbach St. Louis 5- 4 -- Blonde Blue A Hit! Lee Simmons Mexico 5- 2 -. Brown Green Snappy Margaret Williams Silex 5- 3 Brown Hazel Musical page fourteen CHI OMEGA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Dorothy Gene Baily Jonesboro, Ark. 5-11 135 Brunette Blue Radiant Eva Mary Bohannon Parsons, Kan. 5- 6 118 Blonde Chameleon Sophisticate Sarah Brewer Rolla 5- 2 115 Brown Hazel Chic Marjorie Casteel Columbia 5- 4 120 Brown Brown S. S. and G. Frances Crank Elsberry 5- 1 98 Blonde Blue "Spanky" Virginia Daniels La Plata 5- 5 129 Blonde Blue Demure Mary Dixon Owensboro, Ky. 5-10 132 Auburn Brown Debonnair Dorothy Fennel Moberly 5- 4 125 Brown Brown Romantic Peggy Greene Louisville, Ky. 5- 4 110 Brown Brown R-less Dorothy Gunter Bartlesville, Okla. 5- 5 123 Brown Blue Pixillated Beth Hodson Downs, Kan. 5- 5 112 Brunette Hazel Dramatic Mary Sue James Caruthersville 5- 6 126 Brunette Blue Vivacious Elaine Jenkins Kansas City 5- 2 99 Blonde Blue-gray Tantalizing Arlene Leslie Hutchinson, Kan. 5- 7 125 Brunette Brown Mannequin Dorothy Otis Kansas City 5- 7 126 Brunette Brown Witty Lucille Porter Mound City 5- 5 105 Blonde Gray Priceless Virginia Porth Kansas City 5- 5 119 Black Black Impish Virginia Robinson Ironton 5- 6 129 Brunette Green Elite Margaret Servey Caruthersville 5- 6 115 Red Blue Bewitching Lucille Shy Ellington 5- 6 128 Blonde Blue Countess DELTA DELTA DELTA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Martha Beimdick Carthage 5- 3 120 Blonde Blue Saucy Jane Bradford Columbia 5- 3 125 Brown Brown Patrician Jean Camp Ashland, Ky. 5-- 0 97 Brown Hazel Adorable Betty Culp Leon, Iowa 5- 3 128 Brown Brown Swell Jane Donnelly Kansas City 5- 5 120 Black Brown Satisfies June English Kansas City 5- 6 117 Brown Blue Sophisticate Jeanette Hoffman Trenton 5- 6 125 Brown Gray Charming Edith Harris Dallas, Tex. 5- 2 96 Red Hazel Naive Joan Johnson Mt. Vernon 5- 4 105 Brown Brown 4-Point Jane Lynott East St. Louis, 11l. 5-- 4 118 Blonde Gray Venus Maxwell Lynch Pine Bluff, Ark. 5- 3 118 Brown Brown Vivid Frances Marx Carthage 5- 6 135 Brown Blue Witty Vera Stutsman Washington, Iowa 5- 6 123 Dark Blonde Brown Queenly Pat Taaffe Joplin 5- 6 125 Brown Brown Effervescent Ann Trotter Kansas City 5-- 5 126 Red Hazel Intriguing Ruth Vlcek Wahoo, Neb. 5- 7 125 Black Blue Gracious Margaret Whittington Greenwood, Miss. 5- 4 115 Brown Blue Smoothy Dorthy Weigel St. Louis 5- 3 100 Brown Blue Fun DELTA GAMMA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Juanita Maire Linn 5- 4 - Blonde Hazel Horrible Jane Montague Webster Groves 5- 6 - Blonde Brown Mousey Jeanette Trice San Marquis, Tex. 5- 4 - Black Blue Dopey Virginia Hart University City 5- 5 - Black Brown Peculiar Dorothy Fair Trenton 5- 5s Brown Blue Bad Jane Weaver Webster Groves 5- 2 - Brown Brown Terriffic Helene Koenig Webster Groves 5- 7 Chestnut Brown Ratty Billie Dea Duerston Evanston, Ill. 5- 6 Blonde Brown Perfectly Terrible Cynthia Byrns Kirkwood 5- 2 Brown Hazel Gooney Doris King Nevada 5-- 8 Brown Brown Droopy Helen Mingle St Louis 5-- 2 Blonde Brown Spook Marjorie Lynch Sweet Springs 5-- 3 Blonde Blue Drab Marjorie Jane Briggs Bonne Terre 5- 2 Brown Hazel Hag-like Dorothy Bobel University City 5- 2 Brown Hazel Drooly Ann Miller Peru, Ind. 5- 4 --- Blonde Blue Horsey Frances Shepard Columbia 5- 6 --- Red Blue Plenty Awful Jean Patton Columbia 5- 6 - Brown Brown Cow-eyed Betty Shelley Columbia 5- 4 -- Brown Brown Scummy GAMMA PHI BETA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Jean Bassman Jefferson City 5- 534 120 Light Brown Hazel Graceful Helen Bode Kansas City 5- 434 112 Brown Brown Naive Gertrude Campbell St. Joseph 5- 2 117 Auburn Blue Sophisticated Virginia Forsythe Jefferson City 5- 3 115 Brown Brown Lots of Pep Faith Killinger Salem 5- 434 107 Blonde Blue Charming Dorothy Langdon Amarillo, Tex. 5-- 3 118 Red Brown Vivid Elsie Mohr Kansas City 5- 934 125 Brown Brown Willowy Billy Muncey Kansas City 5-- 7 120 Brown Blue Swell Dancer Peggy Phelps Kansas City 5- 5 112 Brown Blue Vivacious Margaret Pigg Jefferson City 5- 5 116 Black Brown Distinctive Fehl Shirley St. Louis 5- 53 112 Black Blue Gay Ruth Slater Hale 5-- 3 118 Brown Blue Witty Marty Rupp Kansas City 5- 234 105 Blonde Blue Darling Betty Ann Thice Independence 5-- 53 120 Blonde Blue Sweet Alice Tieman St. Louis 5-- 2 95 Light Brown Green Smooth Lillian Toller Columbia 5-- 634 128 Brown Brown Poised Peggy Young Kansas City 5- 334 100 Blonde Blue Winsome Jonelle Baker Kennett 5- 2 112 Brown Grey Demure page fifteen KAPPA ALPHA THETA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Frances Kerr Webster Groves 5- 4 110 Blonde Bluish-gray Unsophisticated Virginia Vineyard Cape Girardeau 5- 3 104 Blonde Brown Nice Lisette Eschenheimer Laredo 5- 5 118 Titian Green Chic Christine Reinhard Fort Smith, Ark. 5- 5 103 Blonde Hazel Winsome Carolyn Jenkins Kansas City 5- 5 106 Brown Hazel Cute Jane James Kansas City 5- 4 110 Brunette Blue Effervescent Dorothy Dodd St. Joseph 5-. 4 135 Brown Blue Swell Elizabeth O'Brien Shortsville, N. Y. 5- 2 118 Auburn Blue Sweet Helen Davis Webster Groves 5- 64 114 Red Brown Unusual Mary Lou Martin Odessa 5- 4 110 Black Brown Lovely Betty Bean Kansas City 5- 6 117 Black Blue Lovely Forrestine Smith Jefferson City 5- 4 113 Brown Blue Smooth Mary Katherine Maurer Excelsior Springs 5- 5 112 Brown Green Charming Jane Kochtitsky Columbus, Miss. 5- 8 125 Brown Brown Striking Annette Tucker Kansas City 5- 6Y 110 Blonde Green Impish Mary Megede Richmond 5- 4 108 Blonde Blue Precious Mildred Harris Kansas City 5- 5 130 Brown Blue Rare Virginia Coulter Winnetka, 111. 5- 4 112 Brown Gray Original Katherine Nies Webster Groves 5- 2 108 Brown Hazel Fetching Jane Hopkins Deerfield, Ill. 5- 3 116 Blonde Hazel Enthusiastic Mildred Ice Kansas City 5- 2 100 Brown Blue Adorable Lorene Mabry Alton, Ill. 5- 4 115 Brown Gray Amazing Mary Marshall Mahan Hannibal 5- 54 114 Red-blonde Blue Naive Dixie Larrabee Columbia 5- 6Y 115 Brown Brown Vivacious Kay Warnick Columbia 5- 74 129 Brown Brown Capable Mary Celeste Denman Fort Smith, Ark. 5- 3 112 Brown Hazel Clever Frances G'Sell Sweet Springs 5- 2 100 Brown Brown Different Lois Ralston Moberly 5- 3/4 105 Light brown Brown Darling KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA Name Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Jane Birkhead Jefferson City 110 Brown Green Swell Betty Bright Columbia 100 Brown Hazel Unsophisticated Barbara Brink Kansas City 112 Brown Brown Fun Jean Campbell Joplin -- 101 Brown Blue Vivacious Betty Clark St. Joseph 120 Brown Brown Plenty O. K. Mary Ford Little Rock, Ark. 105 Blonde Blue Everything Georganne Garner Richmond 118 Blonde Blue Charming Margaret Ann Gillham Jefferson City 118 Blonde Blue Sophisticated Nadine Guernsey Kansas City --107 Black Black Exotic Martha Hunt Ruston, La. 97 Brown Green Southern Cindy Jones Carthage 115 Brown Blue Peppy Eleanor Kincaid Joplin 115 Brown Brown Lovely Margaret King Columbia -- 120 Black Brown A prize Gwen Knight Columbia 115 Brown Bworn A-1 Jeanne Ann Lambert Fort Riley, Kan. 116 Brown Hazel Smooth Ledley Logan Hannibal 117 Blonde Blue Grand Peggy McVay Trenton 120 Blonde Blue A Peach Kitty Moore Columbia 110 Brown Blue Attractive Elizabeth Nye Webster Groves . 115 Brown Brown Talkative Barbara Porter Kansas City 115 Blonde Green Beautiful Frances Ann Robnett Columbia 98 Brown Brown Darling Muff Williams Mexico 110 Blonde Blue Fancy Jean Tanzey Kansas City - 106 Blonde Blue The Tops PI BETA PHI Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Betty Ellfeldt Kansas City 5- 0 93 Brpwn Blue Winsome Ann Goggin Webster Groves 5- 4 110 Brown Black and Blue Playful Mary Margaret Noble Stuttgart, Ark. 5- 3 110 Chocolate Blue Mae West Mary Jane Stevenson Minneapolis, Minn. --102 Very Blonde Blue Too Too Joanna Morgan Minneapolis, Minn. 5-- 5 110 Blonde Gray Gay Anna Margaret Riepma Springfield 5-- 4 119 Blonde Blue Definitely Patty Jerome Minneapolis, Minn. 5- 3 123 Cinnamon Blue A Natural Virginia Nystrom Webster Groves 5-- 2 110 Black Hazel Radiant Katharine Johnson Carrollton 5- 5 115 Buff Blue Tops Eleanor Haley Louisiana 5- 6 119 Black Blue Flirt Martha Witherspoon Kansas City 5- 7 120 Dark Brown Brown Patrician Georganne Roth Moberly 5- 4 122 Mahogany Brown Different Mary Jane Yates Sheridan, Wyo. 5-. 4 115 Blonde Big Vogue Barbara Hartwig St. Joseph 5- 6 122 Copper Brown Chic Joan Cnmpbell Kirksville 5- 4 107 Brownette Blue Decidedly Ruth DeVault Mexico 5- 3 109 Blonde Round Precious Nan Ruth-Barnes Anderson 5- 7 120 Light Bistre Cameladdish Helen Walton Springfeld 5- 5 125 Auburn Brown Refreshing Mary LeVec Kansas City 110 Light Brown Blue Smooth Jeanie Bird St. Joseph 5- 2 106 Blonde Green Chirpy Mabel Kinyon Columbia 5- 2 103 Chestnut Brown Collegiate Marty Payne Columbia 5- 5 115 Brown Blue Yummy Ellen Stine Columbia 5- 5 120 Blonde Brown Charming Libby Hanley Sedalia 5- 3 109 Blonde Gray Exhilirating Lee Hawthorne Mexico 5- 4 115 Brunette Brown Poised Jean Lindsay Tulsa, Okla. 5- 6 --- Blonde One Glass Spectacular Continued on page 18. page sixteen Chesterfield Cigarettes SHOWME SHOW (Continued from Page 1) Mutiny Charles Witte, Phi Psi and Bill Farris, Kappa Sig are trying to outdo one another with Virginia Voigt, Alpha Chi. Did you know she committed the unpardonable sin of breaking a date with Jack Schweitzer, Delt. Ain't it awful? He's still beefing about it. Keet McElhany, Beta, who defi- nitely approves of Margaret Cur- tin again this year, threw in the towel and scratched this off for journalism-Heaven: Pi Beta Phi, Hell: Phi Delta Theta, Eter- nity: this course. Spanish Inn Nancy Lupfer, Gamma Phi, and Benton Calkins, Phi Delt, seen lating it at the Coronado. Why do they say boys take girls there that they don't want to be seen with ? Question Can Mary Meier see far enough to know that all the new pledges have their eyes on her prize, Dutton Brookfield, Beta house. Pals Laughs are that Raglan, K. A., the red haired boy of the person- able clothes, will get the rough stick from every house on the campus as soon as he sells his car. They're singing the Pi Phi theme song everywhere, "You've Turned The Tables On Me." Barbara White, Alpha Chi pledge and Tom Ellis, K. A. have discovered the possibilities of holding hands. Slump The all around in the wayer: Jack "Sauer" Kraus, Sig Chi, seems to delight in carrying books and holding hands. For all the nut starlets. We personally don't think his stock rates so high when it comes right down to the real McCoy. Speed Speed Kelly gazing madly at the moon last Friday night asked a Pi Phi pledge "Are you the sis- terly type?" And as the poor jit- tery little thing gasped, "Defi- nitely." We heard him say things that only Speed could say with his heart and soul in it. His heart is in St. Louis, Neophytes, which usually means something. Directory If you can't find him: The Delts and the Kappa Sigs are fighting over the Dixie as their annex, the Sig Chis swoop at the shack, and then the Phi Delts run their flat and the still darker Phi Delt House. When reprimanded by the newie, Justin Hammond asked in a horrified voice, "Tell me, are the other houses perfectly brazen about it?" Prize two-timer and player arounder is Al Billington, Kappa Sigma romeo. He tells them that he'd put his pin on Missie Atkin- son, Pi Phi-if he had one-and then there's the K. C. love that he spends his time trying to get a ride up to see. Not to mention Maurine Moore, gullible Theta, who paid him two consecutive visits to the Co-Op because he told her after two dates with her that he wanted to go with no one else. Next day Al is romancing in Gaeb's with another queen and explains to the Moore girl that he was begged by her sorority sis- ters to cheer her up because the poor child was dying of homesick- ness. Maurine sympathized with him until next jelly day the great lover tried it again-nice going, Al! A lot smarter is the hard to get John Troug, Beta who has Max- ine Beard, Arrowite crying on his shoulder begging for some more whip-cracking. For those who remember all the way back when-the Sig Alph's are swatting their pledges if they hear of any more beer busts. How can the boys throw away tradi- tion like that? The S. A. E.'s have a prexy this year who rates tops -you've never known anyone crazier than Abbott Ferris. He and Vaughn Bryant are two boys we like to see around. * (SORORITIES Continued) PHI SIGMA SIGMA Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Annabelle Brownstein University City - __ Devilish Warm Ginger Becky Friedman Belleville, Ill. Reddish Languid So Nice Mildred Gold St. Louis-- Goldie Locks Hi! 2 Times 2 Plus Mildred Hager Sea Gate, N. Y. -Curly Head Bright New Yorker Lorraine Marcus University City --- Silken Bewitching Lovely Lady Estelle Richman Eureka --- Like the Raven Commanding Clever PHI MU Name of Pledge Home Town Height Weight Hair Eyes Description Audrey Zeiser Webster Groves 5- 4 118 Dark Brown Blue Butterfly Merne Bone St. Louis 5- 4 110 Blonde Blue Personality Plus Ruth Morgan Columbia 5- 3 113 Blonde Blue Extraordinary Gal Anita Ryan St. Joseph 5- 6 120 Brown Brown Poised Gladys Weil St. Louis 5- 6 124 Brown Brown Gracious AnnOra Pugh Columbia 5- 5 120 Light Brown Blue Clever Margaret Morris Columbia 5- 2 115 Brown Blue Dancing Lady page eighteen Jean Lindsey, Pi Phi, re- turns from class in a wool sport dress of nat- ural colored Jersey with accents of green. The green swagger felt hat and matching fleece sport coat complete the outfit from JULIE'S Mary Meier, Kappa, awaits her date in a suit of green and gold--Green box reefer coat, gold skirt and green velveteen blouse--Topped off with a hat of velour. Of course the outfit is from JULIE'S Sir Walter Raleigh Tobacco POLITICS (Continued from Page 8) However, this is a subject to change as a Faurot line-up. The coalition is loosely hung together and has some support which might be classified as Grade Z lukewarm. In fact, these people have one leg over the fence ready to jump into Flani- gan's wagon, if Dave can pull one out of the hat. Maybe they've al- ready jumped. Niedner would like to know. So would Flanigan. As a matter of fact, several politi- cians have attended meetings of both caucuses on the same days. They are the fellows who wear suspenders and belt both. But to get back to those paying jobs. They are the meat and drink of the gravy-bowl boys. And next spring they will be up for passing around again. And since every- one likes gravy, they all want to be at the head of the line for their share. So all the squirming around resolves itself into keeping the lineups with two things in view-one, if you've got a man to get in as editor or business manager, get in with the domin- ant faction in the present assem- bly, and two, if you want some- thing the following year such as Student President or Clerk or the editorship a year from this spring, get in with the bunch which will have control of next year's assembly. And if you can see that far ahead and figure out what the situation will be then, you're wasting your time here- Farley and Hamilton can use you. And then when you've got all that figured out, just remember that there are Pan-hel elections to be won for the boys, that in each professional school you have professional fraternities which in- clude members of both sides and run third-party candidates who usually win out there, and that you can't even joke with these politicians-they're so damned serious and touchy, they'll bite you if you say anything nasty. And that's why you won't be see- ing me around school for some time. I'm leaving town. I may have offended them by spilling the beans. CRITICISM To the Editor of Showme: Gentlemen, it's no contest. One cannot imagine the student vie- ing for honors with the master. Ellington's is a fifteen piece 'jam' band. Playing their peculiarly complicated arrangements with- out benefit of orchestration is ample proof of their superior musicianship. We do not wish to decry the merits of Lunceford and Co. Granted that they have a fine organization and that they pos- sess some fine ideas. But if any- one doubts at what school Lunce- ford studied his musical tech- nique, let him consult the dates of the respective waxings of Lunceford's w i d e 1 y-acclaimed 'Rose Room'-Decca, and Elling- ton's recording of the same tune for Brunswick. The arrangments are identical -note for note. Ellington re- corded his in 1933-Lunceford early last year. Ellington still shows the way. J. F. B. SLAM ! The make-up of the Showme could be vastly improved. It lacks most of all balance. Part of the mag is dead because of too much print. Other parts fail to hold to- gether, because of too much air. Get more cuts in your dead copy, and put something besides filler jokes in the advertising. -Franklin Stones -Thanks, why don't you come down to the office?- Women on the Bench By a Staff Member There is not much margin any- more between men's work and women's work. Women have en- croached upon all the callings ori- ginally meant for the men, and nowadays it's an accepted fact that women may move in on any profession, bar none. And while speaking of bars, that brings up the subject of three feminine aspirants to the law profession. There are, in this state univer- sity-the one place left where men are supposed to rule-three women studying for the bar-the legal bar. The Alpha Phi house quarters two of these women-Miss Mar- garet Barton, a pledge from 'way out in Wellington, Kansas. In her under-graduate days she was well-known at the University of Kentucky, and later at Wash- burn Colege, Topeka. And Topeka is the home of Miss Gladys Mathews, another Alpha Phi, who plans to, get in that profession whetre you ad- vance by easy stages from bill col- lector to a partner, to an office. of your own, to a firm, to jurist, and on up. Only she wants to skip all that and take up juvenile court work. She figures New York City as her first choice for a start, but Kansas City, the town where 12- year-olds not only vote-but vote two or three times at one elec- tion-is her second choice. Miss Mary Ford differs from the other two. She is a Kappa in- stead of an Alpha Phi, and she most emphatically is not from Kansas. Her home is Little Rock, Ark., and that means she is a staunch Democrat, and she creates a big- ger furor at a political rally than a regiment of old Southern colon- els. The interview with these wom- en was a little after the "cane carrying" season at the law barn, so it cannot be said with any great accuracy that they carry canes. But these feminine barristers ask no quarter of anyone, and the only conclusion to be drawn is that if they were told to carry a cane, they carried it. And the only other conclusion beside that to be drawn is, it might not be a bad idea to get acquainted with these who some day may sit on the bench and wear a black robe, while you march in and sit in the defen- dant's chair garbed in prison gray. Or if not that, just know them. They are interesting persons. Irate Father (discovering his daughter on young man's lap): "Jane! What does this mean?" Daughter: "Come back in about fifteen minutes Dad. I ought to know by then." -Reserve Red Cat 0 Tourist (to Indian in heart of reservation)-"White man glad to see red man. White man hope big chief feel tip-top this morn- ing." Indian (calling)-"Hey, Jake, come here and listen to this bozo. He's great." -Tiger. *- A TOAST Here's to happy days; any old fool can have a good time at night. -Rammer-Jammer Kaywoodie Pipes THEATRE TALK. By Porter Randall NATIVITY And so with the birth of a new Showme comes the birth of a new feature therein. And like the father of a newly-born child, we adopt a seemingly boundless responsibility- without a notion of what future now awaits us. To you who thrill to the romance of the drama, to you who tingle to the tones of a melody, we properly dedi- cate these columns. In the following annals let it be our purpose, our policy, to bring you the talk of the theater, the tempo of the music. What pop- ularity we may acclaim, we know not. That, of course, is for you to decide. Far back in the dank, dismal cor- ridors of Columbia's own Virginia building is located one black little hole which we know as Office. Inside is to be found the maternity ward of Showme. And inside there lies one mammoth desk to receive your curses, your bouquets, for what you now find below. Herewith, Showme offers Theater Talk-echoes from the gallant glamor- ous world of the theater. DRAMA THE COMMERCIAL Tribute Long, lusty, and loud have been the cheers and haroos for that young adventurous rodent, Mick- ey mouse. He is, semingly, Hollywood's first actor of the screen. When Mickey came to screen- land not so many years ago, pro- ducers and promotors sneered and snickered at the idea of a cartoon mouse ever acquiring riotous pop- ularity. But today, with ten thou- sand movie houses demanding, clamoring, for animated novelty releases, the Hollywood barons realize their fallacy. Disney, the creator who pulls the strings for his puppet, may rightly gloat over the surprise success. But Disney busies him- self with other contemplations. Now under production in the nov- elty studios is the first, all-colored, full-length, cartoon feature- "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." It will cost one million dollars to make. And when it's finished, Disney has intimated ambitions to do an opera with his cartoon folk doing the vocalizations. Not barnyard howling, but sweet, harmonious singing. Teaser Shirley Temple's new vehicle will be "Stowaway," supported by Robert Young and Alice Faye . . . When you next see Jeannette MacDonald on the flicker it will be in the screen's version of Rudolph Friml's musical romance, "The Firefly" . . . Comes now to theater audiences that mammoth stage wow, "Three Men On A Horse." Frank McHugh has a part therein . . . Jack Benny's back to face the camera for "Col- lege Holiday". Claudet Colbert is making the Puritan film "Maid of Salem" on the Paramount lot. paee twenty-two Orchids Of all the pulchritude as- sembled in screenland for the par- ade of beauty we throw our bou- quets to pretty, petite Olivia de Havilland of the Warner com- pany. You remember her, per- haps, as Hermia in "A Mid-Sum- mer Night's Dream." She co-star- red with Errol Flynn in "Captain Blood" and "Charge of the Light Brigade." And with Frederick March in the recently exploited "Anthony Adverse." Chatter Ray Milland, England's new importation to Paramount, hired a chauffeur last week. Not be- cause he knew anything about a car. But because he liked him. Now, Ray, who has just finished "Jungle Princess," is teaching the chauffeur to drive . . . George Seaton and Robert Pirosh, scen- erio writers both, after working seven months with the Marx Maniacs on their new production, "A Day At The Races," recently checked in at a southern Cali- fornia sanitarium for a few days of relaxation . . . Latest of Holly- wood actors is Wall-Eye, twenty- one-inch stream trout, bought by Director Jack Conway for scenes with Bill Powell and Myrna Loy in M-G-M's "Libeled Lady." THE LOCAL Production It's "Bury the Dead," Work- shop's first presentation this year. We feel that Irwin Shaw, the playwright, has created a grave situation. Cast Mairs takes over the weeping part in the play . . no count . . . but she could be conservatively behind her eighth bawl . . . Howe can't seem to get away from her pretty name . . . she plays the part of Joan . . . Ohnemus of the tripledeedees will do her Bess . we hope . knockknock. Setting When you see "Bury the Dead" you will notice the slant- ing tree in the background. And you'll probably see that the two prominent branches symbolize human hands. The line 6f the tree, we're told, adds variety to the many vertical lines found on the stage set. Random Panitt, the lost lover, started out with ten lines in "Bury the Dead." Latest reports show that he's down to three and going strong. He hopes to still be on the stage when the play goes off. He probably will be still. Bog- iano cartoons on everything from the blackboard to the tissue filter in the new Viceroy while he de- velops his settings . . . These corpses in "Bury the Dead" are so insistent to roam the earth (Continued on page 26) Old Gold Cigarettes * "HOW ABOUT ME SHOOTIN' A COUPLE OF THESE PLUGS?" page twenty-four FROSH ORIENTATION The Old Campus Teetotum Whirls Around With Wise Frosh Right in the Middle By WALTER GELB Back in Hartford, Conn., WALTER GELB was a milkman, and, by his own free will, he admits that on his day off he went on long- distant jaunts-running and walking-but mostly run- ning. Came to Mizzou and join- ed the frosh track squad. He predicts the finish there and lets everyone in on the fact he doesn't expect to get very far running. Intends to some day real- ize his ambition of writing a syndicated political and eco- nomic column. His imme- diate future is two years of arts and science-then the School of Journalism. I GET off the train at 7:40, and at 7:50 Im in a fraternity house. At one o'clock the next p. m. I'm in another fraternity house. And then I'm back in the first house. I'm dizzy, I'm sleepy, and I'm "hot-boxed." I go to a meeting at Jesse and I'm a pledge. Also I'm paddled. Great fellows, these ac- tives ! I wake up the next day and I take a college aptitude test. Then somebody says I'm going to col- lege. I try to act uppish, and I'm paddled again. Also I'm de-up- pished. I'm fixed up with a date and I go "jellying." I like beer but the date doesn't. We drink cokes. No more blind dates. I go to registration and I'm pushed around. I'm handed yel- low cards and someone says I have to go to classes. I make a check big enough to buy a million beers and I give it away. Now I'm a freshman. I make another check so I can be a sophomore. But the cashier doesn't take it. So I'm still a Frosh. Next a. m. I'm pulled out of bed at 7. (Unmerciful Brutes). I go to Psych. class. The prof talks about intelligence. I don't know what he's talking about but I don't care. I'm too smart. I go to rock class and the prof talks about geology. I don't care again. What has a rock got that I ain't got ? When I go to Spanish, it works me up. I feel like a rebel. They got what it takes. I make toy air- planes to fight the Communists. The instructor asks me to leave class. I go to English. It's 2 o'clock already. I go to sleep. I can talk English. Next day I get a uniform. Im- mediately I want to go home and show off. I can't. I got an ap- pointment for that night. Two paddles this time. Next day I smoke a cigarette in Ag building. This time a hundred paddles. But I don't care. I'm just getting used to it. That night I make my own date. I drink beer. I borrow money from my roommate on ac- count of because I didn't have any. He swears and gives me a quarter. I thank him profusely. When my check comes he bor- rows a dollar. I give it to him wil- lingly, because he says he knows some Stephens girls. Also I like Stephens girls. Mean the while I go to classes regularly. I only got six cuts in three weeks. I also was supposed to have six tests. Six cuts, no tests. Then one day I see a guy with a yellow and black hat and a green button. I like yellow and black hats but I don't like green but- tons. I get a red button. I put on the hat and somebody says for me to "button up." I button up ev- erything. I take the button off my hat and button it. It was a big guy who said so. That night I go to a black and yellow hat meeting. I cheer and I get a sore throat. But I cheer some more. I'm a good freshman. Even when the man on the stage stopped, I cheered. I'm a loyal freshman. When he said to come to the game Saturday and cheer, I said yes to myself. I'm a faith- ful freshman. But when he said we got to whitewash the "M," I rebelled. Nobody could tell me you spell "Tiger" with a "M." Also my girl friend's name don't begin with no "M." So I drink beer. Extract from a coed's letter home: "I am getting fat. I weigh 128 stripped. Of course, the scales at the drug store may not be so ac- curate, but that's what they reg- ister." My roommate says there are some things a girl should not do before twenty. Well, personally, I don't enjoy a large audience either. -Carnegie Tech Puppet To live, frosh, is to learn things your mother warned you against. page twenty-five THEATRE TALK . . . Porter Randall that it's going to take lots of re- hearsing to get them into the grave . . . MUSIC THE POPULAR Swing Stuff Not so long ago there came to Columbia town one Charlie Agnew and band. Weary and worn after driving all night from Chicago where the outfit had just terminated an engagement at the Blackstone Hotel, the ami- able Agnew met reporters half- way and tore no hair from his head when asked to characterize the so-called swing-music. Said Agnew: "This swing stuff, it's simple enough. The boys simply jam by sections in- stead of by individual men. It's specifically the type of music that's demanded by professional dancers. It's good enough. But remember this, swing music must be interspersed with sweet tunes to maintain a necessary, agree- able balance."' And for that philosophy: much praise. Too many are the bands on the air today who tor- ture your ear drums, with the bang bang, hey hey stuff. Swing rhythm is unexcelled, but there must be-at least now and then- a rendition of the smooth, the sweet. Put together the Waltz King and the Swing King and the result would hit a new high in positive figures. Don't cry, Joe College, you could still dig shins to a fast tempo. Torrid His name is "Sugar Blues" Land, the trumpet man, and, in- cidentally, the hottest of his kind that ever reaped rhythm on the campus of this great, good fac- tory of learning. He's with the Reick-Johnson band at Harris'. page twenty-six Location Benny Goodman and band, af- ter a hectic summer, now appear at the Hotel Pennsylvania's new Manhattan Room. Benny first played at the Palomar in Los Angeles, then worked with Para- mount on the "Big Broadcast," in addition to producing Camel's weekly programs over the air lanes. Shep Fields and his famous rippling-rhythm orchestra is still the feature at the Starlight Room atop the ever popular Waldorf- Astoria in New York. Cab Calloway and Bill Robin- son are the headliners of New York's new Cotton Club Revue. Horace Heidt and band now move from the Drake Hotel, Chi- cago, to the Fox Theatre in De- troit, then to the Milwaukee Cen- tennial. Later he goes to the Texas Centennial at Dallas, then to one of Boston's swank bright spots. Rumor Wayne Wright, jelly- joint maestro of two yeas past is now doing his stuff on a radio pro- gram in New York. So we hear. Nothings The band left leaderless by the death of Orville Knapp will go to the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago under the baton of George Olson . . . Shep Field's concertina wizard twas respon- sible for the solos screened by Fred MacMurray in 'The Prin- cess Comes Across" . . . Helen Ward, comely vocalist with B. Goodman's band, is reported en- gaged to the bass player in the outfit . . . Rex Stewart replaces the famous, little, left-handed Freddy Jenkins as third trumpet man in Ellington's combination . . The Duke also has two men playing string bass in the place of Wellman Braud who had been associated with the outfit since its inception nearly a decade ago. Puzzle Earl Hines used to entertain Grand Terrace guests with a tune which he styled "Take It Easy." When Goodman hit the air the following spring he played the same tune under the title of "The Goodman Swing." Now we find, in flabbergation, that Benny has recorded the identical num- ber for Victor and called it "Swing-Time In The Rockies." Relative in example is Fletcher Henderson's current bid for popularity, "Lonely Night." 'A year ago Joe Haymes was call- ing it "Take My Word." 0 THE SYMPHONIC Exceptional When a university plans an ex- tensive season of music fiesta- that's mentionable. When a uni- versity plus two colleges contem- plate an extensive season of music for the same community-that's colossal. There's a triple music season on the fire for Columbia this year. Program First feature here for student recital next Nov. 18 is the Mos- cow Cathedral Choir. And follow- ing on Dec. 2 comes Paul Alth- ouse, tenor, splitting dual honors with Kathryn Meisle, contralto. Second half of the year's program features the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Joseph Hofman, pian- ist; Albert Spalding, violinist; and Lily Pons, soprano. And More Christian College also flourishes the bid for a glamorous concert series this year. First attraction is Jeanne Palmer, dramatic sop- rano and Met star, scheduled to appear here soon with Benjamin De Loache, baritone, in a joint vocale. After Christmas bookings include Edwin Strawbridge, dan- cer, Olga d'Allaz, song and dance artist of the Balkan mode, and the Ionion Male Quartette. Over Stephens' way the orches- tra, Adair batonned, is being groomed for another symphony cycle this winter, the program of which has not yet been released. SCRAPS OF HUMOR ELASTIC SITUATION- "Rubber Bands Hold Up Amer- icans in Crete." Headline from Bluefields (W. Va.) Telegraph. * "How did you find the girls?" "Opened the door marked 'Women' and there they were." -Varieties Caller: "Is your mother en- gaged ?" Little boy: "I think she's mar- ried." -N. Y. U. Is the editor in? No. Well, throw this poem in the waste basket for me. -Varieties Bob: "Before we were married, you swore you would never look at another man." Dot: "Just another campaign promise gone to hell." -Varieties One of the freshmen was bear- ing up rather nobly under a par- ticularly weary R.O.T.C. drill when he very inadvertently pass- ed by the Captain without salut- ing. "Say, Buddy," said the captain, with characteristic sweetness, "do you see the uniform I'm wear- ing?" "Yeh," said the rookie, looking enviously at the captain's almost immaculate uniform, "look at the damn thing they gave me." -Boston Bean Pot * "Car No. 3-go to Thirteenth and Maine; see a woman about a dog." HOUSE BEAUTIFUL PETERSON'S LUCAS BROS. The Jacqueline ROOMMATE By B. R. SHY I set my baggage out on the sidewalk, paid off the taxicab driver, and took a deep breath of the cool, slightly-smoky air of the evening. At the moment, the short narrow street seemed deserted, and all at once I felt as I had two years before, when I first came to the school. I thought: "This year it's going to be different. This year I'm really going to study." Then I walked up the steps and knocked on the door. My landlady was quite as I had remembered her. She said, "Why, it's Mr. Brown! Why, who would 'a' thought-! Come right in, Mr. ,$rown. Now, Mr. Brown, your room's fixed up and waiting for you. I had the whole house gone over from top to bottom this sum- mer. Re-papered and all. I'm sure you'll like it." She lowered her voice slightly but continued without a pause: "Mr. Rudovitch isn't coming back this year, so you'll have a new roommate. Mr. Blankenship, I think he said his name is. Seems like an awful nice boy. This is his first year here. I think he's from the country. I'm sure you'll get along." She smiled at me fondly to show that she considered me her favorite boarder and disappeared into the kitchen. I picked up my grips and went upstairs. Mr. Blankenship was lying on the bed by the window. Last year, that bed had been mine, but there was something in Mr. Blanken- ship's pose that assured me it wouldn't be this year. My new roommate looked strong and healthy, I observed. He also look- ed as if he might be from the country. He said, "H'ar ya?" "Very well," I said. "Brown's my name." "Blankenship," he said, and stood up to shake hands. Stand- ing, he looked tremendous, and I saw it was quite unlikely that the matter of beds would come up. "What are ya here?" he asked, standing with his hands on his hips and surveying me as if some one were offering me for sale. "Junior," I answered, hoping it was the information he desired. "Oh," he said as if disappointed, and lay back down. "I thought ya might be a freshman. That's what I am," he added unnecessarily. I began to unpack my suitcases. The two top drawers of the dresser were already filled with clothes. I lit a cigarette and be- gan to fill the two lower ones. Mr. Blankenship raised up on an elbow and spoke. There was a touch of horror in his voice. "Say, do ya smoke?" I admitted that I did. "But don't it get awfully stuffy in here with the windows down ?" The windows were up, I point- ed out. "Yeah, but in winter they wouldn't be. I don't smoke," he added righteously. I finished unpacking and stood by the window. It had turned dark outside and all I could see was the streetlight on the corner and its ring of bugs. That was all right, I thought. All I would need this year was a desk and chair. This was my third year. I'd soon be out, and jobs were scarce. Best prepare myself while I had a chance. A car came down the street and turned at the corner. A moment later a boy and a girl passed, the girl's heels clicking sharply on the sidewalk. The town was coming to life. Mr. Blankenship threw his legs around and sat up. 'Say," he wanted to know, "do you know Sadie Barrett?" I answered as anyone in school would have done. I answered yes. He seemed interested. "Do you know where she stays ?" "She's a Phi Chi," I said. "A what?" "It's a sorority," I said. "It's where she stays." "Oh," he said, and thought a moment. Then, "Say, I bet I could call her up from here." "Sure," I said, and thought: Maybe he can, but for two years now I haven't dug up the nerve. He got up and went out into the hall. A moment later I heard him call, "Hey, c'm'ere a minute, will ya?" I went out. Mr. Blankenship was looking for a crank on the phone. He said, "Look, now. You get 'er on the phone and I'll talk to 'er." I "got 'er" and handed the re- ceiver to Mr. Blankenship. He began at once. "Sadie? This is Joe. . . You know. Joe! . . . Why, Joe Blank- enship, of course. Who did ya think it was? . . . Oh, I'm pretty good, Sadie. How are you? . . . What's that? Why, yeah. Of course I'm goin' t' school here. Yeah, of course I'm out of high school. Went back and finished up last year. . . Say, Sadie, I want to see ya. That's what I came up here for. Oh, I dunno, (Continued on Page 30) page twenty-aine ROOMMATE (Continued from Page 29) It began to look like ya wasn't ever comin' back, an' I got to thinkin'. . . Look, Sadie. I'll be over in an hour or so. Soon's I eat. . . What's that? Now, listen, honeybunch, none of that stuff. Remember what I did to Red Goggins that time he tried to get ahead of me. . . All right. An' listen, honey. I got a friend here. Could ya get another gal? . . . Oh, I dunno. Name's Brown. Seems kinda queer but I guess he's all right. . Yeah. . . All right. . . G'bye." I dropped into a chair. Well, you could never tell about room- mates. Last year, Rudovitch, the Russian, had taught me to play the accordion. I hadn't had much time for studying, but I did get to be pretty good on the accor- dion. After all, I thought, what does one come to college for if not to gain a broad outlook on life? vvvvv THE SKEPTIC I can't accept the yak As a fact ! J. L. * I. Goethe Was noethe. II. I'm anneud By Freud. J. L. Father-My son sure is broad- minded. Ditto-That's all my son thinks about too. -Indiana Bored Walk 0 "That girl's a virtuoso!' "Don't be silly, she's been mar- ried twice." -Penn State Frosh 0 A genius is a man who can re- write a traveling salesman's joke and get it accepted by the Ladies Home Journal. She: Darling, you aren't sick, are you He: Not exactly, but I would hate to yawn. -The Bear Skin 0 Probably the easiest way out of our national financial worries is to give the land back to the In- dians and apologize for the con- dition it's in. -Pup A BIGHT BLADE OUT- "Leverer Mary of No. 30 Frank- lin Street complained to the police yesterday that she had been as- sulted by a woman and chased with a knife who lives in the same house." -Hartford (Conn.) Courant GOSSIP REARS ITS UGLY HEAD Can it be true? About the gnu? * REFLECTIONS ON TABLE MANNERS Decidedly lacking in culture Is the vulture. * HUMAN INTEREST The morals of Zeus Were loose. DISILLUSIONMENT I find people who are trusting Disgusting. TO THE ETERNAL FEMININE You strive to be so chaste and pure. Congratulations, dear, on your Success in being quite demure -and immature. 0 You scoff at a minnow For being mere bait, But how did you feel When after your date There you were danglin' To wait and to pine, Left on the hook of A very strong line? -Purple Parrot. Philips & Co. STULLKEN-ELLIS Once upon a time there were two Irishmen. There are lots of them, now. * "Oklahoma substantially out- played Colorado in the matter of yardage, rolling up 27 yards to Colorado's 98. The writer was biased. 0 Sign on Theatre-"Mae West in 'It Ain't No Sin'." Sign on tabernacle across the street: "'Tis too." -Navy Log * "That means fight where I come from, Stranger." "Well, why don't you fight?" "'Cause I ain't where I come from." -Purple Cow "Do you college boys waste much time?" "Oh, most girls are reasonable." -Colgate Banter "Lady, you'll have to pay half- fare for that boy." "But, conductor, he's only four years old." "Well, he looks like a six-year- old." "Sir, I have been married only four years." "Lady, I'm not asking for a con- fession. I'm asking for a half- fare." -Yale Record Although the rich old gentle- man went to Europe to hunt some old prints, his daughter now goes to Europe to hunt some young prince. a little bluff on learned stuff ho, hum! it's not bad fun somewhat a bore, but nothing more- and soon the section's done. a question sheet, a survey fleet, and then a muttered "Damn!" three hours there in wild dispair, and lo! a flunked exam. * FOR ENGLISH 30 Grendel Was hard to hendel. FREDENDALL'S BOONE COUNTY NATIONAL BANK KAUPP FLOWERS Radio Electric Shop Hotel Melbourne PRAYER Our fathers who are in California, Hollywood be thy name. Thy cinemas come, Thy stills be dumb in Los Angeles as in New Haven. Give us this day our daily news reel And forgive us our censorship, As we forgive those who show double features before us. Lead us not into musical comedies, But deliver us from Wild Westerns, For thine is the King Kong, the Powell, and the Gloria Swanson, For ever and ever, ah me! -Stanford Chaparral WHY STUDY? The more we study, the more we know. The more we know, the more we forget. The more we forget, the less we know. The less we know, the less we forget. The less we forget, the more we know. -Penn Punch Bowl. FOUL PLAY AT COUNTY SEAT- "Watkins and his brother John are charged with seriously shooting another negro in the lower part of the county." -Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser * Prof: Now, James, what do you derive from my last statement? James: I can't tell you, sir. Prof: And why not? James: Well, you see, sir, I haven't a deriver's license." -Froth Little Boy: Papa, vat's a vacuum? Second Dialectician: A vacuum is a void, Sammy. Little Boy: I know, papa, but vat's the void mean? -Chicago Phoenix. * NO PUNNY PUNT, THIS- "MAN ENDS LIFE Seats Self On Curb and Fires Shoe Thru Heart" -Headline in Denver Express. Hotel President SMITH'S DA-NITE STUDIO Lucky Strike Cigarettes