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Missouri
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February
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How To Pin Friends
And Influence People Issue
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Showme Show
Members of Missouri's "Cafe-
teria Society" are out and about
again after finals. . . BOB
LEACH, who is back in the cam-
pus swing, has fluffed off JOAN
HOWE in favor of lovely
MARYELLEN REYBURN of
Pi Phi .... The females continue
to call WALT BOAIN, footbal-
ler, not knowing his attentions
are all directed toward smoothie
MILDRED RUBEY. . . . TOM
MOORE, S.A.E. transfer from
Mississippi, has caused quite a
flash on the campus. . . . BETTY
FROST, Chi Omega, is through
fooling the love in Texas after
his long distance the other night
found her heavy dating. . ..
JACK HIMMELBERGER, Phi
Delt, has shifted his attention
from Kappa KATHIE KEET to
a lovely at Stephens .... BILLY
BATES, Phi Psi, finds himself
hard up with all his loves flunk-
ing out of school. . . . JEAN
MARTIN, Theta, is carrying- the
touch for a K. C. heart interest.
.. JIM LEAZENBY has seeded
all the girls down to JANE MO-
SER, Theta .... D. G. high volt-
age girl, JEANNE PATTON,
who has just finished steadying
with a tall handsome "bland,"
finds it hard to stand by and see
him rushing one of her sisters.
.. JACK SKELLEY, Sigma
Chi, puts in a phone call every
day for HELEN ENDERS, a
Christian.... AUSTIN MUEL-
LER and all the other Pi K. A.'s
wish MARGARET LA MEIR
would pick on some other people.
. . . As predicted, HARRIET
JUDGE, Tri-Delt, finally crashed
through with K. A. GEORGE
REEVES pin. . . . ROYAL
SCHWENDINGER, D. U. farm
boy with the Esquire finish, re-
veals that Tri-Delt BETTY LOU
CULBERTSON is his flaming
desire .... DEAN McKENNA,
Kappa Sig, has gotten his pin
back, which leaves him with a
clear field for Spring. . . . Accord-
ing to the three Sigma Chis who
were there, MAUDY GUINOT-
TE, Kappa, swung out high, wide
and handsome after finals . . .
Winsome WYNN MILLER
hung his Phi Gain pin on Ruth
Boye, Stephens.
Too bad D. G. BARBARA
ANN BROWNE doesn't catch
on that all men don't play foot-
ball. .. . The ultra - smooth
Pi Phi has thrown her hat in
the ring for BILLY BUTTS,
Beta, which should be a warning
to JANE STANTON, Kappa
pledge. .... The pinning of
JEANNE ANN LAMBERT,
Kappa, and BOB HAMER-
STROM, Sigma Nu, crushed the
hopes of several fair flowers ...
FRANCHON BARBEE, Alpha
Chi, has given back BILL BRIT-
TAIN'S Kappa Sig pin again in
the hope of having her cake and
eating it at the same time ..
GRANT RENNE, Phi Gam, and
JEAN TYLER, D. G., spent the
week-end dating other people to
prove to themselves that their
pinning is still sticking. . . . VIC
CARY, Pi K. A. came out a poor
fifth place in the DOROTHY
REMLEY race, at the Gamma
Phi house. Nevertheless. we no-
tice he is still in there pitching.
HUGH GRIFFITH, K. A., has
become Stephens personified. ...
Very lush HELEN STIG-
ALL, Pi Phi and BOB FAUROT
-Sigma Chi, are coupling it with
CHARLES DEWEY tagging
along behind. . . . TOMMY
HUGHES, Kappa Sig, and DOR-
OTHY WEIGEL, Tri-Delt, will
continue to steady it without a
pin. . . . ANNETTE JORDAN
of Stephens is trying to get
PAUL ULLMAN down to the
more serious things of life ..
DOROTHY LU DEVIN, Gam-
ma Phi, and K. A. PAUL Mc-
CANN, are getting to that cow-
eyed stage .... HARRY APPLE,
Sigma Nu, is trying to get a little
more attention from Pi Phi
JANET WOOD. . .. The Gam-
ma Phi bomb-shell BETTY ANN
ROOT is now invading the Sigma
Chi house for its new pledge,
FRANK AMELUNG ..
DALE BOWLING, Delt, will
no doubt try out for the SCOT-
HORN, D. G. league, this spring.
... ED JAMES, Sig Alf, got his
pin back from the heart throb in
California because she met an-
other girl out there who also had
his picture. . . . Current and
choice is the new Pi Phi pledge
CARGILL from St. Joe. . . .
DICK BROWNLEE of the
snake house seems to be having
a hard time deciding which side
of the street to concentrate on-
the arrow or the key. . . . BOB
CREEL, Phi Psi, has just pinned
JEAN BURGASS of Stephens,
taking two swell people out of
circulation. . . . MAURIE KIRK,
Kappa Sig, and PAUL VAN
OSDOL, Phi Delt, are taking
turns with Kappa HELEN
NICHOLS ....
(Continued on page 21)
page one
"Sorry-Course is Full"
By PHIL DESSAUR
Enrollment has gone by the
boards for another seven months,
and all those who think they got
raw deals may step right up and
hand in their applications to the
Missouri CIO (Course Isn't
Open) Club.
Naturally, nobody got the
classes and professors he wanted
when he wanted them, but that's
getting to be old stuff. The ma-
jority of us just hold our breath,
count ten and stagger into the
nearest jelly - joint. Actually,
things have about reached the
point where even seniors feel en-
titled to an E av.erage if they can
steer themselves into a 16-hour
course without being thrown into
The Anatomy of
(Course) Frustration
something like Taxonomy and
Ecology (Botany 101w) or Bee-
keepin (Entomology 109w).
According to rumor, six pro-
fessors almost got fired because
after three hours of registration
the first day they still had a few
classes open for enrollment. The
parole board is believed consider-
ing their cases in a special hear-
ing at the present time.
All this, however, is merely
prefatory to the subject at hand.
With the courses so beautifully
monotyped in the little brochure
of instructions (if it was a bro-
chure), a number of very excel-
lent ones were left out entirely.
Now these courses are important
in the life of every student, and
so it is hoped the following list
of open classes, each with a short
description, will be of some use
to the rank and file of fee-forker-
outers.
Pacificism. Very timely. En-
dorsed by the American Student
Union. Pre-requisites are Military
1 and 2. Students must provide
their own soap-boxes.
Big Apple. Title is very deceiv-
ing. Course involves the science
of sidling up to the professor
after class and whispering sweet
words into his good ear. This is
not really the Big Apple, but is
Big Apple Polishing.
History and Principles of Jelly
Dating. A very fundamental
course with a great deal of work
outside of class. Professors Gaeb-
ler and Harris very experienced.
Telephone Conversation. Learn
how to talk to your No. 1 tootsie
via receiver and mouthpiece with-
out the whole house lending an
ear. Super instruction includes
system of code words for naming
meeting-places, talking baby-talk,
and handling of all accepted
"lines."
Political Maneuvering-A spe-
cial course showing the Missouri
Way, featuring the streamlined
instruction of Prof. P. Van Osdol,
who knows his stuff (with em-
phasis on "stuff.") For example,
many systems have been devised
for legislative functioning, includ-
ing the unicameral, or one-house
type, the bicameral, or two-house
type, and numerous others. But
Professor Van Osdol features
here one of his own ideas, the
Missouri looneycameral system.
In it he advocates neither one
house or two houses. He prefers
his own, the fraternity house,
system.
Primary Principles of Grading.
A course for faculty members
only. Special steel drills are used
to drive home necessary ideas.
Blowtorches are carried as extra
equipment.
(Continued on page 22)
* "Just tell your Kappa Sig friend she's got everything . . .the
Kappa Sigs want."
page two
PREDICTIONS
* Gents, have you been wondering whether
you were her chum or chump? Girls, have you
been wondering if your old appeal is still ace high
with the Mizzoumales? Has anybody been won-
dering if their roommate was doing a little throat
cutting? Well, now comes the revelation. Showme
is pleased to announce the prize scoop of the year.
(Student, take note). Here is a list of the Campus
fillies and the way they will be bunched as they
thunder down the home stretch of the Spring
Semester.
Sigma Nu Bob Dale
Delta Upsilon Grover Lautz
S.A.E. Vaughn Bryant
Kappa Sigma Karl Blanchard
Sigma Chi Augie Elbring
Sigma Nu Max Pitney
Phi Gam Major Hull
Zebe Hudson Scheiber
Phi Sigma Delta Joe Weber
Kappa Sigma Ed Bridgeford
Phi Delt (Westminster) Kent Rookes
Sigma Nu Ed Paul
Sigma Chi Tom Deacey
PiK.A. Bill Wright
K.A. Sam Kemp
Alpha Gamma Sigma Raymond Ridge
Kappa Sigma Jo Vincent
Beta John Crichton
K.A. Poston Whitehead
Alpha Sigma Phi Tom York
Lambda Chi Alpha Paul DuNard
S.A.E. Bill Macklin
Kappa Sigma Bob Riley
to Alice Maughs, Pi Phi
to Frances Marx, Tri-Delt
to Lillian Rose, Kappa
to Margaret Ellen Peebles, Kappa
to Laura Louise Dille, Theta
to Doris King, Delta .Gamma
to Dorothy Morris, Tri-Delt
to Margaret Tolles, Stephens
to Josephine Chasnoff, A. E. Phi
to June English, Tri-Delt
to Martha Creamer, Chi Omega
to Mary Ford, Kappa
to Joan Campbell, Pi Phi
to Annelle Noel, Stephens
to Annabeth Limbaugh (Second time)
to Mary Sue James, Chi Omega
to Betty Jacques Smith, Kappa
to Denver U. Coed
to Edith Harris, Tri-Delt
to Mary Kay Hess, Alpha Phi
to Ann Monfort, Stephens
to Marie Hansen, Theta
to Mary Margaret Jones, Pi Phi
POSSIBLE PINNINGS
JOE McDERMOTT, Sig Alpher, will most
likely run true to form and put out his third pin
in his third year. JACK SCHWEITZER, Delt,
knows he is too smooth to be tied down and yet
may pass out the fraternity jewelry to Theta
COULTER before June. Though Pi Phi JANE
FORCE may possibly put out BILL GILL'S Beta
pin which she is underwearing, it's doubtful whe-
ther she is that anxious to settle down.
Kappa Alpha PAUL OWENS might
pin D. G. ROBERTA WALKER though chances
are he considers himself too old to do anything
that collegiate. The feeling against pinnings held
by MUFF WILLIAMS, Kappa and SCOTT
YEARGAIN, Sigma Nu, as well as FERN STAD-
LER, Alpha Chi and HERMAN BOUCHER will
likely be broken down since all involved are seniors.
WATSON POWELL, smooth Phi Gam, will prob-
ably do a good job of taking ROSE MARIE
BRUEGGEMANN, Delta Gam, out of circulation
as soon as he gets his pin.
Editorial Ego
Foreign voices shout the Ego
this month-but we hope to natu-
ralize before you catch our ac-
cents.
SHOWME has lost its chief.
On the fourth of February, Edi-
tor Merrill Panitt turned in his
formal resignation to Sigma Del-
ta Chi, the magazine's keeper.
We have accepted-with sincere
regrets.
Since his freshman year, Panitt
has been an active member on the
SHOWME staff. It is our cool
and candid belief that he has con-
tributed more material and time
to SHOWME than any other
single individual in the mag's life
span. Last year, as business man-
ager, he directed the mechanism
that makes a magazine possible.
This year, he has done his edi-
torial damndest to give the cam-
pus a reflection of its life, its
tastes.
Panitt can tell you that the
truest synonym for the life of a
SHOWME editor is "headache."
But we won't ask you to believe
that. All we ask you to believe
is that SHOWME has lost an
able editor. We regret Panitt's
passing.
Sigma Delta Chi is launching
SHOWME on a new policy. Not
startlingly new at first, we warn
you. In fact you may not even
find the little policy needle in
this current SHOWME haystack
-we said hay. But you may
notice, if you are keenly observ-
ant, that there are changes. There
will be more changes. Why we
might even make drastic changes!
Frankly, that's up to you. You
might call our new policy one of
elasticity, that is, we are going
to expand or contract as the cam-
pus mood demands. It's up to
you to get moody!
We want your opinions. If
you are afraid to hand in your
MISSOURI
SHOWME
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CIRCULATION
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Walter Williams) is wide for a
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and run!
SHOWME discovered a dou-
ble duty worker this month. Ruth
Kinyon turned in a neat job on
both the advertising side and the
compilation of the Valentine Ro-
mances for this issue.
Panitt told us this job of turn-
ing out a magazine was a rugged
one and we are beginning to
believe it. Our first Board meet-
ing was a novel one that will be
remembered forever in the annals
of magazine production. Between
gathering features and passing on
jokes for the publication we had
quite a busy time. After three
hours of solid deliberation the
staff had chewed the ends off a
box of pencils, made confetti out
of twenty-two other mags, swept
the joint out, and voted each
other a bonus. For the next issue
we have a lovely colossal cross-
word puzzle to dabble with and
we're dickering for a Monopoly
game that the Columbia City
Council used last summer.
With this issue, "How to Pin
Friends and Influence People,"
Showme turns crystal gazer and
lets fly with a set of predictions
that make Winchell's stuff look
like Ancient History. A lot of
fraternity hardware is going to
be shifting wearers very shortly.
Why, we dont know. It may be
the recent seige of balmy weather
or it may be occasioned by the
falling price of some of the lead-
ing "hard waters." Nevertheless,
there will be a shakeup in the old
order and Showme goes to the
bat with some long-range predic-
tions that are just about cinches
to come off. On Page 3 you'll
find the answer as to who is about
to pin who. When these events
will come off we can't predict to
the day, but we will say that for
the most part, the affairs are
pretty well jelled. By the time
we go to press, some of them
may have become actualities-
the rest are on the way.
You could read all this in the
Student but they won't have it
for a month or three. To quote
an unsolicited testimonial in the
morning mail from Balfour and
Co., "Thank God for the Pin
Romances."
FEBRUARY 1938 VOL. VII, NO. 6
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Old Gold
Cigarettes
Prince Albert
Tobacco
One of Hollywood's favorite ac-
tresses was carrying on something
terrible. "I won't stand it," she yelled.
"I'll do something desperate!"
"There, there, now, darling,"
soothed her husband. "I'm sure every-
thing will come out all right."
"I won't stand it another minute,"
she cried.
Her husband shrugged his shoul-
ders and turned to leave the room.
"I'll get a divorce, that's what I'll
do!" shouted the actress. "That's all I
can do. Here it is a month-and I
haven't been on page one since the
time I got pinched for parking near a
fire hydrant."
A lunatic in the asylum who was
pushing a wheel-barrow upside down
was stopped by a visitor who asked:
"What's the idea?"
"I'm not crazy," was the retort..
"Yesterday, they filled it with bricks."
I met a little lady
I took her out to dine,
Which may have been polite of me,
But very asinine.
I don't know much about her,
But I have a little hunch
She must be fond of autos from
The truck she ate for lunch.
The professor to impress on his pu-
pils the need of thinking before speak-
ing, told them to count 50 before say-
ing anything important, and 100 if it
was very important.
Next day he was speaking with his
back to the fire when suddenly he
noticed several lips moving rapidly.
Suddenly the whole class shouted:
"98, 99, 100. Your coat's on fire, pro-
fessor!"
The ideal romance is the one be-
tween the deaf senior and the beauti-
ful but dumb co-ed. He's so deaf that
he doesn't know she's so dumb.
Buyer: I won't give you more than
$250,000.00
Seller: But I can't sell for less than
$300,000.00.
Buyer: If you can't meet my terms,
give me back my $15.00 deposit.
ABBREVIATED NONSENSE
Of persons I know a great No.
Who go to the opera and slo.
I've often walked the Ave.
To see the beauties. Have.?
I bought stock in a western oil Co.
As for oil, I don't think that they po.
The knowledge to be an Esq.
Is one that is hard to acq.
A woman needed a Dr.
Because her husband sr.
If I were a rich atty.
I'd go for a nice ocean jy.
Sports
Football has its "drugstore
quarterbacks" and baseball its
"hot stove league" but, since it's
too late for the former and too
early for the latter, the talk of
sports fans naturally drifts to
basketball.
"Is this Hank Luisetti as good
as he's cracked up to be?"
"What do you think about the
elimination of the center jump
after field goals?"
When sportsmen get together
these two questions usually worm
their way into the conversation.
There is little argument about
the Stanford scoring sensation
who has hit the basket much to
the dismay of his opponents be-
fore packed houses from the In-
dian Field House eastward to
Madison Square Garden.
There is not the unanimity of
agreement on the second subject
of conversation, however. From
the lowliest high school sopho-
more who refuses to keep train-
ing and complains that the faster
game gets his wind to James A.
Naismith, the inventor of the
sport, who said "it spoiled the
game," the new rule has come in
for its share of criticism.
Koegan, coach of the Fighting
Irish of Notre Dame, and Coach
Carlson of the Pittsburgh Pan-
thers are also among the rule's
critics.
Naismith, who originated the
game forty-six years ago at the
University of Kansas, recently
charged that basketball had
speeded up "in spite of rather
than because of the rule.' Under
the new ruling, five seconds are
allowed for throwing in the ball
and ten seconds for getting it
past the center line while with
the center jump four seconds
were required on the average.
"And," he added in the interview,
"It penalizes the good team at the
expense of the inferior one."
The rule also has its defenders,
of whom there is none stauncher
than George Edwards, guide of
Missouri's basketball destinies
and president of the National
Association of Basketba 11
Coaches. Having coached twelve
editions of the Missouri Tigers
and served on various committees
of the N. A. B. C. for the past
eight years, Edwards knows
whereof he speaks when it comes
to the hardwood game, so we
present his views on this rule
which has probably affected the
game as much as any in the four
decades of its existence.
Perhaps we should warn you in
the beginning that he is not an
unbiased observer because he was
one of the leaders in having the
tip-off eliminated except at the
start of each period. In fact, the
change was first tried eight years
ago in two games between Mis-
souri and Creighton.
For one-half of the games
played at Columbia and Omaha
the innovation was tried with a
poll taken of the crowd following
each game. In Omaha the spec-
tators were about evenly divided
into pros and cons while about
sixty per cent of the Columbia
fans turned thumbs down on the
change.
The following Spring, a report
of the games was submitted to
the rules committee of the N. A.
B. C. which appointed a commit-
tee headed by John Bunn, the
Stanford coach who, incidentally,
developed Luisetti, to make fur-
ther investigation.
Bunn persuaded the southern
division of the Pacific Coast Con-
ference in 1934 to eliminate the
center jump for one season and
the change went over so big that
the West schools voted almost
unanimously to eliminate it per-
manently. The high schools and
junior colleges of the coast adopt-
ed the change with the same en-
thusiasm.
Last year the College Confer-
ence of Iowa experimented with
the elimination and liked it so
well that the members voted to
eliminate the tip-off permanently
no matter what the national rules
committee decided.
Having met with almost uni-
versal approval it was obvious
that the change would be made
in the national rules when the
N. A. C. A. met in Chicago last
March. By a vote of 60 to 9 the
rule was adopted with the princi-
pal opposition coming from the
Deep South, where they grow
tall, dark, and, reputedly hand-
some.
Although it is too early in the
season to make a final judgment,
according to Edwards, the rule is
here to stay. It has the approval
of spectators, officials and the
majority of players and coaches.
Before the center jump was
eliminated teams had begun to
huddle for signals before each
tip-off and the referee had to
(Continued on page 21)
page seven
BIG SISTER
By JAMES RAGLAND
Yes, I know. But, darling, you
simply can't date a fellow like
that. He isn't anybody. He
doesn't do anything. He doesn't
play football. He probably does
not even own a decent suit of
dress clothes. You're wasting
your time with him, and acting
like a perfect little fool.
I hate to lecture, but you
do see that it's for your own good,
don't you? You're a pledge now,
and you have certain responsibili-
ties-to the sorority, and to the
rest of us, and to yourself. We
all adore you, darling, and we
hope you'll do the right thing.
I remember, when I was a
freshman, I made almost the
identical mistake you're making
now. I have to laugh when I
think about it. It was just too
damned silly for words. And if
it hadn't been for Kay Beverly,
I don't know what I might have
done. You don't know Kay. She
was a grand friend. She was
house president when I was a
pledge. She was a dear.
This boy I knew was terribly
funny. I didn't realize it at first,
but I found out soon enough.
Later on, Kay used to remind me
of some of the things I had said,
and they were utterly ridiculous.
We sat and laughed for hours at
the whole affair, after it was over.
Can you imagine, darling, I
even said that he was good and
brave and noble. Imagine saying
that sort of thing. That shows
how childish I really was. I said
that-honestly-and I said other
things that I wouldn't tell to any-
one again. They were just too,
too silly.
His name was Johnny-Johnny
Markov, I believe. I never could
get his last name right, but I
think that was it. Anyway, he
was some sort of a foreigner. And
he was big and tall, and I even
thought he looked like Gary
Cooper. Of course, that was plain
nonsense. He was handsome,
though.
page eight
But he was nobody, absolutely
nobody. He didn't come from
any family to speak of. He didn't
play football-he was big enough
to-he said he didn't have time,
he was working his way in school.
And the place he lived in, my
dear-a garage! Imagine, living
in a garage. You know, I've often
thought that people like that
shouldn't be allowed in school.
They're of no use, and they
simply weaken the whole social
fabric.
* "Paul and I got as tight as
bats."
I would never have met him
at all, except that he sat next to
me in zoology lab. If I hadn't
been so green, I would have taken
geology, or some other science
that wasn't so complicated.
But I was very young and very
serious, and the first thing I knew,
they gave me a dead frog, and I
was supposed to cut it up. Such
a disgusting thing! It was slimy
and cold, and I thought that I
was going to be sick when I had
to look at it. It simply made me
shiver all over.
This boy-Johnny-sat next to
me, and he came to my rescue.
He must have fancied that he
was a knight or something, help-
ing a poor distressed damsel. He
was so polite and careful and
helpful, he must have been ridicu-
lous. But I didn't notice that
then, and like a silly little fresh-
man, I thought he was nice.
When I told Kay about him,
she really acted like the grand
friend she was. She warned me
and said that what I needed was
to meet some of the nicer fellows
on the campus, and that I should
not think seriously about this
Johnny. She was right, too.
And do you know what she did
for me, darling? She was simply
grand. She arranged a date for
me with Paul Weber. I didn't
appreciate it as much then as I
do now. There I was, a simple
little freshman, and Paul Weber
was really important. He was an
Omicron. And he was some sort
of wrestling champion, too. Oh
no, of course, you don't know him.
He left school last year. Someone
said he took the answers out of
a book during an exam, and they
made such a beastly fuss, it was
silly.
Kay and I double-dated that
night. I went with Paul, and she
went with Sam. We had a mar-
velous time. Paul had a car, and
he took us out to the Tippy Inn.
Sam brought the liquor, and we
got as tight as bats. Why, dar-
ling, I got so high I could hardly
tell whether I was dancing or
sitting in the booth. And then
Kay and I had to creep into the
house-in our condition. You
can imagine how funny that was!
And Paul-he was really a nice
boy. He was so funny. I don't
mean strange or peculiar, but
comical. He had us laughing and
laughing. He was simply witty,
if I've ever seen anyone. He was
packed full of jokes.
I remember, there were some
dull people sitting in the next
booth, and once when they got
up to dance, Paul slipped over
and knocked cigaret ashes in
their beer. When they came back
they were as mad as hatters. And
Paul sat there like 'a lamb. I
thought I'd burst when he asked
me real loud if I wanted a beer.
I could hardly keep my face
"He isn't anybody, Darling, you must remember
your sorority."
Even after that though, and
with Kay being very patient and
telling me not to be a fool, I
didn't come to my senses. Kay
was such a darling. She tried so
desperately to show me I was
wrong, and I was so ungrateful.
When I said Johnny had asked
me for a date, she wasn't a bit
angry. She just smiled and said,
"All right. That's fine. Have a
date with him. You'll see what
he is then."
She was right, too. The date
was simply ghastly, when I think
about it. We went to a show, and
then we stopped at the Drug and
drank a coke. He didn't even
smoke. I felt all the time as
though I should have been wear-
ing hoopskirts and pantalettes.
He was as polite and careful
as when he was in the zoology
lab. He was stiff and stupid and
dull. All he talked about was
himself. And so exciting! So
interesting! You'll never know,
my dear. At least, I hope you'll
never have an experience like
that.
He was from some place in
Pennsylvania, and he wanted to
be a doctor. To hear him talk,
you'd think that a doctor was the
next thing to a saint. He wanted
to learn things, he said, and then
be able to help people. He never
cracked a smile when he said that
either. I don't think he ever
smiled.
"Johnny and I stopped by
the Drug and drank a coke."
I can't imagine a man like that
being a doctor. It was too silly.
He didn't have any trace of any-
thing that could possibly have
passed as a bedside manner in a
million years.
And then he started in telling
me all about the things he had
done. I certainly must have been
a little fool to have sat there and
listened. Kay would have laughed
until she was sick.
He was very instructive. After
hearing him talk, I probably
could have told you just what it
was like to work. in a steel mill.
Oh, it gets terribly hot there. And
the furnaces, or whatever you call
them, are all red and gaping like
medieval monsters. It's a regular
inferno. That's just what he called
it. He worked there for two
years, he said, to help his family.
It must have been an awful fam-
ily if he had to do that. You
can imagine what sort of a person
he must have been.
And he told me all about the
poor, poor working men-hunkies
and Polacks and all the riffraff in
the world, I suppose-and how
they were so poor and helpless.
When the mills closed down, they
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EVERYBODY SING
Judy Bellaire (Judy Garland),
an adolescent bitten by the swing
bug, is thrown out of the Colvin
School for Girls when she con-
verts the morning singing hour
and the esthetic dancing period
into syncopated pandemonium. It
is the fifth time she has been
expelled.
Her parents, discouraged by
her attempts at "swinging" put
her on a boat-ostensibly with
the purpose of sending her to
Europe. Never daunted by such
mere matters as parents' wishes
or economic necessity, Judy re-
turns and secures a part in a
musical stage production.
Simultaneous with the opening
of the show in which Judy has a
part, another production backed
by her parents opens down the
street. By the use of the old
"army" game-better known in
this picture as circus technique
-the audience of the Bellaire Sr.
show is attracted to the Bellaire
Jr. attraction, providing the usual
happy ending.
THE BUCCANEER
Cecil B. DeMille used the
broad panorama of the War of
1812 as background for The Buc-
caneer, in which Frederic March
is cast as the famous pirate chief,
Jean Lafitte, whose love for a
belle of old New Orleans, Margot
Grahame, and her country, the
struggling United States, makes
him join with General Andrew
Jackson in the defense of New
Orleans against the British at-
tack.
March loses his honor and his
sweetheart when it becomes
known that his men sank the
American merchant ship, "Corin-
thian," with Margot's sister and
a score of other prominent citi-
zens aboard. Escaping from New
Orleans with Jackson's help, he
goes into exile with the girl who
really understands and loves him,
Franciska Gaal, an orphan whom
he had rescued from the sea.
EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY
Apparently not daunted by her
recent NBC escapade, Mae West,
as Peaches O'Day out-Eves well-
known "Adam and Eve" in Every
Day's A Holiday. In her latest
Paramount venture, Mae, instead
of having trouble with one man
-Adam - as previously, bur-
lesques through an hour and a
half of trials and tribulations with
a police captain (Edmund Lowe),
a combination woman-hater, ec-
centric millionaire, and leader of
a reform movement (Charles
Winninger), and a butler (Char-
les Butterworth).
Concerned mainly with the po-
litical race between "Honest as
the Day Is Long" Captain Mc-
Carey and "Dirty" Inspector
Quade (Lloyd Nolan) for the
mayorality, Every Day's A Holi-
day is embellished with Mae's
attempts to seek fame and fortune
via the stage as a French actress,
Winninger's antics as an angel
for the show, and the attempts
of Graves to protect his employer
(Winninger) from Mae's far-
reaching designs.
YOU'RE A SWEETHEART
This happens to be about a
Broadway producer who experi-
ences difficulty with the fellow
he owes for the scenery, but this
difficulty occurs far down in the
picture and is without real im-
portance in the scheme of things.
More prominently responsible
for what goes on is a publicity
stunt in which a waiter poses as
an Oklahoma oil man and buys
out the house for the first week
of the show's run.
Geo. Murphy plays the bogus
oil man and Ken Murray the
producer, both in a fashion to
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MISSOURI HALL VARSITY
Laughter Not Barred
* "With a face like yours, how did
you ever get close enough to
a woman to strangle her?"
RULES FOR FAILURE TO
LEARN PSYCHOLOGY
RULE 1. Assent readily and with an
air of complete approval to all the
instructor says. Nod your head during
the lecture to indicate your compre-
hension, but don't try to understand
what he is saying; just look as if you
did. Depend on some other student to
explain things to you afterwards.
Cherish a delusion that by main-
taining a discreet silence in the class-
room and by looking as intelligent
as nature will permit you to do, you
are "kidding" the Instructor into be-
lieving you are there with the "goods."
RULE 2. Assert your own individ-
uality in the classroom. Make it a rule
to be late to classes and to come in
noisily. Never make notes of assign-
ments of work or directions for ex-
periments. Keep a touching faith
that the Instructor will delight in
repeating these instructions to you
after class. Contribute freely from
your own experience to the class dis-
cussions. Argue that what has hap-
pened to you or your friend is suffi-
cient to disprove the results of experi-
mentation. Laugh loudly at your own
remarks to a neighbor. Be prepared
to leave the classroom before class is
dismissed, closing your notebook
noisily as a tactful suggestion to the
Instructor that you are through.
Stand up occasionally to suggest to
the Instructor that the lecture is over.
RULE 3. Don't take the study of
Psychology seriously. If you are
balked by a problem, fall back upon
the uniqueness of your own mental
constitution as the explanation. Tell
the Instructor that Psychology is still
young and has not the exactness of
physics or chemistry. Explain frankly
that you have no faith in the methods
or results of Psychology. You might
mention you are only taking the course
for the credit anyhow.
RULE 4. Be very enthusiastic about
your capabilities as a natural-born
* "Harold never knows quite when to stop."
psychologist. Tell the instructor that
you have been practicing it indeed
for a long time. Tell him about the
time you stared at the back of a girl's
head until she turned around and saw
you, thus proving the strength of
your thoughts; or about the time you
dreamed of getting money the night
before you received a check from
father; or about the wonderful char-
acter-reading you had when some "ex-
pert" felt your head and told you that
you were a man of remarkable will-
power. If the Instructor doubts the
value of such psychological experi-
ence, explain to him in a kindly but
firm manner the true nature of psy-
chology.
RULE 5. Above all else, DON'T
EXERT YOURSELF!
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MARCH TIMES ON
Very Free Verse
I are new college student
Take physical exam
I make round shoulders
Stand flat foot
Read chart backwards
Cough
No can hear
Doctor say I have excellent health
I must take ROTC
I drill
In rain
In sun
In mud Man behind
Rush gun in my back
Officer spit at me
I decide
I must get out
Gym are better.
I play sick
I play dead
It no help
Maybe they like me too much
I ask Captain
He look up record
He say mistake are been made
My name are mixed with other
But he say he are sorry
No can change record
I begin to cry.
I walk in street
I stop runaway horse
On it are general's daughter
But I not know her
She ask
What you want most
I say
Want to get out of ROTC
She sore!
She like army.
Next day I go to school
I are told I now take Gym
I faint...
* "Hey, drop those bombs quietly.
You forget today is Sunday."
Books
THE CITADEL
by A. J. Cronin
Through the rise of a deter-
mined young, Scot doctor from
the poverty of a Welsh mining
town to the plushed and hushed
consulting rooms of a West End
practice, Cronin carries Andrew
Manson and his wife, Christine.
To the story of Andrew's finan-
cial success, moral failure and
regeneration Cronin contributes
all his knowledge of the best and
worst of the medical profession,
the heart - breaking struggle
against prejudice and ignorance,
the temptation to give the patient
what he wants instead of what
he should have, the emphasis on
fees, and the cynicism that has
made of many a Hippocratic oath
a travesty on truth.
From the dirt and squalor of
Blaenelly, and the officious atti-
tude of Blodwen Page, wife of
Andrews nominal superior, An-
drew went to Aberalaw, where as
one of the five company physi-
cians, he at first faced opposition
for his quiet thoroughness. Chris-
tine, his wife, walked beside him
all the way, encouraging, re-
straining, suggesting.
Andrew and Christine were
spiritually united until after they
had obtained success through a
fashionable London practice. She
grieved for her husband's grow-
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ing callousness toward his pa-
tients, his greed for guineas, and
his acceptance of low professional
and ethical standards. In the very
act of performing a loving little
service for Andrew she stepped
carelessly in the path of a London
bus. Death came instantly.
Andrew was left alone to carry
out his dream of real medicine
without her, but with the aid of
two firm friends of the pre-
London period, he set himself
to establish a hospital where con-
sideration of the patient's welfare
should be considered before his
ability to pay.
THE CITADEL, published to
coincide with the meetings of the
British Medical Society that cor-
responds with our own American
Medical Association, of course
raised a great deal of indignant
denial and stern interrogation.
Cronin speaks authoritatively on
the subject of inhuman corrup-
tion in a humane profession, as
he is not only a prominent con-
temporary novelist, but also a
registered physician in England.
-J.R.M.
SLOGUM HOUSE
by Mari Sandoz
From the courtyard of Slogum
House, beaten hard and flaky
with the hoofs of horses and the
sharp rims of wagon wheels,
many men stepped onto the porch
of the House itself, and into the
secret, wicked circle dominated
by Gulla Slogum. To those who
were seared by the glances from
Gulla's cunning pig eyes, feeling
the weight of her ambition, bad
luck and calloused cruelty fol-
lowed. For every dollar Gulla
added to her store, a life was
ruined, a heart torn, or perhaps
a body lying face down out in the
sandhills, with the greedy buz-
zards circling over. The ruthless
daughter of the no 'count Habers
bullied her husband and her ser-
vants, swore at her sons whose
strength lay in the guns which
never left them, taught her
daughters licentiousness, a n d
foreclosed m o r t g a g e s on her
neighbors.
All this she did in her desire to
flaunt her possessions in the faces
of her husband's relatives, whose
reactions to her marriage stung
her into cold hate. Through the
weight of her will, enforced by
her dark sons, she made the name
of Slogum 'a power in the Ne-
braska sandhills in the early nine-
teen hundreds, a name at which
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TOPIC
Suzanne's
BIG SISTER
(Continued from page 9)
nearly starved. And, to hear him
talk, they lived in regular hovels.
Well, I sat there with him that
evening, and it wore me out. I
didn't even talk to Kay after I
came in. The dear darling
thought I was quite mad. She
was worried stiff.
The next day-it was a Satur-
day-I got a phone call from
Paul. Kay was at the house, and
we both talked to him, and that
evening we double-dated again.
Kay was so sweet.
We had more fun than the first
time. We went all around, and
did we paint the town a deep,
deep vermilion! It was simply
marvelous. And Paul-he was as
funny as ever. I never laughed
so much in my life.
But then, on the way home, the
silliest thing happened. We
bumped into Johnny, right on the
edge of the campus. I can't im-
agine where he had been-prob-
ably to the library or some place
like that. He was walking along,
and when he saw me, he said,
"Hello." Just like that. "Hello."
I felt so dumb, I didn't know
what to do. Imagine meeting
him.
He even stopped for a minute
and stood there looking at me,
as though he were expecting
something. He was taller than
Paul, but Paul got rid of him all
right. He said, "Quit bothering
the lady, you dope." Johnny
looked at Paul and then at me
and then he walked away.
And then I said the silliest
thing. I told Paul he shouldn't
have acted like that. Everybody
looked at me and burst out laugh-
ing. Afterwards, I had to laugh,
too.
But when Kay got me home,
she was furious. She told me I
was the damnedest little fool she
had ever seen-and I must have
been. But that wasn't the worst
of it. One evening, the following
week, I bumped into Johnny on
the campus, and he asked me to
drink a coke with him. I said I
didn't want a coke-I was half
afraid of Kay seeing me with him
again-and I should have ditched
him right there, but I didn't.
We walked around the campus,
and then we sat down on the
grass near the chemistry build-
ing. There was a big full moon
out that night and everything
was pretty. I said very little, and
we sat there like two frogs in a
swamp. He kept looking at me
though.
And, darling, do you know
what he had the nerve to say? He
asked me why I went around
with Paul. Did I like him? Or
what? I was so flabbergasted I
couldn't say a word. Any girl
would have been.
He said he didn't think Paul
was much good, and I wasn't the
kind of girl to go around with
him. Him saying that! It was
a surprise. I think I did say
something, but I cant remember
what it was.
We went on sitting there, and
he started talking about being a
doctor again. I told him I'd better
be going. He seemed quite dis-
appointed. And it was all so silly
and serious. Kay thought it was
Missouri
Drug Co.
straight. I wish you had known
him, you couldn't help liking him.
very funny when I to-ld her about
it later.
As we were getting up from
the grass, he put his arms around
me and kissed me. It was the
most reverent kiss. I felt like a
holy relic. And he said real quiet,
"You're very beautiful." He prob-
ably thought he was being very,
very chivalrous and that all girls
are perpetual virgins or some-
thing. I got uncomfortable and
all I could say was, "You're very
sweet."
He took me back to the house
without saying a word, and he
didn't even try to kiss me good-
night. When I got in, I decided
not to tell Kay what had hap-
pened, but I had pretty well made
up my mind not to have anything
more to do with Johnny. A girl
simply can't go around with a
fellow like that. She'd be per-
fectly silly. And besides, Paul
called me for another date.
The whole thing would have
ended right there, except that
Johnny insisted on acting like the
utter fool that he was. Kay heard
from Paul what happened, and
she told me. It seems that Johnny
had taken it into his head that
he was my self-appointed pro-
tector and guardian, and he went
to see Paul and told him that he
shouldn't date me any more. Can
you imagine the nerve!
Paul thought it was funny, and
we had our date together, and
then the worst possible thing hap-
pened. It made campus gossip
for quite a long time, and I felt
as ridiculous as any girl can pos-
sibly feel. I was furious. I could
have killed that Johnny, I believe.
But I suppose I should have ex-
pected it.
Paul and I had an 11 o'clock
Citizenship class together, and
that day as we came out at noon,
we saw Johnny waiting. I wish
you could have seen that fool,
darling. He was dressed in his
best clothes, just like a brave
knight in armor. And I guess he
thought he was doing it all for
my honor. It was a scream.
He came walking toward us,
and Paul saw there was going to
be trouble, so he passed me his
notebook and told me to wait a
minute. He was so calm-not a
bit excited. He went to meet
Johnny as though he were a fra-
ternity brother.
You should have seen how
q u ic k ly everything happened
then. Before Johnny could do a
thing, Paul was on top of him,
and had him on the ground.
Johnny was big and he was
strong, but Paul certainly could
wrestle and fight. All the students
on their way to lunch gathered
around and watched. There was
a huge crowd-and there I was.
I wanted to run away. But I
couldn't leave Paul.
He got Johnny's face down in
the dirt and he kept rubbing it
and rubbing it, until Johnny
stopped fighting. Then Paul
stepped back and let him up. I
was so proud of him! I really
began to appreciate how swell he
was. And me, only a little fresh-
man. He was certainly grand!
Johnny got up very slow, and
looked at me. He paid no atten-
tion to the crowd. He just looked
at me and I thought he was going
to say something. He stood there
looking so. silly, all dirty and
scratched. You should have seen
his clothes-a mess. And then he
walked away.
I don't know whatever became
of him, but I think he left school.
Or maybe he was thrown out
because he started such a com-
mon brawl. He certainly should
have been. I know I never saw
him again, not even in zoology
lab. God, what a relief that was!
That little experience taught
me all I needed to know. If only
Kay were here now, she could
tell you. But you do understand,
dont you, darling? You simply
can't date fellows like that.
Date: "There's a certain reason
why I love you."
Skirt: "MY Goodness."
Date: "Don't be absurd."
Cleo: "Gee, it's way past mid-
night. You'd better get started."
Anthony: "0. K. Blow out the
candle."
-Battalion
Suzanne's
SAVITAR
* "Young man, I don't mind your holding my hand, but I do wish you would quit twisting my little finger!"
Corn-Fed Kid From The West
HE joined up in '17. Didn't quite
know what it was all about, but
it seemed the thing to do at the time.
Then the front-and suddenly War
lost every vestige of its glamor. He
was scared. He was bewildered.
He and another kid, who had be-
come his best friend on earth, were
out on a patrol. Something hit them.
His friend was instantly transformed
into a filthy mass of blood and bones
and slime. He himself was too weak
to move, or call for help, or groan.
Then he moved no more, ever.
* * *
Poor kid? Of course. But perhaps
he's lucky after all. He didn't live to
see the beautiful ideals he fought for
-"To make the World Safe for De-
mocracy" . . . "To Protect the Rights
of Little Nations" . . . "A War to
End Wars-proven to be the empty
notes with which the Pious Pipers had
lured so many kids like him to their
deaths.
He didn't live to learn that millions
of dollars had been spent by various
interests to "educate" our people to
the necessity of entering the war on
the "right side."
And he didn't live to see the whole
world ready to be at each other's
throats again-with ordinary citizens
like us sitting by stupidly, whining
"Isn't it terrible-but what can we do
about it?"
Well we can try to do some-
thing! . .
Write to World Peaceways, 103
Park Ave., New York City.
SPORTS
(Continued from page 7)
look around before each toss to
see if the teams were ready with
the result that an average of
thirty seconds lull followed each
goal. Now with only five seconds
allowed to put the ball in play,
twenty-five seconds are saved
after each goal. A record kept
on the Pacific Coast showed that
four to six minutes of playing
time was added to each game.
Since the game has been speed-
ed up, more substitutes are used
with the result that more boys
get to take part in intercollegiate
sports. No longer is it necessary
to keep a tall man on the floor
who can do nothing but get the
tip-off; the medium-sized man
has a better chance of making the
team.
Then there's the argument that
a team that's behind in the score
has a slimmer chance of over-
coming the lead in the last few
minutes, since it has to relinquish
the ball after each field goal.
Strange as it may seem, it has not
worked out this way.
In thirty - five experimental
games on the Coast, the majority
of the teams came from behind
to win. For an example closer
to home, consider the rally staged
by the Tigers to defeat the Colo-
rado Buffs in their second game.
With these arguments the de-
fense rests its case, and from the
success the change is meeting,
it seems that Edwards is right in
predicting that there will be no
major retrenchments in the rule
when .the N: A. B. C. meets at
Chicago next April.-T. B. A.
BOOKS
(Continued from page 15)
men spat and women turned
away their faces. Cattle rustling,
murder, and corruption were all
winked at by the county officials,
whose consciences were wooed
with Gulla's money and dulled by
the soft blandishment of her
daughters, Cellie and Annette.
As it is with the plot, so it is
with the style. Mari Sandoz's
style, vivid, descriptive, forceful,
is more than competent in the
first two thirds of the book.
While she is painting the picture
of the weatherbeaten house with
its creaking windmill and the evil
that radiated from it, there could
be little quarrel with her writing.
This is not condemnatory; Slo-
gum House is one of the most
virile novels that has been pub-
lished in the last decade, and well
worth reading. The author of
Old Jules, Atlantic prize winner
of 1935, shows a mastery of the
English language that makes her
work as fresh as spring.-J.R.M.
SHOWME SHOW
(Continued from page 3)
ESTHER SCHAEFFER, Tri-
Delt, finally got the idea over to
HERBERT TAYLOR, D. U.,
that she wasn't interested, which
sent him bouncing back to Phi
Mu JANE CUNNINGHAM....
JEFF PRIESTMEYER, Sig Alf,
has been writing daily letters to
CLEONE BARNES, smooth
Christianite, while she serves a
campus. . . . JOHN CHRIS-
TIANSON, Alpha Gamma Rho,
has given up the idea of ordering
a jeweled pin after hearing what
ROBERTA CARVER, Tri-Delt,
had to say about pinnings. .
PHILIPS and CO.
There is some possibility that
DICK ALLEN, Beta, will break
loose and have a date sometime
in the near future. . . . VERNON
POWELL of the same house
continues to draw names of the
Kappas out of a hat. He can't be
convinced that two dates with
one is better than stringing the
whole house. . . . Phi Delt JACK
KENNISON showed up at Pan-
Hel to get one dance with Pi Phi
MORGAN. ...
DALE MILLER, Phi Gam, is
trying to work up a two-some
with ALINE DAY, Delta Gam.
. . . HENRY BUSHYHEAD,
S. A. E., was caught unposed on
the D. G. steps by a Life photog-
rapher, and after the manner of
celebrities, "Bushy" tried to take
the picture man apart. . . . Too
bad the forceful yen that BERRY
WATSON, Phi Delt, has for
NAN BARNES, Pi Phi, isn't be-
ing returned. . . . Kappa Sig
FRED CARL, human dynamo
of the "J" school and show, is
going in for some variety . . .
ALICE KUNZ, petit Chi O, is
making frequent trips out of Co-
lumbia to see WARREN
WOODALL, former Phi Delt
pledge. . . The magnetic attrac-
tion of MILLIE MITCHELL'S
personality, Kappa, seems to be
having great effect upon the iron
of JACK SKELLEY'S heart, Sig
Chi. ...
BAKE ALEXANDER of the
same house is still getting pack-
ages from a most devoted girl in
St. Louis. . . . DOROTHY
BRINKERHOFF gets too many
long distance calls from Arkansas
which doesn't give the local men
much headway. . . . MARTHA
HUNT, Kappa, is now gushing
all over Phi Psi BOB WILLITS.
"SCOOP" GARSIDE is
getting weak-kneed about LOU-
ISE BOYD. . . BOB MEHL,
Kappa Sig, has been concentrat-
ing on Pi Phi NANCY COR-
TELYOU plus dates on the side
with Kappa BETTE ESTILL.
page twenty-two
DRIVEL
Seen from behind a beer bottle
in Givan's: A huge ten-gallon hat
going into KFRU with a guitar
case and a man. . . Goateed Econ
Assistant Kahn, bicycling north
on Ninth, tried to beat the Elm
Street light. He deftly darted
through a gas station drive
but undeftly defied a law of phy-
sics. The goatee landed first. .
A little known figure around the
campus is Prof. H. G. Brown's
son. An extremely conscientious
chap, he cracked Gen. Econ for
an E. . . . President Middlebush's
season seat for the concert series,
in case you've wondered what he
looks like, is row 9, seat 1, south
of the middle aisle. . . . Gov. Stark
sits two seats to the left and
front. . . . Cape-buying at Prince-
ton and other Eastern colleges
failed to impress Mizzoumales.
There is only one on the campus.
The wearer is an English instruc-
tor, Selby Hanssen. He also totes
a green-cloth book bag. . . . Look
alikes: President Middlebush and
Basketball Ref. Wulf; Francis
Westbrook, Jayschool Harvard
grad, and George Arliss; Roberta
Carver and Edyth Wright, Tom-
my Dorsey's songstress; Orf and
Orf . . . First impressions: Betty
Ann Ohnemus - teeth; Mary
Meyer-lips; Betty Albright--
eyes; Shirley Uchin-Godiva-like
hair.
"SORRY-COURSE IS FULL
(Continued from page 2)
Devices - Under this ambigu-
ous title is presented instruction
in such techniques as throwing
one's voice to answer, "Here,"
for one's roommate who couldn't
make class, reading quiz notes
from one's shoe soles, hoodwink
chaperons, evading late enroll-
ment fees, et cetera.
Animal Husbandry. Here is one
for all the gals. Not an Ag course.
Teaches you how to manage your
husband at bridge games. You'll
never have to spend any money
with Forney's Student Service in
this course, because the system
and quizzes are changed every
year.
Buchroeder's
Dr. R. A. Walters
Optometrist
FREE! A Box of Life Savers for the best
wisecrack!
What is the best joke that you heard on the
campus this week?
Send it in to your editor. You may wisecrack
yourself into a free prize box of Life Savers.
For the best line submitted each month by one
of the students, there will be a free award of an
attractive cellophane-wrapped assortment of all the
Life Saver flavors.
Jokes will be judged by the editors of the pub-
lication. The right to publish any or all jokes is
reserved. Decisions of the editors will be final. The
winning wisecrack will be published the following
month along with the lucky winner's name.
Last Month's Winner
Bill Dempsey
"Sorry-the recession dropped me down to my
last yacht."
Life Savers
Red Cab
A. T.Clinkscales
Auto Store
SHOWME MOVIES
(Continued from page 10)
suggest that they'll be getting
many more things in the same
general bracket to do from now
on. Miss Faye plays the star of
their mutual admiration and, to
be sure, commercial interest.
Andy Devine and Charles Win-
inger turn in good jobs of sup-
porting cast members.
BIG BROADCAST
Five years ago Paramount con-
ceived the idea of making a pic-
ture in which famous radio,
vaudeville, concert, opera and
legitimate s t a g e personalities
could be brought logically to the
screen. 1932's venture, "The Big
Broadcast" was a success and led
to a decision to make an annual
edition.
The scope of the Big Broad-
casts has widened to become a
cinematic revue including all
types of entertainment from low
comedy to farce-chorus girls to
grand opera-and a love story
included.
Dorothy Lamour, Martha
Raye, Ben Blue, eccentric danc-
ing comedian, Lief Erikson, and
Shirley Ross give the picture a
real cast. In addition, a bevy of
chorus beauties will accentuate
the eye glamour.
Short Short Story
She loved him with a fierce
longing. He loved her with a
wild desire. She was single, but
could think of no greater fulfill-
ment than to marry him. He was
single, but had no other thought
in life but to marry her.
He stood on the right-hand
side of the room. She stood on
the left hand side of the room.
He took off his coat and vest
with one gesture and flung them
carelessly on a nearby chair. She
slipped neatly out of her red
dress and proceeded to hang it
carefully in the closet. His shirt
and necktie were promptly dis-
pensed with and soon lay on the
same chair. Her slip followed in
the wake of her dress and soon
lay fastidiously on the back of a
chair. His pants were soon to be
hung on a hook on the back of
the door.
She sat on the left side of the
bed and diligently peeled off
shoes and stockings. He sat on
the right hand side of the bed
and removed his shoes and socks.
He stood up and took off his
shorts and undershirt. She stood
up and removed the remaining
parts of her attire.
There he stood, a striking pic-
ture of masculine symmetry and
power. There she stood, a poig-
nant etching of feminine grace
and beauty. He put on pajamas
of blue and white design. She
put on her pink silk nightie.
She got into bed on the left
hand side. He reached up and
put out the light in the middle of
the room and got into bed on the
right side. She turned out the
reading light at the head of the
bed. She faced toward the right.
He faced toward the left. He
was in the Sigma Chi house. She
was in the Kappa House. So they
both turned over and went to
sleep.
-Mad Hatter
Prof.: What is the younger
generation coming to?
Ditto: Why?
Prof.: I told a coed who came
in to see me about her grades to
sit down, and she looked around
for a chair.
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