: ;111. - --.'C Iii 1 ,- TIJE ALUCHI-GAN I D A-1 LY - - - -- - - - - -- - - - - -' aS .~'a = ae -a 'iHE MRCHIJAN f~iiIiN ________________________________________________________________________________________ U 'Deep South' To Be Frosh Frolic Theme Decoration Chairmen Disclose Plans For Southern Plantation Air; To Feature Colonial Home Going back to the deep south for a theme, co-chairmen of decorations Mary Ann Jones and Irwin Kasle, have decided on a southern colonial mansion as the setting for Class of '45's coming out party at Frosh Frolic to be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Fri- day. Frosh Frolickers will find them- selves transported for the night into what the committee calls a "Mint Julep" atmosphere, which will be created by decorations and by the use of novel lighting effects to give the illusion of a "balmy, starry Southern night." Red Norvo To Play A trellis will arch the entrance to the ball room, while the bandstand where Red Norvo and his orchestra will give forth will be transformed into the pillared portico of a colonial mansion. Flowers and ivy will be in traditional profusion for the official debut of the freshman class. The rooms adjacent to the main ballroom' will also be open for the evening. Ticket chairman Hank Cohen has announced that tickets for the dance will continue to be on general sale this week at the main desk of the Union-as long as they last. Over 300 tickets have already been sold and no more will be printed. Corsages Taboo As is customary at class dances, the committee in charge of Frosh Frolic requests that no corsages be worn. In addition to his featured vocal- ists,' Kay Allen and Fran Snyder Norvo will present other soloists in his outfit. As "Billboard" says, "Ev- ery man can stand alone and stop the onlookers with musical tricks," so in addition to Norvo and his xylo- phone, Bill Kavanaugh will be fea- tured on "the skins."" Priority Struck Union Coke Bar Will Be Today "Fifty beautiful girls-fifty" will hostess the Union Coke Bar to be held from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. today in the main ballroom, according to Bob Templin, '43, of the Union Exec- utive Council, sponsors. The groups which have received special invitations are Beta Theta Pi, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha The- ta, Michigan House, Sigma Phi Epsi- lon, and Stockwell Hall. Heading the list of "beautiful host- esses" will be Ruth Gram, '43. In- luded in the duties ofrthe hostesses will "be to serve ginger ale, cookies and coffee to the guests. NROTC men will be present as{ dancing partners, as has been the previous rule. "Since the plan of im-1 porting women from Ypsilanti proved successful at the last coke bar, it will be repeated today,". said Templin. "The expectations f theUnion Ex- ecutive Council were not disappoint- ed for over 300 people crowded the ballroom last week. This was the biggest response in the history of the coke bar, regardless of the fact that ginger ale is now being substituted for priority-listed coke." -E1 . . f F Plad, : $ t Pe~tesPon~e ]e Firivc C. Freeman Alexander, during his brief period as publicity chairman for the Slide Rule Ball, has definitely been in what Mr. Jordan. a character in a recent film, would have called the pink. Always a dashing and vigorous idea man with an impressive record of laid eggs behind him, he has handled this particular publicity campaign with a joie de vivre which would make Billina, herself-the Disney chicken-sit back and admit with a despairing gesture that here at last was her peer. C. F. last week thought he had done his best. Certainly he had accom- plished everything that Slide Rule publicity men before him had. He had implored The Daily until his eyes bubbled and his knees were calloused for more inches of publicity. He had tied signs on cars-a little trick, inci- dentally, which every publicity campaign in history has used with increas- 9 *T - ing originality-in the proper traditional manner. He had even thought up the very tricky idea of hav- jing a fictitious ton or so of slide rules found in the Michigan Technic office. This last stunt, he told everyone, was extremely funny. But this was not all. Not for nothing has C. F. eaten fish all his life. His powerful brain worked madly. The result is a local store window. ___. _There are three dresses in the window, and be- neath each is a card with the caption, written in a lively literary style, "This dress was selected by ........ as ideal to wear to the Slide Rule Ball." The Three Ixquisiies The names are deeply significant and should convince the most doubtful of the sincerity of the statements. They are Bob Sibley, president of the Union, Burr French, editor of the Michigan Technic, and Ted Kennedy, president of the engineering school, these lads being known hereafter as the Three Exquisites. Richly eloquent though the boys may be in person, it's going to take more than mere oratory to convince us that Burr French would look good in blue lace, even the long-torso, deeply decolletaged job he chose. Or for that matter, Bob Sibley in black jersey or Ted Kennedy in what we remember as some striped number. From what we've heard of the engine school, one cannot enter very fully into its many-sided life and remain as foppish as this. Where is our fine, bronze-skinned, clean-limbed youth of yesteryear? A messy spectacle, boys, a messy spectacle, indeed. All this is, no doubt, an outgrowth of the type of Store one sees along - - , - 1 I- - -, 4 . / 1l +. Y'K17_ THE OLD ARE GOOD DAYS GONE! Michigan Avenue in Detroit. The clothing which they feature have patterns which would be admirable for the wallpaper of a neurotic's room, but somehow, the ordinary type of man blooms a bit too much in them. Harry the Horse would love them. Sam the Gonoph would -view them with a fond eye. Spanish Isadore could even adjust himself to them. But John Q.- never. The result of this whole high-pressure store situation is that apparel which seems in a badly- * YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD PEOPLE TAI LAK about lighted store to be merely pleasingly vivacious usually turns out to be the type of thing at which phlegmatic St. Bernards get the shrieking hysterics. That is evidently what happened this time. But we feel that the boys let themselves go just a trifle too much. It's got to stop somewhere! These things become insidious unless we cast them from us. Please, fellows, adopt a little battle cry we have just composed: "Loin Cloths Before Lace." Michigan Broadcasting Pioneer Discusses Knack Of 'Fili'g In' the Gay Nineties and the Roaring Twenties and won- dered what it must have been like, then. But a lot has happened since then. Changes are occuring every day, and we are constantly learning new things. In the modern world the old-fashioned ideas have to be discarded. We have been serving Ann Arbor and the stu- dents for many years. We have seen these changes v K .. Students Invited To Spanish Tea At 4 P.M.,Today Spanish-the good neighbor lan- guage-will be the order of the day at the all-campus language tea to be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. today in' the Grand Rapids room of the League. According to Mrs. Ruth Wendt, campus language counselor, approxi- mately twenty students from South America are expected at the tea to tell about their own countries and assist American Spanish students. Seventeen South American countries are represented here at the Univer- sity, Mrs. Wendt stated, in pointing out the effort these students are" making to encourage friendly rela- tions between their countries and the United States. The language teas are jointly spon- sored by Dean Alice C. Lloyd and Mrs. Wendt in order to give any student who is conversant in a foreign lan- guage opportunity to speak with others. Rhinestone Clips The rhinestone clips and pins which did so -much to brighten up your dark winter dresses can add By BERYL SHOENFIELD A stuffy, reverberating room on the fourth floor of University Hall, scented by the 2000 white mice kept for research purposes in an adjoin- ing room, was the birthplace of cam- pus broadcasting in 1925. Prof. Waldo Abbot, Director of Ra- dio, who pioneered in collegiate broadcasting in this studio, remem- bers weli those early months when radio was still a novelty and fac- ulty speakers used to rush from the "airless" studio into the next room where there was a receiving set, "with the idea of being able to hear their own words coming back over the radio." "Evolution" Gradual The evolution of campus broad- casting from the "U" Hall studio to the expanded quarters of Morris Hall (shared this time with the Univer- sity band), has been a gradual and, cautious process, but the 17 years have brought network renown to some of Abbot's radio students and have given him a most unusual as- sortment of experiences. Professor Abbot, who has gained no small fame with his knack for "fill- ing in," figures often im the legends of the "ether circles." In one emer- gency he substituted before the mike for an absent parent-teacher, speak- ing on "How It Feels to Be a Mother." Another time he played the role of a" moral degenerate in a mental hy- giene talk. Describes Pinch Hits "Because speakers talk at differ- ent rates or else misunderstand the time allotted them on the air, we quite often have to speak extempo- raneously for the remainder of the time." Professor Abbot explains. "Once I had to fill in for 25 minutes when the guest speaker planned his1 talk for three instead of 30 minutes." Occasionally, Professor Abbot says, it is possible to fill up time by ques- tioring the speaker, if he has finished early-and one gets the most re- markable results. He recalls just such, an instance when he asked Coach Fielding H. YSost to explain the Sta- tue of Liberty formation he had made famous. Willing to cooperate, the ron,h T?011rj to .h a manr,-ar1 a- +,a marck too early, Director Abbot in- quired, "Do you have any humorous stories to tell about Bismarck?" "No I haven't," was the reply. Not to be fazed, Professor Abbot persisted-"I remember one about Bismarck and the Pope( which I didn't remember at all). How did it go?" "Never heard of it," the speaker said pleasantly. Began As Lawyer Professor Abbot, who gained his radio approach before the jury as assistant prosecuting attorney, re- ceived his AB and LLB at Michigan. Radio directing followed the Detroit real estate and campus English teaching epochs of his life. Now a member of four radio education com mittees, author of a text book used in 53 universities and of a newsletter issued every three months, Abbot finds tide to read between 12 and 30 student radio scripts a week and an- swer a multitude of letters ranging in subject from "How can I cure a toxic goiter" to the less unique" What are the opportunities for me in radio" -besides teaching production and writing of radio shows and producing the University programs. And Professor Abbot, who saw the birth of Michigan broadcasting and has had to fight ever since with commercial stations for time on the air, plead for equipment and rely on unpaid members of the faculty and, student body for performers, says there's no place he'd rather be than Morris Hall-unless it were in the proposed University-owned station, where time for educational programs and possibilities were unlimited. Ticket Sale To Open For Slide Rule Ball Tickets for this year's Slide Rule Ball, o be held March 27 in the Union Ballroom, will be placed on sale at 1 p.m. Thursday and, according to dance chairman Burr J. French, '42E, "prospective purchasers had better get there early." In the past, tickets for the annual engineering dance have been sold out completely almostwithin a few days after being placed on sale, and the presence of trumpeter extraordinaire Bunny Berigan at this year's Ball is expected to make the rush even more intense, French stated. vj y we have kept abreast of the times, and our methods are anything but out of date. For the latest and best in economical, quality laundering, we invite you to give us a trial. We intend to continue being of serv- ice to students for many years. . / s / occur, but we have not watched them idly. Instead SAMPLE BUNDLE 3 3 6 Shirts Pairs of Sox Handkerchiefs Finished, Mended and Buttons Replaced. Returned, Dried and Fluffed - not ironed. Approx. Cost $1.10 2 Suits Underwear 2 Bath Towels 1 Pajama Suit I S hi / ,.,, ,;,QE m. s Varsity Laundry 23-1-23 White Swan Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company Kyer Laundry 4185 Trojan Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company A II I