Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
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MUSICAL COMEDY
''Sometime Soon," Varsity
Play, viii Be Given by
Students in May.

The 1929 George Washington Univer-
sity musical comedy, Sometime Soon, y
will be presented early in May at the
Wardman Park Theater, according to
James Fleck, student managing direc-
tor. The production will be directed by
Dennis Connel. Actual production will
be in the hands Of the various student
managers and directors constituting the
producing staff of the company.
Both the libretto and music Of Some
time Soon" are student productions.
The libretto was produced by Ralph
Hilton, a junior in Columbian College,
and the musical numbers are by various
student composers, including Katherine
Meagher, Martha Stevens. Dan Beattie,
Edgar Brewer and William Jemison.
Preliminary tryouts for both cast and
chorus will be held Thursday, and the
production will go into rehearsal i'm
mediately.
Freshmen Orators Compete.
The freshman oratorical contest spon-
sored by Phi Delta Gamma, professional
forensic fraternity, will be held Friday
in the assembly room of Corcoran Hall.
The meet is the first of series to be
held annually.
The annual scholarship luncheon Of
the Panhellenic Association will be held
Saturday at the Hay-AdamS House, with
Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin, wife Of the
president of the university, as guest OF
honor. The honor Of attending the
scholarship luncheon is given each year
to the active member and pledge OF
each sorority making the highest grades
for the past semester. The scholarship
cup, awarded each year to the sorority
whose members have made the highest
average, will be presented by Dean Anna
l.. Rose.
The Women's Glee Club of the uni
versity will hold joint concert with
the Johns Hopkins University Mems Glee
Club at the Raleigh Hotel at $50 pm,
Saturday. The group from Johns
Hopkins will bring its own 15-piece or
chestra, which will furnish music Tor
dance following the concert.
The interfraternity prom. one OF the
most important student social events OF
the year, will take place Friday, March
%, at the Willard Hotel.
The George Washington University
Medical Society will hold its annual
banquet at the Mayflower Hotel April
20, according to DR.. Cline N. Chapman,
president of the society. DR.. Frank II.
Lahey of the Lahey Clinic Of Boston
will be the speaker.
Debaters Go on Tour.
The mems varsity debate team of the
university left Friday for visit to Rut-
gers University. New Brunswick, N. j.
Later the team will visit New York Uni
yerSity and Loyola. On Tuesday the
team engaged in debate here with a
team from Western Reserve University.
The oxford plan of debate was used.
Under the plan the whole case for each
side was presented by the first speaker
on each side, who was then cross-ex-
amined by the second speaker of the
opposite side, the third speaker for each
side summarizing the case for his side.
The question for debate was, Resolved,
that the principle of complete freedom
of speech on political and economic
questions is sound" A split team COM
posed of Heart Duncan and Andrew
Howard of George Washington and
Alan Green of Western Reserve upheld
the affirmative. Karl FriSbie of George
washington and Arthur Fisk and James
Albert of Western Reserve upheld the
negative. A ballot of the audience was
taken before the debate opened and
after its close, the decision being award
ed to the affirmative, which gained the
most adherents.
The board of editors of the 1929
Cherry Tree has announced that work
on the annual is progressing rapidly
and that the book will be ready for dis
tribution to students in May.
The Spring issue of the Colonial Wig.
campus literary magazine, will appear
Wednesday.