Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
c. j. TO ENTERTAIN.
VISITING STUDENTS
South African Universities
Delegation to Be Taken
Through School.

The Catholic University today. will
entertain 90 members of the Inter
national Federation of University Stu
dents, who are students of South Afri-
can universities, now touring the large
cities and principal universities of the
United States. The delegation will con-
sist of both men and women, the ma
jority of whom are undergraduate stu
dents. They will be escorted through
the departments of the university by a
number of committees appointed by the
Student Council
These committees will be comprised
of officers of classes, representatives OF
the various clubs and societies on the
campus and delegation headed by
the president Of the graduate students
Mgr. Ryan, rector, will hold a recep-
ton for the visitors in the parlors OF
Gibbons Hall at 1890 pm. and Will
address them briefly.
Program is Planned.
They will be entertained at dinner in
the dining hall, when the presidents OF
the classes will speak. The glee club
will furnish musical entertainment.
The committee which planned the re-
ception to these students consists OF:
James H. Hayden, instructor in law,
and Arthur Deering, instructor in Eng
lish. This committee elaborated with
representatives of other local UNIVERSE
ties in outlining an extensive program
of entertainment for the visiting stu
dents. who have been in Washington
since Thursday, and who Will leave
tomorrow.
The third of a series of public lee
lures which is being given this Winter
at the university will be delivered In
the auditorium of Mcmahon Hall to-
morrow at 8:15 pm. by M. Setsuzo
Sawaba. counsellor of the imperial
Japanese embassy. His subject will be-
Japanese Literature, Old and New"
Dramatic Association Debut.
The Catholic University Dramatic
Association will make its 1929 debut
Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at the
Wardman Park Theater, when 1t Will
present "Sun-Up," three-act play by
Lula Vollmer. This drama of the Caro-
lima mountain folk will be the first
three-act play to be presented by the
University Dramatic Association. The
stellar female role, that of Ma eagle,
will be portrayed by j. Donald Hayne
of Schenectady, N. Y. The remainder
of the cast is made up of Paul L. MOI
rissey, Hartford, Conn, Pap" Todd;
Francis Gregory, Chicopee, Mass.
Sheriff Weeks; Charles. A. McAree
Haverhill, Mass, Rufe eagle; William
D. Conner, New London. Conn
preacher; John w. Conveigh, Brookline
Mass, Emmy Todd; George M. Wheat,
ley, Beverly, Mass, stranger: Samue,
P. Danno, Orange, ~. j., BOD, ano
Henry D. LaFleche, Old Forge, y; T. :,
Bud Todd. This play will be followed
bv a. dance in the ballroom of Ward
man Park Hotel under the auspices OF
the dramatic association.
Junior Prom January 81.
The junior promenade has been sci
for Thursday, January 81. The dance
is to be held this year at Wardmar
Park Hotel. Other social functions are
to take place at this time in connection
with. the Junior week end. Chief among
these is the Abbey Club cotillon. which
is to be held February 2, at Wardmar
Park Saddle Club.
The Catholic University Debating So
ciety has arranged tentative schedule
of debates with the following 1nstitu-
tons: Fordham University, Canisiu'
College, Loyola University of Chicago
and Providence College. The dates fol
these engagements have not been def
nitely determined. A series OF prellmi
nary competitive debates is being hele
by the members of the society, which
meets every Monday evening in Glib
bons Hall.
AT a meeting of the Catholic Uni
versity Clee Club last Tuesday, PLAN
for the coming season were discussed
and DR.. Leo Behrendt, director, urgee
regular attendance. Anthony S. Gadek
president, cited the favorable commen
received both by the glee club ant
radio station WMAL on the pre-Christ
mas concert broadcast. The opening O
the new season will involve much worl
on the part of DR.. Behrendt and tn
members of the glee club. The, musi
will be almost exclusively classica
henceforth. A start has been made Oh
the annual Spring concert and dane
! of the glee club. A committee ha
started functioning.