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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30

Mrs. John Lasley is an expert
maker of pies. Her neighbors have
reason to rejoice at her talent, for
often when she is making pie for
her own family she makes an extra
one which she sends by the Negro
maid to this or that home nearby.
So Henry M. Wagstaff, the history
professor, was not surprised when he
came home for dinner one day last
week and saw on a table luscious
looking apple pie. He knew the brand
at the first glance. The generous
depth, the haky crust done to just the
perfect degree of brownness, and, as
he drew nearer, the enchanting
fragrance-all this told Mr.. Wagstaf
that here was a Lasley product.
ut comes at lucky time," said
-NaestaR, -..hecause l haven't
any dessert today"
In the few minutes wait before
the meal Mr.. Wagstaff reveled in
thoughts of the treat to come. Little
did he reck Of the ruin that was be-
ing wrought for him in the Mcintosh
home across the way.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcintosh had been
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Stringfeld's Recital
instrumental Music This Evening in
the Playmakers Theatre

Lamar Stringfeld's music re-
cital will take place at $3.50 this
friday evening in the Play
makers Theatre. He will be as
sisted by Mrs. Fred Mccall,
pianist; D. A. Mcpherson, violin
ist; and the faculty chamber
orchestra.
Mr.. Struggled will play on
the flute and conduct the or
chestra. The second part Of the
program will consist Of his own
compositions, as follows:
From a Negro Melody" flute
and string quartet; Indian
Sketches Ske telfes, -sseFeAade and a
green corn dance), flute and
string quartet; and From the
Southern Mountains" full cham
ber orchestra. This last num-
Der is in two divisions, "Moun-
tain Song" and Cripple Creek. "
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Chapel Hill Chaf

1 had just finished writing
the piece about John Johnson,
the Negro member of the Chapel
Hill fire company, when the
quiet of the village was shatter-
ed by the raucous alarm-bellow.
Two blasts sounded, and then
one, indicating 21. The chart
pasted on my study door showed
that station 81 was at North
and Glenburnie streets. 1t hap
pened that John had just come
down from the printshop to set
out a tamarisk in the yard. /
ran out of the house and told
him | would ride him to the fire.
We leapt into the car and were
off.
When we arrived at the en-
trance to Tenney Circle we saw
that a patch of dry grass and
brush back of the Stuhlman
home was afre, and almost the
first object that caught my eye
was the imposing dome of M.
T. Van Hecke, University law
professor, shining under the
rays of the MONDAY sun. He
was armed with a board and was
furiously engaged in beating out
the blaze.
"How did you manage to get
here so quick | asked him.
81 happened to be at home,
doing some writing" he replied,
land | heard the Stuhlmans
maid scream before they put in
the alarm. | came out Of the
back door and ran across the
field"
James M. Bell was there, and
other citizens who dwelled near
by. Together with the fremen
they attacked the fire and had it
Continued on last page)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
GRAHAM SPEAKS
IN RALEIGH FOR
THE UNIVERSITY
Asks Legislators to Return
Maintenance Fund to Pre-
viOus Level, $375,0OO
REVIEWS FACULTY LOSSES

Frank Graham went down to
Raleigh yesterday to lay the Uni
versity's case before the senate
and house appropriations COM
mittees in joint session. He had
been i'll and had not been out of
the house for nearly fouf7weeks.
He asked that the annual
maintenance fund for the Uni
versity be returned to the level
at which it was placed by the
1929 legislature-$875,0 900. The
budget commissions report re-
commended a cut to $4,000,
or "a per cent.
The $S75,0O0 appropriated
for this present year was re-
duced by direction of the budget
bureau 20 per cent to 100000.
This 20 per cent cut" said
President Graham, was a terri
tic blow to the University. At
the end of the last year our
losses in men Of the first rank
constituted a list of president,
dean, scholars, scientists, and
great teachers eminent in
America"
He reviewed in detail the re-
signations of faculty members
in the various departments.
Among the professors we
have lost within a year, four
more than doubled their salaries,
and three received increases Of
from SO 1-3 to rs per cent. In
most Of these cases the men de-
clined these and other previous
offers of larger salaries. Yet
the misgivings last spring about
the policy of cuts and it's effect
on the opportunities of their
work made them fit subjects for
the new raid on our faculty
forces.
"On the other hand four men,
bers of our present faculty have
refused offers Of salaries more
than double their salaries here.
One here at $4,000 refused an
offer of $4,000. Six days ago
he was asked whether he would
go for $4,000"
(Going-to-press time came before
zoe 1oere able to get in more of the
Presidents statement. We hope to
present more of 1t ne1t week.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
The Community Chorus
Organization Plan to BE Discussed at
Meeting Monday Evening

At meeting of the Com
munity Chorus at 1880 next
Monday evening, in the choral
room of the music building, a
tentative plan Of permanent or
ganization will be, discussed. All
members are urged to be pres
ent..
The tentative plan is, in sub
stance, as follows:
An executive committee will
conduct the affairs of the chorus.
1t will elect chairman to serve
as executive head, a vice-chair-
man, and a secretary-treasurer
The membership at large must
ratify all decisions relating to
the raising of funds, all except
necessary routine expenditures,
and public performances. The
executive committee will appoint
a musical director and an as
sistant musical director.
1t is suggested that the execu-
tive committee use it's best ef-
forts to promote the growth of
the chorus by inviting citizens
and students to join and by
stimulating public interest
through advertising and pub
licity. 1t is also suggested that
the committee endeavor to raise
funds, with the consent of the
membership, for the purchase of
music in order that a library of
choral music may be built up.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Mobiles Recollections of Emerson

Newspaper dispatches last
week told Of the death of Cap
tain Isaac E. Emerson.
He went from Chapel Hill to
Baltimore about so years ago,
an unknown youth; stood the
examination required of phar-
macists by the state of Mary
land; concocted a mixture which
he called bromo-seltzer; and
came to be multi-millionaire.
The concrete stands at Emerson
Field were his gift to the Uni
versity.
In his boyhood here people al
ways knew him as Ike Emerson.
One of his intimate friends
then, and throughout his life,
was M. C. S. Noble.
Ike Emerson was born down
on the HillSboro road-nOt the
present route to Hillsboro, but
the road that goes past the Win
ston, the Dey, and the Noble
homes and down Windy Hill.
Emerson's Mill, famous insti-
tuition hereabouts, was owned
and operated by the father of
the boy who was to become the
Bromo-Seltzer King.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
A Red Cross Play
Will Be Given, for the Relief Fund,
Sunday. February the Sth

At the meeting of the Red
Cross chapter at Colonel Pratt s
night before last it was decided
to put on a play, for the benefit
of the relief fund, in the Caro-
lima Theatre Sunday, February
g Zone week from day after to-
morrow. E. c. Smith offered
to give the use of the theatre.
Volunteer women workers will
sell the tickets around the viii
lage, and tickets may also be
bought in front Of the theatre
on the 18th. The showing of
the play is scheduled so as not
to conflict with church services
from 1::30 to 5 in the after
noon and from 9:15 to II in the
evening.
The Chapel Hill Movie Guild
has nothing to do with the play.
1t is entirely Red Cross affair.
Colonel Pratt said yesterday
that he had received contribu-
tions of $171 toward Chapel
Hills quota Of 5000. 1--WE need
both large and small contribu-
tions,' he said. s"If there is any
body who can't afford to give
more than few cents, we are
grateful for that"
Contributions may be made
at Eubahks' drugstore, the M
store, the Office Of G. M. Hill
consolidated Service Plants)
or by check or cash to Colonel
Pratt.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Hayes to Give Courses
Greensboro Man to Conduct Classes
Formerly under Mr.. Braune

Nathaniel p. Hayes, structural
engineer with the Carolina Steel
and Iron Company of Green's
boro, has been appointed active
associate professor Of civil engi-
neering in the University and
will continue the courses in steel
structures given by the late Gus
tave M. Braune, dean of the
school of engineering. Mr..
Hayes engagement is for the re-
mainder of the college year.
He received the degrees of
ALB. and B.S. in civil engineer
ing from the University in 1922.
After his graduation he was as
sociated with McClintick Mar
shall and Company of Pitts
burgh for several years, gaining
experience in all of the divisions
Of this large company's steel de-
sign and construction activities.
Later he was employed on the
design of the new Niagara River
Bridge. 4
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Editorial

Nothing was said at the al
dermen's meeting about any in
tention to dismiss the present
manager, John Foushee, but it
is commonly reported that the
boards action in regard to the
charter is the result of a move
ment to pare down expenses.
There is not thought to be any
question of Mr.. Foushee's COM
petence, but the idea seems to
be held, in some quarters, that
Chapel Hill does not need a
trained manager-that the busi-
ness of the town could be man
aged we'll enough by somebody
else receiving less pay.
The passage of the motion
calling for the amendment fol-
lowed the reading of a report,
signed by p. l.. Burch, alderman,
and Bonner Sawyer, town attor-
ney, suggesting measures which,
they thought, would promote
economy.
Our belief is that Chapel Hill
ought to have a full-time we'll
trained man to act as manager,
and that the salary that it is
now paying, $2,700, is not a dol
lar too much for the job. We
see nothing wrong with the pro-
vision that a mayor may be also
a manager. The fact of being
mayor is neither a qualification
nor a disqualification. The only
important question is one of fit
ness. We do think, however,
that there is grave error in the
view, if such view exists, that
the towns business can be
handled casually or incidentally.
We doubt very much that the
aldermen can have the work
done as it should be done for
less than $2,7OO a year.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30

when l first knew Ike" Mr..
Noble told me yesterday, 1--WE
were students together in the
University. He was working
in the chemical laboratory, in
the basement of the building
that is now the Playmakers
Theatre. He was a sort of as
sistant to Professor Redd, and
we used to call him bottle
washer. He was more interest
ed in chemistry than anything
else, and it was his work there
that laid the foundation of his
fortune.
"He took job in DR.. Rober-
sons drugstore, near where the
new filling station has recently
been built, at Columbia and
Franklin streets, and later he
worked for DR.. Mallett.
'In those days they did not
have the certification arrange
ments by which druggist in
one state qualified for practice
in another, and when he got ito
Baltimore Ike found he had to
undergo an examination. | re-
member his telling me about it..
Continued ON last page
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
A CORNER THAT YIELDED
A RICH CROP

The death Of Captain Isaac
Emerson recalls to the old
timers here that milliOnaires
came from three families en-
three corners of Franklin and
Columbia streets. The boy, Ike
Emerson, dweiled with his aunt.
Mrs. McDade. where the Baptist
church stands. Julian s. Carr's
home included what is today the
Str0wd garage site. And the
Hargraves, the fOrbears Of the
Mrs. Henry NJ. Flagler miss
Mary Lily kenan) who be-
stow ed the kenan fund upon the
University, were on the north
east corner: their front yard
embraced the ground now COW
cred by the NJ. store, Diab's, the
Model Market, and Crowder's.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
"MelOdy of the Heart"

For the benefit of the Com
munity Club the Chapel Hill
Movie Guild will present "Mel-
ody of the Heart" at 2:30 Sun
day afternoon at the Carolina
Theatre. 1t is silent movie
that was made in Austria. The
titles have been translated into
English.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Stray Dogs in Danger

Citizens who own dogs had
better keep them at home or
make sure that when they go
along the streets they are prop
erly accompanied and guarded.
For the police have instructions
to dispose of stray dogs.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Exhibit in Library

Six etchings of University
buildings and scenes, by William
Steene, and eight illustrations
for 1.-TWO Gentlemen of Verona"
by Walter Crane, have been
given to the library and are on
exhibition in the University IL
brary.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Sunday Afternoon Recital

Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. McCorkle
will give a violin and piano re-
cital at 4:45 Sunday in the new
music auditorium. The pro-
gram: Sonata (Grieg), Con-
certo (Vieuxtemps), La Gitana
(Kreisler), Humoresque (Aulin)
and lie Coucou (Daquin-Press).
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
John Johnston Has Pneumonia

John Johnston, alumnus of the
University in the class of 1909,
is i'll with pneumonia at his
home five miles north of Chapel
Hill. His brother, James John
ston, is expected from Washing
ton.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Riggs Nav Sing

Lynn Riggs may sing one of
his cowboy songs when he gives
the reading Of his play Sunday
evening in the Playmakers
Theatre.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
AMENDMENT WILL
ALLOW MAYOR TO
BECOME MANAGER
Report of a Movement to Dis
pense with the Services of the
Fufl-Time Official


The charter of the town of
Chapel Hill requires that the
aldermen choose a town manag-
er to conduct the municipal af-
fairs. At their meeting night
before last the aldermen voted
to ask the Legislature for an
amendment to the charter per-
mitting the board, if it should
so desire, to choose the mayor
as manager.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
U.eD. c. Meeting Tuesday

The u. D. G.. will meet at $3.50
Tuesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. KluttZ.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30

The Oklahoman poet-dramatist was
as nonchalant and casual as II this
were like any other evening. Now and
then his play came into the conversa-
tion, but he gave no sign Of being
deeply concerned about it. Along with
drama and music and the state Of
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Paulsen's Party for Coaches

G.. H. Paulsen gave party
for the University coaching staff
Monday evening.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30
Novel First-Night Celebration in Green Home

The Chapel Hill drama colony had
novel first-night celebration Mon
day. The performance was given by
the Theatre Guild in New York while
the author was engaged in chatter
with Paul Green, Wilbur Daniel
Steele, Frederick H. Koch, Samuel
Selden. William Figgatt, Phillips Rus
sell, and Jerry Slade down at the
Green home on the edge of Battle
Park.
The play was "Green Grow the
Lilacs" by Lynn Riggs. Mr.. Riggs,
who halls from Claremore, Oklahoma,
the town that gave Will Rogers to
the world, had come from New York
with Mr.. Green Sunday. Before Ieav-
ing the city he had arranged for a
friend to telephone him at around
midnight to tell him II the play had
HUnno overD
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-01-30

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An Eastern Metropolis.

PARAMOUNT built and populated an
Eastern metropolis, in a sun
drenched valley on its 3,000-acre ranch,
for the filming of its spectacular drama
Of the French Foreign Legion, Morocco,
now at Loew's Palace Theater. Plans
for the gigantic layout were made by
Hans Dresser. who has spent several
years in Africa
While walls and buildings were
springing up, the casting Office rounded
up a population for the budding city.
In Morocco dwell all races and national
tiles. Two thousand persons were inter
viewed in Hollywood in nine different
languages to find the 600 required.
Among them were Americans, English,
Arabians, French, Germans, Italians,
Russians, Spaniards, Hebrews, Turks
and Greeks.
A crew of artisans labored for two
weeks in day and night shifts building
the city, wherein much of the picture,
Morocco" was filmed
Songs and dances that were centuries
old when Columbus discovered America,
it is claimed, were recorded by micro
phone and camera during the filming of
Morocco"
They are said to be melodies and
rhythmic movements of Araby which
date back to the very dawn Of civiliza-
ton.
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Impoverished Nobility.

THIS may be an age Of democracy in
America, with all lines of social
caste eliminated, or else so dim that
only those with lorgnettes can see
them, but in some parts of the world
title is still title and invaluable to
the owner
Alice Duer Miller, the author, would
have the American public know that
there are European noblemen who can
suffer loss Of fortune and almost any,
thing save honor without such loss in
the least affecting their sense of the
superiority given them by their titles.
Having met persons of that type,
Miss Miller found them pathetic but
romantic; hopeless and helpless but
interesting, and therefore put them into
a story The heroine she made little
princess, with all the inhibitions of So
cial status common TO aristocracy; the
hero she took from American soil and
gave the status Of a plumbing engineer.
/ TO the princess she gave fanciful
Balkan principality, poverty stricken,
and father who just couldn't realize
that he no longer had wealth. To the
hero Miss Miller assigned a shocking
amount Of wealth and true American
nerve.
That's the basis of the story Of 1.-THE
Princess and the Plumber" now in
screen form at the Fox.
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Washington S
Players.
SHAKESPEARE sOCIETY-TomOrr,

SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY-TomOrrow
SCENES from The Tanning of the
Shrew' will be presented tomorrow
evening before the Shakespeare Society
at its first meeting of the New Year at
the Corcoran Art Gallery, at 8 pm.
Walter E. Thorne has arranged and
directed the scenes and also plays the
part of Petruchio. He opens with the
scene Immediately after the wedding,
scene 2, act g. The other scenes will
be in Petruchio's house, including act 4.
scenes l, 3 and 5. and a condensed ar
rangement Of the last scene of the play.
These scenes give the story of the tam
ing" without any of the subsidiary plot
The cast also includes: Katherine.
Helen Webb Zeller: Grumio, Clarence
E RuebSam; Baptista, Leslie Waudby
Blanca, Irma Vaughan: Hortensio. w.
Anthony Thorne; a tailor, Archie Kee-
gin: the cook William Hall; servants,
Arthur Pittaway, Rupert Lille and NAL
vern Schoch; wedding guests, Barbara
Smith, Berthe Cline, Archie Keegin
and Rupert Lille Costumes for this
production were designed and executed
by Mabel Owens Wilcox
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stein production. This double barreled
appearance of Vivienne was made pos
sible, 1t is stated only by special con-
sent" Of powers higher up" in con-
cession to the request of Managing Di-
rector John j. Payette of the local
Warner Theaters
Ruth Chatterton in 1.-THE Right to
Love" her latest Paramount picture,
will be the attraction at Loew's Column
bia beginning next Saturday, unless
there is an unexpected switch. Paul
Lucas will be seen opposite Miss Chat
terton, and dramatic treat is
promised.
Manager Hardie Meakin of the Fox
is bringing ton the screen, of course)
the sterling actor Edmund Lowe with
Leila HyamS and little Tommy Clifford,
in Part Time Wife" to the Fox next
Friday.
Other houses have withheld their an
nouncement of coming attractions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
Two New York Openings
BY Percy Hammond

make frolic out of q funeral. It may
be sufficient to tell you that 'Ballyhoo"
is a musical comedy treatment Of G. Q.
Pyle's transcontinental foot race, the
most lugubrious cortege known to pro-
fessional athletes. Mr.. Fields imper-
sonatss @. @. Quayle. the impresario of
the contest, and he does so with all the
cool humor and skill that have made
him hero among the laughing classes.
As Mr. Fields, aboard a steam cal
Hope. entered the public square in
Shamokin. Ohio, last Monday and pre-
sented himself with the keys to the city.
the signs were propitiouS for a playful
evening. Surrounded by dancing girls
and bill collectors, he made a funny
speech in his snowy velvet fashion, and
then left the scene to other less jolly
occurrences. Among these were three
of the dampest firtations that ever de-
pressed a comic opera. These were
fruitful, however, in producing series
OF melodiouS mutations entitled mo
Wonder I'm Blue" voiced by Miss Grace
Hayes, as an amorous prima donna,
beating her breast for love of a comic
caricature named @. @. Quayle. Also
song called Throw 1t Out the Window"
a jauntily sentimental poem whose
cadenceS will soon be infeSting the air
in opposition to the serious prose of
Alexander Woollcott and Lowell Thomas
Late in the play Miss Janet Reade,
logged by an industrious clacque of
song pluggers, shouted a wall described
on the program as I'm One of Gods
Children" a carbon copy of the stunts
done on other platforms by Miss Ethel
Norman, Miss Libby Holman and Miss
Morgan, whose first name escapes me
at the moment.
Meantime Mr.. Fields engaged himself
in poker with the ingenious cowboys of
FL Toro. N Mex, depriving them of
their earnings. and 1uggled cigar boxes
and tennis balls with ease and alacrity
He played kelly pool with anything from
his silk hat to his left ear as the
pockets. At no moment of the per-
formance was he aught but amusing,
and one Of the secrets of whatever sue
cess "Ballyhoo" may have Is the sus-
penSe enjoyed by the audience in watt
ing for him to enter and its pleasure IN
seeing him perform.
Mr.. Hammerstein's expenditure is
generous and tasteful in dresses and
scenery. For the purposes of "Ballyhoo"
he has employed the best Of almost
everything within the resources of q be-
wildered New York Snowman with the
prominent exception of an amusing
librettist. One of his actors, an artist
unidentified in the play bill of "Bally-
co." eats lighted matches, cigars and
cigarettes with hungry gusto, thereby
affording the playgoers considerable re-
Taxation. A number of other phenom-
ena happen in "Ballyhoo." But in the
last analysis, as the saying goes, the
show consists of Mr.. Fields, two songs
and an agile seminary of graceful, good
looking and ambitious girls.
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To Produce for Stage.

THE Universal Picture Corporation
shortly will enter into the produc-
ton of plays for the stage on Broad
way, according to the announcement
today by Carl Laemmle, president, who
adds that well known playwrights will
become partners in the venture
This is not an attempt to get cheap
material for talking pictures" Mr..
Laemmle said. Every play we produce
must stand on its own merits as a
Broadway production, regardless of its
screen possibilities We naturally hope
to develope valuable screen material
Authors whose plays are chosen for
production. will be accepted as $3.50
partners with Universal in the sale of
motion picture rights. which Will be
open to bidding from all the compau MES.
The regular Authors League contract
will be used"
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French Mud.

For the benefit of interested ex-
doughboys. it may be said that it
rains just as much and the mud is still
as gooey in France today as in the
stirring-but Weekdays Of 1918. The
Metro Goldwyn- Mayer research depart
ment verified this in planning country
road scenes for Those Three French
Girls" now showing at the Rialto
Theater
A typically sunny France" downpour
and bog supplies hilarious motivation
for the opening scenes in which two
former A. E. F. soldiers return to France
to see what Il is like now