Most Brilliant Play Seen Here at Junior College
An evening of thrills awaits audiences for The Green Dragon Emer Ald a Junior College play set for April 4 and 5 at the Peculiar high school auditorium The production features a Manchu prince an American girl foreign consulates and army a Harvard professor Chinese servants and a superstitious mammy Characters portray complex roles as mystery and fear fill the stage with cost and effort invested by experienced Junior college students under the direction of Mrs C Ss Williams
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Peking
Harvard
Play Requires Unusual Stage Lighting for Complex Production
The Little Theater undertakes an elaborate staging with intricate lighting never seen before. Stanley Simpson earns most credit for conception and execution of the staging and lighting, a demanding task that taxes many hours of thought and work.
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Stanley Simpson
Stanley
500 Bibles Distributed to Columbia U Students
Five hundred bibles from the New York Bible Society were distributed among Columbia University students with demand for 200 more. A survey shows over 1266 Yale students work their way through school, four times the count last year per President Angell.
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Columbia University
New York Bible Society
Yale University
Angell
Teachers Meet Keokuk April 4 5
The thirty ninth annual session of the South Western Section of Iowa for the teachers association will meet in Keokuk Iowa April 6 and 7. Noted educators including Dr J B Edmonson Dr Harry M Gage and Dr Lotus D Coffman will speak.
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Iowa
Teacher's Association
Kenkuik
J. H. Peet
J. B Edmonson
College of Education
University of Michigan
W. W. Stodart
Des Moines
Harry M. Gage
Coe College
Farnest Horn
University of Iowa
Charles A. Lee
Department of Public Instruction
Jefferson City
Missouri
Lotus D. Coffman
University of Minnesota
Harland W. Mead
Mead
Washington
Ethel McCreedy
Washington Junior High
Washington Public Schools
Optimistic Slant in St. Joe Cadet Journal
The Cadet Journal at St. Joseph's College in Hays Kansas ran a plain cartoon featuring a single black dot centered between two columns. The cut line read The Turning Point and marked a supposed turning point though not presented as an actual photograph.
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St. Joe Cadet Journal
Cadet Journal
St. Joseph’s College
Hays
Kanse
Charles Owen Reflects on Tennis Final Victory
Charles Owen recalls a junior tournament final against Hub Turner. Turner won the first set six love, then after three more sets they were tied two sets all before Owen broke through to win the decisive set.
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Hub Turner
Hub
Lloyd Helwick Favors Bernie Orchestra In Favorite Rankings
Lloyd Helwick names Ben Bernie as his top orchestra citing superior playing and Ben Bernie’s varied program with latest song bits. He lists Kay Francis and George Olsen as other favorites in his ranking.
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Ben Bernie
Kay Francis
George Olsen
Ben
Male Superiority in European Education Claims
Collier's Weekly notes claim that the most successful teachers charm only European men and that Heguin schools are men, presenting a controversial view of education.
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Collier's Weekly
Little Theatre Production Entertains With Green Dragon Emerald
Cast notes highlight Elisabeth Ragan as Mammy and Ed Griffith as Sang Wu in The Green Dragon Emerald. Walter Well trips props, Henry Carris stammers over words, and Marge Smith bumps into Ty Lee in romantic scenes. College players and junior athletes also feature in a busy article.
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Eligabeth Ragan
Mammy
Ed Griffith
Sang Wu
Corinne
Walter Well
Colonel Leighton
Henry Carris
Wentworth
Marge Smith
Sui San
Ty Lee
Walter Weiss
Dale Kiesey
Elizabeth Ragan
Ossie Jungbluth
Williams
Iowa City
Incense
Mary Pauls
Alice Shelangoski
Grant McKune
My Favorite Hobby by Bob McFarlane
Bob McFarlane describes his favorite hobby of coin collecting. He notes coins rarely exceed face value but enjoys variety, plus several different bills and a coin encyclopedia detailing history and values.
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Bob McFarlane
Illinois College Men Promote New 50 50 Club
Sixty men at Eastern Illinois State Teachers College Char leston band to promote what is called the 50 50 club. The concept is Dutch treat dating with shared expenses to allow more students to attend events. Coeds are asked if Dutch treat cheapens either party. answer appears to be no. The University of Wisconsin popularized this 50 50 plan, likely first to do so.
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Eastern Illinois State Teachers College
Charleston
University of Wisconsin
Annual Forensic Tourney in Iowa City March 30 31
The Annual Forensic Tourney of Iowa junior colleges convened in Iowa City March 30 and 31 with eleven schools participating. Debates on canceling intergovernmental war debts and reparations determined the gold medal winner Burlington with Elkader a close contender.
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Iowa City
Iowa
The
University
Elkader
Burlington
Ft. Dodge
Mason City
Graceland
Estherville
Sheldon Maquoketa
Mustazine
Northwestern
Orange City
Washington
Waldorf
Centerville
Lurlington
William Masson
William Wells
Fort Dodge
Sheldon
Muscatine
Ft Dodge
Shedon
Extempore
Eastherville
Fl Kader
Iowa Wesleyan
Galer
Shearer
Thompson
Charles Qwen
Masson
Wells
Rhum
Schwarzenbach
Bughouse Fables and Home Folks Reunion Gossips
Local column recaps recent trip to Hot Springs for rejuvenation. It mentions a date with a chorus girl and a police chief suggesting visiting home folks. The piece also notes rumors about students and the National Defense Act, with chatter about Duane Peterson, Jean Stewart, and W. I. C. I. N. G. captains, plus remarks from Les Jones.
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Hot Springs
The Green Dragon Tile Play Opens in Shanghai Mystery
The Green Dragon tale inspires a mystery stage play set in Peking with Milford Ashley and Corinne. Corinne disappears on the eve of a Kuomintang riot as Sang Wu emerges, while the cast pursues clues amid journalied harassment and a modern, climactic finale.
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Mah Jonge
Milford Ashley
Peking
Corinne
Sang Wu
Ashiev
Robert Valentine
Ty Lee
Mammy
Happiness and the elusive search for meaning across life
The passage ponders happiness as a visionary, fleeting state amid human existence. It describes how people cling to anchors in a vast, indifferent universe while brief, radiant moments reveal sublimity, leaving a darkness of uncertainty when the divine is beyond reach.
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Thas
Spring Exams and Radio Prattle Stir Campus Chat
An opinion piece mocks mid semester exams and lampoons station WSU and a Washington Albia broadcast. It recalls a friendly mailbox inquiry and notes local business ties between Wella and Cline, now split with Cline in Iowa City.
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W. Wells
Kenneth Cline
Cline
Iowa City
Wella
Scholastic Honors and Grade Point Averages Analyzed
Analysis from Dean Harland Mead outlines nine week scholastic honors and how grades translate to credit points. It explains GPA calculation by dividing total grade points by semester hours and lists several student examples with their points hours and averages.
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Harland Mead
Mary Mickey
Wendall Shaffer
Duane Peterson
Daryl Crawford
Jean Smith
Fir If
Helen Schoonover
Maurice Mayo
Wayne Brown
Charles Owen
Marie Hay
The Shadow Prompts Women’s Rights Crusaders In Mystery
An informer hints Donna Clow and Alice Shelan goski are crusaders as they probe a third floor room. A DeMolay BB tournament at Webster City features Elwyn Booth amid competing dames. A coach taunts Booth in a sports spoof with prizes for readers. A fire near St Paul’s Episcopal church triggers a death from a heart attack.
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Donna Clow
Alice Shelangoski
Webster City
Elwyn Booth
Freshwaters
Booth
Mames
Addie Quinn
St Paul's Episcopal Church
Palm Leaf Bible in Cottingen Library Described
A Palm Leaf Bible in the Cottingen library is noted for being written on palm leaves with VAT8 pages formed from a single lent.
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Cottingen
One Dollar Down staged at Joint Assembly
A joint Junior College and High School Way assembly on March 29 featured Mr. Taylor’s speech class performing the one act play One Dollar Down. The Cordovan family struggles with the installment plan until Mena rebels and pursues marriage to John Carson, bringing hope for change.
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Taylor
Cordovan
Mena
John Carson
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