Evening star. [volume], February 25, 1937, Page A-16, Image 16

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COMES NEED
“Careful Selection” of All
Students Also Urged by
Harvard President.
By the Associated Press.
IOWA CITY. Iowa, February 25.—
Dr. James Bryant Conant, Harvard
University president, said yesterday
adequate scholarships should be estab
lished for deserving university students
and there should be “careful selec
tion" of all university students.
Dr. Conant advanced his ideas in an
address on “The Selective Principle
In Education in a Democracy,” pre
pared for delivery before the first con
ference on higher education at the j
University of Iowa, held in conjunc- !
tion with the ninetieth anniversary
of the institution.
“I believe that one fundamental
educational question confronts all the
Universities of a grreat democracy—
how shall we select those whom we
are to educate?” the Harvard presi
dent asserted.
“The American college and the
American university,” he continued,
••exist for no one single purpose, but
for many purposes. The problem, as
I see it. is to keep the balance be
tween the various necessary objectives
and not to let our power of vision be
destroyed by focusing too long and too
intently on any one particular bull's
tye."
"In allowing our selective machinery
to grow rusty," he said, "we are fail
ing an equally important task—that
Cf providing the leaders of the future.
"What is this machinery by which
the colleges play their part in select
Ing and training the most able young
men and women? Clearly it is our
old heritage of stifif courses, a stimu
lating atmosphere making for hard
work, examinations, rank lists, ‘honor
•tandings.’ ”
"I do not believe in the older Ameri
can theory that it is necessarily good
for a student to work his way through
College," the president continued. “I
do not believe that it should be a
function of our educational system to
provide handicaps which are unfairly
adjusted so that they affect certain
Students and no others.”
He said he believed a carefully ad
Bunstered scholarship system is an
essential part of a democratic se
lective system of education.
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RELIEF CHIEF PICKETED
Wife of Administrator Launches
Counter-Movement.
MARISSA. 111. (/$>).—Six relief cli
ents picketed the home of Relief Ad
ministrator C. M. Eckert, protesting a
10 per cent cut allotments. They
carried banners reading. "He is starv
ing our children” and "God loves a
cheerful giver.”
Mrs. Eckert, asserting her husbond's
predicament was due to reduced State
allowances, started counter-picketing.
She placed a sign in the yard reading.
“You got your share; let others get
theirs.”
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.
Dance. Mississippi State Society.
Wardman Park Hotel, 9 p.m.
Dinner dance, Master Plumbers' As
sociation, Willard Hotel, 7 pm.
Dance. Isarri Society, Mayflower
Hotel, 8 p.m.
Dinner, Psi Zeta Omega, La Fay
•tte Hotel, 8:30 p.m.
Dinner. Bank Women's Club. Ad
miral Club, 1640 Rhode Island avenue,
1 p.m.
Meeting. Alliance Club, Hamilton
Hotel, 8 p.m.
TOMORROW.
Meeting, Women's Alliance of All
Souls' Unitarian Church, 11 a.m.
Luncheon. Reciprocity Club, La
Fayette Hotel, 12:30 p.m.
Dinner, War Mothers, Raleigh
Hotel, 6 p.m., meeting, 8 p.m.
Meeting, New York State Demo
cratic Society, Hamilton Hotel, 8
p.m.
Meeting, American Federation of
Government Employes, District De
partment, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m.
Dinner dance. Examination Divi
*ion, Farm Credit Division, Broadmoor
Hotel, 8 p.m.
Meeting. Ancient Order of Hiber
nians. Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m.
Meeting, Advertising Club of Wash
ington, Willard Hotel, 8 p.m.
Dance, Eastern Star Hope and
Acacia Chapters, Wardman Park
Hotel, 9 p.m.
Dance. Norwegian Society of Wash
ington, Washington Club. Seventeenth
and K streets, 9 p.m.
Young Washington
A young builder gets to work in the Takoma School kinder
garten. He is Theobald McQueeny, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Theo
bald McQueeny. 7131 Ninth street. Tomorrow: Jimmy Lemons,
son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Albert Lemons, at the Langdon School.
—Star Staff Photo.
Ginger Rogers Danced
Trying to Escape Dancing
Film Star Enjoys Working With Fred Astaire
and Thinks it Would Be a Mistake to
Change.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD. February 25 (N.A.N. A).—Ginger (Virginia) Rogers . . .
currently yellow-haired . . . always blue-eyed ... 5 feet 4 inches
in height . . . weighs a stationary 110 pounds . . . born in Inde
pendence. Mo. . . . came to Hollywood to escape being a dancer . . .
‘‘I didn't want to work hard any more" . . . resented being put into "Flying
Down to Rio." in which she was teamed for the first time with Fred Astaire.
“I was working in 'B' pictures at the time and considered musicals less
than the dust." The couple were'
third on the billing, preceded by
Dolores Del Rio and Gene Raymond.
Today, after
making seven
pictures together,
they are still
third on the bill
ing — but this
time of world
box office ap
peal.
Enjoys working
with Astaire and
thinks it would
be a mistake to
break partner
ship, but “it is
good to get aw-ay
from each other gheillh Grthara.
once m a while,
to avoid getting stale. It will be like
visiting a new’ country to have an
other leading man (she will have two
in ‘Vivacious Lady-—Burgess Mere
dith and Jimmy Stewart). And I
think Fred has the feeling of being
in a cage, always dancing with the
same partner. He is looking forward
to his first solo starring picture (‘A
Damsel in Distress’).”
Astaire's contract calls for two pic
tures yearly, but Ginger must make
four . . . thinks ‘‘Stepping Toes," on
which the pair are now working, is
the best Astaire-Rogers musical to
date. “It has more real story than all
the others put together.” (Music and
lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.)
. . . Confesses to lack of imagination
for inventing dancing steps. "I leave
all that to Fred. I'd sooner use my
brains for something else." Used them
recently to compose song, “I Can’t
Understand Why You Can’t Under
stand Me” ... Is legally separated
from Actor-Director Lew Ayres, whom
she married in 1934, but will not
divulge whether a divorce is immi
nent. “I'm so disinterested in the
subject I won’t even talk about It
(smiling sweetly).”
Dancing career began by winning
a charleston competition while still
attending school in Fort Worth, Tex.,
when aged 15 . . . first important as
signment with the Paul Ash Orchestra
in Chicago . . . was noticed in the
New York musical comedy, “Top
Speed,” and played ingenue lead in
"Girl Crazy” . . . after failing to
register in Hollywood, desired a return
to Broadway and wired Fred Astaire
“if you want a leading lady, here I
am.” (A well-known stage actress:
received the role )
Building Farm House.
Is now happy in California and Is
building a large nine-room farm house
on the top of Beverly Crest ... “Until
now I’ve always lived in small houses
and apartments. When the new house
is ready—it was promised for Christ
mas—I hope to move in during March
—I shall give very large parties. I
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DINNER DANCE
Dinner * I.*.% ._ K„ Addi.
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Most Important feature cf the
estate—according to Ginger—is the
tennis court. “I’m crazy about tennis.
Look how muscular I’ve become
through playing. It’s terrible. I
can’t wear evening dresses with thin
shoulder straps any more. If you
notice, in my pictures I always cover
the bad part of my arms with little
puff sleeves. What wouldn't I give to
have lovely, dainty shoulders and arms
like—er—Genevieve Tobin, for In
stance."
Has not yet traveled abroad. “I was !
going to England for the coronation,
but have to work here instead. Any
way, I don’t think it will be as exciting
without ex-King Edward. I wept dur
ing his abdication speech when he said
'the woman I love.’ Those things j
don’t happen these days, that’s all."
Does not require much sleep—even
during film making. “About six or
seven hours are enough” . . . wears
pajamas In bed because—"I’m a cold
person.”
(Copyrlfht, 1937, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
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