Tuesday... Mach ‘25 19730 ARMOUR TECH NEWS Page Three THE swans Richard Brinsley Sheridan Presented at the Goodman Theatre Revlvals of the older plays are becoming fewer as the trend of the modern theater is leaning toward the production of the more modern drama. It was with a good deal of interest that the production of “The Rivals" at the Goodman was viewed. The play itself is familiar ground to practically every man in college, but the presentation of it will offer a real treat to everyone. The char— acters in the play at once become real and vivid, and the skill of the eighteenth century school becomes apparent upon hearing the dia— logue. While the wording and the cos- tumes may at first seem ludicrous to the twentieth century mind, the play swiftly envelops one in its on- joyable atmosphere, and the action is followed with the utmost interest. This comedy is light in theme, rapid in action, and filled with humor, proving that the antiquity of the play is no drawback to its presen— tation. Mrs. Malaprop, who is remem- bered as the lady with the twisted vocabulary, affords much of the humorous element, for the words that she so inadvertently uses are so obviously wrong that the appeal of her lines is irresistible. How- ever, the success of her part is closely connected with the other roles; their task is to use words of similar weight correctly and with— out hesitation. It is a marked fea- ture of the skill 01’ the cast that they are able to speak their diffi- cult llnes, both as to context and to accent, without stumbling nor delay. The characters are all well por- trayed, as is to be expected of most of the Goodman presentations. Mervis as the dashing soldier-.lover, Captain Absolute, creates exactly the impression that Sheridan must have desired; it is this perfection in the cast that makes the play give every possible iota of enjoy- ment that has/vbeemwrltten'vlntolit.“ Whether contritlon or arrogance is the order of the moment, Mervis plays the part excellently well, save for an occasional snicker when the man fails to control himself. How- ever, realizing that one cannot ac- quire the accent and actions of the period in so short a time, these slight slips can easily be overlooked in the general high standard of the acting. It is likewise most amusing for the onlooker to compare and con- trast the love-making of this period with that of today. Faukland, played by Neal Caldwell, is the lover who is distraught with doubts as to his lady fair, and is filled with a myriad of dissertations on lover’s habits as he sees them. However, most any one of us would hardly be so upset as he, and thus are af— forded another source of comic ac- tion. “The Rivals” offers an excellent evening’s entertainment, light, witty, and fast; furthermore being a familiar play to most every- one, must serve to gratify that de— sire to see in action what one has read in print. A. B. A. L. L. Perry Speaks to Economies Close Mr. L. L. Perry, engineer with Sargent and Lundy, consulting en— gineers, spoke at Professor Free- man’s evening school class of Economics last week. His topic was about the generation and trans- mission of power over short dis- tances. If it is generated at a coal mine it has to be a high capacity load in order to be economical. Professor V. B. Teach will speak at the final lecture this week. We regret to announce the pass— ing of the mother of Professor Au- gust C. Wilmarms, Mrs. Henrietta Willmanns, and wish to extend our sympathy in his recent bereave— ment. Armour Chapter of Tau Beta Pl held a meeting in their Chapter being 1 hassle negated ~ (A Brief Biography) Dr. Lee De Forest, the Father of Radio, has had a very interesting and inspiring life. During his early years he Was an obscure scientist, looked down upon by his employers as a dreamer, often in danger of letting his position, and more often practically penniless. Now, as his honorary title implies, he is the leader of one of the greatest in- dustries in the world, lauded as the man who made radio communica— tion possible, and respected as one of the keenest thinkers the world has ever known. He graduated from Yale univer— sity and went to work for the West- ern Electric Company, soon gaining a position in the telephone labora- tories. Here he soon became known as a dreamer, being more interest- ed in working with an induction coil than with the work assigned to him. After some time with the Western Electric Company be real- lzed that he wanted more time for his own work and accepted a posi— tion at Armour Institute as an in— structor in the department of physics and electrical engineering. He received no pay for his work at Armour, instead having the privi- lege of using the laboratories for his own 'work. He also held a posi— tion at Lewis Institute at this time, teaching two nights a week and re— ceiving a salary of five dollars a week for it. While Dr. De Forest was working at Armour he and President Ray- mond became acquainted through a common patronizing of the Com— et Restaurant. Here the two men would often dine together. Dr. De Forest was in the habit of. having a ten cent dinner on weeks days and a twenty cent one on Sundays ——when he could afford that luxury. While at Armour Dr. De Forest worked with Professor Charles Freeman on the idea of wireless transmission and managed to suc— cessfully send messages for short distances, gradually increasing from a few feet to several miles. When he and Professor Freeman had been atswork for about two ,years,otbey.,.were..given..tho..opnorm tunlty of reporting the Lipton yacht. races at New York by means of their wireless transmission. Not knowing the deleterious effect of salt water on wireless work, they failed in their attempt and the race was reported by flag signals as it always had been. . The press was kind to them, how- ever, and so covered up the affair that no one knew that they had failed. That failure only made Dr. De Forest work harder and made his ultimate success more certain. Due to Dr. De Forest’s work, the Trans-Continental Telephone was opened in January, 1915. A few years later he opened a broadcasting station in New York but soon his license was revoked because the broadcasting inter- fered with shipping signals. In 1920 he opened a station in San Francisco which broadcast or— chestra programs almost exclusive— y. His greatest work was the inven- tion of the three electrode vacuum tube, which made modern radio possible. Dr. De Forest also did a great deal of work in the development of the talking pictures and is confident that we shall soon have the system perfected. His life, starting in poverty and ending in fame, always full of opti- mism no matter new dark the out- look, is an inspiration to all who know him. W. H. R. X—Roys Used to Test Business Products The uses of the X~ray in industry are increasing steadily. Satisfac-, tory photographs are now made through four inches of steel, six inches of aluminum and through other materials in proportion to their density. . . . Automobile tires are photographed to determine the condition of union between cord and rubber. Golf balls are X~rayed to inspect centering of the cores. The amount of tetra-ethyl lead in gasoline can quickly be determined by radiography. A few shoe stores have installed fluoroscopic units to Show customers how shoes really Hall rooms yesterday at 4:30 p. or. fit BETA P511 The Smoker held at the House Friday March 2151:, was wellvat— tended both by the actives and a number of alumni. ‘ Friday was also the beginning of a week of probation for the follow- ing: L. R. Anderson, 0. L. Staib, and l). B. Snapp. PHI Pl Pl-ll On Saturday March 22nd, Gamma Chapter of Phi Pi Phi held a formal initiation for pledges: S. A. Car :- son, ’32, C. Mitchell, ’32, J. Clayson, ’33, C. Cruver, ’33, and G. Hill, ’32. A luncheon was served after the initiation. Saturday night the annual formal Dinner Dance was held at the Knickerbocker Hotel, music being supplied by Grundy’s Chicagoans. KAPPA DELTA TAU P. Percy Fortnoy, athletic man— ager, has been busy preparing plans in order to produce some good base- ball and tennis teams. Two weeks have been allowed the pledges before formal initiation in order that they might have time to recuperate from the initiation held for them in the Indiana Sand Dunes, Saturday, March 22nd. TRIANGLE The initiates dance, which proved to be a huge success, was held Sat- urday, the 15th. Brother Bodenson has returned again after a brief confinement at home, making the chapter full strength again. The engagement of George A. Potters, ’29, to Miss Florence Du Hasek was recently announced by Miss Du Hasek’s parents. She is a student at the University of Chi— cago and a member of Phi Beta Delta sorority. SlGMA KAPPA DELTA On last Saturday evening, March 22, the actives and many alumni enjoyed the radio dance given at the house. For the present, April 12, is the date planned for the annual Hard :Timesasharty. ., DELTA TAU DELTA Gamma Beta Chapter of Delta Tau Delta announces the initia— tion of the following: M. R. Beal, R. H. Frye, F. M. Gihian, E. J. Grif- fin, W. H. Larson, T. D. Luckett, D. W. Pearson, H. A. Pearson, R. A. Peterson, and S. B. Cone. The in— formal initiation was Saturday night, ending probation week, with the formal initiation three o’clock Sunday afternoon, March 23. A banquet followed at the House. New Checking System for Probation Students This year the Deans’ Office is sending cards around to the profes— sors for students on probation in order to get the student's grades at the end of the first six weeks. This system has been put in effect this semester instead of having the students taking slips around to the professors. These cards will also be given out at the end of the twelve weeks, in order to get information that will assist the Deans in aiding each student. Mr. M. L. Helbrun is offering a prize of $100 on the class A and B archeology VI project in memory of his father, William Helbrun. The esquisse for this problem will be, Saturday, March 22. The subject will probably be on Venitian Ren~ naisance period. Phi Lambda Upsilon, national honorary chemical engineering fraternity, will hold a meet- ing tonight in their rooms on the third floor of Chapin Hall. There are still four tickets left for Doctor Protheroe’s Welsh Male Chorus Concert at Orchestra Hall on Thursday evening, April 3. Any- body wishing to get them should see W. Manske, ’30, president of the Glee club. 1 ’ Despite a‘decrease of 5 per cent in total crop production, 1929 crops were worth $85,000,000 more than last year’s, says the United States department of agriculture. ,costs was accomplished by the ‘ Defihreerfldpeohs din Experiments (Continued from page 1) but, in the period following the war, radio found days of hard go— ing as there was nothing of par— ticular interest to the people. The government no longer needed de— tectors and there was still a ban on amateurs. ' In 1920, however, Dr. De Forest aroused much interest in radio broadcast, and opened a station in New York. Due to interfering with the Army and Navy signals, how— ever, his license was revoked. He then repaired to San Francisco and organized a similar broadcasting unit which was widely acclaimed and received with much enthusi— asm. This was really the beginning of the system of broadcasting that we have today. Predicts Great Development Dr. De Forest predictsgreat suc» cess for radio in the very near fu— ture. Each year will see astounding discoveries and improvements. lie states that the day will come when we will be able to obtain equally good and probably better reproduc— tion from the cheaper sets then from the more elaborate cabinet types of today. The radio tube companies in the last three years have employed 6,000 radio engineers in research, and the entire radio industry en— joyed a $600,000,000 turn-over in business annually. The vacuum tube has found use in many branches of industry, including television, sound pictures, theater light controls, metallurgy, crime detection, etc. In closing, Dr. De Forest told how he had been forced to the decision of whether he should ally himself with some industrial organization or should strike out for himself along independent lines. I—Ic ex- pressed thc hope that his life, with its early privations and later suc~ cess might be an em t to New Wiermometer Armour Represented for Steel industry by Deans at Meeting Discovery of a substitute for the thermometer, a photo—electric eye that literally “sees" temperature, was announced recently. It is not a universal substitute, but another industrial specialist, a robot said to do one important thing in steel manufacture never before possible. It looks on white—hot steel and reads instantly to a fraction of a degree the searing heat of thou— sands of degrees, but is no good for the back porch on a hot day, for it does not work below 1,000 degrees. The eye was explained to the American Electric Railway Associa- tion at the Westinghouse Lighting Institute by J. V. Breisky, research engineer of the Westinghouse Elec— tric dz Manufacturing Company. Because of uncertainty in pres— sent methods of determining the temperatures of molten steel he explained a certain percentage turns out inferior, and is scrapped, the loss being sufficient to erect a score of Chrysler buildings an- nually. The practiced human eye has furnished the only generally workable method of estimating the steel temperature from its glow. Even the thermocouple, a pair of wires that can be thrust into the Deans Penn and Palmer attended the annual meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools held last Friday night, March 21. Professor W. C. Wichendsen, pres- ident of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, Ohio, was the principal speaker of the evening. The North Central Association is made up of all the recognized schools in the central part of the country and to a certain extent controls the requirements and standards of those schools which are its members. Recently Crane College, Bradley Tech, and Iowa Wesleyan were expelled from main: loci-ship. Drawings on Display at Art institute The first set of drawings sent by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture are now on exhibit at the Burnham Library of the Art Institute. The designs are from the Universities of Pennsylvania, Wash— ington, Oregon, Kansas, Yale, Cor- nell, Syracuse, Harvard, Georgia Tech, Pennsylvania State College and the Alabama Polytechnic In— hottest steel and that will-record stitute. the temperature to within hun— The next set will include draw— dredths of one degree was not effl— ings from Armour, University Southern California and numerous other universities that are members of the association. cient because it required seven to eight minutes for a reading. That is too slow; the photo— electric eye operates as iast as sight, its measuring stick being the light emitted from the glowing metal. It runs a meter calibrated in degrees of temperature, and reg» lsters changes when the human eye can scarcely see a dlflercnce in the color oi? the glow. lT PAYS To LOOK WELL WHl'l‘E SANl’l‘ARY BARBER SHOP N. E. CORNER. 3181‘ a; INDIANA AVE. Ennemenl newsstand? enhancers 75 E. 3131' STREET NEAR MICHIGAN AVE. IS KNOWN FOR QUALITY FOODS. MEALS 20c AND UP present day students in their own struggles both during and after their school days. Emotions Ship Noni Under Test A young man’s idea of a rivetless ship of steel is partially realized and ready for tests that will prove success or failure. The Carolinian, first rivetless, self—propelled steamship in Amer— ican maritime history, awaits only favorable weather for speed trials and tests on the Atlantic Ocean be- fore being placed in service. Richard F. Smith is the builder. Reared in the environment of the shipyards at Newport News, Vir— ginia, Smith for years had dreamed of an all-welded ship. Two years ago his plans were completed and he brought his idea to Charles V. Boykin, vice-president of the Charleston Dry Dock & Machine Company, who decided to try the idea. The keel was laid on June 1, 1929, and amid secrecy the work began. Nothing of the nature of the ship was divulged until patents protect- ing it in this and foreign countries had been obtained. While the legal phases neces‘ sary to obtain patents were going forward, the hull of the ship rose, not with the rat—tat-tat of the pneumatic hammer, but with the hiss of the electric welding appa~ ratus singing the song of industry. The Carolinian slid from the ways on February 14, in the pres- ence of navy and civilian experts, who predict that she will come through the trials with flying colors. After the tests the Carollnian will be placed in the coastwise trade from Elizabeth, North Carolina. A saving of 20 per cent in weight and 25 per cent in construction Smith method, drydock officials said. Mr. Boykin said he had found that a welded ship had greater cargo capacity, due to the absence of rivets and bolts. only 8,000 pounds of electric welding was necessary, as compared with 28,000 pounds of rivets used in a vessel of v" s iowtmlilmntssinwm ! ‘1' 4w- oho has a Are Here for Spring in 021 TH ~ Harrow Classmate s.» Slows Imminent Chicago Stan's STATE AT JACKSON 1 t 5 SOUTH MICHIGAN "VF NR MONROE) Milli“ similar size.