The following fall, the first real pangs of prohibition began to rise at the College. One of the University's more casual bootleggers published his own exclusive story in the CRIMSON explaining that the students could no longer trust the "hypocritical state cops" who were, incidentally, responsible for the arrest of one of the bootlegger's best friends.

The Jury Was Plastered

At the bootlegger's trial on the charge of selling beer, the jury confiscated the remaining 50 bottles of beer in the bootlegger's possession and went into the jury room to decide the case.

Three hours later, the bootlegger reported, the jurors all came out completely plastered and had the nerve to render a decision of "guilty." The lawyer for the defense jumped up, protesting futilely that "these men aren't jurors; they're witnesses."

Groucho Marx, in town for the Boston showing of "Animal Crackers," said that the only trouble with Prohibition was that "everyone in America was so busy drinking they don't give it a thought."

Elsewhere in theatricals, scores of University professors were quick to defend Eugene O'Neill's latest play. "Strange Interlude," which had been banned in Boston.

Politically, the Socialist Club again took the spotlight when Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr. '32 managed to get himself arrested in the Square for distributing pamphlets which welcomed England's Premier MacDonald. The alert Cambridge police jailed him on Chapter 27 of the General Ordinances, it was learned afterward. Cohen was eventually fined $10, but his literature was restored after pleas that it was not radical but only explanatory.

Following the appointment of J. Pierpont Morgan '89 as president of the Harvard Alumni Association for 1930, it was revealed that University officials were having difficulty with students who were changing their names on University records with aspirations of social and financial success. One man, in fact, had changed his name on registration cards three times during the same term.

Between hour exams that Fall, the Class of '30 relaxed by watching singer Ruth Etting, star of Ziegfeld's "Whoopee." In a CRIMSON interview, Miss Etting said that she picked most of her songs by the "heart throb" in them because "the kids like the sob stuff." Today, the currently most-popular motion picture in Boston now at Loew's State Theater, is the life story of this same performer as portrayed by Dovis Day.

On Soldiers Field, Athletic Director William Bingham was busy denying the Carnegle Report on Intercollegiate Athletics, which claimed that Crimson athletes had a share in concession profits. The football team, meanwhile, was busy edging Yale, 10-6, and football fans had again stolen the Elis' fence, the tra- ditional background for Yale's Captain pictures. It was later mysteriously returned.

That fall, too, a popular young novelist named Ernest Hemingway published "A Farewell To Arms,' 'and critic Lincoln Kirstein '30 wrote: "'Though we cannot now give him the title of "the" or even "a" great American novelist, if he progresses as logically away from uncertainty as up to the present, and grows in every technical power as he has so far done, he will undoubtedly be placed in the company of Melville, Stephen Crane . . ."

1930 also found an astute sergeant of the Cambridge Traffic Bureau tagging 'foreign cars" which had been in the State more than the 30 days allowed. That sergeant was the present State Registrar of Motor Vehicles, J. Rudolph King.

As the "talkies" gained popularity in 1930, star Janet Gaynor appeared in a sentimental story about a prostitute which ran for weeks at the UT. This same story, entitled "Street Angel," this year was converted into a musical comedy and two weeks ago opened on Broadway--but without a similar success.

Looking ahead to graduation, the Class of '30 elected James Roosevelt as treasurer; Douglas Adams as poet; Albert Churchill as Ivy Orator; Wallace Harper, James Barrett, and Gardner Lewis as Marshals; Edward Warburg as Orator; Bernard Hanighen as Chorister; and Otto Schoen-Rene as Odist.

Chosen on the Class Day Committee were James G. Douglas, Jr., William Wetmore, Josiah Potter, Foster S. Davis, Vincent L. Hennessy, Charles B. Lakin, and James L. Ware. John Cross was the Class Secretary.