1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

Vol. LV, No. 5THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETAsociation. The board consists of sevenmembers elected from the state atlarge. Two months later he becamesecretary-treasurer and general managerof the Guaranty Abstract Com-BEN O. KIRKPATRICKWashington (St. Louis), '27pany of Tulsa, one of the largest titlecompanies in the Southwest, withwhich he had become associated in1928. Then in October, 1930, BrotherKirkpatrick was elected national secretaryof the abstractors' section of theAmerican Title Association meetingat Richmond, Virginia. He also obtainedthe pledge of the AmericanTitle Association to hold its twentyfifthannual convention at Tulsa inthe fall of 1931. Climaxing a year ofelection came his election to the OklahomaHouse of Representatives in November.He received the largest numberof votes and the greatest majorityof any legislator elected in the state.Brother Kirkpatrick had nine opponentsin the primary election, includingtwo former district judges, the secretaryof the local federation of labor,and a former member of the legislature.The role of prophet was assumedin a recent interview with Brock Pemberton,Kansas, '08, famous theatricalproducer, when, contrary to the usualdoleful predictions made, he forecastthe return of the "road show" to popularityafter a temporary eclipse duelargely to the "talkies." In part hesaid: "I believe in the possibilities of'the road' as a great theatrical lane.A good many producers make a mistakewhen they say the road is dead, sofar as dramatic attractions are concerned.They use the wrong tense;it isn't dead and it isn't going to die,but it has been in something like acomatose condition. I study road conditionsas much as Broadway conditions.That's what I'm doing when Imake it a business excuse to go to thiscity and that city to look at my companies."Brother Pemberton's highly successfulplay. Strictly Dishonorable, afterover 500 performances is still a boxoffice drawing card. The producerplans to withdraw it from Broadwayearly in 1931 and then cover considerableterritory in the East with thesame company. A southern companyis also playing and a third company isin the Middle West. A company ismade up for a London presentation ofthe play in February and by late springten companies will be presenting it inStockholm, Prague, and several otherEuropean capitals.Brother Pemberton has announcedthat the next play on his docket is[345]Made in Hollywood, a comedy of lifeand manners, with the world's moviecapital as its locale.Editor and Publisher for December13, 1930, carried a long, illustrated featurearticle about the work of FrankW. Rostock. Akron, '02, president andeditor of the Cincinnati Post. Therise in the newspaper world forBrother Rostock began, says Editorand Publisher, with his arranging ofa very successful baseball paradeunder very inauspicious circumstancesin Cleveland in 1915. His ability soimpressed Earle Martin, editor of theCleveland Press and chief of theScripps-Howard Ohio group, that thelatter took him from the sports departmentand made him a makeup editor.