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MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1949
‘Arsenic And Old Lace^
Is Players^ Next Shoiv
By BOB WRIGHT
That the completely zany com
edy, “Arsenic and Old Lace,”
would be the next production of
the Elon Players was announced
at student chapel on Monday,
Jan. 10, by Mrs. Elizabeth R.
Smith, director of the Players.
“Arsenic and Old Lace” is the
play that presents murder ac
companied by belly-laughs. It
tells the story of three of the
sweetest, most lovable old ladies
one could hope to meet. They
have but one idiosyncrasy—mur
der.
Far from being sinister about
it, they consider themselves the
benefactors of their victims, who
are lonely old men without fami
lies. These pathetic old gentle
men are invited to partake of a
glass of home-made elderberry
wine which has been spiked with
arsenic, and thus they meet a
peaceful demise and are no long
er lonely.
These delightful old ladies are
by no means the only members
of the Brewster family. They
have a brother who thinks that he
is Teddy Roosevelt, and every
time he goes up the stairs he leads
an imaginary charge up San Juan
Hill.
There is another brother, Jon
athan, who is the black sheep of
the family. He, too, has dabbled
in murder, but with Jonathan it
isn’t a charity. He has left a trail
of corpses around the world by
the time he returns to the Brew
ster home for a rest.
Completing the roster of the
Brewster family is the nephew.
Mortimer. Mortimer is unique
is the dramatic critic for one of
is thed ramatic critic for one of
the New York newspapers, and
in his spare time he makes passes
at the minister’s daughter next
door.
“Arsenic and Old Lace” was
first presented in New York by
Howard Lindsay and Russell
Crouse of “Life With Father”
fame. Starring in the role of Jona
than, the black sheep of the Brew
ster family, was Boris Karloff,
horror man of the movie screen.
The play was an instant hit, and
the Lindsay-Crouse cash register
jingled merrily. A road company
was sent out with another experi
enced horror man, Erich von Stro
heim, playing the sadistic Jona
than.
OtKer characters in this com
edy hit are: Dr. Einstein, who
assists Jonathan in his “opera
tions;” Officer O’Hara, the cop
who wants to write the great
American drama; and many oth
ers.
ANSWERS TO M & G QUIZ
1. “Red” Monroe, of Greens
boro’s WCOG.
James Lewis Leaves Berlin
(Continued From Page 1) iences, Lewis brings to light an-
2.
Jim Lewis.
3.
Carmen Rodriguez.
4.
Jane Eyre.
5.
A $90 camera.
7.
“Arsenic and Old Lace.
6.
It might be you.
8.
Fred Hoffman.
9.
Three husbands.
10.
David Haith and Jeff
mons.
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BURLINGTON, N. C.
European adventures and tell a
mighty big story.
His odessey probably began
about 1937, when he was just 17
years old. He took a job as pas
senger representative for the At
lantic Coastline, a railway line,
and stayed with it for five years.
On a job that required him to
ride the trains meet people and
make them comfortable, 'travel
became customary with him, he
says.
Later, in uniform, his service
with the Army Transportation
Corps for 17 months in Africa
and Italy, sharpened his appetite
for travel, got him interested in
foreign countries and added some
to his background and experience
in transportation work.
Back in the states, and dis
charged, he remained at home
only four months. He went back
to Europe to work in transporta
tion with the Military Govern
ment
Lewis was Rail Transportation
Officer over perhaps the most im
portant of three transportation of
fices in Berlin, and he was the
only civilian serving in such a ca
pacity. An Army major was over
the Anhaler office, a colonel
headed the Wannsee office—and
Lewis handled Lichterfelder
West.
It is at Lichterfelder West that
the various U. S. dignitaries ar
rive, and from that office that
they depart. While Lewis was in
charge, former President Herbert
Hoover, numerous congressmen
and senators, and the movie stars
who filmed ‘Berlin Express” came
and went. Perhaps none of them,
with the exception of the movie
stars with whom Lewis was ac
quainted, knew to. whom they
owed their traveling convenienc
es.
other aspect of his kinship to the
great Odysseus. He may not be
the sailor the Greek hero was,
but he has made a worthy splash
or two.
Born on Chesapeake Bay, he
used to own his own sail boat. In
Berlin his seamanship came in
hand^. Every Saturday and Sun
day during racing season, an
American team competed in the
Inter-Allied sailboat races against
British, French and Russians.
Lewis was a star member of
the American team. In the qual
ifying races at the beginning of
the season, he not only qualified
for the season’s racing series—
he won the cup. He held mem
bership in the Berlin Yachting
Association and Racing Commis
sion and in the British Yachting
Club.
Add to his traveling and rac
ing the facts that Lewis put on
water skiing exhibitions, flew a
plane and played golf on Euro
pean courses, and you may well
wonder at the soberness of judg
ment that finally brought him
home.
However, he knows what he is
after. Current plans call for tak
ing a degree in law, then hot foot
ing it out to Phoenix, Arizona.
What’s out there? Well, there’s
something called the American
Institute of Foreign Trade, spon
sored by large business firms in
the U. S., training men for over
seas work.
That’s what Lewis is after-
more travel.
“But the next time I pack my
bags,” he says, “I’m going to pack
a college degree.”
Lewis is apparently unruffled
over the fact that two may not
travel as cheaply as one. He in
cludes his bride of two weeks in
Sloans Visit Puerto Rico
Cotton Glove, Color Added,
Becomes National College Fad
lEditor’s note: As far as is
known, Jeanne Meredith is the
only girl on the Elon campus
in possession of the Hep-Mits
discussed in the following news
story. Jeanne’s gloves, maroon
and gold, are a gift of the Rei-
gel Textile Corporation. Yours
will have to come from Wool-
worth’s in Greensboro).
One more homely, every day ar
ticle has yielded to the modern
vogue for style and color, and, as
a result, another national college
campus fad appears to be in the
making.
The common white cotton work
glove, which has remained un
changed in appearance for gen
erations, canx now be had in a
range of nine brilliant colors.
You can buy them in matched
pairs, you can mix them to match
your school colors, or you can
exchange left hands with a boy
friend or girl friend and the two
of you have corresponding mixed
pairs of ’Date Mates’ or ‘Love
Gloves.’
The ‘new look’ gloves have been
nicknamed hep-mits, and the idea
was thought up by Miss Peggy
Ann Garner, young star of Wil-
Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Sloan trav
eled approximately 5,000 miles
during the Christmas holidays,
touring in Puerto Rico, San Juan,
and the Virgin Islands to collect
material on the educational, re
ligious and political fronts in the
West Indies.
Upon their arrival in Puerto
Rico, they were met at the airport
by Miss Carmen Rodriguez, a stu
dent at Elon last year, now study
ing at the University of Puerto
Rico.
Two of the most sought-after
speakers in this section, the Sloans
carried their speech-making ha
bit to the island. They gave ad
dresses to a number of congrega
tions, Mrs. Sloan speaking Span
ish, with Dr. Sloan depending up
on an interpreter.
On one occasion, they recall.
Dr. and Mrs. Sloan “teamed up.”
Lr. Sloan addressed an audience
in English, and Mrs. Sloan inter
preted his speech in Spanish.
However, most of the time Mrs.
Sloan was busy preparing her own
speeches or other material.
During their stay they visited
rural and city homes and talked
to the students.
Their attention was drawn, they
say, to the fact that the schools
were good and well-operated, but
that they were inadequate to the
Dramatics 30 Class
To Air 15 Plays
Over Local Station
M]rs. Elizabeth R. Smith has an
nounced that an advanced course
in radio production will be on
the curriculum for the spring se
mester.
Listed on the schedule of class
es as Dramatics 30, this class will
accept students on audition only.
The time and place of tive audi
tions will be announced by Mrs.
Smith at a later date.
The course will feature instruc
tion in radio acting, direction, and
production of radio plays. A ser
ies of fifteen radio productions,
to be broadcast over one of the
Burlington stations on Sunday
afternoons, will constitute a ma
jor part of the course.
Participation in actual radio
productions will give those who
are enrolled in this course exper
ience in the practice as well as
the theory of radio production.
Original scripts will be used for
the broadcasts whenever possible,
providing a field of expression for , „ r
^ ^ population. Because of Ciis, they
the budding script writers of Elon , j *1,
„ or observed, there were three sec
tions in each school, a morning
College.
M&G EDITORSHIP OPENED
(Continued From Page 1)
he returns to stay with the paper
liam Moss Productions whose pic-' u^til the last three pages are off
ture, “The Big Cat,” is soon to ^he press.
be released by Eagle Lion Films.
The manufacturers thought
they had a style item for women
but when market tests were con-
It is also at Lichterfelder West aH his plans. In fact she may in- “ the Midwest, students
that General Clay’s special train crease his enthusiasm for globe
Feel Shopworn?
Shop Refreshed
is kept, and for two years Lewis
was in charge of it. On some oc
casions he traveled with the train.
He was, of course, at grips with
the transportation porblems
which have resutled from the
Russian restrictions placed upon
U. S., British and French move
ments to and from Berlin.
In his two-year stay in Euro'pe,
Lewis’s work and pleasure jaunts
took him to Czechoslovakia, Den
mark, Sweden, France, Holland,
Italy, Luxembourg and Switzer
land. In distance, at least, he out
did Homer’s Odysseus.
In his travels he picked up
conversational German, Italian
and French and acquired first
hand familiarity with geography.
In recalling his off-duty exper-
trotting, if that is possible, for
she likes to travel as well as he.
Mrs. Lewis is the former Miss
Marjorie Parker Hogon of Wil
mington. They were married
Dec. 29 in Baltimore, and are now
living in Atkinson House.
RADIO CLASS
(Continued From Page 1)
thress; Blanch Ingram, Joan Bol-
well; Richard Mason, Jack Sum
mers; Clergyman, Bob Wright;
Landlord, Henry Richards; Mary,
Evelyn Moore.
Baxter Twiddy is in charge of
the music, Bob Williams will han
dle sound effects, and the play is
directed by Paul Rosser and Bar
bara Haynes.
Ask Jor it either way ... both
trade-marks mean the same thing.
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at Northwestern and elsewhere
began buying them in mixed pairs
to correspond with their school
colors. The fad got a boost in
the East when Princeton athletic
officials arranged to outfit their
entire cheering section in orange
and black gloves for the Prince
ton-Yale game.
FOUSHEE
(Continued From Page 1)
ics student at Woman's College.
These slides include shots of pos
ture and different lines used in
dress designing.
Eventually Foushee hopes to be
supervisor of audio-visual aids in
some city or county unit. In this
way he can combine his hobby,
photography, with his profession,
teaching.
Prior to the week of publication
the editor calls a meeting, at
night, and assignments are given
to the staff of reporters.
Beginning next semester the
editor will do most of his work
in Mr. Bruton’s office. Pictures,
stories from syndicates and spec
ial agencies, and a complete file
of the past issues of Maroon and
Gold are kept in this office for
the editor’s use.
The work of the editor of Ma
roon and Gold compares with that
of any city editor. He writes ed
itorials, news stories (if he has
time), and headlines. He makes
assignments, supervises the lay
out, re-writes copy, tells the pho
tographer what pictures he wants,
and sends the pictures off to have
cuts made.
All those who are interested in
becoming editor of Maroon and
Gpld should see Mr. Bruton im
mediately. The appointment of
an editor must be made not later
than Friday, Jan. 21.
session, an afternoon session, and
a night session for veterans.
Another interesting fact, says
Dr. Sloan, is that all college text
books are written in English, but
the classes are conducted in Span
ish. This presents no great disad
vantage to the students, he ex
plains, because the children begin
studying English in the third
grade and continue studying it
throughout high scltiool.
Political excitement was high
on the island during their stay,
the Sloans say, because the peo
ple had just elected their first
governor. Until their recent elec
tion, Dr. Sloan explains, the peo
ple of the islands had had their
governor chosen by the U. S. gov
ernment. The people were rejoic
ing over the fact that they had
been granted freedom to elect
their own leader.
The Sloans’ returned home
Jan. 1.
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