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Just Don’t Forget . “You Can’t Take It With You” MAROON AND GOLD Let's Have Four More Baseball Victories This Week \ OLu Aiti ELON COLLEGE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18. 1951 NUMBER 13 WILL RULE OVER ELON’S 1951 MAY DAY FESTIVAL The royal pair chosen to rule over Elon’s 1951 May Day Fes tival are Flora Gilbert (left) of Dunn, and Pete Marshburn (rigrht,) of Greensboro. They were elected as May queen and kingr by vote of the students in a special campus election earli er this year. Plans for the event, which will be held on the camp us on Saturday afternoon. May 5th, are moving ahead under the direction of Miss Ruby Adams, director of girls’ physi cal education, who has announc ed that the festival will have a “Gay Nineties” setting. •V Players To Offer Comedy Famous Broadway Play Final Offering Of Year FLORA GILBERT PETE MARSHBURN ISorthCarolinaSymphony Concert Features Piano Solo By Sahlmann By JUSTYN CARTER The evening of April 12th proved to be very entertaining and exciting for the capacity audience that packed Whitley Auditorium, which was the setting of a concert by tlie North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Benjamin Swalin. Fred Sahlmann, Elon se.nior from Charleston, S. C., was guest soloist for the evening. This is Sahlmann’s fourth season as a guest soloist with the Symphony, and he has also appeared as piano soloist with the Charleston Symphony, under the direction of Albert Fracht. The Elon mubician gained much acclaim two years ago when he entered the Student Musicians’ contest under the sponsorship of the National Federation of Music Clubs and was awarded first place in piano in both the state and the South Atlantic District. He was recently elected to “Who’s Who Elon Host To Junior Musicians More than 100 youthful musici ans from thirteen North Carolina cities and towns were visitors on the Elon College campus on Sat urday, March 31st, for the annual junior division of the Piedmont District Musci Festival, staged under the sponsorship of the North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs. The junior contest was judged by a group that included Prof. Fletcher Moore, head of the Elon College Msic Department; Miss Dorothy Pennington and Miss Virginia Groomes, members of the Elon music faculty; Mrs. Thomas Kilkelly, piano instructor at Greensboro College; and Mra. Jesse Alderman, violin instructor, of Greensboro. Officers of the North Carolina Federation in attendance included Mrs. Pearl Tomlinson, of Hickory, state festival chairman; Mrs. M. O. Board, of Greensboro, Pied mont District director; and Mrs. B. F. Ledford, also of Greensboro, Piedmont District festival chair man. The contestants present repre sented twenty-two junior clubs from thirteen towns and cities. Places represented included Win ston-Salem; High Point, Greens boro, Burlington, Graham, Elon College, Mebane, Thomasville, Mount Airy, Boonville, Asheville, Pleasant Gardfen and Rural Hall. .Among Students in American Col leges and Universities.” Sahimann’s performance of Mo zart's "Concerto for Piano and Or chestra in C Major,” on the Sym phony program served as further proof of his exceptional ability. He performed the intricate pass age with apparent ease, and in the slow movement he showed a sensitive feeling of interpretation. His performance was such a grati fying experience to the large and responsive audience that he was recalled for an encore. He tnen played Liszt’s “Sonneto 104 del Petrarco,” in which he afeain showed fine interpretation CAPACITY CROWDS ATTEISD CONCERTS Approximately 9,000 persons heard the North Carolina Sym phony Orchestra in three con certs presented on the Elon C jI- lege campus last week, with one of the tiiiree audiences packing the huge Alumni Memorial Gymnasium to its capacity tor the first time since it was op ened for use early last winter. NSearly 8,000 of those who heard the Symphony were school childl^^n from the Burlington The first of the symphonic num- Alamance County schools. bers, Kabalevsky's “Overture from the Opera ‘Colas Breugnon’,” was a lively and rousing piece, which made the audience feel it was to have a very enjoyable evening. There were two tone-poems on the program, “The Merry Pranks of T 1 Eulenspiegel,” by Straus and the seldom heard “The Moldau” of Smetana. The latter is richly flowed and beautiful and is rem iniscent of Wagner, in that it has various little themes or motifs de picting each new subject. (Continued on Page Four) SYMPHONY GUEST Sloans Are Hosts To Spanish Club The Spanish Club was enter tained by Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Sloan at a weiner roast held on Thursday night, April 5th, on the roof of their new home, which furnished a setting reminiscent of the patio of a Spanish hacien da. The fiesta started at 8 o’clock, and during the evening hot dogs were served with all the trimmings, along with soft drinks and potato chips. The unusual setting for the party proved quite a thrill to the guests, making it one of the most enjoyable meet ings of the club. There were over 2,000 Negro school children present for the first of the series of programs at 1 o’clock last Wednesday af ternoon, and nearly 6,000 white school children jammed the gym nasium for the second concert 10:30 o’clock last Thursday morning. The final program was presented to over 1,200 adult listeners in Whitley Audi torium last Thursday evening. ISeiv Dances Are Feature Of May Day A series of original dances, planned and composed especially for the occasion, will feature the 1951 May Court Festival at Elon College, which will be staged here on Saturday, May 5th, under the i sponsorship of the girls’ physical i education department and with the cooperation of the music de partment. The title for the annual festival presentation will be “Central Park, U. S. A.,” with the time set ting in the year 1890 to set the flieme for them usic and costum ing. This was announced yester day by Miss Ruby Adams, direc tor of girls’ physical education, who will supervise the program. The original dances for this May Day event are being com posed by Howie Fisher, a native of Richmond, Va., who has had long experience in the profession al dance field. Fisher was with the Ted Shawn Dance Group for several years, has been associated with the Metropolitan Ouera and has also taught dancing at the College of William and Mary. Fisher was here at Elon last Saturday to interpret the new dances to the studentg roups, as sisting Miss Adams in the open ing practices held in the Alumni Menvorial Gymnasium. The dances will be presented in a se ries of fifteen different sets, ac cording to a statement from Miss Adams. Flora Gilbert, of Dunn, will rule as the May Queen for the 1951 festivities, with Pete Marsh burn, of Greensboro, sharing the royal homage as king. The two were elected by the Elon students at a special election held on the campus last November. The chief attendants for the royal pair will be Tessie Taylor, of Reillsville, escorted by Joe Erickson, of Bay Shore, Long Is land, serving as the Maid of Hon or and her escort. (Continued on Page Four) COLLEGIATE PRESS MEET NEXT WEEK The annual meeting of the North Carolina Collegiate Press Meet is scheduled to be held in Raleigh next week, opening on Thursday, April 26th. The big meet was originally set for this coming weekend, but leaders of the statewide intercollegiate or ganization postponed the affair one week. The Maroon and Gold plans to send representatives to the gathering, and copies of the paper and clippings of individ ual work have already been for warded to the officials of the association for judging in the annual contest. The Elon paper has won first honors in the bi weekly class for the past two years. New England Visitors Here A delegation of ministers and lay leaders of Congregational Christian churches in the New lingland states visited the Elon College campus on Friday, March 30th. The delegation, sixteen in number, was under the leader ship of Dr. Nelson C. Dreier, of New York City, secretary of the Hom« Mission Council for the church. The group arrived on the camp us in the afternoon of March 30th and spent the night here. The visitors were shown about the col lege and expressed much interest in the work being done here. They left the following day for Atlanta, Ga., planning to turn back north ward there for a return trip through Tennessee and Kentucky. The tour was one of a series of annual trips, during which the New England church representa tives view the m'ssionary, educa tional and social service projects of the Congregational Christian Church. Enroute to Elon, the visitors had stopped off In Mary land, Washington, D. C., and other points in North Carolina. Draft Tests To Be Given On Campus The projected tests to deter mine eligibility for draft defer ment will be administered to Elon College students right here on ciieir own campus, according to a recent announcement from the Se lective Service officials, who de signated Elon as one of twenty- one North Carolina colleges to of fer the tests. It has been pointed out that the determent tests will be given only to young men who have al ready begun their college work. Dates for the tests have been set for May 26th, June 16th and June 30th. The two latter dates will rurnish an opportunity for those students who begin their college work as freshmen in the first summer session. Dean U. J. Bowden, whose of fice has been a sbrt of clearing iiouse for draft information, points out that under present rules the college students whose grades place them in the upper brack ets of their class will not be re quired to take the tests. Present rules allow deferment of the up per half of the freshmen, the upper two-thirds of the sopho mores and the upper three- fourths of the juniors. FRED SAHLMANN Fred Sahlmann, Elon senior from Charleston, S. C., was well received by the audiences that heard him as guest soloist with the North Carolina Symphony here last week. This marks the fourth season that the Elon student has played with the Symphony. He is also to play with the group in Durham on May 15th. Summer Term Opens June 11 The first term of summer school will open on the Elon College campus on Monday, June 11th, under a change of schedule an nounced last week from the office of President Leon E. Smith. The new date is one week later than the original opening date, but Dean Bowden states that the re- mainider of the summer sched ule wil Ibe worked out so that the summer session ends not lat er than August 25th. The delayed opening of summer school was adopted in keeping with the speed-up program for the national emergency, giving high school seniors of this area a,bet ter chance to complete high school and enroll in the summer classes for freshmen. Dr. Smith points cut that a full schedule of fresh man courses is planned for this summer. The new summer school dates will alsop rove more convenient for many teachei-s, who may de sire to enroll for renewal or im provement of teacher certificates, since the later opening on June 11th assures that virtually all teachers will have comffleted their duties for thep resent term. ROGER GIBBS CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF STUDENT BODY IN BALLOTING Roger Gi,bbs, a rising senior from Greensboro, is the new president of the Elon College stu dent body and will head up the campus government during the next twelve months. He won the post in a race with Henry Hoppe, also a rising senior, from Newport News, Va. The choice was ex pressed by the students in the an nual election held on Tuesday of this week. There was much interest in the races for several of the student officers, but the campaign this spring was not so intense or heat ed as that of a year ago. The contestants in the final election were named in a primary two weeks earlier. The summary of final election results follows, with 'A’inners listed first. STUDENT BODY OFFICERS President Roger Gibbs 301 Henry Hoppe 114 Vice-President Matt Currin 256 Bill Blackstone 154 Secretary-Treasurer John Truitt 265 A1 Ludwig 159 At-Large-Member Student Council Dick Lee 211 Joan Summers 191 /VEr PRESIDENT ROGER GIBBS HONOR COUNCIL Senior Class (Two Elected) George Etheridge 260 Evelyn Booth 194 Len Fesmire 183 Hank DeSimone 148 Junior Clas-s (Two Elected) Ernie Gero 251 Reita Durham 198 Joe Durso ■ 193 Janice Goodmaa 139 Bringing a busy year to a howling climax, the Elon Players will present the hilarious and all too human story of a houseful of people who do exactly what they want to do, in the popular com edy, “You Can't Take It W'ith You,” to be presented on Whitley stage Wednesday and Thursday nights of this week. The play presents an unparallelled opportunity for the Players to exhibit their versatility, as the story romps gaily through three acts of the home life of a dozen or so individualists all living to gether in one house. The story takes place in a home owned by Grandpa Vanderhoff and occupied by his children and grandchildren, most of whom are married and have their spouses living in the house too. Grand pa's philosophy being “you can't take it with you,” everyone in the house does pretty much what he likes to do, displaying, in the pro cess, a magnificent disregard for conventional action and material possessions. As the scene opens, the family is living happily and without un due hardships, although their means of support is not too clear ly defined. The action takes place during the depression years, which explains why nobody works, but just stays home and has fun. But when Alice, the only em ployed member of the family, comes home from work one night to announce that she and the boss’s son are engaged to be married, the fireworks begin to go otf, and literally as well as figuratively, as Paul, Alice’s father, and a friend of his, Mr. DePinna, manufacture fireworks in the basement. Essue, Alice's sister, stays at home and takes ballet lessons from a transplanted Russian, Kol- enkhov, whose lack of tact is truly monumental. Elsie's husband, Ed, prints and plays the xylo phone. Now all of this goes on, not only in the same house, but aU. at once, while Aiice and Tony try to culminate their ill-starred love affair. The result is almost be yond belief. The part of Grandpa is por trayed by Bob Walker, with his daughter, Penny, and son-in-law, Paul, played by Lois Walker and J. B. Pickard. Rosamund Brom ley takes the part of Alice, and her dashing young lover, Tony Kirby, is enacted by Glenn King. Ed, the musical minded printer, and Essie, his wife, the would-be ballet dancer, ait portrayed by Nash Parker and Happie Wilson. The part of the ever-hungry Rus sian dance instructor is played by Lynn Cashion. Ed Engles and Justyn Carter play Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, Tony’s excruciatingly stuffy parents, who are shocked, insulted, scandalized and physically bruised when they come into contact with Grandpa's philosophy and lunatic family. Rheba and Donald, the colored servants, are portrayed by Patsy Milam and Richard Newman, and smaller, but equally juicy parts are done by Virginia-Davis, Roger A, Jf ill Have WHson, Laury Rockel, Joe Brank- ley. Bob Harned, Harry Farmer Outing April 25 Kennedy. The Women’s Athletic Associa tion will play host to the girls of the student body at a weiner roast at 5 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, April 25th, according to an announcement made this week by Jeanne Pittman, WAA president. In announcing the party, the WAA president requested that all girls interested in attending sign their names on notices that have been posted in West Dorm. La dies’ Hall and the Day Student Room. Dr. Vincent Jones, head of the Music Department of New York University, was a visitor on the Elon campus for three days last week, during which he viewed the work of the local music classes. Sophomore Class (One Elected) Ben Kendall 200 Woody Stoffel 192 SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS President Larry Gaither 84 Charlotte Rothgeb 14 Vice-President Charles Lynam 53 Bob Stimmers 45 Secretary-Treasurer Rosamond Bromley 57 Gaynelle Dyer 38 Student Legislator Jane Peterson 54 Tommy Johnson 44 BURLINGTON SHOW Six members of the Elon Play ers group had parts in a recent production of the Alamance Com munity Theatre in Burlington. The play was “Family Portrait,’' de picting the life of the family of Christ and its reaction to his teachings. Elon students in the cast were Bob Walker, Lois W^alk- er, Charlie Phillips. Lynn Cash ion, Dink Underhill and Joe Brankley. The play was present ed on Easter Friday night.