Saturday, May 4, 1933.
Famous Faces
THE SALEMITE
MAY QUEEN
It’s hard to tell you about our
May Queen, christened Elizabeth
Cortlandt by her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Preston of Washington,
D. C., but known to us at Salem
as “Cokey.” She must seem to you
very serious and dignified as she
serenely presides over our May Day
Fete. And she is serious and dig
nified at the proper times—yet when
we think of Cokey we usually think
of dimples and flying curls and an
irrepressible chuckle. There are so
many talents and so much individu
ality and charm bound up in her one
small self. Author, (she has been
editor of the Salemite this year, and
co-author of two well-known operas),
athlete—(she has been on every ath
letic team known to Salem and
helps coach most of them), actress—
(she has been in Pierrette i)layers for
four years), executive (she was
President of her class last year, and
has been active in I. E. S. and Stu
dent government every year), a cam
pus belle (she can’t count the num
ber of week-end trips to various col
lege campuses, and telephone calls
she receives), and now, after three
years practice in marching in the
May Court Processional, she is our
Queen.
MAID OF HONOR
The Maid-of-Honor, Miss Elois
Padrick, doughter of Mr. and Ttlrs.
W. G. Padrick of Fort Pierce, Flor
ida, has been the efficient president
of the Pierrette Players this year,
and one of its most talented mem
bers the other three years of her col
lege life. Pat’s histronie abilities
are so great, and her talents so var
ied, that she has been able to play
equally well the role of actress, ath
lete, Mademoiselle with a true Pa
risian accent, and a member of the
T. E. S. Council, Y. W. C. A., Sale-
mite, and Sights and Insights Staflf.
She has been in May Court every
year she has been at Salem, and the
number of broken hearts she strews
behind her seems to run well into
the realm of higher mathematics.
Vou certainly need no testimony of
her beauty—Pat’a diminutive self
and her personality plus—her brown
eyes and vivacious smile must be
evident even across the “village
green.”
SALEM COLLEGE MAY COURT
Page Three.
COSTUMES
A very vital part of every pluy on
pageant is always the coustuniing of
the characters. This year the credit
for the costumes of our May Day
Pageant goes to Mrs. Elizabeth Mein-
ung, As.sistaut Professor of Home
Economics at Salem College, and her
student committee, headed by Fran
ces Adams of Monroe and composed
of Florence McCanless of South Bos
ton, Virginia and Erika !Marx and
Martha Schlegel, of Nazareth, Penn
sylvania. To say that these people
have worked long and hard is evi
dent from the variety and number
of costumes appearing in the pag
eant, which were designed and for
the most part made by the Costume
Committee. It has required both a
knowledge of the history of English
dress and an artistic appreciation of
effectiveness in pareantry to make
our English village (leople properly
costumed. Because in any typical
village scene there are found persons
representing a variety of social po
sitions, characters appear in our
pageant who might represent both
the landed gentry and the simple
country folk. Shepherdesses and
milk- maids mingle with the more
prosperous of the villagers and no
trace of superiority will be noticed.
Each class has been dressed as ac
curately, as colorfully, and as effec
tively as the talented members of
the Costume Committee working
with limited funds could arrange.
Salem College is holding its traditional May Day exercises on the college campus. Members
of tlie court are left to right), top row: Garnelle Eaney, Salisbury; Susan Eawlings, Goldsboro; Betty
luttle, Leaksville; Margaret Calder, Charlotte; Beverly Little, Ansonville. Second row: Grace Carpenter
Statesville; Cortlandt Preston, May Queen, Washington, D. C.; Elois Padrick, maid of honor. Fort Pierce’
Honda; Jean Eobinson, Lowell. Third row: Etta Burt Warren, Trenton; Eleanor Matheson, Charlotte’
Cordelia Lowry, Bedford, Va.; Cornelia Wolfe, Charlotte; Phyllis Clapp, Winston-Salem. ’
HOUSE PARH PRO
GRAM AND GUESTS
ORGANIZATION AND
FINANCE OF THE MAY
DAY COMMIHEE
Elizabeth Jerome, of Winston-
Salem, the capable chairman of May
Day has done the thing few people
have the courage and ability to un
dertake. She has presented the fin
ished product that required more
time and energy than will ever be
visible. After individual assign
ments to specific duties, each piece
of work was carefully attended to
personally.
It is not often that an organiza
tion allows outsiders a glimpse into
the inner workings of its machinery,
hut because the May Day Committee
has grown into a major organization
On the Salem Campus it was thought
fitting to let you see just how it
works. Its chairman has as her
right-hand man a vice-chairman and
a treasurer and then eleven Com
mittee Chairmen. This group, the
May Day Committee, has entire re
sponsibility for financing, planning,
and staging the May Day fete. This
year to help finance the organiza
tion, the committee successfully di
rected a baby-picture exhibit of
prominent members of the student-
'>ody and faculty, an damateur Stunt
Kight, a sale of Christmas cakes, ran
the Wee Blue Inn, an organization
that comes to life every night, and
>nade quite a success out of the
Tenting of costumes used in previous
May Day Fetes. Although it takes
substantiol sum of money to fi
nance a Salem May Day, the organi
zation has been able to meet all of
its obligations to date and hopes to
I>e able to leave a drop in the bucket
for the Committee next year.
A delightful program has been ar
ranged for the May Day House
Party. It is as follows:
Saturday, May -i:
8;.30—Outdoor Chapel.
9:00—Visit Classes, Swimming,
tennis.
1:00—Luncheon—College Dining
Hall.
2:00—Drive through city.
5:00—May Day Pageant—Lower
Campus.
0:30—Picnic Supper—Upper campus.
8:00—Play—Op O’ Me Thumb.
Pierrette Play which won the
City Dramatic Contest — at
Memorial Hall.
9:00—Informal Party in Hut for
House Party guests.
The house party guests for the
May Day week-end are: Annie Ap-
pleswhite, Greensboro; Katherine
Bernhardt, Salisbury; Beverly Biv
ins, Mt. Airy; Elizabeth Banner,
l^rt. Airy; Inez Calcutt, Fayetteville;
Nancy Cooley, Davidson; Betsy Fear
ing, Windsor; Martha Flyut, Rural
Hall; Virginia Foy, Mt. Airy; Fran
ces I’urr, Salisbury; Emma Brown
Grantham, Eed Springs; Sara Gray,
Eoanoke, Va., Sara Harrison, Char
lotte; Ado Sugg Harvey, Kinston;
Evelyn Henderson, Charlotte; Helen
Johnston, Davidson; Edna Knott,
Kinston; Josephine Lowrance, Salia-
burj'; Mary Ann Maxwell, Beckley,
Va.; Margaret Meacham, Lexington;
Mary Euth Moore, Rocky Mount;
Allie Murdock, Salisbury; Janet Mc-
Connel, Fayetteville; Edith McLean,
Lenoir; Martha McNair, Laurin-
burg; Eleanor Newmon, Salisbury;
Doris Payne, Lenoir; Sara Pinkston,
Fayetteville; Julia Preston, Wash
ington; Mary Elizabeth Purvis,
Salisbury; Janice Raney, Salisbury;
Betty Sewell, Charlotte; Catherine
Enead, Greensboro; Annie Lee
Smith, Mt. Airy; Arrinona Shoaf,
Lexington; Edith Southard, Salis
bury; Emma Lee Suttenfleld, States
ville; Euth Sykes, Hamlet; Connie
Lee Thibpen, Rocky Mount; Char
lotte Washburn, Ormond, Fla.;
Frances Watlington, Eeidsville;
Ethel Watkins, Salisbury; Emma
Lou Williamston, Durham; Kath
erine Jefferson White, Fayetteville;
Myrtle Wilson, Fayetteville.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Behind the scenes of May Day
are familiar sights and sounds of
those people who have been busily
toiling away for the past weeks to
make May Day a success. Now that
tlie hustle and flurry are over, the
sights and sounds ar erecalled one
more time for the benefit of the peo
ple who will never hear them again.
Seen:
Libby Jerome with an armful of
costumes — Libby Jerome rushing
from somewhere to some place,
bumping into people, always explain
ing to puzzled friends — “It’s for
May Day.” —
Frances Adams and Florence Mc-
Canless in home economics rooms,
feverishly trying to make both ends
(of cloth), meet.
Aggie Brown doling out May Day
funds with all the exactness of a
successful banker.
Anna Wray Fogle robbing unsus
pecting little houses of their chim
neys for May Day. Mrs. Fogle,
Anna Wray’s mother, taking careful
inventory of the family properties to
be sure everything except the kitch
en sink is not carried to Salem for
May Day.
Heard:
Mrs. Gloria Crouse “One-two —
one, two. Now, girls, remember that
you have to put expression in these
dances by your actions. Altogether
now! Step-point-step. ’ ’
Jo Reece: Mef — In a May Day
dance? Gosh, I’ll never learn it!”
Frances Hill Norris: “Will all the
Villagers and May pole dancers meet
at 1:30 on lower campus T Please
(very pleadingly), be there.”
Stephanie Newman; “Can anybody
spell ‘moussoline de soie.’ I guess
I’ll have to call it starched chiffon
or see a fashion expert. Why didn’t
Court wear
enough to
the girls in the May
organdy, that’s easy
spell. ’ ’
Also hoard: The clauk clank of the
mimeograph machine as it turns out
May Day publicity.
An old English air being played
on the piano while weary dancers
keep time with a “1-2-3-4. ”
Loud howls going out for black,
low heeled shoes by Salem’s dan
cers, wondering now why their shoe
choice never went any farther than
brown oxfords.
A general commotion behind the
bushes on May Day, from whence
dancers will trip forth, hoping not
to bo tripi>ed up.
Music — as the pageant begins.
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