VOL. XX.
WINSTON-SALEM. N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 3. 1940.
Number 25.
OUR IMAY DAY FESTIVAL
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LET THE SUN
SHINE ON MAY
DAY COMMITTEES
At last, the day lias come—May
Bay! For weeks wo have heard
rumors about “Can-Can" dancers,
"Bathing Beauties” and “Barber
shop quartets.” Little does Salem
in general realize just how much
work goes into May l>ay—work
which takes place behind the scenes.
Much appreciation should go to the
committees, and now is the proper
time to recognize them and thank
them. May we say, ‘ ‘ Here’s our all
to sunny weather for each one I”
Costume committee: Elizabeth
Norfleet, chairman; Gladys Black
wood, Barbara Norman, Marvel
Campbell, Lib Nelson.
Wee Blue Inn committee: Gladys
Blackwood, chairman; Dot Sisk,
Mary Jane Copenhaver, Dee Dixon,
Dorothy McLean, Betty Barbour,
Lucy Springer, Emily Abbott, Leila
Johnston, Wyatt Wilkinson, Harvi-
«an Smith, Marguerite Bettinger,
Marie Fitzgerald, , Edith Horsfleld,
Muriel Jonick, Marion Norris, Sara
Barnum.
Publicity committee: Anne Mew-
borne, chairman; Madeleine Hayes,
Melba Maekie.
' Properties committee: Esther
Alexander, chairman.
Program committee: Jane Alice
Dilling, chairman.
Nominating committee: Margaret
Patterson, chairman; Elizabeth Wel
don, Martha Sauvain.
Afusic committee; Sarah Linn,
chairman; Margaret Vardell, Elean
or Carr.
Flower committee: Ella Walker
Hill, chairman.
Dress committee: Nell Kerns,
chairman.
Dance committee: Betsy Hobby,
chairman ;Ann Ewing.
RADCLIFFE IS CHAM
PION IN BRIDGE
TOURNAMENT
The celebrated Big Throe Eastern
intercollegiato sport.s — Princeton,
Harvard and Yale—finished in that
•rder behind two young ladies from
Badcliffe College in the first annual
invitation Intercollege Bridge
Championship held at the Ritz-Carl-
ton Hotel in New York last week
end (April 26-27).
Winners in the tournament, which
attracted campus contract champions
from five Eastern women’s colleges
and seven Ivy League universities,
were Mary Ashley, 19-year old jun
ior at Radcliffe from Perrysburg,
Ohio, and Muriel Goldberg, 21-year
old senior from Calgary, Alberta.
William M. Jennings, ’40, and E.
Glen Maitland, ’41, of Princeton,
were runners-up. Others entered
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Gay are these Can Can Dancers,
who will step right out of the
“Family Album’’ as one of the fea-_
tured attractions of tomorrow’s May
Day festival. Faithful in detail,
COURTESY JOURNAL-SENTINEL.
even to the cotton stockings, are the
costumes worn by the performers.
Left to right they are: Frances Yel-
verton, Peggy Somers, Carol Barber,
Marcia Lambert, Martha Sauvain,
and Barbara Hawkins.
Grand-Parenis Show Album of May Day
To give you a good idea about
what is in store for you tomorrow,
we are printing the script of the
May Day pageant. The pageant,
written by Grace Gillespie and Eve
Tomlinson in January, is the story
of a grandfather and grandmother
who, with their two grandchildren,
return to Salem for the 1940 May
Day celebration. With them they
bring their “Gay Nineties’.’ album
from which they display certain
selected pictures for the entertain
ment of the reigning queen and her
court. As the pageant begins, we
see these four arriving for the cele
bration.
Pageant:
Song—“When You and I Were
Young, Maggie,” Kathryn Swain.
(Enter: Grandfather, Grandmother,
and 2 Grandchildren).
Grandson: ,
Grandpa, fifty years ago today
You married Grandma and took
her away.
Won’t you tell us about it again,
About horse.s and buggies and
things back then.
Grandfather:
Yes, and I brought this album so
you could look /
At all the pictures that wo took,
And the things that you will see,
Looked as they did to your Grand
ma and me.
She was Salem’s May Queen'then
—and haughty,
Buler of a court that was nice but
naughty.
Today we have returned to cele
brate
And for Queen and court of 1940
relate,
The scandals of those days so rare
When ladies were round, but danc
es were square.
Granddaughter:
Well, it’s almost time for the
Queen of May,
And when she comes may we hear
of those times so risque?
Grandmother:
Yes; for here come the twelve at
tendants who share
In the festivities, with their Queen
so fair.
Processional: Court, Pages, Queen)
Grandfather:
Oh, fair court and Queen of May
1 congratulate you on this happy
day,
It reminds me of that time in 1890
When Grandma reigned so high
and mighty,
But observe you now all far and
near
As 1 offer the crown to the Queen
of this year.
(Page carries crown up. Maid of
Honor crowns Queen).
Grandson: '
And now that the Queen is crown
ed
And she and her court are gath
ered round.
Let us open the book and togeth
er view
All those things that to us are
new.
(Open Picture Album).
Grandma:
This first picture to you mmst
seem quite funny
But to us, in those days, life was
sunny
For that was the time when lovers
did woo
On that new contraption, the bi
cycle built for two.
(Couple comes out wheeling Bicycle.
Boy sings chorus of “Bicycle Built
For Two” The two do a dance. Go
off arm in arm).
Granddaughter: ,
Anil this next was taken when
you uHoil to meet '
At the barbi.'r shop on Old ^fain
St rect
Wlierc the quartet would sing
“Sweet Adeline,’.’
And all would sigh and for their
sweethearts pine.
(■Barbershop quartet .sing “Sweet
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TAKE A PEEP AT
COURT LADIES
From languorous sophistication to
sparkling vivacity: every type is
represented in Salem’s May Court
for 1940.
The two main figures in the whole
show tomorrow are definitely and
undeniably brunette — Queen and
Maid of Honor each have brown
eyes and dark brown hair.
Louisa Sloan, the very, very
queenly girl from Wadesboro, grad
uated at St. Mary’s before she came
to Winston in 1937 to finish at
Salem. She has a shocking weak
ness for doctors and lawyers, blue
Buicks and red roses, University
towns that begin with the letter
“C” (Charlottesville and Chapel
Hill), and classical music. Her only
antipathy is for moody people and
jitter-bug dancing.
Vera Mae Lanning, (“Bib”, you
know) lives out at Wallburg with
her family—parents and three sis'-
ters. The more slow, dreamy music
that Charlie Manooch plays tomor
row night, the better she’ll like the
dance. She looks lovely in blue, is
crazy about High Point, “goes for”
all sports (particularly riflery), and
loves yellow roses.
Three years a May Court girl,
Mildred Kelly of Fayetteville, finds
the thrill still overwhelming. “The
dresses this year have that spirit of
the nineties—makes you feel extra
gay and frivolous,” she said. Even
her own roommate, Nancy Suiter,
was speechless when asked for a
properly descriptive adjective for
Mildred. “She dates all the elig
ible bachelors in North Carolina,
though.” Right now her arms are
always filled with maps and papers
and reports for Dr. Anscombe—the
fate of a history major.
Martha Bowman, sophomore from
Lumberton, curled up in a big chair
and drawled in that way of hers:
“No—please don’t say I’m carrot-
topped.” During her sj>are moments
she goes to the movies to keep from
day-dreaming. Although Martha
vows that she is a hopeless realist,
Lucille Paton exposes her, saying,
“Her ambition is to have HIM be
side her ’Through the Years,’ which
is also her favorite song.”
Another newcomer to the court is
that starry-eyed frolicker, Mararuth
Allen, of Wadesboro. “My hobby
is jiving around with Louise Miller
—Loui.se D. Miller, to distinguish
her from all other Louise Miller’.s—
and a career is just not what I’m
looking for,” .said Mararuth, “for
college and love simply won’t mix.”
Lilly Sutton Ferrell, statuesque
and unsophisticated (the latter com
ment is by her own statement), has
a penchant for cashmere sweaters
and tweed skirts. “I’m politiiral-
minded, too,” said Lilly SuttOll^ For
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KATHRYN SWAIN
GIVES RECITAL
Last Tuesday evening the second
in the series of graduating recitals
was presented by Kathryn Swain,
soprano, pupil of Mr. Bair.
In every respect, this was an ex
cellent recital. Kathryn sang beau
tifully, which fact was sincerely ap
preciated by the large and enthusi
astic audience. I now quote from
the Winston-Salem Journal of May
1st:
‘"Miss Swain is the possessor of a
mature voice of exquisite quality,
which she uses with rare intelligence
and interpretive insight. The voice
has a wide range of dynamics and
tone quality combined with admir
able flexibility.”
Kathryn was more than ably as
sisted by Miss Virginia Thompson,
accompanist. The ensemble work of
Kathryn and Miss Thompson was un
usually fine.
The program was as follows:
Intomo All’ Idol Mio 'Cesti
Presto, Presto lo M’Innamow
Mezzaferrata
Halt - Schubert
Impatience Schubert
Die Mainacht Brahms
Vergebliches Standchen Brahms
Du Meines Herzens Kronelein
Strauss
Er Ist’s Wolf
Aria: Infelice! Gia dap mio Squardo
Mendelssohn
Star Trysts Bauer
Pawdy on a Nursery Rhyme, Hughes
Como, O Come My Life’s Delight
Harty
the past six months (off and on, of
course) she has been sitting ior a
life-size portrait by Betsy O’Brien.
By her colleagues the finished pro
duct was described as “Scarlett
with Lil’s face.” Betsy testifies
that her subject squirmed and wig
gled all during her sittings.
Typically-American, Mary Louise
Rousseau at the present moment
likes “It’s A Blue World” “that's
significant, ’cause it reminds me of
a certain rainy afternoon in Chapel
Hill. ’ ’ She also has a preference for
Glen Gray, SAE’s and Phi Gams.
“Rosie” is superstitious and consid
ers December 2, 1939, the luckiest
day in her life so far.
Katharine King, stately blonde
from Leaksville, can well lay claim
to the title, “Sleeping Beauty,” for
after throe trips to her boudoir, each
greeted with an .\sloep sign, ye in
quiring reporter gave up in de.spair.
Of course, it is a known fact that
Katliiirine is the incurtibent fditor
of th(‘ Salemlte, n S(?or|)i(iii, etc.,
els., etc.
Infirmary bound iljirgarut Patter
son, Quern I'ity cdntributioii to the
iMiiy court, has an iil.mmlaiicc nf fav-
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This has been described as an
authentic study of how folks trav
eled, courted, and dressed back in
the “iDicycle built for two” era.
The lady on the left, dressed in the
flowing, full and fashionable “Gib
son Girl” outfit, is a gay nineties
girl being wooed. In everyday life
she is Kelly Anne Smith. The “gen
tleman” at the right, apparently
highly successful in winning the coy
lady’s attention, is Eve Tomlinson,
vice- chairman of the May Day com
mittee.