February 17, 1950
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THE TWIG
Sports Talk
By LOIS HARDER
favorite new fashions
to knit, crochet & sew
Puess there’s something special
about welcoming a new half of
a century. The last half brought us
nylons and stratospheric liners and
Jokes about psychiatrists and a cure
(rumored) for the common cold.
Heaven knows what the next halt
has up its sleeve but sartorially
Speaking it looks good.
Yes, things look fine for the gal
who’s handy with a needle . . . any
needle, knitting, crochet or the one
with the eye the camel can’t
squeeze through. You’ll find a few
1950 campus fashion winners be
low. Name your favorites on a post
card and the easy-to-follow direc
tions will come winging back to
you FREE with my compliments.
C ampus Cuddler. First it was the
rhumba, then it was the samba
- . . now it’s this wonderful wrap
translated from the South Ameri
can. With your arms down it falls
in graceful folds, can be wrapped
warm and close around you. Couldn’t
be easier to make. Requires only
one and three-quarter yards of 54”
wool. The small turn-down collar is
made from the cut off corners. Add
three or four buttons and button
holes, hem the bottom and there
you are with a wrap that goes with
denims and goes to dances with
complete savoir faire. We love it in
a thick plaid tweed, unlined, but
you might also want to plan it in
navy fleece, lined with scarlet nylon.
Latest news from Physical
Education Department reveals
an active February schedule for
Meredith basketball players.
Games have been arranged with
university, college and high
school teams.
On Monday, the thirteenth of
February, a team composed of
freshmen and sophomores met
a similar team at St. Mary’s.
Another team, predominately
juniors and seniors, were sched
uled to play the University of
North Carolina girls at Chapel
Hill on Wednesday, the 15th of
February. Both games got un
derway at 4:00 in the afternoon.
Eight players will be sent to
a Sport’s Day at Eastern Caro
lina Teachers College tomorrow,
Saturday, the 18th of February.
The day of competition com
mences at 10:30 and continues
until 4:00 in the afternoon.
Meredith freshmen and soph
omore ball players will meet the
Hugh Morson High School girl’s
team in a preliminary scrim
mage before the onset of the
boy’s contest on the evening of
February twenty-first at 7 00
P.M.
Other basketball plans in the
offering are a game on the Mere
dith home court with Peace and
a possible scrimmage with W.C.
in Greensboro.
Campus-Wide Party
On Next Wednesday
“You are my sunshine, my
only sunshine”—in case you hear
this melody in the air, it prob
ably will be coming from some
student or faculty member in
preparation of a stunt for the
“Hill-billy” party which the en
tertainment committee is plan
ning for Focus Week.
Sonny Burnham, chairman of
the committee, has announced
that there will be stunts from
the student body, the faculty,
and the team members. Also
featured will be two numbers
from the Folk Dance Club. The
party will begin at 9:00 o’clock
on Wednesday night of Focus
Week and will end with a bang
promptly at 10:30.
Other important social en
gagements of the week will be
the committee coffee on Sunday
afternoon from 3:30 to 4:30, and
two teas for students, faculty,
and team members on Monday
and Thursday afternoons from
4:30 to 5:30.
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JUNIORS PLAN PARTY
(Continued from page one)
Valentine party, to be held in
Astro Hall.
Under the direction of Rosa
lind and Rebecca Knott, Shirley
Bone, Betty Rogers, Virginia
Jones and their assistants have
planned a party guaranteed to
leave lasting memories of Val
entine’s Day, 1950!
By MICKY BOWEN
During exam week for Mere
dith the Raleigh Little Theatre
went through a type of exam
of its own in the production of
the (Treek tragedy, Medea, by
Euripides. Since it was playing
during the busy week, the num
ber of Meredith personnel
present was smaller than it
would have been otherwise, but
those of us who did find occa
sion to see the performance were
certainly not sorry that the
time was spent, and we came
away with the complete satis
faction of the best tragedy,
which has as its function the
arousing and purging of the
emotions of pity and fear.
The title role was superbly
performed in a most convincing
manner, and though the rest of
the cast were obviously neither
as experienced, nor as absorbed
by their roles as was Medea, the
support was admirable. Next to
Medea in effectiveness was
Jason. The two little sons were
appealing and loveable, height
ening the tragedy of the situa
tion when Medea, in all her ma
ternal love broke her own heart
to the point of killing her own
sons in order to make Jason, her
faithless lover and the father of
her children, suffer.
The stage set, just outside
Medea’s house, was most effec
tive and the lighting increased
the intensity or slightly re-
Directions for making any of the
fashions shown above will be sent
FREE on request. Write to Sally
Bobbin, College Needlework De
partment, The Spool Cotton Com
pany, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York
22, N. Y.
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leased tension as the occasion
presented itself. The predomi
nating colors were brown and
bright red. The final scene was
most effective, showing Medea
with her sons’ blood on her
hands and Jason, broken down
by sorrow, and dirty from the
consuming fire which Medea
had caused to break out and kill
the princess whom Jason was to
marry and also the old king
himself.
The Little Theatre succeeded
in presenting a most tragic
tragedy, and in offering the
highest type of drama to the
Raleigh community. Our hats
are off to those who made pos
sible the presentation of Medea.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB
SEES DEMONSTRATION
Starts Sunday
FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK!
“THE SUNDOWNERS”
In Technicolor
Starring
ROBT. PRESTON
JOHN BARRYMORE, JR.
State Theatre
MORRISETTE
ESSO SERVICE
Members of the Home Eco
nomics Club and students in the
elective home economics classes
were guests in the home of Mrs.
Lillian Horton Ammons, on
February 9, 1950, for a cake
decorating demonstration given
by Mrs. R. L. McMillan. Mrs.
McMillan showed the techniques
of making rose buds, lillies-of-
the-valley and other decorations
for cakes, skillfully using a cake
decorator. Mrs. Ammons told us
“confidentially” that Mrs. Mc
Millan admitted that it took
practice.
After the demonstration, an
informal entertainment was en
joyed in the game room and the
music room. During the evening
Mrs. McMillan poured coffee
while Miss Brewer, of the col
lege department, served the
cake.
James E. Thiem
" Everything for the
Office'^
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Americans Have More of Everything
You hear a lot of talk about the advantages of
making our government socialistic. Don’t be
fooled. Freedom—and that’s the American Way
pays off, and here’s proof: Americans are
only one sixteenth of the world population. Yet
we produce almost one third of the world’s goods.
No other system beats that.
Remember that when people urge that our gov
ernment go socialistic by taking over the electric
industry steel railroads—medicine and so on
that Americans now have more of everything
than anybody else. Our freedom did it and
don’t ever forget it. It makes a lot of difference
to you and your family.
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