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THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
. .. and all the
men and women
merely players.”
Volume XXV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1950
Number 4
Little Theatre Will Give Piay Again Tonight
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Many hours of rehearsal have gone into the fall production of the Little Theatre, to be given for the
second time tonight in the new auditorium. Under the direction of Miss Mayes, shown in foregrouim
holding the script, the students busy practicing a scene are, left to right, Micky Bowen, as Agatha Reed;
Katherine Waynick, as Mary Nell; Beth Morgan as Amelia; and Betsy Canaday as Grace Woods.
College Dramatists Set for Second
Showing of “Good-bye, My Fancy’
SEVEN SENIORS ARE CHOSEN FOR
“WHO’S WHO AMONG STUDENTS”
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Seven seniors, Frances Alt
man, Patsy Emory, Betsy Golds-
ton, Mary Bland Josey, Marjorie
Joyner, Carolyn Masse*y, and
Nancy Walker, have been chosen
for national recognition in
“Who’s Who Among Students
in American Universities and
Colleges.” These students, who
were notified this week con
cerning the honor, were rec
ommended by the student
government and faculty coun
cils.
The seven who will be in
cluded in the 1950-51 edition
are selected on the basis of
scholarship, cooperation and
leadership in academic and ex
tra-curricular activities, citizen
ship and service to the school,
and promise of future useful
ness. A certificate of recogni
tion will be presented to these
students at graduation.
Besides recognition in the
current “Who’s Who” the honor
carries with it use of a place
ment service, conducted for the
benefit of seniors and graduates
whose work has received this
recommendation.
Frances Altman, of Dunn, is
an English major who has been
active in student government
work during her college career.
This year she is president of
Faircloth dormitory; her plans
after graduation call for gradu
ate work. Besides being a mem
ber of the student government
council, Frances is active in the
Little Theatre and is a member
of the Colton English and Folk
Dance Clubs.
Patsy Emory, a history major,
comes from Northside and plans
to teach or do archives work
after graduation. The vice-pres
ident of student government
on the campus, Patsy is also a
member of the Student League
of Women Voters and the In
ternational Relations Club. Last
June she was elected to mem
bership in Silver Shield.
Betsy Goldston, who is presi
dent of the day students, is a
major in home economics who
can demonstrate her proficiency
in the field in her own home.
Planning to combine her mar
ried life with teaching after
June, Betsy is a member of the
Home Economics Club, besides
her duties in student govern-
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THREE SOCIOLOGY
STUDENTS NAMED
Comedy of Errors”
Coming Tomorrow
The Little Theatre swings
into high gear tonight with the
second performance of its fall
production, “Goodbye, My Fan
cy,” in the college auditorium.
Under the direction of Miss
Judith Mayes, Micky Bowen
takes the leading role of Agatha
Reed, with Elmer Oettinger
playing James Merrill, the pres
ident of the college to which
Agatha Reed returns as an
alumnae. Bill Hoffman is cast
as Matt Cole, the photographer.
Taking the parts of college
girls in the play, which takes
place at a girls’ college, are Vir
ginia Corbett, Beth Morgan,
Becky Buchanan, Katherine
Waynick, Faye Walker, Pat
Bland, and Jean Pace. Playing
the alumnae secretary. Miss
Shackleford, is Annie Pearl
Brantley; cast as Professor
Birdeshaw is Ellen Westmore
land.
Paul Fitzgerald is seen in the
play as Claude Griswold; Betty
Lou Gladstone plays his wife,
Ellen Griswold. Seen as the two
janitors are A1 Paetzel and
Browny Lalich. The telephone
man is Maurice Capps. Mr.
Harry Dorsett is cast in the play
as Dr. Pitt; Grace Woods, sec
retary to Agatha Reed, is played
by Betsy Canaday.
Production manager for the
two performances is LeGrace
Gupton, who was in charge of
building the set used in the
play. Serving as assistant di
rector is Marilyn Mills, while
business manager is Peggy Ben-
bow. Dickie Phillips is costume
chairman; in charge of props
are Betty Penny and Nancy
Walker.
Back Stage Workers
Helping the production man
ager to build the set used in the
play have been Lyn Belton,
Millie Green, Bonnie Morgan,
Grace Pugh, Elsie Wicker, and
Eleanor Averre, as well as stu
dents who are members of the
cast.
Agatha Reed in the play is a
Congresswoman who returns to
her Alma Mater, Good Hope
College, to be awarded an hon
orary degree. With her to meet
the college girls who live in
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Three students from Mere
dith will be initiated in Decem
ber into Alpha Kappa Delta,
national honorary sociological
fraternity. The three girls are
Laurice Hlass, Margaret James,
and Betty Penny, all seniors.
All three are members of the
Meredith Sociology Club, but
will be initiated into the State
College chapter of the national
organization. Meredith does not
qualify for a chapter because it
offers no graduate courses in
the field.
The new members from Mere
dith were notified of their eligi
bility to join Alpha Kappa Delta
earlier in the fall and have at
tended a meeting of the chapter
at State College.
In order to qualify for mem
bership in the honorary fraterni
ty, a student must maintain a
high average in all courses of
study, as well as a high average
in sociology courses.
The initiation is scheduled for
December 7, during the regular
meeting of the State College
Chapter.
“The Comedy of Errors,”
William Shakespeare’s gay com
edy, will be presented by the
Barter Theatre of Virginia to
morrow night, November 18, at
8:00 in Pullen Hall at State
College. Robert Porterfield’s
famous group is being spon
sored by State College’s Public
Lectures Committee. Dr. L. E.
Hinkle, head of the committee,
has announced that there will
be no admission charges and
that the program will be open
to the public. Meredith students
are urged to attend.
The Barter players, the only
troupe that writes its script out
in prose instead of verse so that
the lines come evenly and clear
ly, have made the most of the
play’s Elizabethan revelries.
The comedy is a merry confu
sion of shipwreck and mistaken
identities and will be carried
out in a Greek motif along lines
similar to Barter’s “Twelfth
Night” and “Much Ado About
Nothing” of past seasons.
Costumes and Scenery
Complete new properties,
scenery and costumes for the
production have been made.
Beautiful fabrics in nylon and
taffeta from Burlington Mills
have gone into the costumes,
which are the most elaborate
to be used by the Barter Theatre
this season. A series of plat
forms which can be changed
quickly and easily to give varied
effects, together with handsome
Elizabethan properties will com
pose the sets.
Director Margaret Perry and
Woodrow Romoff spent more
than a month selecting the
music for the show. Although it
is short in comparison with
other Shakespearean produc
tions, “The Comedy of Errors”
has forty music cues.
LECTURE SERIES
TO BEGIN SOON
Mr. William J. Ferguson,
scientist, writer, artist, and
“friend” of conservation, will
speak in the Meredith College
auditorium on Tuesday night,
November 28, on “This Curious
World in Nature.” He is spon
sored by the Audubon Society
of America. His talk on the
mysteries of nature will be il
lustrated with color motion
pictures, and is the first of the
college lecture series.
Mr. Ferguson spent the first
eighteen years of his life on a
Kansas farm. He then entered
art school and after a short time
became a cartoonist for farm
newspapers in the Middle West.
An urge to draw birds and mam
mals together, with a desire for
seeking out and learning inter
esting items in the world of na-
ure caused him to devise a
newspaper feature, “This Curi
ous World,” which appears in
hundreds of newspapers in the
United States and Canada.
His home is Omaha, Nebras
ka, but each spring he leaves
and heads for Colorado where
he and his family spend the
summers in a studio high in an
area bordering Rocky Moun
tain National Park. Here he
uses his artist’s eye, keen sense
of observation, and love of na
ture in making motion pictures
of the creatures of foothills and
the snow-capped mountains. It
is these that he uses in his lec
tures to explain the “hows and
whys” of nature in a fascinating
and eye-opening manner.
A few days prior to Mr. Fer
guson’s appearance at Meredith,
Mr. William L. Hamnett, head
of the Raleigh division of the
Audubon Society, will speak to
the Meredith student body in
chapel.
Editorial:
THIS
IS YOUR CUE
There aren’t many passports
to pleasure given to one in
these times free of chairge.
How many students would
pounce on the opportunity to
have a free season ticket to
the Ambassador, or a pass
good for the whole Carolina
football season? Most Mere
dith girls, who too often are
more interested in other
schools’ events than those at
home, would take advantage
of such offers.
Well, an even greater gift
has been offered to you, and
that is a season ticket to all
the college Little Theatre
plays— and free of charge!
Here is your chance to see if
your friends are really the
budding actresses they claim
to be— and in the case of the
play tonight, perform in a
college setting so that you
may judge their acting in
familiar surroundings.
Tonight in the college audi
torium you will have your
second chance, if you missed
the fine performance last
night, to see “Goodbye, My
Fancy.” Countless students
have labored long hours to
present a good show for
Your applause; don’t let
them down— give them a full
house! —E. L. H.
LEAGUE TO PRESENT
LEGiSLATVRE RILL
Elections are over, and the
Student League of Women
Voters must begin their seconc
and largest project of the yeai
—preparing a bill for the Nortl
Carolina Student Legislature
held at the Capitol Novembei
30, and December 1, and 2.
The Student League each
year sends delegates to the
House of Representatives and
the Senate to vote on the bills
presented by the other colleges
of the State and to present the
Meredith bill for passage. The
bills which are passed are
turned over to a committee of
the regular General Assembly
where they are considered as
possibilities for the attention of
the State Legislators.
Marjorie Joyner is Meredith’s
representative on the Interim
Council of the Student Legis
lature and Peggy Benbow is her
alternate. A meeting was held
at Greensboro on last Sunday
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