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THE TWIG
January 13, 1956^
Behind the Scenes
WE RECOGNIZE LOIS DOBSON
By NANCY McGLAMERY
“She likes to go places, do things,
and meet people,” says Wilma
Owens about her roommate, Lois
Dobson, and that is easy to believe
after hearing an account of Lois’
many activities here at Meredith.
This junior religion major is tall
with black hair and brown eyes, and
she hails from Snow Hill, N. C. She
has been on the B.S.U. Council for
two years, and this year she is serv
ing on the Worship Committee. A
sports lover, Lois participates in
softball, and she is on the varsity
volleyball team.
Hall Y.W.A. president her fresh
man year, and a Spanish Clubber
last year, Lois has been a member
of the Freeman Religion Club for
three years. She is also a member of
Sigma Pi Alpha language fraternity
and has been on the Dean’s List for
the past year. Besides her major in
religion, she is working towards a
teacher’s certificate in social studies.
Add to this the fact that Lois is
Lois Dobson
typist for the Acorn, on the editorial
staff of the Twig, and that she at
tends First Baptist Church, and you
have a busy girl.
In her spare time, Lois likes to
read and listen to her collection of
popular and classical records.
When Wilma says her roommate
is “full of life and action” — well,
that’s for sure!
VIENNA; 1955
By DR. ETHEL TILLEY
(Written Last Summer)
Russian women in Vienna, I am
told, have been offering about three
thousand dollars apiece for Aus
trian husbands. A law forbids such
a marriage. Russian ladies must re-
lucutantly accompany their menfolk
past the iron eurtain.
I see a few Russian soldiers
standing guard. I ride through Sta-
linplatz. The terminus of one tram
line is Briicke der Roten Armee,
Bridge of the Red Army. The Soviet
Information Office is still open; I
have made no inquiries. Russian oc
cupation still keeps tourists out of
one or two attractive castles.
Some Austrians are not happy
over the treaty. “Will America help
us if we are attacked?” they ask.
Yet Austrian pride over regained
independence is great.
The hotel on Rooseveltplatz in
which I am staying represents the
three aspects of Vienna in 1955:
ancient splendor, ruins of war,
modern .renovation. The old ele
vator is kaput, the new one not yet
operating. I walk up the long stairs
of a former palace of the Count of
Liechtenstein. Past piles of lum
ber and wails open to pipes and
wiring, past decorated double doors
opening into enormous bedrooms
with plaster-and-gold cherubs on the
ceiling for overhead, I go to a small
room with brand-new bed, bedding,
acoustic ceiling, and electric and
plumbing fixtures.
In Vienna one sees the room in
which Emperor Karl I signed away
Habsburg power in 1918. But one
sees also the room in which Na
poleon’s only legitimate son died at
twenty-one, and one sees the
legendary crown of Charlemagne,
admitted by even cautious historians
to be the oldest crown in the world,
having weighed down on the heads
of emperors for over a thousand
years.
Nearby are the show windows of
department stores as modern as New
York. But no hats to crown the
heads of Austrian ladies. I have
seen only a few rather fuddy-
duddy hats on a few rather fuddy-
duddy heads.
The Burgtheater is hidden by
scaffolding. The Staatsoper is “swal
lowing up” (tourist literature Eng
lish) the last of ten million dollars’
worth of repairs. The opera will
open in November with Beethoven’s
Fidelio. Vienna has two opera com
panies normally producing operas
ten months a year, two symphony
orchestras, and chamber music
groups.
Of the forty theaters thirty-eight
^are closed in August, and one pro
mts a variety show featuring a
ncian. The Josefstadt, with repu-
n for the best plays, is packed
/ night for a new comedy by
SHAKESPEARE ON EXAMS
Craming at 7 a.m.: “It is not
for your health thus to commit your
weak condition to the raw cold
morning.” — Julius Caesar.
HERE AND THERE
By PAM HARTSELL
We see:
Bags under eyes . . . bare trees . . .
a “sea” of diamonds . . . rain . . .
heavy coats . . . exam fatigue al
ready . . . new cashmere sweaters
and jeweled watches ; . . the night
watchman running our fellas off at
10:55 p.m. . . .
We hear:
About the dances, parties, mistle
toe, and breakfast parties . . . that
bell again! (remember sleeping un
til 11:30 a.m!) ... the new clock
radio “accidently” going off at 3:00
in the morning . . . what he said
about the sweater that was four sizes
too large. . . .
We borrow:
Hair-dryers, to get ready for that
last-minute date . . . scarfs, brace
lets, and earrings . . . those flatter
ing hair-rollers that everybody is
now using . . . French dictionaries
. . . cough tablets and Klennex . . .
ink . . . class notes . . . pencils with
erasers . . . money for the movies.
. . . We discard:
Last year’s calendars . . . holly
wreaths and candy canes . . . letters
from an old beau . . . candy and
potato chips left from the hall party
. . . notes to roommates. . . .
We remember:
The late hours ... the minute
he slipped the ring on that third
finger, left hand. . . .
THERE^S MUSIC IN THE AIR
Bv ADAIR WHISENHUNT
The first Civic Music concert of
the New Year will be on January 19
when the Ballet Theater is pre
sented. Meredith students always
look forward to this event, which is
always a highlight of the concert
season. In regards to transportation
to the concert, we understand that
it will be necessary to buy bus tickets
far enough in advance for the com
mittee to know the number of girls
going. I think we all realized how
important it is to have tjiis service
when we found ourselves without it.
With co-operation from us, the new
plan will work.
1956 is the 200th anniversary of
the birth of Mozart. On February
17, the Mozart Festival Quartet,
made up of the Albeneri trio which
has been here before and Paul
Doctor, violist, will appear in the
Chamber Music series. Admission is
by season ticket; tickets for this con
cert will be sold at the door.
One of our music faculty mem
bers is proving he is not superstitious
by presenting his piano recital on
Friday, January 13! Make your
plans to attend the recital of Mr.
Charles Turn tonight.
Sigma Alpha Iota is sponsoring a
recital by members of the music
faculty on Tuesday. January 17, in
Recital Hall. The members of our
music faculty are excellent per
formers as well as teachers. This
recital will be well worth attending.
The Green Room
By MARGARET TUCKER
Although it is not my usual
custom to refer you to moving pic
tures in this column, I feel that the
past year has produced several
movies worthy of note for dramatic
content, music, excellent acting,
originality, or beauty. Among these
are Marty, I Am a Camera, Trial,
Gate of Hell, Night of the Hunter,
and Guys and Dolls. Reflecting
upon the past few years in movie
making history, I find that they have
been, on the whole, years of fairly
consistent improvement in entertain
ment. For a while, the only question
was which was worse, television or
moving pictures. Now the two media
have entered into competition in
which the winner is the viewer or
the movie-goer; we see more artisti
cally valuable drama at this time
than in previous years.
At this point, some critics hold
that a deathbed groan is heard from
Broadway, that the success of the
legitimate theatre is suffering from
the success of its more easily ac
cessible competitors. It is true that
Broadway is suffering; but not be
cause of television and mpvies as
much as from the present economy
of the nation, which makes the pro
duction of each Broadway play so
expensive that a show must play to
a full house, every night, or fold!
(Here, then, is the reason for those
ten-dollar tickets to a successful pro
duction.)
If the prospect appears gloomy,
consider that the legitimate theatre
has been thought in jeopardy since
long before our generation was
born; even in the Elizabethan era,
which we think of as being the
Golden Age of English drama,
Shakespeare and his contempo
raries wrote plays such as Titus
Andronicus to lure the public to the
theatre, by virtue of bloodshed and
gore! And, in 1642, stage doors
were closed during the Puritan
Revolt. In our own country, around
the turn of the century, a ban was
placed, virtually, on the freedom of
the theatre, by a hard-headed group
known as “The Syndicate,” in
terested only in the money it could
reap. Just before the First World
War, with the organization of the
Theatre Guild, the American
theatre started its climb and, in
deed, began to deserve a name for
itself distinct from that of the theatre
of Europe.
It seems probable that, aided
rather than hindered by radio, tele
vision, and moving-pictures, “the
magnificent invalid” will continue to
grow and flourish in this country,
making in this century a tremendous
advance in the progress of drama
The annual meeting of the
A.F.C.W. will be held at W.C.,
U.N.C. on January 13-14. Official
delegates from Meredith’s A.A.
Board will be Rovilla and Hilda
Myers. The meeting will consist of
discussion groups, panel discussions,
a banquet, and various types of
recreation. Some topics for dis
cussion will be: Playdays and
Co - Recreation; Organization of
W.A.A.; How Much of the W.A.A.
Program is Based on Needs of Stu
dents; and The Creative Program—
Its Place in W.A.A. The week end
will be highlighted by a water show
to be given Friday night by the Dol
phin-Seal Synchronized Swimming
Club.
It will be of interest to many of
the students and faculty to hear of
the activities of two former students.
Martha Bramlett, a member of
last year’s Freshman Class and now
a student at Western Carolina Col
lege, was recently elected as one
of the sophomore representatives to
the May Court.
Marylyn Bestedt, also a member
of last year’s Freshman Class and
now a student at Campbell College
in Buies Creek, is the editor of the
campus newspaper, Creek Pebbles.
Fritz Eckhardt, Rendezvous in
Wien. The uninterrupted hilarity of
the audience broke my heart over
my limited understanding of Ger
man, but I enjoyed every moment
of the superb acting.
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Everyone gives a cordial welcome
to Miss Louise Sparks, our new
dietician. Miss Sparks names Ruffin,
N. C., as her home, where her
mother, father, sister and brother
live. Prior to coming to Meredith
she worked as country club hostess
in Danville, Virginia. She also
worked with the Slater System and
as hostess at Verden’s Restaurant in
Danville. Traveling, food and young
people are her special likes. Miss
Sparks is versatile not only in foods,
but she is also organist of her church.
She says she loves Meredith and
likes the friendliness of the girls. She
urges everyone to come by and see
her in 115 Vann and bring any sug
gestions about the food with them.