, April 20, 1956
THE TWIG
Page three
The Green Room
By DONNIE SIMMONS
The Playhouse has been rela
tively dormant since Blithe Spirit,
but there have been regular monthly
meetings. Recent speakers have
been the following: Miss Beatrice
Donley of the Meredith music fac
ulty, whose interesting and informa
tive subject was “The Relation
ship Between Opera and Drama”;
and Dr. Norma Rose, associate pro
fessor of English at Meredith, who
told about the major Shakespeare
Festivals in North America. In
March, new Playhouse officers were
elected. Jeanne Greahsh was elected
president in the general campus
elections, and the following were
elected by the Playhouse: Vice-
President, Pat Corbett; Secretary,
Alyce Pickelsimer; Treasurer, Susan
Moss.
As a result of their having worked
I on Blithe Spirit several girls attained
membership in the Meredith College
Playhouse. To these girls go con
gratulations and a hearty wel
come into the Playhouse.
Although the Meredith theatre
season is over, other groups nearby
are very busy at this time. The Ra
leigh Little Theatre has recently
presented Uncle Harry and will have
as its final play of the current sea
son The Fifth Season (April 27-
May 4), while over in Chapel Hill
the Carolina Playmakers will give
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the
Forest Theatre on May 4, 5, and 6.
Several Meredith students and
faculty and staff members went to
New York during spring vacation,
and they were fortunate in being
able to see three Broadway hits.
One of them. The Ponder Heart,
is a comedy based on Southern
writer Eudora Welty’s novel of the
same name. Another that they saw
was My Fair Lady, which is, ac
cording to the New Yorker, “an out
standing musical adaptation of
Shaw’s Pygmalion.”
Having presented two plays en
tirely different in type, but defi
nitely satisfying, the Playhouse can
agree with the lyricist when he as
serts “There’s no business like show
business.”
SELLERS AND SMITH
RECEIVE FELLOWSHIPS
Barbara Sellers from Cherryville
and Dorothy Elizabeth “Betty”
Smith, the one from Raleigh, are
two fortunate seniors who have been
awarded grants to begin study for
their master of arts degrees. Both
are history majors and both will be
gin study in September.
Barbara has been awarded a
$900 assistantship to the College of
William and Mary, where she will
study in American history. Betty has
been awarded a $1,000 Carnegie
Fellowship in teaching. Her study,
aimed toward a masters in educa
tion, will be at a joint program con
ducted by George Peabody College
and Vanderbilt University. This fel
lowship is one of the twenty Car
negie Fellowships awarded in the
South.
The Twig staff would like to
congratulate these two girls and to
wish them much success in their
forthcoming study.
t4TV TO BROADWAY”
An intensive campaign to find
scripts by recognized or promising
new playwrights will be undertaken
by TV to Broadway Productions, a
new producing firm established by
Oscar S. Lerman.
TV to Broadway Productions has
been organized to present plays in
the various entertainment fields;
first, on television and subse
quently, on the Broadway legitimate
stage and/or films.
' Before submitting scripts, an ap
plication may be secured by writing
to TV to Broadway Productions,
Suite 609, 147 West 42 Street,
N.Y.C., and enclosing a self-
addressed, stamped envelope.
THE BARD
LESSON NLMBER TWO
Minneapolis, Minn. — (ACP)—
Continuing our lesson on Shake
speare and student life,
some quotes from the
Echo:
Cramming At Midnight
Tis now the very witching time of
night.
When churchyards yawn, and
hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now would
I drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as
the day would quake to look
on. — Hamlet 3:3.
Emerging From Test
No hat upon his head, his stocking
foul’d.
Pale as his shirt, his knees
knocking each other.
And with a look so piteous in pur
port
As if he had been loosed out of
hell. — Hamlet 2:1.
Barbara Sellers and Betty Smith
ART NEWS
here are
Augsburg
By MARY JANE SUMNER
When April blew in, it brought
a rush of activity to an already ac
tive art department. The busiest of
the Meredith smock, beret, and
palatte group — better known as
artists — was Mr. Reynolds.
The Arts Festival at Woman’s
College in Greensboro asked Mr.
Douglas Reynolds and Margaret
Tucker to represent the Meredith
Art Department on two panel dis
cussions. Mr. Reynolds will also be
one of three judges in the Art
Exhibit sponsored by the State
Woman’s Club to be held in Dur
ham on April 15.
Another April event was the Vo
cational Week art meeting April 2,
featuring Mr. Jell Hill, a commercial
artist, as guest speaker.
Praises rang high for Mrs. Betty
Jean Blackmon McKiethan from
all those who saw her art show in
the gallery April 13.
Sugar and
Spice and...
By PAM HARTSELL
What are little girls made of?
Your fathers probably thought that
you really were all sugar and spice
and everything nice, but your
mothers, who truly knew your worst
side, saw through your clear blue
eyes and taudy curls into your
active and mischievous mind. She
was usually ahead of you in every
step, and she understood because
both of you were women. I shall
never forget the day when I, at the
age of four, had an impulse to ex
plore my mother’s cosmetics. A
young cousin was baby-sitting for
me, supposedly, and knowing her
weakness for paper dolls, I readily
presented by entire “Dagwood and
Blondie” set in order that I might
pursue my plans. After an hour in
front of the dressing table, I looked
very much like Hiawatha’s little sis
ter. My poor naive cousin was still
cutting out dresses when my par
ents knocked on the front door. I
bravely walked toward the door and
unlocked it. Suddenly my father
screamed and snatched me up into
his arms.
“My baby,” he cried. “How did
it happen?”
I didn’t understand at the time,
but later I discovered that he had
mistaken my creative use of lipstick
for blood. During the episode my
mother had remained cool and
calm; but she displayed more en
thusiasm during my spanking.
This personal incident is perhaps
typieal of many of you when you
were httle girls, but now that you
are college girls, have you had a
self-examination period of what you
are really made of?
Have you developed the qualities
which grace and make-up a charm
ing young lady? Do you look into
the mirror only to feel a surge of
guilt or depression? Are your table
manners lacking? Are your clothes
always wrinkled and unpressed?
Are two of your fingernails twice
as long as the other three? Does
your room always resemble a shanty
in an old shanty town? Do you play
scavenger every time you open your
dresser drawers? If you answer
“yes” to all the above questions,
don’t worry about your present state.
Chances are that many other col
lege girls are in the same shoes (of
the dirty oxford variety). However,
you can do something about what
you’re made of if you really want
to. Someday we’ll all (we hope) be
mothers ( and wives) and what we
are doing now may or may not be
indication of the kind of par-
Behind the Scenes
We Recognize Tmdi Moore
By NANCY McGLAMERY
There is a senior behind the
scenes this week. She is blonde,
blue-eyed Trudi Moore from Rock
ingham, N. C.
Trudi is a religion major with a
variety of interests. One of the two
third - year German students at
Meredith, she is an active member
of the German Club. She is art
chairman on the BSU Council and
a past member of both the
psychology and the religion clubs.
Trudi was also behind the scenes
of both stunt and Religious Em
phasis Week this year.
At her church, Pullen Memorial,
Trudi teaches a Sunday school class
of juniors. Her first loves are writ
ing and drawing. She has made quite
a few contributions to the Acron,
and in drawing she specializes in
pictures for children. Her roommate
Ann Parr remarks that, “There is
not an unoriginal bone in her body!”
It seems this originality expresses
itself in all kinds of ways from
“faith healing” in her suite to writ
ing the life story of a certain well-
known “missionary to the Fujews
(pronounced ‘few-jews’).”
Trudi loves to read, writes term-
Trudi Moore
papers well in advance of the day
they are due, and now is interested
in making cute little pipe-cleaner
dolls. She plans to go to Carolina
for a degree in library science next
year. Whatever she does in life, it
seems quite clear that Trudi will
spread sunshine as she goes.
A. A. NEWS
Spring sees Meredith involved in
a variety of sports, indoor and out
door. Bridge lessons, taught by Miss
Williams and Mrs. Collins, are con
cluded this weekend. Originally
planned to last six weeks, they were
extended by popular demand for an
extra week on scoring. A tourna
ment is planned as a climax to the
lessons.
A shiny new chartreuse and dark
green bicycle was ridden down the
aisle by Laurie Kee in chapel last
Thursday. The other new bicycle
the A.A. has ordered will arrive
soon. The bicycle is a hybrid —
part English and part American. It
has gears to make climbing hills
easier, but regular American-type
air brakes.
OFFICERS ELECTED
TO HEAD CLASSES
Class elections have been held
and the officers for next year have
been chosen as follows:
Sophomore
President .—Bet Taylor
Vice-President Joyce Hargrove
Secretary Bobbie Meeks
Treasurer Mary Alice Cusack
S. G. Representatives..Ann Sumerac
Betsy Hooks
Junior
President Nancy Wallace
Vice-President Eunice DuRant
Secretary Lou Jones
Treasurer Clara Hudson
Senior
President Marcia Horrell
Vice-President... .Alyce Picklesimer
Secretary Pat Swann
Treasurer. Sara Lawrence
an
ents we will be. As spring rolls
around, let’s put on a-new face and
try to be in our boy-friends’ eyes
as we were in our fathers’—sugar
and spice and . . .
Freshmen Enjoy
Picnic April 13
The Freshman Class had a picnic
and hayride April 13 at Camp Syca
more in William B. Umstead State
Park. After eating, everyone sang
and played games. The chaperones
were Mrs. Huckabee, class sponsor.
Miss Williams and Miss Maring.
The badminton tournament,
which began just before spring holi
days, is still going on. A national
archery telegraphic meet and a na
tional bowling telegraphic meet are
also going on.
The honorary basketball varsity
and the winners of tournaments will
be announced, and several athletic
awards will be made at the annual
awards dinner to be held on Mon
day, April 30.
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Next ACP Meeting
Set For November
Minneapolis — (ACP) — Cleve
land, Ohio, has been selected as the
site for the 1956 national confer
ence of the Associated Collegiate
Press on November 8, 9 and 10.
Last fall 800 delegates and advisers
from 35 states met in Detroit,
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