SPRING
VACATION
MARCH 9-17
^>4* Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
SPRING
VACATION
MARCH 9-17
Vol. Ill, No. 12
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
March 8, 1940
i north CAROLINA BOASTS
OF HAVING A MEMBER OF
FAMOUS RUSSIAN BALLET
Mrs. Gruikshank
Attends Conference
of Junior Colleges
CURTIS CHOSEN TO LEAD STUDENT BODY;
TWO EDITORS AND MARSHALS ELECTED
guerad from flat rock
Huge Crowd Eagerly Awaits Per
formance of Ballet Russe In
Memorial Auditorium
Twentieth Annual Conference In
Columbia, Missouri, Draws
Delegates From Forty States
ANNA WOOD CHIEF MARSHAL
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
'''ill be presented tonight in the Me-
niorial Auditorium at eight o’clock
^ the fifth and last in the Civic
Concert series. The entire cast is
''piuposed of members from a Eus-
®}an ballet company with the excep-
Wn of Roland Guerad, a native of
3^t Rock, North Carolina. This
Heel has played an engagement
** the Folies Bergere, danced in four
continents, and is one of the first
mericans to become successful in a
„^®^nn ballet company. He is one
rp, fhe main dancers in the ballet.
0 other dancers are: ballerinas,
AL
i texandra Danilove, Alicia Mar-
Slavenska; soloists, Nini
^neilado, Nathalie Krassovsha;
dancers, Igor Youskavitch,
1 ®oerica Franklin, Andre Eglev-
„ y j and soloists, March Platoff and
b Zoritch. The director and
T ®t master of the company is
eonide Massine, under whose artis-
^ guidance the Ballet Russe de
-IVic'
^ onto Carlo has been continuing
atiT seasons. It is his genius
talent that has made the coin-
exist. None of his composi-
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Mrs. Ernest Cruikshank repre
sented Saint Mary’s at the twentieth
annual conference of American ^ s-
sociation of Junior Colleges Md in
Columbia, Missouri, froni
29 to March 1. Nearly six hundred
delegates representing forty states,
including Maine, Massachusetts, Ari
zona, and California, were presen^t.
A feature of the conference was the
tour of three colleges, Stephens .^n-
ior College, Christian Junior Col
lege, and the University of Missouri.
Stephens has a student body _ot
1 700 girls, and its wonderful equip
ment includes a country club and
golf course, a stable of sixty-seven
horses, and a large new ballroom.
On Thursday afternoon, there was
a tea at Stephens for the delegates
at which a student orchestra played.
Several one-act plays and inusic
from Missouri Junior College
furnished the entertainment for
that night. Stephens Col ege con
tributed a seventy-five-girl chorus
Nearlv five hundred people vere
present Friday night at a banquet in
the hotel ballroom. A large birth
day cake celebrating the_ twentieth
anniversary of the association i\as
cut by Miss Maude Adams and
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Five Girls Chosen By the Student
Body to Serve As Marshals
For the Coming Year
V uil page
HPICAL AMERlCAimAF^KES A
TYPICAL AMERICAN HIT AND WINS
phession students stage plays,
AUDIENCE VASTLY ENTERTAINED
Aew School of Wives opened
Propam of workshop plays pre
sent ii workshop plays pre-
s„- *Y.,“y the Expression pupils of
mt Mary’s on Monday night, Feb-
y .26. They were under the
thmof Miss Davis, but the
jjj y Sirls of the expression depart-
them ?®^"Hly produced the plays
ertip*® managing the stage prop-
re at*’ costumes, lights, and
I'evp^i'^j ‘ School of Wives
of ®d some hidden talent in a few
allv and was cast exception-
Kinio'^ Trr'- Hathreen Massie and Vir-
nioth ^'^Hms, as the father and
that tn’ very realistic except
^emin t "'as a little too e_f-
Was Lucie Meade as the maid
anfi ® nigli spot of the whole play
Perff^*^^^^® special applause for her
the Catherine Powell, as
schopf^ 1 1'®'’ friends from
Eli, Played by Mary Alex Wells,
Belvin, and Sara Jane
^'rabiy ofi ffie satire ad
Tn' “ Hary Alex, as the back-
P'^ig masculine type, and Sara
Jane, as the bespectacl^ ^
did an excellent piece of \york. Mary
Claiborne as Warren Price was not
manly enough to be a convincing
lover, but was good under tfie cir
cumstances, and picked up
ably toward the end. As a whole,
the comedy was light, entertaining,
and quite modern.
Jied Carnations was put on oy
three day students, Mary Lauriston
Hardin, Martha Ellen, and Sarah
Hardison. The play itself was
clever, and the suspense and comedy
were heightened by the characteriza
tions of the three girls. Mary Laur
iston Hardin did exceptionally well
in the role of the father, and her
make-up as this middle-aged gentle
man showed up quite realis ical y.
The next play was entirely differ
ent and contained a note of tragedy
in it The Maid of France was an
impressive play of the French and
English loyalty
the present-day situation. Margaret
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Elections for the coming school
year were almost completed this
week with the selection of Nancy
McKinley as editor of The Belles,
Ann Seeley editor of The Bulletin,
and five prospective seniors to be
marshals. Anna Wood, as the girl
receiving the highest number of
votes, becomes chief marshal. Her
assistants will be Anne Davis, Mary
Boylan, Betty Wales, and Margaret
Little Blount.
The three editors of student publi
cations selected McKinley and
Seeley as the most likely prospects
for these positions, and nominations
were opened on the floor to the stu
dent body. Both were elected unani
mously, however. McKinley entered
Saint Mary’s as a junior this year
and has been outstanding in many
respects all during the year. She is
a member of the Circle, vice presi
dent of the Sigma Lambda Literary
Society, and was nominated for pres
ident of the student body, although
she withdrew her name. Ann Seeley
will enter her fourth year at Saint
Mary’s next year. She is also a mem
ber of the Circle, a member of the
E. A. P. Literary Society, and a
talented and versatile art student.
These elections still leave one job
open. No nominations have yet
been made for editor of next year’s
annual. This announcement will
probably be made later in the spring.
The five new marshals were chosen
from girls nominated by a commit
tee. Nominations were Margaret
Kitchin, Page Marshall, Anna
Wood, Anne Davis, Mary Boylan,
Betty Wales, Margaret Blount, Biz
Toepleman, Tassie Fleming, Jean
Meredith, and Hortense Miller.
This year is the first year that
students have not merely voted on
any eligible girl from the rising sen
ior class. Formerly a list of juniors
gjgjjaJ up to return the next year
was posted in the telephone booths
and students voted for anyone they
pleased. This year a new provision
was made enabling the presideiit of
the student body to select a nominat
ing committee. This committee chose
a number of outstanding girls as
nominees. This group was enlarged
by nominations from the floor.
The new Marshals take over their
duties Easter Sunday at the eleven
o’clock service. The new editors also
take over their jobs before the end
of the year.
HOOD VICE PRESIDENT
Curtis President of Her Class For
Two Successive Years; Both
Girls From Virginia
Adelaide Curtis, in a run-off
election on March 2, was elected
President of the Student Body for
the 1940-41 session, succeeding Mary
Helen Rodman. Jinnette Hood was
chosen Vice President for the com
ing term, succeeding Tibbie Tucker.
Adelaide Curtis has been promi
nent in both the Sophomore and
Junior classes at Saint Mary’s, hav
ing been president of both the classes.
She is very active in sports, a newly
elected member of the Letter Club,
as well as outstanding in the class
room.
ADELAIDE CURTIS
-Photo by courtesy News and Observer
Jinnette Hood is from Ports
mouth, Virginia, where she had a
fine high school record. This year
she is Vice President of the Doctors’
Daughters’ Club, a member of the
Glee Club, and active in sports, hav
ing attended Field Day at the Wom
an’s College last fall.
Nominees for Student Body Presi
dent made by the nominations com
mittee were Mary Boylan, Adelaide
Curtis, Nancy McKinley, Marjorie
Shugart. Sara Nair and Margaret
Kitchin were nominated from the
floor; however, Nancy McKinley and
Sara Nair withdrew their names.
Because the votes were very close,
there was a run-over between Ade
laide and Mary Boylan.
Jinnette Hood, Page Marshall,
and Anna Wood were the nominees
for vice president. Anna Wood
withdrew her name and in the fol
lowing election Jinnette was chosen.
These girls by their past records
have shown themselves capable of
fulfilling the duties that these dis
tinctive offices afford them, and The
Belles wishes them success in the
coming year.
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