Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
^Ol. VI, No. 11
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
March 25, 1943
Civic Music Presents
Ciannini and Hatfield
Last Concert of Season, April 5,
Introduces North Carolina Bari
tone and Famous Soprano
Raleigh Civic Music Association
Presents in the last concert of this
Reason Dusolina Giannini, soprano,
Lansing Hatfield, baritone, on
•^Pril 5.
.Rark haired, olive skinned Gian-
who lias a weakness for old
barrings, is majestic in spite of her
feet two inches. Hatfield, a
''Ascendant of the southern Hatfields
'rliose feud with the McCoys has
teen recounted in story and song,
lowers six feet on the stage.
DU.SOLIXA GIAXNINI
. Lusolina Giannini was born in
t liiladelphia, her father being a
''.®11 known tenor and her mother a
Lolinist. She received her early
raining in music from her father,
**,'i'l_at the age of thirteen she was
■^'nging arias in her father’s theater.
Rcr serious study of music began in
*'ew York under Mine. Sembrich.
I Substituting for a famous singer
, "’fih the Schola Cantorum, Gian-
^Uii won fame overnight and imme-
'hately forty engagements were of-
®rpd her. She chose the Minne-
**l’ulis Symphony Orchestra.
. Iliannini made her debut in opera
1927 in Hamburg with Aida.
ler greatest European triumph was
the Salzburg festival when she
^bpoared as Donna Anna in Don
^^ova^ini.
j Iletu riling to America, she made
*®i'_operatic debut here at the Metro
politan Oiiera House in Aida in
19,36.
GANSING HATFIELD
Lansing Hatfield lived in Hickory,
i Orth Carolina, and was graduated
,'oin high school there at tlie age of
He left college to become prin-
Jpal of a small town school, which
I'aiigely, enough miirked the begin-
Jog of liis musical career; he took
j ^I'ge of morning singing. Upon
oiurning to college, he gained ad-
'ssion to the glee club.
Ilatfield studied at the Peabody
oiisej.yjj(-Qj.y of Music, where he
advised not to have hopes of
"Pera.
.^^..Li 1935 he went to New York
\w ^ a prize-winning quartet. _ It
^''sii’t long before he was appearing
■t!\Llajor Bowes’ “Amateur Hour,”
lj^®^ueo program.
iiOvVeS .iVlIldUiul Axc/uij
'ji'Duchin’s program, and the
I ®^aeo program. From there he
(I'lded a job on the stage of the
j^^'der Theater in Rockefeller Cen-
j. Li trying to reach the Metropoli-
stage, he entered and won a
(j^^l^opolitan Auditions Contest, and
®refore an opera contract.
E. A. P.’s Lead Literary
Societies’ Contest
Hart’s Short Story and Popkins’
Poem Win First Places; E. A.
P.’s, 100 Points, Sigma Lambda,
80 Points
Sigma Lambda and E. A. P. Lit
erary Societies held their second
joint meeting of the .year last Iii-
dav evening in the Hut to hear the
winners of the poetry _ and short
story contests read their composi
tion's, and to welcome new members.
First prize in the poetry contest
went to Brooksie Popkins, an E. A.
P., for her poem, “Summer Storm.
Second prize also went to an E. A.
P. member, Jane Taylor, for^ hei
poem, “Twilight.” A former Sigma
Lambda, Jane Council, ^'e^ived
third place for her poem,_ Staidight.
The E. A. P.’s carried oft first
iilace in the short story contest also,
with Virginia Hart’s Could I Jns Be
Love?, a typical high school love
affair. Patty Weaver, a Sigma
Lambda, was awarded second place
for her story. Blue Hill, an appeal
ing story of a small boy and dog.
Another Sigma Lambda, Betty Gai
ther, won third place with A Wom
an’s Privilege. a ;
As a result of the judges deci
sions, the E. A. P. Society won one
hundred iioints, and the ^gm
Lambda won eighty points. .Ijies®
poems and short stories were judged
by ]\risses Rachel Johnson, Mar
garet Bailev, Martha Dabney Jones,
and by Russell Broughton and C.
A. P. Moore.
Dramatic Club Enters Annual Festival
Y. P. S. L. Rolls
Bandages For
St. Agnes’ Hospital
During Lenten Season Students
Meet After Dinner; 700 Band
ages Already Completed
Saint Mary’s Young People’s
Service League has chosen as its
Lenten project for 1943 the rolling
of bandages for Saint Agnes’ Hos
pital, a Negro hospital under the
direction of a board of Ejiiscopal
laymen in Raleigh.
The hospital was started over 30
years ago by Mrs. A. B. Hunter,
wife of a former iiresideiit of Saint
Augustine’s College. At this time
the hospital work was carried on by
help from outside sources; for the
past few years, however, the work
has been carried on mainly by funds
from the citizens of Raleigh.
Dr. Augustine W. Tucker, for
many years in charge of an Episco
pal hospital in Shanghai, China, is
the new head of Saint Agnes’.
The Young People’s .Service
League has always taken a great
deal of interest in this particular
phase of the church’s work. At the
end of the first week’ of rolling
bandages for a half hour after sup
per each night, the girls had com
pleted ai)proximately seven hundred
units. The work will continue
throughout the Lenten season.
PENDER LOOKS AT THE NEWS
th
tomorrow.
,] *^Lis issue of the Belles appears a
earlier, since holidays begin at
Allied troops in North Afnca
ar-ron the move. Allied planes
are hammering German base^
Marshal Roinmel and bjs crack
German Afriea Korps have re
treated 1,300 miles and ^
making a last stand on the coastal
Dianes of Tunisia with then hacks
L the sea. Around them m a
400-mile area the Allies ^.re in
strength. It looks as though the
foAh African campaign is near-
1:^% climax. North Africa as
Prime Minister has said, is imt
q 'seat but a springboard. oy
this he meant that °
North Africa would pave the way
invasion of Southern Europe^
From Afriea niav come one of the
blows the United Natioim
are preparing against the Nazi
controlled Continent.
Melting snow and deepening
mud are slowing the niovements
of the mechanized axmies of the
Russians and the Germans, both of
Som are on the offensive, each
;Sim some of their objectives.
Se of the hardest fighting is m
tir south. There the new Ger
man offensive, jJfaSov
divisions, recaptured Kharkov
Russia’s fourth largest city and
hub of rail lines serving a vast
area. Sunday the Russians re
ported that Belgorod, northeast
of Kharkov, had fallen before the
onslaught of fresh Nazi reserves
and tanks. On the central front
the Welirmaeht remained on the
defensive. There a big Soviet
drive on Smolensk and Kuban
■went slowly forward. Vieiying
the north and south offensives,
military observers noted that the
thousand-mile battleline from Len
ingrad to the Black Sea was little
changed from that of a year ago.
Vast Nazi gains scored last sum
mer toward the Caucasus have
been wiped out.
The British and American
Navies, following Allied plans
made at the Roosevelt-Churchill
conferences, are waging all-out
war against the U-boat. During
last week the largest American
bombing force so far sent against
Germany plastered the U-boat nest
at Vegesack, near Bremen.
General MacArthur’s headquar
ters reported that the Japanese
are building up strength in the
islands of the East Indies. Long
lines of ships have been seen car-
(See P. 4)
“Until Chariot Comes Home’’
Dramatizes Conquered French;
Play Presented to Student
Body Tuesday Night
This afternoon at two o’clock the
Saint .Mary’s Dramatic Club pre
sented “Until Chariot Comes Home”
at the iVnnual Dramatic Festival at
Chapel Hill. Tuesday night, when
it was presented to the student body
as a sort of dress rehearsal, (he play
went off quite well, being enthusi
astically applauded.
It was a moving drama that was
carried out tensely by every mend)er
of the cast. Margaret Shackelford,
as the German Officer, emerged
forcefidly in the quiet room, to be
matched if not subtlely outwitted by
the proud strength of the Mother,
played by Sallie McKinley. Patty
Weaver is splendid in her character
ization of the timorous Neighbor.
The old Grandmother was graphi
cally done by Brooksie Popkins,
whose make-up was particularly
realistic. A bright ray seemed to
enter vfith Mary Louise Thomson,
as_ Francine, who exemplified the
shining hope of her generation.
However deeply the girls plunged
into difficult waters when they at
tempted the fathomless task of por
traying French and German accents,
they conveyed the mood of France
today with feeling rather than pre
cise phonetics. After the curtains
went down. Miss Davis, who de
serves credit for a fine production,
asked for criticisms from the floor.
They were offered in good spiriL
N. G. Symphony Gives
Brilliant Concert
Under Direction of Dr. Benja
min Swalin; Mark Hoffman and
Lt. Norman Kelley, Soloists
One hundred and nineteen Saint
Mary’s girls attended the “Victory
Concert” of the North Carolina
Symphony Orchestra in the Need
ham Broughton High School audi
torium Monday night. The Orches
tra was under the direction of Dr.
Benjamin Swalin, Chapel Hill, and
presented Mark Hoffman, pianist
and head of the department of music
at Greensboro College, and Lt. Nor
man Kelley, tenor, formerly station
ed at Fort Bragg, as soloists..
The North Carolina Symphony,
one of the top ranking musical or
ganizations in the South, is made up
of musicians from over 20 North
Carolina cities and from every walk
of life, ])i’ofessional through high
school. The Orchestra, since its.re
organization in 1939, has played
children s concerts, and has accom
panied famous soloists and North
Carolina artists and choirs.
This year Edgar Alden, of Mere
dith College, is concertmaster, and
Dorothy Alden, Saint Mary’s, per
forms as violinist.