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QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C
Decendber 7, 194
“Messiah” To Be Given
For Fresh Air Fund
Six Teachers
Collahorate
In Direction
Plans for the presentation of “The
Messiah” were completed last week.
The performance is being sponsored
by the Charlotte Observer Fresh Air
Fund and will be given at the Arm
ory Auditorium on December 17.
“The Messiah” is being directed by
James C. Pfohl of Davidson and
Queens and L. R. Sides of the
Charlotte Public Schools, assisted by
Miss Elsie Robinson and Mrs. Charles
A. Moseley of Queens College, Robert
C. Smith of Central High School,
and Thane McDonald of Davidson
College.
The chorus consists of four hun
dred voices. In this group will be
the best voices of Queens, Davidson,
and Central High School, as well as
a picked chorus from Charlotte.
Besides our local talent, four well-
known oratorio singers, Arthur
Bailey, tenor; Dorothy Baker, so
prano; Joanne de Nault, contralto;
and Chester Watson, bass baritone,
have been engaged for the perform
ance.
Only five hundred reserved seats
arc available, and the public is urged
to make reservations as early as pos
sible. The admission for adults is
fifty cents; for children, twenty-five
cents.
DavidsonSymphony,
Queens Choral Club
To Present Program
Cradle Song
King, Humble
Direct Show
by GLORIA COPPALA
A natural hush fell over the audi
torium as the house lights were
dimmed. A successive silence fol
lowed on the stage as the curtains
parted. The nuns broke into gentle
laughter and “The Cradle Song” eased
into a smooth and competent perform
ance.
Miss Ethel King and Thomas Hum
ble have co-directed ably this play
Martinez Sierra which was presentee
Tuesday and Wednesday nights anc
again on Friday night. Actors are
niembers of either the Queens Players
or the Little Theatre.
The play concerns a foundling lefi
on the doorsteps of a convent anc
the influence she has over the sisters.
The effect of the play depends upon
i^he brilliant dialogue and quietly ex
pressive acting. There is little or
oo action throughout the entire play.
J osephine Kuykendall, as the
Proiress, is the pivot around which
i^he performers move. She succeeded
in holding together both the action
and dialogue.
Martha Irwin, as the dour Vicaress,
turns in one of her consistently fine
performances. Mary Katherine Mar
tin, as the adopted child Teresa, fur-
**ishes a charming relief to the austere
Setting. Anne Harris plays the role
Sister Joanna of the Cross with
fiue interpratation. As she slumped
firoken-heartedly beneath the picture
the Madonna and Child, the cur
tain closed.
Other Queens students taking part
the production were; Kathryn
Langerhans, Margaret Powell, Re-
fiecca Wiley, Frances Trulock, Jose
phine Johnston, Frances Pracer and
Oorothy Failor. Margaret Porter
played the organ.
Search For
TalentOpen
Musical Plays
Win Cash Awards
Announcing prizes of $720 each, the
American Society for Composers,
Authors, and Publishers has, for the
second year, launched its search for
talent.
The $720 award will go to the per
son in a college of each of eigh :
regional districts who enters the best
original musical play. The purpose
of the contest is to improve the pro
fessional stage through the work of
college theatricals.
Last year in the district which
included the nine states and the Dis
trict of Columbia, the University
of North Carolina won the award
with a production by Sanford Stein
and Jim Byrd entitled “On More
Spring.”
Graduate students are also eligible
for the contest. The award must be
used by the winner for further cre
ative work. The society stresses
originality, American background,
credible characters, and practicality
for all phases of the play. The win
ning plays will be submitted to Broad
way and Hollywood producers, and
winners will retain all rights.
Judges will be selected from ac
tive faculty members. The work will
be considered in its entirety, and
the verdict will be rendered on the
script and score, not on the perform
ance. Before the manuscript is eli
gible, however, it must have been per
formed before an audience of two
hundred.
The awards will be announced about
commencement time. Final entrance
dates have not yet been established.
They will be announced later, as will
further details about the contest.
Christmas Music
Wm Be Played
At Mint Museum
The Davidson Little Symphony and
a group from the Choral Club will
present a joint program featuring
Christmas music at the Mint Museum,
junday afternoon, December 8, at 4:30.
Queens girls in the orchestra are:
Jeanne Love, Frances Moseley, Ruth
Kilgo, Virginia Prunty, and Elizabeth
Cloninger.
The group from the Choral Club
is made up of Elsbeth Burnhan, Mar
garet Daniels, Sarah Holleman, Jose
phine Johnson, Anne Roddey, Elsie
Moseley, Cornelia Truesdale, Mar
garet Harden, Frances Riddle,
Maujeur Moseley, Esther Love Hill-
louse, Dorothy Robinson, Betty Ross
Dellinger, and Mary Lorene Jones.
The orchestra will play the follow
ing selections: “Overture” from Cost
Fan Tutte, by Mozart; Prelude, by
Glazorenaw; “Le Coucou,” by Aren
sky; and “Pavanne,” by Ravel. Eliza
beth Cloninger will play a group of
selected carols on the harp.
The Choral Club will present the
following program: “Echo Song” by
Orlando di Lasso; “Slumber Song of
the Infant Jesus,” by Gevaert; “The
Shepherd’s Christmas Song,” an Aus
trian folk song; and “Silent Night
Holy Night,” by Gruber.
Looking off into the distance from Burtvell steps sits Marie Pons. Can
she he wondering how she will look as reigning May Queen.
Campus Beauty Adds
May Queen To Titles
Marie Pons Wins
Isaacs Announces
reative Writing
Staff For Year
COMING EVENTS
Sunday, December 8, 4:30 P. M.—
Musical program. Mint Muesum
Friday, December 13, 7:16 P. M.—
Banquet, Educational Buyers As
sociation.
Sunday, December 8, 4:30 P. M.—
Alpha Eta Sigma Iniation.
Student Christian Cabinet
Plans Christmas Gift
Poor Children To Receive Stockings
Filled And Distributed By Service Group
Following their usual custom of
giving to some needy cause each
-hristmas, the Student Christian As
sociation is making plans for their
Christmas gift this year. The cabi
net has decided to spend the monthly
$10 00 on filling Christmas stockings
to be distributed among the poor
children of Charlotte. Those who
would like to help fill stockings or
distribute them are asked to see
Alice Barron, social service chairman.
The S. C.- A. gave three baskets
for Thanksgiving this year. One
basket went to John Gains, the col-
fireman, another to a paralytic
grre nrernuuy a**ww**'' a ^
woman and her family, and the last
to an old couple who are invalids and
out of work.
The cabinet is planning the annual
midnight service which is held every
Christmas the night before the holi
days begin.
December 8th the Freshman Cabi
net, sponsored by Frances Brocking-
ton, gave a program on Christmas.
In response to the program pre
senting S. A. C.’s project for this
year, which was given in chapel sev
eral weeks ago, the student body and
faculty have pledged approximately
$260.00 to be given for relief work
in China and a scholarship for an
English girl. Everyone was not pres
ent at the time of the pledging, and
it is hoped that with these the goal
set by the cabinet, $350, may be
gained.
At the last Creative Writing meet
ing, which was held Friday, November
29, in Burwell Hall, Elizabeth
Isaacs, editor of The Queens Quill,
announced the staff for this year as
follows: Editorial staff: Mary Jane
Hart, poetry editor; Pete Munroe,
short story editor, and Sally Par
dee, exchange editor. The business
staff is headed by Gail Griffith, bus!
ness manager. Gloria Coppala is as
sistant business manager^ Louise
Blue, circulation manager; Helen
Hendley, advertising manager; Mary
Jo Lucas and Elizabeth Nash, staff
assistants.
Julia Edwards, president of the
Spectator Club, was the speaker for
the program. She spoke on the life
and works of Edna St. Vincent Mil-
lay and read several poems.
At the close of the program, Eliza
beth Isaacs announced that at the
next meeting members will answer
the roll with quotations which are
examples of picturesque writing.
Over Two Other
Senior Lovelies
ALICE PAYNE
Heifetz To Open
Concert Series
Jascha Heifetz, internationally
cnown violin virtuoso, will be pre
sented by the Charlotte Community
Concert Association in the first con
cert of the current season Tuesday
evening, December 10, at the Armory
“He will inaugurate one of the most
auspicions seasons of the local associa
tion, from the standpoint of artistic
lialent,” stated David Ovens, president
of the Association.
Mr. Heifetz, who began, a study of
the violin at the age of three, was born
at Vilna, Russia, February 2, 1901.
He studied in the Royal School of
Music in Vilna and was a student
of Professor Leopold Auer. His first
appearance in concert took place
when he was five. After appearing in
concerts and recitals in St. Peters
burg, he played in other leading cities
of the world, including New York
City in 1917. His home is now in
Balboa, California, with his wife, the
former Florence Vidor.
Presenting: Miss Marie Pons, of
the Valdese Ponses, Queen of the May
at Queens College. She’s pretty; she’s
smart; she’s attractive. And those
are three very good reasons why
she was chosen by the Queens student
body to be their May Queen. As her
maid of honor, she has chosen Cornelia
Truesdale, of Kershaw, S. C., who
was runner-up in the contest for
Queen.
Marie is five feet and four inches
of beauty, brains, and personality.
Besides being prissy about clothes,
she likes shrimp and swimming, ten
nis, and week-ends at Carolina. Next
to that, she likes feminine clothes,
dancing, and housekeeping. She
hates to wash dishes (who doesn’t?)
and cook and sew, but outside of
those minor things, she likes house
keeping—meaning fixing flowers.
Marie’s only nickname is “Sissy,”
which was ^ven to her by little sister
Winifred, and it seems likely to stick
for quite a while. At night when
she goes to bed, instead of the usual
hair net that most girls wear, Marie,
always the glamour gal, ties her
jeautiful locks up in a bandana—and
goes to sleep looking pretty. (She says
it’s to make her have beautiful
dreams.) At any rate, with her
quiet, easy-going manner, she prob
ably always has beautiful dreams.
She is to be the Sigma Alpha
Epsilon Chapter sponsor in the Dav
idson annual this year. Could it be
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Club To Sing
The Queens College Choral Club
will present a program Friday night,
December 6, at the First Methodist
Church. The occasion is the Hi-Y
loys’ Club convention.
The following program will be pre
sented: “Echo Song,” di Lasso;
'Prayer,” from Humperdink’s Ilansel
and Oretel; and “The Night Has a
Thousand Eyes,” by Noble Cain.
The Choral Club is directed by
James Christian Pfohl, head of the
Queens-Davidson Music Department.
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