Novevtber, 1957
THE BENNETT BANNER
Page Three .
Fashions To Make
You "The Belle
01 The Ball"
This month we are featuring
fashions to make you the BeUe
of the BaH.
A great delicacy — silk faced
peau de sole with the deepest
decoUette, the biggest silk rose
highllgMting a waist-whittling
■cummerbund over a very full
skirt, which is supported by net
props.
A “bubble” skirt topped by a
strapless bodice that’s mostly an
enormous toow. Created in white
navy satin, the dress is high
lighted by black evening gloves
(armlength).
Silk with a surprise ending—a
head-turning view to the rear in
a dress that starts out demure as
can be in a cover-up halter —
leaves off with nothing but your
beautiful back followed by vapor
vails of floating silk chiffon. The
dress itself, a close-fitting co
coon of pure silk taffeta.
Between the dark and the day
light, these are the gowns that
shine. Free of features and fur
belows, they are a solid glisse of
smooth pure silk satin, wear
bodices with all the "bare” es
sentials. One has a wrap-around
sheath skirt, draped to the left,
and secured toy a i>ert bow, with a
square bodice. The other features
a sweetheart neckline with a bell
shaped skirt bolstered by lots of
crinolines.
A black velveteen camisole top
teamed with a nylon 'chiffon glit
ter skirt to make a sure hit.
A coffee-with cream cotton lace
dress floodlighted by a rose satin
obi. The dres is taffeta-lined to
keep it crisp.
Annoimcing the charming shape
o^^ hights to c&me—a wide-spread
ing arc of skirt that swings out
over a narrow stem beneath the
bodice reaches high to the throat,
dips low to the back.
The news of the night is black
and white—a black on black or
white on white in a cotton lace
over rayon taffeta sheath, reed
slim with a round neckline in front
and back. Back interest is af
forded by a voluminous panel at
tached by an extremely wide cum
merbund which is way out in
front as a bow.
Take one bell-shaped skirt, add
one bodice with scoop neck and
three-quarter length sleeves with
three red roses outlining the
scoop, and there you have the
magic formula for the perfect
dress for that once-in-a-Ufetimfi
evening.
Chiffon drifts in, covered by
a rhinestone-pinned jacket of
brushed brocade. The dress has a
camisole bodice and taffeta-lined
skirt with i)etticoat. The same
dress with a new escort, dreamy
criffon settled like a cloud on a
rustling taffeta petticoat accented
at the waist by a large red rose.
The shoe—evenign shimmer in
dyeable white satin, combining a
sheathed toe with an airy ding
back.
Spots before his eyes—your eve
ning shirt of leopard-printed satin
and matching belt which tops a
pleated nylon shiffon skirt.
A white satin bell brushed with
deepblue roses, tilted to show
more leg. The back dives into a
bow at the waist.
Dresses bom in dreamland—
pink, the shade of a brilliant
dawn, squares of, front and back,
in a neckline that’s modest and
becoming. The belled skirt rises
in front to show yom' shoe. Daz
zling white rayon taffeta em
broidered with pink buds and
green leaves makes a strapless,
floor-length gown swirling out in
scalloped tiers below a green satin
BENNETT COLLEGE PLAYERS
“Our Town” Presented By
Bennett College Players
“We all know that something
is eternal. And it ain’t houses, and
it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth,
and it ain’t even the stars—
everybody knows in their bones
that something is eternal, and
th seomething haS to do with hu
man beings.”
This is an extraction from “Our
Town,” the productiom presented
by the Little Theater Guilds of
Bennett College. Under the di
rection of Miss Anne Jenkins, the
performance was given two
nights, November 15 and 16, in
the little Theater.
The male members of the cast
of the three-act play were stu
dents of A&T College and Dudley
High School.
“Our Town” written by Thorn
ton Wilder tells the story of the
“The Daily Life,” “Love and Mar
riage,” and the "Farewell and
sash. Dreams that dazzle the
night—and ice blue gown of
acetate taffeta, the bodice inlaid
with a V of nylon tulle and fired
with iridescent sequins.
Floaty white gown with a taf
feta bodice brightened with rhine
stones and sequins, bows in a row.
Wide halter straps and two-lay-
ered skirt are of silk and rayon
chiffon.
Frothy nylon tulle shapes a
snug, sequined bodice, flies out
in a wide double skirt over taf
feta.
Great ball gowns for great eve
nings—a strapless cuffed bodice
atop a pleated bouffant skirt, ris
ing in front to exhibit the dainty
slipper, and securely held by two
huge bows, the material—^white
satin. A red lace gown—a plain
strapless bodice and a bell
shaped skirt, the waist accented
by a red satin bow at either side.
A pink lady in a back-paneled,
satin column sheath, the lace in
the wide-strapped, scooped bodice
re-echoed in the border of the
skirt.
The latest in evening footwear
—on your left foot, scarlet satin
roses dip from your heel—on your
[right, they climb from your toes,
a look that without a doubt says
save every dance for me. Dyed-
to-match satin T-strap sandals.
A ball dress of amethyst satin
handled the way anything as rich
as satin should be handled, quite
simply. The top is cut straight
across, shoestring strapi)ed, the
skirt Is full enough to bell, but
no more. The waist, inspired by
I Paris, we add a wide, flat bow.
Waiting” of a small town in Gro
ver’s Corners, New Hampshire.
The cast included.
Rudene Abney as Stage Mana
ger; Hiurold Hairston as Dr. Gibbs;
Williams Burris as Joe Crowell;
Robert Stafford as Howie New-
some; Cllshama Madison as Mrs.
Gibbs; Gwen Mackel as Mrs.
Webb; Prank Graham as George
Gibbs; Merry Jean Sparrow as
Rebecca Gibbs. Milton Gerald as
Wally Webb; Agatha Ricks as
Emily Webb; Sonia Louden as
Professor Willard;
Vernon McRae as Mr. Webb;
Barbara Philson, Toni Presley,
and Peggie Alexander as Women
in the Auditoriimi; James Pass
as Simon Stlmson; Rosalyn Smith
as Ruthie Crowell; Andrew Pal
mer as Joe Stoddard;
Rosa Lee Shaw as Mary Craig;
and Otrilla Summers, Charletta
Pickering, Louise Turner, Barbara
Philson, Peggie Alexander, and
William Oscar Johnson as the
People of the Town.
Tonkins Speaks
Continued from Pa^e One
She cited the following reasons
for striving for excellence: Col
leges and universities, therefore
accepting only the best students;
this is the age of progress and
keen competion; and the desirabil
ity of excellence for its own sake.
In stating what constitutes ex
cellence she listed completing daily
assignments, consulting as many
soiu-ces as possible, and a burning
desire for knowledge. Excellence,
then, she continued, becomes a
process of continuous striving and
of directing all our energy to the
task at hand.
“Character, service, scholarship,
and leadership, these are the keys
which I submit to you as entrance
into the main stream of life,” she
concldued.
Twelve students were inducted
into the Honor Society whose of
ficers are: Walter Harrison, pres
ident; Norman Hoyle, vice presi
dent; Vivian Johnson, secretary-
treasurer; Barbara Moore, report
er; and Charles Yeoman, Parli-
mentarian.
0
Welcome
Morehouse
Graduate Exams
Announced
The Graduate Record Examina
tions, required of applicants for
admission to a number of graduate
schools, will be administered at
examination centers throughout
the country there more times in
the present school school year,
the Educational Testing Service
has announced.
I During 1956-57 more than 12,-
. 000 students took the GRE In
partial fulfillment of admission re-
I
qulrements of graduate schools
which prescribed it.
The fall candidates took the
GRE on Saturday, November 16.
In 1958, the dates are January
18. April 26, and July 12. ETS
advises each applicant to inquire
of the graduate school of his
choice which of the examinations
he should take on which dates.
The GRE tests offered in these
nationwide programs include a
test of general scholastic ability
and advance level tests of achieve
ment in sixteen different subject
matter fields. According to ETS,
candidates are permitted to take
the Apititude Test and/or one of
the Advanced Tests.
A Bulletin of Information, (in
which an application is inserted)
provides details of registration and
administration as well as sample
questions, and may be obtained
from college advisers or directly
from Educational Testing Service,
20 Nassau Street, Princeton, New
Jersey, or P. O. Box 27896, Los
Angeles 27, California. A com
pleted application must reach the
ETS office at least fifteen days
before the date of the administra
tion for which the candidate is
applying.
Activities of Clubs
And Organizations
THE Y.W.C.A.
The members of the Y.W.C.A.
are planning the annual hike to
the County Home for the Aged,
Thanksgiving morning at 5:30.
Following the hike will be the
traditional White Breakfast which
begins at 9:00.
The plans for a social for the
members of the Y.W.CA. have
not as yet been completed. Visit
ing parents, the Bennett Family,
and campus guests are invited to
participate in the activities for
Thanksgiving Day.
INTERKA'nONAL RELATIONS
CLVB
The International Relations
Club, whose purpose is to discuss
international affairs, has placed
on exhibit in the Student Union
posters which are enlightening as
well as timely. This material has
been designed to give insight into
the world situation as it stands
today. The theme for the exhibit is
“The Pathway to Peace.”
On the club’s calendar of ac
tivities for the year Is a Birth
day dinner. ’This dinner has been
scheduled for December 6, at
which time a special feature in
the form of a song, accompanied
by a dance interpretation, will be
presented. The theme of the
Birthday dinner will be “Interna
tional Christmas.”
The International Relations Club
invites all members of the Ben
nett Family to purchase Christ
mas cards from the club this year.
K)
RigMs Group Named
The newly-named Civil Rights
Commision will begin work early
next month. Stanley F. Red, re
tired Supreme Court justice, has
been named to head the com
mission.
Authorlzer under a new civil
rights law enacted last summer,
the commission was given power
to investigate the allegations of
denial of voting rights because of
race, religion or national origin.
The group also is directed to study
federal laws and policies bearing
on “equal protection of the laws.”
Justice Reed said he plans to
convene the commission for its
first meeting early in December,
and that one of its first tasks will
be to pick a full-time staff di
rector.
PRAGO-GUYES
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IS A FRIEND INDEED
NEED I SAY ANYTHING MORE?
RALPH JOHNS