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VOLUME XXI
ELON COLLEGE, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY H, 1947
NUMBER SEVEN
SHAW COMEDY IS GIVEN IN WHITLEY
4- ¥ * 4 * *★★★ ***
MAGICIAN TO ENTERTAIN ON JAN. 24
Warren Simms
To Appear In
ABC Program
The third event of the 1946-'47 fall
and winter concert series sponsored
by the American Business Club of
Burlington vill be presented in the
Whitley Auditorium on Friday night,
January 24, at 8:15, when patrons of
the popular series will be entertain
ed by Warren Simms, distinguished
American magician.
Mr. Simms, one of the country's
foremost performers in the art of i
legerdemain, will turn out his whole j
bag of tricks during his Elon ap
pearance. His amazing ability and
fine showmanship have won ^ him
wide recognition in the world of en
tertainment during his many years in
the spotlight. His program, which
he calls “Modern Magical Mysteries.”
includes sleight of hand, illusion,
mental and phychic phenomena,
thought transmialBion , and predic
tions. Studei>ts will be admitted to
the program on their activity cards.
The concert series,, which is spon
sored for the promotion and devel
opment of athletics in Burlington
city schools, will be concluded on
March 14, with the appearance of
Braggiotti and Chaikin, internation
ally famous piano duo. Previous
concerts this season have been pre
sented by the Westminster Choir and
the Footlight Favorites Quartet.
STEVE WALKER
SUFFERS BURNS
AS STOVE EXPLODES
r
Barter Theater Presents
‘Arms And The Man’ Here
MUSIC MAJORS AND GUEST SOLOIST. Gathered about Miss Exine Anderson (center), soprano soloist of
New York City, are five Elon College music majors. From left to right, they are the misses Violet Black
mon, Four Oaks, N. C.; Elizabeth Johnson, Suffolk, Va.; Dorothy Shepherd: Durham; Jane Lewis, Graham;
and Lucille Morgan, Hampton, Va. Picture was taken at a tea given in h onor of Miss Anderson, who sang in
Handel’s “Messiah” and gave sped al recital here shortly before Christm as. (Staff Photo)
Elon’s Record Enrollinent,
Football Topped ’46 News
Steve Walker, Milton, N. C„ one
of the best-liked members of our stu
dent body, was serious burned on
Chrismas eve at his home, when a
gas stove on which he was working
exploded.
Finding that the stove did not
function properly, he loosened a pipe;
the gas sprayed on the hot generator,
and exploded in his face. The first
to reach him was his mother, im
mediately after the explosion. Steve
being in flame when she saw him,
she quickly wrapped a quilt around
his body, putting the fire out. He
was then rushed to the Danville hos
pital by friends.
Suffering from burns on his face
and left hand, Steve spent his Christ
mas holidays in the hospital, but he
hopes to be home soon.
ministerial association
HOLDS BANQUET
What a year 1946 turned out to be! duties as head baseball mentor. The
Maybe you remember all the big' baseball team won its first two
events at Elon during the last twelve, games, 6-5 and 4-3, against Ohio Uni
months; if you don’t, perhaps we can
refresh your memory. Anyway, here
Miss .Lula Browne, ihstructor in
religious education, was the principal
speaker at a pre-holiday banquet held
by the Ministerial Association at the
Alamance Hotel in Burlington.
Miss Catherine Cooper, president
of the association, acted as toastmast
er. The invocation was given by
Dean D. J. Bowden. Fred Register
of Sanford welcomed guests and
members; and Warren Johnson of Jer
sey City, N. J., Miss Helen Cobb of
Burlington, W. A. Wentz of Rock
ingham, and Dr. F. E. Reynolds of
the Department of Religion, offered
toasts and responses.
Guest soloist of the evening was
James White, of Burlington and Elon.
QUARTET TO SING
A mixed quartet will represent
Elon College in the annual College
Day of the Christian Churches. The
group will travel to eastern North
Carolina to join in the College Day
actitvities on Sunday, January, 19.
Those in the quartet are Dorothy
Shepherd, Dorothy Jories, Wilbur
Waaser, and Jack McFadgen. They
will be accampanied by Fletcher
Moore of the music department.
goes!
Probably the most important events
of all were the opening of the 1946-
'47 school term in September, when
a record student body, including
nearly 400 G.I.’s, descended upon the
campus, and the return of all major
sports, football in particular.
In connection with the latter oc
casion, the signing of L. J. “Hap”
Perry, an Elon alumnus, as head
coach and head of the department of
physical education, rated top head
lines, as the year commenced. Also
in January came the news that Edwin
Daniel and Margaret Rawls had been
elected May King and Queen for
1946; and the student body and the
townspeople were saddened by the
death of Mrs. John U. Newman. At
the same time, Joe Golombek, War
ren Burns, and Roney Cates were
leading a hot Christian basketball
team to a 1945-‘46 season’s record of
17 wins and eight losses.
On February 9, the Congregational
Christian conference began in Whit
ley auditorium, with Dr. Charles E.
Brown, Dean Emeritus of Yale,
heading the lecture program. Conrad
Thibault appeared at the college in
one of a concert series, and an ex
pansion program for Elon was an
nounced, involving $1,000,000.
The basketball season was climax
ed by a riot in the Elon-High Point
game at High Point, when specta
tors swarmed on the floor and as
saulted Burns and Kernodle just be
fore the final whistle. Coach Adcox
protested that a “no-game” decision
was in order, but the league refused
to act against High Point, which won
the conference championship. Elon
was somewhat assuaged when Burns
and Cates were named to the all-
conference first team, although Joe
Golombek, who was voted the McGee
Fix award as Elon’s most valuable
player, was overlooked.
After the spring holidays. Lt. James
Darden, U. S. Naval Reserve, was ap
pointed Alumni secretaiy of the col
lege, and Coach Jan L. Pierce re
turned from the war to resume his
Hold Election
Of May Court
On Thursday
HUFFJNES ELECTED
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS
BY "LEGISLATORS"
versity and O.R.D., respectively
The student body officers for 1946-
'47 were announced April 13. They
were (and are) Fred Register> presi
dent; Wayne Taylor, vice-president;
Don Kernodle. secretary; and Bill
Copeland, treasurer. Other school
officer s included Jack Freeman,
president of the Senate; and Louise
Clayton, president of the Council. Al
Burlingame replaced Tom Horner as
editor of the Maroon and Gold, and
Mary Coxe took over Ed Daniel’s job
as mastermind of the PhipsicU.
“Mr. and Mrs. North” was present
ed by the Elon Players, and an orig
inal one-act play by Mrs. Elizabeth
R. Smith and Bill Clapp entitled
“Zengara” won honorable mention at
Chapel Hill. Bringing nostalgic
memories to seniors will be remem
brance of the annual Junior-Senior
banquet April 27, the same week Bob
Graham was elected to head the Stu
dent Christian Association. When
May rolled around, 35 seniors were
preparing to receive their diplomas,
and awards for outstanding dramatic
performances were given Kathleen
Young and Merritt Burns.
The record enrollment in Septem
ber, after an eventful summer in
which the Elon 'Vets softball team
played from Carolina to Connecticut,
and the announcement that fourteen
new faculty members had joined the
faculty, blared from tlie M. & G.
headlines on September 21, The
first post-war joint bid night was held
by the fraternities and sororities; and
the contest to find a leading lady
for “Junior Miss,” the production it
self, with Maxie Graham playing the
part of Judy; the Sophomore-Fresh-
man party in October; and the ap
pearance here of the famed West
minster choir shared the campus gos
sip during the fall quarter.
Biggest event of the fall, however,
was Homecoming Day, when return
ing alumni and the student bodyi^
watched Lenoir-Rhyne nose out
Coach Perry’s football team, 14-13.
The squad went on to finish the
season with a record of four wins,
five losses, and a wonderful 14-14 tie
with Guilford on Thanksgiving Day.
Elections for the 1947 May Court
will be held during the coming week
as plans get underway for the an
nual May Day Festival. Nominations
for the candidates are to be made
in student chapel Monday, and the
actual voting will be conducted by
ballot on Thursday. Balloting will
will take place in Dr. Bowden's of
fice in Alamance building.
The May King and Queen, as is
the tradition, will be selected from
the senior class. Runners-up will
serve as maid of honor and attend
ant to the King. There will also be
two attendants selected from the sen
ior class and two from the junior
class. The coronation ceremony will
be held probably the first week in
May. Entertainment for the King
and Queen will be arranged by the
music and physical education depart
ments.
In case a primary election is nec
essitated by an excessive number of
I nominations on Monday, the primar
ies will take place on Thursday and
the final elections probably the fol
lowing week.
When the tenth annual student leg
islature convened at Raleigh last
month the Elon College delegation
received recognition by having one of
its Senators, Dewey Huffines, elected
Sergeant-at-Arms by acclamation.
Other members of the delegation, all
of whom took active part in the pro
ceedings, which took place in the leg
islative halls of the state capitol
building, were Dick Staten, Senator,
and Representatives Elinor Argen-
bright and Bill Jobe. Observers were
Paige E^Ives, Vivian Walker. Raymond
Hayes, Ed Moss. In charge of the
delegation was Earl Danieley, an in
structor in the chernistry department
at Elon.'
The Elon College bills were receiv
ed too late to be listed on the cal
endar, but other colleges with similar
bills introduced them jointly with
Elon. Tjie effectiveness of Elon’s leg
islative program was enhanced' by
Mr, Danieley’s previous experience^
at student legislature and by the con
tacts he made at those times. This
was his third appearance in the an
nual affair. On the two previous oc
casions he was a Senator but this
time he could only act as an adviser.
Representative Argenbright was the
only other member of the delegation
who had previous experience with
the student legislature.
The legislature is sponsored by
North Carolina State College and
convenes once a year in the State
Capitol building. Delegates submit
bills which they would like to see
made into law. Regular parliament
ary procedure is used throughout the
two day session, and much valuable
experience is gained by the delegates
through the discussion of the various
bills and by practice of the procedure
used to make those bills laws. The
1946 session of the student legislature
was attended by 231 students, who
represented 24 colleges and univer
sities of North Carolina.
“LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN”
IS WHITLEY FEATURE
“Leave Her to Heaven” is tonight’s
movie feature in Whitley auditorium.
The picture, in technicolor, stars
Gene Tierney, Corijel Wilde, and
Vincent Price.
'NIGHT MUST FALL"
REHEARSALS SLATED
Among various kings and queens
elected during the fall were Ace Har
rell and Verdalee Norris, King and
Queen of Homecoming; Dalton Har
per and Betty Jo Chilton, rulers of
the Freshmen; and Fred Yarborough
and Nancy Jordan, who reigned over
the Hallowee* party.
Finally, the year ended with the
pre-holiday music program, featuring
the fourteenth annual presentation of
Handel’s ‘ Messiah’' and the appear
ance of the “FootUght Favorites” in
the fall-winter concert series.
What B yearl _
Rehearsals have been called for
Night Must Fall”, second play to
be presented by the Elon Players dur
ing 1946-47 school year. Directed
by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith, head of
the college department of dramatics,
the production will be given in
Whitley auditorium on February 19
and in the Burlington City auditori
um on February 21.
“Night Must Fall,” a masterpiece
of suspense by the British actor-,
author. Emlyn Williams, is one of the '
most vivid and powerful dramas
known to the stage. Action is de
veloped wholly from three persons;
the page boy, the girl, and the old
woman. The setting is the drawing
room of a house in the woods, where
the owner, the wealthy and demand
ing old woman, Mrs. Branson, gloats
constantly over her pretended inva
lidism. Plot involves the murder in
the woods of a woman, whose head
has been cut off and carried away
by the murderer. Danny, the boy,
becomes a servant of Mrs. Branson,
and the plot coninues to Its climactic
finish.
Presentation of George Bernard
Shaw’s comedy “Arms and The
Man” by the Barter Theatre Players
on Thursday evening was undoubt
edly the best acting brought to our
campus in many years. Commenda
tions by the large audience were en
thusiastic.
Miss Chaucy Horsley as Raina,
the naively romantic Bulgarian maid
en, gave that difficult role a per
fect interpretation. We shall prob
ably miss her next year if, as we
hope, a return engagement can be ar
ranged for she is under Hollywood
contract and will probably leave the
[ company at the end of the present
tour.
Herbert Nelson carried off honors
as Captain Bluntschli, but it would
be difficult to choose the best role
in a cast so well balanced and of
such general excellence. All the
supporting parts were interpreted
w’ith perfect timing and voice and
gesture to bring the most out of the
succession of comic situations.
This great Shavian drama is, of
course, a satirical burlesque on the
romantic heroics of the war. And
Tom McDermott as Sergius Saran-
off, boastful young officer who leads
a suicidal cavalry charge because
his horse runs away, had just the
right swagger and love of showing
off. Despite the fact that he and
his men would have died if a blund
er had not sent up the wrong am
munition for the opposing machine
guns, Sergius thinks his honor in
sufficient.
Hit of the show and stealing thund
er from the leads in many scenes,
was Miss Joan De Weese, Mississippi
ingenue who played Louka, the ser
vant girl who wins Sergius by strat
egy, art, and artful attractiveness.
Gordon Somers as old Major Pet-
koff. grouchy fathfer'of Raina opposed
new' customs in the universal man
ner of the old-timer whose allegi
ance is ever to the past and the ways
of his elders. Somers gave this role
a high comic turn and showed that
his professional reputation as a
character actor is warranted.
Set and costumes were well de
signed, and the costumes remarkable
in that they were made for this tour
after a tornado had destroyed many
of the company’s properties.
President Smith has said that he
hopes the Virginia troopers may re
turn, and that their appearance may
be made an annual event.
VOTE OF STMPATHIT
The Maroon and Gold saff joins the
student body In extending sympathy
to Rucker Turner on the death of
his father.
MEET WARREN SIMMS, whose feats
of sleight-of-hand and mental magic
will be exhibited in Whitley auditor
ium on Friday, January 24, in third
event of fall and winter concert se
ries sponsored by American Business
Club of Burlington. Famous magi
cian is one of bpst in the country.
Students will be admitted to perform
ance on activity cards. t