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See The First' Maroon-Gold Grid Game Saturday MAROON AND GOLD Back Elon’s Baseball Team Against Wake Forest VOLUME 29 Frat Party Schedule Is Announced The spring social season for Ulon students, will be enlivened l)y a series of fraternity and so rority banquets and parties, ac cording to plans announced by various Greek letter groups. The Tau Zeta Phi sorority will lead off the series this weekend, ior their banquet is scheduled on the college calendar for Saturday alight of this week. Others will be held during April and May. Sigma Phi Beta has announced their party for Saturday night, April 1st, and Alpha Pi Delta fra ternity and Pi Kappa Tau soror ity will each have their banquet on Friday night, pril 14th. Two of the parties will be held tiie following weekend, for Beta Omicron Beta sorority will gath er on Friday, April 21st, and lota Tau Kappa fraternity will follow with its banquet on Saturday night, April 2nd. Kappa Psl Nu fraternity will wait until Saturday night. May 6, to stage its annual banquet, cli maxing the annual May Day week •end. The final event on the cal endar is the Delta Upsilon Kappa banquet on Friday night, May 12. Players Plan Spring Show Hoping that the adaptation of ■“Antigone” which proved so suc cessful for Katherine Coirnell and Cedric Hardwicke wUl do as well at Eloh, the Elon Players are readying this modem version of the Greek tragedy for presenta tion on the nth and 12th of April «n the Whitley Auditorium stage. The ancient Greek "Antigone’ involves two sons and two daugh ters of mother-loving Oedipus, lately departed king of Thebes. Sind his brother-in-law, Creon, wJao assumes the throne at the 3^ king’s death. The two broth ers have had a civil war and have killed each other, and Creon, fuU «£ righetousness and edicts, has ecdained that one of the brothers ixe left unburied — carrion for dogs and vultures. Antigone, a sister, defies the edict heaps earth upon the dishonored corpse, and is buried aUve for punish ment. This sets off a chain of suicides which rocks old Creon to his base. „ The Players cast in this adapta tion by Lewis Galantiere are Ros amond Bromley and Robert ■Wright, as Antigone and Creon; Edward Engles, the Chorus; Ger aldine Cooper, sister of Antigone; Ann Truitt, Antigone’s nurse; Glenn King, the Messenger, Gard ner Underhill, the Page; Baxter Twiddy and Walker Fesmire, Guards; and Kenneth Jacobs as Eaemon, Antigone’s lover. Sever al parts have yet to be cast by the Players’ director, Mrs. Elizabeth E. Smith. Robert Walker is again produc tion stage manager with Robert Harned as his assistant. ELON COLLEGE, N. C. SOLO STARS OF CHOIR TRIP Thirty-five members of the Elon College Choir made the annual northern trip during the spring vacation, and four of the group appeared in outstand ing solo roles in each of the eight concerts given by the singers during the tour. The four soloists who played star roles included three sing ers and one pianist. They were Dorothy Parker, contralto (up per left); Sharon Black, sopra no (upper right); Charles Lyn- am, baritone (lower lift); and Fred Sahlman, pianist (lower right). Dorothy Parker sang two numbers in each program, “Be hold A Host,” by Grieg and Burleigh’s arangement of “Were You There?” Sharon Black ren dered “How Beautiful Upon The Mountain,” by Harker, and Charles Lynam sang the Steffe- Ringwald arrangement of “Bat tle Hymn of The Republic.” Fred Sahlman, who won high honors for Elon in a sectional musical contest last year, of fered the only piano solo on the tour concert program, playing Liszt’s “Concert Etude in D Flat.” These singers, in addition to their own special selections, also participated in the num bers offered by the entire choir and by smaller ensembles. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1950 NUMBER n Touring Players Will Present ^Caesar And Cleopatra^ April 3 Choir Members Report Successful Trip North The Elon Choir, which returned on Monday night, March 13th, from a ten-day northern tour, reported a successful trip, which developed at times some rather hectic experiences, including near wrecks and a late arrival for one engagement due to losing the way. The singers left Elon on Friday, March 3rd, by special bus and filled their first engagement at Lynchburg, Va., that night. They moved on to Luray, Va., for a Sat urday night program, and they stopped off to visit the famous Debaters To Meet High Point Team The Elon debating squad drop- >ped a double decision to the Dav idson speakers hese on Thusrday night, February 23rd, the Presby terians winning both affirmative .and negative decisions Bay Hayes and Bill Sinclair de fended the affirmative for Elon in a contest, which was termed unus ually close by Prof. W. H. Struhs, Christian forensic coach. Nega- PLAYERS TO GIVE BURLINGTON SHOW Elon College students and faculty members who missed the campus performances of the Players’ last offering, “Out of the Frying Pan,” will have an opportunity to see the show whien the Players will present it in Burlington on Friday, March 24th, under the sponsorship of the Burlington High School P.T.A. The Players will give a stu dent matinee which will be fol lowed by the regular evening performance. Admission for the matinee will be fifty cents with the evening tickets selling for eighty cents. Curtain time for the evening performance will be 8:00 p. m. West Addresses Elon Book Club Prof. John F. West, of the Elon English faculty, was guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Elon College Book Club, which was held at the home of Mrs. Leon E. Smith, Sr., on Thursday after noon, March 2nd. Mrs. Smith, who was program chairman for the meeting, pre sented Professor West, whose spe cialty is a course in creative writ ing. He then spoke to the club about a novel, which he wrote to’ win a writing ontest and which is I guide the party Endless Caverns while enroute The Sunday appearance for the group was in Winchester, Va., from which point they moved on into Washington on Sunday after noon. Historic Mount Vernon and the Arlington National Cemetery, with its Unknown Soldier’s Tomb, were points of call Leaving Washington about 8 o’clock on Monday morning, the choir rolled into New York City early that night and had two nights to see the sights along the Great White Way before moving on to Barrington, R. 1., for their next singing engagement on Wed nesday night, March 8th. During the trip through north ward into New England the b^s was hit by a bicycle, ridden by an aged man, and—beelive it or not —the bicycle almost wrecked the bus. Choir members had visions of an icy bath in a stream beside the highway as the bus almost left the road. Engagements at Barrington and Providence in Rhode Island on Wednesday and Thursday were followed by another two-day visit to New York City before going to Jersey City to sing on Sunday morning. The group moved on to the Glen Alden Church in Drexel Hill, suburb of the Quaker City, for an appearance on Sun day afternoon. It was then that the driver lost his way, and it was necessary to get a police escort to to the church, to be published soon. He has al- jso written a number of short stor ies for various magazines. Professor West also the writing profession discussed and told it. tive speakers for Elon were Em-' jjg became interested in Tiiett Nesbitt and Billy Mittelstadt. , j j i,- . , , I He concluded his interestmg and Prof. Struhs announced last v;eek that the Elon speakers will meet High Point next Monday night, March 27th, informative talk by reading an editorial from a recent issue of the “Carolina Quarterly.” where the crowd sang hymns and waited patiently for the belated choir. Leaving Philadelphia early on Monday morning, March 13th, the bus rolled southward through rough weather, with an unsched uled singing program at a diner north of Washington and lunch at the National Airport as features of the homeward trip. VISITORS SEE ELON'S NEW GYM Dr. B. B. Dougherty, presi dent of Appalachian State Teachers College, acoompaiiied by Bernard Dougherty, bitsiness manager of that institution, were visitors on the Elon camp us last Thursday for the pur pose of viewing Elon’s new gym- Both of the visiting educat ors were enthusiastic about the new structure, and Dr. Dough erty jotted down figures as to size and equipment of the gym nasium, perhaps with a view to building a similar athletic plant on the Appalachian campus at Boone. Movies Back On Campus For Students Motion pictures came back to the Elon Collee campus last Fri day night, March 17th, and Elon’s guys and gals can now see their favorite screen idols without the necessity of shelling out bus fare to B-Town or thumbing a ride to Gay Gibsonville—that is, provid ing they have no yen to see them at times other than Friday or Sat urday nights. The new entertainment feature on the campus was instituted last week with the showing of “Bride For Sale,” and the showing was seen by a goodly audience, indica tion that the new series of movies may be more successful and, therefore, more permanent than was a similar experiment two years ago. In announcing the return of regular motion pictures. Prof. A. L. Hook, guiding hand for the se ries, stated that the weekend shows must, of necessity, be self- sustaining financially. The shows two years ago were started on the same basis, and they proved suc cessful for some time, but attend ance fell off to such an extent that they began losing money and were discontinued. None were offered last year. The plans for the new series of shows were mapped at the request of the student entertainment committee, working under the guidance of Mrs. Sadie D. Liles, dean of women. Students serving on the committee Included Mar tha Ellen Joiuison, of Graham, Evelyn Booth of Roanoke, Va., and Charles C. Johnson, of Chuck- atuck, Va. , In granting the request of this committee. Professor Hook made Sixteen-year-old Cleopatra, The Touring Players, remembered here at Elon for their pre sentation last year of “The Corn Is Green,” will present “Caesar and Cleopatra,” one of the current Broadway hit plays in Whitley Auditorium here on Monday night, April 3rd. This is the only pro duction of the popular Bernard Shaw comedy to be seen outside of New York this year. who, as reported in TIME maga zine, “runs through the play .like HERE'S CLEOPATRA I quick-silver, a kitten all cuddle and claws, worlds away from Shakespeare’s Serpent of the Nile,” is played delightfully by Esther Roice. Miss Roice was seen recently in “My Dear Child ren, opposite John Carradine, and on the television serial of “I Remember Mama,” with Peggy Wood. Her early training in cludes three years at the Pasadena Playhouse and work with Sanford Meisner and SteUa Adler in the famous Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. William Meyers, whose New York experience has been wide, is ideally cast as the benevolent Ro man dictator, who taught an un ruly child the Shavian code of ethics on the banks of the Nile. Margaret Campbell, who played Miss Moffat in “The Corn Is Green” with the Touring Players, plays the role of Ftatateeta, Cleo patra’s sinister duenna, whose name Caesar never manages to pronounce. Carl Sheldon, playing as Cae sar’s lieutenant, Rufio, was seen on Broadway last season in “Uni form Of Flesh,” and previously scored with Paul Muni in “A Flag Is Bom” and with Louis Calhem in “The Magnificent Yankee.” Mr. Sheldon Is well suited to his role of warrior in Caesar’s legions, having advanced in five years from private in the infantry to major in the Adjutant General’s office, gaining seven Pacific bat tle stars on the way. Pothinius, conniving tutor to Cleopatra’s brother Ptolemy, is played by Robert Laning, who has returned only recently from an extensive European tour with the London Theatre Company’s pre sentation of “Gas Light.” Esther Roice, who has had a wide experience in stage and radio plays, will play Cleopatra in Ber nard Shaw’s “Caesar and Cleo patra,” which is to be given by the Touring Players in Whitley Audi torium on Monday night, April 3. two conditions, the first being that attendance be sufficient to sup port the shows , (^as mentioned above) and that the audience in Whitley Auditorium conduct themselves in a manner fitting to the other uses of the building. The movie project is not design ed to make a profit, and the ad mission price has been set at 25c, with a smaller price for children. A new and modern projector has been secured, and the shows are expected to be of the same calibre as are offered at regular the atres. The pictures to be shown will be chosen by ballot of the stu dents from a block group of shows. CAGE TO TOELON There’s a possibility that Elon’s beautiful new Alumni Memorial (tymnasium might draw two big basketball tourna ments in 1951, according to re ports that reach the campus by way of the “Grapevine Tele graph.” ’Tis said that the basketball fathers of the North State Con- ferenc« were not too well pleased with the results of the annual tournament held at Statesville some weeks ago, and it’s certainly no secret that the state high school organization was far from satisfied with the tum-out for the annual State High School Tournament in Durham the second weekend in March. In each case the powers-that- be were reported to be casting speculative eyes at the beauti ful floor and the spacious gal leries of Elon’s new indoor arena, which seats far more peo ple than the gymnasium in Statesville and is much nearer the “hot-bed” of high school basketball enthusiasm than is the Duke Indoor Stadium. No less a person than Bill Currie, sports editor of the High Point Enterprise, was one of the loudest “drum-beaters” for the idea of bringing the North State Conference Tournament to Elon in February, 1951. Currie as sumed a definite “anti-Elon bias” in another matter not so long ago, but he offered some logical reasons for playing the college tourney here in future VRNEYS MAY COME GYM NEXT SEASON years. Sports Editor Currie argued in a recent column that «ittes like Statesville and Elkin, with no college of their own and no real college spirit, have little incentive to click the turnstiles with paying customers, and he opined that the North State meet will never prove truly success ful until it is played in a college town. While lamenting the fact that High Point has no gym large enough to accommodate the event, he pointed out that only Elon and Lenoir-Rhyne can of fer arenas big enough to attract attention, and he came out in no uncertain terms in favor of moving the tournament to Elon next year, pointing out that Elon is more centrally located in the Conference, all of which leaves the way open for an invitation from the Elon authorities. The annual North Carolina High School Tournament in Durham ten days ago showed some excellent basketball, but the crowds staged away in droves, and there were many comments that “Hap” Perry, former Elon star and coach, who is now director of high school athletics in the state, had better look around for another site for his tournament. When the North Carolina High School Athlestic Associa tion was reorganized two years ago and “Hap” Perry took over the reigns, the hope was ex pressed that the state high school tournament might be btijilt to something of the stat ure of Mid-Westem scholastic meets, which are always sell outs. t Athletic leaders and sports writers have been looking for a reason, and most of them have come up with {he idea that the high school tournament in Dur ham comes too soon after the annual Southern Conference Tournament and that the fans of the area get their fill of the college cage sport before the school boys reach Durham. Some of them advanced the idea that Elon’s big gymnasium would be an ideal location for the event. Another idea in favor of the local arena lies in the fact tiiat the real “hot bed” of high school basketball in North Carolina lies in Piedmont and Northwest North Carolina. Proof of that fact lies in the fact that the an- ^ nual Journal-Sentinel North west Basketball Tournament in Winston-Salem, the largest in the world, drew more fans in a single night to see early round elimination games than attend ed the entire state tournament. The Elon Alumni Gymnasium is much nearer this “hot bed” of Tar Heel cage interest than is Durham, and the high school leaders appear favorable to a change. The only comment of one of them, when Elon was suggested as a site for next year’s tournament, was “We haven’t been invited yet.” The burlesque of an esthete, Appollodorus, is amusingly played by Douglass Taylor, who began his acting career in San Francisco at the age of eight. He later stud ied at the Neighborhood Play house, where he worked with Guthrie McClintic and Katherine Cornell. The show will be a regular part of the lyceum series for the year, and students will be admitted to the performance on their student activity tickets. New Quarter Well Started With spring holidays a thing of the past, the final quarter pf the 1949-1950 term got underway on the Elon College campus on Mon day, March 13th, and members of the senior calss began thinking; seriously of commencement and graduation not too far in the fu ture. Some few faces were missing as the new quarter began, some of them being seniors who com pleted requirements for gradua tion with the winter quarter while others were the scattered group that fell by the scholastic wayside through failure to measure up to requirements on their mid-year courses. There were new face^, too, for the admissions office reported that more than thirty new stu dents applied for admission to Elon as the new term began. Some of the new students were transfers, others were brand-ne.v freshmen, just starting the long road that leads to a sheep-skia and a degree.
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