VOLUME XXV
COUNCIL CHOOSES
"CRICHTON" FOR
FIRST FALL PLAY
Barrie's Comedy Gets Nod Over
More Serious Dramas of
Wilder, Odets and Cohan.
SENIORS GET LEAD ROLES
Director Marshall Announces Final
Choice for Play Cast After
Second Tryout.
The Dramatic Council has chosen Sir
James Harriets celebrated comedy, "The
Admirable Crichton" for its production,
and Director Hubert K. Marshall and
tin* casting committee have chosen the
leads and tentatively cast the rest of
the characters.
Tom Taylor and (teorge Wilson,
president anil vice-president, respic
tively. of (lie Dramatic Council, will lie
starred in the roles of Cricliton and
Kuril est. Betty Locke, in the leading
feminine role, of l.ady Mary, will piny
opposite Taylor. Tliese three actors are
ill tlieir senior year at Cuilford Col
lege, lint tilis will lie Miss Ixicke's first
leading role. Hope Leslie, a freshman,
will play the part of l.ady Barckle
lmrst.
Definite decisions as to the rest of
the cast have not as yet iieen made by
Mr. Marshall. Lord liarcklehurst stands
at present between Lin White and
Merle X'ickett, and the role of Lord
Loam will go either to Merle I'ickett or
Steve Cope. The remainder of the cast
is as yet undecided.
"Admirable Crichton" became a sen
sational success on London and New
York stages almost simultaneously a
number of years ago. Since that time
it has been continuously popular with
little theatre and advanced college
groups. Seven years ago it was re
vived 011 Broadway to prove a hit with
actors, Walter Hampden and Fay liain
ter in the leading roles. King of the
camera, Cecil It. DeMille transformed
it into a Hollywood extravaganza and
called it "Male and Female."
The story of the play, which lias been
so aclaimed by the public, is a comedy
of bright and lively wit. According to
Director Marshall, the comic situations
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FELSIE RIDDLE BECOMES
ASSISTANT TO LIBRARIAN
Former Guilford Graduate Is Well
((ualilied to Fill Vacancy in
Library Staff.
TAKES SAMKAY SMITH'S I'LACE
•Miss Felsie Kiddle, former student
of Guilford College, Ims recently been
added to the Library stall' in the
capacity of assistant to the librarian.
She received her A.li. degree in 1935
from Guilford College and is thor
oughly familiar with the school
library, having worked with Miss
Hicks as an undergraduate.
After graduating from Guilford, she
became head of the public school li
brary in Graham for two years. She
had previously taught in the Gra
ham High School. During the past
summer she was in summer school at
the University of North Carolina,
working on her Master's degree in
Library Science.
Miss Kiddle makes the statement
that Guilford College has a very good
library, and that it has an adequate
supply of books and references which
prove to lie effective in satisfying the
majority of the student needs.
O/THE/c)
GUILFORDIAN
Miss Gons Reported
Recovering Health
Recent reports from Miss Alice
(■OILS, who underwent an operation
on Thursday, October 6, at the Day
lon Osteopathic hospital. Dayton,
Ohio, show that she is "getting
along nicely." Miss (ions expects
to return to the campus some time
in December.
Mrs. Raymond liinford is sub
stituting during Miss Gons' absence
from her classes, while Elizabeth
Neece. house president at Mary
llobbs ball, is carrying on her duties
there.
COMMITTEE PASSES
ON EXTRA HOLIDAYS
Ruling on Extended Thanks
giving Vacation Handed
Down at Meet.
CAMPUS ELECTION SLATED
The Personnel Committee and two
representatives from each of the
classes met Thursday afternoon in the
ofiice of President Milner and decided
that the question of an extended
Thanksgiving holiday would be pre
sented to the student body for vote.
The vote would decide the question of
whether the Thanksgiving holidays
would he lengthened by the expedient
of taking two days from the Christmas
holidays.
Borrowing from the Christmas holi
days is the only alternative as the an
nual choir trip is scheduled to include
the entire time allotted to the spring
holidays. No additional time can be
added at the end of the second semes
ter as it would cause a conflict between
summer school and the North Carolina
Yearly Meeting of Friends which runs
concurrently with the ending of the
summer session.
Because of the membership of Guil
ford College in the Southern Associa
tion of ('ol legos and Secondary Schools
it is necessary that a specific number
of class days be included in the school
year. The addition of any days to com
pensatc for the loss incurred by the ex
tension of Thanksgiving holidays must
therefore be added some time in the
school year. Hy borrowing some days
from the Christmas holidays the date
of the closing of school would not IK*
changed.
The question to be decided by the
student body is whether the days shall
be borrowed from the Christinas holi
days or whether no extension of time
shall be granted for the Thanksgiving
holidays.
Hikers Cash In On Insured
Moonlight and Violin Music
There were several things about
the moon Sunday night . . . 11 mm . . .
yes!
Five miles may be live miles, and
again it may lie a matter of relativity,
depending upon numerous factors,
constant or variable, as the indi
vidual (case) may have been.
The "Y's" sponsored the hike and
we suggest more power to 'em. But,
as Kay Beittel is quoted to have said
in that lightsome darkness, "it's a
big undertaking, under the circum
stances, even for the DEANS Beittel."
The general impression of the ves
per music was good: the performance
was well done via the violin and
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., OCTOBER 15, lIIISS
HOME-COMING DAY
TO FEATURE MANY
NOTABLE EVENTS
Cross-Country Meet, Hockey
Match and Football Game
of Interest to Alumni.
MR. PANCOAST IN CHARGE
I'aul S. Xuun. Alumni President, Will
Present' Leaders of Various
St udent Organizat ions.
Date for the celebration of annual
home-coming day lias been changed
from October 2!) to November 5. 011
which (lay a series of activities are
scheduled for both alumni and stu
dents.
Outstanding events of the day. in a
bird's eye picture, include the student
alumni convocation at 10:00 o'clock:
the cross-country meet at 10:45; the
giris'-alumnne hockey game at 11:15;
luncheon at 12:30; football game at
2::>: and barbecue at supper time.
Paul S. .Nunn. of Winston-Salem,
president of the Alumni Association,
lias appointed a committee consisting
of Ed Mcliane, Paul Edgerton, and
Bill 13lair, of Greensboro, to assist
Professor Wilmer Pa neon st and the
faculty in the completion of plans for
the festivities.
The chapel program, which will be
held ill Memorial auditorium, is under
the supervision of I)r. Virginia Itags
dale. of the college community, and
Mrs. Ernestine Milner. Similar to
the convocation of last year, the pro
gram will provide an opportunity of
recognition for former students in the
organizations of which they were
members. President Xunn will intro
duce members of the A Oapella Choir,
the Dramatic Council, the literary so
cieties. the (Junker and Guilfordian,
the V. W. and Y. M. A., Monogram
Club, and many others.
Ooach Carlyle Sliepard's cross
country team will face State college
harriers, it is expected, at 1():4. r i under
the leadership of Captain Alvin Mei
hohm. The race will begin in the
roadway in front of the Music build
ing and the church.
By tin- time the boys return from
hill-and-dale, the co-eds will be pre
pared to play an alumnae team in
the annual home-coming day hockey
classic on the field south of the meet
ing house. It is scheduled for It :15.
Luncheons will he served both in
Mary Hobbs and Founders halls at
12:3(1.
Alumni Council members, represen
tatives of the various classes and of
Alumi cnlinpters will convene in the
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Patricia Hopkins. There was gocxl
tone and better, if possible, senti
mental attachment. We still haven't
found the cause of the intermission:
was it a broken string, Pat?
Just why a considerable group of
freshmen, et al. didn't get so far as
to see the golf course goes back to
Einstein and the proper pace of moon
light hikers. The more conscientious
(of us) saw it, at least momentarily.
Meihohm got there Swiftly, which
may be expected from a track man,
but one does not always know what
to expect of a newspaper editor,
whether or not his name is Percival.
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Dr. Pope and Miss Gilbert
Get National Recognition
Enrollment Is the
Largest in History
Till' enrollment sit >uilford Col
lege for this year is the largest
which has been seen in the hundred
and one years that the college has
been in existence. The registration
for this year has reached a total
of 362 students enrolled for the
fall semester. This surpasses by
18 the previous record which was
set in 1936-37.
The men have the majority in the
enrollment with 233 men students
against' only 12!) women. Included
in this large registration are 155
day students. 104 of which are from
Greensboro.
NOBLE CAIN ADDRESSES
STUDENT BODY FRIDAY
Famous Composer Appears in Chapel
Cnder Auspices of Music
Department.
IS VERSATILE MUSICAL FIGURE
Interrupting his scheduled activities
in the Annual Conference of Music
Teachers in order to appear in chapel
yesterday morning, Mr. Noble Cain pre
sented some novel and entertaining
views on choral singing to the student
body. Mr. Cain was ushered into Me
morial hall by a beaming Dr. Weis who
had, upon learning of Cain's visit to
Greensboro, persuaded liini lo address
the students during his stay here.
Long famous as a composer and dis
tinguished director of the Chicago A
Capella Choir, Mr. Cain has been for
many years connected with the Na
tional Broadcasting company at. Chi
cago and enjoys a most enviable repu
tation in the Held of music, lie is a
prolific composer of choral selections,
and is one of the most famous of all
contemporary writers of negro spirit
uals.
The Guilford A Cupella Choir has in
its repertoire three of Cain"s most fa
mous works: "Couldn't Hear Nobody
I "ray," "Offering of the Soul," and "Go
I town Moses." These selections have
become favorites with regular audiences
of the choir and last year the organi
zation voted "Couldn't Hear Nobody
l'ray," the most popular of all its num
bers.
Mr. Cain, as versatile a figure as the
contemporary music field affords, is
noted for his achievements as an
organist, and had attracted widespread
attention as a result of his renditions.
It was hoped that Mr. Cain would
find time from his duties at Woman's
College to attend the rehearsal of the
Guilford A Capella Choir scheduled for
Friday afternoon. Mr. Cain's interest
at Woman's College is devoted (among
other things) to the music teachers'
conference held there to formulate
plans for the forthcoming State Music
Contest, llis activities are devoted to
ward determining the nature of the
contest division devoted to choral
groups.
Ktilli Anderson Directs Plays
Kuth Anderson, of Tennfly, N. J„
who graduated from Guilford last
June, has accepted a position with
the Triangle Producing Agency. Miss
Anderson was an outstanding member
of the Dramatic Council during hei
st ay here.
NI MISKK 2
PAPER PUBLISHED
Treatise on the Life and Works
of Madame Guyon to
Appear in P. M. L. A.
BIOGRAPHY IS PLANNED
Article Is Completed After Research
by Guilford College Language
Professors.
I)r. Kussell I'ope, head if the modern
language department at Guilford Col
lew. in collaboration with .Miss Dor
othy 1.. Gilbert, professor of English,
lias completed a research paper which
will be published in the quarterly,
Tin■ I' II LlL iiii T ion K of the Modern Lan
lliiiini' \HHoeiiition. the editor. Professor
Percy Waldron Long announced re
cently. 'l'lieir article is entitled "Com
ments on the Cowper Translation of the
Spiritual Songs of Madame Gnyon" and
has been in the process of eonstruction
for well over six months.
Of particular importance to students
of Quaker thought, the paper treats a
subject which was once a powerful in
fluence in the formation of English
Quakerism, it is but one in a series of
preliminary studies being made by Dr.
I'ope and Miss Gilbert, of the life of
Lady Guyon. Their tinal aim is the
production of a well-documented biog
raphy of this founder of "quietism."
The life of Madame Guyon came to
the attention of Dr. I'ope during the
winter of 11)37. After discussing the
possibility of research with Guilford's
president, I)r. Milner, initial work was
begun with Miss Gilbert.
Itecuuse of her Quaker tradition and
her knowledge of English literature
.Miss Gilbert was well-qualified to act
as co-worker in the undertaking. Dr.
I'ope, in general, covered the Held of
seventeenth century France, shared re
search into the channels of communica
tion between that country and England
and left almost entirely to Miss Gilbert
the work of tracing the rise of English
Quakerism and its relation to the
"quietism" doctrines of Lady Guyon.
Concerning their study Dr. i'ope has
written: "There are abundant sources.
In French there is work of leading pre
lates and psychologists; while the in
fluence of this seventeenth century
mysticism upon Quakers offers a most
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ANNUAL CHOIR PICNIC
GIVEN FOR NEWCOMERS
.\ llayride to th> lialtlcground Will
l!' Feaured Event of the
Evening.
A. E. POWELL* HOLDS REINS
The iinmini choir picnic given to new
members by the old timers, will he lielil
Saturday, October 22, at the Guilford
Kattleground.
The songsters will turn rural on us
and wend their way to this historic
field of combat in a hayrack.
Annie Evelyn I'owell, is in charge of
the program for the event. Emily
Cleaver lias the difficult task of feeding
the ever-famished mob. The old maes
tro and his wife will be among the
chape rones. (Any complaints, sugges
tions, criticisms, comments, etc.. will be
swallowed cheerfully by the choir
manager, Alvin Mcihohin.)
This festive occasion is one that has
long been awaited by old members, and
one that new members are eagerly
awaiting.