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Saturday, October 27, 1928. THE SALEMITE PAGE THREE NEWS OF THE CLASS OF ’28 (Continued from Page One) Reynolds High Scliool. Peggy Holbrook—Training for nurse; address, Nurses’ Home, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. Mary K. Jerome—Teaching; ad dress, Teacherage, Hickory, N. C. Sarah Lee Kincaid—At home, Statesville, N. C. Susan Luckenbach—Teaching mu sic in Bethlehem, Pa. Mary Duncan McAnally—The youngest member of Salem College faculty, not yet able to vote). Luc'ile McGowan—Teaching at Belmont, N. C. Pearl Martin—Teaching Coal Port, Clearfield Co., Pa. Peggy Parker—Teaching at Lees- McCrae Institute, Banner Elk, N. C. Rebecca Petway—Business Course at Shreveport, La. Elizabeth Ramsaur—Teaching, at Etowah, N. C. K. J. Riggan—Assistant Dean of Women, Salem College. Margaret Sehwarze—Private Sec retary President of Moravian Theo logical Seminar}’, Bethlehem, Pa. Taking Educational course at Mo ravian Female Seminary. Charlotte Sells—Taking business course at home. :-ia }. N;."th Ave.. Johnson Cit}', Tennesse. Cordelia Shaner—At Home, Win ston-Salem, N. C. Elizabeth Silferd—Teaching piano at home, Salisbury, N. C. Katherine Taylor—Teaching at Kinston, N. C. I>eonora Taylor—At home. Agnes Thorne—Studying Art at Columbia; address, Parnassus Club, 612 W. 115th St., N. Y. City. Sarah Turlington—Teaching at Lees-McCrae Institute, Banner Elk, N. C. Doris Watson—Teaching at Ply mouth, N. C. Laverne Waters—At home, Bre vard, N. C. Virginia Welch—Teaching at Waynesville, N. C. Elizabeth Wilson—Teaching in Charlotte, N. C. Marian Neeley—Marsh Founda tion School, Van Wert, Ohio. ■song. (Continued from Page One) in their compositions. Mr. Schofield next discussed folk songs wliich originated with the Troubadours of southern France and the Meistersingers from the elev enth century to the fourteenth. At this tirae when the Troubadours, who were professional singers, went from village to village there were plenty of tunes but no song writers. These traveling singers sang both seculai and church music. They invented their own verses as well as Their music was spontaneous, munal, and amateur. Their impulse was, really, more literary than musi cal. They stressed sentiment, love, and, especially, the praise and ado ration of married women. They made an effort to exalt womanhood in With intense feeling they g of the beauty and worth of the lady. The period of the Trouba dours ended during the thirteenth century. In illustration of this pe riod of song Mr. Schofield sang old French song entitled L’Amour de Mart. The English “masque” was im ported in the sixteenth century. This was a form of private theatri cal containing much dialogue, decla mation, dancing and singing. Ir was very popular in high society and is believed to have influenced the oper atic genius of Purcell. At this point the speaker sang an old t^ng- lish “detached song” entitled Fare well Dear T.o’cc. This song, which was written by Robert Jones in 1601, was mentioned in Shake speare’s “Twelfth Night.” He sang also Heigh-ho For a Husband. 1 he Bailiff’s Daughter of Tdington, which was sung to illustrate the bal lad, concluded the group of English vhich came in with the opera was as mportant for the voice as the sonata vas for the piano. In illustration of this Mr. Schofield sang one of Scarlatti’s typical arias. We can easily see, said the speaker, why nany good composers were not rec- )gnized sooner—because they did lot write long and tedious operas vith many arias. Franz Schubert was left, practi cally', to create the lied form which later became so popular. Bach and Handel wrote many songs foreshad owing the lied and Beethoven and Mozart wrote lieder but to Schubert belongs the full credit for being the great master of song writing of all He wrote six hundred and ? songs and a vast number of other compositions. He could set inything to music. Words, to him, ieemed superfluous for his melody rt'as an independent expression of ;he content of the verses. Schubert, with his wonderful gift of melody, did away with the traditional limita tions of song. He portrayed the ' meaning of the poem. None has reached the heights that he has none was ever so gifted as he Mr. Schofield stated that he considered the group of songs en titled the “Winter’s Journey,’ diich were written in 1827, a yeai before he died, to be Schubert’s greatest . The composer seemed to enjoy this journey immensely but at the same time he seemed to have a lonition of death because death enters into every song. His five greatest songs, according to the ipeaker, are The Sign Post, The Inn, Courage, The Three Suns, and The Hurdij-Gurdti Man. Schubert more deeply moved in these five songs than in any' of the others. Such melodies and songs are not itten today. Of this group Mr. Schofield sang The Inn, The Three Suns and The Hurly -Guriy Man. In studying the works of Robert ■anz one should read the poem, hear the song, and then hear the combined, in order to obtain the best result. The poetry and c together have a much greater emotional power than either alone, iz’s favorite subjects were love nature. He said of his songs tliat the singer must be saturated with the poetry. The piano accom- ment was, usually, written in polyphony. Franz wrote a greater number of good songs in proportion to his worthless ones than any other writer. He wrote two hundred and seventv-nine songs. We do not hear many of them on the concert stage today on account of the indolence of the artists who like great bursts of applause after high sustained notes. There is nothing particularly spectacular about Franz’s songs be cause it mattered not to him if a song of his received no applause. The supreme form of the purely lyr ical lied culminated in the works of Franz. Mr. Schofield’s program was concluded with three songs by this composer, In the Dreamy Wood I Wander, Lassie with Your Lips So Rosy and The Rose Complained. Traitorous Words It appears there are 1,100 “trai torous words” in the dictionaries of the French and English language w'hich are essentially alike, but with shades of difference in meaning. A French lexicographer compiled a list of 400 such words, and then a collaborator, at his request, found 700 more. They had a lawsuit as to whose name should appear first on the title page of the book, and the court ruled they should appear side 1)3' side, the originator’s on the left. Tasters Carry Their Fortunes in Throats The tea and coffee tasters of the big importing and jobbing houses are paid large salaries. The sole duty of many of these experts is to taste the brews of many varieties of tea and coffee. And their palates are their fortunes—if it’s palates that register flavor. Whatever it is, it must never fail in its fine discrimination; a taste that it requires years of practice and experience to attain. The president of a well-known coffee importing concern, is an expert in the selection of different varieties and combina tions of coffe and almost any day may be found as the sole attendant at a little afternoon party peculiarly From a casual cupful of the brew that is put before him he has no dif ficulty in telling the name and age of the berry from which it is made, the country in which it was grown, and in fact, all the family history of that particular blend. Tea and coffee tasters in the large importing houses are said to daily consume several quarts of clear strong coffee with apparently no de leterious effects. In a measure this may be due to the fact that, for fear of impairing their coffee “taste” they take no other stimulant of any kind nor use tobacco in any form. Die-Hards Perhaps no fresh water fish is 3re tenacious of life than the bull head or horned pout. This fish takes long time to die outside its native elements. Bullheads may still be detected breathing in the bottom of punt hours after they have been ught, whereas most fish die in a w minutes. Manv fishermen have rown bullheads on the ground at night to discover in the morning that they still show a flicker of life. The Detroit post oflice reports that 60 per cent of the applications for jobs as mail carriers come from col lege graduates. Our institutions of higher learning, we are glad to i still turn out a goodly proportio of letters. s Ital- songs. The next topic discussed ian Opera during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This opera came as a result of a spirit of hellion against the folk songs sung with instrumental accompaniment. With the Italian opera writers speech ranged first, rhythm second, and melody third. The ■"=" ^ (Continued from Page One) has spent its best efforts in the cultivation of “middle class virtues’ and “pedestrian” qualities in mind unfit for anything better, he told a school teachers’ convention here. “One of the greatest needs of this country today is the establishment of club colleges as near New York as possible which will help to free the regular colleges of the undesirable material now clogging them up,” he These club colleges, as a matter of course will have no libraries and no class rooms. They will offer close contact with bootleggers, lots of ash travs and easy chairs, all the ad vantages of fraternities and sorori ties and plenty of opportunity for social recreation. “Thus would our present universi ties be rid of that type of student who, not interested in scholarship, is there for social reasons and feels that it is the duty of the faculty to get him through the examinatioi Chinese Superstitio7i Chinese boatmen believe implicitly in the power of water demons. Not only must one beware of water de mons, but of the spirit of a man who has been drowned by a demon, for it may hover near the place of tragedy and wreak vengeance on those who fail to sliow respect to the memory of the dead. Waitress the soup!” “Goody—look and from 1 find my comb, too.” I found a hairpin Same Human Nature Times haven’t changed much. Sev eral thousand years ago an old gen tleman named Aristotle said: That which is common to the greatest number lias the least attention be- :towed upon it. Every one thinks chieflv of his own interest, hardly • of the public interest.—Atchi- Globe. A Itridstic Position ’e should eat more raw carrots and fewer rare beefsteaks, says a dietician, and just to prove our un selfishness we are ready to turn over all our raw carrots to him in ex change for his rare steaks.—Spring field Union. She’s Through One of the sophisticated girls in this neighborhood declined an invita tion to a house party yesterday on the ground that she’s been engaged often enough.—Ohio State Journal. Welcome Salem Girls! WE ARE ALWAYS GLAD TO SEE YOU IN OUR STORE ANCHOR STORE “WINSTON-SALEM’S SHOPPING CENTER” PATRONIZE OLIl ADVERTISERS. AUDITORIUM i\ THEATRE Ifi Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, NORMAN KERRY AND LEWIS STONE “’The Foreign Legion” With Mary Nolan and June Marlowe Love, Soldiers, Passion, Intrigue, Strife, with the most desperate, fearless, fascinating company of adventurers in the wide world—“The Foreign Legion.” AUDITORIUM ORCHESTRA WURI.rrZER PIPE ORGAN WELCOME TO OUR STORE AND OUR CITY “The Store that appreciates your patronage" New Fall Slippers in all the new'est colors and styles, reasonably priced. WINSTON SHOE STORE 442 TRADE STREET WALK OVER SHOE STORE 425 North Trade Street Phone 1817 Winston-Salem, N. C. SPECIAL LUNCHES For Salem Ciirls (;n Monday at the Blue Willow Tea Room A Sandwich to a Six-Course Dinner WE SPECIALIZE ON SUNBURST SKIRTS TRUELOVE CLEANING WORKS PHONE 1C47 FOR SERVICE OMce and Plant 330-332 S. Main Street
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