Saturday, March 15, 1930.
THE SALEMITE
PAGE THREE.
I Book Review j
i.
“LABELS”
By A. Hamilton Gibbs.
A highly dramatic plot laid for
the most part in post-war England
is revealed in Hamilton Gibb’
novel “Labels.” The plot itself is
very intense. It is a story of a
British family of the nobility. Sir
Thomas Wiehens is not a lord by
inheritance, but his title was con
ferred upon him for conspicuous
service to his country. He has two
sons and a very modern young
daughter. The cause of all the trou
ble appears to be the younger son,
Tom. The elder brother was a dis
tinguished soldier, but the younger
did not fight! That Tom was a
“Conchy,” as the non-fighters were
scornfully labeled, was the source
of much trouble for Sir Thomas, and
indeed, for all his family. Madge,
tlie daughter, had done her part in
tlie war, too, but she and Dick still
had some feeling for the prodigal
Tom
Mr. Gibb’s main idea in the whole
novel is expressed in a paragraph
spoken by Dick, the soldier son, to
his sister;
“It’s as if we were each stuck
with a label and that label were a
sort of measuring stick, a final ver
dict] You’re a V. A. D. I’m a D.
S. O. Tlie Gov’nor’s a K. B. E., and
Tom’s a “Conchy.” Do you see?
We’re each judged! and pigeon-
The idea is that no matter what
a man may be, personally, he is la
beled, very often harshly, by the
world and is judged accordingly.
The man himself is not considered.
The struggle of the patriotic Eng
lish household against the stigma of
a slacker-son is poignantly, and
dramatically told. There is pathos,
and often a touch tof humor. The
main persons in the tale are vividly
characterized: Sir Thomas, pomp
ous, self-sufficient, narrow; Lady
Wickers, unobtrusive, wrapped up in
tlie affairs of her family; Captain
Dick, typically English, firfe, 'clean,
but withal broadminded enough even
to see his reprobate, brother’s point
of view; Tom, a slacker, it is true,
but a slacker who had a genuine
reason for not fighting—a student
and a thinker; ]\Iadge, tempestuous,
madcap, worldly-wise, but alto
gether cliarming.
Tlie ups and downs in the lives of
the characters, the vividly told
events, and the colorful characteri
zations together with the charm of
the author’s pen, make up an in
tensely interesting story.
“CONFESSION”
By Cosmo Hamilton
It was a case of love on both
sides, but England and America bat
tled in character. Kathleen, the her
oine of the novel, was an American
girl, who was the daughter of very
wealthy parents. Her mother was a
typical “nouveau riche” social climb
er, and her gloating over the pros
pect of Kathleen’s marriage made
the girl disgusted. “Jack” was —in
truth—John Vernon Cheyne Wy
combe, nth Earl of Kisborough.
Kathleen really loved Jack, but hers
was the kind of love needs be recip
rocated in an emotional manner. Al
though her lover really adored her,
he was afflicted with the traditional
British j-eserve, and very often neg
lected to play his lover’s role. This
reticence on Jack’s part almost
caused their marriage to end disas
trously. To find an emotional outlet
for her own proud nature, Kathleen
“played around” very much with
Rommy, a kindred soul. Jack seem
ed buried in his business, and Kath
leen was hurt and angry by his hab
itual coolness.
Kathleen forsaw a struggle before
she ever married Jack, but finally
she did marry him and went to Eng
land with him, all the while con-,
scious that her mother was openly
flaunting the match to the American
Even' in the beautiful old English
estate, “lekneild-over-cross” matters
became worse and worse. To Kath
leen, in an agony of self-sympathy,
it seemed that even before their
honeymoon was past Jack had for
gotten her very existence. Indeed
she might have been a discarded
shoe, or hat, save for the occasional
“How topping you look, old dear,’
which remark could certainly never
satisfy the longing in her heart for
love. Jack, himself, really never
realized how he was neglecting his
bride, until a dramatic climax open
ed his eyes, and saved his marriage
from being a complete failure.
Mr. Hamilton has ably portrayed
as a main theme, a battle of tem-
peramentals—the emotional against
the reserved—and he shows how the
emotional seeks an outlet in any
manner possible. Kathleen, Jack,
and Sonny, superbly characterized,
form an interesting triangle, who
play their races against a proud old
English background.
Edith Leake and .Tulia Pender-
graph are at home for the week-end.
Dorothy Etheredge and Mary B.
Williams are visitors at Greensboro
College.
Ann Meister is spending the week
end in Washington, D. C.
Alice Caldwell, Hetty Moore,
Mary Frances Peden, and Mkry
Norris, are week-end guests in
Davidson’.
Ernestine T h e i s, Wilhelmina
Wolilford and Margaret Cook are at
their homes in Cliarlotte for the
Dorothy Heidenrich i;
end guest of her sist(
Ridge.
Martha Pierce nd Aramenta Saw
yer are visiting in Greensboro.
Catherine Leiby has gone to Ral
eigh for the week-end.
Sallie Woodard, Bet Miller, Ruth
McLendon, Anne Willis, Christine
Perkins, Ella I.ee Talley and Rachel
Whitley are spending Sunday in
Greensboro.
Alice Robeson and Billie Deaton
■e the guests of Anne Rogers on
Sunday at her home in Durham.
Nellie Gordon and Lucile Patte-
n are spending Sunday at home in
Pilot Mountain.
Adela Hicks and Lucile Dunn will
: in High Point at their homes for
Sunday.
Sara Sutton is
day Sunday.
Jessie Martin is at home ii
'ngton on Sunday.
FACULTY WINS LAURELS IN
OPERAj PRESENTATION
(Continued From P;.ge One.)
but probably anyone would have
jumped about at the regal demands
of Eleanora Shaffo, enraged about
the missing top for her toothpaste
The most fascinating, fantastic,
fanatic (take your choice) dance was
the little folk interpretation by
Paulina Shaffo and Waldo Donaldo.
Really, Ruth St. Denis and Ted
Shawn aren’t in it.
The chorus cannot be sufiieiently
lauded. Some of the chorines pos
sessed great beauty both of face and
form and their dancing was a )
lation. After seeing Evelina Wil-
figlia—who was (oh, how we’d like
to say “cute”—maybe we will any
way) the cutest chorine that e
chored and the naive little Atta,
sent great big, husky guards around
to the stage doors to protect these
dainty shake-a-foot babies from the
possible big butter’n-egg-men from
riit-West in the audience.
Veeording to custom, we have
ed the best for the last. The total
eclipse, the supreme illumination,
the glorified magnificence of the
program was embodied in the Flora-
dora Sextet. We have seen dances,
have seen beautiful ladies and chiv-
alric gentlemen, have seen grace and
charm and lovely sentiment, but
have never seen anything that quite
compares to this. The perfect match
of the couples and their becoming
costumes were beyond expression.
Tlie lovely Gracia displayed the
most innocent and bewitching co
quetry in “leading on” her manly
swain, Wenhola. Minne Smitto al
most made the audience weep when
she gracefully kissed a flower for
her lover, Formano. Every female
the audience grew livid with de-
e for an Easter bonnet exactly
like hers. All the known flora dec
rated it and the broad expanse could
still have tastefully accomodated all
the fauna. Signorina Lefta, grace
fully poised on the knee of her boy
friend, a petit but virile gent, the
handsome Meinungo, was the essence
of charm. The applause grew up-
ous and the gracious couples re
turned again and again with an en-
;. If Flo had not been detained,
feel that certain high chairs of
knowledge would already be want
ing occupants.
The whole evening was a huge
success. We only regret that our
picture man, Cambello, did not grind
out a talkie of it so that we might
keep it always for a priceless heri
tage.
—Lafayette Lyre
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The Florist Who Gives Service
(Continued From Page One.)
fore a little crucifix and lay her
flowers at the feet of Jesus. The
presence of Christ was for her in
deed a reality.
The common ways of our daily
life are enriched by our person of
counsel, being Jesus. He is the prin
cipal person to whom we come in
stinctively and happily for help in
the problems and temptations of life.
There is a relation between the
place of Christ in the life of that
peasant woman and in our lives to
day i nour twentieth century prob
lems and decisions. There, disap
pointed that Jesus has not said yes
or not definitely, who wish life might
have been plotted out in His re
vealed words like a road map, when
they begin to examine what He said
and did and how he did it and what
He was, begin to see that He does
not come toiling into the picture
to catch up with the complications
of life. Instead, He stands waiting
on the threshold of every day. His
greatest thoughts and words and
deeds were not limited to the first
thirty years after the century in
which He lived. No century shall
outrun Him, no science, no philoso
phy shall outstrip and outspan His
personality and presence.
According to the Carnegie Foun
dation report on the subsidizing of
college athletes, a football player is
paid more than the president of his
institution, but not quite as much as
his coach.
—Grinnell Malteaser.
COLLEGE ORCHESTRA
TO APPEAR IN CONCERT
(Continued From Page One.)
consists of four movements, and will
be played in its entirety.
The program will close with an
Annante written for four violins by
Eiihberg, played by a chorus of
twenty-four violins. Solos in this
composition will be played by Miss
es Maria Bowen and Elizabeth Mc-
Claugherty.
Students are reminded that this is
one of the outstanding musical
events of the spring and are urged
to attend.
“I hear that young Whiffle had a
nervous breakdown.”
“Yes. Among his high school
commencement gifts he received a
pair of pink pajamas and a set of
military brushes, and it wore him
out trying to decide whether to go
to Harvard or West Point.”
—Wabash Caveman.
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