Pierrette Players
Van Dykes
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1930.
Dr Howe Speaks On
Vergil And His Work
A Through Appreciation of
Vergil Is Presented By
This Scholar
Dr. Gcc
^ IIow^
instructor in tlie
Dr. George M.-iwe, instructor in the
I,.'itin Department of tlie University
(if Nortli Carolina was tlie speaker
•■It Y. P. M. Dr. Ilowc is an em
inent scholar, and an authority on
Having been introduced by Miss
.Minnie Smith, the speaker put be
fore liis audience the question:
“What quality of Virgil’s work lias
demanded age-long and world-wide
recognition and ajipreciation
'n a beautiful tribute to this author
Dr. ilov
lintcd (■
; the
lality of his work. No statesman, no
scientist, no man has ever received
such tributes from the whole world
as Virgil has. The celebration of his
work ia universally of a thought
that comes from a wide study of the
Virgil’s fortune 1:
been born at a critical moment of
))olitieal and social change of I!i
institutional to monarehial rule,
brought a peace to Kurope i
since known; it transmitted culture
and religion of the East to ‘the
\V'est; it made for Virgil a good audi
ence, and he rewarded
witli a work which bore the spirit of
tlie time. He is the spokesman of
Roman social life.
Poetry was ,i new develo]>ment ir
the literary field, and eourageousU
Virgil left old literary convention'f
,".nd sang of the unusual, y^et nevei
feared the usual. H(' wrote of tlu
commonplace man, of woman—here
tofore ignored by a masculine litera
ture.
P-i!t is-not ftrr-t.lrts rPriTiitifWr
son, nor for his boldness, but be
cause he did and said love-inspiring
things that we love him. His i
letic rather than his logical and
tellectual side holds a great
His
■(H-k
divided :
I threi
phases; Fi
poems wliich deal with the lowliest
life. The sympathetic understand
ing attitude toward this class makes
liim a success. After tliese are his
didactic poems with the main theme
the human, lowly man as a great
part of the univers(;. Tlie humane
doctrine of the dignity of labor and
the worth of the laboring class, is
empliasized.
And then the .-J
\cneid—his greatest
nrk. This is a
poem of the aris-
cracy; a good
story, and a much
ved 'and discus
sed work. Sonic
itics hail it as
coarse, vulg.ar flat-
ry—at the sain^
e time admitting it
be an inspirati
on for higher mor-
Pierrettes To Feature
MacDowell Program
Mystery and Comedy Plays
To Be Presented
,t 8 o’clock
Salem’s
matic club, will present two plays
in Memorial Hall. These plays will
hi' given under the auspices of the
MacDowell Club.
Edith Kirkland, director of the
first play to be presented,
Dwellers in the Darkness, promises
a thrilling ghost story, fuF
spooks and horrible manifestations
from the dwellers in the dark. This
is a play of the unknown ir
act, by Reginald Berkeley. The story
centers around a seance held
haunted room of a big country
house. 'J'he Pierrettes guarantee
shrieks, shrills, thrills, raised hai
and other phenomena galore.
rile following is the cast for The
Du’ellers in the Darkness:
.Mrs.Vvner Adelaide Silversteen
Phillis Vvner Mary B. Williams
Hcnrv ...-Marv Elizabeth Holcomb
Mr. .Mortimer Nancy Miller
■Mr. \ \'ii(‘r ---- Annie F'inley
Professor Lrquliart-Fjdith Kirkland
llie next jilav is to be presented
und r the direction of .Mary Vir
ginia Pendergraph. The Grand
Vhann’s Diamond is a mirth-provok-
ing comedy of a gi-ou[) of middle
class jieoplc who met with some
iting (and amusing!) ad-
thrc
when stolen
1 their wini
Monday Salem Day
At Van Dykes
Elaborate Plans Being Made
— Salem Syncopated
Serenaders To Be
Feature
On Monday, November 17, Van
Dyke’s Department Store is to be
given over to the management of Sa
lem College girls in order to give
them an opportunity to make
money for certain school activities
especially for the Annual May Da’
Celebration. Mr. Van Dyke has
guaranteed Salem girls one hundred
dollars, with a possibility of two
hundred dollars or more, if the di
is successful. The money is to '
used to buy costumes for the M:
Day dancers. To facilitate the su
cess of the project, prii
rvthin
ti the s
Adelaidi
, the igno-
ighter and her
ief interests
;\ating, and sleeping
—sii^ ' -i" ^
for Th.
follow
Grand ('harm’s Dia?njond:
.Mrs. Perkins Adelaide Winston
.Mr. Perkins .... Margaret Skidmore
Miss Perkins Minnie Flicks
.■Vlbert VV'atkins .... Marjorie Siewers
These two plays are (to use a
slang ex])ression) “knockouts.” The
muses of Humor and of Mystery
will surely haunt those nonchalant
girls who do not attend. A Mac
Dowell Club ticket or fifteen cents
Don’t forget—
tonight at eight o’clock in Memorial
Hall!
laxity of this characteristic.
Others say it is a religious poem in
tended to bolster a decaying religion.
Decayed religion and lax morals
were the result of a hundred years’
Emphatically, the Acneid is not a
])oem of flattery. Virgil’s interest
was broader than either of these, for
it lay in the failures, successes,
weaknesses, valors, saints, sinners,
blunders and virtues of life and men.
It is a pageant of humanity and its
quality is in its presentation by il
lustration.
The love story of Dido and Aen
eas is a supreme insight into hu
manity. This story is a tragic situ
ation; a wronged l!>ido ends her
life by suicide. The Gods, pitying
human frailty send Zeus to free
her spirit from a mortal body. Here
is Virgil’s character analysis, show
ing, Dido unable to fit herself to the
scheme of society.
Again there is a story of twelve
guards protecting a city gate.
Two of them appeal to be allowed to
seek aid from Aeneas, being per
mitted, pass through the enemies’
lines. Overcome by desire for gain
in the booty of the slain enemy,
they' are consequently captured and
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Alpha Phi Kappa
Entertains Members
Many Out Of Town Guests
Return For Initiation
Alpha Phi Kap])a Soroity gave
a delightful banquet for the nev
members of the sorority who wen
initiated on last Frida}' and Satur
d.ay. Places were laid for twenty
eight in one of the larger privati
dining rooms of the Robert E. Lei
Hotel.
In the center of the table was ;
large centerpiece of j'ellow anc
white roses, yellow chrysanthemums,
and fern, from which showers of
the s.anie flowers extended the en
tire length of the table. All of the
guests present received favors in the
form of silver letter openers en
graved with the emblems of Alpha
Phi Kappa. The active members of
the sorority as well as the n
received sorority stationery. In ad
dition to the favors and stationery
the honorees’ places were marked by
lovely shoulder corsages of yellow
and white roses; and also to them
were given desk clocks of modernis
tic design bearing the letters of
Alpha Phi K.appa.
During the five course dinner, the
guests enjoyed several vocal and
piano solos by I.illian Newell, Mil-
licent Ward, Mary B'. Williams,
Dorothy Thompson, and Wanna
Mary Huggins.
The .Salem girls having charge of
the various departments a
garet Richardson, who is
the schedule committee; Ruth Car
ter, who attends to publicity; F'ran-
ees T'letcher, w'ho manages transpor
tation, Marjorie Siewers, who is in
charge of the window decorations,
and .Millicent Ward, who is General
Manager and head of all dcpart-
A great many Salem girls,
wearing arm bands with the Salem
seal, are to serve as clerks in va
rious departments of the store dur
ing the day.
F'speeially interesting
window decorations, which a
on the idea of a contrast
old and new Salem and a ch
zation of the spirit of progress. In
one window an antique bed with a
patchwork quilt will be shown side
by side with a luxurious modern bed
having every comfort. In another,
ybilflren castumes,-j^ld-fashioned and-
modern, are contj-asted; and in
still another, the Athletic girl of
yesterday with her Waddling clothes
and hoop is placed beside a smartly
dressed young modern in golfing
outfit. The big corner window' will
be devoted to various contrasts be-
old and new-fashioned cos-
Salem day at Van Dyke’s is very
important to Salem, and every girl
:hould do everything within her
power to aid in the project. Prices
will be lower; Salem students will
‘d by their friends; the Sa
lem Syncopated Serenaders will fur-
ih music from 4 ;00 to B :00
•lock; the store will be beautifully
corated; and, in addition, eacli
girl will be rendering a great service
ollege if she patronizes Van
Dyke’s on this particular day. Stu
dents are also asked to call up their
friends and urge them to co-operate.
Remember — Monday, Novembe:
is Salem Day at Van Dyke’s . .
ost it with the old Salem Spirit!
Hockey Proves To
Be Thrilling Sport
Juniors and Sophs Now Have
One Victory Apiece
The first of the Hockey games
suited in a 4—0 victory for
Sophomores, whose team work and
speedy attack were commendable.
The Freshmt
their opponents, (
serve mention for the stiff comj
tition they gave the Sophs. The
line-up will give some idea to those
who were unable to attend, of the
clean, hard fight the game proved
to be.
So])hs—1.
Walker
M. L. Mickey
R. Inside
.M. Thorpe
R. Wing
E, Mickcy
1.. Wing
Gooch Chandler
L. Inside
Holcombe M. O. Biles
C. Flalf
Ileidenrcich Armstrong
1.. Half
Johnson D. Graves
R. Half
Aitchison Calder
R. Full
Freshmen—0.
. N utting
. Huntington
Stough
- Ilolleman
Mrs. T. Holt Haywood
Speaks at Vespers
Makes Interesting Talk In
Keeping With Theme of
World Fellowship Week
Finlcv
Micke\
Miekev
L. Full
:‘S: Sophs—White for E.
■ouse for Walker; E.
■M. I.. Mickey; Stortz
for Ileidenrcich.
F'rosh—Thomps(
Scorcrs—Gooch
.Mickey (I); Crou
The second gam
lift.W(
1 the ,Jui
I for Armstrong.
(2); M, L.
; (1).
scheduled, that
: and Se/>if
funiors with
Krecger Mauney
L. I.
e Stevenson
L. W.
Bradford Ward, E.
R. W.
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Etiquette Subject
At I. R. S.
Mrs. McCuiston Is Guest And
Speaker of The Evening
Mrs. Robert A. McCuiston w,
the charming guest speaker at tl
I. R. S. meeting" on, Thursday evei
ing at which she made a splendid
talk on “Etiquette.” According to
Mrs. ^[cCuiston, manners are the
things by which a person is judged.
Not only are they the entire ap
proach to the outside world, but they
are the expression of a person’s in
dividuality.
Under etiquette might come th(
irt of being a pleasant table com
lanion, and of this art thre:e things
ire required: A proper frame ol
iiind; conversation—which need not
)e intellectual, but should be inter
sting; and, thd art of being a good
listener.
The inhabitants of a town w’here a
girls’ college is situated are apt to
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Theta Delta Pi
Pledges Entertained
Old and New Members Enjoy
Culmination of Initiation
The Theta Delta Pi Sorority (
crtained its pledges at a delightful
lanquct Saturday night, November
I, in the jirivatc dining room of the
lobert E. Lee Hotel. The color
cheme of green and white, the so-
ority colors, was attractively car-
icd out in the favors and decora-
ions. A basket of white chrysan
themums and fern formed the center
piece. The honorees were present
ed shoulder corsages of white ro.se
buds, .corority rings and stationery
with the sorority .seal on it. The old
members received bouton/nieres of
buds and favors. A delicious
fi^-e
The Sunday Vesper Service was
opened with a Prelude, played by
Rosalie Smith. After the choral
sentence by the choir, and a prayer,
Dorothy Heidenreich read the Scrip
ture whose general theme may be
summarized in the thought, “He
wlio loveth God, loveth his brother
also.”
T. Holt Haywood, one of
Salem’s most beloved alumna, be
gan her talk by emphasizing the
privilege which we have in being
a part of the great chain of prayer
which extends all the way around
the world. In these busy days it
is hard to find those “quiet hours”
which can be wholly reserved for
])rayer; instead, the habit of eom-
lunion with God must be established
nd developed, without waiting for
. quiet time, which will probably
never be introduced into a hurried
routine of work.
Prayer does not concern itself
with only the great and important
things of this life, but it also finds
its place in the most trivial and
commonplaced. Mrs. Haywood re-
. Mahoney pgated an incident which happened
to her in her childhood which con
cerned a queer little old lady who
had lost her glasses. Mrs. Haywood
was in the group of children to
whom the distressed woman made an
appeal for help in finding them.
After some little search, the glasses
were found and returned to their
owner, who told them she had been
])raying all the morning that her
glas.ses could be founds To i
minds of the children, the idea of the
ttle old lady praying over such a
thing as finding lost glasses, was a
cause for lau^ter. However, later
experience has taught that nothing
n a person’s life is too small for
prayer.
Time to pray must be found and
cultivated. Mrs. Haywood told of
who lived outside of New
York City, whom had set aside the
'hich it took him to ride the
subways to and from his work, to
pray' for the Missions. One noted
Doctor who was asked whether it
possible to live close to God in
these days, replied most readily in
the affirmative. He spent a great
deal of his time in observing people
vho came up out of the subways, and
le always saw many coming out of
hose d.irk recesses of the earth with
I radiance on their faces which
'onld have come there in no other
vay save through communion with
God. There is a steady rush and
hurry in the life of a student, but
time can be found even there for
prayer . . . one can pray between
Mrs. Haywood read a few quota
tions from a leaflet which had been
printed by the Y. W. C. A. which
dealt with the subject of Fellowship
and Prayer. The leaflet treated
life as a pilgrimage, based on John
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Life
ipoken of as God’s Highway
along which we pass, and on this
highway we are all Pilgrims wheth-
be Americans, Africans or
what. Sunday’s purpose, as set
forth by the booklet, was to pray
for the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M.
organizations throughout the
world, and the quotation for the day
vcd.
le new members of the sorority
Misses Mary Clark and Vir
ginia Harris. Out-of-town guests
were present; Miss ^fargarct
Wcllons, Smithficld; Babe Robbins,
Rocky Mount; Rose F'rasier, Dur-
iin; Jane Harris, Greejisboro;
juise Cooke, High Point; Araminta
iwycr, Windsor; and I.ouise Sals-
iry. High Point.
The other members of the soror-
i' who were present at the banquet
;i’e: Elizabeth Allen, Eva Hack
ney, Pat and Anna Holderness.
“It is the King’s Highway that
Greatheart to a group of Pilgrims.
“Here one may be thinking what
le is, whence he came, what he has
lone, and to what the King has
called him.”
Mercy to Greatheart.
Monday was the day of prayer for
the country of Africa, and of this
country was the following statement:
“New responsibilities are being laid
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