PIERRETTE PLAY
PIERRETTE PUY
VOL. XIV.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1934.
Number 1 7.
First Play to be Presented
Friday By Pierrette Players
SPLENDID CAST
FEATURED IN LATEST
PRODUCTION
“Mrs. Gorringe’s Necklace”
To Be Given Friday
Night
On Friday evening, February 9th
at 8:00 o’clock in Memorial Hall, the
well-known Salem Pierrette Players
will present “Mrs. Gorringe’s Neck
lace by Hubert Henry Davies. This
play, a delightful comedy in four
acts, has been immensely successful
both on the English and the Amer
ican stage.
The scene of the play is laid
the charming estate of the rich, ai
toeratic family of Jardines, who live
at a little distance from London.
The Jardines are entertaining a
bar of attractive guests on a house
party at which a series of most
citing events take place. In a ^
riod which covers about twenty
hours, a beautiful diamond necklace
belonging Mrs. Gtorringe, a guest, is
mysteriously stolen, Scotland Yard
is called in, and a breath-taking
search for the thief ensues. Added
to this suspense, is a doubt as to th
outcome of an exciting love affai
where the eternal triangle is ir
volved in a new and lively manner.
The charm of the play is doubled
because of an excellent cast of char
acters which includes Mr. McEwen
taking the part of a hail-fellow-well-
met army officer. Colonel Jardine,
George Stone as a handsome, bronzed
edventurer and explorer. Captain
Mowbray, Pat Shaffner as a lovable
sportsman, David Cairn, and Dr. Mc
Donald, as a capable sleuth from
Scotland Yard. Playing opposite
these talented actors are Jane Rond-
thaler as the highly amusing, garru
lous Mrs. Jardine, Mary Penn as
the coquettish and silly" Mrs. Gor-
ringe, Elois Padrick as Isabel, the
lovely heroine, Lucy James, as Vick-
ey, the giggling adolescent, ICort-
landt Preston, as Miss Potts, a
Quakerish spinister, and Nancy Mc-
Neely, as Carlotta, the maid.
Admission will be, 25c.
DR. SCHWARTZE IS TO
SPEAK
Vespers, on next Sunday evening,
February 11, will be one of the most
interesting services of the year.
Dr. Edmund Schwarze, pastor of the
Calvary Moravian Church of
city, well-known spea.ker, and
loved friend of Salem College, will
be the guest speaker. After a short
worship service. Dr. Schwarze will
show some of his valuable and in
teresting pictures of the Holy Land.
Both faculty and students are
cordially invited ,to attend.
Rachmaninoff To Play
In Cha^l Hill
Eminent Pianist Visits
North Carolipa
Sergei Hftchmaninoff, on? of the
greatest livijig, Bussiari coinposerg
will appear in concert in Memorial
Ha,ll, Chapel Hill at 8:30 o’clock on
February 81. Rachmaninoff is a
noted conductor as well as a pianist.
It is interesting to note that the
famed man is being sponsored by
the University chapter of Phi Mu
Alpha, national music fraternity,
and that the proceeds will go toward
establishing scholarships for music
students.
The University music department
is in charge of the sale of tickets,
and postage must be added for mail
ing. All of the cheaper tickets have
been sold. Seats left cost $1.55 or
$2.06. Those interested are urged to
send their orders in right away.
.Hachmariinoff was bo'rn in [the
province of Novgorod, Russia in
1875. He showed talent as early as
the age of four and at nine entered
the Petersburg conservatory. He
later attended the Moscow conserva
tory, during which time he composed
“Aleko,” his first opera. Today
he is tall and commanding in appear
ance. His music is delicate and emo
tional. He has been internationally
famous ever since his first concert
tour when he personally conducted
h;s symphonies.
Several Salem girls are planning
to attend this outstanding concert.
Trustees Have Dinner
As Guests of Seniors
Seniors Appear at Founders
Day Dinner in Old
Moravian Costumes
The trustees were guests of the
seniors Saturday, February 3. Down
the middle of the dining room was a
long table at Which sat the seniors
and their guests. Besides the trus
tees and their wives or husbands,
were Dr. and Mrs. Rondthaler. Mrs.
Edward (Bishop) Rondthaler, Mrs.
Henry Bsihnson, and Miss MacAnal-
ly, the senior advisor.
Bowls of yellow and white flow
ers, Salem’s colors, and lighted can
dles were used as decorations. As
at chapel on Saturday morning, the
seniors were dressed in the costumes
of the Moravian sisters used at the
time of the founding of Salem, 1772.
After dinner the guests, the facul
ty, and the seniors had coffee in the
recreation room of the Louisa Wil
son Bitting Building. Following
this they went to the meeting of the
Winston-Salem branch of the alum
nae in the library.
SENIOR DINNER
Dr. and Mrs. Rondthaler are en
tertaining Saturday night at seven-
thirty in the Coliege dining room
with a formal dinner in honor of
the Seniors.
DEAN VARDELL TO
LECTURE ON
“MERRY MOUNT”
This afternoon, at four o’clock,
in Memorial Hall, Dean Vardell
will give an illustrated lecture on
the opera, ‘ ‘ Merry Mount. ’ ’
Those who failed to hear Dean
Vardell’s lectures in the fall
should take this last opportunity
to hear one of the most popular
and widely discussed features of
the Thursday afternoon music
International Retreat
At Chapel Hill Sunday
Salem Delegates To Attend
Conference
International Day will be held on
Sunday, Feb. 11, at the University
of North Carolina with the Univers
ity Y. M. C. A. as hosts. The oc-
!asion is ibeing sponsored by the
Noith Carolina Council of Student
Christian Associations which is com
posed of all student Y. M. C. A.’s
and Y. W. C. A. ’s in the state. One
hundred and fifty delegates from the
colleges and universities of North
Carolina are expected to attend,
while students from eighteen foreign
countries are to be conference
guests.
Dr. T. Z. Koo, Chinese Christian
statesman, and well known student,
will be the principle speaker of the
day.
The delegates from Salem are
Miss Zina Vologodsky, president of
the Y. W. C. A., Miss Sarah IfftrtoR,
!-president, an(| Miss Lifeliy
e, who is pn the pxecvitive pom^
mittee Qf the gtate Eoard-
The program is as fqllaws:
9:3(3 A, M,—Registration at the
. M, C. A,
IQsOO A, M,—Business meeting—
New West Building — Roaenelle
Cash, presiding.
11:00 A. M.—Formal Address by
Dr. Koo—“My Interpretation of
Jesus”—at the Methodist Church—
Public invited—^CCA delegates seat
ed in body in specially reserved
section.
1:00 P. M.—International Dinner,
Graham Memorial, for delegate.>)
only. Program at this dinner will
be a five-minute paper by a student
from each country present, on:
“Part Students of My Country Play
1 Public and National Life.”
These 18 countries represented in
the schools of the state.
4:00 P. M.—Forum of the CCA
legates on, “The Trend Towards
United Student Christian Move
ment’*—led by Dr. Koo, or Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith Harrington—in the
Presbyterian Church.
6:00 P. M.—The University Y. M.
C. A. will provide sandwiches and hot
chocolate at the supper hour for
visiting delegates—at the Presby
terian Church.
7:30 P. M.—Formal Address by
Dr. Koo—on some world topic of his
selection—at the Methodist Church
—Public invited—with conference
delegates again seated in body in a
specially reserved section.
Famous Hunter Gives
Opossum Dinner
At Salem College
Prof. Curlee Entertains
Elaborately
One brilliant fall day the past
year a tall, rather bald, easy-going,
soft-voiced hero climbed a slight
bankrilent and took a seat on
cold clay. Over his right eye was
pulled soiled khaki hunting
his body was covered with a m
ing hunting suit; his legs
bound with leggings. On his left
shoulder rested a gun, under his
right arm slept a Wlnstou-Salem
Journal.
Placing his gun on the ground be
side him, the gentleman—he could
really not be called a hunter—pulled
out his newspaper. He being schol
arly, expected his prey to join him
in his reading. There were no bul
lets in his gun. It wasn’t long until
one lone, frightened rabbit wended
his weary way up the same embank
ment. Our hero glanced up from
his paper, snatched his gun, and,
kneeling so that he might b« on a
level with the labbit, he shot. The
rabbit calmly continued straight
ahead. Again our hunter shot and
missed. Finally in desperation, the
gun was thrown aside, and the
scholarly gentleman ran after the
impertinent creature> caught him by
the tail and went home—a success.
Two weeks ago, the same gentle
man had this experience almost re
peated. The conditions differed,
however, in these ways: the hero
was not walking—he was in an auto
mobile. He was not dressed ii
hunters’ clothes but in his Sunday
best. He did not have a gun with
him—but a lady. He did have a
newspaper and si slightly bald head.
Before the car crept an ’opossum.
The gentleman jumped out, caught
a tail quite different from the rab-
bitt’s tail, and last Tuesday night
the fattened ’opossum was eae
the Salem dining room.
The hero, ladies and gentlemen,
as and is Mr. Arlee Curlee. Call
1 him some time when you want
a rabbit, an ’opossum or maybe a
quail. We don’t know abent winged
Minneapolis Symphony
Is In Greensboro
Eugene Ormandy Conducts
Interesting I^ogram
Salem was well represented at the
Civic Music Association Concert in
Greensboro Tuesday night when
Eugene Ormandy conducted the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
The first number on the program
was “Toccata and Fugue in D
Minor,” by Bach, transcribed for
the modern orchestra by Mr. Orm
andy who successfully kept the
character and spirit of the original
composition. In exuberance of
spirit as well as in technical mast
ery the composition stands squarely
among the finest of Bach’s produc
tions of this period. Toccata lit-
rally means “ touch-piece ”; i. e.:
He which displays the performer’s
command of his instrument. A cun
ning use of the natural aptitude of
key-board and pedal-board for the
production of interesting effects is
seen, both in the tumultous arpeg-
gio-like figure in the early part of
the Toccata, and in the wane of the
The orchestra next played two
nocturne’s by Debussy: I. Clouds,
and II. Festivals. Debussy’s own
program or synopsis of his two num
bers may be translated as follows:
‘ ‘ Cluds. The unchangeable appear
ance of the sky, with the slow and
solemn march of clouds dissolving
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Mrs. Lindsay Patterson
Addresses Y. P. Meeting
Distinguished Woman
Speaks On Poland
Wachovia Society
Gives Sunday
Vespers
H(»ne Church Is Scene of
Delightful Concert
The Wachovia Musical Society
gave the third in their series of
community concerts last Sunday aft
ernoon at 4:30. Led by James
Christian Pfohl the following pro
gram was presented:
Prelude—Lamb of God (Agnus
Dei)—^Bizet; Orchestra.
Hymn—There ’a a Wideness in
God’s Mercy—Old German Popular
Melody.
Invocation.
Scriptures.
Offering.
Offertory^—Sanctus (From the
Saint Cecilia Mass)—Gounod; Or
chestra.
Chorales—Lamb bf God Beloved—
Gregor’s Chorale Book, 1784; Lamb
of God, My Saviour—Johann Crueg-
—, 1656; Chorus.
Hymn—O Socred Head, Now
Wounded—Hans Leo Hassler, 1601.
Gallia (Motet for Mixed Voices')
—Gounod; Soloist — Mrs. Errett
Straley.
Benediction.
Postlude.
The executive committee is as fol
lows: R. Arthur Spaugh, chairman;
Mrs. Louise Bahnson Haywood, ac
companist; Bernard J. Pfohl; James
Christian Pfohl, director; Rose Siew-
secretary; Mrs. Kenneth PfohT,
organist.
Gibran and Tagore
Discussed at Vespers
Miss Vologodsky Speaker
On Sunday, February 4, the regu
lar Vesper service was held in the
library at 6:30. Irene Clay played
the prelude and a short worship serv
ice followed. Miss Zina Vologodsky,
president of the Y. W. C. A., then
read several poems from The Gard
ner by Tagore and some selections
from The Prophet by Gibran.
Following are portions of the se
lections read by Miss Vologodsky;
From The Gardner.
Trust love even if it brings si
Do not close up your heart.
Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop,
while it laughs it dies. But "—
row is strong and abiding.
Let sorrowful love wake in your
eyes.”
The lotus blooms in the sight
the sun, and loses all that it li
It would not remain in bud. ’ ’
From The Prophet, about love she
When love beckons to you, follow
him
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you
yield to him.
Though one sword hidden among
his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe
Though his voice may shatter your
dreams as th§ north wind lays
waste the garden.
Love gives naught but itself and
takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be
possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.”
From The Prophet.
“Then said a rich man, si>eak to us
of giving.
And he answered:
You give but little when you give
of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that
yon truly give.
There are those who have little and
give it all.
iiese are th© believers in life and
the bounty of life, and their coffer
is never el«p^ty,
There are these who give with joy,
and that joy is their reward.
And there are those who give with
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Beethoven Quartet By
String Quartet
The string quartet of the J&usic
School, composed of Miss Hazel Hor
ton Read, Miss Margaret Schwarze,
Mr. George Dickieson and Mr. Albert
Blumenthal opened the Wednesday
chapel period with Beethoven’s
Quartet in F. Major, Op. 18. No. 1.
Following the musical selectioii
Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, one of
Salem’s most distinguished al^umnae,
addressed the audience. Mrs. Patter
son is a public speaker, a horti-cul-
turalist, a politician and a traveler.
Formerly she has spoken here on her
trip through central Europe during
the War and later through Russia.
On Wednesday she gave an inspiring
talk on the history and spirit of Po-
Other countries lack the Polish
lirit because they have grown by
acquisition. Poland is a land of
spiritual renunciation where many
have died so that others could live.
Today as always the cry of Poland
is “May Jesus Christ be praised.”
Poland has become a modern coun
try, but has retained her old saints.
Mrs. Patterson cited three incidents
of bravery and sacrifice in Polish
history. In the .twelfth century the
Tartars were over-running Poland.
It was the custom in those days for *■
the trumpeter to climb the tower of
the cathedral at Cracow to play the
hymn in honor of the Virgin. Every
hour he played four times, once in
every direction. Although the Tar
tars were swarming around and his
life was in danger, the brave little
trumpeter whose sworn duty it was
to play the hymn, ascended the tower
and began. He completed the first
of his turns and was half-way
through the second when a Tartar
arrow struck through his heart.
Since that time in Cracow the
hymn has been sounded every day
at each hour, but it is stopped at
the point where the arrow stopped
the first brave trumpeter. Such is
the spirit of Poland.
Later the beautiful young queen,
Jadwiga, was happily bertothed to a
noble and the wedding date set. The
powerful King of Lithuania sent
mesesngers to say, that if she would
marry him he and his people would
turn Christian. Otherwise he would
send his troops against Poland. All
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"Time” Publishes Article
And Photograph
of Gribbin
Newest Bishop Is Featured
In National Magazine
A picture of Bishop Robert Emmet
Gribb^ was the weekly magazine
“Time” for February. Bishop Grib-
Ln is a former teacher of Salem and
is greatly loved here. The following
article accompanied the picture.
‘There are 130 Episcopal bishops
the United States. Like their 102
Roman Catholic brothers, they claim
membership in a isuccession which
goes back to apostolic times. To
this succession last week was added
a new member, Rev. Robert Emmet
Gribbin who in Winston-Salem, N. C.
was consecrated Bishop of Western
North Carolina.
"Born of Irish parents, 46 years
„ in South Carolina, Bishop Grib
bin has a more martial' backgraund
most Episcopal prelates. He
; to the Citadel, famed military
academy of Charleston, S. C., taught
there two years before going to
Manhattan’s General Theological
Seminary a priest. After rector
ships in Charleston, Atlanta and
Wilmington, N. C. he went overseas
as an A. E. F. chaplain. In 1921 he
took charge of St. Paul’s Church in
Winston-Salem where he command
ed the local Legion post. He is still
” National Guard Chaplain.”
This was followed by a paragraph
•hich was used evidently only to
fill up space as it was a discussion
of riches in connection with different
denominations. It was narrow in
viewpoint.
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