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VOL. XV.
WINSTON-SALEM. N. C„ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935.
Number 22.
GERTRUDE SCHWALBE
TALKS ON THE UFE
OF ANDREW JACKSON
New Student Government
President Heard in Chapel
In chapel o Tuesday morning, the
student body heard a well presented
life of President Andrew Jackson,
whose birthday was on March 15,
given by Gertrude Schwalbe.
Jackson’s father died a few days
before he was born in 1767, and the
famil, consisting of Mrs. Jack
son and Andrew’s two brothers went
to live with Mrs. Jackson’s sister.
Early in his life, he showed ability
as a speaker, and he was noticeably
bright in his lessons at the academy
at Waxhaw Church.
The description of him at nineteen
is quite famous “a tall, lean, re
markably agile, freckle-faced boy,
with bright blue eyes, a shock of
tousled hair that was almost red,
and a temper in keeping”
Then followed a detailed account
of his very interesting life, his scrap
with the Tories, his confinment in a
British prison at Gander, his release
by request of his mother, and the
illness which followed.
He attended Queens Museum in
Charlotte, pursued law in Salisbury,
and practiced in Jonesborough. His
marriage with Haehel Danelson and
the consequent furor raised by her
first husband was a source of an
guish and anger to him all the rest
of his life, although he loved his
wife very dearly, fighting a duel
and killing a man in her behalf. In
spite of the dirt and rumors raised
over this when he became a public
figure, Jackson is said to be the
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TWENH-ONE NIGHT
SCHOOL PUPILS
GIVEN DIPLOMAS
Dr. Rondthaler Speaks
Br. Rondthaler was principal
speaker last ^londay night at the
commencement of the Community
Night School at which 21 adults re
ceived diplomas. He traced the his
tory of the alphabet declaring it
neither easy to create or to learn.
Reading and writing, he said, are the
keys to a treasure of great worth.
Misa Vogler, of Salem Academy,
witk the aid of Several people includ
ing some Salem College students con
ducted the school every Tuesday and
Thursday nights at Skyland school.
The commencement exercises were
held at Granville school where an
other group had been taught during
the winter. The enrollment in the
entire school was 64. The project is
a very wortli while one and the men
and women are very eager to learn.
ZINA SENDS THANKS
News From Zina
A letter which Mary Louise Hay
wood received from Zina dated
January 2oth said in part:
“The letters from school, tlie
“Y” and the French Club were so
much enjoyed, that it can not be ex
pressed. I am so proud of all the
cards, etc., that whoever conies to
our house, it’s the first thing that I
show. I thank all the girls from the
bottom of my heart and I wish I
could write each one separately and
thank her for her wishes and send
my very best ones in return. How
ever, that is inipossible, so, Mary
Louise, perhaps I can call on you to
thank everyone for me. You know
and so often in my thoughts.”
and so often in my thoughts.
ORCHESTRA WILL PRES-
SENT CONCERT MONDAY
MISS READ CONDUCTS
ANNUAL MUSIC
PROGRAM
Albert Blumenthal Soloist
The orchestra of the Salem College
School of Music, under the direction
of Miss Hazel Horton Read, will pre
sent its annual concert next Mon
day evening, March 25, in Memorial
Hall at 8:15 o’clock.
Much interest has been shown in
the announcement of the appearance
of the orchestra, and Miss Read has
arranged an excellent program which
will appeal to all music lovers.
Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus”
will introduce the performance to
be followed by “Adagio Pathe
tique, ” a composition of Godard.
Then “Fantasia Appassionata, ” by
Vieuxtemps will be orchestrated. Al
bert Blumenthal, a pupil of Miss
Read, will play the orchestral ac
companiment for this number. Al
bert is one of the most distinguished
young musicians in Winston-Salem,
and his appearance as violin soloist
in Vieuxtemps’ musical fantasy is
one of the outstanding events of the
evening.
The final number to be rendered
by the orchestra will be the “Jupi
ter Symphony in C Major.’’’ The
first three movements from this fam
ous and best loved of Mozart’s sym
phonies will be performed. Many
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MARY PENN SECOND STU
DENT mKER
Discusses “Sjrmpathy With
Others” In Vespers
On Sunday evening, March 17,
ilary Penn, student, toast-mistress,
playwright, actress, and composer ol
songs, added anotlier star to her
constellation of accomplishments by
proving to us thiit, in the words of
Mrs. Rondthaler, ‘!she is a preacher
also.”
Miss Penn made an interesting
and very inspiring talk on the sub
ject “Sympathizing with Othei’s.”
She related two stories in which she
brought out the fact that all of us,
no matter who we are or how ruth
less and bad we may be, at times
find ourselves sympathizing with
others in spite of ourselves. There
was the true story of Jim Foster, the
iron-fisted burglar who was inter
rupted in his stealthy work by a
terrified mother whose baby was dy
ing in convulsions. Jim Foster re
membered his owji baby who had
died in convulsions because no one
had known what to do. The cold-
hearted breaker of safes sympa
thized with the mother. He put
himself in her place. He forgot his
hateful task and rushed to the res
cue of the dying baby. Ho saved
the baby’s life; and then the mother,
her eyes filled with tears of grati
tude, helped him to escape
Miss Penn continued with the
thought that we all have a greater
or less capacity for sympathizing
with others, but we all can do more
to ease the hearts of those with
whom we come in contact. Because
of carelessness, thoughtlessness or
even laziness we constantly let price
less opportunities of lending a help
ing hand go sliding by. How many
times when a friend or room-mate
longs to ease her aching heart by
confiding in us, we turn away with
a light, unfeeling word. How many
times we fail to give even a part of
ourselves to make others happy! If
we merely take and never give we
will make ourselves miserable. After
all it is the giving that makes life
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COLORED HELP SHOW IS BIG AT
TRACTION FOR SONG LOVERS
BACH PROGRAM TO
REPRESENTED
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Bach’s Birthday Celebrated
Thursday, March 21st is the 250th
birthday anniveisary of Bach who,
in the opinion of many, is the
greatest musician who ever lived.
Therefore, on this day Salem is pre
senting an all Bach program, a thing
which is being done by choruses,
schools and clubs throughout the
country. This concert is an attempt
to present him not as a great theor
ist or technician, both of which he
certainly was, but rather to empha
size in him the poet, the seer, and
the apostle of the highest and at
the same time most intimate form
of beauty.
The following selections will be
heard:
Organ Fugue in F Flat
(Saint Anne’s)
Dorothy Moore
From “French Suite No. 5”
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PIERREHES TO PRESENT
PLAY “OP-O-ME-THUMB”
“STEPINFETCHIT”,“LAZY
BONES” PUT IN SHADE
Russel Crews To Be Master
Of Ceremonies
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“Swing Low Sweet Chariot,”
cause “Massers in de Cole, Cole
Groun” and “Oh Ain’ Gwine Study
War No Mo’.” In fact Ah ain’
gwine study at all no mo’ cause die
colored help show am coming to
town ! ! Yassuh. Friday night,
March 22, at nine o’clock in Memor
ial Hall, Miss Stockton is directing
her cohorts in the sensational hit
of the spring season.
Xegro spirituals, folk dances,
plays and poems will be featured.
Among the outstanding participants
will be Russel Crews, master of cere
monies, Evelyn Williams, contralto,
and many of the talented children
of the actors. Have you noticed how
absent-mindedly TIam])ton has been
washing the walks lately? He’s go-
CHAMPION TYPIST
VISITS COLLEGE
BUSINESS SCHOOL
Remo Paulina Demonstrates
Remarkable Skill
Delightful Drama of Soho
In the Making
Life as she is lived in a laundry
in Soho will be the subject of the
next ]uesentation of the Pierrette
Players. The play is to be entered
in the city dramatic turnament at
Reynolds High School Auditorium
on April ], 2, and 4. A loving cup
will be given to the best of the eight
t'ompetitents.
The Pierrette entry tells the tale
of a Soho laundress’ wild imaginings
and her Cinderella like treatment
by the other workers in her shop.
However there is little of the sweet
ness of Cinderella. The cast contains
Mary Woodruff, Mary Lib. Reeves,
Xancy Schallert, Anne Perkins,
Mary Penn, !ind B. C. Hunford.
ing over his part in his mind—a
poem it is—like one Stepin Fetchit
says—only Hampton plans to .steal
Stei>iu’s stuff and put him out of
business.
All who enjoy perfect harmony,
swinging rhythm, and deep, rich
voices cannot afford to say they
can’t afford the fifteen cents for ad
mission to the colored help show
Friday night.
MRS. WOOTEN SPEAKER
AT A.A.U.W. MEETING
Noted Photographer Shows
Slides of Charleston
OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH
PRESENTS BRILLIANT
CONCERT
Civic Music Association
Brings Famous Pianist
To Greensboro
The Civic Music Association of
Greensboro presented Ossip Gabril-
owitsch in a piano concert on Mon
day evening, March 18th. The con
cert was well attended. Gabril-
owitsch, a senstive faced, grey-hair
ed man, responded to the magnaim-
ous applause of the audience. An in
teresting fact about the pianist is
that he is married to Sara Clemmens
daughter of the late Mark Twain. He
himself is ranked among the very
best pianists in the world.
The program follows; '
Sonata in C minor Mozart
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Conata in D major, Opus 10
Beethoven
Presto
Largo
Minuetto
Allegro
Rhapsody, Opus 119 Brahms
Des Abends Schumann
Aufschwung ..._ Schumann
Xocturnes in D flat major .... Chopin
Mazurka in B minor Chopin
Valse in A flat major Chopin
On Tuesday night the A. TI. W. 1
of Winston-Salem held a most in- |
teresting meeting in the Recreation :
Room of the Louisa Bitting Build
ing of Salem College. |
The speaker for the evening was ;
Mrs. Bogard Wooten, of Chapel Hill. |
During her lecture the noted photo- |
grapher showed storoptican slides of
the beautiful gardens at Charleston, |
S. C. Mrs. Wooten made these pic- i
tures last year, so nil of them are |
(|uite new She explained each in
(letail. ' I
There were many pictures of the j
^lagnolia Garden, located just off |
St. Andrews Road in Charleston. 1
This garden was In'gun by John !
Grimke Dragton during the 10th !
century with 128 varieties of camel- |
lias, in 1848 there were almost 250 :
varieties. The garden is an infor- '
nial one, including such flowers as
dogwood, azelea, and wisteria, and
also many fine old oak trees hung
with gray Spanish moss. |
Pictures were shown also of the '
Middleton gardens, located on the!
same road. It is said that it took a
hundred slaves ten years to build the I
terraces in these gardens, and that j
■some of the trees are as much as '
000 years old. 1
Mrs. Wooten also described and i
showed pictures of the Cypress gar- ■
dens, which arc almost ready for '
their fifth season. These gardens
cover 300 acres, built on small is- ;
lands in drained swamps, and are
filled with jonquils, azalea.s, and ,
other early sjjring flowers. I
Miss Frances Hayworth,. Salem
music student played a piano solo
“ Venitienne,” fourth Barcarolle, by '
Gounod, as a part of the program. |
Members of the local garden club, ■
and also members of the Senior
Class were invited guests at this
most entertaining and instructive
meeting. (
Important Notice: A world cham
pion has visited Salem! No—not
Helen Hicks nor Georgia Coleman,
but Remo Paulina, the fastest ama
teur typist in the world. She holds
thi.s years’ world record of typing
121 words a minute for hour.
The attractive Miss Remo Paulina
gave an interesting demonstration
in the rooms of the Business Depart
ment. She first told the Business
Strugglers two “hows” she became
champion: First, by concentration;
and second, by having rhythm in her
typing (do di dum). Have you
heard the strange Chinese sounding
music from Miss Barrow’s rooms!
Well, that’s for rhythm, but the con
centration is not so audible.
Miss Paulino sat down and de
monstrated by pecking out 12.’5
w^ords a minute an her typewriter.
The keys were certainly sizzled I
Then, she gave an imitation of one
of Miss Barrow’s prize pupils typing
a mere 45 words a minute. Every
body laughed but the Business Stu
dents know that 45 words per minute
despite imitations, were wonderful
to them.
But wait — this is not the half
of it. Miss Paulina suggested that
her audience ask her questions
while she typed. Many and various
questions were thrown at her, but
she nonchalantly typed away, iui-
swering them witho\it hesitation.
After one minute was gone, she pull
ed out her paper, and hal a correct
copy at 120 words a minute. Good!
We’ll agree' the best in the world.
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SOPHOMORES EN
TERTAIN SENIORS
AT TEA FRIDAY
St. Patrick’s Day Party
Friday afternoon from four to
five-thirty at Mrs. Charles Sicwera’
home on (’ascade .\veuue the Sopho
mores attractively entertained their
“big sisters” at u tea. The rooms
were api>ropriately decorated in yel
low' and green, carrying out the St.
Patrick idea.
Arnice Topp and Louise Freeman
received the callofs :it the door and
presented them to the receiving lino
where Josejihine Whithead, Mary
Penn, Bushie McLean, and Marianna
Residing greeted the guests. Miss
Lawrence and Ruth Nornmn also as
sisted in this room. The visiting
seniors were presented with dainty
nosegays and sweetpeas. Miss Rig-
gan and Virginia Crumpler showed
the guests to the music room where
Jo Klutz, Miss 1-illy, and Mary Lou-
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Watch The World
BEFUBIilCAN REVOLT IN
aB£ECE
Last week I'olitico Elentherios
Venizolos, Rejiublican Greek, resort
ed to civil war because he had lost
the last election. Venizelos wns
supported by the mixed races of the
Greek islands and of Thrace and
Eastern Macedonia on the mainland.
His financial support came from his
wife’s fortune, estimated at $15,-
000,000. He had at his di.sposal the
armored cruiser “Averoff” and the
cruiser-minelayer “Helle. ” His mo
tive he said, was “to save the Re
public from the monarchist machina
tions of Premier Tsaldari.s, who i.s
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