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VOL. XVIII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1938.
Number 1 7.
CHERRY BLOSSOM
BALL TO BE GIVEN
ON FE^ARY 26TH
Freshmen Honor Junior and
Senior Advisors
Our freshmen class has proved to
be a remarkable group ia many
ways and the affair they are plan
ning for this week-end is another
fine illustration of their generosity
and appreciation. In honor of their
Eig Sisters, the Juniors, and their
Senior Student Advistors the Cherry
Blossom Ball, which promises to be
one of the most gala events of this
year, will be given on Saturday
night.
The gymnasium will be converted
into a garden of cherry trees under
the capable direction of Esther Al
exander and Sybil Wimmer, heads of
the decoration committee. Swing
tunes and waltzes will be furnished
by Freckles (Claude Little) and His
Gang, who hail from the direction of
Davidson. Madeleine Hayes, who is
in charge of the invitations, prom
ises that the best representatives of
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ALUMNA GIVES BOOK
TO UMARY
“The Birds of America”
Title of New Book
Miss Frances Hill Xorris, class of
lOS.’J, haa given the Library a book
which both the College as a whole
and also the individual student will
ahvay.') prize—“The Birds of Amer
ica,” by Audubon.
John James Audubon was one of
the greatest American naturalists
and the greatest painter of birds.
During most of his life he travelled
over America and through what was
then wild frontier country, observing
and painting birds in their natural
habitats. His book, made up of these
paintings, was published from 1827-
30 in an edition of only two hundred
copies. Today one of these first edi
tions would be worth about fifteen
thousand dollars.
Now, these illustrations have been
reproduced in a single volume, of
which the library is so happy to have
a copy. The plates for each bird are
beautifully colored and highly real
istic. Audubon is known for both
these accomplishments He painted
the birds in the poses which were
natural to them. Thus he was a
hundred years ahead of his time, re
volting against the stodgy, stiff
paintings of wild life to such an
extent that he is considered by some
to be over-theatrical.
A story is told of how a Woodcock,
exhausted when migrating, dropped
on a roof just outside the office of
the Audubon Association in New
York City. Some people were sure
it had been planted as a publicity
stunt.
Audubon’s dramatic sense, even if
excessive at times, was certainly his
best publicity stunt. His book lives
on, and even today, one hundred
years later, it is the greatest of its
kind.
MONTALDO’S TO GIVE
FASHIO^SHOW
Salem Girls To Model
Spring Styles
Some of the season’s most beauti
ful clothes will be shown at Mon-
taldo’s next Monday night at seven-
thirty. All students and members of
the faculty of Salem College are
cordially invited. The following
girls have been chosen as models:
Mildred Troxler, Virginia Lee, Fran
ces Cole, Meredith Holderby, Mary
Lib Walston, Dorothy Wyatt, Mary
Ann Pascal, Mary Louise McClung,
Peggy Jones and Frances Alexander.
—Journal-Sentinel Staff Photo.
BICHAKD CROOKS, Leading Tenor, Metropolatan Opera Co.
RICHARD CROOKS TO
APPEAR ON CIVIC
SERIES MARCH 1st
Famous Tenor of Metro
politan At Reynolds
Auditorium
One of the most successful of
American tenors, Eichard Crooks,
will sing at Reynolds Auditorium,
March 1, on the Civic Music Associa
tion ’s series of concerts. Mr. Crooks
has reached the peak of success, for
he is billed by his press agent as our
most popular radio tenor” and he
has had a zinnia named for him! It
is also of considerable interest to
music lovers to know that Richard
Crooks is one of the leading tenors
of the Metropolitan Opera Company,
in which he made his debut in 1933.
Such success as Mr. Crooks has at
tained, however, has come to him
as the result of many years of hard
work and struggle with financial
handicaps. He was born at Trenton,
New Jersey (very unconventional for
tenors, who are usually born in Italy,
I believe), and was a child soprano,
beginning his career at the age of
nine as soloist at the great Oak Grove
Auditorium. Mr. Clrooks remarks,
‘ ‘ Such an early start was wonderful
ly helpful to me — Except for one
thing: today, when kind people re
member me and tell me that they en
joyed my work twenty-five years
ago, it gives me rather a rude jolt.”
At twelve, he appeared in the an
nual music festival in Trenton on the
same program with Madame Schu-
mann-Heink. She said encouraging
things to him about his voice, but
told him that if he wanted to amount
to anything, he would have to work.
He did. He worked during summer
vacations to pay for lessons.
His first job was painting, the great
reservoir tanks of the local g^s com
pany. The painters’ wages went up
according to how high the man work
ed on the tank. Eichard Crooks
chose the top and got two dollars a
day. Next, he worked in an ice
plant. His job was loading the big
ice blocks on the delivery wagons
that started on their morning routes
at seven o’clock. His “gang” re
ported for work at three in the morn
ing. He got twelve dollars and a
half a week. Concerning this ex
perience he says. “Pitching those
ice blocks gave me a chest expan
sion that any singer would be glad to
have. I can recommend work in an
ice plant to our coming generation
of tenors.”
Finally, he got to New York, where
he and four other Trenton boys lived
;n a five dollar a week room. (They
slept in shifts!). His ten dollar a.
piece voice lessons soon ate up his
saving, so he sold life insurance, and
saved on food and amusements, so as
to be able to carry on his studies,
and occasionally go without dinner
in order to stand up to hear Caruso.
In those days, he little dreamed
that he would own a costume that
belonged to Caruso (the one he wears
in “Manon”) or that he would be
singing at the Metropolitan.
His position as tenor soloist of the
Fifth Avjenue Presbyterian Church,
which he secured about this time led
to other openings. He sang privately
at parties, weddings, and funerals,
and put in the high notes on the vic-
trola records made by other, better-
known tenors.
Finally, in 1923, he sang for Walter
Damrosch, who at once gave him a
contract for nine performances of
Act III of Wagner’s “Siegfried,”
with the New York Symphony Or
chestra.
Then followed studies in Europe,
a European concert tour, his operatic
debut in Tosca in Hamburg in 1927,
and finally the Metropolitan. His
debut there won him thirty-seven cur
tain calls.
During the last few years he has
done a great deal of radio and con
cert work, singing on such programs
as the Chesterfield program and the
Ford Sunday Evening Hour.
HIGH SCHOOL AND
ACADEMY STUDENTS
GIVE RECITAL
Interesting Program Given
Thursday, February 24
The Music Hour Program, Thurs
day, February 24, 1938, at 4 o’clock
was given by high school and acad
emy students who are under the col
lege music department. The inter
esting program is as follows:
Bourree Bach
Betty Withers
Lungi dal caro bene Sarti
Jeanne Gartrell
Giants Eogers
Timothy Cahill
Dance of the Marionette
Winternitz
Elizabeth Olay
Corrente Handel
Nancy Nunn
Elfin Dance Grieg
Cynthia Grimsley
Panis Angelicus Franck
Eobert Newsom
Sketch Dubois
Betty Black
Allegro from Concerto in D
Seitz
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ROUND-TABLE OF JEWS
AND CHRISTIANS HELD
Sponsored By Fifth Annual
Brotherhood Day
On Sunday, February 20th at 3:00
P. M., the Winston-Salem Round-
Table of the National Conference of
Jews and Christians sponsored the
fifth annual Brotherhood day.
The program opened with the sing
ing of “America” by the Audience
and Glee Club, after which Bishop
J. Kenneth Pfohl gove the invoca
tion. Howard Eondthaler, co-chair
man, gave the welcome address. The
welcome was followed by a selection
by the Y. M. C. A. Glee Club, under
the direction of Harry Parker. Three
brief talks were given by Eabbi
Authur Zuckerman, Father Cor
nelius Diehl, and Bishop J. Ken
neth Pfohl who used for their sub
ject “Our Part.” The Y. M. CS. A.
Glee Club gave a selection. Dr.
Eondthaler introduced the guest
speaker of the afternoon, Henry E.
Dwire, Director of Public Eelations
of Duke University. Chairman Eond-
thaler extended an invitation to
each of the audience to become af
filiated with the Eound Table. JThe
meeting was adjourned.
Salem representatives were Mrs.
Eondthaler, Stella Eosenblatt and
Naomi Eosenbalm.
ACADEMY SENIORS
ARE GIVEN DINNER
Dr. and Mrs. RondthaJ’er
Hold Annual Dinner
On Saturday, February 19, at 7:30
p. m., Dr. and Mrs. Howard E.
Eondthaler held the annual Academy
senior dinner in their home. It was
a seven-course progressive dinner.
The theme was a combination of
Valentine and George Washington’s
birthday themes. Appropriate con
tests were held during each course,
and favors which carried out the
theme were presented. The senior
cake was in the shape of a heart,
with red, white and blue icing.
Twenty-seven seniors and twenty-
eight boys attended the dinner.
Four Academy faculty members were
also present. From all reports, the
affair was a huge success and “a
good time was had by all.”
SALEM LIBRARY HAD
21B00KSIN 1805
New Library Has About
16,000 Books
The earliest existing record of a
library at Salem Academy is dated
1805 and values the 2ll books listed
then at $61.23 1-2. So, 133 years ago
was the first account of a library
ancestor of our lovely new building.
It is not even known whether these
books were kept together to be ac
cessible to both teachers and stud
ents, nor is it known even where
they wore kept. There is a school
tradition, though, that the first li
brary” was a wooden “closet,” or
cabinet, of books which was moved
from the old Salem Hotel to the en
trance of South Hall, but the date
for that acquisition is unknown. By
1816 all of the Academy books were
kept together in the entrance hall,
for in that year two other wooden
cabinets with solid doors were added.
By 1811 the number of books had
grown to 111, not including eight
maps and a pair of globes, and the
value had increased to $409.67.
In 1938 or ’39 Edward Belo, Es
quire, made a handsome cabinet of
four sections to house the library on
the second floor of the south end
of South Hall. The tcacher who had
charge of the library then was Miss
Lydia Stauber (on Salem’s faculty
from 1824 til] 1870), who had suc
ceeded Miss Charlotte Louise
Kram.sich, the daughter of the Acad-
emy’s first principal, who was the
first librarian.
When Main Hall was finished in
1856, the library moved to a room in
the north wing which was later
known as the “Select Eoom,” after
Mrs. Maria Denke occupied it with
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MUSIC STUDENTS
PRESENT RECITAL
First Night Recital of 1938
Held Monday Night
Monday night, February 21, stud
ents in the School of Music resented;
the first night recital of the 1938
season. The program was as follows:
Sonata in E. Major Beethoven
Helen Savage
Gretchen am Spinnrade .Schubert
Rosalind Duman
Harmonies du Soir Karg-EIerf
Nancy McNeely
Novellette in E Major, Schumann
Hannah Teichman
Canzonetta Tschaikowsky
Christine Dunn
II Mio Tesaro Mozart
Kenneth Bryant
Chanson de Guillot-Martin—Harm
onized by A. Perilhou
The Harmonious Blacksimth—
Handel
Ann Nisbet
Theme and Variations....Beethoven
Catherine Brandon
PiTgue Guilmant
Elizabeth Toten
Oonserwtion Manney
Frances Watlington
Polonaise, Op. 40, No. 2. Chopin
Glenn Griffin
Miss Virginia Thompson was ac
companist.
WASHINGTON’S BIRTH
DAY IS CELEBRATED
Miss Katherine Jane Hanes
Gives Party At Hotel
Robert E. Lee
Miss Katherine Jane Hanes enter
tained more than 250 guests on the
marine roof of the Eobert E. Lee Ho
tel, Tuesday night, February 22, thus
bringing Washington’s birthday cele
bration to a brilliant climax.
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