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VOL. XIX.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER
1938.
Number 9.
JIMMY DORSEY
COMES ARCOSS
Salemites Interview Another
Musical Celebrity
We felt rather experienced at in
terviewing so-called celebrities for
this publication, having participated
in two and an attempted third with
in the last two months. Therefore it
was with a true pressman’s spirit
that we approached the stage-door
of the State Theatre. We pushed
through the gathering crowd and
were just drawing ourselves up to our
full dignity before saying “We’re
from the' Salemite. We’d like to see
Mr. Jimmy Dorsey, please,” when
the doorman spied us and recognized
us from previous visits. Within no
time he had summoned Jimmy Dor
sey who cordially welcomed us into
one of the none-too-cordial-looking
dressing rooms. He gallantly offered
us the only two chairs while he
searched for a third for himself. So
there we sat, the three of us. Not
a question could we two paper-women
think of, and not a word did Mr.
Dorsey offer. Thus began our inter
view and thus might it have ended,
for Jimmy appeared downright bash
ful —- cordial, pleasant, at ease, but'
not very forward in his conversation. |
But Mr. Manager or Publicity Direc
tor or Something Usefnl happened
along and joined us. Between the
two of them, we managed to collect
these bits.
Jimmy does not care very much
for travelling. (Can’t blame him if
his quarters are often like those in
which we visited him.) Tie was born
in Pennsylv.'inia. His father teaches
band music in a high school. Jimmy
himself began at six on a trumpet.
He admits he doosii’t know anything
but music, and likes any kind of it
except mountain music. He isn’t too
fond of waltzes. In regard to swing,
he agrees with Fats Waller, “If you
don’t know anything about it, don’t
mess with it.”
Mr. Manager said Jimmy was the
best saxaphonist in the world, but
he is never too busy to help those
who ask him. Also (and this is
exclusive to the Salemite), Jimmy is
the foremost manager without put
ting the arrangement down on paper.
Get itf
Naturally wo wanted to know some
of the things he likes. Strangely
enough these turned out to be golf
and music, or as Jimmy said, “Maybe
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STUDENTS COACHED
BY FORMER ENGUSH
HOCKEY STAR
T SOQAL SERVICE
COMMIHEE TO VISIT
CHILDREN’S HOME
Freshmen Show Interest In
Social Service Work
Miss Constance Appleby
Teaches Hockey and Folk-
Dancing At Salem For
Three Days
For the past few days the main
toi>ic of conversation around the
campus has been about the new nick
names our hockey players and folk
dancers have acquired. So vrheii I
was told to interview Miss Appleby,
the originator of those names, nat
urally I was a little shy of talking
with here. From the minute of
our introduction, liowever, all my
fears vanished, for Miss Appleby
was at once a most obliging and in
teresting personality. First of all
I asked her to tell me what she
thought of Salem and of its hockey
players. She replied that she had
no views on Salem because she had
not had a chance to' see much of it
except her room and the hockey field.
She hastened to add, however, that
it was not because of any lack of
thoughtfulness on anyone’s part, but
merely because she had to spend her
si>are time resting up for the next
practice. She did comment on our
players, though, saying that we really
Iiad some very good players in our
mid“t, and that there was a tremen
dous difference in the playing of the
ones who had studied hockey for a
number of years and those who had
not. “All schools should have a
course in physical education,” she
said, “and more schools should add
Hockej' to their lists of sports as is
being done in Virginia. Then girls
would be better prepared for the
game when they get to college. ”
Later when she was speaking of
Nortli Carolina, she said she was
really very fond of the girls
we liad here in school, even if
she did tease them a bit on the field.
She added that since her stay here
was to be so brief she had to be
strict with us in order to get any
thing done.
Next, Miss Appleby told me a
little about her career .since she has
I)een in ,\merica. Her first trip over
was in 1901 when she came to Har
vard summer school to take a course
in human measurements. Here she
met Miss Ballentine from Vassar
who was taking the same course,
ifiss Ballentine had read about hock
ey and was so interested in the
game that she asked Miss Appleby
to come to Vassar and show the
name to the girls there. For the next
few years, then, she divided her time
between teaching the girls at Vassar
and traveling around to other schools
to teacli. Finally in 1905 she ac-
eoptcd a position at Bryn itawr
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ANNUAL CELEBRATION
OF BOOK WEEK
NOV. 13-19
Student Broadcasts is High
light of Week
Another Book W'eek is just ahead
—from November 13 to 19. The
theme of the twentieth annual cele
bration is the accent on youth, and
this week should be a red letter one
for all concerned witli books and
young people.
Early in its liistory Book Week
was known as ‘ ‘ Good Book Week, ’ ’
because it began as a drive for bet
ter books, for putting them in homes
to be read, and for making tliem eas
ily accessible in public places. Its
cause was to foster books suitable
for boys and girls, laying emphasis on
the joys of book ownership and pleas
ures of book companionship. It has
helped to build a list of new and
better editions and the finest col
lection of books for children that
has ever existed. It has helped to
promote reading for fun and enlight-
ment in schools, libraries, and homes
all over the country.
Book Week at Salem is being spon
sored by the Children’s Literature
Class and the program committee is
headed by Mary Turner Willis. The
week will be celebrated ,by speakers,
broadcasts, chapel .programs, and li
brary exhibits.
Mary Angela Styers will introduce
Book Week over WSJS from 9:30
until 9:45 Monday night. The theme
will be introduced in chapel Tuesday
morning by the Children’s Literature
Class. Wednesday at expanded chap
el Miss Annie Lee Singletary, Eng
lish teacher at Hanes High School,
will review recent books. Wednesday
night at (5:15, over the radio, the
Children’s Literature Class will pre-
.«ent a play, ‘ ‘ A Trip Througli Story
book Land.” In chapel, Thursday
morning, Mary Turner Willis will
speak about the second in the series
of Salem lecturers, Padraic Colum.
At (5:15 tliat night she will broadcast
children’s stories and “Animal
Tales from the Old North State.”
Friday night, at 9:30, Frances An-
gelq will summarize the preceding
radio programs and talk on law to
.select suitable children’s books.
A special treat is in store for Sal
em students Tuesday afternoon. Dr.
A. T. West, director of Duke Play
ers at Duke University, will be in
the Library at 4:30i. Dr. West will
read the play “On Borrowed Time”
l)y Lawrence Edward Watkins. This
is a humorous play in which death
ap])ears as a funny little man called
Air. Brink and comes to tell an un-
regenerate old man, Gramps North-
rup. that his time is up. The play
concerns tlie efforts of the old man
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PADRIAC COLUM IS SECOND
LECTURER OF THE SEASON
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PADEAIC COLUM
NATIONAL EDUCATION
WEEK OBSERVED
AT^H
Saturday Is Last Day
Saturday is the last day of Na
tional Education Week and, with the
other schools of the nation, Salem
will end her annual observance of
tlie seven days. The purpose of this
celebration, which by the way is
now seventeen years old, is to im
prove the schools and increase among
parents and the community, under
standing of school system and their
objectives. The college is a unit
of the total educative process and,
as such, is concerned with the gener
al aims and problems of all other
schools.
Last year Salem presented a series
of chapel programs in observation of
the w’eek; this year there were a
series of jwsters — three for each
day; one outside the dining-room,
one on the Education bulletin-board,
and one iit South Hall; the library
too had one. The art department,
and that means Mrs. Ogburn, co
operated very effectively in this pro-
gram. ,
The week began last Sunday, and
Mrs. Gordon Spaugh opened it with
a lovely \'Osper talk that evening on
the “(iolden Kule. ” On Thursday
our chapel speaker was another per
son who is concerned with education
- ]iliysical education, Miss Constance
-\ppleby. '^here have also been two
chapel announcements and two Sale-
nilte articles of the ]>lans for .NTa
tional Education W'eek at Salem. The
Introductory Education class had
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Irish Poet Will Speak At
Salem November 17
Padraie Colum, Irish poet and
dramatist will deliver the second lec
ture in the College Lecture Series
Thursday night, November, 17 in
Memorial Hall.
Mr. Colum is one of the few all
round writers of today. lie is a
poet, a dram.atist, a, novelist and ;in
es.sayist. An accomplished -speaker,
he has been heard on man.v lecture
platforms and over the National
Broadcasting System ))oth as a lec
turer and as a story-teller.
l*adra!c Colum was born in (“;ounty
Longford, Ireland, in 1881. Having
been brought up in the counties of
Longford and Cavan, he was fortu
nate enough to be able to absorb
folklore and popular songs as he grew
up. Thus he became firmly ground'd
in the traditional native culture of
the Irish people. He became an au
thor at an early age and when he
was 21, his plays were among the
fir.st to be produced by the Irish
Theatre.
He married in 1912 Mary Gunning
Macguire of Dublin who has decided
literary ability herself and is a lit
erary critic.
In 1914 Mr. Colum came to Ameri
ca, lectvired, and studied Hawaiian
folk-lore, about which he wrote stor
ies for Hawaiian children.
Mr. Colum’s main interest lies in
his poetry, some of which he will
road Thursday night. It is said that
to hear Mr. Colum talk on Irish poet-
ry or give a reading from his own
poems or tales i.s- to fall under the
spell of Ireland.
DR. A. W. GOTTSCHALL
EMPHASIZES CUL
TURAL NEEDS
FIRST SIGNS OF SPRING
Next Wednesday afternoon at 3:00
the committee of community service
under the leadership of Eleanor Carr
will visit the Methodist Children’s
Home here in Winston-Salem. They
will be with the children of pre
school age and with those in the
infirmary. In addition to the games
and music and singing they will teach
them, they are going to take ice
cream and favors for all the chil
dren they visit.
Any girls who are interested may
go, and especially are the girls in
the Freshmen commission who are
interested in social work urged to
be there. Those girls who have al
ready signed up for social service
are:
Frances Lyon, Maude Norris, Ail-
een Harrison, Eleanor Hutchison,
Betty Hardin, Lucy Fitzgerald, Car
rie Dannell, Marie Van Hoy, Edith
Horsfield, Mary Jane Copenhaver,
Martha Jones, Harrison Smith, Mary
A ddams.
Til a recent election the above girls were elected to ilie (’(uirt: Back row, from loft to right are
Louisa Sloan, Tootie Powell, Ann Pepper, Katlierine King. Second row, Lily Sutton Ferrell, Ann Whaling,
Dorothy Dixon. Front row, Peggy Jones, Mildred KeHy, ilary Ann Paschal, Dorothy Wyatt, and Martha
Rawlings. ^ . —Journal-Sentinel Staff Photo.
Southern Regional Director
of Jewish-Gentile Council
Speaks at Salem
The best way to solve the problem
of human relations and religious
difference is through cultural con
tributions, Dr. A. W. Gottschall of
Baltimore, Md., told Salem College
students last Tuesday morning in
chapel. Mr. Gottschall, who is
southern regional director of the
Jewish-Gentile Council, suggested
that while one may insist upon his
right to his religious faith, he will
work with persons of other beliefs in
solving problems of vice, hunger, dis
tress, j>eace, war, :ind others that
have to do with inherent civilization.
All groups may contribute to the
general community life, regardless of
his religious affiliations, said Mr.
Gottschall. History shows that one
hundred and fifty years ago an ex
periment was started to promote
better relations. Our forefathers
wove into the Constitution of the
ITnited States the right of the indi
vidual to worship as he chose, and
with protection from any discrim
inations. We have come to recog
nize that we have not lived up to
these ideals.
Mr. Gottscholl also jwinted out
that there are certain groups who
are trying to solve this problem of
human relations and religious diffei-
ences, America is! referred to as the
“melting pot” and there are those
who think onr beliefs should all bo
east of the same dye. This is not
practical, said the regional director.
The problems of inherent civiliza
tion which are a concern to human
beings cut straight across sectarian
ism and furnish, channels into which
everyone may i>our his efforts in the
interest of the common welfare of
all.