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WINSTON-SALEM. N. G. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1941.
Number 18.
WES1MINSTER
CHOIR VISITS
TlNCnY
Tonight at 8:30 p.m., in Eeynolds
Auditorium the Westminister Choir
will appear in concert under the
able direction of Dr. John Finley
Williamson. The Westminister Choir
is made tip of a small group of
picked voices. The choir school it
self is affiliated with Princeton
University and a large number of
the choiresters are students or
graduate students of the University.
They have toured Europe twice,
and appeared before many crowned
heads by request.
The program to be presented here
is well chosen and shows great
variety. The motet, “Sing Ye to
the Lord, ’ ’ by Bach, ‘ ‘ Benedictus ’ ’
from the Missa Choralis by Liszt,
and “O Savior Throw the Heavens
Wide" by Brahms arc the out
standing sacred numbers on the
program. Other inreresting fea
tures will be: “Coral of the Bells”
by Wilhousky, “Carillon” by
Noble Cain, “Ballad for Ameri
cans” (arranged for the Westmin
ister Choir) by Earl Bobinson,
“Negro Rhapsody” (composed for
the Westminister Choir) by Leopold
Stokowski, “Water Boy” by
Robinson, and a “Navajo War
Dance” arranged by Arthur Far-
well.
The price of admission is 50c and
75c; tickets can be secured from
Miss Turlington.
INDiM
ARTS GROUP
VISirSSALEM
On Saturday, March 1, and Sun
day, March 2, the industrial girls of
several North Carolina cities in
cluding Raleigh, Durham, Greens
boro, and High Point, will meet for
a conference at the city Y. W. C. A.
Delegates are not elected to this
annual conference but any in
dustrial girl may attend. The girls
will have lunch at the Y on Satur
day and then have -d meeting from
two-thirty to four o ^clock. At four
they will come to Salem College for
a tour of the campus and will be
conducted around by several Salem
students. Saturday night there will
be a banquet and dance and another
meeting Sunday morning at the
Robert E. Lee Hotel. About 175 or
200 delegates are expected to at
tend and anyone else interested is
invited to the meetings.
MISS CROW
RECEIVES HOHOR
Miss Jane Crow has received the
following notice:
“The American Dietitic Associa
tion is glad to inform you that it
has found your training and experi
ence to be such as to qualify you
for active membership in the asso
ciation.”
This is the leading organization
f6r Home Economics trained people
in Nutrition and Dietitics.
Mrs. Elizabeth Meinung went to
Greensboro on Saturday to attend a
Home Economics Conference of
College Teacher Trainers, Mrs.
Meinung being a member of the
committee on collaboration with the
State Department of Public In
struction to decide upon proposed
changes of the secondary require
ments for Home Economics teach
ers. The object of these changes is
to have North Carolina require
ments more nearly conform to a
pattern which has been accepted
by the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools and by
the Southern University Conference.
CHORAL TOUR
IN RETPPECT
(By Alice Purcell)
Before the crack of dawn Satur
day morning 49 sleepy but excited
members of the Choral Ensemble set
out on the much awaited tour.
Edwin Ballon better known as
“Skipper” was our bus driver
again this year and Miss Lelia Gra
ham Marsh was chaperon. Mr. Bair
also drove his car which usually
carried the infirmary, not to speak
of the harp which he carried in a
little trailer, bobbing along as it
swung around the mountains.
Our first stop was Statesville
where we stayed long enough to eat
a hasty breakfast. We reachcd
Asheville at noon and went straight
to Asheville School for Boys, which
is an Episcopal prep, school. Al
though most of-the boys were under
age, Salem girls didn’t hesitate to
look them over. Lpjich was served
in the school dining room and the
secular concert was given at 1 p.m.
Sara Linn was the soloist besides
Eleanor Welch, who gave harp
selections at each concert.
Late that afternoon we at last
arrived at Bryson City (pronouned
Bry as in lie) but not before the
bus stalled half way up the moun
tain and we really arrived at the
hotel on foot. We were greeted by
a queer little man slightly on the
intoxicated side, who helped us,
with the aid of Margaret Leinback,
get our room problem settled.
The concert that night went off
beautifully. Lee Rice was soloist
and Marion Johnson took the en
semble through an encore which
they shall never forget. “Harpie”
Welch really stole the show that
night and played an encore. After
the concert one woman said to her,
“I sho’ did enjoy that git—I mean
harp solo.” As a tribute, the en
semble president, presented Miss
Welch with a guitar string.
On the way to Atlanta the next
morning, we had an experience that
you read about but never dream of
happening to you. We came to an
old bridge with such rotten planks
that “Skipper” had everyone get
out and walk across before he drove
the bus over the creaking and
trembling old bridge.
On our way again, we lunched at
Gainesville, Ga., and reached
Atlanta that afternoon. We went
to the Druid Hills Presbyterian
Church where kind-hearted men of
the church took everyone sight
seeing, to such places as Emory
University, Stone Mountain, etc.
Supper was served at the church
and the sacred concert went off
smoothly with Margaret Vardell as
organist. Women of the church put
up the girls for the night.
Leaving Atlanta at an early hour.
Monday morning we traveled steadi
ly all day until we reached David
son around supper time. When Mr.
Bair drove up with the harp, some
little Davidsonian mistook it for an
anti-aircraft gun. Before w*^ knew
it. each girl had a date and another
Davidson-Salem Day was in pro
gress. The boys really went out of
their way to give everybody a good
time, first by taking us to supper
and after the concert to the frater
nity houses where we were enter
tained.
As part of the concert there, an
excerpt from the opera ‘ ‘ Cosi Fan
Tutte” was given by Marion Gary,
Katherine Swain and Lindy Stokes.
At a quarter to eleven, the girls
were forced to say good night to
Davidson, and by 1:00 a.m. Tues
day morning they were back at
Salem.
It was truthfully a glorious tour
and one packed full of unforgetable
experiences. Believe me, if you
startd out an introvert on that
tour, you surely ended up an ex
trovert.
WITH A RED-HEADED
WIFE ....
THOMAS CEAVEN
Wednesday night the Salem Col
lege lecture series is for the first
time in its history presenting, and
presenting with pleasure, an art
critic as guest on the campus and
lecturer for the evening. T'his man
is to be Thomas Craven — author,
book reviewer, as well as popular
critic of art.
The story of his life is as good
as any he ever told in his books. He
is author, incidentally, of ‘ ‘ Men of
Art,” “Modem Art,” “Paint,”
“American Etchings and Litho-,
graphs.” Craven was born in Kan
sas, entered at the University of
Kansas, and graduated from Kansas
Wesleyan. He was a newspaper re
porter in Denver; he taught school
in California and Porto Rico, he
night-clerked for the Santa Ee Rail
road in Las Vegas.
In his twenty-first year he went
to Paris, with the serious intent of
making a Frenchman of himself. He
did all the so-called necessary things
to live the life of the Bohemian ar
tists — rented a garret, substituted
a stick and a sash of la Bohemia for
his conventional American clothes,
and went about doing what he
pleased when he pleased. He wrote
poetry, he tried painting, he left
Paris for New York. He then be-
caHie the room-mate of Thomas Ber-
ton and began “discovering Amer
ica.” He never stayed long in one
place — one day he’d be teaching
the Porto Ricans, the next he’d be
back in New York with a sloppy
bathrobe and a stock of books.
When the ^ar came both Craven
and Berton took flight to Mexico, to
avoid the bullets. Both ended up
in the navy. After the war Craven
wrote another book.
“With a red-headed wife, a red
headed son, and a home-full of good
paintings” Thomas Craven lives in
a comfortable place at Great Neck.
He rises early, when he isn’t lecture-
touring, and also when he isn’t lec
ture-touring, he serves can't-be-beat
fried chicken at his home.
He is unanimously recognized as
the spokesman for the common man
in the field of art — he thinks art
should be and can be shared by all.
For the past eight years Mr. Craven
has pleased lecture audiences with
his sly, unfailing wit, and with his
non-technical views of art, and art
masters.
Town-people who are interested in
Mr. Craven’s lecture may obtain
tickets from Mr. Holder any time
this week, or may buy tickets at
the door.
The lecture will be at 8:30 Wed
nesday, March 5 in Memorial Hall.
GERMAN DEPARTMENT
RECEIVES GRANT FROM
JANSSEN FOUNDATION
PIERETTE PLAYERS
TO ENTER CONTEST
In the play contest to be pre
sented at Salem, March 13, the
Pierrettes are to present the play,
Sanctuary, a tragedy in one-act,
given here last spring, but re-cast
almost entirly for this new present
ation. The cast includes: Wyatt
Wilkinson as Mother Marie; Car-
lotta Carter as Marguerite; Betty
Anne White as Sister Anne;
Eleanor Welch as Widow Pensol;
Gladys Blackwood as Citoyenne
Kenre; Alime Shamel as Mademoi
selle de Lice; and ' Margaret Ray
as Sister Francois.
This contest is the preliminary
contest for the Production Contest
to be held at Chapel Hill the week
of March 30- April 4, for because
of the large number of college
dramatic groups wishing to enter
the contest at Chapel Hill, it has
become necessary this year to
hold preliminaries to narrow this
number down, of those to appear at
Chapel Hill. In compliance with
his new ruling Salem has been asked
to serve as Tournament Center for
Queens College, East Carolina
Teachers Collcke, and Salem for
these preliminaries.
LIBRARY NEWS
NON - FICTION
The Vanishing Virginiaja
(By Rebecca Yancey Williams)
The Southern version of “Life
With Father,” which is as amus
ing and as clover as the northern
one by Clarence Day.
Winston Churchill
(By Rene Kraus)
A full length, sympathetic bio
graphy of Britain’s man of the
hour.
The White Cliffs
(By Alice Dicer Miller
Short novel in verse. An Ameri
can woman tells of her English
marriage, ended by the World
War, and of her English son
facing another war. It is an ex
pression of American feeling for
England.
FICTION
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
(By Willa Cather)
Compact, flawlessly written tale
of pre-civil war Virginia with a
southern lady of the old school
as heroine.
Bright Pavilions
By Hugh Walpole
Another romance in the Herries
family—with Nicholas, the hearty
earthy one, and Robin, the
dreamer and idealist, as the chief
characters. The setting is the
England of Queen Elizabeth and
Mary Stuart.
Random Harvest
By James Hilton
Well-sustained suspense insures
popularity for this story, the new
est work of the author of Lost
Horizon. In present day England
a veteran of the first World War
attempts to solve the mystery of
years lost to him through shell
shocks.
Today and Forever
By Mrs. Pearl Buck
The thirteen stories of China, in
chronological sequence, show the
changes in life before the war
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MASOUERADE
IS OVER
‘Neath the drowsy shade of a
cactus, to the pulse-stirring click of
the castanets, at the enchanted hour
of nine o’clock, Ewing and Mr. Mc-
Ewen were airly bouncing over the
floor boards of the gymnasium in
true South American style. Ere long
other couples drifted in — for this
was fiesta time — resplendent with
punch, women and song. From all
corners of the globe they came —
Mary Louise Rousseau in her vol
uminous Dutch shirt and clogs —
three of the five Dionne quintuplets
(we regret to note that two, not
withstanding Karo, were ill with
flu) straight from Canada and Dr.
Dafoe — while from Sweden came
a blast of invigorating cold air in
the person of Sonja Kelly. Of course
millions of the local senoritas were
swirling about in their mantillas
squeaky Huarachas among which the
flashing dark eyes of McCoy and
Finney were noticeable.
Sassy in her plaid skirt and cap,
locked nothing but the bagpipes.
Louise Early, familiarly known as
Belle, lacked nothing but Clark
Gable. Nothing undemocratic about
these fiestas to say the least. Kather
ine Hepburn and Carole Lombard
vied for blase glamour, in pink and
blue trousers respectively during the
whole joyous occasion. But alack
and a day, the hour of parting
comes — even upon a fiesta, and by
the twelve stroke of the bell the
whirr of the roulette wheel was si
lenced, the fortune teller closed her
tiny nook — and the patio was left
deserted — alone in the Mexican
moonlight. The masquerade was
over.
FUND OF $250 AWARDED
FOR NEW EQUIPMENT
The Henry Janssen Foundation,
Reading, Pennsylvania, has award
ed a grant of $250 to the German
Department of Salem College.
Salem College is among 12 col
leges in the United States to be so
recognized. The purpose of the
grants is to encourage the study of
the German language by providing
funds for books and equipment
used in the classroom and in the
library. The money granted to
Salem College will be used for the
purchase of linguaphone records,
books, and pictures.
The colleges were, selected on a
basis of need of funds for construc
tive development of their depart
ment of German. Besides Salem,
the eleven institutions selected for
grants are: Dickinson, Hollins, Law
rence, Middlebury, Cornell, Mount
Holyoke, Yankton and Birmingham-
Southern colleges; Columbia,
Friends, and Southern Methodist
Universities.
The Foundation was instituted t)y
Mr. Henry Jessen, who resides in
Reading, Pennsylvania, and is ac
tive as a textile manufacturer in
that city. His interest in promoting
the study of German prompted the
grants.
EXPANDED CHAPEL
One of the most interesting and
most delightful speakers was Miss
Mary Dingman who spoke Wednes
day morning at Expanded Chapel.
Miss Dingman has been in half of
the countries of the world—learn,
ing the customs and thoughts of
the people—especially women.
In 1917 she was asked to go to
France. She answered “Groat
Scott, I believe'I will” and so be
gan twenty-one years of service
abroad. The only preparation she
had made was that she “wanted
God to use her life” and she put
her life at His disposal.
Briefly Miss Dingman told about
the beginning of the Woman’s
Movement in 1840. Eight women
from America went to London in
that year to the Abolitionist meet
ing. Upon their ’ return the leaders
Lucretia Martin and Elizabeth
Katie Sitanton decided that there
were people besides the Negro who
needed to be fed. This Woman’s
Movement was celebrated in 1940 at
a Centennial in New York.
Miss Dingman said that the
young ladies today should take the
responsibilities seriously against the
enemies of Democracies. She said
that we should and must realize
the fact that all life comes from
God—“in Him we live and move
and have our being.” There is a
“spark of God” in every indivi
dual. She said that scientific
knowledge could not possibly take
the place of God.
The three threats of Democracy
from within are: I. People in
clined to prefer the Fascist philo
sophy. The fault of this is that it
clamps down on freedom of speech
and thought. 2. Those who fail to
practice |the faith of Democracy
fail to respect every personality.
3. Enemies fail to see that Demo
cratic principles are applied |to
economical and industrial problems
as well as political problems.
Miss Dingman said that the
threats from outside “hang in the
balance,” no one knows what is
going to happen. The Democracies
won the war in 1918 but they lost
the chance to establish a lasting
peace.
The Democratic nations, accord
ing to Miss Dingman, should take
the motto used by Great Britian
today: “It all depends on me and
I depend on God.”