GOODBYE CARRIE
WELCOME CEIL
Z 541
VOL. XXII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1942.
Number 19.
Heads of Student PubKcations Chosen
fflLNUCHOLS
TO EDIT PAPER
Wlio IB the absolutely most ugly
girl on campus an at the same time
ono of its glamour queens! Who is
it that has so great a talent for
piano she was seriously considering
at one time studying abroad — and
yet can’t road a note of music? Who
is it that is as aggressive as a high
flying Nazi bomber — and yet has
been seen to wilt under a single
glance f Students and Faculty of
Salem — the whole world in gen
eral — we present Miss Ceceilia
Nuchols, daughter of Mr. Lawrence
D. Nuchols of Charlotte, N. C., and
Coming Editor of your Salemit.^
Yessir, “Ceil” is quite a gal.
At a closely contested election
held yesterday among the members
of the Slalemite editorial and fea
ture staffs, there was suspense and
almost anguish as Carrie Donnel re
turned from the counting of the se
cret ballots. But the three candi
dates, Ceil, Bobbie Whittier, and
Francos Yelverton sat almost im
passive. When the editor was an
nounced and Carrie was congratu
lating her, there was wild whooping
from the authors and reporters of
our fair college. After Ceil had re
covered from an impromptu faint
into the arms of her rival, Miss Yel
verton, she stood gracefully — all
six feet three of her — to receivo
the hand shakes of everybody else
present led by her other rival. Miss
Bobbie WJiittier.
When interviewed, Ceil was at
her glowing best. “I have great
plans for the piper,” she said, “but
they’re state .secrets until next
year — 1 want ’em to be a sur
prise! One thing I do know
though — I’m going to get real free
dom of the press or die trying!—
and oh, yes, I want to consolodatc
the staff too.” Just then the door
slammed open and L'ucile J?ewraan
wiping tears of joy from her eyes
flung herself across the room to
congratulate Ceil, slipped on a scat
ter rug and bounced back from the
farther wall. When she and Ceil
had wept a bit together, she stag
gered out and the interview was
resumed in the midst of the debris.
Ceil has great ambitions; she
wants to do graduate work in Eng
lish and then get a job “just to see
if I ean do anything on my own.”
She’s interested in advertising —
but the magazine, “The New York
er” is her goal, She’s alloted her
self a year for Career and then
comes Marriage. (Incidentally, Miss
Crow, those Hygiene reports are so
good because Ceil is trying to ab
sorb enough medical lingo in the
course to be able to converse with
“Little Doc.”)
“I want to get in a word about
Carrie,” she concluded, “I think
she’s the most wonderful editor to
work with I’ve ever known — she
actually listens to your ideas and
inspires you to regrind a brain al
ready tired from that philosophy
test.”
A personality interview is what
this jargon started out to be — but
it takes more than an amateur to
describe Miss Nuchols — you have
to know her to believe herl
CEIL mrCHOLS
CIVtC MUSIC SERIES
ENDED FOR 1941-42
They saved the best till the lastl
The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
brought our series of concerts to a
triumphant close aiid if applause
and enthusiasm are any indication
we will have another orchestra con
cert next year.
Such a concert offers so much to
see as well as to hoar and certain
ly that program provided everyone
with an opportunity to spot each
and every instrument. In fact there
were many most unusual instru
ments used — the celeste, the saxo
phone, the xylophone and practical
ly all the percussion instruments
imaginable. Did you watch the
kettle drum player and all his extrn
flourishes? At times ho appeared
to be understudying the conductor.
Also did you notice the cellist who
waved his head around — that heacl,
with the streak of white hair. There
were so many interesting personal
ities to observe. All of these add-
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. VARDELL
TO PRESENT
RECITAL
When the music students begin
their graduating recitals, you may
bo .sure that spring is really here
and tliJit the music in the air is
worthy of serious consider.ition.
The series of recitals this spring
will be given a glorious launching
on Thur.sday evening, April i), when
Margaret Vardell will pre.sent- a
varied and intriguing jirogram at
the organ.
Margiiri't’s ])rogram is made up
of tliroe groups, the first consisting
of three pre-Bach numbers and a
brilliant Bach Passacaglia and Fu
gue. Foil the second group she will
play three light modern pieces that
are a delight to hear. The first of
these, “Vermeland,” by Howard
■Xian*
NOTES ON THE BAR
No one will want to miss Dr.
Vardell’s piano recital next Mon
day, March 30th at 5:00 P. M. This
is the fifth and last presentation in
the group of faculty performances
given this semester. On Monday’s
program Jlr. Vardell will ])lay the
following compositions:
Sonata in E Minor Grieg
Dance of Puck Debussy
The Goldfish Debussy
Six Little Pieces Schoenberg
Schonbergs and Schonberg
Children’s Pieces Casilla
“Some Predecessors of Franz
Schubert” was the title of the lec
ture song recital which Mr. Clifford
Bair, head, of the voice department,
gave on Monday afternoon as the
fourth in the series of Faculty re
citals. Miss Laura Emily Pitts was
at the piano.
Beginning with a fifteenth cen
tury German folk melody. Mr. Bair
showed how the choral, as well as
the contrapuntal art song, grew out
of the simple folk melody.
Next he sang numbers which
mark some of the earliest attempts
at the German art song. These were
followed by songs from Spiritual
Concerts and Singspeils.
Mr. Bair pointed out that with
the coming of such great German
poets as Goethe and Schiller, the
German, art song writers were deep
ly inspired. He illustrated this by
Singing “May Song” (Poem by
Goethe) composed by Zelter, and
“Knight Toggenburg” (ballad by
Schiller) composed by Zumstug.
In closing the program, Mr. Bair
sang two Schubert numbers “Wan
derlust” from cycle “The Lovely
Miller Maid” and “Night and
Dreams.”
MAKY LIB RAND
SYMPHONY IN MODERN
CAST SCORES HIT
By Dr. ('. G. Vardell, Jr.
(Courtesy of the Journal
MARGARET VARDELL
Hanson, Dean of the Kastman
School of Music, has a few measures
of the theme taken from “Verme
land the Beautiful,” the Swedish
National Anthem.” The last part
of the program is the Widor “Fifth
Symphony” for the organ, and Mar
garet does a masterful job with the
set of variations.
Margaret has been outstanding
not only in the School of Music, but
in the other Salem activities. S?he
has worked with the Y. W. C. A.,
the May Day Committee, and the
I. R. S., and represented her class
on the Student Council for two
years. Last year she was Chief
Marshall, and this year she is
President of the Choral Ensemble.
The ushers will be Miss Johnsie
Bason, Miss Agnes Mae Johnson,
Miss Alice PXircell, and Miss Jen
nie Linn.
The comj)lete program follows:
I
Variations on the Milanese
Galliard Cabezon
Tierce en Taille Marchand
Muzete Dandrieu
Passacaglia and Fugue in C
Minor Bach
II
Vermeland Hanson
Intermezzo Callaerts
Les Jongleurs ( From the Peas
ant Sonata) Jepson
ni
Symphony V Widor
Allegro Vivace
Do your part for Defense,
keep off the grass.
This issue of the Salemite was}
edited by “Papa” Cashion, |
Margaret Leinbach, and Eliza- j
beth Johnston. I
The Winston-Salem Civic Music
Association, now entering the final
phase of its membership campaign
for next season, presented the
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra un
der the direction of Dr. Artur Bod-
zinski at Beynolds Auditorium last
night in a program that was large
ly devoted to work.s of a modern
cast. The concert, which attracted
a capacity crowd, was the climax
of this season’s programs.
The first number was the brilliant
and popular “Euryanthe” overture
by Karl Maria von Weber, which
was brilliantly and crisply played.
Following the overture. Dr. liodzin-
ski conducted a sensitive perform
ance of Sibelius’ b'^ifth Symphony.
The playing of this symphony was
a milestone in the history of music
in Winston-Salem, it being the first
performance of a nuijor work by
Sibelius before a local audience.
Sibelius Symphony
The first movement of the sym
phony, which was received with
much enthusiasm, exhibits most of
the chief characteristics of Sibelius’
daring and highly original genius
The thematic material is first pre
sented in a fragmentary form, with
many changes of mood, beginning
with the poetic and somewhat nos
talgic motive played by the horns
and woodwinds at the opening. Then
follow half gay, half wistful pass
ages in thirds for the wood-wind in
struments; shuddering, atmospheric
tremolos for the strings; a ghostly
chromatic motive played by the
bassoon. These various elements
are finally fused and integrated, in
a brilliant scherzo-like passage
which ends the movement.
The second movement of the sym
phony, a poetic and graceful an
dante, remarkable for its ability to
sustain a mood and for its economy
of thematic material, was played
with much finesse. In the finale, Dr.
Bodzinski interpreted most effec
tively the two main contrasting
moods of the movement; a mood of
feverish and subtly diabolical gai
ety; followed by the great swinging
theme which forms the second sub
ject of the movement. Near the
close of the work the orchestra
handled superbly the magnificent
evolution of this theme through a
series of ever-increasing dissonances
to the stark and climatic chords
with which the symphony ends.
Delxussy’s Work
After the intermission came De
bussy’s “La Mer,” an impression
istic work consisting of three
sketches inspired by the sea. This
work, one of the most difficult to
play in all the symphonic literature,
00 Paf« F««r)
MARY LIB RAND
HEADS ANNUAL
Last nite I burst into Mary Lib
Karid'.s room to give her the third
degroo, and find out what goes
around in the brown head of our
new editor of “Sights and Insights.”
There was the usual vigorous bridge
game going on, and the automatic
changer of the “pick up” was sling
ing one record to the side and slid
ing the next one on. Mary Lib,
who was dummy at the time, was
brushing her hair, and looked at
me accusingly when I started prob
ing for her past, present and fu
ture.
I guess the most definite thing
that I could find out was that she
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. K. Band, of Durham, Being
neither a fortune teller nor a good
interviewer, 1 couldn’t find much
about her before she set up resi
dence at Salem, but somewhere in
that past she learned an awful lot
about tennis and basketball, for
she’s really a whiz at both sports.
She collects records — everything
from Sibelius to Spivak. She blush
es easily (even visible through that
grand tan), always carries extra
handkerchiefs to sad movies, and
starts neezing at the mere mention
of an orange. She loves to drive a
car, (Hut oh! such speed — just ask
any highway patrolman between
Durham and Winston-Salem.) But
she “has a way” with those officers
of the law. They have never yet
given her a ticket.
This write-up wouldn’t be com
plete without saying something
about her latest aquisition — that
good looking I’ika pin from Wlake
Forest. Incidentally, she is forever
losing the aforementioned pin and
if you see a fraternity pin wan
dering around with a lost and dazed
expression on its face, just give it
to any occupant of first floor Clew-
ell and she will see that it gets
safely to its rightful owner.
As for her ambition, well Mary
Lib is majoring in English and
minoring in History, but she still
finds time to sandwich in a lot of
science courses and labs, for .she is
going to bo a technician. Of course
she ex[)ects to get married even
tually. It doesn’t matter how tall
he — just so that he’s tailor than
she, and she would probably prefer
a brunette. As for any other quali
fications, well she doesn’t have any
definite ideas.
Mary Lib has shown her capabil
ity for her now office in many ways
since she has been here. Last year
she was on the “Salemite” staff
an dthe “Y” Cabinet, and thia
year she has kept the finances in
order for the I.R.S. Council, serving
OH secretary and treasurer. She is
also on the Athletic Council and is
Literary Editor of this year’i
“Sights and Insights.”
Our new editor has plenty of good
ideas, and knows how to put them
across. Wle are all expecting a top
notch year book next year, and we
know that we will get it with Mary
Lib at the helm.
Do your part for Defense,
keep off the grass.