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Volume XXX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, November 1 1, 1949
Number 8
Pierrettes
Work Hard
On "Liliom”
by Polly Hartle
The cast and crew for Liliom are
busily making preparations for the
1949 major production to be held
in Old Chapel on December 1 and 2.
The costume committee, with
swish of paint brushes and the
chaos of flats being moved is found
the scenery crew. In Mr. Law-
rences’s basement, bits of wood,
nails and jars of paint are being
transformed into little picket fences,
trees, lamp-posts, doors and win
dows. Here is the technical direc-
| tor, entangled in yards of tape
measure, sawing and constructing
each piece to scale. Minds filled
with an amazing amount of inge
nuity have been at work recon
structing old flats and utilizing
effective drapes, lights and dis
carded jumk.
Mr, and Mrs. David, native Hun
garians, are the music and costume
advisors. They have worked with
productions in Budapest and have
contributed to Liliom valuable in
formation on dress and mannerisms
typical of the Hungarian peasants
and movements.
The cast rehearses every night
from 7:00 until 9:00. The entire
auditorium hums with players mem
orizing lines, blocking and action.
The play itself is in seven scenes;
the cast is composed of about
twenty-five people including extras
for the Prologue. Monday, Nov-
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Salem Appoints
Fund Group
The appointment of a faculty-stu
dent committee of Salem College
for the administration of the Hattie
M. Strong Fund for National and
International Understanding was
announced Wednesday.
The committee is composed of Dr.
Gregg Singer, chairman; Dr. Dale
H. Gramley, president of the col
lege ; Academic Dean, Ivy M. Hix-
Lucille Vest, the Rev. Edwin Saw-
son, Miss Marian Reed, Miss
yer, Mary Turner Rule, a senior,
and Winifred Harris and Sybgi
Haskins, juniors.
Dr. Gramley said the committee
would meet soon to establish a
policy of administering the funds
amounting to $44,133.50. He pointed
out that it was too late this year
to set up a scholarship for foreign
students, but that the college hoped
to have at lesist one next year.
Other activities to be sponsored
through the fund will include a
series of lectures, to be given at the
college.
Education Club
Holds Program
The Education Club was in charge
of the assembly program Tuesday
morning. They presented a pup
pet show dramatizing “Goody Two-
Shoes” as the first school mistress.
Following this was an allegorical
presentation of The Three Little
Pigs, in the form of a radio skit.
The three little pigs and their
mother were College, High School,
Elementary School, and Kindergar
ten.
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Merriman Presents Recital;
Debussy Dominates Program
Margaret Ferguson Merriman,
pianist, presented a. recital Mon
day, November 7, in Memorial
Hall.
The program began with Pastor
ale by Scarlatti. Sonata, No. 449
by Scarlatte-Longo and an Organ
Prelude in G minor followed. Mrs.
Merriman concluded the first half
of the recital with Brahm’s Sonata
in F minor. Dr. ''/ardell had pre
viously commented that this is one
of the greatest sonatas ever written.
The second part of the recital
began with Papillons, Op. 2 by
Schumann, followed by four select
ions by Debussy. For an encore,
Mrs. Merriman played Fantaise
Impromptu by Chopin.
From the enthusiastic applause,
Mrs. Merriman was well received
by the audience. She received three
curtain calls at intermission, and
three at the end of her recital. The
Winston-Salem Journal , reported
that “she certainly knew what she
was doing every note of the time
there w'ere no slips or flubs.
Other commenters on the recital
complimented her on her light
touch, gradual cressendos and des-
crendos, and her beautiful interpre
tation of Debussy
Mrs. Merriman will present some
of these same works at Times Hall
on December 2.
English Majors
To Hear Prof
Dr. Urban T. Holmes of the
Romance Linguistics department at
Chapel Hill will speak to the lan
guage and literature majors next
Thursday night at 7 p.m. in the
Day Students Center.
Dr. Holmes is an authority on the
Middle Ages. He has proposed to
take a character of the times and
take him on a tour of London and
Paris. This way he will deal with
the language, literature, and culture
of the period.
Cox To Speak
On Anglicans
The Rev. Mr. James Cox, rector
of St. Pauls Episcopal Church, will
speak to the History of Religion
course at 12:10 Monday, November
14.
Mr. Cox will discuss the history,
doctrines and sacrements of the
Anglican Church. He will also
draw some comparisons between
the Roman Catholic Church and
the Anglican Catholic Church.
Everyone interested is invited to
come.
Stee Gee Appoints
Faculty Advisers
Miss Evabelle Covington, Mihs
Marian Reed, and Dr. Gregg Singer
were appointed as faculty represen
tatives at the Legislative committee
of the Stee Gee. Dr. Gramley and
Louise Stacy made the appointments
this week.
Faculty Inspects
Guilford Building
Dr. Gramley, Mr. Campbell, Mr.
French and Mr. Clark Starbuck,
chairman of the Building Grounds
Committee of the Board of Trust
ees, went to Guilford Saturday to
look at the new science building
there. The new Guilford science
building is to be dedicated next
week.
Gordon Gray Gives
New Scholarship
The one hundred dollars as estab
lished by Gordon Gray, member of
the Board of Trustees and Secre
tary of the Army, will be given to
the rising junior who has achieved
the highest academic record during
her sophomore year. This actcion
was taken by the faculty at their
November meeting.
This new prize will complement
the Sallie Southall Gotten award of
two hundred dollars set up by the
North Carolina Federation of
Women’s Clubs which is given to
the rising senior who has achieved
the highest academic rating during
her junior year. The latter award
has the stipulation that the receiver
must be a resident of North Caro
lina ; the Gordon Gray award does
not.
NOTICE!
Tomorrow night is the time for
Gingham Tavern. The Day Stu
dents Center is the place. Mr.
Peterson and Roslyn Fogel are to
be the main attractions.
This annual affair is sponsored by
the Home Ec. Club. Dancing, sing
ing and a floor show will warrant
bringing your date for 50c or com
ing alone for 35c.
Lauterbach Charms Girls;
Gives Food For Thought
Movie^Hamlet
by Joan Carter Read
He may have been a scholar
turned newspaperman; he may have
been an authority on the Far East;
he may have planted questions in
the audience in order to tell good
jokes; he ’may have taken his cof
fee black and his roast beef rare;
but to the privileged Salem girls
who talked to him in the Alumnae
House he will always be remem
bered as the charming lecturer (to
deal with abstractions) who gave
us food for thought along with de
light for our eyes.
Technically, we found out that
his name translated means “bab
bling brook”; we also discovered
that he is married and has three
children. As for college, we knew
that he had graduated summa cum
laude but we did not know that he
majored in English and wishes he
had majored in art and city plan
ning. He also confessed that he
worked for grades. Then too, we
learned about what an “out of this
world” weekend Dartmouth Winter
Carnival is.
As for lectures he said he never
wrote his speeches out but used
the note card system, shifting
through them as he talks. He
wished that someone could take
them down in shorthand so he could
compile it into an article ^nd sell it.
When asked what he thought
about southern girls, “I can’t an
swer that now. You see that is
my spring lecture.” Now is the
time to remind the Lecture Com
mittee that that would be a good
choice for next year.
But down to what he gave us
to think about. We were taken on
a quick tour of the East including
Japan, Korea, China, and South
eastern Asia. We got a quick sum
mary of how and why Russia had
a strong hold in China and sug
gestions on how the United States
might compete and get Russia out.
The basis was competition with
Russia for we must work with the
inevtible revolution and not against
it. We must appeal to the Nation
alistic spirit of China. Military
measures without political, econo
mic, and social reforms are no good.
As a solution to our problem in
Japan, Mr. Lauterbach said that
the long slow process of education
was the only way out. He re
minded us that democracy cannot
be imposed on any nation, a lesson
we should have learned long ago.
We have saddled Korea with Rus-
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Coming Nov. 16
Laurence Oliver’s motion picture,
“Hamlet” is coming to Winston-
Salem. Beginning next Wednesday,
November 16, “Hamlet” will run
for four days at the Forsyth
Theater.
The Winston-Salem Little Thea
ter group has aided in the bringing
of the movie to Winston-Salem.
For their part the Little Theater
will receive a per centage of the
sale of tickets prior to November
16. The Little Theater will use
their proceeds in a fund for a
building of their own.
Tickets are now on sale at Vog-
ler’s Jewelry Store, O’Hanlons’, The
Book and Stamp Co. (Nissen Build
ing), News Stand in Robert E. Lee,
Cox’s Pharmacy, College Village.
Matinee, 90 cents; night, $1.20, tax
included.
Editors Appeal
For Balance
Thanks to Miss Byrd we, the
editors of the Salemite, have seen
the following clipping from Atlanta.
“The two editors of Emory Uni
versity’s student newspaper, “The
Emory Wheel”, resigned today.
They complained that professors
are giving students so many assign
ments that they no longer have
time for extra-curricular activity.
“The editors, Reese Cleghorn and
Richard Hodges, appealed for a
balance between classwork and out
side activities.”
We the editors of the Salemite
make the same plea for we too are
tired. It is now 10 o’clock Wednes
day night and we have not yet put
our baby to bed. We have had
five or six classes, written our hands
off tracing the history of U. S. af
fairs from 1898 to 1949, we got our
novel six weeks back, we struggled
through seminar reading the ans
wers out of the book and now we
sit surrounded by dummies, ads,
cuts, unwritten headlines and we re
peat we’re so tired.
We don’t want to resign, we
don’t even like to protest but there
are times when life' gets tedious
don’t it ?