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THE SALEM ITE
May 5, 19Sn
Jane Reveals
History Of
May Day
In 1927 Bessie Clark was crown
ed Salem’s first May Queen. Her
knee-length dress was satin, heavily
embroidered with seed pearls. The
crown fit low on her forehead with
a shingle bob showing underneath.
A long train also embriodered with
pearls fell from a lace collar. The
attendants wore pink, which shaded
to American beauty in the tiered
skirts, and carried hats full of
spring flowers. In the center of
the Dell was a single unopened
rose. The cast with dances and
songs attempted to coax it open
with no success until—you guessed
it—the queen herself succeeded by
a smile.
Since this first pageant almost
every conceivable theme from
Mother Goose to Gay 90’s has been
used. Some of the programs were
very elaborate as in 1938 when the
queen was entertained by a Greek
festival. The Home Ec classes
made the elaborate costumes which
were exact copies of classical Ionic
and Doric models. Student-com
posed music was used for the first
time. The queen wore a Victorian
style dress with an eleven yard
train, but the court was uniquely
dressed in vivid jade, purple, red,
orange, and blue. The chorus, not
to be outdone, wore their hockey
uniforms remodeled to suit the
Greek theme.
In 1930 the May Dell was trans
formed into a Sea Kingdom by
grey moss, huge paper sea shells
and long green grass. The climax
came; Neptune was about to crown
the new May Queen when suddenly
someone discovered that the crown
was lost! Neptune’s subjects were
summoned and sent to dance over
the kingdom in search of it.
An odd assortment of characters-
appeared in the 1933 pageant.
Cupid and Atlas, deciding to take
a day off, traveled to Mt. Olympus
where the Gods and Godesses en
tertained them with dancing for
the day. About sundown Hansel
and Gretel wandered in, lost, to
outdo even the Gods in a dance of
their own.
In 1934 another imaginative theme
was used. George Bernard Shaw,
Ghandi, and Maurice Chevalier de
cided to hold an Intertime, Inter
world beauty contest. Each man
was partial tp the type of beauty
from his section of the country;
there was no agreement until they
hit upon the one solution—none
other than Salem’s own May Queen.
Ghandi’s contestant for the most
beautiful woman was Cleopatra
whose appearance was made by
embarking from a cardl)oard boat
made to resemble an ancient Egypt
ian barge and pulled down the
May Dell stream.
Life on a southern plantation
before the Civil War was portrayed
in the pageant of 1929. 'The court
wore pastel hoop skirts of ruffled
silk net trimmed in velvet ribbons.
In 1944 a Czechoslovakian theme
based on the opera “The Bartered
Bride” was used. Before the festi
val began, Mrs. Jan Paponek, the
wife of Czechoslovakian Minister
Plenipotentiary and Director of In
formation Service in New York and
Chicago, acknowledged the compli
ment given to her country by its
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N. C. Handmade Pottery
Mary Chess Cosmetics
Charmeuse Jewelry
Louis Sherry Candy
pj Salem Girls Welcome!
Busy with May Day preparations are, left to right, Myrta Wiley, Sara Hamrick, Polly
Ryder, Jean Starr, Martha Bowman and Sara Ellen Honeycutt.
ms
Harrop, Love
May Day Committee Makes Big Plans
To Honor Queen Massey On Saturday
Tomorrow’s May Day will be the
climax of the efforts of many com
mittees which have been at work
since last spring. Polly Harrop,
chairman of the May Day, and
Love Ryder, co-chairman, and these
committees are the b e h i n d-the-
scenes people to whom the success
of May Day may largely be at
tributed.
Rehearsals have been held daily
since spring vacation, and the whole
cast and court have gone through
two dress rehearsals.
There are ten committees re-
spohsible;
Nominations—Mary Jane Hurt,
chairman; Lou Huntley; Beverly
Johnson.
Music—Sara Hamrick, chairman ;
Sara Ellen Honeycutt; Helen-^
Creamer.
Dances—Martha Bowman, chair
man; Myrta Wiley; Frances Horne.
Programs—Liz Leland and Caro
lyn Dunn.
Costumes—Mary Alice , Hudson,
chairman; Billie Jean Green, Jean
Starr, Betty Griffin, Joanne White,
Marie Cameron.
Publicity—Joan Carter Read and
Clara Belle LeGrand.
Dresses and flowers (for court)
—Beth Kittrell and Polly Harrop.
Properties—Bernice Pierce, Mar
tha Scott and Lou Davis.
Entertainment — Carolyn Reid,
Eula Mae Cain, Myrta Wiley and
Muriel Hines.
Finances—Helen Kessler.
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To friends and guests of Salem College for
May Day. Winston-Salem’s oldest quality de
partment store invites you to visit us during your
visit at Salem.
West Fourth St.
Congratulations to
MAY QUEEN MASSEY
AND HER COURT
Welfare s Drug Store
South Main Street
Robin Hood
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men for this dance.
The committees for the dance are:
Decorations: Polly Hartle, Cam-
my Lovelace.
Figure: Ann Sprinkle.
Refreshments: Elsie Macon, Rose
Ellen Bowen.
Dance Cards and Stage Bids;
Lou Davis.
Publicity: Clara Justice, Bobbie
Lee, Jane Huss.
Chaperones: Betty Griffin.
Scout
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like three years since last summer!
Time passed so slowly.
Julie stretched out on the roof
and looked at the light shining on
the wet roofs of the houses below
The houses were in a crowded
block near the railroad tracks and
usually the heavy oaks at the edge
of the apple orchard hid them from
view; but here, on the roof, she
could easily see the houses. She
could even pick out the one that
belonged, to Viola. It was an old
house like her own, but it was close
to the street and almost smothered
by the -smaller, newer houses that
grew like mushrooms at the edge
of town. Julie was glad that she
didn’t live there. She had only
been in the house once—that was
when Viola had been out of school
for several days. Viola’s father
had been sitting in the linoleum-
carpeted living room with his shirt
off reading the paper. When
Julie rang the bell he had growled
out something like, “Damn it,
Viola, you come here and go to
the door for yourself!” When
Viola came, Julie had been so em
barrassed that she handed Viola
her books and told her she had
to go right back home. After that
she never wanted to go back to
Viola’s house. Julie liked Viola
very much, though. She was a
plump girl with happy brown eyes
and pink cheeks. All of the boys
liked Viola, too. They used to
tell her secrets when Miss Clayton
was out of the room and Viola
would blush and giggle. She was
really very pretty—even though
she sometimes wore lipstick and
Julie didn’t think that was very
nice. Viola was only eleven.
Julie rvas very sure that Mother
didn’t like Viola. Once she had
teased Mother into inviting Viola to
stay for supper. Viola had stayed,
too, but she had been awfully quiet
and Julie was afraid that she didn’t
have a very good time. Afterwards
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