October 6, 1950
THE SALEMITE
Page Five
Pictured above are Betty Gwen Beck, Emmy Rowland, Monie
Rowland, Jean Starr, and Lila Fretwell while sightseeing in
Switzerland last summer.
Betty Gwen Tells Sis About
Her Summer In Europe
by Betty Gwen Beck
as told to Sis Pooser
“One more line,” I thought. I
had planned to show my passport
to the nice man at the end of a
particularly long line of people and
then go back to tell Mother and
Daddy goodbye before the “Sam
aria” with me on board—set sail
for Europe. I clutched my pass
port and smiled at him. “How
long before the ship leaves—” 1
began, but to no avail. Another
man speaking rapid Frencn grab
bed me by the arm and shoved me
through the little gate. I stood on
tiptoe to wave to Mother and Dad
dy, but I couldn’t see over a large
lady instructing her daughter to
w ear galoshas in London. “I’ll
write them tonight,” I thought—.
When we hit Le Havre I was
still planning to write. After all.
Mother would be more interested
in hearing about the Eiffel Tower
and climbing the Alps than Guitar
players and Yale men and square
dances on the ship.
We didn’t see much of France
just then. In fact, we docked at
two o’clock, and at two-fifteen we
were on a train to Paris.
Well, it’s true what they say
about Paris. After I got used to
seeing lovely couples walking down
the street exchanging kisses, I
found time to look at the Triump-
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hal Arch, Mona Lisa at the Louvre,
and the Eiffel Tower. During the
ten days we spent in Paris we
found time to visit every castle in
(he section, buy real French per
fume at a shop where we had to
whisper, “Doris sent me,” and eat
.American Pam Pam hot dogs. The
nights ? Well, it was mighty nice
to have West Point boys to show
us the Lido and the Tabarin. Oh,
yes, I almost forgot The Follies—
it’s true what they say about
Parisian floor .shows, too. I brought
some programs to prove it.
Next to Switzerland, where we
spent the Glorious Fourth at a
wine cellar, visited the Grand St.
Bernard Pass, and threw snowballs
at each other (wearing cotton
dresses).
Finally wrote home from Mont-
reaux to tell about the Alps and
the bicycle trip we took out to the
beach. Saw Chillon while we were
in Switzerland and remembered
Sophomore lit. “This trip is really
educational” I wrote Mother
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A. A. Opens
Hockey Season
With the 1950 hockey season get
ting under way, hockey manager
Jane Watson, has announced the
class managers: Betty McLaughan
for the freshman, B. J. Smith for
the sophomores, Emily Mitchell for
the juniors and Anne Mosely for
the seniors. Any one who is in
terested is asked to speak to her
class manager and try out; every
one is welcome. If one is not tak
ing hockey in Physical Education,
she must have five practices, which
can be taken at 4:30 each after
noon. If you don’t play, come
watch the game and support your
class: Start earning your points
—either for your individual play
ing or for your class attendance.
To(d(J Research
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pounded by the Society for the Sup
pression of Vice, to make them ap- 1
pear as first editions, against which
there was no injunction.
The event increases in magnitude
when it is considered in the light
that those collectors who spent
great amounts for supposedly first
editions possess, in reality, third
editions, not worth one-tenth of
what they payed; while those who
had to be content with “second”
issues actually have the first issues,
first edition. Even more important
for editors, it is now recognized
which of various readings of these
editions represent the author’s ori
ginal text and which represent the
revisions and expurgations intro
duced at the insistence of the So
ciety for the Suppression of Vice.
Reviews for Dr. Todd’s article on
The Monk have been favorable.
The London Times Literary Sup
plement for July 14, 1950 sa3^s,
“—When it is learned that the first-
issue title was reemployed in the
secoiid issue of the second issue of
the third edition, it will be seen
that in dealing with The Monk a
cool head is an essential quality.
Dr. Todd is a plausible guide in
this maze: if his theories are cor
rect, Bell cannot be acquitted of
some verj( sharp practice.”
Fredson T. Bowers in Studies in
Bibliography says, “A really egreg
ious case of false bibliography has
only recently been corrected by W.
B. Todd’s study of The Monk—”
James G. McManaway in Papers
of the Bibliographical Society of
America adds, “W. B. Todd’s tho
rough-going study of M. G. Lewis’
The Monk appears at last to have
put the editions and issues in their
proper order, to the confusion of
earlier bibliographers.”
Antiquarian Bookman also com
mends Dr. Todd’s discoveries and
calls them “stimulating”.
I. MILLER
SHOES AND ACCESSORIES
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.
Katherine And Nancy Bring
Van Gogh, Koala To Salem
by Lee Rosenbloom j
Katherine Birckel’s room on se- !
cond floor Clewell is indicative of;
her personality. A red map of |
France covers one wall, and a self- !
portrait of Van Gogh is pinned
just above her desk. “The eyes
are so alive,” Katherine explained
to me.
Katherine has spent the last sev
eral years in Paris, living with her
aunt. Last year she studied at the
University of Paris, and she hopes
to finish there after her year at
Salem. She is majoring in English
and American Literature. “I would
like to write, after I have earned
my degree,” she told me.
Our French student is a tall
blonde, and she has that knack of
dress that one usually associates
with Paris. She told me about
Sartre and the extentionalists with
the enthusiasm and gestures that
are so c'naracteristic of the French.
Katherine seemed impressed with
the reaction of American students
who have studied in France. “There
were many American students on
the boat with me”, she said. “When
we left the coast of France, they
all had tears in their eyes. It was
w'onderful.”
Katherine has a brother who is
twenty and who is studying com-
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