Salemites
Sign Out For
Thanksgiving
By Frankie Strader
Thanksgiving vacation is near at
hand. The girls have already be
gun to flock to the Dean’s office
to sign out.
Some are going home, others to
visit friends and classmates. Some
are doing both. Football games will
be seen and dances attended. Also,
much time will be spent in bed
and at the dinner table.
Molly Quinn, Betty Tyler, Jean
Henry and Mable Taylor will be
busy going to wedding parties for
one of their best friends in Kinston.
Jean Calhoun, too, will be occupied
with wedding parties in Clinton.
The remainder of her vacation she
will spend resting and dividing a
25 pound turkey three ways with
her family.
Alice Expects Puppies
In Mooresville Alice McNeely
will be waiting for her dog’s new
litter of puppies to arrive. Marion
Watson’s Thanksgiving will also be
connected with a dog. She is go
ing to Fayetteville to get revenge
on the dog who killed five of her
rabbits.
Betty McGlaughon and Lucy
Harris will visit Euber Roberts in
Alabama while Norma Spikes is
planning a trip to Raleigh to see
Becky Powers. Jane Brown and
Edith Howell will visit Betty Lynn
Wilson.
Eleanor McGregor plans to sleep
every minute she can and eat the
rest of the time. Other plans in
clude witnessing the classic strug
gle between Greenville (S. C.) and
Parker high schools and a party
which will be attended by Ruthie
Derrick, Cynthia May, Randy
Wurr w'ho is visiting Cynthia in
Greenville, Joanne White and
Percy.
To See Duke-Carolina
Jean Patton will go to Bluefield,
W. Va. and later return to North
Carolina to see the Duke-Carolina
game. The remainder of her vaca
tion will be spent resting up for
the Army-Navy game the following
week-end.
Mary Joyce Wilson plans to
spend Thanksgiving with her Bill
and Cacky Post will take Jimmy
home with her for the vacation.
Bessie Smith will visit Toddy
Smith in Bethel while Wootie
Beasley explains her plans in two
exciting worths—New York.
Carmen Johnston will spend
Thanksgiving with Crockett and
Peggy Chears in Durham. Peggy
lists going to the dentist among
her vacation plans.
Carolyn Harris, Lola Dawson,
Kitty Burrus and Jane Watson will
spend the vacation huddled over
desks in the Sights and Insights
office writing copy for the annual.
Cast And Cr ( v
Honor Miss Reigner
After the Wednesday night per
formance of “The Innocents”, the
cast, stage crew and Miss Cat
herine Nicholson held a surprise
party in the day student center in
honor of. Miss Elizabeth Reigner’s
birthday. Miss Reigner directed
the play.
A birthday cake bearing the in
scription “Bygones is bygones”,
lines from the play, and a' copy of
Henry James’ Turn of the Screw
were presented to Miss Reigner.
The guests remained to eat cake
and discuss that night’s perfor
mance.
Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander, Poised Soph.,
Chosen GirhOfThe Month
By Jean Calhoun
“But I’m her roommate,” I said,
“People will think we have formed
a mutual admiration society.” De
spite my protest, I received the
assignment to write up the Girl of
the Month, who, obviously enough,
happens to be my roommate. Now
if you don’t know who I am, you
probably don’t know who my
roommate is. My roommate is Jane
Alexander. My roommate is Girl
of the Month. My roommate was
selected by a representative group
from the I. R. S. and the Salemite
for her poise and my roommate is
pretty excited about it. Since you
are, naturally, more interested in
the Girl of the Month than in her
roommate, I shall tell you about
the better half from room 303
Clewell.
Born in Charlotte
Jane was born a girl to two
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Alex
ander in Charlotte, N. C. Reports
are that the date was April 17,
1932—this date you might do, well
to remember — delicious birthday
party food, you know. When Jane
was a kid of four, the Alexanders
migrated to Statesville, where they
added to the family a boy, Tommy.
Here Jane began developing into
Salem College material. The poise,
which would win her the Girl of
the Month title, took form. She'
took up her flute and blew; she
took up her brush and painted. It
was when she was ten that she had
her first art lesson and thought,
“This is wonderful.” So she drew
the little simple things that kids
of ten would draw, she progressed
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Her favorite is a picture of a
bright red helf-peeled apple, which
now hangs in the hall of the Alex
ander home. Once in high school,
she ‘fluted’ in the band, sponsored
at Homecoming football games,
edited the high school annual and
was chosen Good Citizen by the
Daughters of the American Revo
lution.
Visited Salem Once
Then came Salem, the school she
had visited only once. “I liked it
immediately.” she said. When she
arrived at Salem, she made friends
easily with her poise and person
ality, which is illustrated by the
fact that the freshmen chose her
as their temporary chairman and
then elected her as president of
their class. She says some of the
decisions she had to make while
on the Student Council were the
hardest she ever made in her life.
Her major? She is a history
major and plans to minor in ? ?
Her after-graduation plans are in
definite, but she smiles mysterously
when interior decorating is men
tioned. She issues that same smile
when Davidson College is men
tioned. I wonder if this could be
part of her future plans ?
Trying to find something excit
ing, dramatic to include about my
roommate, I asked if she had ever
saved any children from a burning
building, been caught in an eleva
tor, or stepped on by an elephant.
That’s the thin g,” she said,
“Nothing exciting has ever hap
pened to me. The most excited
I’ve been was when Jane Watson
told me I was Girl of the Month.”
Pierrettes Achieve Big Success
In Spite Of Some Difficulties
col-
By Eleanor McGregor and Anne Lowe
With handmade sets, borrowed lights, handmade costumes and
legs actors, the Pierrette Players presented their version of “The H
nocents” by William Archibald last Wednesday and Thursday nights
In spite of all these disadvantages, plus the further hinderance of
the smallness and inadequacy of the stage in Old Chapel, the Pierrettes
turned the difficult psychological drama into a great success.
obvious shone on the blond heads of Miles
and Flora was professional.
The music preceeding each scene
completed the eerie atmosphere
The organ discords used through'
out the play and the drumbeats in
the last scene added to the terrn.
and coldness.
The set and costume designs were
done by Bryan Balfour. The gold
stenciled walls, the glassed doors
the long gold curtains and the bal
cony showed professional taste
The realistic piano in the corner
of the room was built by Bryan
The costumes, especially those of
Flora, were excellent. They were
completely in keeping with the set
ting and the era which the play
represented.
The effect of the play on the
audience was obvious with the
screams which came at each ap
pearance of the ghosts. The noise
probably distracted the actors in
the tense scenes, since they were
not accustomed to playing before
spectators.
d^lay Depicts Evil
The exact meaning of the play,
adapted from James’ short story’
“The Turn of the Screw”, is not
known. However, it represents
the forces of evil, symbolized by
Quint and Miss Jessel, at work in
the souls of the innocent children.
These two had imbued evil in the
children when they were living at
the house with them. So completely
had Miles accepted this evil that he
could only rid himself of it in
death.
Special credit should go to Miss
Elizabeth Reigner who directed the
play, and to Miss Catherine Nichol
son, who was technical director.
Exceptional talent v
from the beginning of the over
ture to the final scene and the
death of Miles. Lola Dawson as
the governess. Miss Giddens, was
excellent in her portrayal of a
young girl whose first encounter
with the horror and evil of an old
manor house left her stunned and
helpless. She handled her emo
tional role, especially in the last
scene, with restraint and under
standing.
Sara Plays Miles
Miles, the 12 year old boy, was
played by Sara Tulloch. Before
Miles had been on the stage ten
minutes it was obvious that he was
possessed by some unknown evil.
His suave, complacent attitude to
ward Miss Giddens depicted this
wickedness.
Looking and acting much more
like a ten year old child than a
college sophomore, Laura Mitchell
as Flora provided the humorous
relief that was lacking in the other
characters. Her high childish voice
sounding into the more tense mom
ents was a sharp contrast to the
dramatic voices of Miles and the
governess.
The old housekeeper who had
raised the children was character
ized by Connie Murray. The audi
ence was entranced by her speech
concerning Quint who had just ap
peared at the window. “He is
dead,” she said, and the audience
was stunned.
First Act Slow
The play moved rather slowly
until the middle of the second
scene. But at the point when the
lights dimmed and the governess
felt a sudden chill with the appear
ance of the ghost of Quint, the
suspense increased with each weird
incident.
The play would have lost much
of its effect without the excellent
lighting managed by Eleanor John
son. The amber, white and blue
lights gave the illusion of sunlight,
grey daylight or mysterious dark-
ss. The scene in which one spot
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