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THE TWIG
October 21, 1933
Puhlished Di'iveekly as the Official Organ of the Stndcnl
Body of Meredith Colle(ic
NaNCYIS
EMir.Y Associate Editor
Mary F. Cummings Editor
CORNBLLA Atkins Business Manager
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NoKMA Rose Managing Editor
Maroaubt Tiloiiman Managing Editor
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SONOIU Bland Assistant Business Manager
Typists
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Reporters
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CLUB NOTES
OUR CHOICE
Every clay from Tuesday through Saturday of last M'eek, some
unusual event was presented in Raleigh theaters or show places.
Tlie number of events necessitated choice on the part of the various
college students interested. To some of tlie students, the State Fair,
Gene Avstm, The Ibsen Players, Green Pastures, and the State
College vs. Florida Football Game all appealed, and a few of
them (Seniors of coursc) “took in” every event.
Some of the said seniors as well as underclassmen, lacking the
time, the “wherewith,” or the cosmopolitan taste (and perhaps
also the willingness to “follow the leader”) chose to go to only
one or two of the above mentioned events.
Choice has always been considered as a good index into a
personality. Someone has said that the abiilty to choose
the superior from the inferior is a good way to distinguish the wel
educated person. Of coursc one can not always have her choice.
(Dr. Clausen’s philosophy' regarding tlie matter of choice as pre
sented in his commencement address in 1931 is “Know Wliat You
Want, Because You’ll Get It.”)
According to all information available from tlie office of the
Doan of Women, and other reliable sources, the following repre
sents the clioice of the Meredith constituency regarding the events
of last week.
45 gij’ls went to see Ibsen’s Ghosts.
90 girls bought tickets for the Masterhnilder.
11 girls went to the State College-Florida football game.
367 girls went to the State Fair.
47 iiirls saw Green Pastures.
Wore tlie statistics available for the number who saw and heard
Gone Austin, tliis event would probably run a close second to the
munl)cr going to the State Fair.
Price of tickets to the Fair was less than that to Green Pastures,
vet the argument of the financial inequality of the two has no pres
tige, especially in view of tlie fact tliat one student admits having
spent more than five dollars at the Fair. Hence, the matter ap])ears
to 1)0 one mainly of individual choice, and we wonder if the stu
dents of Meredith have cultivated taste wortliy of them in such
matters.
Granddaughters Club
The new officers of tlie Grand
daughter’s Club were elected at a tea
given by Miss Mae Grimmer, Alumnae
Secretary, in the Blue Parlor on
October 6.
Mary Lois Parker, from Woodland,
N. C. was elected President. Her
mother la Mrs. C. G. Parker (Mary
Elizabeth Parker, ’07).
Margaret Shields Everett from
Greenville, N. C., was elected Vice
President. Her mother is Mrs. J. S.
Everett (Margaret Shields, ’02).
Martha Anne Riley from Plandone,
N. Y.. was elected Secretary-Treasurer.
Her mother is Mrs. H. M. Riley (Helen
Dawson. ex-’14).
This year the Club proposes to have
every member of the club hand in
a “Family Tree” that will show their
relationship to Meredith. There are
at present slxty-one members in this
club.
South Carohna Club
The South Carolina Club is
being organized by Prances Alderman
President, who is from Alcolu. The
purpose of the club is to unite all the
South Carolina girls and to make them
know one another better. The following
girls have already signed for mem
bership: Edith Levine, Mildred Moore
Catherine Hayes, Christine Adams
Gene Gillespie, Grace Ogburn, Ella Lee
Yates, Kate Covington, Dorothy Tyson
Elizabeth Lee, Marion Edwards, Mary
Brice Summerlin, Ellen Alderman
Flora Kate Bethea and Margaret
Tyson,
Carolina Pines Riding Club
An opportunity is being offered
Meredith girls by the riding club at
Carolina Pines. Plans are being made
to organize two classes a week in
horse back riding. Girls, who have
never ridden before will be given in
structlons free and the bus fare to
and from the club is free for ever
IFS FOR THE MONTH
If yon can go through all your gym
exercises without getting the slightest
bit stiff, you're a contortionist.
If you can take a test without groan
ing, you've studied it over two hours
or you’ve lost your voice.
If you continually forget engage
ments and are constantly losing things
you’ll make an ideal school teacher.
If a boy will come to see you out
at the Meredith date parlor, he Is
eally In love with you.
If you can laugh when your post-
office box is empty, you have a dis
torted sense of humor.
If you can listen to a story of “so
he says," and “I says" with honest-to-
goodness interest you’re an ideal
friend.
If you can listen to a person brag
ging and not say a word, you’re either
asleep or you haven’t anything to brag
about yourself.
If you can listen and say nothing
except good things when people are
throwing oral brickbats at another
girl, you’re capable of being a real
friend.
If you can prepare a lesson when
all around are chattering volubly,
you’re a student.
If you can wake up looking very
refreshed with your hair In lovely
waves, your eyes shining like stars
and your teeth looking like pearls,
you are a beauty.
If you can see a man In a bathing
suit and still think he is the only one,
marry him quick because you’re really
in love with him.
If you’re good at putting off things
'till the last minute, run for one of
the chief offices on this campus.
If you can drive a car as it were
an aeroplane one minute, a horse and
buggy the next, and the merry mix-up
all the time, apply tor a position as
bus driver to Meredith.
If you manage to come out of the
Student Government office unscathed,
you’re a great little liar.
If you can be nonchalant when you’ve
swiped your roommate's toothbrush,
Greta Garbo will change places with
you, for you’ll be some little actress.
If you have to retire at a certain
hour every night and everything In a
room has to be in exactly the right
place you’re doomed to he an old
maid.
If you can take all this with a grain
of salt, you’ve got a good digestion.
If you can rave on like this for
hours without saying anything, you're
a fool.
AT THE THEATRES
STATE
The handsome Gary Cooper star
red in a role that flts him like a
glove.
A startling new screen discovery
in Frances Fuller, feminine lead.
Thousands of colorful costumes and
equipages of the early 1900's against
a background of thirty lavishly
designed sets.
A whimsical story of love and
romance Interwoven with golden
threads of humor and song.
These are only a few of the ele
ments that contribute to the en
tertainment value of Paramount’s
"One Sunday Afternoon,” which will
be shown at the State on Monday and
Tuesday.
A Musical comedy and News com
plete this program.
The services of Dr. Frank Graham,
president of the Greater University of
North Carolina, to direct an educa
tional economic program for the NRA
were requested by General Hugh John
son In a telegram to Governor J. C. B.
Ehrlnghaus Monday of last week. The
University’s board of trustees met in
Chapel Hill to consider the matter but
left the decision with Dr. Graham.
Wherewith Dr. Graham decided to re
main with the University in the light
of the facts before him. President
Graham will continue as a member of
one of the advisory committees of the
economic education program of the
National Recovery Administration.
Announcement to Staff Members
l'h«‘ry r«>|>i>rli-r oi' llic TU’KJ SlaiY who lulls to huiid In ai'tlclcs as-
si«i>«‘(l, on tlnic!, liCKlnniiiir with llif ii*‘x Iksik! of tills imblloatloii will
Ih- iiiiloiniilically ilro|>|H‘(l I'rom 1Im> sIhiY. Acccjitinu’ (li! nomliintion for
any >» •'* Mcn'dlth t'olU't'^ cjunims iiiphus Jicc4'ptln»? lnty of
tlio oftlco—not hiildhiK the lltlo, and Jillowiiii? sonic oii« else 1o do the
lahor.
Cornelia Atkins will make arrange
ments for this instruction if the names
of the girls interested are given to her
New Club in Formation
A writers club, the purpose of which
Is to develop the ability of those who
have ideas and wish to write, is be
ing organized. It is being organized
because too few of our student body
are being developed along this line.
For example, an opportunity has been
given in The Twig for open forum
contributions, but none so far have
boen received. This is not because
students are not concerned, or are
lacking in ideas, but because they are
not in the habit of wlting these
Ideas. The Acorn should be made up
almost entirely of voluntary contri-
l)utlons, which, being voluntary, would
be much more interesting reading
than solicited material.
There is only one requirement for
menibersliip in the new club, and that
Is a desire tii write. This is a new
experiment. It will be worth just
what tlie students put into it—nothing
loss, ir you are interested, see Grace
l^awronce ul)out particulars, and watch
I’r.r an announcement as to the time
and plan of meeting on the bulletin
boards.
—GltACB LAWR15NCE.
with all the traditional fireworks
of the old Wild West shows, Mae West,
screendom's current sensation, will be
seen In her new picture, “I’m No
Angel,” at the State for four days
beginning Wednesday.
Mae set herself a difficult task bet
tering her llrst picture, “She Done Him
Wrong,” which lifted her to the top
of the cinematic ladder and made her
a world idol, but she has succeeded!
A Popeye Cartoon, “I Yam What I
Yam,” a Musical act "The Name Is
Familiar” and a Sound News com
plete this program.
AT OTHER COLLEGES
Because upperclassmen hazed a
young professor by mistake, all fresh
men rules at Lincoln Memorial Uni
versity have been abolished.—Oberlin
Review.
The Rotogravure section of the
Collegiate Digest has been recently
added to the Sun Dial, weekly paper
of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.
This Collegiate Digest is a retogravure
supplement which is sponsored by the
Associated Collegiate Press, especially
made up to interest the college world.
An entirely new form of insurance
has been introduced at St. Thomas
College, St. Paul. The students may
take out a policy against being called
on In class for 25 cents. If the pro
fessor culls »n them they are able to
collect five dollars.
PALACE
Dances and ensembles for Warner
Bros, musical and dramatic spectacle,
"Gold Diggers of 1933,” which will be
shown at the Palace Theater all next
week, are said to be the most lavish
and ornate ever produced in a talking
motion picture.
“Beauty Spots of the World,” an ad
venture series and a News complete
this program,
At Bryn Maur a recent survey shows
that sophomores work the most,
seniors next, then juniors, and lastly
freshmen.
Home Economics Club
The Home Economics Club of Mere
dith entertained the new members of
the club at a Hallowe'en party by the
Old Chimney on Friday, October 20,
1D33,
The Meredith Home Economics Club
held Its llrst meeting Tuesday, October
17, 1933 In the clothing laboratory.
Sledge Hicks, the president made the
address of wolcome.
The Junior and Senior classes at
Randolph-Macon unite to end all the
competition which has been carried
on between them during their two
years together in college. The tradi
tion of burying the hatchet Is an old
one between the Even and Odd classes.
A stray dog wandered into the col
lege dining room of N. C. State Col
lege one night in search for food. A
boy took pity on tlie friondloss “mutt,”
and offered him a wlenor. The dog
sniffed twice, smiled as dogs will, then
turned and made a bee line for the en
trance. This dog must have recognized
a friend.