PAGE FOUR
THE TWIG
NoTember 10, 1934
Behind the Mail Box
By HELEN HILLIARD
When the mall truck lumbers up
our ridgy driveway, every Meredith
student in sight is prone to wonder
just of what the precious cargo con
slsts, and by this, I mean simply
—how much mall Is there for her.
If she’s an average girl, she gets
exactly twenty-four letters a month,
sixteen of which she’ll answer at hei
own convenience. Now all of this
isn’t made up. nor is It a guess
founded on facts. It’s actual sta
tlstics compiled by Mutt McCarter,
postmistress.
According to the survey made dur
ing tlie month of September, which
seemed to us as good a month as any,
there were 12,272 letters put in boxes
In the college post office. Of these,
11,972 went to the students, and 300
went to the faculty members. This
means (if you are really Interested in
statistics) that the average student
receives 23 letters per month, while
the average faculty member receives
only 10. (Now you know who’s popu
lar round here!)
The surest time to expect mall is
Tuesday morning or Friday after
noon. It seems that each dear swain
takes his pen in hand and scribbles
a hurried note to his lady love on
ECHOES FROM THE
MEMPHIS CONVENTION
(Continued from page one)
Clyde Turner of Greensboro, spoke
on “Our Baptist Heritage." He told
of the great principles and personal
ities which we, as Baptists, have In
herited.
Friday night, a pageant on the Mas
ter’s Minority Movement was present
ed, following which Dr. George W.
Truett of Dallas, Texas, spoke on
“The Search and Secret of Spiritual
Power.” “We may dare to venture
all for this world and the next on
Christ,” said Dr. Truett. "The World
War proved that everything else un
der the sun has failed, except Chris
tianity. “Christ must come before
everyone else—He must be pre
eminent.”
Mr. Frank H. Leavell, who 11 years
ago visualized the movement which
has united Baptist students over the
South land, told us at the Saturday
morning session, “Where B. S, U.
Stands Now.” He stated that we have
a stabilized organization, the confl
dence of the denomination, recognition
by other student forces, and the
obvious evidence of the favor of God
on what we are seeking to do.
One of the most impressive talks
of the conference was given by Prof.
Chester Swor of Mississippi College.
He spoke Saturday afternoon on
“Christian Ideals, Our Need on the
Campus.” “The life charged with the
Christian Ideals will draw others as
a magnet does,” Prof. Swor said. “It
will be a great influence. Hold these
ideals In your own life on the campus
that they may be magnifled.”
Perhaps there has never been a
more wonderful or unforgetable sight
anywhere, than the one which the
delegates saw Saturday night. Repre
sentatives of nine different national
ities stood on the platform and told
what Christ had meant to their race.
Following their testimonies, they all
joined hands and sang that old hymn,
"Blest Be the Tie That Binds.”
The two speakers for that session
were: Dr. Herbert Gezork of Berlin,
Germany, and Dr. John L. Hill of
Nashville, Tenn.
Sunday morning the delegates met
Christ in the early hours “when the
day was at its best.” The Early
Morning Master’s Minority Service
was held from 6:30 to 7:30, and this
was really the climax of the entire
conference.
At the Sunday morning session,
Mrs, J. M. Dawson of Waco, Texas,
either Sunday or Wednesday night.
If he’s the type who writes on Sun
days, he malls his letters immediately,
so that they arrive at Meredith by
Tuesday morning, but if he’s of the
Wednesday night variety, he’s always
late, and his epistles aren’t mailed
until Just time enough for them to
reach their desfination by Friday
afternoon. Oh, would that there were
more of 'both species!
It’s rather surprising to and that as
much as we enjoy receiving mall, we
only write about 8,720 letters a
month ( this includes the whole
student body, please understand). Of
course there’s no way of knowing just
what isn’t answered, but It’s some
thing to wonder about.
There’s probably no one event that
causes as much excitement as the
mere presence of the postman. The
fact that the mail is put up 55 times
a month doesn’t lessen the novelty
one little bit, and the crowd that
waits rather impatiently around the
post office at 5 o'clock, and the push
ing throng that gathers at 8 o’clock
in the morning is a sure proof that
the mail bag is a welcome arrival at
Meredith, Here's to larger and fatter
bags! May they ever grow!
spoke In her
the subject,
Dr. Charles
loved by us
own radiant manner on
“We Would See Jesus."
E. Maddry, known and
all, gave the principle
speech of the morning, and pictured
the world need for Jesus. He gave
us, as the present college generation,
a great commission.
The conference was brought to a
close Sunday afternoon, October 28.
The memory and spirit of It will Un
ger always with those who were there,
and their hearts and voices will ever-
sing the strains of the conference
theme song:
Making Christ my Master is my daily
prayer,
Living in His lovellght, serving any
where.
Fully I surrender to His will divine,
Take me, 0, my Saviour: make me
wholly Thine.”
SOPHOMORE CLASS CAPTURES
MUCH-PRIZED STUNT TROPHY
(Continued from page one)
.Those on the stunt committee were
Margaret Kramer, chairman; Kath
erine Shuford, Anuabelle Hollowell,
Ruby Barrett, Dorothy Hodgin, and
Mary Johnson MacMillan. Programs
were by Helen Hilliard.
The class of 1936 presented the Jun
ior Marionettes In “Puppet Love," a
drama in two acts. The actresses
were living marionettes, moving as
If worked by strings and having their
talking done for them by other jun
iors back-stage. When the story
opened, Punch (Katherine Liles) and
Judy (Isabel Ross) were making love
and watching a graceful group of ice-
skaters by Lake Marionette. A squad
ron of soldiers marching by persuad
ed Punch that it was his duty to his
country to leave his love and go away
with them to war. Protesting his
undying love and promising to come
back to her, Punch left a grief-stricken
Judy sobbing disparlngly by the side
of the frozen pond.
The second act of the drama took
place two years later by the same
Lake Marionette. Punch returned to
Judy—with a French wife (Sonora
Bland) and a baby. “Judy,” he said,
“Puppet love was our affair, real love
Just wasn’t there.” But Judy, not to
be outdone, presented her side of the
story—Mr. X (Frances Calloway) and
twins. “Three!" said Punch Just be
fore he collapsed. “Four! I just can't
take it.”
Among the outstanding features of
this stunt were the striking color ef
fects achieved in the scenery and cos
tuming, the skating party, and the
drill of the puppet soldiers.
Others in the cast or helping to
produce the stunt were Josephine
Hudson, Margaret Knowles, Elizabeth
Davidson. Ruth Alice Ward, Nancy
Bunn, Mildred Eaton, Geneva Gil
lespie, Virginia Rollins, Minnie Ruth
McNeill, Fay Memory Shields, Eleanor
Andrews, Frances Jones, Lucille Park
er. Pauline Perry, Nina Binder, Katy
Sams, Ann Bradsher, Annie May Tay
lor, Dorothy Dockery, and Susan Em
ma Sloan.
The senior stunt was a gypsy stunt
called “Pot Luck,” in which the senior
class president, Elizabeth Poplin, went
to a gypsy fortune teller to ask her
to help her get an idea for the senior
stunt. By pouring magic powder in
a boiling kettle, the old gypsy (Luna
Jackson) made the kettle increase in
size until the spirits could show them
what they could do. The lights on
the stage dimmed and a huge blaclc
kettle came into view on the back of
the stage, out of which poured, one
by one, the living symbols of the sen
ior class. The odd spirit and symbols
—a red devil, a black glove and bones
—was portrayed by Mamie Lou For
ney dressed in a red devil costume,
by a vivid song, and by a dramatic
skeleton dance by Elberta Foster. The
rainbow colors of the class were shown
as four beautiful girls (Margaret
Davis, Jean Lassiter, Edith Bowden,
and Cornelia Atkins) dressed in pink,
blue, green, and yellow, dancing a
graceful, airy dance. Sentiment was
portrayed In song by Louise Martin;
Drama by Mary Ruffin as Black Moor
Hamlet: Comedy by a black face, tap-
dancing team, Mandy and Rastus (Ted
Mussinan and Loretta Nichols), and
Grace in a lilting dance by Elberta
Foster. The lights dimmed again, then
flooded on full force and a surprised
audience found itself gaping at the
senior class president’s roommate try
ing to awake Elizabeth, who was call
ing "Gypsy, come back!” When she
Anally waked, she was hilariously
happy, saying “After tonight I’ll never
worry about the senior stunt again.”
Among the highlights in the senior
stunt were the colorful dance of the
gypsies to the song “Live and love,
dance and dream, that’s what gypsy
means" and the wobbly, grotesque
dance of the skeleton.
“A Compact Performance” was the
freshman stunt done In Pantomime
and a color scheme of red and white.
When the curtain rose, a group of
collegiate students were standing in
front of a beauty parlor. Dowdy, un
attractive girls passing by eyed them
wistfully and made unsuccessful at
tempts to attract their attention. The
beauty parlor door opened, the oper
ator (Kitty Maxwell) appeared, smiled
devastatingly and hung out a sign:
“A facial today means a beau right
away.” There was a rush of “Wall
flowers” to the door—a beau today!
While the beauty parlor operators
were doing their best, a chorus dressed
in soft pink and white costumes rep
resenting powder puffs appeared and
did a peppy, well executed dance
number. Then came an original dance
by Dorothy Ann Ford as Miss Lip
stick, dressed In brilliant red and sil
ver. As the last dancer disappeared
behind the scenery the beauty par
lor doors opened and groups of daz
zling coeds appeared, This time they
had no trouble catching a beau. The
boys and girls teamed and danced a
snappy collegiate chorus number. The
curtain dropped, but was quickly
raised again on a dramatic finale—
a huge red compact whose open lid
revealed the powder puff chorus and
around whose sides were grouped the
rest of the cast.
Others in the cast or helping with
the stunt were Mildred Scott, Myrtle
Hair, Pat Holden, Katherine Moore.
Gwendolyn Wheeler. Betty Jennings,
Hilda Carraway. Margaret Nichols,
Mary Frances Mayo, Dorothy Hay
wood. Nancy Powell, Louise Copeland.
Margaret O’Brian, Nettle McCrae, Mary
Parnell. Helen Bryan. Anne Foster,
Betty Jean Gruver. Doris Hines, Mar
garet Clark, Katherine Covington,
Kate Mills Suiter, Betty Parker, and
Emily Bethune.
The programs were very clever.
The sophomore and Junior programs
were in the form of theatre programs;
the senior programs, representing a
black pot with ^bright colored card
boards representing flames leaping
from the top of the pot and the cast
and committees were printed on the
flames; and the freshman programs,
in the shape of a black and silver
compact.
The welcoming address was given
by Mae Marshbuni, president of the
Athletic Association, who gave a brief
history of stunt night. It was first
sponsored by the Athletic Association
In 1913, the cup being presented for
the first time in 1923. Meredith is
indebted to Mrs. William McMurry
(Bert Brown. ’16) of Black Mountain for
this occasion, which is one of the big
gest events of the school year.
The cup was presented by Mr.
Paget of State College to Sue Brewer,
president of the sophomore class.
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