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MARCH 17
Voliime XV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MARCH 14, 1936
NUMBER 11
Astros Victorious Over Phis
In Competitive Society Plays
Astros Take Pennant Second
Time in Two Years of
Competition
“GREEN EYES FROiVI ROiVIANY”
AND “UPLIFTING SADIE”
GIVEN
MEREDITH STUDENTS, MISS
WARNER IN AUTO CRASH
Thomasine Herring Most Seri
ously Injured
Victorious a second time, the Astros
nmintalnecl a perfect record in defeat
ing the Phis in the society plays Fri
day night. Green Eyes from Romany
by Kirkpatrick was the successful ve
hicle and heading the exceedingly well-
cast characters were Flora Kate
Bethea, as Fanny Meadows, and Ruby
Barrett, as Winnie.
The custom of presenting the socie
ties in competitive plays was inau
gurated last year. The Little Theatre,
dramatic unit of the campus, sponsors
and directs the productions. Winning
threo yeais in succession will give the
pennant as a permanent possession to
the victorious society.
Astro Vlnj'
Annie Elizabeth Coward as the ges
ticulating, temperamental gypsy, ruled
the destiny of the impending bazaar
o£ which distracted, important Fanny
was the director. Little Winnie, relative
and poor dependent of Fannie, followed
at her heels and was alternately a
nuisance and an Indispensable ally.
With her squeaking voice, blinking
eyes, and outraged sense oE dignity,
Winnie wos an admirable foil to the
blustering Fannie, chairman of every
organization but the Elks. To further
Fannie’s difficulties, Louise Warren
disguised herself as Madame Khaara-
viccl and descended on her friends to
discover which was in love with her
husband, laughingly designated
“Romeo” Warien by the group. The
jealous wife discovered instead that
“Her Frankie” was considered a big,
blundering, hopelessly old-fashioned
would-be suitor to all the women in
town. Simpering, finicky Lucy Guil
ford, played by Edna Lee Pegram, was
the main object of suspicion. Horror
stricken, the jealous wife sat and lis
tened to Josephine Tarr, Emily Pres
cott, and Madge Killen destroy her
illusions on her husband. It was left
to dumb little Winnie to restore Louise
by innocently hinting that Lucy and
the other girls were really very much
in love with the handsome husband. It
was still left to Winnie to prod and
support Fannie into opening the bazaar
instead of resorting to the same corner
room that she occupied after the
D. A. R. Convention.
Especially good was Josephine Tavr,
played by Margaret Kran'ier, who dis
tractedly endeavored to help complete
arrangements for the bazaar. Fran
tically she manipulated Lucy, played
by Edna Lee Pegram, the langworous
Emily Prescott, exceedingly well-played
by Mary Fay McMillan, and the red
faced, rebellious niaiCl characterized by
Catherine Johnson.
l*lil Play
In follow-up position, VpUiting
Sadie, by Riley, pressed the Astros
closely for first place, Kate Covington
as Sadie was easily the star of the
piece. The action of the play was con
cerned with Sadie’s trials as page girl
of the farcical Cultui*e Club. Young,
idealistic, and exuberant, fifteen-year
old Sadie was endeavoring to save a
hundred dollars in order to marry her
boy friend, Jim. Her plans, as revealed
to Lady Fitz Roy, guest poetess, were
for a wedding, flat, and three children.
(Please turn to page three)
Four Meredith students and Miss
Marion Warner, athletic director, were
injured in an automobile accident Mon
day night, March 9, when Miss War
ner’s machine was struck by another
car and overturned.
Thomasine Herring, Mary Herring,
both of Kinston, Sally B. Privette, of
Goldsboro, and Janet Aikerman, of
Maplewood, N. J., were the injured
students. Thomasine Herring was con
sidered by physicians of Rex Hospital
to be the most seriously injured, hav
ing fractured her hip. Miss Warner
was unconscious nntil Tuesday morn
ing, having received severe cuts and
bruises, but is improving. Mary Hei’-
ring and Sally B. Privette have been
taken to their homes. Janet Aikerman
was removed to the Meredith infirmary
after receiving first-aid treatment at
Rex.
The accident occurred ou Hillsboi’o
Street at the west end of the State Col
lege campus, when Miss Warner’s car
was struck as it turned into the line
of trafRe movino east. Mr. E. K.
Raleigh druggist, driver of the second
car was placed under $1,000 bond by
police pending a full investigation. Mr.
Keith was uninjured.
Police Chief H. L. Pierce said investi
gation indicated that Miss Warner was
driving ou the left side of the street
and trying to make a right turn when
the wreck occurred.
Meredith Faculty Represented
At N. C. Education Association
CONCERTS AT SOUTHERN
PINES AND COLLEGE ON
GLEE CLUB PROGRAM
Dr. Brewer To Be Speaker At
First Baptist Church Of
Southern Pines
The members of the Meredith Glee
Club will leave this afternoon (March
14) for Southern Pines where they
will give a concert in the High School
Auditorium this evening at 8 o’clock.
Tlic annual concert will be given Mon
day evening in the college auditorium.
The Glee Club will remain in South
ern Pines through Sunday morning
when Dr. Charles E. Brewer will de
liver the sermon at the morning serv
ice of the First Baptist Church under
whose sponsorship this trip is being
made possible. During this sei'vice the
Glee Club will sing two anthems, the
trio, which Is composed of Rachel
Leonard, Marlon Wallace, and Cath
erine Johnson, will render two num
bers, and thei’e will be a duet by Jean
and Lucille Davis. All of these num
bers will be accompanied at the organ
by Prof. Leslie P. Spelman.
The program to bo given this eve
ning and Monday evening is as follows:
The Lilacs Are in Bloom Tyson
Night Shadows Palling. Lully
Awake! For Soon Will Dawn the Day
Wagner
(Chorale from “Die Meistersinger”—
Glee Club)
Morning Grieg
Si Mes Vers Avaient des Ailes....Halin
What the Chimney Sang Griswold
Glee Club
Tlif* Trfirk Now TiPiivcs His Watery
Nest Parker
Maman, dites-moi Weckerlln
The Little Shepherd’s Song
Winter Watts
Rachel Leonard
Tomorrow Strauss
The Blue Bii’d Stanford
Noon and Night Howley
Glee Club
(Please turn to page three)
Dr. Ralph MacDonald Speaks
To Student League of Voters
Dr. John L. Hill Directs
Deeper Spiritual Thinking
BALLET RUSSE DE MONTE
CARLO AT DUKE MARCH 16
Will
-o
Be
Twenty - five Ballets
Presented
s. Hurok, American manager, will
present Colonel W. de Basil’s Ballet
Russe de Monte Carlo at the Page Audi
torium of Duke University Monday,
March 16, at 8:15 o’clock.
The company is composed of one
hundred twenty-five members, who will
present twenty-five ballets. The Russo
Ballet is accompanied by a symphony
orchestra. "The children of Russian
emigres, together with a few Poles,
English and recently Americans, their
average age is under twonty-one. Most
of them were tots dancing In the Paris
schools of former prima ballerinas of
the Czar's Imperial Ballet when Colo
nel de Basil, nostalgic for the old
Petersburg days, gathered them up in
1D30 under the patronage of the Prin
cess of Monaco. Few of tiieui have ever
seen Russia, but they know every
European capital, have been feted by
wealthy and titled gentlemen, and still
prefer milk to champagne.” (Quoted
from Collier’s for February 22, 1936.)
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo is
now on tour, visiting cities throughout
the United States. Everywhere the
houses are packed, and on a six months’
tour last year the Ballet grossed a
million dollars, a little more than was
taken in by the Ziegfeld Pollies. Tick
et" for the prc.s€Ktation at Duke arc
selling at $1.10, $1.65, $2.20, ?2.75, and
$3.30.
Meredith Hostess To Woman’s
Missionary Union
March 10-12
APPROXIMATELY 1,500 ATTEND
STATE W.M.U. CONVENTON
The North Carolina Education Asso
ciation will hold its annual meeting at
the Hugh Morson High School March
20-21. Among the thirteen ont-oE-state
speakers are Governor Paul McNutt
of Indiana and Dr. Willard Gibblns,
secretary of the National Education
Association.
Meredith College, despite its being
a private institution, is vitally inter
ested In all matters pertaining to the
education of the youth of the state and
co-operates with the North Carolina
Education Association and the State
Department in every way possible.
Members of the faculty of Meredith
College will take an active part on the
program. The delegates from the Mere
d-s'ch Unit of the N. C. E. A. will be
Mrs. Lillian Parker Wallace and Mr.
B. y. Tyner. Mrs. Wallace is the chair
man of the Research Committee oE the
Higher Education Association. At the
luncheon meeting Friday she will read
the regular report ou the Research
Projects in Education being conducted
by the institutions of higher educa
tion in North Carolina. Also in the
I-Iigher Education division Mr. Tyner
will participate in a panel discussion
on the topic, "Shall the Malterials and
Methods Course be Given by the Sub;
ject-Mattei* Department or the Depart
ment o£ Education?”
Both Dr. Mary Louise Porter and
Miss Ethel Kathryn Day will read
discussion papers on “The Gap Between
High School and College French and
What Can Be Done to Correlate the
Two Types o£ Work.”
Dr. Ralph MacDonald, candidate for
gqvei'nor of North Carolina, was
speaker to the Student League of
Women Voters Wednesday afternoon
March 11, in the Rotunda. Dr. Mac
Donald’s topic of discitssion was “Basic
Problems oE North Carolina."
North Carolina has three basic prob
lenis, said Di^. MacDonald, former
professor at Salem College. First, the
onesidedness o£ taxation; secondly, the
poor condition of schools; and thirdly
the right o£ collective bargaining in
labor.
In North Carolina the rich go tax
free, while the poor are taxed. The
sales tax is the most oppressive tax on
the Individual, asserted the speaker. It
is the only regressive tax North Caro
Una has, the others being progressive.
There are two ways oE reducing tax
(1) default on bonds, (2) reduction of
school support. The speaker said that
the low ebb of education is the result
oE a definite effort to reduce tax on
corporations.
North Carolina has the poorest
schools oE any state in the union, hav
ing the least anioimt appropriated per
child per day. North Carolina is good
to its teachers, giving them more pupils
to teach than any other state.
Most people agree in theory that the
laborer should have the right oE, col
lective bargaining, but few practice
the theory. Dr. MacDonald said that
even the most reasonable and moderate
Industrialists in North Carolina think
of the President oE the Federation of
Labor as akin to ofticlals of Russia.
Little Theatre To Present
“Charles and Mary” May 5
Charles and Mary, a dramatization
oE the lives of Charles and Mary Lamb,
by Joan Temple, is to be presented by
the Little Theatre, May 5. This is the
last presentation oE the year, being the
major production oE the spring semes
ter. The play is to be under the direc
tion of Dr. Florence Hoagland, sponsor
of the dramatic club.
Try-outs will be held in the Phi I-Iall
Tuesday afternoon, March 17, from
five to six o’clock, and in the evening
from si.x-thirty to seven-thirty o’clock.
There are fifteen parts, including
characterizations oE Charles and Mary
Lamb, Samuel Coleridge, William
Wordsworth, and George Dyer.
The play is the story oE tho culmina
tion oE Mary’s insanity in the murder
oE her mother, and her gradual re
covery through the guidance and sym
pathy oE her brother, Charles.
The annual Week of Deeper Spiritual
Thinking was observed at Meredith
this week. Dr. John L. Hill, who spoke
twice each day, in chapel and again at
C:45 in the evening, is the Book Editor
of the Baptist Sunday School Board,
Editor of Home and Foreign Fields,
WSM Radio Bible Teaciier, Boy Scout
executive, professor at Peabody Col
lege, and lecturer on historical, lit
erary, and inspirational topics.
One day of Dr. Hill’s stay here was
devoted to conferences on any subject
the students desired. On Friday after
noon at 5; 00 an Open Forum was held
in which students consulted Dr. Hill
about various student problems. At
6:00 on Friday, the B. S. U. Council
enjoyed a picnic supper at the old
chimney. The last service was held
Friday night.
Dr. Brewer presided each morning
at the chapel services and Prances
Calloway, B. S. U. president, presided
over each evening service. Special dele
gations from State, Wake Forest, and
other neighboring carupuses were rec
ognized at different evening services.
Dr. Hill spoke also at the Woman’s
Missionary Union Convention on Tues
day evening. His subject was "Christ’s
Beautiful Volunteer,” which was the
life of the missionary, Lottie Moon.
W. M. U. CoHvcMlioii
Meredith College was hostess to
about fifty delegates oE the W. M. U.
Convention which was held in Raleigh
March 10 through 12. Tuesday eve
ning the Meredith choir sang several
numbers at the convention, was at
tended by approximately fifteen hun
dred women from all over the state.
On Wednesday afternoon from 4:30
to G:00 Meredith entertained at a tea
in the college parlors for the delegates
to the convention and Dr. Hill. Faculty
and students Nvere stationed on the
campus to show the women the build
ings and grounds.
Little Theatre Announces New
Members At Society Plays
Announcement W’as made Friday
night, March 6, at the Society Plays
of the seven new members of the Little
Theatre, and the two who were raised
to active membership.
The new associate members include
three seniors, Dorothy Dockery, Eliza
beth Park, and Nina Binder; three jun
iors, Martha Messenger, Matallne Nye,
and Catherine Canady: and one fresh
man, Catherine Johnson. Membership
is based on dramatic ability or eill-
clency In staging, costuming, and busl>
ness management.
Edna Lee Pegram and Frances Callo
way, of the senior class, were raised to
active membership.
New members are taken Into the
Little Theatre twice each year, follow
ing the fall major production and the
spring major production. Announce
ment of election takes place at the first
play presented after election.
Dr. Carlton Palmer To Give
Art Lecture On March 17
Dr. Carlton Palmer will present a
stereoptlcan lecture in the college
auditorium Tuesday evening, March 17
at eight o’clock. He has chosen as his
subject “Tho Joy oE Pictures,” (the
human side oE ai’t.)
A man of wide experience. Dr.
Palmer has travelled in thirty Eoreigu
countries, was with the Polish army
In the Russian campaign of 1920,
crossed the Arabian Desert with native
camel caravan in 1924, and was with
Dr. Nansen (Arctic explorer) in the
Russian famine of 1922. Dr. Palmer
studied In both American and foreign
universities and from 192S to 1933 was
professor of education in the Universi
ty oE Alabama.
The speaker, as a boy, learned
to love pictures, through hla
mother’s collection of paintings, and
for twenty years has been collecting
pictures all over the world. He has ad
dressed college audiences from New
York to Florida, making his talks,
vitally interesting by touches o£ local
color and tales of personal experience..