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HOSPITALITY
WEEK-END
THE TWIG
HOSPITALITY
WEEK-END
Volume XV
MBRBblTH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 1, 1937
NUMBER 12
Meredith Hostess to Ldtge
Group of Week-end Visitors
Prospective StudenU are Enter*
taihed in Various
Ways
ANNUAL HOSPITALITY EVENT
BRINGS MANY TO CAMPUS
From Friday,- April 30, to Sunday,
May 2, Meredith is observing its an
nual hoBpitaltty week-end. At this
time each' yW the college is hostefis
to a large number of high school
seniors aiid Juniors from all over the
state. EnteHsiinment for these guests
is, as usaal, designed to acquaint them
with the svcial side of college life.
Friday night the sophomores, as the
rising “Big Sister" Class, entertained
at a pajama party. An informal pro
gram was given and light refreshments
served. This was Intended to estab
lish personal relations between the
visitors and the class, and to afford
them opportunity to ask questions
about college life in general and the
Meredith curriculum.
The program for Saturday is quite
full. Early in the afternoon Dorothy
Deane Browne is to preside as queen
of the customary May Day festivities
in the grove. Following this, athletic
contests will take place on the fleld.
These will include a Father-Daughter
baseball game and several varied
-gaflges *"^^'ew-g>“>aps of students and
their guests. This evening the fresh
men will entertain at a party and the
Student Government will give a recep
tion in the college parlors in honor of
the guests.
Climaxing the week-end's activities,
late Saturday night the crook will be
removed from its hiding place. Guests
are invited to witness the enthusiasm
and excitement that this will provide.
Sunday the regular routine will be
followed. '
The high school girls will be enter
tained chiefly by freshmen and sopho
mores in the dormitories. They will
have an opportunity to observe and
evaluate the curriculum, athletic,
literary,, dramatic, and social progi-ams
at Meredith.
DR. LEHMANN LECTURES
HERE ON FORM IN MUSIC
Dr. Friedrich Johannes Lehmann,
professor of theory in the Oberlin Con
servatory of Music, gave a lecture re
cital on the form of music in the Mere
dith auditorium Monday evening,
April 26, at 8:00 o'clock.
He discussed and illustrated the two
and three part song forms, the sonata
form and many others. He was as
sisted in the illustrations by Mr. Les
lie P. Spelman, who played the piano,
‘ Miss Pauline Wagar, 'cellist, and Mr.
.Gdgar Alden, violinist.
Numbers played by the trio were
^ong Without Words, and two move
ments from Trio in G Minor. Both
o{ these were compositions of Mr.
Lehmann's. Also included on the pro
gram were some of Mendelssohn’s
Songs Without WorCa, and a Cradle
Sonff by Mr. Lehmann.
Mr. Lehmann is a writer as well as
a composer and teacher. The fol
lowing are some of his books: Les
sons in Harmonv, The Analysis of
Form in Musio, Simple Counterpoint,
and Jiarmionio Analysis.
Plays Lead
I
WORKS OF HAYDN AND BRAHMS
PLAYED BY MEREDITH TRIO
John E. Toms, Tenor, of Carolina,
Sings Group of Songs
in Concert
KATE COVINGTON
FINAL MAJOR PRODUCTION OF
YEAR TO BE GIVEN MAY 4
The Meredith College Trio, which
is composed of Miss Aileen McMillan,
Miss Pauline Wagar, and Mr. Edgar
H. Alden, gave a concert Friday night,
April 30, at eight o'clock. Mr. John
E. Toms, of Durham, who sang the
parts of Obadiah and Ahab in Men
delssohn's E'.ijah, sang & group of
songs between the Haydn and
Brahms Trios. Although the Brahms
Trio in C Major was played In the
Brahms concert, the Haydn Trio in
E Minor has not been given at Mere
dith College before. The program In
cluded:
Trio in E Minor Haydn
Allegro Moderate
Andante
Rondo
Group of Songs for, tenor
Mr. John E. Toms
Trio in C Major Brahms
Allegro
Andante con moto
Scherzo
Allegro giocoso
May Day Festivities to Be Held
In Grove This Afternoon
I Directs May Day | |
^ |viother Gooose Program to In
clude Fun, Drama,
Dances
DOROTHY BROWNE WILL BE
CROWNED QUEEN OF THE MAY
Kate Covington Plays Lead In
Barnes’ “Alice Sit By the
Fire”
Kate Covington of Cheraw, S. C.,
and a member of the senior class,
will play the lead in the major spring
production to be given Tuesday, May
4, at 8:00 In the college auditorium.
The play to be presented is James
M. Barrie's delightful “Alice Sit by
the Fire.” It has been under the
direction of Mrs. H. A. List with
Edna Frances Dawkins, president of
the Little Theater, assisting. The cast
is as follows:
Amy Kate Covington
Cosmo Ruby Barrett
The Colonel Margaret Kramer
Alice Carolyn Parker
Steve Mlrvine Garrett
The Nurse Ruth Abernethy
Richardson Margaret Love Clarke
Glnevra Minnetta Bartlett
Fannie Margaret Bullard
CROOK STILL AT LARGE
AFTER MONTH’S SEARCH
Speaking of crooks—we've heard
tliat there's still one at large on our
campus. Sometime early in March,
the Junior detectives donned black
slouch hats, overalls, bandanas, and,
armed with various sized sticks and
flashlights began a crook-hunt deter
mined, it seemed, to bring it in —
“dead or alive.”
For a few nights interest in the
hunt was at its height. All Junior
detectives entered whole-heartedly Into
the search. They nobly exercised
every method suggested and we were
a bit surprised to And that they
had overlooked the use of bloodhounds.
As time went on and the crook still
remained at large, the bunt became
less intense for awhile and interest gave
way to more immediate problems^
Ab Judgment Day arrives however
we've heard from reliable sources that
the Dosse has been reestablished and
the bnnt bas been continued.
Collegiate Press Convention
Attended by Meredith Students
The Spring Convention of the North
Carolina Collegiate Press Association
met in High Point, April 22, 23, and
24. The convention was held at the
Sheraton Hotel with High Point Col
lege as host Approximately seventy
representatives fi’om the various col
leges in the state attended the con
vention.
Meredith was represented by the fol
lowing: Twig, Frances Tatum, Kate
Mills Suiter, Dorothy Lowdermilk, and
Eleanor Edwards; Acorn, Annabelle
Hollowell, Nancy Powell, and Lillian
Poe.
On Thursday evening, there was an
informal tea and reception in the
Hotel Ballroom. There was a general
meeting Friday morning after which
the guests were entertained at a
luncheon at High Point College. Group
meetings were held during the after
noon in which the different publica
tions were discussed and helpful sug
gestions offered for future Issues. Fri
day night a banquet was held at the
hotel. The flnal business session was
held at 9:00 Saturday morning at
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STUDENTS ENJOY AMUSING
LECTURE BY SIGMUND SPAETH
Sigmund Spaeth, the well known
“Tune Detective" of radio, appeared in
the college auditorium Friday eve
ning, April 23 at 8:00. Keeping his
audience highly diverted with his fre
quent jokes and facetious remarks.
Dr. Spaeth endeavored to show how
the growth of American refinement is
reflected in its song life.
The lecturer-muslcian is author of
such popular books as Music for Every-
body, The Art of Enjoying Music, The
Faots of Life in Popular Song, and
The Common Sense of Music. In ad
dition, be is a writer for various
newspapers and a stage personality
of the flrst order. During the past
season, he has had engagements not
only with a number of college groups,
but also with the White House, Wash
ington, the Seattle Symphony Orches
tra, the Amerlcal Society lor medals,
and such broadcasts as Rudy Vallee's
Fleiscbmann Hour, and Wallace Ber
ry's Shell Chateau.
MRS. GERTRUDE S. SORRELL
USETTE ALLGOOD PRESENTED
IN GRADUATING RECITAL
Program Included Compositions
by Beethoven, Chopin,
Schumann
Lisette Allgood, of Roxboro, was
presented by Miss May Crawford in
her graduating piano recital in the
college auditorium Tuesday evening,
April 15. Serving as ushers for the
occasion were Janie Allgood Woody,
Ruth Nowell. Tine Wllkerson, Martha
Rasberry, Louise Biggs, Elnora Raiff
and Margie Stanfleld. The program
was as follows:
Scottish Dances, Bethooven.
Caprice Celebre d'Apres Paganini,
Schumann.
Etude, Op. 10, No. 3, Chopin.
First Movement form Sonato Eroica,
McDowell.
Clair de Lune, Debussy.
Rhapsodie in C Major, Dohnanyi.
Andante Sostenuto from Concerto in
G Minor, Salnt-Saens.
(Orchestral accompaniment on sec
ond piano iiy Miss Crawford.)
The twelfth annual May Day festival
of Meredith College will be held this
afternoon at 4:15 o’clock in the grove.
Mrs. Gertrude Royster Sorrell, physical
education director, will have charge
of the activities of the afternoon.
The festivities will begin with a pro
cession led by the entertainers and
ending with the May Queen, Dorothy
Deane Browne, and her court, made
up of the Maid of Honor, Nell Choate,
and the attendants, Margery Me*
Kaughan and Mildred Crowder, seniors;
Hazel Bass and Kate Mills Suiter, jun
iors; Dorothy Corbett and Lucile Jones,
sophomores; and Nancy Brewer and
Virginia Trostel, freshmen.
Mrs. Sorrell has written and directed
the entire program, which will be a
Mother Goose playlet. After the May
Queen is seated the entertainment for
her will tiegln with the coming of Lit
tle Boy Blue. He comes on the scene
blowing his horn, but, on seeing the
queen, her court, and the May pole,
he stops, makes a bow to the specta
tors and dances for them. The Sand
Man then comes in and weaves a spell
over him, dancing around him and put
ting him to sleep. He summons the
elves who do a, dance preceding the
entrance of Motlier Goose (Margaret
Kramer) and the Hobby Horse (Mir-
vine Garrett). Following them are
many familiar Mother Goose charac
ters who dance together to enliven
Little Boy Blue's dreams. Jack and
Jill dance together as do Bo-Peep and
Tommy Tucker. Contrary Mary waters
the “silver bells" in her garden who
turn out to be “pretty maids all in a
row." Four and twenty blackbirds
come forth from a huge pie to do their
dance.
Perhaps one of the most elaborate
of the dances will be an old peasant
dance called “Weave the • Wadmol.”
Representing the weaving of a huge
piece of woolen homespun, the figures
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MEREDITH GIRL WINS GRAND
PRIZE IN TEXTILE SHOW
On Thursday, April 22. the tenth
annual Style Show of the State Col
lege Textile School was held. This
year 130 girls from eleven different col
leges modeled evening gowns, sport
clothes, and suits which were made
from materials woven by students of
the Textile School. The colleges rep
resented were: Appalachian State
Teachers College, Catawba, Elon, Flora
Macdonald, Greensboro, High Point,
Louisburg, Meredith, Peace, Salem, and
the Woman’s College of the University
of North Carolina.
The judges for the occasion were:
Mrs. H. H. Galtan, a Raleigh stylist;
Miss Willie N. Hunter, clothing special
ist, division of home demonstration
work at State College; and Mr. Cal
vin Zlnnnerman of the Equel’s Style
Shop, Raleigh.
While the judges were making their
decision. Dean John Harrelson and Dr.
Frank Orahani, president of the Uni
versity proper, made short talks. Dean
Thomas Nelson of the Textile School
gave a brief history pf the development
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Final Student Elections Com
pleted With Few Contested
The following results mark the con
clusion of the student elections for the
yej^r 1937-1938:
For the Astros: Chief marshal. Mar
garet O'Brian; senior mnrslial, Mar
garet Lovo Clarke; junior marshal,
Virginia Vaughan; sophomore'• mar
shal, Minetta Bartlett. For society
olQcers. vice president, Nancy Powell;
secretary, Geraldine Tuttle: and treas
urer, Alice La Roque.
For the Phis: Chief marshal, Jean
Morton; senior marshal, Lois Avant;
Junior, Mai-y Jane Lindley; sophomore,
Frances Spilman. Mary Stewart as
vice president; Mai'y Martin as secre
tary, and Sarah Cole as treasurer.
New members added to Tub Twio
staff to serve in the capacity of re
porters for next year are as follows:
Mary Stewart, Jean Llghtfoot, Carolyn
Andrews, Iris Rose Gibson, Bebe Dick
inson, Virginia Council, Geraldine Tut
tle and Nora Binder. Evelyn Las
siter and Lucy Newell were elected as
typists.
Those to head the Athletic Associ
ation for next year, besides the pres-
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