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THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
... for you to
celebrate St.
Valentine's Day.
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Volume XXV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1951
Number 6
Rhythms Group !$tages ^^Ports of CalF^ Tonight
Original Costumes and Sets Are Designed
Bg Miss Careg’s Students tor Perforntance
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The dance pictured above, “In Old China,” is one of many included in the “Ports of Call” for members
of the college classes in creative rhythms. Dressed in original costumes in an oriental setting are, left to
right, Anne McGugan, Jean Miller, and Judy Moore. The dance recital will open tonight in the new audi
torium at 8:00 p.m.
UURITZ MELCHIOR SINCS IN FOURTH
CIVIC MUSIC CONCERT NEXT FRIOAY
The fourth in the current
series of Civic Music concerts
in Raleigh promises to be the
best of the season. Lauritz
Melchior, Metropolitan Opera
tenor famous for his Wagnerian
roles, -will sing in Memorial
Auditorium on next Friday
night, January 26, at 8:00 p.m.
“The most fabulous figure in
contemporary music” is the
phrase applied to Melchior by
music critics; the tenor is active
in six separate career fields:
opera, concert, radio, records,
television, and motion pictures.
Noted for his record perform
ances of Tristan, Lohengrin,
Siegfrid and other Wagnerian
roles, he has carried out his pri
vate life “in heroic proportions”
as -well. His record of singing
56 concerts in 56 different cities
in 56 consecutive days has not
been equalled.
See Picture on Page Four
The first artist from the Met
ropolitan to appear on a popu
lar comedy radio program,
Melchior was also the first to
tour with his own orchestra and
to use a chartered airplane. Re
cently, besides frequent radio
performances, he has appeared
in four motion pictures.
Besides singing command per
formances for kings, Melchior
also sings concerts in veterans’
hospitals. Next year he plans to
hunt tigers in India, having just
returned from his first big game
safari into Africa.
Accompanist for the concert
next Friday will be George
Roth. The program for the
evening is as follows:
Steig Sol (Rise, Sun)
(Norwegian) ....Backer-Lunde
Junker Nils Svjunger till Lutan
(Swedish) Andreas Hallen
Med En Primulaveris
(With a Violet)
(Norwegian) Edvard Grieg
Foraarssang (Spring Song)
(Danish).. .....Fini Henriques
Mr. Melchior
II.
Mazurka in A'
Minor Frederick Chopin
Liebestod from “Tristan und
Isolde” Wagner-Lizst
Mr. Roth
HI.
Siegmund’s Love
Song from “Die Walkeure”
(Continued on page three)
^LIBERAL ARTS BEST’
SAYS McAllister
Dr. Quentin McAllister, head
of the modern languages de
partment, has recently com
pleted a survey on opinions of
executives at all levels of busi
ness, industry, and government.
He reported on the results of
this survey, soon to be pub
lished in book form, to members
of Sigma Pi Alpha, national
honorary languages fraternity,
last Friday night.
Conducting this survey under
the auspices of the Southern
Humanities Conference, Dr. Mc
Allister has titled his manu
script form “The Attitude of
Business and Governmental Ex
ecutives Toward Foreign Lan
guages and the Liberal Arts.” He
told students attending the
monthly meeting that he has
found that there is much sup
port for the idea that the truly
practical studies are the human
ities, rather than the highly
specialized studies.
In reaching this conclusion,
(Continued on page six)
DR. ARNOLD NASH
TO LECTURE HERE
Dr. Arnold Nash, head of the
religion department at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, has
accepted an invitation to speak
at Meredith for the annual
Kappa Nu Sigma lecture on
February 16, according to an
announcement by Mary Bland
Josey, president.
Preceding the lecture a recep
tion for the two new members
of the honorary scholastic fra
ternity will be given at the
Raleigh Woman’s Club; these
associate members will be
chosen from the Junior Class.
The annual lecture, to begin at
8:00, is required for all Meredith
students.
Committee chairman for the
reception and lecture have been
(Continued on page five)
RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS
WEEK
Dr. Theodore F. Adams,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Richmond, Vir
ginia, will be the featured
speaker for Religious Empha
sis Week, February 19-23, at
Meredith. Sally Massey was
elected student chairman for
Emphasis Week on Tuesday.
Dr. Adams was a member
of Phi Beta Kappa at Denison
University, where he was
graduated in 1921. Vice-presi
dent of the Baptist World Al
liance in 1947, he is now a
trustee of the University of
Richmond, and chairman of
the board of trustees of Vir
ginia Union University.
A Religious Focus Week,
featuring a team of speakers
on the campus, was held last
year in February; an Empha
sis Week with one speaker in
charge of chapel services and
discussion groups will be
planned this year by the stu
dent chairman and an ap
pointed Committee of 100
from the student body.
A musical trip around the
world will be staged tonight in
the new auditorium by the col
lege creative rhythms group,
under the direction of Miss
Margaret Carey. Open to the
public without admission
charge, the “Ports of Call” will
be visited by the fifty-one mem
bers of two dance classes; the
best four compositions of the
program will be picked by a
panel of judges on the basis of
choreography, costuming, back
ground, and performance.
All of the dances, which fea
ture original costumes, choreog
raphy, and eleven different sets
as backgrounds, will have a
travel setting, beginning with a
“Winter Scene” in New Eng
land, and including such dances
as “Mardi Gras” in New
Orleans, oriental dances from
China and Japan, “Chattanooga
Choo Choo,” and “Darkest
Africa.”
Student Co-Chairmen
Student co-chairmen for the
event are Carolyn Ballentine,
Lois Pritchett, and Jane Slate;
Mrs. J. T. Lynn will furnish
piano accompaniment for some
of the dances, and poetry reci
tations, recordings, and special
sound effects will be used in
others.
Listed on the “Ports of Call”
for tonight are twenty-eight dif
ferent stops. In the first, the
“Poetry Group” are the “Elves
Dance,” “Song,” “Music,” “Fue
and Ice,” “Rhumba,” “The
Spark,” “Trees,” ‘‘Fairies
Dance,” “Waspish,” “Pop Corn
Song,” “Autumn Leaves,” “The
Pessimist,’’ “Ride-a-Cock-
Horse,” “My Shadow,” “Little
Blue Shoes,” and “The Charge
of the Light Brigade.”
After this group, which in
cludes original poetry by stu
dents, come dances called “Puf
fer Train,” “Winter Scene,”
Mule Team,” “Chattanooga
Choo, Choo,” “Mardi Gras,”
“Too! Too! Too! Train,” “Little
Black Train is a-Comin’,” “At-
cheson, Topeka and the Santa
Fe Train,” “Cathedral of the
Redwoods,” “The Old Music
Box,” “Dialogue of the Wind
and the Sea,” “Shipwreck
Dance,” and “The Drummer and
the Cook.”
Next on the program are
“Waikiki Beach,” ‘‘River
Boats,” “Japanese Tightrope
Walker’s Ballet,” “Japanese Tea
Party,” ‘‘Scene from Old
China,” “In a Persian Garden,”
“The Six Blind Men and the
Elephant,” “Sailor’s Hornpipe,”
“Ports of Call,” “Tiger Rag,”
“Darkest Africa,” “Rio Grande,”
“Wedding Samba,” and “Jal
ousie.”
In charge of lighting for the
recital are Virginia Jones and
Sally Massey. Betty Jo Smith is
in charge of curtain; stage crew
includes Elsie Wicker, Jean
Leonard, Sue Bunn, Neta Whit-
ty, Anne O’Quinn, and Elaine
Hancock.
Dancers
Students appearing in the
“Poetry Group” are Sara Bla
lock, Betty Edwards, Nettie
Massengill, Joyce May, Mary
Ellen Upchurch, Judy Moore,
Sarah Thomas, Annabelle
Whitehurst, Mary Jane Rogers,
(Continued on page four)
Senator Paul Douglas Will Speak Monday
For Institute of Religion At United Church
The twelfth annual Institute
of Religion, sponsored by the
United Church, has scheduled
Senator Paul H. Douglas, of
Illinois, as its first speaker in a
series of six programs beginning
on Monday night. Theme of the
Institute this year is “The
World-Wide Struggle between
Democracy and Communism.”
Speaking on “Economic and
Social Problems of Mobiliza
tion” on Monday night. Senator
Douglas will answer questions
in a open forum following his
address, which begins at 8:00
p.m. Three study courses will
also be offered as part of the
Institute program, beginning at
7:00 p.m.
Before his election to the
Senate in 1948, Senator Douglas
taught economics and industrial
relations, the last at the Uni
versity of Chicago since 1925;
he graduated from Bowdoin Col
lege and earned his Ph.D. at
Columbia. Enlisting in the Ma
rines in 1942, he received the
bronze star.
Considered “one of the na
tion’s foremost economists,”
Senator Douglas serves as a
member of the Committee on
Labor and Public WeKare in the
Senate, where he is a Democrat.
He has also written and collabo
rated on books dealing with
such problems in economics as
unemployment, social security,
and industrial relations.
Courses being taught at 7:00
p.m. on each of the Monday
nights, beginning on January 22
and ending on February 26, in
clude “Toward An Understand
ing of History,” lead by Dr.
Edwin McNeill Poteat; this class
will meet in the assembly room
of the United Church.
“Church Music for Everyone”
will be lead by Miss Geraldine
Cate, member of the music de
partment of Saint Mary’s and
choir director of Pullen Me
morial. This course will meet in
the church auditorium; the first
three sessions will be devoted
to hymnology, studying early
hymns, writers, and new church
hymns. The last three sessions
will survey the greatest of
church music composers. Each
session will be led by a differ
ent teacher; Mrs. Frederick B.
Eutsler, of the Meredith music
department, will lead the first
(Continued on page six)
Pianist Will Appear
In February Concert
Ruth Geiger, pianist, will ap
pear in concert in the new audi
torium at Meredith at 8:00 p.m.
on Tuesday, February 6, pre
sented in the current Meredith
Artist Series.
Winner of the National Music
League Award in 1942 and the
Naumburg Award a year later.
Miss Geiger was a national
finalist in the piano contest of
the Rachmaninoff Fund, appear
ing in Carnegie Hall with the
NBC symphony under Fritz
Reiner.