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Vol. IV, No. 7 SENIOR CLASS PRESENTS TRADITIONAL PAGEANT OF NATIVITY SCENES Christmas Beauty Expressed Reverently and Impressively The Senior Class presented its tra nsitional pageant, Peace on Earth, or Christmas Story, under the di- ’’setion of Miss Florence Davis and Russell Broughton, in Saint Salary’s Chapel last Sunday evening. The pageant was divided into four Scenes: the Message to the Shep- Wds; the Holy Family; the Jour- of the Wise Men to Ilethlehem; Toseph Warned in a Dream, and the Tiight with Mary to Egypt. At Uitervals throughout the pageant Harwood, the Narrator, read portions of the Christmas story from rOe Scriptures. However, the nativ- % story was interrupted for the lljost part by music and pantomime. Here is no more beautiful story Shan that of the birth of our Lord, the whole pageant was charac- Serizod by reverence and impressive heauty. , The chancel, screened by a row of P'Ue trees, was clothed in darkness ^Otil hidden spotlights displayed the scope of the shepherd scene. The direct lights in the Chapel were hose of the candles on the altar. S^he familiar star burned brightly the altar like the famous star Bethlehem and shed its peaceful fays over the Nativity scene, creat ing a quiet, hazy atmosphere and 'lightening the feeling of awe. The music was especially lovely, only were the traditional Christ- jaiiice Fitzgerald, Hod as Gaspard, Belles OF SAINT MARY’S RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA December 19, 1940 DR FREDERICK H. KOCH, founder and director of The Carolina Playmakers, reading Dickens' immortal ghost storj’, “A CHRISTMAS O.A^ROL.” School .•Vuditorium tonight at 8:15 p.m. Upper Classmen Dance In Moonlit Central Park At Annual Senior Affair Freddie Johnson’s Orchestra Pro vides Sweet Music For Smooth Dancing Mr. Broughton Gives First Faculty Recital In Saint Mary’s Chapel Program Includes Works of Bach, Karg-Elert, and Vieme - were ixie irttuitiuiiai carols and hymns used, but also 6 angel choir sang two old French Now Sing We All Full and Angels O’er the Fields. Hrdelia Day Jones, who portrayed 1 ® Virgin Mary, sang an old Bo- ®mian carol. Still Grows the Eve- ^^9 O’er Bethlehem Town. j Bdna Earle Boykin portrayed oseph. Representing other Biblical j'^tacters were: Christine Hatfield and Jinnette Melchoir, and three Wise Men; h ■>. uhazar, the tnree wise ivicii, Afy Chambers, Martha Ellen, Vir- •iia Hassinger, Betty Ililker, Mar- y ^et Kitchin, Martha Newell, Bet- Vann, Mary Wells, and Gray as shepherds; and Eliza- an ^ T’oeplcman and Helen Ford as I klvira Cheatham and Ade- ! Curtis appeared as pages. The gel choir was composed of Frances 1' Margaret Blount, Mary ''.y Claiborne, Sarah Lance, Page shall, Helen Royster, Marjorie 1{ ®''*^ause, Betty 'Wales, Edla Wal- > and Mary White. Low lights, sweet music, and smooth dancing made the Senior Dance last Saturday night in the gvm live up to its famed reputation. According to all reports it was the best yet. Chris Hatfield, chairman, plus her decoration committee and Elvira Cheatham, president of the Senior Class, deserve all the wonderful com pliments given the gym. All were convinced that they were dancing m Central Park. The ceiling was a mass of blue sky with silver stars that sparkled when the rose-covered spotlights shone upon them. A view of New York’s snow-crowned sky scraper-line disguised the walls, par tially hidden behind frosted pines deep in cotton snow. The orchestra stand, banked in evergreens sprayed white, filled the west end. The or ange half-moon behind the orchestra served its romantic purpose, excep when the drummer got a little too excited once or twice and turned off the moon.” Freddie Johnson and that up-and- coming Carolina band, was the main attraction. Ilearts burned to the tune of scorching niusic while dancers coiigaed and melted under sentimental strains of husky suing favorites. Mr. Russell Broughton, organist and composer, presented the first of Saint Mary’s faculty recitals in the chapel on December 17. Mr. Brough ton is a fellow of the American Guild of Organists and is very well known in organ circles. Mr. Broughton included on his program works of only three com posers, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sig- frid Karg-Elert, a German organist and composer who died in 1933, and Louis Vierne, a contemporary French organist. The marked im pressionistic style of the two modern composers produced a high degree of contrast against the strict contra puntal style of Bach. As for organ form, ilr. Broughton again achieved contrast by playing not only a clas sic chorale prelude by Bach, “We All Believe in One God,” but also four chorale improvisations by Karg-Elert. Karg-Elert’s method of using contrapuntal devices is much the same as Bach’s, but his feeling for organ tone color and his ingenuity in achieving striking har monic effects produced the charac teristic difference. Another Bach work included on ilr. Broughton’s program was the “Allegro” from the tenth Vivaldi concerto. Bach wrote this series of (Continued on page 3) DR. KOCH WILL CONTINUE CHRISTMAS CAROL TRADITION IN READING HERE TONIGHT Dickens’ Immortal Story of Scrooge and Morley Sets Christmas Spirit Dr. Frederick H. Koch, founder and director of the Carolina Play- makers of the University of North Carolina, will read the immortal “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dick ens at Saint Mary’s tonight. The reading will take place in the audi torium at 8 :15 p.m. For thirty-five years Dr. Koch, or “Prof” as he is called by his stu dents, has been reading “A Christ mas Carol” to enthusiastic audiences. During that time he has read the story of Scrooge more than two hun dred times. It all began when he was a young English instructor at the University of North Dakota. Prof says, “It was a Sunday after noon that I read the story, and I felt myself greatly cheered by it. So much so, that I mentioned the fact to a little group of my friends at supper in the University Commons that evening with the comment: ‘Everybody ought to read Dickens’ Christmas Carol every year before Christmas.’ ” A friend at the sup per that night asked that he read the story to a small group the fol lowing Sunday. He did read the story, and so the nationally known custom of Dr. Koch’s Christmas Carol began. Since that time “Prof” has kept a full schedule around Christmas,, for his fame spread rapidly, and. soon towns and villages everywhere were asking him to come and read to them. He answered every call and had some uncomfortahle expe riences doing it. “On more than one occasion,” Dr. Koch remembers, “I was bound in by the blizzard and had to drive many miles by sleigh, for the drifting snow had made all means of communication by rail quite out of the question.” Once after a performance in a small village, a heavy snow blocked all the roads. Early the next morn ing, Prof rode by sleigh to the near est railroad where he hoped to get a train coming from Seattle. When he arrived at the station, however, he found that no trains were sched uled to leave. On a sidetrack, he saw an engine attached to a snow plow with a caboose behind. “Prof” explained, in desperation, to the en gineer that he had to bo at the Uni versity of North Dakota for a j>er- formance that night, for 2,000 peo ple were waiting to hear him. ^ Oh, you’re the fellow that reads A Christmas Carol’ every year,” ex- (Continued on page 3)
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