MARCH 12!!!
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OF SAINT MARY’S
Vol. IV, No. 11
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
March 11, 1941
MAHAN ELECTED TO LEAD STUDENT BODY;
STRIBLING IS NEW HALL COUNCIL HEAD
—Courtesy of News and Observer.
Wiiirlotto Mahan, of Charlottesville. Va., newly eleeted President of
the Student liody for the 1941-42 session.
erse Modern Drama
'^ins In Competition
Of Workshop Plays
Audience Sees Stu-
In Series of Contrasted
Plays
direction and the
the g Miss Florence Davis
Ptespn+*j ®xpfe.ssion students
play ^ group of four workshop
®torv’ a modern drama, a
ttiodn. Chinatown, and two
comedies.
fpifl'hreciative audience watched
Paces ®th(lents go through their
Pathnv ranging from the
ttieQf tfagedy of 77m Sweet-
’ItatH'i 1^*0 more modern
The I'nft Cenhiry LuUahy.
er deservedly won first jirize
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Poor Posture Dealt
Death-Sealing Blow
By Posture Contest
Minkie ClarkT^orious Leader
In Campaign for Better
Posture
Saint Marv’s spent an uncom^rt-
,Ue four days as posture "V*.
rnary 24-28 ouco aga.u
slouch/’ and any other position m-
eonipatible with the spirit of good
nostiire With the faculty as judges
individual winners of the pgn»^e
week contest were Minkie Clar ,
first; Anna Wood, second; and Jm-
iiette Hood, third. r i
Sponsors of f^e campaign for bet
ter posture were the Sigma aiM Mu
Vthletic Associations. Each girl
(Continued on page i)
Tallulah Bankhead
Acts Powerful Role
In The Little Foxes
Portrays Money-mad Woman In
Lillian Heilman’s Attack On
Predatory Greed
Once again a Broadway hit came
to Raleigh. On March 5 Lillian
Heilman’s ruthless attack on preda
tory greed was given a flaming per
formance by Tallulah Bankhead.
Her vibrant personality, “her smoul
dering strength,” as John Mason
once called it, is her greatest asset
and her greatest liability as an ac
tress.
Miss Bankhead has had a ten
dency to take it easy, to rely too
much on the ‘divine spark,’ in spite
of the English people’s belief that
she will become the Bernhardt of
the twentieth century. She had an
instinctive sense of the theatre and
of stage technique; there was in
spired success in all her portrayals;
but the Bankhead portraits lacked
the stroke to give them rounded sub
stance. She, however, was always a
good show in herself. But now in
“The Little Foxes” she has succeeded
in getting to the root of a characteri
zation; as Brooks Atkinson puts it,
this was ‘a superb example of ma
ture acting fully under control.’
After years of bad luck, bad parts,
and, on occasion, bad playing. Miss
Bankhead seems at last to have
found herself.
The play is a story in which the
bad characters of a Southern family
work out their dog-eat-dog plans of
aggrandizement, for all to see; the
good members reveal to themselves
and the audience the depth of evil
in these actions. As the evil female,
Miss Bankhead holds the play
around her. It is amazing how low
her voice can go into the baritone
register. She radiates ruthlessness;
she is seductive and dangerous.
When in the last act, she sits mo
tionless and menacing while her hus
band dies in front of her eyes, you
are convinced that the woman Miss
Bankhead has built up would have
done just that. As a malicious and
money-mad beauty, she elaborates
each detail of her role with insight
and defense.
The play is most unpleasant, but
Miss Bankhead’s acting is magnifi
cent. She becomes the meanest
woman in the world; when the cur
tain goes down you have the utmost
contempt for her as Regina and a
great deal of admiration for her as
an actress.
Mahan Wins 104 to 91
In Run Off Election
Held On March 5
Stribling Elected Chairman of the
Hall Council on First Ballot
Last Friday
In the first major elections for
next year student voters chose Char
lotte Mahan as President of the Stu
dent Body for the 1941-42 session
and Elizabeth Stribling as Chairman
of the Hall Council. Other candi
dates for President of the Student
Body were Elizabeth Adkins, Betty
Willcox, Anne Dunn, and Elizabeth
Stribling. The first vote was so
close that it necessitated a run-off
election between Mahan and Strib-
ling. In the final ballot, taken on
March 5, Mahan won by the close
margin of 91-104. Other nominees
for Chairman of the Hall Council
were Anne Dunn and Kathryn Kel
son. Stribling won on the first bal
lot, taken on March 7.
Charlotte Mahan is from Char
lottesville, Virginia. This is her first
year at Saint Mary’s, but not her
first experience as a leader, for she
served as president of her class in
both her senior and junior year in
high school. Charlotte’s quiet, re
served nature is deceiving, for be
neath it all she has a natural gift
for organization and much driving
force. She has already begun work
on the suggested revision of student
regulations, and she is sure that it
“is bound to work.” She expressed
her hope that the students will real
ize the importance of this new plan
and will individually take the re
sponsibility for its success.
In temperament “Bunny” Strib
ling, of Atlanta, Georgia, is almost
the exact opposite of Charlotte, but
she is no less qualified to make an
outstanding student leader. As
Chairman of the Hall Council, she
will have under her authority all the
hall presidents and vice-presidents.
Her position carries a great deal of
responsibility and endless detailed
work. Since the Hall Council is
still comparatively new, “Bunny”
will have the added responsibility of
further adjusting its procedure tu
the needs of the students. Bunny’s
originality, insight, and vitality give
her an excellent background for this
work.