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BALLET RUSSE
APRIL 2
Vol. IV, No. 12
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
''’ill appear in Raleigh under the
Auspices of the Civic Music Associa-
iion on April 2.
Born of dissension and rebellion,
ills Ballet Russe has been continu-
now for three seasons under the
?''tistic guidance of one man, Leon-
''le Massine.
He is unquestionably the most tal-
®fited and versatile choreographer of
11*6 post-Fokine period in ballet.
Teonide Massine is years, if not dec-
ahead of his contemporaries in
difficult art of staging ballets,
fhe Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
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^anice Fitzgerald,
Senior Music Major,
Gives Fine Recital
^orks of Grieg, Schumann, and
Hehussy Included in Well-
Contrasted Program
1 Janice Fitzgerald, pianist, played
Certificate recital in the Saint
Auditorium on March 24.
® displayed marked technical
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the e ^ clear understanding of
gi^°Bonal content of the music,
first ^ °P®''cd her program with the
Opug^,?'^®''aent of the Grieg Sonata,
Velo» *’ which the climactic de-
a Ver theme requires
sharn^ ^'"'^hant interpretation. In
like ^ ^°''trast was the quiet, dream-
^ortin^ aracter of the Schumann
SehurT^'^® '*1 H sharp. In another
ann work, Aufschwung (Soa
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^>4* Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
“THE DEVIL AND
DANIEL WEBSTER’
APRIL 4
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
March 28, 1941
Ballet Russe to Be
Last Civic Concert
Of 1940-41 Series
Saint Marys Enters
Dramatic Contest
To Be Held April 4
Internationally Famous Company
To Appear in Raleigh on
April 2
‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’
To Be Presented in Chapel
Hill Tournament
During the week beginning Sun
day, March 30, to Friday, April 4,
the Carolina Dramatic Association
is presenting its 18th xVnnual Festi
val and State Tournament for the
season of 1940-41 at Chapel Hill.
There are programs planned for
every day. Saint Mary’s is compet
ing in the Junior College group with
Mars Hill, Biltmore, Montreat, Lees-
McRae, and Wingate on lYednesday,
April 2.
For its entrance in the tournament
the Saint Mary’s Dramatm Club,
under the direction of Miss Korence
Davis, has chosen Stephen Vincent
Benet’s one-act play, “The Devil and
Daniel Webster.” The play and the
folk opera, sponsored by the Ameri
can Lyric Theatre, are both taken
from the short story by Benet. Ihe
story is of a New England farmer
who sold his soul to the devil so that
he would be able to marry. In the
midst of the wedding festivities the
devil, disguised as a Boston lawyer,
tries to claim the bridegrooms soul
by legal strategy. Daniel Webster,
in an eloquent speech, challenges the
validity of the contract between the
devil and Jabez Stone, the farmer,
and by his gift of argument con
vinces a jury of famous traitors,
scoundrels and cut-throats that Jabez
Stone is not guilty. His
“spread eagle” address based on
“liberty” speech made by the
real Daniel Webster.
The cast includes Ann Castleman
as Jabez Stone, Suzanne Hurley as
Mary Stone, Sue Harwood as Daniel
Webster, Langhorne Alexander
the Fiddler, Mary Emily'
as Mr. Scratch, the devil, Mary
\lexander Wells as Justice Haw
thorne, Dorothea Herty as Justice
Hawthorne’s clerk. As jurymen
there are Eleanor Thomas as Hing
Philip, Mary North^tt as Bkck-
beard Teach, Nancy
ter Butler, Ann Baker as Simo
Girty, Anna Jean Rodgers as Si
as Rev. J. Smeet, and Anne Oliver as
Morton. Gray Woodard, Jennette
Garrison, Betty Hess, -Hme Johnso^,
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Owens, Minkie GlaiKe, .nc
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Newly elected officers for next year pose for their first official picture. Left
to right: Kay Roper, Elizabeth Strihling, Anne Dunn.
EDITORS, STUDENT BODY VICE-PRESIDENT
AND SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT ELECTED
Anne Dunn and Kay Roper Will
Hold Important Offices
Next Year
Five Prospective Seniors Elected
Marshals; Jean Fulton Chosen
Chief Marshal
Mary Katherine Roper has been
chosen Vice-President of the Student
Body, and Anne Westcott Dunn has
been elected President of the Senior
Class for the 1941-42 session.
Kay, of Winter Garden, Florida,
was elected Vice-President of the
Student Body on March 19. Other
candidates for the office were Anne
Dunn and Janet Kelly. The results
of the election were determined only
after a “run-off” between Anne and
Kay.
Kay is a veteran officeholder, for
she was president of the Girl Re
serves, treasurer of the senior class,
and secretary of the Honor Society
during her senior year in high
school.
The new President of the Senior
Class, Anne Dunn, is from Birming-
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The election of Mary-Gene Kelly
as editor of Tlia Belles^ Kathryn
N'orman as editor of the Bulletin,
Carol Cobb as editor of the Stage
Coach, and five prospective seniors
as marshals completes the elections
for the coming year. Jean Fulton,
as the nominee receiving the highest
number of votes, becomes chief mar
shal. Her assistants are Elizabeth
Adkins, Martha Battle, Ruth Bond,
and Kathryn Nelson.
A nominating committee chose
Elizabeth Adkins, Martha Battle,
Rnth Bond, Minkie Clarke, Jean
I ulton, and Janet Kelly as nominees.
Kathryn Nelson, Sop5tiia Redwood,
and Olivia Ann Smith were nomi
nated from the floor in a student
body meeting on March 19. The
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