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THANKSGIVING!
^>4-Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
GIRL-BREAK
TOMORROW
Vol. V. No. 5
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
November 14, 1941
Grades Improve
Over Last Year
Thirteen Students Make Honor
Roll. Twenty-three Receive
Honorable Mention
, Honor Roll and Honorable Men-
Jion are all we’ve been talking about
lately. Naturally with the first quar-
behind us and with examinations
coming on, it is interesting to take a
Pook at last year’s grades and com-
Pai-e them with the first grades of
this year, especially since the com
parison is a favorable one 1
J’irst, let us look at the classes of
the two years. The average of the
“Unior Class of last year was rather
and as a result the returning
‘Senior Class numbered ten less. This
Wt room for more high school stu
outs whose grades have been above
In fact, the majority of the
■c reshmen and Sophomores are doing
admirable work. The Junior Clap
also is off to a fine start and their
^•■ades have generally been a great
Cal better this year than last. Even
jaembers of the Senior Class, with
^heir Odyssey and Iliad, have
CALENDAR
Nov. 15
Duke-Carolina Game.
Nov. 17
Ava Hamilton Singer.
Illustrated Lecture,
“Dawn Over Africa.”
Nov. 20
Thanksgiving.
Nov. 24
Rachmaninoff, Pianist,
Civic Music Concert.
Dec. 2
Afternoon Student
Music Recital.
Dec. 6
Senior Dance (Closed
week-end).
Dec. 9
Piano Recital, Miss
Haig’s Students.
Dec. 12
Exams begin.
Dec. 14
Special Choral Service.
Dec. 16
Gladys Swarthout,
Civic Music Concert.
Dec. 19
Christmas Vacation.
^^ought in good grades and this is^ a
French Movie
Attracts Students
of which they may well be
proud.
. Herhaps one reason for good grades
. uiiy rtJasuii lui gwvi
the excellent attitude of the stu-
.cat body. The atmosphere of
One Hundred S. M. S. Girls
Enjoyed Opera “Louise,”
Starring Grace Moore
Study hard when you study, and
j|*ay hard when you play,” is one to
cc maintained at all costs and even
ough We’re beginning well, a glance
the records of transfer students
Sir'es Us food for thought. These
IjCpds have been received from the
PjJJ^r’ersity of Alabama, Converse,
Sweetbriar, Randolph-Macon,
cllins, Smith, Salem, Sophie New-
William Tnd^Mary, North
■^Jolina, and many other colleges
j^Atb very few exceptions Saint
^^ry’s girls have made outstanding
Cords; obviously it is up to us to
cm with the good work. Every
Icge is proud to accept students
Saint Mary’s and we have be-
arff r * ^ marvelous chance for more
ll 11 .ctter work. Since our Honor
ji? is an indication of good work,
'vh^ congratulates the girls
Qr average of B+
y.ilane Council, Elizabeth Davidson,
gJlScnia Hart, Shields Jones, EUen
qijcay, Phyllis Thorpe, Mary Lucile
m^as, Nancy Upshaw, Lillian
Marilyn Hoff, Louise Jones,
Spivey, Rebecca Ward.
Me ^.'Ic’^ts who received Honorable
IJpI^ with an average of B, are:
da,? Hobbitt, Barbara Bruff, Ann
Cla !®»ian, Minkie Clarke, Sarah
Carol Cobb, Mary Coons,
L ”®y^amtoft, Evelyn Grant, Sarah
ij. , ® a n, Anne Dickson, Mary
athr Mary-Gene Kelly,
Herman, Mary Ann Petti-
Harv Qointard, Marjorie Soar,
Reth Hrden Tucker, Margaret
Anne MacRae, Nell Mason.
Early Monday morning the cov
ered way was crowded with girls
eagerly reading a small notice tucked
away in a corner of the bulletin
board. Soon the word was passed all
over school that there would be no
third and fourth period classes on
Tuesday and that the first and sec
ond period classes would begin much
»rlih than usual. But why all the
eacitententl There was to be a
French movie m town and Mrs
Cruikshank had given the students
permission to go! So ^he nex^^mor-
ing a hundred excited girls trouped
info the study hall ready to go ii
spite of the fact that there ^'^s to be
an Armistice Day f
trio down to the theatre the buses
were filled with the chatter of girls
jabbering little French phrases ai^d
discussing the event with much
thusiasm.
The movie under discussion i
the French opera “Louise,” starring
Grace Moore The setting was Pans
in the early nineteen hundreds when
no girl thLght of getting marrmd
S-rwas the iJoTo?the"sTCand
tervals throughout the p y
them to eujoj
!’h“m?;ie«ry‘'much«nd.,ol.ot.ng
forward to seeing another one.
RACHMANINOFF PRESENTS CIVIC
MUSIC SERIES CONCERT, NOVEMBER 24
Dance Club to Attend
Dance Symposium
Club to Present “Juggler of
Notre Dame” at Carolina, Nov.
29. Orchesis, New Name for
Organization
The Dance Club has been invited
to attend the Modern Dance Sympo
sium sponsored hy the Woman’s Ath
letic Association, the Men’s Mono
gram Club, the Dance Club at the
University of North Carolina, Sat
urday, November 29. The Sympo
sium this year will offer classes in
dance technique including a discus
sion on the elementary dance in the
morning. In the afternoon there will
be a tea followed by a round table
discussion on all phases of dancing.
Demonstrations of fifteen minutes by
each group attending will conclude
the program. Saint Mary’s plans to
attend and to present the dance dra
matization of the “Juggler of Notre
Dame.” This dance is an annual
Christmas presentation at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. The club hopes
to present the play to the Saint
Mary’s student body before Christ
mas. The cast will consist of: the
Juggler, Sally McKinley; the Vir
gin, Ruth Bond; the Villagers, Ellis
Barnard, Betsy Casteen, Neville
Cumming, Cecelia Dicks, Mildred
Lee, Jean Neff, Jeanette Simpson,
Carolyn West; and the Monks, Mar
tha Battle, Peggy Beale, Jane Hurt,
Cora Lucas, Virginia McRae, Sarah
Thornton, Betty Walters, Alice
Yount.
Recently the Dance Club selected
the Orchesis as the name for their
club. This name means the orches
tra chorus of dances and is the name
of the dance club in the University
of Wisconsin. Each graduate from
the dance cluh of the University tra
ditionally gives the name of Orchesis
to any dance club he or she may
form. Throughout the United States
this cluh has spread and has taken
its famous name and reputation
with it.
Art Exhibit Begins
Centennial Program
Miss Hochenedel Speaks on
Exhibit of Modem Art
This Afternoon
In 1898 His Prelude in C. Minor
Outsold All Song Hits. Pianist
Is Thoroughly Tired of It
The three crashing opening chords
of Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G
Sharp Minor are perhaps the most
familiar in modern music. When
this composition was introduced in
1898 it sold 5,000,000 copies, outsell
ing Tin Pan Alley’s best song hits.
Yet Rachmaninoff himself regrets
the popularity of this piece. After
having given it in 1,000 perform
ances in the United States, he is
thoroughly tired of it.
However, the brilliant playing of
the famous Russian pianist over
shadows his work as a composer.
Rachmaninoff was born in 1873 in
Novgorod, Russia, the son of Basil
and Liubov Rachmaninoff. He
studied at the conservatories of St.
Petersburg and Moscow, and in 1891
won a gold medal for his brilliant
playing. Upon coming to America
he continued his studies at the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
In 1893 Rachmaninoff was ap
pointed professor of piano at the
Maryinsky School of Girls in Mos
cow. In 1899 he made his debut in
London. His New York debut in
1909 was followed by a nation-wide
tour. He has composed three one-
act operas, four piano concertos, and
pieces for orchestra, piano, and voice.
In 1940 the Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra gave a Rachmaninoff Fes
tival at which his Symphony N-o. 3
in A Minor was featured.
Rachmaninoff is rated by concert-
goers as one of the two greatest liv
ing pianists. While not on tour he
spends his winters in his Manhattan
apartment, and his summers on his
Swiss estate. Every year he gives a
single Carnegie Hall recital from
which thousands are turned away.
He has never played over the radio.
Rachmaninoff dislikes swing, but
greatly admires the jazz of fifteen
years ago. He once said, ‘LVh, if I
could only hear that fine pianist,
Eddie Duchin, playing Irving Ber
lin’s Blue Skies, I’d be very happy.”
As a beginning of the Centennial
program, which will last throughout
the year, the Art Department pre
sents the first of a series of four ex
hibits from the Museum of Modern
Art.
The theme of the first exhibit is
“The Introduction to Modern Paint
ing.” It includes reproductions and
prints of pictures by Renoir, Ce
zanne, Seurat, Gaugin, Van Gogh,
Daumier, Winslow, Ryder, Degas,
Manet, Monet, and Rousseau.
These reproductions will he exhib
ited in the Study Hall through
Thanksgiving Day. Miss Hochenedel
gave an informal talk on the exhibit
at 4 :00 o’clock this afternoon. She
said that often *^college girls were
baffled by these artists, but people
around forty like them,” and she
continued, “I think they’re beauti
ful.”