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“TO GET A LETTER, WRITE A LETTER” QUIET! AROUND THE POST OFFICE OF SAINT MARY’S Vol. VIII, No. 4 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA November 3, 1944 CLAUDIO ARRAU OPENS Permanent Hall Pres- Roosevelt Gets Seventy-Nine CIVIC MUSIC SERIES Elected Per Cent O/ Saint Mary^sVotes Pianist Plays to Full House; Selections Are By Classical European Composers Claudio Arrau, eminent Cliileau pianist, opened the Civic Music Con- icert series last night in the Munici pal Auditorium. Mr. Arrau’s pro gram of classical piano compositions pvas divided into three sections by [such composers as Mozart, Beetho ven, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy _ and Ivavel. Outstanding among his se lections were Beethoven’s Moonlight iSonata (which was Mr. Arraus fa vorite on the program), Chopins Barcarolle, Liszt’s Au Bord Dune Source in which the ripple of watei was deftly insinuated, and Gran- ado’s El Felele. MR. AKRAX: ^Ir. Arrau is a native of the city of Chilian which was completely de stroyed by earthquake in 1938. He comes from a musical family (both his mother and sister are able pian ists) and gave his first concert in Santiago at the age of five. When he was seven, he was awarded a ten- year scholarship by the Government of Chile to study with Martin Krause, a pupil of Liszt, in Berlin. Mr. Arrau attributes his technique as well as inspiration to Krause who died in 1918. He was in Germany during the first World War, but he iid not leave, because bis motliei thought that he should not give up his musical training. Mr. was quite fond of Germany and the German people, but he says Gei- niaiiy had changed so veree moiich ceven th’ people; they were cut from th’ world” in the years preceding the outbreak of the present war. _ Mr. Arrau has been touring this country off and on for the past three and a half years; he canie to Raleigh from Lynchburg and Nor folk, Virginia, and will continue his tour to New York and then Sioux City, South Dakota. PRACTICING Air. Arrau himself has ^always loved to practice but advises “praac- tice, ■ but ne’er foorce yerself to praactice, eef you don’t laike eet, you’d heetter stop.” He has never played by ear and even learned to read music before he could read the . alphabet. >IOI)ERX MUSIC In direct ojiposition to such iiieii as Dr. Frank Black, Mr. Arrau does not like modern American mu sic of the po])ular kind like the works of George Gershwin. He thinks that it is “cheea]) and pree- teiitious” when presented froni the concert stage. However, he believes that America has produced some very fine modern composers of the traditional vein such as “Copeland, who eez marvelous—but theeze niii- 1 sicians are not appreciated.” Vice-Presidents Are Also Named Perinanent hall presidents and vice-presidents for this year were elected last week on the fourteen various halls of Saint Mary’s dormi tories. Mary Arden Tucker,_ chair man of the hall council, said that everything she could say was trite but that “they certainly were a grand bunch of girls.” The hall presidents are: Kitty Taylor, first floor Holt; Bess Parker Banks, second floor Holt; Gwen Hughes, third floor Holt; Hettie Munfiiy> floor East Wing; Jane Dickey, second floor East Wing; Frances AVilliams, third floor East AVing; Betty Goodwyn, first floor West ‘Wing; Helen Mardre, second floor AVest Wing; Ann Anderson, third floor AVest Wing; Ann Stevens, second floor Smedes; Kathryn Roy- all and Mary Pinckney, third floor Smedes; Betsy Carter, East Rock; Kathryn Lane, first floor MMst Rock; and EUzabeth Thomas, second floor AVest Rock. The vice-presidents are: Eleanor Thomas, first floor Holt; Nancy AVood, second floor Holt; Caroline Holland, third floor Holt; Marjorie Pless, first floor East AVing; Mary Lib Peirson, second floor East AVing; Sue Everett, third floor East AVing; Edith Hamilton, first floor AAMst AA’'ing; Jean Johnston, second floor AAMst AA’^ing; Caroline Fant, third floor AAMst AVing; Louise Eich- horn, second floor Smedes; Mary Glen Slater and Margaret Powell; Emily AA’'eathers, East Rock; Evelyn (Jriffin, first AVest Rock; and Mar- o-aret Skidmore, second AA’^est Rock. UTERARY SOCIETIES ‘ Will INITIATE THIRTEEN NEW MEMBERS “As Saint Mary’s Goes; So Goes The Nation” (?) Initiation Theme AVill Be Based On Mother Goose Tales New members of the Sigma Lamb da and E. A. P. Literary Societies will be initiated next Wednesday, November 8, at a joint meeting of the two societies in the Hut. The initiates of E. A. P. are; Kate Broadfoot, Sue Tucker Eason, Ran dolph Gardner, Mary Pinckney, Margaret Powell and Lucy Seaman; and of Sigma Lambda: Sally Ann Elliott, Mary Tom Gilman, Ivitty Quintard, Sarah Stewart and Fabian Wadsworth. THEMK The probable theme of the initia tion will be Mother Goose. The characters are to be: “Little Bo Peep” by Fabian AVadsworth; “Sim ple Simon” by Kitty Quintard, “Humpty Dumpty” by Sally Ann Elliott, “Crooked Man with Crooked Stick” by Mary Tom Gilman, “Old King Cole” by Randolph Gardner, “Little Boy Blue” by Lucy Seaman, “Jack Spratt” by Kate Broadfoot, “Baker in the Tub” by Mary Pinck ney, “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary” by Sarah Stewart, “Alother Goose” by Sue Tucker Eason, and “Ride a Cock Horse” by Alargaret Powell. The initiations will be supervised by Ann Cutts, president of the E. A. P. Society, and Sybil Goerch, j)resi- dent of the Sigma Lambda Society. On Candy Consumption Firstly, be it understood that “candy consumption” in wdtty ])hraseology, in delicate association, in tender contemplation, means and indicates all foodstuffs from radiator toasted doughnuts to five-day-old noodle soup which have been the cur rent “eat-ups” of our student body. Let no true-hearted person deny it. Satisfaction of the stomach ranks high among extracurricular activi ties. And may a timid soul venture to question, to criticize, to laugh gleefully, and to weep bitterly over the future fates of non-partial par takers of the glorious goo? Alost people eat. And most find it to their advantage so to do. No question here. But what do people eat ? Ah, here is complexity and enough diversions from the adage of “3 square meals a day” to make Gertrude and family don hobby sox and plaid suits, curl their tails and attend classes. People trip into the dining room; 6:30 hell has just rung. No appe tite tonight, dear? Not feeling ill, are you? AVhat is wrong with your face, Isabella? Nothing. Are you sure ? AABiy, it is pea green! Oh, yes, oh, excuse me, dear. A new type of pancake. Yes, I rrnderstand. Gremlins hover over Isabella and add to her misery bv their endless sneering. Poor Isabella, no appe tite. Somehow she is not very com fortable. Her face is pea green. She is thinking of the mayonnaise, marshmallow sauce, pecan ])ie, and box of raisins she devoured iu the course of the afternoon. Ye candy consumers, how miser able is your appearance. You are limp at table and actually working ye jaws in play time. And may a bleak and starved moral for mental consumption be left with you in hopes of digestion. Roosevelt wins at Saint Mary’s, and the Belles hopes throughout the nation, by 79i/b per cent of the stu dent votes (1,56 to 63) and by 87 per cent of the faculty votes (20 to 3). 221 out of 292 students at Saint Mary’s cast their ballots for Roosevelt and Truman or Dewey and Bricker or Norman Thomas. If this ratio could be carried out throughout the nation, it would mean that more than 75 per cent of the citizens eligible to vote would be at the polls on November 7. All voting at this “Gallup Poll” election was voluntary in contrast to the required voting by classes in the student poll of 1940 when Franklin D. Roosevelt had 188 of our votes and AA^endell L. AA’^illkie had 108 or the Democratic voting won by a mere margin of 57 per cent. VOTES FOR ROOSEVELT The Franklin D. Roosevelt fol lowers polled 176 votes. Of these, 20 were by faculty members or " school officers, and 6 were unsigned. Residents of North Carolina from the student body cast 110 Democratic votes; A^irginia, 12; South Carolina, 10; Georgia, 2; Florida, 6; xAla- bama, 2; Tennessee, 2; West A^ir- ■ ginia, 2; the District of Columbia, 1; AlissoTiri, 1; and Pennsylvania, 2. VOTES FOR OEWEV: 66 votes were cast for Thomas E. Dewey (although some girls were quite anxious to have it known that they were Democrats but were vot ing for Dewey and the Republican ticket regardless). Faculty mem bers and school officers had only 3 Dewey votes. North Carolina stu dents polled 35 votes for Dewey; Virginia, 8; South Carolina, 3; Georgia, 7; Florida, 3; Tennessee, 1; New Jersey, 1; Pennsylvania, 1; Alichigan, 1; and Oklahoma, 1. Only 2 Republican ballots were un signed. MA,K)RITIES Roosevelt had the majority of stu dent votes in North Carolina, Vir ginia, South Carolina, Florida, Ala bama, Tennessee, AVest A^irginia, Alissouri, Pennsylvania and the Dis trict of Columbia. Dewey held the majority of student votes from Geor gia, New Jersey, Alichigan and Ok lahoma. Two student votes were cast for Norman Thomas and the Socialist party, but both voters did so because they could not decide between the two major candidates, they said.
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