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Vol ^ No. 6
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
December 3, 1941
Whitaker Delivers Excellent Lecture
★ 4
Seniors And Frosh Win Stunt Night
Third Straight
Win For Class
Of ’42, Seniors
The crowds were roarinc, thf' audi
torium was packed, the aisles and all
available space was taken. It was
Stunt Night at Queens.
Suddenly the lights went out was
it a blackout?
The stunt was a steam-snorting,
railway-working stunt that brought
in second place for the Freshmen.
This is the second time in the
history of stunt night at Queens that
a Freshman class has come in second.
The Sophomores took the center of
the stage as Helen of Troy went off
on a Kappa Sigma house party while
Menelaus went out fishing.
The audience’ quieted down when
Sarah Prevatte, representing the
Juniors, entered the darkened stage.
The accompanying music of Tchai-
kowsky’s Piano Concerto was back
ground to her reading of The Voice
of Youth. Next came the song, A
Pretty Girl is Like a Melody,” and
ten of the loveliest Queens beauties
appeared on the stage. The next
scene was laid around a campfire
and the Junior Octette sang ‘ My
Buddy.”
The scene changed from the rever-
.ent atmosphere to the sea. The Seniors
introduced their stunt by turning into
fish and swishing about. Ann Maul
din, representing the average Queens
girl, was trying to find the treasure
under the sea.
The Senior class of 1941 was award
ed the silver loving cujj. Last year,
the same class won first place, and
the year before, second place.
The Senior stunt chairman was
Billie Harmon, and the gallery chair
man was Winnie Shealy. The Junior
stunt chairman was Lucy Hassell,
and gallery chairmen were Sue Cren
shaw and Ruth Kilgo. Sophomore
stunt chairman was Idrlenne Levy,
and gallery chairman was Marjorie
Imbody. Freshman stunt chairman
Was Dottie Sappenfield, and gallery
chairman was Betsy Hodges.
Esso Presents Show
For Queens Girls
“From New Lands to Old,” a pic--
turc covering a 22,000-mile trip made
by the Expedition from Paris, France,
to Bombay, India, was shown to the
students of Queens on Tuesday night,
November 35tb, at 7:00 P. M.
“From New Lands to Old,” the title
of this thrilling presentation, showed
the dash of the Thaw motor caravan
from Paris to the Dardanelles and
Turkey-in-Asia—a race to keep ahead
of the war which has, now engulfed
Western Europe and is sweeping
southeast into Asia. Music and danc
ing in the colorful Balkans, historic
Istanbul, intimate glimpses of life
in a Turkoman caravan, and strange
wedding customs in remote Asiatic
Turkey were some of the more in
teresting scenes shown.
The editors of National Geographic
Magazine thought so highly of the
Thaw trip that they spent approx
imately $30,000 for color plates to
feature the story in the October
and December issues in 1940. Li e
Magazine considered the story an
pictures worthy of seven full pages
in its November 26, 1940 issue.
Jeanne Welty Makes Debut At
Queens Lecture-Concert Series
Monodramatist To
Act Fanny Kemble
Making her appearance as the third
artist in this year’s Lecture and Con
cert series, Jeanne Welty, young
monodramatist, will present ‘ The In
vincible Miss Kemble” on the night of
December 8.
Miss Welty starred in the role of
the Madonna in Max Reinhardts
famous production of “The Miracle.
Miss Welty is recognized by critics
as one .of America’s foremost ex
ponents of tbe art of monodrama, and
her performances throughout the
country have been greeted with ffie
highest praise from press and public.
The monodrama, as presented by
Miss Welty, is an incorporation of
the best features of tbe dramatic
monologue together with the action
and brilliant costuming of the legiti
mate theatre.' Many of her costumes
have been especially designed for her
by Vogue Magazine. Audieilfces thus
gain the effect of a regular stage
play- .
Each of her programs represents
months of intense research into the
lives of the famous and interesting
JEANNE WELTY
women tliat she depicts with such
power in her productions.
Miss Welty is the daughter of
Congressman and Mrs. Benjamin F.
Welty of Lima, Ohio.
Orchestra Gives Fall Concert
At Queens And Davidson
Program Features Mrs. Moseley
And Presents Two Compositions
Last Wednesday night in Queens
College Auditorium, the Queens-
Davidson Symphony Orchestra pre
sented its fall concert. The concert
featured Mrs. Elsie Stokes Moseley,
pianist and member of the music
faculty of Queens College, and the
Queens-Davidson Symphony Orches
tra. Mr. James Christian Pfohl, di
rector of the co-ordinate music de
partments of the two colleges, was
conductor.
The orchestra, which is made up
of some sixty students from Davidson
and Queens Colleges presented Bee
thoven’s Fifth Symphony. Mrs. Mose
ley played Liszt’s Hungarian Fan
tasy with orchestral accompaniment.
The concert had been presented
previously at Davidson College. Fol
lowing the concert, the Queens-David
son Little Symphony and Chorus,
also under the direction of James
Christian Pfohl, gave a broadcast
over radio Station WBT at 6:35 p.m.
Assisting the Little Symphony were
Tom Pyle, WBT’s talented baritone,
and the new member of the music
department of Davidson College, Earl
N Berg, tenor and violinist. The
following program was presented:
Overture to ‘Cori Fan Tutte’(Mozart)
March from ‘Dramma per
Musica’ (Bach)
Vision Fugitive ..(Massenet)
Tom Pyle, Soloist
Merry Widow Waltzes (Lehar)
Steal* Away (Spiritual)
Chorus with Earl N. Berg
Intermezzo from
“Cavalleria Rusticana” (Muscagni)
Hymn: “Softly Now the
Light of Day” (Von Weber)
Correspondent Tells of Dangers
That Await Slow Nations
By Idrienne Levy
Soeiety Asks
Students’ Help
Britain Needs All
Unused Clothes
The girls of Queens College are
being called upon to bring forth
articles for Bundles for Britain;
the plea is being made by the Janet
Morrow Chapter of Greensboro, N. C.
Mrs. Winston Churchill is the honor
ary sponsor of this organization.
Woolen clothes are needed; sweat
ers, skirts, coats and underclothing
are the first call. In addition low
heeled shoes in good condition, all
types of overshoes (particularly
galoshes) and hats that will pack
flat are needed.
Necessity packages are being com
piled, and contributions for these may
be purchased after consulting the list
of items in Miss Albright’s office.
Regulation wool will be furnished on
request; however, the girls must pro
vide their own needles.
The student body is urged to
examine their own wardrobes care
fully for any woolen clothes that are
too small or too infrequently worn
and that might be sent to Britain
for tbe use of girls of college age
who are doing war work.
For the collection of these articles
for Bundles for Britain, Miss Al
bright has appointed the following
girls: Billie Harmon, Pan-Hellenic;
Harriet Scoggin, Alpha Kappa Gam
ma; Mary Elva Smith, Alpha Eta
Sigma; and Annette Mclver, Day
Student Council. Anyone with a con
tribution is urged to contact one of
these girls.
Punctuating profound facts with
a subtle humor and excellent mimic
ry, John T. Whitaker, noted foreign
correspondent astounded his audience
Monday night with stories of the
condition of Europe today.
In an interview with a Blues re
porter Mr. Whitaker started by dis
cussing the role of the American
college girl in national defense. The
interview rapidly became another lec
ture as more than a score gathered
around to hear the additional facts he
would discuss. Mr. Whitaker, speak
ing volubly, glancing at his watch
frequently and smiling up at the
crowd of girls surrounding him, said,
“I think that best thing they can
do is with these home defense jobs
and the Red Cross. That’s not the
case, you know, in England. There
women really have commissions in
the Army.” As talk turned to the
discussion of army morale, he stated
quite definitely, “Why, there’s noth
ing wrong with army morale—as far
as I can see. It’s the morale of
the people—you’ve got to wake them
up. Its just like I said about Eng
land—it took bombs.”
W’hen the conversation turned to
the anti-strike legislation now pend
ing in Congress, Mr. Whitaker laugh
ed, put up his hands and said, “No,
don’t ask me about that. I don’t
know anything about that. It’s been
a long time since I was a Washing
ton correspondent.”
Speaking rapidly, Mr. Whitaker
confirmed views expressed earlier
when he spoke of the fact that the
United States shduld send troops
actively into the war immediately. As
questions came at him from all sides,
Mr. Whitaker said, “Oh, I’m sorry,
girls, but I’ll just have to leave! Oh,
about that time in Czechoslovakia
when I was about killed. It was
pretty terrible? There were some
twenty killed just before us, but I
have to leave now”—and with that
he left the reception, which had been
held for him in Burwell Hall, and
the crowd, who expressed sentiments
similar to this one overheard, “He’s
the best lecturer I’ve ever heard,”
and “That’s the best presentation on
the Lecture and Concert Series.”
Mr. Whitaker, a slender medium-
built young man whose voice con
tained a mixture of Southern drawl
and English accent, cbmes from
Bell Buckle, Tennessee. This fact was
particularly noted by a member of
the faculty who was overheard to
say, “I’m glad he is a Southerner
and a Democrat.” Mr. Whitaker has
spent nine years abroad and has been
connected with The Chicago Dally
News and The New York Herald-
Tribune.
Highlights of the lecture itself were
in the open forum he held after
speaking. He discussed the role of
Japan in the present war. “If we
went into the war,” he said, “Japan
would collapse in forty seconds. Ger
many has ersatz for everything ex
cept self-respect and heroism.” He
then went on to say that he believed
England could possibly bb defeated.
In response to a plaintive'question of
“What are we going to do?” Mr.
Whitaker quick-wittedly replied after
a moment’s pause, “Do you know
how to pray?” This reply, proverbi
ally speaking, just about brought
down the house.
He discussed the growth of Naziism,
the difference in the system begin
ning with the purge of June 30, 1934,
and Italy’s role in the Axis. He
spoke of his interviews with II Duce
and Stalin, and told how he predicted
Russia would be invadeB at the time
it actually was.
He revealed shocking stories of
how the Germans are attempting to
eradicate the French. He told of
figures given to him by a prominent
French doctor which show that the
average weight of French babies at
birth is two pounds. “Germany is
producing twice the arms of Britain
and America combined. And I believe
it will take ten to fifteen years to
end the war if we wait around.”
Mr. Whitaker referred to Lind
bergh’s stand in the present crisis
by saying “It’s nothing new to the
‘Lone Ego’ ... a man who has been
tinkering with a mechanical heart for
years. He has his wife defending him
with the Wave of the Future . . .
when it’s actually the sewage of the
present.”
Maxim Litvinoff was another person
discussed by Mr. Whitaker, whom he
called >‘the most guileful man I’ve
ever met.”
Mr. Whitaker, who was introduced
by Dr. Lucile Delano, used his topic
“Who Will Win the War” as a spring
board and dived head first into his
discussion of the entire international
situation, leaving his audience with
the feeling that “America must in
deed wake up.”
Oglukian Speaks To Students
On Why We Should Be Thankful
Armenian-Born Tells Americans
Wliy He Is Glad To Be An American.
On Tuesday, November 17, L. M.
Oglukian of Ivey’s Department Store
presented a talk in chapel, based on
the things for which we as Ameri
cans and college students have to
he thankful. Mr. Oglukian, though not
native-born, “adopted” the United
States several years ago and is now
an American citizen.
Mr. Oglukian emphasized the fact
that America is a land still free from
strife and turmoil such as exists in
European countries. Many people of
the world dream of some day living
in a land where everyone is free to
do as he wishes; and our United
States is just such a place.
From the standpoint of college life,
Mr. Oglukian declared, we are still
able to utilize independence, but we
must also be thankful for certain
regulations on our campus which pre
vent our taking harmful advantage
of this independence.