Your College Paper Vol. 24—No. 4 QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C. January, 1946 Dramatics Group Presents Comedy Yoke And Piano Recital Given A joint recital of the voice pupils of Mrs. Dana Robinson, and the piano pupils of Mrs. Elise Mosely was given Wednesday night, Jan uary 16, in the Queens College Auditorium. The following pro gram was presented. Voi che sapete from “Le Nozze di Figaro” Mozart My Sweet Repose Schubert Betty Barber Allegro Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 Beethoven Beth Deaton Villanelle Del ’Acqua Eleanor Johnson I Chide Thee Not Schumann Doris Turner Impromptu Op. 142 No. 2 Schubert Katherine Knight The Silver Ring Chaminade Jacquelyn Wilkinson Ah! lo so from “Magic Flute” Mozart Meredith Bland Gavotte Prokofieff Virginia Brosius Dedication Schumann Ashley Jones Intermezzo Op. 116 No. 4 Betty McMurray Alleluia Coleen Cole Ballade in G Minor Nancy Blanton A Swan Oh, Thou Waving Field of Golden Grain Rachmaninoff Madeline Dunn Sleeping Time - P^uto Hobby Horse - Travis Wylie II pleure dans mon coeur Debussy Marietta’s Song from “The Dead City” Korngold Mary McGill Valse in A flat Kitty Cooper Brahms Mozart Brahms Grieg Students Urged To Join New Club Celebrities on our campus brave chilly January winds to pose for photographer, v/hile young lady of the press gets her first interview. From left to right, Mr. Mowbray, Eleanor, Grace, and Mr. Thibault. Chopin Club IRC To SPONSOR . Membership Drive The International Relations iielcl its regular meeting at 3 • P-M. on January 9 in the Day dents Building. A very interesting talk on Russia was presented )y Greene. The president. Mary L'b Mat tin, announced that they were to a\e a membership drive as soon as exams are over. So all smdents interested in keeping up with the World are urged to watch for further notices. Joseph Hrmodka Speaks to Club Joseph L. Hrmodka, a very c is- tinguished Czechoslovakian, ^ to the International Relations lu ), on January 22. He recently entered the United •‘States as a refugee from war-torn Europe, and is quite an authority on foreign affairs. Immediately after his talk at E.M. in Burvvell Hall. Mr. Hrmodka was entertained at a reception o the faculty and students. An Interview With Conrad Thibault By GRACE LYONS It was the young reporter’s first assignment to interview a celeb rity, and she was visibly nervous over the prospect. Conrad Thibault, “celebrated concert and radio sing er” according to the papers, was coming to Queens College for lunch following his concert at the college aditorium the evening be fore, and she was to sit beside him! “I’ll probably sit there, stare him in the face, and ask him what color his eyes are,” she moaned, “when all the time I can plainly see that they are dark brown, that he has black hair, dimples, and a wonderful smile! And I just know I’ll knock my water over, or something dreadful like But the editor had said, so get it VAGABOND I^ypsy hearts keep traipsing oft to places far away. vV’here sea-gulls circle stately ships, oil roads to Mandalay; * o camels leading caravans that plod through dust and sand; To gaudy oriental shops; to distant Samarcand; To liquid streets, where gondolier with perfect rhythm swings His oars and stills the turbulence of lovers, as he sings. It matters not where they may go to Torrid Zones or Nome Someone can fetter gypsy hearts and turn their footsteps home —Bv Eniv interview that.” ‘Get that she must. Classes dragged on eternally that morning, and the reporter found It even more difficult than usual to lose herself in the sonnets of Spenser or to fathom the mysteries of the conjugation of “suponer”. When at last her watch showed 12:40, she stumbled out of her fourth period class, dashed to her room, glanced despairingly at the mirror, actually remembered her pencil and pad, and arrived m Lrwell Hall just as the 12.45 bell rang. Her mind was m a tur moil- but thank goodness, room mate “Huskie” was along and was going to act as hostess at the table. One could always count on her to talk. And then he came. It was as simple as that. The big door m Burwell opened, two men walked in and were met by the President and Dean of the college, and then came introductions: “Mr. Thibault, Mr. Mowbray—Miss Huske and Miss Lyons. They are to entertain you at lunch.” They were on their own, 3ut the reporter promptly forgot all about interviews and formal questions stored away for lagging conversation as Mr. Thibault im mediately understood the situation and smilingly began to talk about southern weather, which was a 3it on the chilly side, and to ask questions himself. As they were walking through Burwell toward the dining hall, Mr. Thibault stopped, slightly cocked his head to one side, and stood listening. From a room came sounds of operatic music, and the reporter heard Mr. Thibault mur mur something to his accompanist about “The ‘Serenade’, Mephist- opheles, from ‘Faust’. That’s Ca ruso singing. Wonder where they got those old records? They’re invaluable!” The reporter grabbed the opportunity, “Would you like to listen to the records after lunch?” she asked, and everything went along fine from there. Lunch was fun. Conversation flowed easily around Mr. Thibault and Mr. Mowbray, and the report er forgot all about taking notes. It was such a relief to find that famous people like to talk about the same things that college soph omores do. Without actually rea lizing it she discovered that Con rad Thibault was from North Hampton, Massachusetts, which talking about his three-year-old son, and confessing how he had met Mrs. Thibault at a party given for Alec Templeton when he stood behind her, tapped her on the shoulder, and said “Shhhh” when she was talking while Mr. Templeton was playing. Although Mrs. Thibault is American, she was born in Havana, Cuba and learned to speak Spanish before English. Mr. Thibault had done opera work and admitted that he liked “some opera—not all of it”. It was nice of him to say that he found no difference between Northern and Southern audiences and used the same type of pro gram for both. And so the conver sation went from food to the murals on the dining room wall, from opera to swing, from college schedules to concert tours, until lunch was very suddenly over. When the swarm of autograph seekers had finally dispersed, one of the nicest times of all came during the half hour spent lis tening to the old “Faust” records while Mr. Thibault talked infor mally, whistled along with the rec ords, and teased some of the girls delightfully. “Why, it was foolish to have been so concerned”, mused the reporter. “One couldn’t pos sibly be ill at ease around Mr. Thibault—he has such a natural friendliness and interest in other people and seems to forget himself so completely.” The peak of the reporter’s ca reer was reached when she and “Huskie” were photographed in Diana court with Mr. Thibault and Mr. Mowbray! She felt like a celebrity herself when Mr. I Thibault would take her arm and No, it wasn’t Broadway or Holly wood! Just the college auditorium last Thursday morning, when the dramatic classes combined to pre sent the one-act play “Be Seated” by Marcelline H. Sanford. It was directed by Miss Helen Strickland, head of the Dramatic Department of Queens. The play is a timely musical farce on sitdown strikes. The cast for the play was as follows; Mrs. H. Q. Finance, the wealthy matron who finds her living room in a turmoil, played by Troyanne Free land. Mrs. Younglove, Mrs. Painter, and Mrs. Banks are her bridge guests and were played by Flora Ann Nowell, Martha Venning, and Janie Mitchener, respectively. Mathilde, the maid who is leader of the strikes was played by Ed- wina McDill, Bridget, the Irish cook played by Barbara Seigel; Helga, the dumb Swedish laun dress, Betty Morrow; Irene, the gum popping maid, was Grace Pen- i dleton; and the messenger from j Mr. Lewis was Elizabeth Beall. I Miss Hawley planned the dances j done with: “The Protest Song” and “Every Thursday Out,” which were sung by the maids, and “The Days of the Twenties,” sung by the ladies. Travis Wiley played for the dances. This play is one of several which the Dramatic Department plans to present this year. Miss Strickland hopes that the play has awakened an interest in the student body to ward a Dramatic Club at Queens. However, there must be a response from the students first. You are eligible to join if you have a sin cere interest. If you can draw, sew, or help in anyway, you are welcome. In a few months the Queens dra matic group is hoping to combine with Davidson to present “Pride and Prejudice.” It can be fun if you do your part, so let Miss Strick land hear from you. Miss Harrell Reviews Book Thf King’s General by Daphne du Maurier, was reviewed by Miss Harrell, on Tuesday evening, Janu ary 8. Both students and teachers crowded the north parlor of Bur well Hall to hear Miss Harrell tell of the heroine, and the adventures that she had in her love affairs. From the enjoyable and interest ing account that Miss Harrell gave of the book, it sounds as if it is one that each person at Queens would enjoy reading. explained his reported love of New England. He didn’t mind at all ] they would walk laughingly to ward the camera—and then go back and do it all over again. But all good things and times must come to an end, and after the last picture was snapped, Mr. Thibault had to leave. The report er found it difficult to express her gratitude and the pleasure that had been hers in attending the concert and in getting to meet Conrad Thibault; and as he shook hands with her, thanked her warm ly for a nice time, and got into the car, the reporter sighed. It was not a sigh of relief, but of re gret that the end had come to her interview with Conrad Thibault.

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