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QUEENS BLUES
VOL. NO. 8
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
MARCH 6, 1947
STUDENTS PRESENT OPERETTA
John Mason Brown
Speaks At Tea
John Mason Brown was off to
an early start in creating a charmed
circle of Queens students with his
entertaining and informative con
versation at a tea given by the
English department Monday after
noon, February 24.
All of the English majors who
are upper-classmen and the faculty
gathered in the South parlor of
Burwell Hall dressed in their most
glamorous, slinky cocktail dresses
to chat with Mr. Brown, Marion
Sims, and Dorothy Jnox. These
ladies came to talk with Mr. Brown
also, but our students found them
interesting conversationalists too.
Mr. Brown said that he believes
Thomas Wolfe, North Carolina’s
own author, to be one of the liter
ary geniuses of his time when
someone asked him about that Har
vard schoolmate of his. He es
pecially likes the poetic descrip
tion in Mr. Wolfe’s works. Mr.
Brown admires Wolfe a great deal
for his inquiring mind. He says
that Wolfe hungered for knowl
edge, that his desire for learning
and wisdom equaled the less aes
thetic drives of lesser minds.
Mr. Brown was well acquainted
with Mr. Wolfe and his intimate
friends •^at Harvard as well as the
situation Mr. Wolfe wrote about in
Of Time and the River. Mr. Brown
defends Wolfe from the criticism
that Mr. Wolfe wrote in an indel
icate manner about his friends by
using Wolfe’s own defense: A
realistic writer can only write
about the things and the people he
knows. Mr. Brown does say, how
ever, that perhaps Mr. Wolfe wrote
too voluminously with too little
Work of real value.
Mr, Brown is also an admiror of
John Steinbeck whom he says is
the most sensually descriptive
Writer of our time. Steinbeck, he
says, feels everything about which
he writes and creates all the sen
sual sensations anew in his rea
ers.
Everyone enjoyed chatting with
Mr. Brown and felt that he was
one who was truly worthy o
prominent position he holds
a critic of drama and literature.
The Queens
Lookout
standing Alone
e that hath light within his own
clear breast
ay sit in the center and enjoy
bright day.” — Milton.
n the life of blessedness self re-
nce is of most importance. A
•n does not begin to live unti
finds an immovable center with-
himself on which to stand. If
trusts to that which fluctuates,
also will fluctuate; if leans
an that which may be withdrawn
will fall and be bruised; i ®
'ks for satisfaction in peris
‘ accumulations, he will starve
' happiness in the midst of pl®^
th
L
man can find no peace within
If, where shall he find it?
dreads to be alone with him-
vhat steadfastness shall he
a company?
i everywhere are deluded y
aperstition that their happi
rests with people and with
(Continued on page 3)
Dr. Charles S. Crane
Speaks In Chapel
On Friday, February 21st, Dr.
Charles S. Crane spoke to the
student body in a chapel service.
He spoke in behalf of the Student
Christian Association’s spring pro
ject, “Building a Literate World”.
Dr. Crane used as his text. If
we walk in the light as he is in
the light we will’have fellowship
with him.” He helped plan Dr.
Frances Layback’s campaign in
Africa and told of the unprece
dented need for Christian literature
there. He said that one of the
biggest problems in Africa was that
of the returned soldier. Also, that
there were many Jehovah Wit
nesses there. He told of the great
darkness in Africa because of il
literacy and urged upon everyone
to help bring His Light to these
forsaken people.
Dr. Crane is a missionary to
Africa and serves with the Africa
committee of Foreign Missions
Conference of North America in
New York.
ANNUAL GOES
TO PRESS
Hear ye, hear ye. Queens stu
dents! After many months of tear
ing around and beating out of
brains the CORONET has been
shakingly handed to the kind (we
hope) mercies of the printer. En
graving plates have been made
for all of the pictures and copy
is being set up by the printer —
with many bouquets to Mary Ann
Bullock and Mary McCoy for their
typing.
Volumes could be written about
the grand work of the literary and
business staff; they have done
about seven months’ work in four
months.
By way of putting in a plug for
the ’48 Coronet, let it be said here
that the new editor that will soon
be elected will be needing help
next year; so keep some time open
for the annual.
The fates (and the printer) will
ing, you should be able to clutch
a ’47 CORONET in your hot lit
tle hands before second semester
exams.
Queens Presented Hit
Parade February 21-22
On February 21-22 the Queens
College Aquabelles presented “Our
Kit Parade” . . • “LSMFT”. There
were ten numbers: “Lamplighter”,
“Hawaiian Village”, “Time on My
Elands”, “Three Little Fishes”-
“Red Sails in the Sunset”, “Piano
Concerto in B-Flat Minor”, “Rumors
Are Flying”, “Smoke Gets in Your
Eyes”, “Stardust”, and Queens
College “Alma Mater”.
The pageant was sponsored by
the Physical Educat on Department
and was under the direction of
Miss Elizabeth Hawley and Miss
Mavis Mitchell. The student com-
inittees were: Theme — Caro
Wohlford; Properties —•
Thompson; Program — Jane i -
Hams; Tickets — Betty McMurray
and Joanne Macauley. Those par
ticipating were: Katie Arrowsmith,
Bee Jay Booream, Peggy Burns,
Sara Clark, Sarah Lee Cochrane,
Kitty Cooper, Zayde Cardona, Mar
tha Cottingham, Elizabeth Dietz,
Phylis . Dorward, Dot Ferguson,
Margaret Fowler, Hazel Ann Fra
ser, Virginia Graham, Phylis John
son, Ruth Kinney, Cathey Deeper,
Jo Loftis, Betty McMuray, Joanne
Macauley, Nancy Montgomery,
Pelva Morse, Virginia Nicholas,
Mary Katherine Nye, Frances Scar-
ratt, Betty Stine, Jean Thompson,
Jane Williams, Carol Wohlford,
and Rose Marie Wright.
The pageant had a full house on
both nights and was a big success.
It was well appreciated by the
student body.
Sororities Rush Today
The five national sororities on
campus are holding second semes
ter rushing this afternoon. Each
organization is holding a drop-in
tea each of which is to last twenty
minutes.
The first tea will be held at the
Chi Omega house from four until
four-twenty; the second will be
held at the Kappa Delta house
from four-twenty-five until four
forty-five; the third tea will be held
at the Phi Mu house from four
fifty until five ten; the fourth
tea will be held at the Alpha Delta
Pi house from five fifteen until
five thirty five; the last tea will
be held at the Alpha Gamma Delta
house from five forty until six.
The rushees are requested to sign
up their two preferences in order
by eight o’clock tonight in the
Dean’s office.
Peggy Bums, president of Pan-
hellenic Council, has advised that
Alpha Delta Pi sorority will hold
a tea for the rushees but that they
will issue no bids this semester.
Music Department
Produces "Pirates
Of Penzance
Queens Hold Four
Winning Compositions
In the North Carolina Composers
contest, sponsored by the North
Carolina Federation of Music
Clubs, one faculty member and
three students of Queens College
had winning compositions.
In the profesional division, John
A. Holliday, of the Queens music
department, won first place in the
piano solo class with his “Three
Little Pieces for Piano.”
In the amateur division Miss
Laura Sauford, of Hendersonville,
received first award in the Cho
rus , class for “Benedictus” for
women’s choir. Miss Virginia Bro-
sius, Charlotte, received first men
tion in the class. Songs, for “When
to Her Lute Corinna Sings”, and in
the Hymntune class for “Hymn”.
Miss Kitty Cooper, Blackey, Ky., for
her “Two Part Invention” in the
piano solo class placed second
place.
The first prize compositions will
be performed May 6 at the spring
festival of the North Carolina Fed
eration of Music Clubs to be held at
Gastonia.
-An Amateur Interviews A Professional
By Doris Moore
One amateur reporter, smirking
with a feeling of impor ance
interesting an assignment as inter
mieresimg ^ j moment
viewing the celebrity o --(.eiiec-
“/edTer'.“elfwIth joy wheo the
opportunity for ad-
/S”c nfld ^ Httle real,
vanced with co
izing w^aty w^ planned to obtain
hv hook^or crook, some personal
* i-ai which would interest our
rS'irh’major readers of our
^■'Trmed gentleman In some re-
informed ge j
ir^r Whlcnrw; varieract^^^
to Ta k indeed, all ot his
loves to tai
family love t a voice,
asked him m ^ jgc-
“Why, do ^ entire fam-
turing? Goodnes ,
rsrd'':r1frpteS, not a tash
to be paid for.”
Having given his allegiance to
the state of Kentucky where he was
born, he likes most of all to talk
about that state.
Next our reporter asked Mr.
Brown his opinion concerning
whether or not poetry and fiction
are losing their prominence in
literature to factual narratives or
accounts of current happenings.
Nothing what he interpreted to be
an evil gleam in our reporter’s
eye, he asked what wicked pur
pose our reporter had in quizzing
him thus. Our reporter, being in
capable of any vice, was quite up
set and hastened to assure Mr.
Brown that no wicked plot was in
her mind. With that assurance he
seemed dissatisfied because with
obvious malice he replied, “You
aie an English major, aren’t you?
What was Wordsworth’s definition
of poetry?” Our reporter was hor
ror stricken. The only things she
could think of were the underlined
paragraphs in her Sophomore Lit
erature book and a few unrelated
phrases which she could not iden
tify as being Wordsworth’s, Cole
ridge’s, or Emerson’s. She gazed
about in terror, there towering all
argund her were all the English
teachers she had ever had or hoped
to have. He couldn’t have created
a more embarrassing situation for
a professor with every degree ob
tainable if he caught him failing
to remember one of the basic prin
ciples of his field before an au
dience of intellectuals. Satisfied
with the mischief he had done, Mr.
Brown answered the question in
some detail which amounted to
something like this: this is not the
time for poetry or fiction of any
real value because of the social
and economic conditions in our
time.
After that stormy session he co
operated beautifully to the ques
tions of our reporter about what
he likes to read. Mr. Brown di
vides his reading time about equal
ly between study of contemporary
literature and a study of the clas
sics. He does not like romantic
novels and poetry.. He likes plays,
history, not that which is found
in the books; essays and litera
ture of that type. His favorite au
thors are G. B. Shaw, Hazlitt, Lamb,
and Checkov, a playwright.
In spite of his malice which
ruined forever a struggling Eng
lish major, our reporter found Mr.
Brown very kind, genial, and in
teresting.
“The Pirates of Penzance”, a
Gilbert and Sullivan production,
will be presented in Queens Audi
torium on March eighth. That gay
and riotous operetta is centered
aiound an amusing, but complicated
situation which grows more com
plicated by the minute.
The operetta has a cast made up
of Queens and Davidson students,
and is sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha
music fraternity of Davidson and
the Mu Phi Epsilon music frater
nity of Queens. The production is
under the direction of Earl F. Berg
of the Music department at David
son; he is assisted by Gordon Sweet
and the music faculty of Queens.
James Christian Pfohl, head of the
music department at Davidson, will
conduct the orchestra.
Those playing the leading roles
are: Bill Sutherland, who plays
the part of Frederic, the leading
man; Betty Barber, who is Mabel,
the leading lady; Travis Wylie,
Ruth, the old nurse maid of Fred
eric; Frank Lowe, major general
Stanley; Ralph Smith, the pirate
king; Middleton Raynal, who plays
the part of the sergeant of police;
John Ramseur, Samuel; Ashley
Jones, who is Edith; and Doris
Turner, Kate. Students from both
colleges will form the chorus.
The scenery and costumes for the
operetta are professional, having
been shipped here from New York.
The story of the operetta is very
amusing, Ruth Frederic’s nurse
maid, was supposed to apprentice
him to a pilot when he was old
enough. She became confused and
apprenticed to a pirate instead.
So Frederic was placed under bond
to the pirate king until he reached
the age of twenty-one. During this
time the only woman he ever saw
was Ruth who loved him very
much. Ruth informed Frederic
that she is quite beautiful and that
he should marry her. Frederic is
convinced until a lovely group of
girls, the daughters of the major
general Stanley arrive and imme
diately he sees that Ruth has lied
to him. He falls in love with Mabel,
but the pirate king tells him that
he was bom on February 29 on
leap year, therefore he is only
five years old and he is still under
the eildenture of the pirates. It
is very complicated, but at the end
all is well.
“Pirates of Penzance” will be
presented two times March 14 in
Asheville.
CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
March 6—Thursday
Drop in teas for second semester
rushing.
March 7—Friday
Gilbert and Sullivan Operatta at
Davidson.
Myers Park Methodist Supper
from 6:30 to 10:30 p. m.
Sigmund Romberg at Armory at
8:00 p. m.
March 8—Saturday
Gilbert and Sullivan at Queens.
March 11—Tuesday
Charlotte Symphony.
March 12—Wednesday
Recitals—Mrs. Moseley.
March 14—Friday
Community Concert.
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