The Carolinian [March 14, 1929]

              Daisy Mayme
Saturday THE CAROLINIAN North Carolina College for Women
Organ Recital
Sunday
VOLUME X GREENSBORO, N. C MARCH 14, 1»2» NUMBER SI
Almost Half of Students
Vote in Primary Friday
250 FROSH VOTE
" ■ ■ ■
Final Election of Ten Major
Student Officers to Take
Place This Week
CANDIDATES ARE CHOSEN
Approximately 8M Girl* CM* Their
Ballot in Primary—Class of tl
Makes Good Showing-
NEW COURSES TO BE
OFFERED NEXT YEAR
English Department Leads in
the Number of Subjects
to Be Added
Approximately 850 students, or not
quite half of the college community,
east their ballot sin the primary held
at thia college Friday, March 8, for the
purpose of selecting- two candidates to
ran for each of the ten major offices
in the final election, whieh is to take
place on Thursday or Friday of thia
week.
In comparison with primaries con-ducted
at the college in previous years,
the number voting was average. It is
expected that many more students will
cast their votes in the final election
since that has been the case in other
years.
The freshman elass made a good
showing in the election, approximately
250 of the first year elass taking advan-tage
of their opportunity to vote for
next year's student leaders. Their per-centage
shows up well in comparison
' with the upper classes.
Sine those chosen for editor of Pine
Needles, the college annual, have with-drawn
their names, that office is still
open. No decision has yet been reached
as to what shall be done about the
matter, bat it will probably be neces-sary
to hold a special primary to select
that officer.
Candidates for the various offices in
the primary are as follows: president
of student government, Margaret Me-
Connell, of Gastonia, N. C, and Betty
Sloan, of Franklin, N. C.; vice-president
of student government, Louise Crim, of
WiBStoa-Salem, and Polly Denson, of
Tarboro; secretary of student govern-ment,
Evelyn MeNeU, of Lumberton,
and Mary Jane Wharton, of Greens-boro;
tre—rer-ttf student government.
Pansy McConnell, of Gastonia, and
Betty E. 81oant »t Garden City, N. T.;
Carolinian editor, Mary Price, of
Greensboro, and Mattie Moore Taylor,
of Enfleld; Coraddi editor, Betty Gant,
of Martel, Tenn., and Jean Hewitt, of
Rosemary; chief marshal, Lorine Davis,
i of Tallahassee, Fla., and Christie May-nard,
of Wilson; president of Y. W.
C. A., Mary Evelyn Parker, of Selms,
WIDER RANGE OFFERED
ACTRESS WILL GIVE
DRAMATIC PROGRAM
HERETHURS. EVENING
Cornelia Otis Skinner Is a
Daughter of Famous
Otis Skinner
—
APPEARS TONIGHT
IS A UNIQUE PERFORMER
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STUDENTS ACCEPT PLAN
FOR IMPROVING CAMPUS
Committee Submit. Plan Whereby the
Classes Will Have Charge of
Beautifying Grounds
CAMPUS IS DIVIDED INTO ZONES
At a brief meeting of all students
held immediately after chapel Friday,
a program for beautifying the campus
whereby the four classes will be in
charge was outlined by Polly Denson,
representing the appointed committee,
and accepted by the student body.
According to the proposed plan, the
campus will be divided into lour zones
with a class in eharge of each zone.
Each class will work out its own plan
for enforcing the keep-off-the-graas idea
and for beautifying the campus in the
part under its control.
At the end of two weeks a committee
consisting of President J. I. Foust, Dr.
W. C. Jackson, Mr. Livers, and others,
will inspect the campus and jadge it
on the basis of improvement shown
daring the period. The plan was de-cided
upon as a last resource, and un-less
decided improvement is shown in
the appearance of the campus the mat-ter
will be taken from the hands of the
students and go into the hands of the
administration.
According to the plan, the freshman
elass will have eharge of the section on
both sides of College avenue, the
grounds back of the library, and those
around the Home Economics building.
The sophomores will rale over Cotten,
East, and Gray dormitories to Walker
avenue and the grounds around the in-firmary.
The junior class has the sec-tion
in the quadrangle,' the road by
West, Hinshaw, and Bailey, and grounds
around the physical education building,
and the seniors have charge of the plot
around Mclver and Administration, and
front campus.
A committee composed of the four
class presidents drew up the plan, which
has been accepted by the student body.
A number of new courses are to be
added to tbe curriculum next year, sev-eral
of them being of grea't interest to
sophomores as well as to Juniors and
seniors.
Tbe English department leads in the
number of courses to be added. Dean
Smith "is offering a three-hour course
for tbe year, the dramatic works of
Robert Browning, which carries gradu-ate
credit This is English 09 and }00.
Mr. Wilson Is to teach four new
courses. English 95, Anglo-Saxon Lit-erature
will be given the first semes-ter.
Middle English Literature, Eng-lish
96, will be taught the second semes-ter.
Also, Mr. Wilson is offering two
courses in Comparative Literature.
English 97 Is Greek Literature in
Translation. Roman Literature In
Translation, English 96, will be given
tbe second semester.
A three-hour course on tbe contem-porary
essay will be presented by Mr.
McKay during tbe first semester. This
is English 101.
Physical Education 67, Health Teach-ing,
is to be transferred to tbe Hygiene
department and will be open to A. B.
students.
Education 12 will be done away with
entirely. A new course. Education 74,
which will be taught by Miss Spier,
will be a combination of the material
formerly presented in both 12 and 74.
Mr. Harriman Is offering a one-hour
course in extra-curricular activities,
Education 59.
Tbe Mathematics department is to
give an elementary course in astron-omy.
Miss Strong will teach this class.
No preceaulsite of college math is
necessary' for enrollment in this course
which is Math 10.
Math 41, a course in statistics, is
being offered primarily fof students in
economics and the social sciences.
Misa Schaeffer is to give four classes
in institutional management, open to
Home Economics majors. In addition
a one-hour course, Home Economics 3,
will be required of all freshmen stu-dents
in that department This means
that freshmen Home Economics stu-dents
will carry 16 hours of work.
The German and Latin departments
each haVe one new course. Elementary
Composition and Conversation may be
taken collaterally with German 3 and 4
as a sophomore elective. Miss Bodle
Is offering Latin 2, Ovid's "Metamor-phosis."
Economics 21 and 22 will be placed
among the sophomore electives.
Two advanced courses will be offered
In Physics. These courses have for-merly
been listed In the catalogue but
have never been taught
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB
GIVES CHAPEL PROGRAM
Unusual Fashion Show Depicting Cor-rect
Wear for the Ctnpii Is
Staged Taasday Moraine
ATTRACTIVE COSTUMES ARE USED
Her Character Sketches Are Unasaal
Type of Entertainment—Were
Written by the Artist
On Thursday evening, March 14, Oar-nelie
Otis Skinner will present a pro-gram
of character sketches in the Ay-cock'
auditorium. Miss Skinner is a
unique performer and has become one
of America's foremost entertainers. She
is the daughter of the beloved actor,
Otis Skinner, and has inherited from
her father the genius and "feel" of the
professional artist. Miss Skinner is not
only a wonderful actress with the pow-er
to hold and sway her audience, but
she has youth and charm also.
The character sketches present a dif-ferent
type of entertainment than is
usual. They are written entirely by
Miss Skinner and involve only one
scene in which Miss Skinner portrays
a character with truly remarkable
adroitness. One moment you are laugh-ing
at the comical scene of a woman
having her hair bobbed in "Woman's
Crowning Glory" and the next you are
appalled at the tragedy unfolded in
"On the Beach at Barbados."
Miss Skinner's writings have ap-peared
in a number of leading maga-zines,
including Scribner's, life, The
Literary Review, and The Theater. Arts
Magazine. Her father, Otis Skinner,
produced and appeared in one of her
full length plays entitled "Captain
Fury."
The actress has had a fine and ex-tensive
training that has from the first
fitted her for her stage career. She at-tended
the Baldwin School at Bryn
Mawr and also Bryn Mawr college. She
then studied in Paris, her professor be-ing
Dehelly, of the Comedie Francaise.
She also studied under Jean Herne. For
the modern stage she has had training
with Jacques Copeau at the Theatre
Vieux Colombier, and has had four
years' stage experience in New York
and on the road. She has appeared in
"Blood and Sand," "Will Shakespeare,"
"Tweedles," "The Wild Westcotts," "In
the Next Room," and "In His Arms."
Her most recent role was in "White
Collars." For several years Miss Skin-ner
has been preparing her character
sketches, first producing them infor-mally
and then professionally.
Miss. Skinner's program will be se-lected
from the following repertoire:
"Woman's Crowning Glory," "A South-ern
Girl in the Sistine Chapel," "Snow-bound
in Iowa," "On the Beach at Bar-bados,"
'Paris After the Armistice,"
"Homework," "Monte Carlo," "A Pienie
in Kentucky," "Motoring in the QCs,"
"Sailing Time on the . Olympia," "An
American Girl on the French Tele-phone,"
"The Calais-Paris Express,"
"Night Club," "A French Lesson at the
Berlitz," "A Lady Explorer," "The Five
and Ten."
A few comments from well known
papers: "Miss Skinner's entertainment
is well woTth while to those who are
weary of the blatant and obvious," from
the New Tork Evening World. Charles
Cornelia Otis Skinner, dramatic
artist, who will appear here Thursday
night.
FACULTY MEMBERS
TO PRESENT PLAY
SATURDAY, MAR. 16
'Daisy Mayme" Is to Be the
Extra Production Play-
Likers Sponsor
NEW SET IS TO BE USED
George Kelly, Author of The Show-
Off" and "Cralg's Wife," Write.
Satire oa American life
The convocation exercise of Tuesday
consisted of a novel program presented
by tbe Home Economics club. Several
members of the club, representing
Dress, Economy, Beauty, Hygiene, Oc-casion
and Fada of Fashion, demon-strated
what they each thought-appro-priate
for tbe college girl to wear on
campus. Then several beautiful cos-tumes
for various occasions were
modeled by N. C. girls.
The program was a very attractive
one and of especial Interest to tbe girls
at this time of year. The costumes
which were shown in the second part
of the program were from .Meyer's. The
whole program showed careful plan-ning
and originality on the part of the
club.
Those taking part were: Dress,
Margaret Scott; Schoolgirl, Caroline
Jervey; Economy, Emily Carr; Beauty,
Mollle Mitchell; Hygiene, Hazel Jen
kins; Occasion, Mary Hester; Fads of
Fashion, Mary Lenta.
Models for showing costumes: Julia
Wright Louise Weaver, Virginia Van
Dalsem, Claire Ingram, Sara Chrlsman,
Blva Baker, Mary Cowan, Lilly Crlnk-ley,
Nlta Lewis.
PLAY-LIKERS MAKE
BIG HIT SATURDAY
"The Whole Town's Talking" Is
Liked Because of Acting
and Clever Scenes
EXTRA PLAY TO BE GIVEN
CORNELIA AND DIKE
DISCLOSE MYSTERIES
TO THEIR NEOPHYTES
Dancing, Confetti, and Colorful
Decorations Make a'
Gala Affair
AMUSING STUNTS GIVEN
Mei ibers of Cornelian and Dikesn So-cieties
An Initiated Thursday
and Friday Nights
"The beautiful Miss Skinner knows how
to be poignant, understanding and very
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One of the best performances tbe
Play-Likera have ever put on here, as
far as the enjoyment of tbe audience is
concerned, was given here last Satur-day
evening when the dramatics club
gave the thoroughly funny farce, "Tbe
Whole Town's Talking," by Anita Loos
and John Emerson. From the minute
the curtain went up to the final call
the large crowd that witnessed the
performance was completely engrossed
with the play; the Interest never lagged
'for a minute.
The acting was, of course, for the
greater part responsible for tbe swift
movement and keen interest. Every
player was well adapted to his part
and played that part with vivacity and
understanding. Mr. C. P. McGlnnis, as
Chester Binney, the dumb-bell, about
whose amorous affairs the action of
the play revolves, gave perhaps the
best performance of tbe evening. He
was, however, run a close second by
Dr. H. B. Stanton as the ingenious
Henry Simmons, and Mr. Hoyt Boone
as Roger Shields, of Chicago and Paris.
The feminine parts were all well-played.
Eloise Banning cleverly played
the leading feminine role, that of
Ethel, the sweet young thing who says
that the man she marries must have
known life and women. In tbe minor
parts, Janice Zimmern was good
Hattle Simmons, Elizabeth Umberger
and Mary Agnes Ransom as tbe girl
friends, and Nina Green lea as Annie,
the maid.
The play Is a clever comedy, whose
every wisecrack went over to the audi-ence.
The humor was never stale, and
the situations never unamuslng. It was
directed by Mr. A. T. West
"Daisy Mayme," the extra play that
is being given by the Play-Iikers, will
be presented this Saturday evening at
8:30 in the auditorium. The produc-tion
is unusual in that many members
of the faculty are taking part in it;
it is a faculty play.
The play is a satire on middle class
home life in America. The author,
George Kelly, by depicting the petti-ness
and irrelevaneies of one family,
the Fenners, shows the pathetic little-ness
of every such American family.
The play is a keen satire which has mo-ments
of high comedy mixed in with
it. This grim comedy was eminently
.successful when it ran in New Tork two
seasons ago, as were those other twp
plays of the same type by George Kelly,
"The Show-Off" and "Cralg's Wife,"
when they ran on Broadway.
Miss Flora Meredith, social councilor
of the freshmen, is playing the title
role, Daisy Mayme. Dr. Meta Miller,
of the French department, has the part
of Ruth Fenner; Dr. Ruth Collings, of
the medical staff, Laura Fenner; Dr.
Annie ODonnell, of the Health depart-ment,
Mrs. OIlie Kepax; and Miss Min-na
Lauter, of the Physical Education
department, May. The men who are
playing in the play are Dr. A. M. Ar-nett,
History professor, as Chauneey
Filoon? Mr. H. G. Mitchell of the Viek
Chemical Company, plays the part of
Charlie Snyder, and Mr. George Dawson,
of the Jefferson Standard, is taking the
role of Cliff Mettinger.
An unusually attractive set of scen-ery
will be used in the Saturday night
performance. The set is new one which
has been designed by Mr. West and Mr.
Taylor and executed by members of the
Play Production elass.
Mr. W. R. Taylor made an announce-
Brackett in "The New Yorker" say*. J inent ^tore the play started about the
extra play this week-end; and Vera
Buckingham expressed between acts
tbe Play-Likera' thanks to the people
who had helped put on the production.
FACULTY DINE LIKE
ORDINARY MORTALS
LAST CORADDI SHOWS
GREAT IMPROVEMENT
• l
Recent Issue Continues and Ac-centuates
New-Spirit
of Last Fail
MANY GIRLS CONTRIBUTE
By E. Harkoar
There is an old saying that all paths
lead to Rome, but the faculty disproves
this fact every day about 12:30 o'clock;
for at that time the footsteps of the
members of this supposed, high-brow
group of the faculty automatically turn
cafeteriawards. This fact might be ex-plained
psychologically by saying that
the pleasant aromas exuding therefrom
tantalise their exteroceptors, and in-duce
them to make satisfying re-sponses.
In the parlance of the campus, how-ever,
they simply crave "eats" and make
tracks for the place where the required
edibles may be obtained.
The members of the faculty are al-ways
dignified and frequently even pre-tend
to be highbrow; so one - would
judge that faculty lunches would be
stately affairs. But not sol They de-scend
from their intellectual thrones
and dine in the same manner as do
ordinary mortals. They talk, tell jokes
and laugh. In fact, they make more
noise than the training school young-sters
who come dashing in shortly after
noon for their daily bowls of soup.
The cafeteria is proving to be im-mensely
popular, particularly with the
faculty; and townspeople are patronis-ing
it in increasing numbers.
College girls who have been locked
out of the dining rooms or have re-cently
received a cheek from home oc-casionally
honor the establishment with
their presence, but it is primarily the
domain of the faculty.
If you have the idea, as some poor
freshmen do, that faculty members are
superior individuals, surrounding them-selves
with mists of scholarly thought,
and paying no heed to mundane hap-penings,
go down and luneh with them
and find out what delightful human be-ings
they really are.^
The second issue of the Coraddi to
appear this year continues and accen-tuates
the new spirit and new interest
adopted by the magazine last fall and
is encouragingly readable. The editors
are to be commended on the variety of
material, the large number of contrib
utors, and originality of most of the
work. They have included a short story,
not too much verse as has formerly
been the tendency, a dissertation or
what-you-eall-it on "Psychology," aa
informal essay, a character sketch, book
reviews, and the highly original idea
embodied in "Freshman Thoughts."
The story of Marjorie Vanneman is
well written, though one wishes she had
chosen a subject on which she had more
immediate knowledge and her readers
more immediate interest.
Of the verse that of Cecils Lindau
is of most popular appeal and seems
to be more spontaneously written. Lou-ise
Dannenbanm's first attempt, Nancy
Taylor's "Sufficiency," Eloise Banning's
several works, and Roberta Johnson's
two short poems constitute an enjoya-ble
collection of poetry.
The sketch of Charlotte Hayes en-titled
"Psychology," is clever and orig-inal
as is the informal essay, "In Praise
of Discrimination," by E. Norwood,
alias Lib Moore. Betty Gaut's sketch
on "Cousin Robina," not so good aa
some things she has written.
Both the book reviews are excellently
done. Thai of "Strange Interlude," by
Glenn Boyd McLeod, is an ambitious
undertaking but is probably one of the
best reviews that has appeared in the
Coraddi.
Margaret McConnell deserves recogni-tion
for her delightful frontispiece of
N. C.'s famous "Ruins," a drawing that
equals in artistic effect her cover de-sign
which appears on this and the
first issue. Standardization of the de-sign
is a noticeable improvement; it is
to be hoped that standardization of the
color will soon fojlow to make all is-sues
of the same year uniform in ap-pearance.
Anticipated encounters with the goat
and the skeleton became fearful reali-ties
last Thursday and Friday nights
when the new devotees of Cornettafand
Dike Were shown the most sacred mys-teries
of their respective societies in
the test initiation for this year. Tbe
new Aletheians and Adelphians, having
been previously initiated, rejoiced for
a day or two in watching the tribula-tions
of their sisters awaiting the or-deal.
The Cornelians assembled in the
Adelphian and Cornelian halls, which
were beautifully decorated with ferns,
carnations, and other flowers carrying
out the society colors, blue and gold.
After the ceremony, Onda Myers
played for dancing, and the confetti
and serpentine thrown over the dancers
gave tbe halls a very festive appear-ance.
An entertaining program was
presented between dances. Lib Moore
did a scarf dance; Betty Sloan kept the
crowd guessing with her "Ask Me
Another" number; a burlesque fashion
show was given by Frances White, Eu-genia
Cowper, Virginia Harris, Evelyn
Biddiek; Lillian Wortham danced a
comic number, and Lib Hanaman eon-eluded
the program with several violin
solos.
The refreshments, continuing the
color scheme of blue and gold, consist-ed
of cream-puffs a la mode, triangular
cakes with blue icing, huts, and col-ored
mints. Punch was served through-out
the evening.
The goat and the laundry list both
figured promptly in the stunts the
freshmen did at tbe behest of their
seniors but perhaps it was the Garbo-
Gilbert act that provoked most laugh-ter.
Each new member contributed
pennies for the goat and departed with
an indellible "C" on her hand.
Those in charge of the various com-mittees
were: Rosalie Jacobi, general
chairman; Elizabeth McDuffy, enter-tainment;
Glenn Boyd McLeod, refresh-ments,
and Elizabeth Reynolds, Chris-tine
Fields, Mary Taylor, Evelyn Mc-
Neil, Betty Sloan, and Sara Purdie,
other phases of initiation.
Dancing in tbe Cornelian hall, deco-rated
with green and yellow streamers,
balloons, serpentine and confetti, fol-lowed
the Dikean ceremonial. A seven-piece
orchestra from Oak Ridge fur-nished
the music. Punch was served
in the Adelphian hall which was effec-tively
decked with ferns, palms, lilies,
and roses.
A beautiful series of dances was
given for the guests, who had gold,
cross-shaped programs. "A Dane* to
Dike" was given first by Mary
Draughn, Margaret Melehor, Lib Gra-ham,
Jerry Musselwhite, Minnie Mat-thews,
Hattie Williams, Jean Divine,
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A. AND T. GLEE CLUB
SINGS ATFRL CHAPEL
Program Given by Glee Clsb Is Moat
Enjoyable—Quartet and Solo-ist
Excellent
On Friday, March 8, at the weekly
convocation of the student body in the
Aycock auditorium, the Glee Club and
Quartet from A. and T. College gave
a most enjoyable concert.
This was not the first appearance of
the glee elub at the college, so the stu-dents
were not disappointed in their
program. The familiar numbers on
the program, especially the concluding
one, were unusually well received, and
the soloist was especially good. Prof.
O. Anderson Fuller was director of the
glee club. s
The program was as follows:
"Hand Me Down the Sivler Trum-pet,"
Fuller; "I Couldn't Hear Nobody
Prsy," Johnson—Glee Club.
"Show Me tbe Way," Work; "Good
News, the Chariot's Comia', Fuller-
Quartet.
"I Stood on de Ribbej Jordan," Bur-leigh;
"Deep River," Burleigh—Jesse L.
Connor.
"De Ole Ark's A-Movin'," Onion; "I'm
So Glad Trouble Don't Last Olways,"
Dett—Quartet.
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," Bur-leigh;
"Love Come Tricklin' Down."