The Carolinian [November 20, 1929]

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GRMNSBOBO, N. C, NOV1MBBR M, 1*» NUMBER »
1UCIA'
IS OPENING BILL
OF OPERA SERIES
Pennsylvania Opera Company
Directed by Santassoud,
Gives Program.
V
"Rlgoletto" mad "II Trevatore" Are Sung
Tuesday Afternoon and Night
In Auditorium.
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The second annual opera season spon-sored
by the Oorley Co., and the Qreetu-boro
Daily New* was opened Monday
evening, November 18, in Aycock audi-torium,
by the Pennsylvania Opera
Company under the direction of Jac-ques
Samassoud. This troupe which
has been playing for six consecutive
years In Philadelphia is on its first
continental tour. An orchestra of ap-proximately
20 people accompanies the
troupe. Among the outstanding solo-tats
with the company are Lnigi Dalle
Molle, Georgia. Stark, Guiseppe Baro-sotti,
and Mario Fattoi, under the effi-cient
baton of Mr. Samassoud.
"Lucia" la Glv«i Monday
The first presentation was a tragic
opera, "Lucia Dl Lammermoor," by.
Gaetano Donlsetti. Playing before a
meager audience the members of the
company put on a performance lacking
In dramatic action. Only when the
last act was reached, with'its famous
mad scene and final solo In the tomb
scene did the interest pick up.
The story of the opera is as follows:
Because of the precarious position his
political intrigues have placed him in
Henry, Lord of Lammermoor, unbe-known
to his sister Lucy, arranges a
marriage between her and Lord Arthur
Bucklaw. She is desperately in love
With Edg^r of Ravenwood between
whose family and hers there has been
a feud of long standing.' Henry dis-covers
the affair and determines to
break off the engagement no matter
what it in ay cost him.
His chance comes while Edgar is in
France on a mission. All the lovers'
•letters are Intercepted, and a forged
one proving Edgar's Infidelity to Lucy
sent to her. She agrees to sign the
marriage contract with the other suitor.
Edgnr returns from his trip too late
to prevent the marriage, and he ac-cuses
Lucia of throwing him over.
Henry challenges him to a 'duel to
be fought the next day and on the
evening before the proposed fight Lucy
loses her mind, kills her husband, and
dies of her own miseries. While Edgar
waits for Henry, who has fled, a pro-cession
chanting dirges comes out of
Ravenwood. Upon learning it is the
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B. S. U. TO SPONSOR
DISCUSSION GROUPS
Open Forum Meetings Will be
Lead by Prominent Bap-tist
Leaders.
TO BE FROM DECEMBER 1-7
During the week of December 1-7,
the Baptist Students' Union of North
Carolina college will sponsor a series
of discussions ia the form of open
forum groups for the benefit of all the
students on campus.
Dr. Frank H. Lea veil, of Nashville,
Tennessee, the executive secretary of
the department of Southern Baptist
8tudent work, will lead one of the
groups in a discussion based on Curry's
book, "Facing Student Problems."
Miss Irene Ward, student secretary
at the Mississippi State College for
Women' at Columbus, Mississippi, will
use as her subject, "Christ at the Round
Table," by E. Stanley Jones, and will
speak on "Christ at the Round Table
of North Carolina College."
The third speaker is Dr. John L. Hill,
editorial secretary of the Baptist Sun-day
school board at Nashville, Tennes-see.
He will use as his subjects such
topics as "Budgeting the Student's
Time" and "Modern Social Problems."
The meetings will be held in the Stu-dents'
building from 5 to 6 and from
6:45 to 7 o'clock each evening of that
week. There will be no awards or di-plomas
given, but merely the interest
derived from these dlseusioa groups
will be received.
A» least 200 students are expected to
contribute to the open forum groups.
iOCiJETY PRESIDENTS
Above are the four society presidents of North Carolina College for Women. They are from left Ur
right: Jean Harvey, Cornelian; Jessie Bridges, Aletneian; Virginia Tucker, Adelphian; and Frances
Hampton, Dikean. i '
Society! Bids Are Dispersed
Among 700 Jubilant Freshmen
CAILY-HUED HOSE
DISTINGUISH NEW
SOOETY PLEDGES
Freshies Cautioned to Obey the
Rales and Mind the
Upperclassmen. ,
PASS FEARFUL GAUNTLET
New Girls Spend Dinner Hoar Serving
Their Elders and Accepting
Offers.to Clean Rooms.
It all began wltb an announcement of
Miss Mary Taylor Moore's requesting
all new students to naseuible in the
auditorium on Thursday afternoon.
Now the freshman had long ago dis-covered
thnt when Miss Moore made
an announcement she meant business
and it was with great surprise that
they discovered that they were there
under false pretenses and that the four
society presidents were there to meet
them instead. And then such excite-ment
distnrbed the dignity of Aycock
.auditorium that Indications of the tu-mult
within were carried even to the
Innocent passersby on- the street out-side
/Who shook their heads at the lack
of reserve and dignity practiced by
college women of today. _
One by one the names of the pledges
were read out by the presidents and as
each girl heard her name called she
either let out a wild "Whoopee" and
hugged the girls around her or sighed
deeply because she was an Alethelan
and her friends, Susie, and /Sadie, and
Peg were Dikes. About 700 girls re-ceived
bids. A pair of brilliantlj-lined
stockings accompanied each bid and
were donned immediately by the un-fortunates
who thus published to the
world the fact that their day* of tor-ture
had begun and advertised their
services to upperclassmen as sweepers,
bed-niakers, errand boys, and green
hands that needed salting down. Em-bryonic
Adelpbians adorned tbelr
lower extremities with hose of a scar-let
hue that attracted attention to those
especially who had bowlegs, were
knock-kneed, or boasted too "Arm a
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INTERESTING PROGRAM
IS GIVEN AT RECITAL
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Sli StaaenU Tske Part—Katheriae
Shenk Plays Two Selections on Or-gan
as Opening Number.
The fourth regular students' recital
was held Thursday, November 7, at '3
o'clock. The program waj quite varied
and interesting.
Katherine Shenk opened the program
by playing. "Dreams," from Seventh So-nata,
by Guilmant, and "Solur Mon-iqae,"
by Couperin. 8he played these
two organ solos very artistically. Louise
Whittington played "Rhapsodic in O
Minor," by Brahms, with excellent tone
quality. Ora Sue Hunnicut next played
a violin solo, "Etude," by David. She
was accompanied at the piano by Mary
Boddle Smith. Mary Smith played
"Valse ia B Minor," by Chopin, with
good shadings. Dorothy Joyner played
"La Gondola," by Henselb. Kathrine
Brown closed the program with an or-gan
solo. She played "Sonata in D
Minor," (First Movement), by Guil-mant,
in a most pleasing manner.
Instructor Is Involved In
. European Love Affair
There is a love affair going on right
here in our school that Is of .interna-tional
Interest, and yet perhaps three
or four North Carolina college girls
know anything about it. The loveress
In this affair is an English teacher
with all the mannerisms one could pos-sibly
possess. She is very often late
to her classes, and always explains
her tardiness by stating that a man
detained her. Several times she has
tried to smooth it over by'giving his
excuse for coming to sell her a text
book. But we know better than that.
We met her in the hair day before
yesterday, and she was in a tear to
see the professor whose orH<e is in 125
jtfclver. "lie always has ajptring of
women waiting outside Ids door," she
panted, "And I never have a chance
to speak to him."
But to get on with the story. We
were coming from the post office the
other morning behind Miss W (oh,
the name almost came out! But you
know by now anyway, don't you?)
Well as we were saying, we were com-ing
along behind her, and suddenly
sbe began to shake her shoulders and
chuckle merrily. We peeped around
trying in vain to see what she was
reading,'and just then she turned and
handed us the letter. It was post
marked England, November 9. and the
heading read, "Royal Palace, London
England. My dearest beloved, etc." It
really was a rich declaration of love
expressing the hope that the loved-one
had been thinking of "him" these
beautiful moonlight nights and that
she realised he wanted her for bis
own more than anything else in the
world. The hopeless tone, however,
made it pitiful, and by the time we
bad reached the "with all my warmest
love, your own Prince of Wales" we
were in tears.
She has bis autographed photograph
on her desk, nor does she attempt to
conceal her deep admiration and warm
affection for this member of English
nobility. We look forward with a great
deal of pleasure for her, but sorrow
for us, to the day when she secures
her leave of absence to "study" in
Kngland.
BERTRAM) RUSSELL
TO LECTURE HERE
"The Outlook for Civilization
in This Machine Age"
Will be His Topic
IS NOTEIT PHILOSOPHER
Bert rand Russell, one of the fore-most
of the liberals and said to be'-the
most clear-thinking of England's philos-ophers,
will speak la Aycock auditorium
Monday evening, December 2, at 8:30,
as the fourth speaker on the lecture
program of the college. x
Mr. Russell is not only a philosopher
scientist, and essayist, but is a publicist
as well, lie has done a great deal to-wards
making science and philosophy
an oi>en book to the general public. He
is said to possess the ability of making
the intricate simple and the compli-cated
clear. His subject here will be
"The Outlook for Civilization In This
Machine Age."
PLAY-LIKERS ENJOY
CLEVER PROGRAM
Impersonations of Leads in Va-rious
Plays and Puppet
Show are Given.
SUPPER BETWEEN ACTS
MRS. WQ0DH0USE GIVES
THREE TALKS IN S. C.
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Telia of the Work Being Dne by the
Vocational Department at
N. C. College.
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Mrs. Chase O. Woodbouse, vocational
director and head of < the Institute of
Women's (Professional Relations, made
three talks in Sooth Carolina last week.
Thursday night she spoke to a branch
pf the American Association of Uni-yersity
Women at Rock Hill, 8. C, and
Friday she appeared before the student;
body at Wjnthrop college. She also lec-tured
at the annual meeting of the A.
A. U. W. and Business and Professional
Women's elubs of the state at Harts-viHe,
8. C.
At bpth places her talk was con-cerned
with the pork of the Institute
of Women's Professional Relations and
the vocational department at N. C col-lege.
An original program by members of
the Play-Liken association and a pup-pet
show by members of the Junior
league, were given Thursday night at
a soda) meeting of the I'lay-Llkers,
which was held in the basement of Ay-cock
auditorium and in the aud'rorlum.
Jane Johnson, Elizabeth Umbeigcr, and
Cecile Llndau, president, members of
the social committee, were in charge
of the meeting.
The basement was decorated in yel-low,
and the lights were shaded with
pink crepe imper. Tables Tor supper
were arranged in a "U" around an im-provised
stage, where the impersona-tions
were given. Dancing was en-joyed
before the program.
The first part of the entertainment
consisted of a number of impersona-tions
of characters.In plays for the last
two years. Elolse Banning cleverly
burlesqued the title role of "Polly"
with a Past," whfch was taken
by Vera Buckingham. Other take-offs
were Elolse Banning in the
"Cradle tjong'' by Ruth Abbott; Delia
Gant/ the maid in "The First Year"
by Nina Oreenlee; A. C. Benny, the
hero in "The Whole Town's Talking"
by Claudia Brown. /
During Intermission, supper, which
consisted of fruit salad, crackers, cake,
and coffee, was served to those pres-ent.
The second part of the program con-sisted
of a scene from "Children of
the Moon" entitled "Crasy £Ms." The
castaway was as follows: W. R. Taylor
as Judge Atberton Imitated by Peggy
COLLEGE CALENDAR
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Wednesday. Nov. M
Aletneian society initiation, Stu-dents'
building.
Thursday, Nsv. Jl
Adelphias society initiation, Stu-dents'
building.
.Regular meeting Zoology Field.
club. —
Regular meeting Dolphin club. "
A. A. cabinet meeting at 12:15
P. M.
Friday, Nov. 22
Cornelian society initiation, Stu-dents'
building. *■
Convocation at 12:15 P. M. Ad-dress
by Dr. H. Hartwell Bass, state
chairman of the American Society
for the Control of Cancer.
Regular meeting of Botany club.
Saturday, Nov. 21
Dikean society Tnitiation, Stu-dents'
building.
Monday. Nov. 25
Regular meeting of Spanish club.
Regular meeting of Madrigal club.
Tneaday, Nov. M
Regular meeting International Re-lations
club.
Wednesday, Nov. 27
Thanksgiving holiday begins after
last classes.
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PRESS CONVENTION
T0MEETT0M0RR0W
N. C. C. Will Send Six Delegates
■ to Semi-Annual Meet of
Collegiate Press.
LENOIR-RHYNE IS HOST
Six girls from North .Carolina col-lege
will attend the semi-annual con-vention
of the North Carolina Colle-giate
Press-association at-Lenofr-Rbyne
college on Thursday, Friday, and Sat-urday
pi this week.-
Betty Gaut, editor, and Cecile Lln-dau,
associate editor, will go from
the Curaddi. Pine Needles will be rep-resented
by Dorothy Edwards, editor,
and Charlotte Hayes, business manager.
Mattie-Moore Taylor, editor and Mabel
Holland, business manager, are the del-egates
from the CABOI^NIAN. The girls
leave for Hickory tomorrow morning.
An interesting program is promised
by those in charge of the affair. There
will be speakers of note from the jour-nalistic,
world, discussions of problems
connected with campus publications,
and affairs of social nature. Dorothy
Edwards, of this college, will lead the
group discussion of the college year-book
Saturday morning.
Although the exact program Is not
known bere it is thought that there
will be a banquet' Thursday night,
speakers,^ football game, banquet, and
theater party Friday night, and* group
discussions and a final business meeting
Saturday morning.
Around 100 delegates from practi-cally
all the colleges in the state are
expected to attend the convention,
which Is the eighteenth in the history
of the association. Meetings are held
twice each year in the spring and in
the fall. Officers are elected at the
spring meeting.
The convention met last spring at
Greensboro college. Officers of the as-sociation,
chosen at that time, are Rob-ert
Jarett, Davidson, president; Wil-liam
R. Dixon, State college, first vice-president;
Margaret Blanton, Queens,
second vice-president; Eleanor Coving-ton,
Meredith, secretary; Garland Mc-
I'hersou, IT. N. t'., treasurer.
NORMANJ. THOMAS
IS MAW SPEAKER
AT STUDENT MEEf
N. C. College is Represented
by Mary J- Wharton
at Bueknell.
IS 22ND ANNUAL MEETING
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Affairs, Addresses, Open Foams,
and Group Discussions Make Up
Three-Day Program.
Discussions of various problems re-lating
to the colleges and universities
of today and speeches by prominent
men and women were features of the
22nd annual meeting of the Woman's
Intercollegiate Association for Student
Government which was held at Bueknell
University and attended by Mary J*ne
Wharton as the representative from
North Carolina college. Short talks by
representatives from various colleges
were preludes to open forum discussions
on several topics, and group discussions
concerning vital and interesting phases
of student government were held.
Mr. Norman Thomas, the main speak-er
of the meeting, is prominent in na-tional
affairs; he is now executive di-rector
of the League of Industrial/
Democracy, and was formerly a Presby-terian
minister. He ran in the last
election for the presidency of the
United States on the Socialist ticket
and was also a candidate for the mayor-ship
of New York eity.
The meeting opened at noon^ on
Thursday with lunch in Larison hall
that was followed by the first general
session held in Bueknell hall and later
by tea in New dormitory at the invi-tation
of the Y. W. C. A. Mr. Thomas
made an address on "Race, Religion, and
Fraternity" at the* evening assembly
and a second general session in the. liv-ing-
room of New dormitory completed
the first day's program. Group pic-tures
were made on Friday morning,
and small group discussions were held.
The delegates were taken on a motor
trip to Laurelton State Village in the
afternoon and were entertained later
with a tea at Larison hall at the invi-tation
of the Woman's Athletic Associa-tion
and with a formal dinner in tha
Recreation room of New dormitory at
8 o'cloek. /
On Saturday morning the third gen-eral
session was held at Bueknell hall,
followed by the formal close of the eoa-ference^
at 11 o'clock and luncheon at
Larison hall.
Miss Amelia E. Clark, dean of women
at Bueknell, welcomed the delegates at
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"OCCUPATIONS FOR
WOMEN" PUBLISHED
Mrs. Chase G. Woodhouse and
Miss F. Yeomans Prepare
New Bulletin Series
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB
MEETS TUESDAY NIGHT
Various Types of Home Economics
Schools Are Discassed by Different/
Clab Members.
As a continuation of the study of the
history of home economics, which the
Home Economics Art club is making
this year, a program >on "Types of
Schools of Home Economics" was given
at a regular meeting of the organisa-tion
last Tuesday night in the Home
Economics building. '
Toe program was as follows: "Fanny
Fanner School of Cookery" By Alberta
Beam; "Parson School of Fine Arts"
by Vera Price; "Merrill-Palmer School"
by Para Smith; "New York School of
Retailing" by Annie Tucker; "Dietetics
Training Schools and Training Hospi-tals"
by Dorothy Baughman.
Mary Lewis, president, was in charge
of the meeting.
DISCUSSES PROFESSIONS
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The latest of the regular college bul-letin
series, which is just off the press,
is the result of the work of the Insti-tute
of Women's Professional* Rela-tions.
It is a bulletin of 290 pages en-titled
Occupations for Women: A Bib-liography,''
and the work was done by
Mrs. Chase G. Woodhouse, vocational di-rector,
and Miss Frances Yeomans, field
worker of the Institute.
The book is meant for high school
deans, persons doing work as counsel-ors
in colleges, students and other in-terested
individuals. It is on sale at
the Institute. f
A list of 1,800 titles of books and
articles, most of them published since
1920, is included in the bulletin. Each
chapter takes up some occupation, such
as business, art, agriculture, engineer-ing,
and home economics. There are
special chapters dealing with personnel
work in colleges and such problems as
dependents and work after marriage. A
discussion of special aptitude tests and
their use in helping people And the vo-cation
for which they are suited as in-cluded.
Professional periodicals with address-es
of publishers are listed near the close
of the volume.
Much of the work for the bulletin was
done in the college library, and addi-tional
material was secured from the
Library of Congress, at Washington, the
Boston library, and the New York City
library. The volants is issued by the
college as one of the regular series.