The Carolinian [October 20, 1955]

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Woman's College—"Distinguished for Its Democracy"
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VOLUME XXXVI ZS31 WOMAN'S COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 'GREENSBORO. N. C, OCT. 20 1»55 NUMBER 7
Lecturer Visits Campus
In Connection With Show
Critic George Boas
Speaks On Matisse
During Cone Exhibit
George Boas, critic, scholar, and
connoisseur, will locture in the
Elliott Hall ballroom October 27
on "Matisse's Contribution to Mod-ern
Painting." This talk is being
held in connection with Ihe ex-hibit
of original paintings from the
Cone collection in the Baltimore
Museum that will be on exhibition
through November 4 in Elliott Hall.
Boas was born August 28. 1891
in Providence. Rhode Island. He
received his A. B. and A. M. at
Harvard and Columbia Universi-ties.
At the University of Califon.-
io he obtained his Ph.D. and from
Washington and Lee University lie
received his LL.D.
He began his career as an In-structor
in forenslcs at the Uni-versity
of California. Since 192:
he has been with John Hopkins
as associate professor of philoso-phy
and professor of history of
philosophy.
A truslee of the Baltimore Mu-seum
of Art and member of the
American Philosophical Society,
he has also been an author of es-says,
a translator, and an editor
UNC Monogram Club
Invites WC Students
To Program At
Paris Singers Appear
In Aycock, Oct. 31
The Little Singers of Paris.
France's best-loved boys' choir, will
make its only local appearance of
the current American tour on Mon-day
night, October 31, at 8 o'clock
in Aycock Auditorium as the sec-ond
program in the Lecture Enter-tainment
series of the 1955-56 sea-ion
at Woman's College.
Composed of 32 boys between
the ages of 11 and 16, the Little
Singers are said to be a stirring
sight in their simple white vest-ments
and wooden crosses.
The repertoire of choir, which
has been under the direction of
Msgr. Fernard Maillet since 1924,
is divided Into two parts: religious
music and popular selections, such
as French folk songs and Christmas
carols of many nations, all sung
in the original language.
This musical attraction is known
as the "most-widely traveled chor-al
group In Europe "
DR. GKORGK BOAS
Students Interested In
SAC, IRC, PAC
Contact Pres. Fulcher
Freshmen and sophomores inter-ested
in the International Affairs
L'ommittee or the Inter-collegiate
Relations Council and freshmen,
juniors and seniors interested in
ihe Political Affairs Committee arc
asked to submit their names by
local mail to Martha Fulcher. presi-dent
of the student government,
by October 27.
The PAC's purposes are: to pro-vide
an outlet for the expression
i students' interest in political
affairs; to stimulate the develop-ment
among students of social con-sciousness
and competence in politi-cal
affairs: to seek the promotion
and protection of student welfare
in political matters relating to
students In college.
The promotion of international
understanding and fellowship is the
purpose and goal of the IAC.
The purposes of the IRC are:
to be the connecting link between
Woman's College SGA and the re-gional
and national organizations
of the NSA: to ensure that Woman's
College receives the full benefits
available to it by virtue of its mem-bership
in NSA: to ensure that
Woman's College eontrlbutes Its
full share to the welfare of both
the regional and national organiza-tions
of NSA.
Afler the nominations have been
received by Martha Fulcher, the
committee on appointments of
each council will investigate the
Interval and competence of the
nominees. Each committee will se-lect
the members.
UNC MONOGRAM CLUB
The members of the Monogram
Club at Chapel Hill have invited
the students of Woman's College
to be their guests of honor at
an afternoon and evening program
at Carolina Saturday, October 29.
The schedule of events for the
day include the Pirollm TIIUHHHW
football game at two o'clock, fol-lowed
by a reception at Graham
memorial, and an Informal dance
at ' Woolen Gymnasium from 7
until 11 o'clock. Buses for Wom-an's
College students will leave
from In front of Shaw at 12:30 and
will return to Greensboro »t 11:30
Half-time festivities at the t.'.nie
will feature high school bands from
all over North Carolina.
Bus and game tickets will be
sold by the counselors in the resi-dence
halls on Monday night. Oc-tober
24. The price of the bus
tickets will be $2.75 and game
tickets will be $1.00. Students arc
urged to buy their tickets Monday-night
in order that the count of
the number of passengers may be
given to the Bus Company as soon
as possible.
If available, single bus and sin-
'gle game tickets will be sold at
Ihe Information Desk of Elliott
Hall on Tuesday. October 25 from
9:00 a. m.-4:00 p. m.
Shivers Presides At
Social Service Meet
Dr. Lyda Gordon Shivers, Head
of the Sociology Department at
Woman's College, presided over the
North Carolina Conference for So-cial
Service In Raleigh. Tuesday,
October IB.
Dr. Shivers is president of the
organization, which is composed of
approximately 1000 members In-terested
In North Carolina's social
well-being.
Included in the program were
four workshops covering the areas
of Child. Health. Juvenile Delin-quent
and the Criminal, and a
Special Projects Committee.
Auction Highlights Purse Drive
Goal AimsFor $3500 From Classes;
Chicken Dinner Sparks Competition
THE COUNTRY GIRL, star-ring
Blng Crosby and Grace
Kelly, is showing Saturday nnlit
October 22, at 8:30 In Aycock
Auditorium. Admission for stu-dents
Is by I. D. cards and guest
tickets may be bought at the
Soda Shop for 10 rents.
last, Change In Dates
Shakespearean Play
Announced By Casey
Mr. Michael Casey, head of the
Drama department, announced
that ther will be a change in dates
ol the presentation of 'Midsummer
Night's Dream". The new dates arc
Saturday, November 19, and Mon-day,
November 21.
Filling the major roles of the
cast are the following:
Egeus—Michael Casey;
Lysander—Oliver Link;
Demetrius—Robert Hennon;
Philostrata—Joann Stone;
Quince—Charles Adams;
Snug—Sam Baker;
Bottom—John Babbington;
Snout—Al Chioda;
Flute—Henry Johnston;
Hlppolyta—Diane Rousseau:
Helena—Dasheila Buck;
Hermia—Sheila Poliakoff;
Oberon—Laura Lingle;
Tltanla—Ann Dumaresq;
Puck—Martha Gilreath:
Peaseblossom —■ Jackie Halth-cock;
Cobweb—Peggy Smith:
Moth—Ellen Towne;
Mustardsee—Mary Kate John-ston;
Designers—Mr. Casey and Miss
Mary Demopolous;
Train to Oberon—Claudia Walsh,
Nancy Hunnicutt, Ann Wersley,
iCmilinurd on /'nov Tiro)
Prall Cites Change In
Student Teaching Plans
A new plan of student teaching
for future high school teachers
has been put into effect this year,
according to Dean Charles Prall,
of the School of Education Pot
the first time six senior girls are
teaching in the city schools. Each
girl teaches one class period a day.
The girls are under the super-vision
of Mr. Herbert Vaughn. Jr.,
principal of Curry School. Jan
Sprinkle Doy, Annie Cameron, and
Ruth Turner are teaching English
at Lindley Junior High: Mrs. Mar-garet
Bray is teaching English at
the Senior High School: Louisa
Mordecal and Mrs Shirley Wllcox
tre teaching social studies at Lind-ley
Junior High.
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Music Clinic Sponsors
Lecturer Clarence Adler
The Piano Association of the
North Carolina Music Educator's
Association sponsored Dr. Clarence
Adler of New York City as the
clinician at the Fall Clinic held
Monday at Woman's College.
Dr. Adler lectured on specific
fingerings and phrasing in connec-tion
with works on the N. C M. E
A. piano list.
An auction and a special chicken
dinner will highlight the 1955 Cam-pus
Purse Drive, scheduled to run
from October 25 through Novem-ber
8.
The annual drive that divides stu
dent contributions among nine ,
campus, community, and national
organizations will be carried on
\utliin the classes instead of in the
dormitories as in previous years.
This year's goal is $3500. based
on an average contribution of $1 50
in i student. The drive is headed
by Esther krasny. chairman of
Sen iee League, and Mary Ann
Baum. chairman of Purse Drive.
Winner Gets Dinner
The special dinner, given by Miss
Swanson and her staff, will be
awarded the class with the highest
percentage of contributions. A
wapli that will keep a record of
i :n h class's progress and of Ihe
school as a whole, will he placed in
front of the administration build-1
ing.
Contributions will he given to a'
member of each class In each dorm
who will turn the money over to
her class representative for tabu-lation
Class representatives are:
llonalita Coxwell, senior; Hita Sa-'
iisk> junior. Phyllis Whitley. soph-
I omore; and Ann Sloan, freshman
land commercial.
Dormitory representalives from
.each class include: seniors. La
J Verne Blue. Nancy McWhorter, Ma-
.ry la I ley. Sue Dunham, Grace
IBIanton, Annette Wright, Mary
Edith Bagwell, and Dodle Arnold:
Juniors, Doris Wcstbrook. Ann
Burke, Becky Nell. Ann Morgan,
l.oretta Dilllhl, and Martha Jordan;
sophomores, Bobbi Rash. Betty
Block. Frances Jordan. Nella Purr-ington.
Phyllis Passes. Mandy
Mciggs. Marilyn Adams, and Clif-ford
Smith; and freshmen and com-mercials,
Frances Settle, Alma
Dykstra, Edna Faye Pugh. Joyce
Farthing, Jean McCauley. Melissa
McLeod. Ella Marie Massey. Bryte
Abernethy. and Barbaraa Carpen-ter.
Auction Marks High Spot
On November 3. an auction for
students and faculty will mark the
high spot of the drive. Dr Richard
Bardolph and Dr. Benjamin Town-send,
auctioneers, will offer a wide
variety of gadgets, objects, d'art.
and white elephants donated by the
faculty and adminstration to high-est
bidders in Elliott Hall ballroom
Proceeds Go to Nine Charities
A large part of the 1955 Purse
Drive proceeds will go to the
Foreign Student Scholarship, that
brings a foreign student to W. C.
each year. Eight charity organiza-tions
will each receive portions of
the remainder. These include Na-tional
Scholarship and Fund for
Negro Students. Red Cross. Ameri-can
Heart Association. American
Cancer Society, World University
Service. CARE, Community Chest,
and American Friends Service Com-mittee.
SDA Elects Officers.
Plans U. N. Movies
At the October 4 meeting of the
Sludents for Democratic Action
the following persons were select-ed
as officers: Barbara Still, chair-man;
Ann Gordan. secretary-treas-urer;
Patricia Wall and Jodie Al-bert,
co-program chairmen.
Plans were also made to join
with the International Affairs Com-mittee
in presenting the two mov-ies,
"We Ask First" and "Nations
Work Together." and a panel dis-cussion
in celebration of U. N.
Week. The SDA also made general
plans to co-operate with the Cos-mopolitan
Club this year.
Elliott Hall Becomes
French Cafe Oct. 22
Saturday. October 22. an Infor-mal
dance for couples only will
be held from 8:30 p. m. until 11:30
p. m in the game room of Elliott
Hall. No admission will be charged.
The room will be transformed
Into a "French Cafe" with checked
tablecloths and melting wax can-dles.
Music will be provided by rec-ords
and a Juke box Cigarette girl,
Nancy Noble, will perform a tap
dance and French songs will also
add to the Parisian atmosphere.
Refreshments will consist of
French tea and sugar cookies.
Plans for the dance were made
by the Elliott Hall entertainment
Committee, headed by Nancy
Mitchell.
CONE EXHIBITION IS SIGNIFICANT, SAYS IVY
BY GR'^TRY 1TY
The loan < xhibi: on from, the
Cone Collection ol the Baltimore
Museum to be seen in Elliott Hall
from October 21 to November 4.
though small, presents fragments,
historicall yand artistically inter-esting
from a lively, changing and
controversial period In the develop-ment
of modern painting. Cover-ing
a period of time from 1860—
painting by Camllle Corot—to the
most recent Henri Matisse includ-ed
which was painted In 1937
When these paintings are seen In
relation to much of contemporary
American as well as contemporary
European painting, examples of
which have been seen In both El-liott
Hall and Weatherspoon Gal-lery
during the past years. |ht
significance of this quotation from
a speech by Dr. Robert Oppen.
I.eimer. made during the bl-cen-tennlal
celebration of the founding
of Columbia University In October
1954. Is increasingly apparent as
one moves from the oldest painting
to the newest painting in the ex-hibition.
"One thing that Is new
It the prevalence of newness, the
changing scale and scope of change
itself, so that the world alters a<
wr walk In It so that the years af
a man's life measures not some
small growth or rearrangement or
moderation of what he learned In
childhood, but a great upheaval."
The paintings of Camllle Corot
| in a mild way follow the patte:ns
il the quotation. Paintings ranged
rrom architectural subjects rather
earthy, but not dull, hard classical
drawing of severe landscapes with
figures, portraits, to the misty po-etic
landscapes painted by the hun-
Jreds during the eighteen fifties
.mil eighteen sixties; a painter who
did not sell a single picture until
after he was fifty, he then became
v< ry popular and very wealthy
from the sales of his paintings
Among his notes are these, "Fol-low
your convictions ... It is bet-ter
to be nothing than to be a
mere echo of other painters. When
one follows somebody, one Is al-ways
behind . . . Sincerity, self,
confidence, persistence "
PARIS IN 18M
Paris in the eighteen sixties was
the home of many painters. inno-vators
such as Edouard Manet and
James McNeil Whistler; the lead,
ers of realism, romanticism and
classicism,'' the conservative—safe
and obedient painters the uphold-ers
of sanity in art", as well at a
brilliant group of students about
whose work much was to be heard
later. In 1883 Napolean Third de-creed
that there should be a Salon
des Refuses to test the sin.
and quality of those artists who
had been rejected by the Salon
Juries" This event is sometimes
referred to as the birth of modern
painting. This exhibition brought
to light certain artists who were
to become very important and pro-duced
a storm of abuse and ridi-cule,
which centered upon the work
of Edouard Manet, whose offense
was considered moral as well as
artistic. Today he Is considered
perhaps the greatest of the French
realists and the paintings which
were offensive on moral grounds
hang in the Louve Ills work indi-cates
a variety of Influences from
Courhet, Goya, Japanese print
makers, as well as Constable and
Corot. Perhaps It is his feeling for
"painting quality" which makes
his work significant to conlempo-rary
painters.
INCREASED CONTROVERSY
The controversy increased In
tsmpa as new movements were
launched. The academies, the crit-ics
and many of the established
painters greeted each new one with
abuse and derision. The name "im.
presslonlsm" was given to the style
of painting used by Camllle PIs-sarro
and Alfred Sisley. by Louis
I.troy a critic writing in Chari-vari,
about the first exhibition of
impressionist painting held In Paris
in 1874. He said "This painting
at once vague and brutal appears
to us to be at the same time the
affirmation of ignorance and the
negation of the beautiful as well
as the true. We are tormented
■ufflciently as it Is by aff.
eccentricities and It Is only too
easy to at trace attention by pain'-
ing worse than anyone has hit he
to dared to paint."
In 1876 a second exhibition was
held and the critic for Figaro
wrote, "There has opened ... an
exhibition said to be of paintings
The Innocent visitor enters and a
cruel spectacle startles him. Here
Mr Gregory Ivy
are five or six lunatics, one of them
a woman, have elected to show
their pirtui' are visitors
who hurst into laughter when they
•ee these objects, but, for my part,
1 am saddened by them These so-called
artists term themselves In-transigeants
impressionists. They
lake paint brushes and canvases,
throw a few colors on the surface
at random, and sign their names.
In the same way Insane p. i
pick up pebbles on the road and
believe they are diamonds." With-in
forty years impressionists had
become popular and most of the
impressionist painters were able
In live relatively comfortably, af-ter
years of starvation. The clean,
clear, pure color applied In small
brush strokes gave great liveliness
and beautiful effects of light and
shade. Perhaps the biggest contri-bution
to comtemporary painting
Is the Intuitive "feeling nut" of
color relationships and the acci-dental
rather than planned com-position
giving a pleasing quality
of spontaniety.
' GAUGUIN. VAN GOGH
Paul Gauguin Is often referred
to as a modern savage and Vincent
Van Gogh as a mad Dutchman
Both men were at certain points In
their work much influenced by the
Impressionists, but Gauguin de-veloped
a broad, flat style of paint-ing,
decorative, rich, and sensuous
In color as well as a wonderful
feeling for rhythmic order, while
Van Gogh displayed great Intensi-ty
and brilliance in color and light
through the powerful slashing
method of applying the paint Both
men made a contribution toward
a greater freedom in painting than
had been known heretofore. The
main part of this exhibition is
composed of the three examples by
Pablo Picasso and the ten paint-ings
by Henri Matisse. In the Salon
d' Automne of 1905. one room was
set aside for a group of younger
painters who were known as radi-cals
and agitators. A member of
the group was Henri Matisse. This
exhibition was the beginning of a
new era. The group was given the
name 'les fauves" and the critics
wrote that they determined to
destroy whatever sanity and beau-ty
remained In art. This show
marked the beginning of a signifi-cant
change — a collective cons-ciousness
among the rebels — a
change which had a marked effect
on many contemporary painters.
Henri Matisse turned from real-ism
to Impressionism and then to
a decorative simplification, which
was to some extent shaped by
Persian book Illustration (juxtapo-sition
of brilliant colors of equal
Intensity] and to the some degree
by the Intense rhythmic quality
fo Negro sculpture 1'ntil 1910
he was the leader of the new move-ment,
but by that time he was
definitely set In the style which
made him well known and liked
While he was eontemptous of sub-iert
matter interest, he was also
suspicious of absolute abstraction
He exerted a wide influence on
many painters. In the Still Life
with Peaches" painted in 1892,
the indebtness to an older historic
style is clearly shown. In the
"White Turban" the influence of
primitive Negro sculpture appears
strongly, and the "Flower Festi-val
at Nice" and "Still Life and
Dahlias", the Impace of the rich
pattern and bright colors of Per-sian
miniature painting and Per-sian
book illustration is fully de-veloped.
PAINTINGS SIGNIFICANT
The paintings in this exhibition
have significance in various direc-tion.
In looking at the paintings
It might be well to remember a
quotation from a message from
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
on the occasion of the celebration
of the 25th anniversary of the Mu-seum
of Modern Art In October
1954. "For our Republic to stay
free, those among us with the rare
gift of artistry must be able freely
lo use their talent. Likewise, our
people must have unimpaired op-portunity
to see. to understand, to
profit from our artists' work. A*
long as artists are at liberty to
feel with high personal intensity.
as long as our artists are free U
rreate with sincerity and cenvlc-lion.
there will be healthy conlro-teray
and progress is art Omly
thus ran there be opportunity far
a gealus lo conceive and lo pro-duce
a masterpiece for all maa-kind."