The Carolinian [April 9, 1921]

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THE CAROLINIAN
NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
VOLUME II. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1921 ▼ NUMBER 24
"Twelfth Night" Scores
Great Success, for N.
C. C, Dramatic Club
May Belle Penn of Greensboro Car-ries
Off Star . Role of Viola—En-tire
Cast Does Splendid Work
Miss Van Horn
Speaks at G. C.
Wednesday Evening
The Necessity of Christ to Society
is Subject of Address— Meet-ing
Closes
The North Carolina College Dra-matic
Club scored an immense suc-cess
in their production of Shakes-peare's
comedy, "Twelfth Night" in
the College Auditorium Saturday
night. The performance was one of
the finest ever seen on a college
stage according to several authori-ties.
"Twelfth Night" is considered one
of Shakespeare's finest comedies and
one of the most effectively staged
plays that he produced. The story is
one of beautiful romance and poetic
love with a strong current of fun
and merry making. The star part of
the play, that of Viola, was played
by May Belle Penn of Greensboro
and her interpretation of the role
was excellent in many respects.
Margaret Heinsberger as Sebation,'
twin brother was very charming. The
role of Olivia, the beautiful countess,
was played by Lila Ward Koonce and
that of Duke Orsina by Lavina Pow-ell.
The more humorous parts, Sir
Toby Belch, kinsman of Lady Olivia,
played by Katherine Gaston, Sir An-drew
Aguscheek, Sir Toby's drunken
friend, by Byrd Blackwell; Maria,
maid to Olivia by Omah Williams;
Feste, the fool, by Betty Jones, and
Faliae by Helen Duna Casey, were so
admirably done that the audience was
kept in spontaneous laughter
throughout their scenes. Omah Will-iams
in her part of Maria captivated
the entire audience with her infec-tious
laugh and clever mannerisms.
Miss Williams gave one of the most
finished tits of acting ever seen in
an amateur. The work of Misses
Gaston and Black as well as the
drunken revellers, assisted by Betty
Jones as the fool, witty and enter-taining,
was splendid. Malovlio, La-dy
Olivia's steward puritanical and
self satisfied, was well done by Anne
Cantrell.
The minor roles were played suc-cessfully
by Virginia Davis, as An-tonio;
Ethel Bynum as a sea captain;
Hortense Moseley as an officer; Jo-sephine
Jenkins as Cenio and Aline
Mulder as Valentine. Lula Martm
Mclver and Gladys Wells were la-dies-
in-waiting to Olivia and Anne
Fulton and Lena Kernodle, Orseno's
gentlemen of the court; Elizabeth
Lindsay and Aline sailors and Agnes
Cannady, Irene Waters and Sudie
Rhodes court musicians.
Much of the success of the play is
due to Prof. Richard Thornton's di-rection
and coaching. Misses Hope
and Sehoch gave Prof. Tornton as-sistance
as to costuming and staging.
Allene Mulder was business mana-ger
of the play; Josephine Jenkins
property manager and Ethel Bynum,
mistress of the wardrobe.
Carolina Playmakers
Will Perform Here
Next Month
Under Auspices of the Junior Class-
Will Give Two Plays, Afternoon
and Evening
The Necessity for Christ in Our
Industrial Order was the subject of
a very interesting talk made Wednes-day
night in the Greensboro College
auditorium by Miss Van Horn,
National Secretary of the Y. W. C.
A. before the combined Cabinet
Training Councils meeting at G. C.
and N. C. C. W. Miss Van Horn was
introduced by Miss Lumpkin who
stated that Miss Van Horn would
speak upon one phase of the general
conference theme: The Necessity of
Christ to Society.
After making a general statement
of the industrial conditions in our
country today—binding down of hu-man
beings to machines, class divis-ion,
the few living upon the labors
of the many, large percentage of wo-men
workers, the immense normal
average of unemployment, etc., Miss
Van Horn spoke of the effort on the
part of certain organizations of to-day,
to change these conditions and
make the industrial system more of
a living society for human beings
than a profit making machine grind-ing
out the lives of human beings.
Among the organizations which have
taken definite stands with regard to
improving social and industrial con-ditions
are individual churches—the
Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists,
etc. The American Federation of
Churches, and the Y. W. C. A. Many
organizations interested merely in
promoting big business have attack-ed
the churches for "meddling" in
industrial affairs. Such statements
as these have been made: "It is none
of the church's business anyhow,"
"Business is business, what doe3 the
church know about it?" "Human na-ture
can't be changed, why worry!"
"This business is my business and it
is mine to deal with as I like, not
yours." "The theories are all right
but not practical."
However actual trial has proved
that Christian ideals may be worked
out in industry without bringing
bankruptcy upon anyone. Christian-ity
has much to contribute to this
age of machine production.
An industrial girl's answer as to
why Christ is needed in industry was
that since Christ himself was a work-er
he must have seen the problem
from the inside and known that his
principles would work before he set
them forth; and so they should be ap-plied
to present day industry.
After Miss Van Horn's talk the
meeting was brought to an end by
a short prayer by Miss Lumpkin.
StudentsofN.CC.
Elect Carolinian
Chief and Manager
Anne Cantrell of Winstbn-Salem Is
Editor-in-Chief and Stella Will-iams
Business Manager
It will be of interest to the stu-dents
and faculty to know that the
Carolina Playmakers will be at the
College on May 7, afternoon and
evening, under the auspices of the
junior classes. Those who saw their
performance last year will be very
anxious to see them again and those
who were not so fortunate have a
great treat in store for them.
Among comments on the work
taken from leading periodicals of the
country, is this very interesting one
which appeared in the American Re-view
of Reviews for September, 1919:
"The Carolina Playmakers of Chapel
Hill aim to translate the life of their
State into plays that spring from the
life of the people; from the falls of
playhouse and its own native group
North Carolina
When every community has its
plays and producers, we shall have
a national American Theatre that will
give a richly varied authentic expres-sion
of American life. We will be
aware which we are only dimly at
present, of the actual pulse of the
people by the expression in folk
plays of their coordinated minds. It
is this vision, this collective striving
that determines nationalism and rer
mains throughout the ages, the one
and only touchstone of the future."
The names of the plays, prices of
admittance and other details will be
announced later.
TO THE FACULTY
The tennis sport leader wishes to
apoligize to the faculty for the in-sulting
notice posted on the tennis
courts Wednesday afternoon. It is
true the tennis courts at Mclver
building are for faculty and the ten-nis
sport leader had to notify the
faculty accordingly, but some one
stepped in and posted this unheard
of notice. The faculty may play on*
the courts near Spencer, provided a
student wishes them to play with her.
Students, however, cannot play on
Mclver courts.
Signed,
Jessie Rose.
Friday evening at regular Mass
meeting, the two chief executives of
the Carolinian for 1921-22 were
elected. Anne Cantrell of Winston-
Salem, was elected editor-in-chief and
Stella Williams, Business Manager.
Anne has been one "of the very best
reporters on the staff this year, hav-ing
written more for the paper than
any other reporter. She is particu-larly
interested in this type of work;
since she intends to go into news-paper
business as a profession. She
is thoroughly capable as a writer and
as a manager. She has made a suc-cess
of every task that she has un-dertaken
during her two years at the
college, and the student body feels
extremely fortunate in having her
with whom to entrust the Carolinian
for next year.
Stella Williams, too, has shown "her
ability to perform the duties of the
office to which she was selected.
She has always been considered a
"hustler" and one who does things.
The managing editor, desk editors,
assistant business managers, circulat-ing
manager will be elected at a later
date. This new staff will elect the
members for the new Reporters'
club. •
The Carolinian is now only two
one of the best college publications,
years old and already *is considered
Friends of the Carolinian feel assur-ed
that its success will continue with
such efficient leaders as Anne Cant-rell
and Stella Williams.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
Thirteenth Pupils' Recital April 5th,
1921, 3:00 P. M.
Y. W. CABINET ENTERTAINS
GUESTS WITH RIDE
The visiting Winthrop delegation
to the Cabinet Training Council was
given an automobile ride through the
city and to points of interest in the
vicinity Friday afternoon. Follow-ing
the ride refreshments were serv-ed
at the country club. This enter-tainment
was planned and carried
out by the out going Y. W. C. A.
Cabinet of this college. They remem-ber
with pleasure, their enjoyable
stay at Winthrop last spring at a
similar Training Council.
Program
Bach—Prelude and Fugue in B flat,
W. T. C.—Rebekah Marsh.
Marion Daniel.
Homer—Banjo Song, Long Ago—
Beethoven—Sonata op. 81, (2nd and
3rd M.)—Gladys Whitley.
M. R. Lang—Snow Flakes—Mary
Louise Bender.
Tschaikowsky—The Sky Lark—Eli-zabeth
White.
Lichner—Gypsy Dance — Adelle
Alexander.
Goring Thomas—Song of Sunshine;
Graham Peace—The Early Morn-ing—
Mollie Matheson.
Karganoff — Intermezzo — Hazel
Worsley.
Mendelssohn—Song Without Words
No. 15—Rosa Lee Watts.
MacDowell—(a) Thy Beaming Eyes;
(b) The Swan Bends Low to the
Lily—Margaret Stroud.
Mendelssohn—Scherzo a Capriccio—
Olive Chandley.