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XLIX 2 3 ] WELLESLEY, MASS., MAY 22, 1941 No. 29' Board Names Classes Will Bid Miss McAfee Baseball Fans Will Cheer At Seniors Farewall New Members On Chapel Sleps Answers Plea Annual Faculty-Student Game The Athletic Association has For Faculty More than one of the "grand old For '45 Dorm planned for the afternoon of Sat Seniors" will shed a clandestine Baseball Captains Trustees Announce Latest Norumbega WiJI Serve As urday, May 24, a "red-letter day" tear when the whole college as to climax the Spring sports sea Additions to Teaching sembles for the solemn and impres Freshman Instead Of son. The occasion is the annual sive final step-singing of the year, Staff for 1941-'42 Upperclass House Spr ing Field Day and the program Friday, May 23, at 7 :15 p. m. For is to begin at 2 :00 p.m. On May 16 the Trustees voted the last time as undergraduates N orumbega will be a house of The tennis courts will be the the following additional appoint the class of 1941 will sing the songs Freshmen next year. The admin scene of an exciting tournament ments to the faculty for the year that have been their favorites at 2:00 p.m. and the golf finalists 1941-42: throughout the past four years. istration has r eached the conclu will t ee off at the same hour. A t Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Ph.D., Each of the other classes will say sion advocated by a group of stu 2:15 p.m. ar chery enthusiasts will Lecturer in Art in the second se good-bye with an original song. dent petitioners, but its reasons display their skill on the archery mester. Mr . Rowland is an assist The Seniors' little sisters will for reaching that conclusion dif range adjacent to· Mary Hemenway. ant professor at Harvard ·and will pay them tribute when Nancy Heads of these . ports are Beth fer from those of the petitioners. come to Well esley to give the Dobson, President, and Patricia Ralph, tennis ; Virginia Simpson, course in Far Eastern Art. Wellington, Vice-President, of the N orumbega is not being assigned g olf; and Miriam Simms, archery, Elizabeth A. Bindloss, B.A., Con Sophomore class, present each with to Freshmen because it is consid all of the ciass of '42. necticut College, candidate for the a bouquet of forget-me-nots on be e1·ed inferior and unwor thy of Gertrude Perkins '43, Head of Ph.D. at Columbia, has been ap half of the class of 1943. After upperclassmen. It was for years Baseball, announces that the eag pointed Instructor in Botany. Miss the Seniors leave the steps and er ly anticipated game between the Bindloss is now an instructor at march towards Green Hall Court, one of the most popular houses on faculty and students will be played Connecticut College. {Left to right): Gertrude Per each of the other classes will move the campus. Its central location, kins '43 and Mr. Michael at 3:00. The members of the stu Harriette Wilder Long, B.A., triumphantly to its next year's the size of its rooms, the small dent team were chosen from a Mount Holyoke College, M.L.A. J. Zigler place on the chapel steps. Fresh parlors with their uninstitutional squad of twenty-eig ht g·irls. Smith College, has been appointed men, Sophomores, and Juniors will "The faculty team has been or Lecturer in Botany and will give appearance combine t o make us then sing the Alma Mater, and the prophesy that some time in the ganized and in practice for sev the courses in Landscape Garden Seniors will end the ceremony with Students Will Consider eral days, but our team looks like ing and Design. near future it will be again jn an original farewell song. great demand as a r esidence. Problem of the Negro g ood competition," Gertrude Per Genevieve Young, B.S. Simmons kins insists. A practice of the We recommended its use for two College, M.A. Radcliffe College, Situation in Industry student team will be held today Miss McDowell To Talk upperclasses because we have not candidate for the Ph.D. at Rad on the diamond at 3 :40 p.m. The intended to increase the number cliffe, will be Instructor in Chem On Essentials of Radio Treating the aspects of "The faculty team is led by Mr. Mi istry. Miss Young is now teach of Freshman units cut off from "How does a radio work?" .md Negro's Place in Industry," Speech chael Zig ler, Pr ofessor of Psy ing at Simmons College and has daily contact with upperclassmen. "What are electric waves ?" are 202 will conduct a symposium t his clology, ' given a course in Zoology at W el Approximat ely half the entering some of the questions which Miss afternoon at 1:40 in Room 444, Following the va rious contests lesley this year. class is located in Freshman hous the presentation of awards and Barbara G. Trask, B.A. and M.A. Louise McDowell, Professor in the es. A good many student s who Green Hall. Department of Physics, will an letters will be made at 4:30 by Wellesley, returned last fall from have had a boarding school expe swer May 26, in Pendleton Hall, Under the direction of Miss Caroline Knight '42, new President a year's study with Mlle Boulan rience befor e ':hev came to college Edith W . Moses, Assistant Pr o of the Athletic Association. Mary ger in Paris. She will be Instruc at 4:40 p.m. or have had plenty of camp life This classroom lecture, given fessor of Speech, the class has Falconer '43 is Chairman of the tor in Music. welcome the chance to move at Field Day program and the com yearly to students of Physics 101, once into a larger household, rep spent the past weeks in research, M. Claire Myers, Ph.D., Univer mittee chairm,,n. all of the class is open, like the liquid a.ir lecture, resentative of a wider range of infor mal discussion, and practice sity of California, is coming as of '43 are Shirley Greene, Food Instructor in Psychology. to anyone interested in the mys age and experience than any Fresh symposium~ . The public is invited Committee ; Marjorie Scott, Poster Dorothy N. Pond, B.A. Wheaton teries of radio. Miss McDowell man house affords. The number wiII escrfbe tbe p1 incipJes in o come a.n ask questions, harass Committee; Peggy Markham, Pub- College, candidate f or M.A. at of such opportum ie- has o eeu volved in the t ransmission and re 1ici ty Committee, and Margaret Brown University, ha been ap reduced by fi fty which leaves ap the speakers, and in general to Winslow, Program Committee. pointed Instructor in Spanish. She ception of radio waves, and dis proximately seventy-five places in provide a Town Meeting of the cuss the fundamental ideas about is now teaching a·t Wheaton Col upperclass house for a Freshman Air atmosphere. the vacuum tubes. She will dem lege. class of four hundred. CJub Plans Party onstrate how electric vibrations Chairman Shirley Andr ews '41 are sent out and received. This seems unfortunate to some will introduce the five speakers. For Students' Aid Board Members Disclose of us who are trying to see the Julia Hatch '42 will discuss the The Wellesley College Club of College as a whole and who recog Social Institute's Plans Natalie Henry '39 Wins attitude of the unions toward ne Boston is planning a bridge party nize the diffe1·ence among Fresh gro labor; Car oline Knight '42, the and a fashion :o: how by Chez Made For '41 Sum.mer Season Journalism Scholarship men as well as elsewhere. southern point of view; Alice Mc laine Inc.· to be held at the Alum To acquaint interested persons Natalie Henry, Wellesley '39, The agitation of student peti Grillies '42, the actual status of nae Hall Ballroom and terrace June with the nature of the New Eng who is now a candidate for the tioners has etfectuaily thwarted the negro in industry; Ruth Flume 4 at 2 :00 p. · m~ land Institute of International Re Master of Science degree at the the effort to experiment with an '41, the attitude of the negro him In keeping with the annual lations, to be held on this campus Columbia School of Journalism, other housing arrangement which self; and Helen Peterson '41, the custom of the club, pro June 23 to July 2, Miss M. Louise has recently been awarded the El has interesting possibilities. We employer's viewpoint. ceeds ._;will go to the Wellesley Walworth, Chairman of the Exec Tiempo prize for her "general ex have tried relatively small houses A sister project of the public Students' Aid Society. Tickets are utive Board of the Institute and cellence in scholarship and interest with our youngest students. What speaking class was its Forum being sold at $1.00 .Per person. Mis c:: Marion Mercer, also of the in South America." Through this would happen in a small residen Tuesday, May 20. At that time Further information · concerning Executive Board, spoke following award Miss Henry, who is from tial unit where relatively large Hope Sisson '41 and Luella La Mer them may be obtained .from Miss a tea at Agora, Tuesday, May 20. Canton, China, will receive travel congenial groups of upperclassmen '4i discussed t~1e question: "Should Helen Hazelton of Wellesley Hills, Sponsored by F'orun1 and the ing expenses to Bogota, Colombia, lived and worked together? We'll "the strike be s uspended during the Chairman of the Ticket Commit Placement Office, Miss Walworth and a year's position on the edi not know in the immediate future present nation-:tl emergency?" Mar tee. All alumnae and Wellesley and Miss Mercer discussed the torial staff of the newspaper, El because the prejudice created by gar.Ei t Westheimer '41 was chair mothers are cordially invited to (Continued on Page 8, Col. 5) Tiempo. uninformed critics prevented the man. attend. selection of the congenial groups. There was never any intention of forcing mnvilling students to live in Norumbega. " Public opinion" faculty Import Talent to Insure Mr. Haroutunian Finds Men Are put pressure on students who might have been interested in the Just as Authoritarian as Girls experiment and there are now no A ·Victory in Baseball Classic By Beth Kulakofsky members of 1943 who want to live By Ruth Ellen Latzer there. So be it. Nobody wants to "It is hard to realize that I can't wonderful. I expand under the in establish a household of unwilling "The pitcher winding up, al History, Mr. George Hilde go into a classroom of girls and fluence of my old friends." members. here's the pitch. It's a strike!" brand, Lecturer in Econom cause them to remember the old ics, Miss Luc:Ole Lowry and Mi.ss Mr. Haroutunian insisted that It is disappointing to think that The cry of baseball is the harbin days," lamented Mr. Joseph Harou teaching men is much like teaching Wellesley undergraduates fall f'!O Jean Rkhardson, Instructors in tunian, former member of the Bib girls. They are a little more will easily into the category of signers g er of spring and with it comes Hygiene, as the team's promising the promise of a more fun-packed lical History Department, who has ing to call names, but they are the of protests who protest before they rookies, and with the possibility· of been visiting Wellesley recently. same authoritarians that girls are. know the facts. The damage is faculty-student ballgame than ever the spirited support in the cheer before. · · "I shall, however, play tennis with However, the boys in the Seminary done and there is no gain in fur ing section of Mr. Alfred Shef my friend, Mr. Holmes, and he tend to do their work with an ex ther discussion of it. Everybody Mr. Michael J. Zigler, Professor field, former Professor of English shall remember." cess of diligence. They find it hard has the right of petition. It of Psychology, better known in Composition at Wellesley, ·Cap Taking your reporter into 200 to view their own situation with a strengthens the case when the extra-curricular life as Captain tain Zigler expects his team Founders, and relaxing in "the sensible perspective-to combine framers of the petition confer Zigler, assumed a grave expres "either to knock the cover off the same old chair that I used to slump the two elements necessary for a with the informed authorities and sion when approached on the sub ball or else hit it out of the park." into when I had conferences with good attitude tward life: to believe are sure of their facts before ask ject of the coming game. "After The Faculty team believes its my students," Mr. Haroutunian, that it is the actions of each indi ing for signatures. the first two practices," he ex zest and team spirit would be im now teaching "Christian Ethics" at vidual that count, and to realize Mildred H. McAfee plained, "the Faculty team doesn't proved if there were a long spring the Presbyterian Theological Sem that there is a power which directs feel very hopeful." Only two gym training season in Florida or inary in Chicago, enthusiastically the course of events. They should New Officers Take Lead instructors and one Geology Pro Southern California." Unfortunate declared that coming back to Wel couple a sense of humor with a fessor have appeared on the field ly this arrangement has not yet lesley after a year's absence, fol generous portion of seriousness, In Verse Speaking Club of duty. "In fact," Captain Zigler been worked out. lowing his eight years as faculty Mr. Haroutunian feels, always went on, "so uncertain is the situ Gertrude Perkins '43, enthusias member here, was like coming keeping in mind that "Man pro The Verse Speaking Club an ation that Mr. Har outunian has tic captain of the student team, ·is home-and! now that they had poses, but God disposes." nounces its new officers elected to been brought east from Chicago gotten the roads marked, he could confident about her team's chances, While in Chicago, Mr. Harou serve during 1941-42. Dorothy for utility man." With a laugh although she admitted that the even find his way around. tunian's musical career has not Walbridge '43 is the new Presi he added, "We hope things won't "It is surprising what a year's Faculty team did have "some aw been neglected. His star perform dent, and Priscilla Rowley '43 is be so bad that he'll have to be fully hard wallopers." She also absence will do. I have forgotten ance of the year in the non Secretary-Treasurer. Although the used but the way it looks now he all of the unpleasant things, and confessed that her team was very theological line was a faculty en- Choir will not be organized next will probably lead the line-up." envious 6f Capta:in Zigler's beau- remember all of my Wellesley girls year, the Verse Speaking Club However, with Mr. Robert as angel-like. Coming back is (Continued on Page 8, Col. 4) plans to carry on as usual. Montgomery, Imtructor in Biblic- (Continued on Pag-e 8, Col. 1) WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, MAY 22, 1941 Views On the World Lament By R. T. '43 Member Now, if at any time in the life of a college The tennis courts are tempting, ~ssociated Colle~e Press newQpaper, its pages should be open to dis The golf course beckons too. The sun is high Distributor o{ cussion s of current and foreign news. With In cloudless sky, Colle6iate Dr5est many of the leading countries in the world at The lake is smooth and blue. titEPRS&•NT•D POii NATIONAL ADYBATISINQ llY war, and America vitally concerned politically, I've put away my tennis shoes, National Advertising Service, Inc. The golf course I ignore. Colley P116lil/Jn'I R'11f'•smlalne socially, and economically with the outcome, I must forego ... 20 MADISON AVE. NIEW Y01tK. N . Y • The brilliant glow C.. CA.0 • IO•TO• • L~ All••LU ..... F•a•c1aco it is .only natural t hat college students in their On roof and yonder shore. adult capacity should be inten ely interested m Caps and Fr owns WELLESLEY, MASS., MAY 22, 1941 The campus swarms with open the news of the day. Editor-in-Chief . Joan Pinanski '42 cars, Still Sweaters Managing Editor Elizabeth White '42 We are not children, despite the secluded The Cape is calling too. News Editor . . . . . Jea n Pinansl 1lesley Coll ege. Subscriptions ,two dollars per right and so forth in the short annum in ~idv a nce. Sing-le copies, s ix cents each. All con the tudent body alert to the problems of the and policies of campus life. The tributions s hould .be in the News office by 11 :00 A .M . Monday major C. G. officers hold office hours time indicated on the radio." This at the lateFtt, and s houln be addr essed to Joan Pinanski. day, both by digests or interpretations of news said inquisitor, self-named the All advertising- mMter should be in the business office by regularly each week. These hours 2 :00 P .M. M onday. All alumnae n ews s hould be sent to events. Certainly the most important current are posted on the board outside the President of the Ardent Artiste The Alumnae Office, Wellesley. Mass. All business com· Admirers of "Wellesley," turned munications ::i n dsubscriptions should be sent to the Welles events each week should be treated in some C. G. Office in 140 Green Hall. The ley College News, W ellesley, Mass. House Councils were formed this out, oddly enough, to be a certain Enter d as SPCOT\rl-class matter, Octot>er 10, 1919. at the way, giving the student body a broader per Senior Phi Beta Kappa. She Post office ::it W ellesley Bra nch, Boston, Mftss., under the year to provide for more direct act of :\larch 8, 1 79. Acceptance for mniling at special :3pective and a more complete general education. student represent ation. And Sen might further be identified by Don's rates of rostag-e provined for in section 1103, Ac~ of October ate is open to all W ellesley College pi>Cture on her desk which he gives 3. 1917. a u th orized October 30, 1919. to all his fans who send to him t he 1 students. All who are interested Or Keep To the Campus are strongly urged to attend to names of five friends. C. G. Responds Although News admits that it has no definite voice their opinions in all the A Free Press author last week rose from p.olicy about world issues, still it continues to discussions. Their participation To Future Fathers would prove invaluable. the political lethargy too of ten associated with offer views upon the subject. The value of We are not attempting here t o The H averford N ews recently continuing such editorials is open to debate, claim that our present syst em of publish ed a poem addressed to undergraduates in an effort to make College "Future Fathers." de pite the reasons advanced above. College Government is without Government more effective as a representative fault. But, we are trying to pre Sir, you can send your daughter The information presented in this fashion is to college executive agency. In seeking a better "means sent clearly to the student body almost invariably gained at third or fourth the present organization of College ...To learn the social life to coordinate the will of the students with that Government and its facilities for And how to handle gentlemen hand. Reading a dispatch in the Times, hear W ho want her for a wife, of the faculty and college administrators," the action. If students feel that the ing a radio report, or taking an elementary present organization of College To learn about fraternities, author played a chord which the C. G. officers course in political science does not give any Government is inadequate, it will Liquor, weeds, and such, be through constructive criticism To get herself well rounded have been fingering .over a considerable period. student the qualifications for Dorothy Thomp Without costing too much. sonian pronouncements. It is hardly probable that progressive changes will be The Welle ~ ley Senate is composed of nine vot made. t hat any undergraduate is really capable of Marriage and Careers ing tudent members, the President of the Col Mildred Donovan '42 interpreting for .others events which are so far Barbara Bishop '42 lege, the Dean of Residence, and four repre Marie Louise Stafford '42 Wheaton in an effort to produce removed from her direct knowledge. perfect wives and mothers held an sentatives from the faculty. While this group The news value of these comments is almost Thoughtful Students open forum on the subjed of doubtless does represent a cross-section of col non-existent, because of the fact that News is "Marriage and Careers." Among lege opinion, inevitably there are many student To t he Editor of the News: the worthy and womanly questions a weekly paper. Editorials, moreover, accord In t he name of the College I viewpoints which never reach Senate. which were submitted, there was ing to our realistic theory, should bear some want to thank two students for one unusual one. An anonymous For many years Vassar College has solved quick and intelligent action on relation to the news stories. Those who favor introvert asked, "Can you leave the this problem by a "House of Representatives," Tree Day. I am told that two baby in t he bath tub to wait on the the continuation of editorials on world affairs girls went all over the parking composed of one student from every dormitory tables at th e Waldorf?" believe that they serve to "illuminate" students. space closing the windows of our corridor in the inst: ~ution. This system enables guests' cars when the rain sudden The light, however, is probably feeble, since Invisible Audience their Senate to learn immediately and directly ly came. I do not know who the o-irls who have succeeded in remaining indif girls were, but they certainly rep how undergraduates feel on issues which con The University of Minnesota ferent to such matters will hardly be influenced resented Wellesley well on that oc cern them. Questions to be referred to an ad casion! Thank you. now eliminatesi it s audiences. The to change at this time. Those who are inter laboratories of speech and voca visory "House," if established here, would be Mildred H. McAfee. ested will not be satisfied by oracles from the tional orientation courses are the controversial ones. proud possessors of a therapy unqualified. Citizenship Day It may be that present governmental machin theatre in which the student-per The actions of Hitler or the maneuvers of To the Wellesley College News: formed sketches of social etiquette ery can be adapted to formulate all-campus Last Sunday all over the United Mussolini are outside the field of a college news situations may take place without opinion at Wellesley, should the extensive Vas States, Americans were celebrating consciousness of the audience, sar model seem unnecessary and unwieldly. paper. News must define its limits, in order Citizenship Day for newly-natural which is obscured from view on the ized aliens and youth just t urned House Councils, elected here for the first time to function usefully and well. Editorials on other side of a screen of light. contemporary affairs should be concerned with twenty-one. The celebration was last fall, might occasionally be consolidated accompanied with the usual some Runaway Lady into a large advisory body. These Councils in the recognition of existing student .opinions, what inane type of speech-making action have shown both the potentialities and rather than with 'the interpretation of the that characterizes American holi So it has come to this! Rum opinions of the nation. Limitation of this kind days, but the essential point was maging through the exchange is defects in creating more officials. While some good. Emphasis was laid upon does not mean retreat into steam-heated ivory sues for some rather badly-needed have been able to suggest constructive and the responsibilities of new voters, Caps and Frowns material, we dis vatluahle measures for (their dormitories, in towers, but simply the realization of the scope not only as voters but as active covered Something Surprising. On forces in the communities where others their existence is hardly known and the of a college paper. the front page of the Exonian, they lived. Democracy, that in weekly journal of Phillips Exeter Councils have become superfluous. tangible concept which is strug Academy, we found our own Junior College Government at its best requires vig News Apologizes gling today to justify its existence Pr0m girl. You remember her orous, yet sympathetic, interaction between the against totalitarian efficiency, re the delicate little lavender lady An editorial last week entitled Need for quires active, not passive, cooper executives and those who have chosen them. who graced the prom issue of Perspectiv.e reflected lack of attention to detail ation of every citizen. The stu News. Whether Wellesley requires a more representa dents of Wellesley who are now on our part while we advocated a long range We had no trouble in recogniz tive advisory body depends on student demand or are going to be respected mem view. Wellesley does not require a swimming bers of their individual communi ing our protegee, even though her as well as Senate action. But if undergraduates test before awarding the B. A. degree, although ties, can and must aid in that jus once dignified purple gown has now genuinely desire a louder, more direct voice m that was the statement made in this column. tification. It is mainly in these emerged in a ravishing red. individual communi·ties that there She holds her head as proud C. G., criticism of the . present machinery is News presents its sincere apologies to the De ly still, and her unrivaled grace of ~ow in order. . partment of Hygiene and its read~rs. (Continued on Page 7, Col 1) motion has not yet been torn a:way. WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, MAY 22, 1941 3
Dancers Enact Tragedy Of Russian Lieutenant Joseph Kennedy, Jr. Cites Stand For Tree Day Mistress For Isolation to News Reporter THE PEREGRINATING PRESS 'l'he festivities of the sixty-fifth annual Tree Day began at 3 :30 By Rosamund W ilfley p.m. Saturday, May 17, with the marching of t he four classes on to "We would not only rnffer from in Mexico last summer, but stated m ~RRY's geology teacher was Youthful vig or may know no Severance Green, where t hey form a more serious financial depression that he wasn't alarmed by Nazi ..fF1 startled a she called the roll bounds but it would certainly have ed the Wellesley "W" and sang or economic collapse_.jf we actively dipkmatic intervention. "Com for a field trip to find an extra found a near limit if the state the Alma Mater. After the wel entered the war in Europe, but we macho seems to be helping u s, and passenger in the bus that waited ment of an ignorant bystander had coming address by Nancy Strelin would also sacrifice a major ad there is little reason to believe that at the parking space behind Foun been carried out on Tree Day. One ger, President of the Senior Class, vantage by assuming the off ensivr the country will prove difficult. ders. "What is your name?" she spectator told Perry that she could the ':['ree Day Mistress, Marie Haf rather than a defensi¥e position." We must, however, pursue all inquired. "Oh," returned the g irl not understand how the '44 Presi fenreffer, dressed in white, and her Joseph Kennedy, Jr., son of for means of maintaining our present casually, "I don't belong here. I'm dent could run with the tree to its four aides, Judith Stowe, Jean m er Ambassador Kennedy, was firm friendly relationship with them." going to get off at Central street." future location and plant it suc Kuebler, Lorraine Manny, and in substantiating this isolationi ·t Hoover's speech of last week met * * * cessfully before '43 arrived on t.he Barbara Olsen, in dresses of '41's policy in a recent interview. Dur with strong approval on the law A group of Freshmen hurrying scene. blue, came down the hill from the ing his second year at H arvard student's part, for he agrees with one of the busy boys working in * * * Art Building to the traditional Law School he h2s been an active t he ex-Presid,ent more than he does The Well the other night were :11' E;PORT has come to Perry of music of Pomp and Circumstance, member of the Harvard Commit with Lindbergh. The latter is ex finally asked by their victim jf ma certain Freshman who, and took their positions at the tee Against Military Intervention, cellently equipped to speak about they had remembered to sign out. learning that her escort could not side of the green. having made several speeches be armaments, however, Kennedy Perry was amazed to h ear them attend Wellesley Float Night cere The dancers n ext entered to fore the Foreign Policy Associa thinks, for he was in Berlin at the answer, "We aren't worried about monies without his father's per present the pageant, depicting t he tion and other organizations in same time as Lindbergh and was irregularities, but we can't miss mission wired the boy a hasty adventures 0f Lieutenant Kije, a Greater Boston. impressed by the amount of in Glenn Miller." me ssag~ signed "Dad." legendary Russian hero. The bal Joseph J r . is definitely opposed formation Lindbergh had obtained. let music was by Serge P rokofieff. to the sending of convoys, not be * "' * * * * The younger isolationist will a lso ID VEN Perry was surprised to cause of the probable los of live A "grand old" Senior was slight Bet sy Coe '41 played the title role; take to the air soon, for h e is due ~ see a crew class, oars in, bus entailed, but because it would be ly embarrassed when, having gen othe; leading characters were Eliz to join the Air Corps in June. Hi ily reading the Sunday "funnies" "a certain prelude to the sending erously offered to take one of her abeth Deems '41 as Sonya, the father had no definite plans at the while floatil'!g aimlessly about nn Lieutenant's bride; Joan Guiter of men and the inevitable dissolu professors home after class, she time of his visit to Boston last Lake Waban. tion of our social, economic, and discovered to the amusement of man '42 as the Priest; Carol F rank week, but agrees with the same political tructure through war." * * * her passenger that her Ford was '41 as the Grand Duke Tellemoff; general isolationist policy . Above He favors all present aid to Britain Two Sophomores got a special out of gas. Rosamund Gethro '44 as the Czar; all, he maintains that we must pre but contends that we should limit j olt from the Spade Receiver's re Mary Crandon '44, who was also serv our democratic institutic n * * * it to exclude anything that would mark on Tree Day about 1943's )fl OU never know what visitors the Freshman Tree Day Mistress, and our standard of living by "yellow boudoir caps." At that as the Czarina; J ane Harris '43 lead us to sacrifice everyth ing by ~ will say next, P erry felt as avoiding the menace of a long and going in. "It would be perfectly prc·cise mome:'.'lt their crew caps he overh eard a Tree Day gu est as the Messenger; Hannah Schil exhausting war. f easible for the United States to were reposing decoratively on the inquire about a Freshman house ler '42 and P eggy Kahin '42 as exist as a nation regardless of who brows of their Harvard swains. called "Yes-Annette." Heralds, and Lorraine Stanley '41 * * * as the P easant Girl. wins the war," he continued, "for '44 ~ ED i his favorite color so * * * Following the pageant, Cather it seems highly probable to me that ~ Perry would like to know to Perry's ears burned the other ine Lawrence '43 spoke appropri international trade will exist al Do you want tv usher just exactly what shade of crim day upon hearing a certain con ately amusing words and gave th e t hough in a much more limited son the Cornell date of a Welles versation. One frantic member traditional spade to J ean Stone way." in the Concert Series? ley Freshman blushed when his of th e N ews staff rushed up to '44, who replied in like manner Building America's defense to car refused to transport them from her friend with, "Do you know a and handed the spade to Helen the utmost in this hemisphere is See Page 5 the Syracuse Station to the week Per ry ? " The friend tu,rned to her Torbert, F reshman Class Presi an essential program in the irnla end festivities in Ithaca. The calmly, "Oh, yes," she answered dent. Throwing the spade to a tionist's opinion, and strong South crushing blow was not the failure -and proceeded to name another cohort, Miss Torbert, madly pur American bases mu.st be obtained, of his Ford, but the fact that he member of News. sued by the classes of 1943 and whether by diplomatic or other was forced to accept a ride from 1944, h eaded toward the location m eans. Mr. Kennedy backs this Graduation two lowly Syracuse students. Perry the Pressman of '44's tree, which sh e alone knew. view by that of military authori In spite of the noble efforts of the ties, who consider invasion of this Sophomores, the Freshmen reach country impossible, provided we Gifts Float Night Crowd Sees Dr. Rufus Jones Speaks ed the tree first. They are in possession of the e strategic Victorious Senior Crew On Final Faith in Life then sang their song for the first points. We should also be more time. With more cheers from all alert in our economic transactions Beli eving that our lives are what And Scenes from Operas the classes, the Tree Day activi with South America, and tr ade we make them, Dr. Rufus Jones, ties ended. Before an unusually large crowd Honorary Member of the class of with important countries even if sacrifices are involved, in order to Granville Leatherwood by Lake W aban Friday night, May 1941, spoke on t he subject, "My maintain our strong influence. 16, the Seniors took honors in both Final Faith is in Life'' at Chris Margaret Conner Talks Kennerly also spent _some time the econd and fi rst crew races, tian Association Vespers, Sunday; - On Recent Experiences Gifts whi•le the Juniors followed close May 18, at Tau Zeta E psilon So behind to come in second in both Miss Marga::::'et Conner, Welles ciety house. Visit the contests. The Sophomores a nd Our minds requir e, Dr. Jones ley '35, and Deputy Secretary of Freshmen took third and fourth said, serious devotion to truth; the State of Connecticut, was the BOTANIC GARDENS places, respectively. our spiritual selves need cultiva guest speaker at the last dinner of the Departmen t of Political While Wellesley students and tion of insight, vision, and faith; Magnificent faculty mingled with alumnae and and a sense of fellowship requires Science this year which took place Wellesley, Mass. in the small dining room at Tower AZALEA DISPLAY college guests on shore, the Float a knowledge of God. Court, W ednesday, May 21, at Night program went off without a The question of what life is, hitch as · even the weather man continued Dr. Jones, is asked 6:30 p.m. contributed to the setting with a throughout the Bible, and the The title of Miss Conner's perfect evening. After the races, brevity of life is particularly em speech was "Politics and Public not only the Senior coxswains, phasized. It is t he quality of our Service." She illustrated her Call Wellesley Phyllis Devlin and P riscilla Patti lives which is important and not speech with some of her own ex 3800 for son, were thrown into the lake in the' length. He cited Jesus periences as a woman lawyer in accordance with tradition, but also as an example of one whose life, the field of politics. After her Your New graduation from Wellesley, Miss Willye White '41 got a ducking. though brief, is still of far-reach permanent! Miss Harriet Clark returned to ing importance. In order to make Conner continued her studies at IN Wellesley to officiate as judge, with our life one of quality rather than the Yale Law School. Later she WELLESLEY Mary Eliza Turner '40, and Mr. of quantity, we need to rid our practiced law in Connecticut, and Boswell from Dana Hall. selves of fea1· as much as possible, this year she became the first wo After the formation of the "W," and to add more bravery and ad man ever to be Deputy Secretary the Freshman shell was rowed near venture to our experiences. of the State of Connecticut. shore, and H elen Torbert, Presi Dr. Jones pointed out that we dent of 1944, christened it Conga. must rise above the biological p' -...,...... Red Shamrocks At the conclusion of the crew level of existence in order to ex events, nine floats paraded in front plain ourselves, for there are high of the shore line, displaying their er sources to account for. many of 100% On Washable scenes before the audience. The the qualities in our lives. in positions WHITE PIQUE! Mikado scene was first, followed ; j( weeks! by Will1'.a1n Tell, Don Giovanni, from the opera were amplified over 0 the loud speaker system. 3 Louise, Falstaff, Carmen, Barber THAT'S THE AMAZING RECORD Before the festivities, the crews of Seville, Pinafore and Hansel : 1 the 1941 ~radua~:s:f1!:;e ~::.:; and Gretel. As each float went elected as captains for next year: 8ive Secretarial ~ ~ood 1940 record by, recorded selections of music Marian Burton '44, Doris Forsbrey Women. ~e~t~g'e!a~s upon request). 0 by l wee s. TIVES testl- 43, and Janet MacFarlane '42. 11> SUCCESSFUL EXEC'} · ~ is " the Appliqueiies fy that secretar.ial t~~i;i1for ~ainin~ best initial equt~~~e best) "channel Notebooks. Theses, etc. employment (an f er But it must of trainin~" thereation· Enroll where Typed be efficient prepara . for JUNIORS - Miss Gleason The results are proven. 16 Fee $160 4 Wayside Road - - - Natick "' DAILY Sept. 3 t~!~ts if desired). (payable in insta k Sl6. Member Tel. 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Boston mer days and nights in June and S Wellesley 8 ofter. Sizes 9 to 15. $10.95. IFree call and deliver servicel I Tel. W el. 3427 § ~.-COO-~J:r..r..r..r...o-J08 4 WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, MAY 22, 1941 Index Out from Dreams Chicago Office T o Find First Aid Students To Jobs for College Women Receive Certificates Hygiene Department . . an d Theor ies There will be an outdoor p1cmc Women college students who are Of Red Cross Society given by the Hygiene Department Law. School Scholarships seeking employment in Chicago Miss Kathar ine W ells, Instruc at the fireplace on Thursday, May following their graduation are tor in Hygiene and Physical Edu 22, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. New York Univer ity is offering urged by Mrs. Ruth Drummond, cation, has announced that the Red . ix full-tuition scholarships to Director of the Chicago Collegiate Cross certificate for the Standard 1941 women who wish to enter the Bureau of Occupations, to take ad Course in First Aid to the In The last Senior Class meeting School of Law in September of vantage of this non-profit organ jured will be awarded to the follow will take place at 3 :40 Thursday, this year. Wellesley Seniors who ization's facilities. Founded in ing people: May 22, in Pendleton Hall. wish to apply for this award 1912 the Bureau annually inter Lotte Adler '44, Suzanne Ald Hoop Rolling will be held Satur should report to the Placement view~ and registers close to 10,000 rich '43, Jane Behnke '43, Mar House Teams Will Play day, May 24, at 7:30 a.m. At Office at once. This is necessary women. The Bureau is sponsored garet Bowman '42, Mrs. C. B. 8 :15 a.m. the last Senior Chapel so that their letters of application by the Chicago alumnae associ~ Comegys, Head of Elms, Miss Final Games of Season will be held. will reach the Scholarship Com tions of leading colleges and uni Helen Dodson, Assistant Professor The Athletic Association an mittee by June 15, 1941. Step Sin,ging versities and the American Asso of Astronomy, Emma Krakauer nounces that the final Inter-Dor Step Singing will be held for ciation of University Women. '43, Sarnh Moore '43, Mrs. H. J. mitory Softball games will be Raymond, Head of Pomeroy, Mary played this week. The season will the last time this year Friday, The Bureau places young grad May 23, at 7:10 p.m. Physical Therapy Loui e Rehr '41, Patricia Ryan '44, end when the faculty team chal uates just out of school as well Gladys Tomaj-:1.n '42, Margaret as mature, experienced workers, lenges the student p layers on the 1944 Wellesley College has been Turnbull '43, Susanne VanDyke baseball diamond at 3:00 p.m., Sat and has in the past secured jobs Freshmen room dr awing will be notified through the Government '41, Margery Wheeler '42, Willye urday, May 24. in virtually every kind of profe s at 3:30 May 22, in Alumnae Hall. of a special six months' course of White '41, Betty Ann Wilson '43, sion except teaching. Six horseback riding enthusiast s t raining in Physical Thera~y and Marjorie Wolfe '44. participated in a Tra il Ride on which will begin on September 2 m This year has so far shown a In the course offered to pro Sunday morning, May 18. Start World Institute Offers 2 bout fifteen training centers marked improvement in prospects fessional stude!lts in Hygiene and ing from the Weston Bridle and Scholarship to Student thr oughout the country. One of the for college women with business Physic:;> } Education: Frances Col Saddle Club, the girls r eturned to centers is Bouve-Boston School of reflecting the speed up of the • pecJ•I - --C.rew Cll,.,._ :·::::;::;: ..,,p,.,...... ,.,.... .,,. .,_.,, ...... - - :;::: SVHXD Q11ABTD • • • JlJN& 30 FALL QuABTD • • ••• Sur. 29 ;:::::::: fM Free Booklet "Career•" INSTITUTE 720 North .l\Ilcblgan Ave,, Dept. 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San Francisco WELiesley 1416 ~:::~:::m:::;;~~~::::m.~:-=· :·: : ::: :::::-:~;;m:m:;!'.·::: · :· : ·:·::: :::: : :·:·:::::~·::::-:::·::=· =:r-::·=~:<:-1';- WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, MAY 22, 1941 5 Wellesley Girl Wins First Prize Lieutenant Ki je Shows Versatility and Skill Farcical Comedy O:ff ers Allis McKay Writes 0 f In Atlantic Monthly Competitio.n Of Large College Cast Second Class Humor And Columbia River Region ======By L etty Reigner Lieutenant Kije, a modern dance Trite, Slap-Stick Plot composition in six scenes, present They Came to a River, by Allis Joan Hubel '43 is walking in the Women Aren't Angels, a farcical McKay. Macmillan Company. ed by Students of Wellesley Col comedy by Vernon Sylvaine. Pre clouds, for out of the hundreds lege. Music by Serge Prokofieff, 651 pages. $2.75. of entries from all over the coun sented by Lee Ephraim, directed by choreography by Carol Frank, Harry Wagstaff Gribble. They Came to a River is the try to the recent Atlantic Monthly Betsy Coe, Elizabeth Deems, Joan story of the growth of the upper College Essay Contest. her essay Guiterman, J ean Thomas, and CAST In order of their a ppea ra n ce Columbia River region from a has just been awarded first prize. Deborah Barron. "I can't quite realize it yet." Joan Mrs. Featherstone. Olive R eeves-Smith harsh, sparsely inhabited land at M acf a rlane ...... Walte r B urke laughed. "Ever since Saturday DANCERS Wilmer Popday . . ... Bobby C la rk the end of the last century to the Heralds ...... Hanna h Schille r '42 when I got the letter from the Alfred Bandle ...... Melville Cooper rich orchard country of the twen P eggy Kahin '42 Fra nkie ...... Eliza beth Suthe rland Atlantic with a $50 check enclosed, Messenger ...... J a n e H a rris '43 Albe rt Butch . Roger S mith ties. Told through the lives of the Cza r ...... Rosamund Gethro ' 44 Sydney Butch ...... Ch a rles Fra n ces p eople who h elped the region grow, I've been in a daze." Czarin ...... Ma n r C1·a ndon '44 Miss Tre llow . . Cynth ia L a tha m Her entry, a critical essay on G rand Duke T ellemoff Thelma B a ndle . . B ertha B elma r and particula1·ly through the life Car ol Fra nk ' 41 E liza b eth Popday . . . V elma R oy ton of Chris Hallowell, the book be H. M. Tomlinson, called "Interpret Lie utena nt Kije ...... Betsy Coe ' 41 M a jor Gaunt. .A. P . K ay e er of England,'' was her final paper Sonya (Kije's bride ) Marcell . . Ma rcell J ournet comes an unassuming but rather E lizabeth D eem s '41 Olga ...... J e ra ldine Dvor a k moving story of the soil. for the Essay Course, taught by P riest ...... J oan Guite rma n '42 Specia l Constable ...... Lionel Ince Miss Edith Johnson, Professor of Peasant Girl .L orra ine Stanley '41 Milita r y Policeman .... . Byron Russell Even as a young girl likes to sit A lso, Counc illors, Soldie rs of the R eg- When the program describes by the river at her preacher English Composition. Although iment, Noble m e n of the Couii:, Joan Hubel '43 Joan is an English Composition L adies of the .o urt, Attendants of Women Aren't Angels as a farcical father's ferry and feel the aware Kije, Cossack s, Peasant Girls, comedy. it tells just about the ness of "the things" in the rocks major and a member of the Peasant Men, Courtiers a nd Sol- staff of Review, . this is the d iers ' whole truth. The plot involves a and shrubs in the canyon, Chris blow by blow description of the Hallowell is. self-reliant and real Art Institute Offers first scrap of writing she has The dancing of Lieutenant Kije ever sent to a contest or for pub provided a colorful climax to Wel famous English week-end in the istic, and when disillusioned a few Exhibit of Paintings country in three not too hilarious years later by her childhood hero, lication, not excepting Ivory Flakes lesley's traditional Tree Day cere 25-word endorsements. "It doesn't monies. The imaginary tale of the acts which make an unsuccessful she accepts life stolidly. Married The Institute of Modern Art is attempt to improve on the custard at seventeen t o earnest Nate seem right to be so lucky on the non-existent Kije's life and death offering, through June 15, an ex pie throwing tradition of the old Barnes, she keeps house and works first try,'' she lamented "-es in the service of the Czar furnished hibition of paintings by fifty young pecially when I've always dreamed the plot upon which the composi days. with him in the fields to make a Bobby Clark. the American success of his father's ranch with American artists. It is being held of papering my rooms with rejec tion was based. The choreograph tion slips the way they do in books." screwball, and Melville Cooper, his its struggling young orchard. She in order to provide for these art ers introduced charming touches of When interviewed in her room humor through the solo dancers business partner-who has be almost gives up when Nate is kill ists a legitimate means of pub come in-volved with a woman whom ed in a rock slide, but manages to on the fourth floor of Stone, Joan and played them up by the more licizing their efforts and actually had just sent the precious letter conventional movements of the his wife mustn't find out about- keep on for the sake of the children manage to clown through the top marketing their output. from the Atlantic Monthly by air chorus. This was particularly out until the succeeding years bring billing roles with enough off-color prosperity to the ranch and even An exhibit of fifty paintings, mail special delivery to her parents standing in Joan Guiterman's in Montreal, Canada. She thinks treatment of The Marriage of Kije. lines to get the supposedly funny tual happiness to Chris. each by a different artist and each story · a cr oss. But Clark indulged a representative work of that art that the best part of the letter is Elizabeth Deems' choreography Miss McKay has peopled her not the check, but the line saying, in a little too much audience simple story of human devotion to ist, is bound to be both varied and of the court scene of Kije's ro "We hope you will write for the mugging--even for a farce. Wal the land with several memorable uneven. In many of the more dar mance over-stylized the chorus Atlantic Mont.11,ly someday,'' which ter Burke (Macfarlane), who characters. Besides Chris, there ing works there is evidence of work a little, but her work in the she intends to fling before the edi deserted from the army because is shy, old Luke Walters, who kills commendable experimentation with Death of Kije was extremely ver tors of that magazine some two they wouldn't let him fight in his out, however, s 11fficient mast ery and satile and provided really mag the l:: rother he fears is going to years hence. pull up his young trees; t here is assuran ce on the part of the paint nificent movement for the climax (Continued on Page 6. Col. !) the pathetic chore girl, Bernella, er so th at a successful work is As for the fifty dollars, she is of the whole composition. Betsy who takes happiness "where you produced. considering investing half of it, Coe explored the humorous possi can find it" in the arms of a suc Among the more conservative then buying some books and bilities of Kije and his Soldiers to cession of lovers; and there is Ruth works the portraits are outstand Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and their utmost. This scene as well Barnes, N ate's mother from the ing. By using a color scheme of -finaUy going on a grand splurge as The Marriage of Kije were out East, who fears the country that is heavy greens and raw flesh tones with whatever remains. standing for the amusement t hey aging her husband, though held by and a painting technique of chalky, (Continued on Page 6, Col. 2) it. harsh brushstrokes, Carl Pickhardt Unfortunately, most of Miss has portrayed the Cook with un another landscape were it not for McKay's men characters seem to comprom1smg reality, capturing the free and exciting way in which lack the depth of understanding completely the feeling of the drear the artist bullds up form through CLASS OF 1944 ! she conveys to her women. Even iness and harshness of his subject. the very character of his brush strokes-broad, sweeping ones for Every book rou ha11en'1 read through the stream of conscious For pure character study Thomas Do you want to usher at the ness, a device which she uses to the Craig's beautifully modulated por the rolling hillside, short zig-zag is a new book to rou. You trait, Ysidra Jaquez, is outstand ones for the furrows in the fore point of exaspera•tion, she does not Concert Series? will find a lot of such book• in get inside their characters. It is· ing. The old Mexican woman ground, thin, sparse ones for the this fundamental weakness, plus stands revealed to us resigned, full scraggly pine tree. The sky is un our Dollar Room. her concern for describing minute of an understanding born of much usually done in that the smooth Tryouts in Billings Hall experience, yet with a touch white underpainting represents the ly the sensations of the "little" Thursday, moments of life such as doing the of stubbornness lingering. Mr. sky itself. For painterlike quali HATHAWAY HOUSE dishes and putting the children to and Mrs. Cntter, by Willard ties, the Astoria Marble Works by bed, that will probably limit the Cummings, is a portrait done in John Pellew, is notable. The char May 22, 4 :40 - 5 :40 p.m. BOOKSHOP appeal of Miss McKay's book to the fashionable vein, but it is not acteristic brushstroke is a rectang women readers. able for the unity which the paint ular one which seems to have been M.M.'43 Pr has attained through subtle smoothed over with a palette knife. interrelationship between the two Through this stroke and a satisfy figures and through the use of a ing color design, he has built up Grace Notes limited palette of blues, rose reds, form which is almost Cezanne-like and rather cold flesh tones. In the in its architectural quality. In Billings HaJl Wednesday eve Sussex Maid, Mary Aiken has E. C. '43 ning, May 14, a group of music created a sensitive portrait in students presented the third in a which she has enhanced her inter series of student recitals. The pretation of her sister by placing program opened with Sonata in D her in a landscape of her native COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE Major for violin and piano by Le country. A very satisfying design WELLESLEY HILLS -who Wears The Pants? clair, played by Clara Chittenden has been realized in the line echo Mats. at 2:30 Eves. at 7:48 Thurs.·Frl.·Sat. May 22·28·24 '43 and Jane Guthrie '43. Their of the girl's head in the old wooden · Return Engagements of interpretation showed imagination figure beside which she has paused. James Stewart • Ginger Rogers EYerybody, it seems. in and understanding. The final The most interesting of the "VIVACIOUS LADY" movement, marked "Tambourin" paintings in other categories than and During the past f~w weeks, several of our Rex Harrison • Margaret Lockwood was especially charming. Thou~h portraiture owe their value more in shops have reported an unprecedented the tambourin is a lively French to unusual and well-mastered "NIGH'.r TRAIN" stage dance, this one had a peculiar painting techniques than to any Mon.-Tnes.· Wed. May 26·27·28 demand, by young women, for men's slacks. Scotch bagpipe effect which was Charley Grapewin and very new or radical ideas of sub Marjorie Rambeau In This is a new leaf in our experience, but if delightful. ject matter or its treatment. For "TOBACCO ROAD" a lso men's slacks are what the girls want, we have Goltmann's Fourth Concerto for instance, Pheasant Country by Cesar Romero In violoncello and piano followed the Walt Killam, might have been just "TALL DARK and HAND SO M"E" them ••. in flannel, covert, gabardine, tropical (Continued on Page 6, Col. 5) weights, etc., all cut with typical Roger Kent ~The Show Place of Middle•ex Count'' ~ smartness, all modestly priced at ~8.50. Sat. & Sun. S T G E Q R G E Mat. Z Roger Kent Styled Slacks 1850 Cont. 1 En. 6:30 2 P. M. F R A M I N G H A M Last Show 8 0 I' ~:.~M!:. NT!. ~L~ SUN. thru WED. THURS. - FRI. - SAT. Thurs.·Frl.·Sat. May 22·23·24 James Stewart - Judy Garland Irene Dunne - Cary Grant Roger Kent :Mickey Rooney • Ian Hunter "ANDY HARDY'S in in PRIVATE SECUE'fARY" Individualized Clothes for Men Cisco Kid in "ZIEGFIELD GIRL" "PENNY SERENADE" NEW YORK "RIDE ON VAQUERO" - Also - - Also - 12 West 33rd St. • 15 East 4'th St. • 22' Weat '7th St. 40 Broadway 321 Broadway Sun.·Mon.•Tues. May 25·26·i7 Penny Singleton - Arthur Lake Robert Young - Laraine Day NEW HA VEN CAMBRIDGE PHILADELPHIA Alice Faye • Don Ameche 1058 Chapel St. Lampoon Bids. 1607 Walnut St. Carmen Miranda in in "THAT NIGHT IN RIO" "BLONDIE GOES LATIN" "TRl·AL OF MARY DUGAN" Mail Order Di'>'ision 17 E. 45th St., New York, N. Y • . Virginia Grey • John Shelton "BLONDE I NSPIRA'.rION" . ,. . . . ' . .. WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, MAY 22, 1941 Cugat Offers Rhum bas; Farcical Comedy Offers "Pops" Concerts Close Grace Notes New Dorsey Disc ·waxes Second Class Humor And Third Week of Season (Continued f rom. Page 5, Col. 1) Favorite Swing Classic Trite, Slapstick Plot By H enrietta Freed The Boston " Pops" Orchestra, Leclair. The performers were (Continued from Page 5, Col. 5) When Tommy Dorsey makes a composed of 85 members from the Patricia Follett '44 and Rachel kilts and found his way into the twelve-inch waxing, it's a rare and Wheat. Succe~sful phrasing of melange by hitch-hiking, burred regular Boston Sympho:ny Orches happy occasion, especially if the Last weekend as Britain and the 'cello line combined with un nobly through a performance which tra and conducted by Mr. Arthur quality thereof js exceptional, too. Germany continued to wage a derstanding coordination between made a lot of a supporting role Fiedler, brings this season's third Deep River and Without a Song propaganda war over the fantas 'cello and piano made the perform and did the stars one better in the oppose each other on his latest tic "Hess melodrama," newspaper week to a close with evening con ance excellent. technique of slapstick. Bertha Bel recording and are outstanding even men and laymen alike struggled to certs at 8:30 p.m. Tickets costing The final number, by Ruth Kirk mar and Velma Royton contributed for Dorsey. The first is a fast and separate facts from rumor. It was $1.00 for table seats, $1.00, 75 '43 and Jane Guthrie, was the two stock characterizations of the exciting arrangement that ranks generally thought that Herr Hess, Sonata in A Major for violin and hatchet-faced wives in question, cents, and 50 cents for balcony high among Swing Classics. With former deputy leader of the Nazi piano of Brahms. Bra hms always while Elizabeth Sutherland, "the seats, and 25 cents for unreserved out vocals, it gives opportunities party and minister without port presents problems of interpreta woman" displayed more beauty for instrumentalists of marked folio in the German government, seats may be secured by telephon tion and performance, but the two than v..'.as necessary and less his perfection, namely the b1·ass and was neither insane nor a traitor. ing Commonwealth 1492. The students worthily met the challenge trionic talent than would have been percussion sections, to couple mag Labor Minister Ernest Bevin de program for the remainder of the to give u a beautiful performance. desirable. Olive Reeves-Smith nificent solos with a haunting clared, in a speech approved by week is as follows: In an earli er review of the first ran up the highest woman's score rhvthm. but fortunately they don't Prime Minister Churchill, that '.l'hursday Evening, May 22 student recital we discussed the in the production with a nicely mar the effect by exhibitionist "Hess undertook his bizarre ven '"Rakoczy" March from "The Damn- value of recitals for any music synchronized portrayal of the ture because he believed, or pre nation of Faust" ...... Berlioz tricks. The reverse is a slow, smoky B a llet Music from "Rosamunde" student. We tried to emphasize English housekeeper. arrangement of an old familiar and tended to believe, that if he could Sch u bert the value of performance in com The single setting by Frederick talk personally to 'a few men of Academic Festival Overture . . B ra h ms opens with the most velvety trom Adagio for Three Violoncellos and pleting the cycle of study. Per Fox was satisfactorily conventional bone recorded in years. The good will' in England, he could Orche tra ...... Poppe r formance implies the presence of and showed good planning for two end the war. He was convinced Soloists : Gerard Haft maestro continues in the limelight Esther a rshley, Olivia Silberberg an audience and without that au level staging. Hattie Carnegie's that Adolph Hitler's Germany was throughout, except for the vocal dience, one of the chief benefits is gowns were not particularly excit invincible." Americans as well as section, perfectly suited to Frank Piano Concerto in C major (K. 467) lost. The recital Wednesday eve ing and contributed very little one Englishmen are now wondering if I. Allegro maestoso Sinatra's voice, and accompanied II. Andante ning wa attended by a handful of way or another to the production. there were people in England who by the piano alone. The arrange III. Allegro vivace assai prnple. It seems a pity that more As the play stands now, Women were expecting Hess and prepar Soloist: Norma Bertola mi ments of these two favorites de students do not take advantage of Aren't Angels presents a poor ing to deal with him. serve especial merit, for they give W a ltzes from "D er Rosenka valier" an opportunity to hear good music, combination of a three-ring circus Strauss a lilt to both by a string of im "Night and Day" ...... Porter especially when it is performed by and a book of dirty jokes, which pressive climaxes. *Sixth Hunga rian Dance ...... Brahms students who have spent time pre can't possibly make a go of Broad paring the program. way without some drastic re- Although the final terms of the Friday Evening, May 23 The Hut Sut Song is an unusual new German-French accord have "Los Banderillos," March .. . . . Volpatti and entertaining novelty number, vamping. "The Hebrides," Overture J.E. M. '49 not yet been announced, Britain is Mendelsohn listed as a Swedish serenade. convinced that they will involve Ballet of the Sylphs, from "The •"Stars a nd Strt1>es F·or ever," There have been numerous waxings Damnation of Faust" . . . . . Berlioz military as well as economic and Scherzo from the Fifth Symphony Ma r ch ...... Sousa released of it, the best of which is Lieutenant Kije Shows political collaboration. For such Shostakovitch undoubtdly The Jesters', as far as Versatility and Skill concessions as the r elease of Sunday Evening, May 26 vocals are concerned. French prisoners and reduction of Danse Macabre, Symphonic Poem Introduction to Act III, "Lohengrin" Sa int-Saens W agner Xavier Cugat has been respon (Continued from Page 5, Col. 4) the cost of the German occupa •Entrance of the Little Fauns .. Pierne Prelude a nd Love-Death, "Trista n tion, it is believed that Germany *Divertissement ...... Ibert and Isolde" ...... W agner sible for the current rhumba craze, contributed. Jean Thomas and Introduction-Cortege-Noct urne will gain control of French colo "Karella," Rhapsody ...... Klami and can play the torrid tunes as Deborah Barron handled the large Valse-Pa rade-Finale (First performa nce) nial possessions. The Nazis in only a Spaniard can. His new al and varied cast of Kije and the Syr ia, which has been a French Mexican Rhapsody ... McBride Concerto in F major (No. 13) for bum, Rhumba With Cugat, con Cossacks with the zest and pre *"The Toy Trumpet" ...... Scott Organ and Orchestra ...... Handel mandate since World War I, would tains four records, the vocals of cision which Prokofieff's increased •"Knightsbridge," March .. Eric Coates L a rghetto endanger the English position in Allegro (The Cuckoo and the which are well-treated by his wife, tempo demanded. The Prologue, Saturday Evening, May 24 Nightingale) with choreography by Carol Frank, Suez and Britain's hold on the oil •"Pomp and Cireurq_stance," March L a rghetto Carmen "Castillo" and two mascu fields of the Middle East. The Elgar Allegro used a circular pattern for the line singers. The pieces are all possession of bases in Tunisia, Overture to "Der Freischutz" ... Weber Sonata in C major (No. 12) for chorus with pleasing effect. Ave Maria ...... Schubert-Wilhelmj Orchestra with Orga n ...... Mozart new and preference regarding Algeria, and Morocco would a.id Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Allegro Elizabeth Evans' costumes com them is purely a matter of per the German drive to close the Nuremberg" ...... Wagner Concerto in One Movement for pletely realized the colorful, imag Organ a nd String Orchestra sonal taste. They may be obtained Mediterranean to British shipping. Piano Concerto in A minor . Schumann with Kettledrums ...... Poulenc ipative tone of the p roduction and separately, by the way, so don't Monday, France's High Commis I. Allegro Soloist : E . Power Biggs helped materially in achieving the II. Adagio pass them by without an audition sioner for Syria and Lebanon Ill. Allegro non troppo •"Voices of Spring,'' Waltzes .. Straus if yo~ like the rhythm. polish which was evident through warned that France would fight in Soloist : Felix Fox "Bach Goes to Town" .. Alec Templeton out the performance. The large Russian Sailors' Dance, from " Th~ Girls have never shared the en the advent of a British attack on *"Espana," Waltzes ...... Waldteufel Red Poppy" ...... Gller background set showed not only any of her colonial lands. Open •"None But the L onely Heart" thusiasm for hot jazz that many ingenuity of design, but admirable Tchaikovsky-Cailliet •Pops Recording boys seem to feel so strongly, but war between Britain and France correlation with the color themes appeared to be at hand. perhaps it's because they aren't of the costumes. Make-up, as well willing to give it a fair chance. as costumes and setting, were har Many of the best discs released or monized to give the production a GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! released of late are of this nature, high standing of technical excel At his first press conference in and for the most part require sev lence. two weeks, President Roosevelt Oh, You Lucky Girls! eral hearings to duly appreciate Lieutenant K ije was a well announced that the twenty-four them. Just as classical music integrated performance which de cargo ships slated to sail for the Just think you can go to the Harvard Freshman J ubi played by great artists often re manded originality, versatility, and Red Sea would leave on schedule, lee on Friday, the 23rd, wlth us by just replying. We quires a cultivated taste to enjoy, training on the part of its choreo in spite of the German announce want three wonderful, beautiful, ravishing, stunning, but then lasts eternally, so will graphers, dancers, and technicians. ment that the Red Sea is now in friendly personality girls. As you can see, time is run you find the outstanding records It got all of these in good measure, the war zone. A translation of ning short. Please reply immediately to occupants, of good jazz. One sure way to and in addition had that little plus an official White House statement Wigglesworth Hall J 22, Harvard College, or call Trow learn to like these is to listen to of spirit which makes a good pro had been sent by short wave to John Kirby's new album, for many bridge 9428. Help save us from social disgrace by not duction into an excellent one. the French people the day before. making it necessary for us to resort to Radcliffe. of its contents ar,e already well J.E. M. '43 liked. Rose Room and Then I'll President Roosevelt declared in B e Happy are among these, and his plea to the French people to particularly well-done, brass-sax Seniors ! reject German demands that "the parade and all. Then there's The people of the United States can Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy, hardly believe that the present Remember-Tomorrow Night Is which may arouse complaints, but government of F rance could be is nevertheless terrifically potent! The Last Time You Sing brought to lend itself .to ~ plan ~OES R. W. '42 On the Old Chapel Steps of voluntary alliance, implied or otherwise, which would appar en~ly and deliver up France and its colo?1al Tomorrow Morning at 7:00 A.M. empir e, including French . African Review Will Announce colonies and their Atlantic co~st Is the Hour Hoop-Rolling Winners of Two Prizes with the menace which that in Decides Your Futures volves to the peace and safety of The Wellesley R eview announces the Western Hemisphere.'' that the forthcoming June issue is to be a collection of prize winning material, containing the top paper and runners-up in the Freshman short story contest recently spon BUY YOUR SUMMER sored by Review, and winners in the Robert Hillyer poetry contest. PLA YCLOTHES The senior novel by Frances Clausen Johnson, printed in part in RIGHT OFF THE BOAT! the May R eview, will be concluded at in the June issue. A special fea ture will be an article on Katherine Mansfield by Miss Sylvia Berkman, fOoo AooKING Bumper crop of cottons-from the store that made Rooms without bath $2.00 cottons Fashion. Rooms with tub and shower . . $3.00 Splashy Prints-colorful news in eveTything from Rooms with bath for two . . . $4 .00 slacks to evening dresses. Separate floor facilities for women. Best's famous cla ssics-of course. SHELTON HOTEl LEXINGTON AVE., at49th ST. NEW YORK BEST & CO. U111hr KNOTT M•nagement 14.. I . WAlTY, M•nager Fifth Avenue, New York .~ ' J' . , I Beacon and Washington Streets, Brookline ~· __ '._ :..,_.,_ ... _._...., _,,,..:. .· - · ~ - · ..- WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, MAY 22, 1941 Calendar Mr. Haroutunian Finds Board Members Disclose Candidates For Honors Explore Men Serious Students Social lnstitute's Plans 'l'huri;:duy, ~lay 22: *8 :15 a.m., Chap el. Leader, Barbara Prentice ' 41 •1 :4 0 p.m., Room 444, Green Han: (Continued from Page 1, Col. 2) (Continued froni Page 1, Col. 1) Varied Fields In Senior Week Speech 202 Symposium. Topic: The By Mary Elizabeth 'Edes Negro's Place in Industry. (Depart ment of Speech.) 3 :30 p.m., Alumnae tertainment at the Seminary at plan and function of the Institute, which he sang no less than six It might seem to the ordinary Other fields include English Lit Halt. Room drawing for the Class the speakers, and the thirty sch::il of 1944. 3 :40 p.m., Pendleton Hall. solos. Though he bad no plans for 1941 Class meeting. arships open to students. underclassman that the candidate erature where Joan Guthrie, writ a concert at Wellesley, he is con for honors leads a charmed life, ing on Christopher Marlowe; says Friday, May 23: *8 :15 a.m., C11apel. centrating on compressing as much The problem to be considered by free from classes in her special Leader, Miss Tuell. •7 :10 p.rn., Chapel that her work has proved inter Steps. Last step singing. as possible of Wellesley life into the Institute this summer will be field with a reserved desk in the this visit. At the time of this library stacks, and, above all, ex esting since she found little sec Saturday, May 24: *7 :30 a.m., Senior "World Democracy - How Shall Hoop Rolling. •7 :50 a.m., Procession interview, Mr. Haroutunian was We Build It?" Sir Norman Angell empt from a general examination ondary material available. Norma forms for Chapel. *8 :15 a.m., Senior about to conduct a class in con at the end of her Senior year. Chapel. Leader 1 Miss McAfee. In and Messrs. Peter Drucker De Wilentz, whose particular field is case of r a in Semor lines will form in temporary Christian thought. "My Harsh reality, however, reveals labor and politics, claims that her the Chapel basement at 8 :00 a.m. and old course," he beamed. v_ere · Allen, Henry H. Cran~, En that honors students work harder no other classes will m a rch. Sopho rique De Lozada, Jeffrey W. Camp summer reading helped her to de ~ores may keep former places on the than most Seniors between writ hill. Brea kfast will be served from bell, William Henry Chamberlain, ing a lengthy thesis ( 80 type cide exactly what phase of the 7 :15 to 7 :45 a.m. Last day of classes Hans Simons, and Taraknath Das, subject she wanted to consider and for seniors. *2 :00 p.m., Athletic Fields written pages is considered slight), and Courts. Spring ;Field Day, 2 :00 are among members of the fac on the results of their research narrowed it down somewhat. p.m., Tennis Finals and Golf Competi ulty who will give up-to-the-min The candidates for honors are tion. 2 :15 p.m., Archery. 3 :00 p.m., and preparing for an individual Student-Faculty Baseball Game. 4 :30 ute information and expert analy oral examination before the mem looking forward to taking oral p.m., Announcement of Awards. (De sis of the various aspects of this exams, and feel that it will prove partment of Hygiene and Physical Ed problem. bers of their faculty committee uca tion and Athletic Association.) who have supervised their work more satisfactory than a written during the year. The '41 "Candi general since it enables the stu S~nda . y, May 26: *11 :00 a .m., Me mori~l C~apel. Preacher, Dr. James dates for Honors in a Special dent to display her information to Austm Richards, The First Church Field" are working in almost as better advantage. At the same Oberlin, Ohio. *4 :30 p.m., Galen L'. Stone Tower . Carillon Recital by Mr. Sun's many fields as there are girls: time, according to general opinion, Earl Chamberlain, Carillonneur of St. Chemistry, Economics, Mathemat the oral form requires a more ex Stephen's Church, Cohasset. twice the fun ics and English Literature are tensive knowledge than a written Monday, May 26: *8 :15 a.m., Chape l. among the departments in which examination. Leader, Miss McAfee. *4 :40 p.m., Pen in dletlete library .•• art and music ''fAoon\i9ht Ser studios (equipped with Steinway l ft • Lost: One healthy constitution and ALL SPORT CLOTHES Grands) ••• swimming pool ••• pleasant disposition. Through work llW1 deck and solaria • • . squash FOR WELLESLEY at Dedham Press. Finder please re courts • • • gym· turn to J. R. P. '42. Severance. BAGS - JEWELRY nasium,. •• 700 TUES., WED., THURS. rooms each with radio. ot10 p. N\. -+- C. Stations TARIFF a. s. MOST LIKELY TO sue. 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