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XLV 2 3 1 1 WELLESLEY, MASS., OCTOBER 30, 1941 No. 6 Mr. Bacon To l\'lusicians Plan Read His Own Annual Recital College Prepares For Major Violoncellist and Pianist To Poetic Works Present Sonata Program In Joint Concert Weekend As Formals App roach Father of Member of '42 The Music Department will To Give Third Lecture sponsor the R-nn ual violoncello and Welles1ey Eagerly Awaits In 1941-42 Series piano concert by Yves Chardon and Dates, Drama, Dancing, David Barnett on Tuesday, No Coming to Wellesley for ihe vember -4 at 8 :00 p. m. in Billings Of Banner Occasion third time in twenty years, Hall. Included in the program are An atmosphere of excitement Leonard Bacon will deliver t he Sonat a in G minor by J. S. Bach, prevails over the campus as Fri third in the 1941-1942 series of transcr ibed for 'cello and piano day, October 31, opening night of Poet's Readings, Monday, Nov from the original for viola da gam the Barnswallows play, and Satur ember 3, at 4.40 p.m. in Pendleton ba and harpsichord; Mendelssohn ''s day, November 1, the date of re Hall. As the nephew of Miss Sonata in D major, Opus 58. The nowned Wellesley Formals , ap Caroline Hazard, a former Presi finai Sonata on t he program is a proach. Such a state of affairs is dent of Wellesley, a nd as one of work by Mr. David Barnett. apparently well-justified by t he the '42 fathers, Mr. Bacon has Mr. Barnett as a composer has preparations which Eleanor Agee special ties at Wellesley. written in many varied forms. His '42 and Dorothy Walsh '42, co A member of the faculty of the chamber music is frequently per chairmen of the dance, members University of California from formed. A Divet·tirnento for orches cf Barnswallows, and committee~ 1910-1923, Mr. Bacon has devoted tra was played by the New York on business, decoration, campus his entire time t o writing since he Philharmonic several years ago. suppers, and music are making to left the University and is a fre Published in the spring. of 1941 insure a good time for everyQne. quent contributor to The Satur were three piano pieces: Ballade, Barn announces the following urday R eview of Literature. Capricc·ietto, and Interlude, and a cast of the Formals production, He has published fourteen books song, To Night, which is a setting Ladies in Retirement. for Shelley's poem. THE CAST in verse (two of these being collab Ellen . .Joan Guitennan '42 orations with G. R. Noyes and R. L eonora ... .. .. ..... Mary Elwell '43 Mr. Chardon is a member of the Emily J ean Ma1·k '44 Selden Rose respectively) , the most Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Louisa Rosalind Scha ng ·•43 r ecent of which include: Lost Lucy ........... Margueerite Sta. IT ' 42 addition to his teaching, he has Sister Teresa . Dorothy Braude '42 Buffalo, (1930), The Furioso, formed a Quartet with three other A lbe rt ...... .. .. .. .. George Hawley (1992), Dreani a,nd Action, members of the Symphony• which Promptly at 5 :45 P. M. sup (1934), The Voyage of Auto bears his name. They give frequent per will be served in Claflin leon, (1935), The Goose on the performances in Boston and W or for the Tower Court dwellers, in Ca.pitol, (1936), and Rhyme and cester. Stone for the Stone-Davis group, Punishment, (1936). The keen sa in Shafer for the inhabitants of the tire against intolerance and inertia 'Barn Players: Dan Satler, Director, George Hawley, male lead, and Hazard Quadrangle houses, and in which are Mr. Bacon's trademarks Reynolds' Band to Swing Joan Guiterman '42. N oanett for the village Freshmen. are evident in these works and may "Music of Tomorrow" For The curtain will rise on Ladies. be expected to appear in his Read Wellesley Fall Formals in Retire'ment at 7 p. m. allowing ing. Committee Plans Enherg to Give for two and a half hours of danc by Mary Elisabeth Edes ing. The orchestra committee has Mrs. Dean Will Treat Better Nutrition Biblical Lecture not revealed in which hall each Future of Americas At If variety is truly t he spice of band will play, but dancers are as life, this year's Wellesley Fall Discussing "Archaeology and its To Help Defense Bearing on Biblical History", Dr. Rured of good music whether they Forum Dinner Tonight Formals cannot help being ex- Robert Enberg, Lecturer in the hear Tommy Reynolds playing "j:q · ti Ufitte7td- -'c.-..i.... tlle attenthm-of-the ti...,_n~g..__C...aLonu.....tr._.a..,s.... t _...,_~~~e .x..l.!'Y."5....__ Ill, _coo eration with._ the Federal ~tment of -lli~ · isto , _ .the manner of to.da.¥ in_ the style of States concentrating on South from Campus suppers beginning Government's program of building will give an illustrated lecture tomorrow," or Ralph Stearns and America and W estern Hemisphere sharply at 5 :45 p. m. in the dor- up a healthier and more food-con Thursday, November 6, at 8: 30 his popular rhythms. Alumnae unity, Mrs. Vera Micheies Dean mitories to the midnight suppers scious American public, Wellesley's p.m. in Pendleton Hall. Ballroom and Mary Hemenway will speak on "The Western Hemis- served in Alumnae Hall after the Emergency Defense Committee has Dr. Enberg took post-graduate will be decorated in Mexican re phere Looks t o t he Future" at a t welve o'clock curfew has rung on appointed a Nutrition Education work at the University of Chicago galia for the great event. Forum Dinner Thursday, October dancing. The sharpness of con- Committee. Members include Miss in anthropology and American Service Fund will receive the en 30, at 6: 15 p. m. in Tower Court. trast will first be noticed as stu- Ruth J ohnstin, Professor of Chem- archaelogy. Since 1934 he has beea tire proceeds from the evening's Mrs. Dean, who is giving a series dents adjourn from the early din- istry; Mrs. T. R.. Covey, Head research assistsnt and instructor in entertainment. of lectures at Wellesley under the ners to the rush and gaiety of Dietician; Miss Florence Tucker, · the Oriental Institute, in which auspices of the Department of "Alum" on Saturday night, where Purveyor; Dr. Mary DeKruif, capacity he has collaborated on Miss McCarthy to Tell . History and Political Science, is the curtain will rise at seven sharp Health Officer and Lecturer in two publications dealing with the Of Sabbatical Research the Research Director and Editor on an eerie, far-away scene out on Hygiene and Physical Education; cult and tombs of Megiddo, Pales Miss Barbara McCarthy, Asso of the Foreign Policy Association the Thames estuary. There three Miss Elizabeth Curtiss, Lecturer tine. He is also the author of The ciate Professor of Greek, wiU Publications, and is the author of weir,d sisters take part in an in Economics; Mrs. L. D. Wilson, Da.wn of Civilization and of several speak at a meeting of the Eta of Europe in R etreat, an analysis of awful "murder most foul". What Assistant Professor of Zoology; articles on Near-Eastern archaeo Massachusetts chapter of Phi Beta the European political situation. · could be farther away from the and Jane Denton '42, Student Mem logy. Kappa, Wednesday evening, No Admission to the dinner will be by gay campus scene than the dark her. Dr. Enberg in 1940 was appoint vember 5, at President McAfee?s ticket only. and spooky costume drama that The Nutrition Committee hopes ed di rector of the American School home. Miss McCarthy will talk Barn has prepared to add a shiv- to impress upon the members of Oriental Research in J erusalem. about the work of Homer and its Miss Jones ·will ery thrill to your evening? The of the college community the War conditions making it impos connection to Byzantine Greek-a play over, you may relax again impo'rtance of .sound dietary sible for him to go to Jerusalem, subject which she studied at Yale Talk On Silicon with music and dancing as you and habits to them as individ- he is giving a semester course in University last year during her Mi ss Helen T. Jones, Associate your date move on to the ballroom uals and also as citizens of Archaeology at Wellesley. sabbatical leave. Professor of Chemistry, who re in Alumnae Hall or to the spa- a nation which demands their co turns this fall from a semester's cious dance floor in Mary Hemen- operation in time of emergency. sabbatical leave, will speak on "The way gymnasium. Chemistry of Silicon" following a (Continued on Page 6, Coi. e) Ten 0 -'Clock Clubbers Prescribe Chemistry Department dinner Tommy Reyno!ds aud his orches Tuesday, November 4, at 6:15 p. m ., tra will be present to play "the C. G. Comment Remedy for Sleepy Inefficiency in the dining room of Cazenave. music of today in the style of to The lecture will reflect Miss morrow", music which will be in There is no College Govern By Rosalie Goldstein Jones' work during her sabbatical contrast with the old-fashioned ment rule forbidding the use of leave, which chiefly involves the setting for Ladies in Retirement. slacks on campus. But, it has It wasn't so bad when Seniors O'clock Club which acquired. 12 -study of organic derivatives of The weekend's entertainment been the policy of Wellesley Col fell asleep in the stacks, or when charter members at its ~irat meet silicon. Miss Jones worked at M.l.T.