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Barnswallows Season Opens L 113 n An Y MAHY HEMENW~Y HALL WELLESLE Y CCl LLEGE elleGlcJ!! <!rollcgc News WELLESLEY, MASS., OCTOBER 7, 1943 Barnswallows Season Opens 8'lood Donors Needed! Forum Begins Wellesley Girls Help College To See Discussion of Red Cross Save Lives Watch on RJhine The American Red Cross is des­ Post-War Plans perately in need of blood plasma Debut Friday to save the lives of the men fight­ The curtain will rise at 8 :30 Fri­ "Is the State Department's ing for us. For this year they have day night on the long awaited Fall policy in occupied countries en­ estimated that they need 4,000,000 Barnswallow Production, Watch couraging pro-fascist tendencies?" pints of blood. The amount of on the Rhine. The play isabout will be the topic presented in a blood we can give may seem small, a family living nea1 ~ t:.sUngttiu panel discussion sponsored by the but it is tremendously important. and the refugees they harbored. Dome.'>tic Affairs Comm1ttee of First there is a Rumanian Count Forum, in Shakespeare, October Whenever plasma has been avail­ and his American wife. Next come 11, at 4 :40 p.m. Betty Freyhof able there has been a definite de­ the daughter of the house, Sarah, '44 and Arline Roshkind '45 will crease in mortalities. Let's help and her German husband, Kurt participate in the discussion. All make it available to all our men! Muller, with their three children. who are interested are cordially It has been made as easy as pos­ Kurt is involved in anti-Nazi or­ invited to attend the meeting. sible for you to give blood. Go to ganization, and when the Count the Infirmary to have your health realizes this, he attempts black­ Social Action Group record checked, obtain written per­ mail. Kurt seeks the only possible mission from your parents if you way out, bringing the play to a Brings Third Speaker are under 21, and then come to the dramatic end. Those who are fa­ To enable volunteer settlement War Activities Committee Office miliar with Lillian Hellman's which will make an appointment Broadway hit are anticipating an workers to learn something more for you with the Boston Blood exciting evening at Alumnae Hall. of work in a settlement house, the Donor Center. The actual process A second performance will be given Social Action committee will pre­ of giving bloo<l is simple and easy. Saturday evening at 8:00, and a sent Mrs. Clara Wagner Edwards Each girl in Wellesley College is packed house /is e~ected both speaking on "Story-Telling and urged to take advantage of this nights. Story-Acting for Children," Wed­ opportunity to help in a vital way The play is under the direction nesday afternoon, October 13. in the war effort. of Mr. A. Eldon Winkler, and the In conjunction with the Volun­ ----01---- cast is as follows: teer Service Bureau of the Bos­ Sarah . Jean Mark '44 ton Council of Social Agencies, the Chinese Lecturer and Kurt . Harry Grubbs Social Action Committee is bring­ Musician to Appear in Fanny . .. ...... Dee Stempf '45 ing Mrs. Edwards here as the last David . Robert Montgo74ery speaker of three in the Volunteers' New Series at Billings Marte . Val Bt>lsseau Training Course which has been The Mayling Soong Foundation, Teck . Waldemar Argow held here the past few weeks. Mrs. Betty Samuels '44, Billy Gorham, and Harry Grubbs Anise . Betty Samuels '44 which was created last year in Edwards is the Drama Specialist Babette ...... Virginia Dooze '46 for the Boston Community Rec­ honor of Madame Chiang Kai­ Joshua . Milton Grubbs reation Service. shek to promote a better under­ Bodo . Billy Gorham Miss Alice Mifflin, Director of standing of China and the Far Navy Approves of Wellesley LiPe; Joseph . Roy Allen Hale Settlement House, Boston, East, will present as its first lec­ General Understudy spoke at the meeting yesterday turer this year Professor Yuen Nancy Stover '46 afternoon on "Crafts for Chil­ Ren Chao of Harvard. He is an Likes Campus, Vil, and Blue Jeans -----o-~--- dren." All meetings are held in the authority on Chinese philology, Two hundred and ten patrons Christian Association Lounge at which he teaches at Harvard, and by Jane Aufsesser t45 (compared to the 32 of last year) 4:30 p. m. and everyone, whether also on Chinese music, having been is what Barn's Business Committee rloing settlement work or not, is A million questions are in the is scheduled Three ensigns point­ at one time professor of Chinese boasts. As to the Navy, fifty invited. air; as many rumors (scuttlebutt ed out that there is only a half tickets have already been put on Opportunities for doing settle­ music at the University of Hawaii. to the Navy) have yet to be ver­ hour allotted for preparation for sale in Caz at 35c per, according ment and hospital work in a so­ He will speak on "Recent Tenden­ cies in Chinese Music" at Billings ified. Now that the fleet's in, a each class, and, they admitted to Connie Judkins, '44, Barn's Bus­ cial agency or hospital in Boston iness Manager. and the Newtons are still open. Hall, Tuesday evening, October 26, few answers are in order. A few good-humoredly that they are in 1943. He will illustrate the points Connie says the patron list isn't Those interested are urged to get will have to wait. a quandary about when they'll in his lecture by the use of the complete yet because she sent out in touch with Lena V. Kiekbusch No vital stati-stics had been as­ find time to shave. so many letters that she forgot to '44, Social Action head. Work in piano and by victrola records of his sembled in time to meet the News Reveille for all hands sounds at sign a couple. One gentleman the agencies will begin after long own making. deadline, but approximations will 0630 with three long bells. Ten wrote, "My dear Miss Business week-end and the placing is con­ do pro tem. The average student tinuing at the present time. minutes later come calisthenics in Manager: I am sorry to have to officer, an ensign in rank, receiv­ the Quad. Don't worry about address you this way, but ..•" ed his commission from two to weather conditions-if it's deemed All who read about the five-min­ three months ago, has never drill­ "inclement," no calisthenics. One ute "break" and the simultaneous Miss Skinner ed before, has not seen sea duty, ensign remarked, "We'll be as break of Mr. Winkler's suspenders has a college degree to his credit, quiet as mice," to which others at one Saturday rehearsal will be is twenty-six years old, and is added, "We enjoy the audiences interested to hear that he has a married. Will Present for muster every morning-just new pair. He wants to take advantage of so they don't laugh too loud." Harv~itl Drama entertaii'n.e~ all Wellesley has to offer in the Disbursi·ng and Supply comprise Paul Robeson in Cambridge Fri­ Her Monologues way of Sunday Chapel, tennis, the four-month course. The first day, October 1. They invited Barn, swimming (because every good consists of Disbursing, Shipments, and Meg Gill '44, Dee Stempf '45, Cornelia Otis Skinner, fa~d sailor does), Barn plays, Junior Household Effects, Auditing, Na­ and Peg Welch '44 had the pleas­ monologuist, will appear at Alumnre Show, the Well, News, etc. He vy Regulations and Courts and ure. of attending. Mr. Robeson Hall Wednesday, October 20, at likes Wellesley's scenery; he Boards; the latter, given in the came in late, but they had tim,e to 8: 15 p.m. The entertainment will thinks the Vill is "quaint"; and last two months, consists of in­ shake hands with the Shakespear­ be under the auspices of the he approves of the way Wellesley struction in Ship's Store, Cloth­ ean star anyhow. They asked him Speech Department, headed by Miss women dress. Said one ensign, to come out for wa.tch On The Cecile DeBanke. ing and Small Stores, Provisions, "Even the blue jeans don't look Rhine,. but Mr. Robeson declined Miss Skinner is known as "the Purchase, Supply Afloat, Supply bad." His comrade retorted, "I because he expects to be in Phila­ greatest single attraction in the Ashol'e, Aviation Supply, Fuel qualify that! But I guess they're delphia by then. American Theatre," although she and Accounting. "You ought to practical." Perhaps a word about the vari­ got her start in regular plays with see the stack of publications - This past week has been one ous committees and what they are full companies, and had the lead 1 that's textbooks, to you,' remark­ doing will reveal a bit about in George Bernard Shaw's Candida, of "Organization and Orienta­ ed one gentleman. tion." Part of this program has Watch On The Rhine. Lucy several years ago. The men attend five periods of been the nightly movies at Pen­ Maspero '44 with her Design Com­ Miss Skinner's recent book, Our classes a day-and no cut. When dleton. Seeing these newsreel­ mittee and Mr. Wade composed Hearts Were Young and Gay has they have permission to leave, type pictures of drill, ship nomen­ sets for the living room, of the attracted, during the past few they have to sign the "Leave clature, and other naval subjects Muller home with its furniture of months, as much publicity and at­ Book." According to the "school tention as have her well-known and has helped the men get acquainted several styles.
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