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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1923-1924 Student Newspapers 3-21-1924 Connecticut College News Vol. 9 No. 18 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1923_1924 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Connecticut College News Vol. 9 No. 18" (1924). 1923-1924. 8. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1923_1924/8 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1923-1924 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. • Connecticut College News VOL. 9, No. 18 NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT. MARCH 21. 19~4 PRICE 5 CE TS JUNIOR LAN- Concert Season to End Last Class Basket- G. P. BAKER TERN GLEAMS. with Elshuco Trio. ball Games Played. GIVES ADDRESS. Mascot Revealed at Banquet. Th'ree Exceptional Artists to Varsity Team Picked, Talk on "The Drama of Today" Give Program, Ends Convocation Series, Is the Junior Mascot a lighthouse or Reciprocity seemed to be the keynote a Ia nt er-n? The question was definite- On Monday evening,r..lat·ch 24th, of the games on Friday, March 14, The last lecture of the Convocation ly answered In rever of the latter sup- the Elshuco 'I'r-fo will present a musical The Seniors having defeated the Fresh- series this year was given, March position, Su t urday, March 15, at 8.15 progr-am at Bulkeley Auditorium, at men in the first game, wer-e vanquished 18th, by George Pier-ce Bakel' of o'clock in the main dining room of the 8,15 o'clock, This is.. the last concert b,r them 28·19, It is only fail' to say the Harvar-d 47 Workshop, on the Mohican Hotel. The' occasion was the of the season, that the playing of the Seniors was subject of "The Drama of 'I'odny." annual Junior Banquet, at which time, 'tuie 'I'r-lo Is composed of Willem not at all up to form, and that that In order to have us better understand in accordance with tradition the Junior wtuexe. vrouncetttst: William Kroll, of the Freshmen was unusually good, the present characteristics of the Mascot is presented. to the college. violinist; and Aurelio Otomt. pianist, The Freshmen played their best game drama in America, Prof, Baker re- A model of a white lighthouse tower 'wrueke is the leader of the Trio. of the season with excellent team work, viewed the conditions which dominated was discovered in the middle of the Ten year-a ago he come from Holland and "Bob" 'Vall making direct con nee- OUt· theatres between 1880 and 1900, floor. At the end of the first course, to play in the Kneisel Quartet, He ttons with the basket. The Sornio- At the opening of that period there Margaret Ewing, President of the class has been the leading 'cellist in the New mores were overcome by the Juniors was very Iittle drama in America, of 1925, acting as toastmistress, pre- York Symphony orchestra, and is con- in a fast game, 26w17, Sally Crawford though there was a great deal of stage sented the Mascot. At a given signal stdered one of the greatest masters of played her usual game, effectively entertainment. Particularly prevalent a light rtashed from the miniature win- chamber music. keeping down the Sophomore score, was the farce, which though often well dows of the lighthouse, proceeding Kroll was born in New York City, Excitement ran h ig-h-c-F'r-eahmen and played was entirely untrue to life and from the hand-wrought lantern within where since childhood he has been siv- Juniors celebrating vehemently. expected to be so, T'he audience did the tower. ing- recitals, 1"01' three years before The ba.sket bal l sea son ell me to :1 not look tor rcsembtanco between life Miss Ewing explained that th e qual- Ihe WHr he studied in Berlin. Later he erose on 'ruesrtnv, Mut-ch 1xtu. The as depicted on tho stage and life as ity of steadfastness as found in the .returned to New Yor-k where he studied Sentorx met rhcn- secot-u ccreat of the they lived it. etas!'; symbol. a lighthouse, is not with Ft-anz Kn clsel, un d met the or- sc.t sou when Lhc .luuiors vanqutshcrt f:;il' ArLhur Winl; Pinero and Henry enough, It bus seemed necessary to ganize r of the Trio, wtueke. Kroll them ~s to xs. The Eresnmeu won Artb ur Jones wer-e but Ilttle known, add as a mascot, a lantern, which shall has made a gr-eat success of chamber over the Soobomores. ~6 to 16, Both These pLaywrights are notable in that cast its clear, inextinguishable gleams music, games were unusually well '!:Iayed and they.bl'oke the shackles of the melo- abroad, The tantei-n is to have a per- Aurelio Giorni came to America from wer-e a very fitting climax to those dramatic t r-adltiona which not only which had gone betore. The Seniors manent place hanging from the dool'- Haly f\. ff'W yem's ago, He was grud- controlled the theatre but in their eal'ly :lnd .Juniol'S tied fOl· the championship, way of New London Hall, a perpetml! u:1te(l \\"itll higl1E'Rt hanoI'S from the yeal'S dominated even theil' ch'amatir; e:H:h ('lass having- won foul' games, Of l'eminder of the class ol.' '~5, ACfltlclllY of St. Cerelia, Home, a school !'!tyle. Tn serious dramn the l'omantic (heil' g':1I11C::;the F'j'e~hll1!'n WOll two, 'l'he presentation was made with the well l;noll"ll 1'01' its high musical. stnnd· slyle of Shakespeal'e fUl'nished the only 1he Nophomol'es ono. l1l:lscot poem: :ll'd~, Wllcn he wns I1fteen, he began sl:llldal'd, :lnd five acts, \\Tltlen in blank A \':Il'!'lily te:OlH hel>; )(-'('11 choHen 10 study with T-;i,·soni. rAl1 emiJ'lHll VI; ,,,"ere ("ons.idelaa e>lsIO'ntial. In- 'rile blUC night, st:lI'-!'lpl'lnkled, gCll-tJe, l'onlposed of Ifullhell nnd D::lll1ct"el. Italian Hluslci:ll1, Giorlli is a composer dividual acting was often of a VOl'y Covered the sleel.: t'lVCI'and the rounded f'erltel's: CUl'nelluf', Guodrich :"lnd Stol- high t.\·pe hut stlppol'ting casts wel'e hill and th€' sf)ual'e g"l'ey buildings. whose wOl'k promises to bring him ~ellherg, fOl'\v:ln1.s: ;,tnd l'l,amblet, into the fn'st l','ln\{s, WOl'se than mediocl'e, Litlle enl'e \\'[\!l A golden pnth cut the l)lue night, /-l lIkel' :lIHl ~. CI'ilWfol'Cl,gW.ll'dH, Var- Chamber nlllsic is considered the t:lken ill the mech:lnies of pl'oduction, l"l'om :1. de!iC':1tely·'\Tought lantern f'ity will [)b~' n pic-kflClAlumnae leam It was the ('ustOI11 for the New York A golden path cut tht) blue night, highest development of art. It is pure (In R:lttlr<lay :1[tCI'l100n, .:\lurch 22nd, company in its Ol'lginal (arm to tnke Down th!' ~hining path ftontfld \\'l','liths- music without the ae1ditiollH which most other IOl'ms ]lo.'lsess. It has no mass to the roue1 artcr a f'ucee!'!sJ'ul run in I;"'tlinl"'" "OJ I"IU" ~. ""111m',, I. or instnll1H:'nls which will co,-er de- MISS HICKS SPEAKS the city. PROF. ARCHIBALD TO J'f'f't!'l, Because of thif'!, chamber music BEFORE HISTORY CLUB. Ethically. or pcrhnps f'!ocinlly. the must be ])1:1ye(1\\-Ithout a Haw, 'fhe stage at t.his period was regat'ded :l SPEAK HERE. Monday evening, in Branford Lounge, thl'ee exceptional artists or the EI- good deal askance, It no\\" holdS"ii, PI'ofesSOI- Raymond C, Al-chihn.ld, of a Histol'Y Club meeting was held, at shuco Trio al'e doing this. They pre- establlshed position among the great 13I'own Univel'!;;ity, Is coming to ad- which Miss Julia Hicks, executive sec· sent chamber music beautifully and group of Fine Arts. Study of the dress the "!\Iathematics Club and all retary of the Connecticut League of simply. There is no flaw in their theatre as a part of the college curric- othel'!:l intel'ested on J\'londa,\' e\'ening, ,"Vomen \-oter;,;, gave an interesting technique nor in theil' tone, Their ulum grew out of the study of Shake- APl'il 14th, on '"Egyptian Mathema· lecture entitled "'Yhat Next'!" Miss concert \\-ill be a delightful ending fol' speare as a playwdght, the antecedents tics." 'Ml"_ Archibald htfs de\'oted a Hicks explained the functions of the the college concert season_ and contemporaries of Shakespeare, gTeat deal of time fo the study of League, It is organized with branches and finail:'l', of all periods -of piay,vl'it- 1\Tathematicnl H istor~- and if'! t'1erhaps In counties and towns and works LABOR SENATOR GIVES ing through the present day, The more widely !ulOwn in this field than through its branches, A lal'ge part of study of living authors and current In any othel', H.e is all histol'ian as TALK. the League's wor!< is the giving of ac- well as :i mathematician, MI'_ Al'chi- jllass, however, gained more tardy ad- On Saturday mO~'ning, SenatOl' Tone curate information about government.