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12-2-1948

Sandspur, Vol. 53 No. 08, December 2, 1948

Rollins College

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STARS Citation Rollins College, "Sandspur, Vol. 53 No. 08, December 2, 1948" (1948). The Rollins Sandspur. 821. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/821 !>%& RC3UL-.I M3 SAI^DSPUI WINTER PARK, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1948 STAGE" DOOR Writer Gives Interpretation Of Homecoming Events BY The Homecoming Weekend ar­ rived with little less than a bang, and aside from the main activities, namely the football game, the pa­ STETSON'S ATTACK LOCAL CfilTIC rade, the dance at the Dubsdread Country Club, and other social ac­ "Stage Door" which is playin; tivities, such unanticipated events his -week at the Annie Russell i that occurred during the course BY ine of the most entertaining show of the weekend are certainly wor­ loth on stage and off, that has hi thy of mention. Needless to men­ tollins in a long time. Starring tion flrst that the spirit of the ROLLINS VIGIL ; cast of 31 students, directed by Homecoming Weekend enveloped Would-Be Invaders Get loward Bailey, the play was writ- most of Winter Park, including the Hair Cuts and Lose en by George F. Kaufman and Ed police department and many town ia Ferber and is the story of th( merchants. Close Battle ypical struggle of actresses t< Prexy Holt, seen congratulating our Homecoming Queen, Pat Ge Witherspoon, II, seen with his date at Robbie's. (See story below). Last Tuesday night the Rollins ;ain success on Broadway. Th( ian, after bestowing crown and traditional kiss. All anyone would haVe to do to campus was the scene of the great­ ets, designed by Wilbur Dorsett find out how Stetson University est carnage since Anzio. The eve­ ,nd built by the members of thi felt about it, would be to peep ning started with a sneak at­ tage craft class, are duplicates under one of those skull caps be­ tack upon the Administration if the interior of a girls' club in Speech Club Westminster Choir to ing worn around campus by a few building with paint cans and oil lew York and contribute greatly male individuals. buckets. The alert Campus Home b the production. Dick Hill was However I might add that they Guard arrived with the proverbial tage manager, assisted by Pat Presents Play Give Concert in Orlando did it with a spir_it that showed too little—too late. The damages: tay and Lynn Lahn as'well as a The Westminster Choir, under it was all in the best fun, and one large green sticky "S" on the lirge stage crew. Mrs. Whitaker's Speech clas the direction of Dr. John Finley more than a good deal of hair sidewalk in front of the Ad build­ The baseball bats, H. B. Baxter, and regular weekly meeting Monday over the weekend, but I wouldn't rood actress. Bill Barker and for a new bungalow. Choir has sung over 100 Sym­ Happy Clark. Then, these enemies lidney Lanier, who star as the Mme. Chiang, wife of China evening, November 29. A letter phonic concerts with the New York dare guess that some Stetson boys to the only true alma mater were lale leads give the parts the prop- Other students in the cast are: Generalissimo is planning a trip to received from the 0.0.0.0. Philharmonic, the NBC Symphony, were somewhere below the i divested of their heathenish cloth­ Beverly Hansen as Ganymede; r polish in their usual debonair the United States to seek aid for read to the council. This letter the Philadelphia and Rochester dows underneath a lot of Spanish ing and searched for concealed "Jug" Stang as Mercury; Dan )anner. Mary Delano as the come- her country. And President Tru suggested a revival of school spirit Symphony orchestras under the di­ moss or crouched behind Spanish weapons. The prisoners were then |r lead has perfected a sarcastic Draznick, Paris; and Sheila Kelly by holding compulsory assem)jlie! rection of such conductors as Tos­ bayonets. If I'm not mistaken placed in the compound behind the as Minerva. A chorus group com­ man has revealed that the Gen­ tyle which is riotous. each week. It was further sug­ canini, Walter, Ormandy, Stokow­ also, a few were apprehended Chapel, and they were given a posed of Macy Brenner, Bob Ellis, eralissimo has written him stating The delightful peculiarity of this gested that these assemblies ski, Rachmaninoff, and Iturbi. around the campus and turned taste of true Rollins justice. A Jack McCoslin, Betty and Mary that U.S. blunders at Yalta oblige Bst is that there is not a rotten should be sponsored each week Westminster Choir was chosen to over to Rollins boys who, if I'm court was carefully set up under Sanders, and Mary Bailey all add the United States to aid China at pple in the crowd. Each role, by a different campus organiza­ sing in OWI's great fllm "Hymn not doubly mistaken, took good the able auspices of Judge Swack­ up to make a short, in