Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 12-11-1940 The aB tes Student - volume 68 number 18 - December 11, 1940 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 68 number 18 - December 11, 1940" (1940). The Bates Student. 794. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/794 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. M«k tt w» Resurrects Nineties Life lay o hv T. W. Robert- In this play many scenes have a musical setting; songs within the play ^ L current production serve to heighten the emotional ex- tnhmt Players. Naturalness pression of the characters. Between BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON. MAINE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEK 11, 19*0 PBICE: TEN CENTS P*5a striven for gives way the second and third acts the audience usu '' reduction of the V* at rep wiU be led in the singing of "Qemen- !S the gay nineties, which tine", "The Sidewalks of New York" ^ old daguerreotypes so and "A Bicycle Built for Two" by Mar- * Ind in °>d family albUmS- ilyn Miller. Fresh men Choose Officers Friday (5W not modern: ra During the Intermissions venders " tS6 «in» 8« " 'e reminiscent of old In- will sell peanuts, candy, popcorn and pop to the audience. The following might be Stu-C Reveals Results . comparison suggestion is made on the program: Players To Present Famous Sculptress |»* [e production of "Fashion", "This play has a serious, nay, a heart- ,to seasons ago. While breaking quality,, which, although the On Preliminary Voting oted W» melod.ama, it sug- Lectures Monday is not a audience greatly appreciates, will be Second Play Of Year # flawing definition. a melo- Nominate Davis marred unless restraint Is used In hiss- Miss Bashka Paeff S play in which the emotlonal ing, booing, cheering, clapping, pea- "Caste" To Have Billiard Expert Again And Temple For UJL exceeds the content As In nut-cracking, popcorn-nibbling, pop- Special Matinee Noted For Kittery Class President ^"of "Fashion", the acting is gurgling by the audience". World War Memorial Gives Demonstration [**ed; there is a lovely, angelic Behind the Stage For High Schools Results of the first balloting held In ^rencounters trials and trib- Chatter and Gossip Miss Bashka Paeff, Internationally the freshman election yesterday, were Tomorrow and Friday nights in the there is a manly hero, who Speaking of the program—some of know suclptress, will appear at 8:001 made known last night by the Student Little Theatre the Robinson Players r only to endure painful sep- the following Items may give a Better o'clock Monday evening as the third Council. The results that follow shows present their second performance of ' Technically speaking, there is idea of the spirit of former theatricals speaker in the current George Colby i those appearing no the ballot in the the year, "Caste", a three-act melo- U as such althouSh the father, which the players are Imitating: Chase Lecture Series. final election Friday morning. dramatic comedy written by T. W. fond of the bottle, mistreats Tender accompaniments to heart- Miss Paeff's lecture will be on the For class president, Walter Davis Robertson. In addition, a Saturday flgjjter. The Marquise, mother rending scenes created by those noted principles of clay modeling. Her usual and Norman Temple; for vice-presi- matinee is scheduled, for which special dent, Virginia Hunt and Ruth Park- ber0, likewise suggests a vil- musicians and unusual personalities, plan is to select some member of the . invitations have been sent to all Maine la oaliciously trying to separate Messrs. Donald Cheetham, Lysander audience as her sutejet. Then she will j hurt: for secretary, Almon Fish and high schools. fevers, hike the preceding perfor- Kemp, Arthur Higgins. conduct the lecture In the manner of Dean Hoyt: for treasurer, Babara Directed by Miss Lavinia Schaeffer , many entr'actes will entertain Touching songs—tearful and comic- an Instructor teaching the pupils of. Booth by and Barbara Moulton; while of the speech department, assisted by for class representative to the Student judience. Genevieve Stephenson selected by Miss Lavinia Miriam an art class. After the demonstration, Frances Wallace '41, the play has Its Council the men nominated Vincent (Join Marsh will sing, "There is a Schaeffer (at least she knows what she there will be a discussion period. roles filled by Constance Roy '41, Elea- McKusick and Lewis Tetlow. (Lj-jin the Town" and "A Bird in a likes in music), arranged by the melo- nor Davis '42, Shirley Hanbury '44, Two of Miss Paeffs well known Last Friday, nominations were made lage". An harmonized arrange- dious Miss Frances Rolfe. Ralph Tuller '42, David Nlckerson "42, work- In Maine are the World War in Chapel with John Haskell '41 acting -Abdul Abulbul Amir" will be The drama mounted on the stage— Montrose Moses '41, (Tharles Buck '42. memorial at Kittery Bridge and the I as chairman and John Donovan '42 as jjjred" by Martin McDonough, despite pain. Heartache, qualms—by and Malcolm Daggett '4L John E. Warren memorial bronze i secretary. The following nominations I Fouraier, Arthur Higgins, and fountain at Westbrook. She has also Miss Schaeffer, ingeniously and alter- As in any play there are more tak- were made from the floor: Ipal Barr. The men are joined by done bronzes of Oliver Wendell nately aided, abetted, deterred, en- ing part in its production than just the President: Norman Temple, Walter Lfti Miller, Joanne Lowther, Ann Holmes, Dean Ames of Harvard, and couraged by the lady of many parts, actors. Allan Sawyer '41 Is in charge Davis, Joseph Larochelle, Harold \gnes, and Blanche Kirschbaum in Jane Addams. Bas reliefs of Profes- especially Imported from New York of the scenic department, and has sev- Marr, Charles Thompson, Lewis Tet- *% and dramatizing, "Kissing on From left to right, Eleanora Davis sor James Geddes Jr. and of the mu- (New York) Miss Lydla Augusta eral assistants. A new position, as far low, and Arnold Card. y (such a sum of smacking •43 and Constance Roy '4L as they sician, Edward MacDowell, are num- Frank. Tne director has been curbed as any Bates play production is con- Vice-Prcsident: Virginia Hunt, Ruth John Marsh has a solo, "For appear in the current Robinson pro- bered among her creations, as is a In her fantastic, lavish expenditures cerned, is that of head musician. Don- Parkhurst, Nina Leonard, Laura bust of Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. k> - A Baby". Ruth Parkhurst will by that Scrooge of the Robinson Play- ald Cheetham '42 Is In charge of the duction, "Caste". Campbell, Bradley Dearborn. Charlotte L a ballet dance. ers, Miss Virginia Yeomans. music, a duty which entails not only The lecturer's work with animal Stachelek, and Caroline Dennlson. the selecting of all music played dur- subjects Includes life-size models of Secretary: Barbara Boothby, Shir- ing the performances, but also the Newell Coaches Frosh the airdale of ex-President Harding Charles Peterson ley Whiting, Eleanor Darling, Athana- and the cocker spaniel of former sia Rizoulis, Barbara Moulton, Nina playing of the piano to the accompani- Charles Peterson. "Father of Inter- Basketball And Baseball President A Lawrence Lowell of Har- Leonard, and Frances Walker. Vioted Debater Gains ment of Lysander Kemp '42 on the collegiate Billiards", will revisit the Harry S. Newell, former head coach vard. Treasurer: Almon Fish, Deane Hoyt, saxophone and Arthur Higgins '44 on campus Friday afternoon and evening at Edward Little High School, was Michael Touloumtzis, Charles Panago- the violin. Miss Paeff will be the guest of honor in demonstration periods at Chase Hall Post As NLRB Counsel appointed yesterday as freshman bas- poulos, Elroy Cronin, Alfred Gragno- Special features not generally found and speaker at a dinner at 6:15 p. m. and the Women's Union. Ranked third In a dramatic performance include ketball and freshman baseball coach lati, Norman Lloyd, and Gard Twad- A former STUDENT editor gains a participated here hvthe memorable de- on Monday in Fiske Dining Hall un- among tr.e greatest biU ardists of ill by Pres. Clifton D. Gray. He will take dle. Jtgh -Veiv Deal appointment as Robert bate against the Yale team which in "singing and dancing", as well as der the auspices of the Women's Stu- time, he comes for the third year un- up his duties today. Student Council: Lewis Tetlow, Clif- K Watts '22 has been this week named eluded Robert M. Hutchins, now the "playacting". Marilyn Miller "41 is in dent Government. The lecture, follow- der the auspices of the College Unions Coach Newell is a graduate of the ford Larrabee, Raymond Meader, Cyril Tjasal counsel for the National Labor president of the University of Chicago. charge of the between-the-acts song- ing an annual custom, is sponsored Association and the National Billiard fests, which include numbers by some University of Maine in the class of Finnegan Jr., Raymond Auringer Jr., Betas Board as a part of the re- He served on the Student Council, was by the Student Government. Association. 1924. He was teacher-coach at the David Hains, Cornelius Sibley, Robert huization of that agency. Since class president, and as editor-in-chief of the college's best voices, as well as "Pete", famous for "Show-Me-A- David Prouty High School, Spencer, Macfariane Jr., Vincent McKusick, ply, 1035, he has been serving as aa- of the STUDENT the "Mirror' said a few of the worst Miss Margaret Shot-I-Can't-Make".