MAH Y Hl:..Ml:.. N WA Y HALL WELLESLEY C ClLLErr E WELLESLEY, MASS., MARCH 9, 1944 David Barnett To Play Margery Craig Heads Tree Day Plans Franck, Debussy Music Sophomore Tea Dance Poets Benet, Rukeyser Include. Vital David Barnett will give a piano Scheduled for April I recital in Billings, next W ednes­ Big event of sophomore year is Will Read at Festival day, March 15, at 8 :00 p.'m . He the Sophomore tea dance which will Fete Tradition will play compositions of Cesar be given this spring on April 1 in Six poets and the Wellesley Verse Franck and of Claude Debussy. the gym. Margery Craig is chair­ Speaking Choir will join in a fes· "In planning an indoor Tree The program will include the fol­ man of the dance, which is a sopho­ lowing: tival of spoken poetry Friday. Day," said Ros Gethro '44, Chair­ more tradition comparable to I. Prelude Aria and Finale Junior and Senior proms. Sopho­ March 24 in Alumnae Hall at 8 man, "we are making every effort Cesar Franck mores almost unanimously voted p.m., acco1·ding to an announce­ to stay as close to tradition as II. Preludes, Book I for the dance in the recent class ment by Miss Cecile DeBanke. possible." Claude Debussy meeting. 1. Danseuses de Delphes Committee heads officially an­ The six poets participating in To carry this out, Tree Day 2. Voiles nounced are: June Meadows, Floor the program are William Rose will begin, as usual, with the sing­ 3. Le Vent dans la P Laine Committee; Sue Sargeant, Tickets; Benet, Muriel Rukeyser, Theodore ing of class songs. Students will 4. Les sons et les parfums tour- Mary Jo Lamb, Music; Marilyn Spencer, Leonard Bacon, Winifield nent dans l'air du soir march into Alumnae Hall by class­ Peterson, Decorations; Eunice Cal­ Townley Scott, and John Holmes. es, and each class will sit together. 5. Les collines d'Anacapri pin, Date Bureau; Jinx Rogers, Then the Tree Day Mistress, Bar­ 6. Des pas sur la neige Refreshments; a'nd Mac Cullen, The latter, who participated in bara Lotz, accompanied by her 7. Se qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest Publicity. last year's program, will again give aides, will march down the aisles, 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin Price and exact time have not the closing address. up on the stage, and to the Royal 9. La Serenade interrompue as yet been determined, but sopho­ The poetry festival, introduced 10. La Cathedrale engloutie mores are urged to arrange their Box. The Senior Class President, into the United States last year bv as in former years, will give the 11. La Danse de Puck date or visit the Bureau in Sever­ Welcome Speech, followed by the 12. Minstrels. ence. Miss DeBanke, follows the tradi­ pag~ant and exhibition. After the tional English festival started by performance, the cast and Tree John Masefield. During the year Day Mistress will march out the secretary of the Oxford Verse through the audiepce "so that Seniors A waiting Advent of Last MISS CECILE DeBANKE Speaking Choir in England wrote eve1·yone can get a good look at to Miss DeBanke expressing the them, and so that the tradition of Prom: To be Held in Tower Court wish that after the war the two the march will be sustained." Ballet Brings festivals be affiliated and that poets and verse-speaking choirs be e:x:­ Running for the Freshman Tree Hal Reeves and his orchestra is filling an essential function for will take place outdoors. The changed between the United States will lull the Seniors into a proper seniors whose men are moored in and England each year. classes will march out, forming a the Aleutians or off among the All Star Cast large "W ," and tpen the r un will mood for their Senior prom in Theodore Spencer, Professor at Roosians. • Harvard and Trustee of Wellesley , begin. More explicit directions Great Hall of Tower Court, Satur­ It will be a traditional prom with for that will be given later, after T o Wellesley College, is· author of two books of day night, March 18, from eight all the trimmings. The seniors noetry and of the book entitled the biggest problem has been to twelve o'clock. H will be '44's will sweep in, in dreamy formals, solved. The problem: What to do When the Ballet Russe de Monte• Shakespeare and the Nature of last party without the spectre of get fussed over by the prom maids Cal'lo comes to Alumnae Hall, Wel­ Man. He will read from his new about the Freshmen officers, who generals haunting the proceedings and fl.oat off on the arms of soldier, have all turned out to be "4-F's," lesley, for a single performance book, An Act of Life, the Verse and it will be a good one. sailor, or civilian, officers and men on Thursday evening, March 23, Speaking Choir will give three scarcely knowing how to run? Songs by La Byrne (tentatively (no slur on the officers intended). The music for Tree Day was following its Boston Opera House poems from his Paradise in the identified as Isabella Byrne '44) The sophomore prom maids who engagement, it will present the Circle. ~ritten by Moussorgski, to com­ and a scene from Private Lives, will brush up the seniors and do complete New York production and The young poetess Muriel Ruk­ memorate the death of his artist starring Cobey (first name Mar­ whatever else prom maids do, are feature the world's most celebrated eyser has been bailed .by Stephen friend, Victor Hartman. Accord­ garet) and "The G01·don" (first on their honor to be loyal little ballerinas in their noted roles. Vincent Benet as one who "speaks ing to tradition, the music was in­ name Jean, a male) will entertain sisters. They are Mollie Aufses­ Alexandra Danilova, an interna­ her politics with since1·ity and fire spir.ed by an exhibi}ion of Hart­ the dancers when they are not ser, Puss Backus, Jean Benneyan, tionally famous figure in the dance like a poet and in poetic terms." man's paintings. Accordingly, dancing. Sally Binford, Marie Bransfield, world will be seen in the leading Before writing her first book, The­ this theme has been kept through­ Pat Lord is in charge of the Pat Brown, Mary Edith Buckley, role i'n "Red Poppy", a sensation ory of Flight, she studied the. ~f'­ out the pageant. Instead of Mou~ dance. Jeanne Burke is taking Suzie Carreau, Lolly Davidson, of the current tour. This ballet chanics of aviation; before writmg sorgski going through the gallery, care of the food. Mary Cra·ndon Annie Laurie Demorest, Alice is concerned with the freeing of U. S. I., she traveled that Atlantic a promenade is shown. Occasion­ is pl:mning the decorations, Pat Dodds, Pbvl KaPmpfe ·-, Betty Ann China :froH1 the J ap ~ .nes e aggrC;;:;­ seaboard route. She attended the ally they stop and examine a Plunkett is putting out publicity, Martin, Marian McCuiston, June sor. Igor Schwezoff, the com­ Scottsboro trial a·nd was impris­ painting. Each painting then June Collier is arranging the Gen­ Meadows, Ann Osgood, Lee Platt, poser, has dedicated it to the oned for her curiosity; she worked does a solo. Moussorgski's music eral Arrangements, Helen Brew Nancy Smith, Pattie Smith, Carol United Nations. with a medical unit in Spain during has been followed as closely as heads the ticket and business com­ Southworth, Anne Titchener, Mar­ The Wellesley program will also th€ outbreak of the Spanish Revo­ possible. mittee, and Margaret Cobey de­ gie Torbet, Betty Tuck~r, Kay War­ include Agnes de Mille's "Rodeo" lution. Miss Rukeyser attended The dancers are: Solos, .Betty vised the entertainment. An un­ ner and Barbara Whitall. or "The Courting at Burnt Vassar and Columbia, and pub­ Gourdin '45, "The Gnome"; Fuzzy named committee headed by a he­ All in all, it should be a prom Ranch" the great Ame1·ican ballet lished her first book of poems in Glassenberg '46, and Ross Gethro roic but anonymous midshl.pman worthy of '44. success' of last season. Miss de 1935 whe·n she was twenty-one. '44, "The Old Castle"; Patty Mille was the choreographer for She will read from her new book, Smith '46, "Baba-Ylitga"; Liz Vi­ all dance numbers in "Oklahoma". · The Eest in View. The choir will nal '44 and Carey Boone '44, "Two Dr. Navarro, Spanish To balance the modern note will give exerpts from her 'f'heory of Art Critics." Soong Lecture Author, Lecturer, And be the lovely "Les Sylphides", a Flight. T,he chereography has been tak­ classic ballet. This ballet fulfills Leonard Bacon is an Amencan en care of by: Winnie Herman To be Given on Teacher to Speak Here the finest traditions of pure Rus­ poet who in his early days, worked sian ballet. '45, "Huileries"; Ros Gethro, Dr. Tomas Navarro, one .of the on ranches and lumber camps "out "Bydlo"; Carey J3oQ._ne, "Ballet of Tickets are on sale at the Thrift west." He will read from Sund~r­ the Unhatched Chickens"; Liz ChineseGardens most distinguished contemporary Shop, and early reservations a~e land Capture, which won the. Pul~t­ Vinal, "Market Place at L.imo­ Spanish scholars, will ~ec~ure in advisable. The Ballet Russe is zer Prize in 1940. The choir will Spanish on "La Pronunciacion Es­ being presented by the Dep~rt­ ges"; Betty Gourdin, "Cata­ "Chinese Ga1·dens" jg the subject give three poems from his latest of a lecture to be given by Miss panola en Espana y America'' ment of Hygience and Physical book, Day of Fire.