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THE :':-rp.-;,;-;,--,- . /* ' S --- .,-v.. Volume V. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 14. 1934 No. 5 Candles Glow as Students Carol On Vacation Eve Traditional Procession and Carol Singing Will Be Dec. 21 As dusk approaches on Friday, Dec. 21, the College will once again observe the traditional Carol-and-Candle ceremony which ushers in the holiday season at Mundelein each year. Festivities will begin at 4 o'clock when the Children's Theatre groups will pre sent two plays, Percivale Wilde's En chanted Christmas Tree, and Jean Latham's Giant and the Biscuits, for the assembly in the auditorium. Following a holiday supper at 5 o'clock in the tea room, the members of the vari ous organizations will assemble on their assigned floors to light their Christmas candles. As the candles are lighted and placed in the windows, the songs of many lands will echo faintly in the halls, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish. Polish, will mingle with folk carols of England and America, as the candles, placed in darkened windows, form a huge cross shining down over Sheridan Road. Then, assembling on the eighth floor, the entire student body, led by the Glee club, will come down the stairs slowly, winding in and out on the terraces under the stars, singing favorite carols. Arrived at rrtc first floor, they Will go out the east door, circle the building, and assemble again on the front steps, where senior class officers will hang wreaths on the College doors. Inside once more Faculty and students, assembled around the huge Christmas tree, will exchange holiday greetings and say farewell for a two-week's vacation. Professor Discusses Broadway Productions By Margaret Clkary In his lecture to the Laetare players in the Little Theater on Dec. 10, Professor Leverton, who has just returned from New York after viewing sixteen of Broadway's current plays, stated that the theatre is definitely looking up. After a period of popular plays by so-called popular playwrights, the su perior names of Maxwell Anderson. George Kaufman, and Eugene O'Neill are much in evidence. Of these, Professor Leverton de clares, George Kaufman and his satire, As Thousands Cheer, are foremost. But it is a Kaufmann who satirizes ideals and their hopelessness that appears at this turn in the theatre world. By using a different mold in which to cast his play, Kaufmann traces a broken ideal back through the years to find its origin, thus making a production, which would have dragged on interminably if played in chronological sequence, turn into a thing of dynamic force. The second smash hit which Professor Leverton reviewed was The Children's Hour by Louise Holm. She has made of her first play a tragedy stark and terrible in its implications. The scene of action is a school built after eight years of terrific plodding by two young girls. This school and the lives of the girls are wrecked by the malicious gossip of a fourteen-year-old student who, with an almost demoniacal intent, resolves to get even with the two young teachers for their merely disciplin ary treatment of forbidding her to go to the boat races. (Continued on page 4, Col. 1) Debating Squad Meets Two University Teams With Jane Spalding, an alumna of St. Scholastica's high school, acting as chair man, the Mundelein debating team met the team from Marquette university at St. Scholastica's yesterday afternoon. Ruth Tangney, Ruth Quirk, and Mary Agnes Tynan upheld the negative of the questjon: Resolved: That the Federal government adopt the policy of equaliz ing educational opportunities throughout the nation by means of annual grants to the several states for public elementary and secondary education. The Mundelein team will debate the same question, defending the negative, with the team from St. John's univer sity, Toledo, in the Little Theatre on Dec. 17 at 1 o'clock. The Mundelein team will engage in a radio debate with St. Viator's College over station WCFL on Jan. 13. Third Volume of Quest Is Ready for Christmas Gold-edged, and bound in shiny moire, the third volume of Quest, the Mundelein College Anthology, which has as a special feature a foreword by Pad- raic Colum, will be off the press just in time to be an appropriate Christmas gift. Under the co-editorship of Emer Phibbs, representing the alumnae, and 'M-3Ty -grr Tyimn,- Tr 5tTRlem-Hlwr5v Quest this year will offer delightful bits of verse, cleverly illustrated by Joan Lim- burg, junior art major. Epiphany 1564, by Ruth Tangney, prize winning poem of last year, will be featured at the beginning of the book. A juvenalia section, containing several of Emer Phibb's poems to her baby brother, is a new attraction. Mary Lally, Helen O'Gara, and Doris Barnett, who during their college days were staff members of Clepsydra and Quest, are again prominent in the list of contributors to the 1934 edition of the Anthology. A short biographical sketch of each contributor adds an interesting note to the volume. Pulling strings is the latest novelty in the French department puppet strings and eager French students plan to pull them for the collegiate public next Thurs day and Friday afternoons when they will present three marionette shows in the corridor outside Locker Room C. Noel Gothique, by Elenor Loarie, adapted from a story which appeared in a French magazine, L'lllustration, several years ago, will be enacted with the fol lowing students working the marionettes: Ann Ellen Smith, Catherine Dougherty, Majel Brown, Florence Griffin, Edith Coyne, Carol Sweeney, and Colette Cor bet . The scene of Noel Gothique is an old French cathedral in which, on Christmas Eve, the stone figures of saints that line its walls come to life and, led by Saint Benoit, re-enact the scene of the Nativ ity. The stage, which is in the form of the Chartres Cathedral, was constructed by Bernice Walters. The heads of the mar ionettes were carved from soap by Ellen Birnbaum. The costumes were designed by Janice Quinn and made by Mary Louise -MeK ali-and-4- r 4e Sroall. Dor othy Kullman built the cathedral altars, and Margaret Trone made the controls operating the small figures. (Continued on page 4, col. 2) Mundelein College extends to all its students sincere wishes for true Christmas French Students To Present Three Marionette Plays Chartres Cathedral Is Scene Of Student's Adaptation Of Story Faculty and Seniors Attend International Conference on Peace By Elizabeth Higgins Francis Woods, Mary Jane Neilson, and Margaret Webb, senior sociology students, together with two Faculty members, represented Mundelein at the all-day regional conference of the Catho lic Association for International Peace, in Milwaukee on Nov. 25. The convention was sponsored by Marquette university, and every univer sity and college in the middle west was represented. The conference began at 9:00 a. m. with a Pontifical High Mass, celebrated by His Excellency, the Most Reverend Samuel A. Stritch, archbishop of Milwaukee. The morning session opened at 10:30 a.m. at the Marquette Medical School auditorium, and consisted of lectures on the rights of minorities, the Catholic student and world peace, and economic and international life. Open forum dis cussions followed. (Continued on page 5, col. 2) Will Attend Catholic Philosophical Meeting Members of the Faculty and students will attend the tenth annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical as sociation, which will be held at the Graduate school of De Paul university on Dec. 27 and 28. The program will center around the general subject, the Philosophy of Re ligion, and will include discussions of the Philosophy of Faith, Humanism and Natural Religion, and the Philosophy of Mind. The opening session will be held at 9 o'clock on Thursday morning in the Lit tle Theatre on third floor. Shakespearean Director Is Guest of Dramatists By Ann Lali.y On last Saturday afternoon, Mr. B. Iden Payne who was co-director with Thomas Wood Stevens of the Globe Theatre at the World's Fair last sum mer and is now directing the same players at McVicker's Theatre, paid a visit to the college. He has recently been chosen to be the next director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Strat- ford-on-Avon, the birthplace of the his toric bard. Mr. Payne's tweed-suited person and his decided accent reveal his English birth, but his witty speech and twinkling blue eyes reflect the impressions of twenty years of theatrical work in America. Always Liked The Theatre The firs', thing we asked Mr. Payne was how he became interested in the theatre, not because it is a particularly good question, but because it usually puts the subject of the interview in a talkative frame of mind. The charm worked in this instance at least, for Mr. Payne answered simply and promptly, no matter what the query. With a smile he confessed that he has always been interested in the theater. There was no beginning or end, for he said, my interest goes back as far as I can remember. The success of the Old Globe Theater was so phenominal that we could not resist asking a question on the future popularity of Shakespearean productions. After thinking for a moment, Mr. Payne replied, I think the vogue for these plays will increase; as the more popular forms of entertainment are becoming more and more mechanized, a revolt against them will result. People desire their imagina tions be stirred. Shakespeare supplies this appeal. People want living things, and Shakespeare is alive. Insists Upon Continuity Regarding his plans for the production of plays in the theatre at Stratford-on- Avon, Mr. Payne said, Whatever hap pens, the plays will be done in continuity, always with continuity of action. Some will be done strictly in the Elizabethan manner, and others partly with scenic effect. As Mr. Payne's career has at one time or another been bound up with Chicago's (Continued on page 4, Col. 3) Diocesan Missioner Talks at Assembly The Reverend John M. McCarthy, who spoke on Dec. 12 on the Pursuit of Happiness, would reveal nothing what soever of his intended treatment of the age-old phrase in an interview granted before the lecture. Father McCarthy, who, however, is a most vital and jovial personality, was en thusiastic about his first visit to Mundel ein, and expressed a wish to say something unique about it. He relied, finally, upon the word beautiful, and felt that per haps those terms tested by time and use are best. He is located at the Holy Name Cathedral and has as his special work missions and retreats. (Continued on page 3, col. 4) Announce Vacation Dates Mundelein College will close for the Christmas holidays on Friday, Dec. 21, and reopen on Monday, Jan. 7. Under the Stars To Commemorate Bach Centennial Glee Club, Laetare Players, Orchestra, in Program On Dec. 16 Johann Sebastian Bach, the Laetare Players, and the College Orchestra will vie with the Glee club for honors at the fourth annual Christmas program, Un der the Stars, on Dec. 16. Since the Bach Centennial is being observed this year, the famous composer's oratorio has been chosen as the first part of the program. The Laetare Players and other student volunteers will appear in the tableaux which will accompany the carols and hymns. Waller Flandorf, director of the Glee club, will also con duct the Orchestra. Following the Christmas overture by the Orchestra, the Glee club will sing the following selections from the Oratorio: Christians, Be Joyful, How Shall I Fitly Meet Thee, Break Forth Heavenly Light, Within Yon Gloomy Manger, Glory to God, and With All Thy Hosts. Will Feature Oratorio After the Oratorio, the Glee club will sing a Hungarian carol and I Saw Three Ships, a Christmas song of Old English origin. The tableaux will then be presented, with Sallie Agnes Smith reading the scriptural stories. *he first group will be a reproduction of Correggio's famous painting, Holy Night, for which the Glee club will sing a Bohemian carol. Angels and Shepherds. The second tableaux will picture the shepherds in the fields, while the Glee club sings Sleep Holy Babe after which the Orchestra will play German's Shepherd Dance. To Represent Bethlehem A portrayal of the stable in Bethlehem will follow the shepherd scene, and the accompaning songs will include a modern version of the old carol, Lullay. Saint-Saen's Ecconaise, played by the Orchestra, will follow the fourth tableau, representing the Magi, and, after the final tableau, The Light of the World, the Glee club will sing the Hallelujah chorus. Students who will appear in the ta bleaux are: Virginia Sweeney, Shirley Brice, Virginia Bosch, Margaret Geary, Helen Marie Loehr, Francis Burke, Ruth Hazle, Kathryn Walsh, Mary Jane Grif fin, Lois Schoen, Mary Rita Murphy, Mary Jane Blenner, Eileen Bartels, Rosemary Lux, Jean Parks, Ann Ellen Smith, Catherine Ott, Loretta Sturm, Marion Green, Eileen Grimm, Anna Mae Schinnick, and Phyllis O'Neill. Feature Orchestra At Golden Jubilee Taking part in a Golden Jubilee cele bration is the latest feather in the cap of the College Orchestra, which, at the re quest of the Right Reverend Thomas F. Quinn, played at the jubilee of St. Syl vester's church on Nov. 25. Following the Solemn High Mass which His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein and a number of other eccle siastical dignitaries attended, a banquet was given in the parish hall. During the banquet, the Orchestra, di rected by Herman J. Beringer, furnished the music. The following selections were played: Three Dances from Henry VIII, by Edward German; Frosquita Serenade, by Franz Lehar; Pulcinelli, by Aletter; The Last Spring, by Grieg; Punchinello and Yester Thoughts, by Victor Herbert.
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