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April 30, 1936 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three 'Round Town Honorary Mundelein ex's (who have taken a bow from the College auditorium lectern) seem to be particularly promin ent 'round town . . . Elsa Hottinger, popular mezzo contralto, who guest- starred in the 1934 Glee Club spring concert appeared with the San Carlos Opera company in its return engage ment which ended Sunday evening at the Auditorium Theater . . . Gallant Shane Leslie, our oft-visiting littera teur of last year, will return to Notre Dame next fall as one of the faculty for a new graduate course in Chris tian Apologetics . . . Not only 'round town, but going to town, St. Ger trude's Forum will close a highly suc cessful season with T. A. Daly's ad dress on Humor and the Church on May 14. The poet of Mac Aroni bal lad fame, it will be remembered, was one of the most popular lecturers at Mundelein last semester . . . All clans of music lovers will undoubtedly gather at Orchestra Hall Wednesday evening for the Paulist Choristers' annual concert . . . Lest you forget: The Illinois Club for Catholic Women is the place, and May 15, the date, for the Cisca Spring Party . . . Don Pedro and his NBC orchestra is just one of the many features of the homecoming party which our neigh boring parish, St. Henry's, will hold at the Beach on May 2. Loyola Entertains Les D'Arciennes At Joint Meeting Les D'Arciennes, the newly organized French club, held its first joint meeting with Loyola university on April 15, in the Cudahy Lounge. Warren Kelly, president of the Loyola French club, welcomed the Mundelein students and thanked them for the in vitation to the French cinema to be held at the College on May 1. Professor Joseph Le Blanc then ad dressed the group on the social and eco nomic condition in France, and contrasted the governments of France and of the United States. Professor Felix Le Grand spoke on French folk songs and their origin, after which the assemblage sang the Marseil laise, and tea and cakes were served. The Mundelein students who attended are Margaret Egan, Rita Casey, Ellen Birnbaum, Esmine Kakarakis, Marjorie Carroll, Catherine Mulvihill, Lorraine Phillips, Myrtle Peterson, and Grace Mehren. Socrates' Prison, Plato's Academy, Live in Report i Mexico Is Minus Charms of U.S. Say Freshmen By Anna Marie Masterson There are only three things that will not be in Mexico City when the Pes queira sisters Juanita and Isabel re turn next week. Mundelein will be miss ing, their Chicago friends will be absent, and nowhere along the sun-bathed streets of Mexican business districts will be found a dime store. With the last opportunity for obtain ing first-hand information of Mexico and Mexican customs, your inquiring reporter made haste to ask about such things as siestas, serenades, and newspapers. Si estas, we were told, are distinctly out-of- style. No true business man or socialite would think of interrupting office routine to nap a few hours away. Have American Music American week-enders would enjoy themselves tremendously in Mexico. A typical week-end starts on Thursday, and terminates on Sunday evening. American orchestras play in the clubs of Mexico City, and the music is quite as good as the Weems-Lombardo-Heidt-Hylton var iety near and dear to the American heart. Bridge, swimming, and tennis are the main recreations. Baseball games are ta boo, and football is never even mentioned, except when some U.S. university plays its annual game with a Mexican football team. School in Mexico has none of the fancy dress that American schools have assumed. There are no sororities or fra ternities or extra-curricular activities of any sort. (Juanita Pesqueira said this with a glint of sadness in her eyes, remembering the glorious meetings of Las Teresianas, the Spanish club). Wins French Prize Juanita, a student in the economics department, received the prize, given by the French consul, for excellence in French, before her departure for Mexico City; her sister was majoring in home economics. The College tea room was the scene of a farewell party on April 20, given for these dark-eyed senoritas by their friends and fellow students in the Spanish club. During their two-year sojourn in the United States, where their father has been Mexican consul to Chicago, the Misses Pesqueira have won many friends at Mundelein and have lent color and charm to costume parties, since they took the fall festival prize last year, wearing authentic Mexican dresses and brilliant Spanish shawls. Freshman Debaters Enter Final Round Youth for work; old age for leisure will be the slogan of Patricia Mack and Patricia Connor, who will uphold the affirmative of the Townsend-plan ques tion when they compete with Geraldine Ferstel and Merle Smith in the final round of the freshman debate contest, on May 6. These contestants reached the finals after defeating the other freshman parti cipants. Quarter-finalists were Georgette Thoss and Marcella Windle, Lorraine Lustgarten and Phyllis Hoffman, Dor othy Stalzer and Rita McGuane. According to a report given by Vic toria Dalber on the day of reviews in philosophy class, an American student must rely upon her imagination in recon structing the scenes of Platonic and Aristotelian schools, whereas a student who has lived in Greece may go in spirit to the places mentioned and visualize the ancients in authentic classic settings. When the philosophy lecture in room 204 is on Plato, Miss Dalber returns in spirit to his famous Academy; when men tion is made of Aristotle, she reconstructs her images of ttie Lyceum, and when Socrates' name comes up, she recalls her visit to the old prison, where the sage courageously drank the hemlock and said farewell to his friends. Miss Dalber was born in America, but spent 10 years in Greece, after which she returned to the United States. Although she likes Greece tremendously, she be lieves that she prefers to live in America, but dreams of spending at least a part of every year in the foreign land. For the benefit of the Mundelein phil osophers, Miss Dalber explained in detail the Grecian social life of the present day, comparing it with student social life in this country. She also outlined the Greek educational method, and remarked that much of the teaching and studying in that country is done out of doors. Dis cipline in all schools, and especially in convent schools, is almost rigorously strict, she remarked, and religious in struction is carried on there in classes similar to our Sunday school groups. Visit Historical American Shrines On Southern Trip Attending a convention of the Western Arts association, held in Nashville, Ten nessee, April 1 to 4, members of the Fac ulty in the art department visited several historical American shrines. Of special artistic interest was the famous old church at Bardstown, Ken tucky, called the proto cathtdral, where in are kept paintings given to Bishop Flaget by the French king, Louis Philippe, in return for the kindness of the Bishop to the monarch during his exile in the United States. Other treasures in the cathedral include vestments embroid ered by the queen, a hand-hammered metal tabernacle, and exquisite antique church vessels. The Old Kentucky Home, where Ste phen Foster wrote his famous plantation song, Andrew Jackson's home in Nash ville, with its famous fiddle-shaped drive, and the Parthenon, an exact replica of the Acropolis in Greece, were other points of interest in the trip. - College Observes May Day Ceremony In connection with the observation of Mother's Day, students will celebrate Mary Day at the College on Friday, May 8. Each student is requested to attend Mass and receive Holy Commun ion in her parish Church or at the 7 o'clock Mass in the College Chapel, to honor Our Lady and her own mother. Two New Scribes Merit By Lines Before long we expect to see a volume of short stories heading the best-seller list compilations, these, of stories which students in the English department have written and had published in the waif's MESSENGER. The March issue of that magazine contains stories by two new writers. In the Stars, by Catherine Fox, is a delight ful story of a romance that grew out of a Saturday routine. Westward Ho 1 by Mary Lamont, is a rather unusual story of a boy's idealistic love of the sea. Have You Visited Tearoom Exhibits? ol Sponsored by the home economics de partment, a nutrition exhibit in the tea room this week is attracting wide atten tion and comment among the students. Tables set for buffet luncheons, chil dren's parties, bridge luncheons, formal dinners, and May parties give artistic atmosphere to the display, and the scien tific aspect of meal planning is set forth in posters and in demonstrations outlining food requirement, high caloric diets, vita mins and minerals, protein requirements, and suggestions for overweight and un derweight menus. The following students are responsible for the demonstrations: Gertrude Hans, Ruth Wright, Mae Sexton, Sue Adams, Mary Hymes, Catherine Heerey, Verginia Nickus, Kathryn Kostakis, Esther Cole man, Helen Bulchunis, Sister Mary Jo- sella, and Sister Mary Lauretana. Helen C. White Recommends Six-Point Plan for Leisure By Katherine Ott The same gracious ease with which she had advocated a respect for leisure in tier lecture to the student assembly on April 21 characterized Miss Helen C. White when she greeted the students grouped around her in the Cardinal's room after her discussion of the Art of Leisure. Denying that she is an authority on the Middle Ages, Miss White explained that she came to know St. Francis and his period through her deep interest in mysticism, the study of which culminated magnificently in her novel, a watch in THE NIGHT. Questioned as to the inspiration for her story of Mathilda of Tuscany, not built with hands. Miss White declared that she wrote it because she had enjoyed writing the first one and wished to con tinue her study of the mediaevel world. A Bostonian by birth and at present a member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Miss White has traveled extensively in Europe, studying at Ox- relaxation and enjoyment, and insisting that the custom of tea as a period of recreation might well serve as the start ing point on a program for leisure. Miss White's second point was a rec ommendation of what might be termed a hobby the doing of something just for the sake of doing it, for the sheer joy of it and she mentioned her own penchant for the writing of verse as an ideal recreation. A third recommendation was literary Keep two books always on your desk, she insisted, one, an old one, which you have always meant to read, and one cur rent book a book of the moment which wears the dress of our age. Time out for nature, was the essence of the fourth point, and, as the distin guished novelist described a Wisconsin evening which had drawn to a close a busy, troubled day, her student audience became aware of the wisdom of her ad vice. The fifth point comedy found an Newspapers Acclaim Charter Class Pianist V UR HOME economics department has been strutting around feeling like an amateur Major Bowes eversince the fashion show that Saks-Fifth Avenue staged for our style-conscious students a few weeks ago. Alice Addison, who j charmingly displayed some of the crea tions, is very much a model freshman, j since she spent Easter week modeling at Saks. And of course the aforementioned 1 department points to its prodigy with , pride 1 Which reminds us that our up- and-coming organist should be given a . few purple violets for her performance. Did you notice that, when Betty Boehme I stepped from behind the curtains wearing a blue creation, the auditorium was filled ; to the beams with the strains of The Beautiful Lady in Blue, and that, while Gertrude Hans took our breath away with that stunning flame-colored evening gown, Rita Smith kept her wits about': her and played Red Sails In The Sunset? IF ANY of the high school students fl * who attended the scholarship exam- S inations had any doubts about Munde-1 lein's modernity, they were strongly I convinced that we are up-to-date when Katherine Wilkins and LaVonne Hayes demonstrated the hitch-hike dive for them. And more than one prospective i freshman became firmly convinced that Mundelein was the place to come when she saw Justine Martin do a perfect full ' gainor. Methinks we have a whole Olym- pic team within yon natatorium walls. rT1HE COMMERCE department mem- * bers are emphatic practitioners of the good old adage that the picture is stronger than the word. None of our ; commercialites believe that business con- 1 sists solely of rows upon rows of error- free typewritten letters, or myriads of entries and balances. Just to prove that i there is romance in business, they have posted a picture of a blushing bride and I groom on the front bulletin board in 502. j According to the commercial version, it is '. the picture of a happy secretary-bride and . her employer-husband. This is one of the ; optimistic tidbits that keeps registration in the commerce department high. What we're wondering is if it is proper to hurl I typewriters and dictation books instead of j rice 111 ,i 'Pinch-hitting' Pianist Saves Concert- that was the headline in the herald-ex aminer of April 20, after Emer Phibbs '35, on an hour's notice, accompanied Alban Knox, tenor. Glenn Dillard Gunn, music critic for the herald, wrote, The outstanding im pression derived from an afternoon and evening spent in the recital halls of the city was the piano playing of Emer Phibbs. Edward Barry, the tribune's music critic, spoke of Miss Phibbs as the in trepid pianist who had accepted the as signment on an hour's notice (because of the illness of Mr. Schneider) and who played a Scott Valse Caprice in a poetic and technically expert manner. Mr. Gunn said her solo group dis closed the kind of talent which justifies the confidence she displayed. She has' facility, imagination, much charm of style and person, and a background of solid musicianship. Her way with at tractive, if not profound, pieces by Scott and Grainger delighted her listeners. Miss Phibbs, who gained distinction in musical and literary circles at Mundelein, received the St. Cecilia award for piano in 1933. N O LONGER is it necessary to take to the daily dozen if one wishes to retain a sylph-like figure not since the Mundelein dietitians have begun to edit and publish nutrition news, a bulletin I containing a list of weights and heights, to say nothing of methods which will enable enthusiastic collegians to retain their Spenser silhouettes. Very tempting but when it comes to giving up nice, ' gooey hot fudge sundaes and noing boxes of Fanny May's, I abandon all resolutions and return to the old-fash ioned dozen. ford, where she observed with admiration the leisurely achievements of the English immediate and enthusiastic response, the people. My observation of the atmosphere of England, she remarked, is that it is above all leisurely that it speaks of hav ing time. One of the minor sacramentals of English civilization is afternoon tea, she declared, explaining that tea to the English woman is not an occasion for white gloves and a smart new gown, but that it is, rather, an interval of complete comedy of every-day life, which relieves the strain of anxiety and concentration and focuses delighted attention on the incongruity of affairs. With these suggestions in mind, con cluded Miss White, we shall learn how to develop leisure moments, and, having found them, we may learn the most im portant art of all the art of living with, and not for, ourselves. Attention Radio Fans Owing to the Take-Me-Out-to- the-Ball-Game urge which prompts radio announcers to give play-by play description of the activities of the Chicago teams, the hour of sally ann's career, weekly broadcast sponsored by the College, has been changed to Saturday from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Science Pledges Conduct Meeting Freshman pledges of the group con ducted the meeting of the Science Forum on April 17. Dorothy Fitzgerald ar ranged the program at which Dorothy Stalzer talked on The Functions of the Hormones of the Ovary and Gertrude Feeny spoke on Functions of the Thy mus. The advanced and general zoology classes have taken several field trips in the past few weeks. The advanced group has visited the Academy of Science where they examined the fossils, repre sentative of the various phyla of the animal kingdom. At the aviary, the zoo, and the aquarium of Lincoln Park, they studied the characteristics of the living phyla. The general zoology class visited the Field Museum on April 25 to study adoptive radiation among mammals. Members of the chemistry classes at tended a lecture given by Mr. Clyde Crowley, at Loyola, on April 22.
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