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Pa e Two SKYSCRAPER THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Quess Who? Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. X. Friday, April 12, 1940 No. 11 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1939 Member 1940 Pissocioted Colle icrle Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briar ate 3800 Co-Editors Clare Anderson, Betty VeHal Feature Editors ............Frances Sayre. Julia Mary llanna, Marie on Driska, Mane nulla Assistants Mary Lou Bell Eileen Mahoney Club Editor .......Joan Kaspari Assistants Patricia Ellis, Rosemary Ludun News Editor Helen Murphy Assistants ........Elaine Hartman, Dorothy McCarthy, Evelyn Nelson Copy Editors Lavinia Cole, Anne Marie p'Rourke Reporters Joan Morris, Patricia Byrne, Josephine Charlicr, Helen O'Day, Ann Dempsey. Mary Joe Fahrendorf, Patricia Gould, Geraldinr. Hoffman. When Spring Brings- It's April again Paradoxical, isn't it, that spring has gone hand-in-hand with American declar ations of war, and that frequently April has been the month in which hostilities began. April. 1775, saw Concord Minute Men holding their ground as the Revolution commenced: April, 1917, saw the mobil ization of a war machine larger and more menacing than any previous United States force. It's April again. In Canada, two bat talions have already embarked for Eur opean battlefields, and youthful volun teers are scurrying from al parts of the Dominion to enlist with Canadian regi ments. A trenchant item from Red and White, magazine of St. Dunstan's college, Prince Edward Island, records former students in active service. The list is long: imposing commissions head each column, and such names as Royal Air Force and I'rince luhvard Highlanders connote the seeming glory and the tragic drama of conflict. It's April in Canada, too: a confused, military April, contrary to all that we commonly associate with the month. Canadian college students will lose some thing of HMO's spring in their apprehen sion for relatives and friends, as they look forward, not to pleasant weather and its concomitants, but to prolonged warfare, casualty lists, and a bugler sounding taps. April in America must not bring par allels of 1775 and 1(.'17. American stu dents need not read in their college mag azines the names of alumni who have en listed in the army, the navy, the air corps. The United States is now ar peace. Let's observe April in its own right and let it renew in us the desire and the prayer for continued peace. The fact that we are giving a Card Party next Thursday evening at the Ste vens is already well indented on your at tention. But do you know this? WE doesn't mean only the Student Activities Council or the students who are leading the list in ticket sales. It means US you and me. and perhaps we have not done as much for the card party as we can do. Now you know. And what are WE going to do about it? There are those tickets burning holes in our pockets. Why not take paper and pencil (as though you were to plan a summer wardrobe) and list potential ticket-takers? Then call them tonight, and ask if you may send them a ticket, or two, or three, in the mail. And who would want to refuse? For the 1940 Card Party includes a Fashion Revue of sports, afternoon, and formal clothes that promises to be an appropri ate prelude to the glory of the bridal party. This is the last stretch, and for some of us it is a six-day sprint to make up for lost time. Concentrate on bringing the 1940 Card Party to a record-break ing finish this week. WE, you and I, can do it. It's in the cards You're the Critic . By Frances Sayre V D J H w To Read a Book, YOU Kead by Mortimer J. Adler. Si mon and Schuster. y i i . Something utterly cliffer- TOU /ViSST cnt in die way of a book about reading. Mr. Adler's announce ment that this is a book for readers who cannot read challenges your attention. After a few paragraphs . y I That knowing how to read TOU Leam well is like any other art or skill there are rules to learn and fol low. You'll soon find yourself applying Mr. Adler's questions to your reading: What in general is being said? How in particular is it being said? Is it true? and, what of it? What's more, you'll find yourself figuring out the answers. y r A lucid explanation of the TOU tn Oy Sad facts about present- day students and readers; a logical develop ment of an analytical critical method; and a shrewd dissection of a college student's handy tricks and methods for saving time and labor. Most important of all, you'll enjoy your future reading twice as much after adopting Mr. Adler's principles. V D J Ghosts of London, by TOU Kead H. V. Morton, Dodd, Mead. Co. y i i Unexpectedly enough in TOU /V eei this era of political tracts, the horn-blowers, curfew-ringers, lamp lighters, and all the others who help to per- serve the time-honored traditions of old London. y I One of the essential clif- TOU Leam ferences between England and America. We of the United Stales discard outmoded customs as a matter of course (wooden Indians are a rarity) ; but the English cleave fast to habit, age it, surround it with sentiment, and present it as peculiarly sacred tradition. Custom let custom's sake i gt; as British as John Hull. Perhaps when Uncle Sam attains the venerable age of the latter he will suc cumb to the lures of tradition and produce the American equivalent of Morton's Ghosts. But for the present y r The leisurelv charm of the TOU Cn Oy author's vignettes. Each of the 30 brief chapters deals with a quaint and picturesque reminder of Lon don's bygone ages. 1 Terb shops, leech mer chants, and the hoary Society of College Youths (octogenarians who specialize in 1,260 ways of bell-ringing) possess a cer- Round Town . . . With Betty Vestal If your mid-semester report satisfies the family, suggest some of the follow ing items as a reward; if it has a few discrepancies, hint that culture correlates well with education, and suggest them anyway. Monday evening Katherine Hepburn opens at the Erlanger in Philip Barry's gay comedy, The Philadelphia Stouy. After a year's run in New York, the play, a Theatre Guild offering, has reached the ultimate in suave perfection, and gives Hartford's problem child her best ve hicle thus far. This is the month, evidently, for pro ductions by major playwrights. Maxwell Anderson's Key Largo, starring the mournful-looking Paul Muni, runs cur rently at the Selwyn. No less important in their fields are Guthrie McClintic, who stages the show, and Jo Mielziner, design er of the sets. Romeo and Juliet Coming We said ranking playwrights Shakes peare himself, will be represented on the roster when Vivien Leigh and Lawrence Oliver play Romeo and Juliet at the Au ditorium from April 17 to May 4. Miss Leigh, this year's Academy Award win ner, and Mr. Olivier, who acted the vaga bond Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights, venture into classic drama with wide experience in various branches of the theatre. However critics may react to it, the cast alone would seem to justify its engagement from a popular point of view. The most unusual art exhibit of the month centers around 200 Currier and Ives lithographs on display in the an tique section of John Colby and Sons, 129 North Wabash. Most of the prints concern episodes of American history or incidents of nineteenth century American life. Almost everyone is familiar with the illustrations of Custer's Last Stand, and others in the early west series. Some are melodramatic in the showboat tra dition, and all are authentic reflections of a more rugged day, before psycho pathic subjectivism assailed art. The Currier and Ives group may seem rather crude at first, but bear in mind that the prints represent a milestone in Ameri can art, and in the mechanical methods of production. Announce College Recitals Regarding worthwhile events Round Town, we can't overlook Mundelein tal ent. On next Sunday, April 14, Cather ine Keller, senior music major, presents her graduate recital in the college theatre at 3 p. m. Ranging in scope from Bach to Debussy, the program will also include selections by Betty Lou Deppen, mezzo-soprano. On the following Sunday. April 21. senior drama majors Patricia O'Toole. Martha Van Dyke, and Constance Zar- embski appear in a graduate drama re cital, assisted by Bette McCaughey. violinist. Students. Faculty members, and friends will be welcome al both pro grams. tain fascination in themselves. You will find their historical origins undeniably amusing and interesting. You will es pecially enjoy ye oldc world atmosphere, ye Dickens-and-L-imb appeal, and ye Mor ton's opening, which links gas-masks with snuff takers, the past with the present. MdLE SKVUIME There are some salient facts one really should know, to have a complete college edu cation. Since they seem to have been ne- glected so far, Skyline intends to acquaint you with them right now. Von will receive two hours credit for the following. We know where, too, hut we won't tell. Do you wish it sent, or shall we wrap it as a gift? English Major British army officer. Music Minor Off-note, usually a mistake. Required Subject Course of least resistance. Syllabus Odd-looking vehicle. Desk The time you leave school every day. Elective Such as a light bulb. . . . And may we say that fashion is last turning fascist, what with women's shoes being wedgimented and all? Very well, then, n won't. But with enough communistic propaganda. 1 the people will soon be reducated. * * * The course in Mental Hygiene was made to order for the two seniors who boardrf a loop-hound L, and found, when they bid finished chatting and turned to look out the window, that that tall building looked strangely familiar. It was, in fact, Mundelein again The short circuit left them completely in lie I dark, needless to say. Saddest ease ivcw heard about in some time. * * * . . . But not half as sad as the new student who was asked if she had been through Cal culus, and answered with all good intention: Not unless I passed through it at night. I'i from Arizona, you know. Yes, we know. * * * Hollywood had its premiere and grnd openings for GONE WITH THE WI-VD, ta Mundelein went them all one better with a I GWTW cast containing none other than Mar garet .Mitchell herself. We also scored with the personal appearance of The Wind. SelzniA is probably green with envy a this punt Orchids to Betty Vestal * * * 1 didn't Know What Time It Was is non the official theme song of the music majors. This was proved beyond all doubt when, a a recent music class, the teacher referred to a few measures she had written un the black- board, and asked: What time is it? With what scientists would term a reflex action, all' the students immediately eyed the clock and re plied : A quarter to 12. Al five minute. before lunch hour, this sort of thing is, t feel, practically unavoidable. * * * And, at certain times, this sort of tiling U unavoidable, too: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy lost his hair- Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, Wuzzy ? * * * Perhaps it would be best if we changed the subject. For your spring wardrobe, may i suggest a smart new coat, reversible on out side only ... a pork-pie hat thoroughly baked . . . and platform soles well draped with flats and orators? We're wondering whether yon know a gooil thing when you see it . . . We're speaking ui tit Skyline, of course. What's it all about, anihui this Skyline? Well, let's analyze it scientifi cally: A Skyline is, obviously, a line in the skyJ Bui a mere line would hardly be noticeable j in that vast, star-studded canopy (this is whji we get for taking three poetry classes) . .1 It would actually he negligible in fact, impos sible. Therefore, there is no such thing. Cone now, did you really think that there was soma thing in this column? You, too, might try the Mental Hygiene class and save a place for us.
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1940-04-12 (2)
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