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-.' Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER October 23, 1936 THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLBOE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago. Illinois 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 at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. fl.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol VII Oct. 23, 1936 No. 2 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1935 Member 1936 Associated CbUe6iafe Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briargate 3800 SKYSCRAPER STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jean McKeever ASSOCIATE EDITOR Gertrude Rafferty Managing Editor Katharine Ott Editorial Staff: Laetitia Kalisz, Mary Joyce Vail, Lillian Wasielewska, Catherine Ann Dougher ty, Catherine Heerey. Feature Editors: Julia Mary Hanna, Annamarie Masterson. Feature Staff: Kathryn Byrne, Rosella Grace, Dorothy Stalzer. News Editors Frances Geary, Merle Smith News Staff: Ellen Birnbaum, Geraldine Ferstel, La Vonne Hayes, Helen Holman, Muriel Clin nin, Rachel Laughlin, Mary Molloy, Adelaide Nillis. Combine Personality With Plurality FOR THE past three years, a barrage of articles has flooded the women's sections in all our daily newspapers and in a score of our best magazines, urging the American girl to develop individuality and personality, to remember that the intelli gent and charming woman is the well- groomed woman. Now, when Miss 21 is preparing for her march on the polls this November, it would be wise for her to recall the variant advice that was shouted from headlines of beauty articles and personality-stimulating write- ups. Now is the time for her to shift these precepts to the field of politics. Now is the time to recall that the best voter is the voter with individuality and personality in a sufficient quantity to investigate the var ious candidates, to balance their programs, to weigh their judgments, and to decide finally which will be the most capable for the office. Just as one would naturally resent at tempts to change her exterior individuality, so the college girl, who has scores of friends and relatives ready to tell her which is the best candidate, should resent any attempt to influence her mental indi viduality. She should vote for the candi date who has proved to her individually that he is the right choice. Our plea to you is to straighten and cor rect the posture of your mind and vigor ously to brush the cob-webs off your voting brain. Arrange the color-harmony of your mental activities, and proceed to the polls with the confident feeling that you are an intelligent voter willing to express through your ballot your sincere opinion, and not that of someone else. Arnold Lunn Loses Illusion FROM a recent Religious Bulletin of the University of Notre Dame we lift the following lament by Arnold Lunn, dis tinguished English writer and convert to Catholicism: One day I'm going to write down a list of all my lost illusions about America. Here is one. I used to think of America as the land of pep and hustle, especially with the news. But I was wrong. America is the land of leisure, the land where a good idea travels slowly but gets there at last. Here's a big headline from the Pittsburgh Post- GazETte: Single Church Held Solution for Problems Now I like that. And I want to know the editor. I hate all this modern hustle, and I like the man who doesn't mind star ring a feature which was hot news when they got it into the late edition of the Jerusalem Gazette in A. D. 33. And here is the sub-heading: Proposal Is Made At Mosque Rally by Missionary But to these sub-heads should have been added: Proposal Originally Made At Pentecost Rally By the Missionary Peter Relayed to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by the Rev. Dr. E. Stanley Jones. Your Spanish, Madame The following lexicon of terms used in newspaper accounts of the war in Spain is presented as an aid to the casual reader. REBELS Royalists, Christian socialists, Catholics, and some fascists who com pose the Rightist party and are fight ing to defeat the existing communistic government. FASCISTS A term inaccurately applied to the entire rebel, or insurgent, army. LOYALISTS Anarcho-syndicalists, social ists, communists, anti-clericals, freema sons, who compose the Leftist party and are fighting to maintain the commu nistic government. FRANCO, GENERAL FRANCISCO-Leader of rebel forces. MOLA, GENERAL-Another rebel leader, a monarchist. ALCAZAR Ancient fortress defending To ledo, won in a heroic battle by the rebels under Moscardo. CABALLERO, LARGO Premier of the loy alist government, declared responsible for the reign of terror at Madrid in which at least 10,000 persons were murdered. RELIGIOUS VICTIMS Priests and nuns who are slaughtered at the hands of every loyalist force which discovers them. According to authoritative re ports, 400 Spanish priests and 100 nuns have been slain. FOREIGN SYMPATHIES For rebels: Ger many and Italy. For loyalists: France, Russia. 'Round Town N ORDER to keep its readers informed about What's going on in Chicago, The Skyscraper presents the Whirligig. Personally, we have so often been embar rassed by out-of-town folk who ask us trustlingly about the Shedd Aquarium or the Museum of Natural History that we feel others will appreciate being kept in touch with the advantages Chicago offers. The San Carlo Opera company, which has been attracting capacity crowds to the diamond horseshoe as well as to the last gallery of the Auditorium theatre nightly, plans to leave the city on Oct. 26. Though less pretentious in its presentation of grand opera than the Chicago City Opera com pany, the San Carlo organization seems to hold an established place in the hearts of city music lovers. During the three remaining nights the company is scheduled to give La Tosca, Madame Butterfly and Samson and Delilah. The Loyola Community Theater, having just completed a triumphant run of Shaw's St. Joan, will welcome once again the Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S.J., on Oct. 26, when he plans to speak on What I Saw in Europe. Scoring another success with one of its offerings, the Theater Guild is presenting a four weeks' performance of Pride and Prejudice at the Harris. Adapted by Hel en Jerome from Jane Austen's famous novel, the story has lost none of its Geor gian subtlety of wit. The dramatization is especially excellent in portraying the po litely insulting feminine conversation over eighteenth-century tea cups. Sets are un usually effective. We privately did not think Muriel Kirkland's Elizabeth Bennet as well done as some of the minor char acterizations, but the. play in its- entirety left us with a feeling of intellectual satis faction. A far cry from the drawing room satire of Jane Austen is Normal Bel Geddes' pro duction, Dead End. This uncomfortably realistic play, now showing at the Stude- baker theatre, was rated by some critics as the best drama of the past New York sea son. However, the Chicago production lacks centralization. No one character pre dominates, but all characters seem to play minor roles. No one social evil serves as a theme, but a whole host of social evils. The play is unquestionably engrossing, but leaves the playgoer in doubt as to what conclusion he is expected to draw. Those who incline toward the Oriental in artistic preference should make a point of viewing the Clarence Buckingham col lection of Japanese prints by Okmura Ma- sanobu. The exhibition is displayed daily at the Art Institute, galleries H9 and H4, closing Oct. 31. Fall Books Manifest Beyond Sing the Woods By Trygve Gulbranssen Here is a book whose quiet simplicity charms one from first to last. It is the story of a wealthy Norwegian landowner who received from his father the heritage of 10 centuries of feud, who overcame it with the help of the Bible and his own will, and who passed on to his son a heritage of peace and friendship. His last act of self-discipline was to arrange a marriage for his son, thereby sharing the power which he had jealously guarded all his life. The book is written in language as charm ing as its people. None of the freshness of the original Norwegian has been lost in the translation. Cosmopolitan Trend The Roofs of Elm Street By William McNally Three young men, close friends, grow up together, make their fortunes together, and settle with their families on Elm street. Their quiet, everyday life is broken only once, by the hypocrisy of the wife of one of them. Their children grow up and scat ter. Then the trouble begins. Every person in the book is an intensely interesting char acter study. The contrast between parents and children is singularly striking. Its definite realism leaves us believing that perhaps, after all, the older generation, by reason of its proprieties and restrictions, was the happier one. * .- .- : asKvmMK ZE WAWN GRANDE TRIO-LAY Oh, Ze Zoph oh more GO-till-yun In Ze Grande Ball Room My, In Gold, She's Worth a MHI-yun Oh, Ze Zoph-oh-more GO-till-yun Bring Your Dad, Ore Gousin (?) Will-Yum Ore, Some Othaire Loh ve ly Vill yun To Ze Zoph oh more GO-till-yun In, Ze Grande Ball Room Mawr-eece Shay-vol-yay Dorothy Toy, social chairman of the Cotillion said the first proof of the current Skyscraper. Dorothy Joy, social . . . . it came glibly back, supposedly corrected. FOY goodness' sake DASHES AFTER DOT FLASH: (Morse code) That clever wor ship from afar item in the LOYOLA NEWS, HO-HUM, was written by the dash ing Loyola columnist who will be much in evidence at the Lake Shore Athletic club tonight. W. W. PUMPKIN PI I wrote about a Pumpkin, And now I want to cry; The printer made it INK PUMP And called it fancy pi. VEE'S LIMERICK There once was a freshman named Alice Wliat thought Mundelein was a palace A Queen needn't work, She figured, I'll shirk'' Now the teachers all bear Alice malice. The Polish society was meeting quite peacefully the other day on the sixth floor when shouts of Hi, girls broke it up. The girls dashed to the window, only to see some Loyola men in their usual pushball contest garb. The instructor, a Polish lady with a Euro pean background, was interested. O she asked, is THAT the PWA? It was an electrifying election. Aforementioned Skyscraper copy read before editing Henry Horner emerged with 309 volts. A FRESHMAN'S GARDEN OF VERSE Whole Duty of Freshmen A frosh should always say wliat's true And speak when she is spoken to. It's hardest to remember this You call the upper classmen Miss. At the Lakeside When I was here for orientation I got a lock and combination To safeguard wliat was mine. It opened then with great precision But since, I've come to this decision; It sticks at ten-to-nine. Bed in Winter On school days I get up at night And dress by the electric light Saturday, quite the other way I try to stay in bed all day. Good and Bad Freshmen Freshmen, you are very greenish If you would try to be serenish Aim to keep your voice down greatly And also learn to walk sedately. A. Steele from Stevenson.
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1936-10-23 (2)
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