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ADEfc ; ;-.' gt; :-.': *? / .': Volume VI. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 27, 1935 No. 4i' Carlotta, Angela Live in Lecture By Dialect Poet T. A. Daly, Litt. D., Brings Wit, Humor, Verse To Students Happy Thanksgiving The College will close today for the Thanksgiving recess, and will reopen on Monday, Dec. 2. To the Faculty and students, the sky scraper extends sincere wishes for a happy vacation. By Charlotte Wilcox The world's most famous Irish-Ital ian, T. A. Daly to you, and the writer of macaroni ballads to thousands of his readers, brought poetry to Mundelein, last Thursday, when he talked about that subject to the student body. i have yet to find an Irishman, pref aced Mr. Daly, who would not defy any audience to try to keep him to his subject.'' With that introduction, the speaker began the delightful series of anecdotes, poetry selections, shrewd bits of criticism, and humorous comments that have made his lectures so popular. I To those interested in writing, coun selled Mr. Daly, I would give this ad vice. Be natural, don't strain; write things that interest you; be simple, for after all, greatness is simplicity. Derides Free Verse If this popular .writer could be per suaded to preach, undoubtedly his initial tirade would concern his pet pests the free verse writers. Free verse, he quotes, is a medium in which a thing which is unworthy of a pure verse em bodiment is used by one who is incapable of pure poetic expression. But if T. A. Daly is charming as a lecturer, he was equally delightful as the J conversationalist who chatted with two skyscraper reporters as he enjoyed an after-luncheon smoke, preceding the lec ture. How had he begun writing? I left Fordham (where he majored in baseball and cigarette-smoking ) in my sopho more year, and went to work on a news paper for six dollars a week that's about forty years ago (quickly explain ing)- Meets Early Success Being unappreciated on sight by the itor, the future poet began to write iketches in Negro dialect, and to send them up to the sanctum sanctorum of the editor. His work clicked You're writing real literature, de clared the editor; Daly won a raise in salary and the position for which he had applied originally. A journalist of note, ior some years now the writer has con- ted a column in the Philadelphia IRD. You can tell if you've written any- ing worthwhile, Mr. Daly believes, if, shen you've finished, a bell sounds in- That's why his best dialect poem the one about the leetlest bo/' who s hungry for spring because that was finished in tears. To a Thrush, believes, is his best serious poem. T. A. Daly may be just a verse-mak- K but to us he is the best remedy for iv difficulty of everyone Seventeenth-Century Edition of Horace Is Library Treasure First editions of current masterpieces are shown off as the pride and joy of many a book collector's literary heart; first editions of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature cause mild cyclones within bookish circles and create actual earthquakes of competition at book auc tions throughout the country; but a book-collector's dream of heaven, a 1642 Paris edition of the complete works of Horace, resides on the shelves of the Mundelein library and has created a fur or of excitement among the classical literari, not only because of its rarity, but also because the bimillennial celebra tion of the poet is being held this year. This 1642 Horace is a folio edition with calf binding and gold tooling. What makes it particularly valuable, however, is tliat the book is from the King's Press and was, at one time, owned by Victor Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey. Besides this priceless volume, five other famous editions of Horace's works have been given to the College library within the past few years by the Reverend John Rothensteiner, censor librorum of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and donor of the Rothensteiner collection in the Col lege library. The Didot Edition of 1875, printed in Paris, the Tonson edition, printed in London in 1713, and the Foulis edition, printed in 1760, are the envy of all priv ate collectors. The works of Horace edited by Bentley in 1711, and by Gesner in 1809 are of immeasurable assistance to classics students who are doing research. Glee Club Offers Under The Stars, Holiday Cantata Dramatic Tableaux Will Illustrate Christmas Carols Under the Stars, the traditional Christ mas Cantata, will be presented by the Glee club, on Sunday evening, Dec. IS, in the College theatre. Professor Walter Flandorf, director, has returned from the San Diego Exposition to conduct. Jeanne Devaney, ticket chairman, who will be assisted by Marion Morrison, an nounces that reserved and general ad mission tickets will be available in the first-floor ticket office next week. When The Christ Child Came, a can tata by Joseph W. Clokey, will be sung in concert form. Soloists are: Elaine Moore, Mildred Martinez, Rose Hurley, Frances Mikkelson, Josephine Reichl, Rita McHale, Teresa Powers, Virginia Sheehy, Muriel Shepler, Helen Marker, and Jeanne Devaney. Carols of different nations will be sung from the balcony, while illustrative tab leaux are presented by the Laetare Play ers. Scenes of the nativity, the visit of the three kings, the Child Jesus and the Madonna, and other Christmas scenes suggested by the carols, will be presented. Tlie art department is assisting in cos tuming, scenery, and lighting. lmmaculata Is Host To Cisca on Nov. 28 Inaugurating a new plan whereby col' lege and high school students will hold separate sessions during the forenoon, Cisca will convene for the first general meeting of the year at The lmmaculata high school, on Nov. 28, the day after Thanksgiving. The meeting will open with Holy Mass at 9 o'clock, and will discuss a series of resolutions drawn up at the board meet ing last week. More than 25 Mundelein sodalists will attend. Players Score Success In Henri Qheon Drama Graduate to Make Debut As Actress At Stevens, Dec. 3 Making her professional debut as ac tress and playwright, Mary Agnes Tynan '35 will appear on Dec. 3 in one of three original plays which she has written for the Four-H clubs of America and which will be given in the Grand Ballroom of the Stevens hotel. According to Miss Tynan, who was asked to write the plays early this fall, they are an attempt to repre sent the noble, up lifting, and broad ening elements in the art of painting, by w a y of the drama. The entire Mary Agnes Tynan program, which consists of three one-act plays coordinated by an artistic device in to one program, is called new vistas, and is being directed by Charles K. Free man, producer of Maedcheu in Uniform. The musical and choral work of the pro duction is under the direction of Louis Bachingor, one of the music executives of NBC. The first of the three is a dramatic in- (Continued on page 4, col. 4) Electrical Cooks Save the Soup I Too many cooks spoil the soup, but Imany electrical implements facilitate its preparation. This was the central theme m the lecture and demonstration given Ibr Miss Adelaide Fellows, Home Enem ies Director of the General Electric Company, on Nov. 25. I The tea room was transformed into a limdern electric kitchen where Mrs. Fel- bws prepared an oven dinner, comprising Iroast chicken, sweet potatoes, beets, and lied devil's food cake with boiled icing; also a thrift cookery meal. Athletics at the Crossroads Our athletically minded students, who have watched closely the rise and fall of student interest in college sports, are awaiting with suppressed interest the second Inter-club Basketball tournament, scheduled to open on Dec. 10. In an editorial comment last year, an enthusiastic scribe ob served that the unprecedented spirit which characterized last year's tour nament marked A new era of athletic cognizance which will stand as a watch tower barring the way to a return of the old era of indifference. Was this a gratuitous assumption, or has a spark of enthusiasm been in stilled permanently into the students, needing only another inter-club tournament to develop into an all-school athletic consciousness ? This, the first tournament of the school year, is tacitly accepted as the test case. The 10 clubs who entered teams last year are again whole-heartedly backing the tourney. They have recognized the benefits resulting from inter-club competition a closer welding of their members in a spirit of cooperation and good fellowship, and an enlarging of the scope of club activities, thus counteracting possible lack of interest. It is to the 12 clubs who did not produce teams that the W.A.A. ex tends an urgent invitation to become basketball-conscious, to enlist tlie interest of their members, and to give side-line support to those who represent them in the inter-club competition. The opportunity to aid the W. A. A. in this attempt to give the maximum number of students an opportunity for active participation in athletics awaits you. Will you accept the challenge, or must so vital a phase of college life again recede into the background? Chicago Premiere Of Sans Famille Held Here Dec. 13 Chicago's premiere showing of the French motion picture production sans famille, by Hector Malot, will be pre sented in the College auditorium, on Dec. 13, at 3 o'clock. English sub-titles will accompany the picture to render it intelligible to those unfamiliar with the French language. Students of the various high schools of the city will be guests of the French de partment at the performance of the fa mous classic The French department at Mundelein also extends a cordial invitation to any of the College students who are inter ested in attending the premiere. Les D'Arciennes, the recently organized French circle, unanimously elected Mar garet Egan president of the group on Nov. 15. Catherine Mulvihill was elected secretary-treasurer. Les D'Arciennes will hold- two meetings a month, the first period being devoted to the study of the content and make-up of French newspapers and books, and the second period to the French social devel opment, games, and colloquial conversa tion. The members will include the advanced French students in the conversational and reading classes who will contribute liter ary criticism of current periodicals at the monthly meetings. Plans for the ap pearance of distinguished guests and for social activities are being formed at pres ent. Theme, Settings and Acting Combine for Artistic Excellence By Jane Spalding The final curtain closed last night on a three-night run of Henri Gheon's the comedian. Produced by the Laetare Players for the first time in America, the play was judged an artistic master piece by crowds which filled the College theatre each night. This is the second play to have its American premiere at Mundelein, the first having been the marvelous ad- VENTURE OK BERNARD DE MENTHON, and for that reason as well as for the fact that they are both Gheon plays with ex alted themes, this production was remin iscent of the former, presented here three years ago. The story of Genesius, actor and fav orite in tlie court of Diocletian, is a powerful and a thoroughly subjective one, as evidenced by the appreciative silence and hushed atmosphere which prevailed throughout each performance. Star Becomes A Christian Genesius' hatred for Christianity, his reluctant study of it in conformity with the Emiporer's command that he portray a Christian role, and his final understand ing of the creed, in which he seemed al most to reach the heights of a mystic love, were developed with tender but powerful feeling. The final scene, in which the actor tears off his mask to beg martyrdom at the hand of his friend, the emperor, left the onlooker with a feeling of genuine spiritual exaltation. Genesius, as played by Margaret Cleary, became an artist, a man of an cient Rome who, at the summit of world- liness, retained an almost spiritual mind. Rita McGuane, promising freshman dra matist, also gave a beautiful portrayal of a great character. Qive Splendid Portrayals Mercedes McCambridge's Poppaea, was a living, pitiful flame, capricious, in constant, burning intensely, and suffering in the same manner. Mary Rose Brown made of Diocletian a splendid, over powering, and magnificent emperor, who was at once an artistic pagan and an es sentially primitive one, and who seemed to epitomize all Rome. Lighting, scenery and costuming were authentic and lovely. Special credit for these details should be given to Wilma Gwilliams, student technical director, as well as to the various crews, and to Jan- (Continued on page 3, col. 2) Four Students Have Stories Published Two Former Presidents Lead Freshman Class Geraldine Connell was elected president of the freshman class at a meeting on Nov. 26, and Geraldine Ferstel was elected vice-president. Last year, Miss Connell was president of her class at Mercy high school, and, similarly, Miss Ferstel was senior president at The Im maculate high school. Rita Casey, who has been busy taking care of tickets for the Gheon play, gained new fame when her story, So David Left, was published in the October issue of the waif's messenger. The mysterious appearances and dis appearances of a farm laborer serve as a background for the story a farm hand who might by chance be a secret service agent in disguise. The September issue of the magazine contained three stories by Mundelein students. Helen Keenan contributed one entitled Green Shoes. But, by Elizabeth Fay, is the story of a boy who meets a man whose funeral he has previously at tended. My Only Love, by Roberta Christie, recalls numerous quotations from Shakespeare, and produces some interest ing variations.
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