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THE /* ,? s: --.... mum ' : - *i': :, rP ISjN . : 5 s- gt;----.-...y ...-v.-*-- 7 -j Volume IX MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 23, 1939 No. 8 Drama Department Schedules Comedy For Spring Play Verse Speaking Choir Will Give Concert on Feb. 28 Choir concerts, senior recitals, and the annual spring play are on the schedule for the drama department, members of which are also planning the annual lae tare Sunday program. Announced this week, the spring pro duction will be a three-act comedy, The Women Have Their Way. by Ihe Al varez Quintero brothers, presented in the college theatre on May 6 and 7. Outstanding mid-winter performance of the Verse Speaking Choir will be a concert before the Catholic Women's club in Joliet, on Feb. 28. Directed by Miss Anne Larkin, the group will present a number of selections recently added to its repertoire, together with several old favorites, including Chesterton's Lepanto with rhythmic dance interpretation. As a special feature of the Joliet pro gram, Marie Vonesh will read the third act of Martinez Sierra's Kikodom of Gon. the play which she presented at her sen ior recital on Feb. 5. Upperclass members of the Choir who will go to Joliet are Miss Vonesh, Eleanor Conly, Isabel Molloy, Patricia O'Toole, Marjorie Thomas, Martha Van Dyke, Constance Zarembski, Dorothy Koziel, Lucille O'Connell, and Marlyn Jaycox. Freshmen members are Mary Lou Bell, Rosemae Carrere, Frances Galgano. Rita Kloss, Audrey Licbowitz, Donna Lacher, Mary Louise Shannon, Alice Reid, Joan Morris, and Mary Laurentia Powers. Winter Review Issued Tuesday Freshmen Contribute Verse, Short Stories Outstanding in the winter issue of the Munoelf.in College Review, which ap- K-arcd on Tuesday, is the variety evident in the content and style of the articles. From the opening essay, on Francis Stuart's poetry, to the final review, on Anne Lindbergh's Listen The Wind. aesthetic versatility is the keynote of the book. The Littlefield Ballet comes again to life from the pen of Virginia Gaertner, co-editor of the REVIEW, while Agnes Griffin, co-editor, lends wit to her essay on the common cold. The Great Leveler. In Sign Posts to the Stars, Helen Sheahan glamorizes subways and skyscrapers. In the fiction section, Memories Die in the Dark by Virginia Cheatham, Life Sentence by Annette Specht, and Foot notes to History by Virginia Coffey are delightful short stories. Representing the freshmen in the poe try section of the Review are Myrna Lamont, Joan Morn's, and Mary Jane Sheridan. Marie Nack, art editor, contributes an illustration for an article entitled Memo ries Die in the Dark, and Miss Gaertner illustrates her own article on the Little- field Ballet. Other student artists who have con tributed illustrations are Irene Waldron, Margaret Mary Kreusch, Sally Davis, and Kay Rheiner. Honor Holy Father Senior officers lower Papal flag to half staff following Requiem Mass offered for His Holiness, on Feb. IS Faculty, Students Assemble For Requiem Mass for Pope Write Articles for Science Publications A descriptive article on the Foucault Pendulum, written by Sister Mary Thcr ese, B.V.M., head of the physics de partment, was published in the February issue of The Skv, a magazine of cosmic news edited by the American Museum of Natural History. Accompanied by two pictures illustrat ing the motion of the bob across the re cording table and the Longden suspension from which the bob swings, the article gives a detailed analysis of the apparatus and an explanation of its use. The Science Counsellor, a quarterly scientific magazine for high school teach ers, will carry an article on cosmic rays, written by Dorothy Sugrue, a sopho more in Ihe science department, in a future issue. Entitled Cosmic Rays, 1930-1938, the paper treats of the theories of the analy sis and origin of rays and of the progress made in the field. College Publishes Student Cheer Song Author, editor, and conductor are only a few of the titles which may be applied lo Agnes Griffin, a senior music major, whose Mundelein Cheer Song has re cently been published. Gertrude Feeney ex '39 collaborated with Miss Griffin in writing the lyrics for the song last year. The student body accepted it at the time as the official col lege song. Besides the Cheer Song. Miss Griffin has written settings for two of A. F. Hausman's Shropshire Lad Poems, To a Grecian Lad. and When I Was One- and-Twenty. She also wrote a back ground selection for a poem. Loneliness, written by Marion Ryan, '34. Father J. J. Mahoney Hails Pope as Great Vicar Of Christ With the papal flag at half mast in the first floor corridor, the seniors wear ing caps and gowns inarched in solemn procession to the auditorium where the student body and Faculty had assembled for the Requiem Mass for His Holiness, the late Pope Pius XI. on Feb. 15. The Reverend James J. Mahoney, S.J., professor of philosophy, was celebrant. Father Mahoney has spent five years at Ihe Gregorian university in Rome, and is well acquainted with Vatican affairs. In an address following the Mass, Father Mahoney spoke of Pius XI as a great and glorious vicar of Christ. I daresay, he declared, that there lias been no previous Pope who has understood so thoroughly the meaning of the words. 'Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build My Church,' nor one who has real ized so completely the great responsibility that was placed on his mortal shoulders. Pius XI insisted relentlessly, bravely, that if the things that are Caesar's are to be rendered to Caesar, the things that are God's arc to be rendered to God. Pointing 10 the Pope as a model for all, Father Mahoney declared, He was a humble man, a man of great and pro found simplicity, a man who had un bounded faith in Christ, wdio had un bounded love of Christ. F.ven when ap proaching death thoughts of love escaped him and bis right hand has been fixed by rigor mortis in the act of blessing the world. In his spirit, lie concluded, pray for a spirit of gt;eace, that peace may reign in the hearts of man, for peace will reign in the hearts of men if they hearken to the voice of Peter that comes from the Vatican. 14 Year-Old Pianist To Play Here Today A 14-year-old piano prodigy, Mary- Louise Meissncr, will appear in recital at the 1 o'clock assembly today. Born in St. Louis, the daughter of an accomplished flutist. Miss Meissncr made her debut in St. Louis when she was 5 years old, and the following year her father entered her at the Royal Liszt Ferenc high school of music in Buda pest. She recently completed an eight-year course of study there, under Ernest Doh- nanyi, director of the school and one of the most famous living pianists. Before coming to the United States, Miss Mcissner filled engagements in Hol land and Paris, and she will play next season with the Conccrtgcbouw orchestra in Amsterdam. One of her foremost American appear ances was with the Kansas City Phil harmonic Orchestra. Miss Meissncr will be a student here next year. Announce Freshman Debate Champions Meet Northwestern Team Here Today The affirmative team which had won the title of invincible throughout the tourney went down in the finals of the Freshman Debate Con'est held Tues day. Doris Ruddy and Helen Cashion emerged victorious with Anne Marie O'Rourke and Lavinia Cole as runncrs- up. This contest is held annually by the Debating club to initiate and train freshmen prospective debaters. Miss Cashion and Miss Ruddy, who come from Marywood and Alvernia high schools, respectively, will receive debate medals at the Honors Day Convocation. Varsity team members Geraldine Ferstel and Peggy Meade will argue the affirma tive side of the Pi Kappa Delta question, Resolved: That the Federal Government Should Cease to Use Public Funds for the Stimulation of Private Business, with a team from Northwestern university, at 3 o'clock today in Room 204, and a nega tive team will debate the same question with Beloit college, on Feb. 28. Miss Ferstel and Georgette Thoss will engage in another radio debate on Old Age pensions, when they are guests of the John Marshall Law School over station WJJD al 11:45 a.m. on March 11. Observe Catholic Press Month In Clubs, Library Announce Creative Writing Contest Open to All Students With the newspapers of the world con centrating on Catholic news, February. 1939. promises to be memorable as an outstandingly successful Catholic Press Month. Locally, the English department, the library, the Sodality, and the Press club are focusing student attention on Catholic authors, books, and periodicals. Providing practical encouragement foi potential writers, the English department this month announces the annual Crea tive Writing contest, which is open to all students and which includes divisions for poetry, short story, essay, editorial, and contemporary criticism. Manuscripts, which must be submitted in Room 506 before 6 p. m., on Wednes day, April 12, will be judged by out standing writers and awards will be an nounced at Commencement. The Sodality is displaying additional pamphlets in the rack in the Sodality lounge, and Mary Molloy, editor of the New World Cisca page, is sponsoring a drive for subscriptions to the diocesan newspaper, copies of which are displayed prominently in the Catholic Press exhibit on the Press club's book store lounge bulletin board. The library's observance of Catholic Press Month includes bulletined data on Catholic authors and exhibits of Catholic books and magazines. Chicago Professor Aids Forum Program The Radio Workshop began its Febru ary weekly broadcasts with a forum on the sociological problems resulting from the World War. Information for the program was obtained from Dr. Anton J Carlson of the University of Chicago, who was director of the American Food Administration department after the war. Keats Said It Better, a script written by Helen Murphy, was produced on Feb. IS. A mystical tragedy, The Fatal Fall acy, written by Agnes Griffin, was presented yesterday. Father H. Walker Urges Support of Catholic Press Though listed on the mast head as an associate editor of The Queen's Work, the official Sodality publication, the Rev erend Herbert O. H. Walker, S.J.. ad mitted to the Skyscraper reporters who questioned him on the future of the Catholic press in an interview follow ing the annual student retreat, that he writes about one-third of the paper in his capacity as editor of the par ish and school sodality pages, the short- stories, the newly featured halftones, as well as being book critic and official cartoonist. The future of the Catholic publica tions depends on the supi gt;ort of all the Catholics in the country, Father Walker declared. Right now the lack of funds is caus ing several of the best publications to fail. This is a deplorable condition be cause on very many of the Catholic jour nals will be found staffs equal in ability lo those of any of the secular press. Father Walker praised particularly the work of the Newspaper Vigilance com mittees who are following the standards set forth by Bishop Gannon. According to this program, he explained, several school sodalities assign two students to cover each of the journals of their me tropolis. Anything they consider objectionable to the morale of the readers, to Catholic doctrine, or to public good taste, is then called to the attention of the editor. Father Walker remarked that since the formation of one group, the number of complaints has decreased from 200 a month to a mere two. It's easy to write for the average reader today, Father insisted, if you learn how to write for children. And you can learn this if you write letters to your young cousins or to the brothers and sisters of your friends. The Queen's Work is exceptional, he added, in writ ing for the third highest mentality, most publications catering at the peak to the 13-year-old mind. The field for good Catholic novelists is hungry for new talent, he concluded, and publishers are interested in the work of the talented modern collegiate writer.
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1939-02-23 (1)
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