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THE SKYSCRAPER REFLECTIONS Even though the thermometer was hov ering near the zero mark, and my teeth chattered quite audibly as I entered the gymnasium the other evening, our senior athlete, Dorothy Higgins, remained undaunted. She stood there with damp ringlets of hair curling about her flushed face, her level brown eyes measuring the distance for a free throw which dropped neatly into the basket a moment later. Miss Higgins' favorite diversion is ath letics in any type or form, even though she is vice-president of the senior class, but she smilingly confesses that basketball is her first love. She belongs to the Press club, the International Relations club, the Woman's Athletic Association, the Sociology club, and the Philosophy- club. She is majoring in history and in tends to teach after she finishes college. Miss Higgins is a member of the inner circle of philosophers who say that she has become famous in their midst for being able to tell good stories in a pleas ing fashion. She says that rooting for the Chicago Cubs is her chief spring and summer diversion. I ENCOUNTERED the tall, dark-eyed Emilie Barron on her way to a meet ing of the International Relations club, of which she is secretary. Emilie spent her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison. She is now a junior. She plans to attend the Loy ola Law School for a year. She will then return to Mundelein in order to get her Bachelor degree. After that she wishes to graduate from the Loyola Law school and secure a position doing juvenile law work. Miss Barron has spent some time in travelling in the old Spanish southwest, and has aided her family in collecting a number of relics. Among them are an an cient Spanish chalice, and a remarkably fine assortment of Indian pottery. Miss Barron is a thoroughly capable horsewoman, and she derives additional pleasure from swimming. I found my next victim backstage at a final rehearsal of the Mo saics. Margaret Wenigman, the tall sophomore who has become Mundelein's traditional St. Joseph, is majoring in dra ma. When I interviewed her she was trying on her costume for the part of King Alexander in the one-act phantasy, An Exiled Princess. In spite of a dislocated shoulder. Miss Wenigman went on in the play with the perseverance and fortitude of an experi enced actress. She played the part of Seigneur de Miolan in The Marvellous Adventure of Bernard de Menthon, and is now engaged in learning her lines as Mrs. Pembroke in A Full House, which will be given soon by St. Sylves ter's Dramatic club. She is a member of the Laetare Play ers, the Woman's Athletic Association, the Debating club, and the Sodality. Miss Wenigman intends to teach dramatics when she graduates, but also harbors a secret desire to become an aviatrix. She collects china cats, and delights in mak ing scrap books. MARY Louise Berryhill, a freshman from the Sacred Heart Convent, has become famous almost overnight by her ability to secure unusual lighting ef fects on the stage. She maintains that this is merely an accident, for she says she didn't know a thing about lighting before she was instructed in illuminat ing the scenes for Henri Gheon's play, The Marvellous Adventure of Bernard de Menthon, produced by the Laetare Players in November. She was so suc cessful in this that she did the lighting for the Glee Club Cantata, the Children's Theater play, and the Mosaics. Miss Berryhill is a member of the Junior Terrapins, of the Debating club, and of the Sodality, and she is a pledge of the Classical club. She intends to major in French, likes all sports, and has a liking for things domestic. Science Laboratories Receive New Equipment Recent acquisitions in the biology de partment have made the laboratories one of the most interesting spots in the build ing. Practically all of the divisions have profited by the additions that have been made, but the anatomy group has been the most fortunate. The skeletal equip ment for this section has been completed by a series of typical vertebrates of the various sections. Finest of all is a splendid human skel eton with all muscle origins and inser tions accurately marked. Second only to this is a beautifully preserved, complete cartilaginous skeleton of a shark. A per fect skeleton of a snake, an alligator skull, and a skull of amia complete the section. Preserved specimens of fishes, typical of all the large groups of pisces, are now mounted and labeled, and present an impressive array. There are also fossils of trilobitcs (extinct marine arthropoda) and other early crustaceans. One specimen case is entirely devoted to illustrating the different genera of Porifera, Coelenterata, Echinodermata, and Mollusca. Another section has been set aside for the collection of stuffed birds, which now includes representative water, tropical, and native birds. In sev eral instances, nests and eggs are also on exhibit. Splendidly illustrated charts have en riched both the botany and physiology departments. In the former there is an especially interesting series on fruit and trees, and another on economic pests, such as wheat rust. The new botany equip ment also includes slides. Terrapins Organize For Water Carnival The Terrapins have begun preparations for their spectacular spring event, the Water Carnival. Jean O'Connor, general chairman, is being assisted in the plan ning by Pauline Duzeski, assistant gen eral chairman, and a group of commit tees. Practice for the Carnival begins in March. The Junior Terrapins have chosen as their leaders Clementina Paloney, presi dent; Ruth Tangney, vice-president; and I Julie Matenacrs, secretary-treasurer. Tryouts for Juniors will be held short- ly before March 1. The Seniors are urg ing their little sisters to qualify for Sen ior membership in order that they may take more prominent parts in the Carni val. A much enlarged group of Terrapins is ushering the club into its third year of existence today, at a birthday spread. The membership has increased from eight charter members in 1931 to seventeen members in 1933 Of the charter mem bers, six are still in the club. STUDENTS PERFORM IN COLORFUL PLAYS (Continued from Page 1, Col. 2) she sought to entrap the fragile Madame de Ramouquet, that the guillotine might be fed A truly superb bit of acting Sallie Agnes Smith, as the grief-torn widow, and Janice Linnett, as the faithful Toinette, gave their usual sympathetic and polished performances. And to finish the evening's entertain ment, what could be better than a comic version of a business venture, sans cap ital ? The actresses made the most of their lines, and the result was twenty laugh-packed minutes. In the tea-room mix-up, Penelope Ha loulos as May, Gertrude Scanlan as Daisy, and Pauline Duzeski as Roy, kept the audience constantly in a state of helpless laughter. Pledges Received by W.A.A. at Stunt Party Eleven pledges were formally received into the Woman's Athletic Association on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at a party for which they furnished the entertainment by giving dramatizations of their own lives. Several relay races, a singing round, and a fish game completed the program. The following students were received: Julie Matenacrs, Marie Bushnell, Mary Jane McDermott, Marjorie Carroll, Myr tle Peterson, Marie Lysaght, Rita Casey, Leona Murphy, Harriet McDermott, Alexandra Prassas, and Dorothy Rut- strum. Cakes and coffee were served in the afternoon. Music Department Presents Recital Continued from Page 1, Col. 1) Dowell, first movement, Virginia Meis, orchestra parts at second piano, Miss Phibbs. Perpetuum Mobile, Reis; and Humoresque, Tor Aulin, violin solo, El- eanore Solewska, Mildred Sperry at the piano. Capriccio Brillante, op. 22, Mendels sohn, Miss Phibbs; orchestral parts at second piano, Miss Sperry. Professor Tells of Japan From Inside (Continued from Page 1, Col. 3) the modern party and the old conserva tive party. Father feels it is quite prob able that Japan regarded the Manchurian trouble as a valuable way of offsetting this civil strife. It is Father Bitter's belief that Japan will be the leading nation in the world within a few generations. He says, how ever, that European countries are not sending true representatives into the Orient, and he maintains that the mistrust of them among the Orientals is occa sioned by their low standard of morality which, he maintains is far more degraded than that of the natives. In conclusion. Father Bitter said, Re alizing that Japan is the future leader of the world, our task is to give over to her leaders the principles of the achievements of our two thousand years of culture. With their conversion ac complished, we have nothing to fear from yellow leadership. Father Bitter has inaugurated an en tirely new system of Christian educa tion in Jochi University, Tokio, and since his regime, the student body has more than doubled in number. In place of the former compulsory religion classes, the students are encouraged but not re quired to study Christianity, and in conse quence their prejudices are overcome and their interest aroused. Father Bitter, besides being an author ity on education and on social and eco nomic conditions in the Orient, is well acquainted with conditions in Russia. ATHEISTS ON TRIAL IN RELIGION CLASS Sophomore religion, section A, is mak ing the study of religion practical in a way not dissimilar to the Catholic Evi dence Guild method. Each week, accord ing to their plan, a prominent atheist, is brought forward and made to see the fallacy of his way of thinking. Last Thursday, Feb. 16, the trial of Professor Cosmos vs. Aquinas College proved the existence of a personal God, so definitely, that the unbelievers, are eagerly awaiting future Thursdays in or der that they may learn more of the tenets of this amazing Catholic Church. Agnes Gill, Marion Mulligan, and Mary Agnes Tynan were in charge of the first Thursday feature. STUDENT TAKES LEAD IN FAMILY UPSTAIRS' Perhaps you've heard or read of the erstwhile amateur dramatist who, as op portunity knocks an hour before the call for curtain, steps into the role which she has been understudying, and by her act ing merits the enthusiastic applause of both professional co-workers and an ur bane audience. That is just what Sallie Agnes Smith, one of our sophomores in the drama de partment, did on Thursday, Jan. 25, in a matinee performance of The Family Upstairs, at the Cort Theatre, down town. While I hurried past the familiar lock er rooms and back stairs, and advanced more cautiously through the opposite doors to the dim beyond which even tually would lead to the make-up room, I wondered what were the reactions of Sallie Agnes Smith, the Mundelein soph omore who had recently enacted this story-book plot, when, within an hour's notice, she had assumed the role of a twelve-year-old youngster in The Fami ly Upstairs. As I entered this sanctum sanctorum of the Laetare Players, the atmosphere of sheer excitement about the room held me temporarily. Bright cretonne curtains concealing dressing rooms, long rows of dressing tables with their low-hung mir rors and brilliant electric lights, colorful costumes, the almost symbolic scent of grease paint permeating the room, and everywhere girls preparing for re- By Charlotte Wilcox hearsal Do tell me all about it I began af ter Sallie Agnes and I had safely ma neuvered into one of the free corners. Weren't you terribly excited ? She laughed delightedly. Somehow de lightful laughter and a pleasant smile seem to be her especial possessions. I was excited, Sally Agnes confided. I had come down as usual to report, when, an hour before the play, the di rector told me to get into costume I had been understudying for the part but had never rehearsed with the cast. Then Eileen O'Day, who had the role, sudden ly became ill. All I could do was to say one big prayer, and then go on My own interjections had been punc tuating and interrupting this interesting narration. Did you, I next inquired, feel 'different' behind the footlights of such a theatre than you did when you par ticipated in school productions ? Throughout her high school career Sallie Agnes had been prominent in school dra matics, and has already established a name for herself as a Mundelein Laetare Play er. In addition she had recently been an associate director of the Children's The atre established at the college last se mester. The delighted sophomore paused thoughtfully for a moment, as if recall ing the many times she had appeared before an enthusiastic student audience. Because the character opened each act, Sallie Agnes smiled, it was rather im portant. It all wasn't so very different. Of course, there was something of a thrill in having one's own dressing room Then, too, everyone treated me so courte ously. And the director was so pleased No wonder, I reflected, recalling the favorable comments of newspaper stories about this college student who so successfully made the play go on, and who, as a result, is now understudying the three feminine roles of the production. Then, I finally suggested slyly, you enjoyed it? Pure enthusiasm and delight sufficed for many words. Sallie Agnes once more smiled, clasped her hands char acteristically, and said simply: It was the most thrilling experience of my life SKYSCRAPINGS Beween acts at a gala performance of The Desert Song, which has been re vived at the Civic Opera house, we caught sight of Edwina Heam, one of the Mun delein freshmen. Lucy Crowley played the feminine lead in a recent performance of Looking Lovely, a comedy in three acts given by the St. Maurice Parish C. Y. 0. On the crowded dance floor at the In- terfraternity Ball, held at the Medinah Athletic Club on the evening of Feb. 10, we caught glimpses of Marion Ryan, Agnes Gill, Janice Linnett, Mary Stiles, Jane Spalding, Mary Louise Berryhill, Helen Shannon, Mary Agnes Tynan, and Jane Flick. What would you think if you saw a girl going into a theatre with a Chicago telephone directory tucked under her arm? Mary Elizabeth McCrackcn, after tele phoning her mother the other afternoon, to tell her she was going to a neighbor hood theatre before returning home, unconsciously picked up the telephone book instead of her own possessions and went to the theatre. After the perfor mance she wondered why people in the lobby were casting amused glances at her. We didn't know that Mary Kartholl was interested in the terpsichorean art until we saw her perform in a recent en tertainment of St. Margaret Mary's Young Peoples' club. Julia Hagerty, the freshman class president, was a member of State's Attor ney Courtney's part ' at the Charity for mal given for the benefit of St. Mary's Church, at the Congress hotel on Feb. 4. We saw Marie Bushnell with a group of friends at a performance of The Cat and the Fiddle, at the Apollo theater. It was rather amusing to sec a number of the students who attended the Com merce club parly at the Drake hotel, go ing into the automobile exhibit while they were dummy, and picking out cars to match their costumes from the 1933 au tomobile display. Doris Barnett, president of the Stu dent Activities Council, returned recently from a trip to Hot Springs. Alpha Omicron is having an interesting but extremely mysterious Komic bridge party today. We'll tell you more about it later. Jane Stiles, freshman social chairman, stepped into her role on Thursday, Feb. 2, at assembly when she announced the first class entertainment. Among the features were a piano se lection, Rustles of Spring, by Helen Stretch, and a reading, Motoring in the Ws, by Marie Cuny. Faculty Member Dies on Tuesday, Feb. 7 (Continued from Page 1, Col. 1) Father Mertz preached the funeral sermon, and the Reverend Walter M. Sey mour, S. J., assistant pastor of St. Ignatius Church, accompanied the remains to Mount Carmel cemetery and gave the last blessing at the grave. The music was furnished by the organist of St. Ignatius Church, Mr. Stephen A. Erst, the father of one of the Mundelein students, and the St. Ignatius quartette sang. The pall bearers were: George M. Schmeing, M. S., professor of chemistry; Arthur M. Murphy, Ph. D., professor of sociology; William H. Conley, M. B. A., professor of economics and coach of de bate; Paul Kiniery, Ph. D., former pro fessor of sociology; James A. Fitzgerald, Ph. D., former professor of education; and Charles S. Costello, director of the Loyola Community Theatre.
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1933-02-21 (4)
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