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SKYSCRAPER Page Three Homes, Careers Absorb Alumnae With homecoming so near, Nov. 12, news of further Alumnae achievements may destroy the good conversational lead of What arc you doing now? Nevertheless, for the benefit of the statisticians we present the news that Mrs. Thomas Moran, the former Edith Dorn '37, has a little daughter, the latest Alumnae Scholarship applicant. The Loyola business offices are taking on the appearance of a small Mundelein reunion, with Rita Smith '37 and Rose mary Byrne '38 at the Lakeshore school and Ruth Schmid '39 at the Medical school offices. Lois Leggate '39 is staying up nights teaching night school. Veronica Gill '39 filis the duties of a public school clerk. Irene Waldron '39 divides her time between both sides of an easel, modeling and doing commercial air-brush work. Any advertisement or story you read these days may have been illustrated by Virginia Gaertner '39, who is doing com mercial art. Another Mundelein contribution to the pedagogical rank is Eugenia Plarpa '39, instructor in chemistry and home ec onomics at Loretta high school. Inspiration to struggling college scribes is Pricilla Moore '38 whose hours in the Skyscraper office prepared her for a position on the Madison. Wis. Capitol Times. Happy Birthday Is Theme Song Of Octoberites So often during the past week have the strains of Happy Birthday resound ed from the tea-room that scores of students have wondered if they haven't strayed into the Capitol's Whispering Gallery. Freshman were heard to exclaim that they were positive candle-lighting was a Christmas celebration, and the Hand book didn't say a word about cakes I Most of the holiday atmosphere has been created by the journalists who put out hourly extras celebrating the twenty-first birthdays of Skyscrap er's co-editors,'Clare Anderson and Betty Vestal on Oct. 25 and 26. Helping Marjorie Chapman cele brate her eligibility to vote were Helen Sheahan. Bettc McCaughey, Georgcnc McGowan, Betty Kreuzer, Mildred Mur phy, Anna Marie Berk, Dorothy Holla- han. Eleanor Conly, and Mary Margaret Mitchell, on Oct. 18. Roberta Scheid shared her party, on Oct. 26, with Ellen Jane Fitzgibbons whose birthday fell on Oct. 17. Miss Eileen Scanlon. physical education in structor, Betty Brady, Peggy Meade, and Helen Russell watched them blow out candles on their cake. On Oct. 26, also, Bernice Schneider lost the distinction of being the only 15-year-old freshman. Review Features American Catholic Poet and Explorer Original research on the lives of Agnes Tobin, Catholic poet in honor of whose genius for friendship, Joseph Conrad dedicated his novel UNDER Western- Eyes, and Father Gibault, Canadian missionary frontiersman, little- known figure in the Rogers and Clark Expedition, will be featured in the fall issue of the Mundelein College Review. The magazine's newly formulated policy is to give prominent space to American Catholic contributions to cul ture. The Fall issue of the Review will appear before Thanksgiving. The hither-to-unpublished material on the life of Miss Tobin, whose coterie of literary friends included Alice Meynell, William Butler Yeats, Sir Edmund Gosse, Autluir Simons, and Conrad, was ob tained by Annette Specht, editor of the Review, through a correspondence with the late poet's brother. Miss Tobin, who died in February 1939, printed her poetry for private cir culation among her friends. She was the inspiration of Mrs. MeyneH's best known poem, The Shepherdess, and in 1901 she Sponsored Mrs. Meyncll's lecture tour through this country. Virginia Cheatam, assistant editor of the Review, went to the old French town Vincennes for authentic documents on the life of Father Gibault. History has practically ignored him as an important figure in the Expedition that gave the United States prior claim to the land between the Alleghanies and the Missis sippi in the treaty with the English in 1783. At the suggestion of Patrick I k-nry, Father Gibault was commissioned to- Professor Condemns Blasting the Book Racket, Dr. Mir iam L. Rooney offered the- English Round Table, on Oct. 20, Catliolic philosophy, popularly interpreted, as a panacea for the Ilow-to-W in-Friends-aiid-lnilueiiee- Pcople epidemic. The phenomenal success of popular psychology books attests to a funda mental human hunger for understanding and approval, Dr. Rooney stated. The pointlessness of Vogi or daily mental exercises is best revealed Dr. Rooney believes, by humor, such as that in James 1 hurbei's Let Your Mind Alone, or by constructive substitutes in the uplift vein such as The First Legion o: Shadow and Substance in the dramatic field. For fundamental spiritual poise Dr. Rooney suggested the reading of The Imitation oe Christ or the lives of the saints, which make important things important and relegate trivialities to their rightful place. Debaters Argue Roberta Scheid, Peggy Meade, Bar bara Ohab, and Helen Conlon debated the Pi Kappa Delta question, Re solved, That the United States Should Follow the Policy of Strict Isolation Toward ali Nations Outside the Western Hemisphere Involved in International or Civil Conflict, for the first time, on Oct. 25. Countess Speaks Madame la Comtesse Gennes, aunt of Rosemary O'Donnell, was the guesl of the French club at a formal tea yes terday afternoon. Les D'Arciennes, temporarily deserting the battle flags of their patron, Jeanne D'Arc, for the flying banners that an nounced a play in seventeenth century France, arc making preliminary plans l.R.C. Offers Fall List of Carnegie Endowment Books 'Round Town With Betty Vestal Announce Mid-Semester Examination Schedule Midsemester exams have been an nounced for Monday to Friday, Nov. 6-10. All MWF classes held at 9, 11, and 1 will take quarterlies Monday, Nov. 6. MWF 10 and 2 o'clock classees will write tests on Wednesday, Nov. 8. MWF classes held at 12 and 3 will be examined on Friday, Nov. 10. TTh 9, 11, and 2 o'clock classes will take quarterlies on Tuesday, Nov. 7. All TTh 10, 12 and 3 o'clock classes are scheduled for tests Thursday, Nov. 9. All one hour classes will hold examin ations on the day the class occurs. Sci ence classes will hold tests on the day the lecture occurs. Mid-semesters arc 50 minutes in length, and regular classes arc held at hours during which tests are not given. win ihe French settlers of old Vincennes, which was occupied by the British, to the cause of the Colonies. As a result of Fa ther Gibault's persuasion, each settler swore his allegiance to the cause of American freedom. Organ Guild to Present First Monthly Recital The Organ Guild, a branch of the Cae- cilians, will open its schedule of monthly recitals on Nov. 9 at 1:00 p. m. in the auditorium with the following program: By the Waters of Minnetonka, by Lieurance, played by Mary Loretta Gra ham ; Clouds, by Cicga, Mary Belle Tros- per; Ode to the Mountains, by Mason, Maure Schuflitowski; Scenes Pittoresque, by Massenet, Angela Voller: Vignette, by Mason, Marjorie Thomas; Sonata Triparte, Second Movement, by Nevin, Dorothy Schreck; Jagged Peaks in the Starlight, from Mountain Suite, by Clokey, and Bourree, by Bach, both played by Mary Ruth Venn. Allegro Masestoso, Third Sonata, will be played by Rosalie Wiora; Concert Overture in C Minor, by Hollins, Mary Catherine Motherway; Harmonies of Evening, by Karg-Elert, and Scherzo from Midsummer Night's Dream, by Mendelssohn, played by Rita Smith '37. lor their annual puppet show. Alohere's Le M Eiiin n Malgre Lui will be pre sented early in December. Dr. Robert J. Niess, instructor in romance languages, will direct the pro duction. Florence McDonald, director of art work, and Mary Vcencman, di rector of modeling, will have the mar ionettes ready for practise as soon as the results of the role-try-outs are announced. Merely by reading the International Relations club's fall installment of books from the Carnegie Institute for Inter national Peace, a neophyte could learn many of the facts behind the problem of Europe's squirming boundary lines, something of the modern philosophy which produced these problems, and various programs for their solution. John Gunther says of Raymond Leslie Buell's Poland: Key to Europe, It is splendidly comprehensive and au thoritative. Poland, the 'Great Unpre dictable,' is the real key to the future. Contemporary World Politics is a symposium of experts outlining the fundamentals of international politics, edited by Francis Brown, Charles I ledges, and Joseph Roucek. Julia E. Johnson's United States Foreign Policy : Isolation or Al liance shows the path of the nation through the dilemma. Peter Manniche makes Denmark, A Social Laboratory, in this exhaustive study of Danish educational institutions, social legislation, and cooperative organi zation. Gilbert Murray collects the famous Hib- bert lectures delivered at the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, and Glasgow in 1937 in Liberality and Civilization. Taking their theme from Czechoslovakia's former president, Jan Masaryk, No state or policy can prosper unless the ground work is moral, the lectures contrast the liberal and non-liberal notion. The Royal Institute of International Affairs lias compiled in Southeastern Europe : Political and Economic Sur vey, discussions on internal politics, in ternational and foreign policy, economics, trade, and finance for each country. Axel Wcnner-Gren, one of the world's greatest industrialists, turns practical philosopher and addresses a Call to Reason to his own country, Sweden, and to all people who are striving to maintain a free and just form of govern ment in the face of world hysteria. The books are available in Room 404 for the use of members of the Interna tional Relations club. Latins Tell Aims; Admire Chicago Qirls, Buildings By Marie Von Driska Dates to Remember Nov. 6-10. Quarterly Examinations. Nov. 7. Lecture on Peace, Raymond J. Kelly, National Commander of the American Legion. 1 p. m. Gen eral Assembly. N'ov. 11. Peace Broadcast, Radio Sta tion WENR, 5 p. m. N'ov. 14. Lecture on Ethics of War, the Reverend James J. Mahoney. S.J., Philosophy club. Room 405. 1 p. m. N'ov. 18, 19. Lady Precious Stream. college theatre. Dec. 1. Sophomore Cotillion. Boule vard Room, Stevens Hotel. In formal. It was an Ail-American group, the five around the tea-room table at luncheon, but not all were Americans from the United States. There were Elena and Rosa Prado Vertiz, the slightly built sisters from Mexico City, who were to be inter viewed; Joe Torchi, exotic-looking fresh man from Montevideo, Uruguay, who was to act as interpreter; and Lucille Gonder, senior Spanish major who teach es English to the freshmen from Mexico in exchange for the opportunity to practice her Spanish with them. Also present, although somewhat of an alien in this distinctly Spanish atmos phere, was the interviewer. We need them so much. sighed Elena, coming back to the still unsettled matter of exchange language lessons. Al though the Prados had four years of English grammar in the Mexican Catho lic schools, they have been speaking the language only since September. Your English sounded like raindrops on the roof, during the first few days we were here. added Rosa, who. with her sister, is a resident student. Elena and Rosa are going to major in sociology and social work, with a view to following the profession of the sociologist in their native Mexico, where practical sociological methods arc new. The work is just beginning in Mexico, remarked Elena, who docs most of the talking. We shall have a wide field. Conscientiously disregarding the inter preter, although this necessitated much repetition, Elena made an enthusiastic translation of her regard for the Chicago girl, whose freedom she considers her most fascinating attribute. She can meet a situation, she con cluded. Miss Torchi elaborated slightly, noting that the Mexicans consider the efficiency and independence of their class mates remarkable, but added that both she and the students from Mexico consi der the girls in the United States young er, and more carefree, in outlook than the more mature, although less indepen dent, girls from the Latin countries. All three of the foreign students are astonished at Chicago's skyscrapers in themselves and as a collection in the Loop. Miss Torchi. who visited the United States and Canada six years ago, remembers that when she first saw them It seemed too good to be true. I saw- such buildings before only in the movies. Her impressions of the modern sister America, whose continued, visible growth she finds fascinating, are amaz ingly keen and well-correlated. There is no equivalent of your liberal arts college in Uruguay, where high school is followed by the university which is devoted to the advancement of the various professions. Miss Torchi, whose father is a native of Chicago who has lived for many years in South America, came to Mun delein to be educated in a Catholic college in her father's country. The Loyola Community Theatre pro gram for the season arrived at our desk recently and wc herewith relay a digest to you, assured that if Wilder'.-. Our Town isn't in your line, Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen or Attilio Baggiore is sure to be. Since ihe first two events, ToVARICB and the Glacier Priest's lecture, arc al ready past (smooth, incidentally I J, Monsignor Sheen of the Catliolic Univer sity of America presents the next major program, on Nov. 26, speaking on some phase of European cross-currents. Mundelein student members of the St. Ignatius University club will be a- mong SPRING Dance cast members, per forming Philip Barry's three-act comedy on Dec. 4 and 5. With complications of communism and candid cameras, an un willing victim of a college girl's af fee- tons becomes more willing and less vic timized through the aid of her cohorts. (Try it. A good laugh is hard to find after mid-semester reports.) Schedule Singer Attilio Baggiore, local radio and con cert star, brings his popular tenor voice along with him to lift Jan. 7 out of run- of-the-mill evenings. His selections are to be both operatic and semi-classical and will be chosen from his unusually exten sive repertoire. Truly Catholic drama in ils best con notation, according to Emmet Lavery, is Thornton Wilder's Our Town, scheduled for Jan. 22, homey'' without being Ed gar Guest; uplifting without being Elsie Dinsmore; holding hope for the future without being Pollyanna. Unusual because of its lack of scenery and because of the symbolic relation each action bears to the realism of the setting. the vehicle carries the finest of twentieth century theatre innovations as success fully as it does the timeless agenda with which it deals. Enough said don't miss it Last year's historical drama, the sua vely finished Mary oe Scotland, is to be paralleled by Elizabetb the Queen on March 25 and 26. The sequel Ander son opus will be the Theatre's most am bitious production, with a cast of 23 and with opulent sets. Sentiment in Song will be well di agnosed by the versatile Jesuit who goes agnosed by the versatile Jesuit who goes from retreat lectures to Cath olic theatre conferences and back again to dash off a best-seller or a concerto obviously Father Daniel A. Lord. The songs you always loved and the reasons why you loved them is the way the prospectus features them, and with Father Lord doubling as pianist and vocalist, the evening becomes a MUST. Call It a Day Fittingly enough, the season concludes with Call It A Day, a comedy of modern English life, by Dodie Smith, which carries a typical bourgeois family through a single day and therein runs from heartbreak to farce to a happy ending. The play is an intriguing one because two dramas progress simultaneously: that of the family members, and that of their servants. So much for the major programs. In addition to these, Series holders may also attend the Forum presentations without charge and the Loyola University Curtain Guild productions at a reduced rate. As a special event, the Theatre spon sors a course of five free lectures by Dr. Albert De Quevado, titled The Art of Successful Living. The series, .i scientific how-to-win-friends, from the Catholic viewpoint, is slated for Nov. 5 to 9 and is open to the public. Skyscrapkr Special Hors d'oeuzre: Edgewater Reach Yacht club. Entree: Maurice Evans' Hamlet Opening at The Grand, Nov. 6. Piece de resistance;. Ambassador Pump Room.
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