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Pafte Two SKYSCRAPER THE SKYSCRAPER We Have Our Reasons Music Hath Charms.;. Memo Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 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 of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XI MARCH 28, 1941 No. 11 , ALL-AMERICAN HONORS wrvgmZb 1940 Member 1941 PlssocicrlGcl Cblle iaie Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briar ate 3800 Editor-in-Chief Marie Von Driska Feature Editors Muriel Moll, Marie Rudd Assistants Jeanne Bemis Patricia Gould, Eileen Mahoney, Kath ryn O'Reilly, Anne Marie O'Rourke. News Editors..Dorothy McCarthy, Joan Morris Assistants Rosemary Lanahan, Patricia Byrne, Mary Agnes Firalio, Geraldine Hoffman, Marie Norris, Rose mary Shanahan. Reporters: Alice Breckenridge, Margery Row- bottom, Marcella Garrity, Jeanne du Moulin. Loretta Howard, Helen l'.gan, Mary Jane O'Brien. if This Is the Day, Be Glad This is certain standing apart as truth from the welter of all uncertainty that as long as spring will come and time will be, the Church will repeat the beautiful liturgy that commemorates Easter. This is certain that each year with the new birth and quickening of life in the earth for those who believe there will be the repetition of the century-old ritual solemnized by the hush of the bells and the organ in churches on Holy Thursday, the awful solemnity of crowds of worshippers on Good Friday, the three-hour quiet of the Tenebrae, and then the sudden exultant ringing of the bells when Lent is done and the world is glad at the Resurrection. To those who believe, Easter will come year after year as a comfort and an assurance of a changeless or der where all beauty and goodness are forever fresh. To them it will be a proof of the real ity of the true Shangri La in each man's heart. It will be a proof of the reality of happiness even after the world has known the repetition of many Thermopy lae for that is the paradox of Chris tianity, the paradox of death and life. It is the paradox of the parable: . . . For he that shall lose bis life for My sake, shall find it . . . It is the paradox expressed by the two symbols of the season, the symbol of the Cross and the symbol of the risen Christ. It is the paradox of Easter after 40 days of Lent. And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn . . . came Mary Mag dalen and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre . . . And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. To the lilt of the lute, our spring issue leaps gaily into the breach between win ter's pall and vernal bloom. As we go gaily with it. our attention is arrested by the sight of the elaborate headgear which is being worn by the ladies at the first slightly hoarse note of the robin. Intricate, and yet charming, these blithe bonnets in a bevy of colors, prodigally veiled in anything sheer from chenille punctuated mesh to pastel illusion, trimmed with flowers, feathers, jewels, are more riotously blithe this year than ever before. Why do we wear these delectable con coctions so universally? Even the most conservative ladies, who in former days were adamant in insisting on black clas sic felts, are literally blossoming fortii in flower or vegetable gardens, as the case may be, neatly planted atop smooth straw pillboxes. We answer buying a new spring hat is an adventure into a new world an ex cursion by which we leave our mental lethargy as we would an air raid shelter. We emerge from this psychical blackout into the elusive happiness that is spring, to be light-hearted for a time in an atmosphere of finches and acacia blossoms because, ob viously, it does us good. And so get a lift with a lilac on a new chapeau. A new record that will probably be hailed as the greatest of its kind in all time, is Victor's recording of the Brahms Concerto, No 2, with Vladimir Horo witz as soloist, Arturo Toscanini as con ductor, the NBC Symphony orchestra as the accompaniment, and Carnegie Hall as the background. It is a record that cannot be duplicated. Best opera record of the month is the celebrated duet from Mascagni's popular short opera, Cavalleria Rusticana. I)u- solina Giannini and Beniamino Gigli, both famous Italian opera stars, and the La Scala orchestra, have recorded it for Vic tor. ElN Heldenleben, Richard Strauss' vivid tone poem, is better than adequately presented on a Columbia record by the Cleveland orchestra tinder the direction of Arthur Rodzinski, who is a specialist on Strauss music. The tone poem is a dynamic description of a noble hero bat tling his enemies. Recognizing the fact that city folks are discovering the fun and variety of fered by the old fashioned square dance. Victor has prepared an album of appro priate music which is recorded with a professional caller and includes a book let clearly explaining the dance procedure to follow with each call. Around the World in Five Books Now that the voices of spring are whis pering to us in their own insidious little way, it is more difficult than ever to con centrate on hydrogen sulfide and Cym- BELINE. This is the season for travel; we admit it, we read it. on every fashion page. in every plug for the steamship lines. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), however, the best that we can do in the nomadic manner at this particular time is to go on a picnic in Lincoln Park and per haps, if in a daring mood, embark upon a short voyage across the lagoon. As a remedy for these frustrated desires, Booknook offers a vicarious thrill through the means of travel books. So wander to a glamorous spot, take lemonade in hand, and concentrate upon this escape litera ture. Head towards Panama and southward with Anne Merriman Beck's ROUND ABOUT South America, which transports you from tropical Ecuador to the Andes. from the green valleys of Chile to the Ar gentine pampas. Visit Inca Land Tah- uantinsuyo and Bolivia, the roof of the world. An example of the breathtaking description of this exotic country: The broad Guayas river was like a sheet of burnished metal in the early light, reflecting great puffy cumulus clouds. Islands of water hyacinth slid rapidly past the ship in the strong sullen current. Along the forested banks, in tensely green, the thatched huts of Indian fishermen were visible. Vivid tales of the West Indies are in cluded in Caribbee Cruise, by John W. Vandercook. This book encompasses Jamaica. Bermuda, Barbadoes. Curacao. Trinidad, and other islands whose names are known to us, but whose customs are unfamiliar. There is a gruesome story about the zombies of Haiti, a legend which is. of course, entirely fictitious as well as superstitious. We give you a hint of it: An old black woman with magic pow ers had a farm in the plains just north of Port an Prince. Being of a parsimoni ous nature she had recruited her field laborers from among the dead. Anyone who saw them stumbling in speed:, blank of eye and grey of skin could tell that they were zombies. What tricks of mystery she had used to raise them from their tombs . . . The next best thing to traveling around the world, with special emphasis on Arabia and the Far East, is to read about someone who has been there. There are two books resting on our library shelves written about one woman who was ex plorer, gardener, poet, historian, archae ologist, mountaineer, naturalist, scholar, and distinguished servant to the British Empire. This female whirlwind was none other than Gertrude Bell of England, whose death in 1926 resulted in the fol lowing, as recorded in the book, Gertrude Bell, by Ronald Bodley and Lorna I fearst: In the Arab countries there was grief and consternation. Gertrude was idolized in the minds of the des ert people as someone above all others, a creature who could not die, a person without whom they felt that life would no longer be the same. George the Fifth of England wrote to Gertrude's parents: The Queen and I are grieved to hear of the death of your distinguished daughter whom we held in high regard. The nation will mourn with us the loss of one who by her force of character and personal courage rendered lasting benefit to the country . . . And now for an excerpt from one of The Letters oe Gertrude Bell, edited by Lady Bell, C.B.E., in two volumes This particular account of an Arab din ner was written during one of her desert excursions from Jerusalem: Besides the bitter black coffee, we were handed cups of what they called 'white coffee' hot water, much sweet ened and flavoured with almonds . . . At last, dinner four or five men bearing an enormous dish heaped up with rice and the meat of a whole sheep. This was put down on the ground before me. Re: All-College Card Party Just a note to remind us that an annual card party takes 100 per cent cooperation to equal success and that successful an nual card parties have a way of helping to maintain the standard and tradition that is Mundelein's. It's not that it's such a big thing to do cooperating with tickets, patrons, ad vertisements. It's not that it's such a hard thing, either, boosting a card party that includes a fashion revue and a bridal party completely outfitted from Russeks, Michigan Avenue. It's just that we want to remind our selves that with our cooperation, 100 per cent, there's nothing to keep the 1941 Card Party from being the most success ful in Mundelein history. This Amazing Mind Comes the spring and with it the an nual influx of thoughts and otherwise published in book form. And if yotl think what with conditions the way they are that the American and the conti nental mind is all tied up with the draft and alerte signals, you're wrong, at least according to a report of the Columbw University press which describes, brief ly, 54 proclaimants for literary recogni tion. Amazing thing, the human mind, with its thousand interests, we com ment, looking into the report. Not content with commemorating the eight-hundredth anniversary ol Mainum- ides (we don't don't who he is, either) writers have taken up the matter of thir teenth-century guilds and what they (lid to make the Mediaeval world interesting. And someone, author of book twenty- one in the list, has discovered the man who unquestionably was second in war and apparently should have been second in peace and second in the hearts of his countrymen. Imbued with the hope of the season, presumably, one valiant soul is starting out for the second time to publish th: complete poems of a certain poetess whose complete poems he had previous ; edited as Complete Poems. Another is prepared to tell you why water won't work with a fire started by an incendiary bomb. And so through the list of 54 books whose subjects range from the works of an unappreciated Elizabethan to ways doctors are making the world unsafe for pneumococci, et al. Amazing thing, we repeat, the hu man mind. fl-HZI SKXO-IIMIZ Remedy for Spring Fever Secure one picnic basket (green and yellow you'll see why later) complete with sterling and Artliopeila. Toss into large blue lagoon due east, if rippling, to show independence. Rush home (using elevators) for two paper hags, preferably green with silver stripe.. Stuff lightly with pate de foies gras in on , crepe suzettes in other. Clutch mushrooms under glass in hand (boln hands if ambidextrous), and, if in mood tor swim, dive in after basket, humming gaily. A tisket, a taskct, in tune, if possible. If you can't find basket, don't be discouraged (We couldn't either.) Remember p. de t. j.; eat it with gusto (if he's not in class). Say goodbye to (iiisto, toss parasol over left shoul der, blithely, and return to overdue term paper.
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1941-03-28 (2)
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