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y THE SKYSCRAPER PURELY FEMININE FAIR VIEWS By Evelyn Lincoln I strolled through the Century of Prog ress one warm September day with the firm determination to visit merely the places where my frivolous feminine na ture led mc. With numerous relatives and visitors I had conscientiously toured the more educational exhibits until I trembled lest my nerves give way and I hurl a brick at the admittedly wonderful transparent man if I had to point it out again, while Washington's false teeth had become so familiar to me that every night I had a nightmare in which they did a Rhumba. Doll-Ladies Are Delightful I lingered first before those exquisite figurines personifying the world's most famous women, in the General Exhibits building. Elizabeth of England was there, gorgeous with her flaming red hair, white satin, lace, and jewels. The delicate face of Marie Antoinette looked out at me, lovely and sweetly sad, while the golden lyre and royal-purple Grecian robes of Sappho were so glamor ous, that I stared dreamily at them until my ruffled feelings concerning visitors and Washington's teeth were soothed. Jewels Gleam In Collecton Further along in the General Exhibits building my love of rare jewels caused me to press an enthusiastic nose against the great burglar-proof glass cases that contain one of the most magnificent diamond collections in the world. I sighed enviously over Carlotta's gems, and then turned to the marvelously exact reproduc tions of the famous crowns of European monarchs that gleamed regally nearby. To my feminine eye, the delicate pearl and diamond crown of the dainty Em press Josephine seemed a hundred times lovelier than any of the heavy gold and jewel causes-of-hcadaches that the gen tlemen seemed to prefer. Painstaking Work Seen on Quilts And then I turned my eyes to things domestic. Now what could be more feminine in a woman than a love of quilts? And where is there a more de lightful collection than that in the Sears building? From all over the United States, women sent these quilts to be en tered in Sears' great quilting contest, and as I noted the thousands of tiny even stitches on each lovely quilt, and the quaint and original designs that ranged from beautiful basket-of-flowers patterns to those picturing a Gentury of Progress in transportation, my heartfelt admira tion went out to those women who had made each such a beautiful whole. Marionette Show Is Enjoyed Not so far from the Midway, the A P Carnival holds forth, and on that tranquil day I sat in the delightful outdoor amphitheatr for three hours, serenely en joying the grotesque antics of the tiny actors in the Marionette Revue and Cir cus. George Bernard Shaw, Kate Smith, and even Paderewski couldn't have de lighted me more than their small imita tors ; but the Fruit and Vegetable ballet was my favorite It was so ridiculously amusing to see staid, homely carrots and beets hopping around with all the cheer ful agility of a Mexican jumping bean I didn't want to leave for there was still that fascinating iron corset to ex amine thoroughly. The corset, a replica of an iron one actually worn by Catherine de Medici, reposes in rigid splendor in a glass-covered case. As I mused upon the delights of wearing one of those glorified instruments of torture I decided that although we progressive young moderns do silly things ourselves now and then, we will forever outlaw the iron corset Stops Last At AU-Steel House Can you guess why I chose for my last visit on that perfect day the most modern, beautiful, and home-like all- steel house in the Home Planning group? I guess you can, for try to find the femi nine heart that does not flutter just the tiniest bit faster at this newest of dwell ings which will be the model for many all over the world and will be home to many who have seen it for the first time this year jphomore Cotillion Date Is October The sophomores have already named committees for their Cotillion which will be held on Oct. 20, at the Lake Shore Athletic club, and Jane Stiles, social chairman of the class, is general chairman. Coming as the first special class func tion and as a traditionally delightful affair, the Cotillion always attracts a large attendance. Miss Stiles will be assisted by the sophomore officers and by the following committees: Hotels: Mary Jane Cullen, Margaret Anderson, Virginia Rose Corcoran, and Dorothy Mason. Orchestra: Mary Touhy, Katherine Weniger, Marian Bertrand, and Dorothy Grace. Publicity: Dorothy O'Donnell, Joan Limburg, Madeleine Wells, and Rosemary Kearns. Bids: Arline Kroutil, Betty Marsch, Violet Kilbane, Josephine Rior dan, and Dclphine Murphy. ALPHA OMICRON HOLDS PLEDGE RECEPTION TEA The twenty seniors in the home econ omics department held a buffet tea in the model apartment on Oct. 2, as a get- acquainted party for new members and pledges of Alpha Omicron. Reports were given by delegates to the Home Economics convention in June, and officers were elected at a brief busi ness session. The home economics classes opened allied-curricular activities on Sept. 29, when the textile class visited the textile testing laboratories at the Merchandise Mart. The testing of fabrics on delicate in struments, the illustration of surface wear by means of an abrasion test, and a number of interesting methods of per fecting the durability of fabrics were demonstrated. This was the first of a series of field trips which will be held during the year. ART CLUB PLEDGES TEN NEW MEMBERS The college artists met socially on Oct. 3, to welcome new members and to renew acquaintance with old ones. After a brief business meeting in which the point sys tem was explained and the pledges were given the badges of Primary colors which will be their distinguishing mark for the next few weeks, the hostesses served tea. Mary Honan, Irene Galvin, and Ann Lally were members of the entertain ment committee, and Sylva Aroniair pre sided at the meeting. The following new Art club pledges were present: Gertrude Birmingham, Catherine Anastin, Bernice Walter, Char lotte Heun, Mildred Sperry, Ethel Houli han, Rita Hagel, Barbara Schwalbert, Eileen Stigall, and Adeline Pfister. / Two Students Received Into Writers' Guild In recognition of their exceptional literary work, two members of the Stylus club, Emer Phibbs and Mary Agnes Tynan, have been honored by the Catho lic School Press Association and the Catholic Writers' Guild. Miss Phibbs, who is editor of the Cleysydra and vice-president of the Sty lus club, was given the poetry award offered last spring by the Catholic School Press Association. The award was merited by her poem, Recompense, which was published in Quest this year. Students all over the United States com peted for the prize, an exquisite blue onyx fountain pen. The Catholic Writers' Guild, with headquarters in St. Louis, announced that Miss Tynan, who is Poetry editor for the Clepsydra and treasurer of the Stylus club, had merited admission into its organization. The Guild was founded for student writers in college, and, to be admitted, a student must fulfill one of three require ments. She must publish ten articles in a professional non-paying magazine of high grade, publish three articles in a paying magazine, or write and produce a play in a community or college theater. Miss Tynan wrote and produced The Queen Was In The Parlor for the Mun delein Children's Theater last May. Membership in the Stylus club is open to all. New students and old are urged to join this organization by contributing poems, short-stories, essays, or book re- Laetare Group Will Present New Comedy Nine to Six, a three-act comedy with an entirely feminine cast, will be pre sented by the Laetare Players on Nov. 25, 26, and 27. A matinee performance will be held on Nov. 25, The play recently enjoyed a nine- months run at the Arts Theatre in Lon don, and was later played to equally enthusiastic houses at the Ritz Theatre in New York, where a number of the characters of the London production ap peared. The following students take part: Pene lope Haloulos, Marion Ryan, Mary Nicholson, Mary Agnes Tynan, Geraldine Gardiner, Dorothy White, - Margaret Wenigman, Sallie Agnes Smith, Virginia Sweeney, Ruth Hazle, Mercedes Beyer, Frances Burke, Kathryn Walsh, Made leine Wells, Marion Bertrand, Janette Brennan, Mary Frances Hoban, Mary Roma Murphy, Jeanette Kuzba, and Marie Cuny. Orchestra Places Given Last Week The orchestra has acquired a number of new members, and is already in re hearsal for various performances in the future. The practice of giving guest concerts was established last year when the group played at the Immaculata high school and at St. Mary's high school, late in May, and plans are under way now for the music to accompany the Laetare play in November. ' Results of th tryouts for concert meis- ter and first chair places in sections of the orchestra were as follows: First violin: concertmeister, Eleanore Solcwska; first violin, Eleanor Kucki; second violins, first chair, Dorothy Grace; clarinets, first chair, Emily Poska; cornets, first chair, Catherine McBridc; French horn, first chair, Mar garet Mullen. Commerce Club Visits Century of Progress The economic advance of the last hun dred years as displayed at the Century of Progress Exposition will be explained to members of the Commerce club in a spe cial tour of the Fair being held for their benefit on Oct. 12. Any student interested in the trip may secure further.information in the model office on fifth floor. A recreational center has been added to the commerce department this year at the elevator lobby just outside the model office, and between class hours students meet there to discuss such questions as the N. R. A., the Detroit bank quiz, the gold standard, and the Reconstruction Finance corporation. GLEE CLUB OPENS SOCIAL SEASON WITH FALL FRY A Fall Fry and a Pledge tea are re corded already on the Glee club anna for the autumn of 1933, and the singers have the added distinction of having given the first party of the season. The first annual Fall Fry was held on Sept. 20, a perfect day for an out-of- door party. Leaving the college at about 10 o'clock, the students took the trail to Maple Lake, which is some place south west. At the end of the trail a picnic lunch was served, after which attention was turned to swimming, row ing, and a football game broadcast over a radio in one of the cars. The listeners were especially aroused when the brother of Corinne Murnighan, president of the club, went in for Northwestern. The climax to the day was a rain storm encountered on the homeward trip, but the downpour was brief, although heavy. A tea to welcome pledges was held on Sept. 25, and on Oct. 14, Phi Lamda, honor society of the Glee club, held a waffle supper. The supper pre ceded a general practice for a concert which will be given on Oct. 10, at a which will be given for the Catholic Women's League of Winnetka. FRESHMEN WELCOMED IN 'GET-ACQUAINTED' WEEK Everyone wore a badge last week the color depending upon the class. The seniors had yellow, diamond-shaped ones; the juniors, red; the sophomores, blue; and of course the freshman appeared with fireen circles. The reason for all this colorful display was that the past week was Get- Acquainted Week at Mundelein and each student wrote her name on her badge that everyone might know who she was and talk with her. In ordei to help the freshman acclimate themselves, the seniors had a reception last Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 4. Every senior was in the receiving line with Katherine Brennan, the president, at the head. Alumnae Notes Bring News of Further Study By Justine Feely When school bells are ringing and an other class is donning caps and gowns, our thoughts go back to former classes and we search out news of Mundelein graduates. Mary Lally, '32, entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Charity, B. V. M., at Mount Carmel, Dubuque, Iowa, on Sept. 8. Miss Lally was editor of the Tower of 1932 and vice-president of her class. Having gained distinction in literary lines in her junior year, she was a charter member of Delta Gamma Sigma, honor ary literary society. Miss Lally was also a member of the Stylus club and of Eta Phi Alpha, and she was chairman of the Catholic Litera ture committee of the Sodality. Chesa Wolneiwicz, '23, president of the Alumnae, is a familiar figure at Mundelein these days, since she is taking an advanced course in chem istry. Miss Wolneiwicz is also assisting her father in the Bernard Florist shop. Turning to the class of '33, we find a number of eager students. Margaretta Nolan has received a scholarship to the Loyola school of sociology, and, together with Dorothy Higgins, Genevieve Mc Clevey, and Dolores Savage, she is tak ing graduate work in sociology. Doris Barnett, '33, our former S. A. C. president, is working for a Master's de gree in philosophy at Loyola. We saw her just the other day in the library per using a volume of the Summa Theolo- gica. Gretchen Kretschmer, '33, president of the senior class last year, plans to take a course in commerce later in the fall. Recalling her.major in mathematics and her summa cum laude we predict suc cess for her. Joan Quilty, '33, the senior who won the short-story prize last year and who gained much distinction as a penwoman, is teaching French at Holy Child aca demy in Waukegan. Congratulations from the Skyscraper/ SCHEDULE OF CLUB MEETINGS Meetings;at 3 o'clock the first and third weeks of the month. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Alpha Omicron . Art Catholic Evidence Guild Chemistry Commerce Piano Orchestra Debating Romance Glee Club Philosophy Languages Meetings at 3 o'( lock the second and fourth weeks of the month. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Press Stylus Terrapins German W. A. A. Eta Phi Alpha Laetare Players International Relations Organ Cecilians Mendelian Attends Conference of Classical League Virginia Woods, of Eta Phi Alpha, classical club of Mundelein, attended the thirteenth annual meeting of the American Classical League, held last July 5, at Chicago, in the English Room of the Blackstone Hotel. Conferences for mem bers of the league took place in the morning and the afternoon session was thrown open to the public. An address by Andrew F. West, Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School, Princeton Univer sity, opened the program. Among the interesting discussions of the day were: Recent Trends in the Teaching of Secondary Latin, Helen M. Eddy, associate professor of Romance languages, State University of Iowa; New Lamps for Old, Mildred Dean, Head of the Latin department of public schools in the District of Columbia; and Interpretative Latin Grammar, Paul B. Diederich, assistant professor of educa tion, Ohio State University. The program closed with the reading of a paper Soaking the Rich in Ancient Athens, by Paul Shorey, Ph.D., who has been head of the Greek department of the University of Chicago since 1896. Organ Guild Plans Activities Twenty members of the Organ guild and its auxiliary met on Sept. 29, in the music history lecture room to plan activities for the year. Meetings will be held on the first Thursday of each month at 3 o'clock, and the November meeting will take the form of a tea for the pledges.
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