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THE SKYSCRA - gt; Volume I. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JANUARY 30, 1931 Number 1 MUNDELEIN STUDENTS IN RECITAL Music and Dramatic Art Classes /Present Attractive Program. KWhen the curtain rolls back tonight, the spotlight will be focused on the members of the Mundelein College School of Music, who are making their initial appearance of the season in the college auditorium, and students of the Department of Dramatic Art, who distinguished themselves last month in the Christmas fantasy, The House oi Life. The program maintains the domi nating note of modernity that per vades the college, many of the musical numbers being chosen from the works of present-day composers. A touch of comedy will be supplied by the Dramatic Art students. Back- Seat Flying, an intimate glance into family travel a hundred years from now, will be presented by Mary Zita King, helmeted and goggled for her f.ight. Etiquette, a comedy of er rors in manners, is. a lively, humorous sketch. This evening will be a first night, too, for the college orchestra. This group has made amazing progress in these first months of the college year. Only those who have been present real ize the hours of practice that have been spent in building up an organi zation worthy to represent Mundelein College before the public. The or chestra numbers twenty-one members, and its personnel is constantly grow ing. The program of Mundelein's first public recital is as follows: Overtui e Gibb 'i he Cuckco Clock Castillo - i'rat:rni'-y Barth Mundelein College Orchestra The Legend Beautiful Longfellow Marion Ryan Polonaise Amerieaine Carpenter Arabesque op. 39 Macdowell Mary Helen Boyle Le Soir Thomas Bon Jour, Suzon Delibes Betty Smith In Old Vienna Bronson Elizabeth Boyle Virginia K. Walsh The Minstrel Hildach Dorothy Weldon Violin Obbligato, Cathleen Dowd Improvisation, op. 46, no. 4.Macdowell . N'ovelette op. 46, no. 1... .Macdowell Virginia Meis Continued on Pase 3, Column 2. Theodore Maynard at Mundelein Theodore Maynard, Litt. D. of Ox ford University, poet, essayist, and critic, addressed the students in Mundelein College auditorium on Wednesday, January 28. Choosing as his subject, Poetry as an Aid in Life, Dr. Maynard held his audience captive for an hour which opened up magic casements looking into the world of poetry. An intimate, easy style, marked by charm and a fine hu mor, characterized his lecture, and in it could be felt a strong religious at mosphere and a truly spiritual vision. Among present-day writers Dr. May nard holds high rank, and his articles and poems appear in many leading magazines. He is an ardent admirer of his great contemporaries, Gilbert K Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, with whose work he was intimately asso ciated for a number of years. Like them, too, he is a fearless champion of the renewal of the Catholic spirit in literature and of a humane and en lightened sociology as applied to mod ern economic conditions. Dr. Maynard is the author of sev eral volumes of poetry, among them being The Last Knight and Exile and Other Poems, and of a histor ical study, De Soto and the Conquis- tadpres. Besides these, he has ed ited two anthologies, The Catholic Book of Modern Verse and The Cath olic Book of Modern Prose. MUNDELEIN IN WINTER DRESS . .,;;- '' '' '' ' FIRST ANNUAL College Paper Newest Student at Mundelein The Skyscraper, a genuine student enterprise, makes its bow to the public today, and introduces for the first time in printed form all the news, views, rumor, and humor of the stu dents of Mundelein College. The Skyscraper is entirely a student project. The editorial staff has been selected from the members of the jour nalism classes, but anyone from any department may contribute, and is most cordially invited to do so. The many and varied columns of The Skyscrapf.b give all an oppor tunity to take an active part in its publication. The general news of the paper is the combined work of editors and reporters. The former have spe cific departments assigned to them, while (he latter bring in the news not covered in definite beats. Any student who wishes may qualify to become a reporter. Her work will be to get the news, then to write it vj in an interesting manner and in real newspaper style. The humor column solicits school anecdotes, jokes, sketches, humorous verse, in fact, anything that will make the reader smile. If the contributor wishes her wit to be anonymous, she may use a pen name. The Skyscraper, being a purely stu dent activity, is a strong indication of a live, progressive spirit. To succeed, it needs the whole-hearted cooperation of the entire college, both in contribut ing to it and in patrorizing it. The idea of having a college news paper was conceived very early in the journalism classes, and tentative plans were made for its publication early in the second semester. Meanwhile, the young journalists practiced diligently the art of newswriting and feature writing in preparation for the big event. It came, after all, sooner than they had expected. The first paper was to be out by January 30 The staff worked fast and furiously for one strenuous week. Today The Sky scraper actually exists The Skyscraper will be one of Mundelein's livest activities, and a powerful factor in moulding college spirit. MUNDELEIN Father Keith, S. J., to Conduct Exercises The first annual students' retreat will open February 3, at Mundelein College, under the direction of the Reverend George A. Keith, S. J. Father Keith, who was formerly a member of the faculty of Loyola Uni versity, and is at present a lecturer of the Chicago province of the Society of Jesus, is well known to the people of Chicago as a spiritual director and a lecturer of a high order. For years he has been working toward the per fection of his unique lecture, The Sacred Love Story of the Mass, which he will give in the course of the re treat. During the past year, Father Keith has added to the beautiful slides that illustrate the lecture new pictures from the great cathedrals of the Old World. The retreat will consist of three days devoted to instruction and reflec tion on the spiritual interests of young women; a reconsideration of the fun damental principles of the Catholic faith, with a concrete application of these principles to the conditions of modern life and to the solving of spiritual problems. The retreat exercises will take place in the college auditorium, and will open with Mass at nine o'clock each morning. Friends of the college stu dents, as also Catholic women stu dents of other colleges, particularly of Northwestern and Loyola Universi ties, which are most conveniently lo cated, are cordially invited to attend any or all of the exercises. Little Theatre Formal Opening j Pirates, gossips, maids, and matrons will minf le with society women in the characters of the three one-act plays to be presented by the Mundelein Laetare Players at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, February 13, in the college auditorium. This production will mark the formal opening of the re cently completed Little Theatre, just as the initial presentation of the Play ers, The House of Life, signalized the opening of the college auditorium. In keeping with the trend of the modern theatre movement, the Little Theatre has been decorated in the club colors, black, silver, and cardinal red. Portraits of noteworthy artists of the legitimate stage will ornament the walls, while metal chairs of rich black- and-silver carry out the color scheme adopted. The following program will be pre sented: Eagles of the Air Menn Mundelein College Orchestra Pirates Clements Characters: Mrs. Warren Doris Barnett Mrs. Lawty.. .Annamerle Kramer Mrs. Romney Grace Carr McKeown Mrs. Pickering. .Marjorie Murphy Mrs. Lawler ..Majella Mannebach Betty Warren Jeanne Koehr Clara Beatrice Fox Musical Reading Peycke Mary Margaret Brady Miss Fleurette and Company . .Dane Characters: Mrs. Paynter Grace Carr McKeown Madame Dufour Eleanor Joyce Melody of Peace Martin Mundelein College Orchestra Monologue, The Persian Poppy Emery Penelope Haloulos Where But in America Woolfe Characters: Robert Espenhayne Annamerle Kramer Mollie Espenhayne. .Helen O'Gara Fraternity March Barth Mundelein College Orchestra
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1931-01-30 (1)
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