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- v.. : Left to Bight F. J. Burke, S. A. Smith, C. Allender, P. Haloulos, M. Nicholson, E. Joyce, V. Sweeney. THE LAETARE PLAYERS ing Ethel Barrymore. With marked graciousness, America's foremost actress expressed her wish to become an honorary member of the society. Others have followed her example, the last names to be appended to the list being those of Fritzi Scheff and Maude Odell. In the midst of all this activity, the players were engaged in the establishment of a speech scholarship fund to be awarded deserving students from among Chicago high schools. With the spring, it was considered opportune to hold a speech tournament to select winners for the scholarship no simple task from the goodly number of talented students who took advantage of this opportunity. Another step recently undertaken by the Laetare Players was the organization of an honorary society whose charter members include Clare Allender, Lenore Healy, Eleanore Joyce, Annamerle Kramer, Helen O'Gara, Carlene Futter, Leonora Stahr, Penelope Haloulos, and Mary Nicholson. The key of Sigma Rho Upsilon was awarded on Laetare Sunday, the feast-day of the club, on which day the members attended Mass in Stella Alaris Chapel, where they were addressed by the Very Reverend F. M. O'Brien on the subject of the drama. On this occasion beautiful rose vestments, the gift of friends of the club, were worn for the first time. During the formal breakfast which followed, toasts were proposed by the seniors, preceding the ceremony of pledge-taking by the new members. Prizes for prominence in the year's activities were then conferred, headed by the awarding of the Golden Rose to Eleanor Joyce, '32, and appropriate prizes to Leonora Stahr and Penelope Haloulos. The latest activity of the Laetare Players was the presentation of a three-act play entitled The Two-Edged Sword. In this modern Russian drama of unusual merit, one reads the promise of another successful year for the Laetare Players. Page 86 INTERPRETIVE DANCING A galaxy of delicate, pastel-tinted fairy robes, cloudy pink, cobalt blue, pale green, jonquil yellow, flashed here and there with lightning-like swiftness, now falling in soft riplets, now floating merrily in the air, according to the mood of the wearer. Thus did some eighteen young women lend expression to their interpretation of poetry and music through interpretive dancing, varying the rhythm, step, and gestures according to the theme they wished to develop. For the past year, Miss Beatrice Kaplan, a graduate of Northwestern University, and an active member of Orchesis, has been instructing students in the art of interpretive dancing. Charm, grace, poise, as well as a deep understanding of beauty and nature, are the qualities which followers of this cult seek. To these students the main event of the year was the program given in the first week of June. This culmination of their successful endeavors was an exquisite triumph, and a most noteworthy tribute to the skill of their instructor. Although the course is a pre-requisite for a degree in dramatic art, through the courtesy of the dramatic department it has been opened to all members of the student body who are interested in acquiring a broader knowledge in this field. A few changes are being considered for the coming year,pre-eminent among them being the hope that classes may be held twice a week instead of solely on Mondays. This arrangement would provide for a more detailed analysis of the work and would allow a larger number of students to obtain instruction. Page 87 ixM m ra : gt;.
title:
Tower 1932
publisher:
Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
creator:
Root Studio
date:
1932
subject:
Women's education
relation:
Mundelein College Yearbooks
type:
text
language:
English
rights:
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