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MIRROR OF CAMPUS LIFE
Twenty-Fifth Yi
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1939
Number 6
Four Elected
To Masquers
Awards To Be Made Al End
\* Of Year
Masquers Pick Cast For
“ТЪе
Shoemaker’s Holiday”
Thirty-Five •
Chosen For
First Play
Rollicking Elizabethan
Comedy To Be Given
December 7, 8 and 9
Thirty-five students have been se¬
lected for the cast of "The Shoe¬
maker’s Holiday", Thomas Dekker’s
rollicking Eliza be thean comedy, to
be presented in the college audi¬
torium December 7, 8, and 9. This
major production of the semester
will be presented by
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Masquers
Club, honorary dramatic . group, in
connection with the dramatics de¬
partment, under the direction of
Miss Antionette Sparks, dramatics
instructor.
The cast includes Jack Olliphant,
king; Gordon Berry, Earl of Lincoln;
John Prescott, Rowland Lacy; Rol-
lin Lincoln; Askew; Guy Aired,
Dodger; Marian Absher, Sir Roger
Otley; Herman Smith,
“ Height* Are
Youths' For The
Taking?
Student Plans
For Chapel
Are Complete
Organization Schedule Is
Announced By Group
Through May 17, 1940
Chattanooga Day!
Saturday in Birmingham will
be a big day for Howard and the
University of Chattanooga!
Saturday, October 21, having
been officially declared "Chatta¬
nooga Day" by Jimmie Jones,
president of the City Commission,
the Junior Chamber of Com¬
merce of Birmingham and Chat¬
tanooga and the alumni of both
colleges are working together for
a gala celebration when Bulldogs
meet Moccasins in their annual
grid tilt at Legion Field.
Special railway rates have been
secured to bring the band and
members of the University of
Chattanooga student body to Bir¬
mingham. The invading school
will be met by Howard students
and cheerleaders when they ar¬
rive at 11:15 Saturday morning
and one of the highlights of the
day will be parades by both
schools.
Climaxing the day's program
will be the football game to be
held at 2 o'clock at Legion Field.
(Thii column waj written bjr Mias Annie
Boyette, instructor in English at Howard,
ai the lint in ■ «erie, to oe written by
I acuity member».)
There have been students and
universities for some little time
now. I am quite sure that weary
pendants must have told the eager
young men who walked the Athen¬
ian Grooves with Socrates and Plato
that there had never been an age
Never had there been
Four have been elected to the
Masquers Club, honorary dramatic
club, according to Jack Kelser, presi¬
dent They are Edith Hale, George
Daugherty, Louis Claxton. and D.
C. Stringfellow.
Membership In this group is based
on dramatic ability and participa¬
tion and goldmasks or keys will be
awarded in the spring to those re¬
ceiving points in dramatic work
during the year.
Officers of the club are Jack Rei¬
ser. president, Mildred Lawrence,
vice-president and Gene Claytor,
secretary-treasurer.
A steak fry will be given Friday
night at Lane Park in honor of the
new members.
like theirs,
so many problems to face; never the
times so out of joint
The schedule for student chapel
programs beginning tomorrow and
extending through May 17. 1940. was
released this week by Grady Hutch¬
inson, chairman of committee on
student programs.
This schedule, worked out by the
program committee and the heads
of each organization, is to be fol¬
lowed throughout the year and is
subject to change only by the com¬
mittee, Major Harwell G. Davis, or
Dean P. P. Burns. Members of the
committee working with Hutchinson
were Margaret McClellan and Fred
"Cheese” Turner.
Trident, men's honor group, will
have charge of chapel tomorrow to
be followed by Women’s Athletic
Association, Oct. 27; Delta Zeta so¬
rority, Nov. 3; (Nov. 9-10 week of
exams); Parade program, Nov. 17;
Hypatia, Nov. 24; (Thanksgiving
Holidays); Masquers. Dec. 8; Kappa
Psi,.Dec. 15; Baptist Student Union,
(tentative). Dec. 20; (Christmas holi¬
days); Alpha Delta Pi, Jan. 5; Alpha
Epsilon Delta, Jan. 12; Women's
Student Government, Jan, 19; Young
Women's Christian Association, Feb.
2; Dietetics Chib, Feb. 9; Art Club,
Feb. 18; Phi Mu sorority. Feb. 23;
Booklover's, March 1; Kappa Phi
Kappa, March 8; Beta Sigma Omi-
cron. March 15; International Rela
tion's Club, March 22; Pi Gamma
Mu. April 5; Sigma Nu, April 12;
“H” Club. April 19; Glee Club, April
28; Delta Kappa. May 3; Chi Alpha
Sigma, May 10; and Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity. May 17.
Wordsworth was a university stu¬
dent in days perilously like our
own. He knew a gieat panic— the
South Sea Bubble had just burst;
he knew war— all Europe was in
flames; he knew chaos— all sys¬
tems of idealogy were influx. Yet
he cried. "To be alive then were
great; to be young were very
heaven." And with the character¬
istic verve and zest of youth he
said. 1 looked upon life from the
golden side of the shield."
Speech-Arts Club
To Begin Activity
At a meeting of the Speech Arts
Club Wednesday in Main audito¬
rium, D. C. Stringfellow was ap¬
pointed head of a committee com¬
posed of Ed. Richardson, chairman;
Ann Claire Cooper, Carroll Carter,
Thor.ias Hunter, and Molphus Price,
to aid the club as a whole in en¬
couraging members of the student
body who are interested in speech
to participate in the Speech Arts
Club.
This club, now being organized
under the supervision of Dean P. P.
Burns and Miss Antoinette Sparks,
dramatics instructor, is open to all
students.
You, too, hAve problems: war,
or threats of war; shtfUng politi¬
cal systems; rapidly changing
mores and ideologies. Yet my
concern for you Is not that you
will fail to measure- up, or to
recognise your many problems
but that you will mbs an ad¬
venture. What adventure la left
in a decadent world? The eter¬
nal adventure — the exploration
of the “delectable land."
Haromon;
William Gwin, Scott; Dolphus Price,
I Skipper; Cecil King, Eyre; George
Jackson, Hodge; Jack Kelser, Firk;
Stuart Belt, Rafe; Mildred Vann,
Hammon's servant; Gloria Root and
Lydia Haisten, page boys; Frances
Galbreath and Mrs. Edwards, two
boys in the services of Eyre; Mar¬
jorie Holcomb, Rose; Mary Louise
Shirley, Jane; Marion Headley, wife;
e Saranel Burford, Sybil; W. E. Wil-
[' liams, A Prentice; June Causey,
Sarah Jordon, Gene Claytor, and
• Abilene Knight, Tiring Men; Char-
line Harrison, Mertes Barrus, Mar-
s jorie Walls, and Frances Goodrich,
| Prentices; Rosalind barter, Norma
i Jean Sanders, and Jappie Bryant.
1 Court Ladies; Rodwell Calhoun, and
e J. W. Richardson, Jr., courtiers.
The theme of “Shoemaker's Holi-'
e day" is a blend of the romantic and
realistic and exalts the common
"■ people. The performances on De-
-1' cember 7 and 8 will be before the
students and public and the Decem-
i ber 9 performance will be before
the organization of University
- Women in the college auditorium.
All members of the cast will meet
this afternoon at 2 o’clock in Main
. auditorium.
Doan On Air
Dean P. P. Burns will broadcast
over Station WAPI Saturday night,
October 21,
delectable land?"
at 8:30, in connection
with a series of State United Daugh¬
ters of the Confederacy programs
on Sydney Lanier, the poet.
The dean will speak on "Sydney
Lanier as a Poet"
in The Delectable Land,” by
Loland D. Baldwin: “Well, strange
as ii may seem there is a world — ■
It reaches from the farthest star
that you can see above us to the
farthest start that men car see on
the other side of the world below
you It contains all that mankind
has hoped, and dreamed, and strag¬
gled for; all his noble longings and
aspirations; his nights of study and
days of toil; the flaming hot
рае
is ions of youth, and the icy cold
calculations of age: great scholars
and statesmen and warriors live
there and they accept the humblest
of us as an equal; time and space
mean nothing to us for we can
traverse a thousands years and a
thousand miles in a twinkling: we
can grow old and rhematlc in this
life but in that we drink daOy of
the fountain of youth; poverty and
disgrace may assail us here, but
I there we live as rich as Croesus
land as honored as gods; ambition’s
I fulfillment may shun us here, but
I we find there a solace such as thg
I mortals around us dream not of.:
I This, my boy, is the world that
I awaits the true seeker after knowl¬
edge the delectable country of the
DR. REITZ EMPLOYED
Dr. Edward Reitz, former as
sistant professor of Chemistry here,
is now employed by the Federal
Food and Drug Administration and
is 1 heated in Chicago.
NOTICE
There will be an important meet¬
ing of the Parade Committees Mon¬
day during chapel period in Dr.
Bohannon's old room.
President’s Secretary Sees France In War Beginning
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nr yjser? Switzerland, at the beginning
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Lynn Buchanan
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crisis but returned lo France i,
Experience : diatcly After a months dels
ART CLUB
Blackouts, submarines, war planes
and war hysteria, are personal ex¬
periences of Miss Lynn Buchanan,
hew secretary to Major Harwell
G. Davis.
Having been in France at the out¬
break of the war on an assistantshlp
ab teach conversational English
awarded her by the French Gov¬
ernment in connection with the
New York International Institute of
Education, Miss Buchanan, daughter
at Dr. J. H. Buchanan, pastor of
Southside Baptist Church, can give
vivid accounts of the situation at
that time.
e finally heeded the warnings of All students interested in art are
ie American Embassy and left for “rged to contact
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^is-
u. hart. chairman of the membership
menca on the steamship Manbat- of the Art club. Mem.
n. The ship was held up in the bers of the group, with Miss Alida
ay of Biscay for two nights and Townes, art instructor and sponsor
ie day for fear of submarines and ot the club- are anxious to start
, _ _ _ . . plans for the year’s work and or-
as escorted out by French air- wUTsoon be cotupfetod.
^nes- Officers of the Art Club are
"Blackouts are a bother,” she said, I Jeanne Martin, president; Elizabeth
hen questioned as to the attitude Mortor, vice-president; Lynette Bor-
1 the people toward them. "They hind, secretary; Gene Grogan, treas-
* not as strict in France, however, urer: and Cathryn McKibbon. re-
i In England where no light at P°rter-
This U not escape, nor is it retreat
<o "Shangri La.” It is a challenge
to claim the rightful heritage of
youth lest man be «Mspoeseseed.
"New Frontiers of the Mind.” Sure¬
ly. there are many. But you'h will
enter such new countries without
passport, without pedigree, without
