Northwest Viking - 1936 December 11

              VOL. XXXVI—NO. 11 w ASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, December 11, 1936
Normalite
—By Jack Ranch
What was the most colorful at­traction
at our football games this
fall? You guessed right; it was Mr.
Bushell's school band. Band music
in educational institutions has fi­nally
arrived; gone are the days
when the only musical attraction
would be the Firemen's band um-pah'n
on a Saturday night. From
a recent estimated report there are
over 25,000 school bands and"be­tween
8,000 and 10,000 symphonic
bands in the universities, colleges
and parochial schools throughout
the United States.
Don't
Christmas is just around the cor­ner,
and before you have quite re­covered
from that big Thanksgiving
dinner the daily papers will warn,
«01Uy days until Christmas."
If you ever wonder what to do with
that old jacket, sweater, or pair of
shoes that are lying around the
house now is the time for final de­cision.
If you know of any family
that is in great need, why not be a
Santa Claus yourself; better still,
remember that there are many
charitable organizations in town
that would appreciate any contribu­tions
that you make.
Forget
So you think we have the latest
thing in swimming pools? Well, in
Singapore, where they have just
completed one of the finest physical
education buildings known to archi­tecture,
they are now installing
equipment, ordered from the United
States, to cool the pool.
Only
If you are one of those students
Who yearn to master the art of ski­ing,
you picked the right school and
your opportunity will soon be at
hand. Right in our own back-yard
(you might say) is Heather Mead­ows,
one of the finest locales for the
thrill of spills in the Northwest.
Starting December 15, Otto Lang,
famed speed ski king of the world,
and first assistant instructor in the
Hannes Schneider school of Arlber
technique of Austria, will conduct
beginning classes in ski technique on
location in Heather Meadows. Any­one
Interested in learning how to
fall gracefully should enroll imme­diately.
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Dorm Girls Carol
Edens Hall Girls To Hold Tea
Sunday, Dec. 13
Carols, breakfast, and tea
will be the features of Sunday,
December 13, for Edens hall
girls.
Arising at 4:30 a. m., the
girls will be served hot choco­late
before caroling around to
the different organized houses
and faculty homes. The fresh­men
girls will remain in the
dormitory to prepare breakfast
for the upper classmen upon
their return at 8:00 a. m.
The girls have been practic­ing
the carols every evening
the last two weeks under the
direction of Miss Mira Boothe,
music instructor
The annual Christmas tea is
to be given in the Edens Hall
Blue room at 5:00 p. m. A spe­cial
choir has been chosen to
sing at the tea and a program
has been planned by Corrine
Young and her committee.
Each girl will act as hostess
to a faculty member.
Chinese Missionary
Addresses YWCA
Evanson, Graduate, Speaks On
Work in Orient
Next Quarter Performers Named
Boson and Bushell Choose Ljungberg, Soprano; Mirovitch, Pianist;
And Lewisohn, Author, as Outstanding
Miss Bergloid Evanson, a Belling-ham
Normal alumni, American mis­sionary
to China, addressed the
YWCA group last week after a short
devotional service.
Twenty-three years ago Miss Ev­anson
graduated. In 1921 she went
to China where she took over the
duties of Christian missionary. Dur­ing
that time she has been back
twice. In her talk Miss Evanson
spoke of her experience with the
Chinese. She impressed upon her
audience the fact that the Chinese
have progressed greatly in religion
during the time she has been there.
"Athough the Chinese workmen
no longer need the aid of we mis­sionaries,"
she stated, "they do not
feel capable of taking the duties
upon themselves."
Miss Evanson is leaving soon for
China where she will resume her
duties.
Do Your
Cramming
Early
Theatre Guild Play Enthusiastically
Received By Patrons; Hatch, Mock,
Oberlatz, Clark, Commended Highly
By Arthur C. Hicks
The Guild's opening performance of THE PIGEON Wednesday night
at the Guild Playhouse was no less than memorable. The acting was a
credit to the cast and the response of those in the audience was not less
creditable to them. Once again it was demonstrated that Bellingham,
audiences are not wanting in dramatic taste and discernment, that they
require no coddling in the way of
jejune or slapstick entertainment,
and that they will turn out for and
applaud a good play when they get
the chance. THE PIGEON makes
unusual demands upon the sympa­thies
and the intelligence of both
actors and audiences; those de­mands
were met Wednesday night
in a way that must be heartening to
all lovers of good drama in Bel­lingham.
This review can only faintly indi­cate
the quality of the performance.
For sustained characterization in
serious roles Randy Oberlatz, Will­iam
Mock, and Kathryn Hatch as
Wellwyn, Ferrand, and Guinevere
Megan respectively, must be highly
commended. Wellwyn the "pigeon,"
was one of the most genially sym­pathetic
characters ever enacted on
a Guild stage, Ferrand was distin­guished
for intellectual subtlety and
emotional intensity, and little Mrs.
Megan had a quality of wistful pa­thos
that is rare indeed. The act­ing
of Katherine Bowden as Ann
Wellwyn, the "pigeon's" daughter
who accuses her father of sloppy
sentimentality, was spirited and in­teresting
in itself and well calcu­lated
to throw Wellwyn's character
into high relief. Adolph Rank was
Irresistible in the part cf Timson,
Merry Chistmas
And Dorii Forget
Only
5 Days Until
EXAMINATIONS
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"The performer I am most inter­ested
in is Goeta Ljungberg, Metro­politan
Opera singer,' says Nils Bos­on,
music instructor and a member
of the lecture and entertainment
committee, in regard to the assem­bly
programs to b given next quar­ter.
Donald G. Bushell, also of the
Music department and a member
of the same committee, says that
he would choose Alfred Mirovitch,
pianist; Goeta Ljungberg; and Lud-wig
Lewisohn, author and lecturer
as the outstanding performers of
the winter quarter.
Mm. Ljungberg, Scandinavian so­prano
made her debut as Elizabeth
in "Tannhaeuser" after two years
of study with the Royal academy at
Stockholm. Since 1932 she has been
a member of the Metropolitan Op­era
association. She will appear in
assembly on January 26.
Ludwig Lewisohn, author of fic­tion,
autobiography, criticism and
philosophy, will lecture to the stu­dents
on February 23. After an
absence of 10 years, he returned to
the United States and lectured from
coast to coast in a 25-week tour. He
is now on another lecture tour.
Alfred Mirovitch, world-pianist,
has been in America on various
tours since 1920. He has performed
in Russia as well as many European
countries. He will play in assembly
on March 9.
"Mood in Music" is the topic of a
lecture-recital to be given by Dr.
Felix Swinstead, English composer
of piano music on February 9. He
is a member of the Royal /cademy
of Music in London, England.
Charles O'Connor, singer of Irish
traditional songs to his own accom­paniment,
will present the program
January 12. .
The International Singers, com­posed
of Roy Jarmon, American
tenor; Violette Brown, English so­prano;
Adelaide de Loca, Italian
contralto; and Herman Ivarson,
Norwegian baritone are to appear
in assembly February 2. Mr. Ivar­son
is from Bellingham.
Others appearing in the assembly
programs are: Dr. James Marshall,
Australian naturalist and lecturer,
on February 5; Mildi Roberts, con­cert
violinist, on February 12; Frank
Speaight, English actor-dramatist,
on February 16; John and Dorothea
Hopper, pianist and violinist respec­tively,
on March 2; and Arthur
Johnson, lyric tenor, on March 16.
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Christmas Trees
Displayed Today
Campus Pupils Decorate Holiday
Evergreens; Designs Original
Christmas trees decorated accord­ing
to all the laws and principles of
art, are on display in rooms 304,
305, and 306, of the Art department,
today and during the early part of
next week.
Campus Elementary school pupils,
under the supervision of Miss Hazel
Breakey, of the Art department,
have decorated the evergreens.
"We hope that Normal students
will feel free to come and see the
Christmas trees anytime during the
next few days. Perhaps these trees
will give them ideas they may use on
the family tree at home," remarked
Miss Breakey.
Original Table Decorations,
Wrapping Papers
""Original designs in Christmas ta­ble
decorations, prepared by the
orientation classes, will be ready for
display on Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week. The art 50 class is
wrapping Christmas gift boxes for
exhibition. Miss Dorothy McHlvain
is decorating room 306 with the lat­est
commercial designs in holiday
wrapping paper. The walls of room
305 are covered with wrapping paper
designs, made by students, and also
with handmade cards.
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Editorial Staff Selects
Best Story of Week
To Aid Newswriters
In order to help newswriters im­prove
their technique in writing for
the Viking, best stories have been
chosen for. each issue by the editor­ial
staff.
Sybil Hinchliffe wrote the best
front page story last week, which
was on diplomas. The best story on
the feature page was "Point of
View," by Jack Rauch. Other re­porters
gaining recognition for good
stories are James Taylor, Bob White,
and Joe Dwelley.
Week before last, most of the
stories are James Taylor, Bob Weihe,
ienced journalists, nut In this last
issue the class of cub reporters took
all the honors.
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Rainbow Dance Dec. 11
Winter Wonderland will be the
general theme of a sports dance
which is to be given by the Belling­ham
Assembly, Order of Rainbow
for Girls, Friday, December 11,
1936, in the Masonic temple
The dance is under the allspices
of the Bellingham Assembly drill
team, which won the State cham­pionship
at Grand assembly held in
Seattle June, 1936. '
Harry Wellman's White Jackets
Orchestra will furnish the music for
the dance. "::\ •-:'•'•
Discussion Club
Argues Fascism
Discussion Club Splits On Issue;
Seelye Perkins Lead
With Don Seelye Bob McCbnnell,
Louise Shrum, and Roy Higgenbot-tom
disputing signs of fascism in
the United States and with Ralph
Friedman, Margaret Perkins,, and
Maxine Gerber maintaining that
the signs corporative capitalism plus
a mailed fist have already cast their
shadows in this nation, especially in
the Southern Bible belt and the
Pacific coast, twenty-five members
of the Tuesday Evening Discussion
club were treated to a lively contro­versy
in their last meeting held De­cember
8 in room 208.
The evening was opened by talks,
by Glen Willison on 'Fascism,' with
Margaret Perkins following this dis­cussion
with the topic "The Econom­ics
of Fascist Dictatorship'. The
club was adjourned until the first
Tuesday in the next quarter when
at that time Don Zylstra, Don See­lye,
and Warren Toms will discuss
'What Chance Has a Third Party
in 1940?'
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Bragis Discuss Plays
Of Galsworthy at Last
Meeting of This Year
With the plays of John Gals­worthy
as the topic of discussion,
the Vanadis Bragi club held its last
meeting of the quarter in the Edens
hall club room last Monday evening.
Elizabeth Cardwell, Margaret
Bertrand, Lillian Martin, and War­ren
Toms led the discussion by re­porting
on four of Galsworthy's
plays, namely, Justice, Pigeon, Loy­alties
and Old English.
The play Pigeon was of particu­lar
interest because it is being pre­sented
this week by the local The­ater
Guild.
January 4 will be the first day of
school winter quarter, and also the
date of the first meeting of the
Vanadis Bragi. The program will
consist of brief reports by members
of the club on reading they have
done during Christmas vacation.
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Quarter Ends Friday
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Friday, December 18, marks the
end of the Fall quarter at Belling­ham
Normal and the school will be
closed for Christmas holidays till
January 4, the beginning of the
Winter quarter. Regular class work
will close Wednesday; Dec: 16, and
most of the final exams will occur
on Thursday and Friday. Students
should consult the schedule of tests
posted on the bulletin board to
ayoid conflict in the time ot their
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Mens Club Again
Completely New Club Charter
Approved by Men
Presto! and a new, united
Men's club arises from the
ruins of the old.
Among the more radical
changes that have occurred
during the recent renovation
was the election of a group of
seven men to outline the year's
program organize a new char­ter,
and present this charter
for approval. The seven men,
who were elected at the first
meeting are: Rex Rolle, Ralph
Friedman, Hurley Boggess, Ho­mer
Borroughs, Fritz Chorvat,
Ed Angel, and Ed Tomco. Each
of these is at the head of a
commission and, although
there is to be no active presi­dent
of the organization, one
man is to be elected by the
committee and will be known
as the secretary-treasurer and
contact man. At a meeting
held Friday morning, the new
charter was presented and ap­proved
by the 125 men students
who were present.
Football Men Earn
Letters for W Club
Date of Next Quarter's Informal
Set for February 6
Initiation was discussed at the
meeting of the W club last Tues­day
evening. Ten men have earned
their initial W on this year's foot­ball
squad and will be initiated into
the club at the first of next quar­ter.
A committee to arrange this
will be appointed soon.
The date of the informal has been
set for February 6 in the winter
quarter. Plans for the dance are
underway now. A secretary must
soon be elected to replace Sheldon
Stutz, who was graduated last year.
Those eligible for their first W's
are: Andy Maski, Vern Peterson,
Arnold Wahl, Russel Davis, Art
Mickel, Henry Bengston, George
Johnson, George Mills, Leo Lange,
and Fred Kessel.
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Alkisiahs Have Party
In place of their usual meeting
the Alkisiah club will have a
Christmas party next Monday, night,
December 14. The club members
usually draw names for exchange
of gifts at this annual affair but
this year they will bring their mon­ey
to put into a common fund.
Kluge Replaces
Hoppe As Chief
Board Re-elects Boothe Business
Manager; Former W Men
Must Pay
Harry Kluge was elected editor of
the Viking for the winter quarter at
the regular Board of Control meet*
ing last Wednesday. Helen Boothe
was re-elected business manager.
Mr. Kluge, veteran staff writer arid
editor of the paper, during the sum­mer
quarter, replaces Joan Hoppe,
who is now serving her fourth quar­ter
and is therefore ineligible for
re-election.
It was voted that former W men
should not be admitted free to Nor­mal
athletic events. By "former W
men" is meant those men who have
at some time in the past earned a
letter at this school but are not
now enrolled here. The general
opinion of the Board in stopping
this practice was: that since these
men have had their day they should
now step aside, and that the student
body will be benefited financially.
Anna Padden was appointed win­ter
quarter rec hour chairman.
As was originally intended, dance
class will be discontinued at the end
of this quarter.
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Viking Staff Display
Entertains Students
Mew York Herald-Tribune of 1865
Tells of Lincoln's Death
The annual newspaper display
sponsored by the Viking staff this
week featured many papers of vari­ous
countries and different | B ^ p p f g ^ | |^
Outstanding in the exhibit wa^'ftte^jfe®^^
New York Herald-Tribune p | ^ d § i l i S |g
in 1865 and. giving .an a c c o u | # ^ | ^ ^
the assassination of President -3SS|:i&^ftffl
coin. Early editions of the S e a | | i | | | ^ ^g
papers announced the death of Pope /-'.
Leo XII in 1903, and the death of
President Harding in 1923.
Foreign newspapers included New
Zealand, Yugo-Slavian, German,
French, English, Scottish, and
Swedish publications. The differ­ent
types of American journalism
were represented under a special
section. College papers also were
displayed separately, comparing the
styles of the schools of the United
States.
"I wish to thank students who
contributed to the Viking exhibit
and also the training school chil­dren
for the interest they showed
in the display," said Mitchell Evich,
in charge of the display.
c URRENT
ALENDAR
of Happenings
Impressionistic Dancing Takes Much
Time, Effort And Is More Strenuous
Than Ballet, Toe, States Tina Flade:
By Jeanne Borgstedt
"Modern or impressionistic dancing entails hours of preparation and
practice," emphasized Tina Flade, dimimutive dancer in Tuesday's as­sembly.
Dancing of this type entails about seven or eight months' study
of technique and then the success of the work depends upon the dancer
herself, the more dances she creates the more able is she to express her­self.
It is very strenuous work and much harder to perfect than ballet
or toe dancing.
With the slightest trace of an ac­cent
she said, "Many people think
natural dancing is the same as mod­ern
dancing, but they-are mistaken.
Aren't all dances natural? Modern
dances are individual expressions
of one's personality and they should
therefore have a separate name im­plying
a different meaning.
When asked about her hobbies,
Miss Flad.e's brown eyes twinkled,
"You see," she explained, "My danc­ing
takes a great deal of time and
exertion, so I do not have the time
or strength for active sports, but I
do enjoy playing the piano." With
this our interview was ended as the
dancer had to leave immediately
for Seattle, where she was giving a
recital that evening.
Miss Flade, who studied under
Mary Wigman, famous German
dancer, has been living in the
United States for the past four
years, the last three of which she
has been head of the dance depart­ment
of Mills college, in Oakland,
California.
Bragis Sponsor Tea
; The Vanadis Bragi club spon­sored
the weekly tea in the Wom­en's
League room Thursday from
2:30 to 3:30.
Friday December 11
8:00 p. m.—Vikings vs. Seat­tle
college.
Sunday, December 13
7:00 a. m.-^Edens Hall
Christmas breakfast.
5:00 p. m —Edens Hall
Christmas tea.
Monday December 14
7:00 p. m.-^-Alkisiah Christ­mas
party, Edens Hall Club
room.
Tuesday, December 15
11:00 a. m—Assembly, Nor­mal
school orchestra, Don­ald
A. Bushell, director.
Thursday, December 17
Finals.
Friday, December 18
Finals. ;
4:00 p. m.—Christmas vaca­tion
,...' <•%./.;.
8:00 pYnv-ViJdngs vs. Al-;
bany college.
January • 4, „ MOT-vv •
8:00 ; a. ^-rjVlfnT^ qiiarfer^
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