Northwest Viking - 1931 July 24

              VOL. XXX—NO. 40 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 24, 193!
DRAMA
Normalite
CHICAGO
TALKIES
DARROW
WRECKS
By Max Stewart
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TUESDAY NIGHT
PASSION PLAY WILL
BEGIN ON AUGUST 3;
TO RUN THREE DAYS
THIRTY-ONE ORCHESTRA NUM­BERS
TO BE FURNISHED BY
MUSICIANS IN BELLINGHAM.
It makes us sad to think!
That while the city of Chicago
is unable to pay the 10 million dol­lars
in salaries due its 18,000 teach­ers,
it continues to contribute 20
millions annually to the coffers of
Al Capone's organization;
Or that in a teacher training in­stitution,
an instructor is given cause
to lecture a class of experienced
teachers for one hour on the merits
and demerits of cheating in tests;
But, anyway, it's not true that
President Hoover patted the head of
the wolf hound that bit a Marine
guard and remarked:
"Nice doggie! Now go bite Gen­eral
Butler."
W.S.N.S.
Twenty-ftoe school pedagogs
from large United States cities have
endorsed as highly successful their
recent experiment testing the ef­ficiency
of talking cinemas at ameth-od
of instruction in the schools.
Governor Roland H. Hartley
holds the distinction of being the
only governor in the Union who
failed to send a boy and a girl
of at least grammar school age to
Washington, D. C, to take part in
the experimental examiations which
were given there.
When refusing, among other
things, he stated:
"One of Americans alarming
problems is the mounting cost of
public education . . . The thought
of adding to the unbearable burden
by the addition of talking movies
. . . . is inconceivable . . . . Inova-tions
already introduced have un­dermined
the quality of education
. . . . amply proved by the policy
of spoon feeding."
W.S.N.S.
We fail to see the exact connec­tion
but it somehow reminded us of
the reply of our one and only first
grader, who has lived all his life
within a 4-mile radius of an ex­tremely
isolated farm, when asked
what a dandelion was.
"A dandelion," he said; "is a lion
that behaves himself."
W.S.N.S.
Clarence Darrow's movie "The
Mystery Of Life," by which he will
endeavor to educate people to his
contentions on evolution, has been
declared "indecent" by New York's
State Board of Censors, because it
shows views of the human embryo,
child at mother's breast, spiders
mating, etc.
Personally, we consider the mys­tery
of life as something quite be­yond
even a Mr. Darrow; but we've
viewed many movies we would con­sider
less decent, than one which
offers to the general public some of
the knowledge being taught in every
institution of higher learning
throughout the country.
W.S.N.S.
"Unless drastic measures are
taken to save it, the capitalistic sys­tem
throughout the civilized world
will be wrecked within a year. I
should like this prediction to be filed
for future reference," Wrote Mon­tague
Norman recently to Governor
Morel of the Bank of France... We
wonder just how such a wreck
Would affect the everyday life of
the average individual.
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FORMER NORMALITE
RETURNS THIS QUARTER
Margaret (Peggy) Green, of Seat­tle,
is attending Normal for the test
five weeks of this quarter. During
previous attendance here, Miss
Green was very prominent to dra-matics,
taking the lead in several
LOCAL CHORAL WORK
Beginning August 3 and lasting for
three days, the famous Freiburg
Passion Play, from Freiburg, Baden,
Germany, will be presented daily at
the American theater.
Thirty-one orchestral numbers,
which will be furnished by local
talent, and eleven choral numbers
selected from well known oratorios,
will accompany the pageantry pro­cessions.
The chorus is composed
mainly of Normal students, who
have been working for several
weeks under the direction of Har­old
B. Smith, of the Music depart­ment.
Premier in 1264
The Freiburg Passion Play, first
presented in 1264, was begun, ac­cording
to Black Forest traditions,
as a religious offering for the lifting
of the plague which ravaged Europe
in those days, according to Adolf
Fassnacht, world famous Christus
portrayer and manager of the Frei­burg
company in America.
However, the authentic records of
Freiburg, although they lend some
color to the tradition, do not make
it conclusive. The church records,
which are the principal source of re­liable
information regarding the
Middle Ages, indicate that the play
was begun in a very simple way as
a means of imparting religious in­struction.
The dates of the early
presentations are on record and re­ligiously
guarded.
"Play That Built a City"
In the year 1264 A. D., when the
first Passion Play was produced in
Freiburg, that place was just an­other
hamlet in the eerie depths of
the Black Forest. The play might
well be known as the "play that
built a city," for Freiburg is now a
city of 200,000, a cultural center,
and home of the University of Frei­burg.
Medical men of the whole
Camera Catches Cast
Scene from Act I in "To the Ladies", the sum­mer
quarter production of the Drama club, to be
presented next Tuesday and Wednesday, in the
Normal auditorium.
Reading from left to right are Franklin Locke,
as Leonard Beebe; Phil Sisk, as Chester; Dewey
Bowman, as Mr. Kincaid; Mrs. Caroline Con­ner,
as Mrs. Kincaid, and Cornell Wiese, as Elsie
Beebe.
IS
USTB1T0 BEGWEN
1 M WRING WEEK
CAST FOR "TO THE LADIES"
IS SAID TO BE "FEELING"
PARTS THAT THEY PORTRAY.
WAUGH DIRECTS
HANNEGAN PASS WILL
BE OBJECT OF HIKE
Hannegan pass, considered by
many the most . ^interesting feature
of the summer's hiking program,
will be the main object of a three-day
hiking program, beginning Fri­day,
July 31.
The party plans to leave campus
at 1 p. m. Friday, drive the fifty-eight
miles to Shuksan, and hike
eleven miles to the pass, where
camp will be made. Saturday Goat
Mountain will be scaled, and on
Sunday, Ruth Mountain.
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LECTURE WILL BE
DELIVERED TUESDAY
DR. HALL-QUEST HAS WORKED
IN WDDE EDUCATION FIELD.
BOARD TAKES FEE
FROM DRAMA PLAY;
WILL PAY DEFICIT
WILL ATTEMPT TO STAMP
ILLEGAL USE OF ACTIVITY
CARDS AT SCHOOL EVENTS
INQUIRE ABOUT BILL
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SINGERS ENTERTAIN
THE PLYMOUTH.. QUARTETTE
FEATURES MUSIC PROGRAM.
"O, Lovely Night" and "Gypsy
Love Song" were only two of the
delightful ballads sung in this
morning's assembly by the Plymouth
quartette.
Miss Margaret Moss Hemion, so­prano;
Miss Winnifred Auckland
Lundberg, contralto; Mr. Marshall
Sohl, tenor; and Mr. Walter J.
Reseburg, bass, compose the quar­tet
and are directed and accompan­ied
by Arville Belstad.
Ninth Program
This is the quartette's ninth pro­gram,
all of which have been en­thusiastically
received arid well, at-ttended
at all places. The Plymouth
quartette has an enviable record of
re-engagements, that speak well for
the quality and beauty of their
programs.
From Seattle
This quartette of singers come
from the Plymouth Congregational
church in Seattle, Wash. They are
well known in Seattle, appearing
often in concerts, oratorios, weddings,
banquets, receptions, club programs,
and radio broadcasting. Although
the quartette features its "ensem­ble,"
the members are often engaged
for individual programs.
The program for this morning
was arranged as follows:
Dr. Alfred Laurence Hall-Quest
will deliver a lecture on "Public Ed­ucation
and American Culture" in
next Tuesday's assembly.
The career of Dr. Hall-Quest has
been a notable one and has includ­ed
many activities which should
qualify him to speak on this sub­ject.
While acting in the capacity
of director of high schools for the
University of Cincinnati, whose work
is affiliated with the public srhools,
he touched intimately all tha phases
of supervisory work in a city slhool
system.
Executive Phases
His duties as director of exten­sion
at the University of Pittsburgh,
and as director of the Milwaukee
school, led him into executive phases
of educational work.
He has attained prominence as an
author. His books on supervised
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Merenblum Pleases
With Violin Recital
In Recent Assembly
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Last Tuesday morning Mr. Peter
Merenblum, who teaches the violin
at the Cornish school in Seattle,
presented in the assembly a pro­gram
of violin music.
Mr. Merenblum came to the Unit­ed
States from Russia, and has been
in Seattle for the past several years.
During this time he has made an­nual
appearances at the /Normal
school.
Selections Enjoyed
Among the selections On the pro­gram
that were most enjoyed by
the audience were Shubert's "Aye
Maria/' "The Flight of the Bumble
£ee," by Rimsky-Kdrsakoff, and
"Le Coucou," by Daquih-Manen. in
the second group, "Gypsy Airs,'' by
Sarasate, with its plaintive notes
and wild, ecstatic passages, was very
favorably received.
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. Featuring the passing of a popu­lar
measure in regard to admission
of students to the coming Drama
club play, the Board of Control met
for the first time in two weeks at a
special meeting Tuesday morning.
This special hour was necessary due.
to the Board picnic, held Wednesday
afternoon and evening.
Ask Aid
President Colin Campbell brought
up the fact that several students had
asked that the Board see that stu­dents
be admitted on student ac­tivity
cards to the play, "To the
Ladies," without the 35 cents that
had been placed on them as an ad­mission
fee.
It was reported that the officials
in charge of the play were willing
to admit the student body on their
tickets if the Board would agree to
make up the deficit in funds, which
would run close to $100.
Motion Carries
A motion was then made and car
ried that the Board take care of
any deficit resulting from the tak
ing away of the admission fee.
Colin Campbell, by mutual con
sent of the members present, is to
change the wording on the next
group of activity tickets so that
they will be null and void if pre
sented by any other than the legal
owner.
Head Janitor Gwinn submitted a
bill to the Board for the cleaning
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i CALENDAR
I FRD3AY—July 24.
8 p. m., Rec. Hour.
SATURDAY—July 25. s
7 a. m., Week-end Boat Trip
to Viqueen Lodge.
TUESDAY—July 28.
11 a. m., Regular Assembly,
Dr. Hall-Quest, Lecture on
"Public . Education and
American Culture."
4:30 p. m., Visit to Belling-ham
Coal Mine.
8 p. m;, Drama Club Play,
"To the Ladies," Normal
Auditorium.
WEDNESDAY—July 29.
4 p. m., Play Hour.
8 p. m., Drama Club Play,
"Td the Ladies," Normal
Auditorium.
FRIDAY—July 31.
11 al'm.; Regular Assembly,
Diean J Dennis, Reading,;
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SAGEBRUSH MEMBERS
ENJOY PICNIC LUNCH
Twenty members of the Sagebrush
club enjoyed a picnic at Shore Acres
last night. After lunch, the even­ing
was spent, in singing and in
reminiscing of former school days.
This club, which is purely social,
and which functions during the
Summer quarter only, was organ­ized
about twelve years ago for the
Normal students who have been, at
some time, residents of the sage­brush
country of Washington, Ore­gon,
Idaho, or Montana.
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MOUNT BAKER CLIMB
SETS A NEW RECORD
IDEAL WEATHER CONDITIONS
LIKED BY 46 LOCAL HIKERS.
A summer ambition of many was
realized last Saturday when a party
of forty-six, most of them represen­tatives
of the Normal school, made
a most satisfactory climb up Mount
Baker. Aided by almost perfect
weather conditions, the climb was
made a record breaker among like
trips for time and endurance.
Easy Pace
Leaving Glacier at 8 o'clock Fri­day
morning, an easy pace was
taken which brought the hikers into
Kulshan camp, the termination of
the ten miles, by about 4:30 p. m.
Botanical life was most interesting
between Glacier and Kulshan, be­ing
typical of deep woods environ­ment.
Ferns and mosses grow luxuriant­ly
in the moist soil. The first five
miles show alder and maple trees
intermingled with the evergreens,
and a forest floor much like that of
Students are urged to obtain their
reserved seats for "To the Ladies,"
a fast moving comedy to be pre­sented
next Tuesday and Wednes­day
evenings, as soon as possible, as
a large sale of tickets to outsiders
is expected. v;
Student activity tickets will en­title
students to reserved seats,
which may be obtained at the Co­op.
Outsiders' tickets will be on sale
at the Stark Piano company, on
Cornwall avenue.
Miss Jennie Waugh, director of the
play, will take this same production
on a tour next fall in Hastings,
Neb., where she will be teaching.
Students Live Parts
Every evening during the past
week the cast has rehearsed the en­tire
play, and it has been rumored
that they have taken on the great
responsibility that is found in the
Passion Play—that of actually liv­ing
their parts. They do not feel
this as a burden, however, and en­joy
being someone else to the ex­tent
that they say they will miss
the play when it is gone.
With such a thorough rehearsing
and earnestness on the part of the
characters, as well as the production
staff, the coming "comedy" prom­ises
a treat for all of us.
Experienced Leads
Cornell Wiese, leading lady, who
plays the part of a wise little wife
from down in Mobile, has carried
several leading roles before. Her
ability in dramatics, coupled with
radio experience, helps her in carry­ing
her role, which calls for singing
and playing.
Miss Wiese has attended Washing­ton
State College for two years and
is now attending her fourth quarter
at Normal.
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Viqueen Lodge Will
Be Scene of Outing
For Normal Groups
Tomorrow and Sunday are the
days set for an outing for Normal
students at Viqueen Lodge, on Sin­clair
Island. The boat will leave
the Citizens' dock at 7 a: m. Satur­day
and return at 9 p. m. Sunday.
W. A. A. Owned "
The lodge was recently built by
the Women's Athletic association of
the school and is owned by it. At­tractive
recreation in the lines of
hiking and swimming is offered, as
well as camp activities.
Students planning to visit the
camp are advised to bring eating
Utensils and blankets. Those who
wish to spend only one day, either
Saturday or Sunday, may arrange
to do so/ Miss Rutn Weythman and
Miss Emma Erickson are in charge
of the::trip.r^:::^yy'SU^'^'-^:''.^.
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DENNIS IN ASSEMBLY
READS "MEN AND FAniURE"
FROM "JOURNEY'S END."
The assembly program for Fri­day,
July 31, is a lecture-reading by
Ralph Dennis, dean of the School
of Speech, Northwestern University.
He will present "Man and Failure,"
from "Journey's End," by Sherriff.
Dean Dennis will be on the cam­pus
for three days and, for the
benefit of those who are interested
and free to attend, he will give two
lectures besides the one in as­sembly.
His famous travel lecture, "An Un­official
Observer in Russia," is an-;
nounced for 10 a. m. Wednesday,
July 29, in the auditorium, while
"Prejudices," from "Aunt Polly's
Story of Mankind," by Stuart, will
be presented Thursday, July 30,,at
11 o'clock.
Years of varied experiences, in
this country and abroad, have given
Dean Dennis an unusual background
for his work.
He has been On the staff of
Northwestern university since his
graduation in 1901. Six years of this
time were spent; away from the
campus In an attempt to know-more
of life as it is lived by human
beings of all classes.
He has traveled exfehsiyeiy to:
this country and in Europe, and has
worked at many different occupa­tions.
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