1935-10-09

              THE ARG US
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
VOL. 42 BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1935
Schlaviansky Russian Chorus
To Appear Here Next Week
Group Directed by Daugh-ter
of Founder; Organ-ized
77 Years Ago
Mme. Agreneva Schlaviansky
and her world-toured Russian
Chorus, an organization of sing-ers,
dancers, Balalaika orchestra
will apphe ar icn Prens ser He all nOct.1a
17 as the second number on the
Concert and Lecture Course.
The chorus was organized 77
years ago by Dmitry Agreneff, a
member of the highest nobility
in Moscow. He had started on a
successful opt.esratic career whenhc
he decided to apply himself to
the preservation of the Slavic
and Russian folk-song which
were fast disappearing. He lived
for years among the primitive
people of Siberia, living in their Mine. Agreneva Schlaviansk
huts, and learning their thoughts
and emotions as they exoressed
them in their simple ballads.
Daughter Present Director
The present director of the
chorus is Mme. Agreneva Sla-viansky,
youngest daughter of
the founder. She was trained by
her father from her earliest
childhood in the work and fin-ished
her musical education in
Milan ani Berlin. She succeeded
her father at the time of his
death in 1908 and carries on his
work. Accompanying Mme. Sla-viansky
on her present tour is
her only daughter, Mlle, Mara
Slaviansky, who assists her in
her work as well as appearing as
soprano soloist and as an ac-companist.
Dancers on Program
Mme. Slaviansky Is one of the
few internationally recognized
women conductors. She has
taken her chorus through most
of the countries of the world.
She has given over one thou-sand
concerts in America.
In addition to many vocal
combinations used by the sing-ers,
fiery and characteristic
Russian dances given by agile
and lithe Russian men and girls
create a spectacular side to the
programs.
Waldorf Addresses 150
On New Drive for School
The Illinois conference of the
Methodist church has authorized
the plan whereby $60,000 will be
raised to pay off the indebted-ness
at Illinois Wesleyan. One
half of the money is to be raised
in Bloomington, and the other
half in surrounding communi-ties.
Tuesday, Oct. 8, one hundred
preachers met with Bishop Wal-dorf,
at the call of the bishop,
to discuss the efforts outside of
Bloomington. The meeting was
held in the Grace church.
District superintendents, most
of whom are on the Wesleyan
board, will be in charge of the
efffforts in their respective
communities.
The local Association of Com-merce
has indorsed the effort as
one which will result in a better
Bloomington. Students and fa-culty
members annually make
many contributions which help
to give Bloomington its distinc-tive
reputation. Wesleyan is glad
to make these contributions and
is deeply grateful to the city for
the cooperation and loyalty it
has received in Its efforts In the
past.
McPherson to Preach at
Rally Day Sunday
y
Kraft Pleases
Capacity House
Many Wesleyanites were
among the audience which filled
Presser hall auditorium Wed-nesday
evening, Oct. 2, to at-tend
the inaugural concert of
the 1935-1936 Wesleyan Concert
and Lecture course.
The brilliant organist, Edwin
Arthur Kraft, F.A.G.O., who is
at present choirmaster and or-ganist
of Trinity Cathedral at
Cleveland, Ohio, and director of
music at Lake Erie college, pre-sented
an unusual program in
that it displayed examples of all
kinds of organ music.
Unusual Control
The opening number showed
the style of the great Handel to
an exceptional degree. The "Pre-lude
and Fugue in A Minor" by
Bach was of extreme interest
because of the careful manage-ment
of the contrapuntal themes
and the clear and precise phras-ing.
Kraft's interpretation of
the "Sketch in F Minor" by
Schumann was also well re-ceived,
as this number showed
unusual control of the swell
pedals of the organ. During the
program a presentation of his
own arrangement of "Phedre
Overture" was generously given
by Mr. Kraft, and it was unique
in style and variety. A great
delicacy of playing was displayed
in "The' Caprice" by Dethier be-cause
of the variations of tone
color which were put into it.
Reception After Program
As his last piece ended, Kraft
was greeted by tremendous ap-plause
to which he responded
with "Ride of the Valkyries" by
Wagner, in which the solo theme
is played on the pedals.
Following the performance, an
informal reception was held in
the reception room of Dean
Westbrook's studio. In the re-ceiving
line were Professor
Beadles, Professor Jordan, Prof.
F. B. Stiven. who is Dean of the
University of Illinois School of
Music, and Mr. Kraft.
Many people from Peoria, Pe-kin,
Eureka, Champaign, and
Pontiac attended the rectial and
expressed their delight on Mr.
Kraft's playing and the new or-gan,
which was heard in full
concret for the first time.
Appoint Executive
Freshman Committee
In accordance with the rules
f,,,. 1. ** 1wtinn', uh rh uwere
Dr. H. W. McPherson preached described in a recent issue of the
at Gilman last Sunday, helping Argus, the following Executive
in their Rally day. Rev. A. C. committee has been appointed
Adams is the pastor of the for the freshman class:
church. Sunday, Oct. 13, Dr. Mc- Riley Jackson, Linnea Lamson,
Pherson will preach at Mech- Lois Meeker, Victor Thrall, and
anicksburg, in the church sup- Robert Tull.
plied by Wayne Dietrich, a Wes- -M. T. TOWNSEND,
leyan student. Class Adviser
First Pep Session of Year
To Be In Gym Friday Morning
The first pep session of the
school year will be held this
coming Friday, Oct. 11, in the
gymnasium, in anticipation of
the Wesleyan-Carroll college
night football game to be
played in Bloomington Satur-day,
Oct. 12.
This pep chapel is under the
direction of Chuck Acree and
it is said that Dr. Elliott, for-mer
Titan coach, will be at the
pep session, along with the
new coah, Harry Bell and as-sistant
coach Parker.
Attendance will be taken
for this pep chapel at the door
of the gym as you go in. BE
CERTAIN THAT YOU GO TO
THE GYM AND NOT TO
PRESSER HALL, OR YOU
WILL BE COUNTED ABSENT.
Attendance will be taken just
to make certain that you will
have a great time.
Hodgens Names
Homecoming Cast
In Lula Vollmer's "Moonshine
and Honeysuckle," we have a
play cut to Homecoming speci-fications.
This southern mountaineer
plot is overflowing with the tra-ditional
Kentucky life-riotous
scenes, feuds, mystery, romance
and, above all, Comedy spelled
with a capital "C."
Over 60 persons tried out for
parts. The following cast was
selected:
Cracker Gaddis, Oretha Pierce;
Clem Betts, James Melluish; Pa
Betts, Lyle Van Horn; Piney Hy-att,
Arvilla Bauer; Annie Bev-ins,
Doris Shepherd; Tom Bev-ins,
Robert Duncan; Buck Gad-dis,
John Janca; Pegleg Gaddis,
Junior Mansky; Gypsy Carter,
Elizabeth Ann Goudy; Pedler,
Paul McCance; Pink Freeze, Dale
Volle;Judge, Norman Marshall.
Recognition Service Held
By YWCA October 6
The Y. W. C. A. held its Recog-nition
service at the Hut, Sun-
Phi Mus Feted As
Greeks Get Together
The regular meeting of Kappa
Sigma Phi was held Sunday,
Oct. 6 at the Phi Gam house.
Ralph Shannon was elected to
take the place of Ernest Seeman
in the council membership.
It was agreed that selling of
Homecoming stickers would not
be counted in the points toward
the keg. The fraternities will
continue to sell them, however.
It is being discovered that Oct.
6 was the thirty-seventh anni-versary
of the founding of Phi
Mu Alpha, the council gave the
Phi Mus a warm testimonial of
fratenial affection. Dale Ey-mann
responded to the demon-stration
with several clever im-personations.
The next regular meeting will
be held at the Phi Mu house.
Observatory Open
Clear Evenings
The Behr observatory, located
on the east side of the campus
along Park street, is now open
evenings when the weather is
clear.
The observatory houses a fine
stationary telescope and there is
also a fine small telescope for
moving around the campus for
beter views. Such things as the
moon, Saturn with her rings,
double stars and the like, will
be among the things shown.
It is worth a small part of
anyone's time to see these in-teresting
things and the school
is fortunate to have this fine
equipment.
Special appointments can be
made for definite evenings by
seeing Dr. Mortimer in the sci-ence
building. He now has a
student assistant, which will en-able
him to take care of all ap-pointments.
All science students
and any others are urged to
come over for an entertaining
evening.
day, Oct. 6. New members are:
Sylvia McKeehan, Helen Mar-shall,
Helen Goodall, Maida Beg Your Pardon!
Rethberg, Gladys Sayers, Anna
Louise Hoyd, Dorothy Beall, In the last issue of the Argus,
Jayne Flint, Barbara Weaver, a statement was made to the ef-
Melissa Holdrige, Ann Nichols, fect that Chuck Acree had been
Eleanor Lou Brooks, Virginia employed at WBBM this last
Ficklin, Lorraine Cooper, Har- summer and is at present on a
net T a y 1o r, Mary Louise two year temporary leave of ab-
Wertsch, Evelyn Stalter, Myra sence.
McCance, Alberta Carnine, Lo- Chuck Acree was employed by
uise Elliot, Marguerite Beadles, an advertising agent that han-
Elizabeth Morgan, Katherine died programs for WBBM. His
Geyer, Leah Spangler, Myra Ann sole work was continuity writ-
Peairs, Audrey McDonald, Lora ing for the agency. He was
Kee, Winifred Peirce, Ruth never on the air. He is on a
Squires, Ellen Harwood, Luella temporary leave of absence of
Martin and Barbara McMurry. one year from the advertising
As it was impossible for a agency, not WBBM.
number of the girls to attend this
service, another one will be held Relations Club to Meet
next week.
Tomorrow in the Hut
PROF. GUILD IS BACK
TO DUTIES AT BOOK STORE The International Relations
club will meet tomorrrow at
Prof. Cliff Guild, who has been the Hut. All students interested
out of the book store for the are invited to attend these meet-past
two weeks, is now back at ings. The club will meet every
his duties, hale and hearty as other Thursday night thereaf-before.
ter.
Alma Wesleyana
Words by W. E. SCHULTZ
Air: National Hymn
(G. W. Warren)
From hearts aflame our love we pledge to thee,
Where'er we wander, over land or sea;
Through time unending loyal we will be -
True to our Alma Mater, Wesleyan.
When college days are fully past and gone,
While life endures, from twilight dream till dawn,
Grandly thy soul shall with us linger on -
Star-crowned, our Alma Mater, Wesleyan!
Novel Program Promised By
Homecoming Committeemen
T A P to Present
"Family Affairs"
Theta Alpha Phi met at Ro-land's
tea room last Tuesday,
Oct. 1, at 6:30 p. m. The frater-nity
will hold dinner meetings
on the first Tuesday of every
month.
Barbara Smith, president, led
the meeting. The group discussed
the Homecoming play. They plan
to supervise the committees for
both the Homecoming and the
Masquers plays.
Mary Fern Martin was elected
secretary, in place of Margaret
Lantz, who did not return to
school. James Melluish was elec-ted
treasurer to replace Harold
Livingston.
Theta Alpha Phi is to sponsor
a radio play over WJBC. This
serial, "Family Affairs," has 13
episodes, and one episode is pre-sented
each week. The plot is
similar to the NBC serial, "One
Man's Family."
The fraternity plans to keep a
scrap book of clippings concern-ing
their various activities on
the campus and in the near vi-cinity.
Masquers to Give
Play in December
The Masquers held its first
meeting in Hedding hall Thurs-day,
Oct. 3, at 7:30 p. m. Vir-ginia
Shannon presided.
The group is responsible for
help on the committees on ush-ering
for the major productions
on the campus this year, and
for taking part in their produc-tion,
"Just Around the Corner,"
to be presented in December.
They also plan to present a
number of plays before chapel
and at least one a month before
their own group.
Dr. Hodgens presented details
about the Homecoming produc-tion
and the radio skit, "Family
Upstairs," which Theta Alpha
Phi is sponsoring over WJBC.
Masquers will meet the first
Thursday in every month at
7:30 p. m.
Directory on Sale
Next Wednesday
The Student Union directory
will be on sale next Wednesday
All you boys and girls whc
would like to make a statistical
ta bulation, a percentage sheet
or what have you of Wesleyar
students bring your dime and
drop around by the switchboard
in the main office. This direc-tory
lists the names, school ad-dresses,
old home towns anc
telephone numbers of the faculty
and students.
If sonme of you feel that yor
have memorized all the tele-
Final Decision on Band
Will be Announced In
Argus Next Week
Homecoming this year will be
held Nov. 1 and 2, under the di-rection
of Chuck Acree, chair-man,
and Dick Postlethwaite,
assistant chairman, with the
able assistance of the committee
chairmen and committee mem-bers
listed below. Mrs. Bethania
Smith is faculty adviser for
Homecoming this y e a r and
Dwight Drexler is alumni secre-tary.
No definite plans for Home-coming
will be announced until
the next issue of the Argus. At
that time announcement will be
made of the various events that
will have been formulated by
the committee members and
their chairmen.
No Half-Way Measures
As usual, there has been quite
a bit of talk over the Home-coming
Dance orchestra. Acree
and Postlethwaite report that
either one of two things will be
in force this year at the dance:
either a dance band of excellent
reputation and renown and one
with a "name" will be booked or
one of the orchestras of the local
vicinity will be used. In other
words, there will be no half way
dance band this year. There has
been quite a bit of agitation for
a "name" orchestra and at the
present time some "finiglin' is
going on in an attempt to bring
a band of note to the campus
for the Homecoming dance.
Final discussion and decision
will be printed in the next issue
of the Argus. Suffice to say, at
the present time, that the chair-men
promise some unique and
novel contests for Homecoming
this year along with a very var-ied
program of events.
Committees Listed
Following are the students ap-pointed
by Acree and Postle-thwaite
to serve on the various
Homecoming committees:
Dance: general chairman, Paul
Raber; decorations: co-chair-t
men, Barbara Smith, Dean
t Zehr; members, William Clen-denin,
Marion Kiser, Wayne
Metcalf; programs: chairman,
Betty Gage; members, Betty
Patman, Bill Crossman, Bill
( uthric; ticket sale: chairman,
Chuck Finch; members, Rach-ael
Zweng, Virginia Wynecoop.
P m~rind Twist; orchestra: Maur-ice
Hoover, chairman.
1Play: General chairman Mary
Fern Martin; members, Harold
:Livingston, Virginia Shannon.
.Barbara Smith, Albert Neubau-
Ser.
Homecoming chapel: General
chairmen, 0. B. Pace; members,
Elizabeth Ann Goudy, James
Melluish.
Greek sing: Co - chairmen.
aJohn Hinners, Jane Wachs:
- members, Dale Eymann, Paul
Chronic.
ponOe numbeI~irs Dy now invet in
a directory anyway, they make Hockey game: C h a i r m a n,
fine articles for college scrap Martha Dexheimer.
books, announced Ben Arnold, Homecoming stickers: Gener-who
was in charge of their pub- al chairman, Ben Arnold; mem-lication.
bers, Beth Shorney.
l ___________Program during the football
game: Co-chairmen, Bob Under-
Pratt to Speak to Grace wood, Chub Wilson; freshman-
M. E. Young People sophomore scrap, Harold Dembo,
Dave Swanson.
The Young People's club of Parade committee: Co-chair-the
Grace M. E. church, located men, John LaMonica, Gene
at the corner of East and Locust Grove.
streets, will meet Sunday, Oct. Cups and Prizes committee:
13, at 6:30 o'clock. Chairman, Charlotte Fitzhenry;
Dr. Harry E. Pratt will lead a members, Earle Steadman.
discussion on the Ethiopian Football p r o g r a m s: editor,
problem at this meeting Sunday John Morris; staff, Max Hersey,
evening. Everyone is most cor- Charles Derr, Grace Boles, Mar-dially
invited to attend. garet Toble.
Homecoming radio program:
YWCA CABINET TO GO director, Stuart Steelman.
CONFERENCE AT KNOX General publicity committee:
Several Y. W. C. A. cabinet chairman, Pat Patterson; Ever-members
will go to Knox col- ett Melby.
Posters committee: Jess Good-lege,
Galesburg, Saturday, Oct.Phe rginitrayerGEd
12, to attend the annual cabinet heart, Virginia Strayer, Edith
training conference of the Ernst.
Southern Illinois Area of the Y. Judges and rules selection
W. C. A. (Continued on page two)
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