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# *, e Page Two s _ | the ccracon Entered as second-class mail matter at Post-Office, Elmira, Member of Intercollegiate Newspaper Association REPORTERS Marice Cookline *36 Elizabeth Maurice '36 Marjorie McCausland ©8386 Mary English '36 Helen Joslin '37 Marian Simmons \37 Ruth Osin '87 Dorothy Becker '37 Fern Royall '37 | Marion Dunn '37 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor:in-chief.... Florence Elberson '36 Assistant Editor ........._ Arline Gould '37 DEPARTMENTAL STAFF News Editor..............Marjorie Clark '87 Technical Editor......Doris Hubbard '86 Humor Editor.... ..... Helen Nolan '86 Etiquette Editor Edith Wagner '36 Book Reviews.... orothy Fleming '36 Drama Editor.... Fay Mitchell '37 Social Editor....Elizabeth VanVéelsor '37 World News...... Margaret Goprell '36 ~ , Sports Editor....Josephine Williams '37 Janice Trost '88 Town News.............._._._. Helen Turner'37 Phyllis Barber '38 BUSINESS STAFF Mary Jane Clara Business Manager ........ Assistant t Helen Brunner '38 |_ | Emma. Binswanger '38 | Barbara Johnson '89 Elizabeth Baas '39 Dorothy 'Glein. '39 Jane Cobb '39 Harving See '89 Sue Billings ©8389 a N. ‘Y‘o Gallagher '39 Gordon 89. 'Oparil \39 MADBAGON caree ADR Clifton 386. Assistants-Margaret Hill '$6, Esther Jenkner '87); Hester Beaudry '37, Ruth Cain '37, Marjorie Hoffman '88, Antonette Lund '39 Circulation Manager Assistants-Eleanor Schrader Duffett '37, Evelyn Irion '38 : .. .............. June Bannister ©8386 '37, Elizabeth Smith '837, Enid Mathes '37,- Virginia 'The Commercial Press, Elmira, N. Y. EDIT O RIA L S @-p CHAPEL CONDUCT EVOKES COMMENT It seems that it might be to the point at this time to comment on an interesting phenomenon that has been occurring all this year, and that we hope will continue indefinitely-that is, the remarkably quieter chapels. It is really a pleasure to go to chapel now, as it is possible to hear a speaker. Heretofore this was for disturbances. However, even now it is extremely difficult to hear o practically impossible due to the uncalled n Wednesday chapel due to the noise. We think it is the noise of the audience rather than the voices of the people giving announcements that is ' excremely discourteous and discouraging to our prestdent. Nevertheless, the quietness of the other two days is at fault. It is wonderful to hear. Various causes have been ascribed for it. You may draw your own conclusions, Anyway, keep the good work up and improve. It re- flects more credit on the college when you are quiet and well-behaved. Last Week Around the World Sunday, October 27: tinues. Monday, October 28: Premier Baldwin wants the sympathetic support of States in any blockade. desertion. . Tuesday, October 29:7 about Ethiopia. - Wednesday, October 30: Thursday, October 31: Friday, November 1: Saturday, November 2: Italy is to demand a neutral Gibraltar. Sunday N ovember 3: French hold up Ethiopian arms coming in Monday, November 4: T uesday, November 5: New Deal. Britain seeks U. S. aid on Italian Oil embargo, Fascism enters thirteenth year with a heavy heart as war con- Britain is asked reason for mysterious fleet concentration. Ethiopia. charges 'that Italy is inventing the story of the chief's Hoover announces that he is ready to run again if wanted. Britain denies accusations of any plan of secret negotiations Ickes proposes permanent slum clearance program on big scale. Roosevelt and Hull again discourage U. S. trade with Italy. Germany orders protest on Churchill insult to Hitler, Supreme Court is to halt coal control act enforcement. Baldwin expresses hope U. S. may yet enter the League. Smith makes a last-minute appeal for a Democratic Assembly. German Air Force menaces England, Churchill warns. Hoare and Aloisi are to discuss a settlement at Geneva today. Economic sanctions against Italy are to begin November 18. Greek Plebiscite ovenyhelmingly tecnlls King George. ; erman boats. Hoare denies that British Cabinet is letting the League down.: Italians shout \down with England\ in a mass demonstration. Dr. Bernard Loder, first president of the World Court, dies. Council votes to advance Chicago's time permanently March 1. Republicans win New York State Assembly in a rebuke to the the United || -How and When | at the last dance that very little can: | be said in anticipation of the com- going to New York for Thanks-| [ing weekend, But do remember] giving weekend, we'll all Be faced with the problen of what plays to see in the very short space of time, e { allotted us. We're really going to have an op-| plays opening in shotgun succes- : ulg this| sion, it becomes more difficult every | weekend. Prom and Dinner Dance] minute to pick out the one or two. that will be most worth our time] and mofiey. Let's take time out,. then, for a few moments to see what the critics are saying about some- of those newer plays. | and that your manners must be per- fect. ' igjottunity to get all dressed | that it will be \stiffly\ formal, be- .. Marijane Suter '36 Emily Baldwin '37 | enough to go through the line. I not hesitate to approach it and to || ganization of a play are ready and _THE 0CTAGON __ You were all so very good indeed | that this is a still greater weekend, are strictly formal, but don't feel cause you ate all going to have a grand time. {o. Now here is a little suggestion- you all know that there is going to be another line. It is a great priv- ilege and pleasure to arrive early Perhaps you might lack courage and: wish that someone were there to \go down\ ahead of you but the \early bird gets the worm\ so do make your way. The impression you give will be greater than you imagine, ~ Another thing which we should be careful about-the dormitory girls who do not go to Prom, Hop, and Dinner Dance are just unlucky girls. They miss the thrill of danc- ing, and they sometimes spend the entire weekend in remorseful grief- all because they failed to invite someone. And then too, they can- not have the privileges the other girls have. There is one special pri- vilege of which I am thinking. Dormitory girls who are going to| the dances are allowed to smoke in the lounges and parlors with their| men. Those who are not going will just have to forget this little pleas- ure. They are not allowed to smoke in the lounges or parlors unless per- | haps they being introduced to the “wondergnl man\ by her friend, or some such similar situation. This is your weekend so' the best of times to you and your guest -and remember that good manners are always rewarded. l Letters to the Editor - November 6, 1935 Dear Editor: At the scheduled time, or as soon after that as you can conveniently | get ready? When do you excht the play to begin? Few people- except those who have actually tak- en part in plays here in school- realize that the whole cast and or- waiting to start at least half an hour before they are scheduled. The only retarding force is the audience. It is inconvenient in our chapel to seat people after a play has begun. | There is much stumbling and bang- | door is disturbing. Couldn't stu- dents make an effort to get to plays 'on time? They would be amply re- warded by an earlier and smoother performance (it bothers the actors' to have to wait as much as it does the audience) . ; _ The same will hold for dances. | How many students do not plan to ||iget to a Prom or Hop until the third | - Anderson's \Winterset\ is the most talked-of play of the season. Burns] Mantle says \It is heady stuff, this| poetic trogedy. And of an eloquence? pugple passages that only Anderson contributes to our drama. scene that holds an audience, startled. | held on opening nite. ' What time do‘yop go to a play? | ing, no one can see or hear very | well, and the light from the open | & For City Vacationers ... | Now that so many of us are really With so many new There is no doubt that Maxwell the.. native drama seldom attains.| In writing it ”frequently rises to those It com- mands an exalted beauty of line and into wonder, a little breathless and mystified. \And for you musical comed lovers, let's take a look at Beatrice Lillie's new vehicle \At Home Abroad.\ A commentator says \-one of those good old romps around the world, Starting from here, and going practically every place; meeting geishas and hotten- tots, the French, the Russians, the English, and a few Chinese. And a spiral staircase turned into an Alp for the first-act finale. The pla boasts a trio of the revue world's tops-Beatrice Lillie, Eleanor Powell, and Ethel Waters.\ And now a musical of a different type, the American | folk Ogre! \Porgy and Bess\ written by Du- bose Heyward with music by George Gershwin. They say of it \a magni- ficent exhibit, and as fine an Ameri- can folk operetta as the native stage boasts. One emotional upheaval follows another, and each is exciting. If you add to this the sort of crash- ing climax the crashing Gershwin adds to any dramatic inspiration that appeals to him, you may be able to visualize something of the contin- uous excitement the Alvin stage And what do they say about our friends, the Lunts, in the \Taming of the Shrew\? \A gay evening that verges on the rollicking-an evening that starts with the lower- ing of the lights and the blowing of strange tures on weird pifes off stage, and continues until they bundle the drunken and dreaming Christopher Sly off the remises just as the last curtain falls. Has been done with the intent of making 'a comedy into a slapstick farce that will remain sufficiently intelligent Continued on Page 4, Col. 5 ¢ not seem to realize that the orches- tra leaders does not start counting pears. the dance ofliciafly starts, the more : dances there will be on the -program, {and the longer you will have' to dance with, your man. (or someone: elses). Sincerely yours, | Wol Reales ] the dances until a suitable crowd ap- Obviously, then, the earlier This week's rambling is going. to be more serious. I have decided that what this country needs is more Solid Meat in the way of. reading material, - Don't disturb yourself; the attack isn't serious, and proba- bly won't last the week out. But for the moment, away with non- sense, anid down to the business of learning something. I suppose it is highly superfluous to mention the Mark Twain exhibic in the libe. However, 1 venture to name it here because it had been on display so long before I saw it myself that I thought perhaps there might possibly be some poor, be- nighted soul who even yet had not seen it. There are letters there, and stacks of pictures, and first editions with inscriptions by the author, written with all the intimacy of fam- ily life. This may seem presumptu- ous, but I hereby suggest a risin vote of thanks on the part of all of us to those who loaned personal mementoes of Mark Twain. I have a brand new Idea, a shin- ing thing which, I hope, is going to. gugide mge safely along-f theseg tregch— erous paths of reading suggestion. Why don't you tell me what you like and what you would like to see put in this column? Now ME, if I have a book that I think is whack ing good, I can't rest easily until I've told several dozen people about it. Maybe you don't have such a strong yen to tell the world, but I should think that evetybody ought to have one thing she wanted every- body to know about. If you read a book for the first time-be it new or old-or if you have some dog-eared ' copy of a book that you think more people ought to know about; should you read some super-good article in a thing from / udge to PMLA is acceptable-tell me to look it up and tell the world about it. And from now on, if you don't like what I write about in here, it's your own fault, because I need only the drop of a hat to make me change my subject. BOOKS In the Dean's office, and possessed of the possibility of being loaned out (I thirllc), is a book called Vocations For Women by Pietce. If you think that all books on vocations are the bunk, if you think they're writ- ten by people who have studied the question out of other books instead of out of life, if you think that none of them tell you anything of the vaguest interest-in short, if you want to look up vocations, but think that no good book on it exists, then read this. Here's what it gives for each vocation:-a short history of the activity, which didn't mean much to me, but you may like it; | its importance in the world of to- day; different possibilities within | the general field; personal qualities necessary for success in the activ- ity; education and training required, along with a list of definite places where you can get the training; and the Jower and higher limits of remuneration to be expected, as ] contacts i‘witfh ‘peopl’c.’ Now I ask + * (or even fifth) dance? They do! 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