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- ference at the University of ~Buffalo L0 change from the date (May 1) an- | ~~ nounced in the catalogue. . Dean. |. VOL. XXY-No. 8 ELMIRA, FEBRUARY 21, 1936 Price : $15 ks Seniors Arouse Original Musnc, Plays,‘ And Monologues Scheduled | ( On February 29th, at 800 P. M, the Senior Class will present Esqui- | rella, the animated magazine de luxe. A large committee, headed by Bar-| bara Funk, is engaged in putting to- | gether this unusual feature of our. winter activities. . FSQuiregla is guaranteed to be the only: living animated magazine in captivity, with the possible exception of an annual: magazine stage show that the Music Hall puts on. The Esquire part of it holds form'promlgpe of sophisticated, witty, and gay entertainment,. 'The Elle part of it assures the feminine touch so necessary | in a woman's world. Esquirelle isn't a| play, nor a vaudeville show, nor a min-. strel, nor a series of tableaux, but it is. a very good imitation of a combination of all of them. There are rumours of a: huge book, monstrous beyond the wildest. imagination, that is to play some part in the show. They say that there will be music, and monologues, and plays, and living cartoons. > In case you have tremors at the thought. of refusing -a date in order to \read\ - Esquirella, . abolish: them, If your date : 'will thank se wrong kind 'of date; - Two hours is promised time, but you'll 'be sorry that it isn't longer, Here you are offered the equivalent of a $5.50 revue in one of the Great White Way's greatest theatres for the trifling sum of 25¢. Do. you remember the Little Shows with Bea. Lillie and the chorus boys and girls making things intimate and jolly? That's the closest to Es- quirelle of which you could think. Never a dull moment, never a sour note, never anything but tongue-in-the-cheek antics. The French have a word for it-singerie. February 29th at 8:00 P. M. We'll be meeting you in chapel! * ; the mighty | Colgate Team To Debate - _ Local Girls First Campus Debate To Be Held March 6 The Elmira College Debating Team will meet representatives from Colgate University, March 6, at Elmira, mark- ing the first debate on campus this year. Plans are being made now for the re- mainder of the season. During March] and April Elmira will meet on campus teams from Syracuse University, the University of Buffalo, and the Univer- sity of Rochester. They plan to debate the Wells' team at Aurora.and Cornell representatives in a radio debate. The subject for these debates will be- \Resolved: Congress should have power to override by two-thirds vote decisions of the Supreme Court declaring acts passed by Congress unconstitutional.\ Elmira has been invited to attend a third round table conference. late in February at Nazareth College in Roch- ester, a The season will end at a Debate Con- late in April. Deadline Date Changed loans, 'or - work for the academic year 1936-37 must file their applications. by April 15, Please notice that this is a | Blanks may: be obtained from the Secretary to the [ Maris | follows a great deal. e | | March 15. J chiding The Octagon, are sponsoring campus editorial contests which will print the (manuscripts. Students desir- ing additional information may see Dr. |Amy Gilbert, head of the History De- partment, and president of the local | branch of The Foreign Policy Associa- m m== . - | tion, .~ «Undergraduates now in Elmira Col-| _lege who wish to apply for scholarships,| ° the Current Events: Club Tuesday, February 24, at 5:30. His top| Curiosity _ French Play Looms Is Announced-Will Be: Presented March 7 Another year has passed, and now its time again for French Play. This y | will be presented on March 7 at 8:15 P. M. The play is an amusing tale of the trials of two. brothers - who have as their wards 'two sisters. One brother, Sganarelle, - tyrannical and severe, insists that his ward, Isabelle, obey him implicitly, Ariste, on the other hand, is the more liberally minded brother, and his ward, Léonor, is treated with kindness. Of course, each brother believes himself to be correct, -and Sganarelle is by far the most assertive. Léonor may choose whom she is to marry, but Isabelle is duty bound to wed Sgan- 'arelle. Then enters Valére, and there of. intrigise between two;... becomes 'the .mes- g gig“; cen Vilere and\ Isabelle and 'even brings the two together, yet all the time he is totally unaware that he is sowing the seeds of romance. Then. comes the denouement, and the most amusing situation of all presents itself. Former New York Success The School for Husbands was produced on Broadway two years ago, with Os- good Perkins as Sganarelle. The verse and lyrics are by Guiterman, L'Ecole des Maris this year has a very compet- ent cast, as announced previously. The organization is as follows : 'Director, Miss Jeanne Allingry ; cos- tumes, Betty Cole; settings, Betty Ed- wards, Theodora Churchill; properties, Jean Spencer; lights, Janet Brown; music, Miss Lucille Lyon, Dorothy Beck- er; dances, Alice Booth ; and house direc- tor, Jane Cooper. 'Octagon' Sponsors Joint Editorial Manuscripts Due March 15 The Editorial Contest for college stu- dents on the timely subject Will New- trality Keep Us Out of War has aroused keen interest on campus. Open to all members of the student body, the contest offers five prizes. First prize, fifty dollars; second prize, twenty-five dollars; five third prizes of a year's subscription to the Nation; and five fourth prizes of an academic year's membership in the Foreign Policy As- sociation. The contest is sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association, The deadline for the manuscripts | is Several college papers, in- Dr. Harris To Speak Dr. _ Franke Harris. will speal: before On Dramatic Horizon Organization For Production | year Moliéreés L'Ecole des| | speaking\ and Contest With FPA | 'to present in minute detail some object, .a small group of objects, or a process of- supplement it with a battery of artificial emphasis, Exhibits number 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 23 and 24 demonstrate | these composition forms, . mention as \abstractionists\ are those | who are primarily interested in the crea- 'tion of a design or lovely pattern. For examples of this group the exhibit in- |Y W Re-introduces ,, Rev. Trousdale; Freshmen To Give Tea; | _- Student Body Invited that it has for its guest next week |the Reverend Whitney Trousdale, terian Church of Rochester. Rev. ing at Elmira last year, and was very well liked by his audience. A very active and interesting program [bas been scheduled which will permit have opportunity of | listening to the guest | every student to have an speaker, His first address will be at Vespers Sunday evening at 6:45 P, M. in Tompkins Lounge. - The following morning he will address the student body in chapel. Monday afternoon the Freshmen are to entertain the Rev. Trousdale at a tea in Alumnae Hall to which everyone is invited. After dinner Monday evening he will lead a discus- sion in Cowles parlors on some phase of marriage, On Tuesday the Y. W. Cabinet will give a tea in Cowles Hall in honor of Mr. Trousdale, Then in the evening there. will be another discussion which proniises\t0=Be \very: interesting and=of mira College. The speaker is going to. discuss the personal: religion which is possible for an active, intelligent member of the college community. In student chapel on Wednesday there will be a short time during which Mr. Trousdale will address the students. He will then conclude his visit to Elmira by speaking before 'a public gathering in North Church Wednesday evening. Rev. Trousdale is a very popular and busy speaker. The student body should be very grateful to him for granting so much of his time to Elmira College, While he is, on campus everyone is urged to speak with him and confer on any personal problems. The Y., W. should be very gratified to be the means of providing the college with such an ex- cellent and enthusiastic speaker. New Photograp This current exhibit (circulated by the American Federation of Art, Washing- ton, D. C.) may be divided into three main grotips according to the photo- grapher's technique: pictorialists, objec- tive and subjective; and abstractionists. The objective pictorialist uses daylight (natural lighting) on his studies, but he depends on the angle of camera place- ment to emphasize the essentials of the scenes. (Examples of objective pictor- ialism in the exhibit are numbers 1, 16,. 19, 20 and 25.) On the other hand, subjective pictorial- ists are those who follow the ~advert1sm.g photography technique. \Their aim is fered for sale. These photographers rarely use natural lighting alone, but. lights of varied intensities. In their en- deavor to gain immediate attention value, | professional commercial photographers consider high tome contrast, parallel lines, | and diagonal or oblique composition as: the three strongest forms of pictorial The group of photographers whom we} ic has not been announced as yet, [cludes numbers 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 121 and 22, ~- - The Y. W. C. A. is sponsoring a | associate pastor of the Third Presby; ' Trousdale spoke in a chapel meet- great importance to all members of El- |. f castanet dance; and an imitation of a Enlivens Library Wall TWentyafiVC phetographic feproduc'tion plates, selected from the French Annual \Photographic ate now on exhibit in the Library. with new angles, fresh; viewpoints, and, most important of all, lighting. The ear- 'liest experiments came from Germany (ly as painters command the brush,\ bit fidelity to the subject matter, coupled [with a viewpoint peculiar to each photo- grapher, which makes the beholder real- ers. Elmira will send fifteen girls, Varsity, and others from the college Renowned Dancer, Pianist To Arrive . History of Dance Offered The Elmira College Athletic Associa- tion will be proud to present the Frazer- James Dance Group, scheduled to give a recital in the Gymnasium on Saturday, March 14, at 8 P. M. The Dance Group consists of Arthur Fazer, pianist, and Paul James, dancer, assisted by two young women dancers. The group presents practically the whole history of the dance from the early Grecian to the modern German. Cos- tumes and music have been chosen with care, that they might contribute their ut- most to the efforts of the dancers. Joint concert of piano and the dance will make élear the correlation of music and danc- ring. fae e t tou 20+ o -- Among the picturesque items on the program are a Spanish - tambourine dance; a tragic German dance, illustrat- ing the torture of flagellants; a Mexican «5% - Broadway loafer doing a tap dance. Helen Turner is in charge of the pre- sentation. Tickets will be on sale at Doyle Marks' and at the College, and prices will be fifty cents for students, seventy-five for faculty and town peo- ple, and one dollar for reserved seats. A. A. is presenting an unusual oppor- tunity to both stiidents and town people, since no other organization has brought a group of dancers to Elmira. This will be the first dance recital the College has seen for the past five years, and every one is urged to take advantage of the occasion. hic Exhibit Edward J. Steichen, an American photographer for over 30 years, is in- cluded in the class of \greatest living photographers\. Other Americans repre- sented in this exhibit are Roger Parry, Ritchey, and Charles Sheeler. Contemporary photography is a direct development from the moving picture rather than an offspring of still photo- graphy, which realized its technical pos- sibilities prior to the World War, and which has led away from rather than to- ward a unique art form ever since. A \New Deal\ in photography began when the ideas of photographic artists 'were definitely recognized as having legitimate aesthetic values. (Primarily because the moving pictures demonstrated this so convincingly.) Practical consid- ration made the \movies\ experiment and resulted in widespread appreciation of the potentialities of camera work. It. is said that direct photography® offers. \endless possibilities in the hands of art- ists who control the camera as coniplete- \Pure photography is exemplified by all the works in this group. They exhi- ize the propriety of including the cam- (Cornell Team to be Host | ___ For Basketball Playday Elmira Sends Fifteen Representatives; Yale-Cornell Track Meet, Evening Feature Cornell will hold. \open house\ {teams of Wells, Keuka, Alfred, and El [joint treat for Elmira students in 'leadership of Miss this Saturday for the basketball mira, and all accompanying root- each of whom has been chosen for who ate going up as spectators. The players will register from 11 to 12 A, M.; from 12 to 1 lunch will be served in Unit 3 of Balch Hall; and at 2:30 the games will be played in the Old Armory, which has several courts, so that | more than one game can be played at the same time. Tea will be served at the finish of the games in Unit 1 of Balch Hall, and the Eimira team will stay over to see the Yale-Cornell track meet in the evening at 8:30. The sev- eral coaches from the attending colleger will referee. Of the fifteen girls representing Elimi- Ta, nine will be chosen to play, one will act as manager, and the other five will be spectators. The final decision con- cerning the players chosen will probably be made Thursday. The Elmira repre- sentatives are: Jane Cobb, Alma Gerlach, Helen Strong, Doris Fullerton, Betty Maurice, Dale Hood, Jean White, Mary Louise Wright, Ruth McAndrews, Gene- vieve Mezur, Jean Manning, Betty Rooker, Ann Clifton, Lucille Pratt, and Helen Hathaway. All fifteen have been | practicing every. day and have been un- der strict training rules. Memories of Elmira's Hockey Play Day will be revived when the different college teams meet again, for many of the girls who will be at Cornell were at Elmira for the hockey games. The Elmira team will be under the Catherine - Finter, whose industrious coaching has built up a team which can compete with the best. Here's wishing them luck! T wo Concerts Are Promised By Glee Club Mr. Bement Promises Early Recovery Mr. Gwynn S. Bement has released exciting news concerning two concerts which will be given by the Elmira Col- lege Glee Club, The first is to be given in Hornell, March 30, and the second in New York City, April 1. The college expresses their sympathy for Mr. Bement's recent fall resulting in a broken ankle, 'The chorus members are resolute in their determination to continue steady practicing and speedy learning of the five new selections chos- en especially for the two concerts scheduled for this spring. Further an- nouncements about the selections to be sung will be given later. The dates have been confirmed, but other particulars are yet to be decided. Dr. Frank Harris, the business mana- ger of the chorus, has secured railroad transportation for the chorus members on the Lackawanna Railroad. Mr. Bement will be able to attend classes and the chorus rehearsals starting Monday, February 24. He will not di- | rect group rehearsals but urges all mem- bers to sing in groups as often as possi- bie. He is feeling better and is anxious to resume his work. Looking forward to his new undertakings, he said: \I am going to conduct those two con- certs if I have to be carried there on a stretcher.\ Mr. Bement has worked faithfully in 'creating a reputation for the Glee Club. Only two concerts have been given in the history of the chorus, and already a contract has been drawn up for a New York City concert,. Gratitude is due to Dr. Pott and alumnae members for mak- era among the fine arts media.\ ing this tour possible.
