Faculty Joins French Club in Presenting Two Plays on Friday
Brinckerhoff Theatre hosted L Anglais Tel Qu on le Parle and La Pax Chez Soi by the Societé Française. Faculty member Miss Helen Phelps and Professor Begue led the first play in a study of a peaceful marriage while the second featured an English interpreter entangled in Parisian misadventures with a student cast including Paula Thibault and Estelle Richman.
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la Souete Francaise
Brinckerhoff
Helen Phelps
Lecwer
Barnard
la Soliete Française
Begue
Columbia
Paris
Whicher Discusses Emily Dickinson at Amherst Meeting
Professor George Whicher of Amherst College spoke to English majors in the College Parlor about Emily Dickinson. He traced her New England training and life influences, highlighted his reading from Dickinson, and explained her measures of wit and speech style.
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George Whicher
Amherst
Emily Dickinson
New England
Whicher
Miss Dickinson
Miss Achinson
Miss Reynard
English Department
Lee Dickinson
Dickininceyo
Drychal Renee
Oea
Prodesree Fhea
Columbia
Augustana College Announces Mauritzson Awards for Scandinavian Studies
Augustana College in Rock Island Illinois and the American Scandinavian Foundation offer undergraduate prizes of 50 35 and 25 dollars for essays in comparative and analytical studies of Scandinavian culture. Essays must be in English and draw on original language documents where possible. Manuscripts due May 1 1936 to the Mauritzson Awards Committee at Augustana College.
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Augustana College
Rock Island
Illinois
American Scandinavian Foundation
Harvest Hop This Friday Sponsored by Athletic Association
The annual Harvest Hop will be held Friday November 22 at nine in Barnard Gymnasium. Dorothy Brauneck leads a committee of 14 with plans for an enchanted forest theme and Columbia Blue Lions music. Over 100 girls have signed up and admission is $2.00 per couple.
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The
Athletic Association
Barnard
Dorothy Brauneck
Adair Brasted
Esther Wasmund
Clementine Walker
Mary Manley
Grace Vander Bergh
Doris Wagenbauer
Dorothy Skene
Kay Hand
Helen Atwood
Margery Eberhart
Phyllis Cross
Louise Barton
Alice Olsen
Miss Weeks
Wayman
Riccio
Alice Corneille
Columbia Blue Lions
Europe
Barnard Hall
Union Favors Olympics Ban
The Political Union debated whether the United States should send a team to the 1936 Berlin Games. Ursula Reinhardt argued for a boycott as unsportsmanlike but necessary to oppose fascism, while Joan Geddes contended participation would endorse Hitler’s regime. A post-meeting poll favored banning the Olympics.
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United States
Germany
Ursula Reinhardt
Joan Geddes
Miss Reinhardt
Hitler
Undergraduate Association Open Meeting On Affiliations
The Undergraduate Association will hold an open meeting on Thursday November 21 at 4 10 PM in the College Parlor. The session invites the college at large to discuss outside affiliations for Barnard organizations following a Representative Assembly decision amid growing agitation for a change.
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Barnard
Representative Assembly
Music Club Recital At Barnard Studio Next Friday
The Music Club of Barnard will present the first student recital of the season on Friday afternoon November 22 at 4 15 in Room 408 Barnard. Performers include Cynthia Rose pianist with Bach and Beethoven pieces Eleanor Southern soprano with Handel and Gray works Maria Berlojova and Theresa Carillo the Czech and Argentinian exchange students singing songs from their countries Helen Dykema accordion and Myra Scrating pianist with Mendelssohn. The event invites the student body and notes the club’s purpose to foster music and its link with Columbia University ensembles. Officers are Sonya Turitz president Aida Smith secretary Myra Scrating business manager Ruth Tischler publicity.
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Music Club of
Barnard
Cynthia Rose
Bach
Eleanor Southern
Handl
Columbia University Orchestra
Sonya Turitz
Aida Smith
Myra Scrating
Ruth Tischler
Mark Van Doren to honor Mark Twain on centennial at Barnard
Former Nation editor Mark Van Doren will speak at a Barnard College assembly marking the hundredth birthday of humorist Mark Twain. The event notes prior Barnard connections with Twain and his family, with Nina Gabrilowitsch possibly attending despite illness in the family. William A. Braun organized the program for English majors and the college community.
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Mark van Doren
The
Nation
Mark Twain
College
Barnard College
Barnard
Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Nina Gabrilowitsch
van Doren
Dorothy Graffe
the Nation
Dean Gildersleeve
Five Males Recruited for Wigs and Cues Fall Play
The Brontes by Alfred Sangster will be staged by Wigs and Cues at Brinckerhoff Theater on December 13 and 14. Clausen Dean Davis Johnson and Bijou of Columbia College fill male roles to avoid pseudo-baritones. Anne Morgan directs. alumnae tickets cost fifty cents.
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Clausen
Dean
Davis
Johnson
Bijou
The
Brontes
Alfred Sangster
Brinckerhoff Theater
Messrs
Columbia College
Barnard
Harold Clausen
Patrick Bronte
Papa
Gelhorn to Speak on Angelo Herndon
Professor Gelhorn of Columbia Law School will address the Current Events Club on the Angelo Herndon case today at four in the Conference Room. The talk covers the case from legal and social angles and explains its importance and the Southern conditions that shaped it. A petition letter to Governor Talmadge is being prepared by a three member committee to seek clemency for Herndon.
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Gelhorn
Columbia Law School
Angelo Herdon
Social
South
Fulton Tower Prison
Georgia
Hugh M. Dorsey
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Miss Phelps
Professor Begue
L’anglais
Paula Thibault Estelle Richman
Anne Labordere
Denyse Barbet
Madeline Vaurie
Jacqueline Debry
Sheila Baker
James Higson
Betty Higson
Julien Chandel
Legarcon
Linspecteur Lagent de Police
Kathleen Nicolaysen
Societé
Union
U. S
Kay Kneeland
Ann Furman
Horace Mann School For Boys
Horace Mann
Columbia Laboratory Players
Mr. Clausen
Anne Morgan
Androcles and
Miss Morgan
London
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Charlotte Lillian Merselbach
Emily Helen Lange
Ann Betty Pratt
Miss Wooler
Constance Friend
Miss Branwell
Gertrude Neary
Tabitha
Nancy Hendricks
Mme. Hegar
Maureen Donovan
Bronte
Clausen Branwell
Weightman
Nicholls
M. Hegar
Angelo Herndon
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