The Exponent, 1941-03-05

              Don't miss
The Cradle Song
tomorrow night 

The Exponent 

Be sure to cast
your vote at
election tomorrow .

Vol. XXXIX, No. 20 Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota March 5, 1941

'The Cradle Song' To Be Staged Thurs. Night
Is The Story OF A
Foundling Left In A
Dominican Nunnery
The Cradle Song, a story of a
foundling's influence upon a rigid
Dominican nunnery, will be enacted
tomorrow night in the College auditorium
at 8:15 p. m., Karl Snyder,
director of the production, announced.
The scene of the play is laid in
the cloister of a Spanish convent
of an enclosed Dominican nunnery.
The term, enclosed, as applied to
a convent, means that no nun is
allowed to go outside the walls of
the convent. The doctor is the only
male who may enter the presence
of the nuns.
The plot of the drama concerns
a foundling left at the convent.
The doctor decides to adopt the
child and leave her with the nuns.
Sister Joanna of the Cross,
played by Alma Gramita, is designated
to have charge of the child
and she lavishes all the affection
and care of a mother on the child.
After an interlude which represents
a passage of 18 years the
child is about to leave the convent,
to marry her fiance. The man she
is to marry comes and she says
goodbye in a very dramatic scene
and leaves.
Teresa, the foundling, is played
by Margaret Young. The difficult
role of the pryoress is enacted by
Anita McCarter.
Supporting parts are played by
Cecelia Christian, Ruby Youig,
Rose Jenks, Mary Jo Morse, Mary
Pulfrey, Delores Mack and Maureen
Cooley. Male parts are carried
by Larry Brown as Antonio, Teresa's
fiance, and Nicholas De Bilzan
as the doctor. James Heffernan
recites the interlude.
The play is sponsored by the
Masquers club, dramatic honorary
society at Northern.

YWCA To Sponsor
Vaudeville April 5
The Y. W. C. A. will sponsor a
vaudeville show on the campus
April 5 at 8:00 p. m. in the college
auditorium. Prizes awarded for
the best acts will be five, three,
and two dollars.
The general chairman of the
show is Margery Humphrey. Other
committees are as follows: entries
committee, Clarice Satter, chairman,
Carleen Ohlson, Betty Anderson,
and Evelyn Bradshaw; publicity
committee, Evelyn Hogg,
chairman, Dolores Butterfield, and
Gail Hodges; financial committee,
Doris Elliott, chairman, Mary Anne
Lynstad, and Mary Jo Morse; programs,
Gene Hodges, chairman,
Ruth Blethen, and Jane Adams.
Lorraine Chamberlain is in charge
of the staging.

Former Northern Student To
See European War First Hand
The dramatic "Battle for Britain"
will be more vivid than description
and photographs for Allan
Williams of Aberdeen.
His will be first hand experience,
for Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.
A. Williams of Aberdeen left Saturday
from New York by Clipper
plane for Europe and a post as
private secretary in the United
States embassy in London.
He will fly to Lisbon, Portugal,
via Bermuda on a Pan-American
Clipper, then take a plane from
there to London. It will be the
second time Mr. Williams has
served in the American Foreign
Service. He returned to this country
last October after spending 14
months as secretary to U. S. Ambassador
Spruille. Braden in Bogota,
Colombia, South America.
He has been employed as a secretary
in the executive department
of the Anaconda Copper Co., New
York City.
Twenty-seven years old, Mr.
Williams was graduate from Central
high school in Aberdeen, attended
Northern State Teachers
college for several years, and then
completed work for his degree at
the University of Nebraska in
Lincoln.

This picture, taken during the rehearsal of "Cradle Song", the
Masquers club play, shows Director Karl Snyder as he explains a passage
to Margaret Young as Teresa who is talking to Lawrence Brown, as
Antonio, the young man she is to marry. The convent in which Teresa
has been living is enclosed, and visitors may speak to the house members
only through the barred window of the parlor.

A Cappella Choir Sings Over
National Hook-up Friday Morning
Broadcast Is Heard
From Cuba To Hawaii
Singing for an early morning
concert, the A Cappella choir assisted
KABR in a coast-to-coast
broadcast at 1:00 a. m., Friday,
February 28.
The broadcast celebrated the
thirteenth birthday of the DX club
and was heard from Hawaii to
Cuba. The choir sang two numbers 
as its contribution to the hour
program-"Lost in the Night" by
Christiansen, and "Emitte Spiriturn
Tumm", by Shuetky.
The broadcast followed a program
presented at the final Rotary
lecture in the college auditorium,
where the choir sang "Salvation
is Created" by Tschesnokoff, a
song cycle, "Hear us Lord," by
Soderman, and the last of the above
mentioned numbers.

Seniors To Buy
Announcements
A Senior class meeting was held
at 10 o'clock Thursday morning in
the auditorium for the purpose of
selecting announcements. It was
decided that the announcements
would be purchased from McKeever
Press for ten cents each.
Marjorie Callaghan and Dolores
Hanson were selected to take individual
orders. All orders must be
in on or before March 12.

Campus Calendar
Wednesday, March 5 - Joint
meeting of I. T. Club and A.
C. E. Club in C-112 at 7:30 p.
m. Supt. C. J. Dalthorp,
speaker.
Sigma Delta Epsilon meeting
in C-312 at 7:30 p. m.
U. U. T. meeting in Graham
Hall sunparlor at 9: 30 p. m.
Thursday, March 6-All college
play "The Cradle Song" in
college auditorium at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 9 - A cappella
choir concert in college auditorium
at 8:00 p. m.
Monday, March 10-Calvin Forum
meeting in C-108 at 7:30
p. m.
Newman club meeting in S-
105 at 7:30 p. m.
L. S. A. meeting in C-20 at
7:30 p. m.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday at 5:30 p. m. over KA
BR-Northern's reporter of
the air, Orval Westby.

Annual Princess Pat-Prince Mike
Dance To Be Held March 18
Grimwade Explains
Position OF Balkans
In European Scrap
Eric I. Grimwade, English journalist
and traveler, spoke to the
assembly Thursday at 3:15 p. m.
on "The Current Situation in the
Eastern End of the Mediterranean."
"It is injustice to call the Balkans
the 'powder keg of Europe' ",
began Mr. Grimwade, "for they
choose peace before war. It is the
quarrel between the Great Powers
that is pushing them toward war."
"Germany, a traditional foe of
the Balkans, prefers to take them
peacefully rather than turn the
Balkan Pantry into a battlefield.
They are actively and potentially
an important source of supplies to
Germany.
"The British and French interests
are purely to safeguard their
investments. Whether Tzarist or
Communist, Russia is still 'Uncle
Ivan' and there still exists in Belgrade
the remnants of the Tzarist
regime,"
Concluding his talk, Mr. Grimwade
stated that the knob of the
whole situation is Turkey. "Wanting
'Democracy and Europeanization',
Turkey stands as the outstanding
example of the 'feeling'
that exists all over the Balkans.
She is interested in remaining in
peace and does not want her democracy
destroyed nor her country
bombed. She wants England to
win, but she does not desire to get
into the war herself."
Mr. Grimwade's speech terminated
the Rotary lectures for this
year,

Men Debaters Win
First At Mitchell
The Northern State Teachers college
men's debate team, coached by
P. J. Harkness, director of forensics,
won first place in the Dakota
Wesleyan Invitational Debate
Tournament at Mitchell, Friday
and Saturday.
Glenn Kelley and Dick Noll,
Aberdeen sophomores, won five debates
and drew a bye to be the
only team in the tournament to be
undefeated at least once.
The team defeated Dakota Wesleyan,
Yankton, Southern, Eastern,
and State college.
John Geisler, Aberdeen sophomore,
and Bill Mantel, Aberdeen
freshman, were entered in the tournament
as another men's team.
This team won from State college,
and Southern Normal.
Kelley and Noll were entered
in the St. Thomas tournament
held in Minneapolis, March 3, 4,
and 5.

Election For Honorary
Position Will Be Held
After Assembly Thur.
Orval Westby, president of the
student body, announced that the
annual Princess Pat-Prince Mike
dance will be held March 18
in the college gymnasium 
under the auspices
of the student council.
The Princess Pat-Prince Mike
dance is the big event of the spring
social calendar and compares with
Gypsy Day in the fall. Student
President Westby declares that this
year's affair will be more colorful
and entertaining than ever before.
At the Thursday morning assembly
candidates for Princess Pat and
Prince Mike will be introduced to
the student body. The student
council is also planning a variety
program for the assembly which
will include student talent and
musical numbers.
Following the program, polls will
be opened to the student voters and
continue open until 5:00 p. m. The
winning candidates names will be
announced the same evening.
On Tuesday, March 18, Princess
Pat and Prince Mike will go
through an impressive coronation
ceremony in the college auditorium.
Tuesday evening in the college
auditorium students will dance
to the rollicking tunes of old Erin
in the gymnasium.
Bill Klitz and his Shamrocks will
furnish the music for the dance.
The student council stated that the
dance will not be formal and that
it is open to the whole student
body.
Lorraine Chamberlain, assisted
by Dr. Mary Wills, will have
charge of the coronation ceremonies.
Ruby Young, head of the
entertainment committee, promises
some outstanding floor show
attractions at the dance, while
Jane Adams heads the decoration
committee. Bill Van Orman has
charge of the publicity.
No petitions for student candidates
will be accepted after today.

Kappa Delta Pi To
Enter Act In Y Show
At a luncheon meeting on Friday,
February 28, in the Dutch
Coffee shop, members of Kappa
Delta Pi discussed the organization
of an act to be entered in the
Y. W. C. A. vaudeville show. Since
the club is composed of both
faculty members and students, it
was decided to have one part of
the vaudeville put on by the faculty
and the other part by the students.
The faculty committee is composed
of Dr. N. E. Steele, Dr. M. E.
Nugent, Misses M. Briscoe and A.
Hamlin. Louise Morris, Faythe
Mantel, and Ann Duffy have joint
chairmanship on the student committee.

A Cappella Choir Member Sees
Little Man Who Was There
"Do you see what I see ?" a
sleepy member of the A Cappella
choir of Northern State Teachers
college asked another sleepy member
as they sat in the downtown
studio of the local broadcasting
station at 1:30 a. m. while waiting
to "go on" as a part of the D X
program of an hour's duration that
vas being broadcast.
He was referring to a very small
man in a very big hat, fearfully
and wonderfully dressed in a gaudy
cowboy suit complete with boots
and guitar.
"The Dakota Kid" announced the
man who was talking into a marvelous
contraption that looked like
a telescope. It was just another
"mike." As the little apparition
burst into a rollicking western
song, the nervous choir members
relaxed, hopeful that the unusual
hour and novel situation had not
affected their sanity.