Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Leisu e 0 Great Son departs from bliss Ferber's usual procedure by dealing with the upper class, the very rich, instead of her usual portrayal of the more common homesteader. But her setting remains the same-the great expanding western plains of a young and lusty America. Nliss Ferber, writing again in her inimitable, natural-born style, has added another book to her growing list of best sellers. She has written not only of the roaring YVest but also of the llidvvest in So Bigng VVisconsin, in l'Come and Get It 3 and lllississippi, in Show Boatw, Her achieve- ment is said to have stemmed largely from the vitality and belief she has in the so-real people which she lovingly creates. While the novel does not reach the heights in good writing that her other writings have attained. it is nevertheless Edna Ferber, and that is well worth reading. S THE introduction points out, 'Alt is no ex- aggeration to say that the columnists and commentators have more influence than any other factor in molding the opinion of adult Amer- icansfl With this in mind the editor gives us a series of essays, originally printed in The Sign magazine. of fourteen prominent newspaper columnists and radio commentators in book form. This reviewer would classify the subjects of the sketches as Hfair, good, best . The best could legitimately include Paul hflallon, Walter Lippmann, Westbrook Peg- ler, Sumner Welles, David Lawrence, Raymond Swing, and George Sokolsky. John B. Kennedy- political scientists, statesmen and philosophers of history as well as commentators. Dorothy Thompson, Gabriel Heatter. H. V. Kaltenborn and Fulton Lewis, Jr., constitute the goodly These give the emotional public what they want' and the way they want it, more often than not, allowing the heart to lead the head. In the last class, Drew Pearson and VValter VVinchell carry on a twosome-one perhaps toler- ating but not trusting the other. The delivery is vivid, sparkling, and sincere-- the reading of which is a pleasurable experience. Great Son By Edna Ferber Book Review By Constance Durliat ,46 9 Q Holders of Opinion Book Review By Barbara Krabach 346 Page Twenty-seven

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0 Bit 0 Antigone and the Tyrant Stage Review By Ioan Riopelle '46 0 6 Page Twenty-six' OLEDOANS were greatly honored during the past season by the appearance of Miss Katharine Cornell, one of America's fore- most dramatic actresses, in Antigone and the Tyrantn. The play by Jean Anouilh, the French dramatist, came to the Town Hall Theater under the joint auspices of lifliss Cornell and Gilbert Niiller. It is a freely adapted version of the Sophocles tragedy and is a blending of Greek and modern drama. The play is presented in the Greek tradition against a background of plain drapery and with the Greek Chorus to provide the necessary details. Niiss Cornell saw the play in Paris while enter- taining American servicemen in Barretts of Wilia- pole Streety' and immediately decided she wanted to present it on the American stage, It was sche- duled to open on Broadway sometime after the Toledo performance. The st-ar plays the role of Antigone, whose two brothers kill one another over the throne of Thebes. Their uncle Creon, excellently portrayed by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, renowned actor of stage and screen, becoming king, orders Polynices left unburied as a traitor. Antigone decides, at the cost of her life, to bury him to give peace to his soul. She steals out to cover Polynices' body and summons Haemon, played by James Nlonks, Creon's son and her fiance, to bid him f-arewell. She rejects Creon's pardon, preferring to die in the tradition of her father, Oedipus. Antigone and the Tyrant provides Katharine Cornell with her fourth classic part since she became Americals only actress-manager in 1931. the past plays being Lucrece , Romeo and Juliet , and Herod and lWarianne . Miss Cor- nell, as Antigone, again proved her great acting ability in this stirring drama. REAT Sonu, a character novel by Edna Ferber, is a chronicle of four generations of a Seattle family, the Nlelendys. It begins in 1851 with ninety-two-year-old lVIadam Exact Melendy, the clear-eyed, stern matriarch of her family and cityg and ends with her great grand- son, Mike Nlelendy, the daring, quick-witted .boyz who is typically representative of this unpredict- able generation.

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The Saints That Moved the World By Rene Fullop-lliiller Book Review Hy Mary Ellen Nagle '46 0 0 Friends of Music Concert Review By Mary Ellen Nagle '46 Pu ge Twenty-eight CCORDING to the author of this group biography, each of the five saints treated in the book strove to perfect one aspect of Christ, the Perfect Klan: renunciation, intellect, love, will power, and ecstasy. The author, a non- Catholic, displays in his Writing a deep attraction to religious things, not so much by personal con- viction as by experimentation. He combines the ideological principles of psychology and science-- the approach being clinical. The will of God is manifested in many ways through many different means. To Anthony, a young Egyptian of the fourth century, the gospel at Sunday Nlass conveyed the words of self-denial and renunciation which he followed until his death. It was not until Augustine' Was thirty-three years old that he abandoned his sinful, ple-asure-seeking life and was baptized. Augustine used his brilliant mind and learning to defend the Church. No other thinker, except Plato, has influenced Westerii thought as Augustine. St. Francis, the p0ct of love and the troubadour of God, saw in nature the power, greatness, and goodness of God. Lady Poverty became his rule of life, which thousands have followed since. St. Ignatius Loyola, the foun- der of the Society of Jesus, gave his followers his rule of life in the Spiritual Exercixcr, concentrating mainly on the strengthening and the control of the will. From Avila, Spain, emerged the great mystic reformer of the Carmelitenuns, St. 'Teresa. Concerning the author's craftsmanship, the long involved sentences tend to make the meaning in- coherent in places. Criticism has been launched against the absence of references and the almost Hagrant use of generalizations unfounded on fact. HE local Friends of liusic Orchestra began their third concert of the season in Ursuline auditorium with the playing of Henry Pur- cell's f'Trumpet Voluntary . Mr. Georges Nliquelle, distinguished first cell- ist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, was solo- ist. His interpretation of the Boccherini Concerto in B-Flat llilajoru, featuring the cello with accom- paniment for two oboes, two horns and strings, proved his outstanding musicianship. The performance was under the direction of Nlr. Edgar Schenkman of New York City. Besides the aforementioned solo, the program carried the Barbirolli arrangement of six dramatic movements by Purcell, and the modern Quiet City by Aaron Copland. The hiozart B-Flat Symphony con- cluded the concert.