College of St Rose - Rose Leaves Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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ll. lirc.vl1'u muff. .llfzlnrzey Ijfzyfi' Ihr' lll0lfL'I'Il girl inn! lbe Ulllfrlfblbflflf girl ffl i flue SCIIIKUI' ljilffl. i ' ,cyl i 1' ' ' l .l iq lf ,-Q 'f ' frm: lowed suit this year and presented Portraits Old and New. The story of the play tool: place at a party given hy a lovely young dehutante. The guests in the outer hall re- niarlced how similar the two large pictures on the wall appeared. One was a recently painted picture ofthe young girl of the house while the other was a picture of her great- grandinother painted when she was a young girl. lly a magic wish, the portraits came to lille and the two girls engaged in a discussion ol the two dillerent generations. As each girl told ol something in her own day, the cur- tains parted and a little scene was enacted ,AE for the other to see. lvlargot Breslin and Kay Maloney were the two young girls and they watched a procession that included an old-fashioned school, a modern progressive school, an old-fashioned mellerdramer, Fred Waring's glee club, abarbershop quar- tette, a lovely rendition of one of Strauss' old Viennese waltzes, and last, a chorus of old love songs, familiar and dear to every heart. The art courses at the College have been revived by Mr. Henry and his very progressive art class. These classes are very helpful to the students who are of the l-can't-draw-a- straight-line type. For example, the art class designed the new head for the college newspaper when the Arrow changed to the Rosaverian. The up to the moment editor, Mary Alice Donahue, discovering the ill. I loru and A. Momzban take time out for refresh- ments at Slittig's. r Adut. 1