Harcum College - Purple Patches Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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Turple Tatches with George Boyle. Last year at Commencement, the Eleanor Clark prize for best musicianship was won by Elinor Reed. This year Elinor is studying at the New England Conservatory with Madame Szumowski. Duer Councill who was at Harcum for four years is now studying with Horace Alwyne. Muriel Hodge who also studied for four years at Harcum is now at the Curtis Institute. She is taking work in compo- sition with Scalero. Sally Horner graduated from Harcum and studied voice with Philip Warren Cooke while she was here. She has been working this winter in Pittsburgh with Whiteley. Betty Snowden graduated here in music and after a year away at school is again at Harcum with George Boyle. Virginia Straley graduated in music two years ago and is now studying with Ernest Hutcheson in New York. The close of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra concerts brought with it a thrilling consciousness of having heard the loveliest music that man can make for an entire winter, but an inevitable feeling of regret that we shall hear no more until next fall. Stokowski tells us that his leave of absence is for a period of a year and a half. We shall miss him very much indeed but hope that his dream of a temple of music will be nearer realization when he comes back to us. MARY LoU1sE CHAMBERLAIN. Inpressionistic Ticzfures MARY JANE FULTON Alice in Wonderlandn Fox gloves Tea time JEAN SALFISBERG Lavender and Old Laces' A bluebird Dewdrops V BETTY SIBBETT A nosegay Valentines Bo-peep- VIRGINIA ROUNDEY Good things come in small packages Lollipops A lacy valentine 12

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Turple Tatches s usic ISS CONGER gave a piano recital in the studio on the evening of March twenty-Hrst. She played so beautifully, and her program was such a lovely one! It seems incredible that so tiny a person can produce such depth and strength of tone. We clapped for encore after encore, and enjoyed each more than the previous one. The rhythm of the waltz by Emily Liebling, with which she closed her encores, was bewitching, and we danced mentally if not physically all the way up to bed. PROGRAM 1. GRIEG Sonata op. 7 Allegro moderato Andante molte Menuetto 2. Moszriowsm Etude G minor-op. 64 CHOPIN Nocturne op. 9 no. 2 Etude op. 25 no. 5 Etude op. 10 no. 8 3. BOYLE Romance SCHUMANN Novelette GLAZOUNOW La Nuit STERNBERG Concert Etude C. Minor 4. MENDELSSOHN Capriccio Brillante Orchestral accompaniment played by Mrs. Harcum HE most interesting event of Alumnae week-end, at least for the music pupils, was the recital given by some of Harcum's earlier music students on Sunday afternoon. We were proud in the realization that these accomplished musicians had had their earlier training at Harcum, and were thrilled and inspired by their splendid musicianship. Marion Slingluff Brinton or Sling as she used to be called, received the Harcum prize when she graduated. She then entered the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and graduated there, afterwards studying with Cortot. She is now studying again at Harcum with George Boyle. Eleanor Clark studied music at Harcum for seven years. She worked under Philippe in Paris for two years, and is now studying 11

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Turple Tatches Gurrent Events BETTY DAVIS .fllarch 8 and 9: Exams again-and with them the customary blank faces and blanker minds. Jllareh 17: ' ,Tis the wearin' 0' the green: and an exception ally fine dinner to boot. Jllareh 19: A bus load of sighs, Oh isnit he olivine? I adore John Barrymore !', and of sleepy yawns after a most exciting evening spent in watching John Barrymoreis prolile emote in Don Juanf' Jllareh 25: We somehow managed to stumble through classes this morning on our way to the twelve-thirty-eightf, but it was a great nuisance. We fear we did not display our usual brillianceg but who can be expected to know the present subjunetive of avoir when she is leaving in an hour and a half for home and Spring vacation! .f April 6: I My dear I'm a iereekf, And then he had the impudence to say to me -- what? P Oh I beg your pardon, I didn't hear you call on me. What was the question?', We return after Spring vacation just as newsy and foggy as usual. ' April 7: This afternoon Mrs. Harcum took the Harcum Club into a reception at the Philadelphia Art Alliance to meet John Drew. We remember best his punctiliously waxed mustache and his cool finger tips. April 8: Senior dinner! Tonight the seniors enter into their own with the beautiful and awe-inspiring help of a huge baked alaska. Now with the exclusive use of the front door, and with breakfastless Sunday mornings their dignity will no longer be unhonored and unsung. April 11: Easter with its corsages and corsages! Some of us made this Easter more precious and unforgetable by worshiping with Dr. G-urley at St. Martin's Church at Radnor. April 23-24: My, you look wonderful! It's so great to be back againf' Why haven't you written? Why, she hasnit changed a bit! It's the alumnae house-party and it seems like a little bit of old times. 13