Mount Vernon Seminary - Cupola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

Text from Pages 1 - 146 of the 1932 volume:

Tlie George asli i ngtorc I niversity I jiKrarv SUc u ' bbb , m 3 b E AlS I % L Me A v. o A Vi t ore wore O UR attention this Bicentennial year has been centered on the early days of our country. We have been shown that the vision and courage of our forefathers, and especially of the great personality around which our gov- ernment grew up, are responsible lor our position in the world today. So in our school we also should look to the past and remember that, were it not for the dynamic personality of Elizabeth J. Somers and her small beginnings at F Street and later at 1100 M Street, Mount Vernon Seminary never would have existed. When the neighborhood around 1 too M began to change and Mrs. Somers was less able to participate actively in the adminis- tration of the school, Adelia Gates Hensley, through careful managing and planning, made possible “the Greater M.V.S.” we know today. After the death of Mrs. Hensley in 1923, Jean Dean Cole became our headmistress, and now stands to us as representative of the past, with its leisure and graces; and as a leader of the present, broad-minded and progressive, promoting the best inter- ests of M.V.S. It is ours to remember our responsibility to the past, for the fulfillment ol the visions of those who made possible our position both in our school and in our nation. ELIZABETH J. SOMERS ADEL1A GATES HENSLEY JEAN DEAN COLE THOMSEN if- ELUS CO (fjhe Cupola Tdile ol CTc on tents FOREWORD CUPOLA STAFF THE FACULTY CLASSES ACTIVITIES LITERATURE CLUBS ORGANIZATIONS ATHLETICS EVENTS PERMANENT ADDRESSES ADVERTISEMENTS CUPOLA STAFF c EheGupola L lipoid 5tjr Louise Raynor. . . . Editpr-in-Chief Marion Duval . ... . . . Assistant Editor Katherine Cable. Literary Editor Caroline Flckinger. Assistant Literary Editor Betty Uhl ...... . Business Manager Mary Lauer Assistant Business Manager Winifred Duncan. . Advertising Manager Helen Searle Assistant Advertising Manager Lucius Donaldson . Photographic Editor Barbara Cobb. . . . Athletic Editor Gertrude Smith Art Editor THE FACULTY c T? ie Cupola A Jean Dean Cole .. , , . Head -Mistress and ' Teacher of Sociology A,B. n Mount: Holyoke College Studied at Columbia University Marion Alcoxt Ballou, . . , , , Academic Head A.B, T Mount Holyoke College Graduate work at Bryn Mawr College Helen C. Hastings, . , Director of Studies fur the Forms A.B., Radcliffe College S.B., Simmons College Grace B rouse Vice-President and Treasurer of Board of Directors Katharine E. Hill Recorder Steubenville Seminary Annie M, Baylis .Dietitian Catherine Sanderson Blakeslee . , Registrar A.B., Mount Holyoke ColJcge A,M,, University of Chicago Mary Pitman Brown, .Head of the House A .B. , Bryn Mawr College Grace E. Carroll Assistant to Nurse Mount Vernon Seminary Frances E. Chickering . . , . r Hostess Smith College Agnes Dr. Land . , . , English and History of Art A B. , A,M., University of Michigan Marion De Land . . . . . Business Secretary and House Mother Studied at Harvard, Michigan and Chicago Universities 4 Alice E. Edwards, . Art Department Pennsylvania Academy ol Fine Arts Pupil of Charles Lasar, Paris, and Charles W. Hawthorne, Province: own Helen E. Marshall Secretary S.B.. Simmons College Rebekah Elting , , Science A.B., Vassar College Wood ' s Hole Biological Laboratory Graduate work at Columbia University Deceased [ 13 ] A T? ic Cupola Clara W. Borman, , , Hostess and House Mother J Lorn a Guard Librarian and Supervisor of Sightseeing Mount Vernon Seminary Mildred Hanna . Latin A.B., AJM,, Stanford University Studied at Wellesley College, American Academy at Rome, and University of Foreigners at Perugia t Italy Frances H. Herriott. Dramatic Art A.B. , Drake University Studied at Grinnell University and Academy ol Dramatic Arts Elizabeth Alger Hillvar Art Woman ' s Art School, Cooper Union, New York City Diploma, Fine Arts, Columbia University Row ena Holdren . Home Economics S.B. h Drexel Institute A.M., Columbia University Corjnne Leino. . ...... . t ......... . . . ..... h . . . : . English A.B., Carlcton College A.M., Columbia University George Lloyd Survey of Civilization A.M , Clark University University of London Qlwen Lloyd .Mathematics A.M., Cambridge, England (Matbs Tripos) Charlotte Guard McAllister, Hostess and House Mother Louisa J. Martin Resident Nurse R.N,, Hahneman Hospital, Philadelphia Jeanne Mqule de la Raitrie. French Brevet d’lnsdtutrice (Academic dc Besan on) Netta C. Murphey Director of Home Department Helen Kingsbury Myers . .Sctrctaty Mount Vernon Seminary Washington College of Law Temple School of Shorthand and Typewriting Mary A. Nourse . . History Ph.B., University of Chicago A.M., University of Wisconsin [H] t he Cupola Adela K. Payne. .... . . , , Singing Pupil of Frank King Clark, Paris Jeannette Pearson , . Assisianf, Department of Physical Education Graduate, Boston School of Physical Education Eleanore Peltier French Convene du Sacre-Coeur, Paris Officier d 1 Academic Daniel W. Prentiss, M.D Consulting Physician Elsa Louise Raner Pupil of Leopold Auer Violin Jane Plummer Rice Dramatic Art Graduate, Curry School of Expression Rddert H. Rice. ... . . Business Manager A.B., Lafayette College Alys M. Rickett. . _ . Piano Pupil of V$ggo Kihl, of Lcipsic, London and Toronto Conservatories of Music, and Clarence Adler, of New York Pupil of Healey Wilan, F.R.C.O. , London, Theory and Harmony Katherine Riggs. . . Harp Pupil of Dorothy JohnscomBasder, Philadelphia, and of Marie Korchinska, London Miriam L. Spaulding Director of Physical Education A.B., Boston University Graduate, Boston School of Physical Education Graduate work at Boston University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Adolph Tgrovsky, Jr Organist and Choir Master Graduate of Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore Associate American Guild of Organises Josephine Tremain A.B., Swart h more College English and Mathematics Harriet Belle Walker . . . . History, Psychology and Bible Mount Vernon Seminary Studied at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities Elizabeth Winston , . . Piano Pupd of Harold Bauer, Paris, Ernest Hutcheson, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, and Leopold Godowsky, New York Pupil of O. LL Boise, Berlin, Theory and Harmony [ 15 ] he Gupola Our Alma Mater glorious, With loving hearts and proud, We crown thee all victorious And sing thy praise aloud. In loyalty we serve thee And strive to heed thy call, Mount Vernon, O Mount Vernon! Through self to conquer all. You give unfailing kindness 11 trouble meet us here; You foster all our pleasures And make them seem more dear. Nor time, nor care, nor sorrow Can these fair days erase, But they with each to-morrow Help us new tasks to face. Like breath of Spring ' s fresh morning That lifts the heart to song, When courage droops and wavers And paths seem gray and long, Will come thy dauntless spirit To help us on the way. Mount Vernon, O Mount Vernon! Hold fast thy tender sway. The changing years may bring us Some longed Tor dream of bliss, Yet memory will cherish A sympathy we miss In hours of joy or sadness, Whatever our need may be, Mount Vernon, O Mount Vernon 1 Thy children turn to thee. [161 T he Cupola Colors — Jade and Gold M otto — M I NG D E 1 1 Agnes De La no Class Advisor THE CLASS SONQ Music by Mary Adair Howell Words by Cornelia Lewth waite Through thy teaching ami care, Mount Vernon, We have come with smiles and tears. You have pointed the paths of friendship That wind through the coming years. Chorus Mount Vernon, we bring to thee Our love, fidelity; To thee uphold the Jade and Gold, And pledge our loyalty. The peace of your shaded cloisters Brings haunting memories nigh, The columns symbolizing Our true ideals held high. Chorus When we look back on our school days, Our thoughts e ' er turn to thee; You have bound with threads of Jade and Gold Our hearts in sincerity. Chorus [ 18 ] The Gupola Cornelia Lew thwaite President C l a r a Sh er w ood Vice - Pres ide nt Alice Carter , . . . . . Secretary Katharine Meyer Treasurer Katherine Alllng Katherine Cable Lucile Donaldson Winifred Duncan Dorothy Fox Mary Adair Howell Ann Miller Kate Patton Louise Raynor Helen Thompson Elizabeth Uhl Harriet Wightman Jean Williams Jean Dean Cole, Honorary Member [ 19 ] t-Che Cupola KATHERINE ROGERS AILING Kay Rochester, New York two years Senior Play 32 Music Seminar ' 31, ’3 2 Athletic Association Board ' 3 2 Varsity Archery Team ’32 Archery Manager ’32 Collegiate Archery Team 31, ’32 Proctor 32 0T{ skill in shooting arroivs ive might well Compare her to the noted William Teli [20] c Che Cupola KATHERINE WOODRUFF CABLE Kitty’’ Davenport, Iowa TWO YEARS Cupola Literary Editor 32 Optima ' 32 French Club J 3 1 , 32 Senior Class Play ’32 Broadside Assistant Editor 31 Publications Workshop 31, 32 Commencement Play Property Committee ’3 1 Collegiate Hockey Team 31 Varsity Paddle Tennis Team ' 3 1 Library Committee ’ 32 lN Lydian strains her lyrics grandly flow, Recalling Sappho ' s luntten long ago . [ 21 ] c Che Gupola ALICE VIRGINIA CARTER 11 Al Knoxville, Te n nessee two years Treble Clef Club President ’32 Senior Class Secretary ' 32 French Club Treasurer ’32 Lend-a-Hand Vice-President ’31 French Club ’32 Treble Clef Club ’31, ' 32 Choir ' 32 Lencba-Hand Class Representative 32 Senior Class Play ' 32 Music Seminar 31, 32 Varsity Deck Tennis Team ' 32 Proctor ’31 T -L HE Trojan Helen had no jairer face, Nor won more hearts, nor claimed such Southern grace. [ 22 ] T ie Cupola LUC 1 LE DONALDSON nr j t Lucy Knoxville, Tennessee two years Cupola Photographic Editor ’32 Optima Secretary 32 Optima ' 31, ' 32 Broadside Assistant Editor ’31 Publications Workshop ’31, 32 Senior Play Publicity Committee 32 Commencement Play Property Committee ' 31 Varsity Swimming Team ' 31 Collegiate Swimming Team f 3 1 Wednesday Evening Chapel Committee 31 9 fi j VliNS ' bonnie Jean, of ivhom he sang sae zvecl. Was not sae braxu and fair as our Lucile. [ 23 ] TF ie Cupola WINIFRED COLLIER DUNCAN is Winnie fl St. Louis, Missouri TWO YEARS Cupola Advertising Manager 32 Cupola Assistant Literary Editor 31 Choir 32 Treble Clef ’32 Senior Class Play 32 Library Committee ' 31 Publications Workshop ' 31 Tea House Board of Directors Treasurer ’32 Collegiate Hockey Team ' 31 Tea House Seminar ’32 Proctor ’31 B ABY STUART ' S portrait might well be Hers, too, for she’s as plump and gay as he. [ 24 ] c Uhe Cupola DOROTHY ALICE FOX “Dot Penn Yan, New York two years Treble Clef Club 31, 32 Choir 32 Senior Play ’32 Field House Seminar 31, ’32 Varsity Swimming Team ’31 Collegiate Soccer Team ’31 Varsity Archery Team 32 ( F you should hear our Dotty sing, you ' d say That Schumann-Heink. could not be far aivay. [25] T ? he Cupola MARY ADAIR HOWELL “ Howtllass Atlanta, Georgia two YEARS Student Body President 3 2 Junior Class Secretary ' 31 Marking Committee 32 Privilege List Committee ’32 Treble Clef Club ’31, ’32 Choir ' 31, ' 32 Senior Play ' 32 Junior Play Pianist 31 Music Seminar ' 31 Group Leadership Seminar ’32 Varsity Volley Ball Team 32 , 1 KE Florence Nightingale with lamp held high } She 11 tins the hearts of all she passes by. U6 i TJ he Gupola CORNELIA LEWTHWA 1 TE i r ■ i i Lorn i € Portland, Oregon FOUR YEARS Senior Class President ’32 Student Hand-Book Committee ' 31 Student Council ’32 Choir Mistress ' 32 Choir ’29, ' 30, T 3i, ’32 Treble Clef Club 31, ' 32 junior Banquet Toast mistress ’31 Dress Committee 32 Commencement Play 31 Senior Play ’32 Yellow and White Class Play ’29 Class Song ’31 Leadership Seminar 32 Dramatic Workshop ’31 Collegiate Hockey Team ' 31 Class Hockey Team ’31 Class Basket-Ball Team ’29, 30 Class Swimming Team 29 Class Volley Ball Team ' 31 Yellow Class I ' HE wears no crown, no royal purple dress, Yet rules with all the skill of Qood Queen Bess. [ 27 ] A SJ ie Cupola Optima Treasurer 32 ■ 00pmj| H Senior Class Treasurer 32 ‘ R its i ness Manager Senior Play Stage Manager ’32 Publications Workshop 1 Held House Seminar Varsity Hockey Team 32 KATHARINE LOUISE MEYER “ Kassic Buffalo, New York Varsity Archery Team ’31 Varsity Deck Tennis Team 31 TWO years Yellow Team Hockey Team 32 Manager of Swimming ’32 Proctor J 3 1 i — IKE Calvin Coolidgc or the ancient Sphinx She never lets you know just what she thinks. [ 28 j r G ie Gupola ANNE QUEENAN MILLER u QueemV Chicago, Illinois TWO YEARS Treble Clef Club 31 Choir 32 Senior Play Property Committee “32 Music Seminar ’31, 32 junior Banquet Decoration Committee 31 Collegiate Volley Ball Team 31 Proctor ' 32 fET S arc the cryptic ways and regal mien Of Cleopatra } Egypt ' s storied queen. [ 29 ] c he Cupola KATE ROSS PATTON Katie Houston, Texas TWO YEARS French Club 3 2 Privilege List Committee Secretary ' 32 Privilege List Committee Senior Representative ’32 Senior Play ’32 Senior Play Costume Committee Chairman 32 Dramatic Workshop ' 31, ’32 Dramatic Workshop President ' 32 Yellow and White Play Production Committee 32 Columbine was not more gay than she. And danced through life not half so merrily. [ 30 ] c Uhe Cupola t LOUISE ADELE RAYNOR “Lulu Pore Jefferson, New York six YEARS Cupola Editor in Chief 5 3 2 Optima ’31, ' 32 Cupola Art Editor 1 3 x Cupola Snapshot Editor 29, 30 Commencement Play ’31 Senior Play ’32 Yellow and White Play Stage Manager 30 Yellow and White Play Committees ' 283 ' 29 M. V. S. Society Second Vice ' Regent ’3 1 Dramatic Workshop Stage Manager 31 Dramatic Workshop s 3 1 Publications Workshop 32 Junior Banquet Decorations Committee Chairman s 3 1 Varsity Deck Tennis Team ' 31 Proctor ' 31 White Class tIKE Heloise she has a love for art, tender conscience and ci constant heart . [31 ] L Che Cupola i CLARA ANN SHERWOOD Sherwood T itusv ill e , Pc n Qsy I vania two years Senior Class Vice-President ' 3 2 Athletic Association Secretary - Treasurer 32 Treble Clel Club 31, ' 32 Choir ’31, ’32 Commencement Play 31 Senior Class Play 32 Collegiate Hockey Team ’31, ’32 Class Basket-Ball Team 31 Collegiate Golf Team 1 3 1 Varsity Basket-Ball Team 3 1 Collegiate Soccer Team ’ 3 1 Dramatic Workshop ’31, ’32 ER heart ' s as gdy as that of Robin Iiood; So, fittingly , we’ve named her for his wood. [ 32 ] ((She Cupola helen McMillan Thompson “Her Milwaukee, Wisconsin TWO YEARS Privilege Lise Committee 32 Optima ’32 French Club 32 Student Council 32 Commencement Play ’31 Senior Play 32 Group Leadership Seminar 31, 32 Field House Auxiliary Board 3 3 1 Class Basket-Ball Team ’31 Dress Committee 3 32 Student Hand ' Book Committee ' 31 Th HE great reformer , Luther , is not dead } Although he ' s kyiown as Helen now , instead . [ 33 ] ‘-Che Cupola ELIZABETH MARY UHL Betty’ Grand Rapids, Michigan two years Cupola Business Manager 32 Optima ’3 2 Broadside Business Manager 31 Senior Play 32. Junior Lend -a -Hand Representative Commencement Play Costume Committee ’3 1 Publications Workshop ' 31, 32 Varsity Archery Team 31, ' 32 Collegiate Archery Team ’31, ' 32 Proctor Chairman 32 Proctor 32 K 1 Lippo Lippi in demure disguise, Like Betty, could not hide his merry eyes. [ 34 ] c Ghe Cupola A HARRIET PEASE WIGHTMAN Happy Watertown, New York two years Optima ’32 Student Body Secretary 31 Senior Play ' 32 Commencement Play Scenery Committee ' 3 1 Group Le adership Seminar ' 31 Field House Seminar 32 Library Committee ' 32 Tn HE living image of Disraeli ' s wife, Our Happy leads a cheerful, carefree life. [ 35 ] (7 Che Cupola JEAN LUCILE WILLIAMS ' Jcdnnie ' Highland Park, Illinois TWO YEARS Field House Board of Directors President ’3a Field House Seminar ’31, ' 32 Junior Baseball Team ’31 Proctor ’31 [LICE FOOTE McDOUqAL seems to be Quite put to shame when J tannic serves her tea. [ 36 ] J z riend Li es£r he Cupola Colors — Carnelian and Gold Motto — Surgere Tent amos Catherine Sanderson Blakp.slee Class Advisor CLASS SONQ We hail our Alma Mater, M.V.S., Whose firm and high ideals well always stress. Hail those words of fame, Vincit qu i sc vindt, And so thy dear name evermore, Wed! idolize. Let our motto be, Surgere Tentamus 1 As we hail to thee, Pegasus, We strive to rise. To 33 our banners wede raising, Proudly we bear the Carnelian and Gold; We shall be faithful to the colors we ' re praising, Honor well bring to Carnelian and Gold. Carnelian stands for loyalty always, Gold for the glory of our M. V.S. So as we follow the truths you have taught us, We shall return, for your shelters we bless. So we sing again, ‘ Surgere Tenesmus ’ Let the praises ring from our class to M.V.S. c Ghe Cupola Kate Thompson President Mary Hurd Secretary Marjorie Street Vice-President Helen Searle. .Treasurer Marguerite Beach Barbara Beal Barbara Cobb Virginia Dangler Marion Duval Elizabeth Field Lucy -Jane Hedberg Mary Lauer Dorothy Lum Doris Masters Mary Frances Snow Julia Strauss Katharine Thompson A ■ L Che Cupola Rebikah EltinO Class Advisor CLASS SONQ White Class, we ll sing to you With voices proud and true, Loyalty firm as the skies, And love that never dies, M.V.5., the White Class. When the days have passed And we are no longer with you, It’s then we must prove That we are true, Dear class, just to you. Would that we could sing, And also tell thee in each line, How out of joy and grief and hate We gave our love for thine. Life will hold many memories, Days spent at M. V.S. Dearest of them all, Olden times recall. M.V.S., the White Class We ' ll always he true To our emblem purity, And always, yes always, To thee. Harriet Minty President Gene Boyd Secretary Gretchen Onderdonk, . . Vice-President Muriel Stokes. , , . . Treasurer Mary Josephine Beattie Patricia Born Jean Clark Barbara Clute Margaret Conklin Jane Dauler Betty Davis Vivian Dewey Frances Dodge Shirley Dove Adele Emerson Margaret Ewing Frederica Galbraith Wilma Gucker Jane Harder Jean Harris Margaret Hildreth Florence Holuss Marianne Hoover Alice Howell Dorothy Hurd Jane Hutchinson Elizabeth Ireland Ruth Johnson Jean Kellogg Harriet Lhwthwaite Kathleen McCarey Ida Macklin Ann Maitland Nedine Marble Cnythia Merriman Fannie Morris Wanda Pike Edmee Rei singer Ruth Reynolds Juliet Richardson Elizabteh Rogers Helen Schlegel Anne Shirk Gertrude Smith Jane Wehr Lois Wilcox Justine Wilken Betty Wilson Margaret Yates cfShe Cupola M ary Pitman Brown Class Advisor CLASS SONQ Lifting better up to best Our desire; To be true to every test Wc aspire; To be worthy of thy name, Learn our lessons, ne ' er complain, Just to conquer self our aim — Yellow Class, Yellow Class, In thy sunshine, color, joy- Yellow Class. In thy gold be no alloy - Yellow Class. Our dear school with song we greet; Sing its praises ever sweet; M.V.S., thy name repeat — M.V.S., M.V.5, [ 42 ] c he Cupola Barbara Sincerbeaux President Anne Naylon . . . Secretary Margaret Thompson, , .Vice-President Edith Ferguson Treasurer Katherine Armstrong Adell a Badgerow Margaret Barber Claire Bishop Eleanor Bissell. Muriel Bloch Barbara Bonnell Laura Butler Mariam Cannon Helen Marie Castle Dorothy Chapin Polly Chisholm Margery Creed Harriet Mary Connell Dorothy Dexter Mary Wilson Dickey Caroline Picking f.r Jane Hoover Margaret Huxley Anne Idema Mary Isom Grace Johnston Elizabeth Koehn Jane Lupher Charlotte McCrea Catherine McKane Elinor McNelr Belle Walker, Honorary Jean Mark Mary Louise Morris Jean Owsley Eleanor Pearson Eleanor Post Helen Ray Potter Mary Reynolds Marion Smith Barbara Stewart Virginia Th a tch er Eleanor Van Schaack Eloise Wilmsen Frances Witte Member [ 43 ] ilud C7 nl L o = opera live Jean Dean Cole. Marion Alcott Ballou . Helen C. Hastings. . , . Mary Pitman Brown. Mary Adair Howell M arguerite Beach Mary Reynolds. Betty Field. ...... Helen Thompson. . . Cornelia Lewthwaite. Kate Thompson Barbara Sincerbeaux . . . . Harriet Minty. Helen Ray Potter C ounci! Faculty Advisor . Faculty Advisor Faculty Advisor . Faculty Advisor President Secretary T rea surer President Optima . . Chairman Privilege List , . . President Senior Class . . President Junior Class President Yellow Class President White Class President Athletic Association ' f ' HIS year has seen one innovation in the Student Government of the 1 school Instead of the marking system in the Collegiate Division, the organization of the new system centers around a Privilege List and a Privilege List Committee, whose chairman is a member of the Student Council. This seems to be promoting the best interests of the students, encouraging individual responsi- bilities and a sense of rightness. Otherwise, the government remains much the same as it has been in previous years, the major responsibility resting on a representa- tive council, with the chief executive power in the hands of the president. [ 44 ] ' die Cupola s emin r Marion Alcott Ballou, Faculty Advisor Mary Adair Howell Cornelia LtwrirwAin- Helen Thompson 7 HE members of this year’s Leadership Seminar have had a suo cessful as well as interesting year under the helpful guidance of Miss Ballou. The title “ Leadership 1 ’ implies school government T but there are various ocher subjects discussed in connection with it. The group includes the President of the Student Council, the Senior Class President and the Chairman of the Privilege List Committee [ 46 ] c he Cupola A ! list C S, emtn r A del a K, Payne Faculty Advisor Elizabeth Winston .Faculty y dvisor Katherine Alling Alice Carter Marion Duval Helen Searle Mary Hurd Mary Lauer Ann Miller 4j USIC SEMINAR, has enjoyed a very successful year under the splen J V A did leadership of Mrs. Payne and Miss Winston. Biographies of many of the famous musicians have been added to the Music Seminar Library, and these have made a very interesting study. Last year we gave one hundred dollars to the National Symphony Orchestra, and we arc proud to be one of its founders. It is to Mrs. Payne and Miss Winston that we are greatly indebted tor our deeper and fuller appreciation of music. [ 47 ] 1 4 m AShe Cupola , nil he V Ji lOflS CUPOLA Katherine Cable Lucile Donaldson Louise Raynor Betty Uhl Marion Alcqtt Ballou p Faculty Advisor UE to the fact chat our pare of the Publications Workshop is now entirely separated from the other group, we have been able this year to put a great deal more concentrated effort on producing a year book to your liking. We meet Monday afternoons with Miss Ballou in the workshop to discuss our plans and study the principles ol typing, proofreading and editing. One journey has already been made to a publishing house to acquire some first-hand information on the details of the business, and we hope to make more. We find Cupola good experience for future editors and journalists, and, even for those of us who arc less serious, very interesting work. [ 48 ] Cupola i no he ho ns BROADSIDE Julia Strauss , Editor Dorothy Lum K AT H A R L N E Til DM PSON Katharine Meyer Business Manager Cqrrine Leino, Faculty Advisor j Assistant Editors 7 HE Broadside is Mount Vernon s way of presenting the literary talent of the school periodically. In it one may find the outstanding work done in the English and Creative Writing classes, besides individual contributions, which are voluntarily submitted. Four copies arc issued during the year, each with timely articles on current lecturers or events, poetry, essays, short-stories, plays, book- reviews, wood-cuts, and, of course, an editorial. The workshop affords excellent first-hand experience in all phases of publishing to the girls who have selected Broadside, as their activity. [49] Gupola i I ram L f c forkshop Frances Harriott . . . Kate Patton, . Barbara Cobb. ........ Marguerite Beach Barbara Beal Virginia Dangler Faculty Advisor President Secretary-Treasurer Betty Field Doris Masters Clara Si i er w ood nr HE first plays given this year by the Dramatic Workshop were 1 “Minikin and Manikin ’ “The Flattering Word 1 and “Op 0-Me Thumb ' They were directed and put on by different girls without any outside help. These ingenues are also learning the art of make-up and are becoming proficient in all stagecraft, even to the making of scenery. The members of the workshop all feel that under the excellent leadership of Miss Hcrriott this year, great progress has been made, and that for any girl who is interested in play production it offers distinct advantages. [ 50 ] otisc cnunar Rgwena Holdren Marion De Lano. . Jean Williams Lucy -Jane Hedberg. Winifred Duncan, . . . . Faculty Advisor Faculty Advisor to the Field Shop .President . . . Secretary Treasurer Dorothy Fox Kate Thompson Marjorie Street Harriet Wightman FAlBLD HOUSE , the center of activity on Wednesday and Saturday after- noons, is also a place tor the girls to gain valuable knowledge of both the co-operative and business sides of managing a tearoom and shop. Under the helpful guidance of Miss Holdren and of Miss Marion De Lano, the members ot the seminar are becoming more efficient in buying and selling and the keeping ot accounts. They enjoy their work and are glad the other students take so much pleasure in the Field House. [51] Laura Butler Katherine Cable Caroline Fickinger Betty Field Dorothy Hurd Ida Weaver Macklin Doris Masters Gr ETC HEN OnDERDONK Carol Parker Eleanor Pearson Helen Ray Potter Betty Rogers Mary Frances Snow Julia Strauss FIRST SCHOOL QREATqRANDDAVQHTBR Betty Davis [ 52 ] he Gupola -i Jane hung her rowel, damp from drying plates And endless forks and knives, behind the stove. She glanced into a tarnished glass to push A lock of corn gold hair back from her brow. And opening the creaking kitchen door. Stepped out into the evening’s fading light. The village street seemed cool and free, the sun’s Last rays were tangled in the topmost boughs Of arching elms, while in the shade below The children, wearied from their play, trudged home To waiting mothers and to dreamless beds. Jane answered not their friendly calls, but sped Across the village square and up the hill, Through mossy bars of ancient pasture gates, And on to where the woodlands fell to meet The stony fields. Here, where the oak and beech Reared up a threshold to the shades beyond, A thread of path was opened to her feet Down which she turned with growing eagerness; Yet swifter than her steps her thoughts winged on To him who waited there . . , Could two small weeks Have ever granted happiness as great As that which now consumed her every hour? Two weeks— two fleeting instants in the years That stretched behind, dulled by the crushing weight Of that monotony of hated tasks: Of sweeping musty rooms, of making beds, Of scrubbing everlasting kitchen floors, And answering each harsh, unsparing word With meekness and a humbly grateful eye. But now that sameness would be left behind; To her the whole earth seemed to wait until In new-found liberation she would come. Her hand in his, to take its gift of joy. Two weeks ago she had not known him, had But watched him sometimes when he chanced to pass, Surrounded by his friends, perhaps some girl In silks and filmy laces, on his arm. [ 54 ] i T 7ie Cupola I He was so happy in his carefree life He never turned to see her wistful eyes Gaze after him beneath the corn gold hair, Until that bright day in the sun ' flecked wood When, meeting face to face, they looked and loved And parted to return again; and as The first warm ecstasy of love had passed They made their whispered plans for flight . . . The wood Had now grown resonant with murmured sounds; The evening winds had waked the insect world, And all the tiny voices of the night Swelled to a harmony with which her steps Kept time along the narrow, sheltered way. At last she reached a tall and ancient tree Now hallowed not by time alone, but with A lover ' s memories; beneath its boughs Dark shadows only met her anxious eyes. But no, a whiteness gleamed against the gloom. And hastening there she found upon the trunk One sheet of folded paper. Evening skies Gave slight assistance, but her eyes that love And fearful eagerness had sharpened now Could read the faint, black tracings. All too soon They burned and tore their way into her brain. ! shall nor come again Forgive me, dear, But you, so sweet and young, will soon forget. Some lad will make you happier far, I know, Among the people and the things you love . 11 No more- — no words to dull her misery, But still she stood and read them, whispering Unto the listening woods the fareful sounds. The moon was resting on the blackened hills When through the village streets her slow feet crept. None bur its kindly rays and five white stars That shimmered through the elm-trees 1 arching boughs, Could hear her choking sobs, nor see her face, Whiter than pain, pass down the silent street, Katherine Cable. [ 55 ] c T hc Cupola The Price of Notion Time; 1796, in the evening. Place: Philadelphia, a comfortably furnished house belonging to a widow in mod- erate circumstances. A fire is burning in the hearth in the center of the stage back. On the left of the fireplace is a life-sized portrait of Nathan Carrington; on the right is a life-sized portrait of his son, John. A clock and two candles arc on the mantel; there is a comfortable armchair on either side of the fire- place, and another chair is beside a table down left center. Characters ■ Margaret Carrington, an elderly woman. Anne Wilcox, a quiet, sweet woman, 38 years old. Seen in the Dream : Nathan Carrington, husband of Margaret, about 30 years old. John Carrington, son of Margaret and Nathan, tall, youthful, 22 years old Anne Wilcox, fiancee of John, 18 years old. SCENE 1 (Margaret is seated, knitting, in a chair by the fire. She glances at the clock and rises to wind it; then, taking a candle, she goes slowly to the portrait of her husband.) Margaret: My precious one! How cruelly I have missed you! It has been hard, indeed. Nathan, clear, our life together was a happy one. (Turning, she walks with the candle to the portrait of her son.) And you, my son! These years I scarcely have slept for thinking of your lot You made me a proud mother, John, and Anne, blessed child, has had no thought but for my com- fort since you have left. What grief she has suffered, John, what grief! (She turns and walks slowly back and reseats herself.) Freedom was dearly bought, indeed, nor has it brought an end to such violence, but rather created another power to clash with power. Oh! that this new-born nation, for which they fought, might truly stand for freedom — that peace which liberates the hearts of men ! (She is silent for several minutes, sighs faintly and gradually falls asleep.) [ 56 ] Nhe Cupola ilii 1 SCENE II— THE DREAM (The stage grows darker, and Nathan steps down from his portrait. During the following few minutes the stage grows slowly brighter. Nathan goes to Mar- garet and pats her on the cheek.) Nathan: You have been asleep, dear. Margaret: Oh! Nathan! (surprised). Nathan: Have I been away too long, my dear? (Sitting down, he makes himself comfortable and, putting on his glasses, picks up a letter. He glances up at Margaret.) What is the matter? Margaret: Nothing, dear. I — l was just thinking. But — that ' s a letter from England, isn ' t it? (Rises and walks over to him.) Nathan: Oh, just the usual thing from Sir Walter. They are entertaining bril- liantly for his young daughter — and don’t seem to be much concerned with affairs over here. (Throws the letter on the table in disgust, and as Mar- garet reaches for it he takes it again; then, getting up, he turns to her.) There is something that is worrying you, Margaret? Margaret : Well, you remember Mary Donaldson, dear? She has just had another child and is not expected to live — -the shock has been too great. It has been just a week since her husband was killed by the British in the Boston riot. Nathan: Yes, I know. The last of the delegates arrived today, Margaret; 1 hope it will mean action. The first union of the colonies! 1 suppose wc couldn’t expect any support from Georgia. 1 understand the people have great i ith in Warren— a brilliant man and one of unsullied patriotism. Margaret: I am thankful, Nathan, that we are being led by such conservative men, for surely violence can gain us nothing. Nathan: I hope you are right. Let us pray for guidance. (John steps, unobserved, troni his picture, and going to his mother, kisses her.) John: Good evening, father. (He turns again to his mother and, embracing her affectionately, says hesitatingly) Mother — Mother — I ' ve got something — awfully jolly to tell you. Margaret: Why, what is it, son? John: Well, Anne and I — we ' re engaged. {Ntargaret and Nathan rise,) Margaret: Oh, John, I am happy! Nathan : Why, son ! This is a surprise ! Congratulations, my boy, she is a fine girl. T ? he Gupola Margaret; Have you decided on die day, John? John: Why — we — that is what I wanted to talk to you about, father. Of course, just as soon as it is possible. Nathan: Of course, but — I don ' t want you to think I don ' t understand, John, but you are a man now and old enough to realize what the next year may bring. Since the trouble in Boston, affairs have been steadily getting worse, until the people expect anything — anything — and you would be the first to be called. It isn ' t fair to Anne, John. Margaret : But, dear, where is Anne? Wc are anxious to see her. John: She ' s waiting for me now, mother. I ' ll bring her in right away. ( Exit John.) (Margaret turns away from Nathan, avoiding his look.) Margaret; It doesn’t seem possible. (Nathan and Margaret look at each other.) Why, he was such a child only yesterday! Nathan (looking very worried and shaking his head) ; God help them ! (Enter John and Anne Margaret goes quickly to Anne and takes her in her arms. ) Margaret: John has just told us, dear; we are so happy about it. John: Anne, father wants us to wait. (John and Anne look at each other and John adds) Just until affairs are a bit more settled. Anne : Why, of course, dear — that ' s not going to be long ! Oh, its all so wonderful ! Margaret: Bless you! And we’re happy, too. Nathan (worried and puzzled): My dear, I think you know how much this means to us all — to have you in our family. And now, John, f know Anne’s father will be anxious to have her home at an early hour during these troubled times; may 1 kiss you goodmight, my dear? (He kisses her.) (Exeunt John and Anne.) (Margaret and Nathan face each other, and Nathan takes Margaret in his arms.) Margaret; She is a sweet girl. (Facing Nathan) You are worried, Nathan? Nathan: Only for their happiness. The next year may bring great changes. Now, Margaret, 1 must leave you for a little while, but 1 shall not be long. (He kisses her and goes. She sits down and slowly falls asleep again. The room grows dark.) [ 58 ] c Che Cupola A SCENE III (When the room again becomes light, Nathan and John are back in their pictures. Anne, a woman now, hurries into the room. Seeing Margaret asleep, she tiptoes over to the fireplace and finally to John’s picture; lost in her memories, she says his name aloud, and Margaret awakes.) Margaret: Anne, dear, what is it? Anne (pulling herself together with an effort and with forced cheerfulness): The Senate has just ratified Jay’s treaty! Again our new nation has won recog- nition ! (Margaret and Anne look at one another; Anne looks at the picture of John and bursts into tears. Margaret takes Anne in her arms.) (Curtain) Row upon row, I put them down, Card upon card, all fifty-two, Until I’d marshaled them in lines Just as I’d been told to do. Then l moved them, suit on suit, Club on club, and spade on spade, It seemed an easy thing to win The game of solitaire I played. I started four piles on the aces. Three on the two, four on the three, Five on the four — I hadn ' t known How simple working this would be. But you came in, on mischief bent, And slipped behind me unaware, “Shift the heart, dear ’ you said. I did, And lost my game of solitaire. Lucile Donaldson. [ 59 ] Sun- decked tracery of arching boughs Dapples the snowy pillars of a door, Inviting you into a Salem house From which the master will depart no more. These cool, green shadows, barring vivid sky, Replace for him the stretch of cloudless sea, The winds that roared for him in cross-trees high Arc now a softly whispered melody. The town is haunted now by stalking ghosts That leer and beckon from each stately elm Or perch atop deserted hitching posts To mock the erstwhile skipper at the helm. White-bearded, still he sits with ancient glass Scanning the sea-line, watching for a sail In patient study. Ships will always pass. Then disappear, along his foamy trail, Winifred Duncan. ' ■$ •: ’ A lotion Life is wind, forever blowing. Life is water, ceaseless, Rowing. Life is space, and spaceless growing; Motion that has no beginning, Racing nothing, nothing winning, Endless, weary, timeless, spinning. Death is darkness, creeping, stealing, Blotting out all thought and feeling, Finding pain and giving healing. Death is earth that’s gently taking Love of life and life’s long aching. Death is sleep with no awaking. Lucile Donaldson. [ 60 ] T3he Cupola C a va ten i v=J t h t is Ice t=an cf= a mer A Grand Opera ACT l Overture: The Anvil Chorus from II Trovatore The scene opens in the back yard of the Washington Plantation. An old mammy is hanging out clothes. Mammy: Sweetest little feller, Anybody knows, Call him precious Georgie ’Cause he ' s mighty lak a rose. When you see de mischief In his eyes a ' blue Den you know dat debilment Is mighty close ter you. When Ah see him sleepin ' In his little place, Den Ah know niah life is safe Fo’ a little space; Teases me ter def sometimes, Steals mah cake an 1 jam, Causes lots a ' trubhle But he sho T ly is a lamb, (First four lines repeated) George enters with a hatchet, and mammy, seeing it, is frightened and runs out George spies the cherry tree and begins to chop. George: Hack, hack, hack, with my new hatchet, Tune: Hack, hack, hack, what fun, l say, Tramp, Tramp, 1 will cut the cherry tree Tramp. While no one is watching me, And I’ll have my fun and do it while I may. Mr. Washington enters and reprimands George. Father: Ha! you rascal boy, Does it give you joy Thus to cut my cherry tree? You shall live to rue it, Don’t you misconstrue it. Tune: If defiant you must be. Vagabond Song. Tell me not you didn’t do this deed, For I tell you there will be no need; You’ll be spanked, I warn you, Can’t nobody larn you? Oh, you rascal, rascal boy. [ 61 ] T he Gupola George: Father, dear, the cherry tree Was chopped down by little me, Tune: I cannot lie to you, l wish I could. Humoresque. My little hatchet has it hacked And you have seen the horrid act, And so, I cannot lie — I wish I could. Mr Washington takes George over his knee and spanks him. Spank, spank, spank, my son, HI spank you, Spank, spank, spank, you wicked boy, You have chopped my newest tree, You’re as bad as you can be, So m spank you for you really do annoy. Boo, hoo, lioo, oh, my dear father, Boo, hoo, hoo, you spank so hard, Why, IVe only killed a tree, Just suppose it had been me! Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! (Curtain) ACT 11 Overture: Minuet, by Paderewski Scene opens in Martha Gust is ' living room, where she is embroidering. Martha : Pvc waited here for quite a year And thought of you; I’ve shed my tears, and many fears I’ve had, dear, too. My crying and sighing, My working very fast T une: Has popped it, not stopped it, When Day is And now I have you safe at last. Done. My Georgie, dear, oh, never fear, You 11 not regret This final leap, if me youll keep And not forget. I’ll cook for you and look for you When Jay is done; I ' m told that two can live as cheap as one. George enters and proposes to Mattha: George: My name is George Washington, General George Washington, Tune: [ frightened the whole Indian horde. They Call Me I have not misled you, Buttercup. I still want to wed you And give you your room and your board. Father : Tune: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, George : [ 62 ] T3he Cupola Martha ; Dialogue : George : Martha : George : Martha : Tunc: George: Wedding Martha : March. George: Martha : George : Martha : O Georgie, I love you, Q Georgie, so dear! If you think 1 don ' t love you, What a foolish idea! I can’t believe my ears, dear. You must believe what you hear. You make my heart feel lighter. And make my future seem brighter. When shall we he married? Monday, dear; too long we’ve tarried. We will make it soon, dear. Now come and dance to this tune, dear. You dance divinely, sweetheart. Can t you see that its true That I adore you, darling, And you love me, too? George and Martha dance to the tune of the Minuet in G. (Curtain) ACT III Overture: From “William Tell M The scene opens on the American army, drawn up on Cambridge Common before George Washington. Chorus: All hail our famous Washington, Brandish your swords on high, Shout, my lads, and fire your guns As our hero passes by. He will make a comrade true, Tune: Lead us in all our victories; Stein Song. He can fight as but a few do And he’ 11 raise indemnities. To George, our George, Our praises to stng we have just begun, For George, our George, Is the greatest who’s Living now tinder the sun. (T{epcat first jour lines) The general presents Washington with a sword, making him Commandet ' Hv Chief ol the American forces. [ 63 ] Tihe Cupola General : Tunc: Maryland, My Maryland. George Washington, wc give to thee The command of our army, And we present this sword I hear In hope to make you more aware That we ' re proud to follow you, And we promise to be true, And also swear to strive and pull Till we kill Sir Johnny Bull. George accepts the command. George: I don’t know just how to begin For this honor has surety surprised me; You know what a joy it has been Tunc; To have joined you, and now you see Stars and Stripes The pleasure’s all mine to receive it, Forever. And I hope that you’ 11 ever believe it. Although I ' m not worthy, I know That I ' ll be proud to lead you onward into battle. Chorus: George, we’ve had you for our friend, You ' re our leader now, We will follow you alway Tunc: And in your army wc will stay, Anchor’s A weigh. Oh, you ' re the best that we all know And we’ll cheer for you, We will gain our freedom now And stick with you and fight until the end. (Curtain) ACT IV Overture: Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean Scene opens in Washington’s home, where George is pacing the floor. George Tunc: Toreador Song, Martha George What keeps the woman? Where can she be? Where can she be? Where can she he? She should never keep me waiting now, She’s too gay, anyhow. Do I hear her on the stair? Oh, are you there? 1 have good news to share. Martha enters. George Martha George Martha I ' ve had a raise today. What! Had a raise today? I’m made the President! What a man ! Now we can pay the rent. T ie Cupola Tunc: Both: We ' ll banish all our fears Three For all the coming years, Musketeers, We’ll serve our country well, Martha : Is it you? George : It is true! Both: Simply swell. Enter children. Both; Our papa’s President, Our papa s President, We heard it through the keyhole, And we knew just what he meant. We think it very grand, Tunc: We think it very grand, Farmer in the But why it should be so Dell, We simply cannot understand. We will be very good And do just what he would So he’ll be very proud of us As every papa should, (Curtain) ACT V Overture: Auld Lang Syne Scene is New York City, and the army is assembled in the presence ol George Washington. General: Right foot forward, right foot forward, Right foot, left loot, now face forward, Halt and sing your song. Chorus: Here’s to out leader, commander and friend, Here s to our President whose term now must end, Tune: We all want to let him know March Militaire. We wish he would not be Quite so stubborn, and would go On and run again. General: Right foot forward, right foot forward, Right foot, left foot, now face forward, Halt and cease your song. [ 65 ] T?7ie Cupola Washington bids farewell to the army. George : Tunc: Grand March, from Aida. My friends, Romans, and countrymen, Lend your kind ears to me, It ' s easy to see That it s time, more than time, For me to leave The fate of our dear nation rests Now in your hands alone, Heed my plea that you be Loving and kind. And now, brethren and sistren dear, I ' ll say farewell to you, Be loyal and true, May your lives and your wives Be happy, too. All join in singing the Star-Spangled Banner. (Curtain) $ A tide cious 1 was in yellow daffodils and phlox up to my knees, And sturdy daisies, too, that nodded with a rustic grace. When young Pan laughed above me from a clump of tufted trees And shook a pointed scat — quite in my face, Julia E. Strauss. $ 7 he I Slew Astronomer Now I am free, who once before was bound, The farthest stars shall welcome my swift flight:; No mortal ties can bind me to the ground Whose spirit leaps into the quickening night. Venus opens wide her shroud to me, And mighty Saturn offers me his ring To sparkle on my finger as 1 flee Across unending space on tireless wing. I laugh to twist o ld Taurus ' haughty tail, 1 cool my hot throat from the Dippers bowl, And off again along the lofty trail With other cosmic systems for my goal. Katherine Cable. [ 66 ] C he Cupola The Grea HE court room suddenly became quiet, The crowd that over ' flowed its doors stood as the jurors arrived and the lawyers filed in. All talking ceased; all eyes were on the bailiff who, in the front of the dim, dirty room, behind a dirty, paper-piled table, was repeating in a monotone the old, singsong words: “Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! The court is now in session. The judge took his place on the bench; the court sat down en masse After a moment ' s strained silence the judge nodded to his clerk who, in turn, called down the long corridor, “Bring in the defendant!” The plaintiff ' s lawyer arranged his papers before him and looked extremely busy. After a minute the door opened, admitting two burly policemen followed by a tiny, pale girl, hardly more than a child, with suffering written all over her lovely, oval face. Her blond, shining hair was swept back from her high forehead, and her restless hands kept passing over her eyes as if trying to clear her sight She was clearly nervous and afraid, but her blue eyes looked steadily and straight from behind her long lashes. The mothers in the court room began to sob; the older men of the jury shook their heads, while the young men straightened their ties. The clerk was reading — pages and pages, it seemed. But the point of it all was in the sentence: “ — that you, Jean Traverse, brutally struck and killed one Frederick Terry on the evening of January tenth, nineteen hundred and twenty ' five. Then came the question : “Jean Traverse, do you wish to plead quilty or not guilty?’ 1 The plaintiff ' s lawyer stood up. “My client, he said, “pleads guilty. The small girl arose and slowly advanced to the witness stand where she received the oath. As she began her story, an eagerness was evident in her words, and her bearing became more and more confident as she con- tinued. “My brother, Gordon Traverse, and I came to Chicago in junc 1924, from a very monotonous and secluded life in Dalesvillc, Indiana. Gordon was twenty and 1 was eighteen, but I had always seemed older than he. At least — since mother went. “Dad died when Gordon and I were tiny children. I hardly remember him, except that he had a room called his study, always filled with innumer- able bottles, and the air always smelled like a drug store Of course, l didn’t understand what the bottles were, but when 1 was old enough to know, mother told me that my father had been a physician, the physician of Dalesvillc, but that, in the prime of his life and at the peak of his sue ' cess, he was seized with a dread craving tor dope, It relieved him when he had had no sleep, and it eased him when he was in pain His tat her had taken it before him, and it seemed inevitable that his son should follow the example set for him. test of 7 hese is== [ 67 ] t c Che Cupola 1 Eventually it killed him, and although tor a while we lived in the luxury to which we were accustomed, mother had no head for business, and when she was taken sick and died wc were left almost penniless. We came to Chicago to work, having borrowed the fare from an uncle. 1 was fortunate enough to find a job as a salesgirl in a small Michigan Avenue dress shop. Gordon, on the other hand, seemed to have a harder time. In a city the size of Chicago, where there are so many college men applying for positions daily, a man without a college education has little chance for a good job. We both rather turned up our noses at the position 1 had taken, but what could be done? There was room rent and food to be paid for. “ Alter weeks of idleness — where he spent those idle hours I never knew he suddenly found a job in a drug store on the west side. At first f was glad, but when I thought of the location, the environment, and our father ' s fatal habit, I begged him to give up his position. But Gordon was no longer my Gordon. He used to agree with everything I suggested, and l never needed to ask twice for Ire always abided by my decisions. Now he was headstrong and irritable. Whenever 1 spoke to him he hastened to impress upon me the fact that he was my older brother and could, there- fore, do as he pleased, even to the extent of dictating to me. I did not wish to voice my reason for desiring him to leave his environment, for he seemed to have forgotten our dead father’s weakness, and if this was so 1 didn ' t care to remind him of it; for, as our psychologists tell us, the power of suggestion is one of the strongest things in life. So 1 kept silent on this subject, and he kept silent on every subject. “I never saw a cent of the money he earned. He paid his rent, and I paid mine We seldom ate together, and we considered each other financially independent But one day I determined to question him. ' Gordon 1 began, ' how much are they paying you at the drugstore?’ ‘He jumped as though he had been shot. ' What’s the idea? ' he snapped at me. If you ' re trying to do a touch, I haven ' t any cash on hand ‘Gordon, dear I pleaded, ‘please don ' t talk like that. You have been so strange lately, so different. You used to confide in me and tell me things, but now, when I even express an interest in you, you snap at me. 1 don t want your money. I only want to know where you are working and what your salary is. Mayn ' t I know? 1 Sure, sis he smiled nervously. ‘Sorry. I ' m working for Fred Terry at fifty ' five dollars a week 1 fairly gasped. Fifty-five dollars a week for being a mere clerk in a drug store! Even in this day and age that was a lot of money for work done behind a counter. And where did all this money go to? He bad comparatively nothing to show for it. “At the time I said nothing, but then and there 1 resolved to find out as soon as possible just what this mystery was that was robbing me of my Gordon and my happiness. It was too cruel, too bitter— it was not fair! But I smiled and, with no suspicion in my voice, said: ‘Good for you, Gordie! I didn’t realize that your job had so much [ 68 ] c C hc Cupola responsibility and work attached to it. It’s probably hard work that has made you the least bit irritable to me lately “Again he smiled nervously after he had looked at me quickly to see it 1 was only ‘razzing him or if 1 was sincere. My face apparently gave him no inkling that 1 was not genuinely concerned over his working hard “On Saturday afternoons 1 was free from work; when I felt I could afford it I attended a musical comedy or play that I had heard was good Sometimes, if I didn’t fed ‘flush 1 contented myself with a movie. 1 hadn ' t many friends because I didn’t care for the painted hard-boiled girls at the store, nor they for me. As I had no social life, I had no companions to share my few diversions. On the Saturday following my talk with Gordon I hurried through my work and my lunch in order to reach the far west side address of Terry ' s drug store at an early hour. My excuse for going there was to be a plea for Gordon s company to the theater. I arrived a few minutes after one o’clock and to my surprise, found my brother’s place of employment not the large, busy and spotless pharmacy that I had pictured, but a dark dingy store looking suspiciously like a saloon with its swinging doors replaced by a solid one. Over the entrance was written in tarnished gold letters the single ominous word, ‘Terry ' s The whole aspect of the place 1 tightened me. Suppose Gordon was not there and the place was filled with the horrible west-end ‘dagoes’ I had heard about! But I would not turn back now, so I entered; the door slammed behind me and I jumped, then looked about me. Not a soul could be seen! When a cat rubbed against my foot 1 was barely able to stifle a scream. Then from behind the counter came a chuckle 1 began to tremble all over, and turned to face the counter with a swiftness that surprised even myself. When I saw the face that was before me, 1 did not taint, or even shriek in my fright; I stood fascinated. It was of that ghastly, waxen pallor that in spite of animation looks dead and fixed. The brown eyes were sharp as pin points, and stared out from beneath black bushy eyebrows. The color- less lips were drawn down in one corner and twitched and wriggled con- tinually. The ere at ures body was slightly stooped over and one arm seemingly paralyzed, dangled loosely from the wrist while his other bony hand, white and cold and deathlike kept passing over his mouth in con- vulsive writhings. The cracked chuckle came again and a sick, cold perspiration broke out all over me. He spoke. ‘Need it pretty bad yerself don ' t ya, sister?’ “How my mind even functioned at that time 1 don ' t know but 1 realized that my nervousness made him think that I was a dope fiend, so I said knowingly as 1 nodded slightly, Ms Gordon here? ' “It was a chance shot, but the bluff was successful, and the horrible person before me cackled and then looked disgustedly about him. “ ‘Little fool he gasped out. ‘Doped himself up today and I can t rouse him. All the stuff’s under his lock and key. Lord knows 1 need some now hut just try to get a rise out of that “hophead’ ' !’ “[ stuck to my part. ‘But you I said in a wavering voice, ‘aren’t you — V my voice trailed off and he answered me quickly [ 69 ] he Gupola i ' Yes, Vm Terry, but Gordon has charge of the dope end of this place. Job enough for me to handle the boot [eggin’ end of it, l caught him the trick, but he was a good pupil “[ closed my eyes for a moment and tried to choke back my horror. Then I said weakly, ‘May [ see him? Perhaps [ can help “I will not describe the following scene when I was taken to my poor, weak brother. Somehow, 1 managed to convince Terry that if 1 could take him back with me I might be able to bring him to his senses With Terry ' s assistance I got him into a cab and took him back to the hoarding house. “During the next week 1 kept him in bed by pure force and refused to give him any liquor or dope He went through the usual stages: anger, violence and cruelty and then submission and tearful, sobbing confession. At this stage he was utterly helpless. Without the dope to give him an artificial vitality he could barely raise his head without aid. Would this monster, ‘Dope kill my brother, too? “One day when Gordon was improving slightly, and I was beginning to be confident, there was a knock at the door. Unthinkingly, I opened it wide and there in its dark frame stood Terry! I tried to slam the door, but 1 was too late. Gordon had seen him and was crying piteously, like a child, to this devil who stood before me, and in an instant he was at Gordon s bedside, “In a fraction of a second l saw what would happen. Just as I had seen Gordon begin to live again, he would begin to die. Once he had dope in his hands no power of mine could make him give it up. One thing was clear to me then. Terry would give it to him over my dead body ! My hand touched the washstand beside me and came in contact with a heavy pottery pitcher that stood upon it. The fiend was bending over Gordon with something in his hand 1 raised the pitcher over my head and let it fall with all my force on the shaggy, simple head of Fred Terry. G o r d a n w as sa ved ! “What happened then I don’t know, except that when the police came one dear, good man among them said that he would see that Gordon was taken care of in some place where he might take the cure. ' [ plead guilty, your honor and gentlemen of the jury, and l would repeat my act tomorrow under those circumstances 1 An hour had passed The judge and the jury entered. The court room held its breach as it waited for the verdict. The foreman rose. “Your honor, the jury, after careful consideration of the case from all angles, brings in a verdict We have found that, because of self-defense and a reasonable motive the defendant is ‘Not Guilty’ ’ Silence. Then the judge spoke : “Thank you, gentlemen 1 Betty Wilson, Winner of Cupola Short Story Contest [ 70 ] c he Gupola Last Will and Testament ol the Class ol ipSZ (seminar II MONTIS VERNONIs) Ty NOW all men by these presents, that we, the Class of 1932 of V Mount Vernon Seminary, being of sound and disposing mind, and being about to depart the life of the school into we know not what other spheres oi tasks and trouble, do T of our own free will, to wit and without durance or com- pulsion, make, decree, and publish this our last will and testament. Item i . To our revered and beloved M.V.S. we give the final product of our zealous labors in reorganizing the governing processes of the Collegiate Division. Item 2 . To Miss Cole we bequeath an autographed copy of the New York Times , together with the goodwill of the entire Senior Class. Item 3. To the Juniors, our most admirable successors, we will all of Miss Blakeslee’s tireless devotion. Item 4. To Miss Eking we give a pair of rubber heels, guaranteed absolutely noiseless. Item 5. To Miss Guard we leave a round-trip ticket for a vacation in South Africa Item 6. To Miss Spaulding wc thankfully toss a book on the Care and Feeding of Infants. Item 7. To Mr. Lloyd this class surrenders its ability for making sarcastic comments. Item 8. To Eda Ferguson the Senior members of the Treble Clef Club bequeath a metronome . Item 9. To Frances Witte we leave an altar for a little tin god. Item 10. To Add la B. and Mary Jo B. we concede an extremely dark window shade. Item 1 1 . To the various members of our school family we hereby leave the following objects to be accepted or rejected as the recipient may see hi. [71 ] TF ie Cupola First — Mary Adair Howell leaves the care of the student body to Julie Rich- ardson, Second ’ — Cornie Lewth waite endows Lucy- Jane Hedberg with her stately and selfless graces, Third — Queenie Miller gives to Frances (Giggles to you) Dodge her womanly poise and self-assurance Fourth — “Clara Sherwood bequeaths her fan-mail and her form public to anyone who wants them. Fifth — Helen Thompson leaves to Ida Macklin her sweet and self-sacrificing nature. Sixth - Jean Williams reluctantly gives over her reducing methods to M. F. Snow . Seventh — Louise Raynor renders to one Barbara Beal her S. A. (Studious Ability). Eighth — Dorothy Fox endows Mary Louise Morris with her charming infe- riority complex. Ninth- -Kay Ailing leaves to Dot Lum her sweet and tactful way of proctoring. Tenth- Happy Wightman gives to Mosy Isom her sunny disposition and con- sideration for others. Eleventh —To Sis Beach, Lucy Donaldson wills her quietly acquiescing nature. Twelfth Winnie Duncan thankfully presents to Miss Agnes De Lano her appreciation of “Contemporary Poetry ’ Thir teenth — Kate Ross Patton blesses Virginia Dangler with her vivacious personality. Fourteenth — Kassie Meyer leaves her affection for Mr, Rice to all his M.VS. admirers. Fifteenth — Alice Carter hands over her capacity to consume food to Julie Strauss. Sixteenth — Bet ty Uhl endows Marion Duval with every atom of her sweet sincerity. Seventeenth — Kitty Cable bequeaths her executive ability to Betty Field. Eighteenth — Lastly I, the Reader, render to Miss Mary Lauer the dilapidated yellow duck given me last year by 11 lie Theurer, Know ye that as time goes on we are becoming weaker and weaker; we, the Senior Class, do herewith proclaim the above as our last will, and in witness thereof 1 set my hand and seal this twenty-second day of March, 1932, Winifred Duncan, [ 72 ] c ' Ghe Gupola A Black Cat Inters the L ouvre C ATS are sly, persistent creatures. They force themselves on velvet paws into unheard ' of places. They bring bad luck to some, good luck to others. So it was with a particular black cat with which all Modern Art has been concerned. Feared and derided, it finally made a place for the modern spirit in art, by stealthily entering the Louvre. There is nothing new about Modern Art, Its existence is discernible in the caves of Spain and France, in the art of Egypt, China and Byzantium, Its essence lies in the artist ' s approach to his work, expressing what he sees through his mind and spirit. Modern Art emanates from the impulse and not from any slavish adherence to forms. It aims not at photographic accuracy, but hopes in its own mysterious way to realize’ ' life. In Greece under Pericles, Praxiteles consummated a great art. Its aim was ro ' idealize a subject. But during the dark ages a new spirit was awakened, when Christianity, both in the East and the West, began to mold men s impulses. Classical art with its dignified ideality reappeared with the Renaissance, demand- ing with insistency a technical perfection, and checking for four centuries the modern spirit. This Classicism was earnestly forwarded by the Carracci, a Bolognese family of painters, who founded an academy of classical painting. Against their restrictive traditionalism a revolt was led by the Roman Caravaggio. Classicism conquered in Italy, and a formulated art began its long tyrannical domination of Europe. Riberia, a radical dissenter, carried the spirit of revolt to Spain, anticipating the great Velazquez and later Goya. This inspiration, transmitted through Goya, influenced strongly the artist considered by most authorities as our first modern painter. In 1832, Edouard Manet was born. His family coveted for him a career in law, which he found uncongenial, because he was filled with a devotion to painting. His first master was very conservative, following with precision the dictates of the classical school, against which Manet developed a violent aversion. He began to travel and paint life as he found it. In his study of the old masters Valazqucz and Goya influenced him strongly, for he shared their freshness of viewpoint and their disdain of tradition. In 1S59 at the Salon ' s annual exhibition of art, Manet submitted his Buveur d ' absintheT which was promptly rejected. He tried again in 1861, and his Portraits de Monsieur and Madame and Le Guitario were accepted. Le Guitario proved Manet ' s release from his earlier precepts, even the type of subject differed from the one conventionally approved. The Salon stood for all chat was classical. Its artists were concerned with perfection dependent upon patterned laws, regardless of truth. Flowers and cupids [ 73 ] mi IIH c he Cupola cluttered their pictures. The idealized life of Egypt and the Siege of Athens were favorite subjects. A little later, when it was necessary to propagate militarism under Napoleon, pictured battle scenes became not only popular, but traditional. Among those to carry on the classical tradition was David, His enthusiasm for republican ideas and principles derived naturally from Greece and Rome. A century and a hall later Ingres paid his tribute to the Greeks, in his cold blooded knowledge and minute perfection. Then, suddenly, came a reawakening of the feeling for nature. The Romantics led by Delacroix brought back to France the first stirring of a fresh point of view, About the same time a group of artists, known as the Barbizon Masters, broke with the conventional tendencies and turned to nature instead of tradition, Corot, whose painting reflected his own poetic spirit, gloried in the ever- changing moods of nature. Millet, a peasant painter, found vigorous sources of art in studying the toil of the working people. With Courbet’s manifesto of 1855, there was really started a successful revolution of modernism. The Salon of 1863, still firm in its convictions, refused to accept the pictures of the moderns , and Napoleon III sponsored the 1 ' Salon des refuses. Here Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur I’herbe was exhibited This sensational picture ignored the traditional treatment of light and shade and substituted an opposition of different tones. It portrayed two clothed men and a nude woman picnicking in the woods, with another nude woman bathing in a near-by brook Because the men looked too little like Greek gods, and because the nudes were French rather chan Olympian, the picture was considered unprincipled and immoral, shocking aesthetically and ethically. Following “he Dejeuner sur Flierhe Manet submitted to the Salon of 1864 the 1 Olympia 1 an amazing canvas of marked dark and light contrasts, showing a nude, very white-skinned woman reclining on her couch, attended by a rather large, black -skinned serving maid, who holds a bouquet of flowers. On the end of the couch stands a small and very black cat. Today, the Olympia” seems far from startling, but to the classically trained public of its day, the picture was inexcusable. The woman was far too intimately painted, and the cat on the couch caused untold disgust. Manet’s aim had been to give to art the life and feeling that it lacked. He wished only to vitalize the present by releasing it from the bonds of the past. He strove to realize’ rather than idealize T But the public could not comprehend what it was unaccustomed to, and for many years men remained blind to the real purpose of Manet ' s art. Gradually a group of painters began gathering around Manet. No individual action ol a single man brought it about, but it developed out of the urgent need of a new age for a new art. The young men who were a nucleus of the group were Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Bazille, Cezanne and others. Gradually they formed the habit of meeting at the [74] TJ ie Cupola Cafe Guerhois, and their original number was enlarged to include Fantin-Latour, Guillemet and Degas. Manet dominated always because of his quick wit and sound judgment. The systems and principles of art of the day were discussed. Opposed to classical authority in painting, the theory of open-air painting and an interest in bright tones was gradually taking form, Manet up to this time had painted his landscapes in the studio from memory, but now he began to paint in the open day- light, The idea of “pleinairism 1 was contagious, and Pisarro, Monet and Sisley all took heed of Manet ' s practices. These years were fruitful, for Manet gave to the men around him the technique of painting luminous tones. There was lively interchange of ideas, although each artist developed indi- vidually, At length a society was formed, and in the crowded Boulevard des Capucines they held their exhibition. It brought the painters into great and dis- astrous notoriety. People “had been taught what to see and what not to see, ' 1 The pictures were harshly criticized, pronounced formless and impossible. It was from one of Monets pictures, “Soled levant 1 on account of: its treatment and technique, that the title “Impressionists 11 was suggested as descriptive of their style of painting. This name took hold, and from that time the Impressionists and Impressionism were terms to be reckoned with in the field of painting. In 1 8 76 another exhibition opened, with but nineteen exhibitors, all more radical even than their predecessors, and public contempt increased markedly the notoriety of Impressionists. People understood the static moment in art, but the Impressionists attempted to catch things “on the fly 1 A transitory appearance interested them more than a stolid object permanently placed. They used color much too brilliantly with the separate hues unmixed, they placed them in complementary closeness and strove tor luminosity. Of all the Impressionists’ exhibitions, the third has been considered the most sensational. It stirred up the harshest resentment. To understand this, one must understand at least some of the artists that exhibited, Claude Monet, alter having found all academic work unbearable, took up landscape painting. He was especially susceptible to the subtleties ol atmosphere. He loved painting the same subject in varying lights and moods. One who has seen his similar cathedral facades at dawn and at dusk, at noonday and at mid- night, never forgets Monet’s pre-occupation with eternally restless reality. Alfred Sisley ' s name comes to mind, and one thinks of him painting in brilliant colors in the open air. He adopted from Manet and Monet, but his distinction was his ability to express the smiling moods of nature. His precept ions were delicate and sensitive, and he seems to have had a predilection for a soft, rather artificial lilac tone. Meanwhile Cezanne was living at Anvers, where Pisarro joined him. They [ 75 ] T ie Cupola worked together and under Cezanne ' s influence the brilliancy of their color was very much increased. Pisarro lives as a sympathetic painter of rural life. So far the Impressionists had been concerned with a landscape technique, but Renoir applied Impressionistic principles to figure painting, although he also did open-air landscape studies, Renoir made flesh radiant and luminous, giving it at the same time a warm vitality. Among Hls most successful pictures is that of “Mme. Charpentier and Her Daughters 1 one of the treasures of the Metropolitan Art Museum of New York, Renoir f primarily a figure painter, will he longest remem- bered for the spirit of liveliness which he gives to all his works, Degas only adopted the Impressionist s use and range of color. He was funda- mentally a good draughtsman. He loved to paint studies of dancers, showing the strong contrasts between the light, graceful ballerina and the sombre observers. There is a feeling of rhythm, music and strength in his work, caught as a momentary impression. Berthe Morisot was outstanding for her remarkable delicacy and softness of color and for her ability to represent texture. Following tins closely associated group of painters who had so advanced and vitalized their art, under the leadership of Manet, came the Post Impressionists, headed by Cezanne, The followers of Manet, striving to capture fleeting impressions, had grown forgetful of form, It was a return to form which Cezanne forwarded. Form has been a fundamental to arc from its earliest beginnings, and Cezanne, while adopting the Impressionist technique of luminosity, made of Impressionism something solid and enduring. At an early age, Cezanne had shown a passion for drawing, and when he went to Paris, where he became a friend of Zola, he entered the Academic Suisse, He was temporarily fascinated by Delacroix, but Courbet exerted over him a more lasting influence, When Zola had scandalized the public with his enthusiastic praise of Manet, Cezanne was brought into contact with this artist, Cezanne adopted Manets luminous color, and by juxtaposing and superimposing uniform touches of these colors, he obtained a great density and feeling of form. Of all the painters of the period he was the most bitterly ridiculed. The lack of sympathy which he met caused him to discontinue exhibiting for twenty years. For a long time he was appreciated by only a small group of artists, but at last he began to meet w r ith public favor. The second great Post Impressionist was the serious and sincere Vincent Van Gogh. He was a man broadly but self-educated and strongly intellectual, possess- ing a passionate capacity for work. His tremendous concentration caused him temporary mental breakdowns. Due to his compromising sincerity and an apparent [ 76 ] TJ ie Gupola i gruffness, he was unable to keep a position as an art dealer ' s apprentice in Paris. In London he was equally unsuccessful. He felt a call to preach and went to Belgium and lived among the miners. During an epidemic of typhoid he so exhausted himself by devoted service that an acquaintance sent for his father. After returning home he began to paint, represent ' ing with color , light, line and form. Because of a recurrence of ill health, he went to live with a physician, but even there he continued his painting, representing nature ' s essential qualities in an almost unequal ed use of color. The two places which influenced the life and painting of Gauguin, the third Post Impressionist, were mostly Bri Harry and Tahiti. To both he went for retreat from the unfairness and oppression of the city. A separation from his wife and family, due to his seemingly vulgar and inexcusable ways, caused him his great grief. It was this which drove him to that tropical island of Tahiti. Here in poverty, suffering intense pain from an injured foot, he painted constantly, putting into his works such a feeling of tropical life that one feels the heat in looking at his pictures. By 1906 the three Post Impressionists were dead. Twenty-three years before Manet had died. After Manet s death an exhibition of his work was held by his friends at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. The pictures produced a new effect, and the showing proved to be a great success. An equally successful sale followed it, and five years later at the 1 ' Exposition Universelle 1 ’ Manet was represented. At about this time a fund was raised by friends for the purchase of the once derided “Olympiad’ This they offered to the Luxembourg. Ac first it was refused, but owing to the influence of certain men on the subscription list, it was finally accepted. “Olympia and Her Black Cat” hung in isolation until a collection of works was left to the Luxembourg in 1894 upon the death of the painter Caillebolte. In this collection were studies by Manet, Degas, Pisarro, Monet, Sisley, Renoir and Cezanne. The committee of acceptance wished to exclude the work of some of the artists, especially Cezanne. However, the will had stated that the collection as a whole was to be given, and only because of a lack of space a part was kept out. So it was that “Olympia 1 was surrounded by paintings of her master s followers. In France, pictures do not receive full sanction until they are hung in the Louvre, and customarily pictures are not accepted until ten years after the artists death. In 1S93 friends of Manet again raised a fund, this time for the transfer of “Olympia 11 to the Louvre, but the committee was full of opposition and remained firmly unresponsive to the attempts. When Monsieur Clemenceau, an old friend of Manet, became Prime Minister in 1917, on the demand of Monet, a transfer was effected. So it was that the “Black Cat” of the Impressionist s forced itself into the Louvre, where she sits so compla- cently and purrs so contentedly that one marvels at all the disturbance that the “modern spirit 1 has been able to stir up during these late years. Louise Raynor [ 77 ] c T tc Gupola aeo 05 The soil of Crete has placed these fragments in your hand; Kings arc forgotten, and the Trojan wall Has mingled with its besiegers; Timbers of the Ark lie only seven circles Under Babylonian chariots. The excavators set their block and tackle in the sand, And, placing ropes, have dragged a limestone figure Hall across the world. Exiled in space and long since lost in time, One might have thought this stone Had seen the last of worshippers; But through the morning shutters of the Egyptian room A smoky city sun had sent its beams To kiss the feet of A men Ra. Palm downward on its knees In rigid calm the crouching statue gazes, motionless, Acknowledging the tribute. Kings and gods are dead, Their statues and the sun survive: Creation still outlasting the creator. And presently the janitor, with moistened cloth, Will come and wipe away the marks Which Mrs, Cat radon ' s little boy, Emanuel, The day before had scribbled on the toe nail of the god. T he bones ot slaves compressed with dusty streets are gray; Julia E. Strauss [ 78 ] T ie Cupola t= This broad, gray rock Has mothered all the earth around, The straight, calm trees, The pebbles running to the sound And slipping in Where low white breakers hiss and pound. Stretched on its lap I trace its passive curving line Across to where It dips into a mist of pine; The other way It lifts to meet the warm sunshine. An earnest ant Pursues, across irs weathered face, His homeward way Along some indiscernible trace Of well-known path And vanishes beneath its base. I think to find Some prehistoric remnant there, A dim footprint Half ravaged by the greedy air, Or lern frond etched By Nature ' s fingers, thin as hair Against my hands The earth’s deep pulses undulate Within this rock From whose antiquity we date That first seadife That rose, to live and procreate. Katherine Cable. [79] rh 1 II T7ic Cupola 1 -- E l — — - — -- - i Sc nor C lass I ] ' onl opnccy Dear Roommate, ex officio f June, 1942. Do you realize that it has been ten years, or one hun Jr eel and twenty months, or five hundred and twenty weeks, or three thousand, six hundred and fifty days, in other words, many millions of hours and minutes and seconds since you and I crossed off Commencement Day on our calendars? I can’t When I arrived at M V S. for the class reunion last week 1 thought 1 had just been away during Spring Vacation. I was honestly surprised to learn that you not only would not greet me at the door of 161 , but would not come to school at all. Well, I said to myself, M what disease has Kassie caught now to get out of returning on time? Then 1 came to my senses and knew that you no longer followed the dictates of the handbook, but those of your heart. If you must marry a man who sings, and he must be booked for Los Angeles in June, and you must go with him, then I suppose wc must have reunions without you. But 1 wish you did not find it so necessary to look a feet your husband. One who had seen our many joyous exits from the protecting doors of Mount Vernon would not have believed her eyes had she been present when wc arrived in Washington. Wc were positively hysterical with excitement. Immediately after dinner we hunted out our famous banner from among the antiques. It was slightly dilapidated, but we brought it upstairs, and established it in state in the middle of the room while we held our meeting. What a meeting! Everyone was talking so fast and furiously about the happenings of the last ten years char it was impos- sible to hear anything. But 1 finally gleaned a little information, and little though it be, it is priceless! So, feeling in a benevolent mood, I shall pass it on to you. Comic is horribly modest It took us most of the evening to persuade her to admit that she is now at the head of about every committee and organization in Portland. She is really an important personage and is very busy all the time. Some chink that she is drowning her sorrow in work, for there are rumors that she was engaged once, but broke her engagement and regretted her action afterwards. Our vice-president is still the gayest of the gay. You know she was married recently to a member of che New York Stock Exchange, and her photographs and che accounts of her parties may be seen in all the newspapers. At present a famous artist is engaged in painting Clara cuddling a be-ribboned poodle dog. Kay Ailing has a most unusual occupation. She takes movies of interesting sights and events near Rochester, and they are shown in the leading theater every week. One night of our visit she showed some old reds taken when we wer e at Mount Vernon, and che students seemed to think it was funny that they still wore [ 80 ] Ghe Gupola A the same uniforms that we used to wear. Do they think that ten years ago was the beginning of the Bronze Age, I wonder? Just as Kay finished telling us about her work, Louise came in. She had been unable to come sooner because she had had to attend a faculty meeting, Our Lulu is now Miss Raynor, Teacher of History of Art! But after all, you must have guessed that she would not be far from M.V.S. (even if the only position she could have obtained was that of traffic cop in Cloister Half employed to see that no one parked there too long), Kitty Cable came to Washington from New York, where she had been to see her publishers concerning her new book of verse. I think it is a shame that Winnie was unable to leave her writing at that time. It would have been such fun for the two poets to have met again, since they have both become famous. I get a thrill myself when anyone mentions either of them. I start to say, ' I knew her when— — and then I think, L Well, why tell tales out of school? ' T Dot, too, is making the most of her talents. The fact that she is now known as Clarissa Cardova does not make her voice less sweet. But then, I need not tell you that. I ' m sure you have tuned in on her radio programs on Tuesday nights many a time. We expected Jeannie to come to the reunion and report her success as a tea room manager, but at the last minute we got a wire saying that Kate had come to her establishment for dinner. As a result of her visit there had been a shortage of supplies, the employers could not meet such a crisis without her, and she would not be able to leave. By the way, Kate has married an old, old man with a great deal of money, and she spends her time traveling about Europe. I expect that she finds her knowledge of French a big asset now. Would you have suspected that Helen had a love of politics? Evidently she had, for she holds a very important position in the United States Government, FvLV.S. is very proud of her achievements and the fact that she has given several excellent talks on current events at Wednesday morning assemblies. Who would have thought that the Class of ' 32 contained so many celebrities? But, ot course, all the members did not seek the limelight. Alice s future in the musical world looked very bright, but she preferred crooning lullabys to her six babies, to singing Wagner. Mary Adair, too, has found that her talent is most needed at home. She plays the piano at Sunday school, and the organ at church, and during the week she acts the part of gentle critic for her husband, who is an ambitious young song writer. Queenie has the distinction of living in a house she planned herself. Her little boy, too, has a distinction — that of being the class baby! Happy is, as she should be, very happy. She married a man who has a great fortune and many fine horses. Betty was not so fortunate in a financial way, but she has decided that love in a cottage is the best kind alter all. Well, the world has done queer things to the Class ot 193 2. We are older and wiser, but, as we discovered when we ended our meeting by singing the class song, our voices are not what they used to be. Still, we all went away knowing that not [ 81 ] T’ ie Cupola even twenty or thirty or forty years, and all the events of a lifetime could change the personalities of the girls wc had been Am I getting sentimental? Then it is high time that I stopped. When one grows sentimental about the past she is getting old, and I spend entirely too much money on beauty treatments to risk the pos- sibility of aging mentally. So, being in a patriotic mood, l shall end with three cheers (1 might even be able to spare Four!) for the Jade and Gold, And a great deal of love for you from Lucile, PS- — Incidentally, I have changed in one respect, I used to believe that twenty-nine was positively ancient! Sen or C loss Poe. oeni Soon must our golden dragon leave his nest Where he in glad security has dwelt, And wc, beneath his sign , must meet the test The world shall give; already he has felt The first dim tremors that foretell the day When he must rise and go his lonely way. Now to reluctant ears the slow wind brings A high, clear call that he may not deny; Beyond these sheltering walls a strange world sings Sweet siren music as she passes by, And promises rare knowledge and delights If he will follow to her breathless heights. But as he lifts his shining head on high He looks not forward to his future years, But yearning backward with a wistful eye Sees once more where his loved Mount Vernon rears Her cloistered columns, and where, high above, Her Cupola reminds him of her love. Katherine Cable. [ 82 ] c Che Cupola Junior - Senior Sonquet enu ana 1 royram COLLEGIATE SPECIAL Train 1931, Outbound — Thursday, April Thirtieth Cornelia Lewth waite Alma Mater Toastmistress Ananas Qdrni En Voyage, Au Revoir . , , .Clara Hand Ajnslee Puhl Consomme Vert Celery Olives Radishes En Route. . . . . .Jane Niggeman Devilled Clam Cole Slain Bread Sticks Distinguished Passengers Juniors Broiled Breast of Chicken , Mushrooms Parisian Potatoes Fresh Peas Finger Rolls [ 83 ] cjjhe Gupola 1 A Senior Speaks. .... Shirley Ross Hearts of Palm Salad Rice Wafers En Passant . . . . . . Emily Hawley A Senior Speaks. . . . . . Isabel Gordon Junior Rose Class Song, . Creed Seniors Class Song. . . . . Juniors Mints Salted Nuts Demi-tasse Senior Poem Farewell Song. .Seniors Farewell Song Auld Lang Sync OPTIMA 1 ((5 he Gupola Optima Betty Field President Caroline Fickinger . . . . Vice-President Jean Dean Cole Katharine E. Hill Margaret Barber Marguerite Beach Katherine Cable Polly Chisholm Marion Duval Edith Ferguson Mary Hurd Peggy Huxley Elizabeth Koehn Nedine Marble Secretary Treasurer Honorary Member Honorary Member Louise Raynor Mary Reynolds Barbara Sincerbeaux Muriel Stokes Julia Strauss Kate Thompson H ELEN T H OM PSON Betty Uhl Harriet Wightman Floise Wilmsen Lucile Donaldson Katharine Meyer, , T is the desire of every M.V.S. girl to belong to Optima, the one honorary club of the school. Membership is based on both scholarship and citizenship. Optima stands for attainment through effort and the upholding of the highest standards and ideals of the club and school. [ 87 ] LE CERCLE FRANCAIS T ie Cupola j e C crc e a r a neats Margaret Barber . , . . . ■ ■ President? Adele Emerson Vice-President? Polly Chisholm ■ ■ ■ Secretaire Alice Carter . - ■ . Tresorier? Eleanor Peltier Memhre Honorair? Barbara Beal Patricia Born Katherine Cable Betty Field Jane Hutchinson Mary Hurd Helen Thompson Peggy Huxley Harriet Minty Kate Patton Carol Parker Helen Searle Muriel Stokes j E Cercle Frames vient d’atteindre sa majoritc; il entre done dans sa iL v i n gt ' deu xie me an nee. Ccccc annee ' Ci, comme par le passe, on ne neglige ricn dc ce qui pent eonmbuer an profit et au plaisir ties membres. “Lcs Quatre Napoleons ' sonc le sxijet des entretiens et des discussions. La Marseillaise, les Chansons populates, et le the, bien entendiu font aussi partie du programme. [ 89 ] TREBLE CLEF CLUB T3he Gupola Adela K, Payne. Frances E, Chickering Alice Carter, ....... Frances Witte. . ...... Doris Masters . Director Accompanist President Vice ' President Secretary - Treasurer Dorothy Chapin Barbara Clute Margaret Conklin Winifred Duncan Marion Duval Edith Ferguson Elizabeth Field Dorothy Fox Florence Holliss Marianne Hoover Alice Howell Mary Adair Howell Mary Hurd Mary Isom Cornelia Lewth waite Harriet Minty Mary Louise Morris Eleanor Post Elizabeth Rogers Helen Searle Clara Sherwood Gertrude Smith Marion Smith Mary Frances Snow Muriel Stokes Julia Strauss Katharine Thompson Margaret Thompson Lois Wilcox ElOISE WlLMSEN 7 r tiEBLE CLEF has been one of the most delightful features of our life at M V S. The tun we have had at the rehearsals preparing for the Commencement Week Concert will remain with us always. To Mrs. Payne, our splendid and much beloved leader f is due all the credit and honor of our “Glee Club . 51 [ 91 ] c he Cupola e pc tit ion is Miss Cole . “And chat, dear girls, is shabby! Miss Agnes De Lano . .“Don ' t you chink what you really mean is — ? Corn ie Lewthwaite . . Oh, listen now. Jean Williams. . . . Well, no, hut I mean — Miss Ballou. . , , . Let ' s just sit down and think this thing through. Lucile Donaldson . . “Its the cutest thing I almost ever saw. Miss Hastings. . , . “But, my deah, you know you can do bectah. 11 Winifred Duncan And now I weigh—. Dusty Wilken. ♦ L Tm simply furious, no mail. Lucy-Jane Hedberg “Why? Mow’d you do it? Who said so? Mr, Lloyd. “I might say in passing that in the main — . Betty Field. . . “She ' s my best friend in — . Mary Reynolds. “Don’t be childish, Miss Nourse, ... . . .“Well, you see the whole thing is — Helen Thompson “No, I don ' t think so at all. Alice Carter “It ' s marvi. Miss Hill “I take syrup on my first, sugar on the second, both on the chird, and what shall 1 have on the fourth? Mrs. Lloyd .“In England — ' Mary Adair Howell. “And she came a-whippin ' it up the stairs. Mary Laur . “Streeter! Has anyone seen Marjorie Street? Miss Elting, . , . .“My nephew — Muss Spaulding .“Remember, ladies, tennis is a game of activity. Queen if. Miller .“ days until l get back to Chicago. Dorothy Lum . . “And still they call it madness, Miss Jean. “AN right, everyone up tall. Mrs. Mac Allis ter. . .“Only two sandwiches, girls, Boots Ewing “ Hello w, sugah! Kate Thompson. . .“Why, you dumbbunny, Miss Holdren. .“As I say — . Ruth Reynolds, . “Hampie — Barbara Cobb. .“Hist, l thought IM die. Julie Strauss, . , . “What do you think about life? Libby Koehn. . . ' My, my. Betty Uhl “It’s the funniest thing I ' ve seen. Ginny Dangler , . “It’s gogeous. Miss Herriott. . . ' Well! Mrs. Forman . . “It’s never been done in the history of the school; it ' s a long established rule, and don ' t you see 1 couldn’t possibly break it! [ 92 ] THE CHOIR TJ ie Cupola Alice Carter Dorothy Chapin Barbara Clute Jane Dauler Winifred Duncan Marion Duval Edith Ferguson Betty Field Dorothy Fox Wilma Gucker Peggy Hildreth Florence Hollis Alice Howell Mary Adair Howell Mary Hurd Peggy Huxley Mary Isom Mary Lauer Cornelia Lew tm waite Jane Lupher Ann Maitland Ned in e Marble Doris Masters Anne Queen an Miller Harriet Minty Mary Louise Morris Carol Parker Eleanor Pearson Eleanor Post Juliet Richardson Helen Searle Clara Sherwood Gertrude Smith Marion Smith Mary Frances Snow Muriel Stokes Julia Strauss Marjorie Street Katharine Thompson Lois Wilcox Frances Witte ' HE CHOIR has been, a traditional institution since soon after the open- ing of the chapel in 1925, Mr. Adolph Torovsky is not only its able leader, but also a talented composer whose many melodious songs have become a pare of the Choirs repertory. One of the big events of the year was singing at the dedication of the new Metropolitan Methodist Memorial Church, at which Vice- President Curtis gave the address. [ 95 ] ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION BOARD The Cupola ssocL fion Helen Ray Potter. Mary Isom. ...... Clara Sherwood. . OFFICERS . . , President Vice-President - Secretary-Treasurer TEAM CAPTAINS Mary Louise Morris. ... . Yellows Lucy-Jane Hedberg. . Whites MANAQERS OF SPORTS Katherine Alling Polly Chisholm. . Kate Thompson ..... Frances Witte, Marjorie Street, Marguerite Beach. Polly Chisholm Wanda Pike ... Helen Searle. . , , Doris Masters. .... Katharine Meyer, . . Archery Deck Tennis . . Qolj Hockey Outing Club . . Riding , . .Tennis . Volley Ball . Basket-Ball Soccer . . Swimming [ 97 ] LEND-A ' HAND c Che Cupola Virginia Dangler. . . Lucy -Jane Hedberg . Mary Louise Morris Helen Marie Castle ... President Vice-President . . . , Secretary . . Treasurer CLASS REPRESENTATIVES Alice Carter . Senior Class Marion Duval . Junior Class Mary Wilson Dickey . . . . Yelloiv Class Margaret Yates . White Class r HE Lend-a-Hand Society holds a very important place in die school life of M. V.S. We have an unusually ambitious board, composed of the officers and four class representatives, whose untiring efforts have been of great assistance in collecting and getting the money off to divers social organizations. The money is raised through our Sunday Chapel collections, benefits and an occasional special donation. It is then given to charities, special families, etc., voted on by the girls. Wc feel we have had a very successful year and believe we have fulfilled our obligations. [ 99 ] TTte Cupola THE M.V.S. SOCIETY The M.V.S Society is an organization including al! former students, graduates or non -graduates, as well as the present student body and faculty of the school. The parent society always has the school as its membership and headquarters, but there arc eight other chapters in different sections of the country. The Roll Call, its publication, is edited in December by some former student who conies back to school tor a month for this purpose. THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION The Alumnae Association includes only graduates of the school, of which there are now almost one thousand. The Alumnae Annual is edited each May by an alumna who comes to Washington to do this. THE M ' VS, COUNCIL The M.V.S, Council met for the first time in April, 1931. It is made up of delegates from the M V S. Society chapters and some delegates at large. Its aim is to help the alumnae to understand and further the school policies and to make possible a closer relation between the school and its former students. [100] VARSITY HOCKEY TEAM c Che Cupola Left Wing Left Inner , Center Forward Right Inner . . . , Right Wing . , Left Half Center Half. . . Right Half , , , , Left Full Right Full. , . . Qoal Keeper. . . key 7e. ey 1 earn . Marjorie Street, . , „■ .Betty Field . Lucy -Jane Hedberg . . . Mary Louise Morris . Barbara Stewart . . . Polly Chisholm . , . , . . Helen Ray Potter . . . Marion Duval . Katharine Meyer . . . Juliet Richardson. . . . Mary Isom . White . White , White Yellow Yellow Yellow Yellow . White Yellow . White Yellow Barbara Bonn ell Jane Hoover. . . . Doris Masters. . Substitutes Yellow Sunny Minty White Yellow Helen Searle . . . ..White . White Frances Witte Yellow HE Mount Vernon hockey team met their opponents from Madeira on December 5 for the annual game. The teams were spurred on by an enthusiastic group made up of representatives from both schools, who cheered heartily. The score was 2-0 at the end of the first half in favor of the Mount Vernon team, and our hopes of victory ran high. But in the last hall Madeira gained a foothold and brought the score up to 4-2 to carry oft the laurels. Both teams played excellent hockey, and fine spirit was shown throughout the game [ 103 ] VARSITY BASKET-BALL TEAM earn c he Cupola Forward Lucy -Jane Hedberg Forward . Center , , . , . Clara Sherwood. . Center Barbara Stewart. Quard ♦ Helen Ray Potter, Quard ... .... Harriet Minty . . White ..White . Yellow . Yellow . Yellow , Yellow Substitutes Polly Chisholm Yellow Doris Masters White Dorothy Lum . . White Helen Searle . . ... .White r HE basket-ball game between Mount Vernon and Madeira was played in the Outdoor Gymnasium at Mount Vernon on March 5. Two baskets were made during the first three minutes of play, and with this spec- taeular beginning the Mount Vernon team kept well ahead oi their opponents throughout the game and finished with a score of 29 to 19 in their favor. Both teams showed the results at fine training, particularly the Mount Vernon team, which played with remarkably definite and speedy passwork. [ 105 ] o. mpionship shiv ey Tcmh Firsts Marjorie Street LucY ' Jane Hedberg. . . Betty Field, Marguerite Beach . . . Doris Masters Marion Duval Dorothy Lum , . Sunny Minty, . . Juliet Richardson Gertrude Sm ith ... . Jane Dauler. . . WHITES Left Wing (Captain) . , Center Forward . . . . . . Right Inner . . .... Fight Wing . . Left Half . . . Center Half , . . ..Right Half. . Left Full... . .Fight Full. Left Inner Qoal Keeper . Seconds Mary Lauer Harriet Lewthwaite Muriel Stokes Alice Howell . Mary Frances Snow . Virginia Dangler Ruth Reynolds Barbara Beal Helen Searle Edmee Reisinger Wilma Gucker Substitutes Virginia Dangler Harriet Lewthwaite Helen Searle Substitutes Jane Wehr Jean Kellog Jean Clark Vivian Dewey [ 106 ] ( Che Cupola C hss Te ea 77S YELLOW Forwards: Polly Chisholm Mary Louise Morris Centers: Clara Sherwood Barbara Stewart Quards: Libby Koehn Helen Ray Potter Substitutes Katherine Meyer Kathleen McCarey Helen Thompson Margaret Thompson WHITE Foriuards . Lucy-Jane Hedberg Marjorie Street Centers: Alice Howell Doris Masters Quards: Dorothy Lum Harriet Minty Substitutes: Wilma Gucker Mary Lauer Helen Searle [ 107 ] c Che Cupola 7 ' HE entire school is divided this year, for the first time, into two teams, the Yellow and the White, for all competitions. Those on the Yellow Team are members ol the Second and Fourth Forms and die Seniors, with Mary Louise Morris as captain. The First and Third Forms and the Juniors arc on the White Team, ot which Lucy ' Jane Hedberg is captain. ALL-SCHOLASTIC WASHINQTON HONORARY HOCKEY TEAM TRYOUT M V S. REPRESENT 77 VES Marion Duval , White LucY ' JaNe Hedberg. . . . . . White M ary Isom Y ellmv Doris Masters , . White Helen Ray Potter Yellow Barbara Stewart. . . Y elloiv Marjorie Street. . . ...... White Frances Witte , . Yellow MEMBERS OF THE ALL-SCHOLASTIC WASHINCjTON HONORARY HOCKEY TEAM Mary Isom Qoal Keeper Barbara Stewart „ .Left Wing Substitute L UC Y ' J A N F. H EDO ERG c Ghe Gupola feE ssociation inner O N December twelfth the Athletic Association gave an informal dinner at the Field House. After the dinner, awards and letters were given out, and at 8 o ' clock “Skinner ' s Dress Suit ' 5 and an “Our Gang 1 ' comedy were shown in the gymnasium. At the end of this evening the Fall Sports term was officially closed. FALL SPORTS AWARDS Honor Varsity Archery: Dorothy Fox Betty Uhl Deck Tennis; Alice Carter Julia Strauss Qolf: Margaret Ewing Tennis; LucY ' Jane Hedberg Mary Isom Harriet Minty Helen Ray Potter Mary Frances Snow Volley Ball: Mary Adair Howeli Katherine McKane Ann Naylon Wanda Pike Helen Searle Gupola The Dorothea Sigel Intcrcldss Basket-Ball Trophy Cup. Won by the White Class—Marjorie Street, Captain. The Margaret Finley Interclass Swimming Meet Trophy Cup . Won by the Yellow Class. The Peltier Swimming Trophy Cup , for the greatest improvement in swimming. Won by Virginia Marks, Senior , Life-Saving Atvards. Junior Lilc-Savcrs Katherine Armstrong, Mariam Cannon, Mary Richards. Senior Life-Savers Claire Bishop, Dorothy Fox, Betty Uhl, Edith Warner. The Brigham Cunningham Qolf Trophy Cup . Won by Adele Emerson, White Class. 7 he Mount Vernon Seminary Challenge Cup for the Tennis Singles Tournament. Won by Kitty Fqye, Senior . The Fletcher Trophy Cup, for the class winning the highest number of points in competitive sports throughout the year Won by the Yellow Class. The Connie Bavin ger Athletic Banner . Won by the Yellow Class. The Mary Jane Quilhot Medal Trophy Cup and Athletic Medal, for outstanding sportsmanship, contribution and achievement. Won by Helen Ray Potter, [ 110 ] he Gupola G h indar September ig School opens. October z Sightseeing begins — with Mt. Vernon our goal. October 3 Old girl-new girl party, October 5 Flag Day, October 10 The Admirable Crichton and Senior housewarming, October 24 Junior vaudeville, October 31 Hallowe ' en party, November 5 Founder’s Day. November 26 Thanksgiving Day, December 5 Madeira game and Senior play, December 13 Christmas Carol service. December 15 Christmas play and party. December 17 Christmas vacation. January 6 Return from vacation, January g First Ingenuity Contest January 16 Second Senior-Junior Contest January 17 Presentation of Junior colors. January zg— February 2 Projects. February 3 Clayton Hamilton and his friend Cyrano. February 6 “The Band Wagon and the Yellow and White class party [112] c Ghc Gupola A February 10 February 1 1 February zi February 22 February 26 February zy March 5 March 12 March 23 April z April g April ig—22 April 20 May 5 May 13 May 20-24 May zy May 28 May zg May 30 May 3 1 June 1 “Cyrano de Bergerac.’ 1 Long weekend, Percy MtKaye Masque. George Washington Bicentennial program, by the Forms. Max Eastman lecture and reception. Yellow and White class play, tea dance and the Prom. Madeira Basket-Ball Game and Senior Play. “The Barretts of Wimpole Street. 1 ’ Spring vacation. Return from vacation. Athletic Banquet and Dance. M.V.S. Alumnae Council. Junior Play. Senior Essay Day and Junior-Senior Banquet. Great Falls Picnic. Final Projects. School Day. Alumnae Luncheon. Baccalaureate Sunday. C o m me nee me n t Play. Class Day and Treble Clef Club Concert, Commencement Day. [ 113 ] cfShe Cupola OLD QIRL-NEW QIRL PARTY With die arrival of the first Saturday after the opening of school, we all went down to the Field House to be formally and finally introduced to each other, though the evening was much more joyously informal than formal. A three- piece orchestra, punch and cookies, together with good companionship, fur- nished the opportunity for a good time to be had by all. SENIOR HOVSEWARMINQ On Saturday morning it was noticed by the rest of the school that the Seniors all journeyed into town, appearing even willing to forego the pleasure of The Admirable Crichton 1 and returned, burdened with packages. The results of their labors were seen that evening when their doors were flung open to die rest of the school, who, after meeting Miss Cole and the class officers and sharing the refreshments served in Senior Room, progressed from room to room completing the damage done to their constitutions and becoming better ac- quai nted with all the Seniors. JUNIOR VAUDEVILLE On October 24, the Juniors, in the guise of seaworthy sailors, sailed into prominence on the good ship S.S. M.V.S. ’ bringing as cargo their talents for out inspection and enjoyment Several messages were delivered to members of the faculty and student body over the ship ' s radio. Then we were enter- tained with some singing and dancing by members of the crew, and seaman Beal gave a delightful monologue. This was followed by a dramatization of the old ballad, The Twa Sisters 1 with Betty Field and Barbara Beal as the sisters, and Mary Frances Snow as a very amusing harpist with a most amazing harp. The audience was next dissolved into laughter over the Family Album — can we ever forget Katharine Thompson as the bathing beauty or Mary Hurd and Sis Beach as the joyful couple on their honeymoon? We began to expect great and wonderful things of the Junior Gass, after spending such a delightful evening watching their vaudeville. [ 114 ] T te Cupola HALLOWE ' EN PARTY A decidedly odd-looking crowd gathered at the Field House on Hallowe ' en at the invitation of the faculty. Ghosts, black cats, and horrible witches flitted about and proved themselves quite capable of eating large quantities of hot dogs, doughnuts and pumpkin pies. After bobbing for apples, pinning the tail on the donkey and other games, Carol Parker led the way to the gym- nasium, where the faculty presented their entertainment. Miss Guard led a wonderful symphony orchestra, and Mrs, Rice recited a most hair-raising tale of ghosts. What shrieks of delight greeted the one-act play, with Miss Cole and Mrs. Lloyd playing the male leads, and Miss Hastings and Miss Guard — fan and all — as very heroic firemen! Miss Spaulding in a bewitching black taffeta gown did a tap dance, and Miss Hastings sang a duet with Miss Herriott. The thrilling finale was a dance by the chorus, complete in gym clothes and paper plates. Our sides aching, we went to bed vowing that the faculty were surely the best of good sports. FOUNDER ' S DAY Founder’s Day was celebrated with the fall meeting of the M.V.S. Society. Miss Cole presented the school with two copper jugs and a 16th century convent bell which she had found while traveling in Europe, and Frances Witte gave Miss Cole a beautiful white collie, a descendant of Rob Roy, By consent of the members present, he was named “Doc in appreciation of the efforts of Dr. Witte to secure him. Business then gave way to pleasure, and all adjourned to the dining room, where Zimmer’s famous bi rthday cake held the center of the stage. THA NKSQIVINQ DAY We began an exciting day with the chapel service, which was followed at ten- thirty by the Madeira game. Although our team was defeated by a score of 4-2, we felt very proud of them, for they played an excellent game. For luncheon, we dispersed over Washington and spent the afternoon at theaters or the “movies, returning in time to dress for a very large and delicious dinner. The dancing in the evening was gaily concluded by the Faculty joining in our fun. [ 115 ] c nor r N “The Cradle Song p M the Seniors presented a realistic and romantic picture of convent life. Louise Raynor as Teresa, an orphan found by the nuns and brought up by Sister Joanna of the Cross, played by Katherine Cable T was the spirit of joy and happiness in contrast to the grave sisters, Mary Adair Howell, the sweet-spirited Mother Prioress, and Cornelia Lewth waite, the severe and proper Vicarcss, developed their characters beautifully. The play was brought to a dramatic and tragic conclusion when Teresa fell in love with Antonio (Helen Thompson) and left the sisters to go with him. Many thanks are due Miss Herriott for her inspirational directing. [1161 c Ghe Gupola A THE CHRISTMAS PLAY AND PARTY One of the events of the year to which we look forward with the greatest enthusiasm is the Christmas Party, at which we are hostesses to our servants. Why the Chimes Rang ' 1 was presented by members of the student body and cold the story of a poor boy ' s gift to the Christ Child. Our younger guests recited poems and sang for us, and we were amazed at the ease with which they performed. Then Santa Claus came with many presents, in payment for which he often received a kiss, and both old and young were sorry to see him disappear up the chimney again CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE Tots from the Children ' s Village were our guests at the Carol Service, at which the choir sang all our favorite Christmas songs. Perhaps the most impressive moment in the whole year was during the service when the lights of the chapel were turned oft, leaving only the candles burning in the chancel and a bright star shining in the cedar beyond the great window. 1NQENVITT CONTESTS The first contest, the title of which was The Passing Present, 1 ' was won by the Seniors with a most amusing playlet concerning a lamp which was passed as a present from one person to another and finally completed the circle, returning to the first owner. The Juniors gave a more serious interpretation, portraying a bread line with poor professors, poets and other people. The Seniors also won the second contest, A Colonial Incident , ' 1 with a comic opera depicting in several episodes the life of George Washington, written by Ludlc Donaldson. Clara Sherwood made a most heroic George, The Juniors ' play, The Price of a Nation T afforded a glimpse into the tragic side of the founding of our country. In it, an old woman dreams that her husband and son, who had been killed in the Revolutionary War, are again alive. [ 117 ] c Ghe Cupola VALENTINE PARTY Although the Valentine Party was somewhat early this year, none of the usual spirit was lacking, from the red and white balloons floating over our heads to the red lollypops and traditional heart -shaped cakes. Mary Adair Howell, as a farmer boy, and Betty Ireland, making a most amazing plow -horse, won the prize for the most original costume, and Kate Patton, in colonial dress, won the prize for the loveliest. The Forms gave a highly amusing play concerning the arrival of George Washington in the Elysian Fields, which was concluded with a dance by Socrates (Mary Isom) and a Grecian maiden (Dorothy Dexter) that left us weak with laughter. PROM WEEK-END Prom week-end was a new occasion at M.V.S., and, for the first time, we were allowed to enjoy the society of our masculine friends for two days. A prelude to the festivities was the lecture by Max Eastman, and a thrilling one it was, for we were all greatly charmed by his words to us on poetry. The Yellow and White classes presented their play, “The Adventures of Lady Ursula ' on Saturday afternoon, which was followed by a reception for the cast and a tea-dance at the Field House, The great event, the Prom, took place in the evening. The dining room, cleared and polished and with the orchestra arranged behind palms, made an excellent ballroom. We quite forgot there were such things as studies until twelve o’clock brought the dancing to an end, and we bade our escorts goodnight. Our friends came again to church on Sunday morning and stayed for dinner. By three o ' clock guests were departed, gay cries at an end, and all was over [ 118 ] c Ghe Cupola 7 HE era of George Washington was again brought to our minds when we saw Ei The Adventures of Lady Ursula by Anthony Hope, pre- sented by the Yellow and White classes. Anne Naylon, as the Lady Ursula Barrington who pretends to swoon on the doorstep of Sir George Sylvester, the famed woman hater, was irresistibly lovely and amusing. We found Frances Witte — Sir George— as perfect a gentleman as she had previously been a lady. The costumes and settings were lovely, and with the skillful directing of Miss Herriott, a brilliant and con- vincing picture of eighteenth-century life was created. f c he Cupola THE JUNIOR PLAT The Junior play, tl Mr. Pirn Passes By, by A. A. Milne, was presented during the meeting of the M.V.S, Council. The delegates to the Council were for- tunate in being able to see it, since, had it not been for the illness of several members ol the cast, it would have been given late in March. It was no less a success lor being postponed, and the cast lived up to the reputation for dramatic ability which the class as a whole had created already, Betty Field played the title role of Mr. Pirn exceedingly well, and Marguerite Beach and Marion Duval, as the young lovers, captivated the audience, Mrs. Rice’s directing was as successful as e ver s and we were all glad that we could share our pleasure with the Council. SENIOR ESSAY DAY On Senior Essay Day, M.V.S,, arrayed in white serge, proceeded to the indoor gymnasium to listen to the reading of the attempts of the Senior Class at serious composition. This was our first opportunity to hear the results of the many distressed moans and knotted brows among that class during the last month, and we found it an edifying and pleasant process. QREAT FALLS PICNIC The day of the Great Falls picnic found us again in our oldest clothes and gayest spirits as we boarded our friends o( long standing, the trolleys, to be taken to our destination. How good it was to see the merry-go-round and hear the roar of the Potomac once more, and to abandon ourselves joyfully to the delights of the ice-cream and ‘hot-dog 1 ’ booths! The day was far too short, but we found ourselves quite ready, on returning to school, sticky with oranges and candy, to tumble into bed, [1201 c Ghe Gupola yflv fin C onvnencement C N Friday, May 27, work and studies are at last over for the year, ■ and Commencement activities begin with the School Day exercises in the morning, when some of the literary efforts of the year are presented. In the evening the music students give their final recital in Great Hall. Saturday morning we are kept busy making the daisy arches under which the Alumnae will pass before their luncheon; in the afternoon all the girls who are at M.V.S. for their first year go to the Elizabeth Somers’ Resi- dence for tea, thus being given an opportunity to see our school ' s former home. The Baccalaureate Service is held on Sunday, and supper is informal in the cloister, followed by the singing of school and class songs in Great Hall. Between the many events we try, in a mad scramble, to pack. The Commencement Play, Pinero’s “The Enchanted Cottage,” takes place on Monday night, presented by a cast chosen from the school at large. The next day the Seniors hold their Class Day exercises, at which their Class History, Prophecy and Will are read, and we follow them outdoors after the close to see them each cast their most trouble- some trial of school days into the bonfire, and to watch the planting of the class tree. On Tuesday evening the Treble Clef Club entertains at its annual concert and its reception in Great Hall. At last comes Wednes- day, with the Commencement Exercises and many sad partings of friends. We bid good-bye to the Seniors and hurry off to our respective homes and vacations. [ 121 ] he Gupola L ommencenicnt r HEN it was discovered that the Juniors were presenting Shaw’s “You Never Can Tell” for their Commence- ment Play, high expectations were raised, tor Shaw’s plays are sure to prove delightful. Nor was this presentation an exception, for the Juniors proved themselves very capable of handling the delicately humorous lines and of developing their characters and the amusing plot with unusual deftness tor amateurs. Cornelia Lewthwaite did fine work as the iras- cible Mr. Crampton, and Louise Raynor and Jane Ntggeman, the lively and lovable twins, danced through the scenes amid waves of laughter. Mrs. Rice should receive many congratulations on her directing and the excellent results she produced. When we had seen evidence of the unguessed-at abilities tor acting in the Junior Class, we left saying to ourselves, You Never Can Tell.’’ [ 122 ] Gupola R erm nent Am resses THE STAFF Jean Dean Cole. , . . . .Mount Vernon Seminary, Washington, D C. Marion Alcott Ballou 104 Forest Street, Providence, R.I. Helen C. Hastings 9 Corey Road, Brookline, Mass. Katharine E. Hill. . . .308 North Fourth Street, Steubenville, Ohio Grace Brouse 1673 Columbia Road, Washington, D C, Annie M. Baylis 1236 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, N.Y, Catherine Sanderson Blakeslee . . . 759 Chestnut Street, Springfield, Mass. Mary Pitman Brown . . .72 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, Mass, Grace E. Carroll. 410 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Mass. Frances E, Chickering Apt. 51 1, The Wyoming, Washington, D C. Agnes DeLano . . Alban Towers, 3700 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D C. Marion DeLano, .Alban Towers, 3700 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D C. Rebekah Elting . .Mount Vernon Seminary, Washington, DC. Nell Enders 4404 Seventh Street, Washington, D C. Clara W. Forman Roland Park, Baltimore, Md. J. Lorna Guard. Mount Vernon Seminary, Washington, D C. Mildred Hanna, 2117 P Street, Auburn, Neb. Frances Herriott 1206 North TwentyCrst Street, Des Moines, Iowa Elizabeth Alger Hillyar Fairfax, Va. Rowena Holdren .207 Sacra Via, Marietta, Ohio Alice B. Hopkins 7217 Blair Road, Takoma Park, Washington, DC, Corinne Leino. 106 East Harvey Street, Ely, Minn. George Lloyd Alban Towers, 3700 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D C. Olwen Lloyd Alban Towers, 3700 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC. Helen E, Marshall Mount Vernon Seminary, Washington, D.C, Charlotte Guard McAllister 1312 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Md. Louisa J. Martin Mount Vernon Seminary, Washington, D C. Jeanne Moule de la Raitrie 3x5 Fifth Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y. Netta C. Murphey .Mount Vernon Seminary, Washington, D.C. Helen Kingsbury Myers. 1420 Euclid Street, N.W., Washington, D.C Mary A. Nourse 4105 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Adela K. Payne Apt. 510, East Florence Court, Washington, D.C, Jeannette Pearson 77 South Munn Avenue, East Orange, N.J. Eleanore Peltier . . .3 rue Mar beau, Paris, France Elsa Louise Raner 133 Fifteenth Street, Washington, D C. Jane Plummer Rice 413 Cumberland Avenue, Somerset, Md. Robert H. Rice. .413 Cumberland Avenue, Somerset, Md. Alys M. Rickett .Mount Vernon Seminary, Washington, D.C. Katherine Riggs 1S37 Kalorama Road, Washington, D C. Miriam L. Spaulding Mount Vernon Seminary, Washington, D.C. Adolph Torovsky, Jr .2800 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D C. [ 123 ] JwGupola Josephine Tremain. . . . .8 Bryant Street, N.W., Washington, D C. Harriet B Walker, Kennedy ' Warren Apts. ,3 1 33 Connecticut A ve. , Washington, DC, Elizabeth Winston, .......... 1S12 K Street, N.W,, Washington, D.C STUDENT BODY Katherine Alling, . . , 65 Aberdeen Street, Rochester, N Y. Katharine Armstrong Witchwood Lane, Lake Forest, 111 . Adella Badgerow . 1705 Grandview Boulevard, Sioux City, Iowa Margaret Barber. . Topinabee Road, Niles, Mich. Marguerite Beach. 110 Aikenside Road, Riverside, 111 . Barbara Beal . 1571 Ridge Avenue, Evanston III. Mary Josephine Beattie 35 South Goodman Street, Rochester, N Y. Claire Bishop. . 275 Summit Avenue, Hackensack, N.J. Eleanor Bissell. . Lakewood, Plymouth Road, Grand Rapids, Mich. Muriel Bloch .Colonial Heights, Tuckahoc, N Y. Barbara Bonneli 1015 Alameda Boulevard, Coronado, Cal. Patricia Born. . .955 Sheridan Road, Glencoe, 111 , Gene Boyd. 68 1 Garland Avenue, Winnetka, 111 . Laura Butler, . 50 Seventh Street, Beaumont, Texas Katherine Cable. .807 East Locust Street, Davenport, Iowa Mariam Cannon. . ,94 North Union Street, Concord, N.C, Alice Carter. 489 Scenic Drive, Knoxville, Tcnn. Helen Marie Castle. 237 East Delaware Place, Chicago, 111 . Dorothy Chapin, , . . ,240 South Goodman Street, Rochester, N.Y. Polly Chisholm . 201 East Gaston Street, Savannah, Ga. Jean Clark 90 Riverside Drive, Binghamton, N.Y, Barbara Clute. 1 die wild , Watkins Glen, N.Y. Barbara Cobb 151 Rumford Avenue, Mansfield, Mass, Margaret Conklin Bankers Trust Company, Wall Street, New York, N.Y. Mary Helen Connell .2307 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Margery Creed 128 Indian Road, Piedmont, Cal. Virginia Dangler 2942 Fontenay Road, Cleveland, Ohio Jane Dauler Schenley Apartments, Pittsburgh, Pa. Betty Davis. 3808 Jenifer Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Vivian Dewey. ... 105 Woodland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio Dorothy Dexter .460 Fountain Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Mary Wilson Dickey. 522 Washington Street, Watertown, N.Y. Frances Dodge, . . Rochester, Mich. Lucile Donaldson R.F.D. No. 2, Bearden, Tcnn. Shirley Dove Louisville, Colo. Winifred Duncan ...... 6363 Alexander Drive, St. Louis, Mo. Marion Duval . 60 Greenacres Avenue, Scarsdale, N.Y. Adele Emerson . . .508 South Main Street, Middletown, Ohio Margaret Ewing. 496 Walnut Street, New Orleans, La. Edith Ferguson R F.D. No. 2, CoraopoHs, Pa. r 124] Che Cupola A jL Caroline Fickinger 402 West Division Street, Dowagiac, Mich, Betty Field. 931 North Front Street, Parkway Apts., Harrisburg, Pa. Dorothy Fox 309 Main Street, Penn Yan, N.Y. Frederica Galbraith Biltmore Forest, Biltmore, N.C. Wilma Gucker 14 Penfield Road, Rochester, N Y. Jane Harder Philmonc, N.Y. Jean Harris Fair Street, Camden, S C. Lucy -Jane Hedberg, 411 Lakeside Terrace, Glencoe, 111 . Margaret Hildreth. 901 North Main Street, Wheeling, W.Va. Florence Holliss. Beechwood Road, Bronxville, N.Y. Jane Hoover. 1103 Sheridan Road, Evanston, 111 . Marianne Hoover . , 1103 Sheridan Road, Evanston, I 1 L Alice Howell 221 Canterbury Road, Rochester, N.Y. Mary Adair Howell 1S69 Peachtree Road, N.W., Atlanta, Ga. Dorothy Hurd 418 Crestway, Wichita, Kans. Mary Hurd. 149 Paddock Street, Watertown, N.Y. Jane Hutchinson. Pittsburgh Athletic Association, Pittsburgh, Pa. Margaret Huxley 1808 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, 111 . Anne Idema 426 Washington Street, Grand Rapids, Mich Elizabeth Ireland .264 Woodland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio Mary Isom 10 Murray Hill Road, Scarsdale, N.Y. Ruth Johnson 428 Main Street, Johnson City, N.Y, Grace Johnston. ... 447 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. Jean Kellogg. 830 Mount Pleasant Road, Winnetka, 111 . Elizabeth Koehn. 226 Chestnut Street, Englewood, N.J. Mary Lauer 3860 Harney Street, Omaha, Neb. Cornelia Lewthwaite 345 Montgomery Drive, Portland, Ore. Harriet Lewthwaite. .345 Montgomery Drive, Portland, Ore, Dorothy Lum . . . .672 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka, 111 . Jane Ltjpher 10 Sessions Place, Columbus, Ohio Kathleen McCarey 902 South Madison Street, Green Bay, Wis. Charlotte McCrea 2672 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Ga. Catherine McKane, . . 2230 East Bradford Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. Elinor McNeir Governors Road, Sagamore Park, Bronxville, N.Y. Ida Weaver Macklin, Merion, Pa, Ann Maitland . .2915 South University Boulevard, Denver, Colo, Nedine Marble, . Deerfield Drive, Greenwich, Conn. Jean Marr. ..... ... .Stratfield Hotel, Bridgeport, Conn. Doris Masters - - 266 Irving Avenue, South Orange, N.J. Cynthia Merriman. 204 Home Crest Road, Jackson, Mich. Katharine Meyer 185 Chapin Parkway, Buffalo, N.Y. Ann Queenan Miller - .5837 Nicolec Avenue, Chicago, 111 . Harriet Minty . . 1030 West Fifty-third Street, Kansas City, Mo. Fannie Morris .... 500 South Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, Cal. Mary Louise Morris , .1170 Westmoor Road, Winnetka, III . Anne Naylon, 301 North Rockingham Road, Brentwood Heights, Los Angeles, Cal. Gretchen Onderdonk .190 Linden Street, Winnetka, III, Jean Owsley 19 Browntown Road, Biltmore Forset, Biltmore, N.C. Kate Patton 2915 San Jacinto Street, Houston, Texas Eleanor Pearson. . .55 Central Avenue, St. George, Staten Island, N.Y. [ 125 ] c Uhe Cupola Wanda Pike, Eleanor Post Helen Ray Potter Loutse Raynor Edmee Reisimger. ...... Mary Reynolds Ruth Reynolds Juliet Richardson Elizabeth Rogers Helen Schlegel Helen Searle Clara Sherwood Anne Shirk Barbara Sincerbeaux. . . Gertrude Smith Marion Smith Mary Frances Snow Barbara Stewart Muriel Stokes. Julia Strauss. Marjorie Street Virginia Thatcher Helen T hompsgn ...... Kate Thompson. ..... Katharine Thompson. . Margaret Thompson. Elizabeth Uhl. ...... . Eleanor Van Schaack . Jane Wehr Harriet Wightman. . . . Lois Wilcox Justine Wilken, ....... Jean Williams Elojse Wilmsen Betty Wilson Frances Witte Mar g a r et Y a tes 600 MirirliclJ Road, Los Angeles, Cal. . .4101 Hawthorne Avenue, Dallas, Texas . . .280 Irving Avenue, Providence, R.l. .903 Main Street, Port Jefferson, L.L, N.Y. 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No, 3, Dixie Highway, Perrysburg, Ohio ■ . - 231 South Fifth Avenue, La Grange, III. 3026 Forty-fourth Place, NAV., Washington, D C, .217 Madison Avenue, S.E., Grand Rapids, Mich. 323 High Street, Denver, Colo, 915 Braeburn Place, Pittsburgh, Pa. . . ■ , 1000 Washington Street, Watertown, N.Y, . 72 Wyllie Street, Honolulu, T.H. 9 Beeehwood Road, Bronxville, N.Y + 717 Lincoln Avenue, Highland Park, III. iS 7 East Sun bury Street, Shamokin, Pa. 108 West Fremont Place, Los Angeles, Cal. 2721 North Lake Drive, Milwaukee, Wis. 139 University Place, Pittsburgh, Pa. Photographs by Harris £? Ewing [ 126 ] VERNON SEMINARY, BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES, 1 1 00 and i 104 M si. 1 1 4 and 1 HH 1 1th st. Seventeenth year begins MONDAY, Octobers. Thorough instruction in all departments in accord- ance with best modern methods, Espccid jiil vantages in English Literature, History Modern Languages and Music. Every appliance for health and comfort of pupils including ample exercise grounds, steam heat pas- senger elevator and perfect sanitation ' For circulars apply to the Principal, MfS-Sm MHS ELIZABETH J. SOMERS. September g, i8gi From the Washington Evening Star FIELD HOUSE TEA ROOM FIELD SHOP Board of Directors Jean Williams Lucy-Jane Hedberg Dorothy Fox Winifred Duncan Kate Thompson Marjorie Street Harriet Wightman This Shop Is Your Shop . . . It’s filled with those smart, distinctive styles you adore because they are Garfinckel’s . . . with everything your heart could desire in the way of CHARMING YOUNG FASHIONS PARTY WEAR MARVELOUS GREENBRIER SPORTSWEAR DRESS COATS AND EVENING WRAPS AND ALL ACCESSORIES MANY SMART LINES AT MODERATE PRICES Make our famous Fourth Floor your rendezvous . . . meet here . . . rest here . . . and discover that nowhere is there such an interesting, hospitable shop as this is . . . Visit us often ... we love to see you here . . . JULIUS GARFINCKEL CO. F STREET AT 14th Well Appointed Home is a Sound Investment Henderson’s Furniture has the charm of Correct Design . . . combined with Genuine En- during Quality , . . which endows it with power to create that inde- finable atmosphere which stamps a house a Home. Todays Lowered Prices Make Henderson’s Furniture. . . a Gilt-edge Investment that will re- pay you many times in Comfort, Satisfaction and Justifiable Pride of Possession. It will be a Pleasure to Show You . JAMES B. HENDERSON FINE FURNITURE AND INTERIOR DECORATING 1 108 G STREET Phones: District ITT 7677 COAL FUEL OIL James E. Colliflower Co., Inc. 1001 Fifteenth Street, N.W. 706 Fifth Street, S.E. SOUTH WASHINGTON, VIRGINIA METROPOLITAN 4L77, 42.78, 4179 CLARENDON 393 Sole distributors of BLACK K.MCI1T in Washington f D.C., and vicinity COKE WOOD jr and se , Inc. SPECIALIZES IN MISSES’ DRESSES Featuring every costume for the School Girl I9I9 QUE STREET, M. W. ▼ WASHINGTON, D.C. REEVES’ 1 4 W ith appreciation for the many Chocolates courtesies of the young ladies of the Seminary in the past years T ' ms ' oJt 3 LERCH’S rJMade Hercj . . . IIO9 E ST t , N . W. Cleansers and Dyers 1514 CONNECTICUT AVENUE Robert M. Burklin Of all things sold books are incomparably the cheapest; of all pleasures the least palling” WM. BALLANTYNE SONS ' BOOKSELLERS , STATIONERS AND ENGRAVERS 1421 F STREET, NORTHWEST WASHINGTON, D.C ES TABLISHED 1852 Fashions in Footwear Authoritatively Correct Young women who follow the caprices of the mode are assured at all times of real distinctiveness and fashion- correctness in footwear for all occasions from Rich’s. $8.50 $10.50 $12.50 RICH’S F St. at wtb Washington, D.C. h e r • yoit ve reached the dignity of the Senior ' s estate . „ if you are a jolly Junior . , a sophis- ticated Sophomore . . or just entering your career , , you ' ll find what you want at Jetlejff ' s! e at • D RESS E S . - five shops ready to serve you , - from a rid in £ habit for your morning canter . . to a swishy frock for an exciting Prom ! GOLD STRIFE 4t ADJUST A BLES . - in the sheerest of chiffons and nets a joy to wear . . give as gifts . . because they are adjusted to fit everybody. $1.35 to 51.95, • COATS . , soft camel’s hair for sports - . slim lined dress coats beautifully trimmed with fur. These are on the third floor. WASHINGTON, D.C. introduces “The Misses Shop” specializing in ultra-smart clothes for the School Girl and College Mis s who has a natural preference for the finer and more subtle type of apparel Pasternak is famous for . . . correct fashions for Campus and Town, with emphasis on “cus- tom-tailored clothes ' ' to special order in our own tailoring department. Ready to wear and made to order Nunnally’s Candy and Soda of Quality Tasty Meals 1208 F STREET 10} 5 CONNECTICUT AVE. The 1 louse of Courtesy Congratulations to the Class of igjz $t� lipgborn Eleventh St. Between F and G Phone, POtomac 5300 GEO. H. COOKE FLORIST Say It With Flowers ” ray ' ey 1707-1709 Connecticut Ave. Washington, D.C. @ Express Yourself With GUDE’S FLOWERS A safe and pleasant way to remember friends “around the corner or across the miles” regardless of the occasion GUDE BROS. CO. 3 Branch Flower Shops Phone Nat. 4278 Main Store 1212 F ST., N.W. WOODWARD LOTHROP Here— Smart Youth Receives Specialized Attention On our Third and Fourth Floors you may select smart dresses, coats and accessories — for classes, sports, street wear, and social affairs. Woodward Lothrop fashions always give you the assurance of quality and correct style ENGRAVED CARDS HARPER METHOD and stationery produced by Brewood bears the infinite charm that Washington ' s most Scalp Specialists distinguished residents prefer constantly BRANCHES IN ALL CITIES Orders executed on short notice when necessary Wash i ngton Bran ches : Westory Building BREWOOD 601 14th Street Metropolitan 852 3 Stationers and Engravers Connecticut Avenue Shop 61 1 Twelfth Street 1714 Connecticut Ave. North 5701-2 GALT BRO. FRANKLIN CO. ESTABLISHED 1 SOI Opticians JEWELLERS and SILVERSMITHS Makers of Spectacles and Eyeglasses i Oculists Prescriptions Our Specialty 1107 Pennsylvania Avenue Also optical merchandise, such as Opera Glasses, Lorgnettes, Oxfords, etc. Washington, D C. 1329 F STREET YOUTHFUL SHOES OF BEAUTY Arthur Burt Shoe Co. IJ43 F STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. Though when you see us first We may seem hard to please. Look closely-- in the end you’ll find It ' s really done with KassiE KatE AlicE LucilE JackiE U H LEWTHWA 1 TE O W E 169 L 171 LUM M.V.S. BEAUTY SHOP Suite 160- 162 Item Price i Manicure, . . . “Chiel” Duval i Wave . . . “Shrimpo Thompson i Shampoo . . . “Flabby Dangler i Facial Canto Beal Motto: We Thank You 172 161 165 117 WD CS QM HL ROOMS FOR RENT We don ' t want them You want them They ' re Yours I Ray Sunn Mar Louis Helen Suite l2l fi.C. M.H. H.S. J.S. Viewing the outer world A % M S T TL O W G + iao e A l B A 1 5 KAY + MALNEY A. 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