Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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i Io quote Oley Down, Jr., Conservatory senior, Rudolph Serkin's recital 'put one in a state of bewildered questioning. Yes, he does pos- sess an astounding technique, my dear, to Cluote Donald Ogden Stuart, but so does an electric piano! But the Senior Class of the C-014 was angry! We have seldom heard a DIanist's performance which so admirably CQrnbined that penetrating analysis with ar- tistic enthusiasm and warm feeling--an oc- Casion to remember. OH Tuesday night, December l'5, Artur Rod- Zinski, led the Cleveland Orchestra in a concert in Finney Chapel for the last time of the season. Shortly after Dr. Rodzinski went to New York to step into the shoes of Artur Toscanini on Feb- rl-'OVY 22 as leader of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and acted as regular conductor ot that 0l'Chestra for the remainder ot the season. Later he was appointed director of the NBC Concert Orchestra. Of Helen Jepson, young American so- prano star of the Metropolitan Opera Company who sang in Oberlin on De- cember 4, the Cincinnati Enquirer said, Miss Jepson not only has a glorious voice, but she is really beauti- tul. She is, besides, very animated, charming and intelligent-a trilogy of girls not always present in the Diva ot the concert stage.

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On the evenings of November 20 and 2l the Pirates of Penzance came to town with a dress circle and all seats reserved. This Gilbert and Sullivan production presented by the Dramatic Association brought in such large crowds that S, R. O. signs were put out for the first time in many years. The Pirates of Penzance centers around the life of a young man who, through an error on the part of his nurse, was licensed to a pirate instead of a pilot until he reached his twenty-first birthday. Having been born on February 29, he found a most ingenious paradox, he had had only five birthdays although he was twenty-one years old. But it had the usual happy ending with the hero and heroine in each others arms, and the pirates repenting their sins. Rennie Smith come to Oberlin late in the fall to talk on War and Peace. Once he called himself a politician, but because of the American connotation quickly changed his definition of himself. Dr Brooks Emeny peace author and Oberlin trustee said: The will-to-war does not exist in the European masses and German horror pictures of the Spanish War not only serve to show the superiority of the German system, but to create a feeling against war!

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-.ss-N W.. North . . . East . . . West . . . South went the majority of Oberlin students on December l9 . . . Back home to study . . to sleep . . . and to sleep . . . Only a handtul remained in Oberlin. The person to travel the farthest this year was Betty Roome, who went 2600 miles to her home in Santa Barbara. Hugh Hansen, who lives in Palo Alto, went 2550 miles to his home. Margaret Nichol went to Tacoma, Wash- ington, and Ellis Sprunger to San Francisco. Going by air were Julia Van der May, North Coldwell, N. J., Henry Brobst of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Barbara Hastings of Newtonville, Mass., and Eleanor Neel and Margaret Lyon planned to take a plane to Jacksonville, Florida. Taking advantage of new low rates more students went by train to their homes this year than ever before. A large number of special cars were rented by the students for Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, and other large cities.