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Wagner, president of the active chapter, made
a short talk.
Mrs. H . M . Cox gave reminiscences of the
university as remembered 20 years ago.
Special greetings f r o m the grand president,
Mrs. Arthur Anderson, and greetings from
charter members of Omicron chapter were
read.
I n the guest list of 55 were included eight
former presidents of the chapter, two former
southern district superintendents.
The member present f r o m the most distant
point was Mrs. Harriet Martin (Miss Mary
Neil Black) of Denver, Colo.—Knoxville
Journal.
Interpretive Pianist Plays
-f- DOROTHY WOMFATH ( T ) , f r o m the master
class of Gabriel Fenyves, Hungarian pian-
ist, last night gave a piano recital at Mac-
Phail auditorium which bespoke her interest
and skill in modern music. Her highly devel-
oped sense f o r interpretation was evinced in
every selection she played and triumphed, par-
ticularly in her final Mussorgski number.
Beginning was made with "Chorale, Prel-
ude and Fugue" by Cesar Franck, one of the
Belgo-French composer's finest creations f o r
piano alone. I t is built up on themes familiar
to the Franck student (a species which seems
to go on multiplying) from his organ, sym-
phony and chamber music and is filled with
his ardent emotion and inspired religious up-
lift.
The first mood expressed by the chorale
had in Miss Womrath's interpretation contri-
tion, but not without hope. To the thematic
nucleus phrase, even though played pianissimo
at first, should f r o m the beginning have had
somewhat more luster, but in its further ap-
plication soon rose to brilliance. The abso-
lute correctness in notes attacked in the arpeg-
gio of crosshand character was, at the start,
not without slips. Otherwise the whole per-
formance was full of merit and convincing
feeling as well.
A group of smaller works of contemporary
or almost contemporary composers was well
chosen and charmingly performed. The most
beautiful of them all seemed the B flat minor
etude by Szymanowski, the new Chopin of
Poland, which is a poem in music, wistful at
first hut through intensification of mood built
up into a fine emotional climax. I n such com-
positions where the new musical idiom is not
impertinently militant, as in the prokofiev
march that followed, its radicalism is hardly
apparent. The latter was played with the
proper saucy humor and insouciance.
Debussy's "Reflets dans 1'eau" was traced
like the noble piece of "Japonaiserie" that it
is. Gay and glittering was made the Gieseking
transcription of "Staendchen" by Richard
Strauss, while of Dohnanyi's F sharp minor
rhapsody was made not only a splendid piece
of virtuosity but also an interpretation of
Hungarian folk moods.
Opposite the title of "Pictures at an Expo-
sition" only Mussorgski's name was given,
but this is a composition written f o r piano
To D R A G M A I J
fourhand and the arranger f o r piano sol
should be stated, in this case no doubt Harold
Bauer's excellent arrangement which is »u
best extant. I t was played entire, which is the
only way to treat it and in which the various
forms of the intermittent "promenade" theme
at last is elaborated into the impressive key-
stone music of the Bogatyrs gate at Kiev as
a sublime expression of the Russian f 0 | v
spirit of the past.
Miss Womrath gave the proper carefree
character to the meandering promenade theme
and endowed each of the pictures with its
proper character, whether it was humores-
quely grotesque, romantic, parodic or starkly
realistic. The closing number was built up
with magnificent strength.—By Victor Nilsson
in The Minneapolis Journal.
New York Holds Campaign Dinner
-+- NEW YORK ALUMN.-E Chapter began the
the season with a memorable election
campaign dinner in the banquet room (so-
called) of Child's Savoy-Plaza Restaurant on
59th Street.
Almost everyone came to hear four of us:
electioneer,—one f o r each of the four candi-
dates f o r Mayor of New York in the recent
hotly contested election.
Mary Donlon ( N ) served as leader and, if
you ever want a chairman to steer an occa-
sion to success, it would pay you to send for
Mary, no matter where you are. She directed
the fun and the earnestness with a merry but
firm control, was pithy and witty, and kept the
speakers to time and everything moving.
The order of the speeches was decided by
lot, in scaled envelopes, and they emerged:
Virginia Mollenhauer ( N ) f o r McKee and the
Recovery Party; Pinckney Estes Glantzberg
(•"I') f o r O'Brien and Tammany; Jessie Wab
lace Hughan ( A ) f o r Solomon and the So-
cialists; and Mary Kent-Miller Tennant (OH)
f o r LaGuardia and Fusion. We were afraid
they were going to "pull their punches" and
be too polite to one another, but they went
warmly, though gaily, to the fray, and there
surelv was fun and mavbe enlightenment for
all.
A f t e r each of the other speakers had had
her fling at Tammany, Pinckney ottered her
opponent a pink rose f r o m the table decora-
tions. " H o w generous," somebody applauded
laughing. Pinckney rejoined like a shot "Tam-
many is always generous!" "Yes," said Mary
Tennant's quiet voice, "with other peoples*
roses!"
Jessie Hughan, in f u l l sail, said " I can
speak on that point f o r . an hour!" "No-o!
You can't," said the chairman, tapping her
glass, "time's up, Miss Hughan."
They were all fine. Virginia drew such a
human and trustable picture of her neighbor
McKee, that we liked him whether we voted
for him or not. It's well-known what Pinck-
ney's brilliant wit always does and how her
rapiers flash. She was in top f o r m ; we'd
rather hear Pinckney than do almost anything
else. Mary Tennant's rich trained voice and
beautiful diction delighted the ear, and,
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though a novice at politics, she held her own ...
v j t h these veteran campaigners. (Was that :
w h y La Guardia won the election?) Jessie's
masterly address was challenging and thought- 'Miss Ipana" is Lilyan Dillard, Rho, in
compelling and turned the after-meeting into life.
a Symposium o n Socialism, until the wait-
resses homeward wended their weary way. Phi Beta, 14; Kappa Alpha Theta, 28; Kappa
Delta, 9; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 23; Phi M u ,
The'1 Mary Donlon summarized with a quo- 6; Phi Omega Pi, 6; Pi Beta Phi. 23; Sigma
tation f r o m our Mary Ellen Chase's book, Delta Tau, 8; Sigma Kappa, 5, and Zeta Tau
laying that—like Mary Ellen's grandmother- Alpha, 5.—Minnesota Alumni Weekly.
all these enthusiastic partisans' interest in
truth was "more esthetic and dramatic than "Miss Ipana" is an AOII
intrinsic."
-f- AFTER WEEKS of searching throughout the
A high-spot was the presence or our great country, IAlyan Dillard, (P) of Birming-
Joanna Colcord ( T ) , who said, on request, a
few poignant words about the present needs ham, Alabama, was chosen as the "dental
of relief and their implications. charm girl" of a A Century of Progress Ex-
position at Chicago. A comely brunette with
Ethel McGary (N) had charge of the phys- beaming personality, Miss Dillard was selected
ical arrangements which, appropriately, went by a committee of experts f o r her near-
swimmingly. And the Chapter President, Ma- perfect "dental personality." Her teeth are
bel Anderson Mclndoe ( N ) , who had turned valued at $64,000. She is a graduate of North-
the meeting over to Mary Donlon, lent grace western University and of Stephens College
and charm to the occasion. at Columbia, Missouri.
New York Alumna: Chapter's alive this A t the Chicago World's Fair, Miss Dillard
year, sisters. Everybody, come!—By Special was known as "Miss Ipana." On a dais under
Correspondent to To DRAGMA. a gleaming chromium-plated star, revolving
atop a high staff and beckoning visitors to the
Miss Jolliff Makes Plans Bristol-Myers exhibit, the "charm girl" re-
for Banquet vealed her "dental smile" to thousands of
sightseers.
_f- Miss E L L E N JOLLIFF ( T ) , chairman of the
committee which has been planning the A t this exhibit was seen the first public
demonstration of the complete manufacture
Founders' Day banquet f o r Alpha Omicron Pi of a tube of tooth paste. I t represented an
sorority announces completed details f o r the investment of nearly $100,000 and was located
affair which will be given tomorrow evening in the General Exhibits building. A manu-
at 6:30 o'clock in Hotel Edmond Meany. facturing unit similar to that used in the
Ipana plant at Hillside, New Jersey, pro-
Mrs. Kenneth C. Mclntoch w i l l be toast- duced about 25,000 tubes each day. Every
mistress calling upon Mrs. R. Lester Kally step in the process was visible, starting with
of Tacoma, Mrs. Raymond Davis, Miss Ellen the small tin disc f r o m which the tube is
Mudgett and Miss Gladys Phillips, represent- fashioned to the finished and filled tube final-
ing the college chapter, f o r responses. Miss ly packed in a souvenir carton.
Dorothy Hall will sing during the evening,
with piano accompaniment by Miss lib Carey
and cello obligato by Mrs. Edward Meimeier.
Assisting on the general committee are Miss
Margaret Evans, Miss Dorothy Hall, Mrs.
Wakins, Mrs. M . F. McMinn.—Seattle Times.
Sororities Pledge at
Minnesota
H L A T FIVE O'CLOCK on Monday afternoon of
last week 280 young hopefuls fell into the
waiting arms of the watchful Greeks, took
the mystic vows and were pinned with the
emblem of the house of their choice. This
marked the close of a strenuous week of
rushing on sorority row. The usual large
pledge night parties were abandoned this year
in'accord with the Panhellenic decision, and
were replaced by small theater parties or even
"homier" forms of entertainment at the va-
rious houses.
The number of girls pledged by each soror-
ity follows: Alpha Chi Omega, 10; Alpha
Delta Pi, 10; Alpha Gamma Delta, 24; Alpha
Omicron Pi, 15; Alpha Phi, 27; Alpha X i
Delta, 7; Chi Omega, 18; Delta Delta Delta,
23; Delta Gamma, 17; Delta Zeta, 7; Gamma