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VOL. X, No. 52
SWARTHMORE, PA., DECEMBER 30, 1938
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PLAYERS CLUB
FETES MEMBERS
SWARTHMORE'S NEW ULTRA MODERN LADDER TRUCK
Annual   New   Year's   Reception
to Feature Swarthmore Symphony Orchestra Concert
The New Year's reception and concert for the members of the Players
Club next Sunday, January I, will be
opened at 2:15 P. M. with a concert
by the Swarthmore Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of its founder,
Dr. W. F. G. Swann. The Open House
and Reception will follow the concert
and refreshments will be served on the
stage.
The orchestral program has been
carefully selected so as to appeal to
all grades of music lovers, but especially to those whose preferences lean
towards the more melodic and rythmic
forms of symphonic works. It will include Beethoven's famous Leonore
overture, composed originally as the
overture to the opera Fidelio. This
work, in the words of Wagner "sets the
drama of the opera more completely
and movingly before us than ever happens in the sage action which ensues.
It is no longer an overture, but the
mightiest of drama itself."
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony,
which will also be played, is one of
the gems of orchestral literature. Its
characteristic melodies are known and
loved by musicians and laymen alike.
It is simple in form and inexpressibly
beautiful.
The Beautiful Blue Danube of
Strauss will be given in its symphonic
arrangement. This work is delightful
in any arrangement from piano solo to
full symphonic form, but the contributions of the harp, the French horns
and the wood, winds raise it to heights
of beauty rarely heard in any work of
the musical art.
The Bach concerto for two violins
exemplifies the master's combination of
strength and repose. It will be played
by "Lucius Cole, the concert-master j
and Abram Kominski of the first violin section.
The prelude to Lohengrin is one of
the most stirring examples of Wagner's
dramatism in music. Starting in the
frame of a whisper it builds up to one
of the most striking climaxes in all
orchestral music, to end once more in
the peaceful mood in which it starts.
The concert will conclude with the
soul stirring introduction to Act III of
Lohengrin.
The vocal soloist of the day will be
Miss Ruth von Hagen of Chester. Miss
von Hagen began her studies with her
mother, Mrs. Estelle von Hagen, continued them with Henry Gurney, head
of the voice department of Temple
University, and is now studying with
Paul Reimers in New York. She will
sing Carmena, a waltz song in the
Spanish mood by H. Lane Wilson, and
the beautiful Jewel Aria from Gounod's
Faust.
The    Swarthmore    Orchestra    was
founded in the fall of 1936 by Dr. W. F.
G.   Swann,    director    of    the    Bartol
Foundation   Research   Laboratory.   It
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Many Turn Out For
Community Sing
The largest and most enthusiastic attendance in many years was accorded
the Community Carol Sing in front
of Borough Hall Christmas Eve. About
two hundred and fifty people gathered
to sing old and favorite Yuletide songs
from 7 until 7:30 o'clock many remaining longer to raise their voices in a few
extra carols in addition to the planned
program.
Directed by Frank V. Brewster with
Frank R. Morey, trumpeter; Robert
C. Disque, trombonist; JEdith Kniskern, piano accordionist; and Diana
Brewster with her chimes, the singing
was enjoyed by all- The cooperation of
the Police Department in keeping the
section blocked off was an invaluable
aid to the success of the Sing.
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Santa Claus arrived at the Swarthmore Fire and Protective Association in a sixty-five foot aerial ladder truck last Friday. Appropriately timed was the arrival of the eagerly awaited addition to the apparatus of the local volunteer com*
pany. The truck, purchased from Peter Pinch and Sons, Kenosha, Wis., is one of the largest and most modern in
Delaware County and local firemen delight in ike increased efficiency it enables. Any Borough building can be adequately scaled by the deluxe extension equipment.
OBERLIN GLEE
CLUB SINGS HERE
Inn Concert Included in Annual
Christmas Tour of Chorus
of 30 Voices
PARKING RULES TO RE
STRICTLY ENFORCED
Holiday musical and social activities
in Swarthmore include a program to
be presented by the Oberlin College
Varsity Men's Glee Club at the Strath
Haven Inn, Friday evening, December
30, at 9 o'clock. The thirty Oberlin College entertainers who are appearing
here unders the auspices of the Strath
Haven Inn hail from twelve states and
from two foreign countries, China and
India. They come to Swarthmore as
one of the stops on their annual Christmas concert tour, including such eastern cities as Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Washington, and Wilmington.
Among the selections which the Club
will sing are: "The Cossack" by Morii-
uszko; "Caleno Custure Me" by Harris; "Discovery" by Grieg; "Dedication"
by Franz; "Land of the Sky-Blue Water" and "The Moon Drops Low" both
by  Cadman.
At the conclusion of the program the
Club will sing some southern airs including a Texas plantation "melody and
a Kentucky ballad. The medley is being written under the direction of and
will be accompanied by Mr. Max Er-
vin from Pomona, California. Mr. Ervin
is president of' the Glee Club and director of the Freshman Glee Club.
There will be a charge for admission.
Tickets can be secured in advance from
Mrs. C. C. West, Sw. 620, Mrs. Peter
E. Told, Sw. 1725-R, The Swarthmorean office or at the Inn.
LOCAL MAN RETIRES
Library Petitions Available
Two vacancies will exist on
the Swarthmore Public Library
Board. Petitions of nomination
may be obtained at the Library
or from Miss Alice Barber, of
Harvard avenue, and must be
filed with Miss Barber by Saturday, January 7.
Albert H. Osterman, assistant vice-
president of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, and long a resident of Swarthmore, will retire on December 31, after rounding out forty-
four years of service in the Bell System.
Starting as a clerk in Washington,
D. C, in 1894, Osterman rose steadily
and, in 1926, was appointed assistant
vice-president, operations.
The telephone executive, who lives
at 130 Rutgers avenue, Swarthmore,
was born in Cincinnati. He attended
school in .Washington, D. C, and
studied law at Georgetown University.
Wednesday night, December 28, his
telephone associates honored him at
a dinner.
Swarthmore Borough Council, having
received repeated complaints, has instructed the Police Department to
strictly enforce parking regulations as
indicated by signs, especially in the immediate vicinity of the business section
of the Borough.
Any car parked on the west side of
Park avenue between the railroad station and Harvard avenue, or on the
west side of South Chester road north
of Harvard avenue, on Dartmouth avenue in front of the doors of the police
garage and the fire house, or in the
space in front of Borough Hall allotted
to official cars only, is parked illegally.
A parking problem, already serious, is
fast growing more aggravated.
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Chaperon Holiday Classes
Chaperons at the Woman's Club to
night when the Swarthmore Dancing
Classes hold their holiday sessions will
be: introductory class, seventh grade-
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thatcher, Mr.
and Mrs. L. L. Hedgepeth, Mr. and
Mrs. I. N. Durboraw, Mr. and Mrs.
E. O. Lange, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Hastings, Mrs. William Allen Brown and
Mrs. W. H. Baird; advanced class,
ninth grade—Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.
Spiller, Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton Dickson, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Daley, Dr.
and Mrs. George L. Armitage, Mr. and
Mrs. Clark W. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. F.
N. Landon, and Mrs. Samuel M. Dodd;
senior assembly, twelfth grade—Mr.
and Mrs. Dwight Cooley, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter L. Thorpe, Mr. and Mrs. E.
W. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dins-
more, Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Griffin and Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Brown.
Tax Penalties January 1
Penalties will be placed on unpaid
1938 Borough and County taxes the
first of the new year. Residents are also
reminded that every one must fill out
and return personal property blanks
by January 15. If one has nothing to
declare the word "none" should be
used in the columns provided for the
figures.
Fairbanks Pupils Have Parties
The Misses Antonica and Camilla
Fairbanks, of Park avenue, entertained
their music pupils at Christmas parties
Thursday and Friday afternoons, December 22 and 23. Parents and friends
of the pupils were invited.
Both afternoons the pupils gave a
half-hour program of solo and ensemble music. A delightful reading of
"'Twas the Night Before Christmas"
by Gretchen Van De Boe closed the
program.
COLLEGE PLAY
TO AID REFUGEES
"Judgment Day" Will be Given
Repeat Performance in
Clothier Next Friday
"Judgment Day," Elmer Rice's anti-
Nazi play which the Swarthmore College Little Theatre Club produced so
successfully early in December, will be
repeated on January 6. This request
performance is scheduled for 8:15 P. M.
in Clothier Memorial on. the Swarthmore campus. The services of cast, director, and the six production crews are
being contributed for the purpose of
raising money for the Student Refugee
Relief Fund- The entire proceeds from
the sale of seats will be turned over to
the student-faculty committee which is
handling, this fund.
The play, a story of the corruption
and thwarting of justice in a totalitarian
state, is. based on -the story of the. fa
mous Reichstag Trial of 1933. In historic fact, the obviously innocent de
fendants were tried for the crime of
setting fire to the Reichstag, or parliament building. In "judgment Day" two
readers of the People's Party fight for
their lives against an equally trumped-
,up charge of attempting to assassinate
the dictator. The single court-room set
is suggestive rather than realistic, mak-
jmg effective use of the symbolism of
line, mass, and color. Over all hangs the
banner of the preying eagle, an original but highly significant symbol.
There are no intermissions to break
the continuous build of the performance. Instead, during blackouts the
audience hears news broadcasts of official propoganda, telling it what it is
permitted to believe about the progress of the trial.
In the light of the most recent European tragedy, this production of
"Judgment Day" is both timely and important. While showing some of the
methods used by fascism in its rise to
power, it solicits aid for the victims of
fascist inhumanity.
The entire cast of sixty which appeared in the original performance will
be seen again in the second presentation. Marion Rous, '39, of New York
City, and Elliott Alexander, '41, of Orlando, Fla., play ""the leading parts of
the two chief defendants. Other important roles are taken by John Leich, '42,
of Evansville, Ind.; William Dietz, '42,
of Wilmington, Dei; Roland Ball, '39,
of Richmond, Ind.; David Spears, '41,
of Indianapolis, Ind., and Dalton Mc-
Alister, '42, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
Mrs. Robert MacLeod, director of
dramatics at Swarthmore, has announced that tickets for the Friday
night benefit performance can be secured from her by mail or at the College Bookstore. Seats in a reserved section will sell for a slightly higher price
CONTEST AWARDS
ANNOUNCED
Judges  Rush Decisions  So  All
May See Winning
Displays
Prompt and thorough action by the
judges of the Community Christmas
Lighting Contest makes possible the
announcement of their decision today
and insures against any reader of The
Swarthmorean missing the prize winning illuminations which will be kept
lighted throughout the New Year holiday.
William H. Ward, chairman, Mrs.
William F. Hanny, Mrs. A. M. Lackey,
and Fred R. Wilson are to* be complimented on the thoroughness and
speed with which they dispatched their
difficult task. They inspected each Borough home with visible exterior decoration and found ninety-five in all of
which thirty-two were north of the
railroad, sixty-three south of it. Their
decision was based on the originality,
tasteful arrangement and appropriateness of the displays rather than upon
the elaborateness of their execution.
The judges feel that any estimate of
Swarthmore's holiday illumination must
include the William T. Ellis' blue
lighted spruce which has glorified so
many Christmases here and the Moses
T. Ewing display with its brightly illuminated shrubbery, its old English
village display complete with carolers
on the sun porch and snow covered sassafras tree in the north bay window.
The lower rooms of the Ewing home
are thrown open to visitors, and children who eome are given peppermint
canes. Each of these displays is in a
class by itself and each contributed its
specific joy to the community yule-
tide.
J1. Burris West, of Dickinson avenue,
was awarded the first prize of five dollars in the Community Christmas Lighting1 Contest by the decision of the four
judges. Mr. West achieved ~a~dignified
and colorful effect by diffused red lights
in the windows and blue and red flood
lights thrown on the house front.
The second prize of three dollars
was given to John E. Michael, of Park
and' Yale avenues, for the unusal and
effective shutter and doorway treatment which combines laurel with red
and green lights which are ornamental'
both by day and night.
F. S. Brown, of 530 Riverview road,
won the third award of two dollars
by the appropriate Christmas scenes
which  illuminated  his  windows.
Three illuminators were awarded
honorable mention by the judges. Dr.
A. F. Jackson whose Christmas lighting has given pleasure to Borough residents for years received honorable mention. This year Dr. Jackson is using a
restrained arrangement of tall candles
and blue lights in the windows. Howard' J. Dingle, of Park avenue, received second honorable mention with
red lighted wreaths in each window,
bringing out the architectural lines of
the dwelling. Captain E. H. Van Patten,
of 222 Rutgers avenue, received third
honorable mention with a carefully
scaled nativity scene against a background of starlit sky which occupies
one entire end of the porch.
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THE WEEK'S CALENDAR
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30
9:00 P. M. — Oberlin Men's Glee Club Concert Strath Haven Inn
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31
10:00 P. M. to 2 A. M. — Series Dance Woman's Club
SUNDAY, JANUARY 1
2:15 P. M. —New Year's Open House Players Club
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4
1:00 P. M. — Ladles' AW Luncheon Methodist Church
2:00 P. M. —Woman's  Auxiliary Trinity Pariah House
3:00 P. M. —Woman's Guild  ...Trinity Parish House
THURSDAY. JANUARY S
1:00 P. M. — Women's Republican Club   Strath Haven Inn
Local Man Longest Employed
at Scott Plant
Not all the Swarthmoreans at the
Scott Paper Company's annual em.
ployee Christmas party at the Stanley
Theatre last Saturday morning, were
in the audience.
As president of the Company Thomas
Bi McCabe, of North Chester road,
presented service awards and announced winners in the contest to name
a new machine. First on the platform
to receive a service award was Harry
Liebeck, of Park avenue, dean of the
Company's Twenty-five Year Club. Mr.
Liebeck had been with Scott's forty-six
years and is in the engineering department.
Republican Women to Meet Here
The New Year luncheon of the Women's Republican Club of Delaware
County wilt be held Thursday, January
5, at 1 P. M. at the Strath Haven Inn.
The subject for the day is "Building
for 1940* and an interesting speaker
is promised to discuss ways and means
of laying a firm foundation.
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