MUSICIANS AND SPEAKERS AID COLLEGE PROGRAM
Hanover is fast emerging from the uncultured backwoods in which it has long supposed to have been isolated. Nine out-of-town speakers from England, Argentine, New York, Boston and Waltham, one symphony orchestra from Boston, one New York stock company, one organist from Stanford, and one quartet from the far south, in addition to the usual extra-curriculum lectures, musicales, and Sunday evening talks in fraternity houses, made up a cultural menu for the past month which would have satisfied. even the most ravenous seeker after knowledge.
Most noteworthy of all was the concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 5. The audience, which chocked Webster Hall to the eves, tried for many minutes to get Mr. Pierre Monteux, the conductor, to break his rule of according no encores.
The Shakespeare Playhouse, under the auspices of the Dartmouth Players, presented Shaw's "Candida" in Webster before an audience well over 800, which parceled out more than the usual number of appreciative handclaps. The size of the crowd and the friendliness with which they received "Candida" would justify the Players in bringing the Shakespeare Playhouse and similar companies to Hanover at bi-monthly intervals throughout the college year.
The introduction of a new act, the revival of two of the best numbers of past years in the form of E. H. Rubin '23 and the "Midnight Sons", and the superior song and dance of "Isham Dumb and His Nine . Bells" rank this year's specialty acts show, given October 21, above that of last year.
Prof. Warren D. Allen, Stanford organist who is making a tour of the east, stopped off in Hanover for a recital on the Rollins Chapel organ. Stay-at-homes' over the week end of the Cornell game took consolation that was far from bitter in the program of negro jubilee songs and spirituals presented by the quartet from the Hampton Institute. Mr. F. S. Ketcham in charge of the delegation, explained the purpose and work of the negro college after the music.
Mr. Kenneth Lindsay a member of the Oxford University debating team which recently toured the east came to Hanover as the guest of the Round Table and brought out the British point of view regarding "The Labor Situation and its Effect on the Student Body of Today" in his talk.
