Queen of the Snows Chosen
A new feature of the Outdoor Evening was the selection of a "Queen of the Snows," beauty and costume counting equally. As the parade passed through the gateway, the judges, Professors N. L. Smith and A. W. Frey and Mr. W. H. McCarter, made the preliminary selection. At the final selection nine girls passed before the judges who stood out in front of the bleachers. Miss Florence Rice, of New York City, daughter of Grantland Rice, the well known sports writer, was chosen as "Queen of the Snows." A novel feature of the program was the rendering of "The Hanover Winter Song" by the Dartmouth Glee Club. A huge bonfire marked the close of the Outdoor Evening. At 10 o'clock the fraternity dances began, and continued until dawn streaked the sky.
Friday morning classes were attended or not, according to the number of cuts expected by the individual student. After lunch barges left for Balch Hill where the intercollegiate skiing championships were held. The contestants and spectators then sleighed over to Vermont, where the slalom races were held on a hill near the river. G. K. Sanborn '28 was the only Dartmouth man to place in either of these two events. A swimming meet with Springfield at 4.30 completed the program of athletic contests for the day.
The Players returned to a stud en t-composed Carnival production this year instead of shows such as "The Chocolate So 1 dier," which was given last year. The "delicious bit of fun and nonsense" which was given Friday evening (and repeated Saturdayevening) was called "The Green Peach." It was the work of N. R. Dowe '28 and C. B. Gaynor '29. The show has an interesting history. The manuscript was being brought somewhere from somewhere in an automobile a few days before the musical comedy competition was decided by the judges, and on its journey the automobile took fire and the first act of the Green Peach was destroyed. Thereupon the authors, with only two days to spare before the end of the competition, rewrote the whole business from memory and turned it over to the judges in time to get the award. Incidentally, one of the song hits of the show, "In Our Little Boat," was broadcast from station WEAF February 8. Other songs which pleased the crowd were "Why Am I Like I Am ?" sung by Joe D'Esopo, "A Tune By Gershwin," "Blow on Your Horn," and "Good Bye Blues."
The show was praised as the best Carnival show written by students in several years. From Webster Hall the Carnival guests and their escorts walked along in front of Dartmouth row, which was outlined against the sky by hundreds of lights, and down Wheelock street to the Gymnasium, which had been transformed into a great medieval tournament pavilion. As the knights, squires, pilgrims, Saracens, Guineveres, and courtly ladies, representing England at the time of the Norman conquest, entered by the postern gate they saw at the far end of the floor the main keep of the castle with high buttressed walls and overhanging balconies. Each fraternity had an individual booth with its armorial crest or shield displayed. Ernie Andrews and his 16-piece El Patio Room Orchestra from the Clinton Hotel, Springfield, Mass., furnished the music for the ball, which lasted until four. During the ball the Dartmouth fencing team, costumed as knights and robbers, fought a furious battle in which the knights, of course, killed all the attacking robbers and rescued the fair maiden.
Saturday, thanks to a wise and sympathetic faculty, there were no classes. The most important event of the morning was the Yale hockey game at 11, which Yale won 4-3. Also going on in the morning, although few got up early enough to watch, were the 7-mile cross-country ski race, the skating races and figure skating competition. At noon a skijoring race was held on East Wheelock street. Practically everyone in Hanover node or walked out to the ski jump Saturday afternoon to watch the championship intercollegiate skijumping tournament. Pederson, of New Hampshire, won first place with a jump of 117 feet, and Cruikshank and Whittemore took second and third places respectively for Dartmouth. Pederson's victory in this event gave New Hampshire the Intercollegiate Winter Sports Union cup for the third consecutive year. Before the jumping started McGill was leading New Hampshire by one point. Dartmouth was third in number of points scored during the three days of competition. The absence of Charles Proctor '2B, captain of the winter sports team who was in Switzerland as a member of the American Olympic Winter Sports Team, was a serious handicap for Dartmouth.
A basketball game with Harvard, which Dartmouth won 44-31, attracted the crowd early in the evening. Those who had not been able to crowd into Webster Hall Friday night had an opportunity to see "The Green Peach after the basketball game. Fraternity dances from nine to twelve and then Carnival was over as far as official entertainment was concerned. By six o'clock Sunday evening the last special train had pulled out and Carnival was nothing but memories, to be talked over and lived over in the succeeding days.
Sigma Nu was adjudged the winner of the interfraternity snow and ice sculpturing contest by a committee of judges consisting of Professors Ames, Larmon and Lord. Sigma Nu's statue, showing a girl in winter sports attire leaning on a ski pole, was sculptured by D. A. McCornack '29, who designed the winning piece last year.
A Carnival House Party
