THOUSAND GIRLS PRESENT
This year, for the 25th annual Winter Carnival, more than a thousand fair damsels were in Hanover, dances in 26 different fraternity houses replaced the Outing Club Ball in old' Commons, Harvard furnished the opposition in the traditional hockey game and Yale sent teams to Hanover to meet the Green in basketball and swimming, a lavish Outdoor Evening featured the opening day of the week-end, Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance was presented by the combined forces of The Players and the Handel Society in place of David, Carrick by the old Dramatic Association, the finest collegiate skiers in America and Canada waged battle where once a handful of Dartmouth undergraduates competed, and elaborate snow sculpture and lighting effects gave Hanover a fairyland appearance where only a snow-mantled village existed before. In gayety and Carnival spirit, however, little was changed, and the first and twenty-fifth festivals had a great deal in common in their emphasis on outdoor events.
Perfect weather greeted the arrival of Carnival on Friday, and the Outdoor Evening presentation, titled JottunheimerEiskomeval, was held on the golf course under ideal conditions. Against the background of a Norse village and the throne room of the gods, Miss Evelyn Chandler, world's champion woman skater, thrilled a record throng; members of Otto Schniebs' crack ski team swooped down the lighted slopes of Hilton Field to the accompaniment of Wagnerian music; Miss Pauline Webster of Detroit was crowned Queen of the Snows; and a veritable orgy of fireworks left everyone limp with excitement. The Outdoor Evening was universally adjudged the best and most elaborate that the Outing Club has presented since the series began on the golf course in 1931. Skiing and skating by floodlight, the initial performance of The Pirates of Penzance, and fraternity dances until the small hours of Saturday morning rounded out the first day's program. Soft snow fell during the night to give Hanover a sparkling white mantle for the festivities of the second day.
Some 3,000 spectators were up bright and early Saturday morning to witness the downhill race on the new Velvet Rocks trail. Hurtling down the mile course in 58 seconds, Dick Durrance, Dartmouth's sensational freshman skier, provided the real thrill of the week-end. The first-year student from Florida completely stole the limelight in the winter sports meet, winning the downhill, langlauf and combined events, and finishing second in the jump and third in the slalom. After piling up a considerable lead in these five events, Dartmouth was disqualified in the final relay event, when a member of the Green team got of! the marked course, and finished third behind New Hampshire and McGill.
The slopes around the ski jump Saturday afternoon were a kaleidoscope of color, as the largest crowd in Carnival history gathered for the thrill of the intercollegiate ski-jumping contest. Durrance was credited with the longest leap, 34.1 meters, but his teammate Bern Woods held the advantage in form and won theevent. Tea dances followed the after- noon's jumping, with the Yale basketball game, another presentation of The Piratesof Penzance, and more fraternity dances filling up the evening of the second day.
The snow scupture this year reached a new level of excellence, and the almost complete participation by dormitories as well as fraternities made this annual feature of Carnival the best ever. First prize in the fraternity sculpture went to Kappa Sigma, which presented a graceful woman skater against a background of black ice, while the prize in the dormitory division went to College Hall, which presented Siegfried and the Dragon. A giant statue of Wodin, the Norse god, was erected in the center of the campus, and was declared by the judges to be the first figure executed on a scale suitable for such a difficult spot.
