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Ol)e Campus ^ttirror Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia 11111111111111111111 M 111111 1111111111111111111111111 111111111 1111111111111111111111111111 m 111111111111111111M1111,II1111111M11111111 I 11 1111111111111 Volume IX. February 15. 1933 Number 5 mi Antigone To Be Given Satur day Night, February 18th The presentation of Sophocles famous tragedy, Antigone, promises t<> be one of the best presentations the University Players have yet given. The play pictures life in ancient Greece. The story of Antigone’s unusual courage of determination to brave the threat of the king, who had decreed death to any who dared disobey bis order, leads ns through a series of incidents which are as human as present day life, yet, when followed to their culmination, leave us with the wholesome effect of great tragedy. The 1 niversity players have proved their versatility by their excellent work in past performances, such as: Lady Windermerps Fan, Cradel Song, lie, Loyalties and Sun-up. Now wo shall see a play that is altogether different from any of these. There will be unusual stage settings. Special choruses have been arranged for the play by Jose phine Harreld. There will be features of exceptional interest which belong especial ly to Greek Drama—a form of art which has never ceased to be of deep and genuine artistic interest since the far off time of the ancient Greeks. The price of general admission is 25c; reserved seats may be purchased for 35c. Don’t miss Antigone—it’s different! It is new to all who have not seen Greek dra ma presented. Paine College Celebrates Semi-Centennial The fiftieth anniversary of Paine College, Augusta, Georgia, was observed last week with a definite program to carry out the celebration. Spelman College was represented by Dean Jane Hope Lyons and Mr. Philip M. Davis, superintendent of grounds and buildings. One of the special features of the pro gram was a pageant Marching On, given Thursday night, February it. by the stu dents of the College depicting two hundred and fifty years of progress by tin* Negro race. The pageant portrayed the element al passibns of primitive people of Africa. Frederick Dube, native zulu of Natal, South Africa, and student of Morehouse College, trained the cast in tribal dances and yells. James Weldon Johnson delivered The Ser mon on the Creation, of which he is author. The faculty, students and trustees, Negro and white, participated in scenes portraying the founding and development of Paine < ol lege. Mrs. Lyons, our Dean of Women, was personally acquainted with the first Presi dent of Paine College. Famous Negro Tenor At Spelman College William Lawrence, whose remarkable tenor voice has attracted international com ment and has added to his already wide spread reputation as a composer and pian ist, gave a recital at Spelman College Mon day evening, February 13th, at S o'clock. ITe was accompanied by 1 awrence Brown, well known as accompanist of Poland Hayes and Paul Robeson and as the composer who has arranged many of the spirituals sung by those artists. Mr. Lawrence is a native of Charleston, South Carolina, where his father was or ganist of the Congregational Church for over thirty years. As a boy, Mr. Lawrence showed marked ability as a pianist, or ganist and singer. At his father’s sugges tion, he decided to concentrate on the study of piano, with a view to concert work and composition. His brother was in the up holstery business, and Mr. Lawrence worked with him to earn sufficient funds for study in Boston, in the meantime working on piano technique under J. Donovan Moore, a leading piano instructor of Charleston. In 1913, Mr. Lawrence enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied three years, part of the time under Klare, a pupil of Liszt, and part of the time with Airs. Frances L. Grover. He won a wide reputation as accompanist for Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes and others. His cherished ambition was to give to the world an interpretation of Negro ar tistic ability through music, and he soon began collecting Negro spirituals and com positions by Negroes. Wherever he went, he studied and compared the compositions of Negroes with compositions and folk songs of other races. For additional work in composition, lie went to London, and spent a year studying piano under Matt- hay. For ten years Mr. Lawrence was ac companist for Roland Hayes, and was with him on bis first world tour as a famous singer. While they did not stop long in a place, they visited the larger European cities, and Mr. Lawrence was able to add considerably to his studies of folk songs. For the past five years Mr. Lawrence lias been studying in France, concentrating on voice training and composition, study ing under a number of well-known compos ers, particularly Leonid Sabaneyeff, the noted Russian. He sang frequently in Baris salons and the French press were enthu siastic in their appreciation of his voice and of his interpretation of both classical and folk music. Following his ideal of trans lating native Negro music, Mr. Lawrence (Continued on page 4) Chicago University President Speaks at Spelman President Robert Hutchins, of the Univer sity of Chicago, was in Atlanta on Thursday, February 16th. Spelman and Morehouse Col leges, with guests from Atlanta University and other colleges of Atlanta, were indeed fortunate in Mr. Hutchins’ acceptance of an invitation to speak to a special assembly of these students and faculties on the date of his arrival at 11 :30 o’clock, Thursday morn ing in Howe Memorial Hall. On the evening of the same date, Air. Hutchins was the speaker and guest of the students and faculty of Agnes Scott College. Mabel Dockett Gets Degree ATiss Afabel Dockett, graduate of Spel man College, who is now teaching at Texas College, Tyler, Texas, has been notified that she will receive, in absentia, her Alaster of Arts degree in History on February IS, 1933, from tin* l niversity of Pennsylvania, where she studied last year. ATiss Dockett received her A.B. degree from Spelman in 19.31. Besides earning much of her expenses in college, she gave considerable time to student activities. For the Campus AIirror she wrote a number of articles in each of the four years, served on the staff three years, including the work of Editor-in-chief in her senior year. She received honorable mention and a prize in the Essay Contest given by ATr. John Aim-ray of the University College of the Southwest, at Exeter, England. Lincoln and Douglass Thomasixk Duckett, '34 February 12th brings to us, from vear to year, the memory of two of the most out standing lights which lightened the darkened realm occupied by our underpriviledged an cestors. W’e commemorate the birth of the “Back W cods" Kentucky President who realized and understood the hardships and hindrances forced upon the group of people known as slaves. It may have seemed a mere sentimental outburst which terminated in a promise, when he is said to have ex claimed that if ever he had the opportunity to strike slavery he would strike it hard; but when he deemed the institution of slavery one founded on both injustice and bad policy and an evil which needed to be stamped out of existence, the voice of Lin e-In rose in protest. The simplicity, straight - forwardness, sincerity and honesty of Lin coln as an earnest believer and worker in the cause for right against that of wrong, cannot be denied. Lincoln did not think it wise to take any immediate, drastic steps in (Continued on page 3)