The 744iCtioataiia MIRROR
az., 27 (00.
December 13, 1945
Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.
Party, Banquet Christmas Vespers To Be Held Sunday
Highlight Next Stavig to Give
Week's Activities Holiday Message
ii i-iedda Gabler
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Receives Acclaim
by Gertrude Eitreim
"What a play!" was the com-ment
which echoed and reechoed
through the audiences after Hed-da
Gabler" had been staged Tues-day
and Wednesday nights, De-cember
11-12.
This, Henrik Ibsen's coldest
play, was certainly no ordinary
production and the cast did it
justice by an extradordinary per-formance.
Elizabeth Busch was Hedda
"dyed in the wool." Her cold
egotism was perfected throughout
her fight against the drab, mid-dle-
class, respectable world in
which she lived. Her triumphal
climax came at the end of the
third act when she deliberately
burned the manuscript for Lov-borg's
new book.
Eilert Lovborg (the "converted
sinner"), a brilliant young scholar
who had been in love with Hedda,
was the part mastered by Harold
Houske. Houske might well be
the protege of Lauren Bacall as
far as "the look" goes.
Hedda's professionally minded
husband George Tesman was
very well portrayed by Kermit
Dahl. His periodic outbursts of
"Well fancy that, eh!" were an
art in themselves.
James Munck did an excellent
job as Judge Brack. His part as
an "educated wolf" was really a
masterpiece of acting.
Flickering her eyelashes kept
Naomi Seim on her toes as the
sweet Mrs. Elvsted, a former ac-quaintance
of Hedda's who helped
Lovborg get a grip on himself
and inspired him to write a bril-liant
book, the manuscript of
which Hedda burned.
Gertrude Locke truly brought
Tesman's Aunt Julia to life.
Bouquets to Marian Holden for
taking over the part of Bertha,
the maid, Tuesday afternoon
when Rosemary Dougherty who
was to have taken the part become
ill. Marian took over like a
trooper in spite of her last min-ute's
notice.
L. R. Kramer, director, and his
assistant Elva Pfeifle deserve con-gratulations
for the wonderful
job they accomplished in pro-ducing
the play. It showed much
technique and skill of directing
and the resulting interpretation
of "Hedda Gabler" was an in-genious
piece of work.
BEAT GUSTAVUS ! !
LDR Holds Party
At Stavig Home
The home of President and
Mrs. L. M. Stavig will be the
scene of the LDR's annual Christ-mas
party beginning at 7:30 Sat-urday
night.
The program, which will center
around the life of Mary, with
Crystal Johnson as reader, will
also include the singing of Christ-mas
carols. A committee headed
by Margie Kverness is in charge
of the program and the lunch
which will follow.
A Christmas mission offering
will be taken at this meeting.
All Augustana LDR girls are
cordially invited to attend this
Yuletide observance.
LDR president, Elda Ust, has
announced that Christmas gifts
for the Beresford home are to be
left at the bookstore by Monday,
December 17.
Two Christmas season festivities
are scheduled to be held at Ladies'
Hall next week. These are a dorm
party and a formal banquet.
The Yuletide party will be held
Monday evening, December 17.
Marilyn Burke has arranged for
a program of Christmas songs to
be sung by Valoise Johnston and
Jean Nelson. Estelle Erickson
will play a piano solo and the
entire group will join in singing
carols. Gene Anderson is chair-man
of the lunch committee. The
girls living at Rud's "Little Dorm"
are invited to attend the party.
Tuesday evening, December 18,
at 6:00 p. m. a formal banquet
will be served to all dormitory
residents, faculty members and
off-campus students who wish to
attend. Harold Houske is to be
toastmaster. The chimes will be
played by Crystal Johnson and
Irene Larson and Dorothy Ras-mussen
will sing solos. Professor
Ed Nervig, Public Relations head,
will be the speaker. The pro-gram
was arranged by Lavonne
Magnuson and Ila Ohlson.
BEAT GUSTAVUS ! !
Students Say:
"We Will Fight
Another War"
Question of the week: Do you
believe the war we have just
fought will end all wars?
Betty Farnsworth—Absoutely not.
If two people can't get along,
how can a world of varied peo-ples
do so?
Eugene Schuster—No. We will
fight again in about seven years
because some disputes were not
settled.
Jeanie Thraen—No. We will fight
Russia.
Joyce Van Steenwyck—No. Wars
are too profitable for big bus-iness
men even though it is the
little people who suffer.
Arla Dalen—Definitely no. The
Bible says there will be wars
and as long as humanity re-mains
as it is there will be wars.
Harold Houske and Percy Kirkeby
—No. We will fight with Rus-sia.
Mary Sherwin — Inevitably, be-cause
there will be the same
fight for balance of powers
there has been since time im-memorial.
Dorothy Peterson—No. In an-other
30 years we will be fight-ing
a war with Russia.
Vernon Clark—There will be an-other
war caused by internal
strife between Capital and
Labor.
Celia Wollmann — No. We will
face Russia anytime now.
Marjorie Thorson — No. We will
fight Russia.
Ken Christopherson—No. We will
fight Russia in 7 years.
BEAT GUSTAVUS
Civic Music to Hear
String Quartet
Civic Music members will hear
the Lerner String Quartet at
their next concert Monday, De-cember
17. The program also
features the noted Russian pianist
Ania Dorfmann. The concert will
be held at the Washington high
school auditorium and will start
promptly at 8:15 p. m.
Mundt Discusses
Russian Affairs
by Wes Sandvig
Congressman Karl Mundt,
of Madison, who has recently
toured Europe twice as a
member of the House Foreign
Relations committee, spoke at
chapel exercises last Monday
morning, December 10.
Mr. Mundt began by stating
that different meanings of
terminology and differences
in thinking were great causes
of trouble between European
nations and this country. All
terms should be specifically
defined before being used to
avoid misunderstanding.
Congressman Mundt then en-tered
into his discussion of Russia.
Russia, the head of the Fascist
clan of nations, is the second
largest and second important
country in the world and one that
we must learn to live at peace
with.
"Russia today is a country of
very self-confident people . . . al-most
to the point of conceit,"
declared Mundt and followed this
by saying, "Russians are also very
realistic." Then, too, the Russians
are engaged in an expansion
movement which they complete
by either absorption, adoption, or
assimilation of the small countries
bordering their own.
In discussing the religious prob-lem
Mundt said 600 churches were
now in operation — 599 Russian
Orthodox and one Roman Cath-olic.
However, attendance is dis-couraged
and the seminary is un-der
government control. There-fore,
although it cannot be crush-ed,
the church will never be al-lowed
to speak in opposition.
Looking to the immediate
future, Mundt stated that Rus-sia
would not want a war with
us for awhile because of five
ddeficiencies. First, no atom
bomb; second, no navy;
third, under - mechanized
army; fourth, an absolute air
force and fifth, the lack of
proper industry.
Concluding his statements the
Congressman declared that "Joe
Russian has a soft spot in his
heart for Ainerica" and therefore
we can live in peace. But Mundt
Rural Conference
To Be Held Here
July 15-19, 1946 is the date
scheduled for the Rural Life Con-ference
to be held on the Aug-ustana
campus, one of the three
places in the United States where
these conferences are being held.
Sponsored by the Norwegian
Church of America, the National
Lutheran Council and Augustana
college, the conference will be
represented by several midwest
states. Outstanding rural sociol-ogists
have been secured as
speakers. Rev. Nervig is chair-man
of the planning committee,
with Prof. Tollevs and Dr. Stavig
also serving on this committee.
Pastor Emil Erpestad, Beres-ford,
S. D., also one of the mem-bers
planning the conference,
spoke at chapel Tuesday morning,
December 4, on the subject of
"Certainties."
Further information regarding
speakers and committees on the
conference will appear in a later
issue.
BEAT GUSTAVUS ! !
High Schools to Hold
Conference Here
Augustana will play host to rep-resentatives
from 12 surrounding
high schools next February 23 for
a Conference of Nations. The
topic for discussion will be the
"San Francisco Conference — Its
Purpose and Achievement."
Each school will represent four
nations and their relations to the
Conference and its committees,
the General Assembly, the Secur-ities
Commission, the Economic
and Trustee Committee and the
International Court.
The high schools to be repre-sented
are Washington high
school, Aberdeen Central, Madi-son,
Brookings, Watertown, Lu-verne,
Lennox, Salem, Flandreau,
Beresford, Howard and Arlington.
believes that Truman and Stalin
should have a conference soon to
work out an area of agreement
and a basis of understanding.
With the "double system of po-litical
morality" done away with,
friendly relations could be con-tinued.
Impressive simplicity will key-note
the setting for the annual
Christmas Vespers to be presented
by the Augustana a cappella choir
and the Augustanettes under the
direction of Dr. Carl R .Young-dahl
at 5 o'clock Sunday after-noon,
December 16, in the Gym-
Auditorium.
President L. M. Stavig will de-liver
the traditional Christmas
message.
The program is as follows:
A cappella choir—
"How Brightly Shines Yon Star
of Morn" ____ arr. by Youngdahl
"God is With Us" Kastalsky
Soloist, Bernice Klinkel
"A Christmas Folksong"
Bornschein
"Glory Be to God" __ Rachmaninoff
Augustanettes-
"Bless the Lord" _____
Ippolitof-Ivanoff
"A Virgin Unspotted" ___ Billing
"Jubilate" Burkhart
Soloist, Mary Jane Haugen
A cappella choir—
"Amish Carol of the Hills"
arr. by Gaul
Soloists, Frances Hansen, Avis
Stiles, Elise Halverson, Arlyn
Roe or Gordon Carls.
"Winds Through the Olive Trees"
arr. by Youngdahl
Soloist, Jean Nelson
"Noel" Sellow
Soloists, Ken Christopherson,
Irene Larson
"A Christmas Lullaby"
Youngdahl
Soloist, Valoise Johnston
"Praise the Lord in Heaven" _
Rachmaninoff
Jean Nelson is chairman of the
decorating committee. Other com-mittee
members are Lila Ruth
Drenkow, Wes Sandvig, Gene
Johnson, Mary Sherwin, Irene
Larson and Arvid Brekke. Fac-ulty
advisors are Professor Eide
and Dr. Gunberg. Dr. Gunberg is
also in charge of special stage
effects.
BEAT GUSTAVUS ! !
Schedule Set For
Debate Tournaments
Tournaments for Augustana's
1946 debate squad are scheduled
to be held at Sioux Falls college;
Dakota Wesleyan, Mitchell; Uni-versity
of Nebraska, Lincoln; and
St. Thomas and St. Catherine in
the Twin Cities. The squad will
also enter the Red River Valley
and National tournaments, but as
yet it has not been decided where
these will be held. With the ex-ception
of the National tourna-ment
in April, all the other
tournaments are scheduled for
January and February.
Percy Kirkeby has been elected
president of the Pi Kappa Delta
society. Other officers are Alice
Thomas, vice-president, and Cry-stal
Johnson, secretary-treasurer.
The members of the society be-sides
the officers are Harold
Houske, Ken Christopherson, Joel
Hanson, Bob Burke, Jim Powell
and Helen Bekke.
Practice debates among the
members are being held until
Christmas vacation.
Jean Nelson, Valoise Johnston, Elise Halvorson and Irene Lar-son,
four of the choir soloists, are pictured with Director Carl
R. Youngdahl going over their music for the Christmas Ves-pers
on Sunday. Other soloists are Bernice Klinkel, Frances
Hansen, Avis Stiles, Arlyn Roe or Gordon Carls, Ken Christ-opherson
and Mary Jane Haugen.