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which created the worshipful atmos-phere
which the chant calls for,
Miss Evelyn Granskou, prominent
young cellist, was the soloist. "The
Musical Snuff Box," as the name
suggests, was light and transparent
and was played by the string and
wood wind sections. The rousing
march, "Pomp and Circumstance,"
characterized by its stirring melody
and cymbal crashes concluded the
evening's programmed concert. Lis-teners
were given a portion of
Pomp and Circumstance as they in-sisted
upon more from the musicians.
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CDACKAGES wrapped in cellophane, staring at us from shop
windows with a "buy me" look, are mute evidences that
Christmas is upon us again. Papas, heavily ladened with goods,
trailing behind mamas, with worried countenances, are familiar
sights on every busy street. Salvation Army lads and lassies,
vainly ringing their bells beside empty kettles, are all but forgotten
in the Christmas push.
"Buy early," "avoid the rush, "do your Christmas shopping
now," is hurled at us over the radio, through the loud speakers,
and in the advertising pages. On the street corners, in the shop
windows, from the house tops, it is shouted at us—"buy, buy, buy,
—buy thic thing and bring cheer,—pos3-es5 that article and be
happy."
What is it all about? Does Christmas exist for man or does
man exist for Christmas? If the former is true, then we must
pause to contemplate its deeper value. We MUST pause to
contemplate—or Christmas will pass us by and leave us only a
forlorn residue of drooping Christmas trees, faded tinsel, broken
toys, and frayed nerves.
If it is true that it is more blessed to give than to receive, then
Christmas should be more than a friendly exchange of things. It
should even transcend our material gifts. For the greatest joy we
can give is wrapped up in the gift of our love, our inner peace,
our devotion and our loyalty to those who need it most. This is
the Christ-centered Christmas cheer.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
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Marion Utley Writes
Prize Winning Story
In National Contest
Story May Be PubliAted
In Aladamois('lle
Magazine
Marion Utley, junior, has been
informed that she has won first prize
in a nation-wide contest sponsored
by the Madam oiselle magazine for
the best account "On What You
Are Doing In College... Miss Utley
wrote about the scholastic and re-creational
activities of the art de-partment
here at Augustana.
She is to receive a set of beauty
preparations as a prize and her
story may be published in the
Madam oiselle magazine soon.
Miss Utley, who is on the maga-zine's
college board here, competed
against students from colleges
throughout the nation in winning
the prize.
Ninety Is Milestone
Feted By Berdahls
Andrew T. Berdahl of Sioux
Falls, S. D., who some years ago
was made an "honorary member"
of the Augustana College Alumni
association, celebrated his 90th
birthday on Dec. 10th. The daugh-ters,
Christine, Ida and Tilda, had
made preparations for the celebra-tion
of the event by arranging for
" open house" in their father's honor,
so that during the afternoon and
evening the many friends of Mr.
Berdahl might have opportunity to
call and greet their pioneer friend.
Mrs. 0. E. Rolvaag and son
Frit jof of Northfield, Minn., and
daughter, Ella Valborg, of the de-partment
of Norwegian in Wiscon-sin
university, came to spend the
weekend with father and grand-
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Rolvaag Biography
To Be Ready Soon
The biography of Ole E. Rolvaag,
will be nublished early next year
according to an announcement
made by Nora Solum and Dr. Theo-dore
Jorgenson, co-authors of the
work.
According to Professor Jorgen-son
they have attempted to interpret
Rolvaag's life as an exponent of
the great immigrant movement which
brought about the settlement of the
American Northwest. The book is
therefore ideological and sociological
in its main trend, although it also
is an effort to delineate Rolvaag's
personality as it grew into being
during the years of struggle inci-dental
to leadership and to his crea-tive
effort.
Twin City Alumnae
Hold Reunion Meet
A group of thirty enthusiastic
alumni and former students of Au-gustana
college and of the academy
at Canton answered the call of the
Twin City Augustana club and gath-ered
for an informal fellowship re-union
Wednesday evening, Dec. 7,
in Minneapolis. The meeting was
held at the Russel Avenue Luther in
church in North Minneapolis, where
Rev. Alvin Lewis, '30, is now pastor.
Under the direction of Eugene
Stime, '32„ president of the club.
an informal program was presented.
This consisted of group singing,
with the new Augustana song as
part of the "repertoire"; music by
Blanche Palmer. and also by the
Stadem sisters, Cora, Estelle and
Alida, former students at Augus-tcna
academy; and greetings, brought
by representatives of the students of
various eras at Augustana. Num-bered
in this group was Gerald Giv-ing,
'38, who made his greeting a
cosmopolitan one by claiming to
represent every era of recent Au-gustana
history, since he has been
a student at the school at Canton
in the days before Augustana col-lege
wa slocated as such in Sioux
Falls, he was a college student at
Augustana in the early twenties,
and he is officially a member of
the most recent graduating class be-cause
he received his degree only
last spring.
The remainder of the evening
was spent in playing games. One
of the chief features of this part
of the entertainment was the pre-sentation
of Ed Nervig, '38, as the
"master wizard of Canton."
The annual banquet of the Twit:
City club will be held, according to
present plans, in February. The
date has been tentatively set for
February 18. All graduates or for-mer
students of Augustana college,
A ugustana academy, or the Lutheran
Normal school, are invited to attend
this reunion. An effort is being
made by the club to contact not
only graduates and former students
living directly in the Twin Cities,
but also others within traveling dis-tance
of the Cities who would be
it lerested in attending these alumni
meetings for renewal of acquaintance
and fellowship with Augustana
friends. In addition to Mr. Stime,
the officers of the club are Marian
Kartrude, '29, vice president, and
Dale Simons, '32, secretary-treasurer.
THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR
Christmas Holidays At Home, Fireside Call Collegians
ET
CETERA
ON STOPPING SMOKING
WORD ALL RIGHT
CIVIL LIBERTIES
BETTER LEFT UNSAID
By Scott Lovald
To bring up this matter of stop-ping
smoking, it is really, after all,
quite a simple matter. No problem
in it at all. It is quite an insult
to a man's dignity when someone
facetiously remarks that Now that
you've wooed the Lady Nicotine,
try and get rid of her. - To set
my mind at rest and dispel any
little clouds of doubt that might
be floating around I tried quitting
and nroved to my own satisfaction
it could be done.
* *
As a case history this should be
interesting. On a Monday morning
I made up my mind to prove my
inherent dominance over cultivated
appetites. Three-fourths of a pack-age
of cigarettes I ground under
my heel. I Total cost of confisca-tion:
$.15. ) Whenever I wanted a
smoke I bought a candy bar ( 6 bars,
$.30). It went along fine. By seven
o'clock that evening I had gone
some twenty hours without smok-ing.
I sat down with a ten-cent cigar
and contentedly mused over the sat-isfaction
one gained from having
proved that it is comparatively easy
to stop smoking. (Total cost of
experiment: $.55.1 Now I can en-joy
smoking, knowing full well 1
am able to stop any time I want
to. But why want to stop?
It seems that some discussion has
arisen as CO whether this column
is using or abusing the English
language. Words are handy crea-tions.
They save a lot of trouble
and sometimes permit the expres-sion
of a thought in one carefully
selected word that might otherwise
require a sentence. The whole prob-lem
is one of knowing what a word
is for. It's like the parable of the
darky and the milking stool. A
southern plantation owner introduced
milking stools so the dairy hands
wouldn't have to squat down in
primitive fashion when milking. The
darky who first sallied forth with
the stool returned bruised and bat-tered
with an empty paid. "I done
my best, sah, - he explained. 'Dat
stool looked all right, but de blamed
7.-Zier, bale, rsir Tlie stoo:
was all right. The darky just didn't
know what it was for.
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One of the most potentially seri-ot.
r, bellyaches you hear these days
:s the one that avers• that we should
either deport or jail all the Com-munists,
Nazis or adherents to any
other foreign "ism." The best in-surance
we would have of losing
personal and civil liberties or de-mocracy
is to exclude and prohibit
discussion, free and open, of other
theories. Persecution raises agitators
from the realm of crackpots and
dignifies them as martyrs. Atheists.
Communists, Nazis and men of
every stripe should be free here to
preoch their dogmas at will. Cur-tail
their freedom and the first blow
has been aimed at our own liberty
aria the mortar of democracy has
beer loosened.
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Random Notes: Prof. Krause's
mother will receive for Christmas
what few mothers can. Robbs-Mer-rill
has promised him an advance
copy of his novel "Wind Without
Rain - as a present for her. . . .
Work is advancing on laying a
floor in the basement of the gym.
Perhaps we can look forward to its
completion soon, and then hope
that it can become a Student Cori
mons, with suitable furnishings for
conversation and between-class meet-ings.
That would top off the func-tion
of the gym as being a student
center and the heart of Augustana.
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We pass on the story about the
three-year-old son of one of the
faculty members. • It warrants re-telling.
When he was accused of
putting bus chips in the mire box,
he countered with - Well, Jesus can't
walk down town, can he?
One of this department's favorite
stories concerns the old maid school
teacher who had an inborn fear of
fire. She was vacationing in a ho-tel
and started wandering around
the corridors looking for the fire
escape. Accidentally she strayed into
the men's shower room and imme-diately
backed out, explaining she
was looking for the fire escape. Soon
after she heard a shout behind her.
and a man, arrayed in a bath towel,
asked "Where's the fire?"
Dunn And Ogborn Head
S. F. College Newspaper
Editor Bruce Dunn and Dick Og-born,
business manager, published
the first issue of the Sioux Falls
college Stylus to appear under their
management Friday.
The new heads were elected by
the student body to fill the terms
of Wayne Aberle and Gordon Nor-braten,
who resigned their posts with
publication of the Thanksgiving it.-
sue.
Dunn is a sophomore while Og-born
is a freshman.
Kraushaar Initiates
High School Service
Amateur Programs
Community Service Behind
Plan -Which -Will Also
Train Entertainers
Desiring to extend the services of
Augustana college to the high schools
of this vicinity and elsewhere if pos-sible,
Prof. R. W. Kraushaar pro-poses
to provide first-class Lyceum
concerts made up of solo, duet, tri 3,
and quartet numbers in voice and
string and wind instruments,read-ings,
one-act plays, and some spe-cialty
acts. "This type of program
seems to fill a distinct need during
these pressing times, - says the di-rector
of extension.
Since high school student activity
treasuries are frequently depleted,
Mr. Kraushaar suggests that our
amateur groups enter into the en-tertainment
field on a non-competi-tive
commercial basis. The towns
will furnish the transportation ( meals
and lodging if necessary) and keep
all but twee--- percent of their in-come.
Augustana will furnish the
advertising. This new service af-fords
the college a wonderful oppor-tunity
to serve the community, the
students occasions to exercise their
talents and personalities, and the
community entertainment enjoyed at
small cost.
Although the Lyceum concerts
won't be ready until next semester,
Mr. Kraushaar has received requests
for one or more of these concerts
from Supt. E. V. Hallock, Volin;
Supt. G. T. Williams, Dell Rapids;
Supt. W. M. DeLong, Dolton; Supt.
C. C. Jacobson, Canton ; Supt. L.
T. Uecker, Hudson ; Supt. H. G.
Mosby, Irene: Sunt. S. S. Shaw,
Lennox; Supt. R. A. Williams,
Flandreau ; Supt. T. L. Clark, Park-ston
; Supt. R. S. Hanson, Gayvillc;
Supt. Byron J. Brophy, Flandreau
Indian school; Supt. N. A. Brud-vig,
Lyons; Supt. E. C. Mikkelsoa,
Salem ; Supt. R. E. Hofstad. Can-ton
academy; and Mrs. Steve Ach-eson,
Montrose. The latter invited
a group to Saint Jacob's church,
Colton, S. D., Sunday, Dec. 11,
composed of Aivind Sellevold, Helen
Yttreness, and Irene Walstad.
Any students who have diverse
and versatile abilities• in the enter-tainment
field are asked to contact
either the music or the extension
department. The groups are now
being organized. Participants will
not be used more than once a
week or once in two weeks, so that
the student will not be encumbered
by too heavy a load which will re-tard
his school work.
uthor of "Wind
Without Rain" Gives
Own Poetry for Club
Herbert Krause of the Augustana
)college English department, author
of a number of poeMs and the novel
"Wind Without Rain," which is soon
to be published. spoke on "The Poe;
In a Streamlined Age" at an Al-trusa
club luncheon at Shriver-
J ohnson's tearoom. Among his own
poems, Krause read - Hillside Burial"
and "In Minor Strain. - "There's a
little of the poet in everyone,"
Krause said, advising his listeners to
"keep a critical eye and a heart
warm with understanding...
1) rof. Guderyalin Conducts
Orchestra In Arariely
Of Numbers
A large crowd of music lovers
gathered at the gymnasium Thurs-day
evening, Dec. 15 at 8:15 to
hear the college orchestra, directed
by Richard J. Guderyahn, present
its annual concert.
The orchestra presented the fol-lowing
concert: -Overture - to the
Interlude Secret of Suzanne" ( E.
Wolfe-Ferrari) ; "Scheherazade" Part
1 ( Rimsky-Korsakov ) ; -Song to ch.!
Evening Star," from "Tannhausei
( Wagner ) ; baritone solo by Myron
Hokeness; "Andante Cantabile" for
strings (Tschaikowsky) ; "Blue Dan-ube"
(Strauss) ; "Kol Nedrei" ( He-brew
chant for violoncello and or-chestra
) , Soloist Evelyn Granskou;
"Musical Snuff Box" ( Laidov) ;
- Pomp and Circumstance" ( Elgar ) .
A deep and profound mysterious
note prevailed when the "`Overture"
to the "Secret of Suzanne" opened
the concert. As the name implies,
"The Sea and Sinbad's Ship," Part
1 from "Scheherazade" took the lis-teners
on a tumultous sea. A grad-uate
of the class of 1936, Myron
Hokeness, offered in a truly ope--
atic fashion "Song to the Evening
Star" with orchestral accompaniment.
A prolonged ovation brought an en-core.
The deep, melodious tones
which the string sections of the or-chestra
arc capable of producing
were heard in Tschauvsky's "Andan-te
Cantabile." The ever popular
"Blue Danube Waltz" by Strauss
proved the favorite of the evening
when the orchestra gave an artist-tic
presentation of its well known
melody and variations. Next was
"Kol Nedrei" with its depth of tone
Reads Vespers
Pres. Clemens Granskou
Original Rose Window
Adds to Choir Service
The Christmas Vespers, presented
by the Augustana college choir un-der
the direction of Dr. Carl R.
Youngdahl, Sunday afternoon, was
a very unique and very effective
presentation. The beautiful setting,
designed by Bob Berg, assisted by
Marion Utley, Virginia Nessa, Aus-tin
Kilian, and Alfred Iverson of
the art department, represented a
church window on which was pie
cured the Madonna and the Child,
the Wisemen, the shepherds, the
Bible, etc., in beautiful colors. The
window occupied the center of the
stage and the choir was grouped in
a semi-circle on each side. The pro-gram
was divided into three parts
portraying the birth of the Christ
Child.
Following the prelude. - Gesu
Bambino," by a string trio consist-ing
of Eloise Aker, Yolanda Gren-age
r and Marie Storsteen, Pres. C.
M. Granskou read the Old Testa-ment
Prophecy. The choir then
sang "Benedictus - ( Paladilhe ) , fol
lowed by a number by the Augus-tana
male quartet composed of Al-bert
Ordahl, Marvin Larson, Leon-ard
Lee and Aivind Sellevold. To
conclude the first group a girls' trio
consisting of Bernice Jensen, Harriet
Halvorson and Verna Hesby, sang
"0 Little Town of Bethlehem."
Following the reading of Christ-mas
by President Granskou. the
choir sang two carols, "Silent
Night" and J ulesang- in German
and Norwegian respectively. Mildred
Nelson sang - 0 Holy Night" ac-companied
by Marie Storsteen with
violin obligato by Donna Brown.
The Christmas Message was then
delivered by President Granskou af-ter
which the choir and audience
sang two Christmas carols. The
Male Quartet then sang "Now, Sing,
We Now Rejoice, - and a girls' tr' u
composed of Helen Brumbaugh,
Donna Brown and Kathryn Kemper
sang "Bressan Noel." The program
was concluded by three numbers by
the choir: "Christmas Lullaby," by
Dr. Youngdahl, the words of wh ica
were written by Miss Borghild Dahl ;
"Deck Thyself, - arranged by Chris-tiansen,
and "The Lord's Prayer"
from the Ukranian church service.
The concert was so well received
that it is expected that it will be-come
an annual Christmas highlight.
Education Head At
Minneapolis Meeting
Prof. Rudolph Kraushaar was one
of three South Dakota educators to
attend the Minnesota Teachers con-ference
in Minneapolis Dec. 9, with
sessions held on the university cam-pus.
College professors from six middle
western states interested in teachers'
training were in attendance at the
conference.
Through panel discussions such
topics as New Objectives in Educa-tion,
Objectives of Teachers Edu-cation
Need Redirection Today, and
Elements in the Process of Selec-tion
and Guidance of Prospective
teachers were discussed.
"The conference centered around
the theme that the teacher training
institutions had a responsibility to
prepare personalities as well as schol-ars.
Teachers should be aware of
home life and home conditions of
the students. It is, therefore, the
business of the college to do a thor-ough
job of integrating the student's
program so that he will better fit
the teaching situations upon gradua-tion,"
quoting Mr. Kraushaar.
This was the ninth annual meet-ing
of the conference. Only three
professors from South Dakota at-tended,
Dr. Batson from the Uni-versity
of Vermillion, Dean Kemper
from Sioux Falls college, and Prof.
Kraushaar from Augustana. Saint
Olaf and Gustavus Adolphus had
large delegations. There were 95
attending. Dr. Bruickner of Minne-sota
university spoke to the evening
gathering concerning his very re-cent
12,000 mile tour of Europe.
laity to Travel In Order
To Reach Loved Ones
Again
A homey Christmas around fam-ily
and fireside seems to be the pre-dominating
feature which runs
through holiday plans of most cf
the students and faculty as they
make ready for the cheery season.
Homes in Minnesota, Iowa, Il-linois,
North Dakota, and Wisconsin
as well as South Dakota will see the
return: of students to the family
ci rcle.
Number Will Travel
Faculty members having their
homes established here are concern-plat
ii:g workouts on the easy chairs
and satisfying their uneasy appe-tites
with some of the favorite Nor-ske
delicacies, such as fattigmand,
ronanegrod, lefse, kringer, berliner-kians,
rosettes, krumkager, and
rulle-polse.
/-• number of the faculty are go-ing
quite a distance to be at home.
Mrs. Messenger is going to Fargo,
N. D. H. M. Blegen is planning
on visiting in North Dakota and
seeing his mother who lives in Mir -
nesota. Miss Helen Farley's plans
are all centered about her trip
home to Leland, Ill. Miss Clara
Knudson is going to her home is
Montrose, S. D. Herbert Krause is
going home to Fergus Falls, Mint•„
to ear, skate, loaf, and gather ma-terial
for a new novel. Miss Ruth
Mannes said she will recline at
home in Jackson, Minn., and will
undoubtedly see some of Minneapo-lis
during that time. J. Earl Lee
is planning to divide his time be-tween
his home in Wanaska and
Minneapolis, Minn.
Many Remain Here
A larger group of instructors will
be at home in Sioux Falls to en joy
the peace and quiet of home. Hugo
Carlson, A. T. Tollevs, G. H. Gil-bertson.
Reynold Anderson, Miss
Selma Hogenson, Miss Borghild
Dahl, Martin Cole, John A. Froem-ke,
Miss Gracia Kjerland, Rudolph
Kraushaar, and I. B. Hauge will be
at home during vacation. Richard
J. Guderyahn said, "I think I'll
dust off my ni.pes and entertain the
children. - Palmer Et& is going to
be a bit more energetic because he
is e - going to do all the work he
didnt do before the holidays." Presi-dent
Granskou, Dean Hofstad, Reg-istrar
Berdahl, Albert G. Hoyem,
0. Tonning, and Miss Evelyn Niel-sen
are going to look into the
easy side of life too during Christ-mas.
President Granskou is going
- to sleep, eat krumkager, and loaf."
He will, however, be around for pas-toral
conference which is to be held
at the college Jan. 2-5. Mr. Hof-stad
will be a lounger about home,
but would gladly accept a ticket to
the Rose Bowl game. Mr. Berdahl's
Christmas will be a brightened one
because his son James from Berk-eley,
Calif., who hasn't been home
for nearly two years, is coming
home. Mr. Hoyem is going to do
odd jobs about the house and pos-sibly
may attend a convention. 0.
Tonning said he was going to stay
home, read and add pages• to the
book he is writing. Miss Nielsen will
be at home, but is going to be fa-vored
by visits from her two sisters.
At least six of the faculty are
going to spend a part of their time
away from their Sioux Falls hemes.
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Latin School Play
Kjerland Directed
"A Roman School," a Latin pia,
by Susan Paxson, was presented be-fore
the student body last Monday
by members of the Latin class study •
ing Cicero's Orations. The play pie•
cured the life of the Roman student:
at play and at school. The drama-tization
showed one day in a Ro-man
class with recitations, poems,
songs, exercises, and oratorical con-tests.
The actors were dressed in
purple•bordered togas such as the
Roman student wore.
Although the play was presented
in Latin, the lines were interpreted
so that the audience was able to
follow the plot. It was directed by
Gracia Kjerland, Latin instructor.
The cast included Luthard Eid
as teacher of the class; Arthur
Abrahamson, Bertha Ellison, Har-mond
Halvorson. Ruth Henden,
Bernice Jensen, Ramona Opheirrt,
Orlynda Ry,gg, Irwin Schultz, Mil-dred
Sponheim, Marjorie Swanson,
Nona Vaaler, and Sylvia Winden
as pupils; and Enolia Anderson and
Junis Lovseth as visitors to the
class.
East Lutherans Give
Christmas Choir Sing
Prof. Richard J. Guderyahn pre-sented
the East Side Lutheran choir
Sunday evening in a program of
Christmas music. Special numbers
were offered by the ladies' trio com-posed
of Mrs. A. Anderson, Mrs.
A. Bim, and Mrs. E. Albertus.
Miss Audrey Stark, guest cellist
from Pipestone, Minn., assisted wt:h
instrumental music. Prof. Guder-yahn
played a violin solo.
The offertory was played by an
instrumental quartette of violin,
cello, organ and piano.
New Augie Band
Makes Concert Debut
The Augustana concert band made
its first public appearance during
cha"el, Tuesday, Dec. 20. Prof. R.
J. Guderyahn is director of the or-ganization.
This 42-piece organization was
newly organized this fall. It is the
first concert band that Augustana
has had. Prof. Guderyahn is en-deavoring
to achieve full instrumen-tation
in the band this year.
The band played. "H.M.S. Pina-fore,"
Sullivan, an o• eta. c, "The
Narrator," Buchtel; "Christmas-tide,"
Lamater; "Prelude from the
L'Arlesienne Suite"; Bizeh, and
"Stars and Stripes," Sousa.
Pastoral Conference To
Meet At Augustana
Dr. Herman Preus of Luther
Theological seminary, in St. Paul,
and Dr. Galloday of Columbus, 0.,
are the speakers scheduled for the
South Dakota Pastoral conference,
which will be held here January 1
to 4.
One hundred pastors and wives
are expected for the meeting. The
facilities of the Ladies' hall will be
used in the absence of Augustana
students home on holidays.
Rev. E. C. Grevstad of Howard,
president of the district, is chair-man
of the conference.
Gymnasium and library will be
used by the delegates during the
four day meet.
Chinese Monologuist
Next Artist Program
Soo Yong,. Chinese monologuist, as
the second offering of the current
Artist Series at Augustana college,
is scheduled to dippear in the gym-auditorium
Jan. 20, 1939. Called
"The Cornelia Otis Skinner of
China," Miss Yong is highly ente.--
raining, instructive, and exceedingly
versatile, as evidenced by her re-markable
range...,ozik programs, which
include original,;nneinologues and se-l
e,tica-u- from C"'-neci>1,-learr a.
Miss Yong was born on the Island
of Mani of Chinese parentage. She
was graduated from the University,
of Hawaii and completed her edu-cation
in New York City, taking her
M. A. degree at Columbia univer-sity.
She made her acting debut
on Broadway with Katherine Cornell
in "The Letter. - Then she was mist-ress
of ceremonies for Mei Lan-fang,
China's greatest actor, in his
tours of this country. After this
engagement, Miss Yong went to Hol-lywood,
where she played in "The
Painted Veil" with Garbo, in "China
Seas" with Gable and Harlow, in
"Mad Holiday" with Edmund Lowe,
and in "The Good Earth" with
Luise Rainer and Paul Muni. In the
last picture, she played two parts—
the aunt and the ancient one. Dr.
Lin Yutang, great Chinese philoso-pher,
says of her, "Next to Luise
Rainer. for sheer fidelity I would
place Soo Yong. -
Miss Yong's monologues are either
dramatic or humorous as to class.
In the former group appear "Lull,
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Seasonal Plans Stress Family
GatheringOnd Homecomings
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"Blue Danube Waltz" Favorite of Concert
Solo Numbers Entrance Musical Audience