Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-12
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE

Plays and things of the Play" are the last word in student activities at the college these past few weeks and the coming few weeks Rehearsals, from eight o'clock in the morning un-
 til ten thirty in the evening take the | time and energy of student casts and ! directors, and the gymnasium, the | rendezvous of the theatrical folk at | Connecticut colloege, is busy every | hour with rehearsals and meetings.
 The Dramatic club presentations l take place Saturday evening; when l a programme of three modern short plays will be presented by members of the Dramatic club. These three plays
 are: Suppressed Desires,' Lima
 Beans," and Good Women" The later part of next week, La
 Cube Francaise will be present 'Le ] Malade Imaginaire" of Moliere for the
 benefit of the Louvain Library Fund which is being raised by colleges and universities throughout the country.
 The play, which is in four acts is a
 comedy ballet and tremendous piece of work for college students. Benefit performances always meet with en- ! thusiastic response on the part of the students and the French play this year is no exception to the general
 rule. Miss Alma Flaherty of New Lon
 don is the leading figure in the play, 1 and plays the difficult role of the inn aginative. bourgeois, curious philisi- pher with marked historic ability. i Miss Antoinette Taylor, of New Lon don and Miss Ruth Connery, Keene, N. H., play the leading feminine roles Prominent patrons and patronesses
 from Norwich and New London are
 sponsoring the benefit performance
 and disposing of tickets for the play. Norwich patronesses include Miss
 Louise Howe, member of the board
 of trustees of the college. Mrs. Joseph
 Fl. Selden and Mrs. Robert w. Per
 kins.
 Striking posters have been design
 ed by Miss Oris Sherer of the art de-
 partment at college and completed by
 students in the department including Miss Abby Gallup and Miss Dorothy
 Gregson and Miss Helen Peale of
 Norwich. According to estimates of
 students. twenty hours were required
 to complete the work on one poster
 after it had been designed. There are
 ten of these posters and they will be
 sold at auction after the French play
 Displayed in store windows in Nor
 wich and New London. they have at
 traeted public attention to the play
 and the art department of the college. l Final arrangements have been made for the senior-jurior luncheon to be
 held at the Mohican hotel on Satur- day afternoon. Favors representing the the mascots of the two classes have !. been designed and worked out by the ; decoration committee of the senior class ard the mascots will be in evil dence in the decoration of the dining hall which will be hung with the buff and blue of the senior class and the purple and gold of the junior class. [ o1or ;- dale puppy and the junior mascot is the well known figure of the Good Fairy" During the luncheon the col iege quartette composed of Miss Helen s Perry, Nyack, N. J.. Miss Loretta Hig- l gins of Norwich, Miss Betty Rummy of Naugatuck and s Miss Margaret Davies of Easton B Pa., will sing college songs and in- s troduce to the two classes assembled 2 new college song which has been com A posed by Miss Helen Collins of New London for the senior class. During s the luncheon courses prominent mem bers of the classes will be called upor A to make a few remarks. Miss Alic, q Horrax. of Montclair. N. J.. presiden N of the Senior class will act as toast E mistress and Miss Rachel Smith. 0 M Bayonne, N. J., president of the clas S will respond to the toast to the ju ;A niors.
 A The latest addition to college rou \ tine is a Sunday collection of ma a from the college. Although expert E ment with a Sunday delivery of ma a proved a failure, the demand for N Sunday collection of mail has bee $ insistent these past few months an < through the efforts of President B. ] s Marshall, Postmaster Bryan F. Mana < has made arrangements to have col lH lege mail collected on Sunday after S noon at four thirty. This arrange % ment will be very satisfactory to tt H entire college body living on can M pus. The delivery of college mail s& in the hands of students and durin ss the past year, under a student pos ~ mistress, Miss Jeanette Lettney, zE New Haven, many improvement M have been introduced into the syi 2@ tenn of other years. It is-expected tn; # next year the college postoffice wi E be established as a sub station of u E New London division and that a stl a dent will be appointed postmistress
 a salary of $40 or $50 a month. Du F ing the past year, post office box x were installed by the college author S1 ties and each student and each men S Der. of the faculty has a box, wi " combination lock. The post off 5EI maintains regular hours and transaC