Evening star., 1928-12-16
AMERICAN j. PLANS
yULE FESTIVITIES
Christmas Holidays to Begin
Thursday-SchooI Reopens
on January 3.

American University students will be-
gin the Christmas holidays next Thurs
day noon, with most of them planning
to 90 to their homes until school re-
opens, January 8.
An elaborate program Of Christmas
festivities has been planned for this
week, opening tonight with vccperS
services and continuing through to q
girls party Wednesday night.
The big pre-holiday events of the
week will take place Tuesday evening,
when the formal Christmas dinner will
be held in the college dining room. 1t
will be followed later by an entertain
ment in the college gymnasium -audi-
| torium
The first of the series of Christmas
events will be the special musical ves-
perS service in the chapel at Hurst Hall
this afternoon at $50 o'clock, to be
open to the public. Arranged under
auspices of the student vespers COM
mittee, the program was directed by
George Sixbey, and consists of a pageant
set to classic Christmas music.
Cast for First Scene.
The first scene will depict the shep-
| herds, wise men and angels, who will
be impersonated by Rudolph Swanson,
|
men, Richard Horner, Willis Della
plain and Samuel Bilbrough. as shep-
herds, and Elsie Sandberg, Irene Dezens
dorf and Betty Jacoby, as angels.
| The alteration at the manger will be,
chown in the second scene, for which
the characters are Ruth Edwards as
Mary and Daniel Terrill as Joseph, with
the shepherds and wise men. The pa
geant will be accompanied by singing
and instrumental Christmas music,
with Ronald Mclaughlin at trumpet
and George Sixbey at the piano. The
veSpers mixed quartet will Sing-Harold
Riggle, Leon Bryner, Charlotte Magee
and Doris Willis.
The Christmas dinner and party on
Tuesday night in the college dining room
will be formal and there will be elabo-
rate Christmas decorations, including
tree. Alice Hetzel is chairman of the
general committee and other commit
tees include: Decorations, Elizabeth
McVey. Betty Jacoby, Carol Rigby,
Roberta Brown, Esther McVey, Virginia
McVey Betty Jacoby, Carol Rigby,
Pratt and Sadie May White; table res
ervations, Dorothy Gerth and Margaret
| Woodward.
Play to Be Presented.
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| festivities will be transferred to the
program will be given. The play un-
der direction of Will Hutchins, pro-
fessor of art, is "Ario de Capo," by
Edna st. Vincent Millay, and will be
presented by the following student
! players: Orrel Belle Claflin, Willis Del
| aplain, Carl Levin, Carleton Ayres and
George Sixbey.
The college orchestra, under direction
Of DR.. G. Henry Leineweber, will play
several Christmas selections.
There will be two groups Of songs,
one by the Glee Club under direction of
r. Dean Shure, instructor in music at
the college. and the squad in training
for the college double male quartet un-
| der direction of Prof. Paul Kaufman.
The groups are specializing in different
types of music.
The double quartet candidates who
will sing are: first tenors, Carleton
| Ayres, Leon Bryner; second tenors, Bar
rett Fuchs, Rudolph Swanson. Richard
| Homer; FIRST basses, Joseph Carter,
Robert Burr, Donald Mclaughlin; Sec
ond basses, Jacob Snyder; Robert Hobbs
and Harold Riggle.
Plan Christmas Party
The girls of the Women's Residence
Hall have planned special Christmas
party for girls only, which will be held
in the dormitory on Wednesday night
at 10 o'clock. The committee is headed
| by Helen Goodman and Rose Flowers.
| Tentative plans for the proposed col
| lege dormitory for men occupied most
| of the time of the executive committee
| of the board of trustees which met with
| the building committee last Tuesday
at the Bettelle Memorial Building. DR..
Lucius Clark, chancellor of the institu-
| ton, said plans for raising funds for
| the building were discussed, and the
| building committee took up the matter
| of obtaining an architect to draw up
preliminary sketches. The dormltory
under consideration would be OF four
units, to cost 100000, as authorized
| at the recent meeting of the board OF
trustees, but only the first unit would
be constructed at first The building
committee members at the meeting IN
cluded: M. E. Church, chairman; L. f.
Breuninger, DR.. A. C. Christie. DR.. L. Q.
| Clark, Edward F. Colladay, Samuel H.
Kaufman and John G. Let's.
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on 1.-THE Religion of the Indian" IN the
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