Performances, Films, and Exhibits

    Entries drawn from the college history timeline

Wed., Nov. 16, 1932

The Zimmer Harp Trio performed their critically-acclaimed concert at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Wed., Dec. 7, 1932

The Mohler Scientific Society and the German Club jointly presented a showing of the film The Building of the Bremen in the Orpheum Theatre on Wednesday, December 7, 1932.  The Bremen was a famous German ocean liner.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Sun., Dec. 11, 1932

The Girl's Glee Club and the Choir performed the 1932 Christmas Musicale in Allison Memorial Church at 11:00am. They sang Borowski's "Adoration", Bach's "Beside Thy Cradle", an Austrian folk song entitled "Shepherd's Christmas Song", Adam's "O Holy Night", Day's "Arise, Shine: For Thy Light is...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Wed., Jan. 11, 1933

The Gift of Montezuma was shown at a meeting of the Mohler Scientific Society through the generosity of the Hershey company.  The film showed the cultivation, harvesting, shipping, and processing of cocoa beans, the methods of manufacture of Hershey candies, and the town of Hershey.  It...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Wed., Jan. 18, 1933

The German Club presented the film A Waltz by Strauss in the Strand Theatre on Wednesday, January 18, 1933.  The film was an all-sound German musical.  It was preceded by clips of German scenery and folk music.  Proceeds from the screening were devoted to the German Scholarship Fund.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Thu., Jan. 19, 1933

The Dramatic Club, under the direction of Wilbur Norcross, performed The Haunted House at 8:15pm in Bosler Hall.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Thu., Jan. 19, 1933

Laurance H. Hart, professional impersonator of George Washington, performed at the chapel service of Thursday, January 19, 1933.  His wife acted as a modern reporter and questioned Hart, who responded using only quotes from Washington.  The interview covered Washington's life and career and his...

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Sun., Feb. 26, 1933

The Men's Glee Club performed a concert of sacred music at Allison Memorial church.  The event was sponsored by Allison's Young People's Fellowship and was attended by parishioners and Dickinsonians.

Event Type: Competitions, Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Fri., Mar. 24, 1933

The Orchestra performed a spring concert consisting mainly of works by Haydn under the direction of Mr. Ralph Schecter.  Ralph Thompson, the orchestra's secretary, provided explanatory notes.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Fri., Mar. 24, 1933

The College Orchestra presented its tenth-annual spring concert at 8:00pm in Bosler Memorial Hall. For the first half of the program, they played Haydn's "Symphony No. 6", "Des Geistes Gesang", "She Never Told Her Love", and "In Native Worth, Aria, from Creation". After the intermission the...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Wed., May 10, 1933

The Dramatic Club performed Cappy Ricks, as adapted by Edward E. Rose from the story by Peter B. Kyne, in Bosler Hall on May 10, 1933.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Thu., Jun. 8, 1933

The Combined Glee Clubs performed a program of seventeen songs for the 1933 commencement concert at 8:00pm in Bosler Hall. The Men's Glee Club opened the show with Coleridge-Taylor's "Viking Song" and Reichardt's "In the Time of Roses". Then the Women's Glee Club sang Wilson's "Carmena". The Men...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Sat., Jun. 10, 1933

The Sequi-Centennial Pageant by Josephine B. Meredith, '01, a show outlining the history of the college, was performed in the Alumni Gymnasium.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Fri., Oct. 20, 1933

The Sequi-Centennial Pageant: Scenes from Dickinson's First Fifty Years by Josephine B. Meredith, '01 was performed in the Alumni Gymnasium.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Sat., Oct. 21, 1933

At the sesquicentennial dinner, nine portraits of prominent Dickinsonians were presented to the college.  The portraits presented were of Benjamin Rush, Matthew Brown, William Henry Denny, William Henry Allen, Robert Alexander Lamberton, Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, John Hays, Edward...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Thu., Dec. 7, 1933

Directed by W. H. Henderson and written by Pultizer price winner Owen Davis, Dickinson players performed the three-act drama, "Icebound"  in Bosler Hall. The play was positively received by an audition of 250 people. The cast included : Eleanor Waugh, Elizabeth Ralston, Don Rust, Olive...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Fri., Apr. 20, 1934

The Dickinson Players' presentation of "The Dover Road" at the Carlisle High School auditorium was well received by students, faculty, and Carlisle residents. The lead role of Mr. Latimer was interpreted by James W. Nelson. Helen Baker played Anne and Robert Miller played Leonard. In addition,...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Tue., May 22, 1934

Through a combined effort of Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies, "Honorable Men" was performed in Bosler Hall to an "enthusiastic" crowd. This play was a satiric production written by Dickinsonians Martin O. Kahn and William R. Woodward.  The satire was about a Dickinson faculty...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Sat., Jun. 9, 1934

The Men's Glee Club performed a program of fourteen songs for the 1934 commencement concert at 8:30pm in Bosler Hall. The concert featured the reunion of the famed 1914 Glee Club. The men sang pieces such as an old English hunting song called "John Peel", Protheroe's "De Sandman", Wolfe's "Short...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Thu., Nov. 14, 1935

The Westminster Chorus, conducted by John Finley Williamson, performed a program of thirteen songs. Presented by Dickinson College, the show was at 8:15pm in Lamberton Auditorium.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Sun., Jun. 7, 1936

The Women's Choral Club performed A Musical Vesper Service at 8:15pm in the Allison Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church during commencement weekend. For the first part of the program, they sang Rosselli's "Adoramus Te", Thompson's "A Ballad of the Stork", Bach's "My Heart Ever Faithful...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits, Religious Activities
Sun., Jun. 6, 1937

The Women's Choral Club performed A Musical Vesper Service at 8:30pm in the Allison Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church during commencement weekend. Their program included such pieces as St. Abrose's "Te Deum"; Pope Gregory's "Magnificat"; Rosseli's "Adoramus Te"; Palestrina's "O Bone...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits, Religious Activities
Sun., Dec. 4, 1938

The Women's Choral Club joined the Allison Memorial Church Choir in a performance of George Frederick Handel's The Messiah at 3:30pm in the Allison Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Fri., Mar. 24, 1939

The Dickinson Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Ralph Schecter, performed a program of seven pieces for their spring concert at 8:15pm in Bosler Hall. The featured attraction of the show was flautist Harry Houdeshell playing Bizet's "Minuet" from L'Arlesienne. In addition to...

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Sun., Jun. 4, 1939

The Women's Choral Club performed A Musical Vesper Service at 8:30pm in the Allison Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church during commencement weekend.

Event Type: Performances, Films, and Exhibits, Religious Activities

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