PAGE TWO
MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY, MARCP 1949
Maroon and Gold
Edited and printed by students of Elon
College. Published bi-weekly during the
college year, under the auspices of the
Board of Publication.
Entered as second class matter at the
Post Office at Elon College, N. C., under
the act of March 8, 1879. Delivered by
mail, $1.50 the college year, $.75 the
semester.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Managing Editor Bob Wright
Campus Editor Jackie Gaskins
Sports Editor Rocco Sileo
Assistant Sports Editor .... George Stanley
Staff Photographer Harvey Foushee
BUSINESS BOARD
Business Manager Evelyn Moore
Circulation Manager Martha Veazey
Advisor Hoyle S. Bruton
Printer B. G. Frick
Makeup Man Gray Hackney
Floor Manager John Broughton
Press Man James L. Lewis
Typist Faye Cline
COLUMNISTS
Ted Parker — A1 Godwin
REPORTERS
Sam Jenkins, William C. Ivey, Rosamond
Bromley, Doris White, Howard Hodnett,
ean Pittman, Vei’ona Danieley.
AEPRESENTEO FOR NATIONAL ADVBRTISING BY
National Advertising Service, Inc.
College Publishers Rep; esentative
420 Madison Ave. New York. N. Y.
Chicago • Boston • Los Angeles • San Francisco
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1949
Member
Intercollegiate Press
ON ELON CHILDREN
Recently the students’ behavior in chap
el has been unforgivable. Although we
are required to attend chapel programs
which are not always attractive, certain
basic principles of deeny demand that
speakers be treated with courtesy. It is in
no manner polite or reverent to laugh, to
study, or to make and fly facsimilies of air
planes during any program, especially a
religious chapel program.
Even the faithful attenders of chapel
on Wednesday and Friday who have high
expectations of securing a peaceful half-
hour’s sleep find the play of the uninter
ested or thoughtless rather annoying. Thus
indecency elbows indecency—and in stu
dent assembly at that.
On the only occasions members of the
student body have to be seen as a group,
we reveal ourselves not as mature young
men and women, but as a congregation of
Ill-bred adolescents.
Often we protest that the administra
tion treats us like children, issuing too
many restrictions, etc. Seeing ourselves
as others see us in W^hitley, we may well
wonder how the administration could feel
justified in dealing with us as they would
adults.—J. G.
TURNABOUT
An article in the TECHNICIAN, news
paper of State College, states that there
is in effect at that school a merit rating
system whereby the students rate their
professors and instructors.
It would seem that much merit could
be found in such a system. It would pro
vide a means by which professors could
get a student’s-eye-view of themselves. In
telligent and constructive handling of such
a system is, of course, imperative.
Some questions that could be asked un
der such a scheme are: Does this profes-
-sor habitually digress from his subjects, or
afe his remarks pertinent to his subject
matter? If the professor does disagree,
is there anything of value in his remarks
which may be applied to the broader
scope of the subject? (Continuous refer-
' ence by a professor to his family and per
sonal feats are not kindly received by stu
dents.)
Years spent at teaching sometimes tend
to erase self-criticism on the part of an in
structor. Everyone should take inventory
once in awhile, although we see how this
can be forgotten in the press of attending
to duties.—R.J.W.
al's alley
By AL GODWIN
While rambling around in the fair city
of South Boston, Va., a few days ago, I
slipped in on a movie that proved to be
very interesting. The name: ‘Snake Pit.’
Having read the book (in the Elon library),
I would like to recommend it to others.
Mary J. Ward has in this book told about
some of the horrors of being in a mental
institution; however, she has done it in
a manner that proves to be of great inter
est, and the work is nof the hard type of
writing that usually goes with this type of
book.
Gee! The things they do on television.
WMBW-TV, Washington, has just set a
record of being the first to have a lovely
model display a girdle over TV. Of course
she didn’t wear it. She just held it be
fore the TV camera.
Kenyon College: 2 dead, 26 injured, 5
missing- I wonder if there was a sprink
ler system in the building. The news re
ports state that there were enough exits
and fire escapes. This columnist has seen
no evidence of action being taken from
the letter to the editor about the fire haz
ards in North Dorm. It could happen
here. How would the girls get out of La
dies’ Hall? No fire escapes. Two ent
rances. One with pad lock. West Dorm:
Four exits. One with pad lock, three with
Yale locks that cannot be opened from
the inside without a key. Be a shame to
have a dozen or so students here cook be
cause of improper fire escapes and locks.
Was the formal at W.C.U.N.C. held for
Elon students or was it really for the ‘Dike’
society?
The story of World War II is now avail
able to Duke U. students. Official and
personal papers of Col. John D. Langston,
Asst, director of selective service under
Gen. Hershey during the war, have been
presented to the Duke library. If you
have to do any research on this material,
you’ll know where to find it.
Understand the choir had a fine time
on their tour of Eastern Virginia. Hope
they enjoy the tour to N. Y. and Boston
many many times more.
The description of Oak Lodge in the
1949 catalogue: “A large awelling which
has been remodelled for use as a dormi
tory.” Could it be remodeled again with
out hurting it? Could be! A bit of paint
splashed here and there, a water fountain,
and a few more items, could be used yery
handily.
How about a parlor for the use of the
boys on the campus. At the present time
when a boy on the campus has friends
call on him he has nowhere to take them.
There should be one in some of the dorms
somewhere that could be used. Every
body can’t use the one at West. There can j
be no dating in Ladies’ Hall except on
Sunday nfghts, and it is a sure thing that
over a hundred girls and their dates and
all the boys and their friends can’t enter
tain in West at the same time. All right,
so they don’t all want to entertain at the
same time! There still is .not enough
room.
Guess these polls just ain’t what they
are supposed to be, and neither are the
ratings of the athletic teams. Mr. Truman
came out from the bottom in Mr. Gallup’s
poll, and Lenoir Rhyne upset all predic
tions in the N. S. tournament.
Just in case you would like to become
better acquainted with the works of Betty
Smith before she appears here, her book
“Tomorrow W)ill Be Better” is in the col
lege library. Better than “A Tree Grows
In Brooklyn.”
Don’t tell me about the stale news in
the M&G. The Teco Echo (ECTC) carried
a story about Dr. Messick’s new book in
their Feb. 25 issue. We carried it in our
Feb. 18, and he is the president of ECTC.
truth and travesty
By ABU HASAN
ALAS, POOR GHOST-
In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word said unto the mutitude: “Thou
shalt attend Chapel lest thou suffer conse
quences most dire!”
* But among the throng was one who did
scoff at the exalted words of the Word.
Since he preferred to sleep in a warm bed
rather than upon an oaken bench, each
Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning
would find him, instead of in Chapel as
commanded, ^ taking his slothful ease in
slumber.
Time sped, as it sometimes will, and in
the joyful month of Jan, this infidel was
told that he might depart from the envir
ons of the Word, having fulfilled his re
quirements for the step into the Un
known. Amid hosannas and hallelujas, he
did hie himself from the Gates into the
habitats of the human beings where he did
partake abidly of the pleasures there
abounding.
For nearly a month, the fugitive, in
blissful ignorance of portending events,
did disport and carouse by night and sleep
by day, bestirring himself only to glut him
self on the delightful viands prepared by
his mother and to lull himself into forget
fulness in the reading of books which were
not text.
Meanwhile, within the Gates whence he
had come there took place a great upheav
al. The Book was opened and upon a
page titled “G. T. Parker” was found the
record of the backslider’s chapel attend
ance, which was naught. Much hurried
reckoning was done with the result that
numerous hours which he had thought his
very own were rendered unto oblivion.
Hence, with great cries of anguish and
rending of garments, the culprit was hail
ed into the presence of the wrathful Word
who spoke to him in tones thunderous:
“Ho! Non-attender of Chapel! Thou hast
committed the vilest of the vile. Let it
be put into the Book that George Theo
dore Parker, also known as ‘Ted,’ is here
by sentenced to recoup thirteen hours in
hard labor. The Word has spoken.”
And now, on the first, third, and fifth
days of the week, there is to be found in
Chapel one who before could not be seen
there^
So list ye to this counsel! If thou
wouldst not suffer the same fate, go ye
unto Chapel with regularity and neglect
not to sign thy name to the card of many
hues which is there to be found.
THINGS COULD BE VERSE
There was a line, a mighty line,
Before the Chow Hall door.
And Willie, waiting for his lunch
Was Number Twenty Four.
But Number Three had twelve
good friends,
And Number Eight, eleven.
While Willie found to his surprise
He now w'as Forty Seven.
And tho the people far up front
Were moving quite a lot
The longer Willie stood in line
The farther back h« got.
This struck the boy as mighty silly
But lunchtime never came for
WilUe.
—Syracuse Daily Orange.
Barter Players^ Breen And Chalze
Bring Broadway Experience To El
Robert Breen, who will be to
night’s Hamelt, was probably one
of the youngest professional actors
to play this coveted role at the
time of his first portrayal of the
Dane. He was 21 when he first
played Hamlet, and his associa
tion with the greatest of Shakes
peare’s tragedies has extended
over a number of years.
Breen's theatrical career to date
has consisted of 90 produqtions
as actor and director. For the
past three years he has headed
the well-known Experimental
Theatre in New York which he
organized in 1946.
Breen and ‘Hamlet” should be
on intimate terms with one an
other. He has toured 15,000 miles
in the play, including the 1943
trouping of “G. I. Hamlet” in
which he acted and directed. After
an earlier production of the play,
John Barrymore, in his own'mod
est way, called him “the great
est Hamlet next to Barrymore.”
Leo Chalzel, who last year
played in Eugene O’NeiU’s Broad
way production of “The Iceman
Cometh,” vvill portray Polonius in
the Barter Players’ “Hamlet” to
be presented tonight in Whitley.
A veteran of 30 years on the
stage during which he has per
formed in every branch of the the
atre from burlesque to^ dramatic
production,s Chalzel brings a col
orful personality to the figure of
Polonius whose advice to his son
has become immortal: “This
above all, to thine own self be
true . . .” Broadway shows in whit
Chalzel has appeared with Wal-|been seen include "My
ter Huston in “Othello,” played! leen,” “The Time of Y
with John . Barrymore in -“My and “Skin Of Our Teeth
Dear Children,” and some of the also appeared in motio’
I -t ^ ^ M
Leo Chalzel, as Polonius, and Robert Breen, as tiamiet, m
scene from “Hamlet.”
JAMES ANDREWS (left) who
will be seen tonight as Laertes,
began his career in Utah alternat
ing between stock performances
and singing. He lias sung princi
pal roles in light operas, but de
cided to concentrate on the dra
matic stage.
ERNEST BORGNINE (right)
who plays Guildenstern tonight
has risen from a humble start with
the Barter Theatre to be now
considered one of their most val
uable assets.
Shakespeare’’s Ophelia And^ EmaiUo
Done By Veterans Jedd A n
Miss Gerry Jedd, who will ap
pear as Ophelia in tonight’s per
formance of “Hamlet” by the Bar
ter Players, is a young actress who
has received critical acclaim for
past performanes with this com
pany.
Her try-out role with the Bar
ter Players scored an immediate
success, and she has played sujp-
sequent roles in “The Barretts of
Wimpole Street,” “.^ohn Loves
Mary,” and “Twelfth Night.”
An Ohioan, Miss Jedd is also a
headliner in the field of enter
taining, having performed in night
clubs as a vocalist before doing the
Barter company.
Ray Boyle, who portrays Hora-
tion in tonight’s production, was
chosen by Miss Helen Hayes last
year as the most promising young
actor on Broadway. In joining
the Barter Players, Boyle is fol
lowing in the footsteps of other I
young actors who have found the
Virginia company a valuable rung
on the "adder of dramatic suc
cess.
Boyle has appeared in New
York productions of “CamiJle”
and “Othello” and acted and
danced in an experimental the
atre presentation, “The Great
Campaign,” which was produced
by Robert Breen, tonight’s "ham
let. Boyle was also co-founder of
a repertory company housed by.
New York’s Cherry Lane Theatre,
and he has produced a radio show
for the ABC network.
Miss Jedd and Mr. Boyle were
recently married, culminating a
romance which began when they
were students at Carnegie Tech
and extended through «»vork to
gether in profe"sional stock
companies before Barter cast them
in the tile roles of “John Loves
Mary” last season.
Gerry Jedd (Ophelia) and Ray Boyle (Horatio) finish a few last
minute details backstage before a performance of “Hamlet.”