Page 4 Play Review Sad Cafe: An Actor Views The Play J by STEVE ELROD Carson McCullers wrote a novella about obsessive love called The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, which Edward Albee adopted to the stage and which opened Jan uary 9 as a MFA thesis pro duction at UNC-G. I played a minor part in it, so consider this an insightful u biased review. Love traingles are absurd. The one in this play is an utter reductio ad absurdum of the Vic torian romantic dilemma-the homosexual member gets the man. The director William Dan nenberg said, "This play is a bout people trying to make sense out of a senseless world," i.e. existentional absurdity. He had a fantastic set designed, used surrealist lighting effects, and chose choreographed move ments for grotesqueness.lasked, "Is it the world that is sense less or the people?" "Both," he replied. In a sense this is true. Natural and psychological laws prevail in the play, but its world is morally Actress To Spend 10 Days At N.C.S^i. WINSTON - SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA -- Miriam Goldina, New York actress, teacher and director, arrived Monday to spend 10 weeks in residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she will teach acting to drama students. Miss Goldina is one of several professional actors and directors invited to teach in the School of Drama during the 1969-1970 school year. She received her training in the theater as a student of Stan islavsky and Vachtangov in Mos cow, Russia. She was a member of Moscow Habimah Theater and was a leading lady of the Habima Theater in New York. She has been teaching acting in New York and Hollywood for the past 30 years. She was di rector of the Acting Laboratory at Bryn Mawr College at Bryn Mawr, Pa. in 1947 and was an associate professor of drama at the University of South Florida at Tampa in 1966. She is the author of the book, "Stanislavsky Directs." In New York she has directed Ibsen's "A Doll's House" for both the Equity Library Theater and the Acting Workshop of Circle-In- The-Square. She directed Ib sen's "Hedda Gabler" for the Intimate Theater in New York and Gorky's "The Courageous One" for an Off- Broadway pro duction. She did the translation of Union Calendar Jan. 24: Basketball at UNC-G. Jan 26: Basketball at Pres byterian College. Jan. 28: Basketball at High Point. Feb. 2: Basketball at Pfeiffer Feb. 3: NCSA Piedmont Cham ber Players Dana 8 p.m. Feb. 4: Basketball at Atlantic Christian Classes Begin. Feb. 5: Film Mein Kampf in Dana at 8 p.m. Feb. 6: Vintage Film Series Feb. 7: Home basketball game with Livingston College. chaotic-indifferent to whether or not the characters can adjust to its reality. But this means that the senselessness is in the char acters themselves and they pro ject in onto their world. Mar vin, Amelia, and Lymon are each in love with an image of someone whose true nature is as unknown to them as the dark side of the moon. The source of the absurdity in the play is their re fusal to come to grips with this error in their thinking. The audience appreciated the ab surdity of the situation because they laughed at the pathos of it and were aghast at the pointless violence of the endings. Mr. Dan nenberg proved his point-the play certainly lends itself to an ab surdist interpretation, but this leads to the question of what ab surdism has to say beyond an exhibition of the bankruptcy of its controlling idea. I sensed that unrequited love was regarded as a dated theme by many mem bers of the audience, which mag nified its comic effect but diminished its dramatic impact for them. the Gorky play. She was director of the Torch Theater in Darien, Conn, in 1948, which was spon sored by Frederic March and Florence Eldridge. Among the plays in which Miss Goldina appeared for the Habima Theater in New York were "A Bell for Adano," "Dia mond Lil," "Heart of a City" and "Bullfight." In films she acted in "Ras putin," "Little Women," Ladies of the Big House," "Young Man" and "Flaming Star." On television in Hollywood she has acted in "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Combat," "Perry Mason," "Man From U.N.C.- L.E." and "National Velvet." On television in New York she acted for Philco Playhouse, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, Robert Montgomery Presents, Studio One and the Armstrong Circle Theater. ACLU Plans 50th Anniversary The ACLU will celebrate its 50th anniversary - 1970 - with a year-long program "to raise the activities of the Union, na tionally and among our 47 af filiates, to a new level of effec tiveness." According to a prospectus ap proved by the Board ofDirectors this fall, "By the end of 1970 the Union can emerge capacity to move America, even amidst today's divisive, anti libertarian forces, toward a new degree of security in her democratic institutions - one that rests on a broad base of popular loyalty to the principles of lib erty." Details of the 50th anniversary program still are somewhat ten tative, but plans include: —Preparation of four(maybe more) reports on the "condition of our liberties." Outstanding American writers, assisted by a small research staff, will make depth investigations and analyses in various fields of ACLU con cern, for instance: the impact of the armed forces on civil THE GUILFORD IAN Fisk University Stands Firm Against Black Demands NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(CPS)-- The administration of Fisk Uni versity, is standing firm against student demands that the insti tution become a "Black Uni versity," even after a week-long take-over of a campus building. About 200 students took over the education building the week of Dec. 14, and 22 students who remained were finally evicted by police Dec. 19, according to Bill Blackburn, a philosophy major and organizer of the "Students for a Black University" move ment. TRIAL FOR DEMONSTRATORS The students will go on trial in municipal court Jan. 8 on trespassing charges, and "in cidents" by student sympathizers are expected that day. The take over caused the predominantly Black university to close its doors a week early for Christ- Miss Goldina will concentrate on the plays of Chekov and Ibsen while teaching at the School of the Arts. Feb. 28 Pageant Picks Miss Greensboro The Greensboro Jaycees will produce the 1970 Miss Greens boro Pageant on February 28, at 8:00 P.M. in the Aycock Au ditorium. Miss Greensboro of 1970, along with her alternates, will be able to further her education through varied scholarship awards. She will also have the op portunity of participation in the Miss North Carolina Pageant and possibly the Miss American Pag eant. Harlan Cato, will advise the Jaycees and Ed Martin will direct the Jaycee effort. liberties, the rights of youth, the effect of police surveillance on speech and'assembly, privacy in the computer age, the treat ment of prisoners. In the early fall of 1970 the reports will be published in condensed version in a mass circulation periodi cal. Complete texts will be of fered to a leading publisher. Convocation —Public discussion and debate on the reports at a convocation in either Washington, D.C. or New York in December, 1970. At the close of the convocation there will be a banquet commemorating the 179 th anniversary of the Bill of Rights and ceremoniously marking the ACLU's first half century. —Public education about the Bill of Rights and the ACLU. Throughout the year all avenues will be explored to reach the largest possible American pub lic. The education program will emphasize current and future threats to civil liberties. mas vacation. The university re opened Jan. 5. So far. University President James R. Lawson has refused to implement any of the student proposals which include the re defining of the institution into one: a) structured, controlled and administered by Black people and devoted to the cultural needs of the Black community. b) set up to deal wit* the skills necessary for the Black Univer sity. c) identifying all Black people as Africans under the ideological concepts of Pan Africanism. d) addressing itself completely to Black Liberation, primarily through education. Europe '7O Some Tour Some Study Guilford College will sponsor its first alumni tour this sum mer. The Guilford alumni and friends will tour seven European countries between July 11 and August 1. William E. Benbow, Director of Alumni Affairs, is host for the tour. Travel arrangements are made by Lucas Travel Agency in Greensboro. The tour wiii cost $969"00? Reservations will be accepted by the travel agency through May 30. IES The Institute of European Stud ies is seeking qualified students for study in Paris, Nantes, Frei burg, Vienna, and Madrid for the 1970-71 academic year. Information and applications can be obtained from Philip H. Yasinski, Director of Admis sions, 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. —Litigation and legislation. Special programs will be devel oped for coordinated action by national and affiliate boards and staffs. Additionally, affiliates will be encouraged and assisted in de vising special anniversary pro grams in their areas in order to call public attention to their work and increase their effec tiveness. Monroe Directs The anniversary program will be directed by Dr. Eason Mon roe, veteran executive director of the ACLU of Southern Cali fornia. He will divide his time between Los Angeles and New York, devoting approximately four-fifths of his schedule to the 1970 program while contin uing to serve as executive direc tor of the Southern California affiliate. Monroe will be assisted by a special anniversary staff. Offices have been opened at 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City, where Monday, January 19, 1970 MAJORITY APPROVE Blackburn says most of Fisk's 1200 students favor the reforms. The number of students holding the education building dwindled only after the administration had sent threatening telegrams to the parents of the student occupiers and had closed down the univer sity so the occupiers could be charged with trespassing. Students are considering suin b the university to get back tuition money for the week during which the university was closed. WHITE ACCEPTED Blackburn maintains the Black University would not necessarily; exclude white students but would put the prime emphasis on Black education and would put Blacks in control of those chairman ships and other top offices now held by whites. President Lawson is Black. The National Student Associ ation has been contacted regard ing the situation, in addition to other student groups. A group of Black students are traveling to Fisk from Cornell University in New York to assist the Stu dents for a Black University. Blackburn says students will use "whatever means neces sary" to win their demands. YDC Post Won By Overman Bill Overman, a sophomore political science major, was re cently elected President of Guil ford's Young Democrats Club. Secceeding Barbara Anne Steeg muller, His term begins second semester. Rita Stroud, a freshman educa tion major was elected vice president of the club. She will succeed Boyd Bennet. close liaison with the regular ACLU national staff can be main tained. Mrs. Sarah Kovner, who has long experience in ACLU, public relations and political organ izing is anniversary associate director. Mrs. Laura Ober, for mer executive director of the ACLU of Ohio and treasurer of the ACLU of Washington, is di rector of affiliate and organiza tion relations. Other staff, including a finance director, will be employed as soon as funds permit. The program is designed to be self-supporting, over and above normal membership sup port, in order not to diminish the regular income and work of the ACLU. Anniversary plans call for the raising and spending of $500,000 in tax deductible and non-tax deductible contribu tions. Forty per cent of the funds raised will be allocated to the ACLU's affiliates for use on state and local anniversary ac tivities.