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Page Two THE SALEMITE 2>o*tk QooaJufe. . . . inn IE C'OS/HCICaVMaV By Sally Reiland My last night at Salem is a Tuesday night. Tuesday nights have always been spent in the Salemita office. No matter how many dresses have, to be stuffed into one suitcase or how many books there are to throw away, Tuesday night has to be spent in the Salemite office. Here in the middle of galleys, make-up sheets, broken pencils, cigarette smoke, and clicking typewriters I found my place at Salem. Since 1 am leaving tomorrow, everyone said that I should write a farewell editorial and say anything that I ■would like to. I’d be gone and no one could saj^ anything. But as I started thinking of a subject, I couldn’t think of anything but the happy hours I’ve spent here. The heated discussions on foolish rules and the gripes about impossible teachers are all funny stories to tell my children. What I can remember is my first trip to the Salemite office. The article that I had worked so long on -^yas cut to three sentences for News Briefs. That year I kept writing News Briefs, but at Christmas I got a front page by-line with a story on Moravian Christ mas customs. The sight of my name under the headline was all that was needed. I’d wfite on forever in hopes of another by-line. The next year I started making my weekly trips to the Salemite. Tuesday and Wednes day nights were spent in the catacombs and Thursday was spent at the Sun Printing Com pany. Besides writing articles I worked on make-up and Avas able to take part in the long discussions — discussions on men, mar riage, and Dr. Todd’s classes. At —the Sun I met Mr. Cashion, Francis, and Lida Ruth. Here I got the proverbial “printer’s ink” on my hands. Coffee is at its best in the big white mugs clutched in inky hands. I learned to read backwards and upside down (it really isn’t hard) and to set up head lines. I had the thrill of putting my own articles in the forms and reading the first proofs. This last year has been a continuation of all the good times and hard work. No matter how empty the pages were we always found something to go in them. (Even if I had to write a play.) The number of inches to be filled never stopped an interesting discussion —besides its fun to look for “Mr. Nightwatch- man” at twelve o’clock. Now that the last night is here, I’m glad it is a Tuesday night. I wouldn’t feel right if I left without worrying how we will fill two hundred and forty inches this week. As I fill up my share of these inches I wish I could tell you how you feel as you look out of the Avindow and see girls hurrying to class and knoAv that you don’ft have any more classes. I AAush I could describe the butterflies as the girls sing to you in the dining hall for the last time. I Avish I could explain the lump in your throat as you tell your professors good-bye. Times like this are times that you Avish you were' tAvins (one tAvin for the old; one for theiiieAv). Good things lie ahead, but to reach them you must break Avith the old. Making this break is Avhat causes the lump, butter flies, and funny feelings. SomehoAv all the good things Avipe out the call doAvns and re-.' strictions. The by-lines out shine the cut and rejected articles. Noav as the empty inches are beginning to fill, it is time for one last discussion. One last Tuesday night. Donald CaldAvell En route to the. This week theatre .•. . There is a particular new con traption—not only in the mind of|Alartin in “Peter Pan” and Gian- Tinkie Millican—but on display at' Carlo Menotti’s latest opera, ‘The the 1955 Motorama in New York Saint of Bleecker Street”. City. A car, developed by one of | The first,—of interest to those of the prominent manufacturers of us who, since the faculty play last BIG cars, with a 14 inch TV screen year, tend to identify “the most in the back of the front seat (too: exciting personality in show busi- bad about the driver and his com- ness” with a certain English pro panion) . . . This, for the lover of fessor on campus; the second to the TV drama, is a real develop- all May Day chairmen who aspire ment—particularly for those New to fly their cast in from the tower- Yorkers who want to see plays, : ing dell trees in a manner corn- hold telephone conversations, stay \ parable to Peter, Wendy, John and wheeled corners to the National, Winter Garden and BroadvA'ay— where, in turn, they saw Eartha Kitt in “Mrs. Patterson”, Mary Phyllis Sherrill “Leave our things alone, Elaine,” Ave saij again. The twins and I Avere packing to aAAmy to school and it Avas hot. Elaine wa; scratching around in the jeAvelry boxes dra». ging out ropes of pearls and. earrings. Sb( | cool, or tape record business trans-j Michael s soar through the sky to j^y new rhinestone earrings for tlit actions en route to the theatre— Never-never land—as accomplished 4.i • where, in the new year, they will in the New York staging of th no doubt meet with replacements famed child’s fantasy; and the for “Fanny” and “Mrs. Patterson.” ; third—to those who recall the ter- We recall, however, that such is rific success of Menotti’s “The not our fate, in theatre transit—' Medium” on campus year before but rather that of treading over last . . . the bricks on ten bruised metacar- j And then, there are those of us pels to one of bur own unique who merely hope to beg a fourth time and admired herself in the mirroi T hate high school,” she said. Earrings are her passion. She Avore her first pair on Easter Sunday of her freshman yeat in high school. She wanted to Avear them ti) school the next day, but Mother caught hei theatres of sorts—Memorial Hall— (in someone’s four year old Chevy) Where, above the set flat storage to the Carolina Playmaker’s spring of the Pierrettes and below count- production of “Show Boat”—which, less violin, piano, harp, cello and by the way, will be the first pro vocal strings and cords — we ob- duction of the perennially popular serve such a form of theatre as ; stage and screen show ever given Ruth Draper most recently pre- by a university group. As the sented in her dramatic monologues, story goes, rights to said Hammer- Concerning Miss Draper—was in- stein-Kern classic are practically terested in what the “New Yorker” . impossible to obtain, except pro- before she left home. From that time, when ever we Avanted to tease her, Ave Avould just call her “Earrings.” She would blush, then laugh and try to make Ps forget the incident “Those rhinestones really look good Avitlt blue jeans,” the tAvins said. “You weren’t so sloppy in BloAving Rock this summer.” had to say of her recent joint re cital (with her nephew, Paul, the noted modern dance sa^irest) at the Bijou, in which she presented es sentially the same program of selections given at Salem. Accord ing to Wolcott Gibbs, drama critic for the magazine, she is “as practi cally everybody knows, the most brilliant monologist now at work in America.” In speaking of her “ex traordinary capacious repertory,” Mr. Gibbs recommends her pro gram to all theatre-goers as likely the most “polished and civilized entertainment” offered in New York this winter . . . Some of our company, however, prefer to revive their metacarpels by taking weekend flights to the big city for the purpose of drama- Every year in June Mother takes a poll to| fessionally so—but the Playmakers see if Ave Avant to go to BloAving Rock again,! have done it! . . . And to top that ■—Kai Jurgensen, staff director of the group, has even held confer ences on staging plans with Marge and Gower Champion, famed dan cers of the movie version of the musical. All the rest of the family are for it, againstP it, or undecided, but Mother never asks ‘ Elaine. We all knoAv what she wants: Johnny lives in Blowing Rock. He is the reason Elaine gets up before anyone else in Blowing Rock, changes her shorts five times, combs her hair In leaving the theatre, some rida for twenty-five minutes and tries hard to hide® on white leather and ermine up- holstry—with their furs spread round about them and criticisms of the drama televised before them . . . But such is not our fate. We brick-bruise our toes and gasp at the antics of taxi drivers and ask approximately fifteen people for a her freckles Avith my make-up. This summerK she Avent through a stage of Avearing lots of|| make-up. We tried to tell her that her freck-g les were attractive, but she continued to apply powder, rouge, eyebrow pencil, and lipstick. This ritual over, she took her daily walk toR ride to Chapel Hill that weekend. post office. She really didn’t care AvhetherK We stand on the corner of Salem Square and wait for a bus to take us to see James Mason in cinema- we had any mail or not. All she wanted Avas tic entertainment. Such was the scope and wait patiently for the case of Louise Barrdli, Bunny coming of the full-length movi% Gregg, Carolyn Spaugh, Libby Nor- cartoon version of George Orwell’s ris and Sandy Whitlock, who spent “Animal Farm” ... But we all find the mid-year break paying taxi- ourselves, in one way or another—- driver tips to whiz around two- en route to the theatre. Here and There By Freda Siler Onr Sympathy^ To Sue Jones Salemite Editor-in-Chlef Betty Lynn Wilson Associate Editor Donald Caldwell News Editor - - Jo Smitherman Assistant News Editor Nancy Cockfield Feature Editor Bebe Boyd Assistant Feature Editor — Louise Barron Copy Editor Mary Benton Royster Make-up Editor — Nancy Gilchrist Pictoral Editor Jean Currin Music Editors Ella Ann Lee, Martha Thornburg Editorial staff: Betsy_ Liles, Bobbi Kuss, Sally Reiland, Freda Siler, Francine Pitts, Maggi Blakeney, Mary Anne Raines, Judy Williams, Beth Paul. Phyllis Stinnett, Beverly Brown, Judy Graham, Sarah Vance, Kay Williams, Celia Smith. Pat Ward, Ellen Summerell, Sherry Rich, Ann Mixon, Kay Cunningham, Rachel Ray, Annette Price, Patsy Hill, Ann Coley, Ann Knight, Sue Jette Davidson, Marianne Boyd, Sandy Whitlock, Mary Mac Rogers, Sissy Allen, Emily Heard, Sudie Mae Spain, Eleanor Smith, Pat Green, Emma McCotter, Anne E, Edwards. Business Manoger Marguerite Blanton Advertising Managers Diantha Carter, Emily McClure Circulation Manager Ann Crenshaw Businea.s staff: Diane Crake, Sally McKenzie, Nancy War ren, Emily Cathcail, Bunny Gregg, Melinda Wabberson, Marian Myers, Peggy Ingram, Kay Hannon, Anne Hale. Faculty Advisor : Miss Jess Byrd Europe: Last week the weather was the biggest topic of conver sation in Europe. In Paris, the citizens watched the statue of a Zauaue which stands beneath the Port de I’Alma, knowing that water to his calves meant the Seine in flood. Last week the water reached his elbows. Some of the effects of the flood were: the priceless works on the ground floor of the Louvre were moved upstairs, three com panies of firemen were busy pump ing water out of the basement of ancient Notre-Dame, and police closed off the famed Pont des In- valides for fear its waterlogged arches might collapse. Another flood threatened Bonn, Germany, whose normally sedate Rhine River was twice its usual width. This was the worst flood since 1926. England did not escape the foul weather. First, London was covered with the biggest, blackest, cloud of smog the city could remember. Then all of England e.xcept Corn wall was smothered in heavy snow falls. Cornwall did not escape, though; it got floods. Burma: Premier U Nu, who re cognized Red China as a menace but wishes to remain neutral, has been afraid to accept aid or arms from the West. But last week he saw a way out of his dilemma. In exchange for some of Burma’s, piled-up rice surplus, he would col lect enough military hardware to equip a brigade — not from the West, but from his acceptably socialist visitor Marshall Tito. No one mentioned that the guns Tito had to spare were given to him by Britain and the United States. South Africa: The new Prime Minister, Johannes Gerhardus Stry- dom presented his first program to Parliament last Aveek. This pro gram was rather moderate in com parison to what was expected, but nevertheless it was rather severe. Some of its points were: 1. All non-white servants would be required to leave white-popu lated areas each ni^ht: 2. Labor unions with mixed white and non-white membership w.ould be outlawed; 3. Police would have the right to walk by the real estate office where Johnny p, worked. He was usually sitting on the bench || out front, and they Avould talk for an hour. K pi Johnny’s main attractions were that he was) a college man,” and had dark blue eyes that! looked everyAvhere but at her. Elaine felt that her summer had been a complete success j Avhen he asked her to the square dance in the | park the last Aveek in August. Perhaps be cause of this, she looked forward to an in vitation to Davidson Homecoming. The twins and I kneAv that Johnny had already asked the girl who drove the Avhite convertible and AAmre a different pair of Bermuda shorts eA^ery- day. We hated to tell her about it, and yet we Avere afraid she Avould find out in a more brutal Avay. _We watched her as she left the mirror and picked up the tAvo stiff black crinolines Mother had bought for the twins today. She put them both on at once. She is proud of -- Avaist and ahvays Avears at least three to attend private meetings of more crinolines to make her skirts stand out and than three persons, for purposes-of her Avaist appear smaller The comnlete ef- political investigation. feet is spoiled, however, becanse the crrnolines a Avays shoAv about an inch all the Avav around. India: Nehru seems at least con fused when it comes to Com munists. Last week he traveled to the province of Andhra to make a speech to keep the Communists Inspired by the sophisticated black, Elaine and all, into a pair of LU Keep rne c,ommunists blapU j • ’ ^ . from winning the coming elections + i sequined evening pumps three sizes too large. But no one has yet figured out what his speech meant. He said that he is against “the Com munists,” but not against “Com munism ; he does not approve of Communist “methods”, but as for Communist objectives, “I like them”. Great Britain: The Board of Trade announced last week that 1954 was the best trading year in British history. Where Lancashire textiles and Welsh coal once led the list of exports, more than 50% of British exports last yeip' were metals and engineering products. British car exports “greatly ex ceed the combined exports of all European countries and are almost double those of the U. S.” Although Britain still has to buy more than it sells, it has been helped by the world-wide change Maybe I can Avear these Avhen I go to. avidson,” she said. “They’re not much too big.” The tAvms and I looked at each other. “Did you see Herbert today?” we asked. Herbert is a tootball star, and a high school sopho more like Elaine. He looks up to her but, as as^ she’s concerned, he’s strictly “high far school I saAv him in algebra. He asked me to the dance after the game Friday night, but I told X h3,(X to X)P TIATYTO QQT^IxT T TTTllI had to be home early. Besides, I will probably be tired from cheerleading.” But— we doubted that. Elaine’s lung power has, deatened the household from the time of her- first baby wail. — were packed now, and ready to leave. in terms of trade: since the end of Flame looked around her and. realized that the Korean war the prices of food '’^'6 were going aAvay and she couldn’t go. She I*’ and raw materials have tended to took off the earrings and handed them to me. tall, while the price of manufactures has risen. This resulted in a grand Keep them,” I said. “Maybe you can wear total of 1954 exports of $7.5 billion, them to Davidson sometime.”
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