Volume XLI
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, November 1 1, 1960
Number 8
Campus Will Feel Dramatic Impact Of Sartre’s "No Exit”
By Susan Hughes
The Pierrette Players will pre
sent Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit on
Wednesday and Thursday nights of
next week.
“Huis Clos” ..No Exit) was pre
sented for the first time at the
Theatre du Vieux-Colombier, Paris,
in May, 1944. When Sartre’s first
two plays. No Exit and The Flies
were published in the United States
in 1947, Eric Bentley had this to
say about them:
“Everyone interested in modern
drama, modern literature, or mod
ern ideas might well read this book
... I am inclined to think . . .
that Sartre’s remarkable talent
“capricious." This is their Hell,
and the absence of an official tor
turer, Inez says, “. . . each of us
will act as torturer of the two
others.”
The interplay of character in the
play is complex, but the meaning is
apparent. To tell more of the plot
or story would make the play less
significant to those seeing it for the
first time. One tends to think less
about what it is really saying if he
already knows how it progresses.
The presentation of this play at
Salem is a new exploration into the
field of modern drama on campus.
It is different, but that does not
mean it is not good. Of the vast
reams of drama written in this cen-
finds more satisfactory expression i tury, Sartre’s will probably not pass
in the theatre than elsewhere. After into oblivion as soon as many
all, what is the chief fault that! others. He is important in the field
people claim to have found in his f
drama, and the impact should be
felt all over campus.
novels, his essays, and his lectures
—is it not their theatricality?”
John Huston directed No Exit on
Vicki Sims, in her capacity as
Pierrette president, is the producer.
Colquit Meacham, Shannon Smith and Johnny Smith portray a scene from No Exit.
W-S Civic Music Presents Vienna
Philharmonic Wind Ensemble^ Pianist
The Wind Ensemble of the
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will
give a concert in Reynolds Audi
torium on Thursday, November 17.
The concert will be sponsored by
the Winston-Salem Civic Music
Association and will begin at 8:30
p.m.
Freidrich Gulda, world-renowned
pianist, is the star attraction of the
orchestra and a unique musician.
The young Austrian, contrary to
popular belief, thinks that musicians
should lead vigorous lives and be
well-acquainted with their modern
world. “The great composers were
not afraid of experience”, he states.
Dr. Stewart To
Speak Nov. 15
To Humanities
“Mozart and Beethoven had full, > of myself not as a star, but as part
exciting lives, and out of their lives of a cooperative enterprize. All of
they created their music. Like a us—the pianist, the conductor, and
composer, an interpreter must have the members of the orchestra,
something to say. He must strive should be dedicated to the same
to faithfully recapture the com- purpose; to present the message of
poser’s spirit, but in addition must the composer so that the public
present his own viewpoint, or his, can share our joy in great music!”
playing will be just like everybody
else’s.”
Mr. Gulda certainly leads a full,
exciting life. He has concertized
widely in Europe, South America,
South Africa, and the United
States. In spite of mishaps and
delays (a piano arriving without
legs), he enjoys traveling and
thinks it has helped his playing. A
pianist, or any musician, he be
lieves, must be broad in his sym
pathies and understanding. Meet
ing and observing new and unfami
The public will be sure to enjoy
great music and a pleasing rendition
of it on Thursday night.
Broadway, and the play has become Linda Bashford is the Stage Man-
a standard item in the modern dra- ager, and Peggy Brown the Assis-
matic repertoire all over the world, tant to the Producer. The indivi-
No Exit, perhaps the best known dual committees are headed by
of his plays to the present college Sybrilla Caudel (Costumes),
generation, has great dramatic im- Johanna Johnson (Scenery), Liz
pact, for it deals with the problem Wilson (Props), Pinky Saunders
of Hell—^what and why—as well as (Lighting), Sally Beverly (Pro-
with several other subtle themes, grams). Betty Cox and Joy Robin-
Many interpret the play with son (Make-up), and Lucy Lane
underlying Freudian symbolism. i (House Manager).
The dramatic effect is heightened' Tickets went on sale Thursday,
because the play is presented by November 10. Reservations can be
Sartre in one act. Joseph Garcin, made every afternoon from 1:20 to
Estelle Rigault and Inez Serrano 2:00 in the Student Center, and
find themselves thrown together in from 2:00 to S :30 and 7:00 to 10:00
a second-empire style drawing in Miss Battle’s office under Main
room. There are no windows, the Hall. Reserved tickets will not cost
lights cannot be turned off except any more than regular tickets, but
by the “Master Switch,” the door will assure you of a seat where you
is always locked and the bell that can see best. Reserved tickets arc
summons the valet is described asUimited in number.
Ferlinghetti Gives Salem Contemporary
Interpations Of Love And Death
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a contem
porary poet, will present the second
liar people, cities, and customs are: lecture in the 1960-61 Salem Lec
ture Series on November 14.
November IS, the Humanities
Club will meet at 6:30 in the Day
Student Center. Dr. Mary Stuart,
who joined the Religion and Philo
sophy Department this year, will
lead the discussion, which is to be
on the relative merits and defects
of conformity and non-conformity
on college campuses. Questions
such as “What is a radical ?” and
“What is a conservative?” will be
discussed and open to group com
ment. These are questions which
should be of interest to each girl
at Salem. It is surely a topic which
has been discussed among the stu
dents at various times. Everyone
is invited to come and share their
ideas over coffee.
Membership in the Humanities
Club is open to members of the
faculty as well as to all Salem stu
dents. The only requirement of the
member is to attend the meetings
which interest him. The programs
consist of discussions in the field of
humanities, which includes art,
musi.c, literature, language, philo
sophy, and history.
The purpose of the club is to en
courage an interested exchange of
ideas between faculty and students
on topics which are correlated the
community of Salem. Serving in
capacity of advisors to the Humani-
1 ties Club are Dr. Africa and Mr.
opportunities that an artist must
cultivate.
His parents both played and en
joyed music and were quick to en
courage the boy’s early musical in
terest. In 1942 he attended the
Viennese Academy of Music where
his professors urged him, in 1946,
to compete for the piano prize at
the International Contest in Gen
eva. To everyone’s surprise the
seventeen-year old boy won the
prize and was launched on his
eminently successful career.
Mr. Gulda is married and has a
young son, whose birthday comes
exactly two hundred years after
Wolfgang Mozart’s! If his family
doesn’t accompany him on his tours,
he is always sure to take home
something that is typical of the
places he has visited. He has a
large collection of flutes and re
corders and is always interested in
acquiring new ones. Besides play
ing these for relaxation, he also
enjoys chess, reading, and skiing.
The admiration accorded to
Freidrich Gulda and his playing
stems partly from his attitude to
ward his art and his audience. He
believes he has a responsibility to
convey to his audience the music
of the great masters; he does not
want people to come to hear his
playing, but rather to hear the com
positions of great musicians.
“I like to think,” he says, “that
today’s young audiences are at
tracted by the music itself. I think
“Shot
sun winged to zenith, plummeted,
into the outrageous abyss on the
other side of day. Streetlights came
out in it, and I was no longer with
her in that strange studio of a
dance hall. I was going somewhere
to my own funeral, through the
late dusk that kept falling and fall
ing. I had fallen from that place
where she was, and my face upon
the face of the street had grown
old in falling, become happier, no
good . . .”
from Her
... It was London
and when someone shouted over
that they had got a model
I ran out across the court ,
but then
when the model started taking
off her clothes
there was nothing underneath
I mean to say
she took off her shoes and- found
no feet ...
from “London”
. . . And babies came in their
carriages carrying irradiated dolls
and holding out crazy strings of
illuminated weather balloons filled
with Nagasaki air
And those who had not left
their TV sets long enough to notice
the weather in seven years now
came swimming thru the rain hold
ing their testimonials . . .
from “Tentative Description
of a dinner . . .”
The above quotations at random
Dr. Ferlinghetti
from the works of Lawrence Fer
linghetti illustrate the style in
poetry and prose of Salem College’s
second lecturor in the current series.
This poet, a Bohemian bookshop
owner, is one of the most notable
of the contemporary poets. He
graduated from the University of
North Carolina and received his
masters degree from Columbia Uni
baskets at Time” in his own words.
and then went to Paris. While
there from 1947-51, he received a
Doctoral de L’Universite from the
Sorbonne.
Returning to this country he and
a friend opened the first complete
paperbound bookstore in the
country. City Lights, at San Fran
cisco. He began publishing there
the Pocket Poets Series, the writ
ings of other contemporary poets.
Mr. Ferlinghetti himself has pub
lished several works, including A
Coney Island of the Mind, Her,
and certain other collections of
poems such as Pictures of the Gone
World, and Tentative Description
of a Dinner Given to Impeach
President Eisenhower.
Mr. Ferlinghetti plans to read at
Salem from his new book of poems,
Love and Death. Some of the se
lections are: “Over-Population”,
“Euphoria”, “Flying Away”, •Hid
den Door”, “The Insoluable Prob
lem”, “The Great Chinese Dragon”,
“He”, “New York-Albany”. How
ever he explains, “I have given up
reading poetry with jazz. The
poetry is bad for the jazz, and the
jazz is bad for the poetry.”
Mr. Ferlinghetti has traveled
widely across the country giving
reading. Last February he parti
cipated in a Pan-American cultural
conference in Chile and this year
will travel to the Virgin Islands,
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Chicago, and
North Carolina.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti will arrive
in Winston-Salem Monday Novem-
versity. After having served in ber 14 and the lecture will begin at
World War II, he “emptied waste-18:30 that night in Memorial Hall.