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Pn're Four Tuesday, February 12, 1929 ThE tat n f r t 1 a S MAGAZINE IS M LINE WITH NEW TRADMOI ami As One of the Most Intelligent AnddTanced" University Magazines It Has Become Caviar to the Student Body. tING OF ONGS" SCORES N THE CENSORS Court Rules That Film Shall Be Shown Without the Use of Scissors. By RUSSELL POTTER During the past four, or five years the Carolina Magazine has been very distinctly an experimental publication. It has had as its models unconsci ously, perhaps such publications as transition and Broom. It has made scant bid for the attention of the stu dent whose reading-needs are adequ ately met by an occasional detective story sandwiched between True Stories and the Danger Trail Maga zine, who suspects surrealisme to be some new disease, and to whom the names Eugene Jolas, Paul Eluard, and Marcel Proust are only so much static. On the whole, the Magazine has been one of the most intelligent and one of the most "advanced" of all the university magazines : and it has become caviar to the general. This was made very plain at the polls last week. ' ' The January issue of the Magazine is in line with the new tradition, Warren Taylor's story, "The Picture," is an interesting, if not quite success ful, experiment in surrealisme. Here the author is interested not in objects but in the images that these objects evoke in the consciousness of his character. For the surrealiste, ob jective reality has ceased to have any significance at all except in so far as he is able to translate it in terms o: , mood, of pattern, of rhythm! But Mr Taylor fails to escape the dangers of such writing: he fails to conjure up before his reader character. And, as even Virginia Woolf is ready to ad mit, without character fiction is aim less. "The lady" does not emerge: Furthermore, Mr. Taylor does not. quite escape the charge of trival banality.- "The bell of the telephone will not ring"; is perhaps only a casual blunder in the pattern of the piece. But turn to the 'next to the last para graph, which, by the way, contains some of the best prose that has ap peared in the Magazine for some time. Read this through aloud. - All ' goes well until you hit the sentence "The arms of the chair could not lift them v selves." What a let-down! ' This is a small matter, perhaps, but it is enough (for this reader, at least) to knock the edge off a paragraph which, except "for this, is an excellent piece of work in the experimental manner. It is this sort of thing which gives. ' great point to Dane Wilsey's burles que of the whole stream-of-conscious-ness-surrealiste school, "Winesburg Withcrat Women; or, The Brown Hat." This is a high-spirited bit of horse play. Its inclusion is rather timely reassurance that the editoral staf 1 is not without a saving sense of humor. Mr. Charles Wood also does a bit of prose-experimenting in his "Per haps I Shouldn't Have Mentioned It" (the formula for which is, I suspect, something like this:, two parts Sher wood Anderson, one part Whitman, a dash of Ha velock Ellis). But in an experimental magazine, this is rather more interesting than the same writer's "Modern Morals," which ap pears as the leading article for the month. This begins with the state ment that "sometime after the World War America gave to the world a new and pernicious type of person known as 'flaming youth-'," England, France, Germany, and Russia, might protest this statement, each claiming some share in the honor of having "given to the world" the young person whose escapades are here discussed. Mr. Wood next lays himself open to' the charge of careless thinking when he calls attention to "the prevalent habit of joking at sex on one hand and ig noring it on the other." Why, there is nothing new in this attitude! It is almost as old as man. It - was the "prevelent habit" when Chaucer wrote his "Canterbury Tales"; it wa3 the "prevalent habit" against which Walt Whitman took up the cudgels of poetic frankness But in spite of all this, Mr. Wood, like the character in the Irish comedy, "comes to a good en' atter all," when he declares, thought fully and truly, that "hardly any of the much cursed younger generation are actually debased, but are lost in a vague groping for happiness." ' From the point of view of space oc cupied, R. K. Fowler leads 'the horse- show from Parnassus with his "Son nets of a Cub Reporter." These are four in number; and they all sound a bit too much like the whining com plaint of a very much Henyngwayed young man who can only sneer a humanity which furnishes him with "a lousy re-write job and a hell o a bother." Other steeds are led by John Mebane, W. W. Anderson, Les lie Gordon O'Pry, Pierson Ricks, Margaret Beaufort Miller, Lionel Abelson, and the modest "M. F." Judge A. B. Pitman of the Circuit Court in Memphis, Tenn., recently made a highly important ruling in connection with the showing of "The King of Kings" in that city that, is. bound to have a wide influence in fu ture conflicts between censor boards and motion picture exhibitors, dis tributors or producers in this coun try."' '. He ruled that "The King of Kings' should play at the Lyric Theatre in Memphis without interference from the censors, and set a precedent be fore unknown in the legal history of Tennessee by stating it to be hi opinion that court of law is empow ered with authority to review the ac tions of any censor board, and pass final judgment as to whether a dra ma, film or act was good or bad from the standpoint of public welfare and safety. ' . The court found that there is noth ing in this screen version of the life of Jesus that "is likely to stir up re ligious or racial hatred or prove inim ical to public welfare." Duke's Glee Club Wins First Place GERMS CLOSE SDOjSMiillD- PI DANCES Climaxed Affair Saturday Night With Grand Ball; Elaborate Decorations. Duke University won the southern intercollegiate glee club contest a Greenville, S. C, last Friday night. William and Mary was judged second best and given honorable mention. tAt a business meeting of the asso ciation P. W. Price of N. C. State was re-elected president of the orga nization. Max Noah of Guilford Col lege was named secretary and trea surer. Miss Katherine H. Phipp was made first vice-president for zone one, and Tom Gardner of the University of Alabama was made first vice-president for zone two. The southern association was divid ed into three zones, the first being composed of North Carolina, Tennes see, Kentucky, and Virginia ; the second composed of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida ; the third of Louisana, Mississippi, and Texas. The southern contest will hot be held next year, but one club from each zone will go to New York for the national contest. The association passed a resolu tion asking all southern colleges to aid glee clubs by assessing each stu dent a fee. Jones To Read met his death at the hands policeman. Such a tragedy naturally out of the conditions here recorded a work-driven mother, hos tility between a stepfather and his wife's children, and a lack of under standing on the part of the school authorities." xne characters 01 tne play are: ! Catherine Nolen, Rita Jones, a night I worker in the tomato cannery; Peter Henderson, Al Jones, her second 1ms- The mid-winter hops were brought band; John Ellison and Helen Dortch, to a close last Saturday night with Tony Colombo and Mary Colombo, the strains of "Home, Sweet Home" ner children by her first husband; from the orchestra which turned many Nettina Strobach, Jen Casey, a neigh- couples homeward and marked the bor als0 a nand m tne cannery; closing of one of the most enjoyable Whitner Bissell, Louie Nichols, set of -dances, ever held by the German Mary's boy-friend; Pendleton Harri- Club. .. I son, Lawrence Miller and Sydney The series opened' with an afternoon othenberg, Officers Hawkins, Reilly, dance on Friday, which was follow- "awMm, ox luo ed by a dance that night from 10 Pohce force- o'clock to 1. There were three dances The scene is the kitchen of Rita held Saturday. A morning dance was Jones' tenement flat, which is in the held from 11 to 1:30, a tea dance that f industrial district of South San Fran- afternoon from 4:30 to 6:30, and the cisco. , ball that night from 10 to 12. The The setting was designed by .Sam Junior Order of Gimghouls entertain- uel Selden and Elizabeth Chesley, ed with a dinner dance at their lodge and the play was directed by Profes- during the interval between the after- sors Koch, Heff ner, and Selden, with noon dance and the ball Saturday Telfair Peet as assistant. . T 1 1 I - nigm. r The final number on the bill was The figure for the ball was led by "O Promise Me," a modern romance Mr. William E. Webb, of Thomasville, cycle by Curtis Benjamin Professor with Miss Mary Lou Farrell, of Koch explains that "the author of Petersburg, Va., assisted by Mr. Nel- this play was a student at the Uni son Howard, of Tarboro, with Miss versity of Arizona where he wrote n. J.i: : Tt -m i -m r . ... lviaueiine tiemuns, 01 larooro, ana mr. n Promise Me" in the course m John Anderson, of Chapel Hill, with Playwriting initiated there by Pro- Miss Hallie Williamson, of Fayette- fessor Hubert Heff ner. ; The author ville. This ball was very elaborate tells us that his interest and sympa and excellently carried through. thy are altogether with the collegians 1 he music was furnished by Joe he portrays. He has succeeded, ad Nesbit's Orchestra, of Columbia re- mirably, in catching the spirit of the cording fame, and was excellent in campus romancers who go cycling every respect. Much of the success through four or more college years of the dances was due to the music, their ideas and opinions chang- The decorations were strikingly ef ing almost as often as the seasons fective, proving to be very suitable for change. He is quite sincere in his of a 1 town, mere are inxee uuttusca grows J time: scene one, about noon of an October day, just after the opening of the university; scene two,' late the following spring, some hours after midnight; scene three, the following fall, during registration. The setting was designed by Mary Dirnberger, and the play was directed by Professors Koch, Heff ner, and Sel den of the staff of directors of the Carolina Playmakers, with C. B. Da. Bose acting as assistant. The settings of the entire bill were executed by Misses Dirnberger, Far. rar, Lawrence, and Roberts; Messrs. Parker, Greer, Thomas, Keim, Shedd Rothenberg, DuBose, and Harrison. Howard Mumf ord Jones will con tinue his series of Bull's Head read mgs by rendering another public reading in 214 Murphey Hall Thurs day afternoon at 4:30. BIG PARTY AT COUNTRY CLUB the occasion and especially attractive, Credit for the decorations is due main ly to Baron Holmes and Frazier Glenn, who were instrumental in hav ing the particular scheme for the decorations carried out so well. The walls were covered with blue and white streamers which, converged into a dome mounted with a large German Club emblem. A system of soft flood lights produced a soft glowing effect throughout the gymnasium. The dances were chaperoned by Mrs. C. T. Woollen, Mrs. R. D. W. Connor, Mrs. W. M. Dey, Mrs. W. S. Bernard, and Mrs. J. H. Anderson. Medical Alumni - To Hold Meeting The alumni of the old Raleigh Medical school which was a depart ment of the University from 1902 to 1910 will meet in Raleigh February 22 at the home of Dr. S. M. Caveness who is president of the association. He will entertain at a buffet supper. Dean I. H. Manning of the medical school here has been invited to at tend. J. Maryon Saunders will also be a guest of the occasion. treatment of the subject. In fact he admits that he, . himself, is 'still cycling about'." ' The characters are: Neona' Stur geon, Louise, a demure, young fresh man co-ed; Howard Bailey, Bob, a sophisticated senior; .. Ann Lawrence, Ruth, Louise's sorority sister; Fred Greer, Larry, , Ruth's fiance. The scene is in front of 4he Kappa Theta sorority house in a university $50 REWARD $50 $50 Reward for information leading to the recovery of a platinum watcl with the initials E. S. P. inlaid in golc in the back, taken from 24 Steele E. S. PENN. . (Continued from page one) j .aturea m a rose colored evenine rock and silver slippers, Griggs made perhaps the biggest impression of any of the performers, although all did their parts well. He sang in a natural falsetto voice and reached the highest notes without difficulty. In response to the applause which he received, he did a dance number. It will be remembered that in 1926, Griggs received the honor of being the most popular boy soprano in the state. As a concluding number Mary Lynn Giles and Frank Jacocks appeared in an exhibition of the latest ball room steps. They were accompanied by the orchestra. Following this, the tables were hastily removed and the affair was ended by general dancing which lasted until 11:30. During the banquet; Professor Paul John Weaver and Mrs. R. H. Wettach were called upon to lead the guests in the singing of old songs. They were accompanied by Bill Aber- nethy, orchestra pianist. Dr. H. D. Meyers, of the University Sociology Department, was master of ceremonies for the occasion. Mem bers of the Red Head Club acted as waiters, while music during and after the banquet was rendered in the hot test jazz manner by Alex Mendenhall and his Tar Heel Boys orchestra. Approximately 200 people were pres ent at the affair, the majority of these being members of the University faculty and their invited guests. Mr. R. B. House will speak to the Chapel Hill Kiwanis club today on Abraham Lincoln. MODERN YOUTH IS PLAYMAKER TOPIC Here and there throughout the magazine is scattered a collection of animal crackers, not one of which should ever have been let out of the ark. The frontispiece is perhaps the least successful ''experiment" in the issue. It is so bad that it leaves even an avowed admirer of Duncan Grant, Picabia and Franz Masreel gasping in stupif ied amazement. Can such things be I (Continued from page one) ing of San Francisco, written in the course in playwriting which Profes sor Koch conducted last summer at the University of -Southern Cali fornia.. The three plays offer dif ferent points of view of the business of living modern youth. The first, "The -. Family," is by Catherine Nolen Wilson. It is an episode in the American home, and is typical . of American home life of to day. In its simple, realistic way the little play tells its story expertly. The characters are: Charles Lips comb, Frederick Phelps; Elizabeth Farrar, Nell .Phelps, his wife; Mela Royall, Jane, their daughter; Giles Brown, Ted, their son. The scene is the combination lounge and dressing room of the Phelps home, which is situated ih a Middle Western town. The only disappointing feature of the play is its brevity. The setting was designed by How ard Bailey and the play was directed by Frederick H. Koch, Hubert C Heffner, Samuel Selden, and Marion White. The second number was "Grave yard Shift," a play of California fac tory workers by Edith Daseking Professor Koch says of this play "Edith Daseking, the author o "Graveyard , Shift, worked for a year in a settlement house in the Mission District of San Francisco. She is now a teacher in the Junior High School of that neighborhood. Her characters are drawn from people with whom she has come in contact in her work. The incident of the shooting is authentic. The fourteen-year-old boy in this play attended the school in which the author was a teacher. He ran away from home, staged a number of hold-ups, and LOST LOST Kappa Sigma Fraternity pin, Saturday mgnt, jjeDruary . Finder please return to Clyde Dunn, 112 Old East. WANTED Wanted 10 College Men for Sum mer Work. See me today, second floor of the Y.M.C.A, Hours, 11:00 until 4:00 P. M. Mr. R. Ll Vrooman. C 0 N We Will Our S A .L jS Through . MIGHT 33 on ili V c 11 y 1 1 i i g ji University Outfitters I i r r ' fi III r 1 - B0G in taking notes and writing themes This is the student's pen par excellence. , The Parker Duofold's pol ished iridium-tipped point glides gently over paper. Ink flow starts immediately and continues evenly at any speed with merely the feath-1 er-light weight of the pen itself to bring it into action. . Finger-pressure is re lieved. 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