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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Sunday, October 15, 1935
' The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where
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Claiborn M. Carr.
Thomas Walker.-
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" -Editor
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Editorial Staff -
EDITORIAL BOARD Virgil J. Lee, Jr., chairman, John
F. -Alps-ander. A. T. DilL Vermont C. Royster, F. Pat
Gaskins, Milton K. Kalb, William H. Wang, Robert B.
Bolton. Ben C. Proctor, H. Nelson Lansdale, John B.
r- Tfeftrsan. Jean S. Cantrell, W, R, Eddleman, A. C.
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FEATUSE BOARD Joe Sugarmah, chairman, Raymond
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jiTm-fT m'rrrrrtyc: 'fat-l Ttinmnsnn. Phil Hammer, JaCK
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-ryno-tr ncTT-xT "KTinir PnTxreM Wafter Hareett. Eleanor
SPORTS DEPARTMENT Bill Anderson and J1
Morris, co-assistant editors, Mome Long, MpJ
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ffi ""twi: Goldenthal. Paul TeaL
n MnrFarland. Edwin Kahn, Francis Clmgman,
Emery Raper, Norman Adelman, John Eddelman, Mar
garet McCailey, Roy Wilder, George Stoney, Margate
E. Gaines. ' ; -
this hating which is fed by the ones to whom
the war is profit.
May we be so bold as to state that some of
our best friends are dwellers in this "merciless
Hun country," and that they never seem to have
exhibited any of the traits accredited to them.
Let us not start hating. When we begin to
believe statements the like of the one we have
mentioned, we will have undone the work of
peacelovers the world over, for un j ustified hat
ing does not listen' to reason. If we make an
effort to understand the reasons underlying the
actions of these seemingly bellicose nations, we
will have done much to further an understand
ing, and a sympathy that will eventually out
law war. Is that not what we want? W.H.W.
THE
THEATRE
Philosophy y:
For PhJX's . : .
The upper rungs of the culture ladder ' are
becoming seriously crowded bece of the CQn.
tinuance of this (you've of it7)dfe.
pression. nose einereai
of "Doetordom" so v
ture is we
That
be-
By Bob Bame
tis'hTa ood: deal of hesi
tation that I say that Laurence
Qarkepresetion of Ibsen,g
Ghosts a Jdismal .;disap,
pomtmer ; Th ff - . f
aPp'ointment was heightened
y ,ne fact that the play like a
bounded bird climbed to climax
es only to have them precipi
tated by some disturbance eith
er within the cast or in the au
dience. The play seemed more
than once almost to break into
blaze of dramatic brilliance,
but never quite did.
The first disappointment of
the evening and one which con
tinued to rob the audience- of
the smoothness and power in
the play that they expected oc
curred when it . was announced
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CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: , BOB WOERNER
Sunday, October 15, 1933
Action . ' v
Wanted!
Recently an editorial appeared on this page
advocating special days for . mid-term exams.
Nothing has been done about it, as has been the
case many times in the past. Very often criti-
cisms have appeared in the. Tar Heel and not
nearly as many of them have been destructive
in nature as our critics would have one believe.
But nine times out of ten the suggestions die
here where they were born because people feel
that "they would have been pretty good if some
one had put them across."
We don't know, who it is that is supposed to
put' things across on this campus, but we do
know. that we can become the agency through
which the proper group is stirred into action.
In this case the Tar Heel firmly believes that
it is asking for, the same thing that the entire
student body is asking for, namely a fair chance
for every man on every important examination.
We shall not review the problem this time.
The entire case was previously presented fully
and. capably. But we do ask for action, and
will continue to. do so until action is secured.
Mid-terms are almost here; so there is no time
to be lost. We call upon the administration to
provide special . days for mid-term exams this
quarter, or to tell us and the rest of the stu
dent body why such a plan is impractical. And
' we call on the members of the student council,
individually and collectively, to see that this re
quest is acted on with dispatch.
We are not trying to force the issue. All we
want to do is to further the interest of the
student body as a whole, and we believe that
in advocating this measure we are doing just
. that. J.B.L.
neights into the realm
-rtcommonlv reached bv
many in the days rA prosperity are becoming so
trod by weary , . - 0 h
Kening.
is always the way. When the crowd
ms to pass over, the structure will either tw Bram Nosseri would not
oreak frdm the strain of being over crowded, take the part of Pastor Manders.
or it must be strengthened and re-inf orced. Curtis Cooksey who replaced
Tms is not saying tnat it is not a very cour- Nossen found it necessary to
ageous act on the part of the would-be-climb- read his part throughout the
ers. When the atmosphere below has become play. Although Donaldson's
stifling it shows great determination for an in-1 voice and manner was extreme
dividual to labor still harder up the same lad-lly effective he often mistook his
der, reaching a height from which the fall, if cues and the audience heard
the experiment is not successful will be still speeches broken, distorted, and
more disastrous than from a lower level. mumbled. Then, Memorial hall's
The most important element of this general acoustics were particularly bad
cry of "Go up, young man, go up!" is the care Friday night and the actors, ac
that these ascending novitiates by some practic- customed to presenting the play,
al method keep their feet on the ground. After perhaps, in smaller theatres,
all, no matter how high the ladder, the ground (failed to project their voices in
is still the reality, and one must not climb so high such a .way as -to be heard
that he loses sight of terra firma. beyond the first dozen rows. The
The world of reality' is the support on which ushers too, feeling that the stu
the ladder of learning is based, and those who dent bod5r had a right to see the
thirst for knowledge should ascend the ladder play conducted late comers to
with the idea of reaching a level the better to their seats long after the cur-
view and understand the world of realitv.' These tarn had been raised. Shirt
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hopefuls should not be susceptible to dizziness sieevea conege ooys seizea upon
so that they dare not look down and must per- most inconsequential lines to
force keep their heads in the clouds, becoming augh at. They laughed uproar-
blinded by the haze of learning nro learning, lousiy wnen isorgny
... 7- 7- 7 , . ,
This great ladder must be strengthened by
practicality and usefulness, and then the strain
Plfyzing force of fears and
i(,eals and conventions. Through
out the play the conflict is be
tween the liberating force of
truth and the inhibiting, poison
ing force of these ghosts.
For its atmospheric effect
Borgny Hammer's slightly Swed
ish accent was extremely val
uable. Her restraint during the
first and second acts was mod
erated by moments of great
emotional fervor. Her interpre
tation of Mrs. Alving was true
and perceiving and her execu
tion of this interpretation ) pos
sessed great polish and
strength. Robert Donalson's ex
ecution of Oswald Alving was
subject to some criticism. He
tended at moments to rob his
part of its dignity, caricature
his emotions, and substitute
pathos for the tragic quality of
his nlicrht. These faults of
x
characterization arise, however,
out of the almost insuperable
difficulties of d too-quick transi
tion, rather than from poor his
trionics.
Jacob Engstrand, played by
Sidney Smith suggested the ef
fect that might be produced if
a Shakespearean character slip
ped into an O'Neill play. He is
both simpler and more complex
han any of the other charac-
ters. ie is apparently motivat
ed by surface emotions and de
signs and yet there is an under
lying pattern of perceptions and
cunning which is there but
never quite palpable. Sidney
Smith gave his character a vital-
ity and body interesting and
authentic. Regina Engstrand is
certainly Ibsen's worst charac
terization in this play, but
Borgny Noreen played this part
with such nicety as to give her
character fine depth and vigor.
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when Borgny Hammer
clasped her head in -anguish and
shook a cloud of powder into the
of many feet will not be felt. Its purpose will be f6otlights' As the end of the
first
act approached dozens of
voices were murmuring, anau
we wait until the . hrst act is
over or go now. . . .Let's go.
Let Us - . . .
Not Hate : ; .'
There is a growing antipathy on this cam
pus toward the Germans. The German mili
tary plans, which it is rumored, include war in
the near future, are the basis of much criticism.
One person, in fact, was so unwise as to call
the Germans "fierce, ruthless, Huns, led by an
Attila, more terrible than he who swept over
Europe fifteen hundred years ago.
Jias ne, nave tnose otners wno are so prone
'to criticize, forgotten how America got into the
World war sixteen years ago? Has he forgot
ten the Belgian women who are supposed to
have been ravished? Has he forgotten the child
ren whose limbs were alleged to have been torn
from their bodies by the bloodthirsty animals
- .who were Germans? Has he forgotten that the
- peaceful tranquility is supposed to have been
disturbed by a nation, which since it lost the
war, must take the entire blame for its start
.ing? Has he forgotten that the world believed
these stories which were later proved worth
jless lies, shameless propaganda to lure an un
suspecting nation into a war m which it had
;;no interest? Does he, and do his substantiat
'ors, know that German mothers, and German
;sons, and German peacelovers were told the same
; stories about us, about the: horribje "Frogs,"
:,and the lascivious English soldiers?
! War, the scourge that has partially depopu
lated our nation's every generation in the mem
ory of man, is largely a .prpduct of these lie.s,
sure and sound, and those who seek will find firm
standing room from which to dabble their fing
ers in the blue, and from which they may dare
to erlance downwards toward t.Vip pnr.li nnr? ini
telliffentlv estimate the true relaKnn nf tp My Lord, this is terrible
earth the earthv and the sholarlv hinp can t hear a thing, lets scram.
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J.M.V.H. i ne auaience was not entirely
responsible for the poor effect
A MOVING TRTRTTTR of the play, nor was the cast,
but a combination of circum
io tne Editor ot the Tar Heel: stances made it extremely dif-
As one who came to this University only a ficult for anyone ever to feel the
few years ago, I wish to pay brief tribute to complete spell of Ibsen's power.
the memory of Dr. Eugene C. Branson and of In gDite of Ibsen's reputation
Professor Walter D. Toy. Very soon after my for structural strength in his
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arnvai i came io Know tnese men. tacn m nis Piays, "Ghosts" fails to drive
way made me feel that he was my friend. In a Lad . to ct.ch hold of its thP.TP
rare and beautiful sense each became a richLi
laau oweep iu cuuiig wiiu autiuxx,
experience in my life. The evenings or after- untii the very end of the first
noons I spent in their homes or the passing con- act. , But from that point the
versations I had with them on the campus Ijelp- action of the play gathers mo-
cu cause in large part wnerem lies tne mentum and intensity , until at
enuai greatness oi tms university. . the conclusion of the nlav the
Dr. Branson embodied the best of native tra- action of the nlav. the remorse
1 j . . -i.--- -l -i r
aition ana culture. He combined m his life and Qn4 fnflr,f flip flcfnrfl lift
work an interpretation of the old South, a re- comes so violent as to be almost
shaping of the transitional South, and a vision unbearable. Though the central
of the new South that stirred one with an eager thesis of this thesis play is a
ucouc w lua&c u a reauty. directly or mai- dated one, one which hardly ex
rectly his influence is felt in every rural; com- cites us today, there is a deeper
munity in the United States. In this University, fhp.sia which ia timeless. Dur-
in this state, and throughout the entire South ins the second act Mrs. Alvine
he was a powerful force for liberal i
- - . . 1 UlilfblO ViJT iVi U UVll)
io Know Professor Toy was, in the fine unconstrained truth which is the
Shakespearean sense, a gracious thing. He ex- cry of all Mrs. Alvings in al
empnned tne best in the humanities. Urbane, time. The "ghosts" motive which
a lover of the comedy of life, sensitive to its weaves in and but of the play
amenities, and kindly without sentimentalism, symbolizes the chilling, binding,
ne illustrated tne art of harmonious, daily liv
ing. A University, a student body, a faculty with
Prof essor Toy m their midst could never entire
ly lose consciousness of -the essential place that
beauty and things of the spirit, have in life.
In their personal charm, their combination of
gracious sweetness and manly strength, their
self-effacing modesty, and the simplicity, and
integrity of their lives they are a quiet rebuke
to our turbulent, .noisy years. And in memory
they will continue to be an inspiration to those
who hope and believe a better and saner civiliza
tion possible m; the future. In an authentic
sense these men epitomized for me the essence
of the liberalism and culture of this University.
i am nappy to have known them as friends dur
mg the past three years. I-
GEORGE R. COFFMAN
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At its meeting Tuesday night
the Dialectic Senate will discuss
the following bills: Resolved:
That the Dialectic Senate go on
record as favoring a special
schedule for mid-term examina
tions; Resolved: That the fra
ternity rushing period should be
extended; Resolved: That the
book exchange should be investi
gated to determine the extent of
its profit; and Resolved: That
the University laundry prices
are exorbitant. The new mem
bers will be initiated at this
meeting.
The observatory at Mills col
lege has a telescope named "Ra
chel." -
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Monday
Tuesday
RICHARD ARLEN
Golden Harvest"
Wednesday
SALLY EILERS
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"Walls of Gold"
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"Broadway to Hollywood"
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A FOX FIIM Triumph
SPENCER TRACY
COLLEEN mo ORE
Ralph Morgan Helen Vinson
Thursday
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"Bureau of
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