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THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday. May 19, 1931 jpnire Two The Ashevillc Citizen Previews and Reviews Fanatics And Students Caesar And Cleopatra George Bernard Shaw's Cae- ting. No one who has seen this per f ormanee or the movie version of be conceived and performed as a colorful pageant. The question is should it be? To answer this, one must know what the play is i Democracy accompanied bv hvsteria is better than try army, but hysteria is a burden and it can be a danger. Here Is a newly observed by-product of the hysteria that has fol lowed along with the righteous and necessary American tattle against Communist. conspirators. After a careful sur vey, The New York Times reports that, students especially those in state colleges and universities, are becoming hesitant about the free expression of their opinions, i This means that American democracy can destroy itself, knd may be now on that road v For, if youth, which is by jiature somewhat radical, properly inclined to question all things, is to be awed by demagogues like Senator Jenner and Senator McCarthy, and by such battles as the State hf California has foueht in its State University, the springs bf democracy will diminish to a trickle or run dry. (Some Egyptian intrigues are contrast Months ago Mr. Jenner called uenerai iviarsnau a traitor, lln a speech last week Mr. McCarthy mildly declared that Ihose responsible for foreign policies the Senator was assail ing should "hang for treason.") Youth will become timid in stead of bold as youth should be. Even the victory in the first . icound of the California conflict will not discourage the fan atics who, apparently, would burn down the house of dem ocracy, to rout the few subversives. It may therefore have been a sort of prophetic 'premon ition that caused The Daily Tar Heel at Chapel Hill last week to reprint from The Nation an editorial of 1925, on the battles 'of those davs for academic freedom. The Nation was describing." three lines of attack, after EWorld -War I, "upon the intelligence and self-respect" of teachers in colleges and the public schools. This war of the ' brthodox lovers ot freedom against the fanatical fringe cul minated in North Carolina and other States in laws, or at tempted, legislation, to suppress "evolution" by statute. In the General Assembly at Raleigh the apostles of hysteria were 'routed past rallying. Today, The Times survey, finds the teachers still under assault; and, still more ominous, the students intimidated, in greater. or lesser degree according to local conditions and. cir cumstances. It will be a sad-day for education, for liberty, if the students are so over-awed that they no longer make the campus and the classroom the. forums for democratic . dis- of and intelligence, yet vestiges saf and Cleopatra will be given the vain child of the first scenes the last of three performances remain. this evening by the Carolina The play is episodic in struc Playmakers; it "is well adapted ture; scenes occur in which Shaw's to its handsome impressive set wit rather than the plot is ad vanced. Shaw calls it "a history," and almost certainly he was thinking of the Elizabethan play the play will doubt that it can whicn historical events and per- sonnages are depicted. L-aesar sp eaking on Roman justice, Britan nus on the superiority of British morals, and the guardians of Pto- about. It is not a play in which u". "1C """"r cussion. Anoth er Danger , Much as we appreciate the plug by the Asheville Citizen, reprinted above, we cannot help feeling that they missed a point of tremendous concern. The New York Times survey, which quoted campus lead ers John Sanders, Henry -Bowers, and John Harris, brought home to us a poignantly recognizable fact that the basic freedoms of speech. and press and assembly are in danger; and that concurrent with these dangers there is a far more terrifying danger a growing restriction of freedom of thought. ed with Roman directness and efficiency, and it is not emotion al poetic drama. , Shaw himself writes: "My reason then for ignoring the popular conception of Progress in Caesar and Cleopatra is that there is no reason to suppose that any Progress has taken place since their tirrfe." This ex plains the amusing anachronisms which introduce a steam engine, Ibsen's "New Woman," and table rapping -into Cleopatra's Egypt. The paradox of ancients behav ing and thinking like moderns provides much of the comedy. The subject is essentially "what things happened between the old Caesar and the child queen before he left Egypt and battled his way back to Rome." Cleopatra is considered to be al most unique among Shaw's char acters (Major Barbara is her most notable counterpart) be cause she develops and matures instead of remaining static. The Cleopatra of Act IV (Act III, Scene 1 in the Playmaker's ar rangement) is a woman, no longer the frightened girl who hides from Caesar in the lap of the Sphinx. Virginia , Michalak makes this difference very, clear; hor Cleopatra grows in " stature in a play such as Henry V. These somewhat disparate themes make the piece suitable for an elaborate production, in which un ity is partially achieved by pic torial continuity. The character of Caesar is continually interesting. He "is greater off the battlefield than on' it," and his originality, as Shaw points out, is the most in teresting thing about him. Frank Groseclose acts the role with as surance and personal dignity. He makes Caesar's Shavian sense of humor consistently amusing and shows his guidance of Cleo patra with understanding gen erosity rather than condescen sion. James Ginther as Britannus and Robert Thomas as Rufio are respectively moral and forceful, and amusingly single-minded. Lawrence Pcerce makes Pothin- us wilv and pompous: his last two'scenes with Caesar and Cle opatra were especially well act- ed. Apollodorus,' the proponent of "Art -for Art's sake," is acted with appropriate gusto by Wil liam Hardy, Herman Coble, Na thaniel White, Frederick Young, Edward Grady and many others give competent, well-projected performances. Unfortunately there are sev- by William Peterson eral members of the cait who were selected apparently be cause they looked the part, not because they could act. Plays like Caesar and Cleopatra are meant to be heard and under stood as well as looked at. The cutting eliminated several comic lines and situations; it illustrates the danger of distor tion in adapting plays to out door performance. The play can not be said to gain anything but spectacular eiTect from such adaptation but it does make a good scenario. On Campus President Gordon Gray is go ing to be forced into the position of giving members of the press advance copies of all his speeches. He has been misquoted so many times that it is no longer funny. A recent error was really a lulu. Speaking at Wake Forest Col lege, he said something about Wake Forest's moving to Winston-Salem next year, and then went in to say that "Wake Forest is probably on the brink of her greatest error." A gasp went over the entire audience. Tablcid by Buddy Northart l The Doily Tar Heel The official student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is published by the Pub lications Board daily during the regu lar sessions of the University except Mondav, examination and vacation pe riods, and during the official summer terms. Printing is done by Colonial Press. Inc., Chapel Hill. N. C. Entered as second class matter at the Post Ofcr'ice at Chapel Hill, N. C. under the act of March 3,. 1879. Subscription price: $8 per year,t3 per quarter. Re production of the masthead, flag, or the name "The Daily Tar Heel," is prohibited without express permission of the Publications Board. Editor-in-Chief Glenn Harden Business Manager Oliver Watkins Managing Editor Andy Taylor Associate Editor Walt Dear News Editor Mac White Sports Editor Zane Robbins Tabloid or standard size? "Ya of people were a lot wiser. The pays ya money and ya takes ya only sad part was that more stu- Society Editor'.'. Nancy Burgess cherce." At least that's what they dents weren't able to hear the Office Manager I .....Jim SchencK Advertising Manager Marie Costeuo Circulation Manager Wade Bryant Subscription Manager .Tom McCall Asst. Sports Ed Billy Peacock News Start: Bruce .Melton, Joe Cherry, Billy Crimes. Robert Wilson, Tommy Sumner. Paul Barwick, Bob Pace. Vardy Buckalew. Roy Parker, p. 1 i J . i i i .,t . A 3d lli ulc uls ijut we uuii t uiicuiciiKc, as lie put n, rur, li ru nuuwieup ib maeea power, ana wimout iree access have that choice here at Carolina, they had, I'm sure that there to knowledge, the power of thought is crippled. If students And why not? Well, there are would have been a general reali gn great state universities and their instructors are frightened quite a few good reasons, all of zation that it's not always what into abandoning the search for facts, traditionally carried on which have been explained many you have to ' work with that "in fVlO f1flCCrnnmc in fjnmil'tnvv yAnmr, nrs I'C J Hmoo in (Via 1-iQct Rut fnr vr.ma nnimto V,,, inctnnJ ,,,1-, A Donild Wrenn. SDOrtS Staff: Biff Rob t v.,ujj1Uuiiw, xix uumuiui y CU1U UVC1 VUllCC UUWIr mixta xxi m. ci,. uui x.x .jvjiii-- tuunu uui., uuicau, wnai, uu uu, - , Ct-,.,,0, r,,-iHi7 KTrirthTrt Pill ..' r j: ' .1. . 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For many months fes' VNTJC Fes?u Ted .1 . , ' u 1 i- 1 4. u xL j . - Miss Glenn Harden, The Daily Tar this paper has been asking, almost begging, the students to Heel editor and M'r j L M'orri support the literary magazine qf this campus, The Carolina son instructor in the' School of Quarterly. Some might wonder why The Daily Tar Heel journalism, to speak on the issue should give a tinker's damn about another publication. What's 0f tabloid vs. standard 'size at its the value of the magazine? The answer is not so hard to weekly meeting. Understand, especially when you work with a particular After a generous round of dis- paper .or magazine and get to know its and to love it. cussion and questions led by Miss Of course, newspaper people are hardened individuals who Harden and Walt Dear, Associate care little for anything or anybody so we can't break down Editor, the meeting was turned and say we enjoy a magazine and that the students should over to-Morrison. Morrison wad support it because of our opinion. ed ri8ht into the subject by ex- ' ;,So let's find another reason, one like the students at UCLA-ganmg toulthe dub mteibers that are having to fight. . th:"' Pro Jfs ot conceed a xl r l'a. i.- . , with the size of the paper, but . At, the California institution, according to the campus pa- instead with what is in it( ,.You per, . something has happened. A small group of people with nave a real challenge," he said, unusual prejudices and attitudes toward literature have got- "and that challenge is to publish ten control of the publication (The Occident). It has been the best paper possible with what completely perverted. It has' declined today to a place far you have." behind such magazines as The Kenyon Review, The North "Concern with the looks of your Carolina Quarterly and at least a dozen others in its' class." paper is a luxury that you can't A certain p'roun has taken over that niihhatinn. That is" afford at the present time," he something to think about. No one has taken over The Caro- added-IIc explained to the m iina Quarterly. It is a magazine which belongs to every stu dent on the campus; it is open to all of those people who want to write and who want to freely express themselves. ; The Carolina Quarterly is the literary breath of this camp us; it brings out the talents of the University students who nfake or break an educational institution. The quality of the material of The Quarterly shows that no one is suppressing the thought of students on this campus. ; , In exactly reverse, it shows that our liberal reputation is listment, by the staff, of the aid not only true, but that it actually lives in its graduates. Why support The Carolina Quarterly? Indeed, why sup port any instrument of freedom of speech? Support it because it exemplifies the basic fundamentals on which this whole country was founded: The freedom of individual rights, and the Tight of our citizens to read what they please. The Quar terly is published because some student has something to from all spots on the campus. Bay and he thought some one would like to share his thoughts.. When Morrison finished a lot Thursday night, in keeping with be, but the Job still has to be its policy of acting as a sounding done. A glance into the past at Valley Forge, Manteo or Ply mouth will bear this out. For This Issue: Night Editor. Walt Dear ' ACROSS L In the. direction of 7. Fitting 13. Incarnation U. Fail to follow suit 15. Market 16. Press 1?. Gnawing animal 19. Supplication 20. Immense 2t. Small fishes 22. German river 24. Perform 25. Find the sum of 2S. Insect 2i. Is carried 22. Bravery 31. Writ summon ing jurors to court 35. Bestow among contestants 3G. Metal 37. Carnivorous quadruped 38. Mother 39. Poison 41. 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