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Max Morath, who will appear in Memorial Hall on March 23, strikes an
ingratiating pose as he runs through his "nostalgic tour de force." Morath won
critical acclaim for his one-man show when he took it to New York. He creates the
mood of an era in his turn-of-the-century evocation. Tickets for the Morath show
are $1.75 and $2.25 at the Union desk.
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Women interested in forming an
Abortion Counseling Service are invited
to come to a workshop Saturday, March
13, from I ot 5 p.m. at the Wesley
Foundation on Pittsboro St. We will
exchange information on legal
abortions how, when, and where to get
them, and the costs involved. Our goal is
a counseling network which will help
women throughout the state.
The agenda will include the discussion
period and a letter-writing campaign to
each woman's Senator concerning the
current abortion bill.
Women who need child-care during
this meeting, call Kathie, evenings at
967-3595 or Daphne, evenings at
929-4139. Please call either number if
you have any questions about the
workshop.
Interviews for the presidency of the
Carolina Union will be held this
afternoon. Applications and sign-up
sheets are at the information desk.
The UNC Film Society presents, "The
Shop :r-Aroundr : thel-i Corner" '(1940),
directed by Ernst Lubitsch (the director
about Wolfe is
NEW YORK Regional theatres across
the country are becoming steadily more
active and enterprising in creating
productions of new plays.
The emphasis more often than not is
on the unconventional. Not all such
productions wind up on New York stages,
but such arrivals have increased in the
past five years and the trend is growing.
The Washington Theater club in the
nation's capital presented in February
"The Web and the Rock," a drama by
Dolores Sutton based on the late Thomas
Wolfe's novel of that title. It's no secret
Play
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at 8 p.m. in Murphey 1 1 1 (changed from
Carroll Hall). Admission one dollar.
King Nyle I, Supreme Ruler of the
Universe, presents: A Piano Concert.
Bring your blankets, Friday, March 12, to
the Carolina Union Coffee House and
enjoy "An Evening with the King." Door?
open at 8:30-First show at 9:00
UNC Readers Theatre will present
"Mark the Humor in Twain" under the
direction of Sandy Boyce, Friday, March
12 at 8 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. No
admission, the public is invited.
Four Bit series-"They Shoot
Horses, Don't They?"-Great Hall. $.50.
Found: A pair of glasses across the street
from Harry's restaurant. May be retrieved
at Union Information desk.
Found: Ladies' glasses Noticed in
ground-floor ladies room of Greenlaw for
two to three weeks. One hinge held by a
straight pen! Owner-inay claim at the
Daily Tar Heel office.
huge hit
that the lengthy, rambling novel is
semi-autobiographical, ' dealing mainly
with the late Aline Bernstein, noted stage
designer.
Adapting any Wolfe work to the stage
is no routine job. It calls for imagination
and inventiveness at all levels because of
the prolix nature of the writing and the
labrythine thinking of the author.
Berenice Weiler, who is associated with
the American Shakespeare Festival
Theater, already has acquired New York
production rights to the play for her
Altamont Productions firm.
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"Sons and Daughters Of Mom by Philip
Wylie. 227 pages. Doubleday.
In the bombast's red glare, Philip
Wylie's prejudices are sharply revealed. In
fact, he could have subtitled his new
book, "Sons And Daughters Of Mom"
appropriately by labeling it "Prejudices:
Second Series."
The first series of Wylie's prejudices
would have been contained in the
venomous "Generation of Vipers,"
published in 1943. In that book, Mr.
Wylie demonstrated he could dish out
invective in generous measure. Perhaps he
also proved and continues to prove in
this latest book a belief that H.L.
Mencken was one helluva writer who
could make the other talent look like
momma's boys, languishing, gushy
aesthetes.
Which brings us to the most
memorable villain in ''Generation of
Vipers." Besides offering a Jungian
interpretation of Christ, attacking boxing
and damning atonal music, Wylie blasted
matriarchy as a dominant force in
American life. Or as he called it,
"momism."
Mom was "a middle-aged puffin with
an eye like a hawk that has just seen a
rabbit twitch far below mom is a
jerk." In fairness to Wylie, lest he be
dismissed as a raving misogynist,
elsewhere in "Generation of Vipers," he
takes up the cause of women. He said
then women were being used as pretty,
ornamental objects and were hardly
considered human beings. But it's his
diatribe on motherhood for which he is
best remembered. Coming at a time when
mom, girl-next-door and apple pie were
installed as foxhole favorites in . the
popular imagination, Wylie's book
enjoyed commercial success.
"Generation of Vipers," one supposes,
inflamed enough people to sell
splendidly. Wylie, on the record of "A
Generation of Vipers" and "Sons And
Daughters Of Mom" is firmly entrenched
in the don't-tell-me-when-it-hurts school
of prosodists.
In the last chapter of "A Generation
of Vipers" Wylie said: "It has been fairly
fancy of me, I know, to write so long and
noisy a book just to say that if we want a
better world we will have to be better
people." And, in his instructions for
reading the book, Wylie said you could
begin anywhere and be intellectually
improved.
That is probably true of "Sons And
Daughters Of Mom" as well. It's not
particularly ;i well-organized. . .But,, no,
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matter, Mr. Wylie has made literary
capital out of his 1943 success with this
-title and perhaps he will "find a waiting
market. ; -
Mr. Wylie's new book is written to,
for, or about youth. It is hard to
determine which direction he's taking in
this book. The pronouns shift. In some
instances, youth is addressed as "you."
More often, youth is referred to as
"they." Whatever the case, America's
literary Jeremiah has returned with
another vitriolic jerimiad.
Mr. Wylie was smitten by inspiration,
he tells us, and left off "a work of fiction
long in gestation." Oh well, it might have
been an uneasy birth. Mr. W?ylie is an
Dancers Mee
Dancers Workshop gets together three
times a week in the Student Union
Building for the benefit of Mr. Kite and
the people, courtesy of the Invisible
University and the rites of the coming
spring.
For those interested in moving and
who refuse to categorize with such
anagrams as arthur murray, advanced
beginner dichotomies, modernjazzfolk,
the dance group is just the thing to get
the blood flowing in the right places.
Drum players and dancers report to
Room 207-209 of the Student Union
Wednesday, at 7 p.m., Thursday, at. 2
p jn., and Saturday, at 1 1 a jn.
. When asked for a quote, R. Gay, the
gold coast of California returnee and
director of the group, said, "All
anarchists are aware of the fact that two
is better than one and that the group is
preferable to the couple. All dancers are
aware that dancing with people is better
than dancing for people. This group is
primarily an anarchist plot to raise
people's body as ; well as mind
consciousness. Men, women and children
are welcome- Everybody has always been
a dancer."
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angry man and an imaginative work
s'uxely wouldn't have been an adequate
outlet.
Be advised that Mr. Wylie says, Tve
made every criticism and criminal charge
tfeat young America h makL-g now."
Phrases like "as Ie said elsewhere" or as
"rve often said" occur repeatedly in
"Sons And Daughters Of Mom." Mr.
Wylie's penchant for bringing up his
status as established critic of American
life doesn't lead him into reflective
mellowness.
Mr. Wylie is nothing, if not a writer
who stays on top of the current scene.
Somewhere or other he has heard the
"never trust anyone under thirty" credo.
It has enraged Mr. Wrylie who takes it
literally with noticeable discomfort. Asks
Wylie, with so-there in his tone, "How
could it apply to one who did not know
his or her date of birth?" Mr. Wylie's
question finds him in one of his more
benign moods.
Mr. Wylie fires shots randomly. Wylie
as cannoneer, one imagines, will be
satisfied if he hits some readers with his
scathing rhetoric. The young, when
referred to as they," are slovenly,
androgynous kids who are unwilling to
listen. Long hair, one might have thought,
is a dead issue. Not so. Philip Wylie has an
ill-tempered go at "girl-haired" boys in
one of his more expansive moods. Long
hair, Wylie figures, is worn to assert
individuality. But "they" all sport long
tresses, so what's the point?
If Philip Wylie grows rancorous about
long-haired louts, he is equally upset
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about liberalism and the practices of
campus rebels. Liberals' efforts have been
wrong-headed and reckless. Their record
is one cf consistent botchi-p.he informs
us, parading events in this century as
supportive evidence. Add to the Lbera's'
misdeeds, the fact they have spawned the
youthful flotsam and one can appreciate
why Mr. Wylie waxes passionately when
he plies his invective on them. One
solution to society's His, often brou-ht
about through liberal bundling, is to raise
the voting zzz to 30, he asserts.
Most of Philip Wylie's book wi2
certainly delight the heart cf any senile,
crochety stick-in-the-mud. Gleefully
forecasting how affronted readers will
react, Mr. Wylie says they will try
"salvaging what dignity' they can with
some personal retort. Philip Wylie is a
son-of-a-bitch, for instance." Now, who
could be so mean-spirited? Mr. Wylie has
simply written a meretricious book,
mostly surfacy and full of as4t-pleases r.e
logic. Read "Generation of Vipers" or
even better, "The Magic Animal." These
two Wylie books are well worth your
time. This one is not.
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