Newspapers / St. Andrews University Student … / Oct. 10, 1968, edition 1 / Page 3
Part of St. Andrews University Student Newspaper / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
THURSDAY,0CTAM968 ^DUDLEY THE LANCE PAGE THBEE Group Nam^ To Develop Code of Responsibility Taste of Honey”. Screen- ]jy by Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson, from the play by Miss Delaney. Produced and directed by Tony Richardson. Cast: jg Rita Tushlngham Helen'.'.’! Dora Bryan Geoffrey .... Murray Melv Peter . . . • Robert Stephens Jimmy' Paul Danquah ggj. I David Bolivar Doris’.’! Malra Kaye A Woodlall Production pre sented by Continental Distri buting, Inc. Running time: 100 minutes. There Is a certain depression experienced by the audience at the conclusion of “a Taste of Honey” stemming I’-om the seemingly hopeless dark cloud that settles over the main char acters during the last two or three minutes of the picture; yet those who think a bit will realize that there Is no other possible ending In keeping with the rest of the film, that the producers of the feature had fully Intended to leave some sting In this last portion of their film. Let us take the movie from Its beginning. We are Intro duced to a seventeen-year-old girl named Jo as the camera picks her out during and after a physical education class at a British women’s high school. As we follow her home after classes, we find that she Uvea with her brassy mother in a lower-class apartment for which several weeks pf back rent are due. From this unhappy home background issue the four crisis of the plot. The first of the four starts with a sailor on leave. Walking the long way home from school one afternoon, Jo trips and abrades a knee, and Is treated by the sympathetic young cook on a ship docked nearby. Jo sees his attention, which ulti mately becomes tenderness, as the love that she has waited for all her life but never re ceived from her mother; and when she is left on her own for a tew days invites him to stay with her. Some time later she discovers that she is pregnant (eventually this is to dissolve into the fourth conflict) and, heartbroken, expects a scan- dal--for her lover wasaNegro. Simultaneously, crisis num ber two arises: Jo and her mother are forced to leave their apartment at night to flee to an even shabbier one in another section of town. Shortly after, Jo’s mother becomes engaged to an arrogant loudmouth with a glass eye, and he wastes no tlm e in becoming the third conflict. As a result of the engage ment, Jo thinks It best to find a job (she has just graduated Bob’s Jewel Shop, Inc. Franchise Keepsake and Columbia dealer 14 kt. Gold Pierced Earrings We welcome St. Andrews Charge Accounts from school) and leave home. She finds work as a shoe store clerk, and moves into a second- floor slum apartment. At her job she meets a somewhat effeminate young man named Geoffrey; the two become good friends in a sort of brother- sister relationship. After Geoff comes to live with Jo, the two maintain a totally Platonic association in which the word "love” is almost never mentioned. The final quarter of the film concerns itself with Geoff’s dogged devotion to Jo when he learns that she is to be a mother, and with the way in which Jo’s own mother, having been deserted by her new hus band, drives him off. Apparently Shelagh Delaney had intended when she conceived the story to depict life, through several months of one girl’s life, as something which can be made sweet by love, but which for the unloved can be a great swirl of vinegar in which one must seek a taste of honey. And she is not wrong. It is because of this theme that the ending used is the only one that fits the film’s flow. Were Geoff to have stayed with Jo, the Idea of one fleeting taste of honey would have been lost; for it Is not too difficult to understand from the movie that, by the time he left, Jo finally knew she loved him. The way in which the picture expresses itself is the most charming thing about the whole ^ow: it is unassuming, its wit Is usually subtle though hilarious in a sagely eloquent sort of way, there is nothing said or done to shock or stun the audience, and everyone who appears seems just to be an average individual who hap pened to walk in front of the cmera. The same undecorated reality, human warmth, and basic earthiness that so en riched “Loves of a Blonde” are the assets here. Tony Richardson made a wise choice when he selected the then-unknown actress Rita Tushlngham to portray Jo-- her work as anundearingplain- Jane is most deserving of the Best Performance award she captured when the film was shown in the Cannes Festival. She is supported by DoraBryan as the crass mother, Robert Stephens as the derisive step father, Paul Danquah as the sailor, and Murray Melvin In the role of Geoffrey, the part he created on the West End stage. All in all, there is magic and wisdom in “A Taste ofHoney”. It is a most unforgettable cine matic event, combining the poignant with the comic In a very touching and very beauti ful way. Further superlatives cannot do the film justice; It Disobedience (Continued from page I) Joyner went to the 18th cen tury for civil disobedience’s historical precedent in Amer ica. John Woolman, a Quaker, boycotted slave produced ma terials as he believed that "con duct was more important than language.” Along with his ob jection to slavery was his re fusal to pay taxes to support the French and Indian War, Joyner stated. Another protestor of the same period was William L. Garrison. Not only was he an abolitionist, but he called for an abstention from war, even all preparation of war. The lecturer continued his examination of civil dis obedience’s history with the case of Henry Thoreau, who wrote a significant essay en titled “Civil Disobedience” which proposed new interpeta- tions on non-violent reslstence, Thoreau also refused to pay taxes supporting the Mexican War, which he considered im moral and bent on spreading slavery. With his refusal he meant “citizenry instead of anarchy”, that is, “man’s duty was not to support wrongs even If one didn’t try to change them.” Many others dedicated their lives toward personal ob jectives in civil liberties, in cluding the Wobblies, the anar chists and the Suffragettes. Dr. Joyner then turned to more contemporary concepts, such as the draft and civil rights. The first draft in World War II initiated the concept of the conscientious objector. Conscription on an organized basis had to make allowances for traditional institutions op posed to all wars. The vivid example of the results were provided by Joyner. He said that 4000 men received C. O. classification, but out of the 4000, 500 men were tried, 142 given life sentences and 17, the death penalty. Turning to the area of civil rights. Dr. Joyner emphasized the Importance of the late Dr. Martin Luther King’s interpeta- tion of his strive for freedom. Joyner said that it stressed “non-violent resistence, not from hate, but with love for the opposition. The end was re demption and reconciliation”. Next week, members of the see will speak on their in- terpetations of civil disobed ience. WEBB FLORAL Say If wifh Flowers 1023 S. Main 276-1420 A 13-member committee named by the Board of Trustees to recommend a Code of Re sponsibility for the St. Andrews community held an organiza tional meeting here Tuesday. The committee, representing students, faculty and adminis tration, alumni, and the Laur- Inburg community, is headed by Carl Geffert, associate pro fessor of German. Trustees named the com mittee as result of a decision at a special meeting in late August called to consider Student Sen ate Bill 19. .The bill, passed earlier this year, proposed a- mendments in the college’s regulations on possession or use of alcoholic beverages on campus. At the August meet ing trustees expressed senti ment for a comprehensive code — a Code of Responsi bility— for the campus com munity in preference to reg ulations for a single issue. Trustees appropriated $1,500 for the Code committee for travel, consultants and other expenses. Serving on the committee as student representatives are Bob Brewbaker, chairman of the Judicial Committee; Susan Cotton, secretary of the Stu- dent-Faculty Appelate Board; and Mike Ferrell, president of the Senate. Named by the Board of Trus tees as faculty representatives, in addition to Mr. Geffert, are Associate Professor Douglas Hlx and Jerry Williamson. Ad ministration members are College Pastor Bob Daven port, Dean of Students Rodger Decker and Director of De velopment J. Bruce Frye. must be seen. PROTEST Girls protest against that drab plain look. Protest with the best cosmetics available. Register your protest today at the cos metic department. Q_o Scotland Drug NEED A GREAT GIFT FAST? CATCH THE 10.25 PEACHY CREAM CORAL MOON SUNSATION HEAVEN BLUE HUSH HONEY STAR WHITE MIDNIGHT BLACK The timely present for al] gift occasions... in ten million dollar colors '■>’ VANITY FAIR It’s the special that arrives to delight. Every Body’s Bra, plus a lace-laden Brief and Petti, perfectly matched, and all done up for giving right now. McNAIR’S
St. Andrews University Student Newspaper
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 10, 1968, edition 1
3
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75