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PAGE FOUR THURSDAY, MAY 2,1974 the lance Players Present BY LOUISE ROBINSON “Bus Stop Bus Stop, the final ’73-74 presentation of the Highland Players, will open May 2 and run through May 5. The play is a comedy by William Inge, and is directed by Professor Aethur McDonald. The situation presented in the “Bus Stop” is esesentially a simple one. Four passengers en route from Kansas City to Topeka are stranded in a roadside diner by a raging snowstorm which has blocked the roads ahead. As the night progresses, a number of in triguing relationships emerge. Cherie, a nightclub singer, has been virtually kidnaped by Bo, a young cowboy who is determined to carry her off to his ranch in Montana and marry her. Cherie resists his boisterous advances, but has “a funny feeling I’m gonna end up in Montana.” As a counterpart to the main romance, Grace, the owner of the cafe, finds time to develop a friendship with Carl, the bus driver; a middle-aged professor comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the diner, Elma Duckworth, also gets her first taste of romance. Bo’s com panion, Virgil, and the town sheriff. Will Masters, act as catalysts for the other / relationships in the play, yet they, too, emerge as charac ters in their own rights. “Bus Stop” has its moments of pathos and a potential for depression, but the overall im pression conveyed by the play is one of humor and sympathy- -it is a comedy, yet not a farce. “Something on the positive side,” to quote director Mc Donald. The cast of “Bus Stop” is a diverse and talented one, as is usual for the Highland Players’ productions. Sydney Humphress (Grace), Calhoun Chappell (Dr. Lyman) and Dave Smith (Virgil) are all familiar to St. Andrews theatre-goers. Clark Ein- binder appears again, this time as Carl, the bus driver. The other actors are all new comers to the St. Andrews stage and display great promise. John Sosnowski (Bo), John Harvey, (Will Masters), and Karen Hibbett (Cherie) are freshmen. Elizabeth Bowlin (Elma Duckworth) is a sophmore majoring in art and P. E. Grubbs Recital Deemed Excellent By Helen Moselev Cynthia Grubbs, mezo- soprano, rendered an ex cellent f)erformance in her Senior recital, April 26, in Var- dell Gallery. She was ac companied by pianist Sally Morris. Creating a great variety in the recital, Cynthia’s reper toire was composed mainly of FYench, English and German sections. The performance began with “Canticle II,” which traces the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac in duet form. Dr. James Cobb, tenor, accompanied Cynthia in this first selection by Benjamin Britten. Four German songs-“Auf dem Krichofe” and “Gan zum Liebchen” by Brahams and “Mondnacht” and “Wid- mung” by Schumann-were the songs chosen for the second section. Following a brief intermission, Cynthia sang “Ici-bas” and “Nell,” both by Gabriel Faure, to comprise the recital’s French section. Concluding her program, Cynthia sang three English pieces and a Korean fold-song. “Preciosilla,” a nonsense song by Virgil Thomson was followed by “Bird of the Wildernes,,” by Cresten and “Lady Moon,” by Alan Houhannes. The music of “Lady Moon” was enriched by the added accompaniment of Ann Robinson of the clarinet. Highlighting her recital with a touch of sentiment, Cynthia ended her program with “The Twenty-Third Psalm” set to the tune of a Korean folk-song. Cynthia, whose parents are missionaries in Korea, sang this piece in the Korean language and concluded her fine performance. from rondo 14: rendering 12/73. (1) good weather we hear on radio can’t have a dot pointing like the sight of the ball tantamount, the milk-cream nervous knee-jerk fails to take the mind with it here you are we are inside a carburetor here we are bumper sitting on the black hearse feet on pavement door open the american nationalism of the being here! Tliomas Michael Fisher, St. Andrews, Laurinburg, NC 1. The Springtime Assault of Bacon Otto Mullis (An exerpt from the first chapter of the forthcoming “Biography of Bacon Otto Mullis,” a work com missioned by the Dublin, Georgia chapter of The United Daughters of the Red Snapper) Invocation: “Bacon! Bacon Otto Mullis! You come down out of that hayloft!” Behind freshly-painted, aristocratic doors those plump, elderly women, like powdered puffs of biscuit dough, lounge in sedate parlors bidding a club, 2 spades, 3 hearts, etc. & remarking how the dogwoods ah in full bloom, etc. Mean while our central character. Bacon O. Mullis, boy visionary, darts from a cluster of pyracantha bushes, reels through flowerbeds, stumbles across backyards & through hedges, leaving a telltale trail of forsythia petals &/or skeleton keys; he bursts in the back door without so much as a lookamycobweb to the colored lady who is at the very moment fryin’ up a mess oh chicken (needless to say, An nie Bee is startled half to death; it’s worse than the time they youngest grand child gave her the jar of so- called peanut brittle out of which leaped four simulated boa constrictors & she had to take 8 aspirin — lie down for an hour before she could resume her position at the ironing board). Bacon is through the kitchen & into the parlor quick as a greased postcard; that boy hurtles 4 PIECES FOR OIL DRUM & AIR HOSE by Tom Patterson himself into the air, does 4 flips & lights smack dab in the middle of the wobbly card table, which collapses, scat tering cards, scorepads, pen cils, glasses of iced tea & 4 elderly female aristocrats on the floor. Bacon leaps onto the antique davenport —, boun cing unsteadily, proclaims: “Unbounded mounds of pop corn are exploding from the trees, ladies! Scoops of strawberry ice cream sprouting from the bushes! The whole earth a swollen organic pinata spilling forth untold delights!” Collapses to the floor in hysterical con vulsions, shouting, “THE DAWGWOODS AH IN FULL BLOOM! THE AZALEAS AH PUHFICKLY GAWAJUS!! ” 2. Mrs. T. on an Early Mor ning Drunk, As Heard Through the Wrong End of a Telescope Ten Years Later Bill! Get Cortez to fix ya some breakfast....(cough).” 3. Dog Gets Cake A Dublin family was taking a Sunday drive and at the in tersection of Bellevue Avenue and West Drive they saw a large round package wrapped in aluminum foil in the middle of the road. A dog was nosing through the attractive looking parcel, ripped through the cake and made a shambles out of it. The man’s wife remarked that someone had probably baked that cake for a friend and left it at the doorway of the friend’s home. The dog did the rest, but it may be that the donor and donee are still unaware of the kindly act and the fate of the lucious- looking cake. 4. A Funny Sight Omie Y. Fountain, 51, of Burnette, Idaho, was asleep early Monday when her boyfriend’s tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 78, just outside of Bohog, Texas. Steaming like a baked tur bot, she climbed out of the rig and started flagging down traffic clad only in a Roman toga and a hollowed-out can- teloupe for a hat. “All of the truckers went past tooting they horns,” one state patrolman said. “It was a funny sight but she was for tunate nobody squashed her flatter than a PANCAKE.” Police said the rig over turned when a load of “beef,” about 38,457,292 pounds, fell off some meathooks as the truck was “comin’ around the mtn.” Andy “Bug” Dumplord (Omie’s b.f.) was eating the beef that spilled onto the high way and did not notice his girlfriend was flagging down traffic and “acting like a nit wit,” as Dumplord put it. Charles Wren, Jr. Carrying hope, at all, all, I find out a way to be able to carry going on that way.
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