THE LANCE
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St. Andrews Presbyterian College
LAURINBURG, north CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH 18,1976.
VOLUME 15
NUMBER 20
“The Crucible
Open Tonight
Arthur Miller’s “The
Crucible” will be presented
by the ffighland Players of St.
Andrews Presbyterian
College in the Liberal Arts
auditorium March 18-21 witii
performances beginning at 8
pjQ. each evening.
Under the direction of Dr.
Arthur McDonald, the pla^ IS
being staged in the round with
the audience seated on the
stage as well as in the house.
This play about guilt by
association, set in Salem in
1692, had a powerful ap
plication to present day
America when it was first
produced in 1963 in the wake
of the congressional probe of
un-american activities led by
Senator Joseph McCarthy.
"I was drawn to this sub
ject,” Miller has written,
“because the historical
manent seemed to give me
the poetic right to create
people of higher self-
awareness than the con
temporary scene affords.”
“The Crucible” achieves
this intenticHi. The drama of
Elizabeth and John Proctor,
played by Joyce McLennon
and Michael Reeve, whose de
cision to stand by toe truth in
the face o hysteria and false
accusations of witchcraft
sends John Proctor to
the gallows, is as significant
for our own day as for the
seventeenth century.
I Hckets are available at the
box office or by calling 276-
2652, extension 204.
THE hysteria of the Salem, Massachusetts witch trials is
portrayed here by members of the Highland Players’
production of “The Crucible.” The play begins tonight and
runs until Sunday. (Photo by Billy Howard.)
McDonald To
Receive Doctorate
MCDONALD
Arthur W. McDonald,
Associate Professor of Speech
and Theatre, has fully
comleted all of the
requirements for his doctorate
in Theatre from Indiana
University. Professor Mc-
Dmald’s dissertation was en
titled ‘ ‘An Analyical Study and
Calendar of Performances of
The Yorkshire (England) Cir
cuit, 1775-1784.
"nie dissertation was a study
of the day-to-day operation of
a group of English provincial
theatres in the later eighteen
th century. The study traces
the activities of the actor as he
went through rehearsal to p>er-
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This Week
TONIGHT: The Highland
Players present Arthur
^er’s “The Crucible” in the
liberal Arts Auditorium at 8
p.ra. “The Crucible” runs
through Sunday; ticket in-
i^ation available from the
ineatre Department.
TONIGHT; WSAP’s Album of
“e Week is Chick Corea’s “No
y^ery”. The uninterrupted
begins at 10:30 640 AM
91.1 FM Cable.
Saturday, march 20;
farrago reopens with Andy
David Niblock, John
lia^, Charles Joyner and
riscilla Hedman in per-
pf^ance. 8:30 p.m. in the
25c Building. Admission
SUNDAY, MARCH 21: Art
professor Mark Smith opens
an exhibition of his works with
a gallery talk in the Vardell
Gallery at 2 p.m. Free.
SUNDAY, MARCH 21: The
CUB movie this week is “The
Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe.” 7:00 pjn. in Avinger
Auditorium. Free.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24:
The Boys of the Lough
(pronounced “lock”),
Britain’s leading traditional
singing groi?), appears at St.
Andrews for a 3:30 workshop
and an 8:00 performance in
Farraga Admiffiion$1.00.
formance and indicated some
of the problems and successes
of life in a country theatre
where young players prepared
for a career on the London
stage.
F*rofessor McDonald, ad
ministrative vice-president of
the South Eastern Theatre
Conference, and a represent-
tive of the Presbyterian Chur
ch, U.S. on the .Religious
Drama committee of the
National Council of Churches,
has plans to continue this
project to cover a fifty year
period as an attempt to work
with other theatre historians
in England is a study of the life
of the country theatres at the
end of the 18th century. Even
tually this study will sup
plement the detailed work that
has been done on the major
theatres in London of that
period.
Carter Predicts
Victory For Dad
Democratic Presidential
contender Junmy Carter s
oldest son. Jack, stopped in
Laurinburg Monday afternoon
for a brief question and an
swer session at the Holiday
Inn.
Hie 27 year old attorney
predicted his father would win
the Democfatic nomination
“on the first or second ballot”
as a result of his campaign
strategy of entering every
state primary and delegate
caucus. Carter said that this
strategy was a calculated
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Smith Exhibit
To Open Sunday
The Art Program of St. An
drews College will present an
exhibit of relief and free
standing sculpture by Mark
Smith beginning on Sunday,
March 21. Mr. Smith is
Assistant Professor of Art at
the College, llie exhibition
will contain works produced
within the last few years since
Professor Smith began his
“Anatomy Lesson” series and
won “Best of Show” at the
Allied Arts exhibition in
Durham. The epoxy and
fiberglass, plaster and con
crete artworks to be shown in
Laurinburg include pieces
which toured in the “National
Sculpture ’74” show and which
were seen in Smith’s recent
one-man show in Roanoke,
Virginia, and the ST. AN
DREWS REVIEW Benefit in
New York City.
In addition to being present
for the opening, Professor
Smith will also present a short
gallery talk about his work.
The topic of the talk will be
“The Relationship Between
Pictorial and Sculptral Space
in Relief Sculpture” which is
also the subject of a
workshop/demonstration Pro
fessor Smith is conducting this
week at Duke University.
In speaking of Smith’s work,
Walter Hathaway, Director of
the Roanoke Fine Arts Center
in Roanoke, Virginia, says,
“The average attitude toward
sculpture is one of expecting
‘monument statues’ or small
objects d’art. Mark Smith’s
works are neither, yet both.
Fragments of the human form
appear to have come from
monumental works. The sen
sitive and intelligent way in
which Smith has selected
protions of the human form
and isolated them from the
rest of the subject is very
powerful and sensual...far
from being simply ‘planes’
these works are brilliant
cominations of the problems
an artist encounters in two-
dimensional picture making
and three-dimensional
design.”
The opening of the Sunday
exhibit wUl be at 2:00 p.m.,
lasting until 4:00 p.m., in the
art gallery of the Vardell
Music Building. The talk will
be at 3:00 p.m. The public is
invited to attend.
Distinguished Scholar
Competition This Weekend
This weekend will bring 38
high school seniors to St. An
drews in search of $80,000 wor
th of scholarship which will be
awarded.
Each year St. Andrews
selects ten (10) of its most out
standing freshmen applicants
for the Distinguished Scholar
Awards. Those selected for
this honor receive aimual
grants of $2000 each, ap
plicable only to tuition and
fees at St. Andrews for a total
of $8003 for the four years. No
evidence of financial need is
necessary for a student to
qualify for this award. Studen
ts selected as St. Andrews
Distinguished Scholars will
receive the $2000 grant for
their freshman year and each
year thereafter if they main
tain a B average, regardless
of whether there is any finan
cial need.
Semi-finalists in this year’s
competition will arrive on
campus beginning Thursday
afternoon. Previous
Distinguished Scholar Award
recipients will serve as hosts
for those students present.
Those arriving on liiursday
will have the orivileee of spen
ding a “Friday” at St. An
drews, while all of the semi
finalists will begin the
weekend with a Mix and
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JACK CARTER, Jimmy’s son, was in Laurinburg Monday.
(Photo by David Swanson)