Films by Cortlandt Jones
For the next two weeks, the local colleges and universities are showing
the following films:
Wake Forest (Tribble Hall)
AAonday, Oct. 26
8:30 p.m.
"Indiscretion of an American Wife,"
1953, Italy and USA
Tuesday, Oct. 27
8:30 p.m.
"Two Women," 1960, Italy
Wednesday, Oct. 28
8:30
"The Condemed of Altoona," 1962, Italy
Friday, Oct. 30
7 & 9 p.m.
"Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," 1964, Italy
Saturday, Oct. 3T
2 & 7:30 p.m.
"Marriage, Italian Style," 1964, Italy
Sunday, Nov. 1
"After The Fox," 1966, Italy (With Peter Sellers)
Monday, Nov. 2
8:30 p.m.
"A Place For Lovers," 1969, Italy
Wednesday, Nov.
8:00 p.m.
"Shame," 1969, Sweden (Directed by Ingmar Bergman)
Friday, Nov. 6
3, 7, and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 7
2 8. 7:30 p.m.
"The Lion In Winter," 1968, USA - with Peter O'Toole & Katherine Hepburn
(Admission: $.50)
Sunday, Nov. 8
8 p.m.
"Poppy," 1936, USA With W.C. Fields
NCSA (Cafeteria)
Saturday, Oct. 31
8:30 p.m.
"Pit and the Pendulum"
Sunday, Nov. 8
8:30 p.m.
"From Here To Eternity"
News Briefs
by the staff
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Vandals
and Artists
VANDALS AND ARTISTS
The first exhibit of the new
Visual Arts department has been
on display in the Student Com
mons Building for the past week.
It features three-dimensional
constructions from cardboard,
plaster of pans sculpture and
paintings inspired by poetry.
E^ly last week, the exhibit
was vandalized. One con
struction was destroyed, two
more damaged and a drawing
was stolen.
Conunenting upon these in
cidents, instructor Robert
Costelloe said:
“The two things I cannot un
derstand are viciousness and
vandalism. Don’t students
realize that this exhibit is as
important to a visual arts student
as the Agnes de Mille ballet is to
the dancers? I personally am
horrified to find such a lack of
respect for fellow artists works in
school of this type.”
Friday afternoon the 22 high
school artists involved in the new
department were honored at a
reception, given by Robert Ward
and the Design and Production
Department, under whose wings
the Visual Arts program func
tions.
Beautiful People
Sara Stedman and Diese
Guisinger, both graduates of the
North Carolina University
system, have joined the music
school faculty. Miss Stedman,
who completed a master of music
degree at UNC-Greensboro in
June, is a voice coach and in
structor in piano. A UNC honors
graduate, Guisinger comes to the
school as an instructor in trumpet
and music theory.
Miss Stedman, who held the
Miss North Carolina title in 1967-
68, was named “Most Talented
Musician” during the Miss
America pageant that year. For
the past two summers, she at
tended the Temple University
Music Institute, where she
studied voice with Anna Kaskas
and conducting with Robert
Page.
Diese Guisinger received his
master of music degree from
Yale University inJune, 1970. He
has studied trumpet with the late
Saul Caston and Robert Nagel.
A founding member of the Yale
Players for New Music, he has
also been a member of sym
phonies and a brass quintet in
North Carolina and Connecticut.
Alexander
Technique
Miss Judy Leibowitz, director
of the American Center for the
Alexander Technique faculty and
teacher training program, gave
an informative lecture-
demonstration on the technique
on October 12.
Room 113 of the main building
was fiUl to capacity as Miss
Leibowitz explained the
kinesthetic e:q)erience is the
means of learning the technique,
which deals with habits. Ttje
technique helps one to find the
destructive habit and correct it
without disturbing body poise.
“Repeated kinesthetic ex
periences of the new (habit) use
will lead to a knowledge of
specific goals as well as specific
methods of attaining those
goals,” Miss Leibowitz said, as
she demonstrated better ways of
sitting in a chair or raising the
arms.
This experience is given to the
student through the manipulation
of the body by the teacher. The
student is required to make a
conscious decision to do nothing.
So, if a person wants to learn
something worthwhile about toe
position, movement and tension
of parts of the body without doing
anything, try the Alexander
Technique and do exactly
nothing!
On The Airways
from the
Advisor
The realization comes dowly.
This is not one school, it is four
schools, with some further sub
divisions here and there. In the
academic department, students
from all of the arts programs
come together. But they come
together to complete
requirements and not to build a
unMed school.
Where then is the force for
community? How does a school
find a school spirit without a
football team, a service club or a
burgeoning social calendar?
One place to begin is with the
school paper. First of all, the N.C.
Essay is a student newspaper. It
is a place to sound off, a place to
go find out what is relevant to
student life, a place for an ex
change of ideas.
The school paper is, like any
other paper, a medium of com
munication. But it can be much
more than that. It can be a force
in the life of the school. It can be a
force for change, a force for
building a community. This is the
ideal toward which the st^f,
under the able leadership of Mick
Ferguson is building. We
welcome your ideas and your
help.
Donna Jean Dreyer
The NCSA lilwary has received
143 long-playing records as a gift
from Roger Hall, executive
director of the school and
director of the NCSA Foundation.
Hie recordings, carried largely
by Angel, Capitol, Columbia,
London, and RCA, cover a wide
range of tastes and styles.
the outstanding conqwsers
from Teleman to Penderecki are
represented, the large body of
records centering around the
Romantics. Of particular in
terest will be toe Berlioz
“Damnation of Faust”
(Quytens), Bach’s Violin Con
cert (Oistrack), Rachmaninoff’s
own recording of his Paganini
Rhapsody and First Concerto,
and London records presenting
Marilyn Home. Also, toere are
many fine operas in the collec
tion, wito Price’s Tosca and
Sutoerland’s Vorrug among toe
cherished.
Though toere are some copies
of toe records already in toe
library, toere are several new
and exciting works. Hie records
will be ava&able for listening as
soon as toey are catalogued.
Books
If you’re tired of toose mindless
Top Forty radio stations which
stagnate toe local airwaves, you
might be interested in WFDD-
FM, Wake Forest’s radio station.
They schedule classical music
(with interspersed messages,
news and reports) during toe day
and from 11 to 1 each evening,
offer toe finest rock format you’ll
hear in this area. The an
nouncers, wito a few exceptions,
are tasteful and know what
toey’re talking about. Md toey
program fairly good music: new
stuff, traditional artists (Beatles,
E)ylan, Stones, etc.), and in
teresting progressive groups
(Pink Floyd, King Crimson, The
Nice). Best of all, toey play a lot
of music; no screaming DJ’s Md
inane chewing gum commercials
wito music squeezed in-between.
Of course, toey play Grand Funk
and Iron Butterfly occasionally,
but even that’s more bearable
toan “Indiana wants me. Lord I
can’t go back toere (This is toe
police ...” Whew!( Mostly toey
play decent music in an un-
pretensious manner. One
bummer: no stereo; but toey’re
working on it. Give a listen. 88.5
on toe FM dial.
AMERICAN
Can books talk? Who should
know better toan NCSA acting
instructor Robert Donley, who
has made over 200 talking books
for toe blind. This program was
started through toe American
Foundation for toe Blind in 1936.
In 1946, a friend of Donley’s
mentioned that he should
audition as one of toe recording
artists. He did and has been
recording for toe blind ever
since.
Asked if there were any
problems with recording in
earlier days, Donley said toat at
toat time all recordings wer
made on wax. If an actor had
forgotten to announce at toe end
of one side of a record toat it is to
be continued on toe otoer side,
toe whole record side had to be
re-recorded. Today, toe wide use
of tape recorders has eliminated
that problem.
After the records are
processed, toey are distributed to
regional libraries for toe blind.
Record or Talking Books are
free to all blind people and are
unobtainable to anyone else. The
overall outcome of this seems to
be... work for the actor and eyes
for toe blind.
let. Althou^^ old enou^ to
play toe mother of Hamlet at 72,
she has taken on the role of the
Prince of Denmark himself. She
is the second oldest Hamlet on
record. Hie oldest was toe great
17to Century actor Beeterton,
who was 74 when he play Hamlet
for the last time.
Dame Judito is not the first
actress to attempt toe role.
Actr^seswere playing toe role in
toe late 18to Century; Sara
Bernhardt, by some accounts,
was a passible Hamlet. Hie most
recent actress to undertake
Hamlet was Siobhan McKenna in
a 1957 solo version.
The production has been
tailored for rnieniight stands.
There are no props, and velvet
backdrops take toe place of sets.
Director William Ball has
trimmed toe five-act tragedy so
toat It runs barely two hours.
Gone Is toe famous opening,
where toe sentinels on toe walls
of Elsinore discuss toe strange
appearance of toe ghost. Missing
also Is Hamlet’s advise to his
players: “Speak toe speech, I
pray you....” The result seems to
be a vest-pocket edition of
Hamlet In which Dame Judito
gets maximum exposure for
better or worse.
Following a three-week
opening in toe Golden Gate City,
Dame Judito goes on toe road for
26 weeks, visiting college cam-
pusus across toe United States.
To quote toe new Hamlet,
“Witoout a doubt, Hamlet is toe
greatest diallenge of my life.
I’ve laid myself open for all sorts
of criticism. After all It may be
toe best play ever written and I
have to use my life to toe best of
my ability. Whatever else may
be said. I’m not wasting my
time.”
Chickens
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Hamlet
Dame Judith Anderson Is
currently on toe boards at toe
American Conservatory Hieater
in San Francisco to play Ham-
Who says the younger
generation Is lazy? In toe past
week, two projects for toe school
have been completed. Far ahead
of schedule, toe covering of all
chicken breasts was taken from a
mere proposal to completion on
Monday night. The students
financed toe job toemselves and
even managed to locate a backer
who graciously contributed one
bra.
The second step toward
progress on toe campus was toe
“Beautify your Locsd Chicken”
gig. The students showed toe
administration toat some large
amounts of money would be
saved by utilizing student talent
Instead of hiring professionals.
The Idea of hiring painters was
dismissed because toe students
had confidence in toelr own ar
tistic abUlty. So Tuesday n^t
the “chicken” was given toe final
touches of a long deserved coat of
paint.
Yes, Virginia, there is a “Sidney Brustein.”
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