Wednesday, September 13, 1933.
THE SALEMITE
Page Three.
THE DRAMATIST LORD
DUNS AY AS A CREA
TOR OF MOODS
Let the persor
isfied with commonplace, everyday
happenings wake himself up and read
“If” or “Plays of Gods and Men” or
any of Lord Dunsay’s delightfully
fantastic and entirely unconventional
plays. To me, the most in)
features of their style are thi
abandon, their indefinitem
their impossibility. They ar
which a person without a vital spirit
of adventure, a vast knowlidge, a vi
vid imagination, and an intense cur
iosity could not have written. He
who would be completely taken out oi
himself should by all means refid some
Lord Dunsay’s greatest power is
shown in the manner in which he cre
ates moods. He certainly spoke truly
when he said in describing his method
of writing: “I begin with anything
with next to nothing. Then, suddenly,
I get started and go through '
hurry. The main point is not
terrupt a mood.” He begins the
mood of his plays with the time, the
scene, and the place, each of which in
itself along with the name o
play would start one to reading
a hurry”. For example, the following
is taken from “The Old King’s Tale”:
“Place: A fair country, Scene: Any
thing in the-Wide World, Time: Now
or never.” Other peculiar times
which he uses are: “Ten Years Ago”,
“Yesterday Evening”, “June”, “Now’,
“February 30th”, “Tea Time’, et Cet
era. The scene may be anywhere
from a monastery, a palace, a desert,
a fallen statue, or an underground
temple in Egypt to a “big house that
Sladder has bought in the country”,
a “small railway station near Lon
don”, or “a room set for expensive
supper in a hotel that is not too par
ticular.” Or perhaps, as is the case in
“The Compromise of the King of the
Golden Isles,” there is neither place
One of the most horrible moods that
Dunsay created in any of his plays
was that in “The Laughter of the
Gods”. The Gods in Dunsay’s plays
are merciless and fighting against
them is futile. At last the day had
come which the voice of the gods had
prophesied would be the last of the
people of King Karnos. If he had
prophesied falsely he was to be exe
cuted at sunset on that day. The sun
had just set and the king signalled
the executioner to take
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The houses
3 falling
are rolling towards us!"
“They are coming up like
“It is the laughter of the gods that
hills.”
Some or
:oing I
, theii
s called Lord Dunsay
using the English language”. I could
give the reader long lists of names
which he has never heard of and which
Dunsay found very effective in ere
ating his moods: I'lamaran, Zerabar-
des, Moomoomos, Ximenung, Zoom-
zoomarma, Khan Kharuda, Shatmeen-
abdullah, Ackazarpses, Kadamandas-
pes, Zophernes. May these leave my
reader in a mood to read Lord Dunsay
for himself!
CONDITIONS IN CUBA
CALL FOR ATTENTION
can citizens and citizens of the foreign
countries who reside in Cuba. Am
bassador Willis from the United
States has handled the situation with
considerable tact and diplomacy. It is
the wish of the present administra
tion not to take an iron hand unless
it is absolutely necessary. With the
sending of destroyers and battle ships
to Cuba and the sending of Secre
tary Swanson, it is hoped that the
moral effect will do good without fur
ther intervention on the part of the
United States.
Interest In Museum
Is Still Growing
Much New Material Gained
During the Summer
During the summer, interest in the
iiection with the Science Department
has not failed. Old girls will remem
ber that Mr. Higgins started the
museum and as the collections be
came more numerous, he arranged
for the use of rooms in the top floor
of the Science Building.
Additions to the museum this sum
mer have been the 30 mounted speci
mens from the Smithsonian Institute,
three grey squirrels, a deer head, a
red fox, a sword from a sword fish,
a small hawk, a collection of bird-
nests, and a mammoth sponge which
is approximately two feet wide and
two feet high.
New girls, don’t neglect to go
down to the Science Building and
look it over. The museum is really
■orth while and interesting.
Ther
o doubt in anyone’s mind
that the abolishment of a dictatorship
held by President Machado was a
very progressive step due to the rot
tenness and dishonesty that was ram
pant during his administration. He
made himself, as well as his friends,
wealthy. Being in league with Am
erican capitalist he put through mea
sures that were beneficial to the cap
italist and to his followers. It is well
that such a government did go under.
This latest change of government and
the ousting of President Cespedes may
leave Cuba in worse shape than it was
under the dictatorship of President
Machado.
The world is waiting and watching
the newest revolution and wondering
just what the outcome will be. It
is hoped that a government will be
established that will win the respect
of its subjects and that the inhabi
tants of this island will be a happy
and prosperous people!
The Student Government takes
this small space to wish all stude
the best year ever!
MR. HIGGINS HONORED
BY INVITATION
Mr. Charles H. Higgins, head ol
the Science Deparment has been in
vited to join the American Geograph
ical Society, a society founded in 1851
and accepting members only by invi
tation. Salem is libnored along witl
Mr. Higgins.
RECEPTION IS HELD
FOR FACULTY
On Tuesday evening after the firs
Faculty Meeting of the year a recep
tion was held at the home of Dr
Mrs. Rondthaler for the faculti
the College and the Academy. At the
punch bowl were Mrs. Vardell and
Mrs. Schofield. Serving
ret Vardell, Geargia Hi
san Calder, Rachel Carr
Williams.
TO MISS RIGGAN
The boarders will miss Miss Riggan
in her old office, but they are delight
ed with her new work. She will have
her office in Main Hall and will work
entirely with the off campus students.
Luck to you. Rig. We love you and
the off campus girls too, so we’ll all
be happy.
College Students Co-operate
With N. R. A.
better conditions in this class
aid to their unemployed and re
ceivers of low wages. Eventually
will probably provoke better con
ditions for the upper class—and
there is no doubt that the most out
standing aid of the N. R. A. has
been its capacity as a means of out-
look for the energy pent up during
the stagnant bank holiday weeks,
and as a foundation for hope after
months of dreary floundering. A
reaction, whether totally successful
in the long run or not, preferable to
those earlier days of futile waiting,
and if in tne present generation
there is still that grit and determin
ation of their pioneer ancestors, as
I and other college students believe
is, the letters N. E. A. can surely
come to mean “Normalcy Returned
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