Volume XXXIX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, April 10, 1959
Number 20
Pierrettes Present Motere Comedy “The Miser”
Goddard, As Harpagon,
Heads Cast Of Players
The Pierrette Players will pre
sent “The Miser” by Moliere on
April 15 and 16 at 8:30 p.m. in Old
Chapel. The play is a seventeenth
century comedy. There are no
tragic characters except through
implication. The cast includes Mar
tha Goddard as Harpagon, Betsy
Gatling as Valere, Peggy Brown as
Notices
REGISTRATION
Marianne, Mary Jo Wynn as La
Fleckle, Jean Smitherman as Fro-
sine, Nina Ann Stokes as Cleante,
Ann Luttrell as Elise, Sue Sample
as Master Jock, and Frances Jen-
nette as the cleaner.
Actors Give
Stylistic
Performance
Sue
try an expressionistic interpretati^
lyrd Becomes Professor;
ither Faculty Promoted
The administration has recom
mended the following promotions
on the college faculty, to be effec
tive September 1, 1959:
Miss Jess L. Byrd, Associate Pro-
fessor of English and acting Head
of the English Department, will be
come Professor of English and
Head of the English Department.
Kirkland Will
Direct Dept.
Of Admissions
Mrs. Edith A. Kirkland, present
Director of Public Relations, has
been made the new Director of Ad
missions. The Public Relations Of
fice, in charge of contact with pro-
spective students until the time of
their formal application to Salem,
will be absorbed into this nw
streamlined department. Dr. Hix
son has previously been acting as
Director of Admissions, but has
found this job requiring too much
of her time in her direction of the
academic life at Salem.
The volume of applications to
Salem has increased to such an
extent that it was felt Salem needed
a separate Director of Adrriissions.
Mrs .Kirkland will continue to
travel throughout the South, per-
' sonally contacting future applicants
to Salem and will guide them
through the entire application pro
cedure, working with an enlarged
staff and the faculty admissions
committee.
Dr. Lucy E. Austin, Associate
Professor and Head of the Classics
Department, will be made Professor
of Classics.
Miss Mary Cash, Assistant Pro
fessor of Music Theory and Coun
terpoint, will become Associate
Professor of Music Theory and
Counterpoint.
Dr. William B. White,. Assistant
Professor of English, will be^ named
Associate Professor of English.
Tomlinson Will
0ive Recital
Next Friday
Harriet Tomlinson, soprano, will
give her sophomore recital, Friday,
April 17, at 7:30 p.m. Her program
includes “Vouchsafe, O Lord”—
Handel; “Care Selve” from the
opera ‘Atlanta’ — Handel; “Danza,
Daiiza”—Torelli; “Tu lo sai” Dur
ante- “Rejoice Greatly” from the
‘Messiah’—Handel; “Twilight Fan
cies”—Delius ; “Der Jungling An
Die Quelle”—Shubert; “Du Bist die
Ruh”_Shubert; “Un Bel die” from
‘Madame Butterf ly Ruccini,
“Sweet Chance”—Head; “Pierrot”
—Read; “A Swan”—Wolf; “Ecs-
tacy”—Rummel.
Flarriet, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. R. Tomlinson, is from
Florence, Alabama. She has been
singing since her junior year in high
school when she sang a solo part
for the “Messiah.” She is'the pupil
of Paul W. Peterson.
$40,000 Gift
Allows Start
Of Addition
Members of the science faculty
and administration will meet to
morrow about proposed plans for
an addition to the college’s science
building which is hoped will be
built by next year.
An initial gift of $40,000 from an
anonymous doner was announced
last week. It was learned this week
that the gift came by telephone
message during a meeting of the
board of trustees when President
Gramley was called to the tele
phone. The board took immediate
action on the information.
The total cost is estimated at
present at about $160,000 for the
complete building will include ad
ditional lab space for chemistry
and biology, office space, and pos
sibly a science library. Tentative
plans are that the building will be
constructed at the north end of
the present science building. The
administration and faculty has
hopes that construction may begin
by the end of the summer.
The reason for the need is
Salem’s heavy science enrollment
plus the service the college is ren
dering nurses at City Memorial
Hospital.
Preliminary registration will be
gin on Wednesday, April 15, and
continue through the following
Wednesday. All students, including
freshmen, should register with the
head of the department in which
they plan to major. Appointments'
should be made ahead of time.
All sophomores and juniors who
have not completed their require
ments in hygiene, and who plan to
take the hygiene exam at 7:00 p.m.
on May sixth, are required to
register in the recorder’s office
where they will receive a biblio
graphy and a study guide.
Seniors can check the bulletin
board in Main Hall for information
concerning job opportunities.
New courses to be offered nert
year include:
Economics 280: Comparative Eco
nomic Systems
History 151: Asia and the Mo
dern World
Math 110: Finite Mathematics
Music 223: Keyboard Literature
of the Sixteenth Century
Physics 210: Elements of Phy
sical Science
Sociology 23: Juvenile Delin
quency
ROOM DRAWING
If a student, for medical reasons,
feels she should be assigned to any
particular room, a written request
from the attending physician must
be given the Office of the Dean of
Students by April 14. The reason
for the request should be stated
by the physician. Except in cases
of emergencies which might arise
after April 15, no assignments can
be made for medical reasons after
this date.
Room reservation fee of $10 is
to be paid in the Treasurer’s Office
April 13 or 14. Room drawing will
be held April 20-23. Directions and
more information will be placed in
each student’s box.
Pfohl House will be used as a
dormitory for first semester grad
uates.
Stee Gee
Says Gooch’s
On Campus
The Dean’s Office has announced
that Gooch’s Drive-In Restaurant
at the foot of Salem Hill m'ay now
be visited after 7:30 without being
considered an evening engagement.
Students must, however, still sign
out and go in a group of three
girls or with a date.
Gooch’s will now be considered
on campus as a substitute for
Harry’s Hideaway. For this reason
the visits will not be restricted to
30 minutes, and girls will not be
required to get special permission
from the Dean’s Office to walk at
night.
By Harriet Herring
Betsy Gatling danced sensually
around the stage—embraced a cur
tain. Mary Jo Wynn modeled hats
for Martha Goddard’s approval.
Other cast members stoked on
cokes against the chill of Old
Chapel. “Let’s get some more life
in this thing, for Heaven’s sake,”
ordered Major Barbara, as she
plopped unobstrusively on a high
stool. And the rehearsal began.
The stage is empty except for a
white piano bench. The Miser hob
bles out, sniffing, adjusting his
glasses, and supporting his back
with his hand. Frosine, an engag
ing and fluttering wench, who acts
,as a go-between for the lovers,
approaches the miser, telling him
what a fine, graceful figure of a
man he is. She convinces him that
his forthcoming marriage will be a
success. His bride will bring him
a dowery of 1200 francs a year.
The bride-to-be does not gamble or
like jewelry; her taste in clothes
and food is not expensive. In short,
the miser will admire her every
characteristic; his bride will be at
tracted to his every feature. All
this, according to Frosine.
Miss Battle calls for another
scene and actors rush in and out,
helter-skelter, back-to-back, belly-
to-belly. They finally assemble and
the miser gives last minute in
structions to his children and ser
vants, for they are about to meet
his bride-to-be. During the ensuing
discussion the miser’s son realizes
that he is already in love with his
future stepmother. After a quick
run-through of lines the rehearsal
ends.
Although the dialogue is not
particularly witty, the lines have
been punctuated by rhythmical, im
aginative gestures and geometrical
blocking. In one scene the miser
and his son are discussing Mari
anne, the father’s and son’s in-
tended. First, Cleante \yalks six \
inches behind his father, using a
dance pattern; then they reverse
positions and the miser follows
Cleante. During one argument, the
two participants cross the stage and
each other diagonally.
Interviewing Miss Battle after
the rehearsal, I was told that the
staging is expressionistic, that is,
it shows objective reality. The
things which affect a man’s con
sciousness are interpreted in ac
tions. Everything is set up to look
as it does through the eyes of the
miser. The set consists only of
three giant keyholes with locks and
chains, because the miser thinks
everyone is evesdropping and steal
ing his money. All the costumes
are bright except the miser’s (his
is brown) because, in his eyes,
everyone is extravagent except him
self.
Miss Battle sums up her stylistic
interpretation as being an attempt
to universalize Moliere.