[Volume XL
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, April 1, 1960
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J Moses (Nan Williams) pleads with mem ers them. When I was a child . • ■
I gone with the dead after all, but you pretend nx>t to «e tn I pN I PV*
IRS PlansFashion Show,Charm Speech,Panel Discussion
|| (1,,. Thr event lakes place Wed-
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The purpose of IRS comes to the
fore Monday as Salem students ob
serve annual IRS Week April 4-6.
IRS Week is a positive approach
toward promoting among students
an interest in developing poise,
grace, charm and higher personal
standards.
Evelyn Vincent, IRS president,
stated that “this year’s program will
deal with both phases—personal and
social, plus something extra.’’
The “Week” begins Monday with
the assembly that everyone always
looks forward to—Montaldo’s Fash
ion Show! It is under the direction
of Miss Carol Crawland. Anna
Yelverton is in charge of stage
decorations. . Mrs. Quinn of Mon
taldo’s will be Mistress of Cere
monies as our own May Court
^odel casual, afternoon, and even
ing apparal. — -
Monday night the “personal” side about.
f ti “Week” will be continued at, opportunity to go
:!a;"in":: Day student Centerlsauare” whh Dr._ Byersl^^The oc
when Miss Kay Turner of The Kay
Turner Charm-Modeling School will
speak. “It is my conviction,” says
Miss Turner, “that true beauty lies
in the heart of every woman, and
that it is her duty to develop fully
that beauty.”
Miss Turner received her educa
tion at Meredith College, the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and the
University of Cincinnati. She has
had training in violin, piano and
voice She did commercials and an-
. T V well as model-
nouncing on T. V. as wen i=.
Jelopment of feminine ^harm. Lymi
Robertson is in charge o
gram. that “some-
thSr e^tra”" tVrEvelyn talked
Ihout. At 6:45 we have another
casion is a panel on perhaps the
most pertinent question facing us
as young voters—“Why Vote In A
Democratic South?” What’s the
use of voting at all if you already
know how your state will go?
Susan Foard will moderate the
panel composed of Dr. David
Smiley, Mrs. T. C. Karnes, and Dr.
Inzer Byers—three persons quite
capable of answering these ques
tions. Dr. Smiley, professor of his
tory at Wake Forest, is an expect
in the area of Southern history. He the week
has written several books, and is a
popular feature writer and speaker
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Number 20
Pierrettes Give
The Firstborn*
With Williams
By Susan Hughes
On April 6-7 I'lie Pierrette Play
ers are presenting The Firstborn,
a religions drama by Christopher
Fry, and in order to write this
article I went to a rehearsal one
night this week. 1 wasn’t sure
what to expect, hut during the three
hours I spent in Old Chapel 1 saw
one of the most beautiful plays 1
have ever seen. Of course, the sets
were still unpainted, and the black
curtains were tied up in knots, the
lighting plots were still not finished,
and final polishing of the play was
still to he done, but the play itself
and the construction of the scenes
are very good. The movements of
the characters are well-coordinated
and often seem like impressionistic
dance movements, and their posi
tions on the stage are often like
extremely well-constructed paint
ings. Even without paint, back
drops, costumes or make-up, I found
myself carried along with the move
ment and idea of the play.
Christopher Fry began his play
in 1938, hut circumstances prevented
him from completing it until 1945.
In his foreword, he says that the
text of the edition the Pierrettes
are using is based on a performance
which he directed at the London
Academy of Dramatic Art, in 1957.
It has cuts and alterations which
1 are not in any earlier edition. The
story centers around the Hebrews
in Egypt in about 1200 B. C. and
the efforts of Moses to win their
freedom from bondage. Most of
the action takes place at the palace
of the Pharoah of Egypt and the
camp of the Israelites, and the char
acters include Seti II who is the
Pharoah and the father of Ramases
and Teusret, played by Fran Bell;
Anath Bithiah, his sister and the
foster mother of Moses, played by
Felicity Craig; The protagonist,
Moses, portrayed by Nan Williams;
Aaron, his brother played by Peggy
Brown; Nina Ann Stokes as Ram-
ades, the first horn son of Seti, who
will one day be the Pharoah; His
sister, Teusret, played by Pat Stal
lings ; Sue Sample as Miriam the
uster of Moses; Shendi her son, a
hot-headed youth who wants to be
come an Egyptian officer, played by
Crockett Rader; and the two Egyp
tian overseers played by Toni Lam-
berti and Joy Robinson,
Mr. Fry says that the character
of Moses is a movement toward
maturity, toward a balancing of life
within the mystery, where the con
flicts and dilemmas are the trembl
ing of the balance.” In the last
scene Moses suffers a momentary
spiritual death at the moment when
the firstborn’s physical death cre
ates the Hebrews’ freedom; his
resurrection from that to become
the great leader, though only hinted
at as the curtain falls, carries with
it something of the life of Ramases.
As he once says to Ramases, “I
remember
The final event lakes place Wed
nesday afternoon from 3:30 to 4:3C _ __
in Strong Friendship Rooms where taste your^ boyhood and
IRS sponsors its Student-Faculty ‘ i i j
. „ nn-1 Ramascs lives a boyhood m the
Spring Coffee. Its a p P almost identical with the one
portunity to talk with your favorite Moses when he was still the
professor out of class! Evelyn said, “Lion Prince of Egypt.” The
“We want to use our new china title, at first, may seem to quarrel
again! The set that we bought in
the fall! So everybody come.”
“The “Week” will only last
through Wednesday this year,”
Mary Anne Floyd stated, due to
the play, on Thursday and Friday.”
Mary Anne is overall chairman of
It was given to her as
with most of the action since Moses
is the chief protagonist, but after
a little acquaintance, the figure of
life which Ramases presents will be
seen to take the central place from
his first entrance to the end.
I Some of the people who are in
volved in helping with the produc
tion of the play are Joanne Dore-
all over tlie slate. From ''“V*,'\h“'™Jo“a"ties’rf' Jamm'”^
r,” "n fr t aiioa lo - r:"i«Ui.n'SarswSm
“ember .1 lb. jj-rpm.eTsroJ 5 Saunders. se«; and
Voters, and Dr. Byers, professor ot j „ Evelyn. Vickie Simms, stage manager,
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