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THE TARHEEL
Tuesday, March 12, 192?
Wfy Car Sleel
Leading Southern College Tbi
Weekly Newspaper
The Theatre
"Mum's the Word"
Published three times weekly during
the college -year, and is the official
newspaper of the Publications
Union of the University of North
v Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub
scription price, $2.00 local and $3.00
out of towni for the college year.
Offices in the basement of Alumni
Building.
Walter Spearman ..... Editor
George Ehrhart Mgr. Ed
Marion Alexander ... Bus. Mgr.
editorial department
Harry Galland : Assistant Editor
Glenn Holder
John Mebane ..........
Will Yarborough
Assistant Editor
Assistant Editor
Sports Editor
Tuesday, March 12, 1929
PARAGRAPHICS
"Mum's the Word" is still rocifer
ous and seems to be going strong the
campus insists upon talking about it
despite the command to silence in the
.title.
Beginning next term, State College
will levy a fifty cent fine on students
for each class cut. Hard on the stu
dents but at least a fine way to
make money. .. '
If such a system were in vogue here
pretty soon we'd have- enough cash
to complete Graham Memorial.
- Bill Perry and Loretto Carroll
Bailey read papers last night at the
N. C. Club on "Rural N. C. at Play."
No doubt they were entirely familiar
with the subject Bill edits the Buc-
career and Loretto writes prize plays.
Emory University is to choose its
niotpouiar and representative nian
and bestow upon him the title of
"Doctor of Stupidity." Wecan't help
wondering how , anyone outside the J
student body will know that such a
title carries with it a high honor.
He and She"
On Paying Double
At State College
The very latest collegiate style in
securing money has been announced
by State College authorities every
student is to be fined fifty cents for
each class cut without a satisfactory
excuse. All accumulated fines will
then be turned over to the various
departments of the college for the
purchase of new equipment.
"Splendid idea!" declaim the fac
ulty members, "now students cannot
afford to cut class." "Rotten!" de
clare the students, "it's our educa
tion, so why not let us take it as we
see fit. And certainly there's no jus
tice in making us pay for what We
don't get."
The whole idea of fines for miss
ing classwork is a giant's .step away
from the ideal of real education: that
is, the development and self-realization
of the individual student. When
a man comes to college, it is fqr the
purpose of learning things of inter
est to himself, of entering new vistas
of knowledge, of fitting himself for
the business of living, of trying to
discover just what it's all about. If
the ends sought are best obtained by
faithful attendance at classes, well
and good. But, if, one -day, more is
to be learned from personal work in
the library or in a private confer
ence with another person, certainly
that is to be preferred to class and
certainly no fine should be forthcom
ing. Furthermore, if the professor is
unable to make the class work inter
esting enough to draw the student
and hold his attention, then some
thing is wrong either with the pro
fessor or with the course. And why,
pray, should the student be fined be
cause the professor happens to be
so incompetent that he cannot secure
attendance?
This is indeed a strange proceeding
at State and the students lose
either way. They come to college
and pay for their education. Then
if they do not take it just exactly
as the administration advises, they
must pay again because they are not
. ... By H. J. GALLAND
A good, fast, tuneful college musical
comedy was shown last night at Me
morial hall before an unusually en
thusiastic audience. The production
was "Mum's the Word," presented by
the Wigue and Masque club of the
University.
Contrary to the usual procedure,
the show has a recognizable plot. It
is cleverly written, and presents ex
cellent opportunities for - dancing and
singing, all of which are eagerly seiz
ed by a cast which made up in enthu
siasm what it lacked in training.
First-night flaws are generally
smoothed under an avalanche of ap
plause from admiring relatives, of the
performers, benevolent professors and
their wives, and proud swains. So it
was with the first performance of
this amateur production. The cast
was none too sure of itself, and gave
evidence of much last minute work on
the part of the director. Missed cues,
poor handling jof scenery, and such
amateur faults were present, but not
so noticeable as to interfere appreci
ably with the show.
Throughout the piece, the dancing
and singing was way above the
average. Wex Malone did a good job
with the music, including several
catchy tunes to the words of Al Kahn.
"Sitting in the Moonlight," one of the
featured songs, is worthy of whistling
for at least a week after the last per
formance, and probably will be heard
on the campus long after the show has
packed up its scenery and props and
departed.
"Co-ed," sung first as a duet by
Ann Lawrence and Frank Jacocks and
then by a trio consisting of the Misses
Lawrence, Moore, and McKinnie is in
teresting but not very successful.
Marilee Shaw and Bobby Hedgecock
put over their-song with extra polish.
Their dancing and acting is excellent,
and they turned in two of the best per
formances of the show.
Andy Macintosh and Elizabeth
Barber danced with ease and sang
wen. .Howard .Bailey's acting was
good, as usual, making his love scenes
with Phoebe Harding effective and
interesting. The chorus work was
also unusually excellent, giving evi
dence that emphasis was put on the
singing and dancing during the re
hearsals. They are the real features
of the performance, as they should be
in a musical comedy.
Sidney Glickman's harmonica play
ing at the beginning of the second act
was a welcome and professionally
good interlude. His rendering of
"The Song of India" and "The
Rhapsody in ,Blue" cannot be beat. He
was not given enough latitude to put
his stuff over.
The other feature of the perfor
mance also not only was equal to the
publicity blurbs assigned it but sur
passed the enthusiastic descriptions
given. Miss Peggy Burgaw's solo
dance was the type of thing that is
generally described with such terms
as "zephyr," "swansdown," "grace
ful," and just plain ordinary "swell,"
She is pretty, lithe, and her abbreviat
ed costume showed off her well turned
figure to perfection. The audience
could not seem to get enough of her.
She is worth the price of admission
and her part was much too limited.
Moore Bryson as the Dean, Mary
Dirnberger as Mrs. Willoughby, and
Art Sickles as Mr. Willoughby, the
ever-present rich alumnus, do well
with their parts. Bobby Hedgecock
and Marilee Shaw seem to enjoy
their parts, and as a result the au
dience enjoys watching them. Mari
lee Shaw's "Flo-Flo Farraday" is one
of the best things in the show. Miss
Shaw plays the part of the' tough
actress with intelligence. Her hips
are among the most eloquent proper
ties in the show. ' J
Wardlaw's Orchestra was ade
quate. They played somewhat too
fast, making it difficult for the sing
ers and dancers to catch up with
them. Malone's music was well or
chestrated and sounded good.
The costumes are the most original
and beautiful to be seen here in a
long while. The designers did a par
ticularly effective job with Miss
Shaw's dress and the costumes for
the chorus number wherein the girls
do a Tiller imitation on their knees.
The scenery, all of it designed and
constructed by studentsis useful but
not particularly pretty or artisic. One
or two of the modernistic effects, de
signed by Miss Mary Dirnberger, are
worthy of notice. -
On the whole "Mum's the Word" is
well-staged, tuneful, with a good-looking
chorus, excellent- dancing, and
good singing.
There is nothing necessarily lame
about a lame duck unless he tries to
taking what they have already paidjcrowd in at the public feedtrough
for!
Springfield Republican.
By J. E. DUNGAN
He and She by Rachel Crothers.
Presented by The. .Town Stage Soci
ety of Columbia, "S. C, at the Play
makers Theatre, March 8th and 9th.
Directed by William Dean. Settings
by William Dean assisted by Uni
versity of South Carolina English 33
and 34 classes. v
The Cast
Tom Herf ord......Mr. G. E. Whitehead
Ann Herford .Mrs. Julius Taylor
Daisy Herford.: Miss Epps Jones
Millicent...... Miss Sarah Quattlebaum
Dr. Remington... Mr. Alex Martin
Keith McKenzie...Mr. Eward PritchaTd
Ruth Creel Miss Luite Robertson
Ellen . ........... Miss Daisy Powell
Rachel Crothers is a writer of the
Woman's Home Companion stamp,
nothing more. This play of hers
crudely named He and She, is an un
natural handling of what is proving
to be a dead issue; i.e., man's desire
to be his mate's complete overlord.
Three dreary acts filled with com
monplace dialogue set forth, with no
genuinely convincing situations
the age-old battle- between the sexes.
The expressed object of Little
Theatre is to regenerate appreciation
of the finer things in drama, and to
present to those persons who still
have hope for the future of the
spoken stage true examples of dra
matic literature. If, however, I have
misconceived the object of the Little
Theatre, and that it vis to provide
only another means of amusing per
sons, then He and She fills the' bill.
Miss Crothers most assuredly pointed
her piece toward the box office, seek
ing to capitalize on the ideal of the
regime through which we have al
ready passed, in addition to giving
her play a tawdry title which no
doubt garnered not a few dollars for
its author. There is nothing ingeni
ous about its plot or sprightly about
its dialogue; its entire life depends
upon the uttering of countless shib
boleths . and trite phrases which
strangely enough strike home with
a great many audiences.
With the handicap of producing a
poor play, coupled with the fact that
the cast was typically amateurish,
William Dean, the University of
South Carolina professor in play
writing and producing, was able to
make a fair production of the play
after all.' In this connection, it ought
to be said of the directing, however,
that whenever Ann came down front,
the loss of balance among the actors
was very noticeable. Dean must
have had considerable effort keeping
his actors in character judging by the
number of times they slipped during
the course of the play. The timing
was irritatingly slow. None of the
actors stressed cues.
I don't know whether it was Dean's
fault or not, out none of the cast
with the single exception of Miss
Jones displayed any subtlety or much
variety in their acting. In fact the
majority of them seized one tone and
held tenaciously to it, fearing to show
any variety.
Directly in back of us were two
of the faculty accompanied by their
wives. We felt warmly attached to
them during the entire progress of
the play because of their critical
evaluation of the music furnished by
the Playmakers preceding and dur
ing the acts by means of a phono
graph played in the orchestra pit.
They both agreed that it sounded
very much akin to "a freight truck
in a warehouse." We might add that
it was worse than the local moving
picture palace orchestra, which it is
agreed is a considerable concession.
The play was written for Ann Her
ford, the sculptor's wife, who is her
self a sculptor, and Mrs. Julius Tay
lor looked the part when she made
her entrance. She lost her oppor
tunity to , star, though, by her
monotonous interpretation. But Miss
Epps Jones portraying the role of
Daisy Herford, the sister-in-law who
longs for marriage, but whom cir
cumstance has kept single, stole the
play from right under Mrs. Taylor's
nose. Miss Jones was miles ahead .of
the rest of the cast. Her intonations,
her facial expressions, her poise, car
riage and enunciation were all re
markably good. She only .slipped
from quality acting once when she
let fall one of those altogether' f or
eign "d-a-m-m-m's. She didn't just
read her lines like most amateurs,
she lived them. Her .very pointed re
mark about "marriageable women
lying around thick" was so realisti
cally done that it made you want to
meet her back stage and propose..
That's real acting.
On the - whole the feminine roles
were better filled than the masculine.
Miss Saiah Quattlebaum cast in the
role of MilLcent, the sixteen year
oui daughter of the family, was capi
tal, although her acting was . a bit
forced at times. Miss Lutie Robert
son in the part of Ruth Creel with
fewer lines than most of the players
exhibited the fact that she had
studied her role, and was attempting
to get the most out of a difficult
paxt. In her unimpassioned love
scenes with Keith, Miss Robertson
was a little too . inhuman, as we in
terpret the part of the woman torn
ietween position and a home. Then
there was Ellen, the inevitable Irish
maid (all maids are either Irish or
French in this kind of play), inter
preted by Miss Daisy Lee Powell,
who is as pretty and comely a maid
as any family would desire, but not
an altogether finished actress.
Dr. Remington, - father of Mrs.
Herford, whose sudden and mys
terious departures were interestingly
reminiscent of the melodramatic de
tectives of the thrillers of the past
century, was played by Mr. Alex
Martin who was comparatively speak
ing, excellent. He took a grotesque
part and softened it into some, sem
blance of reality by means of his
own personality.
Mr. G. E. Whitehead, playing op
posite Mrs. Taylor in the part of Tom
Herford never got into character ex
cept on rare occasions. He 'fumbled
his lines badly. His statue scene in
the third act when . he goes into a
trance for a period of several mo
ments was unintentionally humorous.
Mr. Edwin Pritchard the other ac
tor in He and She, we, have been told,
is a person of great versatility. We
have it on the best information that
he is, among other things, a senior in
the law school at the University of
South Carolina, an athletic coach, and
a member of the state legislature.
We are certain of this much, he ' is
no actor He burlesqued his part by
overacting. When he said that he
was "down and out" in the second act
we hoped he wouldn't get up again.
His. prize line was this: "As Daisy
said, he's sore, naturally enough
spoken in the most unnatural tone
that he could have commanded.
He and She, and its actors evident
ly pleased the majority of the audi
ence. Notwithstanding, critically
judged, it is a poor play, this pro
duction of it was fair, and the; acting
was typically amateurish. "' '
The Kansas State Teachers' College
at Emporia has secured a loan of
$15,000 with which to complete the
student union building. ,
Dialectic Senate
Will Elect Officers
The meeting of the Dialectic Senate
tonight will be given over largely to
the election of Spring quarter offi
cers. An entire set of off icials will be
chosen, with the exception of John
Norwood who was chosen Spring
quarter president at an earlier date.
The - retiring off icers are : - H. N.
Brown, president; J. C. Williams,
president-pro-tem; T. R. Karriker,
clerk; R. A. Parsley, assistant-
treasurer; and J. E. Hunter, critic.
After the election the senate will
discuss the proposition of birth con
trol in the United States! The resolu
tion is: "Resolved, That the Di Senate
go on record as favoring the adoption
of a system of birth control in the
United States." Discussions tonight
are expected" to disclose the advanta
ges and the disadvantages of such a
plan in striking contrast.
Along life's highway are many pil
grims, but some of them are not mak
ing any progress.
WHAT IS THE MARKET
PRICE FOR LOVE?
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"Wolf of Wall Street"
with--
BACLANOVA NANCY CARROL
BEHIND the frenzy of Wall
Street looms 'The Wolf"! The
Stock Market Giant! The ruth
less fighter!" Roaring into battle
and loving it! While, at home,
waits the enticing beauty on
whom he lavishes . his wealth.
"The Wolf's" wife. Is she alone?
Added
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We'll bet a hand-painted lemonade shaker you can't do it.
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