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Tuesday, March 3, 1931
We Cuss Them
But They're Good
Comprehensive examinations
were administered to the senior
class Saturday. For a week they
furnished a sure topic of con
versation almost any time if
there were seniors present. For
another week we hear more of
them and then quarter examina
tions will become uppermost in
the minds of the seniors.
Wherever the conversation
the comprehensive was likely to
be "cussed." We didn't cuss be
cause the examination was un
fair or too hard or because we
didn't like it. We just hated to
have this spring weather and a
week-end interrupted.
Comprehensive examinations
are to us a step forward in edu
cational, development. If ad
ministered with any thought for
the educational value a compre
hensi ve examination will deter
mine just how much a student
has derived from nearly four
years of higher education. Sure
ly one cannot dispute thaV ex
amining in this manner s un
.f air. We are supposed to ab
sorb something in our study
here and what we absorb will be
revealed by these examinations.
They embrace far, too much ter
ritory to allow "cramming."
After all, what we've learned
or absorbed here will be with us
long after we graduate or finish.
If we haven't learned anything
in our major field then the com
prehensive will reveal it. One
who hasn't learned enough to
be able with a little review to
stand successfully the compre
hensive shouldn't be too critical
of the University's methods of
educating us.
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A Great
International Club
We all enjoy that delightful
time of day whence 5 jt, pack in
an easy chairj andlisteaAio the
Playthings, presented at the
Playmakers Theatre oar Satur
day night, February 28.
By Tom hoy
Anthony Buttitta's comedy of
illusions in three acts turned
out to be the most gripping ex
periment of the local dramatic
group's current season. An at
mosphere of completeness per
vaded the production and tend
ed to lift it from the amateurish
class toward something of con
viction. As the story goes, a flesh-and-blood
couple whose martial re
lationship has been analyzed ra
ther unflatteringly in the super
staged prelude are prompted
by it to do a little analyzing
of their own, which amounts to
destruction. As Cecil and Sonia
Ingram they are husband and
wife who get along quietly al
ways alone and never seek to
make friends. This unconven
tional behavior arouses the curi
osity of the dramatist, one Mr.
Stanley Busch, who dogs their
daily-perambulating footsteps
long enough to come to the con
ventional conclusion that it must
be jealousy. So " jealousy he
makes it in his play, which he
executes with weirdly stylized
fidelity to the situation as seen
through his self -appointed-tinker's
eyes even going so far
as to call the piece "Intrusion"
and to introduce himself as the
orienting damnation in the lives
of his subjects.
This attempted expose comes
so close to the truth that it up
sets the lethargic Ingrams and
sends Cecil in haste to get what
satisfaction there may be out of
calling Busch a liar and demand
ing an explanation.
Ingeniously, for the sake of
the parallel and also for the sake
of technical simplicity, we are
told that the set for "Intrusion"
was modeled after the Busch
study, so everything is so to
speak in its proper setting
when the demi-play comes to
life in the second and third acts.
And come to life it practically
does. The Ingrams turn out to
become the real playthings of the
author, undone when it dawns
that the husband ha3 really
made a puppet of the wife with
his reclusive tendencies. The
only discrepancy between the
first and second hand versions
of the tragedy comes in the rea
son for the niggardly social atti
tude. Cecil's shell-building is
found to be motivated, not by
fear that the world might take
away Sonia, but by fear that
the world might find out certain
irregularities regarding his
birth that pride would hide.
Some of the passages of
"Playthings" could have been
more economically , phrased, per
haps, but their verbosity has
the merit of giving great emo
tional possibilities to the actors,
whose neglect in the foregoing
review has been only because
newness this time made the
play more than ever the thing;
for & carefully-selected and drill
ed cast gave it a surprisingly
finished interpretation. Harold
Baumstrone, who did the au
thor, was in character and con
vincing, though his tendency to
bear down on prepositions and
articles sometimes annoyed. He
should be heard from in the fu
ture. The husband role was
taken by Whitner Bissell in his
smooth, irreproachable, past- de
monstrated manner. Opposite
him was Eve Brickman, who
mfght be modestly termed a find.
Her engaging stage appearance
and the pleasant timbre of her
voice, added to the fact that she
can and did act, constitute a
challenge for the Playmakers to
attempt things bigger and bet
ter than ever. ;
Only a man who knew nis
theatre could have used ordi
nary, available materials to
mount and present "Playthings"
in the imaginative yes, delight
ful way that Walter Grotyo-
hann, the director, did.
bunch in a bull session about the
happenings of the day or the
week-end. In may cases the
events are exaggerated grossly
or in detail but this fact doesn't
keep them from being enjoyable
probably more so than when
they actually took place. This
end-of-the-day bull sessioning is
being done a great deal lately by
the leading current news maga
zines. It is a very enjoyable and
profitable feature of their news
as a rule.
In the March number of one
of these 'current periodicals
there appeared side by side a re
view , and a comment upon the
work done by the Hoover ad
ministration and the Boy Scout
movements. About the first we
will make no comment know
ing quite well that the Democra
tic Party as a whole and et toto
is taking care of comments upon
that topic in a very comprehen
sive manner. About the ' Boy
Scout movement, we think that
even the sophisticates which
abound on the campus of this
University might do well to
think about a minute.
Twenty-five years ago Sir Ro
bert Baden-Powell started a
movement which we think is
destined to become of great in
ternational significance. He
could hardly have fully realized
what great good he was doing.
At the International Scout Jam
boree boys of every nation come
together, forget tariffs and
gold movements, and make close
friendships. Sectionally, in
every country, 'tne good that
scouts do is yery great also. The
juvenile courts of the United
States have records of very few
; scouts which have been brought
before them. The natural, ten
dency of the normal boy is to
join a gang," and the scout
movement sees that great num
bers of them join the right gang,
and thus get a great number of
fives started right which would
very probably otherwise get
sidetracked before they were
really begun. Scouts have de
finite stimuli for their ambi
tions and their accomplishments
are definitely measured with
others of their group. What
better training could the youth
of a nation begin with?
As a movement for the build
ing of men, citizens, and gentle
men, we think that this great in
ternational club has no equal
and should be recommended for
its purposes and actions almost
without limit. O. W. D.
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1930 SCIENC6 PtATURg STDCATg, Ww H avw, Co- '
stitutional amendment. mental reform. He made a plea cast over WPTF, and was re-
Smith concluded his speech by , for progressive leadership, for ceived by a specially constructed
saying that the state of North
Carolina had a wonderful op-
clear thinkers, and constructive
and broadminded statesman-
portunity to take first rank ship.
among the states in govern- Smith's address was broad-!
loudspeaker in Gerrard hall.
Mention The Daily Tar Heel
"'vvien buying.
STEPPING I WTO A
ODERN WO HELD
Alfred E. Smith Makes
Plea for Governmental
Reform' In This State
(Continued from first page)
three hundred million dollars
this year, thus showing the need
for simplifying the government.
There were over one hundred
and fifty commissions, which
were reduced to seventeen.
There were four commissions
on prisons, three on the sol
diers' bonus, and three on the
state fair. Among other abuses
in New York's government
were: The land tax, the govern
or's responsibility to petty com
missions, the system of exces
sive taxation, and the election
of irresponsible persons to
heads of important departments
which should be appointed by
the governor. Ex -Governor
Smith emphasized the fact that
a state constitution cannot be
reformed by statutes but by con-
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