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i i r f I ! f ' Page Two Ct)e Datip Car Ipeei The official newspaper of the, Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days and the Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, tinder act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Jack Dungan Editor Ed French.. Managing Editor John Manning Business Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Charles G. Rose, chairman; F. J. Manheim, Peter Hairston, Vass Shepherd, R. W. Barnett, J. M. Little, A. J. Stahr. FEATURE BOARD Donald Shoe maker, chairman; James Dawson, Robert Berryman, Scott Mabon, and E. H. CITY EDITORS George Wilson, T. W. Blackwell, Robert Woerner, Jack Riley, Tom Walker, William McKee. DESK MEN Frank Hawley, W. E. Davis. " SPORTS DEPARTMENT Jack Bes. sen, sports editor; Phil Alston, Mor rie Long, assistant editors. NEWS MEN William Blount. HEELERS J. S. Fathman, Donoh Hanks, Peter Ivey, P. S. Jones, J. H. Morris, L. E. Ricks, Walter Rosen . thai, Joseph Sugarman, A. M. Taub, C. G. Thompson A. G. Leinwand, J. D. Winslow. Business Staff CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Tom Worth, manager. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT R. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, and Ber nard Solomon, assistants.. ADVERTISING , DEPARTMENT - James Allen, manager; Howard Manning, assistant; Joe Mason, Nathan Schwartz, Jones. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, manager; H. A. Clark, assistant; Joe Webb, Henry Emer son; Randolph Reynolds. Sunday, November 1, 1931 Attendance Rules Make , The Headlines Dramatic material for' a phil ippic against the stringent at tendance, regulations now being so strictly enforced at the Uni yersity was revealed in Satur day's papers. The news stories, with a date line from Scarsdale, New York,; recounted how a Uni versity; of North Carolina sopho more, with an excessive number pf cuts in a Spanish class, decided to "run away" rather . than, ex perience the expulsion from school ; which now" inevitably, and automatically Tesults according to habits of -the administrative offices. Leaving about 1 October '20 from Chapel Hill,He ' ended up Friday night in the arms of the law as 'personified in the fig ure of ; a member of the Scars---dale, New York, police depart ment. r : The temptation to avail one self of this story and point id the far-reaching ruinous effects of such drastic enforcement of intolerable rules' is great. How- .... t ever, to stress but one phase of this: incident would be to empha-r size unduly . the " sensational, rather than ; the -essential ele ments'. Yet it is becoming ap; parent that the . atmosphere of the University is fast becoming similar to that of a preparatory school, where the attention "'of the faculty and administration is largely directed towards such matters as discipline . and good conduct. ' And the above occur rence brings this analogy to prep schools a bit closer to the truth, for fleeing from the harsh pun ishnient which ensues- as ' a re sult ,of a violation of strict at tendance rules is to loe expected in secondary schools but certain--ly not, in universities, where it is alleged students an? treated as men, or almost as 'such, and education is placed as a' problem upon the shoulders of those who yish to receive the benefits of a university, F.J.M. Congratulations, " ' 7 Playmakers " ' Y 1 Elizabeth, the Queen will be J staged in Memorial hall, Novem ber 16, by the Theat Giuild un 'der.the auspices of the Carolina Playmakers. . Within" 'our mem.; ory, this! is: the first' ltime the Playmakers have brought a mod ern play, done by a Broadway company, to the Hill. ' ' ; " ' This seems to us to be quite a forward step made in dramatics at the University. The folk, ex perimental, and student-produced dramas are without a doubt enjoyed by all the students seeing them ; but their field is limited. Likewise, huge crowds will turn out for the Jitney Play ers and Shakespeare companies ; but that 'is usually a result of curiosity. The production of Saturday's Children recently and the impor tation of the Guild production seem to us a forward step in presenting a better rounded and balanced season's program. In addition, the members of the Playmakers organization will be enabled to see the technique taught by Professors Koch and Selden carried out. Since there is so much interest in the Playmakers, the organiza tion owes it to the supporters to present a well-rounded ' pro gram. For this forward step, we congratulate the Playmakers. G.W.W. The License Of The Press A shibboleth that magazine editors guard with pathetic jeal ousy is their much preferred to "freedom of the press." Maga zines that sell for a price deter mine what they will write by what they can sell. Whiz Bang demands a certain type of epi gram; quip, and picture because they have guaged their audience and know what appeals to them. The American Magazine has guagecl its readers and runs a variety of semi-rah rah articles and stories which border on the Horatio Alger spirit. The At lantic Monthly's rather stolid, rather intellectual style is cal culated to appeal to the stodgy intellectuals of America. In other words every magazine picks its audience and then writes for it. The Carolina Magazine is the official literary organ of the Uni versity, of North Carolina. Pre sumably, then, the editor already has his audience defined and it is his duty then to write his articles and his stories for them. He has unlimited freedom in what he can run. But there' ought to be some criteria of what he should run. V In the last issue of the" Maga zine there appeared a story of a brother and a sister who loved each "other too well, finding af terward that the "go d 1 y" brother had' destroyed the irre parable. .The young man is hor rified, disgusted, twists' in the bed and turns his face "to the wall. The girl pleads her purity and says that he mustn't' think filthy things about her, etc. v V . The story was' written by the cleverest and .most polished un dergraduate writer on the cam pus" and was exceedingly well done from the literary point of view. Rabelais is good literary writing, too," but "there are few magazines that would welcome today 'his facile vulgarisms. T3iit Rabelais was 'writing for his French readers of that 1 period. Our camplis litterateur has writ ten to the wrong audience. He has dipped into one of those pro found; pathological psychological studies that might be life with out Being vital." In other words aside from the fact that it disj turbed the aesthetic ' sensibilities of certain of the . Magazine's readers, it was clearly unrelated to the '"currents oif general cam! pus 'thought and J feeling. Per haps the Magazine could regain new life and popularity (not that it . seems to desire it)' if it cduld link up its literary outpourings with the thought life of f Tom, Dick and Harry as well as the philosophical meanderings of its embryo Whitmans and Nietz sches. R.W.B. ' A Beautiful : . Contribution : V It seems too bad that we have to wait until some ' interested al umnus comes along to secure funds for prolonging the beauty of the' campus. But such is the THE DAILY case of the century-old trees which have become a vital part of the University's tradition. Probably the budget-wielding legislature thought the beauty of these trees to be a pure lux ury and would not tolerate an appropriation for them when there were such vital matters at stake, such as protecting the tobacco and power industries, for instance. But even Hoover, the man who put the "tears" in budgeteers, was willing to set aside funds for creating natural park reserves to prolong the pristine beauty of the country. Dr. Coker has rendered valu able service in looking after the campus trees. But he has not been given the means to apply the needed amount of tree-surgery. All that he has been able to do is to inspect the trees and cut off the dead boughs. Tree-surgery is rather expen sive. But beauty can never be measured in terms of money. However, it is doubtful that there will ever be an appropri ation for the proper mainten ance for this inherent part of the University. So beauty must go begging for charity again. If some alumnus really wants to contribute something worth while to the school, to preserve the beauty; that he -enjoyed for future generations, and to save from ruination one of Carolina's oldest traditions, his chance is here! W.V.S. CIRCLING THE CAMPUS Herein, readers, our three muses Euterpe, Erato, and Cal liopeare especially invoked to aid this poet in a weekly parade of personages and things to be satirized, and criticized so that our mores, thoughts, and ideas may be sane, logical, and decorous...- " ''' . . ' Epistle, Dedicatory .. Princeling in the. throne, room, May the devil singe your hair, May your royal robes fall from you, And your bloodless shanks go- bare. Tyrant of the pink slips, May your veins go back to mud, And spill the icy water ; You sport in place " of blood. " " May your sore-down-trodden subjects Run amok,' and go' berserk, ' i And may you on a hempen cord Hang high, and "dance, and jerk. " e '. Epitaph Here lies a modern ' maiden, . All her days . ... With continence were laden. . f Bring her praise. ; , Now angels gently waft her. Ripe and full Is her reward Hereafter. ii . God, how dull. ' ; ,, Cradle Song for an 18 -year-old Girl " v ; Hush-a-by, flaxen- V Haired, hush and sleep. r You can relax and ; - . Perhaps even weep. Posing "is over and : . - one for a day; -. . - . . Pull up the. coyer and Hopefully pray s.; For figure and poise and . - - When you're, of age, Then you can strut on A'Playmaker stage. .- . -v - Song of the Mass Pedants are bloody fools, "Classes ' are -'bores. ' r"" Let's throw attendance rules : ' ':; Out of the doors. The way of the Oxon is ;V Patently sane; : :: v Ours (which is. pox, on) is ; ,-. Clearly insane. Walk : with light heart today, While .you can, sing. . . ... Even forced labour may Come with the spring. - Congreve, thou shouldst be living At this hdur." '" - ''' The world is scarcely thriving : r . On the sour ., . ; ''::::. ' .' . Produce of sad dyspeptics . . "v.On the stagp. 5 ! 1-T.; The fools and epileptics-: a' i-.. Of the age. .. Need castigating sadly, And the band That tries it does it badly. Lend a hand. TAR , HEEL Reviewed by James Dawson arid Scott Mabon In Memorial hall, on Friday night, Mr. H. M. McFadden pre sented John Gay's English ballad opera, by arrangement with the Lyric Theatre of Hammersmith, London. Dragging perceptibly throughout the long first act, the piece frankly bored the greater part of the student body that saw it, to the extent that a great many of them left the hall, miss ing the last two acts, which were much more swift and pleasant. The opera was effectively mounted in what was a modifi cation of the Restoration stage, with permanent wings and changeable backdrops. F i ne lighting overcame what was to a modern audience a handicap in the way of scenery, and the illusion of scene change was well preserved. Candles, represented by bulbs, hanging in a chande lier, were extinguished by means of a snuffer by the keeper of the gaming house, in a cleverly de signed trick that achieved the effect desired. Lanterns were hung over doorways, with gutter ing candles, impersonated by flickering bulbs. The lighting of the back-drops was respon sible for much of the set's ef fectiveness. Probably the most convincing of the scenes was created by means of a blue back ground, before which appeared a silhouetted gallows and a black garbed hangman, in the last act. i . The entire cast was capable and well directed. Polly Peach urn. (Sylvia Nelis) , due possibly to the exigencies of the music, was outshone by Lucy Lockit, (Vera Hurst) , a statuesque bru nette with a. pleasing depth to her voice. Macheath (John Mott) , a gifted actor, gave to his role a polish that somehow didi not fit the swashbuckling captain, but succeeded in mak ing the character, move con vincingly. Peachum (Charles Bagrath), and Mrs. Peachum (Elsie French) handled their comic scenes with an irresistable verye. ....' ,. The several dances occurring in the course of the piece showed much , ingenuity of design and execution. "The most popular one; was Macheath's with' hTs six Wives, a dramatization of the old cock-and-hen motiff. It was en cored twice. Due possibly to the. notoriously bad acoustics of Memorial- hall, the orchestra frequently, in the more rapid songs, had some dif ficulty in accompanying the sing ers. The notable exceptions were the slow airs, particularly the trio near the end of the last act, with Macheath, Lucy, and Polly. In the charming inter mezzi, the orchestra "performed gracefully, and was applauded deservingly. , : v.; . Both the men's and the wo men's, choruses achieved notable . results, in spite of the barn-like echos and deaf spots of the hall. Macheath's gang, in its rhythmic drinking song, was full-voiced, and more than audible. The ladies of the town, who would have done well to haye made themselves heard at all, ,, were surprisingly satisf actory ' Individually, the voices were adequate. Polly Peachum's fresh soprano was admirably suited to her role. Peachum's whiskey baritone , was , entirely appropri ate to the character. Macheath's voice, like Mr. Mott's interpre tation of ' the character, was more polished than rugged, as the ruffianly part "seemed to de mand. However,- its merit lay in its pleasant blending with 'the voices of the women in :tiie sev eral 'duets and choruses in which lie 'sang Lucy Lockit ' ( Vera Hurst) ' sang her cbhtral'fo parts with an-throated5 ease ' :&at yas magnificent. Mrs. Peachum (Elsie French) indulged fre quently in blasts of abdominal merriment that contributed to the comical value of her songs. The very large audience went away eminently pleased, with the negligible exception of the few who were not able to reconcile the eighteenth century stage con ventions with what they had seen and liked of modern drama. With Contemporaries Out Of State Assets Out-of-state students are an asset to State college. . They raise the educational standards and contribute as cosmopolities that make for a better rounded education. These facts alone, WHAT'S THE MATRIMONY am.. mmmm0mmm am w f.Kfe;i mzms mn t i - 1 A Publix Kincey Theatre A TUESDAY MYSTERY TanQfsd'' With Come 7.:;ri;!s And .Romance ! JACK HOLT RALrn Sally Blane Susan Flem.ng Ni W . WEDNESDAY U P, M. Maurice Chevalier .in "Smiling Lieutenant" AH French Talking Picture A He carries you beyond, screen limits into a new realm of REAL Drama! JOHN BARRYMORE : in , ; . ' " ." " ." "The Mad Genius" ;' with . " :: . 5V : Marian Marsh " SJ THURSDAY 1 FRIDAY XW-V HLFRED f fm U4 WJ u ys...xyivV's-? J ." . ' :r;: r .with- 1 - ." ' . ' ' Roland Young - Zasu Pitts in a picturization of their greatest stage success Sunday, November 1, 1931 I fViii-. rr rrf f Vi n ? 0"r j ditional fees paid by these men, justify their continuance at the college with an increase of popu lation. An investigation among cam pus leaders and high honor scholarship students will reveal a large percentage to be out-of-state. , President K C. Brooks ex presses student body sentiment when he declares out-of-state students are assets. N. C. State Technician. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS LOST After N. C.-Tenn. game, a ladies' camel's hair polo coat. In town, possibly in front of Spen cer hall' or nearby f rat. house. 'Finder call room 308 Spencer. MATTER WITH ! Celling her husband was one thing. Holding him was another. A smart comedy of a smart wife who suc ceeded in doing both! See how she managed! OTHER FEATURES Bobby Jones Golf Talk ; "THE SPOON" "Little Annie Rooney" Screen Song. ' " ' Paramount News MONDAY V WEDNESDAY "Wilder than ever Now she's a Cannibal Queen ! Winnie Ligtitner in "Side Show" A real circus for the kids, a thrilling romance for the grown ups! i v K SATURDAY "Bring: Them in'V "Get every crook in town . i . Tear the town apart if you , must . . . One of them killed ; my son and we've got. to find him!", That's what the fighting police" captain said in this smash-' ing picture.-' " - : "Homicide: Squad". "J : with Mary Brian Noah Beery V f
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