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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, HAY 15, 1937 Batlp Car lleei The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and tire Thanksgiving:, Christmas and Spring Holidays. En tered as second class matter at the post office At Chapel Hill, N. a, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. . ottom J. Mac Smith Charles W. Gilmore. "William McLean Jesse Lewis -Editor -Managing Editor -Business Manager .Circulation Manager Editorial Staff Editorial Writers: Stuart Babh, Lytt Gardner, Edwin Hamlin, John F. Jonas, Jr. News Editors: Will Arey, Bob duPour, Voit Gilmore. DE3KMEN: Gordon Burns, Ken Murphy, Morris Rosen berg, Herbert Hirschfield. Exporters: Bob Perkins, Allan Merrill, Ray Lowery, Sam Engs, Nancy Schallert, Bill Wooten, Oliver Crawley. Rewrite: Walter Kleeman, Herbert Langsam. Sports Editor: R. R. Howe, Jr. Sports Nicht Editors: C O. Jeffress, Ray Simon, E. T. Elliot. Sports Reporters: P. W. Ferguson, E. Earlis, H. Kaplan, Bill Raney, W. A. Dowling, S. Rolfe, J. Stoff. Exchange Press: Tom Stanback, Ben Dixon, R. P. Brewer, Jesse Reese. . Roy Business Staff Assistant Business Manager (Collections) Crooks. Durham Representative -Bobby Davis. Local Advertising Assistants Clen Humphrey, Stu art Fkklin, Beit Halperin, John Rankin, Rob. Murchison, Irene Wright, Eloise Boughton. Office Gilly Nicholson, Charles English, George Har ris, Louis Barba. For This Issue News: Voit Gilmore Sports: E. T. Elliot HlrofT J by Allen Merrill ! HOW ABOUT ONE "BIG" EVENT FOR EVERY SENIOR CLASS "QENIOR WEEK' may be a dead institution. When Joe Patterson sends Bob duFour out to Chattanooga to scout a hillside pageant which Is supposed to attract 10,000 spectators annually, he is indicating that the class of '38 may break away from the time-worn precedent of setting aside a special week in the spring for various senior festivities. Just what Joe expects to substitute, if such sub stitution is ever really made, is still largely con jectural. But two weeks ago when tKe student leaders from the University of Tennessee stopped over in Chapel Hill they put ideas in Brother Pat terson's head. The Tennessee celebration, prob ably a twilight affair which might easily be re produced, with original significances attached, in our own Kenan, is an elaborate spectacle with dress, lights, and manoeuvers all worked into an attractive, ceremony. The 10,000 spectators testi fy to that. Du Four's report will determine the possibili ties for a Carolina male "May Day." Seriously, however, there may come out of the $25 expense money they gave duFour a new, meaningful spring event to become more of a noteworthy tra dition in Senior Class history than the usual hodge podge "Senior Week." RAISE PHI BETE TO 98 Forty-six men who had toed the 92 point 5 line automatically became members of Phi Beta Kappa Thursday night. . , V The number 92.5 is the very goal and motivat ing force of the society. Golden keys jangling from 46 watch chains are dedicated to this, nu merical god. in me past tne organization has met twice a year for election of officers and distribution of keys. This is how members are admitted. Registrar T. J. Wilson compiles the averages, orders the name-engraved keys, and reads a list initiation night of 92.5 scholars. The men are standing out m the hall of Graham Memorial waiting for keys. Then a vote of the old members is taken to see who shall be admitted. Thursday night six old members out of 53, ex cluding the officers, came. No applicant was excluded. Yet the organization proposes to reflect intel lectual ideals and aims to demand the respect of the campus. But this year may mark the date of a change. In the meeting members listened to 97.32 Pre sident Lawrence Hinkle suggest that the order come out of its grave and take a little progressive action. Inspired, Don McKee, one of the six old mem bers, rose to; raise four questions. His audience of intelligentsia responded with interest. He asked whether 92.5 ought to be the sole criteria for membership and quoted Bradshaw on brand ing 92.5 men as "experts in docility." He asked whether the order should shed a leth argic shell and become a "spearhead of intellec tual activity."- Activity, he claimed, might be in the form of order-sponsored lectures and quarterly meetings. He talked against raising the numerical stan dards and suggested that a chancellor of execu tive ability be elected to progressively lead the organization. . Hinkle appointed Joe Patterson as a committee chairman to work up a program of activities. The committee on standards will be announced later. The campus next year may see a new Phi Beta Kappa which does more than recognize a member. of factual strength. I doubt if Mr. Hudson has ever witness ed a musical comedy his work gives us no indication that he knows anything at all about one. He is in precisely the same posi tion this year, with regard to musical comedies, as he was the last two years in his column on various recitals, symphonies and otherwise, which took place on the campus. His visible lack of musical knowledge made his re views mere columns of adoring, gushing generalizations which, in their attempt at profundity, reached a new peak of medio crity and immature babbling. As a matter of fact, the music de partment seized the opportunity of placing in charge of reviews, an intelligent man of musical abilities. . . ... j "Jazz-Nauseous" Mr. Hudson's other chief point, that of contemptuously refer ring to the "jazz-nauseous 'I've Got You Under My Skin' and the crooner and Girl-doll," serves a very definite purpose. Only those who are close to him realize that Mr. Hudson is here expounding upon a rather "dog-eared" theory of his namely that which states that humanity is divided into the spheres "bourgeoisiea" (to quote the hackneyed phrases of our first-nighter) and "intel lectualia" of which region, Mr. Hudson is, in his own opinion, a proud native. In condemning such items as "jazz-nauseous tunes," Mr. Hudson fails to take into consideration that not all of humanity are prone to rise above their destiny as he has done. The stench of the Paleozoic is still too strong in the nostrils of hu manity in general, and we peo ple in particular, to permit us to even glimpse the inner sanctum where King Hudson lives amid DR. VON BECKERATH COVERED MUCH TERRITORY NOBODY HAS made much fuss about the com ing of the new McNeir lecturer, Dr. Thomas of Dartmouth. When this particular fund was set-up, the late Mr. McNeir declared that the lec tures should "show the mutual bearing of science and religion upon each other to prove the exist ence of attributes, as far as may be, of God from Mature. i Dr. vrni Ttec.lcerath. at the Phi Beta initiation he other night, talked, with singular power ijo stimulate a hot and fussy "crowd," on the father amazing topic of "What a University Has fo Offer." In the end he had pictured All-Know ledge as coincident with the Universal Mind, and our search for that knowledge as our progressive approach to that eternal spirit. Only the petty scientist, who has discovered for himself a small tit of that All-Knowledge is the one to deny the Existence of the Mind Universal. College experience all our life in fact is a Natural search, not for a chemistry formula to make a salable potion in particular, but a search for an increasing amount of that All-Knowledge. It is on this philosophical plane of search that all students, of any class or country, can meet on equal terms. The university experience, he says, encourages and helps each man to adjust his own course of life-action in some respect to this philo sophical seeking after Truth, which seeking, has been the natural function of every generation and race of man from the beginning. But this is a nebulous, grimly inadequate at tempt to give you the gist of one part of Dr. von Beckerath's talk. Whatever Dr. Thomas says next week, and it ought to be meaty from the mans reputation, somebody ought to have Dr. von Beckerath speak again to a wider circle. Phi Beta Kappa certainly did at least one thing when it sat down for" an hour and heard him the other night. That's a sample of what the scholarship fraternity might do again at one of its proposed hew "meetings-without-initiation-as-the-sole excuse." FALSE ALARM!!! Producers of last night's "Monsieur de Pour ceaugnac" pulled a "coup d'etat" in the publicity yesterday. A letter appeared in yesterday's paper denounc ing Moliere's comedy as "licentious" and a "spec tacle fit only for kitchen knaves and stable boys." It was signed by a member of the English de partment and gave the French department liter ary hell. Actually the letter was "arranged for" by the public speaking professor Dr. Olsen, an enthu siastic supporter of the producers and the French department's Mr. Creech, the play's publicity agent and the author of "Fin d'Apres-midi d'Automme," which is billed along with Moliere's farce. The fierce letter was no mean advertise ment. joys of a "higher" sort. I feel obliged to request Mr. Hudson to refrain from attempting to convert lis from our .- present state of Musical-comedy appre ciation; let us go our primitive way, Mr. Hudson. Disillusion ment is, oh, so painful. The reviewer's attitude to ward what he terms "off -color' humor is in keeping with his above-mentioned philosophy. If he saw in the show things which, to his narrowness of vision, seemed indecent, it was because he read it into the lines. Mr. Hudson came prepared, vacuum cleaner and all, to pick up every bit of dirt. We may congratu late him on his thoroughgoing methods; he absorbed every bit of dialogue, mulled it over and Letters To The Editor Over 250 Words Subject to Cutting To the Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Re: "Brooks Atkinson" Hudson. Mr. Hudson's so-called review of the Wigue and Masque's production was indeed revealing not so much about the show as it was about himself. An autobiography could have served as no bet ter key to the personal prejudices, convictions and conceptions of Mr. Hudson. I sympathize with those who are close to him. It seems rather obvious that such a venomous bit could have come only from the pen of one who is as firm and re lentless in his blind, unperceiving convictions, as the Herr Hitler whom he mentions (in his quaint, complimentary way), in connection with "Say the Word." The campus may well "say the word" with no bias or prejudice aforethought, in de scribing Mr. Hudson's "review" lousy is the word for it. Mr. Hudson's objection to "Say The Word" is based chiefly on what he calls an "inferior" plot. It is in this connection that the reviewers incapi ability is shown ; for, obviously, any critic with the slightest knowledge of musical comedy techni que would have known better than to base his destructive criticism on a foundation so bereft over,1 and finally emerged with a conclusion which his mental ity had formed before seeing the show namely, the lines were filthy. I may add that his mod erate tendencies in regard to the Confederate Soldier gag are in deed kind-hearted. It must be the respect which Mr. Hudson has for anything pertaining to virginity (even of mind) which brought about the .statement that the gun gag was even slight ly humorous. As regards the bleating state ment of "borrowed playmakers,' may I remind the honorable edi tor of the Carolina Magazine that the technical work of the production was in the hands of a professional technician not withstanding the fact that he might have been formerly con nected with the Playmaker or ganization. In addition, may I inquire of Mr. Hudson, just what he means by the term "play- maker?" Mr. Hudson would scarcely designate a member of the cast as a "history" or an fact that a person has taken courses in the Dramatic Arts de partment is precisely the reason why such persons should be pre ferred for such work as was needed in the production. The fact that the Wigue and Mas que is1 not in any way in com petition with the Playmakers, makes the idea of "borrowed playmakers" seem indeed child ish. The Wigue and Masque's respect for the Playmakers is evidenced by it's confidence in those members who have gained the experience of that organiza tion. Neither the Dramatic Arts department or any other department owns the services of its students, therefore no, such distinction as Mr. Hudson draws can be logically assured. In conclusion, it is only fitting to say that just as "Valiant is the word for. Carrie," so "lousy is the word for Hudson. "We said the word' H. R. B. least the reviewer could do was to analyze the production fairly. I imagine that if Sarah Bern hardt, the greatest actors of all times, were to return again mi nus her leg, as she did shortly before her death, and attempt to do "Camille," Hudson would cri ticize and mock-criticize her in ability to be natural and move with ease. Sincerity and effort mean a lot in the theatre, and "Say The Word" was filled with both. The group worked for weeks minus financial and professional assis tancesort of like an intra mural team. You can't expect perfection or professionalism from such a group. . The great est fault with the show was that more students didn't turn out to see it. Most everyone would have enjoyed it. It wasn't Hol lywood. It wasn't Broadway. But it was a Chapel Hill commu nity offering. Lef s hope that next year will see another pro duction by the Wigue and Mas que, and Bill Hudson writing for the Magazine and leaving the atrical reviews to those whose artistic flofes won't let their emotions lead them astray. Frank McGlinn To the Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: "Lousy" possibly may have been the word for "Say The Word," but "lousier" is definite ly the word for Bill Hudson's re view. This campus needs a group like the Wigue and Mas que, afad their work should be encouraged and not torn apart by someone in a bad humor, anx ious to find an outlet for his emotions. Such tirades only lead to discouragement, and the Radio Todays WDNC 1500 kc. (CBS) 9:00 Hit Parade 9:45 Universal Rhythm. 11:00 Ted FioVRito's Orchestra. WPTF 680 kc (NBC) 5:15 The Preakness, announced by Clem McCarthy. WBT 1080 kc. (CBS) SiOOj-Grace Moore, Vincent Lopez' Orchestra. 10:15 Benny Goodman's Orchestra. 11:30 Harry Owens' Orchestra. Birthday Greetings y ' Today Francis Wilson Campbell Bert Leo Premo Robert Yqder Rhyne Robert Leonard Wilbur Dr. R. R. Clark Dentist PHONE 6251 Orer the Bank r FT P (0) W M T M l- M E M SHOULD THEY BE CONDEMNED? U. N. C. DEBATE COUNCIL PRESENTS A BEIMTE FEATURING BR0ADUS MITCHELL Colorful Radical Economist of Johns Hopkins University 8:00 TONIGHT MAY 15, 1937 HILL MUSIC HALL A Short Open Forum Will Follow jt
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