North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE 2 THE DAILY TAll HEEL. FRIDAY. MAY 16 1S52 MmMmn The official student publication of the Publications Board of the Univer sity of North Carolina, Chapel Ilill. where It is published daily, except" Mon day, examination and vacation periods, find during the official summer terms Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1379 Subscription rates: mailed $4 per year, 1.50 per. quarter; delivered, $6 and $2.25 per quarter. Editor . , "'S.Tn n no-frit lif Business Manager Sports Editor News Editor .Jody Levey Society Editor Assoc. Ed . J5eenie Schoeppe Bev Baylor Associate Editor.. Adv. Mgr., , , . ...Sue Burress .Wallace Fridgen News Staff Grady Elmore, Bob Slough, John Jamison, Angeles Russos, Wood Smethurst, Janie Bugg. Ruth Hincks, Betty Ann Kirby, Sandy Smith, Al Perry, pei'ity. Jen Goode, "Jerry Recce. Xpert's Staff 3Jd Staines Martin Jordan, Carrier. far Heels On Hand-Helsinki The Daily Tar Heel notes that a number of Carolina stu dents, faculty, and alumni plan to be on hand in Helsinki, Finland for the Olympic Games next July 15 through August -5. Although we don't know exactly how many Tar Heels will make the trip, we think there will be enough for a party ... so we're planning one. We request all "those interested in whopping up the Tar, Heel spirit on the banks of the Baltic to mail your name and address to the Daily Tar Heel along with your itinerary in cluding the dates you plan to be in Finland, Then, when you arrive in Helsinki, register at the off ices of American Express (NOT the American Embassy) and ask that the initials UNC D8 aaaea alter y our name. Your international fcociai com mittee will then contact you and advise you as to time, place, and cost of the project. Finland promises to be a most interesting and intriguing site for the Tar Heel celebration. Helsinki, the capital, is lo cated a scant 100 miles from the Soviet Union (roughly -half the distance from Chapel Hill to Myrtle Beach.) Just twelve .years ago the gallant Finns, with a population equal to half that of New York City, won -the undying applause of the world by humiliating the Red Army in the frozen forests north of Leningrad. Today Finland stands outside both major political power blocs. While her sympathies are avidly anti-Russian, she is forced by the Kremlin to trade with the communist world and remain outside the Atlantic Pact. Strangely enough, the Finns do not speak a European language. Their tongue is said to be the most difficult in the world and is believed to be Oriental in origin. Helsinki is unique in that it is the only place in Europe where Russian and American tourists still rub shoulders in the same beer cellars. The person sitting beside you on the streetcar may be a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Frenchman, a Chin ese communist, or a Tar Heel. The national drink. is a potent beverage called "glugg," described by one observer as "a fore runner to the H-bomb." . HH But please pardon our digression. We were discussing par ties, not power blocs. The Daily Tar Heel is currently nego tiating with the Finnish Union of Students and the University of Helsinki for a festival site in keeping with Tar Heel stand ards and dignity. The Finns urge you to bring along pennants, v Confederate hats, and Tar Heel booster flags to exchange for Finnish counterparts. Any ideas or suggestions for making this occasion live in the annals of Carolina social life will be greatly appreciated by the Daily Tar Heel. ? It is as yet undetermined whether or not coed regulations Tarnations Back The campus will show its sense of humor again next fall. On the heels of his recent election, Ham Horton has re instated Tarnation, Carolina's funnybook, and it looks like publications are going to get back into the front seat next year after a season of struggle. To all those who have complained that UNC is in a slough cf despond, now is your chance to respond to your own cries. The student body has been streaming all year for the re turn of Tarnation. That famous ;old ball of yarn will be back next quarter, but with a new twist. The magazine will be pub lished on a subscription basis instead of block .fees. Without campus support, it's a dead book. ' ' To air of the ' would-be writers who couldn't make The Car olina Quarterly, Tarnation may be your outlet. Contributions will be needed and appreciated. v Don't take your magazine for granted, 1 but take it ' in RichondliHc fashion. It needs you, B.B. 4' i ' i i Iff-' Oft Campus ft j Incidental intellinrA - ' J K-WAA J dppl; One of the best ways to C acqxiainted with wheels is to prxdinse a new car; by carefully tffttchTnrf your opportunity, you cum jmI.. .-BARRY FARBER ..ROLFE NEILL JIM SCHENCK BIFF ROBERTS Lit. Ed.. ..Joe Raff W. White NatL Adv. Mgr., Sub. Mgr. .Carolyn Reichard Circ. Mgr. .Donald Hogg Assoc. Sports Ed .Tom . Peacock Vardy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Buddy can lend your car to a big wheel. Once you have met a big wheel, do not . embarrass him by speak ing to him while he is in the pre sence of other wheels. The Worst excuse you can of fer r wheel is "I have a class." - - . Tom Thumb With the possible exception of Shakespeare's "Titus Androni cus, Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb is without peer in the realm of English drama. This masterpiece has been unaccount ably neglected by the numerous dramatic groups in Chapel Hill, and we are infinitely obliged to' the members of the English' . Club who performed it on Wed nesday night in the Assembly; Room of the Library, A large audience of students and faculty members enthusiastically fol lowed the action from the charming domesticity of the opening scene to the universal desolation of the closing one, in .which the stage is cleared by a sort of chain reaction which can best be described as , atomic. The quality of the acting was universally high. Perhaps the outstanding performer was Mrs. Neill, who as Dollololla, wife of King Arthur, effected a difficult combination of Mamlet's mother, Lady Mcbeth, and the drunken gatekeeper. Mr. Rosemary, as King Arthur, preserved an air of sad stoicism under 'circum stances which would have broken the spirit of any other monarch. He remained mode rately calm even in the last ' act, when the old order changed, yielding place to new, with in conceivable rapidity and vio lence. Mr. Peterson, as Lord Grizzle, made the most of his celebrated lament, "O Hunea munca! Huncamunca, O!" per haps the most symmetrical line of verse ever written. Mrs. Sey mour in the role of Huncamunca presented the peculiar com plications of her love-life in an enthralling manner. As the heroic Thumb, Mr. Stevens was" indomitable; Mr. Seymour, as Glumdalca, was ; as large and passionate a giantess as can be imagined. Mrs. Hardee, in the role l of Mustacha, sang two touching songs, accompanying herself o nan archaic instru ment. . . An unusual touch was added by Mr. Fleischmann, who in the role of Scriblers Secundus added vastly to the appreciation of the audience with a running com mentary in which at crucial points in the action he explained the beauties of the play. It is to be hoped that Mr. Eliot and Mr., Fry will adapt this useful technique In their subsequent dramas. The costuming and staging were excellent. Thumb's horned helmet added a Wagnerian touch eminently suitable to the grand eur of the performance. Dollol olla Was splendidly swathed in severay yards of royal purple. The bare stage consisted ad mirably with the tropical lux uriance of the imagery, and the corpses were removed promptly ' and efficiently. Mr. Peterson di rected the performance. The Mustang, Western Col lege, New Mexico, is a bit skep tical about student intelligence. In a survey on knowledge of current events, students at Wes tern College put in a rather dis mal performance. How many senators does each state have? Out of 100 students asked this ' question, 17 missed the answer. One student raid ZC0, six left it blank. Express Yourself Editor: - Last Monday night I attended the concert of the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs in Hill -Hall. My previous experience with the Department, of Music series had led me to expect good music performed with a high degree of musicianship. I was, however, disappointed this time. . Perhaps I should preface my further remarks by stating that I am a relative newcomer to the campus, have sung h choral organizations on five other cam puses, and am now unconnected with any musical organization (except as a student member of the North Carolina Symphony Society). My first reaction to the group Monday-night was one of sur prise at its smallness. Surely a campus with as many students as this can support a singing or ganization larger than the one I saw twenty-five women and twenty-nine men. Perhaps, I reasoned, there is some excuse . for the small size of the women's group, since after all there are so few women on campus. And my argument is not with them, even though such a tiny group is inevitably overshadowed by the heavier bass voices in mixed-group . songs. Indeed the highspots of the evening for me were the motets by Palestrina and Lotti, the Israeli folksongs,, and the contemporary numbers by Cowell and Mennin. No my remarks are directed at the Men's Glee Club. Why, I asked myself, should only by Joe Riff For some time now I have been listening to the voices of the earthly self -ordained angels who from their celestial perch have been watching the pro gress of man throughout the past few centuries. They conclude that at the pre sent the world is going through a veritable dark age so far as art and its appreciation is con 'cerned. These spleeny livers-in-the-past infatuate their under nourished , minds with . artists whose names stretch only above the three foot mark for length believing, doubtless, that the greater the size of the name the greater the artist. . I have been a little harsh with these individuals, but truly there is some sound basis for criticising them. They have made fun and tried to deface i our age by turning up their nasty noses to it. I admit that we may not be at the apex; of history's crea tive period, but we also are not swinging from Polynesian palms. The United States boasted in a recent survey announcement that hero in our continental limits more people attend operas and symphonies than do all the Europeans. The survey also pointed out that more than any where else in the world the op portunity was greater here for a person receiving artistic train ing and that here in our own little forty-eight more people take iuI vantage of those op I twenty-nine men out of over four-thousand . be. interested enough to sing? Much of the current talk about student a pathyjs a lot of bosh consider ing the number of active orga nizations on this campus and is used merely to coyer up a lack of effective leadership. And it certainly is not a fact that stu dents dont have enough lei sure time for extracurriculars. As the evening wore drearily on, I came to a tentative con clusion. It has been my exper ience that student choral groups must be given really good music to sing or they lose interest and that conductors of such groups have a tendency to underesti mate the potentialities of their student singers. Analyzing the program I found that the men sang mostly two types of songs: first, what I would call "sound effect" pieces (in no less than six numbers the gentlemen were required to imitate things bells, banjos, cuckoos, and what not) and second, a particularly dull type of iate Victorian trash (the Tkach and Woodman pieces are the sort of music which bade fair to obliterate English music around the turn ofv the cen tury driving Arnold Bax into eclecticism and Frederick Delius into France). Could it not be. just possible that if the glee clubs were given better music to sing there would be a higher degree of par ticipation and a higher stan dard of "performance? Hopefully Yours C. B. Stephenson Raff: by . Raff portunities than any where else where folks congregate. Ad mission to these is less, too. There is more dramatic acti vity here too. For instance, and in addition to the Great White "Way down to the community theaters, the . University of Washington like . many other universities is sponsoring a traveling theatre. A touring dramatic group familiar to us locally is the Barter group of Virginia. In Nebraska there are travel ing art galleries and through many states now they are lend ing libraries, for paintings and recorded music. In the musical realm North Carolina can take a bow. The North Carolina Symphony tours the state " wherever roads lead. Emphasis is not necessarily n the larger cities, but the pro ject is aimed at bringing music to the people all the people. Its worth has been j noted by the State Legislature! and it has al located funds ' 'for ; the iSym phony's support.- M ' : " With these few cases . being representative, ', of ' the immense artistic interest here in America, I say that these bemoaners of our modern age are squealing up the wrong alley. Maybe instead of looking back into those ''glorious- bygone" days j they .should look around them today. Perhaps they could benefit our age best by directing their jibes at themselves and aiding pro gress rather than hindering it. , .