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A FAMILIAR SIGHT LAST
Mary Helen Crain and Anne
Driving, Not Riding
Playmaker To Hit Trail
For Gotham In Hearse
By John Beshara
If you see a huge, black hearse
loaded with everything but a ouji
board, .you'll know Carolina Play
maker Fred Young is on his way
to New Yerk. But he's got to
scrounge $150 first.
The hearse is now in New York
and will be brought here so that
Fred can load his worldly posses
sions and pilgrimage to "the big
city" in hopes of breaking into
show business.
That hearse is the same one used
by Michel Braidy, a young French
artist who visited Chapel Hill dur
ing the summer. He toured in the
hearse throughout the ' United
States, Canada and Mexico.
Fred has appeared in an array
of leading parts during the past
six years with the Playmakers, in
addition to numerous radio shows.
"Shylock in the 'Merchant of
Venice' and Rubaskov in Dark
ness at Noon' were my two favor
ite roles," says Fred. In all, he
participated in 15 major Playmak
er productions, a number of stu
dent presentations and "an awful
lot" of radio shows.
Variety Show Auditions
Scheduled October 13-14
SUAB's Dance committee is
sponsoring a variety show Novem
ber 6, and tryouts for entertain
ment will be held Tuesday and
Wednesday, Oct. 13 and 14 at 7
P. M. in Memorial Hall.
"If you can sing, dance, play an
instrument, stand on your head, or
do anything, please come out,"
urged Nancy Murray, head of the
committee.
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FRED YOUNG WILL RIDE TO NEW YORK IN. HEARSE
. Here Is Previous Owner, French Artist Michel Braidy
Cornell Wright Phot
NIGHT AT THE DORMS
Fleming deliver sorority bid
Hp has performed many roles
including the dash and wit of Mer
cutio in the 1951 touring troupe
of "Romeo and Juliet,", the sing
ing and comedy role of Mr. Pea
cham in "The Beggar's Opera,"
the satirical con-man Hlestakov
in the "Inspector General," and
the philosophical Ragpicker in the
"Mad Woman of Chaillott."
During the past two summers
he played Old Tom, a choice sing
ing and comedy role in Manteo's
symphonic drama, "The Lost Col
ony." He has also played The Mas
ter of the Queens Ceremonies there
and "innumerable voices from the
crowd."
Virginia, his wife, and he are
presently living on East Rosemary
St. in back of the ADPi house. "A
real charming location, especially
considering this is rush week,"
he admits.
-In spite of having a bit more
to do on his Master's Degree in
Dramatic Arts, he wants to hit the
roads to New York. "I've got to
make my pitch sooner or later,"
says Fred. "I'm starting out on this
adventure with the feeling of do
ing battle with a giant. I'll prob
ably lose, but I must try. Only
$150 more and Til have enough
to stay for about two months. Any
way, when I get to New York
I'm going to be the typical boy
from the farm. Maybe if I ooze
country-green in deference to our
city cousins, someone will be sym
pathetic long enough for me to get
my foot in the door."
He hopes that with 40 plays now
in rehearsal there and 144 sched
uled for debutes this season, he
can find work. Then, too, there
radio and TV.
College Prexy
Blasts 'Hunts1
In Universities
WASHINGTON, Oct 9 Assail-
i mg congressional nunts ior L-om-
munists in America's colleges, a
college president said yesterday:
"We fear the concentration of
power in any man." .
Hollis F. Price, president of Le
moyne College, Memphis, Tenn,
said this in an address prepared
for a panel discussion at the 36th
annual convention of the Ameri
can Council on Education.
He continued, "Under the Am
erican system of government, we
have a separation of powers for
sufficient reasons. I believe this
is due to our faith in man, and
our lack of complete faith in any
man."
"In matters of investigation of
Communism, it would appear that
legislative committees have as
sumed judicial functions.
"It may also be asked whether
congressmen who must be coming
up for election don't sometimes
mistake the voice of majority opin
ion for the voice of God."
Planetarium Guests
Alpha Delta Pi sorority will be
the guest of the Planetarium on
Monday to see "Discovery." It is
the Planetarium's policy to invite
different dorms, sororities, and
fraternities to each new show,
University To Observe 160th
Anniversary In Monday Rites
A feature of Orange County's
Bicentennial Program here Mon
day will be the University's 160th
anniversary celebration, beginning
at 10:50 a.m. on the south side of
South Building.
Chancellor R. B. House an
nounced that classes will be sus
pended and administrative offices
closed on Monday from 10:50 to 1
o'clock.
Members of the Carolina Play-
makers will re-enact in costume
and pantomine the laying of the
cornerstone of Old East, oldest
state university dormitory in the
country, on October 12, 1793.
The cornerstone of Old East was
laid by William R. Davie, who has
been appropriately called "fa!jer
of the University". He headed the
commission that selected the site
of the University.
The University Band, under the
direction of Earl Slocum, will open
the event with the "Star Spangled
Banner." Invocation will be given
by Dr. Samuel T. Habel, pastor of
the First Baptist Church.
The program will include re
sponsive reading from the Apo
crypha, led by Chancellor House,
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NICK MARCOPOLUS
. . Carolina fullback
B-e-a-t Deacs!
Students will get a chance
to shout off the "blues" of Sat
urday classes when the Univers
ity Club and the cheerlead
ers sponsor a pep rally this
morning.
The gathering, a ten-minute
"between classes" affair, will
get underway at 10:50 on the
steps of South Building. .
At 12:30, under the sponsor
ship of the University Club on
ly, a caravan will leave Woollen
Gym for Wake Forest. Club of
ficials have asked students to
come equipped with streamers
and other appropr'afe "realja,
and one minute of silence in mem
ory of alumni who have died dur
ing the past year. The Men's and
Women's Glee Clubs, directed by
Professor Joel Carter, will sing
several seections.
Following the ceremony, the au
dience and platform guests will
join with the band and glee clubs
in marching to Davie Poplar where
the singing of "Hark the Sound"
will close the exercise.
In addition to the Founder's Day
celebration, "The Road to Orange,"
the Hillsboro pageant, will be
performed on Fetzer Field at 8
p.m., followed by a fireworks dis
play. Guided tours of the campus will
be conducted throughout the day. j
Special performances of the More-
head Planetarium presentation, 1
"Discovery," will be given at 3 and
4 p.m.
Bryant Named
To Commission
For Education
University trustee Victor Bryant
was named chairman of the Com
mission on Higher Education, it
was announced in Raleigh this
week. Bryant, a Durham attorney
was suggested as head of the Com
mission by Governor Umstead.
Umstead told the first meeting
of the Commission yesterday that
it would do something to increase
the number of teachers in the
state. "I do think and hope this
Commission can and will ... do
what it can do to help the teach
er situation in North Carolina," he
said.
Bryant said he thought that if
the Commission did what the leg
islature contemplated "it will be
the architect for higher, education
in North Carolina for the next 25
years and possibly the next 50
years." The Commission was es
tablished by the General Assembly
in 1953 to study matters related to
state-supported colleges and uni
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Five Wake
Backs Are
On Bench
By John Hussey
Carolina will invade Wake For
est today to renew the oldest foot
ball rivalry in North Carolina. The
bookies have the Tar Heels as
slight favorites which is mainly
due to the large number of injuries
among the Deacon squad.
The Tar Heels have lost to Wake
Forest three years in a row, in-
Carolina
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Yarborough
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Frye
Britt
Keller
Worrell
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Dupree
Trentini
Santangelo
Stowers
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RH Frederick
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eluding a 9-7 heartbreaker last
year which the Baptists won by
virtue of a field goal in the clos
ing minutes of play.
Bill Kirkman will be the only
injury on the Carolina squad.
Guards Miles Gregory and Chris
Carpenter will be back , in action.
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five backs missing from action.
Heralded Sonny George will miss
the game because of severe bruis
es on his right hip. George, a
quarterback who had been con
verted to fullback recently, did
most of the passing for the Deacs.
Bill Churm, the leading ground
gainer for Wake Forest with a 9.1
average, will not play due to a leg
injury. Two other regulars, John
Parham and Jim Bland, will not
play.
Coach Barclay's lineup will be
pretty much the same as it was
last weekend against Washington
and Lee. Will Frye and either Ken
Yarborough or Dick Starner will
start off at the end- positions.
(See WAKE FOREST, page 3)
Rutgers Invades Tigers1 Den
Reliving Age-Old 'Cannon War'
PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 9 A
group of Rutgers University stu
dents revived the 117-year-old
"cannon war" between Rutgers and
Princeton this week by invading
the Tigers' campus before dawn.
The visitors applied bright scar
let paint to the historic war-piece
in front of Cannon Club, one of
Princeton's 17 upperclass eating
clubs, and added their name in
red,
The anonymous artists continued
a feud that began in 1836 and last,
erupted in 1875. In the American
Revolution, General Washington's
forces had left two cannon in
Princeton, one small and the other
CU Day Drama
Tar Heel Sir Galahad In Quest For WC Maiden;
Sophomore Knight1 Searches For Lost Love
By Charles Kuralt
This is the story of a twentieth
century knight-errant; a tale of
mystery and high adventure, set
on the Carolina campus.
Our knight, (he lives in 312
Joyner dormitory), is named
Charlie Childs Sir Charles for
the purposes of our story and
like all knights worthy of the title,
he's on a quest. Such every-day
goals as the Holy Grail, however,
hold no interest for "him. His is a
quest for a damsel, a Woman's
College maiden clothed in yellow.
He told the story in a letter to
the editor of "The Carolinian,"
W. C. weekly, and implored that
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RALPH BEAVER
. . Carolina tackle
Houston Says
Authors Profit
By News Work
By Babbie Dilorio
"Newspaper work is great in
helping with fiction writing," said
Noel Houston to the members of
the Southern Interscholastic Press
Association yesterday in Gerrard
Hall.
Houston, playwright and. novel
ist, pointed out to th$ CBlbrw
journalise w -, makes Deople
more skilled in the use of clarity,
simplicity, unity and above all it
:lmakes th?m mors, .constrict . -of
human interest.
Houston spoke on "Journalism
As Preparation For Fiction Writ
mg," and ne contended that a
newspaper background gives a fic
tion writer more confidence.
"A fiction writer is apt to be a
queer duck," said Houston. "They
are shy puppies in real life, neu
rotic to the extent that they feel
they must prove something to the
world."
He noted that they are concern
ed generally with love, with the
primary interest of their main
novel characters being that of love.
In contrast, Houston said that
a reporter is more of a business
man. He faces life from day to
day and gets the facts.
much larger. The larger one had
been removed to New Brunswick
in the War of 1812 to help ward off
a possible attack by the British.
On the eve of Independence Day
24 years later, 16 self-styled
"Princeton Blues" brought it back
as far as near-by Queenstown,
where their wagon collapsed. A
group of 100 men, led by Leonard
W. Jerome, Winston Churchill's
atern godfather, brought it
uie IC!sl ot uie way m iw-
The battle raged for years until
a joint committee of faculty mem
bers finally decided that both can
non belonged to Princeton.
newspaper's assistance in finding
the lady.
The story began two weeks ago
on a rainy Saturday, Consolidated
University Day In Chapel Hill.
Hither and yon, fair maidens flit
ted, here for the NotQi Carolina
State football game. But Sir
Charles looked neither left nor
right, until, from out of the mists,
appeared the damsel of our story.
She was wearing a yellow rain
coat, Sir Charles remembers, and
said to him in a smiling voice,
"Can you direct me to Graham
Memorial?"
"Yes, ma'm," he answered. And
he did. And she of the gentle ton
Sylvester
Gives Talk
To NCSPl
By Richard Creed
"I know of no state where the
overall standard of journalism in
both the daily and the weekly field
is so high as in North Carolina,"
said Harry Sylvester, novelist and
short story writer, to 250 high
school students attending last
night's session of North Carolina
Scholastic Press Institute here.
"Where a people is free, pro
gressive, healthy and politically
independent, it is no coincidence
that its newspapers are the same,"
he said. "So by natural progres
sion we have the inevitable rela
tion between journalism and poli
tics," he added.
"It is no longer possible, if it
ever were possible, not to take
politics seriously," he said. Tor
if people like yourselves, if the
heads of schools of journalism, if
men like Mr. Truman and Mr.
Acheson and your own Mr. Daniels
in Raleigh do not take politics se
riously, then someone else is go
ing to take it seriously for you,"
he continued.
"Sylvester, who stated his writ
ing CJiree!- p.s a high school corres
pondent, has written several nov
els and short stories. He recently
moved to Chapel Hill.
Stressing the importance of poli
tics,' Sylvester stated that "maij jj
a political animal . . . you are en
titled to dislike this definition of
him and you can ignore it, but if
so, journalism is not the field for
you.
Some who publicly speak of the
journalist as a gatherer and pur
veyor of truth, said Sylvester, pri
vately think he is a heavy drinker
or is lazy, or that he has been
frustrated in a more lucrative
field.
"Actually the enemy of the con
temporary journalist the person
al, private, enemy he carries with
him is not alcohol but despair,"
he said. The journalist carries de
spair with him, he went on, not be-
cause it is fashionable to wallow in
despair but because he must, if he
is an honest journalist, reflect the
mood of the era in which he lives.
"If you report the news well and
impartially, you won't always be
commended for it, and you might
not even do as well as some of
those who have reported versions .
of the news to please themselves or
the people for whom they were
working.
"As newspapermen and women,
you will be dealing with the world,
and the world is a complicated
place almost as complicated as the
people who live in it."
Westminster Fellowship
The Westminster Fellowship of
the Covenant Presbyterian Church
will meet tomorrow rvening at 6
o'clock in the Institute of Phar
macy. There will be cars in front
of the Y-Court to provide trans
portation to the supper meeting.
gue and the fair face disappeared
in the direction of Graham Me
morial's post-game party.
Minutes later, our knight, ar
mored in tweed coat and subdued
tie, followed her to Graham Me.
morial, eager to glance once more
upon her graceful features, to bask
once more in the light of her per
sonality. But it was not to be.
Though he searched diligently and
long, the damsel in yellow was
nowhere to be found.
Long, lonely days followed. Sir
Charles, in desperation, wrote his
letter to "The Carolinian," asking
the lady to correspond with him.
(See KNIGHTHOOD, page 4)