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THORsoAy "THE DAILY TAR HEEL Civ PAGE '.TWO Roundabout Papsrs Fowler's Position (Today, That Is) NEW PLAYMAKER. PRODUCTION A Song F0r 1- . m - r Th le ofucia! student i :. i I I f i: i Keillors Perhaps it's over-idealistic to expect any- thin- dose to complete (onsisteiuy from xI- moans, even . student politicians, lint avc think not. particularly on a campus where reason and reasonableness are purveyed in classrooms daily. , Wauhini; student President Don Fouler these last feu weeks, we've taken to vyonder injr how he himself keeps up with his own positions on campus questions. - l ake the issue of the Carolina Symposium, for instance: 1. last Thursday night, Fowler told the student Legislature in a message tioMo give Si.ooo to the Symposium. He didn't say vvhy. (Symj)osium is a stundent group, beaded by Manning Muntziug-, which plans to bring, a number of. speakers to campus for a week this spring to discuss key regional, national, and. international questions. Fvcry student or ganiation approached so far has given the group financial -support.) 2. After the Legislature had given Symposi um $i.ooo, Fowler praised. the' group with: "I like the idea, and think it would be an intel lectual asset to the campus." Later, the student President, asked whe ther he siil! opposed the Symposium grant, told a reporter that he was uncertain. Fin ''lv, alter another' long session with a reporter on -Monday, Fowler went into a huddle with his political cronies. Our lasrrepoit was that President Fowler signed the .S l .ooo appropriation bill into law and thereby gave his full support to Sympo sium. And we're glad. lWit why didn't the chief executive do ft in the first place? Fowler, sinceMhe beginning of Symposium, has been a member ol its planning commit tee. He was as fully aware of its intellectual value last Thursday night, when he told the Legislature not to give it support, a he was later,, when he signed the bill. v Several excuses for this action have come to our attention, none of which hold water. Fowler's alleged hesitation over financial sta bility of student gy eminent was needless: he knew that Si.ooo would hardly dent reserves. Political and p rsonal antagonism between Fowler's chief advisor Attorney General Da vid Reid and 'lf muzing .have been men tioned; this excuse is too petty to merit com ment. When student voters gcV to the polls this spring, we trust they'll search for some consis tencv, for a cam!: :!re -ho h.i a rlwr pt nf values and follows them. - wr:rnjcmp.fficii5iii.'Wonf Bother Aunt Fanhv: xn me ruru ruuuaauons magnuicent gilt to the nation's privately-supported hospitals, colleges, and universities, there may be the psychological, as well as the philanthropical, twist. The buckshot-brain boys of the American' Legion find Congressman B. Carroll Reece's committee on the tax-free foundations have followed the philan thropic organizations whining like furies. The foun dations, like most worthwhile institutions, have am assed quite a few labels. They are "pink," they are ' red," they are, (miserable to say, flaming scarlet. They are "empiricistic," "relativistic," "pragmatic." So thoroughly have they been stuck with all the little stigmata of the. hour that even Henry Ford II, though chairman of the board, wrote a- Sudierous letter "as a. private citizen" registering "concern" v ith Ford Foundation doings. The truth is that the f oundation's Fund for the Republic has caught the loatker-larynxed witch doctors with their fake rat tles showing. That is unhealthy for the witch doc tors, and they set out to bring the foundation into discredit with the 'ignorant, the liberal, and the uninformed. i Eut t .ere is, and the Ford Foundation has found it, a route to the American heart: The pocketbook. Down thronga every private hospital and college cof fer in every nook in every state of the land the Ford Foundation has freehandedly dispense'd 500 million dollars. It is a gift of rangy proportions w lose weight will be. felt, we guess, in 8 of 10 family bud-rets in the fT. S. The fearsome tinkle tf the "isms" which ' had' become overtones to "Ford Foundation" for so many will be conveniently ig nored. It will noV be, fascinating to-watch the pea brain fringe, the American Legion, and the pompous Brazilla Reece of Tennessee for future moves. "Empiricism" as a dirty word will lose its .force, wo -predict, v.:n n Aunt Fanny is laid up of arthritis in the county clinic courtesy (at least in part) , of Il'inry Ford. - . . ' QiA)t Bmlp ar Heel ations Board of the University of North Caroling rv wnere it is- published ft daily except Monday jK and examination ad i vacation periods and j summer terms. Enter- X ea as econd class matter In the post' of fice in Chapel HilL N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Sub- II senption rates: mail- edr $4 per year, $2.50 it emester, delivered. master. LOUIS KRAAR, ED'YODEIl 1 0OQI V x Federic0 Garcia u WMbia ODened at ore a s Blood Weddina' opened at the Play- makers' theatre Monday night. It was an ambitious undertaking; it was not a successful production. Tile performance seemed to move through an atmosphere of perpetual adrenalin. Except for certain of the scenes in which the B:idegrom appeared, which were played for comic relief with un fortunate results the level of tension, the degree of emotional involvement which the characters attempted to portray, seemed of ten disproportionate to the situa tion onstage. To cite just one in stance of this general failing, Robert Sonkowsky enters, (I-ii), and the conversation being about his son's health, delivers a line about "Yesterday he wasn't well", with great emphasis and the finality of doom before there seems sufficient internal antecedant for his subjective state of stress; the baby is not mentioned again after this scene, and there seems no reason to imagine that any direct misfor tune will strike the boy. But worse than lack of restraint as such, the effect-of the contin ual histrionic treatment which the play received, served to oblit erate the very real tragedy, and reduce the entire effort to a level Conversation Piece An Answer To Cordis That Ceep Blaring BiII Ragsdafe This Saturday practically all of us will leave for our hometowns or family meeting places and will be met with, among more pleas ant things, Christmas carols blared incessantly- from downtown loudspeakers. Now, a Christmas carol is a very nice bit of music but it is not like "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" it is a delicate thing much better suited for singing than shopping. There is a need for the carol to be put back into its proper place. And this year such will be done.. SECRET GROUP This columnist is in the process of forming the Secret Association for the Non-Descecration of , Christmas Carols. It is based on the theory that direct action is sometimes the best, and in the belief that- surprise is a. mighty reinforcement. What this crowd' will do is this: dressed completely in Ara bian burnooses we shall group at the service entrances of large department stores at the bustling peak of a rush hour, and, at a prearranged signal, leap from our hiding place and run, hopping and ' darting about, .through the store f creaming "Death to the infidel!" and "Gakesh legurg!" which means nothing, literally, but shall be explained later Then, waving our scimitars (we'll have scimitars), we make our way through the highly dis turbed shoppers to the place where the record player is, to do great damage to said machine, thus, of course, preventing fur ther use of the carol records. NEVER WORK Now you're chuckling'over your morning coffee and saying to yourself, "WTjy, this utter goon! Such' a plan would never work. The department store people would just hook up another re cord player, repair any other broken equipment, and every body would be right back where they started." Well, that's not so. We would be sure to leave plenty of proof ljck of meaning without the last two paragraphs? around to the effect that we were Why, who would do a thing ljke this! actually what their first impres- "The DTH, thass who,' The Horse N snapped, sion showed us to be; a wild band "Haven't you been listening? But, it's a horse on of fanatic Arabs on a reverse Cru- me, What with Christmas close at hand, as well as slide. We would let it be known at wallet, I have forgiven, them. I'm even going to that we were not to be antagoni- give t iem a Christmas present, at DTH." zed in any way, particularly by Wonderful! What was it? being made a captive audience to "That part of my tail they docked," TheHorse their old Christmas carols. One stated. "It's theirs to hang in their tree,' more Adeste Fidelis on theirfull- Oh? .The DTH was having a tree? volumed loudspeakers and we'd "Just where," The Horseinquired, "do you think come back and lop off a few they live?" hcds' . . . ; Now,. I knew Ilorsie didn't mean, that! and I Any joiners? Bring your own knew nbodv meant t.i dock Horsie's tail Admit it' burnoose. . . - In the first place, a DTH-er would be the last one to (To those non-Arah readers: A interfere with Ilorsie making sense. I sidestepped VcZZ'J rdmff to.Webs!er's but for once The Horse didn't hoof at me . D.ctunartf. ts a one-piece cloak. "Yup," The Horse ydpped. 1 know it Besides . ZhTtT Trn-hy 1MS " thG timC of -r when Cultoor has a hard tX r S- A SCtmhar h a time of jt with a" the commercializing of Christmas daTo'Xe'cT ""I WWl'that geS n- 85 1 must needs act cultured and Tor me eage on the convex, side, used givin" fSTX- C"mn- . ,"A"d SP"kifg ' Culoor." The Horse r,sP;nded manors) to his own gambit in characteristic style, "have you n u A it ' 1 !! 'veoiQBng, of indecisive and burdensome melodrama. ' The direction by Kai Jurge ri sen ' eliminated dramatic modulation-: there was little opportunity to perceive relative peaks and relative diminuations of signifi cance. Blood Wedding is certainly tragic; its principal roles are cer tainly unhappy ones, but the jep resentative of uniform pain" in both more and less difficult plot circumstances, failed to convey adequately the crucial emphases: the special tragedy of the Mother; t.ie implicit tragedy of a nation and its more-pattern; the1; frailty of mankind. Moreover, the plot-development in Blood Wedding is, I think, less the intended focus of Lorca's concern, than the symbolic im plications of which the visibly expressed componants are casal" premises. 'Consequently, a great deal of directorial intei-pretation, to delineate main themes and? major symbolic motifs, should " ........ .... ,-v-,., . - ' ' " S.: '" -' ; - , ,t . ' ' - ' y x ' r - J- . , i --C . ' f i , ' ' 1 ' , j . ' ' Th e nve Roger Will Coe THE HORSE had been jnissing from the campus scene for days! when I saw" him moving slowly to ward me near Y-Court. Had he been illj . "Some crumbum at the DTH Printery docked my tail last Sat'day," The Horse muttered. "Ampu tated mv tail. Imagine!" I didn't catch this. Did The Horse get himself snarled up in a press? "Naw," my t-quine companion said inelegantly. I did a Sat'day column about a Night Watch, and il was. a steeplechase sort of thing" steeplechase sort t)f . thing? "'Cross-sountry," The riforse explained. "Ram bling, kind of? Well, the last two paragraphs were the gimmick of the piece. Its sense, if any. And durned if the tail of my column didn't hang out two inches or two paragraphs, beyond where it should have." - And, they just cut it? With no thought to the 63 B ''an3- ? have been' indicated. As the pro duction emerged it was confusing and confused a series of occur rences and metaphors which lac ked the clarity of accentuation deaccentuation, and a sharply or ganized expression of the internal structure. ' ,' . . The performance was not with out some merit. The fu-st ap pearance of the Moon, and parts .of the mourning scene, both in act III, were powerful theatre and indicated the potential of the vehicle, if more effectively ren-. dered. " The settings, created by James Riley, were brilliant! bleak, intense in their simplicity of mass, and suggestive without being literal. ' ' , Marion Fitz-Simons, the Moth er, gave a portrayal which rang ed from compelling,. (Ill-11), to stagy, (I-i); her acting improved as her role progressed. . - . Martha f Fouse, as the Bride, was the best of the principals. I he been to Blood Wedding yet? The Jurgensen-directed , Lcrca masterpiece now playing at the Campus Play makers at campus rates? But with professional pol ish?" Well, not yet . " "Roger", me lad.", The Horse said sadly, "think of the opportunity you are missing! Imagine being able to go home for Christmas and discoursing learn edly on Loica' and his contribution to Spanish dra ma! For this is a jeweled miniature that epitomizes a nation that saved the Old Wrorld and launched a new." . . . ' Yes; I supposed "And Blood WddinO, plus Stephen Vincent Be net's. beautiful one-hour dramatization of The Na tivity " Now I interrupted The Horse, hah! Wrhat was this about Benet? The American poet and novelist? The 1928 Pulitzer Prize winner with John Broitm's Body? I hadn't heard that Mrs. Louise Lamont was putting on two performances of A Child Was Born, by Ben et, at the First Baptist Church here in Chapel Hill, and .the, final performance is to-night? You are a hopeless jerk, Roger," The Horse declared. "But hopeless. It starts at eight; it lasts an hour.V. Weil, gee, I couldn't afford two plays, and Christ mas coming!. - ' - , "The Benet classic is for free," The Horse sighed. "But if it cost several bucks you'd be my cousin to miss it." The Horse's cousin? ."A long-eared ass," The Horse stated me to be. "Listen get your ticket now Ledbetter-Pick-ard's, in town, or chez Mrs. House in Abernethy HalV Playmakers business-office for Blood Wedding to morrow;night, and "tlon't miss A Child Was Born. It is a lively thing, and superbly done, with Louise Lamont herself taking part in it, as well as direct ing" . ' , Who else played in it? "Earl, Wrynn, Director of; o.ur Communications Center in Swain Hall," The Horse detailed. "Walter Spearman of Jaurnalism; Harry Davis, of the Dra matic Art Staff " , Nuff said! Me for that and for Blood Wedding on .Friday sho' nuff! And I hoped The Horse had a full feed-bag for Christmas? n is --AmDiyious Her performance throughout was convincing, and she avoided the over-extremes of urgency which jcharacterized the performances of most of the cast. Robert Sonkowsky, as Leonar do, seemed most effective in the forest scene, (Ill-i); through the rest of his part the interpretation Vas heavily over-stated. " Philip Morgan, the Bride groom, seemed to lack conviction in the role thefcharacteriza tion never came completely to life. ' For Marion Rosenzweig, (Beg gar Womani, Jan Saxon (Mother-In-Law), Martha Dow (Servant Woman), and Robert Thomas, (Moon), the story was the same: moments of fine compelling act ing, followed by those of over acting. . Both Albert Gordon (Father), and Mary Johnson (Leonardo's Wife), .gave effective, smooth, and meaningfully-balanced per formances. Leonardo's wife faced otse M s is difficulties as great as any figure in the drama, but Miss Johnston's interpretation, - sensative and carefully-controlled, showed that restraint is not incompatible with a sense of the tragic. - The costumes by Irene Smart Rains, and the musical treat ments by Gene Strassler, were excellent. TheVCast Marion Fitz-Simons Mother. Philip Morgan Bridegroom. Mary File Neighbor Woman. Mary Johnston Leonardo's Wife. Jan Saxon Mother-in-law. Robert Sonkowsky Leonardo. Lee. Milner Little Girl. Martha Dow Servant Woman. Albert Gordon Father. Martha Fouse Bride. Martha Davis First Girl . Nancetta Hudson Second Girl. Lloyd Skinner First Youth. Neal Smith Second Youth. Anne Fitzgibbon Third Girl. Richard Rothrock Third Youth. . Alan Pultz First Woodcutter. Peter O'Sullivan Second Wood cutter. Ted Parker Third Woodcutter. Robert Thomas Moon. Marion Rosenweig Beggar Wro man. Reader's fteforf A Plug For Grant To The Symposium Editors: After a look at this morning's paper, I' should like to urge Pre sident Fowler to sign the Sym posium bill into law. I feel, as I'm sure a great many other students on campus do, that the program as planned for the Carolina Sym posium will bp one of the most enlightening events that this campus has experienced in ma ny years. The proponents of this pro gram, when presenting it before the Finance Conimittee and the , student Legislature, had certain points they wanted to make clear Nyhich seem pretty well proved. The first point was the value" of the program. No one, we feel, will question the worth of a pro gram which goes into the critical problems facing U3 today with a view in mind of presenting some of the outstanding people in the world in these fields, people who "have" 'something to offer the cam pus. 'v The second point is the great need for the money. The finance chairman; Bev Webb, states that the budget needed for such a program is an estimated $3,500 .of which $823 has been' raised to date from various organization on campus, although a great ma ny have not reported yet. If the Legislature bill for $1,000 were1 inade law this would give the Symposium' around $1800 w-hieh is approximately half what they need. Obviously the group- could use even more from the Legislature, but they are going- out to stu dent groups, faculty groups, ad ministration, and town's people asking for funds. Over Christmas they plan to contact state founda tions which sometimes give very small amounts to programs like this, because they are primarily interested in experimental pro jects and a program of this type has definitely proved its worth. The third point needed for consideration is the availability of funds in the student accounts. With the money left over from last year of $6000 and $6000 this year added to it from the unap propriated balance, plus about $4,000 more from increased en rollment, student government this year has a total of $16,000. With around $2,500 having been ' spent, this leaves $13,500 or if the Symposium bill is signed, $12,500. This seems like an ade quate sum to work with if arouni $10,000 is desired to be left over for next year. On the basis of these items, ve again i would like to urge Presi dent Fowler to sign this bill into law, and thus provide the cam pus with a very stimulating and rewarding program next spring Stan Shaw (President fowler took reader $hmv's advice an d signed the Symposium grant into law Tues- day. Editors) ir xwu are among that vilized Americans who are ' thing until the afternoon fast. This column requires v imagination does not fn J"5 few hours of wakefulnec, u':0 For A Sunday" until th X ---- Buensv, ( NOW THAT lunch go on. I suspect, in a whimsical sr. 5 day has always been a prob'l" ' history began. After you've'" breakfast and the Sunday p,. ' so on,-what then? Cicero 'doubiv all mapped out because Cicer man; Napoleon was a clever feT"1 prised if he ever got bored n? pie like Admiral Byrd and also knew how to put Sunday X. about the common man? I oniv f do with Sunday myself the r.-'C Pan.- u'ert "Piffle," you will say, B a mythical god." Well, all right, then,xbut remember, it is after' l'-- are using the imagination. " s Pan, according to EtenJvm r ' ary, is the Greek god of flocks zX' in the ' fifth century after he IX, ner Phidippides and promised tot He spends most of his time playing the syrinx, or shepherd?1 invented, and scaring travellers k pectedly from the bushes (hence rates prayed to Pan for beauty off. Romans violated the Greek copr him into Italy under the name of r hams, a turned-up nose, and gaatv cessively handsome. I met him one sunny Sunday - through the woods with my rifa 5 by-pass. I couldn't think of anything myself on Sunday afternoon, and : along Morgan Creek beinij rnercifu! ; f and enjoying the peace of a world.5 ringing bells, radios, and car horns, quite close by, a gentle little bur;! ;: No bird' sounds like that I thought : a rather tricky, jumpy ' melody tic f aimless lilt to it. I struck off the pj': up the hill through the underbrush,: sounded' again, much closer. Sac rounded a big tree, there was P::.. snub-nose and horns and a small r: against the tree-trunk witj his g;:: ; crossed and a rabbit sitting up alter. ! ' him. . ( I stopped, stunned, completely t t able to think of what to do or say. r. 1 surprised by my appearance, gave: devilishly humorous sidelong stars,:; held at his lips. "How .do you do?" I said, : seemed the most sensible course. "Pan waved his flute at my rifle.: deep . voice, "Put that stupid thin?,, - down; and how do you do?" r I leaned the rifle against the tee.', log, numb with wonderment. "Your-, said with awe. . f 'That's right," he repKed, the newspaper; I know." I admitted u my checkered past. "This is Car-r..i fondly, indicating the rabbit. Carar. me, at the rifle, then back to me, -; briefly, and returned an adoring gs:e: handsome face; her eyes never left --t ond. "I suppose you're surprised to : f fingering his syrinx. I said in a hu as a matter of fact I was, that I dids around here. "I don't, permanently. just go where I want. I shan't be X-; th;!!, turn irpfi't many . chasing two or three girls who live 1 led Kenandorm, or something like ttf who really appreciates a good fhr- observed that I knew what he meant. "In fact, America isn't much at all & oh. "Some places in the west they '-" essence of the wilderness, but it there." 'What do you mean, 'understand the wilderness'?" I asked. Caramma antly forward. . Pan's dark eyes turned hard af "People in this country seem to have it means to have no electricity,' bustion engines, no wheels, no weather, and all that" he said solen no conception of what it is to mate nature every day of the year just to armies carry kitchens into battle people go to the woods they drop t- noise. It never occurs to them th place where there is no man-made r'-j turalists and botanists and most of ' sy recording facts to realize that it made the plants- and animals they ."You sound angry," I said. . Just a D' Things weren't that way three or ' iVF. UU. A. Ill UUl 4WJ" t years ago. It's just something 1 l thoug.it about." Pan ran a g ntle c . . , fall, long and hard; you'll stune; silly, extravagant civilization stance." He save me a stony 1: 10 ' h? ting effortlessly to his feet. "I'm ex??- on the ofher sid o.f the hill m a preach that way and be so solemn. ant PrtmA Qnndav. ', off through the trees, and Caramms -him. - r c ir!AAmo r., t cirl nnd t'lCi wering twirl of merry fluting as . ... lt'l can, I took my rifle with me w
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