Wednesday. Marth 20, 1968
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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By FRANK BALLARD
of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
The tiny stucco cottage with
gargoyles peering down from
its front porch columns would
look a little out of place in any
town except Chapel Ilill.
Clinging tenaciously to the
spot it has occupied since 1846,
the two-room dwelling
possesses a comfortable, yet
dignified air of belonging. Its
roots go as deep as those of the
massive red oak that
dominates its front yard.
The cottage on 401 Franklin
Street, at the busy
Hillsborough Street in
tersection, has housed a suc
cession of scholars, authors
and just plain characters who
were drawn by its quaint
simplicity.
Its memories are of old
Chapel Hill and these
memories, as much as the
house itself, enhance the
historyof the building.
The records are sketchy, but
with the help of Phillips
Russell and several former
residents of the cottage, its
story can be pieced together.
The house was erected by
one of the more controversial
local figures of the day.
Samuel Field Phillips
ordered the cottage built as a
law office and study in the
happy years before he shocked
the entire town by serving the
Reconstruction government in
Washington.
Since Phillips also taught the
rudiments of law to University
students in the cottage, it has
been called Chapel Hill's first
law school.
Phillips had built on the
same lot in 1856 a large white
house which served as his
home for years. It still stands
and is now occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Frederic Coenen.
Although he was auditor for
Governor Zebulon Vance's
Confederate cabinet during the
Civil War, Phillips outraged"
many bitter im-Reconstructed
rebels by answering a call to
serve as solicitor General in
President Grant's Cabinet.
He kept the same office
under President H a y e s ,
Garfield and Arthur. And he
also took another unpopular
stand, this time for women's
rights, by advocating the sum
mer Normal School at the
University in 1876.
Sometime around 1832 the
Phillips home, including the
cottage, were purchased by a
Dr. A. A. Kluttz. Little can be
found about this family, but it
is believed that the place was
used as a playhouse for a
time.
Around the turn of the cen
tury, the cottage on the corner
had another colorful oc
cupant. Until 1918 a professor of
Greek at Carolina who is
remembered for his nickname
and funny car occupied the
cottage.
According to Miss Mary
Thornton, who took over the
little house from him, Dr.
"Bully" Bernard was such an
interesting person that Thomas
Wolfe characterized him as a
professor of Greek in "Look
Homeward, Angel."
"All the boys called him
"Bully," she recalled. "He liv
ed in the little house while he
was a bachelor and moved out
when he married a widow."
Bernard's odd-looking home
was matched by his unusual
little foreign car. Like many
early automobiles, it was a
two-seater. But perhaps in an
ticipation of the motorcycle
sidecar, one seat was in front
Camp
us Calendar
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB will
meet in Chase Cafeteria at 6
p.m. for the third of the
International Film Series.
All students are invited to
bring their supper before the
program. The program will
be a look at Rome, and the
river Nile from its source to
the Mediterranean.
STRAY GREEKS meet at 6:15
p.m. at the King William
restaurant. Elections will be
held.
"THE CASTE SYSTEM," with
special reference to the pro-
blem of the "untouchables"
. will be viewed by Dr. Nam
boodir of the Department of
Sociology at the Ex
perimental College course on
India. All interested are
welcome to attend at 7:30
DAILY CROSSWORD
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bird
9. Cavity
10. Monkey
11. Book of
sacred
writings
12. Near:
poet.
14. Biblical,
name
15. Remove-
16. Depart
17. Betwixt
20. Good
friend
21. Lofty
mountain
22. Painful
23. Belonging
to the
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state
27. Incite
28. Narrow
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29. Wrath
30. Plug
34. Music note
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36. English
river
37. Nautical
39. GhasUy
41. Title of
respect
42. Cuckoos
43. Little
children
44. Gold
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2. Mechanical
man
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4. Turn right .
5. Tarnish
6. Strong
breeze
7. Devoured
8. Famous
falls
11. Pendulum
weight
13. Parts, as on
Broadway
15. Gives an
account of
18. Stay
19. Sprite
20. Hawai
ian food
22. Brittle
cookie '
23. Mound
24. Side by
side
25. Shel
tered side
26. Coffee
30. Auctions
31. Danger
32. Live
33. Muscovite
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with the driver and the other
was on the side of car. .
Professor Bernard also
managed to draw additional
attention to his car by oc
casionally driving up on the
side-walk to chat with friends.
Miss Thornton moved in for
six years after he left and one
of her roommates noted a con
tribution to women's equality
made by the house.
To Mrs. Elizabeth Lay Green
and several other early
Carolina coeds, the cottage
"was rented to us girls as kind
of an encouragement to
feminism."
Samuel Phillips would cer
tainly have approved this use
of his old law office.
Before the Normal School
session backed . by Phillips in
1875, women had been allowed
to hear only an occasional lec
ture at the University. They
were required to sit behind a
screen throughout the speech,
possibly to keep, from distrac
ting the male members of the
audience.
The idea of . coed colleges
was still somewhat daring in
the early 1920's when Miss
Elizabeth Lay studied here.
"There were only 25 coeds
here then and there was no
idea of providing us with a
dorm," she said.
"We felt a bit adventurous
living in a place by ourselves.
The first year we had no neai
except for the fireplace. . - - "
was very picturesque but noi
very comfortable. The second
year we got a Franklin Stove
in the living room."
Mrs. Green is the wife of
Paul Green, who taught
philosophy and playwnting
here and" is the author of the
outdoor dramas "The Lost
Colony" and "The Common
Glory."
She recalled that Lynn
Riggs, author of "Green Grow
the Lilacs," the play on which
"Oklahoma" was based,"
visited the house several times
and expressed an interest in
it.
According to Walter Creech,
who has owned the cottage
since 1935, Riggs occupied the
house in 1S51.
Creech himself lived in the
cottage for about 20 years
altogether, interspaced over
several different stays.
He said that in 1930 he
vacated the cottage and was
followed by a student named
Whit Bissell, who later became
a successful television and
movie actor.
When Creech returned to the
cottage in
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decorated metal porch lisht
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100 years old, "-'
maybe older."
lfetween the mid-1920's and
the Franklin stove in
stalled for Miss Thornton and
miss Lay somehow disap
peared. V
Prof. Kenneth Byerly of the
School of Journalism
remembers well the struggle
he and his roommate endured
before abandoning the cot
tage's fireplace heating for a
stove.
"I lived there with a fellow
named Jim (Pelican) Pace
from 1932-1933." The fireplace
was "glamorous" he said, but
"colder than the Devil."
; After resolving their conflict
in favor of comfort over
glamour, the two students
were satisfied with their
choice.
"I shall never forget the joys
of warmth all over that
house" Byerlv declared
1933 after studying
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SPORTS EVENTS here are a
varsity tennis match with
Ohio University at 2 p.m.
and a varsity lacrosse game
on Fetzer Field against Yale
at 3 p.m.
"THE METABOLISM OF THE
LUNG" will be discussed by
Henry W. Fritts, Jr., M.D.,
of the Department o f
Medicine, College of Physi
cians and Surgeons, New
York at 4 p.m. in Clinic
- Auditorium. All School of
Medicine faculty are in-
- vited. L---'&-r-.;
DANIEL BOBBINS, director
of the Rhode Island School of
Design will speak on "A
Wider Interpretation of
Cubism" in 115 Ackland Art
Center at 8 p.m.
By JOE SANDERS
of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
Lillabulero, voL II, no. 1, Edited by
Russell Banks, William Matthews, D.
Newton Smith. 73 cents.
This issue of Lillabulero is like a
house-organ for practicing .writers and
poets. Its real value will be appreciated
by the aspiring artist who can look it
over and say, "Ah, this works and that .
doesnt."
This is not to say that the average
Carolina student won't enjoy parts of the
magazine if he reads it just for fun or ap
preciation. Just don't expect to find 52
pages of old-fashioned short stories and
verse.
Ever since poets started "playing ten
nis with the net down" ignoring the old
sandards of poetic expression it has
gotten increasingly harder to judge their .,
works by any criteria., Lillabulero - is x
mostly poetry, this issue, and the poets
are all, with some justification,doing
their own (Mags.
"I As Bird Behind you like
a sled. With a bushe 1 For a
body, Branches for arms. A bird put
out On the corner." So begins Greg
Kuzma's "Schwartz." Like, other poets in
the issue, Kuzma defies any imposed
verse form, line length or rules of
punctuation.
Kuzma is ahead of the standard ac
cepted forms of poetry. For the student
of modern poetry he may (or may not
be) completely articulate. For the
average educated person he is obscure.
Perhaps the public will, in time, grow to
accept the new mode of communication,
but for the time being, Kuzma is speak
ing in "Schwartz" to fellow poets and the
initiated.
Many of Lillabulero s poems are
understandable and enjoyable,
however.
Lou Lipsitz has only one poem in this
issue, but it provides a refreshing con
trast because it is both understandable .
and unrestricted in form.
So are Geof Hewitt's poems. His "The
Men of Aberfan" begins, "Do they
. regret, they with their teeth scarred like
the backsof galley slaves, the early
years when their boys were dolls-of
laughter, balancing on thin legs, or
riding in those older arms?" His works
are sardonic or meloncholy ; they all in
voke a mood.
. So much for the poetry. Some poems
you will put down saying, "That's nice,"
and others you will puzzle over like some
technical scientific article written for
scientists. -
The reason Lillabulero is in the red
now is not because its poems and short
stories are either good or bad, but
because the magazine as a whole is so
parochial in its appeal.
Most of its review section, "The Battel
of the Books", is devoted to criticisms of
the small presses.
Unless a person is "in" on the modern
writers, he is either not going to be able
to buy a copy of a book put out by Kum
quat Press, or not going to be interested
in the first place.
The short stories are another matter.
This winter's Lillabulero has three; they
aren't all good, but they're all un
derstandable and interesting.
"The Outsider" by James Conway is a
flippant account of a young man's escape
from suffering that turns into his search
for suffering Conway shows that
everyone builds has ownt" wall to hit his
head against.
"Don't you see, Alberto," the young
man, Phelps, says, "you've saved me. I
belong, I suffer, I am."
The story ends happily 'with Alberto
and Phelps exchanging obscene
gestures.
"Love Zap" by Henry Roth is like a
puzzle. As you read, the pieces fall into
place. When you finish you have to go
back to the first page to pick up the
pieces that didn't fit th first time. The
story, itself about a young hippie who has
lost all conception of middle class values,
is incidental to the way the story is
tod.
Less successful is David Kranes'
"Snow". A man's memories of an affair
come to his mind like the flurries of snow
around him. While Mr. Kranes' descrip
tion is vivid, the entire point of his story
is never clear.
Gone is the print section in the back of
the magazine that appeared in issues one
through four. Sketches are now spaced
throughout the magazine, but only
Stulher's, on page 34, shows talent.
Sketches, short stories and poems add
up to make this issue of Lillabulero -nothing
more than interesting for the
average reader.
The magazine is an especially
valuable asset to the students of poetry
and prose and to the writers themselves.
One of Lillabulero's editors said that the
worst thing for a writer is to be ignored.
The magazine does serve the purpose of
giving these artists a chance to be read
by a sympathetic audience.
But if the magazine wishes to stay
afloat or attain a wide readership, it will
have to broaden its appeal. A dead
Lillabulero wont be much good to
anyone.
Pp
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is no relation to the family
that owned the house after the
Phillips, said "it's been mere
fun than anything in my life."
One feature of the house
which he especially praised
was its eight-foot bar, com
plete with a mirror behind it,
and the "grass cloth" material
which covers the walls.
Kluttz's father lived in the
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amazing place."
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Gargoyled cottage clings to the spot it has occupied since 1856
. . . housing a succession of students, authors, professors
Museum Plan Extends Deadline
The Museum of Modern Art
has announced that it will ex
tend the deadline for mem
bership in the Non-Resident
Student Group Membership
plan until March 22.
The rate for the student plan
is $12.50, a saving of $7.50 over
the regular membership.
With this Student Group
Membership plan the Museum
gives four of its famous
publications a year.
The first free publication for
persons who sign up now will
be Dada, Surrealism, and
Their Heritage by William S.
Rubin, issued in conjunction
with the comprehensive ex
hibition of these two
movements opening at the
Museum on March 27, 1958.
This Non-Resident Group
''
There are about ; 123,000
" Quakers in the United" States
and about 200,000 throughout
the world.
Membership plan is open to
everyone, students, faculty
members and interested
towspeople.
Applications may be ob
tained at the Art Library,
Ackland Art Center, or through
Prof. John V. Allcott
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