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Vs 9 Jjgw Holiday Schedule THANKSGIVING Wed., Sfov. 27 7:45 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Nov, 28 Clooed Friday, Nov. 29 —9 a m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30,-9 a.m.-l p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1— Closed CHRISTMAS Friday, Dec. 20, 7:46 a.m.-5 p.ia. Saturday, Dec. 21—0 a.m.-l p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22 through Thurs day, Dec. 26 Closed. Friday, Dec. 27—0 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Dec. 28—9 a.m.-l p.m. Sunday, Dec. 29 Closed Monday, Dec. 30 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 81 0 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 1— Closed Thursday, Jaa. 2—9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8 9 a.m.*s p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4 9 a.m.-l p.m. Sunday, Jan. s Closed Monday, Jan. 6—Resume regu lar schedule. WUNC Radio Will Leave Air Monday WUNC Radio, 91.5 FM. the voice of the University, will sign off the air soon after midnight tomorrow for Thanksgiving vaca tion. WUNC will return to the air at 6 p.m. Monday, December 2, following the break. Programming will continue over WUNC after Thanksgiving. Classical music will be featured as always on “Masterwork” 8 until 10 p.m. every evening ex cept alternate Tuesdays and Fri days. On alternate Tuesdays the Hill gall Concerts of the Univer sity at North Carolina are broad cast. and on Fridays opera is presented by former Metropoli tan-opera star Norman Cordon. Saturday afternoons from 1 un til 6, a special music show win be premiered. Replacing the broadcasts of the UNC Football games, this show will feature popular and light music. THI CHAPEL m&TOEiqY ‘Long Day’s Journey’ Is Top Entertainment , The Carolina Plavmakers pre sent Eugene O’Neill’s LONG ©AY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT; Directed by Thomas M. Patter sea; Setting by Tammy Rezwrto; Costumes by Irene Smart Rates; Lighting by Hassell Graves; The Playmskam Theatre, November 18-24, 1963. By JOHN CLAYTON First things first. If you have n’t seen the play, go! If you haven’t seen this production of the play, go! If you have made other plans, change them! It is that sort of event. Now to other things. About many plays, as Harold Clurman has noted in his essay “On Audiences," the wrong ques tions are asked. Certainly this tends to be true of Loag Day’s Journey Into Night. “How did you like the play?" for example, Wins an irrelevant question. I am not at all sure that I “liked" it at all. Nor am I at all sure, when I have strapped on scuba gear to sink forty to fifty feet through black and bitter cold water, that I “like" the experi ence. The two are related in the sense that both constitute what may be called an adven ture, and that both contain a potential for revelation about what it means to be human. Theatre, as Sam Selden has de fined it in Man and His Theatre, enables the playgoer to adven ture. to participate in a world where his senses are lightened, where he may live more keenly and with greater awareness. It is in this sense that O’Neill’s play must be evaluated. Though a play need not be liked, it certainly needs to be entertaining, and it is our debase ment of the word that has led us to equate entertainment with some vague notion of fun. Here again Clurman is helpful when he stipulates, “I am entertained when my interest has been arous ed, when my detached capacity for feeling, thought, sentiment, laughter and passion are brought into play. I am entertained when my senses are quickened, my soul touched, my mind alerted. Being healthy, I cannot be fed adulterated stimulates or strong sedatives: nor am I gratified by timid stabs at my sensibilities. I want my entertainment to exer cise my faculties as vigorously and as completely as possible.” In this sense, the Playmaker production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night is exceedingly enter taining. and those who attended the performance with their ment al teeth clenched in anticipation of a slow paralysis of the gluteus testified with surprised delight that the stimulation was more than adequate to maintain circu lation. The reasons for this are doubtless varied, but certainly many of them must be found within the play itself. It is, of course, a very special play, a cry of self definition so personal in intent that its author could not tolerate its production in his own lifetime. Moreover, R is an attempt at self-illuminatkm by our greatest playwright—such dissidents as Eric Bentley and Bernard De Voto notwithstand ing. If it were merely this and a bad play as, in many ways, it is, it would remain of interest to the theatre-goer. But it is, in addition, a rather fascinating technical paradox. For most of his working life, O’Neill sought for a means of communicating through drama the mystery of what it means to be human. Early in his career he became convinced that naturalism was not the answer, that a “super naturalism”—as he called it— was needed to penetrate and reveal reality. Strongly impress ed by the experiments of Euro pean dramatists (chiefly Strind berg), he utilized a wide variety of non-realistic techniques, “me chanical novelties that he brought with him from Washington Square,” wrote De Voto with con tempt, but they were far more than that. John Gassner Jssess ed them better: "Tireless in his search for theatrical means of projecting the inner life and the metaphysical idea ... it was his role to open all the stops of theatre art in America, and we have reason to be grateful to him.” With this background, it was strange indeed to see him return to the tone of naturalism and the technique of realism in seek- Booker To Leave For Active Duty Orange District Scout Execu tive Robert Booker will leave Chapel Hill December 4 for six month’s active duty in the Air Force. Mr. Booker has been the Coun ty’s fulltime Scout executive, on the Occoneechee Council staff, for the past year. Mr. Booker will not be re placed during his absence. Dis trict chairman Red Tyler said, “We plan to get more work out of our local volunteeer workers to make up for Bob’s absence." Council Field Director Elbert Stutts, a resident of Parkwood, will be available for extra duty in Orange County, as will ether Council staff members in nearby districts. Give to the Community Chest. ing to make clear what must have been for him of agonizing importance—himself. The play is almost ruthlessly determinis tic. "Mane of ms eaa bste fee things life has done to us,” says the iruiUur. “They’re done be fore you realise it, awl once they’re dsns they make you do other things until at last every thing comes between you and what you'd like to be. and you've lost your true self forever.” Nevertheless savage in view point though it nwy be, the dom inant impreesion sustained by Leaf Day’s Journey late Night is one of compassion, ft is a pathetic story and one senses the rightneer of Walter Karr’s judg ment of O'Neill’s attitude toward the members of his family, “that he knows everything awful they have done, and loves them.” But surely this is not enough. No, surely it is not. For what the play wright has given us, as every playwright must, is the univer sal in the particular. Every family is expressed to this fam ily; all pain is expressed in this pain. For who has not known success and failure, hope and dis appointment, selfishness and sac rifice, health and illness, and, in deed, all the shocks that mortal flesh is heir to. And to those critics who would resist exposure to this catalogue or raise the question of what purpose it can serve, O’Neill addressed these words in 1922: “It is mere present day judg ment to think bf tragedy as un happy. The Greeks and Eliza- | belhans knew better. They felt the tremendous lift of it. It rous ed them spiritually to a deeper understanding of life. Through it they found release from the petty considerations of existence. They saw their lives ennobled by it. A work of art is always hap py. I don’t love life because it is pretty. There is beauty to me even in its ugliness.” For those who would still re ject the play, there remains the production. It was superb. I have many quarrels with it, but they are strictly at the level of enjoyable speculation on the op tions offered to the interpretation of any work of magnitude that is performed. There was never a question of the competence of the principals, nor should there by the the slightest quibble about the respect they are entitled to for the quality of their perform ance. Os these performances, the most striking and the most dearly sustained was that of Mrs. Fitz-Simons, perhaps be cause she is naturally so wrong for tite part. Mrs. Fkz-Simons is an actress of great force and vigor. In voice, bearing, and power she is a natural dramatic neavyweight. Shg is about as far from the naive, convent bred, introspective, romantic, nervous Nellie called for to Mr. O’Neill’s play as Neville Chamberlin was from Sonny Liston. But she sure made you believe it. Her de velopment of the role and her control of the stage was an awe some thing to behold. I still don’t think she was right for the part, but I’m long part caring. She made the part hers and I wouldn’t have missed It for a wilderness of monkeys. The second, but by no means lesser, triumph of tite evening was achieved by Earl Wynn In contrast to Mrs. Fitz-Stoaooi, Mr. Wynn had every physical attrib ute of age, theatrical back ground, and magnificent voice demanded by the role of the famous actor James < O’Neill ) Ty rone. Indeed so perfect were his natural attributes that I chiefly quarrel with those indications en couraged or permitted by the director to reveal his "actor” background. The theatricai turns, gestures, and wflwwnts espe cially in the first act-gilded the lily at precisely these times when sincerity was called for. But for all that, what was achiev ed was a first rate piece of work. There were little pleasures as well as big. Mr. Wynn’s deft touch of allowing • trace of Irish brogue to come Mtit# during are aasrai speech when he rmnuntod the success that Hi rataer” character wne Impec cable to delivery both to taste and judgment. Though lacking the repurtenm red the technical oqtopmam of their colleagues. Mr. Rtohprd Parks as Edmond end Mr. Frank McDonald as Jamfe Wte* by no means srer to dntofer of ARABS! 11 ftekito We have JRII and slfto |L”"«1 Engraving ' Service TROPHY DECT. Sjf»or* JBthofij P*fi Jo (Mof*-* 1 having to apologize for occupy ing the same stage. O’Neill’s portrait of himself offers fee ac tor more pitfalls than virtues, a* to to Mr- JW dm* pjmfflwiiiif iht fftff As lor Mr, 85831, H bom# it was to ike ittierfkm st restraint to rn View, was tha more sat isfactory choice. I would have preferred a mory bravura per formance, but hasten to testify to my fjfQ-ftipttep with few ef fectiveness he achieved within bis context Which was infinitely better than a mere flamboyant attack toeptiy realized. As tor Miss Nsai Chaffin, she has doubticss never seen the healthy Irish bovine of yester year and I command her judg ment tor making no attempt to imagine what she might have bean like. Tim- success of the play was not achieved without major con tributions bp the director. His actors ware well paced and ha has tha rare courage to leave i actor to a chair when that’s re the hell be belongs. I •aa, however, bothered, net only by the movement* heretofore mstefeMd, but royre importantly by what appeared to me a failure to determine, sustain, and build his characters from the center out. they were almost always affective at fee moment, but they were aim wrong at a given men eat, false noted, fe the critics! moment when the father realizes tt . 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A mar velous job of playing Lady Mac beth; it froze year Meed. Bid R was the wrong play. As final proof that all was net sweetness and light to what I have already termed « superb production, I would cite the general lack of attention to curtains They lack ed pints. And—even to a nab uralistic piay-that’s show biz. Vou will seldom ore a hotter production. Go am it. • .• • Upon completion of tha above, the tragic nows of the President’s assassination was announced. At ’ the risk of bring trivial, it was at thQUOh I had been kneeling to contemplate a bruised flower when beside me a mighty oak was uprooted and Masted to the wS$k r ' sgsg| 81 Dream Vacation I “Casablanca” ■ Miami Beach ■ Golf ■ Fashion Show ■ Cocktail Parties B S4JS Week Caß B I AH Star Lanes ■ |§ ,I**, ■; Sunday, November, 84, 1963 ground. When I turned back to look at what had held me so intently, I was embarrassed. Yet I know that pitiful though it may be, B is my garden to cultivate end I W* return there without Shame. For R seams to me, in this strange and disapprinting world wa live to, that until we team to suffer for the bruise, we must endure the blast. “I did s very cruel thing once.” ptod the priest to Shaw’s ferint Stem, “because I did not know what cruelty was tike.” To which the Bishop replied. “Must then a Christ perish in torment to every age to save those that have no imagination?" R is, indeed, the question. B CO&tOY—DUNHfIUL-GBD I Pipes I j|l .v. Tobaccos I HnH ''’* v^' rS Tobacco Jars Smoker’s Requisites I parleys V Mens Shop 144 E. Franklin
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