a Wednesday, March 26, 1958 THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Three by Gail Say Darling is the play to see if you are looking for light and relaxing entertainment. There is no ‘moral or deep inner meaning, the entire value of the play (writ, ten by Abe Burrows and Richard and Marian Bissell) lies in the en- joyment gained during the show. The play is a vehicle for David Wayne and shows him to best pos- sible advantage. Wayne extremely versatile, plays a man in the “sash and door business who got lucky with a book.” Act One starts out) weakly at an airport in the “corn country.” Constance Ford as the _ typical Iowan wife is unconvincing in her first appearance in the play. .This. is.,anfortunate, as her part is limited and does not allow any .of her talents to come to fore. An introduction to a producing team, who want to make a play out of the book is enlightening for - Jordan (Wayne): and enjoyable for the audience. Jerome Cowan, the experienced half of the team, gives a competent performance. Robert Morse, who plays the young just graduated-from-Princeton-and-I’ going - to - be-assuccess-overnight- type, gives an excellent perform- anc, His mannerisms, dress and dialogue compose one of the most entertaining characters in the show, Vivian Blaine works weil with what material she has, in a script which “has no part worthy of her talents. Her best moments come mainly during her songs. For what her voice lacks, her'acting and gusto more than compensate. The costuming for Miss Blaine is un- believable, One could hardly say it- is Subdued. It fits Irene Lovle (Miss Blaine) perfectly, as she portrays the modern actress, viz, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield. Johnny Desmond as Rudy Lor- raine, a song writer, does passably From The Balony Lasdon well. He is primarily known as a singer, but then Say Darling leaves that statement open to con- tention, The ‘music offers him no assistance at all, but that was made poor intentionally, or was it? Other worthies in the show were Horace MacMahon, who plays the public relations agent for the pro- posed show. In addition to his act- ing, which was well done, he does a spontaneous dance which has to be seen to be believed. Cheryl Mer- rill, who plays a bit part during the audition scene is excellent. Her facial expressions are the high point of her audition, which was the most entertaining one’ in the scene, The dancing is of a competence unusual in a show not technically a musical, as Say Darling is not. The unfortunate part is that it does not last longer. Matt Mattox, who is the choreographer and lead dancer, deserves special mention. The musical moments which are “|most enjoyable, although ephem- eral, are the ensemble piece and Vivian, Blaine’s songs. But if any number from this show will endure it is the title song which has the best chance of doing so. The dialogue is the most out- standing part of the show. It re- veals the talents of the author of Guys and Dolls, Abe Burrows. The banter is witty and fast mov- ing without sounding contrived and using local jokes (Does any- one live in New Rochelle?). Well, it does have its weak moments. The sets and staging are well designed and executed, The un- usual factor about the staging is the use of the “close in” effect instead of a curtain, and the use of two revolving stages for this three act, fifteen scene play. ecm. Sec ee oom ae ee oO Sa “ei **COKE** IS A WEQISTERED TRADE-MARK. COPYRIGHT 1968 THE COCA-COLA CauPANY, ~ Know the answer? What’s an eight-letter word aa reminds you of good taste, sparkle, lift? The answer’s easy—Coca-Cola of course. No puzzle about why it’s so popular ... no other sparkling drink gives you so much good taste, so. much satisfaction. Yes, when you're looking for'refreshinent, . the answer’s always Coke! SIGN OF GOOD TASTE Bottled a, authority of The Coca-Cola Company by od PHILADELPHIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Food Committee Reviews Menus, Preferred Dishes by Lois Potter Thanks to the efforts of the newly formed Food Committee, students in some halls can butter their own toast at breakfast. This first step towards making Bryn Mawr a gourmet’s paradise was the result of heated discussions in the halls, with the Toast Re- formers calling the Conservatives lazy, and the Conservatives pro- testing that the toast was so cold by the time it got to the table that buttering it was a major effort. Some halls have already been getting butter with, not on, their toast, but in Pembroke it is an innovation, and students may now be seen smiling blissfully as they spread their toast with a layer of butter one inch thick. Rumor has]; it that tuition will have to be raised. again to cover the extra amount of butter used every morn- ing. The Committee, presided over by Miss Charlotte Howe, is composed of the hall vice-presidents. At the first meeting, members were ask- ed to draw up a set of menus for a two-weeks’ period, so that they would appreciate the difficulties faced by the college dietician, and so that any special preferences could be brought up at the next meeting. Menus, they learned, are the same for the whole campus, but the quantity of food ordered each week depends on the hall manager, and the quality depends on the hall cooking staff. Every- thing must be listed on the menu or it cannot be on the table: if pickles are not listed, the result is pickleless hamburger. The Committee’s chief difficulty in arriving at a knowledge of campus preferences is the amaz- ing difference in tastes. When something new, like apricot souffle, is tried, half the students love it and the other half turn green every time it is mentioned. So far, popular demand has been for more soups, more vegetables in the Irish Stew, and more chocolate on everything (even the much-mal- igned cottage pudding is welcomed ‘!when served with chocolate instead of lemon sauce). Hamburgers and hot dogs are liked because they are easily recognizable, but a chorus of agonized voices has de- manded the abolition of French- fried ravioli, Fish, which must be served once a week, is one of the least popular dishes: everyone agrees that it is necessary, but no agreement has been reached on the best way of preparing it. Two special factions have made suggestians to the Committee: the | Traditionalists, who want lenion with fish, applesauce with pork, and mint jelly with lamb, and an en- thusiastic minority who want dishes listed on the menu by the names the students give them. This presents a problem, as some names vary from hall to hall: stewed tomatoes are “train-wreck” in one hall, “plane-wreck” in an- other. Knowing that the college oper- ates on a tight budget, students have not been asking for Chateau- briant or Canard a |]’Orange. On the whole, the Committee reports, they agree that the meals are varied, and most requests have been for an old favorite served oftener, rather than for the addi- tion of a new one. Basketball Elections The Basketball team announc- es the election of Binney White as captain and Ann Eberle as | manager for the following year. Mrs. MacCaffreu: by Isabel MacCaffrey Storms, croughts, clouds of dust (though no blizzards): the oppres- sions of weather hang ‘over this issue of the Revue. Correlatives for the weather of the heart? At any rate, these writers, in their stories, find atmosphere what they can devise best. Atmospheres ling- er, when one has closed the maga- zine; individual characters, for the most part, do not, although there are plenty of vivid gestures. An exception is the haunted little colored girl in Elizabeth Nelson’s “The Mothers,” certainly one of the most satisfying stories in this collection. Miss Nelson has man- aged a really stunning final sent- ence—not a “surprise ending,” but a close well-timed and unsurpris- ing, with the story’s whole weight behind it: “And there were these two women once again together, and neither had a daughter.” As Yeats said of a good poem, “It comes right like the click of a box.” At their best, as in “The Moth- ers,” these authors are not afraid to make their characters confront each other dramatically; a sign of incompetence in fiction is to smother action in rhetorical nar- rative. On this score, Frank Con- roy’s “Spring for Alison” must be commended. The story treads on the edge of cliché but frequently evades it; and it makes points through action. A complex theme is compressed—perhaps over-com- pressed, for some opaqueness re- mains—into several well-imagined scenes. The ability to dramatize is a necessary lesson that has been learned by several other Revue writers, and it is good. to find among their stories some memor- able sharp scenes: for instance, the tobacco barn and chicken slaughter of Elizabeth Gott’s “The Catfish,” and ‘the swimming hole scene in “The Bone Tree” by Mar- garet Gordon. In “The Catfish,” too, comedy and atmosphere com- bine in happy proportions. Not all stories can be thus contrived, of course, and of those in a less dra- Art Films Feature ‘Modern’ Masters The two short films on Braque and Utrillo, shown Wednesday, March 19, under the sponsorship of the French Club, illustrated two different approaches to the interpretation of an artist’s work. The Braque film showed the art- ist himself in his studio, making pen-and-ink drawings, leafing through his sketch-book, picking up his sculptures and then walking along the beach looking for shells and pieces of chalk to use in his work. The camera tried to give an understanding of the creative mind, to make one see things through the artist’s eyes. There was sometimes a feeling of con- straint in Braque’s movements, as if he were obeying the directions of the photographer instead of acting on his own, but there was also the fascination of watching him at work. The many paintings and sculptures shown on _ the screen would have benefitted from color photography. Color would have been an un- necessary addition to the film bio- graphy of Utrillo, in which the black and white photography skill- fully recreated the bleak, tragic atmosphere of the artist’s life and work, Shut up in his room, in a hospital, or a rest home, Utrillo seemed to spend his life moving from one cel] into another, and every building he painted resemb- led a prison. In contrast to the first film, which showed how the artist worked but told nothing about him, Utrillo’s life story ‘made his — more under- standable. /* a a Revue “Good,” Would Profit From More Variety matic, more lyrical strain, Beta Carr’s “The Road to the Sea” (part of a longer piece?) seems to hold up best. The theme here is» better suited to Miss Carr’s special style than is that in “The Forming of the Rose’ — which, however, is well constructed and ends successfully, As for poetry, it comes out very well in this issue, One can find, easily enough, good lines or pass- ages among the poems in almost any undergraduate publication, but whole good poems are far rarer. Here pains have been taken, and well taken, especially in Ben- ita Bendon’s “Plain Song,” Gret- chen Jessup’s “Largo,” Cynthia Lovelace’s “Notes on Beginning a Poem,” and a successful exercise in light verse, of all things appar- ently the hardest to manage: “Fish Story” by E. B. White. It is particularly pleasing to find that some of these poets have a mature sense of “the music of poetry”; Paula Dunaway is one, her ear revealing itself best in the delicate “Voyage.” One cannot not mention Cynthia Lovelace’s “Tale,” which wins us with its in- triguing and original metrical scheme, Other poems, promising in “idea,” are marred by technical failures, particularly stumbling metrics: Miss Jessup’s “Flourish” and the poems of Timothy Sheldon provide examples, but not the only ones. The over-all impression made by this issue of the Revue is good; it is more continuously interesting than some instances in the past, though one has a feeling of great- er variety in the poetry than in the prose. To construct a well- balanced, variously appealing magazine, editors must have a wide variety of contributions to choose from and this, one suspects, is a radical problem. The present and incoming editors cannot be ac- cussed of lack of energy in this matter but talent is often over- modest. Campus writers are urged to take boldness for their friend and assure for future Revues a broadly representative range of the college’s best, BMC Chess Club— List Tourney The Chess Club has announced a five board match to be played with Penn. University on Wednesday the 26. Bryn Mawr team will consist of Barbara Mof- ~ fat, Mrs.. Robert Wallace, Corrie Starks, Val Petris and Jeffrey Larson, The match will be played at 7:30 at Bryn Mawr. (The exact place is to be decided.) The Admissions Office ‘ is eager to obtain colored slides of college activities such as sports, dances, and plays, and of informal groups in the halls. If you have any slides which you think we might like, would you bring them to the Admis- sions Office in Taylor so that we can have copies made, e Notice The newly elected members of the Executive Board of Self- Gov Association are: Vice-president— Ruth Deitelbaum ’59 Secretary—Marty Faust 1st Sophomore— — Elizabeth Lynes ’61 The new president of the League is Lynne Kaplan ’59. The new president of the Alliance is Judith Minkin ’60. The new president of the Interfaith Association is Eliza- beth Rennolds ’59. The new president of the Athletic Association * Weecha Buse 0. ’60