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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 22, 1950



“You Can’t Take It With Yow’ Exhibits Fine Acting, | Maritain Tells ‘Rights of Man and Natural Law’ ;

Competent Direction and Excellent Stage Work

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are the feelings one has about the
whole family; Trish set the mood,
and supported the play.

Robin Nevitt, however, as
Grandpa, the man who inaugurat-
ed the Sycamores’ unique way of
life, was not far behind Trish in
his performance. His situation was
slightly different; he had occasion-
al long speeches in which he was
dominant, while she had short in-
terspersed speeches all the time.
He had moments of omnipotence—
she was omnipresent. Robin made
Grandpa look youthfully aged, and
made him behave in a cheerful and
carefree way, without losing his
tranquil character or the feeling
of his basically serious and well
thought-out philosophy of life.

Isabelle Frey made Essie child-
ish, gauche, definitely out of this
world but not quite into the next;
it was an original approach and a
quite successful one. Ed Jamison
presented Ed, Essie’s husband, as
a simple guy, young idealist-with-
out-ideals. Ed and Essie both
came across as well rounded char-
acterizations; they were believable
people, and two distinctive and
differing aspects of this interest-
ing household.

Suzie Kramer turned in a poised
performance as Rheba; she in her-
self is enough to make a character
unusual. Hugh Downing as Don-
ald seemed less sure of himself,
but he took his direction well. Mr.
DePinna had all the right things
done to him by John Kittredge,
who managed, by not hamming, to
put a credible and appealing per-
son into that Roman toga under
the ivied brow.

Paul Sycamore, interpreted by
Floyd Ford, was as described in
the script: “mid-fifties, but with
a kindof youthful air. His quiet
charm and mild manner are dis-
tinetly engaging.” He is least
natural at the beginning of the
third act, comforting Penny. In
the middle of the second act, how-
ever, he is most charming as he
leans. over the stairway rail,
spruced up in a business suit, ex-
plaining about his mechanical
building set: “ ...I just play
with it.” Jack Piotrow made a
good temperamental Kolenkhov.
The loudness. of his voice never
went on the wane, if once in a
while his accent did. Robert Rey-
nolds as the tax collector wasn’t
much good, but did not appear on
stage long enough for it to mat-



Pickles, Chopped Meat

Sooth Busriding Chorus
eT Continaad from Pare 3
Mr. Goodale in slightly rumpled
tuxedo. We got back a little after
‘two, and as we dropped some chop-
ped meat and dill pickle into our
wastebasket we thought — we’ve
been away a little over sixteen
hours, and they probably didn’t
notice we were gone.





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Varied Concepts Have Social, Moral Inferences

| Continued from Page 2

pianos.”

The concept of natural law has
social as well as moral implica-
tions. “Advocates of an individ-
ualistic type of society see the
|mark of human dignity in individ-
Ad-
vocates of a communistic type of
society: see the mark of human
dignity in subordination to the col-
lective group. Advocates of the



talk in the midst of them, they
should have been good, if only by
contrast. When the two talked,
it was worse, but due credit must
be given to the authors for a
series of rotten lines. Nancy tried
to make things easier for John
Acton, but John merely grinned
his way through the play, evident-
ly oblivious. He too improved
however in the third act, when he
set his genial countenance in hard-
er lines and made a good go at
defying his father. |

|

Brooks Cooper as Mr. Kirby
gave an excellent performance ue
usual, but it is hard to imagine |
him as Acton’s father. Maxine
Skwirsky showed fine perception of
Mrs. Kirby’s character, but her
hair should have been greyer. She
simply did not look old enough to
be Tony’s mother. June Moyer did
Gay Wellington up to perfection
with that sandpapery singing.
Claireve Grandjouan’s faint
French accent slid easily into a
Russian accent, and she rendered
a completely endearing Grand
Duchess Olga Katharina.

The success of the play in gen-
eral depended a great deal on mere
mechanics. The staging—set de-
ran and property arrangement—
|Was in this reviewer’s opinion, the
best that has been done on Good-
hart in the last two years. Dick
McKinley designed the set. He
and Ellen Bacon, the stage man-
pager, worked out the problems of
an enormous number of props very
cleverly. The xylophone and the
printing press were neatly taken
care of in an alcove out of the
actors’ way, and small details add-
ed significantly to the atmosphere
of the play—the potted plant on
the stainway, the wallpaper de-
sign, the beautiful brass chande-
lier.

You Can’t Take It With You
was notable for its technical per-
fections and for its demonstration
of the abilities of Marjie Low as a
director. If it can be considered a
criterion, then things will go well
for Saroyan’s The Beautiful
People, the last effort of the Bryn
Mawr Theater this year.

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old rights.



personalistic type of society see
the mark of human dignity in
rights intrinsic and inherent in the
It is to this last
position that Dr. Maritain adheres.
that natural
rights are not static; new rights
come into being by a struggle with
An example of this is
the comparatively recent accept- |

human person.”

He emphasized





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In a comedy of this sort, the| tioning. Man has ends which are! certain minimums of social justice.
comical characters are easier to part of his constitution, and these| On the
play than “straight” roles. As it| are common to all men; just as the|“rights natural to every man,
happened, the “straight” charac-|same tones are common to all rights which no civil society can
ters, the lovers, Alice and Tony,
failed pathetically in their scenes
Nancy Pearre was well
;cast as Alice; she looked nice and
normal, but still a member of this
She was much better in
family scenes than with Tony. The | ual appropriations of value.
second scene of the first act was
watch.
Even the kisses were awkward, and
since neither person could move or

other hand, there are

bese us to relinquish.” In the last
analysis, “every right possessed
by man is possessed by virtue of
God,” but the knowledge of na-
tural law progresses and is refined
by “the inclination of the moral
conscience; and this process will
continue as long as human nature
exists.”

Hajo Holburn of Yale
To Address Graduates

Continued from Page 2

ormation, and American Military
Government. Dr. Holborn is also
co-editor of the Journal of the
History of Ideas and the Journal
of Modern. History.



Joanna Semel, ’52, has been
elected editor of Counterpoint.

The new officers of the ‘Al-
liance are as follows: President,
Betty Goldblatt; co-chairmen of
publicity, Eve Romaine and
Ronnie Gottlieb; secretaries,
Helen Woodward and Eleanor
Toumey; Current Events, Betsy
Repenning; IRC, Chickie Glass-



|| berg, president; Doris Ham-
burger, secretary; Industrial
Group, Lois Kalins; clothing

drive, Candy Bolster.







Haverford Class Night
Burlesques Coeducation
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ing out a couple of unfunny inci-
dents and putting in ‘more music,
but on the whole the polish of a
few individual actors carried it
over the rough spots.

The titles to the three erudite
scenes presented by the faculty
were as clever as the actual pro-
ducticn. The first scene was a la
Shakespeare, The Troublous Reign
of Gilbert I; the second a la Hem-
ingway, The (Lady-) Killers; and
the third in the manner of Mr.
Chekhov, The Ginko Orchard, with
a finish-off parody on Loos’ “Dia-
monds are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
The whole thing was a pretty
piece of Fund Drive propaganda
in literary disguise, which was
fairly successful dramatically.

Class Night is a long affair,
and it was nigh onto twelve o’clock
when the announcement of the
judges” opinions was made. Tom
McNutt’s singing was pronounced
the evening’s best. individual per-
formance, and the decision ag to
which class had put on the best
show was rendered—and we think
rightly—in favor of the class of
1951.



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