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Wednesday, March’ 13, 1957



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Turn Out The Lights!

The recent request of the administration, channeled
through the Undergrad hall reps, to guard against careless
wasteage of food and electricity warrants unanimous atten-
tion and compliance. This plea for economy is not born out
of a desire to skimp on food and services, but represents, rath-
er, the practical approach to balancing the budget. This year
food costs are running considerably higher than the proposed
allowance because of the rising prices on meats and almost all
basic commodities. These increases have resulted in an ap-
preciable deficit in the food budget. As regards electricity,
the administration believes reductions could be made ‘in its
payments to outside companies if only the careless use of
lighting were corrected. :

It is hoped that the students will cooperate in-meeting
the problem 9f rising food costs by reducing wasteage, namely
heeding the request to sign out for meals. Weekends pose
the greatest difficulties to the director of halls and the die-

tician. Much guesswork and calculation goes into ordering
food when people are away. The college normally expects to
make these weekend food savings, but would be able to work
more effectively if a valid estimate could be had by Thursday
when food is ordered. Although Thursday is optimum from
the standpoint of ordering, allowing for late weekend plan-
ners, lists will be kept posted past that time. While an exact
estimate cannot be expected, it is hoped that more students
will feel obligated to remember these lists when their advance
plans are definite. Compliance with this simple request might
mean a balanced budget.

Electricity bills have proved another thorn in the col-
lege budget. Examination of the halls has shown that stu-
dents not only leave lights on while they are out at night,
but also indiscriminately during the day. We will not con-
test the sentiment that a light burning in one’s room when
one returns engenders a “secure” feeling; however, we do
suggest a more practical attitude regarding financial mat-
ters. In addition, this carelessness has resulted in exorbitant
bulb bills. Students are urged to turn out lights in show-
cases and smokers when they are last to leave at night, and
to watch the use of lighting in their own rooms.

We feel these administration requests deserve every
possible consideration. We are obligated to heed the sugges-
tions since we all benefit from a sound colle udget. One
should also remember that college fees fe due\for study
next year. Anything that'we can do as Andividuals\this year
would offset a possible need next year for fee increases.

Eliot's “Cocktail Party” Will Be Given
Here This Weekend by Theatre’ Groups

must know ... “But will it be the
same, Celia?” “And that’s not
the worst of it. Some of the tribes
are Christian converts ...” Twist-

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by Gretchen Jessup

“., . Lavinia’s aunt ,. .” Louder,
louder, louder. “Lavinia is coming

back...” (Six names \printed on terdins ad
back stage left, 11 beams in each|cd trey nr tame Cait
ceiling sections.) “All matters} » ump Ease eg _” (Man Alive,
is that... ” Telephone (ring). The Happy M odinm, Mabel )

“Oh, Julia ... your spectacles “To California?” “To on (The

again . . . beside the champagne s
bottle? .. . one half empty? ...” org ti as Woman of} Chail

(Bobby socks were Celia’s wear) «1 should like you to ‘remember

and an electric blue pullover.) ” . (Ring!)-“Not-as-in-the past
-——““We must also. remember that}. » Pres “Essex?”

wandering minstrel

at every meeting ... ” (Lines,
lines.) And back to the stage.
(There’s a red exit light and yel-
low side lights grouped, pawnbrok-
ar style, with white work lights on
~eetage: ) “What happened is re-

~*« membered like a dream...” (And

who’s that off stage?)

Can you contact Miss Ely? And
where’s Tawn Stokes? Lines, lines
— voice tones! (Ring, ring.)

ai eet y “Lavinia” (Peter enter-

_ed.) ‘Who's for coffee? No, an-
- other table! “Work out your sal-
vation With diligence...” .

ae

‘i (A telegram.)
‘‘Why from Essex, of course.”
(Ring.) ‘“You’ve been in Essex?”
“No, in Cali— . . .. ” Next speeches
cut. “You’re very kind—pause—
(ring) but very mysterious ...”
(Entrance.) One, two, three. Ques-
tion. Answer. (Ring!) saad

“... Lavinia .. . Essex (ring)
of course.” (Ring.) Stop! Alex!
How can we... But... “And
where may I ask... ” “In Dev-
on?” “No, in Essex.” (Conserve
your energy.) _ Let’s go back to
my house. Good-bye...

THE COLLEGE NEWS





From The Bale ony

Orpheus Descending





by Ruth Rasch

Tennesee Williams has been ac-,

cused of overemphasizing the vio-
lence in modern life. In the Missis-
sippi playwright’s newest play,
Orpheus Descending, violence is
present but so are other elements
—elements which combine to make
this an excellent play—a play which
seems to accurately portray mod-
ern life and t®@ tragedy lurking
in the violence which characterizes
it.
. 'Bhe weaknesses in the construc-
iton of the play are overcome by
magnificent performances, and
Tennessee Williams’ drama effect-
ively creates a world which is be-
tievable. Though the violence is
omnipresent, with it goes the
strength of human character and
the force of human love.

The scene is the deep South and
the heroine a strong woman of
Italian origin. Maureen Stapleton,
the‘ original creator of Serafine
Della Rose in The Rose Tatoo is
forceful in the role of Lady Tor-
rance, a vital woman who longs for
love and the chance to create life
but who is unhappily married to a
man dying of cancer.

_Orpheus, Val Xavier, is the
who comes
bearing his guitar-to bring love to
her life. This reviewer saw the
part when it was being played by
Robert Loggia who has since been
replaced by Cliff Robertson. Mr.
Loggia gave, what seemed to this
playgoer.. to..be,.an..excellent....per-.
formance of a man, just turned
30, who tries to give up his old
life for a new one—and a respect-
able job. Val even sheds his snake
skin jacket for a blue business
suit, but he cannot shed his char-
acter.

The two main characters of the

play seemed fated to disaster be-
cause of the gentle naivete of the
minstrel and the vital honesty of
Lady.

Lois Smith, in a smaller role,
is the third star of the play. As
an “exhibitionist,” rebelling
against the tradition she is born
to maintain as the youngest mem-
ber of one of the old county fam-
ilies, she makes the character she
plays understandable and admir-
able.

The minor characters in this
play help to create the scene in
which the play takes place. As
Southern townswomen, Elizabeth
Eustis, Jane: Rose, Nell Harrison
and Mary Farrell are all extreme-
ly competent. They manage to
accept in different ways the tradi-
itons against which Lois Smith is
rebelling. The townsmen, in brief-
er appearances, all play their parts
competently.

The set, the general dry goods
store run by Lady Torrance with
part of the new confectionary
showing, forms an appropriate
backdrop to the action that takes
place inside it.

In the final scene, the crime of
the past, the stifling conventions
of the present and the hope of life
in the futuré coalesce to force a
sudden conclusion to the play. It
is not the best of Tennessee Wil-
liams’ work for in it he fails to
create a complete personal environ-
ment for the main character, Lady
Torrance, and-he. failsin- some re-
spects to more than caricature the
opposing force in the play, for it is
never personalized. However, these
reservations are slight when com-
pared with the many fine points
in the play and the performance
of the newest drama by this great
playwright.



Lattimore Attracts
“Eager’’ Audience

The attraction of Dr. Lattimore’s
Poetry Reading Thursday evening,
March 7, crowded the Common
Room with a-rapt audience which
listened eagerly as he moved from
translations of ancient poems to
those of modern poets and then
on to his own work.

Starting with a passage from an
unpublished translation of Virgil’s
Georgies, Dr. Lattimore next read
the scene between Priam and
Achilles in the last book of the
Iliad. ‘Pindar’s eleventh Nemean
Ode and the comment of Simonides
upon the “word of Pittakos” were
among the translations following.

The classical mood was left be-
hind as Dr. Lattimore turned to
two modern Greek poems, “Wait-
ing for the Barbarians”, and a bal-
lad, “The Bridge at Arta”.

His own poetry ranged, as Dr.
Lattimore remarked, from oberva-
tions such as “North Philadelphia,
Trenton, and New York”, to per-
sonal reminiscences, The sea was
his favorite subject—a series of
images from different viewpoints,
including “Sea Changes”, ‘Mid-
Continental”, and “Good Speed for
Southward Voyagers”. As a dem-
onstration that anything can be
made into poetry, Dr. Lattimore
has composed sonnets from the En-

Leyelopedia” “Britannica; he read

“Hiroshima” and “Hitler” from
those in the H group. Among the
more personal poems was “Anni-
versary”, recently published in the
New Yorker. —

One listener was heard to com-
ment: “One of the most ‘civilized
evenings I’ve ever spent, and one
of the most delicious”; while a stu-
dent came away so uplifted that
she wrote her first poem for Verse

Composition!

WT...

Stolen straight from The Col-
lege News, March 7, 1917: “Last
Thursday was a ‘blue night’ for
both odds and evens. Light blue
and dark blue administered a wat-
ery defeat to green and red respec-
tively, making a third match nec-
essary Monday night and giving
each class a last chance in the fight
to enter the water-polo finals.”
Shucks, thought they were going
to say water fights (administering
of which is not exactly an uncom-
mon trait on the modern campus).
Well, anyway, their way was at
least legal.

Speaking of legal ... yes, let’s:
‘Twenty-five cents was voted as a
self-imposed fine for walking on
the grass, by the Undergraduate
Association last Monday night.”
Now that’s interesting. Possibili-
ties: 1) Ipso-Facto grass-walkers
maybe; then everyone was docked
25 cents at the end of the year. A
Common Treas. . .. well, you know.
2) “Jane, (or whoever was then
president of the Undergrad Assoc-
iation) I’m going to walk on the
grass now, here’s a quarter... oh,
the price one pays to be late to
classes.”

And then she picks up her dainty
high-buttoned capezios and stomps
through — the mud. 3) Or, per-
thaps—one—sunny* afternoon PYesi-|
dent Thomas would hear a knock
at her door and behold—a frustrat-
ed freshman: “President T., I’d
like to .. . well, what I mean to say
is .. . this bill I’ve run up on...
you see, it was dark, and .. . oh,
dear, will -you take this 25
cents; and I promise never to do
it again!” a

Think of the complexes this rule
created, maybe they could have



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Professor English Literature at Haverford College.

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Class Night Is Both
Tedious And Artistic

by Sue Harris

To the uninitiated roving report-
er, Haverford Class Night was a
pleasant surprise. In fact, it was

one considers the time limitation,
a certain lack of talent and orig-
inality and the varying degrees of
experience and sophistication be-
hind each show. The moments of
polished artistry, when they occur-
red, stuck out like sore thumbs
among a handful of often tedious,
raunchy, although aspiring, scenes,
and caused this reviewer to won-
der at the Class Nights of past
years.

However, as the program cover
suggests (thanks to Goéthe), Class
Night should not necessarily be
taken as anything more than a
fanciful, sensible, reasonable, sen- .
timental, passionate example of
folly. And in this light, each show
was successful.

1959’s “Leisure for Pleasure”,
which took the cup as the winner,
had perhaps the only theme: that
was executed with balance. Drunk
monks, a -vague reference to Hav-
rford: and some very lofty. verse
carried the show. ‘ However, the
large number of monks, who were
presént on stage virtually through-
out the show, music suggesting
Organum that added to the musty,
rusty and wine-heavy medieval
theme,, ahd an overall adequacy in
acting combined to create a well-
balanced presentation. It is too —
bad that the subtlety of the verse
did not conceal more of the raunch-
ier aspects of the show, although
perhaps this is unavoidable, (and
even if it isn’t, parts of the audi-
ence certainly enjoyed it).

Fluctuating Humor

“Leisure” had many good lines,
some of which actually verged
on the poetic. In general, the
use of verse tied the rather weak
plot_.together with enough contin-
uity to make the show a convincing
one. The humor rose and fell ap-
propriately, or so it seemed, as did
the audience, for the show’s loud-
est laugh came at the conclusion
of a very loud belch (pearls of
wisdom from a naked yogi). The
sets and lighting were effective,
particularly at the opening of the
cellar scene, and the drinking cho-
rus, sung by massed enthusiastic
male voices, actually raised a cor-
ner of the roof. The show, how-
ever, was a disappointment as far
as the acting and plot were con-
cerned,

1957, with casual; amusing sen-
iority, approached Haverford’s cur-
rent dilemma over accepting De-
fense Department aid with a show
that had its roots in Quaker friend-
liness. This theme was appropri-
ate and touching, for who knows
how sincere the graduating seniors
were? The play’s sarcastic points
were emphatic and skillfully han-
dled. Special mention should go
to Henry Farrell and Tony Bing
whose parodies of typical news
commentator and William Baker
— respectively were outstand-
ng.

However, as a whole “The Mar-
tial Plan” was hardly successful.
A long overture preceding the ac-

tual performance left one with the —

impression that whoever was play-

ling the piano was-exeellent:—And——————

the drum and kazoo chorus which
led into the finale had little connec-
tion with the theme itself, although
this revi found the seniors,
dressed in b and carrying
beer -mugs, individually hilarious.
The dance scene was poor and add-
ed nothing to the plot in the way
of artistic continuation. Binny
Havilland, Bill Moss, the dancers,
lacked form, grace and even the
ability to parody their function
as poor dancers. Harry Hoover's

music was catchy, but, excepting —

‘the Octet’s representative, Tony

Bing, it lost most of its appeal
through weak delivery.

“Burning for Learning”, or



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