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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

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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.





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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

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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,





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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.

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