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Vol. Lill, No. 12

BRYN MAWR, PA.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1968

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Community Project Set
At Social Action Meeting

Discussion at last Wednesday’s
Bryn Mawr-Haverford Social
Action Committee meeting cen-
tered around the question of pro-
grams for the spring.

A strategic discussion grew a-
round the proposal for a program,
which was presented by Mindy
Thompson,

The aim of this program drawn
up. by several Bryn Mavr girls,
is to build lines of communication
between the colleges and the com-
munity of Bryn Mawr.
The program will initiate contact
by teaching and working with child-
ren from the community in the field
of Language Arts.

The statement Mindy. read
claimed that deprived children suf-
fer from. an inability to express
themselves and to communicate
with others. Through Language
Arts, they can learn to articulate
their thoughts and feelings. The
Language Arts program would be
structured in workshops of Dance
or Dramatics which would draw out
the ideas and problems of every
child.

In giving these children con-
fidence in themselves, and the abil-
ity to express it, the program will
strive to make them more domi-
nately able to compete in middle
class society, to get good jobsand
‘get —into good colleges.

The program is designed to be
a learning experience for the col-
lege students who participate also.
To confront a totally différemt way

of life may’ shake the student into

seeing beyond thé limits of his or
her activity at college.

At the same time it is hoped
that in becoming aware of poverty,
discrimination and poor education
in the immediate community, the

student will see that the seemingly

far away problems of the Vietnam
war are echoed, or perhaps rooted,
close at home in the problems of

the cities.
This connection between the war

» and the state of the country will

be underlined in April, at a fast
and teach-in which is also part of
the proposal. In a coalition with
the Negro Discussion Group, the

new group focused on ‘the Bryn,
Mawr community will emphasize’
urban. problems during the: teach~ :

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There were many different opin-



ions flung back and forth about this
proposal at the meeting. Some felt
that though the aims of the program
in increasing political conscious-
ness among gq pathetic students and
in a poor community were good,
that teaching children to ex-
press themselves better would not
basically or permanently change
their situation, and that young
children were nota group ready to
organize for change. They felt
that high school students had more
potential for political con-
sciousness. Members of the Negro
Discussion Group warned _ the
meeting of wisdom of white
middle-class students speaking to
black kids.

Later during the meeting Rick
Hathaway announced the forma-
tion of a Speaker’s Bureau for
speakers and films. Peter Gold-
berg brought up a proposal for
sending draft information to near-
by high school students,

Literary Prize
Deadline Set
For March 21

Joining the host of sponsors
announcing spring literary con-
tests, the Alumnae Office has set
Mar. 21 as its deadline for all

entries to the Katherine Fullerton-

Gerould Memorial Prize.

The competition, which carries
a $75 prize, is open to all Bryn
Mawr undergraduates. Entries
may be made in any of three cat-
egories; narrative (long or short);
informal essay (excluding critical
papers and formal essays); and
verse.

Work from class or,from a
student publication is not excluded,
but entries should have been
written or completed since Com-
mencement of last year.

Contestants may submit more
than one entry and in the case
of verse, the Committee advises
the submission of a group of poems.

Manuscripts, typed and double
spaced, should’ be submitted to the
Alumnae Office unsigned. . «

of originality,and mastery of lang-
uage. iIt.is given only if, in the
opinion of the Committee, material
submitted ‘justifies an award.

_ ‘The prizeisawardedon the basis _

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Much of the furnishings of the Dorothy Vernon Room in the Dean-
ery will be transplanted to the common living room of the new
language house in the fall of 1969. To add to the atmosphere,
the architect plans to use the wooden beams on the new ceiling.
He is also investigating the possibility of moving the tile floor.



Freshman Viking Saga
To Run This Weekend

‘*You’re the kind who, if you
were hanging by your fingertips
from a cliff, would say you were
climbing a mountain,”’

Every year about this time, the
dazzling talent of the freshmen
surges out of the depths of
academia and pre-Hell Week
terror to produce a show or u-
paralleled literary and musical
value, And-for a_

by fingertips.’’ sp

But this year, as pS Sar, the
cliff is in reality the upward sYope
of a mountain of achievement,

‘*Who Put the . Vie. in
Viking?’ .- Class of ’71, will
be staged tonight and tomorrow
night at 8:30 in Goodhart with
tickets for both performances
avilable at the door.

A tale of Viking daring-do,
the presentation tonight and to-
morrow evening will demon-

strate the credibility of dra-
maturgical evolution,

Starting with a rather amorph-
ous suggestion from a gloat-
ing upperclassman (probably
a ‘friendly’? sophomore), ‘‘Say,
don’t you kids have some sort of
little production to throw to-
gether,’’ the show staggered
from ‘ ness” to ‘¢well-maybe’’ and on

ew clutching
hours, there is a {ot of ‘changing tothe finished product,

“Director Molly Sloca, Pro-
duction Managers Viven Schmidt,
and Kim Hansen, Music Director
Sandee Dollar, ChpeSoertcher
Madeleine Denko, BuSiness Man-
ager Sue D’Arezzo, Costume
Co-ordinators Judy Hoos and Judy
Wenner, Set Designer Mimi Evans,
Program Chairman Bea Jones,
Publicity Head Sue Auerbach,
Lighting Technician Lois Bur-
leigh, Make-up Expert Myra

(Continued on page 7)



Stay-Aways Get
Just Desserts .

Hoping that the way to a stu-
dent’s_ ballot is through her
stomach, .Undergrad is initiating
an election system which will
lure voters with the prospect of
sweets to -hear candidates talk
on their platforms. Termed the
‘“‘Dessert System,” it will con-
sist of two meetings held
in the Common Room directly
after dinner, as opposed to the
current Dinner System, which pro-
vides for individual discussions
at 7 and 10 in each dorm. .

Undergrad and Self-Gov candi-
dates will. speak at the Mon-
day meeting, while contenders
for Big Six positions. will
appear on Wednesday. The candi-
dates will speak for a limited
time, and then be available for
individual questioning during the
refreshment period.

The system works out to
fill the same calendar space as
the current procedure, so
if the new scheme is unsuccess-
ful, a. reversion to the old
plan will not be difficult.

The system as it is planned
has a dual attraction. It first
of all simplifies considerably the
task of the candidates, by re-
quiring only one speech instead
of eight. It secondly helps to combat
voter apathy by offering only ice
cream at dinner, and sup-
plementary tempting desserts
to those who come to the meeting.
The original scheme was thatthose
who stayed away would be givenno
dessert at all, but this was re-
jected __as_‘‘cruel and unusual
punishment.’’



PARKING

The President’s Office
would like to remind anyone
who uses the campus park-
ing facilities between the
hours of 9 and 5 that only
cars with official bumper
stickers are allowed in
Merion parking lot and on
the road in front of Taylor.
Haverford and all others
are requested to use the
Erdman lot.







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THE COLLEGE NEWS si

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Robin Brantley 69 Mary Yee '70
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Editor Emeritus Contributing Editor \
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Editorial and Photographic Staff :
Dora Chizea '69, Beverly Davis ’70
Sally Dimschultz 70, Ashley Doherty °71
"Patty Gerstenblith '71, Ellen Hooker °70
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Marianne Lust'’69, Laurel Miller ’70
Mary Parker-’70, Marian Scheuer '70
Barbara Sindel ’70

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‘No News Is No NEWS

Perhaps you wonder why there are so few letters
to the editor. You may even notice that the editorials
this week do not reflect active issues. If you examine
the NEWS you will see that the featurearticles greatly
outnumber the news articles,

It is true that newspaper people are supposed to

have a special talent for finding out what’s happening,
a nose for news, € aise

But even the most sensitive noses, and ears, and







eyes, can sense that there isn’t much news, or if

there is news, there’s a breakdown in communications.

Perhaps this is because the semester is just be-
ginning. We like to think that that’s the excuse. Maybe
the arrival of spring (or the knowledge that it’s
coming soon) will generate a little excitement, We know
that some people are beginning to get interested in
projects and maybe they can carry some of their en-
thusiasm to others,

We can’t legislate interest and excitement. We can
only record it, describe it, and comment on it,
_ Maybe we expect and hope for too much, N.M.

Deserting Idealism

Undergrad’s new ‘‘Dessert System’’ of elections
is faintly reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel: in both
the basic scheme is that innocents are lured into an
undeBirable place with the promise of sweets. Con-
sidering the ideal of an informed and eager elec-
torate, this bribe-the-student approach might at
first be termed regrettable, In reality, however, it
is. merely an honest response to a frank appraisal
of Bryn Mawr voter attitude,

The new system is commendable because of its
practicality. It releases the candidates from thé
grueling and unnecessary task of making the same
speech and answering ‘the same questions eight
times, It furthermore takes into account the fact that
many positions require simple executive ability; to
make contenders for these offices come up with
elaborate platforms each year is just a formality,
and a silly one, .Under the new system, the time
limit will insure that the candidates mainly dem-
onstrate their ‘ability to handle questions from the’

floor. Most importantly, however, the new system
ts practical in t it realizes that student attitude

cannot be moulded by the system, that the system ;

_smust be adapted to the prevailing attitude,
The NEWS also feels this need for a realistic.
outlook, We have urged’ students year after year

to attend the after-dinner -election meetings, to

ask questions, to be, if not involved, at least inter-
ested in those who are. That these pleas have gone |
_ unheeded if not unre dis ee ound

Why No Creativity?

The College News, October 3, 1962

It is not -true that Bryn Mawr girls
never wear shoes, as ‘‘Mademoiselle’’
reporter Margaret Parkinson implies,

It is not true that a costumed studeht
astride a white plow-horse presides over
May Day. But no one really cares.

What we do care about is the fact that

to an outsider we appear as intellectual .

snobs, knitters instead of talkers in class,

‘talkers instead of doers outside of class.
The criticism that Bryn Mawr lacks
intellectual creativity did not originate in
the ‘‘Mademoiselle’”’ article, but it is a
central point there.’ But what (or who)/s
responsible for this dearth?

Many students will say that the work
load precludes any possibility of real
creativity in non-academic fields. Yet,
is it the work load or the myth of the
work lqad that bothers us? Articles that
depict us as sort of intellectual IBM
machines perpetuate a myth that we do

* ‘nothing but work.
So, strangely enough, do the smoker-

“sitters, the all-night bridge-players. In-
stead of working, they waste time feeling
guilty about not working, This guilt saps
their time and their energy and leaves
little of either left for creativity.

Yet, interspersed with groans of ‘‘I’ve
got so much work to do,’’ the small voice
behind the bridge hand will complain,

‘‘!’m so bored with my classes. Why are

Bn,

Many students feel that the type of work
load given precludes any possibility of real
creativity in academic fields. It is not.
the length of the reading list they rebel
against, but the feeling ‘that it is not
stimulating or interesting.

Knowledge for knowledge’s sake doesn’t
mean facts for facts’ sake. Why are we
simply fact collectors? . Is it because
of the orientation towards the require-—
ments of graduate schools? Is it be-
cause taking notes is easy and time-
consuming and doesn’t require. thought?

Or is it because that is what is ex-
pected of us by our professors? Is it
true, as ‘‘Mademoiselle” suggests, that
ours is a faculty of scholars and not of
teachers? Are we really the main in-
terest of this scholarly faculty?

Does this kind of work prescribed in
the course syllabus preclude any possibi-
lity of creativity in class? Or did Miss
Lang hit the ‘nail on the head when she
said: ‘‘(the) silence in class is due to
the fear of what the other girls will think.
There’s that why-doesn’t-she-shut-up
feeling that upperclassmen have about
student talkers.’’?

Neither ‘‘Mademoiselle’’ nor the NEWS
has the answers to these questions, but,
perhaps, the place for creativity and sim-
ulation to begin is in the mind of the
individual student.

we so seldom challenged?”’







in my opinion,

~ Letter to

For the Defense

To the Editor:

In reference to last week’s re-
view of ‘Elvira Madigan’ ---
the movie does
not at all ask the question, .‘‘Can
a Swedish cavalry officer with
a wife and two children find happ-
iness with the beautiful tightrope
walker for whom he deserts his
other responsibilities?’ It asks
no question at all---it is a mixed
media symphony of forms, colors,
symbolic emotions and time. It is
certainly valid to observe that the
two lovers are neither very bright
nor very original. -I also might
add that they are very selfish.
Their importance to the film, how-
ever, lies in their rather superfi-
cial charm, their beauty and their
simplicity.

To criticize this sort of film
on the basis of ones reaction to
the, characters’ personalities is
like condemning ‘Bonnie and
Clyde’? because one feels that its
heroes do not deserve to be made
heroes of, Or, inanother example,
it is like rejecting Manet’s ‘‘De-
jeuner sur I’ 'Herbe’”’ as a serious



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the Editor

work of art merely because the
figures in the landscape are
engaged in an activity which is
certainly ridiculous and probably
immoral,

Final proof that the heroes’ story
is not meant to be followed with
bated breath was offered by the di-
rector himself in an interview
with him I read recently, He
pointed out that in Sweden Elvira
Madigan’s story is part of the le-
gendary lore of the country. Thus
the end of the story by itself
holds no interest for Swedish au-
diences. They are content to
watch the events move as slowly
as. the director desires. Bo Wi-
derberg sought to have program
notes distributed to American au-
diences briefly outlining the story.
But his request was denied by the
film’s American distributor.

I doubt whether the picture is
intended to move you---of course
if it does it is no more a point
in the film’s favor than its failure
to do so is a mark against it.

The human beings are merely
one of the tools used in the crea-
tion of a symphonic impression
of a love affair---of course they
are impersonal.

The era, as well as the place
and the participants, are integral
to the film. Elvira’s simple yel-
low dress is a piece of art in
itself---though I might add, in de-
fense of realism, that her dress
was very wrinkled and-that the hem

of it was absolutely filthy---as .

were her boots.
Marianne Lust 69





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Pauline Dubkin °63



veritatem dilexi. i have chosen
the truth.

and with truth bryn mawr: may
day, no smoking in buildings built -
before the turn of the century,
self gov, classes with seven peo-
ple, classes with seventy, senior
row, ‘‘bryn mawr college was
founded by a group ... who were
convinced that intelligent women
deserve an education as rigorous
and stimulating as that offered to
men,’? haverford, grim realities:
“begin studying at once,’’ good-
hart, and pallas athena thea.

is this composite truth? and if
so how can an owl called apple-
bee and a woman called m. carey
thomas and a course called fresh-
man comp and a dormitory called
leeds all fit into the truth one
carries away?

i think there may be an an-
swer somewhere way up in a li-
brary tower. you can see pretty
far from the tower but what you
really notice is that the build-
ings enclose bryn mawr and yet
at the same time they don’t jut
out and disturb the setting. they
isolate but they don’t jar.

maybe each truth is like that:
‘tsolated but unjarring. the only
time they really mix is when you
get far away -- in time or space
it doesn’t really matter -- and
then they get hazy. like in an air-
plane looking down on bryn mawr
or like in fifty years looking back.
either way the buildings (or truths)
mix and become one. and then
you think ‘‘was that woman’s name
really applebee?”’

thoughtfully yours,
applebee

; Editor in Merion.










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Friday, February 9. 1968

Page Three



‘Help’ Comes
On Tuesday

Kicking off with the kooky Bea-
tles bash “Help,” the Arts Council.
Film Series for the second sem-
ester will offer its first showing
next Tuesday night, Feb. 13.

A kaleidoscopic composite of in-
sane action and nonsense dialogue,
‘‘Help,’® with locations perhaps
including the Bahamas, Salisbury
Plain and the Austrian Alps, is a
guaranteed laugh.

On Feb. 20 the French take over .

with ‘‘The 400 Blows,’’ the. auto-
biography of Director Truffaut’s
own unhappy youth. Turned out
by his parents, the boy lives in,
petty crime until he is sent to
reform school.

Slated for Feb. 27, ‘‘Mr. Arka=
din,” the story of a wealthy amne-
vsiac’s ‘attempt to investigatea past '
which turns out to be monstrous,
shows Orson Welles’ remarkable

instinct for the film. medium.

A testament against political fa-
naticism, ‘‘Ashes and Diamonds,”
Mar. ‘5 is Andrej Wadja’s initia-
ting force in the Polish Film Re-
naissance of the 1950’s. The plot
moves around a young resistance
fighter who is ordered to kill a
Communist and falls in love on the
night after Germany surrendered.

On Mar, 12 ‘‘She Done Him
Wrong’’ features Gary Grantas The
Hawk, a detective on the trail ofa
saloon keeper who ships girls to
South American dance halls and who

gets acquainted with a performer [

in a Bowery beer hall.

Spanish director Luis Bunuel sa-
tirizes the wealthy middle class in
“This Strange Passion,” one of
his most subtle and.most surpris-
ing films. An analysis. of psycho-

logical problems, the story.focuses -
on a women and - her _pathologi-. ,

cally jealous husband.”

On April 2 only, the film
‘*g 1/2?? will be shown at 7:15
p.m. and 9:45 p.m. This Fel-
lini flick, starring Marcello Mas-
‘troianni , centers on the identity
crisis of a director as an artist
and a man. The film proceeds
from fantasy to fantasy toward self-
discovery, recalling Fellini’s later

film, ‘‘Juliette of the Spirits.’
In the April m, ‘‘The Green
Man,’ Alistair plays a man

dedicated to blowing up people
whom he doesn’t like in a veddy,
veddy British murder comedy.

‘‘The Rules of the Game,’’ April
16, sketches the erotic charades of
the French .leisure class before
World War II. Long banned in
France ‘for the sting of its satire,
this film, under the direction of
Jean Renoir, displays the ludri-

crous and barbaric Game which

ends inevitable in death.

Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor and
Lionel Barrymore star in
‘Camille’? on April 23. Garbo’s
magnificient performance saves
this 1936 story from the too-sad,
too-sweet category.

The final film, shown on April
30, will be ‘‘Dr. Strangelove.’’
Peter Sellers plays the President,
an imperturbable British liason
officer and an unreformed Nazi
scientist in afiinyentive, out-
rageous satire.

The fims will be shown regu-
larly On Tuesday nights at 7:15
and 9:15. Series tickets will be
available at $3 through Pay Day
or may: be ordered by sending a
check for the correct amount to
Maggie George, Pembroke. East.

Persons without tickets will be
admitted to. the individual show-
ings in the Biology Lecture
Room with a contribution of 50¢,

‘Arts Council warits to stress
that this will be a very expensive

~ film ‘series; -and-—unless- enough

series tickets are sold, the last
movie, ,‘‘Dr. ‘Strangelove,’’ beg
have to be cancelled. ~





THE COREE NEWS




photo courtesy Akoue

Dr. Dryden will direct a massive dig for fossils in the Calvert
Cliffs area. What will turn up is still a mystery.

Bryn Mawr Senior Trips;

Publishes and Tells All

While most of us just sit ana
dream of the books we will some-
day write and the fields we will
‘someday “conquer, - Bryn -Mawr
senior Laurie Deutsch is already
on her way toward realizing her
ambition; to become Travel Editor
of The New York Times, She



photo by Julie Kagan
is preparing a project to enter in
the second ‘round of a competit-
ion to become a guest editor of
‘‘Mademoiselle”’ magazine, and is
simultaneously working on a book
for Simon and Schuster,
The ‘‘Mademoiselle’’ competi-

tion invites students from all overe

the country to submit any creative
work; from the 2,000 entrants,

0 are awarded special recom-

endations, Lauriewrotea series
of articles entitled ‘‘Take a Trip
With LSD”’ (Laurie Susan Deutsch),
‘taken from the experiences and

expressions of her junior year.

abroad, On the strength of this
entry, Laurie was awarded a spec-
ial recommendation, and is now in
the second round of the contest,
The competition becomes some-
what stiffer on the second level,
since anybody who ever passed the
first round in previous years is
eligible to enter, provided that the
student is still in college. Laurie’s
project is the development ofanad
campaign for a whimsical made-up
product: a Hangup. A Hangup is a
very feminine clothes hanger; the
ad campaign will use Bryn Mawr
girls, with slogans such as ‘‘Even
Hippies Have Hangups”’ and ‘‘Even
Intellectuals Have Hangups.”’
From the second-round entries,
twenty students will be selected to
be guest editors for the August
°68 issue of ‘‘Mademoiselle.’”’
While Laurie is competing with
some students for the ‘‘Mademoi-
selle’”’ position, she will be working
indirectly with others on a guide-
book for Simon and Schuster, en-
titled «‘Where the Fun Is, USA,’’
Slated to be published in Decem-
ber of next year, it will cover
places of interest to foreign and
American students, such as ight-

clubs, student bars, accommo-
dations, restaurants, shops and
boutiques, It is patterned after a
European guidebook, ‘also put out
‘by Simon and Schuster, which will
appear this year.

Students from all over the
country are working on different
areas for the book, Laurie’s
assignment is to cover Philadel-
phia and Long Island. To help
her with the extensive Philadelphia
area, she has hired an assistant
at Penn to cover the university
section of town, Laurie’s task
is not only to discuss individual
attractions, but also to ‘‘sell’”’
the general Philadelphia and Long
Island areas to the public, She
in fact got the commission by

‘persuading the publishers that

Philadelphia was one of the nation’s
swinging spots, She is finding
now that it is not quite the trendy

-. center.. she -had made it out to be

in her application. However, there

gis one:recourse for bored stu-
dents in Philadelphia looking for
Where It’s At: they can always
come to Bryn Mawr.

Maggie Crosby ’70

Project FREE
Wins Victory
InPennsylvania

Project FREE (‘For Real Es-
tate Equality’), organized to end
discrimination in housing along
the Main Line’ and to stop illegal
activities of realtors, won a md-
jor victory with the passage of
a Pennsylvania full-coverage fair
housing law. The Project’s re-
sponsibility now is to form a pro-
gram that will help insure that the
new law is fully and strongly im-
plemented in the coming months.
The Executive Committee has
scheduled an organizational meet-
ing for 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb.
15, in Sharpless Hall at Haver-
ford to set guidelines for such
aprogram, _

The new law, effective since
Jan. 29, poses fresh questions:
what new directions will the law
cause Project FREE to consider?
What will the role of Project
FREE be in light of the new
law? Should there be a massive
testing program in order to de-
termine real estate compliance
with the legislati

The meeting to consider these
questions will feature guest
speaker James Orange of the Sou-
thern Christian Leadership Con-
ference. . He will describe plans
- for the April Mobilization in Wash-
ington and possibilities of FREE’s
connection with the program.



Geology Professor Begins
Two-Year Treasure Hunt

A two-year treasure huntis about
to begin under the direction of Lin-

coln- Dryden, professor of geology :

at. Bryn Mawr. The buried trea-
sure is not gold but fossils, par-
ticularly fossils of whales from the
Miocine Age (15-20 million B.C.),
and the site is the Calvert Cliffs of
Maryland.

The cliffs have long been known

for their fossils -- particularly

young whale fossils, indicating that
the area might have been at one
time an ancient spawning ground
-- but no extensive study has yet
been conducted there. Dryden has
called the cliffs a ‘‘great natural
laboratory’® and was puzzled that
the region has never been ade-
quately investigated.

The impetus. for the oresect came
when the Baltimore Gas and Elec-
tric Company bought almost 1000
acres in Calvert County, in the
heart of the fossil-rich area. The
company has agreed to give re-
searchers access to the cliffs and
permission to salvage any material

which emerges during excavation
for the site of the new plant.

The entire project will cost an
estimated $134,000. The State has
appropriated $25,000 for the re-
search, matched by a $25,000 gift
from the Ford Foundation. The
Natural Science Foundation has ap-
proved a $50,000 grant, but the
money is being withheld due to the
Presidential directive freezing new
grants pending Congressional ac-
tion on budgets.

The work is scheduled to
on Mar. 1, Vast collections of fos-.
sil material are expected to come
to light which. will be exhibited at
the Maryland Academy of Sciences
and at the Smithsonian Institute.
However, such material will only
be a by-product; the primary pur-
pose of the project is research.
What is exciting is that the out-
come of this research is so in-
definite; nobody is quite sure what
will turn up in the digging. And
paleontologists all over the world
are very anxious. to find out.

Students Cover Action

At West

Two Bryn Mawr seniors sub-
mitted this article to the Editor
after attending the Student
Conference on United States
Affairs at West Point. In a note
they attached to the article,

they said they hoped to convey:

the mood of the conference

rather than a strict recounting
of the debates.

The Student Conference on
United States Affairs (SCUSA),
sponsored annually by the United
States Military Academy at
West Point, is, without a doubt,
one of the most elaborately or-
ganized conferences anywhere
in the United States. At the
beginning of November, a letter,
addressed Oct. 9, arrived
informing us of our round table
assignments (South East Asia and
Sub Saharan Africa), supplying
monumental reading lists, a copy
of the complete minutes from the
previous year, instructions on what
to wear and a copy of the bus
schedule to West Point.

We set out for the Military
Academy the first day of the con-
ference feeling rather panicked

and guilty, as we had not opened:

a single book in preparation, On
the bus we were somewhat
reassured to find a fellow delegate
from the University of Chicago,
who had done as much advance
preparation as we, and an official
from the State Department, who
said he was coming as an ‘‘ad-
visor” to one of the discussion
groups, and asked us rather wor-
riedly what his ‘‘responsibilities
would be.’’

No sooner had we arrived in
the hotel lobby, than half a dozen
cadets, rushed forward, grabbed
our suitcases and ushered us to a
series of tables, where we signed
in, filled out forms, received name
badges and chose our classroom
tours (Military Arts, Engineering,
Language, etc.). Unfortunately we
arrived too late to hear the Key-
note Address, by Paul Nitze,
Deputy Secretary of Defense.
We were told, however, that we
did not miss much, as Nitze con-
fined himself to a _ rather
vague harangue about the neces-
sity Of meeting the Communist
threat. The speaker confided to
the audience that his address that
evening was a ‘‘rehash’’ of a
talk he had given during the fifties.

Rigid Schedule
ror the next three days, every

Point Confab

sessions of round table dis-
cussions, lasting two and a
half hours each; a 15 minute coffee
break; and, after supper, before
the nightly reception, a panel dis-
cussion dealing with challenges
and problems of U.S. foreign policy
making. Panelists included repre-
sentatives from the legislative
and executive . branches of the
government, as well as noted
scholars, journalists, and mem-
bers of the Academy.

The round table discussions con-
stituted the heart of the
conference. Each group included
about 15 delegates (there were
well over 100 colleges repre-
sented), a few cadets (who
were picked on a competitive basis
and had been studying intensively
for this event since the beginning
of the school year), a chairman

and an advisor.
The latter two members

were professors or government
officials, with a special knowledge
of the area under discussion. Al-
though each group was given
an outline of questions to follow
(‘principles and goals,’’ ‘‘defense
interests,” ‘‘policy options,”
etc.), most groups did not
stick to the suggested topics for
discussion. The quality of the dis-
cussions varied greatly, de-
pending upon how well informed
the delegates were, and on the
effectiveness of the chairman.

Starting Comments

Debates were lively, especial-
ly in the South East Asia
group. (The audience was
visibly startled when one delegate
politely raised the question of
whether the United States, and not
China, was the real aggressor
in that part of the world.) How-
ever, at no time did the
dialogue degenerate into name-
calling and undisciplined ar-
gument, Although the majority
of. the members of the Academy
presented decidedly conservative
views, there was a surprising
number of members whopresented
liberal viewpoints.

SCUSA provided an excellent
opportunity for the delegates to
observe the life of the West Point
cadet. Our first exposure occurred
early Thursday morning, when all
the guests attended an ‘‘orienta-
tion on cadet life.” We wit-
nessed a series of skits,
performed and narrated by the
cadets, plus a movie and slide
presentation.



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and 12, at 8 p.m. in Goodhart Hall, BM

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Negroes and Whites Assume Neutral Masks

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



For Roles in C.L. Franklin’s ‘Scaffold’ -

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The Theater of the Living Arts
presented the world premier last
Wednesday of ‘‘A Scaffold for
Marionettes: A Myth,” by C,
Lester Franklin. The play, whose
author is a college drop-out
and an ex-convict, is based on
the 1963 killing of Hattie Carol
by .William Zanzinger and was
directly inspired by Bob Dylan’s
*¢The Lonesome Death of Hattie
Carol.’’

The basic facts with which both
the case and the play concern
themselves are these: William
Zanzinger, a rich southern tobacco
farmer, caned Hattie Carol,
a Negro maid, to death at a Balti-
more society ball when she failed
to procure a drink for him in what
the considered a more than ade-
quate amount of time. He was
subsequently fined six hundred and

twenty-five dollars and sentenced

to six months in jail.

The intended villain of the play,
however, is not Billy Loudemilk
(William Zanzinger), but society.
As it turns out, there is no villain
at all, The playwright’s premise
is that society is the creator of
mythic stereotypes such as
*“thlack’”’ & ‘‘white’’ which serve
to confine and irrevocably separate
people.

This premise, unfortunately,
gives rise only to a vicious circle
of primary causes that lead no-
where. While it may be threatri-
cally successful to devise a con-
cept in which all evil is ultimately
laid at the unprotesting feet/of an
indefinable ill conveniently dubbed
‘*society,’’ it is philosophically

Dolls In Guise
Of Loveliness

Flop In Flick

There. is a definite bosom fixa-
tion in the ‘‘Valley of the
Dolis.’’ Sharon Tate, the poor
man’s answer to Lee Bouvier,
obviously has it. Patty Duke,
cast as the young singer deter-
mined to achieve stardom ‘‘Holly-
wood style’ doesn’t. As legal
secretary, turned model, Barbara
Perkins astutely bypasses the en-

| ‘tire issue by getting her‘B,A. from



ities,

Radcliffe instead.

In this commercially successful
adaptation of Jacqueline Susann’s
commercially successful novel,
screenwriters Helen Deutsch and
Dorothy Kinsley could have
focused fealistically on the
grueling demands of the star sy-
stem and the physical and emo-
tional pressures which often drive
actresses to using ‘‘dolls’? or
barbituates to maintain the hectic
pace. Unfortunately, they didn’t.
What has emerged is a cinematic
bore whose tremendous box office
appeal rests on such dubious at-
tractions as Patty Duke’s four-
letter vocabulary and nude mid-
night swims Bel-Aire style.

Although _ Miss. Susann has
denied she based her characters
on actual show business personal-
the more perceptive film
viewer will find it a useful di-

- version to imagine the Hollywood

celebrities whose careers might
have influenced her characteri-

zations. For example, Susan Hay-
‘ward’s portrayal of the aging

Broadway musical star still idoli-
zed by her fans is reminiscent
of Judy Garland. Similarly, the
careers of numerous actresses
of the late 50’s were touched upon

‘in the characters played by. Sharon
| Tate and Patty Duke. Even the

real movie buff, however, will

| be. stumped by the identity of Miss _

-Duke’s second husband,
‘signer ‘Ted Casablanca. © Mr. Mort;

| Perhaps?”

Cynthia Benjamin

and psychologically very-unsatis-
fying. Society, after all, is merely
a group of assembled stereotypes.

The play concerns ‘itself with
problems arising as a consequence
of social stereotyping. It pursues
them relentlessly and goes dyna-
mically nowhere.

Switching Masks -

It tells the stories of Billy and
Lettie (Hattie Carol) in a cine-
matic series of flashbacks
radiating from the often repeated
scene that concerns itself with
their actual moment of confron-
tation. -Lettie is first played by
a blonde and blue-eyed white act-
ress until, having finally acknow-
ledged her ‘‘difference,”” a
hideously grinning Aunt Jemima
mask is forced on her. When the
mask is subsequently removed by
someone who informs her that
she is about to suffocate behind
it, we discover that she is now
being played by a Negro actress -
society’s opinion of her has em-
bedded itself in her skin.

Billy’s wife, Lisa, is played
by the first, ‘‘white’’ Lettie. The
white actors who play Billy’s vul-
gar and domineering parents also
play Lettie’s gentle, self-effacing
ones.

Both Lettie and Billy are pre-
sented to us as_ potential
stereotype-breakers who are soon
beaten into submission by various
emissaries of ‘‘society.’’ They
cannot fight these forces, and they
dwindle slowly into the respective
stereotypes of the crude, socially-
esteemed, pseudo-philanthropic
southern gentleman’ and the Uncle
Tomming representative of a ma-
triarchal Negro society.

The. play’s failure, to convince
us or even to imform us of so-
ciety’s culpability lies in two
areas. First the intentionally
cliche-ridden chorus which repre-
sents society is somehow drama-
tically ineffectual. Their awkward
stupidity conveys an aura ofimpo-
tence rather than evil. Secondly,
Lettie and Billy themselves do lit-
tle more than _ intermittantly
throw a fit over the traditions
and conditions confining them,
In fact all the supposedly ‘free
spirits’? which occasionally appear
on the scene either drift ineffec-
tually and inconclusively offstage
soon after making their first
appearance, or are instantly con-
verted to ‘‘cribb’d and confined’’
stereotypes on absolutely no pro-
vocation.



IN
THE
FEBRUARY

ATLANTIC

MONTHLY

“Where Graduate Schools Fail’’:
They are stuck in a complacent
rut of pure academia and ante-
diluvian requirements, write two
Harvard educators. @

“Advice to a Draftee’’:

Published for the first time, this
letter written by Leo Tolstoy in
1899 to a desperate young poten-
tial conscript bears a relevance
to America.in 1968,

“On Civil Disobedience” :

by Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., a care-
fully reasoned examination of the
problem by a federal judge directly
confronted with the issue, —

“The Perversity of
Aubrey Beardsley”’:
A fascinating examination of the
rococo artist whose work has
become a cult for the sixties.

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Stereotype Absurdity

Franklin is at times amazingly
successful in his attempts to con-
vey a sense of the absurdity of
these stereotypes; as when a black
doorman, in one long and bril-
liantly written speech, moves from
his original personality to first
that of a cautiously conservative
Negro preacher, then to that
of a frenzied revivalist preacher,
and finally- to that of a speak-
er for black power, only
to assume once more. the
character of the subservient door-
man as he finishes his black po-
wer speech with ‘‘if we gotta die
for our liberty, die we’re gonna.’’
Here we are presented with a
stereotype imposed by society only
to be reinforced by the individual
himself.

The play ends with the ballroom
scene that opened it, but the mur-
der ceases to be an abstract and
impersonal pantomime. ~ Having
raised his cane to strike at Let-
tie, Billy pauses to blowa gracious
kiss to the audience. The cane

. falls, followed by a loud crash and

blackout. As the houselights come
up, Billy runs down the aisle
while the party cheers him onand,
unwittingly, we applaud him too.

As the audience files slowly out
of the auditorium, Lettie is left
lying on the stage. Occasionally,

perhaps, one or two people clap -

half-heartedly; but she never
moves, and thus, in a potentially

-powerful yet only partly effective

way, it is we who are accused of
having caused her death. She will
never move for us again.

This last bit of staging is not
completely new, Peter Brook used
a similar trick in ‘‘Marat-Sade,’’
attempting to imply that ~ the
audience was as insane as the
inmates of Charenton. Something
like this, which seeks, in effect,
to sutprise the audience in the
act of demonstrating subconscious
approval of that which they con-
sciously reject, is unfortunately
only -a trick. And it is therefore
merely a symbol of the psycholog-
ical upset it means to achieve.
The audience’s intent is to dem-

onstrate appreciation of a

‘theatrical performance. Just be-
lights happen to

cause the
come up on actors who are
not bowing but still acting does
not imply that the audience’s sub-
conscious has somehow been
caught on the move.

Undefined Symbols and

Conflicts
The play occasionally, and per-

haps permanently, loses itself
in a morass ofhalf-stated symbols
and ill-resolved conflicts. It is
never made clear who or what so-
ciety is. The author’s thesis
seems” to _ vacillate between
some sort of idea that ‘‘we are
none of us what we seem to be’
and another which propounds that
‘‘we have no control over what
we are or may be.’’ Though these
two points always remain some-
how, ‘separate, they must co-
exit uneasily so that the play
can be permitted to end.

Since Franklin also seems
to regard the two sexes as agents
of a stereotyping society, he tends
to confuse third person pronoun
references. He employs _ this
method, however, only when the
sex to which a person belongs
can make no possible difference
to the situation. To have one char-
acter instruct another char-
acter to offer a. drink to a
‘chim’® that. is obviously. a ‘‘her’?
is wasted effort. ‘‘He’’ will
get exactly the same drink that
‘*she’’ would have gotten.

Harold Pinter has freed his
people of shape and identifying
form. Whether he and they will
eventually do something with that
freedom is probably a question
for later playwrights if not a
later Pinter .to examine and per-
haps answer. Franklin’s people,
ably drawn, are still crippled with
the effects of stereotype, but he
fails to provide us with a reason-
either real or artistic-for free-
ing them or even attempting
to do so. His problem is simply
that he struggles on long after
they have inarticulately condemned
themselves to their assigned roles.
Successful Techniques

With all the play’s_ limita-

tions, the production side of
it was generally excellent,
Mack Epstein and Art Wolff are
the directors. I read in a program
note that Mr. Epstein is
known for his work in mime. He
has put his special talents to good
use in the staging of the stylized
and propless play.

The acting was uniformly good.
Especially successful were Ed
Bernard as the doorman turned
Black Panther, Dylan Green as
Billy, and Micki Gragt as the
adult Lettie,

The evening’s finest effort lies
in the very considerable success »
of its attempt to abolish race as
a means of character identifica-
tion on the stage. Black and
white actors are juggled within
various roles until the color of
their skin has become absolutely
meaningless to us. This is
a splendid theatrical exercise into
which the writing at times almost
intrides.

Search for Neutrality

Walter Kerr wrote an article
recently in which he stated that
the only way the American Negro
actor was ever going to overcome
the deeply entrenched barriers
erected in the name of ‘‘historical
authenticity’’ would be through the
temporary donning of neutral
masks by all actors. Kerr thought
that the presumably representative
playgoer might be all for a Negro
Hamlet who inhabits a vague place
and time, But that.same viewer
could not subconsciously assimi-
late a Negro as Ranevskaya
in the “Cherry Orchard’
because history has quite truthfully
stated that nineteenth century
Russia was ‘completely devoid of
Negro landowners.

Whether this is the only solution
to avery real problem or whether it
is the best answer is theoretically
unanswerable. Certainly this pro-
duction tentatively demonstrates
its viability in what is admittedly
a very limited sphere. It remains
to be seen if anything further will
come to this concept. Its present
astounding success at the Theater
of the Living Arts is certainly
worth seeing. Marianne Lust



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ALL WEEKEND
Forest Theater
‘tHello Dolly’’
The 2nd Fret
Pat Sky
. Society Hill Playhouse
Sartre’s ‘‘The Flies”
Theater of the Living Arts
**Scaffold for Marionettes’’
(8:30 p.m.)
‘Bryn Mawr
“Elvira Madigan’’
Locust
«The Comedians’’
Eric
‘‘The Graduate’’
Arcadia
. “Guess Who’s
Dinner’’

Coming to

Randolph
‘“‘Gone With The Wind’’

Trans-Lux
‘¢How I Won The War’”’

Bala
‘'La Guerre Est Finie’’

Stanton
**Valley of the Dolls”’

Theater 1812
‘‘Becket’®

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9

4:30 p.m. Dr. Koshland: ‘¢Confor-
mational Effects in Enzyme Ac-.
tion’? Stokes, H’ford

7:30 p.m. ‘‘Summerskin,’’ Stokes,
H’ford (also at 9:30)

8:30 p.m. Dress Rehearsal of
Freshman Show, Goodhart
Dance Concert, Mitten Hall Au-

ditorium, Teinple U.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10
8:30 p.m. Freshman Show, Good-

hart ($1.50) followed by mixer

‘ in gym with Federal Duck
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11
4:00 p.m. Pembroke East Coffee

Hour
8:00 p.m. Haydn ‘‘The Creation,’’

Oratorio Choir, Wayne Presby-

terian Church
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12
8:00 p.m. ‘‘Ice Capades,’’? Spec-

trum (thru Sun., Feb. 18) $2.00-.

5.00

New Locust Theater ‘‘Carry Me.

Back to Morningside Heights”
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13
10:40 a.m. Nelson and Neal, duo-

Guide To The Perplexed



pianists give a concert (Chopin,
Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich)
Roberts, H’ford

7:15 p.m. ‘Help,’ The Beatles,
Biology Lecture Room (also at

9:15)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15
8:00 p.m. Project FREE meeting:

James Orange speaking
8:30 p.m. George Szell and the

Cleveland Orchestra at the Aca- .. -

demy ($3.00-6.50)
Educational Goals Series, Com-
mon Room -
Opening of Student-Faculty Art
Show, Erdman

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16

2:00 p.m. Mrs. Marshall will auc-
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Page Seven



Book by BMC Professor
Explores Byzantine History

Charles Brand, assistant pro-
fessor of history, is one of several
Bryn Mawr faculty members who
have recently,. published books.
Brand’s book is entitled ‘‘Byzant-
jum Confronts the West, 1180-
1204.”

’ Published by Harvard University

. Press, it was begun ten years ago

at Harvard as_ Brand’s dis-
sertation.. In 1961-1962 he did
further research for it under a
grant at Dumbarton Oaks Research
Library in Washington, D.C. The
final manuscript was completed in
September, 1966.

As the title denotes, the book
deals with a relatively short per-
iod of history. Brand chose this
era for study because of its deep
significance to later Byzantine his-
tory. In 1204 Constantinople was.
captured by the soldiers of the

Faculty Describe

Research Projects

A_series of lectures on educa-
tional «goals will
by*-Bryn Mawr professors during
the month.of February. Meetings
under a similar title were held
last year, focusing on the nature
of education of this campus.
This year, however, the program
will be directed toward acquaint-
ing students with current activ-
ities in the various academic
disciplines.

On. Thursday, Feb. 15, L.
Joe Berry will speak on the
impact of new knowledge on so-
.ciety and the social implica-
tions of recent scientific de-
velopments. This is a subject
which Berry has_ discussed
at meetings all over the country.

' Lyfe »..second lecture, _ given

by Rosalie Hoyt, will be held on
Thursday, Feb. 22. She will
describe her own research in bio-
physics and will talk about
the effects of computers on the
scientist.

The final lecture, to be
held on Tuesday, Feb. 27, will
center on the social sciences.
Two professors--Robert Lyke in
political science and George Tre-
yz in economics--will discuss
recent trends in their respective
fields.

The Educational Goals meet-
ings will be held in the
Common Room at 8:30 p.m.
Time will be available at the

_gnd of each lecture for questions
and discussion.





be given.

Fourth Crusade. This event,
according to Brand, resulted in
a permanent barrier between East
and West. The book provides an
account of the background for the
barrier | concentrating largely on
the internal structure of the Em-
pire and on the relations between
Byzantines and Europeans before
1204.

Brand’s book represents a sig-
nificant contribution to Byzantine
studies, as the period he deals
with has never before been
analyzed in that manner. In some
respects it is a continuation ofa
three-volume work by Ferdinand
Chalandon published in the early
years of this century.

Research for the book rested
almost exclusively on printed ma-
terial, such as imperial and pri-
vate documents of the time. Be-
cause of the ‘‘literary outlook’’ of
the Byzantines, Brand had to de-
vote a great deal of time to de-
termining dates and. establishing
a proper chronology.

‘¢Byzantium Confronts the West,
1180 - 1204” is Brand’s first
book. At the present time, how-
ever, he is working on a second:
a paperback source book ’of By-
zantine and Islamic civilization.

Freshman Show....
(Continued from page 1)
Max and Ticket Chairman Nan
Schwartz have co-ordinated their
talents to draw together a class
of 200-odd girls to create a story
of love and intrigue in the
legendary Halvalla,

Nightly rehearsals for the
past week and a half have inter-
woven such incongruous _§in-
cidentals as royal blackboards,
seed bags ‘‘not so soundproof as
they used. to be’’ and graduation
diplomas into significant elements
in a~ plot of love-at-first-
sight and attempted escape-at-
first-fright.

Tonight the house lights will
dim, the curtains will part, orig-
inal tunes will please the
ear and the show will go on,
From that point, the cliff-hangers
and mountain-climbers will begin
the gentle descent to normal again.

Cathy Hoskins .



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Here's proof that science majors can see beyond the test tube.
Several senior chemistry students have constructed a gear-
operated box of Tide which meanders through the corridors of the
physics building, bouncing off anything it hits. The girls’ slogan
echoes down the hall, ‘‘You can’t hide from intensified Tide.’’



West Point....

(Continued from page 3)
and upper classmen, etc. The
movie showed rather harrowing

-.shots of cadets wading through
the mud, scaling cliffs, and firing

artillery,at ‘‘summer camp.”

The social code at West
Point is somewhat restrictive.
Female guests periodically appear
on campus, but holding hands falls
under the heading of P,D. A. (public
display of affection) and hence is
strictly taboo. During the con-
ference, social restrictions ex-
tended to meals and all
women were barred from the mess
hall. It was felt that we might
be “shocked” or ‘‘offended’” by
conditions therein, especially by
activities at the ‘‘ahimal table.”’
We ate instead at the Officer’s
Club, the dining room of which
resembled a luxurious New
York restaurant. There were,
however, a few cadets, acting as
hosts, who accompanied us
at meals, They were surprisingly
frank in discussing West Point
life. Although there was some
criticism of the excessive
regimentation there, much praise
was given to the institution’s aca~
demic excellence.

Saturday morning invoved a last
hurried meeting for each of the
round tables. Reports written the
previous evening were discussed
and polished, Several, chosen by a
committee composed of West Point
faculty and cadets, were read at
the final luncheon. Although these
reports gave competent sum-
maries of the existing situation
in the areas discussed (the Middle
East and North Africa, Latin
America, East -and Southeast
Asia, the North Atlantic area,
South Asia, the USSR and
Europe, Sub Saharan Africa,
and the United Nations), they were
unfortunately distinguished by a
conspicuous failure to question
fundamental assumptions of Am-
erican foreign policy.

We felt that the conference pro-
vided two main _ advantages:
(1) the opportunity to come into
contact with a wide diversity of
political viewpoints, almost all
of which were intelligently
expressed, and (2) the chance to see
how the West Point community
functions and to examine the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of
a military education.

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Food Sale
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tioneering in grandiloquent style,
a sale of baked goods provided
by members of the Bryn Mawr
and Haverford faculties is sche-
duled for 2 p.m. Friday, Feb.
16 in Erdman,

Designed to provide fun for stu-
dents and faculty and to raise
money for the Erdman Faculty-
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highlights of the opening days of
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On Nov. 15, 1959, in Holcomb,

~ Herbert Clutter family were mur-
dered by two men whoescaped with
43 dollars and a portable radio.
The men were subsequently caught,
tried, and hanged. In the fall of
1965, ‘*In Cold Blood,’? Truman
‘Capote’s account of the case-in
non-fiction. novel form. was
published, an effort to simultan-
eously introduce and epitomize this
literary form. On Feb, 14, ironi-
cally enough, the movie version of
“In Cold’ Blood,” directed by Ri-
chard Brooks, opens at Cinema
19 in Philadelphia.

In eight years, but mostly in
light of Capote’s efforts, so much
knowledge and speculation about
the Clutter case has accumu-
lated -*- here one avoids puns
with difficulty --- as to have
created what amounts to a mys-
tique. Capote saw toitthat we knew
everything about the Clutters down
to what kind of pie they ate, and
everything about killers Smith and
Hickok down to what kind of gum
they chewed. He picked the brains
and, one suspects, the imaginat-
tions of Holcomb, Kansas, until the
murders were recreated with smo-
thering exactness. His unswerving
investigations were challenged
only by those of Richard Brooks,
who did not so much merely direct
the movie as both inseminate and
nurture it. Hardly had the Holcomb
locals settled back onto their por-
ches after Capote’s visit when Co-
lumbia pictures moved in.. The
entire movie was filmed on loca-
tion, using authentic roads, authen-
tic houses, authentic Kansans. Au-
thenticity is its middlename. With
the public kept abreast of every
technical step, it showed promise
of being a tedious documentary to
be studied rather than enjoyed. It
manages, with little struggle, to be
a completely engrossing crime
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Capote Novel Brought to

performances by Scott Wilson and
Robert Blake ‘as the murderers.
Contrasted to the rather un-
appealing Clutters, they are fas-
cinating studies, and live more on
film than they ever did in print,
Freed from mires of recorded tri-
via, they become really men with
humor and nerves and tempers.
Both actors steeped themselves in
their characters, so that their lines
lose artificiality and have spon-
taneous impact;
this filming was ‘‘not fun,’’ nor
does it appear to be. . Filming
was sequential, and especially the
middle portion of the movie has
a wrenching urgency. John For-
sythe, the only well-known actor in
the cast, was chosen partly
because he bears a striking re-
semblance to the investigation
_agent he plays. His smooth per-
formance is a vivid and appro-
priate contrast to the candor of
the unknowns.

The movie’s direction is almost
flawless. Rarely is black-and-
white’ documentary technique used

as subtly and as effectively as‘

this. Smith’s Freudian fantasy in
a sleazy Mexican hotel and his
autobiographical soliloquy in pri-
son, with the shadows of rain-
drops cast on one side of his face,
are brilliant scenes. The dis-
covery of the Clutter bodies, while
completely predictable, «is still
wholly stunning.

The main fault is the movie’s
length -- two hours and 15 min-
utes. There is too much heavy-





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handed irony at the beginning--Mr. :
Clutter buying life insurance, for.
Anstance--and too much totally
superflous authenticity throughout,
Daily newspapers were reprinted,
only to be seen fleetingly. Seven
original jurors were: recruited, .
though only four are ever shown.
The death house was reconstructed
stone by stone, though one ware-
house is véry like another, The
major editing lapse is the lengthy,
maudlin ending. Very little needs
to be said against capital punish-
ment these days, and the movie
speaks for itself without its coda,
This ‘comes perilously close to
ruining an otherwise taut film.°

Sociologists will probably com-
mend this movie, although it is.
closer to ‘‘Anatomy of a Murder’?
than to ‘“‘An American Tragedy.”
Robert Blake says, ‘‘There are
six innocent people here: Smith
and Hickok. killed four of them
and ‘we the people’ killed the
other two.’’ The innocence of
the last two seems highly du-
bious, but a good bit of sympathy
is mustered for them. Certainly
one feels a twinge for Smith when
he says seconds before his hanging,
‘*I’d like to apologize, but --- who
to??? ‘

Just as Capote’s novel evaded
comparison, so does this movie.
It is animpressive introduction to 4
technique which will be difficult
to develop and intriguing to
follow.

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