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ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1963 —

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& Trustees -of Bryn Ms: awr College,

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PRICE 20 CENTS



Celebrated Literary Critic Frye Says alata: and Polish Characterize
The Poet Lives in Simple Realm’ Freshmen’s “Hitherto and Ever After”

» According to Mr. Northrop Frye,

distinguished — literary critic and
president of “Victoria College in the
University of Toronto, the. poet

lives in a simple realm where “the
sun rises in the east and sets in the
west over a flat world.”

_...This is not to.say that Mr. Frye
~eondemns ‘the poet, for in his lec-

ture in Géodhart on Monday evening
he quickly established himself as a
“style over content” mans. it-is not
for ideas, but for new ways of ex-
pressing these ideas, that we admire:
the. poet and read ‘his poetry.

Shakespeare’s* philosophy was pla-
titudinous and Dylan’ Thomas’s world
was one of ancient astrology rather
than modern science, but Mr. Frye
pointed out that nothing could ' be
less important.

“The «poet ‘is not profound except
by accident.” He is an intellectual
atavist” who ignores modern science
and thrives on. superstition. He
searches for the new expression’ of
the commonplace idea, and the Tro-
jan war is just as valid a subject
for the modern poet as it was” for
Homer. :

Coming closer to’ the heart of his
ostensible subject, “Action and Im-
age in Modern Poetry,” Mr. Frye

undertook a eonsideration of myth _

as a foundation from which all
poetry is derived. Literature he de-

fined as originally an attempt to.

“transform the non-human physical

environment into something .of hu- ©

man shape,” to set up conventions

. to protect itself from life.

Myth is one of the important

“means by which literature attémpts

to “swallow” life and present it in
the form of possibilities rather than
actualities. It follows . fromthe
nature of the poet—the poet as re-

«creator, not’ originator, of ideas—

that he should use myth and fill in
its “cloudy outlines’ ’with details ‘of
his own making.

Thus Mr. Frye feels that it is im-
possible to understand modern poet-

~Self-Gov. To Give

Midnight Crawlers
‘Later Exit Permits

One of the most important revi-
sions. made in the Self-Gov Ctnsti-

tution went into effect February ‘11.
It was a change. that will permit

10:30-p.m,-and-12:30 a.m. without
special permission from the Hall
President. -

The responsibility which was for-

merly. the--warden’s,- that—of—locking-

the door and making sure. that. it
remains locked until the lantefn*man
comes ‘on duty, will belong to a stu-
dent _door-keeper. ‘Between these

hours; ‘studénts wishing to*ledve the -

hall will beJet out by this girl and
“those wishing: to enter wit be let in

See bnndl 5
saa ,On Friday nights the halts _will=

“not be locked ‘until 12:30: a.m. ;
other words, . the present Fiiday
“night system will continue as before.
On:the lantern man’s night: off, the
warden will open the door for girls

wishing to enter the’hall between:

12:30 and 2:00: a.m.

Students are reminded, however,
- that if they plan to be out of their

halls after 10:30 or to leave after
10:30, they still must sign out.

. made every four years.
duction of a more controversial sub-

“at
.through. Wednesday of election. paigning under: their sown auspices

ry without realizing its relation to
ancient myth. The modern poet dif-
fers in form from his predecessors
but not’ in ‘the use of mythology.

-Mr. Frye ended .his urbane and
witty~ lecture with -a--statement—of

the tasks that criticism has before _

it. Judging from the large and at-
tentive audience that turned out to
hear_him,.. the literary community
will be eagerly awaiting. his own

answers: to some of the still-unan- *

__ swered=questions he~raised.



The freshman imagination ran deep here this winter.

plumbed

by. Peter Leach, Instructor in English

In.the class of

au blue clad’ nympth with a large golden key in her hand.

‘66. show Hitherto and’ Ever: After it

She inherits this fecund symbol from her rich grandmother and after a pee chromatic dreain beats it under-

ground,

Inthe castle-basement, she has..some.instructive. encounters. with.characters..from.the..past. of the ‘race.
She joins their mad banquet.to. welcome the late. grandmother,..then,-she--manipulates~the SORE: opener and

cuts out misty-eyed into.the golden light there beyond ‘the gold handled door.
When Hitherto and Ever After played around with its. theme, of, say,-initiating-er finding the-handle-or-the key=

hole on the great world, it worked just fine.
caught much of the right tone for that story and kept jt up most of the time.
ambitious, but. well rehearsed, and often very funny.

‘When Hitherto and Ever After went serious, well, it went’ serious.

Act |, Scene |: Aunt Abigail (Mary Caman: Cousin Alphonse (Andy Miller), Aunt. Matilda
(Donna Macek), Heather McCauley. (Jackie Giuliano), Uncle James (Debbie Rogers), Aunt Josephine
(Diane Sampson), and. the Lawyer. (Suzanne: Weidell) gather in the drawing: room of the McCauley
Castle to read grandma’s will. ne

Elections Revisions Provide
‘Hot’ Subject for Legislature

by Sallee Horhovitz, ’64_
' and Susan Morris, 64

The business for the Legislature
meeting of Monday afternoon was

dents about. their. policies...Thispro-
posal will shorten the existing elec-
tion system from four to. two weeks.

A violent. and lengthy discussion

followed this proposal. .Lee Cooper,

to--be-a-—vote--on—the~prdéposed=revi—«President—of-Rockefeller-Hall, sug-

‘sion of the Undergrad constitution,

But intro-

ject resulted -in: a ‘change of. the

schedule.
sidney. OScsrCathy~Tre nell.
announced at the opening of the

meeting. that: proposals of the Elec-

gested that the proposal (made in
the form of a motion) was unconsti-
tutional because it interfered with
the autonomy of the five organiza-
tions. Legislature, however, decided
that the proposal was constituton-
al, by- Be PRADA HOE ga assays =

Sue Gumpert , then mcr an

amendment allowing the presidents

tion: Revision Committee - would be to the “Big Five” to determine, at

the first order of business:

-Shirley Daniels, Chairman. ofthe .

‘Eléctions Revisions Committee, made
- the stiggestion that the election sys- »

tem be provisionally (i. e: for this
year only) shortened and simplified
in this way: Undergrad and Self-
Gov will have a shortened dinner
system, .-their- candidates going to

two—halls ‘each right, and.
the major dorms.
“This will extend from Monday

elections taking -place _on

week,
Thursday.
fice of: President for th five © non-
ipso-facto organizations (i.e. Lea-
-gue, Alliance, Athletic Association,

Arts. Council, Interfaith), ‘and for \ quiry, there was not enough time

NSA representative will meet in the
Deanery on one day during election ©
week to speak with interested ‘stu-

renee

their discretion, whether or not the
proposed’ election system would ap-
ply to&their respective organizations.

: After further debate, the amend-
ment:was defeated (ca:.35-13).: The
original proposal was .then passed
(40-12); ‘after “Shirley ‘Daniels had

explained that, under her plan, in- .

‘dividual candidates. could * cam-
they. chose. * ures

The nominees" would “then ‘be cam-

and not under those of the Official

_Candidatesfor-the-—of-—-Gollege. election system:*

Since the discussion of this mo-
tion was crowded with procedural
vagaries, and lengthy points of in-

to consider the revision of the Un-
dergrad constitution, the original
item on the agenda. °

ont, we

sii on *

-and educator,

Professor Ashmote
To Present Lecture

On Old Greek Art

“The greatest British authority
“on Greek sculpture” is the way Mrs.

Brunhile Ridgway, Assistant Profes-

sor of the Department of Classical

and. Near Eastern Archeology, de-
scribed Professor Bernard. AslYnole,

Professor Emeritus: of the, Univer- .
sity of oxtar will present the
M

emorial Lecture this .

Horace Whit
year. He will speak on the topic
“Is Classical Greek Sculpture Empty

: of -Feeling-?”” Tuesday; February 26;

at 8:30 p.m. in,Goodhart.
Although this is Professor Ash-
mole’s first-..visit to. the ~ United
States, he is well known for his dis-
tinguished career as an archeologist
He. .attended._ Hart-..
ford College, Oxford; and was Yates"
Professor of Archeology at the Uni-
versity of Londen fram 1929 to
1948. He held the position of Lin-
coln Professor of Classical Arche-
ology and Art at Oxford from 1956

until his retirement, and. was also_

Keeper of Greek and Roman An-
tiquities at the British Museum from ~
1989 -to .1956. :

“Tt-is* particulariyetpprepriate: for
Profesor Ashmole to speak at Bryn
Mawr,” said Miss Machteld Mellink,
Chairman of the Department of
Classical and Near Eastern Arclie-
ology, “because lectures on Greek
sculpture are in the tradition of
Bryn Mawr.” :

Its authors had invented a story better than they realized.

teeth.

‘until the radiant exit into life.

.class show as a genre,’ h

what lay‘ outside never

They
The production was rambunctious, |

In. the idea of the alas. necessary bed-

room “soliloquy and the West-Side-
Story expressionistic dance, the eter-
nal yearning filly got. the bit in-her
As the action went. subter-
ranean, a better muse took charge
In
the finale chorus all the comic tim-
bre was lost.. It soutided like the

‘March of Dimes song.

When I stand back to regap






tend to forgive the
barefoot girlishnessAn this one. It .
never fell to the dismal: reiteration
of cheap topical alfusion, which most
young men’s -class\ shows -are made
of. It flirted onl\ now and then
at the other generi sin of young
aestheticism.

The last scene .did Suffer’.a com-
mon technical problem of. stage writ-
ing.. The authors ran out of. stiff :

obstacles -for- their protagonist to

overcome,-Onee she knew, where the
keyhole her key fit was, she should
have-been_made~to face--more con-=
crete resistance to her mission of
getting out the door. ax

Her-own ignorance and fear of
seemed to
faze her much,. Only a-.vague ¢uri-
osity about the banquet,and a weak
affection and respect for the spooks
held her back. Their failure to en-
lighten her and their murmurs. of
protest that no McCauley ever went .
out there-were the rudiments-of some
antagonism but. never took form as
action... The Family Spirit’s warn;
ings ‘against “staying for the bdh-
quet proved.unnecessary. . The im-
plied destruction of the heroine’s
respect_as the hero’s‘of- the family

- past debunked “each other remained

drarhatically obscure.

The script should have showed her
wanting out or wanting to stay much,
harder and showed sqme wicked
aunt or-uncle combinati r. other
working just’as hard to stop or get

rid of her. :

The audience was well srepared
for some climactic episode at the
spooks’..banquet. Instead .the con-
flict petered ‘out and the climax
éver “tame. If this problem had
“been solved, the comic promise of
the show might well have been say-
éd from the resurgent sentiment ov
its ending. =

The considérable polish of the
production wag a credit to. director
~ Pamela: Goold, her assistant Caro-
‘Jine Burlingham, and stage man-.
ager Judith Goodwin, . Jacqueline
Batten’s musical direction and Alice
Ely’s orchestration helped*the mood
and. pace of: the show with. general-
ly ‘clever’ and well executed tunes.
_Deborah-Arkush’s:-setswere=finish-
ed, suggestive, and founded on prac-
tical ground- plans. -Choreographer-
Pamela _Mulae led her dancers with
“precision and skill., e

Hitherto and Ever After. relied
more on stery.than on song. -“Poor
Grandma’s Dead” was derivative but
effective. “It All Started with: De-..
mocracy” was about as current as
newspaper allusion can get. “Men

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