The Carolinian [February 9, 1951]

              STATE COLLEGE
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Woman's College—"Distinguished for Its Democracy"
IUS and NSA
At Each Other's Throats
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VOL. xxxil ZM1 WOMAN'S COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. GREENSBORO. N. C, FEBRl ARY 9, 1951 NI'MBER 14
Student Service League Plans
►erics of Diiscussion Paneh
Topics of Current Importance
To Predominate in Sessions
Conducted in Dormitories
The Service League, at the sugges-tion
of Dean Taylor, is planning to
organize panel discussions on current
topics since the Korean situation and
the draft laws occupy an important
place in the minds of most students at
Woman's College.
The Service League representatives,
aided by a committee of four or
five students plan to present these
discussions in their residence halls
at house meetings several times a
month.
In view of the necessity of conserv-ing
food, electricity, and other vital
materials, the Service League is plan-ning
to undertake a program of con-servation.
By making the students
aware of what materials can be con-served,
the League hopes to rid the
WC campus of UM wastefulness which
is evident in the blare of a radio from
an empty room, or the disposal of
over forty loaves of bread in one day.
Pat Ashley, chairman of the Ser-vice
League, announces that although
some old clothes have already been
collected, the clothing drive will be
emphasized within the next few weeks
The clothes are to be sent to needy
familial both here and abroad,
where they will be shipped by church
groups in Greensboro.
Plans for the "old style" fashion
show scheduled to be at the end of
the year will be announced lated.
UNC Forum Schedules
Prominent Speakers
John A. Sullivan, publicity chair-man,
released the following schedule
of speakers on the Carolina Forum of
the University of North Carolina:
February 17, Edward R. Murrow:
March 5. Senator Estes Kefauvcr;
March 22, Senator Leveritt Salton-st.,
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These speakers will make addresses
on the above dates at 8 P.M. in Mem-orial
Hall of University at Chapel
Hill. Their appearance! are sponsor-ed
by tiie Carolina Forum, which is a
student organization dedicated to pre-senting
prominent speakers to the
student body and to the people of the
state
Edward it. Murrow ii rated as one
ni America'! must distinguished news
commentators. He is an authority on
world affairs and is known as a pion-eer
in the broadcasting field.
Senator Kcfauver has gained a rep-utation
as one of the most able men in
the U S. Senate He is currently
chairman of the Senate crime inves-tigation
committee His speech at
Chapel Hill will occur shortly after
this committee has made its official re-port.
One of the most capable men
In American public life. Senator
Saltonstall has a long record of ser-vice
to his native state of Massachu-setts
and the nation.
The chairman of the organization.
Robert Evans, has extended an invita-tion
to attend free of charge
Patsy Fowler Releases
1951 Flection Schedule
Patsy Fowler, elections chair-man,
announced the tentative
campus-wide election schedule
for 1951. She stated that all in-formation
and materials can be
obtained from the house presi-dent
Monday. February 12.
February 9-24: All persons who
are running for offices must have
their pictures taken at Keen's
Studio. Greensboro, for $1.50.
February 21, Wednesday: Stu-dents
running for office must have
nomination blanks placed in the
petition box of the post office by
2 P.M.
February 24. Friday: Names for
all offices will be posted in the
post office at 2 P.M. Campaign
managers will meet at 5 P.M.
February 26. Monday: Publici-ty
for elections may be posted
after 7:30 P.M.
February 28. Wednesday: Cam-paign
Rally is scheduled for seven _
P.M.
March 2. Friday: Primary elec-tions
are scheduled for the offices
of president, vice-president, sec-retary
and treasurer of the stu-dent
government, chief marshall,
president of the YMCA. president
of the Recreation Association,
president of Interfaith Council,
editor of CAROLINIAN, editor of
"Pine Needles." editor of Coraddi.
college cheer leader, college so-cial
chairman, and Junior house
presidents.
March 5, Monday: Masa Meet-ing
has been called in Aycock
Auditorium at 7:15 P.M.
March 6, Tuesday: Final elec-tions
will take place.
Cosmopolitans Discuss
Folklore in Americas
The Cosmopolitan Club features
"Folklore in the Americas" as the
theme of its meeting February 13 at
7:00 P.M. in North Spencer parlor
Students from Cuba. Canada. Mex-ico,
and Chile will discuss the folk-lore
of their native countries Also
leatured is an exhibit of objects native
in these countries.
President Eulalia Donoso cordially
invites everyone t" attend the mcet-
Ing
Highlighting the Cosmopolitan cal-endar
of events is a concert. February
11 in the Play maker's Theater at
Chapel Hill The Cosmopolitan Clubs
of State. Carolina, and Woman's Col-lege
will participate in the concert
which is similar to the show presented
last year at Aycock by the Carolina
Cosmopolitan group After the show
there will be a small party.
The members of the club are to
participate in a joint meeting with the
International Relations Club of Guil-ford.
February 15.
The Cosmopolitan Clubs from Duke.
State, Carolina, and Woman's College
will be entertained February 23 at a
fancy dress ball in the Carolina Inn
at Chapel Hill
Play-Likers ...
. . . Alma Loftness. Frances Thompson, and Anne Voorhis strike
a dramatic pose during "Madwoman of Chaillot" rehearsal.
Alma Loftness Enacts
Eccentric Parisienne
In Aycock Production
During the German occupation
when few Frenchmen could foresee
with certainty that France might ever
Jbe liberated again, "The Madwoman
'of Chaillot," to be presented by the
Play-Likers February 16 and 17, came
into being at Paris In 1942-43.
The author, Jean Giraudoux. com-plriril
it in the spring of 1943 when
the fortunes of the Nazis were still
running high; and before he filed it
away for the future, he wrote its title-
Data tickets for the Playllker
production of "The Madwoman of
Chaillot" may be obtained at the
Soda Shop the 16th and 17th of
this month for 45 cents each.
page this far-sighted prediction: "The
Madwoman of Chaillot'—to be pre-sented
on October 15. 1945. by Louis
Jouvet at the Theatre de L'Athenee." r
Winner of Critics' Circle Award
In heartening contrast to the un-supported
and consequently briei en-gagement!
of his "Siegfried" and:
Amphitryon 38" in New York. Girau-doux's
"The Madwoman of Chaillot"
ran for one solid year then, won the
NY. Drama Critics Circle Aw'ard as
the best play of the season by a for-eign
author, and went on to win more
friends throughout the country in a
highly successful twenty-week lour
of eleven key cities.
The central character in "The Mad-
WOBMB of Chaillot" is delightfully
daft, wanting only to restore the gra-clousness
and beauty of an earlier day
In the Allce-in-Wonderland atmos-phere
of conspiracies, mock trials and
mad tea parties, she triumphs over
some plundering scoundrels who
would dig up her beloved Paris be-cause
they think they smell oil de-posit!
under the surface.
Alma Loftness has been cast in the
strenuous role of "The Madwoman of
Chaillot." The comic fantasy has
enjoyed long and successful runs on
both Paris and New York stages.
Exhausting Role
It is not merely the length of Miss
Loftness's role which is so exhausting.
but the fact that it must be played
constantly on two extremely different
level! The Madwoman is not "mad"
in the American sense of the word;
she is no "Snake Pit" character Sin-is
rather an out-of-the-world. down-at-the-
heels countess, whose madness ll
touched with infinite wisdom. So Miss
I oftneM must play it with her bead
in the clouds of wishful illusion, but
with her feet firmly planted in the
basic realities.
Robert Putnam is enacting the role
ni the Ragpicker, typical of the Mad-woman's
cronies from the streels ut
Paris, who include sidewalk-cafe wait-ers,
peddlers, flower-girls and street
musicians It is the Ragpicker who
brings the romantic countess to the
realization that the world is no longer
so beautiful as she belives it to be, in
nun starting the Madwoman on her
stratagem to rid the world of the
greedy people who make It unhappy.
Him. Brooks, Leola Culbert and
.loan l.ighdalc wll be seen as other
'madwoman" from other quarters of
Paris who are friends of the Chaillot
eccentric All take hilarious part in
the play's much-publicized "tea-party"
scene, said to be made fantastic ally
delightful than anything since Alices
tea party in Wonderland.
Seeks to Exterminate Parasites
Symbolizing some of the world's
parasites whom the Madwoman seeks
to destroy are the President, the Pros-pector
and the Baron. The role- will
be acter by Bob Utley. Dick Pelton
and John Reynolds, respectively.
Frances Thompson, as a tender-hearted
waitress, and Bob Rudd, as
la youth who tries to escape from a
"jam" by suicide, will carry the play's
poignant romantic interest; while
other roles have been assigned to
Nancy Jean Hill. Bunny Greenberg,
Martha Lohr, Erlene Bason. Anne
Voorhis. Geneva Massic. Eleanor
Griswold, and Harriet Dolin. the lat-ter
of whom will be required to do
a stint of tenpin juggling.
Mark Summer is designing the
play's two imaginative settings, repre-senting
the Chez Francis, and the
grotesquely handsome cellar bedroom
of the countess for the second act
Wayne Bowman will direct the Play-
Liker'l "■ with Anne Ed-wards
as student director.
Four Authorities Criticize Works
By WC Students at Arts Forum
(] \i«ii.IM \\ Conducts
Tryouts February IS
Attention, aspiring journalists,
authors and persons interested in
newspaper work! Here's a chance
for you to get your name and
work in print and gain valuable
experience.
THE CAROLINIAN is offering
positions as reporters, interview-ers
and feature writers with pos-sible
editorial staff openings to
capable persons.
Tryouts for these jobs are
scheduled for Thursday. Febru-ary
15 at 5:00 P M In the CARO-LINIAN
office located in the
Alumnae House. Sufficient time
will be allowed to submit work.
TIIE CAROLINIAN needs you
and you will receive desirable
benefit far immediate and future
use by working on the campus
newspaper.
NSA Head Denounces
Implications of Oath
The president of the National Stu-dent
Association Wednesday declared
that the University of California's
loyalty oath for teachers has aided
and encouraged the Communists. He
called on American students to be-come
aware of the "sinister implica-tions"
in the oath.
In a statement to the eight hun-dred
thousand members of NSA, All-aid
K Lowenstein said that measures
like the oath "make it difficult to
stand effectively against Communist
attempts to depict America as a land
last losing its freedom and to picture
American education as a tool of a few
powerful and selfish men."
Calling the oath "one of the most
unwarranted invasions of academic
rights .vet perpetuated," Lowenstein
pointed out that none of the profess-
Main Fields in Forum Include Writing,
Dance, Drama, Music, Art, Photography
Student drama, poetry, art, fiction and choreography from col-leges
throughout this section and the East will be presented for
criticism by outstanding leaders in each field of the arts at the
. eighth annual Arts Forum March 8, 9 and 10. The forum is designed
I to bring together students with particular interests or talents in
one or more of the arts for their mutual benefit and motivation.
Questions Addressed
To Chancellor's Office
With Regard to
Schedule Conflicts
Representing the field of literature
is Robert Penn Warren, teacher of
writing at the University of Minne-sota,
and renowned author of World
Enough and Time and All the Kino'j
AN n. which won for him the Pulitzer
Prise and an Academy Award for 1950.
of Warren, who will criticize student
piOSe and poetry at the writing fo-rum,
was a critic in the 1947 Arts
1. Is the administration aware
the problem of schedule conflicts?
Answer: yes.
2. Are the faculty, particularly de- For"m
partment heads, aware of such con- Mar,n« Ul" »<H known teacher of
■Ictfl dance composition at New York I'ni-
' Answer: Those who have discussed *»"»««» aml COOIieCtlClll Cull..:.-, v. HI
the matter ».in „„• are '"'"""•' a "u,sU'v ctaM '" """position
elements and a class in dance compo-sition.
She will also criticize the sue :t what does the administration re-gard
.is the standard period each
week when classes and laboratories
may he scheduled?
Answer: From B:00 AM to 12(1(1
noon, and from 2 (III until S (II) I'M.,
Monday through Friday; and from
It (HI A M to 12:00 noon on Saturday
4. Does the administration propose
dent choreography.
Criticizing student drama will be
Robert Porterlield. bead of the Barter
Theatre of Virginia. Porterlield will
lecture on "The Regional Theatre"
and give oritlciami ol three one-act
student-written and directed plays.
Student musical compositions will
to examine the present distribution of be criticized by Earl Moore, head of
within the period to see that t|le department of music at the Uni-optimum
flexibility is maintained?
Answer: yes.
5. What standards of distribution
will be used?
Answer: Reasonable balance be-tween
morning and afternoon classes;
reasonable balance between Monday-
Wednesday-Friday and Tuesday-
Thursday-Saturday sequences; dis-versify
of Michigan, national director
of the WPA music program, and pres-ident
of the National Association of
Pi Kappa Lambda. A program of
twentieth-century music presented by
the Woman's College Chamber Music
Players, the Greensboro Orchestra,
the Woman's College choral group,
the Woman's College string quartet.
tribution of sections of large coursesj'he Woman's College frio. and Miss
OVM I schedule range which will'Jal>e Wharton. soloist, will culminate
meet student demand; elimination, to.'he Forum.
the extent humanly possible, of con- George Boas, professor of aesthetics
filets between required courses; and at Johns Hopkins University, is critic
equitable sharing on the part of both '•' student art. Boas contributes to
faculty and students of hours for national magazines and is the author
which there is greatest demand (and of man>' b<",ks including Philosophy
ors dismissed for refusing to sign the lh,.,,.(,„.,. „„„,. frequent conflict of a"d Poetry, Romanticism hi America,
oath were even alleged to be Commu- schedulei at the present time ""' Ed'""" Courbel and the Nation-rusts
alistic Atonement. 6. Will there be an opportunity for
He concluded that the California slurt<.nt opinion to be heard at a sub- Department of Art
oath "by causing fear among loyal seqll,,nl review of class schedules? Innovates Change
men and by flounling democratic pro- Answpr: y, Thc dcparlmen, (lf ■„., ,,;,„ ,;
cedures" has "encouraged enemies Ol TH u ls n,..„.,i trough what varied Its usual procedure bv includ-democracy
everywhere and has (.h.„„„.K, mi, , pr<lu.Ssionai ,.xllib„ ln Uu, ,u.|(ls
banned the unfettered educational Answer: An ad hoc committee of of plastics, textiles, graphic art
system we know in he indispensible ii |a(11|lv members is being appointed to lathe, sculpture, metal painting, wood
our nation is to remain strong and ,v\ low the problem and to make ree- architectural renderings, ceramics,
tree." ommendations to the administration, jewelry and furniture, for exhibition
American students, he continued, The charge to the committee 4s a very in Weatherspoon Gallery. This year
must combat wherever it occurs, but simple one: After examining present the only student work in the art
at thi' same time must rise to a schedule distributions, either to pre- exhibition will come from students of
"severe challenge at home" and fight sent a report indicating that what we Woman's College. Photography done
those who would use the presence of have is the best available, or suggest by students will be exhibited in the
the Communist enemy as an excuse steps which will make it the best Any library.
to damage and restrict freedom in the student who is aware of specific con- For the second consecutive year,
name of defending freedom against diets that require attention may pre- the department of French, under the
Communism." Iscnt these in writing to her house direction of M. Ilardrc. is presenting
"It will require a widened aware- president (town students should three "Gulgnol" plays, and the depart-ness
and a broadened concern if our address the president of the Town ment of art education is giving a mari-aducatlonal
community Is to be equip-| mftnued on Page Six) onette show.
pid to resist enroachments and beati Arts Forum had its roots in the
hack assaults on the freedom which work of the Young Composers' Club
has long made it a foremost bastion Krjfjcn C jlfl IflVOrS '" '9'':'wl|en Dr. Ruth Mannas.adviser,
of the United Stales and of democracy
Drafting ofWomen
The draft, bringing with it a
touch of London fog. recently breez-ed
through WC again. Margaret
ilie world over" he concluded.
Commercial Students Rale
Prizes in National Contest
Anne Day and Elaine Measamer.
students in Miss Mary HarrcH's sec-tion
of business correspondence ot
the commercial department, won
prises in a nationwide letter-judging
contest sponsored by the program di-vision
of Time Magazine.
The students had a choice of a sub-scription
to Time, Li/e. or Fortune.
Both of the students in this class
chose Li/e.
William T. Polk Addresses
English Teachers Council
William T. Polk, of the OreenebOTO
Doily Netcs, spoke to the Council of
English Teachers of QuUford Count]
Monday night. February 5, on "Old
Words for a New Urn id
Mildred Gould, p
.1 meeting ol the
council.
Kathryn England ol the de-partment
of id her
in England at the firs! meeting
called together interested persons in
(he various fields of the arts to pre-sent
a proposal for a project in which
the students' talents in each field
would be integrated into one work,
such as an operetta. This plan did
not work, but it provided thc impetus
11,11. a British subject in the US, re- ,or |he firs, ArU Forum jn
ceived word that girls eighteen
years of age were being drafted in
England and she was advised to look
into the matter immediately.
Margaret investigated thc possi-bility
of being called Into the Brit-ish
woman's corps only to be dis-couraged
by a statement saying she
wa's exempt from the British draft
because she is outside the country
at present She is, also exempt from
a draft call to the US armed forces
because she is a British subject in a
foreign land.
When asked for her opinion on
the drafting of women, Margaret
replied that they were drafting
eighteen-year-old woman in Eng-land
and that she saw no harm in
their being asked to relieve men
for active ilut\ She Hid that they
were drafted during the last war
and it didn't seem to hurt them. If
her country needs women. sh<
that they should answer the call to
service.
The first forum was under the chair-manship
of George Henry of the
school of music. The second, in 1945.
was directed by Dr. Winfield Rogers,
head of the department of English,
under whose guidance the Forum took
the form it has since retained. Since
1946 the chairman has been Dr. Marc
Friedlaender of the department of
English. From the beginning the plan-ning
and administering of the forum
has been a joint faculty and student
affair.
This year the student committee is
made up of Ester Elliott. Louise Erich-son.
Carol Byrd. Jo Carol Ennis. Caro-lyn
Dietz. Barbara Joke. Joanne Mc-
Lean. Mary Idol. Tempo Hughes, and
Anne Powell, student chairman
The aim of the Arts Forum baa been
to stimulate creative work on the part
identi and provide ■• cbane
them to receive helpful
the impetus for participation must be
a keen interest in thi arts.