The Carolinian [October 12, 1951]

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VOLUME XXXIII Z531 WOMAN'S COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. GREENSBORO. N. C OCTOBER 12. 1951 NUMBER 3
GUC Debates Greater University Day at State
Author and Critic, John Mason Brown,
To Lecture in Aycock on October 16
"Seeing More Things"
Topic of Noted Teacher
Of History of the Theatre \
"Seeing More Things." a lecture by |
John Mason Brown, drama critic, lee*
turcr, and author, will mark the sec-1
ond event of the 1951-1952 Lecture-
Entertainment Series In Aycock Audi-torium.
October 16.
Now drama critic for the Saturday
Review of Literature, Brown has a
well-versed background in the theatre
which gives him free rein in his
constructive criticisms. Born In Ken-tucky
in 1900. he attended Harvard
University where he studied drama,
graduating rum laudc. He did some
acting, and could have been a direc-tor
in the theatre, but Instead he chose
the vocation of critic. As a 17-year-old,
reporter on the Louisville Courier-
Journal, he determined to enter this
field, and by the time he arrived at
Harvard he had already studied Aris-totle.
Schlegel. Hazlitt, and other play-wrights
with whom a critic must be
familiar. Brown has frequently trav-eled
in Europe making studies of the
drama there, thus keeping up to date
In his extensive and thorough knowl-edge
of the theatre.
Over the years John Mason Brown
has proved himself the ablest of the
Broadway critics, holding a reputa-tion
for predicting correctly more
Broadway flops and hits than any other
appraiser. Brown Is so excellent a
critic that some of his reviews have
been gathered into a book, Broaduxiy
in Replete.
Twice a year John Mason Brown
makes lecture tours throughout the
United States. Lauded as one of the
best lecturers in the country, he often
puts on a better show than is afforded
by some of the plays he discusses.
Because of his special inclination for
lecturing, he has taught the history
of the theatre and playwrighting in
summer classes at various schools, in-cluding
Harvard.
Besides Broadway in Review, Brown
has written a number of other books,
outstanding among which are The
Modern Theatre in Rcuolt. a review
of the course of the theatre's devel-opment
during the past 100 years; and
The Art o/ Playgoino, essays designed
to make the intelligent playgoer more-aware
of what the theatre is. what it
is trying to do. and how its achieve-ment
can be judged and appreciated.
Author of Seeing Things
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ss Forum Launches Council Adopts Four-fold Plan
Drive To Stimulate n . ji n . . r ...
Thought on Campus rresentedbyrrojectsLommittee
John Mason Brown, author and
lecturer, presents a program on
his book at Aycock, October 16.
Brown has also appeared before the
public in several radio programs and
a television show. Critics-at-Large.
After graduating from Harvard.
Brown taught history of the theatre
at the University of Montana for a
year, then accepted the position of
associate editor and drama critic for
the Theatre Arts Monthly. From 1929
until 1941 he was drama critic for the
Weu> York Evening Post, after which
he was appointed for the same posi-tion
on the New York World Telegram.
Brown served as lieutenant in the
Navy during the Second World War
and upon his discharge became drama
critic for the Saturday Reuieuj of
Literature, which position he now
holds.
Events of the Week
Phi Psi Omega, campus classical
club, schedules election of a new club
president as the main business of its
first meeting of the year October 15.
This change in office is necessitated
by the fact that Eva Kate Moore, pres-ent
chairman of the club, holds the
same position in the College Medical
Technicians Club. The meeting be-gins
at 7:30 in the Alumnae House.
O
The Miniver Story, stirring sequel
to the much-beloved Mrs. Miniver of
World War II fame, appears at Ay-cock
Saturday night at 8:30 PM.
Starring in the MGM production
are several members of the cast of
the original Mrs. Miniver, including
Greer Garson, Walter Pldgeon. and
Richard Ney.
As a feature of the SDA campaign
to promote awareness of the threats
to our civil liberties, Tartt Bell, execu-tive
secretary of the southeastern
region of the American Friends Ser-vice
Committee, will speak on the
federal securities program at 8.00 PM
October 15 in the Audio-Visual Room
of the library. (See page three.)
O
The YWCA Cabinet retreat at the
RA hut opens on Saturday at 2:00 PM
and continues until 9:30 AM Sunday.
The topics of discussion at the
retreat are 'The Functions of Com-missions."
"The Relations of Inter-faith
to YWCA," and plans for the
year's program.
Miss Rosalie Oakes, National Stu-dent
Secretary for the Southern Re
gion, will be on campus Monday
through Wednesday of next week. She
will meet with the cabinet and go
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GARY Offers Tickets;
Enter I. D. Card Now
Attention all aesthetes and sad-ists:
clean your specs!
Winners of the Ugliest ID and
Best-Looking ID Contest will be
TYPICAL ENTRANT
The student committee appointed
for the fifth annual Harriet Elliot So-cial
Science Forum will convene soon
to formulate final plans and com-plete
arrangements for the Forum
November 15. 16, and 17. The com-mittee
was confirmed this week by
Chancellor Edward K. Graham.
The new appointees include Ruth
I Rawlins, Mary Agnes Tola, Nancy
\ Witherspoon, Dot Kendall. Harriet
I Hall, Helen Hammond, Zita Spector,
Pat Markas, and Marilyn Kobinette.
From last year's committee roster
Glenna DeWitt. Ann Whittlngton.
Joan W. Knaup, Peggy Hull, and Ann
Snead remain to complete the com-mittee,
which will elect Its chairman
from the group. Faculty Chairman is
Dr. Eugene Pfaff.
To launch a "Don't-go-cold-to-the-
Forum" campaign, the library will
work in connection with the commit-tee
next week to have on display in
the second floor vestibule the first
group of a series of books and other
[literature pertaining to the "Meeting
| of East and West." the Forum theme,
especially those authored by Forum
speakers.
Derk Bodde's Peking Diary affords
a documentary Insight into the stand
Mr. Bodde will take at the Forum in
relation to the theme At present a Student Work Checks
professor of Chinese studies at the
University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Bodde
went to Peking as a Fullbright Pel-low
in August of 1948 for a year. It
was a return to Peking where he had
j lived six years previously. His diary
records events over the period of seige,
] surrender, and occupation by the
Communists of the cultural and po-litical
center of China.
A Christian Science Monitor critic
reported: "In Peking Mr. Bodde saw
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Greater University Council Convenes at WC
Above are pictured representatives to the GU Council from State
College, Chapel Hill, and the Woman's College of the consolidated
University of North Carolina.
A vailable October 25
The Student Aid office an-nounces
that payrolls are due Oc-tober
15.
By that date department heads
should have sent all payrolls to
J. M. Joyce's office. Checks for
student aid work will be distrib-uted
October 25 in the Student
Aid office.
ID. Card contest
announced in next week's issue of
THE CAROLINIAN.
All students with hopeful pros-pects
in either line should send
their ID card to Rosemary Boney.
If the card is needed before the
contest is over, owners may call
for them.
Remember: The disfiguration
(or flattery) of your countenance
may win for you a ticket to the
DUKE-CAROLINA game! Enter
today!
Dean Thomas Hall
Acting as Consultant
To Faculty Committee
Thomas Kail, dean of the College
of Liberal Arts at Washington Uni-versity
in St. Louis, Mo., arrived at
the Woman's College Thursday to act
as consultant to the faculty committees
on general education.
A study of general education to be
made by the faculty was Initiated by
Chancellor Edward K. Graham lasl
year. Four committees have been at
work on the subject, and last year
tig ELLEN DUPREE FLEMING two consultantS| Davld 0wcn from
KOREA I had to Issue a statement like that. Harvard University and Frank Bowles
Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea We °f the American public are proud, 0f Columbia University, were called |
—The stubborn Red forces slowed the ,0°; " doesn't take an explosion to in to work with the local faculty. Dean1
Allied offensive Monday with new make us show it. And our leaders uan is lne fjrst consultant for this |
don't have to get on an International vcar although others will be invited I
hook-up and blare the fact out either, later.
AMERICA Dean 1|aM js mre|ing wilh (nc fac.
New York-ln a statement issued u,(y membe„ ,„„,,,„, in tne Alumnac
World News in Brief
around Yonchon, thirty-five miles
north of Seoul. Only small United
Nations gains were made Monday.
The Korean Reds held tenaciously
counterattacks and the heaviest artil-lery
burst they have used since the
outbreak of the war. The Chinese Reds
moved troops and ammunition toward
the west to mend their ragged forces Just before he entered the New York ~^"~™ hels'to's'peak on't'he
hospital where he rests after hi* plane iubjcct Qf gene(.a, educatlon Thurs.
tr.p to the Un.ted States. Iran's Pre- day n(ght ^ mc( ,„,„„,„, wiln ,
m.er Mohammed Massadegh »■*■„, rtudeBta ,n c^no, Gr,
new charges that the British Imperial- ham.s hom(, ^ n<? has^working!
the first of this week to the small re- ,s's «« P»lWi« her oil resources. c|oge)y w|,h l(]e commiltces since nl9
maining northern part of "Heartbreak lhe I,remlcr ls ln tnls country to arriva| „c wm |eavc Saturdav for
Ridge" in the east where Allies have Present his nation's case in the Brit- S( LQU1S
ish-Iranian oil dispute which is to be
brought up in the Security Council A blologlsl. Dean Hall has been;
this Thursday associated with general education pro-
GaUtnburg, Tennessee—Four po- *rams at Purdue' tne University of
litical factors were evident as the na- Chicago, and at present, at Washing-lions
governors dismissed their meet-""1 University.
Upon organization of the faculty
Planning Council
Announces Dance
The eagerly awaited Freshman Mix-er
is scheduled for Saturday, Novem-ber
3, announces Elaine Holly, college
social chairman.
The semi-formal dance is planned
for all the freshmen of WC. who will
be hostesses to the freshmen of an-other
college, as yet undetermined.
Of Interest to all fashion-minded
students is the fashion show at Mon-taldo's
each afternoon from October
23-26. The show will be presented
in the form of an informal coke party,
and informative talks will be given
on the latest fashion styles, fabrics.
and trends. All students are cordial-ly
invited to attend.
Dorm parties and inter-dorm get-togethers
will be emphasized at com-ing
meetings of the Social Planning
Council.
ing here last Thursday. In the Re-!
publican party there Is the group rep- committees last year. Mis:
been slowly enlarging their hold for
I the past week.
West of "Heartbreak" the U. S.
Ninth Infantry Regiment fought for
the last peaks of "Kim II Sung Ridge."
It was reported that Red troops were
sworn to fight to the death to save
this peak.
Tokyo.—On Monday General Ridg-way
agreed on the Panmunjon area
as a site for renewed Korean cease-fire
talks. At the same time he dis-agreed
with a Red proposal to extend
the old Kaesong neutral zone to In-clude
Munsen. the site of the Allied j,he conference turn to the "real If
truce camp. He did suggest a small sues" of deflcit pending, high taxes,
neutral area surrounding Punmanjon jand Communism.
resented in Val Peterson of Nebraska,
chairman of the conference commit-tee,
which is pulling for Elsenhower
for the 1952 GOP nomination. The
other wing, represented by J. Brack-en
Lee of Utah, who demanded that
with neighboring towns of Kaesong. j The Democratic ranks were split
Munsen. and the roads from these |lnto the Trumanltes. headed by G^
towns to be free from attack. |Mennen Williams of Michigan, and
Ridgway has demanded that liaison into ,ne southern faction, headed by
officers settle all technicalities before South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, which
intends to do everything possible to
prevent Truman's nomination and to
cause his defeat at the polls If he Is
chosen.
Washington, D. C —Reacting to Rus-the
main negotiators meet again.
RUSSIA
The free world has been upset
during the past few days by the ru-mored
explosion of a test A-bomb
by the Soviet. On October 6 Stalin
disclosed that Russia recently ex-ploded
such a bomb and that she
plans more tests on A-bombs of "va-rious
caliber." Stalin declared, how-ever,
that the bomb developments
were for Russia's own good and not
for use in an attack against the U. S.
or any other country. The Red lead-er
went on to say that the Russian
Mereb
Mossman was appointed chairman of
the steering committee, which directs
the study. Since her appointment
as Dean of instruction, she has been
succeeded by Dr. Marc Friedlaender.
Other committees concerned with the
study are: natural sciences. Miss Flor-ence
Schaeffer, chairman; the humani-ties.
Dr. Warren Ashby. chairman;
and social sciences. Dr. Emma Lay-man,
chairman.
Square Circle Club Meets
Talks on the fields open to mathe-matics
majors highlighted the first
meeting of the Square Circle Club
October 9.
Presented by student members of
sla's announcement of the A-bomb ,he c,ub the discusslons centered on
explosion, Congress demanded Sat- ,ne three areas of lnsurance statls.
urday that the U. S. effect an all-out
expansion of our atomic production.
The Supreme Court on Monday re-fused
to reconsider Its decision against
the eleven Communist party leaders
tics, and teaching.
Preceding the program, elections
were conducted to fill vacant offices.
Hazel Duval wil serve as second vice-president
and social chairman, and
but agreed to rule on the constitu- Joanne Johnston will act as represen-tionality
of deporting a person iorjutive to tne curricuium board.
post membership in the Communist. New faculty members Frances Wolfe
party and on whether aliens facing' and james j Hagood were Introduced,
people reacted with considerable pride: deportation may be held without bail Among future plans formulated were
when the news of the explosion had on I Hading by the attorney general, those for a tea December 13 honor-ucd
Well, Joe, old boy, the that they have been active Commu-|i„g the faculty of the department of
American government never yet has ■ nists. mathematics.
State Asks Consideration
Of Foreign Student Fund
Honoring Frank Graham
The G U Council failed to reach
agreement at Its session Sunday. Octo-ber
7, in relation to the query. "To
what extent is the GU an authorita-tive
body?" Tom Sully, representative
from UNC. defined the position of the
representative as that of a leader of
his branch of the university. Several
members suggested that as indirect
representatives of their schools, the
delegates to the council could not di-rectly
represent the attitudes of the
student bodies, nor express attitudes
for council consideration that are con-trary
to the majority feelings of these
bodies. The function of the council
was not clearly defined as path and
kind of action it could pursue under
-imni'stiiins of positions on issues af-fiding
one or all of the insltutions.
The body of the meeting consisted
primarily of the re-adoption of proj-ects
undertaken by the council last
year. The four long-range projects
considered of sufficient importance to
lhe Greater University Council to fol-low
up are as follows:
I. Proposed. A WINTER GREATER
UNIVERSITY DAY.
Though this proposal was ac-cepted
in 1950 by the council, the
committee was unable to follow
through because the date of pro-posed
event, a State-Carolina bas-ketball
game, was during a WC
recess.
II. Proposed: A STANDING PUB-LICITY
COMMITTEE.
The purpose of this commit-tee
is to more strongly integrate
the cultural and social programs
of the Greater University by ex-change
publicity.
Suggestions for Implementation:
a. School newspaper, radio
facilities.
b. Maintenance of an extra-curricular
information bu-reau.
c. Promotion of a poster
exchange.
III Proposed: INCREASED 1NTRA-SCHOOL
ATHLETIC PROGRAM
Although this program was car-ried
through to some extent in
1950. the plan was de-empha-sized
since the council was pre-sented
with several more immedi-ate
programs to support. It was
suggested, and the feeling of the
group was directed toward a
sports program of stronger indi-vidual
participation and less team
activity.
IV Proposed: A COMMITTEE TO
PROMOTE ATTENDANCE AT SPE-CIAL
EVENTS.
The majority of the council voted
to consolidate this proposal with II
since it related to publicity. The
STANDING PUBLICITY COMMIT-TEE
will take this as one of their func-tions.
Several suggestions and motions
were brought to the floor for consid-eration
as plans for fostering closer
relationships other than social among
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Freshman Class
Commission Meets
Freshman dormitories elected repre-sentatives
to the Freshman Commis-sion
Monday night.
They are: Bailey. Carol DuPler and
Peggy Crown; Colt. Jean Craig and
Jan-ad Denhard; Cotten, Josephine
Okey and Rebecca Smith; Gray. Polly
McBonald and Mary Ellen "Petunia"
Straw-bridge: Jamison, Nancy Mc-Tu-age
and Barbara Zlbelin; Kirkland,
Phyllis Moger and Betty Tish; town
students, Barbara Smith and Jerene
Steifle.
The commission will meet on Oc-tober
16. with Marion Sifford. acting
president, and Miss Helen Burns, class
chairman, presiding. At this meet-ing,
the new commission will pre-sent
the committees for the class ban-ner,
song, and motto.