The Bennington Weekly VOL. 2- NO. 12 Friday, December 7, 1951 10 Cents Rec. Council Gives A. Bartlett, A. Topping, J. Warburg Square Dance Mr. Boepple Conducts Recreation Council has decided Nominated For Executive Chairman to have a square dance on Decem- "King David" Sunday The following people have ber 14. Notices have been sent "King David", by Arthur Ho- reached final nomination for the Conference Required to Williams and Marlboro, so there should be plenty of gents negger, will be performed by the coming election of Community Of Soc. Sci. Majors for single ladies. Jed Prouty will Bennington Night Bennington Community Chorus officers: Social Science majors, begin- be the caller. He has run folk and and Orchestra Sunday afternoon ning with June's candidates for Program at 2:30 in Carriage Barn. Origi- Executive Chairman square dances at the Toll House nally a Rene Morax play incorpo- Jill Warburg graduation, will be required to ap- in Stowe, Vt., and also at yatch THE MUSIC DIVISION pear at an Oral Conference. The rating incidental music, "King Anne Topping clubs for the past three years dur- PRESENTS David" is now most frequently Augusta Bartlett conference will be scheduled for ing the summer. The dance will each student during her senior Sonata ...... Friederich Fasch presented as an oratorio. Ho- start at 9 in the Carriage Barn. negger has arranged his score Executive Secretary year after the first draft of her Admission is one dollar. Refresh- Flute, Marleen Forsberg; Bass, Cree McPherson thesis is written and has been from the original music, the dra- ments of beer and soft drinks will Katherine Brainard; Oboe, Ste- matic sequence being supplied by Sue Edelman read by faculty members. be served at no extra charge. Mary Lynn Hart phanie Chamberlain; Continua, a narrator. Barbara Nahin Joan Olmsted; Violin, Ruth Miller. Mr. Boepple, who will conduct, Judicial Committee Students Hope New Executive Fantasia for Nine Instruments has rehearsed the group painstak- Fifi Leser Lionel Nowak ingly throughout the fall. He has Yvonne Franz been familiar with this work for Dorothy Whittier Will Provide Better Communication (Bennington College Faculty) almost his entire life, having been Mr. Bloom In response to the question, Flute, Marlene Fosberg; Violin, in 1921 the young Swiss musician Mr. Smith "What would you like to see re- Priscilla Johnson; Oboe, Steph- chosen to conduct its premiere in Mr. Woodworth sult from the amendments to the anie Chamberlain; Viola, Joseph Mezieres, Switzerland. Since that Recreation Council Bennington C o 11 e g e Constitu- Schaff; Clarinet, Frances Dugan; time he has conducted many per- Joan Geiger tion?", the following remarks, Cello, Gretchen Dykema; Horn, formances by various musical or- Wanda Peck ranging in subject from govern- Aileen Schonbeck; Double Bass, ginizations in this country. Len- Elinor Randall ment cliques to community pride, Sara Chancellor; Violin, Ruth ny Lesser is the narrator, and Margie DeWitt were made: Miller. solos will be performed by Kit Non-Resident Term Committee Burns Brighton-Should bring THE DANCE DIVISION Carson, contralto, and Pat Whee- about more connection between lock, soprano. Joan Larson PRESENTS Joel Wells houses and government so that Ruth Miller all members of community will When I Lay Down and Die Sidney Ellis actually be part of government. Folk Ballad High Percentage A more direct representation. Composed and danced by Yvonne Franz Receive NRT Jobs Adult Education Sung by Vannie Mechau The N. R. T. office reports that Woman Song ...... Aaron Copland 88 students have definitely se- Program Begins Composed and danced by cured jobs for the non-resident A Faculty Committee has estab- Sophie Ruderman term. According to Miss Bertha lished an Adult Education course JOAN GEIGER Two in the Sun ...... Alec Wilder H. Funnell, Director of Non- for men and women of the Ben- Composed by Alvin Schulman Resident Term and Placement, nington area which will offer a Joan Geiger-There will be more this is m uch higher percentage Community meetingsand there- Danced by -Nancy Krukowski variety of courses ranging from and Alvin Schulman than there has usually been in Science, and Horticulture toWea- fore a closer relationship be- past years at this time. therForecasting. The Adult Edu- tween committees and Com- Themes and Variations munity plus an opportunity for Wallingford Riegger The Westchester County Re- cation Program will be offered at creation Commission of White Bennington College for a Winter committees to work together. Composed by Carol Bondy Mimi Tanenbaum-I feel that with Plains, New York, is offering sum- Term of 10 weeks beginning on Danced by Carol Bondy, Charles mer counseling jobs to any in- January second. The classes will all the confusion of the present Czarny, Janet Gay, Joan Pauley, that I am in no position to put terested students. Its camp, meet hourly on evenings, once a Sally Rounds, Frances Smith. which is in its 23rd year, takes week. forth an opinion at this time- the future is so vague and who Dance Program Under the Direc- 300 underprivileged children each The Adult Education Commit- knows what lies ahead! tion of William Bales, Irving Bur- year. The jobs are renumerative tee of which Mr. Oliver is Chair- Norm Leger-Oh! Do we have a ton and Letitia Evans. and also provide an excellent op- man, especially designed these ! GAY LESTER new government? Intermission portunity for social study. For courses to meet the needs of adults Gay Lester-I think it ls very good Solveig Peterson-More joyous Exhibition in lobby of theatre further information contact the from all walks of life such as that at last people have got ex- gatherings for Rec. Council. Presiding NRT office. high school teachers, factory cited_ enough about the inade- Thomas P. Brockway All students are requested to workers, housewives, etc., who quac1es of the present student report their job finds with the Acting President wish to continue their education government to do something Speaker NRT office. Those still without acquire a skill or follow up a about it. Now I would like to jobs are asked to check the job cultural interest. There are no see the government provide, Mary J. Shelly, Colonel, USAF opportunities listed on the NRT educational qualifications. for one thing, a more adequate THE DRAMA DIVISION bulletin board in the Barn. . student public relations com- PRESENTS One of the primary reasons for mittee the formation of such a program The Third Act of "The Intellectual Riding Club Sponsors is the Faculty's interest in pro- Ladies" ...... Moliere Sunday Hunts moting a closer unity between the Philamente .... Miriam Tanenbaum by Elinor Randall college of Bennington and the Belise ...... Marilyn Bernstein town of Bennington-a commend- Every Sunday morning there is able project. Armande ...... Caroline Crane seen, galloping across fields, dis- Henriette ...... Joan Maggin appearing over ledges and fences All Ac:ting Classes L'Epine ...... Herma Schiffer following the stern of the more rapidly hounds, a group of horses Give Workshop Tues. Trissotin ...... Alan Levitt and riders in all combinations; Vadius ...... Morris Oliver horses on foot, riders on foot, The Drama Department will Chrysale ...... Leonard Lesser riders on horses and hounds be- present a program of scenes in the TOBY CARR Clitandre ...... Normann Leger ing carried. Occasionally they re- theatre on Tuesday, December 11, Ariste ...... Colin Craig appear in the infirmary, but no at 4:00. This workshop is de- Toby Carr-More intensified in- ... Director, Robert Alvin matter, the mornings are crisp and signed to be of particular interest tegration between student body Scenery and Costumes, William there's that certain something to the community at large, as it and government committees. Sherman about horses, hounds and people will be representative of work be- Marjorie Fager, Junior-Better Stage Manager, Carolyn Keese racing over the hills and through ing done in all the acting classes. Freshmen Orientation program. (Program scheduled to conclude the woods that perpetuates it. "Aria da Capo", a one-act play Miriam Hermanos-Stricter en- by 10:45 p. m.) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, will NANCY BRAVERMAN forcement of Parliamentary This apparently pointless chase, be presented in its entirety. The Nancy Braverman-Less cliqueing procedure so that more may be There will be a publication dis- since one rarely, if ever, sees a cast consists of freshmen, under within the government and accomplished in an orderly tributed explaining the teaching fox, originated in Europe, and in the direction of Joan Maggin. A more diffusion of ideas within manner. in the Literature, Social Science our enthusiasm we often treat its scene from each of the following community. Ellen Saurwein-Abdicate. and Natural Science Divisions and long standing tradition rather plays is also on the schedule: Pam Pollard-More of feeling of Doralee Kaminsky-New plan of the Non-Resident Term. blithely. Sometimes the hounds are left behind, much to Mr. Jo- "The Good Woman of Sutzuan", responsibility on the part of all will bring more coordination, NOTICE TO ALL RIDERS to be done by Mary Lynn Hart; students. More of feeling for awareness and participation be- seph Barber's (the huntsman) dis- Dryden's "Oedipus", with Allan community as a whole. tween Community at large and All students who have signed up may, but then, often, so are the Levitt and Dorothy Jayne Miller; Judy Blake-More awareness of government. for a series of rides, are expected riders. However, everyone is en- two Restoration comedies, "Love general student body to work- Olivia Hirsch-End of usual dot- to complete them before the end couraged by the Hank's, Holt's for Love" and "School for Scan- ing of our government More tering inefficiency-but I fear of this term since they will not and Stange's, who are aware of dal", to be acted by Colin Craig participation of more people. I'm optomistic! ! be effective in the spring term. the psychological, literary, artistic and Babs Pavell, and Dorothea Janet Gay-We will know more Joan Maggin-Much more coor- If you do not wish to use the re- and aspects of the sport. To com- Harding and Norman Ledger, re- about Government and take dination and cooperation be- mainder of the rides yourself, give plete the happy time, the worn spectively; and O'Neill's "Mourn- more of a part in it and there- tween students and govern- them to your friends as a prema- and weary hunters gather around (Continued on Page 4) fore take pride in it. ment. ture Christmas gift. (Continued on Page 4) Page2 The Bennington Weekly

The Bennington Weekly You 're In the Army Now Recent Additions Published by Students of Bennington College by Olivia Hirsch To The Library Member I awoke in a cold sweat the you'd have to write to either Ambrose, Kay-Classical dances lniercollegiaie Press other morning. It was because of Eisenhower or to your Congress- and costumes of India. a dream I had. The dream was man, and by that time you would Bennett, Harry, ed.-The chemi- enough to make anybody break have probably been court mar- cal formulary, vol. 9 (Reference). Friday, December 7, 1951 into a cold sweat, develop an ul- tialed anyway. Blum, H. F.-Time's arrow and cer, or, if it is particularly near evolution. the end of the term, have a heart After breakfast you hurry up Brenan, Gerald-The literature Editor-in-Chief ...... Lorraine Lubart attack. The dream was this: That back to the barracks to makeY.our of the Spanish people. Managing Editor ...... Nanette Offray Bennington College was suddenly bed and clean before inspection. Butterfield, Herbert - History You sweep, you dust, you wash and human relations. News Editor ...... Suki Rayner turned into a WAC training camp, with the stipulation that the johns, for one hour straight. Carr, E. H.-German-Soviet re- Feature Editor ...... Olivia Hirsch everybody here now would be Then, quivering, you wait .for lations between two World Wars. Copy Editor...... Carolyn Keese forced to join-or take their Sergeant Knapp to. make the Churchill, W. L. S.-The second chances of being shot for trea- rounds. The door flies open and World War (vol. 5-Closing the Assistant to the Editors ...... Susan Liebman the sergeant strides in, looking ring). Staff ...... Carol Cassel, Marjorie de Witt, Lenore Janice, Elizabeth son. the place over with an eagle eye. Fromm Erich-The rorgotten Lester, Ruth Levitan, Mary Vallas. The idea remained with me for Col.DeGrayis accompanyingher language.' the rest of the morning, like a Business Manager ...... Marie O'Donnell this mormng Just .for kicks, and Geiger, Theodore and Cleve- lump of undigested oatmeal. I she does. She notices dust along land, H. v. B.-Making Western Advertising Managers ...... Ann Crosby, Elizabeth Kister found myself thinking about it, the wmdow mouldmg and takes Europe defensible (pamplet) Circulation Manager ...... Maxine Friedman playing with it, enlarging it. It away every one's week-end pass. Greene, Graham-The end of occurred to me that I better get Then there is drill. Those over- the affair. Assistants...... Dona Bowman, Sue Moloney, Barbara Silver, Helen the whole thing off my chest be- weight, unmuscled creatures of Grunder, G. A. - The Philip- Burgin, Barbara Suchman, Judy Beach. fore it developed into a phobia yesterday have been transformed pines and the UnitedStates. . and I was dragged off shrieking, Adviser ...... Mrs. G. Robert Stange into one great functioning athletic Hoffman, F. J., ed.-William to Mr. Edelson. Hence this ar- unit. "Left, right, contract, re- Faulkner; Two decades of criti- SUBSCRIPTION RATES ticle. lease left right, contract, release," cism. The Interpreter's Bible, On Campus...... $1.40 Per Term-$2.75 Per Year I i 1if ld be so Therewasa time when certain of vol. 7-Matthew, Mark (Refer- Off Campus ...... $1.50 Per Term-$3.00 Per Year . magme,. you wou k you used to have trouble telling ence) now which was which, but not any Kenner, Hugh-The poetry of ' more. Ezra Pound. EDITORIAL The sound of a bugle rents the Th ext activity is a class in Langner, Lawrence-The magic In the interest of dispelling the apparently prevailing air. It is not a berserk member milit e n courtesy. It is held in curtain. . uncertainty of the Community on the purpose and policy of of the music department as you Barnone Mr. Fowlie and Mr. Lorant, Stefan-The Presidency had fondly hoped.. It is reveille.t D orner ar e nowhere to be seen a pictorial. history of presidential this newspaper we present the following clarification: You. turn over m Y,our army co but the Lieutenant in charge is on elections. (which they wouldn'tt let you con- hand to tell you when to salute, Malone, Dumas-Jefferson and The Bennington Weekly is primarily an organ of commu- vert into a studio bed) sleepily when not to how to address your the rights of man. nication. It tries to communicate between one educational thinking happily that you don't Commanding Officer. What to National planningAssociation- department and the six others; it tries to communicate be- have to get up, you haveno clas- wear and when. A private raises Causes of mdustrial peace: Case ses this morning. "All right, wo- her hand "Sir I don't know how studies No. 9. tween governmental committees and the Community; it tries men, up and at 'em,''. bellows a you can iay downthese absolutes. Neibuhr, H. R.-Christ and cul- to communicate between the campus as a whole and its out- voice. You sit up, witha rude Absolutes are the product of the ture. side readers. start. There are_ thirty other Baroque culture. Furthermore, as Palmer, E. E.,ed. - Thecommu- young women domg the s.ame. Proust says . . . "That's enough, nist problem m America. We try to keep our humor harmless which, oddly enough, (They wouldn't give you a smgle sister" barks the lieutenant. Rabinowitch, E. I.-Photosyn- turns out to be an extremely difficult job. this year, either.) All wear the "you're in the Army now sister. thesis and related processes, vol. same look of disbelief. "Five min- There's just one thing you'got 2, pt. 1. . Of course, any preconceived idea of how to deal with utes till flag raising yells the to know and that's how to take Redding, J. S.-On bemg Negro voice". You scurry into your orders. Get that in America. future events is necessarily subject to the changes individual army fatigues, wonder which flag, You spend the afternoon learn- Roth, G. M.-Tobacco and the adaptation requires. All points cited above come from past check to make sure that your ing how to clean a carburator in a cardiovascular system. . occurrences, and every week our policy undergoes some sort shoes are shined (you must wear J eep. That's the only thing you Ruml, Beardsley, and Geiger, shoes in the Army) and every but- have to think about, how to clean Theodore-The five per cent of reformation, no matter how slight or non-apparent. Ac- ton is on. Then you dash out to the carburator . . . (pamphlet) tually, we're unpredictable and can guarantee nothing. the center of commonsand stand To bed at seven, as Taps plays. Samaschson, Dorothy - Let's This, perhaps, disconcerting situation arises out of the fact in the cold mormng light, salutmg . meet the ballet. stiffly as the flag is raised. Another day of the same thing Smith Bradford-Bradford of that, although newsprint isn't human, the people who direct . tomorrow and tomorrow and to- Pl uth It's then time for chow. morrow. Think of the boredom, ymouth Derek_ Christopher it into communicative form are. Thus the newspaper should Everyone runs up to commons think of it Eyes right Yes sir, a ' be regarded as somewhat of a living thing, (with faults as well (known now as headquarters No sir. Gone are the days of dis- Fry. W e-The neces- as virtues as is necessary to life, which endeavors to be a and grabs one ofthose partitioned cussion. You just do it. No one evens, a 11 ac trays. You think longmgly of argues about Community Feeling sary angel A survey of So- thoughtful and responsible member of the Community. French toast but no, some uni or Spirit. If you can't go over . Vo n, . azar-: dentifible greymess is slopped mt,o the obstacle course the first time, vietRussianagriculture yourcomplain you try until you can. They won't religion1640~ Aphorisms you want to do something about it, (Continued Page 4) 1660. by Francis Golffing For a Hair Cut and Two men impossible to touch: we have to say we must allow Shampoo Go To MARTY'S - FLORIST Valerian because he is all sensi- ourselves to be cacophonous. A No. BENNINGTON NOVECK'S tive surface; Botho because he is taboo violated (euphony) will then PEGGY MACLAY all hidden depth. be redeemed by a taboo enforced 407 Main St. CutFlowers, Plants, Corsages Large selection of (le mot juste). "I'm very sorry but I haven't Tel. 5120 We Telegraph Flowers long-playing records the time to look at your aphorism His wit is so feeble, it needs an -I'm rereading all of Proust at ass to sustain it. the moment." WORK CLOTHES The scholar-teacher: a mother- Matches appall the neat mind, cat eating while feeding her OF QUALITY for they are images of waste, dis- young. order. Nothing as depressing as The Friendly Store ADAMS a dish filled with used matches: "All these are solutions for MERRY-GO- one half of everybody's life seems which, I regret to say, we have no to groan in that random heap, or problems." else suffer silently .... The trouble with lighters is that Question for a test-paper in lit- CLOTHES erature: How much do we have ROUND they rarely work. to know about an author before Pants At times, in order to say what we can dismiss him completely? rshirts SHOP

Yale Board Publishes "Going Places" .. Clothes New Haven, Conn. (I. P.)-Since about curfew, as well as a critique BOB ROBERTSON so many college men spend both of nearby restaurants and night At the Plano Nightly time and money on week-ends at clubs. Footwear women's colleges, a group of Yale students have now compiled a George P. Craighead, '52, of De- handbook to help the young man troit, Mich., is editor of the Yale when he dates a college girl. board that prepared the handbook Arrow The book is called "Going which they plan to sell for one Saul's Places and is a guide to twenty dollar to college men throughout Rex Stewart's Orchestra Workingman's Store White Shirts eastern women's colleges. There the East. "Information about Fridays and Saturdays is a map of each campus, impor- each women's college comes di- tant telephone numbers, details rectly from the college officials," 123 North St. The Bennington Weekly Page 3 D. Harding's "Tomorrow I Hope" Seems Odd Proves Extremely Successful Doesn't It? by Catharine Osgood Foster by Olivia Hirsch Last night's piece of theatre answer. By the end of the second This was told to us by two was one of the liveliest we've seen act, however, we have met with sophomores. It seems that they . . . enough recognizable dream situa- m Bennington College for quitetions to know for sure that that is had driven down to Danny's to get their car fixed and were a while. It was a short play m what it is. The third act shows parked outside his gas pump, three acts by Dorothea Harding Hope really awake, acting in the when a hearse drove up to the called "Tomorrow I Hope", di- clear light of the real family situ- entrance. The driver stopped for rected by Colin Craig, and charm- ation and getting ready to leave a minute, looked around, and ingly acted by Dorothea Harding for the hundredth performance of then drove in. Five minutes later as Hope, Alan Levitt as Michel, the play she is in. he drove out again, stopped again, Joan Larson as Hope's sister, Na- The other kind of suspense is and shouted to Danny! "Hey, talie; Norman Leger as Bruce, even more exciting, for it is the buddy, where is the cemetery? and Babs Pavell as Laura. The kind of eagerness we feel while Helen Frankenthaler's Jugglers play opens with Hope asleep on waiting for someone to reveal An Art major tells this one. the sofa in the living room of a more and more of her innermost It seems that a fellow student of New York apartment, where she secrets. And they come out, one Work At Williams Bennington Grad hers brought up an immense has dozed off while reading about after another, all of Hope's real mural to criticism class. Mr. (x), Toulouse-Lautrec and the Phil- feelings and desires, her easy so- Reprinted from "The Williams Exhibits Work the professor involved who pre- harmonic and the latest Christo- lutions, her high-handed moves Record" Reprinted from "Art News" fers to remain anonymous, waxed pher Fry play in a shiny high- into the position of importance; Among the major misapprehen- Helen Frankenthaler, twenty- enthusiastic about the marvelous priced magazine. Hope sits up, and quietly played underneath the texture in the work and asked the back-stage curtains part, and , surface of fantastic and funny sions entertained by many people, two-year-old abstractionist, has a her what material she had used. she begins talking to herself. events is the whole pattern of her although perhaps more in jest first solo show of gigantic compo- "Oh, said the student, nonchal- Then the suspense begins, and a fears and inadequacies. The mem- than in sincerity, is the miscon- sitions dedicated to the excite- antly, I used cold spaghetti, Old very exciting suspense it is, for it bers of her family, all shifted one ception that Williams is a "coun- ment of pigment slashed, sworled Dutch Cleanser-and dead flies." is of two kinds at once. We im- notch into roles just not quite the try club" for tweedy young gen- and sprayed across the surface, mediately suspect from Hope's ones they play in real life, direct posing and pirouetting that she is their power drives at Hope and tlemen. Nothing could be fur- and to a variation of mood evok- an actress, playing her part. But the man she loves, till, at the end ther from the truth. If this atti- ed by colorist and tactile means. WINTER IS HERE the question is: is this a dream of the second act she has to kill tude arises from previous experi- The exuberance of pure blues, BUY NOW or a rehearsal? The suspense them, and herself, with a gun that ences, the only answer must be orange and yellow, which sets a mounts till we are quite sure it is does not, of course, go off. With SNOW BOOTS one or the other when a new en- all these secrets out, our interest that those days, if not gone for- turbulent pace in J'uglers, is main- trance or a new satirical twist shifts in the third act to the ques- ever, are definitely gone for now. tained by the clarity of form on Tan, Red, Green at moves the play into a situation of tion-what will Hope be like and Parents who worry that their form, while Painted on 21 Street greater complexity and we are be doing in real life, in the world progeny have left home for four is by contrast an airy compound again eagerly in suspense for the of the so-called awake? Will she years of casual living may dispel of thin, pinkist ground and DRAGON'S rebel? Yes, she does. Will she th ir .fe r . A ademic standards splotches ofwhite .plaster .Played SHOE SHOP get the man she loves? No, she eir a s c ' over sparmgly with whispered won't. Will she fall back into the both before and after entrance to touches of color. $50-$800. Bennington. Vt. (Continued on Page 4) college, are such as to challenge the best of students. Take the present freshman class. In order .... good fashion to gain admission to Williams KING'S they had to attain marks which TOWNE like good :tas:te few other schools require. Yet is priceless only a few days ago a startling CIGAR St RE ber or them received final Beauty Salon CARROLL warnings. No one was startled, DRUG STORE - unless it were the freshmen them- VOGUE & selves. Indeed, they had received 626 Main Street See Our Comple:te Line no more warnings comparatively EVA'S BEAUTY SALON than last year's freshman class. VANITY of Xmas Merchandise They are learning what many an "Coiffures to Remember" "ex" has already learned: You BENNINGTON, VT. On Display- Perfumes, have to work to get into Williams; 463 Main Street Colognes and Gift Sets you have to work harder to stay. Still Time to Have a Picture What proof have we that peo- For Christmas ' 405 Main St. ple really work at Williams? The best proof: the actual experience. Tell the senior who is submerged WHEELER'S WRIGHT'S in his major studies that he isn't Motor Tune Up working; he'll laugh at you. Tell /or the freshman struggling over a Rattles Removed CIGAR STORE collateral that he has a cinch; he'll Brakes Checked growl at you. Although many SPORTING don't like to admit it for fear of Photography Tires Rotated being called a "spook", the vast majority of undergraduates spend 439 Main St. Dial 5516 GOODS the best part of their time on their Bennington. Vt. W. H. EDDINGTON, INC. books. Bennington, Vt. Editor's Note: They still look mighty tweedy.

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If you can't swim the coffee pot or bale of hay, and old pattern and go on to the thea- the British dramatist Arthur Wing seven miles in icy water, you Mr. Baker, whose wonderful tre and that world of make-be- Pinero, was first produced in drown. And if you rebel, and slap horses are ridden and who is the lieve? Yes, she will. But as she America at the Star Theatre, New an officer, hoping he'll get good horse master general, sits amid the says in the title, "Tomorrow I York, in 1893. The plot concerns and mad, and sock you back, Paula Ray, an attractive young toast and coffee cups teasing and Hope." (Anything to relieve the bore- It is not only the situation and woman who leaves a fickle and dom), he'll look at you coolly, entertaining everyone. suspense that make this play so carefree existence to marry the perceptly controlled, and the next lively; the style is lively, too. It is wealthy, respectable Aubrey Tan- day you'll get a message to report All Acting Classes personal, immediate, full of pun-1queray. to the Commander and you'll gent references and ludicrous ex- Ellean Tanqueray, Aubrey's spend thirty days peeling pota- Give Workshop Tues. aggerations of the fa mi 1 i a r daughter by a previous marriage, toes (if you don't know how, Only 14 shopping days (Continued from Pa:e 1) idiosyncracies and motives in our- leaves a sheltered life in a con- you'll learn). The Army is a well selves, in the vocabulary of to- vent to live with Paula and Au- oiled machine. ing Becomes Electra", with Miri- day, the idom of 1951. The actors brey. Afraid that Paula will be a left in Bennington am Tanenbaum and Caroline caught the spirit of this style, bad influence on the child, Aubrey Crane. were skillfully directed to move sends Ellean to Paris where she It is still not too late to In the interest of inter-depart- and posture in terms of it, and falls in love with a former sweet- HAND BAGS were obviously having a great heart of Paula's. Conflict arises mental integration, a discussion deal of fun doing it, too, especially over Mrs. Tanqueray, a woman of pick your gifts out and of the performance will follow its in the second act where they plan shady past, being accepted in her have them shipped so presentation. Members of the a trip to the moon, sip champagne new environment. , community are urged to partici- for breakfast or is it lunch or din- The Cap and Bells production that you may enjoy the pate and raise questions, in the ner, listen attentively to the tink- of this play is scheduled at the hope of furthering an under- ling of time and, in the case of Adams Memorial Theatre for pre-Christmas world. standing of the nature and pur- Laura, gloat magnificently at the December 13, 14 and 15. J ohn pose of the work being done in stopping of time completely. Larson, who appeared last year Drama at Bennington. I am sorry so many members of in The Importance of Being Ear- theBenningtonCollegeCommun- nest. will play Aubrey Tanqueray. ity missedseemg this play, for it Mrs. Clarence Chaffee will be seen is an example of the kind of sen- as Paula Martin Conovitz as Cay- ior project we may be proud of. ley Drummle (Aubrey's best WHERE else Besides it was extremely enter- friend), and Mrs. Lawrence Bloe- TO WRIGHT-WAY tammg. del will appear as Mrs. Cortelyn, ENTERTAIN Ellean's guardian on the conti- LAUNDERS nent. "Going Places" Conovitz acted in two produc- -and- (Continued from Page 2) tions last year: as Algernon Mon- THE he explained, but added that his crieff in The Importance of Being DRY CLEANERS board did not stop there. About Earnest, and as Peter Collamar in 40 college girls from the twenty Shadow of a Star. 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