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AT 45th ST., NEW YORK Direct Entrance to Grand Central Terminal Please mention the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ELL ALUMNI NE Subscription price $4 a year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August VOL. XLIII, NO. ITHACA, NEW YORK, MARCH 2.7, I94I PRICE, 15 CENTS UNIVERSITY PRESERVES LOCAL LEGENDS By Harold W. Thompson, Professor of English Remembering your undergraduate years Professor Thompson is the author of the long plays, "The Cardiff Giant" above Cayuga's drum-haunted waters, the recent successful book, Body, Boots, (1939) by Drummond and Gard, and you may have wondered why Cornell did and Britches, recounting folktales of "The Lake Guns of Seneca and Cayuga" up-State New York. He came to Cornel! not exploit further its artistic advantage (1940) by Drummond. A Yale^ man as professor of English last July from as the center of that State richest in Albany State Teachers College. Students recently referred to the latter as the most history and folklore. As a newcomer, I in his course in American Folklore ran- remarkable play which he saw in a have been told that when President sack the attics of their home localities survey of the American summer theaters White was assembling his remarkable and talk with local residents, searching made last year, and anyone who saw Faculty, he rejected the suggestion of out old tales, proverbs, games, customs, either of these "shows," as Drummond paying special attention to the region's place names, ballads, and other interest- calls them, will share this enthusiasm. history; Cornell was to be international ing historical materials. Cornell Uni- So far as I know, Drummond is better and universal in its views and studies. versity Press will shortly publish the acquainted with the romantic history Memoirs of Robert Coffin, an early and legends of the Finger Lakes region Broad liberalism having been accepted whaler from Dutchess County, which as part of the Cornell tradition, we may were discovered by one of Professor than any other living person, though consider afresh the value of regional Thompson's students, and to which he Romeyn Berry '04 and Professor Morris studies and regional art. Perhaps the has written a foreword. He is at work Bishop '13 could each write a glowing most fruitful consideration has been also on another book of folklore, and book on the subject. Drummond adds that of Professor Alex M. Drummond, one on the Niagara River. to a romantic realization of our vigorous whose State-wide play project is enlisting folk the resources of masterly direction the aid of the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored play writing contests; a sum- and of writing that ranges from farce to and receiving national notice. mer conference for amateurs furnished poetical comedy, enlivened by balladry, suggestions to several interested persons, swift movement, beautiful stage pic- Drummond Develops Plays including a farmer's wife who happens tures, and remarkable handling of It was in the years from 1919 to 192.3 to be Maxwell Anderson's sister; Drum- crowds. that the Cornell Dramatic Club, under mond, Albright, and Gard prepared a Drummond's direction, conducted at bulletin on "How to Choose a Play and Catch Up-State Flavor Syracuse the Little Country Theatre for How to Write One," some 5,000 copies I saw each "show" three times, each the New York State Fair. The idea, of which are being distributed gratis to performance adding to my enjoyment. backed by the State College of Agricul- New York residents by the College of The first performance of "The Cardiff ture, spread to county fairs; a number of Agriculture. Professor Mary Eva Duthie, Giant" meant to me simply exhilerating plays about rural New York were writ- extension specialist of the Department entertainment, with more laughs than ten, produced, and distributed. When of Rural Sociology, has carried folklore any play had given me for years; but the they came to distribution, the need arose to clubs of rural children. Gard has second performance revealed that this to make a survey of all the theatrical written and directed a number of plays "show" was the masterly development groups in rural sections and small towns, for the Radio Guild; the University of two symphonic themes: the character not forgetting the schools, which were Theatre has produced two remarkable of all Central New York in the period awakening to the possibilities of regional long plays; and Kermis this year added following the Civil War, and the ironic drama for education. In 1936, Drummond a play by Gard to the delightful one- problem of why human beings like to be secured for H. Darkes Albright, PhD acters presented at Farm and Home Week. duped. '36, a Rockefeller Fellowship which, Alumni have shown special interest in "The Lake Guns" is at first sight an after careful study extending over three arrangement of those legends and scien- years, resulted in a valuable report tific theories which attempt to account transmitted to the State Department of for the "lonesome drums" or guns heard Education. Parts of this survey have from the depths of Cayuga and Seneca been published in Theatre Arts and other Lakes—an»arrangement of rich charac- magazines, and it has been used by the ters ranging from the Serpent of Bare Hill Cornell University Theatre in developing to a Cornell Professor of Geology. (At what has been known since 1938 as the one performance all the wives of the New York State Play Project. Department attended to see What Could To maintain Cornell's leadership in Be Learned About Geologists.) But the this plan, two things were needed: play is more than this: it is a fantasy on discovery of plots based upon regional two themes, the romantic mystery of history and folklore, and the services of nature, and the apparent conflict in life playwrights.