THE JOURNAL OF CRACCUM AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Vol. 21, No. 1— Price Threepence. Wednesday, February 26th, 1947. WITENAGEMOT ĪO 10 a THE STUDENTS* EXECUTIVE, 8947 d, Below are thumbnail sketches of blonde with an habitual worried air, typing has evoked comment; also the firom tennis, swimming, tramping, to Massey, your Executive. Some members may Miss' Garland is at present scattering tact that he keeps pure alcohol in his debating and, on her own admission, a verj her charm and social poise around locker (for Zoological purposes only). eaiting. Oddly enough, in spite of her object to some particular slant on Training College. She has a rich 7 m uci * * * •> acklani their characters or even question the store of literary quotations and . M . B. accuracy of their portraits. The gurgles happily in the alto section of DAVID NEAL authors claim that, as artists, they the Music Club, and, as her friends tratioi point out with some asperity, not only Returned student doing B.Sc. N.Z.U. must record what they themselves Hockey Blue and Provincal player, against there. ie was gee and feel—creative merit presup­ Mr. Neal has the Sports Portfolio well under control. In his spare time he inatiou poses emotive content. Their inten­ unofficially reads CRACCUM copy, d Buj. tions are, however, pure. and experiments in the posibilities of wert We print the photographs of some producing a non-caustic soap. His and B. of the Executive. We have no blocks capacity for pouring oil on troubled of the others. It is a temptation for waters increases his value as an Exec, id 5-1 every paper to publish what is at member. He is the man to see about ckland Tournament. >n sev- hand and costs least-, and we have suc­ lefence cumbed. Those represented claim jfc >K s com- that the portraits do net. necessarily iyed a resemble the originals. NORA BAYLY B.A. Doing History Honours this * * * ie be- year. Editor of CRACCUM and in ia re- charge of Extra Curricular portfolio. game JOHN NATHAN Miss Bayly divides her time between and C. seducing professors into writing >al. articles for CRACCUM, and promot­ ing schemes of wholesale extortion ED for the benefit of Student Relief. She a fast flats with efficiency. Sporting activi­ )y the ties: Played hockey at school but did grand not like it much. race-track technique in a car. she al­ ways succeeds in being late for every­ s some * * * Bruce thing. If you iare dissatisfied in some ted by small way with Caf. fare, take your W ILLIAM HARESNAPE troubles to Miss Laidlaw. ■ttack- i vig. * * * ^ * * ALAN GIFKINS entre, JOHN MORTON right, n the teady i Neil 3 pos- urna- Jack I 5, full I Fred I

and I is i n i irray I B.A., continuing with LL.B. Presi­ dent, Chairman of External Affairs N .Z. I Committee, N.Z.U.S.A. Delegate at Winter Tournament, 1946, and Editor of CRACCUM, 1946. His dialectical sublety transferred from the sphere of CRACCUM is not wasted in the Chairmanship of Exec, meetings. Mr. Nathan is responsible for the present state of Literary Club, and has given his attention to I.R.C., Modern Lan­ guages Club and Orchestral Society. His chief loves are cricket, chess, Known to his intimates as “ Pickle cows (do they cerebrate) and the Me,” he is representative of many flute. He does his best to give satis­ faculties, but at present devotes him­ faction, so if in doubt . . . ask Mr. self to Architecture. Mr. Haresnape B.Sc. Completing Zoology Honours Nathan. holds the Records Portfolio and minds M.Sc. Now messing about with this year. He combines the functions the Scrapbook. As the progenitor of * * * higher Mathematics. A student whose of Men’s Vice-President, Correspond­ Swing Club he welcomes any inquiries ing Member for N.Z.U.S.A., Registrar course was interrupted by the war, in re Duke Ellington or Harry James Mr. Gifkins served from 1935 to 1940 GABRIELLE GARLAND of Societies, and Secretary for Grants and will doubtless take any opportun­ on the Students’ Executive, Carnival Committee. (This is really all one M.A., First-class Honours in Eng­ ity to say it with music. Committee, CRACCUM Staff and lish, 1946. Women’s Vice-President man.) Apart from official duties, Mr. * * * Hongi Club. He was largely irespon- and Chairman of Women’s House Morton is indispensable at meetings, sible for the resurgence of 1946 Revue. Committee. Past Chairman of Pub­ through his ability to help the stumb­ LILLIAN LAIDLAW This year he is chairman of Carnival lications and Secretary of A.U.C.S.A. ling frame their motions—his polished Committee. In his leisure moments An active participant in Dramatic, phrase and rounded period being the Fourth year Architect. Chairman Mr. Gifkins dabbles in engineering Modern Languages and Debating combined result of a close acquaint­ of the Cafeteria Committee and in and alcohol (not necessarily for Clubs, she is, this year, devoting ance with Livy and the A.U.C. De­ charge of Bookstall. She displays scientific purposes). We know of special attention to Literary Club. A bating Society. His skill at unidigital vigour and zest in all her activities. nothing to his discredit. /

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MARGARET BRAND . THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM B.A. Doing History Honours this The control* of Auckland University year. Chairman of Publications, and College is vested in a College Coun­ holds the Student Relief portfolio. (Er ar r urn cil and a Professorial Board. The Student Relief has borne the burden Council consists of appointed and of Miss Brand’s attentions for many elected members, including represen­ years. She is generally to be found tatives of the Education Board, the steeped in a welter of CRACCUM Editor: NORA BAYLY copy and ink, but, sad though it is, cannot yet punctuate correctly. She shews some facility in apt quotations. VOL. 21, No. 1. February 26th, 1947. '1- 'K 'J' PETER HILLYER Returned student studying Law. PROBLEMS TO GREET US Assistant-Secretary to A.U.C.S.A. Mr. Hillyer, a dapper type enhanced by a During the last few years the University term has opened moustache and a motor-bike, is re­ markable for his social aplomb, and with a host of problems for both students and higher bodies— his exquisite rendition iff the prima problems which have been discussed in newspapers, but, as is the ballerina in 1946 Revue. He claims custom in University matters, have held interest more for to have been thrown out of only the academci groups than for the public in general— problems of space, best hotels on two Continents, but this aside, in the past year, has ap­ equipment, the institution of a tutorial system, the situation of a plied himself vigorously to the prob­ new University, including the to-be-or-not-to-be angle, the re­ lems of the Ex-Services and Law settling of returned men, and— ever important for the student Societies. body—representation on the College Council. This new year begins with no immediate solution to all problems, but A.U.C. has at last gained student representation on the College Council. The PAMELA MONTAGUE decision was not unanimous, three of the nine Council members 194,.. Continuing the study of Lrtin this year for amusement. present voting against it. Nevertheless, A.U.C., in the rearguard Secretary of A.U.C.S.A. and Legal of the New Zealand University Colleges, has at last been granted Adviser to the Association. A plain, the right to send a student representative of the Students’ Associ­ MR. W. H. COCKER blunt woman with an attachment for ation with full voting power to attend meetings of the College President of the College Council a clarinet, Miss Montague’s interests range from Music and Tennis to Ping Council, the initiation ceremony to take place at some time in City Council, the Professorial Board PongbftPd Chess:—and interest with August of this year. The importance of this step cannot be over­ and the Graduates. Last year the her mean§\activity. It is noted that estimated. The Council has recognised the graduation of the Lecturers’ and Students’ Associations by laughter she\is easily moved to gained admittance to this body, and student body from the state of the problem child to adulthood. It representatives will be appointed tears. remains for us to justify our inclusion in the governing body of later in the year. Mr. W. H. Cocker * * the College. is President of the Council. The Professorial Board, composed NEVILLE RYKERS Fresher students will be dismayed and irritated at the of professors and selected lecturers, Fourth year Engineer and Chairman restricted conditions under which they will be expected to work. is in immediate control of student matters, such as the arranging of of' Men’s House Committee. Mr. Not half so irritated, however, as their second and third year Rykers tramps with ardour, and time-tables and the control of di» wrestles with the student cleaning friends, who, though accustomed to writing with book on knee, or cipline. The Chairman, Professor J, problem. His other activities include waiting five or six weeks for some important reference text, find Athletics, Soccer ynd Rugby. Al­ it none, the less Irksome. There are many remedies suggested for though apparently an amiable type, the problem, with which the fresher student will find himself beware! He cartoons with malicious accuracy. For the small price of a fully acquainted before very long. “ Our new Varsity at Tamaki” shilling he can be seen at most Coffee has been talked of for years, but it has more recently been thought Evenings. that Tamaki is too far removed from the centre of the city to * * * give the greatest possible benefit to all its students, ft would be possible to cater for part-time students here in Princes Street, and GRAHAM HOLLAND take the full-time and residential students out to Tamaki. Yet, Returned student. M.Sc. First- obviously, this would immediately create a schism between the class Honours in Mathematics. Chair­ man of Social Committee. Mr. Hol­ two different sections, thus defeating one of the main purposes of land has discarded the appellation of a University education. Mr. R. H. Toy, B.Arch., has forwarded Rosebud for Dutch, and to all appear- yet another proposal, in which he suggests the ultimate expansion amces is thriving ion it. You can see of the present site of A.U.C. to cover all the area from Albert his inherent tenacity on display in tennis, tramping and football activi­ Park rt’ght down to the Domain, bordered by Waterloo Quhdrant ties. His organisation of the After- and Alten Road in the north, and Wellesley Street and Grafton Degree Ball in 1946 holds promise of Road in the south thus making Auckland a University city, and an excellent social year. A.U.C. “ the equivalent of the great Universities of the Old World.” A scheme which sounds grand in theory, but whether it would stand practical application is open to doubt. Is Auckland, or New r^TUDENTS" SUCCESSES Zealand for that matter, sufficiently higher-education conscious to grant us so large a portion of the most desirable part of her GAUDEAMUS IGITUR biggest city? The present Students’ Association Executive con­ PROFESSOR The Students’ Executive, on behalf of the Association, extend theiir con­ siders that the interests of present students are being sacrificed JAMES RUTHERFORD gratulations to the following students to vague Utopian schemes of the future, and favours the more who have gained scholarships and Rutherford, and Professor Chapman immediate policy of acquiring the Government House precincts sit on the College Council, and present prizes in the 1946 Degree Examina­ as a site on which to build much-needed College hostels, retaining tions. The number of Senior Scholar­ the opinions and attitude of the ships awarded to A.U.C. this year is our present lecture rooms and laboratories, and building playing Board, although it is not incumbent gratifying in the face of the accumu­ grounds and all necessary sports, facilities on the University block on them to cast their vote according lated difficulties of lack of space, of land at Tamaki. Taking both the practical and the long-range to the majority opinion of the Beard. equipment and staff in the past year. The Students’ Association is the points of view into consideration, this would surely seem the best premier Student organisation in the SENIOR SCHOLARSHIPS of the existing alternatives. College, and membership is compul­ Greek and Latin.—Janet M. Harwood. sory for all students attending lec­ English and Tinline Scholarship.-— A.U.C., with a bigger percentage this year of younger tures. The Association is the official Margaret C. Brand. Gilberta A. Carroll. freshers, and having more or less absorbed last year’s influx of link between the Students and the College Authorities, and its ‘Objects Philosophy/—P. B. Becroft. returned students, should settle down to a more unified existence are: the representation of Students in Pure Mathematics.—B. I. Hayman. than has been the case in the war years. Many incidents last year all matters affecting their welfare, Applied Mathematics.—B. I. Hayman pointed out to those of us who had never stirred from these the promotion of sports and sociai and H. R. Thompson. activities among the students, the Physics.— D. J. Hooton. cloistered walks in body or mind that our attitude was decidedly administration of the Students’ Block Botany.—Una V. Dellow. insular. Particularism was the result. And those of us who and the Cafeteria, the encouragement Law, Property and Contract.—P. F. resumed our interrupted Varsity careers learned that hastiness Robinson. of Student Clubs and Societies, to control official Student publications, Constitutional Law.— D. P. O’Connell. and tactlessness is no way to deal with others who, through no to control Student activities within Architecture.— L. K. Arnold. fault of their own, may not have attained our maturity of outlook. the College, and to conduct the Uni­ TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP Life for us all must be considered from its topical and inter­ versity Tournament whenever it is Agriculture.—I. B. Reynolds. national point of view; from its public and its University aspects. held in Auckland. The Association UNIVERSITY PRIZES also acts as official link between Stu­ Cock Memorial Prize in Mathematics. It is only by working together in one unified body that we can dents of this College and those of our —D. A. Spence. sister Colleges and of Universities justify our position as students of a University in this community. overseas.

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BLAZERS ON THE BEAT EASTER TOURNAMENT, 1947 Our feet are now back on the beat A.U.C. AND N.Z.U. once again, having had some welcome By DAVID NEAL, Senior Tournament Delegate The Students’ Associations of mantelpiece-resting during the holi­ A.U.C. and N.Z.U. provide for three days. Again we’re set to get corns, For the second time in succession, ment Ball—a pass which has an esti­ distinct patterns of blazers which but not, we hope, corn! The column and within seven months, A.U.C. is mated entertainment value of at least may be worn by members and ex­ is more or less patchy this issue, be­ to be the host College at an inter- £ 2. members cf these associations. cause we have had to write this well College Tournament. They are: — before copy-closing time. But here Easter Tournament, 1947, will be (b) Ways and Means. 1. An ordinary A.U.C. Blazer. are some brief reviews of one or two. held in Auckland and the competing This sub-committee is responsible 2. A Representative A.U.C. Blazer, HOLIDAY DISCS teams will represent— with or without a “Blues” scarf. (1) Otago University. for the complete logistics of Tourna­ ment—just how, when and where 3. An N.Z.U. Blazer. Seme of the holidays’ more worthy (2) Canterbury University College. record releases:— (3) Lincoln Agricultural College. competitors travel; from when they 1. The Ordinary Blazer may be worn Metronome All Star Band: Metro­ (4) Victoria University College. step off the train at Auckland until by all members of the A.U.C. Stu­ (5) Massey Agricultural College. they leave us again at the same dents’ Association immediately on nome All Out/Look Out. (6) Auckland University College, station. completing membership qualifications. A twelve-inch disc which features a The members of this committee are This Blazer is of heraldic blue cloth, host of swingmen, including Higgin­ —in Tennis, Rowing, Athletics, Swim­ botham,, Grimes, Norvo, Hodges, Bill ming, Boxing, Shooting. required to maintain the continuity of braided around the edge, with plain general services and therefore the buttons, and with the College badge Harris, Carney, Herbie Fields, Teddy Tournament will be held over the Wilson, Flip Phillips, George Auld, Easter vacation, and between 3/4/47 continuity of Tournament. and motto werkedj on the breast poc­ Your car can help them but only ket. Buddy de France, Harry Edison and and 11/4/47, though the actual dates Rex Stewart. Recorded early in 1946, are not finalised at the time of writ­ if you tell them so. 2. The Representative Blazer may we find that the more we listen to ing. be worn by all members of the As­ these two sides the more we like ’em. There are several points bearing (c) Sports. sociation who have represented A.U.C. No doubt almost everyone else feels directly on Tournament which must This sub-committee must so arrange in the senior division only of their the same. surely be the interest of every stu­ the programmes and sports areas that particular club or society. Though Wingie Manone: I’m a Real Kinda dent in the College. , you and every other spectator can see used generally for representation in • I cannot impress on members of Papa/Corrine Corrina. something of everything and all the sports, this blazer may be awarded Two pieces of Manonery which both A.U.C.S.A. too strongly that, though finals of all the sports. fer other representative status, and no blame would rest with the bulk swing and have a smoothness of I knew they will succeed in this fresher members are advised to con­ rhythm that one very rarely finds any­ of the student body in the case of an sult the Secretary(ies) of their par­ unsatisfactory Tournament, yet your endeavour because every Committee where. These sides, sung in Manone’s member is personally interested in ticular Club(s) and Society(ies) for gin hoarse voice, are both good fun. co-operative assistance given willingly the details of qualification. and in good time can assure a Tourna­ succesis. But maybe Manone should take ment of the highest order of success. The most practical way in which This blazer is of plain heraldic blue Lixoids! Recorded 1939. The A.U.C. organisation which is you can congratulate them is by at­ cloth, with silver badged buttons, and Sharkey Bonano: High Society. finally responsible for Tournament tending the meetings which they with the College badge and motto sur­ Clarionettist Irving Fazola tackles rounded by silver laurels on the consists of a controlling Policy Com­ organise. Piccu’s old-time test-piece and comes mittee, composed of the Senior Dele­ breast pocket. Letters and figure im­ mediately beneath the badge indicate through with honours. This side is gate as Chairman, the Junior Dele­ (d) Social. obviously a dubbing, and a not-too- gate as Secretary, and committee the type and year of representation. Previous Tournaments have invari­ good one at that, but even the poor members representing the portfolios Note.—When a member of the As­ reproduction cannot entirely dampen of Finance, Billeting, Way and Means, ably been thoroughly enjoyable from sociation is awarded an A.U.C. Blue, this viewpoint and a most capable (he great work done by the rhythm Social, Programme and Advertising, that member may wear, in addition to section. Recorded 1936. Reverse is a etc. Sub-Committee is busy organising the the Representative Blazer, a special social side of Tournament so that you Fletcher Henderson antique, and Each cf the members of the Policy “ Blues” scarf. dates from 1925. Committee is Chairman of a Sub­ may not only witness Olympic endea­ vour, but also jbin in a week-end of 3. Tbe New Zealand University Ray McKinley: New Orleans Parade/ committee invested with power of Blazer, which is the higher honour, Love in the First Degree. action in his or her particular port­ entertainment which need not rely en­ may be worn only by the holder of Much the same as the. other two folio. Both Delegates are ex-officio tirely on the proverbial discretion of Aucklanders for its complete success. an N.Z.U. Blue, which award demands sides from this session. Good and members of all Committees. outstanding ability and performance unashamed jazz, with some musical The four branches of Tournament Even in fear of annoying you all humour thrown in. High Society by painful repetition, I commend to at one of the Inter-College Tourna­ where general student interest and ments. (above) is labelled as an antique, but assistance may make or mar the your urgent and sympathetic atten­ the McKinley sides are five months whole of Tc jrnament are, in prob­ tion the several avenues for assisting This blazer is in black cloth, with white piping and silver badged but­ older, although there is no indication able order of importance— us which are open to you both before on tbe label to suggest this. and during Easter Tournament. tons ,and carries the N.Z.U. badge (a) Billeting. and motto, with sport and year of Duke Ellington: A Portrait of Bert (b) Ways and Means. award on the breast pocket. Williams/Bojangles. (c) Sports. (1) Are you interested at all? Two fairly typical pieces of Elling- (d) Social. (2) Can you help the Billeting Con­ In all cases authority to purchase must first be obtained from the ap­ tonia with work by Bigard, Blanton, Let us consider them in that order: troller? Webster and Nanton. A “ must” for (3) Will you help the Billeting Con­ propriate Students’ Association, either A.U.C.S.A. or N.Z.U.S.A. Authorities all lovers of Ellington, it would prob^ (a) Billeting.— This is a vital issue. troller? ably please others equally well. Re­ (4) What other help can you offer? for Auckland blazers may be ob­ We are required to finalise by the tained directly from the Secretary or corded 1940. middle of March personal billets for President of the A.U.C.S.A. at the Bud Freeman: I Need Some Pettin’/ about 200 visiting athletes. Executive Room. Tia Juana. I maintain that every member of COLLEGE BLUES Not as good as Sensation (released this Association could, with little earlier), probably because the tunes There appeared during 1946 to be (b) Outstanding performance in his themselves are inferior. However, enough effort, discover and finalise some doubt regarding the qualifying one billet for a visitor. I will be or her particular sport up to the Freeman gives them the usual treat­ conditions for A.U.C. and N.Z.U. standard of N.Z.U. First XV., N.Z.U. ment and turns out a neat job. Best satisfied if one-tenth of the Associ­ Blues; this article is therefore in­ ation members give their generally First XI., etc. This may be consid­ soloists are Gowans and Russell. Re- tended to assist in throwing some ered as, normally equal to inter-island coided 1940. avowed interest such a practical ex­ light on the subject, particularly for standard. Muggsy Spanier: Little David, Play pression. the information of fresher student*. Billeting Committee has the re­ (c) Players selected to represent Your Harp/Hesitating Blues. sponsibility for this important work All Blues are awarded by the Blues N.Z.U. are not automatically granted Recorded three years after the Rag­ but their approach to the problem Committees of the respective Stu­ N.Z.U. Blues unless their perform­ time Band sessions, these sides by must be 95% impersonal. I have dents’ Association, and each nomina­ ance is considered sufficiently meri­ the Ragtimers (subtle difference, known 5000 circular letters addressed tion is considered on its individual torious. Again allowance is made for huh?) are each tops in their own to individuals to bring forth less than merits. special cases where extenuating cir­ ways. Little David, played by a 15- 50 offers of assistance in this remark­ 1. Let us consider the A.U.C. Blue cumstances are proved. piece band, is swing-cum-jazz which able city of ours, because the people first. A member of the Association N.Z.U. Blues are normally an­ wallops the efforts the Dorseys made who received requests did not know must first reach representative status nounced following Easter and Winter at this type of music some years ago. the Billeting Controller personally. in his particular sport, which means Tournaments. Included in the personnel is an alto- I suggest that nearly every member that he or she must be a member of Aspirants for this high honour are ist named Benny Goodman, but don’t of this Students’ Association knows at the Senior grade team, e.g., First advised to read the article on be fooled. He’s not the swing-king! least ten people in Auckland whom XV., First XI., etc. “ Easter Tournament, 1947,” in this But Hestitating Blues is really first- they could approach personally. class jazz, and stands comparison In addition, he or she must have issue of CRACCUM. If one-tenth of you ask one-tenth with any of the Ragtime Band sides. of your private acquaintances in been outstanding in that grade, hav­ Spanier, Dave Bowman and Vernon Auckland to assist us at Easter then ing reached either Auckland provin­ Brown are the most outstanding solo­ cur main problem can be solved in a cial representative status, or, in the ists on this most outstanding side. opinion of the Blues Committee, its few days by far less than one- Get this disc! Recorded January 2. equal. hundredth of the total possible personal 1942. Special consideration is also given effort in application of this student Bessie Snrth: I’m Down in the to individual cases, where, in the body. Dumps/Do Your Duty. opinion of the nominating Club or What will your action or reaction Two sides from Bessie’s last record­ be? Society, the attainment of the quali­ ing session in 1933. Benny Goodman fying standard has been prevented If you think that you can help us, was on this date, but he might just only by exceptional personal circum­ please do so. Either bring the final as well not have been. Bessie isn’t stances, such a* injury, etc. information to the Executive Room easy to understand, but if you imagine addressed to the Billeting Controller 2. In the case of the N.Z.U. Blue a the worst you can’t go far wrong! . . . or give him the name and address much higher standard is normally re­ Offer: We will exchange a full trans­ and he will finalise the arrange­ quired. A nominee for this honour lation of Down in the Dumps for the ments. must fulfil the following conditions: same of Do Your Duty. Please com­ Billetors receive a free pass to (a) Senior representation of his or The Tofik Beke/toye \ municate per notice, board. all Tournament sports and to Tourna­ her own home college. * — Offbeat. Page Four CRACCUM February 26th, 1947. CLUBS AND CLASSICAL SOCIETY and we hope to repeat this in the Chairman: B. M. Bell. ent fault of their own. They cover coming season. Remember! you do Secretary: L. Izod. the, whole gamut of student activity— President: David Dunningham. not have to be outstanding before you Committee: N. Boyd, N. Bigelow, A. the Annual Dinner (in temporary sus­ Secretary: Janet Harwood. can join; in fact, one of the big ad­ Robson, R. Parkes, G. Marshall. pension), the Coffee Evening (com­ Committee: Barbara Bell, Valda Ben­ vantages of harriers is that each run­ Meetings will be held about every plete with Peanut Race), the Basket­ nett, Jock Brookfield, Jim Walker. ner may make it just as strenuous or three weeks, featuring French plays, ball matches, discussions, trips, the Classical Society aims at giving easy as he wishes. novelty evenings, and talks by outside odd lecture, and, of course, suppers students an acquaintance with inter­ Of course, during the year there are speakers on * topics relating to of interminable biscuits. The peanut esting sidelights on the life of the various races, but the highlight is modern foreign languages, particularly race speaks for itself; the basketball ancients and its influence cn modern the N.Z.U. Tournament, which will be French, German, Spanish and if pos­ has the Staff training in the broiling civilisation. Apart from listening to held this year at Wellington. Last sible Russian. During supper (Mrs. sun for weeks beforehand— exhilarat­ qualified speakers, we also hold in­ August it was our turn to act as Odd willing) conversation in French ing to watch. As for the trips, most formal meetings at students’ homes hosts for the other Colleges, and is encouraged but need not frighten of the better and brighter industrial and discuss topics, classical and Otago proved themselves an out­ away the inarticulate. A full-length plants seem prepared to be inspected otherwise, under the genial influance standing combination to carry off the French comedy in costume will be and prodded by hordes of gaping stu­ of supper. Dixon Trophy, with our own team a presented in the second term for Stu­ dents, and the Brewery (Waitemata, This year, we plan to hold a re­ few points behind. So with this fresh dent Relief funds, sc Freshers, please of course), numbers our visit as the union dinner for graduates and stu­ in our minds, we are keen to regain turn up in large numbers. We need most cherished of its annual events. dents of the Classics department. the lead in University harrier run­ new material and who knows?—you Lectures cn all manner of topics are Also we intend to give a reading of a ning. Incidentally, Freshers, you are may discover an unsuspected voca- embarrassingly frequent, but the big play, which should be very diverting eligible to represent the College in ion in the Comedie Francaise. Watch lecture theatre has been known te for the cast, and possibly much more the winter sports in your first year, the notice-board for warning of the bulge with an enthusiastic audience. so for those who venture along to see ®o if you think you are good enough, first meeting (about second week of There is no difficulty in finding the a Greek tragedy in modern dress. give it a real try. term). when and where of these activities. With that, I will leave it to you. * * * The College is periodically festooned Whether you are a champion seeking * * * with posters and the Chemistry lec­ BASKETBALL CLUB further honours, or just a hack want­ ture theatre is the first on the left ing to keep fit, join the Harrier Club. SOCCER from Anzac Avenue. Club Captain: Dorothy Wilshere. We can assure you of a good time. In 1946 the Soccer Club entered At present responsible are Bruce Club Vice-Captain: Rayma Philpotts. Please get in touch either with P. two teams in the Auckland Fcotball Morton as Student Chairman, Bill Secretary: Fay Roberts. F'raser, Club Captain, or with the Association competitions. The enjoy­ Taylor as Secretary (in passing), and Secretary, Q. Thompson. Committee: Helen Clark, Janet Har­ ment was greater than the success, an assortment of the better-known wood, Joan Hastings, Norma * * * but this year the Club hopes to put nonentities as committee. All this, Croot. forward three teams with favourable however, is subject to sudden change Reporter: Janet Harwood. EVANGELICAL UNION results. Therefore, the Club is ap­ at the Annual General Meeting early Basketball Club will be starting its pealing for new players among the in the term, and we confidently ex­ activities early this year in prepara­ President: F. Foulkes, B.Sc. Freshers. Besides the obvious advan­ pect YOU to be figuring prominently tion for Easter Tournament. Auck­ Secretary: S. E. Mead, B.A. tages of playing with fellow ’Varsity in furthering the cause. land brought the shield home from Treasurer: K. J. O’Sullivan. men, eligibility for the Tournament * * >fc the last Tournament, and we will be Committee: Lillian Laidlaw, Win Pen­ tea^n is dependent upon ‘regular practising hard tc keep it here. man, M. W. Hancock, B. T. Smith, membership of the Club. There’ll be plenty of competition for B.A. For further, particulars see Jack LITERARY CLUB the Tournament team, too, so get fit, The Evangelical Union is a fellow­ Dacre, and watch the notice-board for The Literary Club has been ‘re­ girls! ship of Christian students aiming at intimation of the first meeting. markable mainly for the small num­ But Tournament is not everything. the promotion of vital spiritual life ber of meetings it held last year, but, in the College community. The Union * * >K The Varsity teams have won a good with the plan of activities tentatively believes that no student can escape reputation in the Auckland Associ­ sketched for the future, it is hoped facing up to the claims of Christ, RIFLE CLUB ation’s competition, and these who that the latent enthusiasm in the Col­ which are presented in the light of want places in the teams in the two Will start firing .303 practices im­ lege will be r,oused. It is felt that the basic beliefs common to the great top grades are advised to start prac­ mediately, with selection for Easter Lit. Club should be more closely Protestant Confessions. tising right from the start. So watch Tournament in view. Club activities linked with the English Department, A.U.C.E.U. is no isolated body of for notices, and come along to our include aiming practices and minia­ and to this end readings of some Of students. It is inter-denominational in Annual General Meeting and to the ture shooting, a five-man team repre­ the prescribed works of the year are character and world-wide in outlook, practices. We have capable girls to senting the College at Winter Tourna­ proposed, as well as those of other having affiliations in Universities and coach us, and keen players are as­ ment. periods. It is customary to invite Teachers’ Training Colleges through­ sured of a warm welcome and every Frequent .303 practices are held at out the Empire, in Europe, America, speakers interested in literature to encouragement, with a fair chance of Ardmore and Mangere with the and, more recently, in China. The address the club, and we hope during getting into the Blues team, which Club’s new Army issue rifles. the year to extend this practice. It competes in the Auckland Senior Auckland Union is in the direct line For the Winter Tournament special of descent frjom the original Christian is felt also that panel discussions on Championship. literary topics would be valuable, and Union formed in Cambridge Univer­ B.S.A. target rifles are loaned tb the * * * sity some seventy years ago. Club by the A.R.C. efforts will be made to arrange these Watch the notice-board for an­ as frequently as possible. Watch the The Evangelical Union welcomes nouncements and contact John Tal­ notice-boards for details of the first INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS all newcomers to College, especially CLUB bot (Secretary) or Lou Parsons (Club meeting, and roll along in your num­ those from Bible Classes and Cru­ Captain). bers to ensure a flying start for what sader Unions. All are invited to join is hoped to be a most successful year. President: Mr. W. T. G. Airey. in the Union’s various activities. De­ * * * Secretary: June Hunt. For further information get in touch tails of these are printed in the E.U. either with the Student Chairman, Student Chairman: Bob Tizard. folder, and are regularly advertised BOXING CLUB Committee: Margaret Robinson, Gabrielle Garland, or with the Secre­ on the College notice-boards. Any Boxing activities will begin early in tary, Tom Wells. Robin Smith, John Brookfield, member oLthe E.U. Executive will be the year in preparation for Tourna­ John Edes, Owen Robinson. glad to furnish further information. ment, so intending competitors are * * * This Club, which usually holds fort­ well advised to watch the notice- * * * nightly meetings, devotes its time to boards for information in connection LAW STUDENTS1 SOCIETY the discussion of current world SOCIAL COMMITTEE with the try-outs. Instruction classes affairs. When possible, prominent are held after the Try-Out Tourna­ All students taking the LL.B. or -overseas personalities are invited to Chairman: G. L. Holland. ment, and weekly thereafter during Solicitor’s Certificate course are auto­ addiess the Club on subjects with the winter term. The Club is thriv­ matically members of the Law Stu­ which they are personally acquainted, Secretary-Treasurer; T. J. Smith. Committee: Audrey Patience, Marion ing at present following on numerous dents’ Society. No admission fee or our activities being filled out with de­ successes last year, and enthusiasts subscription is levied against Law bates and panel discussions among MacDonald, J. W. Smaile, P. Hill- yer, S. B. Waters. will be assured of an active and en­ Students nor are they compelled to -our members. At the conclusion of There are three main balls every joyable season during 1947. For fur­ take part in any of the activities of each address, questions are invited ther information, see William Orr. the Society. and answered, which almost invari­ year as well as sundry other social ably lead to keen arguments. functions, the success of which de­ The Social functions of the Society * * * include: — A cordial invitation is extended to pend on the efforts of Social Com­ mittee. (a) The Law Ball. Last year the all Freshers to attend our meetings freshers’ Ball this year will be held SCIENCE SOCIETY and therfeby help to keep themselves Law Ball was held for the first time abreast of world developments. The on Saturday, March 8, at 8 p.m., in Sci. Soc.—or, as someone once since the commencement of the war, and proved, as previously, to be one -date and subject of the first meeting the College Hall. This is a “ free” called it, the Auckland University show for freshers of both sexes, 7/6 College Scientific Society — exists of the highlights of 1946 in the social will be advertised on the notice- life of Auckland. boards scon after the beginning of double for the rest of Varsity. Attend primarily to brighten the toil of those the term. in your masses!! ensnared in the Statutes of the Uni­ (b) The Law Dinner. Last year our * * * * * * versity of New Zealand whereby annual dinner was held at the Star Bachelors and Masters of Science are Hotel. It was attended by over 100 HARRIER CLUB MODERN LANGUAGES created, and—to a lesser degree— to students together with prominent CLUB bring before anyone prepared to lis­ members of both Bench and Bar. We Last year, this club returned to ten some of the more accessible of feel sure that the Dinner this year something approaching pre-war stand­ President: Professor Keys. the wonders of science. Its affairs will meet with similar popularity and ards, both as far as membership and Vice-President: Da*. A. W. West, Pro­ are directed by a committee on which success. enthusiasm were concerned. Right fessor P. S. Ardern, Dr. M. Blaik- the weaker-minded students of the (c) Coffee and Stein Evenings. Al­ from the opening run at the end of iock, Miss J. M. Child, Mr. San- Faculty are sooner or later surprised ways eagerly anticipated, these two tbe first term we had good musters, dall. t<$ find themselves, through no appar­ functions enable students to meal February 26th, 1947. CRACCUM Page Five SOCIETIES socially in a pleasant, non-academic MEN'S HOUSE COMMITTEE however, have their disadvantages A team is selected to represent atmosphere. when it comes to cooking. Our first Auckland in Winter Tournament, and In addition to the above social Chairman: N. L. Rykers. trip was made in driving sleet to Tara­ endeavours are being made to arrange functions the Society organises Moots Secretary: S. B. Waters. naki Falls. (F’unny how uncomfort­ for an N.Z.U. team to compete in the ‘(legal debates conducted along the The Men’s House Committee con­ able a snowball is up your nostrils.) N.Z. Fencing Champs. For further lines of a Supreme Court action). trols the men’s quarter of the student Next day the weather was brilliantly information, write to C. R. Mann. block and is responsible for the con­ fine, and we went ski-ing. Did some­ Participation in these moots is an in­ * * * valuable preparation for post-degree duct of students in these rooms and one say sunburn? Torches were dis­ legal work. Further, the Society ar­ the arrangement for social activities pensed with at night. One by one the ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY ranges for addresses to be given to among the men students. faces became blistered. Glamour (if students by Judges, Magistrates or During winter fires are provided in present) was stripped off in layers. All architectural students are mem­ leading members of the legal profes­ the Common Room. The arrival of Professor and Mrs. bers of Arch. Soe., which aims at sion in Auckland. These addresses Students are asked to treat the Chapman caused a temporary diver­ furthering their interests in their are both interesting and instructive furniture in the Common Room with sion of these anxious to pass degree study for the profession. Ways it at­ In that they bring students into con­ consideration and respect. Freshers’ to the task of making a good impres­ tempts this include: — tact with the outside profession and Welcome and other Coffee Evenings sion with a massive collection of 1. Arranging extra curricular lec- supply useful experience and informa­ will be run by the M.H.C. specimens. The impression was duly 'fuiies by outside experts and regular tion that; is impossible to be imparted The Reading Room is stocked with made—whether it was the right kind student discussion groups on architec­ in the lecture-room. periodicals for men students and the is not generally known. One evening tural and related subjects. Table Tennis Room is open to play to Professor gave a demonstration i f the 2. Ararnging sketch groups, classes All law students, and Freshers es­ all students, men and women. Let­ pecially, are urged to keep an eye on time he, took his girl-friend to the pic­ at the School of Art, and tutorial ters are placed in the letter-rack by the notice-board in Room 20 in order tures. But the star item was the classes. the telephone booth. production (with the co-operation of to follow the activities of the Society. 3. Providing an official link be­ The House Committee extends a Mr. Nickola, as Brotthheers) of “Alp­ If any information is required con­ tween the Staff and the Students. cordial invitation to all Freshers to cerning the Society would they please honse,” a flea cf breeding, • who lost 4. Facilitating the supply of studio avail themselves of these facilities, get in touch with the Student Chair­ himself in transit. requisites through the Architectural Other trips were made to Silica man, Mr. B. C. Spring, or the Secre­ and to cooperate in the efficient run­ Stationery Club. Springs, Salt Hut, Glacier Hut, tary, Mr. P .D. L. von Sturmer. ning of the students’ block. 5. Running the best social events in Maungatepopo and Tama Lakes. One * * * the College, viz.: The Architect’s ★ * * could hardly fail to be impressed with Coffee Evening, the Picnic, and FIELD CLUB the grandeur of the scenery. On the Smockstrot. ENGINEERING SOCIETY last day some of the party climbed to Members will be notified of details President: Professor V. J. Chapman. the top of Ruapehu. The last meal, of these and all activities. To all Engineers,— complete with venison, was an epic. It is hoped to conduct visits to The aims of your Society are three­ Vice-Presidents: Dr. L. H. Briggs, Mr. A. A. Corban, Members of the Even Sum couldn’t eat any more. building operations and factoiies as fold:— Staff of the Natural Science De­ Thursday, the 28th, saw the arrival circumstances permit. (a) To hold meetings for the pur­ back in Auckland of an untidy-looking partments. * * * pose of discussing matters of Engin­ Student Chairman: R. N. Brothers. crowd, tired and happy. Glorious eering interest. weather, the holiday feeling, and a Hon. Secretary and Treasurer: R. V. WOMEN'S HOCKEY CLUB (b) To promote intercourse be­ Mirams. good spirit of co-operation combined to make this one of the best F*.C. tween students and those engaged in Committee: Miss U. V. Dellow, Miss Membership in the past has allowed the profession of Engineering and to M. L. O’Donnell, Mr. P. B. Hann- camps of the year. the entry of three teams in the local arrange visits to places of interest to ker, Mr. P. C. N. Wong. * * * competitions, one isenior and two Engineering students. To all F’Yeshers and others whom it intermediate. Competition matches (c) To promote the Engineering may concern: This club is primarily STUDENT CHRISTIAN begin early in May. Practices will faculty in all College activities. of interest to students of the natural MOVEMENT commence -early in April at Melville The Society is, then, a link between sciences—Zoology, Botany, Geology Park watch the sports notice-board the student and the practicing engin­ and Geography—but is by no means The S.C.M. is an interdenomina­ tor the A.G.M. Start training early. eer. It is up to us, the Engineering limited to them. Any member of the tional movement, and holds before it­ One senior team will be selected to Students, to make it an important College is welcomed—all you do is self the ideal of a hnited Christian go tic Wellington for Winter Tourna­ link — Engineering films will be come along to day excursions, camps Church. It is a fellowship of stu­ ment in August. F’reshe-rs are eligible shown, trips to engineering projects or lectures, and you become a mem­ dents who desire to understand the for this. Last year A.U.C. was run­ will be arranged and lectures by out­ ber. (This, of course, does not bind Christian faith and live the Christian ner-up; this year, may they win. side engineers will be delivered—sup­ you down to anything.) Students of life. It invites all Students, whether Intending players please get in con­ port these on every occasion. Botany, in particular, will find plenty members of any Church or not, to join tact with the Club Captain, Eleanor of opportunities on Field excursions in the life of the Movement in wor­ Myers, Secretary Joan Winter, or any Besides this the Society endeavours and camps to gather those compul­ ship, study, discussion, fun and fellow­ member of the Committee: Mar­ to make the Engineering faculty the sory 40 specimens. But don’t get the ship at its various activities—study garet Robinson, Win Penman, Nancy most active in College life. Support idea that members live all the time circles, devotional groups, Sunday Wright, Maureen Lamb, Jill Bur- your faculty in every way— at the on a high intellectual plane—far from teas, social functions, camps and con­ bidge. inter-faculty sports, at the annual it. We don’t believe in exertion for ferences. * * * Engineers— Science Rugby match. the sake of exertion; rather in going The S.C.M. stands for a healthy re­ One of the highlights of College at a pace which gives you time to ligious outlook, a rational approach SWING CLUB social life, the Engineers’ Ball, will look around and admire the view, or to religion, and good fellowship in One of the newest of the Clubs, be held early in the second term. In whatever there is to be admired. It’s the Student community. It is an affili­ formed to meet the growing demand the same term the Engineers’ Annual an excellent way of getting to know ated member of the World’s Student Dinner will take place. Both these among students tor programmes of your fellow-students, the College Christian Federation, which links Swing music and discussions of mod­ events are bright and popular func­ songs, latest gossip, etc. Christian Students in 47 different tions. ern music in general. The Club is With Professor Chapman as Presi­ countries. Its official organ is the Finally, ficr details of Society activi­ fortunate in having members who are dent for 1946, the club has made good “ Student,” a monthly magazine of constantly receiving the latest records ties watch the notice-board in the headway. We hope it will continue Engineering School. high literary standard an.d consider­ as they are released from America. to do so in 1947 and future years. able popular interest. Every second programme this year * * * Make this possible by your support First Sunday Tea..— Sunday, March will feature a band of local musicians. of the club. The vitality of a club 9, Women’s Common Room. Speaker: Those interested are advised to watch CATHOLIC CLUB in the future is dependent on its Rev. H. C. Dixon, M.A. the notice-boards or get in touch with F'resher members at the present. We Watch the notice-boards for further the President, Bill Haresnape. the Club activities will commence this intend to go ahead with the scheme details of activities. Chairman, Len Chambers, or the Sec­ year with the Annual Mass, which for recording all manner of species, FV>r any further information get in retary, Peter Arnold. will be held at St. Patrick’s Cathe­ botanical, zoological and geological, touch with any Committee member. dral at 9 a.m. on Sunday, March 2nd, for the Auckland district, and an at­ followed by the Annual Breakfast, at Officers: tempt will be made to build up a mus­ President: Wolf Eisner. which will be read the Annual Report eum collection of our own. and Balance-sheet. The Annual Gen­ Vice-President: Robin Smith. eral Meeting and election of officers AFTER DEGREE CAMP Chaplain: Rev. H. C. Dixon, M.A., UNIVERSITY Methodist Minister at Glen Eden. will be held at 7.30 p.m. on the even­ NATIONAL PARK COACHING COLLEGE ing of Sunday, March 2nd, in the A hearty party of Varsity grads, Secretary: David Andrew. Treasurer: Basil Hilder. Women’s Common-room. Our plans and undergrads., filled» with the desire 22 FERRY BUILDING, for this year include a course of lec­ to put as many miles as possible be­ Committee: Margaret Bigelow, Mar­ jory Dixon, Betty Hamlyn, Bar­ tures in Philosophy, which will be tween them and the scene of their AUCKLAND, C.l. bara Morton, Flo Wilks, George given weekly by the Club Chaplain, late trials and agonies in the exam, Braithwaite. Tuition in Day Classes, Evening Rev. FV. Ryder. Further particulars room, set off at 4.0 a.m. on Novem­ regarding these lectures will be given Classes and by Correspondence ber 18 for National Park. Taumaru- * * * at the General Meeting. Throughout nui did its best to impress on us the — Coaching for University En­ the year General Meetings will be extremely resistant quality of its FENCING CLUB trance Examination. held every fortnight at the Univer­ sausage skins and the incredible cold­ sity. We hope to hold the Annual. ness and blackness of its coffee. - The Club meets every Wednesday D. W. FAIGAN, M.A. Ball during the second term and the As luck wiculd have it, snow was night at 8 p.m. in the Mien’s Common week-end caps at Knocknagree will falling when we arrived at the Room. The first hour is spent in (Honours in English and French) take place as last year. Freshers Chateau—and who could resist such coaching learners by the Rev. G. A. PRINCIPAL desiring to become members of Catho­ temptation. Certainly not A.U.C.F.C. Naylor, and afterwards bouts are ar­ Phone 44-271 lic CIud are asked to give their names We were cosily housed in the Whaka- ranged tor those eligible for free and addresses to the Chaplain, Fr. papa hut, bunkrooms being complete play. Farther practices are arranged Ryder (Phone 18-058). with briquette stoves. Briquettes. during the vacations. February 26th, 1947. CRACCUM Page Eight potcr’ ” ! "K IW I" PROSE, 1946 The fragment, “Short Term Miners’ The prose contributions this year Dreary,” has the merit, as the edi­ REVIEWS torial mentions, of being written seem to me to be a little on the around personal experience. But it is And Pat Wilson— light-weight side. I do not mean by ROSTRUM “ We are growing from ashes in the this that their subject matter is too brief to make much impression, and a note of facetiousness, as op­ (Published by the N.Z. University last minutes trivial, but that the treatment of the posed to humour, impairs the docu­ Students’ Association) And taken to loving and dying and various topics appears somewhat playing, superficial, containing little of the mentary quality. The little tribute to Addison, “The ROSTRUM NO. 7 Taken to nights that no blood-kin personal approach, which, even when Complete Journalist,” is rather text- The frontispiece cf ROSTRUM will bring us, it is slightly wrong-headed, is gener­ hooky, but has its value in emphasis­ 1946 shows a composite landscape of Nor water will bring us, mother.” ally preferable to the text-book man­ Although there are variations of ner. There seems to be a lack of ing the limitations of the modern skyscrapers and blazing ruins divided journalist by contrast with Addison’s, idiom, they all occur within that com­ that wide reading and keen thought (and linked) by the sunburst of an versatility. It is important to note, mon framework of word and image which would have enabled the writers atomic bomb. This theme of anxiety however, that Addison was writing for which makes so much current verse to make their material their own per­ in a precarious civilisation helps to a small, highly literate and cultured provide a binding-medium for the lacking in distinct personality. This sonal possession. depersonalised medium contrasts a The essays are not, however, with­ group in; society, a group now catered whole publication. Only two articles for largely by periodicals which re­ are specifically printed as “ dealing little strangely with the strongly per­ out merit and certainly not devoid tain much of the ‘‘ Spectator” flav­ with conditions and ideas which have sonal attitude towards the material. of interest. I am sure that I would our, while the modern journalist arisen from World War II.” The first The experiences are individual to the have read them all even had I not point of loneliness, but the voices writes chiefly for a partly, or merely, o f these, Dr. Sutch’s diary of an had to do so. literate mass. Apart from this, the UNRRA tour in Europe during the have all a common tone. (A partial The 1946 issue is given distinction exception is James K. Baxter’s Blow, essay is a pleasant and useful contri­ spring of 1946, is an impression of by the single short story “Land,” by bution. Wind of Fruitfulness, with its “ buried Stephen Loughan. I think that this the Europe which has emerged from The editorial is neat, and sound in the war, with devastation and the kingdom, Where mind and heart are is one of the best stories ever its emphasis.cn academic values, even black market as its setting, and re­ one”—a collective unconscious?) In printed in “Kiwi.” A large number construction as its dominant problem. comparing the verse with the prose, of stories in past issues have been if the last sentence on this point is unhappily phrased. I do not agree, The second, Mrs. Holloway’s Breen- cne has almost the feeling that the on the popular magazine level; here donck, goes back to occupied Europe prose-writers have stolen the poets’ is one which is outstanding, in prom­ either, that a contribution to “ Kiwi” on T. S. Eliot need be of necessity and the horror-camps as text for an material, that they show contempor­ ise, perhaps, rather than in actual ary awareness while the poet is left achievement. It has individuality and “ superficial and self-consciously in­ ironical defence of Hitlerism, with the tellectual.” If the students ar-et of the conclusion that “unless we are pre­ to solitary contemplation. feeling, and is told in that simple, direct style which seems, in the state of mind recommended in the pared to submit our minds to the The main critical work in ROS­ earlier part of the editorial, they may Christian mythology . . . we may stories of Roderick Finlayson and TR U M 1946 is the article on Rilke by actually happen to have a genuine reasonably fight Hitler, but we may Frank Sargeson, to epitomise aspects Paul Hoffmann, accompanied by interest in modern painters, poets and not reasonably condemn him.” James Bertram’s translation of the of the New Zealand character. The theme is an important one, and, if musicians, and be trying to express There are other voices of an anxi­ first of the Duineser Elegien, A refer­ what they think and feel about them, ous world. J. M. Ziman, citing the ence here sends one back to ChAries the characterisation 'suffers a little from emphasis on the basic idea, and rather than what they think they Nunn May Case, and the declaration Brasch’s article in Phoenix, where ought to think and feel. Perhaps the o f Sir Henry Dale, foresees the de­ Rilke was modestly introduced as fol­ if the introduction is a shade too long, the author still brings out all chief deficiency of the 1946 “ Kiwi” is generation of the sciences, bound in lows : — its lack of a fairly solid treatment of secrecy to the needs of militant na­ the tragedy of “our life in this land.” “ Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) A couple of awkward transitions some such subject. tions, into “ witch-craft and black —J. C. Reid. magic.” As a scientist, he objects to was one of the greatest modern Ger­ might have been avoided by a more such fragmentation of i-esearch, which man poets.” experienced writer. I feel that Stephen Lcughan has a considerable “ must inevitably slow progress” ; al­ In fourteen years, the seedling has NOTICES though the non-scientific reader may future ahead of him. grown: Mr. Hoffmann’s article is in­ The best piece of prose in my Following on a resolution of the view with perverse complacency the formative and has useful references, slowing-down of the headlong march opinion, as distinct from the short Piofessorial Board, these rules now and it is aptly supported by Mr. Ber­ story, is “Cricket is Dull.” it is a joy apply to the posting of notices: — o f science, even if it has to come as tram’s translation. 1. No notice or poster may be dis­ a secondary result of rampant nation­ to meet a writer who can make a played in the vestibule of the Arts alism and the official witch-hunt. (Incidental reflection: this ROS­ subject, usually treated rather faceti­ TRUM is in no way a technical ad­ ously, an occasion for an urbane and building without the permission of Contrast is provided in Norman vance on Phoenix. The illustrations chainung essay, which savours of life the Chairman of the Professorial Wright’s account of the apparently are so reproduced as to defy any and people and things in the/ leisurely Beard, or of the Registrar. idyllic society of modern Tonga. attempt at appreciation. The only ex­ 2. The Students’ Association and SitweH °T h «aX Beerb(>hm and Osbert Nor is the editorial remote from ceptions are Hella Hofmann’s Peer SitweH. The enjoyment by the writer the various student societies affili­ this main theme when it argues for Gynt designs: it was pleasing to be of his subject communicates itself ated to it are responsible for their a revised Greek and Latin curricu­ reminded of these, and they appear easily to the reader, and the bland own notices and posters, provided lum, both in schools and in the Uni­ * to demonstrate that the only suitable manner is soothing after much mod­ that each such notice or poster, versity, and for the reversal of deca­ form for such a production as this is ern msty-nail prose. A faint echo wherever displayed, must bear the dent trends fostered by a certain type a fairly simple line- or block-technique of A. G. Macdonnell’s classic descrip­ signature of a member of the Execu­ o f fashionable pedagogy. “ We need — as used in Phoenix.) tion of a rival cricket match which tive. Team lists of sports clubs are the ancient languages for their aids 1 caught in one paragraph of this excepted from the above proviso, but to insight and imagination”—one re­ Rilke’s First Elegy leads into the essay sharpened the flavour of the they must conform to the existing calls Mr. Rex Warner’s essay in The quasi-symphonic structure of the Ele- piece. rules as to size. gien, Cult of Power: as.it began to take form in the The article ion “John Donne and the 3. The Board, or officers of the “ Increased study of the classics poetic outburst of 1912. It is filled Aesthetic Approach” does not'live up Board, may remove posters or notices would provide a common background with a sorrowful questioning which to the promise of its title, which which they deem to be improper or of thought which has stood the test of preceded the greater serenity of the should rather have been “A Note on objectionable. i time, and it would help to emphasise period at Muzict, where, ten years John Donne.” it has an idea—the 4. Student bodies may if they so> what is now most urgently needed in later, the work found its completion— passing to the nature of poetry wish, seek the advice of staff mem­ education, the study of and respect for “ . . . Every Angel is terrible. through the works of Donne— but it bers of the Consultative Panel,* set man himself.” And so' I check now, choke back .is by no means well worked out. up in connection wdth articles for pub­ A disconcerting illustration of Mr. the dark sobbing call of anguish. Much in the essay errs in fact and lication, as to the suitability of any~ Pattison’s thesis ,occurs in the page Ah, who is there left in the world appreciation. For example, although poster or notice. of translation from Palladas, by R- to help us? Neither Angel nor the writer implies that this age is *The members of this panel are . V. Nicholls. The voice is a little muf­ man . . .” blind to the merits of Donne it is Dr. Anschutz, Professor Chapman and fled in translation— surely the line precisely the work of such writers as Professor Davis. should be more taut?—but one still Except for D. A. Spence’s more Grierson and Eliot which has helped feels the self-pity and the ashy bleak­ specialised paper on Bertrand Rus­ to give Donne a reputation in this CALLING ALL FRESHERS’! ness characteristic of both the anci­ sell and the philosophy of numbers, century higher than he has possessed A.U.C. REVEALED ent and the modern pagan. this material on Rilke is the only since his death—a reputation which, This year our Editor devoted much critical work in this ROSTRUM: one indeed, the next generation may well thought to the best means of telling About much of the original verse of would like to see more criticism, of the periodical hangs the aura of Mr. regard as inflated. Again, to call the freshers What Freshers Ought to like quality, beside it. For, in com­ Donne the first icf our great rhetori­ Know. This sketch plan of A.U.C. is Eliot, distinct as the smell of steak paring this with the rest of the in passage-ways. One>js continually cal poets,’ is to put a strange con­ the result of all the cogitation, and a periodical, I feel that Rilke, alone, struction on the word “ rhetorical ” close study of same will provide any- encountering, at the turn of a neat may become a dangerous model. ellipsis, behind a calculated disson­ The comment on the sound-values of eager first-year student with his edu­ There is a fatal attraction in the re­ Donne’s poetry js very good, however cation .entire and complete, in a nut­ ance of images, that countenance ticence, the pertinacity and the com­ severe and runcible hat. The verse is “Religion and the Future” seems to shell. But don’t make the mistake of plexity of this “ selfless pursuit of the me to be stodgily written. Even if thinking that all these neatly-labelled fluent; its approach to experience is self.” We must have other things as stoical and personal. Thus Kendrick one is prepared to accept the ingenu­ haunts of knowledge exist on one well to shore against our ruins. Per­ floor. They don’t. Sometimes you go Smithyman— ous equating of religion with super­ haps the rougher timber of, say, stition, and the implication that re­ up, sometimes down, but always the “ We who cannot weep cannot sing Lorca or Aragon would help— ligious belief excludes reason, the principle is the same—the further you have a fear in our always loving “ Et s’il êtait a retake logic of the article appears faulty. go the more you discover. All you of the world where living Je referais ce chemin The appearance of large-mindedness have to do is turn your CRACCUM is a year of being hurt . . .” at the beginning is belied by the nar­ pag? round until the neat little cap­ And W. H. Oliver— La voix qui monte des fers row exclusiveness of the later por­ tion saying “ Main Entrance”—which “ Though men have built houses Parle pour les lendemains.”— tion; ideas do not follow naturally means if you happen to be stand­ and markets, “ I don’t want them to bind his face Irom each other, but are thrust to­ ing there—faces you, then you take a in shrouds, gether; crude straw men are erected deep breath, shut your eyes, and step Filled the tidewash with an ardent Accustoming him to the death he and triumphantly belaboured. There forward twelve small paces. Not clamour, carries. is, however, sincerity and some force mere than twelve though, as the m the presentation, and the writer stairs are now immediately before I will hear nothing but the endless Forward, Ignacio: never mind the lias thought his way round his sub­ you. Yicu go down the stairs, if you curl hot bellowing. ject if narjowly. I should be inter- haven’t already done so, and turn left. And crash of breakers oil the peb- Sleep, fly, rest: the sea also dies!” esteci to know the source of “ the The rest is easy . . . just consult the sketch plan and all will be well. i bled shore.” — M.K.J.. well-known sentiment ‘Blessed are the Q CM {s' eray 26th, 1947.February moonAf ‘k R t T £ W - C mi ; A f O O R WÊtAtH* loLMER R oomv . : .rr H - fli'^'rc.t.E. fr-Kt-K [11 ^DO ka . Page Page Nine Page Ten CRACCUM February 26th, 1947. MUSIC & their minds and hearts. Those who felt that this was ever her aim for were at the school and were not in herself as well as far others; and CAMBRIDGE FESTIVAL her clasis were yet constantly aware through it all shone her enveloping m Foir the second time in two years at kins, the Choir directed by Stanley of her presence, icf the friendliness humanity, whether she was standing least one group of people has been Jackson and Harry Brusey, the and the intense and gracious interest listening to a student playing, whether enabled to forget its worries and Orchestra under Ramsey Howie and she took in everything surrounding she was brusquely -sweeping aside any those of a muddled world for a brief Owen Jensen, and a second piano her, and of her all-pervading of his false notions, whether she was period in concentrating upon, to the group and listeners’ class with vari­ musicianship. leaning over icne at the piano cor­ exclusion of all else, the art and activ­ ous tutors in charge— a full and She gave two -recitals ('one of recting with the utmost care a wrong ity of music. I say this, not as a glib varied list in fact, with plenty of which was rather in the nature of a wrist action, whether she was dis­ cliche of escapism, but as a healthy work to be done. Most classes worked lecture recital), although she had had covering a new fact in a Beethoven fact. from 9 a.m. to noon,, starting again five and a-half hours each day of * Sonata of which she had never before -strenuous teaching, after which she been aware (this certainly was an The Second Summer School of at 2 p.m. and finishing at 4.30. Out­ always appeared fresh though the electrifying experience for those who Music at' St. Peter’s, Cambridge, side these hours practice was the class was quite worn out. In the were there, to see it), whether she opened on January 20, and far eleven order of the day. No one who was first she demonstrated the true place was laughing at the swimming pool days between one hundred and a hun­ there, I a;m sure, will readily forget icf Chopin in music—she was at pains with her hair free and down to the dred and fifty people from all over the bedlam at 7 a.m., with approxi­ to explain that she regarded him ground, whether’’ she was exhorting New Zealand (and even from Austra­ mately a dozen pianos going at once highly and yet deplored the attitude one not to “ make a crescendo” but lia), with nothing more in common as well as sundry string players and which most pianists have towards than a love for music, lived in a vir­ the woodwind experts. to “ go towards and arrive and then him of blind hero worship, which you will increase your tone merely as tually closed community. For those Every night at 7.30 p.m. there was prevents most of them ever going a iocnsequence,” whether she was in­ eleven days they lived at first hand, either a concert of works diene dur­ any further and discovering the either creating, listening to, or per­ dulging in merry r epartee (and plenty ing the day or one of the three- lec­ greater beauties of the classics. In of hits below the belt on both sides) forming music, sometimes, indeed, all tures delivered by Dr. Otto Mandl on three. Lest you should think, however, the second, she gave us her incom­ with Owen Jensen or anyone else in the Absoluteness of Music, provoking parably exquisite re-creation of public, whether she was recounting from the preceding remarks that a very interesting discussions in which Schubert’s A Minor and Mozart’s D her experiences with Schnabel, iuothouse “arty” atmosphere prevailed, infinite and cosmic values figured Majic-r Sonatas (Op. 143 and K576). whether she was exclaiming in her or that the community was made up largely—indeed, there was a sort of *>f long-haired aesthetes, I must add As a teacher she is unique. Pos­ most piquant tones at the piano “Gosh, attack of “ cosmic-sis” throughout the is that, beautiful?—hut it’s damned that at no time did any of these sessing infinite patience, she guides camp for several days after. Then, and directs, commands and cajoles hard!” (as if it really were to her), rightly scorned tendencies appear. too, there were the open-air night There was plenty of swimming (by the student until he is aware of only whether she was giving a delighted Serenades; with everyone lying on the one thing, that he must interpret the audience on the final night the most day or night), tennis, dancing, and grass and a Mozart flute quartet com­ even cricket. Music was just taken composer, not merely play the piano. perfect take-off on the stage as one ing gently down from the roof above To that end she abjures all editions of her own pupils, or whether . . . for granted—it was the reason for the “ Morning Room.” The Rondo our being there and all our activities other than the composer’s original but there is already a string of ten from the Haffner Serenade, another text in-so-far as this is practicable, whether-clauses hanging on this revolved, around it. Mozairt Serenade, and some Handel and rejects all emendations made by groaning sentence and much as I Those who remembered the First songs wer,e also heard under these would like to add micre if simply ideal conditions. editors “ who always know more than Summer School of 1946 and the out­ the poor composer.” Her rules are can’t take the weight. standing success it had, were a trifle The event towards which the whole few, simple and direct, and when [The Cambridge Summer School of dubious about its successor. The school worked was the concert given acted upon reveal their efficacy im­ Muisic at St. Peter’s (all praise to Mr. casual amateur atmosphere, they iik Cambridge on the last night but mediately. Each composition must Broadhurst) has become an institu­ argued, so valuable last year, would icne. It was a fine programme con­ be known intimately and all its parts tion at the age of two years, and yet he lost this time if special classes sisting of Douglas Lilburn’s Cam­ understood in relationship to the is only beginning. . The joy experi­ were introduced and a “ professional” bridge Overture, a repeat perform­ whole; all fancy tricks or attempts enced by those hundred and fifty standard exacted from students. ance of the Mozart Serenades, two to make an effect contrary to the people for eleven days provides Dr. Those who had no skill would have songs by Ron Dellow (of whom A.U.C. music’s demands are -strictly forbid­ Mandl with the most complete proof a very poor time of it, and over­ may justly be proud), a movement den. Those lucky few! indeed had the he could desire in demonstrating the organisation would spoil any spon­ from Schubert’s great C Major Quin­ horizon of music vastly extended for Absoluteness of Music.] taneous enjoyment. These were per­ tet, and culminating in a concert pre­ them in those short eleven days. One —CEMBALO. haps legitimate objections in ad­ sentation of Purcell's Dido and vance, but it is always dangerous to Aeneas, very accurately and smoothly make a priori statements. These given under Harry Bpusey’s baton. turned out to be just as groundless But it seemed wrong to single out as most a priori statements are. any one item for special praise. One DRAMA IN VACATION The special classes placed people was there to make music primarily During the £ast vacation, Auckland has had at least six where they could be of most use to and to be in the thick of it with every­ themselves and others, and everyone, one else. Amongst the music heard, musical and dramatic offerings. Unfortunately, in all but two> professional ior otherwise, partici­ however, at these nightly concerts offerings, likelihood, trutl) and beauty were sacrificed for the sake pated equally. The happiest feeling were two movements from the of effect, a result which drew many plaudits at the! actual per­ prevailed everywhere and these Brahms Clarinet Quintet, Schubert’s formance, but on reflection one’s enthusiasm waned. classes only existed far certain hours Shepherd on the Rock for voice, during the day, after which members clarinet and piano, done exquisitely A producer who relies for his success on the effect of spectacle criss-crossed in ‘eveif-changing com­ by Rosamond Caradus, George Hop­ or technical mastery lacks faith in his play as a good one or in binations. It was no uncommon sight kins and Owen Jensen, the first move­ his actors, who cannot be relied on to put the^play across with to see a singer accompanying a com­ ment from Mozart’s Concerto in F enough emphasis and power. This is called, sometimes, “playing poser, a violinist and pianist singing (K459), a Smetana Piano Sonata for in the choir, or even a ’cellist and a double piano duet, -a Handel anranged to the audience,” and it was noticeable in the two musical “ listener” playing piano duets! In­ piano concerto, original compositions comedies and was there forgiveable; but it was also noticeable in deed. out of a hundred and fifty for the piano and orchestra by vari­ “Macbeth” andl “The Late Christopher Bean,” where it wasunfor- people there was not one clique to be ous members of the school, and loads giveable. This is, of course, a great pity. The majority of drama­ found, the greatest comment, I think, of songs of folksong, modern and upon the universality of music that operatic vintage. The chapel service, tists want their audiences to hear the words rather than to witness could be made (though musicians too, was a memorable event, with intriguing scene-changes and strange lighting effects. And a pro­ themselves are perhaps the most in­ Holst’s setting of Psalm 14 sung by ducer must realise that an audience is not just a group of people dividual and prickly items in the the choir, an organ concertino by Alec whom he has to amuse, edify, instruct or entertain, but a group Creation). Rowley, some Bach Chorals with who can be just as much a part of the play as his cast. And any1 For the maintenance of good fel­ Stanley Jackson at the organ, finish­ lowship a great deal of the credit ing with a beautiful performance of self-conscious or obvious invitation to the audience to enjoy the must go to Owen Jensen, the Director Benjamin* Britten’s Ceremony of work, as was seen in “Christopher Bean,” is to be deplored. Not of the Summer School. He engen­ Carols by the choir under Harry only does it reduce the theatre to a music hall but it also under­ dered enthusiasm wherever he went Brusey. estimates the intelligence of the audience, which are quite often and saw that everything ran like This takes no account, of course, of of a higher level than the actors’. clockwork. The self-effacing Secre­ the innumerable trios, quartets, etc., tary, Mervyn Lusty, too, worked won­ practised daily, of the “moderns,” of Of the two musical comedies, “The Desert Song” was one of ders in caring for the troubles of all the uproarious performance of Han­ the best done in the recent spate and “ Rose Marie” one of the! and sundry. del (“or is it Mandl?” said Owen worst. The former was even all the way through with good sing­ Now for a word about the organisa­ Jensen) in the Strand by the ic-rehes- ing, excellent, choruses and some! comedy. The settings were tion itself. I do not propose to deal tra plus pianos under Ramsay Howie, with this formally—this has been oir of the intense work done by the excellent, too. “ Rose Marie” had only spectacle to offer, together done excellently in an article in the piano class with its Concertos and with long, drawn-out scenes, scarcely any true comedy, but with Weekly News—but rather give my Sonatas. To realise it all fully one comedians working hard with negligible material. Two ballets own impressions as the course just had to be there. were worth all the rest. evolved. By its very nature the activi­ And now I have left till the end, ties of the school developed freely on like the greedy boy with the icing on CHRISTOPHER BEAN for a far more logical reason it hardly very informal lines. his iliece of cake, the very best/piece seems worth doing. We see ^p' Ofes- There were approximately seven icf news—Madame Lili Kraus. Next, Whitehall Productions’ effort sicnals so rarely that we would like- different classes under various tutors To those who had the privilege of with “ The Late Christopher Bean.” — the Master Piano Class of thirteen having lessons from her, of hearing For two reasons it was difficult to to see them try something with a members under Lili Kraus, a Com­ her expound the beauties of the realise why this play was chosen. little real power in it, either tragic position Class under Douglas Lilburn, giants of music, I need say nothing. For one thing, it has been done all or comic, and not a vapid piece of a Woodwind Class with George Hop­ It must be all indelibly engraved in over the country by amateurs, and writing without beauty and without February 26th, 1947. CRACCUM Page Eleven DRAMA truth. I have, since seeing the play, cast try to get over this difficulty by read it, to find if the fault lay with relying on mechanics rather than on the actors and producer alone, but it human beings? If so, she was defin­ MACBETH didn’t. The programme stated that it itely successful. But mechanics are was adapted by Ernlyn Williams from notenough for Shakespeare, in the Sidney Howard, but the copy I read same way that technical perfection is C.U.C. Production says that it is adapted from Rene not enough for a musician. Once only Once again Auckland is indebted to the producer and players of the» Fauchcis’ “ Prenez Garde a la Pein- were the audience unconscious of Canterbury University College Drama Society. Two years ago they gave us ture.” Perhaps the fault lay with the their own existence as an audience Hamlet and Othello; and now, Macbeth. adaptation. In any case, why adapt and so felt a part of the story. After This production of Macbeth is the result of imaginative direction by Miss it? Perhaps Mr. Williams would like the discovery of the initial murder, Ngaio Marsh, and much hard work by the Canterbury players. If the final to try his hand at adapting Moliere when Malcolm and Donalbain turned result is not as moving as their Hamlet, nor as exciting as their Othello, it> for English audiences. If a play is to each of the nobles for sympathy is partly because Macbeth is a much more difficult play for young actors. such that it can’t be produced with­ and guidance and were repelled, only In-so-far as the understanding of human nature is concerned, Lady Macbeth out separate adaptation for each then did we feel that we were taking and her husband, when compared with Hamlet and Ophelia, Othello and country, let it sink into the oblivion part in a real experience of our own, Desdemona, are as fully-grown matured adults to little children. It is perhaps it deserves. Mr. Williams would and this scene was brilliantly con­ for this reason, in an effort to overcome this really insuperable difficulty of doubtless be against our giving “ The ceived and performed. At scarcely young actors playing parts for which they are not emotionally or intellectually Corn is Green’’ a New Zealand set­ any other time did we feel either sor­ equipped, that Miss Marsh tends to overtax the physical resources of her ting, with Morgan Evans as a Maori row or contempt for the characters. players. The laudable effort to give the production verive and excitement from Ruatoria and Miss Moffat as a Mostly, we just watched. And such results in overmuch shouting and gabbling— with consequent loss of audibility spinster fresh from Training College feelings are essential for this and, in­ — and the striving after an adequate expression of the emotional content of ten years ago. deed, for any great play. Macbeth the play results in too much declamation and posturing. As a result of the play there was as presented was net a person, caught very little that was sincere in this in the grip of superstition and ambi­ I am not sure that I like the divi­ scene to the scene with Seyton in the production. Megs Jenkins did her tion and, later, circumstance. During sion of the play into three acts of last act. I suggest to Mr. Ettlinger best with a role that was not very the sleep-walking scene, we did not seven, four and eight scenes. The that there should, in the course of credible and Nellie Bramley was satis­ feel that Lady Macbeth had had too first act should, in my opinion, end this interval of time, be a greater fied with making Mrs. Haggett quite much for any person to bear. As her with Macbeth’s decision to “ bend up moral and physical collapse than he a different character from that which character was presented, this scene each corporal agent.” The interval portrayed. We proceed from the the author and/or adaptor (s) in­ was almost inconsistent and “she then marks the required passage of Macbeth of “ The Castle of Macduff, I tended. Dr. Haggett was just too should have died hereafter.” She was time, and the curtain rises on will surprise; gullible for a man who had passed never a woman, always a murderess. Banquo’s “ How.goes the night, boy?” “ Seize upon F'ife; give to the edge his medical degree, but this was Two quotations, too well known to To continue the first act to the dis­ o’ th’ sword scarcely Norman Blackler’s fault. In give here, support the theory that covery of Duncan’s murder seems to His wife, her babes, and all un­ a play which is intended to be about Shakespeare created her as a woman me to kill Duncan off within about fortunate souls first and foremost. half an hour of his arrival at Inver­ real people it is very difficult to make That trace him in his line,” an unreal person live. The witches, Macduff and Duncan, ness. The lighting throughout was conceived with rare imagination, and, to the MacBeth who says “ My way of I am told that Sir Cedric Hardwick were well done; the former’s scenes life Is fallen into the sere, the yellow did this with Dr. Haggett. For a man wrere brilliant and go to show that like all the stage business, executed with skill. leaf,” and “ I have supped full with of certain intellectual qualities, Dr. perhaps Miss Marsh is better with horrors.” However, Mr. Ettlinger Haggett is one of the biggest fools fantasy than with reality. Certainly Was it Goethe who suggested that does well to win the sympathy of his I have seen. The audience was never her imagination is vivid and she is a the play should be called “Lady Mac­ audience, so that Macduff’s “ Thou fooled by all those aliases, but it wonderful craftsman, though the drop­ beth” ? Certainly the play stands or bloodier villain Than terms can give took him three acts to find his own ping of the proscenium curtain would falls by her; she is the mainspring. thee out” comes as a shock to us—as feet. Dr. Mac was never like that. have been better than the pulling of Miss Maryrcse Miller succeeds—not, indeed it should. In the earlier part o.f The young lovers were the only the curtains so many times and the I hope, at the cost of any physical the play Mr. Ettlinger portray with people in the whole play whose exist­ carrying on and off of furniture. This or nervous detriment to herself—in some skill the growing ambition and ence could be believed in, and as a reminded me of musical comedy. conveying much of this fearsome the inconstancy icf purpose which mark result the performances given by June However, all that is a matter of woman’s resolution. For instance, Macbeth. Well done, too, is the ner­ Mendoza and Donald Bamforth were opinion and perhaps Shakespeare can when Macbeth nervously suggests “If vous and physical exhaustion of Lady worth all, the rest of the evening, and be divorced from poetry and reality. we should fail?” Lady Macbeth’s mag­ Macbeth and her husband which fol­ that included the incidental music and But no one will question the excel­ nificent answer, “We fail? But screw lows the banquet scene. Mr. Ett­ that horrible set. lence of Douglas Lilburn’s music. your courage to the sticking place, linger, at the words “ Come, we’ll to New Zealand has often been blamed And no one should condone the in­ and we’ll not fail” , is superbly given sleep,” used just the right note of for its small audiences. But on reflec­ sidious practice of producing a voice by Miss Miller. On the other hand, tenderness in his voice. tion it seems that the size of the in the throat. It is difficult to know she fails unaccountably to convey any audience is in direct proportion to Many of the smaller parts are ex­ how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were cf the horror of that, perhaps the cellently done. You could not wish the quality of the performance. The able to outlast the season, so great most tragic, single line of the play: really good people we get are well for three more horrid witches, nor must have been the strain on their “ The Thane of Fife had a wife; where for a more blasted heath. Music, attended, perhaps because of their voices. is she now?” Miss Miller recited this sound effects and lighting are all here snob value. The fact that such a in a sort of sing-song, wagging her play as this attracted only small employed to their best advantage. finger at us in the manner of those Mr. William Scannell gives us a Mal­ gatherings need not, as I heard one IBSEN AND STEINBECK annoying people who ask foolish person gloomily remark, discourage colm who is princely both in mien Of the other two productions I saw, conundrums. Surely we have here and speech, and I feel perfectly con­ really worth-while plays and overseas both were amateur and both were ex­ the very core of the tragedy— the artists coming. I have heard some fident in leaving the future welfare cellent. Ibsen’s “Ghosts” I saw in awful disintegration of a potentially of Scotland to him and Macduff. Mac­ performers complain of the small Hamilton, where I am told it was bet­ noble character. Further experience audiences (not in this case), but duff is not an easy part to fail in, ter than the Auckland performances. will enable Mliss Miller to correct her but that is no dispraisê to Mr. Johy people have stayed away not because It was of a high standard all the way present tendency to muff certain he is a performer but because he is Jenkins, who is in every way a stout through. It had its faults, but they phrases. This is a common occurrence Scot. It is a delight to see his a shoddy one. Compare Dili Kraus’ were not ones of bad taste. in the recitation icf familiar words, audiences with Isador Goodman’s. withering backward glance at Mal­ “ Of Mice and Men” was as near and it is not easily checked. “ Fate colm, who is trying to soothe Mac­ . MACBETH flawlessness as anything amateurs and metaphysical aid,” “ sightless sub­ duff’s grief with the most appalling have done in my experience. It was stances,” “the dunnest smoke of hell,” platitudes. Mr. Lawrence Fox, as With “ Miacbeth,” Ngaio .Marsh a fine play with real values. Stein­ and one or two others are at the mo­ King Duncan, appears a little uncer­ achieved a triumph of staging, group­ beck and the sincerity of the perform­ ment blind spots for Miss Miller. She tain of his authority, and is, I think, ing, costuming, lighting and effects. ances were the primary considerations must also vary the tone of her voice unfortunate in being cast in a part But in her enthusiasm she seemed to and this time the mechanics added a little more; her contralto suits the that is too old for him. I think Young forget that Shakespeare wrote a play to rather than detracted from the part well, but she set icne tone at Macduff is best played by a boy: Miss with poetry in it. Some lines were beauty of the production. Hollywood “ They met me in the day of success,” Patience Maclean looks very pretty thrown away, others were needlessly gave us one of its rare works of art and scarcely varied it throughout the and acts with charm, but she is a cut and what remained were lost in with this as a film and the W.E.A. length of the play. Miss Miller has little too skittish for a scicn of Mac­ the throats of the actors. To do this gave us something that we should re­ dignity and majesty in the court duff the elder. Add to these a most to Shakespeare is, of course, to rob member with respect for a long time. scenes—though she does not carry likeable bunch of Scottish noblemen him of his greatest virtue. Shakes­ herself well—great resolution in the —I am especially attracted to Ross, peare was first a poet and a student colloquy with her husband before the who is the soul of honesty—a bonny of human character, and Elizabethan murder, and considerable pathos in piper, a suitably sage doctor, a charm­ audiences apparently were satisfied Beer at its Best the sleep-walking scene. ing Lady Macduff, and an excellent with that, as the first part of the film Mr. Norman Ettlinger as Macbeth piece of miming by Mr. James Erik- “Henry V.” showed. Audiences now- works consistently hard and achieves sen as Macbeth’s Steward, Siward’s - a-days, having been spoiled by lusci­ a very creditable performance. When engaging sincerity, and you have ous spectacles of «technicolour, expect I say he works hard, I mean he acts practically the whole story—but for scenery and lighting. But we still ■with vigour and determination all the Mr. Keith W. Thomson’s Banquo. Mr. want our beauty of words from way. He bears full testimony to Lady Thomson deserves credit for a sensi­ Shakespeare, together with the char­ Macbeth’s “Your face, my Thane, is tive performance; he never failed to acters more or less as Shakespeare as a book where men may read treat his lines with respect. Banquo’s gave them to us. These were given, strange matters.” His nervous col­ reactions to the course of events are it seemed, far less consideration than lapse following the murder is well those cf a normal person, and it is a they normally demand. done: there is terror mixed with pleasure to watch the suspicion What was Miss Marsh’s purpose in pathos in his “But wherefore could I dawning in this Banquo’s face as Lady this? Did she in the realisation that not pronounce Amen?” Macbeth is Macbeth pays her false compliment» -sshe did not have a real actor in the off the stage from the apparition to the King on his arrival. Page Twelve CRACCUM February 26th, 1947.

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