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May, 1949

TABLE OF CONTENTS

STORIES

OBSESSION Lois Callahan 5

OVER THE LIMIT Ruth Radogna 18 FEATURES:

GRADUATION THOUGHTS Jackie Jardine 3 THE INFLUENCE OF THE ELECTRA LEGEND UPON LITERATURE Betty Tipton 9

OPEN YOUR EYES Jane Smith 14

RIVER LEGEND Edith Duma 15

JOSE FERRER Jean Cake 19

IF I WERE COURAGEOUS Page Burnette 22

POETRY:

A ROAD Robbie Cromar 8

RAIN Phyllis Doss 11

ONE WISH Phyllis Doss 11

EVENING'S PLEA Dorothy Doutt 14

REVIEWS

THE GOD SEEKER Sara Creger 20

CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN Ned Orange 20 From Across the Desk . . . .

Though this year has been one of many harassing hours and sleepless nights for the staff of The Colonnade, we do not feel that all has been in vain. Every full moment of it has been fun. Yet we can never forget those last minute revisions, the hurried trips to the Herald Office, and the dead-lines to meet. But when all copy was in and The Colonnade on the press, our hearts brightened with hope that the outcome would be worthwhile.

With deep appreciation we give a toast to the old staff who did such a splendid job. To the new staff whose job it will be to carry on in an even better was, we give our best wishes for success. To Mr. Harry Lancaster of the Herald staff for his unfailing patience and untiring interest, we are duly grateful. To Mr. Grainger, Miss Jennings, Dr. Schlegal, and Mr. Coyner for their constructive advice and invaluable assistance, we extend heartfelt thanks. To the contributors and to the student body whose backing inspired them to do their best, we are indeed grateful.

To maintain the high standards set for The Colonnade, and to encourage creative writing has been and will always be our aim. The new staff has pledged itself to new and finer ends, but only through the fullest co-operation and interest of the students can we really make The Colonnade a worthy college magazine.

THE STAFF

Editor Anne Langbein Managing Editor Edith Duma Business Manager Polly Nasser

Short Story Editor Maria Jackson Humor Editor • Katie Cobb

Essay Editor Jackie Jardine Staff Photographer Peggy Perry

Circulation Manager Lila Easly Poetry Editor Barbara Andrews

Assistants: Joan Prichett, Lucy Jane Morton, Book Reviews Charlotte Hall Davis Christine Davis, Joyce Hamlet, Ballowe, Page BuRNETTE, Beverley Smethie, Helen Connelly. Movie Reviews Janice Slavin

Typists: Linda Black, Maxine Agree, Slyvia Dam- Art Editor Helen Arrington ski, Shirley Atkinson.

Member Plssocided Cblle6iale Press Graduation Thoughts

BY Jackie Jardine, '52

??>-' OUNG woman! The world challeng-

^^W es you ! You are living in a time of national and international peril. It is your generation that is faced with the task of uniting the world. Upon each of you college g-raduates who are now step- ping forth into national and international confusion falls this gigantic responsibil- ity." The foregoing is an example of the kind of pompous "pep-talk" given to grad- uating classes year after year. Undoubt- edly, the very same speeches were given decades ago and will be for several hun- dreds of years to come. This article is not intended to be pompous nor is it a "pep- talk." Of course graduates know they live in dangerous times. Practically every era has been a crisis in the lives of men. Any senior in college who is not aware of this fact scarcely deserves to graduate. I am not an authority on the meaning of gradua- tion and its responsibilities, but, as an un- dergraduate, I have some humble thoughts of my own on the subject, which I should like to set forth. What does graduation mean to me? Well, it means that a young woman completing four years at college is, in most cases, quali- fied to enter a profession. Her graduation peraments, backgrounds, and capabilities, signifies that she has taken part in both and that she has had her choice of whether the required and the extra-curricular ac- to surround herself with friends who stim- tivities which are intended to help round ulate her mind or with friends who held out her personality. It means that she has the same unyielding prejudices as she did. been an integral part of an institution that Truly, a graduate can consider herself for- is as strong as she is strong, as or weak as tunate indeed, if out of the host of people she is weak. It means that she is one of she knew in college, she has made two or the fortunate few who have been given the three true friends whom she can trust com- opportunity to get higher education; it pletely throughout the years to come. Grad- means that for four years it has been up uation means that she is essentially the to her, and her alone, to seize or to reject same pei'son she was before entering col- every chance to learn than more the mini- lege, but it does not stop there. For, in mum nightly assignment. It means that college, the individual for the first time in she has been thrown girls with of all tem- her life is given an opportunity to stand THE COLONNADE on her ovm two feet, and it is here that her over, the betterment of the world is utterly character begins to expand into maturity dependent on what people do. That is why and independence or to relapse further into I feel that everyone, especially college grad- immaturity and dependence. uates, who should understand the impor- The young college graduate has had the tance of it all better than the majority of chance to equip herself for her life ahead. people, must give of his conscious best. If But what about the life ahead? Whether a large enough group of able people sit she chooses marriage or a career, I believe back and unthinkingly try to escape the she has certain responsibilities and stand- present and the future, the same thing ards to live up to. that happened to the Greek and Roman For instance, according to articles I have civilizations will certainly happen to us. read and according to discussions I have Sad to say, some graduates, who get heard about college, the primary purpose married and have children, sink themselves of higher education is to teach the stu- so much into their families that they pay dent to think and to appreciate the finer little attention to the world outside. The things of "enduring values"—such things mother forgets she is a citizen of the world as the beauty, the feeling, and the crafts- and of the community in which she lives. manship in art, in literature, in conversa- Her children are her life, and if she does tion, in music, and in the ideals, the not break them, they will eventually break thoughts, and the fine qualities of scholar- her. Sometimes, she dominates a child ly, worthwhile people. To be able to un- so entirely, that when the child becomes derstand what is of enduring value, one an adult, it depends on her for decisions, must think. Despite the aim of education, companionship, and almost for life itself. I wonder how many people really and truly Some mothers give all their time, energy think. Today, so many graduates of col- and ambition to their children : hence, when lege are concerned with the "almighty dol- their children have grown up and left lar"—how many can be made and how the home to lead lives of their own, they are making can be done most easily. But rec- lost and lonely of heart. They have lived ognition of beauty and appreciation of it so much in their children that when the cannot be bought ! The seeds have to be time comes for them to fall back on them- sown in the mind, and college is the best selves, they find nothing of their own to place for the sowing. I know several grad- turn to. Had they been fortified with those uates of recognized colleges who have enduring things when they graduated, this washing machines, television sets, cars, hardly could have happened to them, be- dishwashers, etc., and yet they possess cause they would not have desired even a neither one worthwhile book nor one classi- temporary escape. cal recording. They use the television sets As a college graduate, you have learned not for an occasional opera or symphony, many things. The past four yeai's but for comedy shows and twenty-year-old have added to your wisdom, and you have westerns—all of which have a place and a taken some hard knocks. But you should time in one's life, but certainly none of be ready to take your place in a world that them is of enduring value. expects you to be a contributing individual. I have read and heard that people drown My purpose in attending college is to have themselves in soap operas, movies, alcohol, my thinking directed so that I may under- night clubs, women's social clubs, trashy stand and appreciate durable values. Hence,

love magazines, and novels to escape them- when I graduate, I hope that I can fill well selves and their lives. It's understandable the role my life has to play in the world. why they should want to escape, because If Freshmen started out in college with a life and its responsibilities are sometimes realization of their future responsibilities, so overwhelmingly difficult that they feel perhaps more graduates would make lasting as if a desert island is the only safe retreat contributions toward the type of society for them. But nobody can ever escape him- we are so despei'ately seeking. The world

self, not even on a desert island ! More- needs thinkers. !; !!

OBSESSION

Lois Callahan, '49

Third Prize Winner Short Story Contest

HAD started again. remember the moment or the day when it XT left you. will I had felt it yesterday right after You realize only that it is

lunch, but I had tried to ignore it. gone." Then T realized why suddenly I felt

Hadn't I felt it cruising within my con- as I did. It was gone ! The thing was gone sciousness many times since my recovery? And just as the doctor had said, I hadn't But it had always gone away. The doctor even realized when it had left me—not the had said it would be like that—come back day much less the moment. I became, only, and go away many times before I would shockingly aware that it was gone, and that recover completely. I would feel it upon an intoxicating warmth tingled up and awakening in the morning, but it would dis- down my spine. Life would be as it had appear after an hour or two of activity. been once, as it had been over five years

And the doctor had been right ! For a long ago before the thing had appeared. time I did feel it upon awakening in the I knew that the thing had gone complete- morning, but true to the prediction of the ly, but as time went on, I became more doctor, it had vanished after an hour of two aware of the fact that although it had gone, of activity. Around late mid-afternoon it it had left a residue in the form of an in- would recur, but it always did wear off just tangible scar on my conscious being. Life as the doctor had said it would. Sometimes was not ever again going to be as it was it stayed a rather long time, but it always five years ago. I felt somewhat regretful disappeared. "And then," said the doctor, about that, but my great new-found joy "you'll some day realize with startled as- over being released so overshadowed my tonishment that it's gone and gone for good nostalgia that I almost forgot that for Maybe you won't be able to remember the awhile. moment or even the day it disappeared Getting rid of the thing was like being it will leave you so gradually." And that born again. I must learn practically every- happened, too, just as the doctor had said. thing over again. Even eating, walking, One night at a cocktail party, I had been and smiling must more or less be mastered having an unusually gay time—really laugh- anew. The thing had been so constant, ing. Suddenly I stopped with a hesitating that it had required all my attention. I abruptness. Something was different — often wondered if I would ever re-leam the strangely different. At first I couldn't art of sleeping. The thing had been like quite make out what it was that was dif- a parasite, sucking my spirit and altering ferent. Was it the cocktail party? No, to a great degree my physical make-up it couldn't be that. The party was just My once fresh young face had been changed

like dozens of other cocktail parties I had by too much suffering, but it was still haunt- ever attended. Even my physical make-up ingly fresh and young looking, if the light seemed younger, more alert, and more vig- did not fall too directly on it. In my spirit orous. As if by a sixth sense, I perceived and eyes the thing had wrought its greatest that the others felt the change in me. damage. The bright, exquisite excitement I seemed to hear the voice of my doctor that had once pervaded my whole spirit had saying: "Then one day you will realize become subdued, and the luster in my eyes that it is gone. You perhaps won't even was different now. V:rVT>.

'How Ironic," I reflected . —

OBSESSION

I always had been a practical person and my clothes through and through, and my I had faced my situation squarely. But skin prickled. The sensation of the needle- never again would I be quite the same, still like pricks merging with the salty perspira- even yet I was on the verge of being as I tion maddened me. With my own hands I was five years ago. I felt that just a slight partially tore the collar of my blouse from push, even a very slight push would put me my throat. there. However, two years had passed Something was trying to slip into the since the thing had gone, and I had felt vacuum, but I wouldn't let it. I would quite strongly that it would never come fight the thing. I couldn't let it weave it- back. But yesterday after lunch it had self in this time, for if I did, it would stay. started again. I would never be able to get rid of it then. The day had begun quite inoffensively. I I had triumphed and vanquished the thing had felt unusually well that morning. I once, but I knew I could never ward it off had even made plans for writing a rather again. It would drive me insane. I must scholarly, but somewhat sentimental dis- not let it come back again. I wouldn't let maga- it course for The Particular Reader, a come back again ! zine to which I was a contributor. Maybe activity would help keep the thing

It was after lunch now, and I was back away. That had gotten rid of it before. in my room taking long meditative draws I walked rapidly about the room, but it on a cigarette. Time seemed to lose all di- soon became apparent to me that the thing mension. Then I reached for my pencil was going to persist. Activity seemed not and writing pad, but as I did so, beads of to abate it this time. Although activity perspiration stood out above my upper lip kept the thing more at a distance, it did and on my forehead. My body tingled as not keep the thing far enough away. Day if hot electric needles had pricked it. My by day the thing came closer and closer. hands became hot and clamy. The ciga- I tried to run away from it, but I couldn't. rette had burned deeply into my fingers, Then one day, weary and exhausted, I but I did not feel any sensation of being came back to my room and locked the door. burned. The stench of burned flesh seared Com.pletely spent, I flung myself down by my nostrils. I gave a sharp but low groan. the side of the bed and uttered a prayer It couldn't be! The thing couldn't have more in convulsive sobs than in words. I returned. had long ago given up word prayer. I did The fact that the cigarette had burned not know how long I wept, but \yhen I my hand without my feeling the burning finally ceased and lay prostrate on the bed, didn't mean a thing, I tried to tell myself. I noticed that the world outside my window That could happen to anyone intensely was clad in that softness of twilight that engrossed in thought—engrossed in thought comes just before the onset of night. Twi- —in thought. But what was my thought? light struck me as perversely beautiful be- What was I going to—going to— cause of my suffering, and a feeling of The back of my neck stiffened as if made loss surged over me. I wept again. This of fibers of steel that rested metallically time I wept until I slipped into unconscious- hard against the base of my brain. The ness deeper than sleep—and time passed ache and sensation began to spread slowly passed. around on each side right above my ears, When I awoke, a nauseating sickness per- forming an aching ball in each temple. It vaded my abdomen. My legs and arms seemed as if a circular fire-band were com- seemed cramped, cold and hot at the same pressing and melting my brain inside, time. My mouth and throat were dry. I as if the interior of my skull were becom- felt as if I could drink quarts and quarts ing a vacuum. And that vacuum ached be- of water—cold, icy water. My feet and cause of its very emptiness. I wanted to hands felt paralyzed. I couldn't tell, for reach up with my hands and savagely tear an illusion of unreality seemed to be min- that emptiness out. It had such a strange gled with reality until I could not distin- concreteness about it. Perspiration soaked guish one from the other. It was like being — ;

THE COLONNADE

- thrust from a cool friendly darkness more all along my true condition, and had he delightful than anything real. Therefore, .just been merciful in saying that in time

I did not want to open my eyes, and my I would soon be well again? Well, anyway, head felt as if it were still encased in the it didn't matter now. circular fire-band with the vacuum inside. Mechanically I got up, mechanically but A long time I fought against opening my meticulously, I dressed, combed my hair, eyes, for I knew the thing would be there. and left the room. I walked unconsciously It had pursued me into the room; I could for instinct carried me. Soon I found my- feel its presence even before I opened my self in front of the convent. I walked up eyes. It would be waiting, calm, trium- the cobblestone pavement to the door. I

phant. Then I opened my eyes. The bril- hesitated a moment, then rang the bell. liant hardness of daylight struck me full There was a long silence. Then I heard in the face. The thing was there and this footsteps coming to the door. As they drew

time I did not attempt to fight back. The nearer, I heard the swish of a nun's black thing had won and I knew it. My face garb. Then the door opened and a crea- became ashen and livid. My eyes grew life- ture who seemed to have no human senti- less, as an expression of resignation ments nor age, with an expressionless face crowned my being. and skin yellow and wrinkled stood before My father had been dead ten years, but me. The sight shocked me, and a feeling during his life he had hated me—hated me of total nauseating disintegration pervaded merely because I had been a girl. He had me. I turned and fled back down the cob- hated all women. It seemed that he had blestone path. I wanted refuge from the vented all his hatred on me. I remembered world to cloak the slow disintegration which as his voice flapped like the wings of a vul- my father's phantasmal voice brought on, ture, all the awful things he had said to me but not with such a creature as this. in my childhood. Then, when I was four- When I reached the sidewalk, I noticed teen he had died, but not so the things the asylum directly across the street. It uninten- he had said ; they had become an obsession struck me as perversely odd, but with me. tionally symbolic. "How ironic," I re- And then the voice had begun. At first flected, "that the asylum should be just

I knew it wasn't real, but then it seemed across the street from the convent." But to become real. It was then that I had then, maybe it wasn't as ironic as it first gone to the doctor. When he told me that seemed. It took me only a moment to de- I would be all right in time, had he known cide. Then I crossed the street.

A Road

First Prise Poetry Contest

A road may lead to anywhere To grasses green ; to mountains high For those who choose to roam. Past sparkling, rippling streams. A road may lead to happiness Perhaps to life's eternal goal 'Mid countrysides unknown. Fulfillment of our dreams.

A road may lead to cities great With palace, tower, and dome.

But every man is king, you know, When on the road to home.

Robbie Cromar. "50 The Influence of the Electro Legend Upon Modern Literoture Throughout the Ages

BY Betty Tipton, '49

Editor's note: The following has been condensed father's death by killing his murderers. Miss Tipton's Honor Course Paper in English. from When Aegithus appears, Orestes discards A most interesting topic has been well handled and Miss Tipton has gained our highest respect. his disguise, drives his enemy from the stage, and kills him. Then, Orestes tells his mother who he is and what he has done. He >^5^HE story of Electra was part of an declares his intent to kill her, also. She V y ancient legend of Greece. After the pleads for mercy: Trojan War -when Agamemnon "Fate bore a share in all these things reached home, he was slain by Clytemnes- my child." tra and her lover, Aegisthus. Electra, the Nevertheless, he drives her from the stage daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnes- and kills her. Orestes says justice has been tra, loved her father passionately. When done. But immediately, as the chorus has her mother and Aegisthus killed him, she foretold, the Furies come, and these became obsessed with hatred for them, and "hounds from hell" take charge of Orestes. years later persuaded Orestes, her brother, to murder their father's slayers. She became Sophocles' "Electra" is not his master- one of the favorite characters, both of the piece, but it is one of his finest plays. Eur- Greek drama and of modern plays. ipides' "Electra" is very different from those of his predecessors, and was not as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides popular, possibly because it is modern. each wrote a drama using the Electra Euripides also brings about an illogically theme. These plays were written about 450 happy ending. B. C, but no one knows the exact date of any one of them or even which of the three In 1527 A. D., about two thousand years was written first. later, during the Italian Renaissance, Mar- telli wrote a play called "Tullia." It com- Electra is the central figure in "The bined the Electra legend with the Tullia Libation Bearers," which is the middle play legend. A century and a half later during of the Agamemnon trilogy, called "The the French Renaissance, Racine Orestium," considered Aeschylus's master- wrote a tragedy called "Electra." Other French piece. In the first play of the trilogy Aga- writers used the legend as a basis for their memnon returns home and is murdered by plays. Among them were Crebillion and his wife and her lover, Aegisthus. In the Longpierre. In the latter part of the eight- second play, "The Libation Bearers" Elec- eenth century two successful plays based tra and her brother, Orestes, wreak ven- on Sophocles' "Electra" were written, one geance upon the guilty pair. In the conclud- by Voltaire (1750), and one by Alfiere ing play of the trilogy, called "The Furies", (1783). In 1907, Alfred Poizat wrote a tra- Orestes is punished for his dreadful crime gedy in the modern mood, called of matricide. "Electra." In 1901 in Madrid, Benito Perez Galden (a The scene of "The Libation Bearers" Spaniard) presented a tragedy called was set in front of Agamemnon's tomb, "Electi-a." It was a success, and it was re- several years after his death. Here Electra vived in 19] 1. Since World War II, Jean- and her brother make plans to avenge their Paul Saltre, one of the leading French — :

THE COLONNADE writers of today, has written a play based Lavinia is Electra, the true heroine of the on the Electra legend. He called it "The whole trilogy, and her name means electri- Flies". In this tragedy Saltre was influ- city. enced by O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes From the first scene of "The Homecom- Electra," and by the existentialist move- ing" the conflict between the mother and ment in contemporary French thought. daughter is seen. Although Christine and One of the most outstanding modern Lavinia are fundamentally alike, they ap- plaj^s based on the Electra theme is a one- pear different for a time. Past forty, Chris- act tragedy written by Hugo Von Hofman- tine is still beautiful and physically desir- stal (1872-1929), an Austrian. His "Elek- able. Lavinia has the same dignified height, tra," which is writen in a rather realistic fine figure, and striking coloring as her style, was successfully given as an opera mother, but she conceals her beauty by in Berlin in 1903. dressing drably. She appears flat-chested In 1931, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, one and older than her twenty-six years, and of our leading American dramatists, used her military manner, copied from her the Electra legend as the basis for one of father, makes her unattractive. The two his most popular dramas. "Mourning Be- women have never loved each other, and comes Electra," which treats the theme in now the men in their lives have made them a modern way, portrays a conflict between despise each other. Ever since her wedding mother and daughter over the same man night, Christine has hated her husband, but the mother's lover. In this play, O'Neill Lavinia is passionately devoted to her uses the form of Aeschylus' Agamemnon father. trilogy. Each part corresponds somewhat O'Neill parallels the Atreus legend to its counterpart in "The Orestium". Part when he gives Captain Brent an avenging one, "The Homecoming," deals with the motive. His father was David, the elder murder of a Civil War hero by his wife. brother of Ezra Mannon. Adam's mother Part two, "The Hunted," deals with the was a French Canadian nurse in the Man- revenge, in which the dead man's children non home. Both Ezra's brother and his kill their mother's lover and drive their father loved her. When the son won her, mother to suicide. Part three, "The Haunt- Lavinia's grandfather thew them out. After ed," shows the punishment of the children. David died, his widow starved to death The son kills himself because of remorse, while Adams was at sea. She had appealed and the daughter shuts herself up with the to Ezra for help, but he had declined. Adam family ghosts. feels that Ezra murdered his mother ; hence O'Neill departs from Greek traditions he wishes to fight Ezra. But Christine per- in his play. It lasts five hours, whereas one suades him that it would be better to part of the average Greek trilogy was over poison him secretely, and thus avoid punish- within a much shorter time. He uses elab- ishment. Adam furnishes her the fatal dose. orate modern stage settings, costumes, and Ezra returns to try to regain his wife's lights, whereas the Greeks used almost love, but he disgusts her, and she tells him none. He writes in modern prose whereas about Adam. This brings on a heart attack the Greeks wrote in verse. And he Ameri- as Christine had hoped. Instead of the canized it by giving it an American setting. medicine for which he begs, she poisons him. On the surface it seems that nothing Too late he realizes what has happened and remains of the Electra legend but the title. calls Lavinia. Christine faints and her However, by examining closely the cast of daughter finds the fatal bottle. She ends characters, one finds that the Greek char- the first part of the play with an agonized acters are only masked with American cry names. Brigadier-General Ezra Mannon is "Father! Don't leave me alone! Come Agememnon, Christine, his wife, is Clytem- back to me! nestra. Captain Adam Brent is Aegisthus Tell me what to do!" but not as cowardly as his Greek counter- Two days later "The Hunted" begins. part. Orin, the weakest character is Orestes. Continued on pcifie 23

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Rain

Second Prise Poetry Contest

I hear the patter of the rain Upon my window sill; It sings a little tune to me When everything is still.

It sounds so very happy As it taps the hours away, It sings to me of sunshine, Of a brighter, sweeter day.

It falls upon each blade of grass, Each flower, plant and tree. It makes the world take on a look Of fresh new life to me. Phyllis Doss, '51

One Wish

Second Prise Poetry Contest

If I could have but one wish. Oh, what would that wish be For strength to face the trials And temptations placed on me?

Or would I wish for knowledge? 'Tis something I can keep. But then, what good is knowledge In that eternal sleep?

Perhaps I'd wish for happiness For all the long years through. But that would be too selfish, Not to wish for others, too.

I fear 'tis none of these. Could satisfy my need. My wish would be that every day I'd do a golden deed.

A deed that makes life richer For someone else, you see. Would make some life .seem brighter- And bring deep joy to me.

Phyllis Doss, '51

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Those last exams We had to pass And how we burned the midnight gas! We crammed like mad, and things went well, But how we did it, we'll never tell!

Down came the pennants, favors, flower That whispered of past lovely hours. And as we packed, we knew just why We almost seemed to want to cry.

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We felt so proud at last to stand With our diploma in our hand. This senior class of S. T. C. We were the last—and proud to be.

The last goodbys, a few sad tears, For gone now are our College years- But we await with eagerness Our new life, and our happiness.

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Open Your Eyes

BY Jane Smith, '50

^I^HAT IS art for? From the earliest and shoulder may be the same, and still \gy time gifted individuals all over the farther down, the folds in her gown repeat world have expressed themselves the line of the babe in her arms. This through tangible forms which we call art. "strange holiness" is what the artist means And what would life be like without our to open your eyes to. pictures, buildings, pottery, music, drama, A picture familiar to each of us is Gains- poetry and dance? Works of art have been borough's "Blue Boy." Here blue is the and always will be esential to man's well- predominant color. (Gainsborough painted being. Most of us understand and believe this on a wager to prove to one of his col- what we read in print, but some of us see leagues that blue is more than a background very little directly with our eyes. Art opens color.) Even though blue dominates the our eyes. Try looking at a picture. Is it picture, it is not monotonous, because there just subject matter? Or does it create a are so many shades and tints intermingled. mood or some other reaction in you? No- The artist has repeated the lines in the tice the varied colors : there are both darks shoulder, the hat, the trees in the back- and lights; there is also repetition of line ground, etc. Thus, he has used these ele- direction. Note the various sizes and shapes ments to create unity through emphasis, in the picture. Each of these is essential. repetition, contrast and variation. All of these factors are means which a painter may use to express his ideas and Paintings in the early western world were give them unity. Unity holds the parts of used in the churches for religious expres- a picture together, and at the same time sion. They were often done in sei'ies, some allows for a variety so as to relieve the telling stories of certain people's deeds monotony of shape and color. Emphasis, the lives of the disciples, groups of saints, also, makes for unity as can be seen in any etc. Later royalty and wealthy families painting of a Madonna and Child. You employed artists to paint individual and will notice the varied colors, each is im- family portraits. Soon the various indus- portant only in bringing out the Madonna. tries hired artists to paint group portraits Some may have a dark background with of their officials and apprentices. As the the halos of the Madonna and Child light rise of the merchant class increased, pic- to make them stand out—to show their holi- tures were desired in private homes. So ness. If you examine closely, you will see art today still serves its purpose, even in that the line direction of the Mother's halo the private homes of all of us.

Evening's Plea

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The night is still except for crickets cry; The drowsy brook sleeps restless 'neath the trees; The air is cold, and night hawks skim the sky. The rustling leaves sway gently in the breeze; Stars push their way through fading clouds to say. The icy moon is silver in the sky. Earth, stay awake! Dawn soon will bring the day. Earth, stay awake! It is too soon to die. Dorothy Doutt, '50

14 RIVER LEGEND

BY Edith Duma, '51

ONE OF the oldest traditions at State Teachers College is its annual May Day Pageant. The themes of these May Day productions have ranged from the presentation of ancient fairy tales and legends to the depicting of the customs of other nations such as Russia and Latin America. River Legend, this year's theme, traces the winding course of the James River across Virginia. The river theme was chosen this year because of the great part the Dances set the tempo James has played, not only in the history As the pageant of Virginia, but in the history of the na- continues to unfold, brave pioneer tion. men in their fringed shirts stalk boldly Two modern dance groups, composed of into the sacred grounds of the Lidians old and new students of the dance, portray and beckon to the timid women to follow. The the river in all its aspects. The first group, women come fluttering be- hind them, hoping all is by its series of tiny runs and whirls, shows safe, but suddenly an is the green foaming waters of the Jackson arrow discovered ! Immediately there is great excitement. River as it comes tumbling down through Some of the women

run in various directions ; the Alleghany Mountains. On its way, it is some stand trans- fixed joined by the dawdling waters of the blue ; others summon the men. The men, Cowpasture, and from there the two move fearing for their lives, strive desperately on as one mighty stream, the James River. to take the frenzied women to safety. This stream can easily be identified as it As the last settler flees, an Indian sud- enters the picture, for the dance move- denly appears creeping through the grass, ments consist of high leaps and extensions then another, and another, until finally with instead of tiny movements. As it ap- one blood-curdling scream, they leap into approaches the pastures and grasslands, the the air. Holding their arrows aloft, the river quiets itself until it becomes a smooth Indians, bright with war paint, solemnly flowing stream. march in a circle. With leaps, falls, and horrible screams, they demonstrate their hatred of the white man's intrusion into their hallowed land. Finally with a final scream of hatred, they leap in all directions to obtain their revenge. This wild upheaval is reflected in the second river motif. Swirl- ing muddy-red waters break the calm blue of the smooth-flowing James. Immediately the entire river becomes one leaping, swirl- ing flood through a series of repeated lifts and falls until finally with one hist surge,

They solemnly march in a circle— Continued on page 24

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"What kind of girl is your roommate?" Bobby had a hard time pronouncing the "Well, last night she stubbed her toe and letter "R", so the teacher gave him this

said, 'Oh, the perversity of inanimate ob- sentence to learn : "Robert gave Richard " jects.' a rap in the rib for roasting the rabbit so rare." A few days later she asked Bobby to re- peat the sentence. He rose and said, "Bob gave Dick a poke in the side for not cooking the bunny

Prof. : "Illustrate the use of the coordi- enough." nate conjunction." Student: "I saw the goat butt the boy. But is the coordinate conjunction connect- ing the boy and the goat."

A conversation between two Longwood girls "Will your parents be surprised when you graduate?"

"Just what good have you done for hu- "Oh no. They've been expecting it for manity?" asked the judge before passing several years now." sentence on the pickpocket. "Well," said the confirmed criminal, "I've kept three or four detectives working reg- ularly."

Conscience is that still small voice that doesn't stop us.

June: "I don't intend to be married until I'm 30." Joan: "I don't intend to be 30 until I'm married." The difference between kissing Aunt Rachel and your best girl is about sixty seconds.

Parson : "You asked me to pray for An-

nabelle last Sunday, George. Do you want "Papa, should I take Junior to the zoo me to repeat the same prayer this week?" tomorrow?" George: "No thanks. Annabelle won last "Absolutely not. If the zoo want.s him. Monday at 9 to 1." let them come and get him."

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"I'll bet you wouldn't marry me," he Prof.: "What tense is this verb?" said. Student: "I certainly would like to tell She called the bet and raised him five. you but I think it would do you more good if you look it up yourself."

It must be Spring: We saw a Scotsman throwing away his Christmas tree the An old maid is like a fisherman—they other day. both tell about the ones that got away.

"What is a snuff' manufacturer?"

Customer: "Could I try on that suit in "A man who goes around putting his the window?" business in other people's noses." Clerk: "We'd rather you'd use the dress- ing room."

A husband is the kind of man Who drives me to a rage; He can't recall my birthday But he always knows my age.

Son : "Father, why was Adam made first?" Father: "To give him a chance to say

a few words." Prof. : "How does the moon affect the tide?" Student: "It doesn't. Only the untied."

I think that I shall never see Tact is when a woman proposes to a man

The dollar that I loaned to thee. in such a way that he thinks he did it him- A dollar that I could have spent, self. For varied forms of merriment. The one I loaned so gladly The same which I now need so badly. Rodney: "Dad, the teacher told us about For whose return I had great hope, the evil spirits entering the swine." Just like an optimistic dope; Dad: "Yes, son, any questions?" dollars loaned to folks like thee. For Rod : "Is that the way they got the first Are not returned to fools like me. deviled ham?"

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OVER THE LIMIT

BY Ruth Radogna, '49

QUAIL were scarce that fall. Most of "Howell's the name. Them two birds are the old-timers in the valley, includ- mine, ole fellow." ing Warden Tickie himself, weren't "Sure are. Son. You take 'em. You're hunting at all this season. They were giv- hunting a mighty lame dog, ain't 'cha. Son? ing the birds a chance. It was an unspoken Looks like he's been peppered bad." gentleman's agreement. "Shot him this morning for di'agging Pa Holland, who had always been the tail on me," he said impatiently. "Only county's greatest hunter, managed to keep way to train him. Gotta teach him some this agreement, too, for a while, but by way. Hasn't been any good all day." December he couldn't deny any longer him- "My dog is pretty good. Why don't you self the sound of a shot. After several leave your dog here and hunt the creek days of strolling in the woods with Joe, bed with me and Joe?" his pointer, and locating all the coveys, "Well—I guess it'll be K. I'll give he could stand it longer. no He open- you a dollar an hour. Only, you get what facedly shouldered his old single-bar- you kill, and I get what I kill. I only have reled gun and took off to the hunting eleven now." grounds. fields Up and down the he "That's 0. K. with me, stranger. I'm strolled, excitedly shooting at every quail glad to do it free, but you know twelve's that in came his sight. Always, he just the limit around here, don't 'cha?" stood as he missed each one and said, "I "Yeah! You ain't a warden, are you?" could have got that one if— "No, no ! Don't believe in wardens ! Come With longing eyes Pa watched the birds on ! Let's get started. It's gettin' late." out of sight and whistled to old Joe to The stranger tied his dog to a willow, heel. The dog suddenly took on new life, and the two men walked in silence up the and began barking and wagging his tail. creek bed, pausing only when Joe stopped. They couldn't go home now. There were After what seemed to be hours Joe spotted always birds in this hollow. Pa sighed a a covey. He froze into a statue as the covey little and pushed on down the hill. He took flight. Pa shot three times, and the couldn't say no. Seeing your dog pleased birds skimmed on. Then the stranger piv- is part of hunting. oted and shot twice more. The birds fell. Joe stood another covey, and Pa Holland It was beautiful shooting. shot twice into them. The birds wheeled "Of course," said Pa, trying to give the unhit and sailed low along the curve of stranger some excuse for being such a poor the hillside. Two shots boomed on the hill- shot, but to no avail. side beyond Pa, and he saw the birds jolt "Come on," interrupted the stranger in mid-air and drop. Old Joe yelped and rudely, "I only have fourteen." started out across the creek after them. "Let's rest here on this log a few min- Pa looked back up the hill and saw a utes." big square-set man in a red hunting jacket. "Fine. What's the matter, Ole Timer? "Good shot, Son!" called the old man. Can't 'cha take it?" replied Howell, spread- "Stranger here, ain't 'cha?" ing the birds out at their feet. "What hap- "Yeah." pened to 'em this year anyway?" he asked. "Jet Holland's the name. Always glad "I was down here in '39 with a party of to welcome newcomers." Continued on page 24 18 Puerto Rico's Jose Ferrer

BY Jean Cake, '49

EMONG the outstanding Puerto Ricans Weekend," but he casually rejected it. of our time is Jose Vincente Ferrer Without benefit of movies or radio, Ferrer Otcero y Cintron, a dramatic phe- has built up a remarkable national follow- nomenon who is conquering the theater ing. One of the few Broadway actors who from the classic field to farce as no one has enjoys trouping, he will go anywhere the done since John Barrymore. customers show a lovely disposition to

Jose Ferrer first achieved stardom in a throw money at the man in the box office. revival of "Charley's Aunt", the grand- Ferrer tries to represent his family as mother of all low farces, and from there common folks, but he was born into a patri- made a breath-taking leap into the role of cian life at Santurce, Puerto Rico. He was Tago in the Shakespearean tragedy, "Othel- educated in the States and in Switzerland. lo". Ferrer's lago v/as hailed as the best Entering Princeton in 1928, he ignored his performance of 1943-44, with this produc- intellectual equals and became the lead dog tion of "Othello" completely shattering all in a fast pack of campus plutocrats who Shak6,spearean records with a 600 per- looked down their flasks at such dujl fel- formance stint in New York and on the lows as these. A good pianist, he organized road. a dance band that was in demand at debu- As producer-star of Cyrano de Ber- tante parties in New York, Philadelphia, gerac, he plays what is perhaps the juciest and Washington. role in the theater. His presentation of this Today Ferrer is fluent in four lan- old classic was a solid smash. He runs the guages, but his working vocabulary is defi- gamut from ardor to zeal, with side excur- nitely Broadwayese. A statement from New .sions into swashbuckling heroics, whimsey, York switchboard operators gives Jose the tragedy, and pure, unrequited love. distinction of having the smoothest and Oscar Hammerstein II states his senti- most charming telephone voice in the city. ments thus: "Jose Ferrer is a young man Ferrer is an animated violation of all who can scare the life out of you, with his the .specifications the theater has established lago, double you up with laughter as Char- for actors that receive such extravagant ley's Aunt, and choke you with tears as acclaim as he. He is probably the worst Cyrano. He's a handy man to have around dressed man in America in his income the theater." bracket. His sloppy posture suggests a Now that the theater has found out tired postman, and his features appear to what a usable actor is this Fererr, he is have been arranged as a careless after- making his screen debut in the RKO pic- thought. Refusing to study alone, Ferrer ture, "Joan of Arc". The chances are that learns his lines at the last possible mo- he'll be iust as durable on the screen as ment by—reading them over and over to on the stage, for his role as the Dauphin of someone "preferably a pretty girl." France has won him enormous acclaim Yet stating the proposition simply, Jose Shakespearean records with a 600-per- Ferrer today is probably the best, and cer- from critics and theater-goers alike. Up tainly the most versatile, actor on the until "Joan of Arc," he regarded the movies American stage. He's the youngest actor- with indifference. He was the first actor producer-director in the business. Realistic to be offered the leading role in "Lost Continued on page 24 19 ave YOU Head Ihese ?

Him while working, while hunting, and THE GOD-SEEKER even while playing. The Indian does not understand—in order for him to become As Revieiced By a Christian, he mu.st sit for hours listening Sara Creger, '52 to Squire Harge shout and moan. Still bewildered at this learning, 'j^KHE GOD-SEEKER is a stirring story new V^J of the birth and early growth of Aaron leaves the mission and goes to St. Paul, settlement of Minnesota. As a historical novel, it then a less than sixty is authentic in its historical data. people. There he marries Selene Lanark, The God-Seeker, Aaron Gadd, a conse- the half-breed daughter of a powerful crated young Vermonter of the Congrega- French-Canadian trader. Eventually he tional Church, is raised on the strict rules becomes a successful builder and conti'actor, of the Congregationalists. Consequently, and one of the leading citizens of St. Paul, according to Mr. Lewis, he develops a nar- which by 1855 has a population of twelve row idea of God, the soul, and salvation. thousand. In the year 1848, Aaron, laying aside his Mr. Lewis very aptly expresses the In- worldly ambition to become a carpenter, dians' cynical and condescending attitude goes to Minnesota to become a missionary toward the white man. He thinks that the among the Chippewas and the Sioux In- Indians were more Christ-like before they dians. He does not realize that this "heath- were exposed to Christian civilization than enish frontier" is peaceful compared to the they were afterwards. East vdth its unrest over abolition. Tile God-Seeker is not just a novel about At length Aaron settles, at the mission a man, but it is the story of a territory, a of Squire Harge, an intolerant preacher state, and of a growing nation. who has not been successful in his attempts to convert the Indians. Harge preaches against smoking, drinking, and gambling, and spits tobacco juice all in the same CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN breath. Luckily, Aaron soon makes friends As Revieived By with some of the Indians, a thing the Squire Ned Orange had never been able to do : he had always been too busy "converting" the Indians. CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, as writ- It is through his contacts with these un- ten by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.. and christian, filthy Indians, that Aaron finds Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, is a re- a new understanding of God. The Indians markable resemblance to the old favorite, say that God dwells not only in the dark, Life With Father by Clarence Day. Any hot, square churches, but that He dwells one who enjoyed the humorous family epi- everywhere—in the quiet forests and on the sodes so vividly and lovingly portrayed by open prairie. They say, also, that one can Mr. Day, is certain to take delight in this reach God without hours of tortured wor- hilarious treatment of life in a more modern ship and self-denial—that one can reach American family. The conscientious reader 20 —

HAVE YOU READ THESE? will become so involved in this galaxy of not the case, for each of the Gilbreths made merrjr-making that he will think of himself a sealed bid for the job, the lowest bidder as a red-headed, freckled faced child in the getting the contract. Gilbreth household. The family car, dubbed the "Foolish Car- The business world knew Frank Bunker riage," was of the Brobdingnagian species. and Lillian Moller Gilbreth as industrial Such a car was necessary to accommodate engineers—pioneers in motion study and the Gilbreth family. This Gargantua of the scientific management. The domestic world highway, as it passed through cities and knew them as Dad Gilbreth, who reared villages, caused a stir equalled only by only twelve children, and Mother Gilbreth, a circus parade. "I seen twelve of them, who reared twelve only children. Mr. Gil- not counting the man and woman," some- breth was so certain that anything that he one would shout from the sidewalk. "They and his wife did would be a success that come cheaper by the dozen, you know," Mr. immediately following their wedding, a Gilbreth would reply genially. mutual agreement was reached whereby So the Gilbreths went merrily through the future Gilbreth family would include 'ife, setting precedents in their own daily one dozen children. activities that were to revolutionize the Had Frank Gilbreth confined his studies business, industrial, and family world. and applications of efficiency methods to the business world, there would have been no story. Fortunately, however, these activi- ties did not terminate there, but were trans- ferred not only to his personal habits, but also to the activities of his family. To say that the reason for this transfer grew out of love for his work would be true, but in- complete. There was the dire necessity for efficiency in a home if one was to rear twelve children. Mr. Gilbreth's personal habits were mod- els of efficiency. He buttoned his vest from the bottom up, instead of from the top down, because the former method saved four seconds. The use of two shaving brushes was found to save exactly seventeen seconds each morning. He ventured so far as to use two razors. This saved forty- RULES FOR CHESTERFIELD HUMOR MAGAZINE CONTEST four seconds, but the injuries inflicted and Identify the 3 subjects in back cover ad. All clues are in ad. Submit answers on Chesterfield wrapper or reasonable facsimile to this publication office. the consequent need for bandages wasted Enter as many as you like, but one Chesterfield wrapper or fe t accompany each entry. Contest closes midnight, one week after this issue's public more time than was saved. All answers become the property of Chesterfield. Decision of judges will be final. All activities about the home were on a strict business basis. Important financial LAST MONTH'S ANSWERS & WINNERS expenditures had to be approved by the A The word "milder" appears twice in the ad in red letters, and the word "mild" (two-thirds of "milder") appears in house council, which consisted of all mem- white letters. They all explain why Chesterfield is right, bers of the family. The meetings of the TO Four eyes (Darnell's and Griffin's) are the council were not conducted in a helter- same in color and shape, but not in fame, since Linda Darnell's are much more famous. skelter fashion, but were led in strict par- r\ The pearl earrings worn by Linda Darnell, liamentary procedure with Mr. Gilbreth WINNERS... presiding. Doing odd jobs furnished the young Gilbreths with spending money. It would seem apparent that the problem CHESTERFIELD CONTEST WINNERS—Sara Cregar, Betsy Carper, Frances Cregar, Jimmy Tliompson, Patsy which of the twelve would get what jobs., Kimbrough, Jane Wililams, Norma Roady, Marjorie Bos- would be tremendous; this, however, was wick, Judy Hughes, Cab Overbey, 21 : ; ;

If I Were Courageous

BY Page Burnette, '50

I WAS courageous, I should aspire All XF of these things are not possible, be- to be a humorous writer. I should cause I am not courageous. I am an Eng- like to do my part to keep the Ameri- lish major. I must accept my fate, main- can people laughing. I do not want to have tain my long face, and delve into the se- them continually "rolling in the aisles," rious literature of men who seldom smiled. but I would like to see them chuckle at a I must listen for the quote of Poe's "Raven," quotation from my pen. and go into the woods and swamps and by If I were brave enough, I should like to the rivers with Lanier, not fearing mosqui-

try to excel Gelett Burgess' famous "Pur- to b'tes or damp feet. I travel to New ple Cow" quatrain Orleans with Cable and hear the Creole

"I never saw a purple cow, stories, and then I move on to New Eng- I never hope to see one land with Lowell and Whittier. With Rob-

But I can tell you, anyhow, ert Frost I train my hoi'ses to stop by the I'd rather see than be one." woods on a snowy evening and observe I should like to equal Dorothy Parker's nature. I must tune my ear to the city life satirical wit, and write a monologue that and its hum in Sandburg's "Chicago." With

would dance on through the ages after "The Walt Whitman I listen for the song of

Waltz" "sits this one out." I should like America. (All I can hear is hot dogs, to write a limerick that would be quoted as cokes, politics, movie stars, and "super suds, much as Carolyn Wells' famous one about super suds, lots more suds with super the man named Tate who had a date and suds!")

ate at his tete-a-tete at eight. I wish I had I reconcile myself to observing nature the nerve to try to equal Lewis Carroll's with Wadsworth. With Gray I sit in my "Jabberwocky." I would like to be as hu- rocking chair and hear the "curfew toll morous as Mark Twain and write of a jump- the knell of parting day" and watch "the ing frog from my own county. I would love lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea."

to equal Bret Harte's satire on "Maude For love of beautiful verses I read Byron, Muller" and say "It is, but hadn't oughta Keats and Shelley (and for adventure, I be." I would like to give Artemus Ward, Bill read their lives). I mourn with Tennyson

Nye, Josh Billings, and Benjamin Franklin in "In Memoriam," but I know "it is better a run for their money. I would like to to have loved and lost than never to have

ramble on even further than Robert Bench- loved at all." At "Locksley Hall" I learned

ley and spend as long as I like in my own about a "young man's fancy," but I could "quandry." If I were endowed with brav- get the same knowledge in the Recreation ery, I would write nonsense verses as much Hall. I look at Browning's "Last Duchess"

as Ogden Nash does. It would please me on the wall and I gaze in wonder at his to be able to equal "The Duck." star "that dartles the red and the blue." "Behold the duck. I sing along with Pippa, "God's in his heav- It does not cluck. en—all's right with the world." But all A cluck it lacks. is not right in my world.

It quacks. If I were courageous, I would turn aside It is particularly fond from philosophic and awe-inspired litera- Of a puddle or pond ture to the light and humorous kind that And when it dines or sups. stirs my own peculiar soliI. Others may It bottoms up." think I am not in my right mind, and per- 22 —

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haps I am not. But it would be more fun agrees to do anything he wishes. He says this way. I can enjoy anything from the she is in her mother's place, and he is in hidden "hoss- most subtle and humor to the his father's ; therefore, he suggests they laugh" provoking variety. Of course I dare complete their career of crime by indulging not indulge, because I am not brave enough. in incest. His type of masculinity repels As a major in English, I pursue with se- her! She will not commit this crime, and he rious attentiveness the literature of the decides that suicide will enable him to great masters. If I were only courageous, appease his mother's spirit. She does not what fun I could have! Well, Shakespeare, interfere. here I come. After Orin is buried, Lavinia decides to forget the past and marry her sweetheart. Influence of the Electra Legend Realizing that she cannot bring him happi- Continued froju page 10 ness, she rejects him for the Mannon ghosts. Orin returns as an army officer recovering Reminiscences of the Furies of the Atreus from a wound in battle followed by brain legend pervade her concluding speech: fever. The conflict is continued as both "I'm not going the way Mother and mother and daughter try to enlist him as an Orin went. That's escaping punishment. ally. He is confused, but he adores his And there's no one left punish mother, who has always babied him, and to me. I'm the last Mannon. I've got to punish hates his father, though he respects him myself! Living alone here with the as a fellow-soldier. And he loves his sister, dead is a worse act of justice than though he resents the fact that she dictates death or prison! I'll never go out or see to him. anyone! I'll have the shutters nailed Finally Lavinia persuades him to pur- closed so no sunlight can ever get in. sue their mother on a supposed trip to New I'll live alone with the dead, and keep York. The trail leads them to Adam's ship. their secrets, and let them hound me, When Orin sees his mother in Adam's arms, until the curse is paid out and the last he is possessed with a jealous passion, and Mannon is let die." after his mother leaves, he kills Adam at his sister's instruction. They make it appear In 1947, "Mourning Becomes Electra" as if robbers have committed the crime, and was made into a motion picture. Some of depart. When they return home and tell the best actors of Hollywood gave com- their mother what they have done, she takes mendable performances in it. Elaborate her own life. Orin is overcome with remorse, costumes and settings made it a costly pro- but Lavinia calls it "justice." duction. Even so, it is gloomy for a moving "The Haunted" begins a year later. picture. But it is exactly like the play with Lavinia and Orin have taken a trip to the a few minor changes. And so, in the form

South Sea Islands, where Lavinia has taken of a movie, the Electra legend is being Orin to make him forget the family crimes brought to people all over the world. as she is trying to do. However, he continues to brood, and Lavinia also changes. Now she looks and dresses as her mother did and she wishes for love. After the brother and sister return FARMVILLE CREAMERY home, Lavinia becomes engaged to her INC. childhood sweetheart, Peter. She then at- tempts to have Orin marry Peter's sister, Manufacturers of Dairy Products but he refuses because of his mental condi- MILK a health food tion, although he retains some of his child- BUTTER best spread for bread hood fondness for Hazel. Eventually Lav- ICE CREAM not only a food inia find that Orin has written down all of but a desert that is good, cheap and healthy the family crimes. In order to prevent him PHONE 55 from giving them to his sweetheart, she

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Over the Limit River Legend Continued from page 18 Continued from page 15 three and got two hundred birds in three the river leaps and gradually becomes the days." quiet, tranquil James again. But Pa was too startled to answer this As the river rolls on, lazy carefree Ne- question. There standing before them was groes slowly amble to the fields to hoe the Warden Tickie! With a rather guilty ex- corn. With a few quick hoeing movements, pression Pa made slight introductions. They but with many more lazy strokes, they hoe were acknowledged in the same manner. the field until they hear the Negro women "Got a pretty good batch today didn't coming to pick in the tobacco fields. Slowly 'cha, stranger?" said Warden Tickie, still they turn and watch their women come eyeing Pa in a peculiar way. strutting into the fields in their brightly "Yeah! We just got fourteen between colored dresses. The women perform a us. Two for Pa and twelve for me. Twelve's lively, rhythmic movement, as they pick the the limit you know," replied Howell, shift- leaves off the tobacco plants and strut along ing two of the birds farther over to Pa's to shake out the leaves piled high in their side of the log. aprons. All work lazily and peacefully The warden, with a still more puzzled until the blaring whistle of the horse-drawn expression on his face, picked up Pa's gun barge breaks the calm. A barge is docking and fired at the two birds at Pa's feet. Not to unload its wares. As the anchor is a feather moved as the gun roared. His thrown, the workers hurry to the landing expression changed from puzzlement to joy to see the excitement. All is hustle and and then to disgust. He turned to the bustle while the bargemen lift the heavy stranger and said, "I'm taking your license crates, barrels and bales. Finally all is for the season, Mister Howell. You took unloaded, and the workers idle home as the over the limit. Everyone around here knows barge and river move on. Pa shoots blanks this year and hunts in The river calmly sweeps onward until it his head just to give the birds a chance. gently laps the banks of a green expanse fronting an old ancestral home. Here on the Puerto Rico's Jose Ferrer broad lawn, gracious ladies of the Old Do- Continued from page 19 minion dance the stately minuet, which about his career, Jose plays the classics, sets the mood and tempo for the rest of because in his opinion they offer the only the pageant, made up of dances—squares, meaty roles in the theater. Although he'd rounds, and running sets—typical of yes- like to, he can't find a modern play to suit terday, today, and tomorrow. The last him. "They're too easy;" he says; "there's thought of the river, homage to woman- no intellectual challenge in them." On the hood and enjoyment of life, is portrayed other hand, he not a long-haired genius pleasantly and leisurely. who believes only in "art for art's sake." He is interested also in seeing the seats crowded with satisfied customers. COLLINS FLORIST

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