THE DIIYEISITV ECHO Volume XLI UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA, NOVEMBER 14, 1941 Number 4 Home-Coming Resident Sculptor The New Drama Rabid art enthusiasts and laymen This afternoon the 1941 Home­ HOMECOMING EVENTS When the university opened for alike were completely captivated its fifty-sixth session this past Sep­ coming celebration will get off to a by the University of Chattanooga's gala start with the annual parade Friday: 3:10—Homecoming parade, down­ tember, for the first time in what distinguished campus guest of last of cars and floats and streamlining town. seemed like a good many years blue and gold decorations. But the week, the British sculptor, Alec 0:30—Annual Banquet, final election Miller. Mr. Miller, lecturing here Dorothy Hackett Ward was not an­ excitement that this event arouses nounced as a new faculty member. isn't scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. of queen. Read House. under the auspices of the Chatta­ nooga Art Association and the Uni­ She was heralded first when she also, for talk of Homecoming has Saturday: Noon, Lettermen's luncheon. Hotel been heard about the campus at versity Art Department, touched joined the staff at Cadek's. then as least since the nominations of can­ Patten. but lightly on the war in his talks, an instructor in speech at the col­ didates for queen several weeks 2:00—Football game U. C. vs. Se­ choosing to keep straight on the lege itself, and finally as head of ago. Yesterday's balloting climaxed wanee Chamberlain Field. subject of art. the dramatics department. It is in a period of fervent campaigning in Following the game the fratern­ In his main lecture, given in the that capacity that she has at last behalf of the five beautiful nomi­ ities and sororities will hold open University Library Auditorium last found her level. nees for the crown—Mary Margaret house for alumni and their Tuesday evening on the subject, After last year's dramatic season Delaney, Chi Omega; Martha Dil­ gue "Tendencies in Modern Sculpture," lard, Non-Frat; Betty Moody, Phi 9-12—"C" Club Sports Dance, gym­ Mr. Miller very cleverly attacked was finished, one fact emerged: That the university was being given Mu; Genevieve Neligan, Pi Beta nasium. the trend which modern sculpture Phi; and Margaret Newsome. Alpha has taken toward the more abstract a new deal in the drama. For the Delta Pi. and barbarous forms of art. Il­ preceding several years, under the Now that the students have made lustrating this viewpoint by lan­ direction of Mrs. David W. Corne­ their choice, the alumni will have tern slides of representative works, lius, the University Players had de­ a chance to cast the deciding votes, he pointed out the rather extreme pended largely upon recent Broad­ for the first time in the history of example, "Reclining Woman" by way productions for their drama. the celebration. Tonight the girls Henry Moore, as a typical creation Such plays as "Stage Door" and will be guests at the Homecoming of this school of art. This massive, "You Can't Take It With You" were banquet at the Read House, when sprawling woman, saltily referred the alumni can look them over and their most outstanding successes. to by Mr. Miller as resembling "a Nobody doubted that these plays take their pick. Whoever is chosen range of hills," was charged as be­ tc reign over the festival, the voters ing the result of adherence to the were good entertainment, but that can't go wrong, for ony one of the faulty theorizings of certain so- they developed latent talent or fur­ candidates is worthy of being called called "art critics." thered the cause of good drama was "queen." They are not only charm­ At the conclusion of this address, open to some debate. ing young ladies, as is plain to be Mrs. Ward, who received her seen, but each one is active on the he showed slides of some of his own work, including a teakwood "me­ graduate training from George campus and has contributed some­ Pierce Baker at his Yale Workshop, thing to the college. morial" statue of St. Michael in understands quite clearly that col­ Coventry Cathedral which was de­ Homecoming has received some lege drama must do those two stroyed last year in a bombing raid. things. From the first, she set out fine publicity. Tonight at 8. over In the reception and exhibition in to accomplish that dual objective. WDOD, Capt. Frank Grigonis and the Art Galleery which followed the She realized that she would, to do his football team will take part in a lecture, the English sculptor her job well, be obliged to cast as skit, directed by Eugene Wilkey, a showed his exquisitely carved many different persons as possible. U. C. alumnus. You will probably statue of "Atalanta," done in lime- She knew also that she should hear then about the Homecoming wood. choose her plays from the very best game with Sewanee, to be played in our literature. This tiny work, superb in its tomorrow afternoon at Chamber­ The first play of the season was lain Field. The lettermen's lunch­ grace and beauty, well shows the ability which has made Alec Mil­ "Prologue to Glory" and it was eon tomorrow should get the boys something of a disappointment. It in fine shape for the game. Polk Smartt. president of the Alumni Association, is shown ler's success in a field where it is had a certain lusty vitality and not so very difficult to attain success. The high point of Homecoming here dusting off the crown which will be placed on the head of the much more. But getting started in Lucky Girl at the game Saturday. Besides the crown, Mr. Smartt Besides wood, Mr. Miller has also an entirely new job, virtually re­ will be between the halves tomor­ worked in the media of clay and row afternoon, when Polk Smartt, will bestow the traditional kiss. organizing the department, had not stone. left Mrs. Ward either the energy president of the Alumni Association, In charge of the celebration is a general committee headed by John Wright, chairman, and consisting of Mr. Smartt, Karl or the time to do a first-class job wil crown Her Majesty and bestow with the initial play. Most people on her the traditional kiss. At this Counts, Martha Nicholas Riskin, Elizabeth Sussdorff, Manker Patten and Dorthy Harris Woodworth. Exhibit still believed she would deliver the time the queen will have four lovely The varied exhibition in the Uni­ goods. With the production of "Be­ ladies-in-waiting—the runners-up in versity Art Gallery, also sponsored yond the Horizon" as the -winter the royal contest. by the Chattanooga Art Association, play, their faith was borne out The After the football game the will be on show through Nov. 18. play was a huge success. To be sure, the performance was not perfect, alumni are invited to attend "open Included in this exhibition is a house" as guests of the fraternities The Campus That's What You Think but it was vital and sympathetic. very interesting collection of an­ And, most important, it was a play and sororities on the campus. And A great many people are con­ ered, are often more conservative tique china (modestly insured for Radio cerned about the morale, the emo­ than their elders. The recurring ac­ worth doing. last, but not least, will come the $6,000); wood engravings by emi- Again this year the university has tional loyalties and the presumed cusations and investigations of sub­ r The climax of the season came in "C Club's big Homecoming dance ment British artist; Bolivian w ood tomorrow night. a weekly radio program, heard intellectual blind spots of Amer­ versive feeling on the campuses late spring when the players turned ica's college population. Students have little factual basis. Collegians sculpture by Marina Nunez Ded not to Broadway for there vehicle Homecoming may be primarily every Monday night at 8:15 over Prado; and a truly delightful ex- for the alumni of the university, have been alternately scolded and everywhere are thoroughly demo­ but to the greatest English drama­ radio station WDOD. Terrell Tatum, cajoled in an effort to make them cratic and are more emphatic about hition of drawings by well-known tist of all time, W. Shakespeare. On but the undergraduates really enter chairman of the faculty committee mend their ways. Yet few commen­ their faith than the rank and file of American painters. These last, in­ a stage not much bigger than the into the spirit of the celebration, in charge of programs, has an­ tators have made an effort to dis­ the American public. They are not cluding the work of such men as apron of a really big stage, on a and when graduates and students cover—factually and statiscally— isolationists, but neither are they George Biddle, Julian Binford, stage with a proscenium arch not get together at the game tomorrow, nounced the schedule for the com­ just what students really think and hell-bent for war. Thomas Benton, and other equally much higher than the average door­ it's pretty certain that a good time ing half hours to be presented dur­ believe. way, Mrs. Ward produced "Romeo will be had by all. ing the pattern fixed for the first Three years' experience in polling famous artists, are on sale to the and Juliet." Thomas Brahan, drama program this school year: The It has remained for a student- undergraduates has gradually yield­ public at various prices, none higher critic for the Chattanooga Times, sponsored and student-operated ed an interesting and highly^ sug­ broadcast of a transcription made than $50.