TRIO MUSIC ART DRAMA ~~ e! MEEIDE1'H 1'IIOM I ·~~lf Li'l Abner is married. There's a lot more behind Al Capp's switch from the routine than meets the eye. This pal"ti– cular comic strip, along with several others, is Luilt on the idea of boy and girl. In this case the girl did all of the chasing of a typical country "no good". He, Li'l Abner, never worked or did his own thinking. Now, how will he support a wife and family? Will he be able to get along without mammie's constant council? Comic strips had stopped being funny when AI Capp started drawing but that was the oniy type that he was interested in, as a result his comic strip grew in popularity. Now, after some twenty ye':lrs, Shmoos, Senator Phogbound, Lower Slobbovia, and UN-AMERICAN have been linked together. What is American if Li'l Abner isn't? Of course there must be necessary precautions, but does that mean that we can't laugh at our selves? * -~ * Yes, what has happened to the Alma Mater? We probably all realize that Hardiug isn't :1 ''r;1,h rah" college, but what have we rlone with our Alma Mater? Harding is a wonderful ~ollege, in spite of the fact that we break rules to be smart and sleep through some fine lectures. We owe a lot to ourselves, the faculty, and the school. Let's not let our "loyalty" Jag and sing the song that means so mueh to us when we're a\vay. Announcing one of the largest casts ever presented on the Harding stage, for a one act play. "Salome" by Oscar Wilde has Pat Rowe in the titie role with yours truiy as Herod, Stanley Say– ers plays John the Baptist or Jakanaan. The mother of Salome and wife of Herod's brother is played by Mary Helen Clayton. Gene Robinson plays The Young Syrian, Ronald Kurtz ls a page to Herodias, Cecii May and Jim Maxwell play soldiers, Bill Sherrill plays the exe– cutioner, Charles Pittman and Ruby Lee Ellis are Nazarencs, Betty Mitchel and Charles Crawford are slaves, and Jack Plummer is the voice. The play is direct– ed by Benny"Holland with Miss Holton as fac].!lty_advisor. a "Salome" was first produced in Paris in 1896, in the same city where the well known English playwrig-ht died in 1900. Oscar Wilde is better known for his three act plays, such as "Lady \'Vinder– mel·e's Fan", and ''The Importance of Being Earnest". An additional scene has been written by the director, Benny Hol– land, and the play has been made script– ural as far as the story is recorded in the Bible. Your encouragement in this production has a lot to do with similar, future plays of this type. Let me leave you with this parting thought; it is better to be small and "shine" rather than to be big and cast a shadow. TRIO MUSIC ART DRAMA MEREDITH THOM r1 In the course of daily living, everyone ' must choose colors and .use them, for that reason, everyone should know something itbout color effects and com– binations. One hesitates to say that cer– fain colors may not be used together, for as soon as a dogmatic color state– ment has been made, a genius comes along and takes the condemned colors and, choosing certain values and in– tensities of those colors and combining them in the right amounts, makes a thing of beauty. A few color laws are as follows : Large areas of color should be quiet in effect, while small amounts may show strong contrasts. In any color arrangement there should be one out– standing color effect. Backgrounds should show less emphasis than the ob– jects placed against them. While this orhas been a condensed form on an elab– orate subject, it may help you in your next choice of color, which will probably be within the next sixty minutes. · * * * April 20, we had a beautiful worshiJ? service to the Lord. This isn't the sub– ject matter of my column but l want to call it to your attention before it is for– gotten. When the electric power went off last Sunday night there was a dis– turbing noise of peculiar giggles and mumbled conversation. Someone, per– haps all of us, thought of singing hymns and that we did. It will remain in my memory as one of the most complete worship services I have ever attended. 1 I think we are too inclined to have our set pattern with a constant, question– able, emphasis on a speaker. "Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name: bring an offering, and come before Him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holi– ness." I Chronicles 16:29. First Curtain! The first play on the new stage will be "The Silver Whistle.'! directed by Miss Holton. The setting is'' an old' folks home where life has slown· down to a stand still until a "young"! man of forty years enters the home as a seventy-seven year old. The young-, ster is played by Ray Wright with Gene Robinson as Emmett, an acquaintance of the fibbing Erwenter. Miss Tripp, Pat Rowe, is in love with Watson, Jack Plummer, until Erwenter appears on the scene. The old people are played by Louise Zinser, Jane Sutherlin, Ruby Lee Ellis, Jackie Filan, Benny Holland, and ; yours truly. Others in the cast are Charles Pittman, Ernie Wilkerson, . David Porter, Jeff Martin, and Sam Haynes. The first act of "The Silver Whistle" will be entered in the Arkansas Speech I Festival. Other Harding entries will be for speaking and reading. Those partici-· pating are Jack Plummer, Nonna Smith,l Bill Wiliams, Pat Rowe, Eieen Snulre,l and you know who. We're coming backl with some high ratings next week end,! aren't we? I l NQ definite date has been set for thel produetion of "Salome" due to a con– flict in time. As school opens in the fall. we tend to push things into the follow-! ing tenn until we get to the spring term 1 jwith no place to push. Just part of an education, I guess. \ ) Let me )eave you with these words of the great painter, Michelangelo. "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
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