MAY, 1930
Vol. LVI
No. 6
STAFF RICHMOND COLLEGE LAWRENCE
BLOOMBERG
CARROLL TAYLOR BRUCE MORRISSETI'E
H. G.
KINCHELOE
WESTHAMPTON COLLEGE Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Assistant Editor Assistant Editor
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WELLS
DOROTHY
GWALTNEY
VIRGINIA
BECK
ELIZABETH
GILL
JOHNNIE
ADAMS
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Assistant Editor Assistant Editor
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EDITORIALS As long as this college fails to provide means and incenRIS past theatrical season on the campus has been productive of some of the best work seen these tive for student self expression, just so long are we going to have such volumes of THE MESSENGER.-L. N. B. many years. The University Players have thrown off the black frock coat of complete conventionTRONGER and stronger becomes the stand alism and presented Euripides and Ibsen. Now they go against tradition. It is indeed gratifying to see so far as to take off their vest and even open their collars the banners borne straight and true across the a little with a production of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of campus of Westhampton. Who ever dreamed Windsor, with all its coarseness and burly good humor that a May Day staged in some place other than Dogincluded, we hope. Now that the campus with all its disinterest is at least wood Dell could be any sort of a success? Who ever getting beyond the faint pansy Lady Windemere's Fan, before heard of a May Day which was not merely a sucRachel Crothers opuses and other such poached tripe, it cession of irrelevant incidents strung together; which was seems to us the thing to do is at the earliest possible time not devoid of coherence; which confessed to a plot and to dish up a good roaring comedy-not as drama or as a purpose? The suggestion that May Day be held in an example of the art of acting, but as pure and simple the Greek Theatre was received by many as incongruous. fun and entertainment. If our good play reading commit- It required the deft application of forethought to visualize tee would but realize it, that if the theatre, aside from the advantage of such an arrangement. The battle against convention is so prevalent in all the stimulating thought, fails to entertain, it is doomed to a various parts of the world long existence in a green botthat it is in itself conclusive tle of alcoholic preservative. proof that its cause is a just A university should be able one. Within the last year TABLE Of CONTENTS to point with pride to its dravarious steps have been taken 4 matic achievements. But first Metamorphosis, Elizabeth Gill on the University of Rich5 of all, it should want to point Portrait in Oil, S. 0. Terrick . mond campus for the furth8 with a proud forefinger-and With Apologies to Lewis Carroll . erance of that cause, and the 9 next, and most important, it Old Edlow, N. Y. Booth . success of the several enter11 should provide means bv Diamonds, M. L. Dinwiddie . prises lays a rock foundation 11 ~hich plays can be produced A Nigger in Heaven, L. S. Booth for other even more daring m a manner removed from Of Human Bondage or a Modern Pilgrim's ventures. It is to be hoped 12 Progress, Katherine Brugh • the pronounced tinge of stable 14 that there is leadership enough Les Villages Du Midi, Paul Frederic Bowles stalls. One of Aristophane's 16 for continued progress. Now Cantor lmpotens, Wolfgang . barnyard fantasies is well 16 Moon Magic, Wolfgang that the road has been cut, suited to the luxuriousness 17 Sunshine Jimmy, H. R. Neathery . all hands should be in readiof our present Red Cross ness for its paving.-D. J. G. Building.
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