F idsy. December I, ”67' SCARLET AND BLACK _r____________—______—————-————~ CAMPUS NOTES The excitement of the holiday season officially comes to Grin- nell Saturday night at the Forum Christmas Party. The entire Forum will be decorated with Christmas trees and with can- 'dles in the grill. The Don Jetis Combo, a Chl- cago dance band, will provide music for dancing from 9:30 pm, to 12:30 8.m. in the North Lounge. The choir and the Grinnell Singers, a group within the choir, will present an informal concert oi Christmas carols at 10:30 pm. In the South Lounge. Refreshments of c r a n b e r r y punch and cookies will be Served. Paul Jones and John Herr are reading poetry at 10 p.m. in the Forum Coifee House. Jones is presenting some at his own poetry, explaining how he writes, and reading poetry by Jun Siikin, Hart Crane, James Dickty, Curl Sandherg, and Ferlinghettir Herr will comment on the poet and the practical man, read some of his own poems, with comments on style and intent, and talk about Charles Olson who set the stage for modern projective verse is c a To Die in Madrid, a docu- mentary film of the Spanish Civil War, will be shown at 11 pm. tonight and at 9:30 pm. Sunday A movie with intimate close ups of peasants and sweep lng panoramas of massive bat- tles that turned the pastoral countryside into an inferno. The New York Times des- cribed it as “a thorough unre- lenting resume of what occur- You'll Hove Fun Shopping at Margaret Brink‘s Shop TOWN & COUNTRY Kepler: with Gifts trorn Around the World Heed Emt our 4th Avenue Jurt Ieyend It. Frnnelt Hospital WE WRAP FREE FOR MAILING 1:304:30 Monday mu Saturday Friday. ‘tll 9:00 Starting December a Open Every Night 'Til 7:00 By KATHY SHEA red. . .a poweriul emotional experience." The Strand Theater movie selections include The Blue Max, is raunchy tale of a red baron type with lots of tacky dog-fight scenes for World War I airplane fans with great scenes of flying fokkers, to« night, and Africa Addlo, a pan- orama of ethnic culture, show- ing from Saturday through Wed- nesday. } RIGHTS (Continued from Page I) educate the ignorant people, were suggested. Concluding his lecture, James related the story of a small Negro child who had gone up to a man with multi—colored balloons, and asked him if the black balloon would rise as high as the others, The experiment was tried, and the black bal- loon rose equally high as the others. The point of the story was, James musedV “It ain’t the color that counts, It's the stqu inside that makes it rise." lllllllliiillliilllllllllllllllllillllliillllllllillllllillilllilllllllllillllllliillllllilllillllllllllllllllllllillllllllllillllllliillllllllllllllillliillllllllllllillliillliillllll N0 BETTER HAS TROUBIES By JOHN WILES The premiere of Robert Ing- ham’s No Better was, at best, a tedious evening of unfulfilled potentialities. At worst, suffi- cient potentialities just were not there within the play itself. No Better ooncems a Jim Crow regiment during the Ko rean War, although the work lacks a basic focus of dramatic conflict and development, There is a morphine-addicted medic who is out of morphine and on the verge of going cold turkey. There is a corporal from Cleveland who doesn’t know quite what to make of the company oi Negro attitudes in which he finds himself. There is the White lieutenant, who recognizes that to be lead- er of the regiment he must "get to” its soul leader. There is a rebellious Negro private, a coiled spring of bitterness who wants to help the medic, challenge his white command- er, and also get the hell out of the war and the defense of I country he clearly hatesr Yet nothing really happens, True, there is some “meaning- lul dialogue" exchanged There are two deaths There is some attempt to impose symbolism in terms of the Korean cause it- self. it doesn’t hang togetherr Bill Saylor has never offered such an interesting perform- once; one wishes that the part of Lt, Porter ottered as much to interest the audience. Grady Murdock had trouble with cmoting, but was outstand- ing in the medic's moments of humor. Henry Wingate displayed real acting talent, although he had precious few moments in which to display it. Lou Kelley ranged from we- some to awkward as Private Brown. It seemed to be Lhe kind of part which Kelley should have been able to grab hold of with effective impact. The fault lay with the play; Kelley was shot down long be- fore‘his character’s death, With little responsibility being as- signable to him. in fairness, there were very bright moments — two of them. One was a recollection by Brown of a Negro preacher’s firerandrbrimstone sermon. The other involved the antics of the N0 BETTER— (Continued on Page 4) Monday Night: TWO FREE PEPSIS with Each Large Finn Air Conditioned SERVING 14 KINDS OF PIZZA HOURS Mon 9th Sat.— 4: 30 p m. to I a In. Sun. — l: 30 p. m. to Midnigh! FREE DELIVERY TO ROOMS ::::°::.. in. PAGLIAI'S PIZZA WEDNESDAY ONLY Salad PHONE 236-5331 927 Broad — Grinnell For School or Typewriter Supplies Grinnell Office Supply GRINNELL. 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