The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1951 Page: 2 of 4
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THE THftESHER
Lessons from RI
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The blame for the RI affair certainly cannot be laid on any
particular shoulders. From the various reports given the the Student
Council last Wednesday, it is apparent that slipups occured generally
all along the line, resulting in the existing problem.
The editor and business manager did not understand fully
enough the financial details of publishing a magazine and had not
received, nor apparently inquired for, complete information from
last year's staff. The accountant obviously failed to call sufficient
attention, either to the staff or to the Student Council Publications
Committee, to the growing debt. The Student Council Publications
committee should never have allowed the existing debt to grow over
a period of four months after this situation was called to their atten-
tion.
This $239 slip up is a serious one. It is to be hoped that the
appointed committee can evolve a workable, efficient plan for future
action. —amt
Humour or Lit Magazine?
To the Editors:
The RI as it was published last year and the first part of
this year seems to be dead.
On the campus now I hear there is some discussion of con-
tinuing- to put out a magazine. This magazine would be along
the line of humor magazines published in other schools. My
understanding is that campus
life, pictures, cartoons, jokes,
Our purpose of the old RI was to
, . , ,, „ give student literary attempts an
etc., would make up the for- out]et would it be possible to pro-
mat. duce a quarterly or semester publi-
I hink that's great! Rice has long cation ... a bona fide literary mag-
needed a publication to catch the azine. Possibly this could be subsi-
spirit of Rice life. dized and sold (possibly by sub-
However, if such a magazine is scription) to the limited group of
started, I don't think, it should be students, faculty, and alums inter-
termed a literary magazine nor ested. Limited advertising could be
should it include any material of attained from specialized stores,
serious nature. Translated poems, theatres, etc, which would interest
original serious poetry or prose is such readers.
certainly not appropriate for such a If the literary and humor aspects
publication nor is it fair to a buying were kept separate (and by this 1
public to sandwich such things in do not mean that there would be no
between jokes. Also it seems to me humor in the first, nor serious ar-
that the name RI should be dropped, tides in the latter. The difference
The R[ now represents to students between the New Yorker and Life,
and friends of Rice a genuine liter- or Harper's and Look, illustrate the
ary magazine. The name should end types of humor and serious articles
with the cessation of the literary I mean) then both magazines should
magazine. Possibly, the new maga- satisfy Rice students.
zine could be called The Owl. Allyce Tinsley
Committee Chosen To Study RI
A special Student Council com-
mittee was appointed to study ques-
tions raised by the failure of the
RI magazine Wednesday night fol-
lowing reports by Neel Gotten, Bill
Collins, Dave Miller, and Marilyn
Marrs to the Student Council. This
committee will consider the existing
conditions and various possibilities
of revising the Rice magazine into
a self-sustaining publication.
The committee composed of Hal
De Moss, Carolyn Croom, Don Eddy,
Jim Gerhardt, Marilyn Marrs, Bill
Collins, and Dave Miller is headed
hv Neel Cotten.
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Editor a Ruey Boone
Business Manage*- Ernst Voss
Assistant Business Manager Georgia Hink
Assistant Editor Bill Hobby
Associate Editor Allyce Tinsley
Advertising Assistant Dick Whitty
Feature Editor Betty McGeever
News Editors Shirley Armstrong, Bernice Davis
Make-up staff Harold Melnlck, Julie Martin, Charles Tapley
Fine Arts Columnist R. J. Havers
Sports Editor Nick -Athas
Sports Staff *.. John Plumbley, Joey Horhe
Girls' Sports Editor Nina Shannon
Reporters Marie Coyle, Marlin Cruse, Gay Guillory,
Mary Anne Wewhinney, Jean Cornelius, Jiulie Claire
Walker, Japies Longino, Jerry Wiener
Staff Photographers Eddie Soniat, Dan Daggett
Fanfare Editor Patsy Brady
Drama Exhibit
To Continue
Through Feb. 24
"Theater — From Ritual to Broad-
way," an exhibition prepared by the
editors of "Life," is on view on the
second floor of Fondren Library. The
exhibit, which opened Monday, will
continue through February 24.
Over the past decade "Life's" jour-
nalist-photographers have produced
an unsurpassed record of the Ameri-
can stage. This rich source of dra-
matic material forms the nucleus of
"Theater" which traces the history
of theater from its beginning in an-
cient ritual to its present familiar
shape in the Western World. The
exhibition also undertakes to sug-
gest some of the reasons — religious
and social — for theater's perennial
and universal appeal.
Twenty-five panels (including one
devoted to a meticulous documenta-
tion of all the illustrations) make
up the lively display. After an intro-
ductory panel suggesting something
of the variety of places of theatrical
performance, ^the exhibition opens
with a section on The Beginning of
Theater. This section touches upon
the ritualistc aspects of Maypole
dances and present-day Indian
dances, which are related to the
Festivals of Dionysus in classical
Greece — the festivals which gave
birth to the Greek tragic theater.
The second section is devoted to
Tragic Theaters. The six panels of
this section deal with Greek tragedy
and its use of chorus, and relate
Shakespearean tragedy to the order-
ed world of medieval Europe where
theater took place against the back-
ground of the Cathedral.
The perennial Life of Comedy is
the over-all title of the third section.
The tradition of clowning and popu-
lar farce has been almost unbroken,
from the ancient clowns that came
from the fertility-rituals, down to
our own vaudeville performers. Pop-
ular farce is also the soui'ce of high
comedy, and this is traced through
the Commedia dell 'Arte, through
Moliere and the Restoration to
*
American Minstrel show and con-
temporary musical.
The final section is concerned with
the Theater in the Modern World
which reflects, on the one hand, the
revolutionary movements of our in-
dustrialized society, and on the oth-
er, the sufferings of the lost, or re-
bellious, or bewildered individual.
This sectipn of^the exhibition begins
with Ibsen and Chekhov, fathers of
Contemporary drama, and includes
pictures from many current produc-
tions.
The text for the exhibition was
written by Francis Fergusson, whose
distinguished critical study, The Idea
of a Theater (Princeton University
Press, 1950), has been widely ac-
claimed.
Society . . .
MELLS and SLLS
To Hold Initiations
by Joan Bennett
The SLLS will have a formal in-
stallation on Sunday, February 25,
at the home of Nancy Boothe, 3611
Coronado.
The SLLS also tell us that Bonnie
Gray and Nelson Miller are making
their engagement and approaching
marriage known. Jean Morrow will
entertain Bonnie with a .kitchen
shower on Friday, February 16.
The MELLS will have .their formal
and mock initiation on February 22
at the home of Johnelle Walton,
8925 Winkler. Supper will be served
before, and a slumber party will fol-
low. The MELLS tell us that John-
elle is engaged to Fred Wilhelm and
that the couple is planning a March
24 wedding.
Radio Club Reorganized
by Allen Pierce
"Galling CQ, calling CQ, calling CQ 75 meters. This is
W5FWT."
These familiar terms are coming from the Rice Institute
Radio Club again after a long period of silence. The Club has
been off the air for a long time this year but now has its trans-
mitters working full blast and ■
many contacts are being made wijh * code or ta rove their
,. ,, . . . , code technique.
every time the rig is operated. _ ., x ,
. Incidentally, amateur radio is a
ecu is open o a os s u- ood way t0 save long dis-
dents interested In amateur rad.o tance ;hon<_ M, Ta|te the „f
whether they hold operator's licenses
Jim Yancey. Jim happened to hear
or not. One of the mam goals of the „ , ,. , , ,,
f . , , a "ham" from his home town on the
club is to help those interested ob-
tain their licenses.
At present, the club is operating
on two bands, 75 meter phone band
and the 10 meter phone band. On
75 meters ,the club operates a one-
kilowatt transmitter and 300 watts
on ten meters. Equipment is avail-
able for code practice for those who
air sa he made contact with his and
before long, he was talking to his
mother via amateur radio. This is
typical of the opportunities offered
by ham radio.
Students are urged to come to 207
Abercrombie Lab and look over the
setup.
Mrs. Cannon Tells A-House History
By Allyce
"I had called Bishop Quin and
told him I was interested in work-
ing, so one night he called about 10
o'clock, and said, 'Mrs. Cannon, how
about going out to Autry House to-
morrow at 9. It's only a temporary
arrangement,' he said. 'I've been here
for 10 years." The small directress
of A-House pushed back her fluffy
grey hair remembering her ten years
of service to Rice students. Before
the Roost consolidated Rice social
life, A-House was packed from
breakfast to dinner.
The forerunner of A-House was a
used barrack from the World War I
Camp Logan, which was moved onto
the Rice Campus. "At that," said
Mrs. Cannon, "this present site was
just swamp and dairyland." In 1921,
Mi s. Autry gave the present build-
ing. Then it cost $50,000 and con-
tained a barber shop, and tailor shop.
The present stage was used as sac-
risty for Communion Services. A-
Tinsley
House was the only form of recrea-
tion around this part of town for
the students."
Slowly, as the area built up the
barbershop and tailorshop disap-
peared. The soda fountain and the
Canteen established in World War II
disappeared with the advent of the
Roost. In A-House's hey-day, all
Rice social functions, teas, coffees,
as well as meetings were scheduled
with Mrs. Cannon for A-House.
"As directress, I try to schedule
the meetings, dances, and activities
the Rice students want," commented
Mrs. Cannon. This Galveston lady
is the second directress. The first,
Mrs. Eugene Blake, retired on the
day of Bishop Quin's telephone call
to Mrs. Cannon.
Telephone messages, forgotten
lunches, ... all are part of Mrs.
Cannon's routine life of trying to
make school off-hours more relax-
ing and enjoyable for Rice students.
lilhe RI Dead?-What Next
by James Longino
What has happened to'the RI magazine?
With the school year more than half gone only one issue of
the school slick-paper monthly has found its way to the stands.
Rumors are beginning to circulate that the RI has folded up as
a college publication. What's wrong?
From
here it looks like a
question of finances—about
$239 worth. Material for a
forthcoming issue is ready and has
been ready for months — all editor-
when a college publication starts los-
ing money."
The RI magazine has never finish-
ed in the black in its entire four year
history. "A magazine is always more
ial and technical work has been done difficult to finance than a newspaper
and the copy actually delivered to or a yearbook," DeMoss explained,
the printers. But it seems the RI lost "Most advertisers seem to think
heavily on the issue put out early that supporting two campus publica-
in the fall and has been losing money tions is enough and they generally
through overhead every since. Total don't like to put their money in a
liabilities now add up to more than magazine appearing at irregular in-
$220. tervals."
According to Hal DeMoss the Stu- At least one person has come up
dent Council Publications Commit- with a solution to the problem. He
tee is still seeing if there is some is Dave Miller, senior business ad-
way the RI can be brought out of ministrator major, who draws $16 a
the red. The status of the magazine month for checking over the maga-
is undetermined at this time pending zine's books. "I don't see why the
further study. "But you can see the Lit Societies couldn't sell ads," Mil-
position we are in," DeMoss said, ler said. "Each girl ought to be able
"Deficits are usually made up out to sell at least one . . . even if her
of the Student Association fund and old man has to buy it. The Lit So-
so we naturally get a "little jumpy cieties would get the 10% commis-
— sion for selling the ads and we would
The VCLS gave their mock initia- still be able to have an RI maga-
tion at Frances Lasser's home, 2217 zine. And more important I could
Maroneal, February 9. The club still keep drawing my salary; yes
members attended the Rice Players' the RI must be kept functioning at
production of The Importance of all costs."
Being Earnest. The party ended In a slightly more serious vein
with a slumber party. was the proposal by Neel Cotten
Mrs. Jimmie- Jamison,' formerly to turn the RI into a humor maga-
Miss Bertha Gray, will be honored zine and sell it to the students. It
at an open house given by her was explained that the old "Owl"
mother, Mrs. H. R. Gray, Sunday, used to make money in that wa'jr and
February 18. The Jamisons were that the RI should be able to do so.
married on February 10, at St. So far "no official action has been
Paul's Methodist church. taken on the proposal.
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