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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER Sept. 16,1964 THE SlfSCIlPEl B ' 111 L. Ullllllillllil.il will grip current issues and events and I hold them before the campus in order that members of the Mundelein community may sense and direct history rather than bob in its wake. New Comp Date Marks Advance to Optimism Mundelein ha3 cancelled its academic insurance policy for seniors but the whole College has gained. The recently an nounced change of senior comprehensive exams from tradi tional February to April 2 and 3 marks an advance in Munde lein's academic structure from cautious solicitude to bold con fidence. It is further evidence of the forward thrust on campus. Undoubtedly a complex of reasons prompted the original date, but none seems to have loomed as large as the opportunity for makeup comps should some seniors fail. In scheduling the two-day-long exams, which are required for graduation, de partment chairmen and the academic dean's office have in fact complimented seniors by this vote of confidence in the ability of the class and have charged the entire academic atmosphere of the College. Surely the voters considered other assets of the April date, not the least of which are: the greater portion of the class which would benefit from the later date as compared to the tiny frac tion which was previously aided; higher exam scores resulting from added knowledge gained in second semester courses and greater vitality of seniors who do not plunge from semester exams into comps. While practical considerations such as these are always important, the attitude in which change is effected overshadows them. It is gratifying to witness change which signifies the transformation from inhibitive pessimism to exhilerating op timism. Mary Etta Talarico Poverty Bill Could Nip Chicago's Crime Rate Amidst heated feuds between Mayor Richard J. Daley and Timothy Sheehan, chairman of the Central GOP Committee, regarding the city's rising crime rate, a recent policy evaluation survey has credited the city administration for giving the citizens of Chicago the very best police department in the world. And yet, according to Sheehan, the number of assaults and robberies has gone up 31 per cent in Chicago between 1960 and 1963. He cites for mer FBI agent Senator Thomas A. Dodd as his source of information. Sheehan also quoted Superintendent Wilson's recent declaration that if crime continues to increase at the present rate, every street will be come a jungle and people will be afraid to walk down Michigan Avenue. Statistics Pose Problem The apparent contradiction between one of the world's fastest rising crime rates per population and what has been termed the best police department in the world by an international commission, presents the administration with either of two conclusions. Either the city police de partment has no direct bearing on the problem as it exists today, or to day's situation would find no halt to its own destruction if it were left on its own. Since the speculation that the police department has no influence at all on crime is hardly plausible, the fact remains that the city's crime rate would be an absurdity in modern civilization if it were deprived of the department's efficiency as it now stands. And yet, police power, like that of a teacher trying to train an already spoiled 6-year-old child, is pitifully limited. , Poverty Bill Provides Funds Perhaps, he who speaks incessantly of the ounce of prevention and the pound of cure, now emerges as more than a cynic or has-been doctor; for the recommended prescription appears in Chicago now in the form of 25 million which it will share with the rest of the state as part of Illinois' allotment in the national war against poverty. But will Chicago's personal war on poverty affect its crime rate even indirectly? Deton J. Brooks, Jr., the former war correspondent who has been assigned to regulate Chicago's funds, believes it will do more than this. In helping one-fifth of the population, which he refers to as a drag on the social structure, he believes it will directly affect crime, health and education. Aid Bolsters Crime Fighters No one has to tell Brooks that 25 million isn't going to wipe out poverty in Chicago. What the federal money can do, according to him, is to give the city a chance to try some of the newer, creative approaches in fighting crime and juvenile delinquency approaches that have been bypassed due to the lack of community funds and local tax sources. This ounce can hardly be expected to eradicate poverty overnight, but it can be expected to weaken some of its detrimental effects by steriliz ing the roots of its growth instead of merely chopping it off at the stems. Rae Paul Ancients Rollick in Modern Farce Lester Steals The Forum' Robust and completely unsubtle, A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Forum rocks forth with low comedy gusto. It is a knockabout farce with grimaces and gags, voluptuous showgirls (one 6'8 tall), and double-entendres by the chariot- full. As the curtain rises, they promise comedy, comedy, comedy, and the entire troupe makes good with broad, hearty, sometimes vul gar blasts of humor. Jerry Lester, as a Roman slave, Pseudolus, who can win his freedom if he delivers to his master a beautiful young girl (Philia, played by Donna Mc- Kechnie) who has already been sold but not yet delivered to another man, starts out at top speed and remains there all evening. Lester writhes and moans, ogles the dancing girls, and even plays the role of a water buffalo in heat. Milking each scene for every pos sible laugh, his exhausting impact on the audience is only squelched by the left-handed, decidedly defi cient love songs. The plot of this Plautian comedy involves little more than a villain duped, a virgin pursued and a matron misunderstood; but its suc cess revolves around braggards, busybodies and schemers who are always good for a laugh. With Lester and the infinite va riety of comic effects at his dis posal, Edward Everett Horton is presented as Erronius the ancient in search of two children who were stolen by pirates. Although his role is small, Horton does manage to pull attention from antic Lester when he comes on stage panting, and gasps Second time around. Under the command of Les ter pretending to be a sooth sayer Horton agrees to run around the seven hills of Rome seven times, after which Lester claims he can give the true sooth (information concern ing Erronius' two children). As Lycus the lubricous, Erik Rhodes is often referred to as a gentleman and a procurer whose sole charge is six almost-clad courtesans. These girls neither sing nor speak, and the only thing by Pat Porwicz their performance lacks is a blue- lit runway. Paul Hartman's role of Senex, the hen-pecked patrician whose last conquest (he hopes) will be a vir gin maid secretly loved by his sim ple son Hero (played by Bert Stratford), suggests that he reached his summit years ago in the television series Pride of the Family. In fact his best line w gt;as the limp: Don't ever fall in love during a total eclipse. While most of the lines are delivered tongue-in-cheek, Rob ert Brooks, as Miles Gloriosus the wicked parody of every self- preening commander in the his tory of warfare, lambasts the audience with a bristling bun dle of Shakespearean allitera tion. As he mourns his dead virgin he clutches his heart and weeps: Her bridal bower has become a burial bier of bitter bereavement. And to this comment on wasted virginity, Lester mimics So what did it get her. The only disconcerting perform ance is given by Arnold Stang. As Hysterium, Lester's stooge, Stang is limited in projection and range, and his attempts to pull at tention are often over-acted. But maybe that's because it is Jerry Lester's show and a funny thing it is. Hemingway's 'Feast' Gives Variety But Fails To Delight Gourmet by Mary Ellen Scott If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Ern est Hemingway's Moveable Feast recounts in a series of sketches the reminiscences of his expatriot life in Paris during the twenties. Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and the most romantic of all expatriots, F. Scott Fitzgerald, provide ma terial for a nostalgic and at times embittered Hemingway. Sketches Fitzgerald He believed that to write well was to write the truest sentence one knew. Hemingway wrote his tru est sentences about Fitzgerald: His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. Zelda, Fitzgerald's wife, was Hemingway's second best charac ter. She was the hawk who could n't 6hare. Fitzgerald loved writing and it was Zelda's only rival so she destroyed it and in the end de stroyed herself, sharing one secret with Hemingway: Ernest, don't you think Al Jolson is greater than Jesus? These two characterizations and Hemingway's description of a purifying, strengthening poverty VLSI. u Scraper Vol. XXXV September 16, 1964 No. 1 Newspaper of Distinction The Skyscraper is published semi-monthly. September to May inclusive except during exam and vacation periods, by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Rd.. Chicago. 111., 60626. Subscription rate Is 2 per year. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30. 1932. at the U.S. Post Office. Chicago, III., under the act of March 3. 1897. The Skyscraper Is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press Association. Letters to the editor must be signed. The Skyscraper reserves the right to cut letters in case of limited space. Editor-in-chief Mary Etta Talarico Associate Editor Rae Paul Page One Editor Caryl Jean Cinelli Page Two Editor Barbara Kubicz Page Three Editor Page Four Editor - Sylvia Hajek Bobbie Bohan Columnist Barbara Mounsey Staff Jean Durall. Mary Lynch. Diane Sargol. Mary Ellen Scott, Patricia Toussaint, Nancy Vandenberg Photographers Betsy Braunlin, Helen Anne Brown, Diane Sargol, Rae Paul, Nancy Vandenberg that brought intensity to the most important part of his life, his work, were the great moments of the book. The two people that Hemingway probably knew best he failed to paint vividly, to write his true sen tences about them. Hadley, his wife, perhaps out of love and guilt, is a stereo-type at best of the per fect wife. She is beautiful, obedient, cheer ful, self-sacrificing and inhuman. The dialogue between husband and wife is too simple to sound real. If anyone is at fault in their con versation, it is Hemingway, never Hadley. Gertrude Stein is described by a bitter Hemingway who has lis tened to critics say that he would have been nothing without Stein, and Miss Stein, an eccentric old lady who thinks she can write, sometimes does, but most of the time fails. She was a woman who disliked Ezra Pound because he broke one of her antique chairs, liked Sherwood Anderson for his warm brown eyes, and never in vited anyone to her flat again who mentioned Joyce favorably more than twice. Denounces Rich The rich as a whole receive Hemingway's scathing condemna tion. They are a school of man- eating fish who send out a pilot fish to find a successful artist. They corrupted Hemingway's early man hood, the time when he was poor and very happy. The Hemingway of the early short stories and novels is not pres ent in Moveable Feast. This writer condemns friends and asso ciates who helped him and had con fidence in him before he was recog nized as a good writer. The image of the early Hemingway is shat tered despite his ability to capture the beauty of Paris, the excitement and vitality of the twenties.
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