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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER December 2, 1957 Chicagoans Find Entertainment Only At My Fair Lady by Kathleen Connolley For over a year and a half, superlative reports have reached Chicago's ears re garding the glories of Broadway's My Fair Lady. The musical comedy was fast becoming a legend until last month when the touring company reached our shores. Finally, Chicago saw the Lady for itself and liked what it saw. One can only repeat what has al ready been said about this Pygma lion-set-to-music. It holds a high place among the musicals of this generation. With the exception of the cast, the pro duction showing currently at the Shu- bert Theatre is almost identical to the original at New York's Mark Hel- linger Theatre. The staging, costumes and script have not been altered. Neither has the music. The songs of Lerner and Loewe have been played and replayed regularly since the Fair Lady premiered in April, 1956. Performed on the stage however, songs like On The Street Where You Live, I've Crown Accustomed to Her Face, and I Could Have Danced All Night undergo a re juvenation. But above these Hit Parade standards rise those classics that bear the unmistakable George Bernard Shaw touch: I'm An OrdinaryMan, Why Can't the English, and Hymn to Him. Heading a cast of 43, Anne Rod- gers and Brian Aherne as Eliza beth Doolittle and 'enry 'iggins are always in complete control of Shaw. In My Fair Lady, the burden of success or failure does not rest whol ly upon its principal performers. Rather, the general production is the star. If My Fair Lady suffers at all, it is from the over-activity of its press agents. Having seen Rodgers and Hammer- stein's The King and I a year ago, one would venture to say it compares favor ably. But many, going to My Fair Lady prepared to see the show of the century, will be startled to find it does not live up to expectations. On the other hand, those who attend with only one thought ... to be entertained . . . will have an evening of pleasant and relaxing fun awaiting them. Birthmark Impairs Human Rights P gt; by Marcella Brown Once upon a time when I was very small and more tactless than now, I asked an old Negro woman whom I loved, Why are you black and I'm white? Now I can understand why she didn 't answer me immediately. She waited, collected her thoughts, and answered. God is like the Good Humor man, she explained. This Good Humor Man supplies the world with flavored peo ple. The Indians are strawberry; the Orientals are butterscotch; the Negroes are chocolate; and the whites are vanilla. Vanilla, she added, is the flavor that always seems to be favored more than the others. I've never forgotten her answer. Perhaps vanilla is the favorite of the Good Humor man's ice creams, but it seems to me that this is so because, in its case at least, it's a perfect mixer. In the human case, this isn't so. When we Americans came to this country we pretty well succeeded in oblit erating the strawberry mark from United States soil. We didn't approve of the native's birthmark then any more than today's African government ap proves of the chocolate birthmark of their native population. Africans don't call this attempt at orderly destruction of the natives by any name like purge or pogrom. In Africa the word is apartheid. Here the translation is segregation. One-fifth of the population controls Africa. This fifth belongs to the white race who decree: 1. Social discrimination againsi natives. 2. Lawful obliteration of native's rights 3. Refusal of permission to leave the country 4. Censorship of articles written by white and non-white pro-natives 5. Relegation of all governing rights to the white settlers If the native Africans could get a voice in their own government they could change these laws. Or if the government were pressured by enough protests, perhaps it could be persuaded into doing something about apartheid. Perhaps it could be made to realize that if God is willing to make His inferiors all of them His sons, then the least men can do is admit the deserved equality of all races. Dec. 10 is Human Rights day. On this ninth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations, a group of people known as the American Committee on Africa will make formal pro test against the apartheid existing in South Africa. As good citizens and Catholics we will not forget to protest against infringements of human rights on Dec. 11 and all days follow ing ... or, will we? Children can easily be forgiven for tactlessness . . but prejudicies that adults insist on pampering into gross ugliness are unforgivable. Jhe hudcrap er Vol. XXVIII Dec. 2, 1957 No. 5 Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Co*editors-in-chlei Maureen Conner y, Geraldine Battista Associate Editors Beatrice Iloang, Marcella Brown Artists Virginia Muzika, Jeanne Ricch Assistants Marguerite Phillips Mary Gart. Alice Bourke, Judi Peiniger, Mary Ihcrcsc Walsdorf. Judith Angone, Margaret Nicholson, Mary Mcrlock, Lynda Rousseau, Barbara Gudcrian Skyscrapings Maureen Conncrty Staff News Reporting Class reparina . . . This week begins another Advent sea son, the time the Church wants us to think of the triple coming of Christ. His first coming was as the fragile Babe lying in the hay. His second coming is in the present time, especially on Christ mas to those who have made a worthy Advent. But it is His future coming that per haps concerns us most, His coming in glory as the Just Judge. This shall be at the end of the world, but also at the end of our particular world, when we die. The barrier that separates us from eternity is a frail one, especially in these days. The hand that signs the paper fells the city, writes Dvlan Thom as. So too the foot that steps on the acce?erat,or breaks the bones. Such insignificant thing's as these can bring about the third coming of Our Lord. But we should not real ly fear this coming. On the con trary, we should join the Church in waiting for it: Hasten, we beseech Thee, 0 Lord. But how can we bring about this frame of mind ? We are young and love life; we do not truly wish for this third coming, even though it means eternal happiness for us. The best way is to keep Advent liturgically. We can use the Collect of the week as a morning prayer. We can initiate Advent practices in our homes. A booklet called Family Advent Customs, on sale in the bookstore, is a valuable help. Most of all, we can follow the advice of St. Paul in his Christmas epistle: Temperately, justly, reverently, let us live in this world, awaiting the blessed coming of the great God. GOP's-Democrats Push Campus Politics Young Republicans and Young Demo crats Why should students be inter ested in political organizations? The NSA is attempting to answer this question by promoting the establishment of these two political organizations on campus. Membership in a political or ganization will enable us to learn more about politics and its impor tance in the internal workings of our government. We cannot ignore politics, because politics can't ig nore us, the voters of tomorrow. By belonging to a young political par ty of our choice, we can develop a keener interest in the problems of our national, state, and local government, and also become acquainted with candidates seek ing offices during elections. Many people are convinced that political parties are filled with im perfections. If this is so, correc tion of these imperfections is the responsibility of the members, for parties are only as good as the peo ple who make them up. Whether Democrat or Republican, membership in a political organization will enable us to take an important step to active voice in our government and our individual well-being. Collegians-What Makes Them Tick? by Barbara Goderian The American college students of the 50's are we humanitarian or egocen tric? Does our casual attitude signify self-satisfaction, or it is a bold cloak for inner confusion? Time magazine, in its Nov. 18 issue, terms us the no-nonsense kids, and questions whether we are dull or simply more natural than our predecessors. The magazine charges us with con formity, for non-conformity fosters ridicule. Gone, they say, is the devotee of knowledge-for-knowledge's sake. According to the article, even ed ucators are divided on the contro versial topic of what ails the in telligentsia of the campus. Some abide with the self-centered con formists concept of the American student. Contrary opinions claim us a moral and spiritual lot, at tempting to establish ourselves, and much interested in the prospects of the human race. Which is the true picture? We can attempt to answer their queries, and perhaps the answers will give us insight into the core of the prob lem. They ask what is wrong yet our problem is the problem of those who wonder at our behavior. We have grown up in a survival-of- the-fittest atmosphere, especially in the vocational area. Competition being what it is, we must strive harder than ever to educate ourselves, so that we may survive in our field of endeavor. This has become a necessity because of the rising intellectual demands of our age. This insatiable ambition too often clashes with man's inherent moral and aesthetic values. Modern man has, un fortunately, subordinated these values, rather than keeping them, and ambition, in balance. This inner conflict is the problem. Ambition has changed us. Time states, They (college students) no longer have to make the campus a mirror that reflects the world. But many of us, subconsciously, do re flect the calculating, ambitious, and egotistical world We realize the problem; now we must solve it. Are we, in our postgraduate world, to concern ourselves with uni versal problems even those which, seemingly, are beyond us? Or are we to settle back complacently, to stagnate and become fertile fields for evil in fluences, the one thing from which we are not yet free? We the no-nonsense kids stand at a crossroad, unsure, as is the world. Which way are we to go? Optimism forces the hope that our generation will choose the right way.
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1957-12-02 (2)
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