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...leaf and reincarnation, critical interest will center around the quality of the production rather than the meaning of pompous and obscure authors. In Shaw's "St. Joan" and Odets' "Waiting For Lefty," local thespians have two tested and playable dramas, while the HDC's additional offering, Saroyan's "The Ping-Pong Players," can turn out to be almost anything, and probably will...
...must view this display of young animal spirits with sympathy and understanding. Even the most industrious students need relaxation, and the Union management to date has supplied only ping-pong tables, inexpensive dances, discussion groups, bridge, chess, music, and stamp clubs, opportunity to create a Yardling publication, and a debating society. Students have stayed away in droves from these pedestrian activities in favor of the obviously superior sport and excitement of springing butter from a knife onto a convenient ceiling...
This attitude would be completely understandable if the demands for the ping-pong tables, the various clubs, and most particularly the dances, had not come from the students themselves. They complained, for instance, of the expense of Saturday night dates in the metropolitan area, so the Union provided two dances, including orchestra, refreshments, and entertainment for two dollars. Out of 1,400 Yardlings, 114 showed up at the first dance, and 134 at the second, and only a handful from the dormitory that had been the center of pre-dance agitation. Some attributed the poor attendance to the difficulty...
...same story of demand, supply, and no consumption holds true straight down the list of Freshman activities. In nearly all cases, the actual turnout for the various clubs was from ten to twenty percent of the number that had indicated, on special cards, interest in participation. The ping-pong tables asked for by students, stand unused most of the time. Of the 300 who showed interest in discussion groups, nine showed up for discussions. Nevertheless, the Union management goes ahead with plans that include a music room, to be open within a week, a photography room, more and perhaps even...
Neither being full-length shows, HDC President Paul Burgraff '48 plans to contrast Odets' powerful social drama with Saroyan's light comedy as an experiment in theater technique. "Waiting for Lefty" is a drama of the labor problem, while "The Ping-Pong Players" is a light one-act love scene...