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THE ARGUS PACE 3 ★ thea - VET SPY CASTiNC The theatre-m inded who sigh for a union of art and the cinema glory in tt e growing popularity in America of foreign films. Buffalo is especially fortuhate to have a theatre devoted solely to the exhibition .of European movies, the Midtown. C u rrently showing there is the Italian spectacle, Marco Visconti, a cloak and sword thriller based upon the bloody fourteenth century history of the tyrannical ruling fam ily of Milan. U n fortunately, in line w ith w h a t seems to be a new and regretable policy at the Midtown, the film is paired w ith the revival of a dull American movie that should never have been released at all. We won’t even mention its name. The purpose of this change of policy from single features is undoubtedly to offset poor attendance, but it c e rtainly will not d raw the jingoists who constantly rave against foreign films, and it only irritates those who enjoy the usual quality of Midtown product. If its influence is patriotically to dilute the influence of European films, the scheme is bound to backfire, for the c o n trast is usually enough to give the European the advantage. Perhaps a few letters to the Midtown managers might help them to see the light. The coming m onths at the Midtown hold great promise. From the B ritish we w ill receive a Noel Coward tribute to the hoi-Polloi, This Happy Breed, a s o r t of poor m a n ’s Cavalcade in Technicolor, covering a‘ fam ily’s history between the last two wars; The Magic BoW, a slightly c orrupted biography of Paganini, w ith Yehudi Menuhjn ghosting as Stew a rt Granger of the virile torso pretends to fiddle; and an unusual rom antic drama, I Know W here I ’m Going, whose shopworn plot, a money-minded fem ^ e (Wendy Hiller) detoured from her gold-digging by a determ ineii Scotsman (Roger Livesey), is capably offset by excellent photog raphy of the Scotch Hebrides and interesting folk-singing and dancing of the locale. The French will be represented w ith their two-and-a-half- hour-long m arathon. Children of Paradise, an arty portrait of the theatre in nineteenth century France, the sort of film, to judge by reyiews, that says more than it ^eems to at first sight; The Well- Digger’s Daughter, a farcical treatm e n t of seduction in which a father (Raimu of The Baker’s Wife) gradually comes to forgive a daughter’s transgression; and The Queen’s Necklace, with Vivianne Romance, the libido-arousing Carmen of th a t recent French film, slinking across the screen once more in a costumed tale Of c o u rt intrigue. Stephen Yuranovich. TO FRESHMEN . ssiK 5 ^^: m s JSBs: .Ss Of all the pain th a t college youth m ust bear. T h a t makes them w a n t to rend and tear their hair. By far the worse is English 202, Whose subject m a tter I have come to- rue. So sing, O Muse, inspire my falt’ring pen,' That I may reach the hearts of college men. And w arn 'the souls of all the virgin Frosh, From Notre Dame to U. of Oshenkosh. Enroll for m ath or some philosophy. But shun all forms of English Poetry, For stress and strain analysis of bridges, . Cannot compare w ith that of Coleridge’s. Nor let your “A” in English 101, Entice you on to Milton, Burns or Donne, For no such grade of purest ray so dear. Shall grace your tests on Pope or Chauntecleer. By A. A. Frohl. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Sept. 19 .... Niagara .......... Civic Stadium (Night Game) Sept. 27 ....M o ravia ....77 Moravia Oct. 4 .... B. P. I ............... Civic,Stadium Oct. 11 .... Hobart ............ Civic Stadium (Homecoming) Oct. 18 ---- Alfred ............. Alfred Oct. 25 ...'.W a y n e ............ Detroit Nov. 1 ....B e th a n y ...... .. Civic Stadium Nov. 8 ....St. Lawrence.. Civic Stadium ■ Nov. 15 .... Bucknell ........ Bucknell Personal or w ant ads will be accepted by the ARGUS at the rate of. ten words for 30c. Leave all copy w ith the correct change in an' envelope in the ARGUS’ mailbox in Norton Union. GROSVENOR LIBRARY HOURS The Grosvenor Reference Library announces the following hours f.ir 1947; Sept. 22 to May 31st — Mon day to Thursday, 9 a. m. to- 10 p. m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Beginning Oct. 1, the library will be open from 2 to 6 p. m. on Sundays. Along w ith the job of w riting this column, we received a new cry«tal’ball so let us see w h a t we can see. W h at’s this? Gym . , . stu dents . . . class- cards . . regis-; tration day. jRcmember last October, 1946, when- 4500 vets enrolled a t UB? My new crystal ball shows approxim ately 6000 this October. Remember how those checks for subsistence did not come until the middle of November or December? Well, Joes, get prepared for some more of the same as in all prob ability w ith that 6000 this fall things will be worse. Incidentally, the date Novem ber 15, 1947, keeps coming.,up in the crystal ball as the earliest possible date for subsistence for the fall semester. Just fi w a rn ing so you can get prepared to tide yourselves 'over a short r e cession. To help speed those checks your way, you might try these suggestions. First: Know your \C” num b e r and be sure that it appears on all papers signed by yourself for the school or the ■Vets’ Ad on registration day. -.Second: In making out forms 1961 and 1950-A for the Vets’ Ad and the school, be sure that you fill in something in every blank. Above all, on form 1961 where it asks for an estim ate of wages, either fill in w ith the estim ated figure or - two zeros. Unless these forms are correctly prepared, you will NOT be con sidered as enrolled. Be sure that your signature appears on form 1950-A. A fter all the papers have been processed you will receive a Notice of Authorization of Sub sistence Allowance. You will receive your first check one to tw;o weeks later. Now about that Bulletin Board outside Crosby 125. Thig, bulletin board is the only place on the campus that the Vets’ Ad has for posting notices concern ing ex-GIs. B e tter plan on taking a look at it at least once a week. You m ight miss some hot dope. I see that you can now piek up your W orld W ar II Victory and American Defense medals by calling at the Army or Navy recruiting offices. Sorry, the Marine \Corps has not received iment of the medals as yet. your original discharge with you. Now that you can cash your term inal leave bonds, are you following the President's advice and holding them? Few other investments draw as much as 21 / 2 % . W ant to convert that insur ance? '■ The Vets’ Ad- Contact Representative in Crosby 233 will give you all the dope. That crystal ball just went KINGSBLOOD ROYAL' By Sinclair Lewia On the Jacket of Kingsblood Royai the publishers have inscribed in eye catching red,'white and blue colors; ‘\This Is a blazing story with a theme that will Jolt the nation.\ The sad thing about this latest novel by Sinclair Lewjsi in--which he rises to the defense of an oppressed group of American citizens, is that it is not a blazing story and it does not have a theme that will Jolt the nation. Lewis tells the story of Neil Kings- blood with a personal-intensity com- pmrabte to a raging forest fire. As forest fires often do, his story gets out of control. There is a lack of motivation in Kingsblood’s decision to reveal to the world that he has Negro blood in him. His character does not fit in with the magnificent and noble decision Lewis forces him to make. We have the picture of a small town bank clerk, not too in telligent, answering profound self- jposed questions with vague philos ophical axioms. Kingsblood does not ring true as a real character and this failure on the part of the main actor leaves the story with little to stand on from an artistic point of view. An incredible charlatan speaking at an incredible club makes an equally incredible speech containing all the rawest race prejudice drivel possible. This is the time Lewis chooses to have his hero disclose to the world that he has one-thirty- second of dhe per cent colored blood in him. Immediately, all 'of his white friends vote to throw him out of the club. Soon they are all cutting him on the street. He even loses his Job. This is known as stacking the cards. What could have been a com mendable action on the part of one weak human becomes Instead a mere theatrical effort to make the best seller list. Vestal Kingsblood, Neil’s wile, and daughter of a small-town blg-busl- ness man, comes closer to being a real person than any. other character in the book. Lewis approaches the pace set in Babbit and Arrowsmith in this bitterly ironic portrait of a typical member of the Ladies' Wel fare Society. She decides to side with her husband but she is not moti vated by any feeling of loyalty. She enjoys the whole affair and appears to derive a masochistic satisfaction from it. It will be fortunate if Kingsblood Royal is qonsldefed apart from the tiny literary merit it may possess. No story speaking of the basic equality of men and criticizing small-town smugness and hateful ‘!Jlm-Crowlsm” is entirely wasted. Lewis had an important story to tell and if he did not tell it very well he still must be credited with the cour age to attempt dissection of a grow ing ulcer in our national belly.— William Frltton I O a L Tlot^ .THE AGE OF ANXIETY By Wystan Huph Auden \God’s in his greenhouse, his geese in the world.” . Auden's wish to be di the herd yet a little apart from it has forced him to flavor his orthodox Anglicanism with modern Christian Existential* ism. His new book is, in part, an attempt to resolve the disparitie.s int herent in his conventional-mystical approach to religion. With tag-ende from the Bible and Kafka he hopes to convince his readers that his approach is the only valid one for our age of anxiety. He makes no attempt to develop character. The personnae do not emerge as people with real prob lems. The setting is a oar at which three men and a girl \get stewed”. Rosetta loves Emble because he fits into her symbolic landscape (a little Marvclian); Emble desires Rosetta because he habitually tries to solve problems on the sexual level. Quant IS a sentimentalist and Malin a cynic. ' . . References to the ^distinguishing traits of these charactei^s fecur in frequently, in support of the pre tence that there is something here br'iidc'i nil m i d e n TTirmoUigiu* Tlir^.e four, each carrying a rich particulai: ' bundle of Weltschmerz, converse in elegant alliterative verse. They discuss, among other things, the seven stages of life. The ‘sc\en stages” arc not related to life at all but are seven Variations on the theme of death. In perfect rapport they wander through a tediously Dantesque landscape emitting pat excuses for their existence. Quant seems to speak for Auden when he says, \My excuses throb louder and lamer.” This, from an earlier volume is the key to the philosophy expounded at such length in the \seven stages\ section of Auden’s new volume: . . part of usus alll hatesates life,, and some against it.” ai n me are completely Vreelandt B. Lyman Exhibit At Albright On October 3, the Albright A rt Gallery wiU present a memorial exhibition of the paintings and sketches of Vree landt B. Lyman, Buffalo artist. The m aterial is a collection of work done in the Orient during the artist's military service there. A fter Mr. Lyman's education info a whirl — I see stacks of a t the Boston School of Fine paper in Crosby 233 that need filing. W hat kind of paper? Papers that contain answers to those questions we throw at the Training Officers. Anybody w ant to help file them so that the TO’? can give you the dope for your questions? S A V A N T A STUDENTS JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Issue No. 3 Now On -Sale 25c p e r copy Order from SAVANT, c/o Norton Union Arts and a successful career in art and industrial work in Buffalo, he entered m ilitary service in 1943. He died in Cal cutta, India, in February 1946, a victim of robbers. The ex hibition closes October 31. In the fall, the Gallery will present an evening series of art appreciation lectures by .Mr., Squire on the subject of Asia tic art. Don Burns, 28 year-old Buf- falo.artist, is now showing some, of his famous steel plant' sketches, and marine scenes,| dating from, his term in the Merchant Marino, at the A'rt| Institute oh Utica at Elmwopd., The exKibition ends Septem-I her 24. —Jonah D. Mar^ulisJ Rosetta seems to be ‘completely against it.” Her world is one of formal landscapes and exotic color. It is her answer to a trivial life in the world of reality. While Quant, Malin and Emble still see themselves, as- creatures of a real world, they , seem ever more anxious to live in another more malleable ami less stern oqe, The m&ny references to death and escape show that Auden has jirog- ressed very little since the publica tion of The Descent of F-6 with its undertones of fascist admiration. 'The death-obsessive Uieme does not seem to wear well in the eclogue form in which he has cast it. There ^re. a few charming lines which do contey his sentiments with depth and originality: ‘ ‘ . ‘ ■ \In our back garden one dark afferndon I dug quite a hole planning to vanish,” And another: \What barking then As you stride the stiles to startle one Great cry in the kitchen when you come home, my dbom my daiiing.” In the ‘masque” section of the poem, he comes to a pessimistic con clusion on the problem of anxiety; His notion of anxiety is the Kicrke- gaardian one of “angst.” i.e. a fear not of things immediate and con crete but. of things far off and trans cendental in nature. \Though I fly to Wall Street or Publislun-’s How. or. pass out, or Submerge m music, or marry well. Ma rooned on riclies. He’ll be right there With His E jt ? upon me.” . . The above lines and succeeding __ ones are Jittle more tha-u watered- down Kafka.- Left to his own devices Auden hardly ever stimulates . and certainly never enlightens. Hi.s s.vm- bollsm rarely evokes a respon.se- be cause the referrents are so blurred ami worn. This book will probably appeal to a small audience of dilet tantes and literary fakirs, but it can make no impression on the man of average sensibility because it has nothing to do with life or the w'orJd we live in.—George Hartman. Glee Club Notice Those individuals who have purchased copies of the Glee Club recording made last semester, may call for their records at the home of Robert D, Schaf fer, 876 Lafayette Avenue, . Buffalo 9, New York, bo-,'' tween the hours of ten in the morning and eight :it night. The records will not be delivered because of difficulties ■n i ’ packaging and the danger of break age. Records shoqli__^' called for at the eariieSt . possible datei ■ ' '
