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THE MAROON TIGER
UNIVERSITY PLAYERS TO PRESENT
“SUN-UP” ON NOVEMBER 19th
The University players will begin their 1932-33 sea
son with the presentation of Lula Vollmer’s Sun-Up in
the Little Theatre, Spelman College, Saturday evening,
November 19th. The performance will begin at eight
o’clock.
The leading roles will be played by Sammye Fuller
and Florence Warwick of Spelman College and John
Young of Morehouse College. The cast follows:
Widow Cagle Sammye Fuller
Emmy Todd .Florence Warwick
Rufe Cagle — .. John Young
Pap Todd Richard Brown
Bud Todd George Smith
Preacher Edward Rodriguez
Sheriff Laurence Hall
Bob Theodore Nash
Stranger . Raphael Mclver
Sun-Up is a very popular play with little theatres and
college groups. In 1923 it won the Pulitzer Prize for
current drama most expressive of American life.
The three acts give to us a most vivid picture of
North Carolina backwoods people. To a sophisticated
theatre audience Widow Cagle’s lack of information ex
pressed in the line, “How far is France, other side of
Asheville?” might seem funny but the pathos of her
ignorant state is not funny long. Rufe, the son of Widow
Cagle, is killed in the War. At first this news only
whets her rage against law and the government but
later, after some thought, through her love for her boy,
she senses that all “Feudin” is prompted by hate and
that “its love folks need in their hearts and not so much
of that thing called law.”
It will be remembered that last year was the first year
for the University Players as an organization. With its
first production it established itself as one of the most
popular organizations on the three campuses.
This year the club has been augmented with more
talent and again is ready to give superior performances
in the dramatic field.
UNIVERSITY BUSINESS CLUB
ORGANIZES FOR YEAR
A group of conscientious business students of Atlan
ta University and Morehouse College set out Thursday
evening, October 27th to pool their major interests in
an organization which is to be known as the “Atlanta
University Business Club.”
The primary purposes of this organization are to
stimulate a greater interest among the students in the
field of I..; iness. to broaden the individual concepts as
to the part the “business man of tomorrow” will have
to play in this dynamic economic order of the present
civilization, and to promote a spirit of cooperation,
unity, reliability and punctuality, which are some of
the necessary prerequisites for a well-rounded business
man aside from his scientific knowledge of business
principles.
It will also be of interest to note that our tentative
program purposes to bring to its members during the
school term men of diversified business accomplishments.
The following officers were elected Thursday eve
ning, October 27t'n for the term of 1932-33:
Comptroller of Affairs, M. I. Cabaniss.
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(Exchange News from The Campus Mirror)
WILL DURANT LECTURES ON THE SUBJECT
“IS PROGRESS REAL?”
Spelman College was honored on Wednesday after
noon, October 26th, to have the philosopher, Will Dur
ant, stand on its platform in the presence of a packed
audience of students, faculty and friends of the three in
stitutions and expound in his individual way, the sub
ject: “Is Progress Real?” This subject, which is con
sidered one of Mr. Durant’s deepest lectures, seeped into
the minds of everyone present by the saturation process
and every word spoken by him had meaning.
Progress, What Is It? According to Mr. Durant, it
is the increasing ability of men and women to do great
things. “Yes, it is real”, said the speaker. But what
about our pessimists who say that American civiliza
tion is declining? Why is it that the writings of Lin
coln, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and all typical
literature of our age makes no mention of progress?
Doubtless, this has been caused by the decay of re
ligious beliefs and the Great War.
However, the pessimist should not be refuted in try
ing to stress the reality of progress, Mr. Durant stated.
Remember that persons convinced against their will are
of the same opinion still. We should tell them that
they are right, for in a sense they are right. Then tell
them that we are right too by pointing out as many of
the approximate one hundred steps which have made
progress real, as we possibly can. In the biography of
civilization, Mr. Durant pointed out ten of these steps
which he considers most important in describing hu
man progress. These steps, which were never retraced
by men are: 1. Speech; 2. Discovery of fire; 3. Con
quest of the animal; 4. The passing from hunting to
agriculture, (in the speakers’ opinion the most impor
tant) ; 5. Coming of social organizations; 6. Coming of
a moral sense; 7. Tools; 8. Development of science or
experimental records; 9. Writing, printing — means of
communication; 10. Education—technique of transmit
ting the intellectual, moral, and scientific heritage of
mankind.
By these steps, we have become human beings.
Mr. Durant spoke a full hour and ten minutes filling
each minute with his comprehensive knowledge of his
tory, philosophy, literature and drama of all ages.
After the lecture, the speaker listened with intense in
terest to the singing of the Negro National Anthem by
the audience, and expressed his pleasure and apprecia
tion as his parting word.
JULIA PETERK.IN. A GUEST AT SPELMAN
COLLEGE
By Lucile Pearson, ’35
Spelman College welcomed to its campus on October
24th, Mrs. Julia Peterkin, the author of Black April,
Scarlet Sister Mary and Bright Skin.
Classes were dismissed in order that a greater num
ber of students might be able to hear Mrs. Peterkin’s
lecture. At the appointed time Howe Memorial Hall
was well filled with the college students and their friends
who listened attentively to this artist, thus showing their
appreciation of hearing an author discuss her views of
life, her desire as a human being and her problems as
a writer.
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