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March, 1963
THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
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AESTHETICALLY SPEAKING
'The Negro Speaks in Prose and Poetry'
The American Negro today
shows considerable progress in
the field of writing. The follow
ing book list is one compiled
from the article, “Books By Ne
gro Authors in 1962,” written by
Arthur B. Spingam and found in
the February edition of The
Crisis.
Prose
Asoa, Aderogba: On The Tiger’s
Back. New York, World, 149 pp.
$3.50.
*Baldwin, James: Another
Country. New York, The Dial
Press. 436 pp. $5.95.
* Bates, Daisy: The Long Sha
dow of Little Rock: A Memoir.
New York, David McKay Com
pany, Inc. 204 pp. $4.75.
*Bennett, Lerone, Jr.: Before
the Mayflower. A History of the
Negro in America - 1619-1962.
Chicago, Johnson Publishing Co.,
Inc. 416 pp. $6.95.
Busia, K. A.: The Challenge of
Africa. New York, Frederick A.
Praeger. 150 pp. $4.00.
*Clift, Virginia, Archibald A.
Anderson, G. Gordon Hullfish:
Negro Education in America. New
York, Harper & Brothers, XIII
315 pp. $5.95.
Crump, Paul: Burn, Killer,
Burn. Chicago, Johnson Book
Publishing Co., Inc. 391 pp. $4.95.
DuBois, W. E. B.: John Brown.
New York, International Publish
ers. $5.50.
*Frazier, Franklin: Black Bour
geoisie. New York, Collier Books.
222 pp. 95c.
Hughes, Langston: Fight for
Freedom. The Story of the NA-
ACP. New York, W. W. Norton
& Co. 224 pp. $4.50.
♦Lomax, Louis E.: The Negro
Revolt. New York, Harper &
Bros. XIII 271 pp. $4.50.
*Quarles, Benjamin: Lincoln
and the Negro. New York, Oxford
University Press. 275 pp. $6.50.
Raab, Earl (Editor): American
Race Relations Today. Studies of
the problem beyond desegregat
ion. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
& Co. 195 pp. 95c.
*William, John (Editor): The
Angry Black. New York, Lancer
Books. 160 pp. 50c.
Williams, John: Africa, Her
History, Lands and People. New
York, The Cooper Square Pub
lishers.
Wynn, Daniel Webster: Moral
Behavior and the Christian Ideal.
New York, The American Press.
123 pp. $3.00.
Yerby, Frank: Griffins Way.
New York, The Dial Press. 345
pp. $4.95.
Poetry
Adams, Doris B.: Longing and
Other Poems. Philadelphia, Dor-
rance & Co. 30 pp. $2.50.
Clark, John Pepper: Poems.
Ibadan, Nigeria, Mbari Publica
tions. 55 pp. 6 sh.
Damas, Leon: African Songs of
Love, War, Grief and Abuse.
Ibadan, Negeria, Mbari Publica
tions.
Hill, Roy L.: Corrie J. Carroll
and Other Poems. Philadelphia,
Dorrance & Co., 35 pp. $3.50.
Massey, Joe C.: Singing Stars,
Verses by Joe C. Massey, New
York, Green wish Book Publishers,
Inc. 57 pp. $2.50.
’■'Located in the Spelman Library.
Copies of Before the Mayflower
by Lerone Bennet, Jr. maybe pur
chased at the Spelman Library.
C. L. Prioleau
Kiss Me Kate
On March 14, 15, and 16, the
Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman Play
ers once again presented a play
in the same class as all their
plays in entertainment and edu
cational value. For, “Kiss Me
Kate”, a Broadway Musical taken
from “The Taming of The Shrew”,
gave us an excellent opportunity
to brush up on our Shakespeare.
“The Taming of The Shrew” is
really a play within a play. A
nobleman who has an art for
practical jokes finds Christopher
Sly, a tinker, dead drunk, and
has him carried to the best room
of his castle and finely dressed,
waited upon by servants and a
beautiful wife, in reality the
nobleman’s page in disguise.
When Sly wakes up he is made
to believe that he is a nobleman
who has been insane for years,
and in order to make him merry
and prevent a return of his men
tal delusions, a company of play-
eds perform for his benefit, “The
Taming of The Shrew”, The
Broadway Musical, “Kiss Me
Kate” displays the same idea only
put to music. The characters are
the same. The leading lady (Kate)
is played by Alberta Foster.
Katharina, or Kate, as she’s
called, has the reputation of be
ing shrewish, bad-tempered, and
an unruly woman. Petruchio,
played by Tommy Perkins, pre
sents himself as an aspirant for
Katharina’s hand in marriage.
Bianca, Katharina’s sister, played
by Lois Weston, was portrayed as
sweet and lovable. Her suitor,
Lucentioe, was played by Leon
ard Hines.
The play centered around a
love affair between the leading
lady and man who had previous
ly been married but are now
divorced. Just what happened be
tween these two, we’ll leave for
your own evaluation.
. Tarver
“Not You, Bub! You’re Outmoded.”
REW Observed
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in our Mid-week Services; the
reading of “The Sacrifice” by
Janet Rothschild was presented
by the drama department. Reli
gious paintings were also on ex
hibition throughout the week.
Perhaps next year’s committee
will venture to have such pre
sentations prior to our seminars.
The students, in this way, can in
clude in their seminar discussions
these religious implications. As it
was, however, many questions per
tinent to the sutdents’ beliefs were
raised and discussed at length.
This year’s committee is to be
congratulated also for the interest
awakened in the student body
with such an excellent choice of
our campus speaker and the addi
tion of fine arts to the observance
of Religious Emphasis Week.
—Josephine Dunbar
Moon
To you it’s for light
To others, it’s a telescope
Then others, it’s a goal
But to me . . .
it’s a glowing beam casting
shadows acros the sheets.
Naja-Toi
But for Others
I live my life not for myself alone;
But for the people I love.
Without their love
My living is in vain;
Without their trust
I have no sense of direction;
Without their tears
I have no eyes to see life;
Without their laughter
I have no ease;
Without their forgiveness
I cannot be forgiven ;
Without their criticism
I have nothing to build in;
Without their patience
I would lack understanding.
Without their watchful care
I would be in poor health;
Without their religious encouragement
I would not know my God;
Without them, I am nothing, so to be something
I live my life for them.
by Barbara Madden
Preoccupation
As shadows fall
and bells ring
and folks go on their way.
How many stop
look up to Him
give thanks for another day?
Instead, we hustle
bustle by
sighing and sobbing and wondering why
Joanne got that “A”.
Naja-Toi
Surrendered
I love you.
I’ve loved you since first I beheld your countenance.
I’ve loved you since first you probed into my
innermost thoughts of you.
You used no greater instrument
than your eyes.
Your eyes sought me out,
and I surrendered.
Tahirah
2)c WJ,t
er
De wahter ain’t no hydegen.
De wahter ain’t no oxydegen.
Is jes wahter.,
If God had wonted to put all dat messy
stuff in de wahter,
Why, honey chile, don’t you know He would of!
I don’t care whut dem scientests seze.
Notes
from the
Palette
(tu Joanne V ijiffij
A Morehouse senior, Juan Tho
mas, presented a showing of his
works at the Gallery of Living
Artists — 1327 West Peachtree
St., N.E., which began Friday,
March 8, and extended through the
next week. The official opening
was Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. and
Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m.
to 9 p.m.
James Adair, a former student
of Morehouse College and a gra
duate of Fort Valley State Col
lege, has opened his own art gal
lery at 469 West Peachtree. He
is exhibiting his own work as
well as the work of other artists.
The 22nd Annual Exhibition of
Painting, Sculpture and Prints by
Negro Artists is being shown at
Trevor Arnett Library. Hours are
Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. and
weekdays from 3 to 5 p.m. The
exhibition will last from March
31 to April 28.
Why not attend this week?
Tahirah
Audience Views
Unusual Concert
The New York Pro Musica gave
a stimulating performance Sun
day, March 10, at 4:00 p.m. in
Sister’s Chapel. As they appeared
on the stage, the audience began
to applaud excitedly. Throughout
the performance, the excellently-
done instrumental and vocal
selections incited more vigorous
applause from the audience.
Perhaps the reason for the suc
cess of the concert is that the
manner of singing, the instru
ments used, and the period from
which the musical selections were
taken were somewhat different
from what the members of the
audience have been accustomed to
hearing. Vocal solos and duets
both frequently included in one
selection, were extremely well-
done.
The instruments used, with the
exception of the bass viol and
the flute, were modeled after old
instruments in various collections.
Therefore, they were new to the
audience.
Since there are few, if any, con
certs given using musical select
ions of fifteenth and sixteenth-
century musicians, everyone gave
complete attention to the perfor
mance of these selections.
The New York Pro Musica
Concert proved to be different
and enjoyable.
—Yvonne Weatherly