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October 17, 1963
THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
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AESTHETICALLY SPEAKING
NOTES FROM
THE- PAtfcTTE
BY
JOANNE-
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The Water Color Club of At
lanta is now sponsoring an ex
hibit at Lenox Square. The exhibit
includes not only water colors,
but oils, graphics, encaustics and
sculptures in both clay and wood.
It appears to be one of the largest
held in Atlanta and has its share
of both professional and amateur
works.
Art majors, instructors and stu
dents in general are happy to see
Spelman’s Fine Arts Building
coming along so rapidly. I had
hoped that it would be finished
before the end of the year, but
as of now I have not heard the
date of its completion. Perhaps,
once it is finished, more students
will be motivated to display their
creative talents. The old art
studios are sorely lacking in many
of the necessities for good work,
but I understand that the new
building will be well equipped for
those who are interested.
The Bank of Georgia, Davison’s
and The Junior League of Atlanta
are sponsoring the Eighteenth
Southeastern Annual Exhibition
at the Atlanta Art Association,
1280 Peachtree Street N. E. very
soon. The preview of the showing
will be Wednesday, October 9,
1963 from 8 until 11 p.m.
Sunday, September 29, 1963,
Abby Hall had its annual Art Tea.
This is the affair at which Abby
residents select the pictures they
will have in their rooms for the
year. The collection, donated by
Mr. Laurence Rockefeller for use
in the rooms of Abby, contains
color reproductions of painting
from many periods. At a glance
any art student should have been
able to pick out works by such
famous people as Dali, Picasso,
Degas, Renoir, Raphael, and Ma
tisse. Abby-ites had the pleasure
of hearing Mr. Edwin Cerney of
our department discuss the visual
arts in general and a few of the
paintings in particular.
The Atlanta Art Association has
exhibits which change periodic
ally. Check the calendar in Laura
Spelman.
Until later . . .
fOCUS on JAZZ
Hello! It’s good to have you jazz
enthusiasts back again. For you
new readers, I’ll explain that this
is not a critical appraisal of art
ists or records. It is merely my
opinion coupled with a bit of
what’s going on in the world of
Jazz.
It’s unfortunate that we do not
have an opportunity to be exposed
to more of the lesser-known,
amateur musicians, for in some
cases, they hold the future of jazz
in general in their hands (or
rather, in their instruments). The
nearly impromptu session held
September 21 in Read Hall was
a great beginning for us. It seem
ed to go over well with the stu
dents and I, for one, hope this
can be more than an occasional
thing on our campus. We are
fortunate to have, within our
grasp, in the University Center,
musicians who are more than
capable and who can really ex
press themselves. Give them a
boost; let them know we like them
and want them back again. They
want to be HEARD!
Jazz is no longer confined to
the United States and this is a
good thing. In the past few years,
almost every country in the world
has brought jazz to the front
ranks. Music has been proven to
be a common ground for coun
tries who disagree greatly in other
areas; and jazz, in appealing to
younger people, seems to help
make way for a more relaxed
relationship between these coun
tries. Popular magazines have
widely publicized the State De
partment-sponsored trips by such
greats as Louis Armstrong and
Benny Goodman. Too few have
taken note of the festivals in many
other countries. This past sum
mer, the Jimmy Smith Trio
(whom we had the pleasure to
see and hear last year) traveled
to Belgium to play at an annual
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Jamaica ^Jo d3e
Presented ^Jdere
It was announced in the spring
that the Atlanta-Morehouse-Spel-
man Players have been selected
to entertain the American serv
icemen stationed in Germany and
France. For this tour the players
have chosen to recreate the mu
sical “Jamaica” which was first
presented on this campus in the
spring of 1961. Before their de
parture, however, the players
will present “Jamaica” once more
on the Spelman campus. The
musical will open for the general
public on October 17 at 8:CK)«p.m.,
in Howe Hall and will play
through October 19. If Spelman
students would like a sneak pre
view, dress rehearsals will be
open to them on October 15 and
16.
The cast includes Brenda
Boyd and Lois Weston who will
alternate in the female leads,
Johnny Powell, male lead, Eu
gene Harris, Marcelite Jordan,
Alberta Harris, Carolyn Craw
ford, Carmen Fennoy, Leonard
Hines, Albert Sloane, David
Fraction, Homer Edwards, and
Baldwin Burroughs. Several of
these people were in the original
production — Lois Weston, Mar
celite Jordan, Judith Allen, Nel-
da King, Johnny Popwell, and
Albert Sloane. The group is for
tunate to have John Price to ac
company it. It will be remem
bered that Price played for the
last production in 1961.
The Players’ itinerary is not
yet definite. However, it is
thought that they will perform
in some of the following Ger
man and French cities — Ham
burg, Heidel'burg, Munich, Ver
dun, and Paris — for these
places were visited by another
group taking a similar tour. In
any case, the tour promises to
be a lot of hard work, but also
a lot of fun.
Do come out to see “Jamaica”
and give your best wishes to
the group. They will leave the
United States on November 4,
for a seven-week touring sched
ule and will have a week’s de
lay enroute in Paris during the
Christmas holidays.
Jamaica Cast in 1961 Production
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DISTRESS
POET’S CORNER
I sat alone in lonely distress
For I expected a letter today,
The mailman stopped only for minutes
Then immediately he went away.
You never can guess my heartache
The pressure that flooded my heart
When I checked the empty mail box
And found no mail to depart.
Before I knew what hit me
The tears began slowly to fall
The days passed slowly without you
I need a letter, that’s all!
So please consider my loneliness
Have pity on your lonely little dove
Send me a line soon, dear,
Please hurry, hurry, my love.
Willing to help, quick to aid
Never possessive, though aggressive
Always encouraging, never discouraging
He’s lovable that’s progressive.
Patrice
A CONTEMPLATION
Through each lonely street
Filled with chattering echoes
Rattle the empty souls
Inside each lonely house
Unreal voices make bright noises
Of toned meaninglessness
Inside each lonely being
Seeps the icy unheard presence
Of the invisible wall
And the unseeing world lumbers on
To its fate.
A. Walker
The Book Shelf
The Spelman College library
has many new books this semes
ter, so many in fact, that I had
a very difficult time in deciding
which'ones to tell you about. All
of them seem very interesting
and they represent a wide vari
ety of subject matter. In the
coming issues of the newspaper, I
shall endeavor to develop some
scheme for selecting the books
by different authors in different
fields of interest. As for now, I
have tried to choose books that
should be of interest to all of us.
The first is a study by Lechter,
Rapier, Seibert and Sklansky,
The Drop Outs. It is concerned
with the students who leave high
school before graduation. (Forty
per cent of American children
become drop outs).
To those of you who are not
familiar with John Oliver Kil-
lens’ works, I must urge you to
read And Then We Heard Thun
der. Killens was born in Macon,
Georgia, and once attended Mor
ris Brown College. In addition to
writing novels he writes for mo
vies and television. His latest
book, And Then We Heard Thun
der, is a warm story about the
Civil. War as seen through the
eyes of a Negro. The central fig
ure is an ambitious lad who
came from Dry Creek, Georgia,
to New York City, trying desper
ately to become a part of the
white man’s world.
At your leisure, browse around
the library and become familiar
with the wonderful worlds which
can be explored through books.
Jeanne Terry