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Mercer Students
Presents Play
On Foster Family
Nina Mercer students pretested
“Which Way la Home?", a drama
tisation of the life of a footer child 1 ,
mother, and Me foster parents,
to a group of actual Macon foster
parents, case workers, and members
of the Public Welfare Department
on Friday, Nov. 15. The students
worn accompanied to Si Paul's
Episcopal Parish House, where the
noting was held, by Mr. Ed. Wtt-
ism* of Mercer’s Speech and Dm-
m Department
The play is entirely a student
project Glenda Tully, a second
goerter freshman from Colquitt
Georgia, is director of the produc
tion The eight actors, also fresh-
wen, indude Brian Murray of
Pompano Beach, Florida; Julian
Gordy of Newnan, Georgia; Connie
LsHar of Orlando, Florida; David
Thompson of Manchester, Georgia;
Andrea Frost of Macon; Kay
Spence of Thotnasville, Georgia;
I/x hlyn Kennedy of Collins, Geor
gia: and Neal Heath of Forsyth,
Georgia.
Brian plays the role of Bruce,
the foeter child. His new foster par
ent)* are played by Julian and Con-
nie. and his old foster parents, by
Dtvid and Andrea. Kay is the so
cial worker. Lochlyn plays the nat
ural mother, and Neal plays her
boyfriend.
Because of the success of Fri
day's production, the students have
been asked to present the play in
the future to other groups of so
cial workers and prospective foeter
parents.
Chris Nordal, Cluster Girl of the Week, ATO's pledge sweetheart and
was a semifinalist in the Freshman beauty contest.
Macon Beauty Pageant
Tonight At Auditorium
The Mias Macon Pageant, spon
sored by the Macon Jaycees, will
be presented at the City Auditor-
bun. Friday, November 22 at 8:00
pm Mias Burma Ann Davis, the
reigning Mias Georgia 1068 will
be the mistress of ceremonies for
the event
Included among the twelve semi
final ista who were selected No
vember S are six Meroer girls; Sal
ly Farrar sponsored by KA Order,
Dawn Mayo by Alpha Gamma
Delta, Terry Meadors by Lambda
Chi. Chris Nordal by Alpha Tsu
Omega, Karen Rivers by Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, and Susan Watt by
Alpha Tsu Omega. For talent com
petition Sally and Susan will both
be dancing. Also in the area of
■usic, Chris will play the piano;
Terry will sing as she plays the
guitar. Dawn will give a dramatic
nailing and Karan, a monologue.
Admission to the pagsant is $1.00
fet students, $1.25 general admia-
don, and $1.75 for reserved seats.
Advance tickets may be purchased
at uny Handy Andy store in Ma
son tbs Dempsey Corner or the
campus bookstores at Mercer and
Wesleyan. Proceeds will be used
lor the Jayceea' civic projects.
Sally Farrar, a five foot five
inch tall brown-eyed Mercer brun
ette, will represent Kappa Alpha
fraternity in the Mias Macon Pa-
gsant on Thursday, November 22.
Among other things, Sally has
keen a semi-finalist in the "Mias
Atlanta” contest, the reporter-his
hrian of Alpha Delta H sorority,
ted a member ot the "Plucked
Dulcimer" business staff, the
"Cauldron" staff, 8NBA. and
WAA Some of her interests in
clude twirling, dancing, writing,
and art work.
Dawn Mayo, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Mayo Jr. of Lyons,
is representing her own sorority,
Alpha Gamma Delta. Dawn enjoys
public speaking and will do a
dramatic reading from “Saint
Joan" by Bernard Shaw in the
contest She is also interested in
debating, singing in the choir and
playing the piano. Dawn was first
runnerup in the Miss Lyons High
Beauty Contest
Blue eyed, brown haired Terry
Meador* is representing Lambda
CM Alpha Fraternity. A freshman
at Mercer, Terry is the president
of her CM Omega pledge dees.
She lists her hobbies as music,
singing, and playing the guitar.
Terry is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul D. Meadors of Orlando,
Florida.
Mias Chris Nordal, daughter of
Mr. and Mira. Nevtn H. Nordal of
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, it repre
senting the Alpha Tsu Omega Fra
ternity. Chris was a semi-finalist
in the Miss Freshman Beauty Con
test this year. She took Piano Les
sons for five year* and plane to
play the Piano in the Beauty Con
test
In high school Chris was a mem
ber of the National Honor Society,
Beta Chib end was president of her
aeafor dees.
Karen Rivers, a member of PM
Mu Sorority will represent Sigma
Alpha Epeiloa fraternity in the
Miss Macon Pageant This blue
eyed blonde is a member of the
Student Education Association and
Mercer Librarians
Travel To Miami
Two members of the staff of Mer
cer University’s Stetson Memorial
Library recently traveled to Miami,
for the Southeastern Library Asso
ciation convention. Dumont C.
Bunn, assistant librarian, and J.
Russell Woodard, reference librar
ian, represented Mercer at the
meeting held at the Americana
Hotel Oct. 30-Nov. 2.
A speech by Georgia author Em
it ine Caldwell highlighted the con
vention. Caldwell told of personal
experiences induding days in China
during the Japanese invasion of
World War II. Also speaking was
Carper W. Buckley, Superintendent
of Government Documents.
Mr. Bunn and Mr. Woodard
toured libraries of two other schools
while in Miami. They saw Miami-
Dade Junior College and Barry
College.
Mr. Woodard, a graduate of
Peabody College, attended a spe
cial dinner for Peabody alumni at
the convention.
the “Cauldron" staff. She is also
president of little Sisters of Min
erva and was a contestant in the
Jacksonville Junior Miss Pageant.
Her hobbies indude skiing, swim
ming, and sewing.
A pretty Mercer co-ed entered
in this year's Miss Macon Pageant
is Miss Susan Watt from Jackson
ville, Fla Susan is a sophomore
and is representing Alpha Tsu
Omega in the contest. She list!
her main interests as ballet and
dancing while citing her hobbies
as painting, sewing, and cheer-
leading. Membership on the Caul
dron, Young Republican, and
A TO Sweetheart Court round out
her activities.
5 MERCER CLUSTER NOVEMBER 22. IMS
“Blow UP” Movie Filled
With Symbolism, Meaning
By Johnny Turner
It is indeed significant that
Blow Up should ever make it
through 314 since this is one flick
that really shows and tells it like
it is. However Friday night two
packed audiences ranging from
two nuns to the two Stegea viewed
Michelangelo Antonioni’s much
discussed story of a young London
photographer played h y David
Hammings and his startling dis
covery of a murder captured in his
pictures.
Hie movie is saturated in sym
bolism and meaning. To begin with,
the fact that the main character
is a photographer is very siginifi-
cant for a photographer is merely
someone who captures reality and
the opening scene seems to chal
lenge the very existence of reality
itself. In a series a brilliant shots,
a group of white faced, wildly at
tired people dash madly about,
and then the camera switches to
drab groups of factory workers.
A significant segment of this
scene is when the wild group runs
past two nuns and the Royal
Guard as if ignoring the existence
of the two institutions they repre
sent. Another very striking con
trast is the noise of the wild group
contrasting with the almost dead
silence elsewhere.
Another brilliant aspect was
the manner in which Antonioni
presented his theme through the
dialogue. When the woman in
the park trys to take the camera
away from the photographer she
says, “You don't know me, you
never met me.” At the end of the
movie these words almost ring in
his ears. When he talks to the
store owner and asks why she is
selling she says, ‘‘I am fed up with
antiques.” and says that she wants
to go to Nepal, to which the pho
tographer replies,” Nepal is all
antiques.” The implication is that
the whole world is an antique from
which there is no escape.
And finally at the pot party,
after explaining his problem to his
friend, Ron asks "What did you
see in the park?” to which the
photographer replies, “Nothing.”
Indeed when he returns to the park
what does he find? Nothing.
Antonioni also uses several
scenes to directly point to his
theme. One is when the artist
makes love to the photographer's
wife on the work that he had tried
to buy. His wife sees him and whis
pers, "Go away," recalling an ear
lier scene when a protester stuck
a sign in the beck of his car. What
did the sign say? “Go away", and
that is just what it did.
Another related theme is re
vealed through ihe sensual scenes
which probably accounted for a
good part of the audiences at Mer
cer and throughout the nation. The
important thing here is that all
through these sensual episodes no
emotion can be found. There is
no communication or emotional
interaction between the photogra
pher and the models, teenagers,
the mysterious woman, or even his
own wife. The only scene where
the photographer might have found
some emotion is interrupted by the
delivery of a propeller.
If this sounds absurd to you,
then Antonioni has made his point
Richard Schickel of Life puts it
this way, "... we are so sub
merged in sensation and its pur
suit that we can not feel genuine
emotion any more" and the au
dience that comes to see Blow Up
merely because it shows certain
parts of the human anatomy illus
trates this point quite nicely.
It is at the end of the movie that
all of the seemingly irrelevant
scenes are summed up. The un
real tennis match played by unreal
players and watched by unreal
spectators occurs right after the
photographer has returned to the
park for a third time and dis
covered that the corpse is not
there. As he walks across the field
the jeep carrying the group of
white faced, wildly attired people
appears aqd winds down the lane
towards the tennis court. When the
game begins, the photographer is
at first amused but when he is
asked to retrieve the imaginary
bail, he complies and throws it
back. Then with the camera fo
cused on him, the sound of a ten
nis ball being hit back and forth
rings out.
What is real'’ Was there really
a dead man in the park? Did he
actually throw a tennis ball? Is
he real? Is life real? Is Blow Up
a good movie? Yes.
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