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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. Shop the Squire Shop <3)0* t (e one of the flock, (e a fashion leader. Open All Day Wed. Friday Nit* Til 9! “South's Finest Cancellation Shoe Sale" DAVID S SHOES 438 CHERRY ST.