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Show SIGNPOST Friday, January 30, 1948 That Damn Ginsberg! LAST WEEK the Signpost published an article which has caused quite a fervor, to say the least, around the campus. The article was a dramatic critical review of the college talent show and was run under the byline of one Paul Ginsberg, which name, though fictitious, is about as associated with one individual as the name 0. Henry was with William Sydney Porter. The Signpost, the editor and the author have been criticized for this article by some and applauded by others and the necessity for clarification has arisen because of this. AMONG THE objections to the article was the use of a pen name by the author. The Signpost has been criticized for running the article with this pen name and we should like to call to our readers mind that the article was written by Dick Layman who has long used that pseudonym for much of his writing. Anyone who attended Ogden high school last year and had any interest in their paper knows that Mr. Layman used that pen name many times with full realization that the majority of the student body was aware of the author's real identity. The Signpost does not think it necessary to apologize for this obviously common practice. To those who think the author was flauting prejudice we have only one thing to say those people who at all conceived the name Jewish are in reality the ones who are prejudiced. SEVERAL HAVE ventured that the article was wrong because it criticized in a manner not constructive. May we ask how one is to constructively criticize a stage production? Perhaps the author of such criticism could tell them how to produce the show next year, but wouldn't that be a little silly? As far as the term constructive goes, can't one sometimes best be constructive by showing the faults? Many of the world's greatest masters in literature have used a negative approach with a positive aim. Even today all of the theater is applauded or criticized in negative terms. Could it be any other way? AS TO THE objection that the article gives us some horrible appearance in the eyes of other colleges and in the eyes of supporters and alumni we can only say that it is quite regular practice in other schools and that we certainly are not unique in this respect. For those objectors we suggest an examination of the University of Utah Daily Chronicle. One other point is that any college paper's first and primary duty is to the students of the college. IS THE ARTICLE TRUTHFUL? Well, we let you answer that one. P. T. BEFUDDLED Windy Weather We can honestly say now that the only thing the weather we've been having lately is good for is conversation. It is not that college s t u d e nts mind the wind , , , (, it's just that , we find it diffi- '' cult to under- 4 ,,, stand where so much air could be going in such a hurry. As one well known poet put it (so well known in fact, that I've forgotten his name) : The devil sends the wicked wind To hurl our skirts up high, But God is just, and sends the dust To blind the bad man's eye. Daffynitions Kleptomaniac one who helps himself because he can't help himself.Fountain pen even if it won't write, it will keep the cigars in your pocket from being broken. Photography it's easy; taking pictures is usually a snap. Finer Food Cafe 351 - 24th Street Cafe and Fountain Service Open 7:30' A. M. to 12 Midnite Open to 1 A. M. Saturday Nite Carl Hoist EVERYTHING IN QUALITY MUSICAL MERCHANDISE MAGNAVOX RADIOS, RADIO-PHONOGRAPHS LESTER PIANOS, RECORDS, SHEET MUSIC ACCESSORIES Dunkley Music 2524 Washington Boulevard By MUDDLE Traveler one who usually returns with brag and baggage. All-expense tour perfectly named. Love triangle it usually ends in a wrecktangle. Walking it isn't a lost art; one must, by some mgans, get to the garage. Widow there are two types: the bereaved and the relieved. Bore one who, when you ask him how he feels, tells you. Wanted: A verb for Erma Adams. Radio Workshop. Wanted: Gym shoes for my cast members so I can present the "Play Box." T. A. Wanted: Pennies from haven or just some funds from anywhere. Almost any W. C. club. Wanted: One cook; must also have experience claning furnaces. Contact Marion Blackinton. Lost: Good will of too many students, vicinity Weber College, some tim after noon last Friday. And in conclusion, mainly because it has no connection with anything Ive said, here is a poem. Store teeth, too, are very grand, When you get mad, you can gnash 'em by hand. Come See Us, Fellows UTAH BARBER SHOP 368 -25th Street Bob Faddls From the Editor's Chair The Allegory of the Sheep and the Mirror By Phil Tunks Once upon a time when the world was not so young, there lived a big monster with a mirror who snorted around a pasture where a thousand and a half sheep grazed. This monster quite regularly got his mirror out and held it up to the sheep so they could see themselves in it. The sheep often got scared when the monster with the mirror came arid held it up to th"em, and before long they were so frightened by the things they saw in the mirror that they decided it couldn't be them at all; the monster must be playing some horrible trick with his mirror to deceive them. Now finally the sheep became so frightened by the mirror and so disgusted with the monster, who carried the mirror, that they decided they would just have to do something about it. So they scheduled a big conference out in a pasture, surrounded by buildings full of books, and invited all the sheep to come and decide what to do with the mirror and what to do with the monster. Now some of the sheep were white but many more were black and the black ones said to themselves "we cannot go to the meeting for we have been called horrible all our lives by the white- sheep, and we think the white sheep have some black sheep blood too." So the black sheep didn't go to the meeting in the pasture, but a nurttber of white sheep did and they told their young and wise leaders to see what they couild do about the monster's mirror. Now after all the white sheep at the meeting had chosen their leaders and gone home, the leaders held another conference among themselves and decided that maybe the big monster could be persuaded not to use such a strong mirror when he showed it to the sheep, because, after all, the sheep did want to see what they were doing, but it wasn't nice to show too much because then every sheep would try to reform and things wouldn't go smoothly. So the leaders of the white sheep organization went to the monster and told him that he would either have to use a weaker mirror or one which wasn't complete, or else leave the pasture forever. Now the monster (who was really a black sheep white-washed and dressed in monster's clothing, and who was really a peaceful "monster") liked the pasture and didn't want to leave just yet, so he agreed that he would show his mirror only when the leaders said, and show only what the leaders wanted shown. Everything went quite smoothly for a while with the black sheep grazing in one side of the pasture and the white sheep grazing In the other side. The mirror and the monster were istill there and were showing what the young and wise leaders wanted them to show, but as everything went smoothly and the sheep grazed peacefully, the sheep didn't look into the mirror anymore and the monster became worried. The sheep didn't look in the mirror anymore so how could they know how they looked to all the other sheep, how could they know what they were really doing and how could they know when their little faces were dirty? The monster pondered and put his paw on his ugly head and thought deeply, but he just couldn't see how FOR YOUR RECORD NEEDS Always Shop in Ogden's Largest Self-Service Department the sheep could see those things if they didn't look in his mirror. Well, the monster decided that he would put together a mirror just like the young and wise leaders had told him to, but in one small corner he would put a strong mirror so the sheep could really see themselves for just a minute. So the monster put his mirror together and went showing it a-round to the sheep. Now just a few sheep looked in the mirror in the corner at first, but after they had looked they jumped and ran off to the neighbors to tell them to look into the mirror this time too. Before long all of the sheep, black and white, were looking into the mirror and into the corner; the white sheep saw themselves and the black sheep saw the white sheep. Well the white sheep became very mad and came running and jumping over to the monster to tell him that he was wrong, that he was deceiving them with the damnable mirror. Then all the young and wise white sheep leaders went stomping over to tell the monster that he had not obeyed them and that he had better not do any such thing again or he would have to leave the mirror and maybe the pasture forever. Now this made the monster very sad because he had only tried to get the sheep to see themselves as they were and he didn't at all want to leave the pasture. Pretty soon, however, the monster got some wonderful medicine for his sadness as all the black sheep came over to tell him that they were looking into the mirror and they didn't mind what they saw whether it was black or white, and" wouldn't he please keep showing his strong mirrors? . After this the monster began to feel much better and he began to wonder why some of the white sheep had liked his mirror and why all of the black sheep had liked it. He thought about this with his paw on his ugly face and finally he said maybe I know the answer to the white sheep shriveling up in fright as they see my mirror. Maybe the white sheep are afraid of themselves as they really are. Maybe, maybe. Who knows? Robert St. John (Continued from Page 1, CoL 8) that there are no more Russians in Greece than there are in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia, according to the lecturer, did not contain one Russian soldier during his recent stay there. Mr. St. John seemed to impress the audience with his vivid description of the much debated Greek election by saying that it was intimidated by the royalists backed up by the British government who had forced this plebiscite a year and a half in advance of their promise to the Greek people. On the whole we can no more call the Greek royal government representative than we can call Hitler's Germany representative, commented Mr. St. John. Answers Questions The lecturer concluded his appearance after a round of audience questions by setting forth three ways in which he felt we Americans could best work for the cause of peace. "We first must cast aside our war inted hysteria and hatred, we must be on the path of truth by considering all angles of RECORD RAMBLIN With Bill Last year ushered in that I "new look" and N 1 even more than 1 that, 1947 was paged by the "new sound" and I do mean "Bop." This new sound was vital, intricate, and subsequently un c o m m e r c ial. Young, competent musicians JISsssM were hampered and 'irritated by the banal thinners of the blues idiom that had been accentuated by many to be the true jazz idiom So aong came the Yardbird (Charlie Parke to you) and with him came Be Bop. Charlie did it and now everybody's doing it. Rumors have it that the "new LOOK" will be getting longer in 1948 but I can assure you that this "new sound" will not be longhair. How about that, man. All you Dick Haymes fans should get Dick's latest disc " That's All I Want To Know." On the reverse side he gives us "With The Roses In Her Hair." Both sides are good and easy listening and Dick doesn't fail to put in plenty of enthusiasm. Our favorite female singer, Billie Holiday, has come out with a swell recording of an old tune "On The Sunny Side of The Street." And on the opposite side she tells us in her bluesy sort of way "I Love My Ma." They're a couple of neat treats, and even if you've heard the songs recorded by different vocalists Billie adds something special. The Heywood trio adds some spice to the singing though Billie doesn't necessarily need any backing from anyone to make her sound good. 'Silver Chord' 1 m. u&? -1, Vy-1. Uf sophomores at W. C. and majoring in speech. Care Exercised "Wp fnl fViof o,,F4: . 1 been exercised in our cast selections w, pipa-ku piUUUU" tion. Abundant opportunities for ucin.-o.Le interpretations and finedrawn characterizations bear promise of one of the outstanding presentations ever attempted in this area," Mr. Allred concluded. the propaganda and we must be articulate by letting our representatives know that WP art in fovni. of certain specific things," St. ouuii concluded. ttilllllllllinilllMIHIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,,!,,!,,!,,! j QUICK LUNCH ( I Hamburgers - Short Orders I Good Coffee I 432 -25th Street I I Ogden, Utah yi'niiiiiiiniiiiniiiniiniiiinminii,,!,,,,!!,,!,,,,,,,,, Thanks, Weber for Your Patronage Topper Bakery 2516 Monroe Blvd. Phone 4248 It's Tops If It Comes from Topper Berna Goodwin |
