Show Your Neighbors' Ideas THE OPINION FORUM By Chronicle Readers STUDENT DENOUNCES MURAL CRITICISM This is really an open letter to Lynn the Pen's art but since I don't know him about the only way in which I can address him is through the columns of the I am interested in knowing on just what foundations he had the audacity to write such a criticism of the murals in the Park In the first place the criticism was entirely He didn't even bother to examine the paintings from basic aesthetic criteria in fact I failed to discover just what criteria he did use except his own obviously limited I think that the idea of having a criticism included in the Pen is very fine but I think that the murals certainly deserve to be judged by a competent art critic whose training and ability gives him the right to make a complete and adequate The murals have their good and their bad points the Pen review concentrates on little things like the inclusion of which is really the artist's own I wish Bennion would reply to this and justify his I doubt if he can but I wish he would An Indignant Pen Reader COED DISLIKES SELECTION OF STUDENT DRAMAS Editor It is a pretty sorry when the University theater schedules for university students four plays all bordering on the tragic and only one It is even more disgusting when one of these dramas is not staged as well as it might I am referring to to the the University theater's offering of last Aside from the fact that the play was simple propaganda and offered nothing new on the it isn't a good policy to have the lines delivered with accents so atrocious that attention is centered on the accent and not the The modern language department has repeatedly offered assistance on this accent Maybe it was due to poor direction or the players were unwilling to accept this help offered by the different language the way some of the German and French words were pronounced in this play was enough to cause another international It seemed that none of the characters took trouble to find out what country they so garbled were some of the The scenery and props continued to uphold the high standards set by production crews of the It is just these super accents and this striving of the University theater to put over stale plays just because they are big productions that I am protesting Beth Keele |