S YMPHONI E PASTORALE
Circle December 4 on your calendar of
events - to attend the film SYE7iONIE PAS
TORALE, a French movie with Enslish sub
titles which will be held at 8 P.M. in
Erie, Hall,
This is a roving story of faith and
p eople told through the experiences of
a pastor who befriends a blind girl.
Motivated by the purest feelings of comr.
passion, he takes this blind creature
into his home. As the wild found) 4 ng
grows into an attractive, inte7ligc:at
woman, the pastcr's kindly devotion turns
to selfish love.
The story illustrates Gide's abiding
philosophy that there is no intentional
evil in lifo e yet any of us may truir,-it
tingly p lay an evil part,
Flirted in the little village of Chateau
d'Oev, where Nobel Prize winner Andre
Gide received his orip4inal in,; , eiration
for this novel, SYD;PHONIE PAS2:R-ILE lays
bare the fallibility of man- lts per
vading theme is the conflict botwoen
the pastor's devotion to his faith and
family and his unconquerable love for
the girl he befriends„
This film was the winner of three a—
wards at the Cann.)s Intrnational Film
Festival: Best French Production ; Bost
Acting, and Best Musical Score.)
Never underestimate the power of Mr.
Grove as director of "Never Underesti—
mate the Power of a 7ioman," a superb,
hard—hiyting, hilarious Behrend Players
production presented November during
Comm Hour. The program combined ex—
cerpts from well-known plays 2nd a per—
vading concept of the conniving female,
Unfortunately ; the Players opened
with JIM DANDY, during which the audi—
ence laughed in all the vrong places,
Beth Krasohnoskovmc cxcpllunt in her
role, though John ienfield was mndi04,2 , ,.
But the program quickly picked up
MIA 'POW
and retained a high cal.ilper throughout„
Part of the cast pal - de through in
a WORD DANGT, dropping such succulent
lines as, "Do you roar. 5.2.0 it took Paul
Revere two and a half I?o7xs to rouse
the Tad= Matthew that 7';ht?" and
husband wont up 1,0 bed eco night al2d was
never seta again="
1 17 VILLLGE a)GING, by G. B, Shaw
was cleverly enacted ty Jim Trozzo
and Ll'argaret Her: - n ann; 1 2,,argaret the
irritating fora who .vouldn.t lot
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TL.:5 7 .1.:C. 1 OF r2FE: :7`.:5.;: 7 1.; by SHalco—
sPea:-e, fed u~ed JinL Vial - tin and Kathy
Rutko-Nsky, illArtim did a good job of
acting hon.?ecked and Kathy make a su—
perb shrew,
Tao program picked up momentum as
Bill Holmes, Sue Lancaster, and Barbara
Heintz portrayed Jc Thlz:bor's YR. EREB—
BLES GETS HID OF DIS TIFE. Holmes and
Sue lancas . cer were most convincing as
the ill-matched couple. This scone was
extremely witty.
Continuing with Thurber, the Players
became even more hilarious than over, if
that was possible. TH7 SECRET LIFE OF
IiaLTER:MITTY featured Jeff De 7 :b.it, Tayno
Sasala, Fill Holmes, Stove Fine, Doug
Bethune, Dielae Sehlosser, and Ruth Bram,.
The cast itself laughed during this wit
ty perform'lnce. Steve Fine was especial
ly funny in an air-sick scene,
Gail Holmstrom, Kay Walliams, and Jess
flenica climaxed the show with SCHOOL DUE
by U. N. Owen. Gail as an unpredictable
brat named Baby Snooks was hilarious in
her pigtails and air of innoseent ro
guery. Kay was great as a stuffy, aris
tocratic school teacher, Miss Shrewsbury.
The Players plan to follow up this
success with a spring production, DARKS
OF NOON, by Jean Anouilh for the student
body. They are hoping to do LITTLE
MARY SUNSTENE during the spring also, a
production which will be open to the
public. Having run off-8 , -oadway for a
bout two and a half years, this musical
production is a satire of the old Nelson
Eddy-Jeari%J.J:o McDonald style.
7:o will be anxiollsly awaiting all fur
hher prorn.ms of the Behrend Players.