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Belles Lettres Hears Smith
On 'Medea' and Greek Drama
Warren S. Smith, associate professor of dramatics, spoke on the
difference between the ancient Greek way of seeing a play as con
trasted to the modern method in a speech to the Belles Lettres Club
Tuesday night.
As an illustration, Smith used Euripedes’ “Medea,” which Players
will present tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday on the Schwab Audi-
torium stage
Smith said that the Greek play
in its original environment formed
part of a religious festival mak
ing the mood of the tragedy “mys
tical in essence.” The whole city
attended the play which original
ly was a religious procession in
which everyone took part. As
time went on the actors became
fewer and the audience larger.
The second factor in the Greek
method of seeing a play which
Smith cited was that the play was
held in an outdoor amphitheater,
“three times as large as Schwab
Auditorium," and started at sun
rise, usually lasting all day. Smith
said the amphitheater made the
production of “Medea” more like
a performance in Beaver Field in
stead of Schwab Auditorium.
Since there was such a large
expanse between actor and audi
ence, larger-than-life masks were
used instead of the modern stage
technique of facial expression.
The long, flowing robes of the
Grecian actor enlarged body
movement.
It also was necessary to chant
the lines of the play in order for
the voice to be projected to the
audience. It was “a theater of
chant and dance,” as Smith put it.
Smith said the most important
convention of the Greek tragedy
is the chorus which was originally
a large group of men making the
play mostly choral. In the Robin
son Jeffers’ version of “Medea”
to be done in Schwab, the chorus
is reduced to three women.
The purpose of the chorus in
Greek tragedy was varied. It
sometimes symbolized the . con
science of an actor, or the voice of
evil and destiny, or was used as
an “emotion control” telling the
audience how it should, feel. The
chorus accomplished this by poe
try and dance.
. Smith concluded his talk by
saying that the ancient Greeks
“never lost the sense of participa
tion that we have lost. Our gen
eration is a spoon-fed generation.
We have to have things explained
to us. The Greek audience had to
complete the picture in their own
way. I wish we could develop
more of a sense of participation
which the Greeks had.
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Debate Team
Places Third
The Men’s Debate Team placed
third in the Mount Mercy Tourn
ament, which was held in Pitts
burgh over the weekend. West
Virginia took first place and
Mount Mercy was second.
The topic was Resolved: That
the United States Should Recog
nize the Communist Government
of China.
Ernest Famous and Benjamin
Sinclair took the affirmative for
the University. They defeated
Geneva College, Carnegie Insti
tute of Technology, and Washing
ton and Jefferson University.
Taking the negative for the Uni
versity, Jonathan Plaut and Ed
ward Kievan won one and lost
two debates. Defeating Duquesne
University, they lost to Seton Hill
College and Westminster College.
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Cabinet
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that a permanent committee be
set up to carry out the proposed
program.
Cabinet will hear a request by
the graduate student government
on the use of the fees paid for
traffic violations. Both under
graduates and graduates pay fines,
ut funds are being channeled in
to undergraduate student govern
ment. Part of the funds are al
located to upkeep of parking lots
and part to student government.
The graduate student associa
tion would like the funds divided
by the ratio of graduates to under
graduates, or by allotting all re
ceipts from graduates to their
government.
Last week Cabinet voted to
postpone discussion on the Na
tional Student Association pro
gress report. Janice Holm, who
has handled NSA this year, but
is not i. Cabinet member, said she
felt that it was time for Cabinet
to decide if it wanted to put work
into NSA and make it worth
while, or if it wanted to drop it
completely.
Miss Holm said she thought
Cabinet should decide if they
wanted a Cabinet member to in
form the group of the work of
NSA.
Cabinet will also hear a pro
gress report from the academic
freedom week committee and a
tribunal report.
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Sentences-
(Continued from page one)
jail for driving under the. influ
ence of acohol. The student told
Tribunal that he will be allowed
to serve his sentence during Easter
vacation.
The four freshmen were fined
$5O plus $5 costs yesterday by the
Centre County justice of the peace
for taking 14 highway signs along
Rt. 545 the night of Feb. 18. This
is excepting Tribunal’s recommen
dation. This penalty is levied by
the University separate from any
County decision.
The four students were appre
hended by State Police -about 12:-
30 a.m. Feb. 19 at Pollock and
Shortlidge roads after removing
the signs along Rt. 545 to put in
their dormitory rooms. 17ie 14
signs included five highway stop
signs, two team-crossing signs,
two advertising signs for the Penn
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The students have paid resti
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'Medea'—
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Gertrude Kittelberger, and Con
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Lighting crew members are
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THURSDAY. MARCH 3. 1953
Ag IngliMMtra Society
L. R. Skromme,. chief engineer
of the New Holland Farm Machin
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meeting of the American Society
of Agricultural Engineers, student
branch.
The meeting will be held at 7
tonight in 105 Agricultural Engi
neering.
Market Group to Meet
Vincent Bergmann, research di
rector of a large Detroit adver
tising agency, will speak to the
Marketing Club at 7:30 tonight in
303 Willard. Movies will also be
shown. New members may at
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Correction
John Dennis, sixth semester
chemical engineering major, was
elected treasurer of the Pollock
council and Nelson Seidel, sixth
semester business administration
major, was elected representative
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Dr. Edgar B: Hale, assistant
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will speak on “The Personality of
a Turkey” at a meeting of the
Poultry Club at 7 p.m. tonight in
108 Plant Industry.
Refreshments will be served.
Barbara Dickerman, Beverly Fish,
Bruce Johnston, James Noll and
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