The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 2, 1963 Page: 6 of 12
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THE THRESHER
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2, 1963
Executives Defend
Free Enterprise
Tomorrow Night
The first offering of the Fo-
rum Committee will be present-
ed tomorrow night at 7:30 in the
Fonclren Lecture Lounge.
The program will consist of a
panel of business executives rep-
resenting the Texas Manufactur-
ers Association who have been
stumping the state in behalf of
free enterprise.
The panel has already appeared
at Baylor and the University of
Houston, where they "were well
received" according to Forum
Chairman Jack Beaird.
Fred L. Van Osdell, one of the
members of the panel, has claim-
ed for the free enterprise sys-
tem "the greatest motivation and
incentive ever developed by any
governmental, industrial, or com-
mercial leaders," in regard to in-
dustry.
Beaird especially invited the
"liberal" elements of the com-
munity to put in an appearance
at the meeting. He promised a
"lively" discussion, describing the
TMA panelists as "well qualified
and able to state and defend
iheir views."
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CHAPEL ACTIVE
Rice Offers Religious Freedom
Plus Opportunity To Worship
By RICHARD BEST
During the half-century of
this university's existence,
established religion in Texas has
often been viewed by students as
inevitably playing the role of a
burner of books, a supressor of
liberty, in short, an agent of
intellectual and political reaction.
It is therefore not unusual that
Rice students frequently reject
religious faith. Indeed, if the
existence of God is held to mean
that one must not enjoy a cold
beer on a hot afternoon, or a
play depicting a serious author's
spiritual malaise, then most in-
tellectuals would think Him an
absurd and irrelevant Diety.
NEVERTHELESS the Rice
community is often accused of
committing a reverse provincial-
ism by insisting on seeing all
religion as rurally Texan, almost
as if Barth and Bonhoeffer,
Maritain and Montini, Buber and
Berdyaev never existed. Despite
the near heroic efforts of Chapel
preachers, campus clergymen, and
others, religious faith usually
remains i'utilely peripheral to the
intellectual concerns of the Uni-
versity.
Rice may not be Harvard: to
an even greater extent Houston
is not Cambridge. Yet opportun-
ities do exist for mature? worship
and serious religious study.
THE RICE Chapel will this
year present a number of highly
significant lectures. In the past
men of the caliber of Paul Tillich,
Hans Kung, and Eugene Carson
Blake have addressed the Uni-
versity on the religious crises of
our age.
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It has ever been the hope of
the Rev. Lane Denson, the Epis-
copal Chaplain, that St. Bede's
Chaepl in the Autry House (lo-
cated across Main Street from
Will Rice College) will become
a campus pulpit where various
local clergymen of many de-
nominations can address a col-
legiate congregation on issues
relevant to this academic situa-
tion, JA 4-3168.
FATHER JOUBERT, the di-
rector of St. Mary's Chapel and
Student Center at 1703 Bolsover,
attempts to provide a vigorous
liturgical an dtheological pro-
gram for the intellectual heirs of
St. Thomas, JA 6-3809.
The Wesley Foundation meets
weekly for Communion and study
in the Autry House. The Rev.
Fred Holt is the dynamic leader
of the Methodist group, JA 4-
3168.
THE REV. Earl Mulley, a
specialist on Christian views con-
cerning nuclear warfare, leads
Sunday evening discussions for
the Presbyterian Student Asso-
ciation, again in the Autry House,
J A 4-3168.
The Baptists have a new,
well-equipped student center on
Fannin Street, a successful choir,
and the Rev. Vernon Davis as
their able Chaplain, MO 5-4730.
THE DISCIPLES Student Fel-
lowship meets at 5 pm Sundays
at the First Christian Church,
just north of the campus. The
Rev. Ben Fordham is the new
chaplain, JA 6-2561.
The Hillel organization en-
deavors to help the Jewish stu-
dent to understand his tradition.
The President is Barry Gaines,
PA 3-1440.
THE MISSOURI Synod Luth-
erans meet at St. Matthew's
Church, 5300 South Main at 7
pm Sundays. Chaplain is the
Rev. Milton Mayer, who can sup-
ply details at RE 3-3344.
The Christian Science organ-
ization meets occasionally in the
Autry House. Virginia Rainbow
is their student president.
Further information is avail-
able concerning all groups at the
Autry House, JA 4-3168.
SOUTH MAIN BOOK STORE
6624 Main (I Blk. Tidelands - Shamrock) JA 4-5517
Open 10 a.m. -6 p.m.
10% Discount to Rice Students
On Books & Caedmon Records in our Regular Stock
Books of all kinds for Adults and Children
FINE PAPERBACKS
Art Prints • Caedmon Records of Poetry & Drama
Presentational 'J. B'
Impresses Audiences
By LINDA WALSH
Presentational theater, that an-
cient cart worthy of being drawn
by Aeschylus and Shakespeare, is
at last being renovated by modern
dramatists and directors for a
public weary of pseudo-Ibsenism.
•'J.B.," performed last week by
the Rice Players, was successful
because it "presented" and did not
"represent" man's search for
meaning.
"J.B." audiences held mixed re-
actions and interpi'etations, but
none who saw the play could de-
ny that it was a tremendous ac-
complishment for the Players,
and that it introduced an inter-
esting new face for theater as
a whole. Director David Dannen-
baum and designer Joseph K. Ri-
der created an excellent produc-
tion of Archibald MacLeish's
Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
LIFE IS A spinning joke, a
top on a dung heap, unless man
can find purpose in its seeming
meaningless self-justification for
his existence—love in his pile of
excrement. The modem Job
whose "lucky story" twists into
tragedy, J. B., has to question
himself and his God, must make
contact with humanity, or "drown
in ordure."
J.B. and Sarah, their children
and their lives, are shattered and
broken by Fortune's cruel impar-
tiality. A previously overly-pious
Sarah chooses to "curse God and
die," rather than stay with her
husband, who remains "groveling
in the revolting excrement, eating
it." She returns at last for love
of man and regeneration, not for
love of existence and God.
When J.B. at last begins to
question existence, he realizes
that the true comfort in ris de-
spair is not the twisted words of
science, religion, or any "—ism,"
it is the gift of misery not his
own. The old women who "gave
their misery to keep (him)
warm" made him transcend self
and make contact with humanity.
SATAN DOES NOT believe
Job could bear to live after his
suffering: "To take up planting
the world again—Job could not
bear it twice over." But, God re-
minds him, "it i s borne over
again, every generation." J.B.
vows, "but he slay me, yet I will
trust in him, yet I will maintain
mine own ways before him."
Perhaps just as interesting or
more so than the play itself were
the technical aspects. Director
Dannenbaum explains, "We were
blatantly theatrical with this play
. . . perhaps Americans are get-
ting so tired of realistic stage
that they are desiring a stage
that puts more of the actor in
the audience."
J.n presentational theater, the
actor, not the set designer, sets
the time and place. Mi*. Rider
seated the audience in a circus
tent where they watched a three-
ring show, heaven and hell to
stage left and right and earth in
the center ring. Using a blood-
bath as the backdrop and the
viewer's imagination as the cur-
tain, he constructed a marvelous-
ly sturdy and effective arena.
Movement in this arena was
excellent in its flow and variety.
Mike Cox (Nickles) had the best
command of the space and form
of the stage. Claudie Pettigrew
(Sarah) did some very profes-
sional upstaging that was the pri-
mary marring factor in an other-
wise good performance. Mike
Cooper. (Second Roustabout)
however, used a too dramatic pos-
ture and gave little expression
to some very rich language.
THE ACTING was, on the
whole, quite polished and effec-
tive. Mike Holmes was very good
as J.B., struggling at times, with
inadequate dialogue and an ex-
acting role, yet giving an admi-
rable interpretation. All Worked
well together and compensated
for a few weak spots with some
outstanding performances.
LIGHTING AND SOUND, al-
though very good, did not quite
reach the level of the movement.
Too often were eyes and facial
expressions poorly illustrated for
no apparent reason, and there
seemed to be too much unneces-
sary volume. Because we Were
without light, we had to rely on
voices for the main medium of
expression. From the beginning,
the vocal level was so high that
it often strained itself in attempt-..
ing to reach an apogee.
Presentational theater was
hard for many "J.B." viewers to
accept because it is new to a mod-
ern public and it demands so
much of an audience. This should
however, stimulate both spectat-
or and Player to demand more
such productions and further ex-
perimentation. "J.B." is a hard
act to follow.
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W H E N INTERVIEWED by
the Thresher, Mr. Coffee stated
that lie does not want to make
a statement," and that he only
wanted what he felt "was the
best for Rice." He said that the
petition he filed with Mr. Billups
"spoke for itself."
As stated in the petition, the
objection of the intervenors to
the University's suit is that it
seeks a "complete abrogation and
abandonment of the indenture"
which founded the University.
When interviewed, President
Pitzer stated only that "we had
hoped that the suit might have
been "brought to a conclusion
about this time, but with the in-
tervention, it is now impossible
to make any prediction as to when
the action will be completed."
PITZER DID indicate, how-
ever, that Mr. Aronson's action
was not the only express approval
of the Board's action in pressing
the suit: "Contributions to the
University have come in with cov-
ering letters that indicated that
the contributions were inspired
by the Board's action with re-
spect to integration."
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Keilin, Eugene. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 2, 1963, newspaper, October 2, 1963; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244893/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.