AGAIN IN THE NEWS

T H E stern Sir Harry • M*ss»l,

Knight of the Nuclear Pestle,

Will accept no apology For the neglect of tech>

nology.

—R.A.B.

THE %9.q.U, NEWSPAPEiL iSNi

Wednesday, October 11 , 1960 «t«' i;?Ji."'by*WV-?s l''1^':U^;. Vol. 30 , No. 11

FOR THIRD TERM DAZORS pain you;

...^ Rivers aro damp; jicids' stain you;

And dru3S cause cramp. ^Qis aren't lawful;, grtWooses give; j g l i .ipells awful;

Vou might as well live. —Dorothy Parker.

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G. P. Hut Saved iMAMMOTH PREMIER TO AID Largely owing to the sympathetic attitude of the

Vice-Chancellor, the University has decided not to resume control of the G.P. Hut next year. The present Women's Comnton Room will be used hy the Univer­sity as administrative offices, but the G.P. Hut is to remain as a rehearsal room and theatre for the students. To compensate for the

iloss of the Common Room .a dressing room is to be built along the back wall of the Hut itself. This wiU of necessity be a long thin room and will ad-

.join the existing dressing iroom. A sink will also be built into the room.

This means that until the Union theatre Is built there can be a theatre of

: sorts at the University. Weightlifting, judo and : general meetings will all be carried on in the new Union, as will dances and general student rorts. •

With the prospect of getting something for themselves it is hoped •that student dramatic ven­tures other than Scoop will be able to produce a successful show there. The ^hall would be ideal for a

Union Councillor and business manager of "Semper". 19th Century melodrama, and Dram. Soc. would do well to consider the at­tractions of the bizarre and informal atmosphere of the hut rather than the squalid, which t has chosen to reproduce in its plays to date.

It is also hoped that Union Council will do something about installing permanent footlights and seating in the hall, and last term a meeting of all dramatic groups was held to discuss ways and means of getthig these amenities. Nothing has yet been de­cided, but let us pray that this is due merely to lack of information as to the fate of the building and not inertia.

SPORTS RESULTS The results of the Sports

Union Elections have fin-;ally come to hand. When nominations closed there weren't any, but since July .an eager and capable group have been <Oscoveted.

Next year's president Is .John McBryde of Engin­

eering who has recently been in Rome with the Hockey team. Kon. Sec. of the Men's Sports Union is •Greg O'Brien who is doing Science III.

The new President of the Women's Sports Union is Judy Clark (Arts-Phys. £d.) and the new Secretary is Catherine McArthur, •who will also be director of Orientation.

Co-director of Orienta­tion is Coralie Jones,

APPEAL On Tuesday 27th Sep-

tembcr crowds gathered to sec the premiere of "Ben Hur"—all proceeds in aid of the University Great Hall Appeal. And greater crowds gathered to have a look at the mob who were willing to pay up to five guineas to see this mam­moth religious epic.

The cynics among the audience found it rather

i amusing contemplating ithe intelligentsia of Bris-, bane watching a film (Suitable for twelve year '; olds. ! All tastes were catered ,for. A real Scotch band •piped in the film. Usher-lettes dressed in regal I purple with gilt fringes handed out programmes.

I Real Americans playing ; Jews, and real Englishmen : playing Romans, added to I the cosmopolitanism of Ithe evening.

MOSES POINTS OUT THE PROMISED LAND. Seeing him­self as a second Chatlton Hcston, Clark leads the Chosen Pocipio on a conducted four of the Promised Union Building. "Chosen People" in this case refers of course to the now Union Councillors —including in their numbers the blind, fhe halt, fhe lame.

Milk and hany in this new land of plenty will bo sup­plied at the usual prices by Joe Mallcy.

N.Z. Travel Scheme QNCE again N.U.A.U.S. has made arrangements for

Australian students to spend their Christmas vaca­tion in New Zealand, and to receive and assist a group of holidaying N.Z. students who are coming to visit us. U you are interested in

taking advantage of the Exchange Scheme you may receive information about ii from Union Ofice.

Cost of return fare by ship wUl be about £60. Students will be met on arrival hi Auckland and given information about we employment hi each city as well as details of contacts in each major city.

iVee accommodation will be provided lor the first

two nights there and though no guarantee of employment can be pro­vided, information con- cernlng employment facil­ities will be given to stu­dents upon arrival.

Application forms are now available at Union Office—£5 deposit plus 10/- service fee must be lodged with each applica­tion.

Applications close on 1st November, 1960.

After searching for prominent pcrsonalifios at "Ben Hur' our photographer finaUy gave up and settled for ifrom left>.

Mr. Knight political adviser to William Wyler, John Brodic Daiton offered the parf of J.C. esq. but declined. Professor McElwain psychological adviser to Pontius Pilate seen smiling behind right, Joan Lyndon who would have played Mary Magda­lene had fhe part offered sufficient scope, John Fogarty who Is not leering at his sister Pat, but at fhe blonde nof shown in the photo.

The Sound and the Fury

^^ELL, the annual general meetitig of the union has been held, and we hope will soon pass into the limbo

cf forgott«n things.

This year's annual report was an excellent presenta' tion and those who had anything to do with the putting together of it should take a bow.

As for the meeting Itself, Clark buzzed around from one item on the agenda to another like a • demented mosquito. Mr. Binns, he of the traffic office, waffled on for a few min­utes signifying nothing. The right Honourable J. A. Young executed a series of swan songs, Mr. Hen­derson pontificated, as usual, and John Daiton and John Fogarty are editors of this thing next year. Stan Latham took

on WUS, Alschol is still vacant.

I believe some other things happened at the meeting, but one can't keep awake all the thne.

I LiveUest incident outside I the meeting was when council adjourned to fight the fires. Clark showed he would make a good fire fighter—he certainly has the talents for that work too.

University students do some damn fool things at

I times but to deliberately set fire to a dry paddock in a time of acute fire danger is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Probably the least said about such mongrels the better.

OLYMPICS I I So far this year we have j kept sport off the front 'page but we think the effort of Queensland Uni­versity people at the Olym-' pics deserve congratula­tions from all students.

Most students can read; so we won't bore you with i the gorey details of Hailey I and McBrlde's work in • the hockey, Tony Blue's! effort in the 800 metres,, Graham Bond's work In, the bars, and David i Theile's second gold medal; In the swimmhig.

INTER-VARSITY DEBATING y^T the Intervarsity Debating Competition held in

Sydney over August Vacation, Quecixsland was represented by Dan O'Neill, Darryl Douglas, Sylvia Butts, and Ian Gzell.

After winning their first debate — "that affluence Is the curse of our age" — they were de­feated in the semi-finals by Sydney (by Z points) in the debate "that our newspapers are becoming the enemy of a sane society". Sydney went on to win the final debate against New England on "politics and religion are better kept separate".

The Sydney team was M. Gleeson, J. Hamilton, R. Walsh, and L. Ryan, who defeated Western Australia ("that the dead rule the world") and Tas­mania ("that It Is better to plant a potato than a rose") as well as Queenssland to reach the finals.

Queensland has held the Philipphies Cup for the last tliree years and were somewhat disappointed to have to hand It back to Sydney who have held It more often than any other University.

Naturally, we expect to get It back next year.

Squeaks and

Gibbers CROM the comments that * have been arriving in the post It seems Semper is being read more avidly hi Melbourne than in Queensland. As well as featuring a mangled pre­cis of Crazy Jane's article on A.U.P. on Its front page. Farrago has printed the story of our fight with our former printers, has used one of Pfogarty's cartoons, repeated one of our front page boxes, and distorted a passage from our review of If the Gown Fits.

Such, we suppose, are the penalties of notoriety.

Sydney, of course, has politely ignored us all year, despite our com­ments on their art, ed­itor, paper, politics, and provincialism.

Their editor has just moved to Melbourne!

AT the top of every IBCA news-sheet sent

to Semper is the foUowhig cryptic comment:—"Re­production is free; men­tion of source would be appreciated."

IBCA, in case you're wondering, is the Inter­national Bureau for Cul­tural Activities.

It covers a wide field of interests.

IN the second issue of the new English Society

magazine "The Makar" a poem appeared entitled "The Condemned" by J W. Allen. The initial let­ters of the lines poem were (In order) — B.U.Ii.L. C.R.A.P. S.H.E.EJR.B.U.L.L.

In the following Issue of The Makar, the editorial gravely announced:

In the last editorial we mentioned that it may be possible to effect consid­erable improvement in some of the work which is submitted. As an ex­ample of this we are prlnthig in this issue an amended version of a poem which appeared in last month's magazine, The poem is obviously nonsense as it stands, but we feel that with a little alteration it is capable of conveying some intelligent meaning.

Sure enough The Con­demned was back again— this time presented "with much pleasure".

Its initial letters still read buHcrap sheerbuU.

"Unerring Semper, still divinely bright,

Olne clear, anchanged, and unSverMi light'."

POPE.

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i 'TnU of Sound, and Fury, m&mym^...'' I earmody censured

^ UOW can you publish such hisldious ' and nauseating guff as appears S above the name of John Carmody In ° practically every edition of Semper? i I read Carmody's first concert re -2 view — or rather half of I t — after a which I had to adjourn to a con-' venient;pl9ce to be sick and thus had g no stomach for the rest of the article. = However so often have I heard Car-M mody's tripe ridiculed and joked g about that I ventured to try another ~ sample of his rubbish to see If all •5 everyone has been saying about Car-I mody could possibly be true. 0 If Carmody's gurglings on The * Magic Flute (S.F. 5th Aug.) were just ^ plain nonsense and stupidity they y could be dismissed as the harmless £ ravings of a lunatic, but such vile 3 criticism and alarming misrepresen-^ tatlons cannot be allowed pass un-•5 checked.

Carmody is obviously suffering 1 from a disease which is reaching

j ^ epidemic proportions among Aus-^ tralian music critics — the disease ^ of "antihickism". This disease > manifests itself in vicious attacks ~ on overseas celebrities who visit the = country — a result of fear tha t to 3 praise visiting artists is to leave „ one's self open to ihe claim .that i one lacl;s taste, tha t one is a hick .g or country bumpkin with no dis-E crimination at all. S Thus every artist is torn to shreds - or a t least condescendingly acknow-^ ledged, for what critic who can find •§ all those faults with all those artists •- could possibly lack taste? Thus I Kubelik was damned, Fontyn was ^ criticised, and more recently Campoli y was criticised and Sargent and " Markevltch were condescendingly > acknowledged. ~ Carmody, labouring under a (justl-« fiably) bigger inferiority complex •= than the professional crltls is c apparently even more vicious than ' most, for he has consistently a t -•X tacked mtislcians and music the E whole year. However his attack on 0 The Magic Flute is so blgotted I feel ° another opinion ought to be voiced in ^ these pages. 1 This hick village is not Salzburg, a Vienna or Prague, and as our opera * season is merely a four week visit by ^ a touring company, we should not £ expect a performance to rival the 0 D.G.G. recording of the opera. What i we can expect Is t h a t vague though >. vital thing called atmosphere. This g can never be captured by a record— "• It Is t he result of a two-way com-1 municatlon between audience and ^ actors (shigers — sometliing unique -y to the theatre. 0 And .the Trust's recent production 1 did have atmosphere. And the sing­s' ing was of a sufficiently high stand-^ ard to be enjoyed. Perhaps Glenda " Raymond had to struggle through s the vengeance aria but after all It is

the most difficult aria in the color-•i tura repertohe, perhaps Kenneth • Neate was very disappointing (he has g no excuse really), nevertheless the ° overall standard was creditably high. = This production was a credit to « ^he Trust. This opera cannot be

ma.de a success inerely by import­ing two or four "stars" — there are a t least seven solo singers of about equal importance, two trios of women with major singing parts, a duo of men and a chorus, i.e., about fifteen "principal singers" besides the chorus. To achieve the consistently high standard they did was no mean feat. Contrary to Carmody's claim, I

heard every word Neil Warren-Smith sang, I found the tliree genii ap ­pealing and fayl t le^ and the ladies generally .cgmpeteht. HJjs crltlclspi of devote a Uttlp t}TOiB to llstenhig to diction Is outrageous; I suggest he Mozartlan counterpoint to develpp

an understanding of what is meant by diction. The newcomer could have followed the 'sense of all the opera with no difficulty even if he did miss some phrases a t times. The diction, while not perfect, was not by any means bad.

One would expect Carmody to •praise the only real 'fault in the opera: while :Karl .Rankl in charge of the music did everything in his power to give an immaculate and studied {and thoroughly Mozartian) reading of the score (almost to the point of error), the producer was doing everything to "popularise" the dialogue, "rhere was a decided lack of harmony between the scholarly restraint of the music and the boist­erous overplaying of the dialogue, most obvious when Papagens was on stage (although Jackson ^ang superbly),.

Finally I should like to ask Carmody a question. Do you enjoy the concerts and operas you review? If you don't why do you keep going to them? If you do why are ycu such a hypocrite as to damn all and sundry as you do?

—R.S.

^ onee more into the breach dear friends''

JN asking JMG and EU for precise answers to specific questions my

concern was tha t the authority of Ordered Intelligence had been invoked in that field where its authority is least regarded.

Rationalist-Christian debate is In­evitably futile because Rationalists in­variably fail to distinguish between false premises and fallacious reasoning, and Christian .apologists, using undefined or ill-defined terms, invariably insist on provhig the wrong point.

Based on the premise tha t "the original biblical record is essentially correct" a definition of Christianity may be arrived a t as follows: 1. CHRIST; Refer to Young's Concor­

dance and the Universal Jewish En­cyclopaedia under tri-lingual equiva­lents "Christ", "messiah", and "anointed". Cyrus the Mede was one of the OT temporary christs.

2. DIFFERENTIA: Jesus differed from all other biblical christs/messiahs in tha t he was cruclfied-resurrected (see 4)

3. MESSIANIC CRITERIA: Old Testa­ment Hebrews specified certain cri­teria which were to be satisfied at the one and only appearance of a per­manent "anointed". Some of the criteria were: a. the world to be cleansed by fire b. the tribes of Israel to be reunited c. the "Kingdom of God" to be estab­

lished d. the ciirlst to "abide for ever".

4. SATISFACTION: New Testament writer? propose that these criteria were satisfied In a totally unexpected way, i.e., through the agency of a cruclfied-resurrected christ. The pro­position did not recommend itself to Jews

5. CHRISTIANITY: Draws its essential character from the essential distinc­tion between Jesus and other types of christs.

6. UNIVEESAIi - PABTICUIAR: Each Partkular Self hecomesj)ar t of the Universal "Kingdom of God" (see 7) through the principle of self-crucl-fixlon and resurrection. As a spiritual act this does not imply "mortification of the flesh" or self-martyrdom. I t Implies the psycliologically justifiable principle of spiritual rebirth or "second bU:th". The crucifhdon is a particular Instance of the universal cruclfhdon of Truth by self-righteous Ignorance.

7. THE BEGINNING: Mankhid, biblic­ally presented, has had two begin­nings—Adam's creati(»i and Jesus' resurrection. The NT writers saw the resurrection as the beginning of the creation o^ God. Jesus they saw as the "last Adam" by crucifixion and, by resurrection, as "the beginning . ; . the firstborn from the dead", the

"firstfrults of them *that sleep", "the only-begotten" (I.e., begotten from the dead—Acts 13) etc., etc. The world was "reborn" through a process identical to tha t mentioned in (6) .The Insistence upon the resur­rection as a fact (as isolated by Mr. Brooks) derives from this .Importance in the scheme of NT :reasonlng. I t lappears, from close analysis, tha t the NT writers discovered in Psalms 89-26/27 and 2-7 (firstborn, only-be­gotten) the otherwise "missing" criteria satisfied by Jesus through resurrection. As criteria of resurrec­tion however, they can only be so employed if the reasoning In (6) is correct and If Jesus established a spiritual kingdom .as the firstborn "among many brethren".

8. SON OF GOD: As used Biblically this term has 4 meanings: a. created b. procreated c. anointed (christ) ' d. resurrected (only-begotten) Considered as 4 terms the 4 usages are NOT mutually exclusive. Jesus justified his own claim on the basis

of (b) but indicated, at the same time that natural generation provided only the "empty form" which required a "filling" of appropriate character,

9. SON OF JOSEPH: Semper's evan­gelical correspondents are obviously under the misapprehension that "son of Joseph" and "son of Gcd" are mutually-exclusive terms. Historically and factually, however, the mutually-exclusive terms in the New Testament identifications of Jesus are "son of Joseph" and "King of Israel". Evidence on this point is quite con­clusive.

E. P. WIXTED, Arts, Part Time.

she's not mum I SHOULD like to inform Med. I.

1980, and -anyone -else who is in­terested, that I AM NOT "Mother of Six". Surely this person could come forward and accept the credit—or blame—accruing from those most in ­formative letters.

Nevertheless, I should like to take this opportunity of agreeing with one of "Mother of She's" earlier letters, as regards the t reatment meted out to Nick Clark by our glorious Semper.

Mr. Clark may appear a t times to be in need of a Book of Etiquette and Courtesy; yet even this doesn't seem to warrant the continued criticism which appears in all Sempers. Much of this may be tongue-in-cheek re­porting but i t does become a httle sickening to those in the outer circles.

Yours etc. DOROTHY MILIAR

Med. I .

voice from aifar ; luiR. PETER ROESER'S shrill shriek .^ • " of Injured;Innocence has reached --me in exile. I have only one objec- ;? tion to his .statements.: .they are "• completely false. 2-

If Semper's policy towards the ^ Union is to be attacked, I fall to.see ? why Miss TLyndon should get all ^the blame. As her co-editor throughout | fir St. term, I . shared .responsibility for 2. all editorial policy, and, in fact, much '; of the reporting df 'Couneil proceed- g ings was.my work. ?

I was in complete agreement with her comments on the Medical ~ Society's stupidly parochial atti tude ' to the International Conference on i Student Mental Health and with her ^ reaction to their -heavy-handed and E abortive attempt to Induce Council ^ to stand over the editors If the mat- _ ter had been in my hands, I'd have < "been rather more emphatic than she ^ was. o'

Roeser alleges tha t Semper's r e ­porting of Union business was in- I adequate..If he would bother to check , his facts, he would discover t h a t tha t S. this is completely false. Semper this ? year has given more space to both t: objective reporting and comment on 8 the Union than it ever has before. 3 The Union has -had -the front page S in practically every issue and a let 5 of other space as well.-Some students •» have even complained tha t we were ra filling the paper with "bureaucratic = buU". 1

I t is true tha t neither Miss Lyndon < nor I treated Union politicians with " the respect -some of them thought 5-they deserved, but beoing Union poll- j ticians ourselves, we felt that nothing « was to be gained by writing of the 5 Council as if it were the "Mount ^ Olympus Parliament. ;;|

Anyway, what right has this o student cf the Santamarla-Commo " methods of stacking meetings to lee- 5. ture anyone on ethics? >^

BILL SPARKES $ Sometime Co-editor, Semper Floreat "

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she is I SHOULD Uke to inform anyone ' who Is interested tha t I AM NOT Dorothy Millar (Med. 1). ,

I am sorry about this confusion, but I had thought my slgnatiure was sufficient to dlsthigulsh me from other females In Med. I. I realize my mistake and would like to add the further comment tha t I am married.

May there now be no more of these false accusations!

Yours expectantly, Mother of Six, Med. I .

PJB.: May there also he no more of Mr. Clark!

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Have you even wondered.....

QNB" of our devoted readers has written to "Semper" posing this fasciiiating question.. We print his letter below.

Unfortunately we:are unable to offer prizes for the nearest correct solution, as. wcalrcady^have-.a. copy of the official Union view of the problem in scintillatilig Clarfc journalese covering,six. foolscap pages. From it wc have gleaned a few. stater ments of: some interest, to. students which WC-print for your edification*

Just'keep reading,down the page and you can't, miss finding them.. ) \ L T H 0 U G H : you. would never know it from reading j U.Q.U. and how will It. be

"Semper", there is goiiig to be a University College i Pcnfc? at Townsville next year.

On: the outskirts of Townsville, on a barren desolate waste, marred only by a State High School, three, beaut; red' brick, buildings arc rapidly materialising. Even on a Saturday afternoon (yes, even Saturday),, about fifty employees of. the P.W.D. can be seen falling over one another, as- they frant' ically race against time to complete the University Cbllcgc — to do (as one chap wistfully put it), "three years work in six months".

What has the Students' Union done about this Townsville College?

Has Union formulated acy policy concerning the new college — have they discussed the matter with the Senate?

Doees U.Q.U. want the Townsville students to be members of our Union (these students will prob­ably come to Brisbane after a year or two) or does Union prefer Towns­ville students to form thek own autonomous Union?

Will there be a com­pulsory Union fee for Townsville students? If so will it be oaid to

If U.QtU., prefers Towns­ville tO' have Its own in­dependent union, wouldi it not, nevertheless, bo com­mon, courtesy to extend to Ihem a helping hand in the initial stages, especi­ally now before the Col­lege is opened?

Remarkable as It may seem there are students whose Interests extend beyond the petty Intrigues that monopolise the time of Union officials. Now that our trainee politicians have successfully weath­ered the elections is it ask­ing too much to expect a full report on Union policy concerning Townsville?

—R.H.S.

Our photograph shows the official opening of the Townsville University College in May this year. It is estunated: that 106 students will be taking First Year Courses in most faculties there-next year, with the exception of Law and Dentistry. Of these students it is estimated that 45 will reside in Townsville, the other 60 will come from outside centres.

PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT Extracts from Mr. Clark's letter to the Vice-Chancellor on the Townsville

University College: "Next year when there are Phrst Year Courses ' an autonomous Sports

only at the University, it has been suggested; that a ' Council should be estab-meeting of all students be convened by a representa tive of the Union who could travel to "Townsville. This meeting would elect office bearers and a committee who would hold office until the end of the year. "During this stage, the

Union would have to take responsibility for financial needs of the Students' Association by the creation of a. special fund to which will be paid Union sub­scriptions for all students at the College. Since it is possible there will be heavy capital financial outlay from this fund in the next few years, the Union will be prepared to loan monies to this fund from its reserves to be recouped as enrolments. Increase.

"The Union through a representative, or directly, could employ any secre­tarial and cafeteria staff that may be required' at the College,, en a recomr-mendatlon being made by the Committee of the Association.

"Fhiancial approval for expenditure on non-capital, Items, from the Townsville Fund would have to be vested initially in Union Council, Council having power to approve or dis­approve but not to modify recommendations of the Association's' Committee. It will be obviously desirable that the financial auto­nomy of the Association be

lished or whether they prefer to have a central­ised body.

increased rapidly; particu- qu 'S fon^ 'o^caSn i " ser! larly if the Patron acted as Honorary Treasurer, and was prepared to ad­vise the- Committee on the preparation of a budget, hi which case overall bud-getry approval could be given by Union Council.

"When a substantial number of second year en­rolments are accepted, and students who have gained experience in student affairs are available as office holders I suggest that the Students' Associ­ation be abolished, and a University of Townsville Union be formed. I think that this body wiU still require guidance and capi­tal assistance from the University of Queensland Union, to which, during this stage of the College's development, it should be affUiated but I feel that a certain portion of the Union's subscriptions, not required to repay capital loans and provide tor ex­pansion of permanent faciUties, could be trans­ferred to. the control of the Council of this Union. Withhi a year or so of the formation of this body I would suggest that its members decide whether

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vices in the College I think the Union will be in a position to undertake lia­bility for equipment if the basic proposal of a "Townsville Fund" is ac­ceptable. This will require an initial loan to the Fund from the Union's re­serves, but a quick esti­mate of requirements of common rooms and kit­chen equipment and cafe­teria furnishings indicates that initially less than £1000 and probably less than £500 will be required."

These proposals were generally acceptable to. the representatives of the Col­lege. Accordhigly the Union Is willing to grant recognition to a body known as the Townsville University College Stu­dents' Association which shall have the status of both an affiliated and sponsored, club within the Union and which shall be regarded for the purposes of the Union's Constitu­tion as an Area.

There is an obvious need for a hostel in the Towns­ville area and Ifhas been suggested that the Union be a guarantor of the Company that it pro­posed to be formed under .the North Queensland University Association—a voluntary body of inter­ested persons with, at the moment only limited fin­ancial backing. The exact size of the guarantee will depend on a number of factors, not the least of which Is that we must re­member we may be called upon to honour It. Even In these chrcmnstances it :has been recommended that the sum be of the order of £5,000.

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A Review of Ben-Hur THOUGH the premiere of BEN-HUR may perhaps

be only at> item of minor interest to film-goers, I think many of the enthusiastic body of amateur artists who make motion pictures may find it au offering of major interest to their specialised taste. Therefore I have attempted to review this film from this point of view in showing where future film-makers may profit by their mistakes. And It must also be ad- see one company carrying

mltted that although i such an inspiring theme. M.G.M. may not have succeeded in making a film epic yet they made a gallant try. a heart-warming thing to

but one feels that they were somewhat rash to do

have so much on such a modest It is, budget, and we cannot al­

low the purity of their

. aim to excuse their rawest;? ! errors of judgement.

j For example, one trap for beginners is the character

iof Christ. If one finds I that one cannot present I him as a full-bodied I human being then it Is I better to exclude him I altogether form the work I than show him as a harm-' less, weak-minded efflmln-jate. This will do nothing to Improve the film, nor

1 will it in any way en-; hance that gentleman's renown.

A crowd

of angry

American directors

marching to the Film Censors

fo protest against' the fact

that nobody has as yet banned

one single scene in this f im .

Christ is also embarrass­ing to film-makers by introducing a religious at­mosphere whereby sex must be excluded. It Is perhaps possible to pro­duce a work of art not having this eminently dramatic ingredient In it, but if it must be avoided then care should be taken

jthat disregard of the love I partner Is not allowed to 'develop into Incest, as it I appears in this film. I Furthermore If you feel ^obliged to have love wlth-lout sex, it Is preferable to I expunge all amorous pas-Ision from the work of art I rather than have your jmale and female leads .forced Into the Improb-I able and unsatisfactory j relationship as were Judah jand Esther In this film.

^ Another lesson which this film offers to ama­teurs is the damaging consequences of not hav­ing sufficient action to keep the plot in motion. Ben Hur offends most

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With a word of Advice lo otlier amateur fIlm-iiiak4.»r»i

down so that It might awards, which I consider have a decently lengthy i It well deserves.

; showing-time. Or, if it is not possible to do other-

'; wise, then actors should jbe hired who can Illumln-late their speeches and •make them sound more ] than hackeney and maud­lin.

Symbolism should also ,be shunned If you have not the skill and finesse to treat it properly for, mishandled, this device

• can appear mawkish and I Infantile.

i Some plausibility of plot too is asked for, and it is

.worth spending a little i extra money on a worth-I while scenarist.

Finally, if you can man-;age technicolour, at all times repress the tendency, to show too much blood.

i In conclusion then, I I General Lew Wallace, author; regard Ben-Hur as a brll-iof "Ben-Hur". A prominent! Hant failure, with some L . . . -J £ »L excellent lessons to be de-Amcrican critic said of the pj g j ^^^^ j ^ ^ failure. For book: "This is the sort of j that reason I have stressed book that will appeal to fhose! [ts,faults in my review. As

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Young at Musica Viva IT was pleasing indeed to attend the concert given by La Societa CorelU in the

City Hall under the auspices of Musica Viva. Seldom does a programme look •so good on paper. This promise was rcilised in some measure by the performance whch was quite masterly.

The evening began with a very Baroque setthig of the National Anthem. (Rudolf Pekarek could benefit by listening). The first half of the pro­gramme contahied two Im­pressive works: The first of these was the Concerto Grosso in D Opus 6 No. 4 by CorelU.

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'concentration on perform-'ance and a little less hls-!trIonics would have elim­inated the harsh metallic i sounds he produced In the i f i r s t movement. His cadenzas, especially' that

[in the final movement, jwere masterly and, unlike many one hears, contained Ideas of musical worth. The concerto Itself Is a delightful work deserving far wider recognition than it has—I found the fh-st m 0 V e m ent particularly well constructed.

A work by Vivaldi com­pleted the first half of the programme: it can only be described as dull.

In part II we heard two major works—A Con­certo in D minor for Harp­sichord and strings by J. S. Bach and a Diverti­mento for Strings by Bela Bartok. It was here that the dreadful acoustics of

the City Hall took theh:; greatest toll.

The Bach soloist was Mirella Zuccarini who is easily the most relaxed performer I have ever seen. She struggled with a modern concert grand to try and convey some of what Bach Intended. In the slow second movement she played with great understanding but the strings lagged somewhat with the profound, expres­sive bass phrases. In the two allegros the piano (remarkably) was often lost beneath the string theme—however here the group did not make enough of Bach's cadences.

Perhaps because I know less about Bartok than the Baroque composers I found this part of the evening the most enjoy­able. !

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QUESTION

a transcript of an actual T.V.

i ssioii conducted by

DEAN SWIFTUB:

finest Pannellist.9

Bishop S. P. Rookie

the Rev. "Peanut" Short

Archdeacon Punter

DEAN SWIFTDS : Good evening viewers!

We are happy to have you with us again in our religiously honest survey of racing form. This weeic we stiall be mainly discussing the prospects for the Salvitlon Stakes next Saturday, and giving you our celestial information on the Ju(igment Cup to be run later this month, as well as answering the usual questions from interested or puzzled viewers.

With me in the studio I have the well-known Archdeacon Punter, owner of Canterbury and Rome, two good prospects for the Salvation Stakes; that well-loved jockey, the Reverend Short, who will be riding Satan, the favourite, on Saturday; and the (as yet) only fully licensed Bishop and bookie in Brisbane, Bishop S. P. Rookie.

ALL: Good evening viewers. UEAN SWIFTIE :

Our first question is directed to me personally from a heretic at Chelmer. He asks "How did you get into the racing game and how do I know that I won't do me dough if I follow your dope?"

Dear Heretic, I feel your worries show a sad lack of confidence in the clergy., who, after all, are here to guide you to a fuller understanding of the truth. My personal history is a simple one and should help alleviate your fears.

It all started Just after I began mak­ing T.V. appearances. (EFFECT : Soulful reminiscent music.)

After seeing myself on the show I realized that one detail of my make-up was not perfect, and although I am not a proud soul I did feel that I should do everything within my power lo bring viewers to our weakly session.

Now the Archbishop is, of course, a very generous and understanding man, yet I somehow felt that he wouldn't really appreciate the item "one eyelash curler" on my list of Cathedral ex­penses, and as I have no large Income of my own, (the clergy are so notoriously underpaid.) I had to resort to other means to find the required amount. After borrowing a little from the "Ex­tend your Cathedral" fund and from the Girls' Friendly Society "Have a Baby in Africa" collection I placed it all on Scandal which my friend "Big Fill" Outwards assured me was a dead cert in the Brisbane Cup.

As you probably read in your daily paper I picked a winner, and so the Pranglican Chuixh, as well as being the only Christian Church to own an eye­lash curler, is now going to extend its Cathedral by an extra six inches, and can also now help G.F,S. girls to have a baby in South Korea.

This I feel, should restore your faith in the power of the clergy, KEV. SliOKT :

Too right! DEAN SWltTIE :

Well, having heard from Reverend Short, we have now just about ex­hausted the subject. We have one or two questions which will be answered next week, and which I shall now read ycu so you can ponder on them during the week.

Firstly a mufti man at Hlghgate Hill asks, "Should a member of the clergy go to the races fully dressed or not?", and a loser from WooUoongabba wond­ers "Is Heaven always a safe bet?" Now, Loser, you don't tell us which race you are thinking of, which makes the last question a rather obscure one. However both questions should be very stimulat­ing and pose exciting alternatives.

However let us now proceed to more general topics. My Lord Bishop could I have your opinion on the Salvation Stakes.

BISHOP BOOKIE :

Now I would not have you, in listen­ing to my opinions, impute to me a nar­rowness of vision, tantamount to a lack of tolerance, and imagine that I deny any prowess to the animals I speak of in a somewhat derogatory way; but rather I would have you believe that In professing these opinions that I am merely confessing a personal preference for those more noble animals who have undergone long and arduous training in their field of rigorous self denial and self discipline. For those who find a simple divertissement in the wagering of some small part of their income on the outcome of this trial of speed, it is incumbent upon me to inform them of the possible, though in no way certain, result of the proposed event. That I am somewhat hesitant to do this is evidence of the capabilities of all ten or eleven of the animals which are likely to present themselves at this trial (you will observe that I speak of "ten or eleven" probable animals pre­senting themselves for final judgment, having some authoritative information of the opinion that Mormon is unfit for the Salvation this year — my in­formant assures me the animal is suf­fering from loss of blood).

Of the ten or eleven possible speci­mens of the most noble examples of horseflesh in our present society, I feel, if I must ccmmit myself to any one opinion—a course which I must neces­sarily believe to be somewhat dogmatic —I can state that although the event is an extremely unpredictable one {necessitating alas, a shortening of the odds) Caterbury, unless he runs an erratic course — a thing he is somewhat prone to do — should finally defeat Rome, who has been undergoing a somewhat inflexible training under the same management for too long.

AKCIIDEACON PUNTER : You know I think you've hit the nail

right on the head there Bish . . I've been thinking Rome needed a new trainer — a bit of fresh blood you know — for a long time now, but the guy I've got just won't leave that horse. He's got a pretty convincing line too — reckons he'll run the pants of Canter­bury (not that a nag has got any pants of course, I was speaking in a general . . . er . . . figurative way). If you see what I mean.

UEAN SWiFTlE : Yes, of course. And thank you. New how about a few words from the

Reverend Short. How do you think Satan will run on Saturday?

KEV. SHORT : Rotten! that horse, though an ex­

citing animal, runs a dirty race! You know even though he's the favourite I reckon that horse would enjoy seeing the mob losing their money on him. I've had him out for a few trial runs and I can't get him to do a thing. He looks good alright, but I reckon he'd run the opposite way to the rest of the horses if he could.

He's just temperamentally unsulted to the other horses in the Salvation, but he might do better in the Judgment, I reckon.. He runs best in the mud I've found.

DEAN SWIFTIE : Thank you very much gentlemen.

Well now I'm afraid we must finish up. I beUeve the Bishop has to get to choh-practise. The choir is practising a new hymn for Sunday as a tribute to their eminent authority of the Turf and they want hhn to hear them. It starts "Oh the Bishop is a Bookie, In my vllle . . ." they tell me.

BISHOP ROOKIE : Most gratifying!

DEAN SWIFTIE : Well tune In next week for your tips

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INTER-VARSITY DRAMA

"["HE Universities' Drama Festival was presented in Adelaide during the August vacation. This will be

news to too many people. On seven successive nights (skipping Sunday) seven different plays were played in the Union Theatre.

The Festival was a great success— dramatically. It was a much more stimulating more various, richer and more enjoyable experience than seven nights of amateur theatre might lead you to expect.

Six of the seven plays were well-written plays, and three or four of them were good plays; this is a high ratio for the average theatre-goer. None of them were badly played—they all had some good acting; and that is a high level for amateur theatre.

The plays came from all over the world, from Austraha to Russia or even China (If you count In Brecht's source). This shoud have been a good talking point for advance publicity.

Mixture The wide range of the plays remained

the most of several enjoyable features of the Festival.

There was a very recent American reforming play (and commercial suc­cess) about psychiatric hospitals, a Russian tragi-comic classic—Chekov, an experimental "narrative" play by the most famous modern German dramatist —Brecht, a stolid English commercial thriller, a Shakespeare comedy, an Aus­tralian drama and an American-Armenian wistful-willy-symbolist com­edy. Each was played admirably in spirit and together they made an in­formative and balance gamut of plays.

Though Bertholt Brecht was a Com­munist (is that a listenhig knight among the lyelaco?) his plays are very different in tone from those of Sartre-bitter only under the surface which is relaxed, poetic and friendly.

Tasmania played him even more relaxed than he is: but "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" is so loosely constructed that it stood up to this rough treat­ment, and remained moving under the farce of the second half: moreover their leading man had a coarse vitality and talent for farce that so fitted his part, and their producer-narrator such a monumental figure and placidly pro­jective stage presence, that theh show stole the boards, and was perhaps the best of the Festival.

Effeminate Some would say Sydney's "Twelfth

Night" ran It close—a polished but effeminate production: the latter quality spoilt it for many, depending on your complexes and your genes.

Only one play was something of a flop —Queensland's nauseatingly accurate production of Kevin McNamara's "Man is a Mountain" which claimed on the

programme to have won second prize to the "Shifting Heart" in the 1957 Eliza­bethan Theatre Trust Competition for original Australian plays.

You couldn't securely fault Queens­land's production; however InfurlatJngly monotonous the whining tone of the factory-worker father, however gauche the bodgie son, however raw the prosti­tute lodger's laugh, they could all be defended as in the spirit of the play.

Worst of all one couldn't damn the play outright: it kept capturing the attention in isolated scenes, stirring up vain hopes for coherence and a dram­atic point that never emerged.

Cud-Chewing For those who could make it, each

performance was followed at a reason­able hour next morning (11.30) by a discussion In seminar in the George Murray Lounge. The resident chairman, Adelaide's Wayne Anthoney, fortunately didn't manage entirely to prevent these seminars from being about the plays themselves, while his plea that discus­sion should centre rather on the pro­ductions was fruitful.

The seminars were led by personalities a little less various, even In a smaller compass, than the plays themselves.

Dr. Van Abbe on Adelaide's "The Shrike" was forceful and practical: Tim Mares on Western Australia"s "Uncle Vanya" amiable, systematic and clear; Max Harris on the Brecht (and on the overall choice of plays) gave a really Impressive semi-Impromptu display of Intelligent reviewing in copious and accurate diction which unfortunately killed the discussion, and I made a stuttering and gentle attempt to revive it on New England's "The Late Edwina Black".

After the weekend there was Dr. John Bray on "Twelfth Night", polite, reason­able and shy; Colin Ballantyne on "A Man is a Mountain" with a searching and informed analysis, as one might expect from him, of both play and pro­duction; and on Tuesday night after the performance of Melbourne's "The Cave Dwellers" (a happy thought as the play Itself was short), on the spot in the Union Theatre Tony Glbbs, handsome Informal and just.

Friendly Theatre Of the three most successful produc­

tions, one—the Brecht—dispensed with props almost entirely, the other two— the Chekcv and the Shakespeare—used them with care, though even Sydney, infuriatingly, left Olivia's ring on the stage all the play.

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The proper handling of props may seem a very prosaic moral to end with —yet it is also a very possible one.

As Dr. Van Abbe said In the opening seminar. It may be almost physically impossible for University students to play a character of the 30-40 age group with conviction (though Doctor Astrov, Malvolio and Joe Hennlng all belied him) but a reasonable care with such material details should be within their range!—and makes a great difference to audience enjoyment.

Yet perhaps Bertholt Brecht and Fay Sidey are right and the proper road to

audience enjoyment In the modern theatre Is audience response rather than audience Illusion. Certainly it seems better to make the stage do what the cinema and TV can't—bring home to the audience the LIVE presence of actors on the stage for their pleasure. This was what the massive personality of Michael Boddy with his ALTER EGO: Marcus Coney as Azdak did: and that is why, I suppose. The Caucasian Chalk Circle seemed the most lively and intelligent production of a group that' were all pleasant sincere, reasonably competent and—as I said before— astonishingly enjoyable.

GAVGIJIN RELIVES.. A CERTAIN amount of Gauguin influ-

ence permeates some of the works of Raymond Crooke, landscape and genre artist, who is holding a large (eighty paintings) one-man show at the Johnstone Gallery. Subject matter: North Queensland particularly Thurs­day Island, and its native' peoples— obviously lends itself to this treatment.

One painting which well Illustrates Gauguin Influence is Dawn Anchorage, Somerset. Design and colour here are somewhat akhi to that which gives Gauguin'.s works thek distinctive char­acter.

Sentiment Crooke uses only very thin pigment.

There is nothing bold about texture, yet it has a deshrable softness which helps to create that feeling of friendliness and melancholy which is inherent In most of his works. These feelings no doubt are intended to be expressive of sentiment for the native peoples depicted.

Pure landscapes are few. Most works are of figures In their surroundings and advantage is often taken of the colour­ful cottons worn by the indigenes to colour highlight composition.

Walkabout, Cape York, Is one of several pictures of mahxland scenes hi which the drab colourhig of the Cape York Peninsula landscape Is portrayed in a pleasing manner. In these we see ant hills, ghostly gums, tall grass, and native stockmen. About this material the artist has woven interesthig designs.

Canecutter's Family differs in style from those previously discussed. This Is a murallstlc composition. Figures are solid (perhaps a little stiff) and expres­sive. Garden Group Is another which fits this description.

Stereotyped Considering the works separately the

result Is pleasing. However I feel that the arrangement of the exhibition is deleterious to Its success hi that, firstly, there are too many works displayed, and that, secondly, certain compositions are evidently stereotyped in design and subject matter. To this end compare Conversation and The Pink Hibiscas. This mass production effect detracts from art.

Nevertheless this show rates a visit. The quality of the works offered will no doubt further'enhance the reputation of Raymond Crooke, an artist who is steadily forging a positon for himself as one of our leading landscape and genre painters.

—GRAHAM BAINES.

A Note on Modem Engflish Usage

THE most cultured folk disparage • The pronunciation "garage".

And personally on "garage" I'd rather not enlarge. On the other hand, only un enfant

trying to be obnoxiously sage. Would dream of calling the thing a

"garage". Therefore I greet with elation The otherwise regrettable neologism,

"service Station". But to call them "lubritoria" Fills me with dysphoria.

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Galmahra— the University Magazine a glorious ressurection y^FTER several delays the jubilee Gal­

mahra has finally appeared, and ts now on sale at Union Office or. the Bookshop. It appears in revised form tmder the editorship of one Dan O'Neill, and makes its first appearance since 1950.

For the benefit of the uninitiated Galmahra is the official magazine of the University of Queensland, and it^ name means "spokesman of the tribe". Tills name was chosen by Jack Lindsay and friends In 1920, after a long dis­cussion in a little cafe In Queen Street on the site of the present Treasury Building; so the magazine is obviously reeking of Queensland's early history.

This stink of antiquity becomes im­mediately obvious to the reader of the 1960 Galmahra, for O'Neill has included a list of all previous editors and the editorial itself is mainly a historical and critical study of the magazine's former glories. This editorial is just about the best thing in the volume. With an un­erringly perceptive • eye O'Neill has man­aged to pick out the most interesting articles from the past which he quotes at the slightest provocation. E.g. He notes the comment Most lecturers do not pay enough at­tention to the style in which they deliver their lectures. I have as keen a scent as any, I think, for a memor­able phrase, and the memorable phrases 1 have heard from lecturers could be enumerated on the fingers of one hand.

made by one A. K. Tliompson of past, present, and presumably everlasting, eminence.

As well as citing passages from mem-oraljle articles the editorial also con­veys a feeling for the lively, and some­times outrageous, undergraduate vitality which has generally been a feature of the magazine. (Incidentally it's fas­cinating to notice that Queensland went through its decadent period in 1938, and Its politically-conscious phase well after the War).

All Galmahra's childish excesses and its inevitable periods of mediocrity, we are made to feel, pall beside this rebel­lious joie de vivre.

With such an introduction the rest of the magazine comes as something of an anti-climax. Its general tone is one of healthy but conservative nationalism, and this mhcture oi gum-trees and porridge seems somewhat unappetising after the promise of nectar served up in an old sock. In other words, whereas the old Gahnahras (and Mr. O'Neill— a horrible anachronism) roar "we've got something to tell you and we don't care how we say it." Galmahra 1960 murmurs obsequiously "we're really quite happy with what everyone else Is saying but perhaps we can say it a little better."

The virtue in this sort of approach is that things are said better than by mere undergraduate rebellious enthusi­asm, and the presence of such names as Judith Wright, John Manifold, Val Val­lis, David Rowbotham and Eunice Hangar on the contents page indicates that this Galmahra is aiming at a higher literary goal than were its predecessors.

It is undoubtedly a literary magazine and not all its literary splendour comes from these well-known names. In fact some of the lesser lights are more in­teresting than the well-known ones.

For instance, I found John Manifold's ballet scenario unutterably dull. It might be Interesting done as ballet, but the scenario In Itself has no vh-tue other than that of being disgustingly Aus­tralian (shearers, landladies, harlots, et a l ) . Surely this Inverted inferiority complex is something even Queensland can safely leave behind It?

Similarly John Lloyd's article on Brian Vrepont fails to convey anything more than Insular appreciation of a somewhat mediocre poet — "dig every­thing" is hardly an earth-shattering Philosophy — and the quotations cited don't inspire me to read further. Lloyd's own poem Laughter in the Catacombs is much more vital and promising than his criticism. Its discipline of form and emotion stand out among the orgy of words and feelhig in the poems by other young writers.

Of the poems in the volume (their number as well as their emotion tends to be unrestricted, naturally) those by David Malouf, Val Vallls, Judith Wright, R. G. Hay, and David Rowbotham are by far the most interesting. It's a pity that Don Maynard isn't represented by something less slight than his few lines on roses, and that the other poets don't get away from their personal response to love, the universe, or both, more fre­quently. Even the best of the poets sometimes ignore the need to have something special to say and press on regardless, which is why I personally enjoyed the cynical flavour of R. G. Hay's poems so much — despite his oc­casionally carelessly chosen phrase.

Rowbotham's poems too often have a cynical note tc them — for example his frivolous verses giving a portrait of the artist as journalist, (the cynicism being no doubt, the bitter voice of experience), which begin

He said "I shall pursue My destiny and write." And to his purpose true. Took lessons that he might" . . .

His more serious The Meeting has the same air of casualness about it, as has his descriptive piece The Briar F r i a r -yet none of his poems ever falter in technique.

David Malouf's Picasso: Child With Dove and Not iVIy External-Hero are far more intense poems, yet both show a mastery of emotion and form — under the influence I suspect, cf Blake and Yeats. Like them Malouf has managed to interprete his ideas symbolically, yet without any obscurity. His third poem Death hasn't the vitality or originality of the other two.

Judith Wright's To llafiz of Shiraz is not an exceptional example of her work.

yet, although it doesn't say anything better than sho has said it before, it reflects most strongly the increasingly Platonic overtones in her poetry.

There are two short stories in the volume: Ellen Harrison's Janet and Carroll Reath's The Tree. The former is the far more interesting work I feel, as the latter again, contains the obvious faults of sentimentality (here con­trasted violently with slang dialogue), and blatantly overdone symbolism.

Janet is far more concerned with reality, illustrating the awakenhig of the adolescent to love. It deals with an aspect of the eternal illusion/reality

theme in a style not unlike Katherine Mansfield's, but a Mansfield adapted to the adolescent of a more emancipated age. Miss Harrison can treat her heroine with sympathy and humour in a de­tached style which manages to blend teenage actions and conversation into an artistic and thematic imlty which gives them more value than that of their monetary world.

Of the general articles in the maga­zine the best are Eunice Hangar's analysis of theatre before The Doll, David RoHbotham's delightful chat on Compton Mackenzie, and Caliban's Socratic dialogue portraying a disgust­ingly acute Socrates illuminating the weaknesiics of the Messel-Gamow type of "universal man". The last should be compulsory reading for all those "who mistake publicity for eminence, and knowledge of a particular science for univprs.'il infallibility".

And before anyone starts handing the la.st article back to me to digest, a few final empirical assertions: Gal­mahra is atrociously full of advertise­ments which disport themselves gaily on practically every page, and com­pletely lacking in illustrations Uhis sort of layout will never attract writers of quality Mr. O'Neill, even if it does save the Union money); it's an amazing mixture of good and bad; and every­one ought to read it and encourage its continuation.

—JOAN LYNDON

Footnote: These printers refused tc print a short story which mentioned the ghastly fact that a girl was raped when she was fourteen. Apparently the purity of the Queensland undergraduate is due to our printing trade rather than to any aged mother's dving words.

Mem id. a Mountain — a Sleumu THE Dramatic Society Is to be com­

mended for attempting K. Mac-namara's .Man Is .\ Mountain. This Is the second time this year that an original play by an Australian author has been performed in Brisbane. And who is in a better position than the University to give these plays a chance on the stage? Neither their producers, actors, or audiences are governed by the conventions or inhibitions of commer­cial theatres and their "fashionable" audiences.

Unfortunately the play did not prove to be a very fortunate choice.

The story of Man is a Mountain jg not startlingly original and each point is hammered home so severely that It Is obvious that the author wants you to really think about it, This sort of "message" play is convincing when done subtly and when the author really has got something to say, but Macnamara's main theme is the Arthur Miller-Ten­nessee Williams' one of showing the sor­did and tragic life of a lower class family who are unhappy, discontented, povertv-stricken, and amoral, and this sort of thing hammered home ad nauseum becomes irritating on stage. We get sick of watching the father of the family repeating and repeating his discontentment and lack of opportunity, and the symbolism of the blay is

blatantly obvious to a ludicrous extent. It is amusing when the son enters wav­ing a banana and announcing "Life is a banana"; when we discover at the end of the play that Life really is a banana and that we're all "fools" (a dirty word!) If we try to rebel against it, our chief reaction is to feel even sicker.

Family bickering on stage is not really entertaining, and harlots are not con­vincing as comic relief from the tedium of family rights, nor can we really believe that a harlot's tough immorality Is the only way one can raise oneself out of one's environment.

The only subtle touch in the sym­bolism of the play comes right at the end when the rejected son is to visit his father In hospital and hesitates In choosing a present for his father. He finally rejects the tennis trophy he once won (a symbol of success) and chooses a gun. By killing his father he will give his family a chance of free­dom and thus give the play some sort of resolution.

The only thuig which made the play at all convincing was its intelligent pro­duction and portrayal of character. The husband and wife, Joe and Bess Hen­nlng, as played by Guy Goodricke and Jocelyn Gribben were its outstanding characters in all respect. It was un­fortunate that Joe could not have con­trived to show his dejectedness some­times by other means that turning away and hanging his head, Also his mannerism of shutting his eyes at the end of each speech needs watching. This sort of thing can seize an audience's attention and seriously de­tract from the rest of the play.

The most unconvincing character was the daughter Mary. Jennie Pooley admittedly had a difficult part to play but she did not bring all she could to the part. But no actress can really hope to make a wonderful character out of a thing \yhlch Is so obviously only something to keep the action moving. Mary Is Mr. Macnamara's least suc­cessful attempt at characterisation.

With regard to the other characters, mention might be made of the diffi­culty some experienced with accents. Rex Cramphorne and Jennie Pooley

both sounded too aristocratic for such a poor family and Dennis Douglas as the successful son did not sound as if he'd ever left home.

Dorothy Millar as the aging harlot was excellent except for her loud and peculiar laugh. Helen Mays in the role of her daughter had another difficult part and tended to overact. However the role of the hard little tart with a philosophic soul is hardly one which can be done with subtlety and convic­tion.

Gwen Foggan produced the play with the competence and polish Dram. Soc. has been needing for a long time. Let us hope we see her work in a more rewarding play in the future.

B. K & J. L.

PAGE 8 SEMPER FLOREAT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1960

HAVE B.A.­WILL TRAVEL QNE of the most unemployable persons

in the world must surely be the average female B.A. Unless you are will­ing to get a Diploma of Education and teach, or a library certificate and work in a library, the field of employment available is virtually non-existent.

Despite the excellent work being done by the student guidance officer in placing an Arts graduate there is a very great need for an Appointment Board at the University of Queens­land, as its non-existence helps give the University an isolated atmosphere and makes a degree a hindrance rather than a help in getting employment.

The average Brisbane employer treats an Arts graduate as an animal with two heads. It is a thing to be shunned and removed from the premises as quickly as possible. If a female the animal is regarded with even more distaste a.s it is therefore older than the child from school and likely to commit matrimony before it can become useful.

One might say the average employer s credo can be summed up in three short comments: "We want them young, we want them male, and we want them experienced". While the Implications of this statement would undoubtedly niake a fascinating study for the Freudian psychologist it still leaves the female B.A. without a job.

II one gets good Firsts one can, of course, become a lecturer and teach others to become similarly useless, but such was not my fate. Armed then with Seconds and a reasonably wide field of Interests I faced "the great world".

The great world looked back with scorn.

Yes, but what qualificai-ions have you?

In my first fine foolish flutter I essayed journalism. "Truth" was not Interested. They wanted experience. Nor was "The Telegraph". They wanted them young. So I tried "The Courier Mail". I had decided I wasn't going to be fussy.

^Jiedd "• 0o^n/iCacnt zDiamicied IN all honcstv 1 feel compelled to admit ' that the headlines—"The Moronic Meds."—was not, under the circum­stances, an inapt title.

While I cannot agree that Meds. fall within the class of highest grade of mental deficiency, as the term "mor­onic" implies, yet. one feels that a re­grettable degree of immaturity and chlldshness is prevalent in the Medical Faculty. I do not mean to be disloyal, but I have no time for loyalty which has become llttlemlndedness, and ex­presses itself in the attitude that the faculty to which one belong is the only one worth belonging to. I have no doubt this attitude is to bo found everywhere, and not simply in the Medical Faculty. It is surely inexcusable in a University.

Some of the fuss made by St. Lucia sections of the University community is just as petty, but I think it only fair to state that such petlness is more under­standable. The University has a right to look to the medical faculty for some mature and balanced leadership. The results of years and hard study in a University should be tolerance, maturity, wisdom and vision, which one can hardly expect of freshers or even of second or third-years.

Unhappily, even having scraped off the exaggerations of the affronted members of the University, one has to admit that one feels a stirring of dis-guest for medical behaviour.

It would be a help if St. Lucia folk realised that "Herston forever" is not the obsession of all medical students. "There are some who, in exercising their right tc vote, consider the University as a whole, and weigh the attributes of the candidates rather tlian the faculty from which he or she comes. This might be a foolish procedure if each faculty was not already represented on the Union, but since they are, there should be no ned to .vote for a faculty rathr than a person; that a candidate should use his faculty to attract votes is unworthy of he task he should be setting out to do

It is unfortunate that groups like the Med. L should be so easily excited to mob action, but this Is well known. It behoves those who know it to exer­cise integrity and refrain from Inclthig them. It Is unfair to always make the Med. I. entirely responsible for its actions. One Is sorry that so many are Immature, and so filled with the glory of medicine that they dote on the aged

of the race and feel that they are some­what elevated by enthusiastic support of them. I would venture tc say that it is a dishojiest, political manoeuvre to emotionally sway irresponsible people. It might fairly be argued that, in pontics, one ought to persuade those who do not know any better; but, to carry this to a University election. Is ridiculous. To suggest that even Med. I's are so moronic as to be unable to decide for themselves the personal merits of candidates from their speeches, would be absurd.

Since wc are talking about Med. I, I feci that St. Lucia can hardly look on with self-righteous disgust at their behaviour. They have partly them­selves to blame because of all years in the University, Med. I must be one of the most bewildering. Not only is the course heavy, but, at the end of it stands the statistical evidence that enormous numbers will be eliminated. It is not, however, merely the academic environment that is hazardous; but Med. I's arc the outcasts of University Society. The only people who recognise them as belonging to anything are the vote-hunting senior lUeds. and then only at election time.

Can it be that these freshers, having entered what they thought was the utmost in exalted professions, and ex­pecting everyone to notice their near­ness to the gods, are overcome by the neglect they meet? Not only have they no stethoscope to wear and no ability to make a diagnosis, but they do not even come within sight of the Medical School—let alone the hospital and Its patients. If the University community in which they find themselves chooses also to scorn them for their small be­ginnings and Insecure status, it Is no wonder they react wltli childish ex­hibitionism and welcome any oppor­tunity to display their "importance".

This University can never be any­thing but a collection of insular, bickering, exclusive faculties unless the election attitude of "vote-for-your-faculty" is dropped. It is a very poor state of affairs that the presumably in­telligent section of the community spends its years of training in small-minded, self-importance about Its own field, and cannot see that it is shnply a part of a whole and must contribute to that whole.

MARGARET FRANKLIN, Medichie IV.

They weren't interested either. They didn't say why. Maybe my hat dis­pleased the editor or maybe it was my face, but a later comment made to two First Year students may be relevant. The editor was said to have told them he would be interested in employing them at the end of their First or Second Year at the University, but graduates apparently have a habit of leaving after they've been trained and joining a Southern newspaper.

So that was that. I tried the A.B.C. in various disguises for various jobs but they invariably discovered I was female, ageing, and inexperienced. Dragging the old carcase cff for a facial and swilling down a few rejuvenating pills, I began to wonder if I was using the right deoderant.

However, after trying the old deoderant on the cat with amazing results I was inspired to do the rounds of the Advertising Agenlces. I felt sure I could sell anything.

Most of them wouldn't even see me. I did manage to get Into two of them.

The first had obviously never seen a live B.A. before and was just looking thank you. It was at this interview that the comment immortalised In the above cartoon was made.

The other was much better. I left without a job, naturally, but at least I recovered the Illusion that I was human.

This so inspired me that I applied for a job in the Dplomatic Corps. Qualifi­cations were obvious. I'd written for "Semper" hadn't I? I got as far as see­ing our Security Police at work. But the first comment from Canberra was ominous. "You know you have one rather unusual quality for this sort of work. You're a female."

Yes, with typical diplomatic cunning and perception he'd discovered it. I was.

So that got rid of journalism, the A.B.C, External Affairs, Advertising, and most of my ideas. I'd heard that places like the new Allan and Stark Drlve-In might be interested in Senior staff, copywriters for their advertising department, etc., but I was too dis­illusioned to try. It's also possible to get a job with a T.V. station if you're not too fussy about the work you do, and sometimes there are Public Relations jobs available for Graduates (preferably if you're a man or a reasonable imitation cf one). I believe. I tried for a couple of thesa but they always wanted me to change my sex. But one must retain some personal in­tegrity In these matters.

I'm going to Sydney at the end of the year. You never know. They may not have heard of me down there yet.

And after that there's Melbourne. Or London. Or Wagga. I always thought I was more or less

normal. And what else can you do with a

BA? Suicide?

—DUD AVOCADO.

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IN accordance with University By­law^ "A person shall not . . .

plays cards for money or engage in any form of gambling.

GAMBLING is prohibited within the Union Refectory.

ITHE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

NOTICE OF CONSTITUTIONAL CHANCE

MOTICE is hereby given, in ac­cordance with Section 16

Clause 2 of the Constitution, of intention to change Section 4 E. of tho Constitution "That the words" and that no woman may become a member of fhe Men's C(u6" be deleted from Clause 4 E. of the Constitution.

UNIVERSITV OF QUEENSLAND UNION

Nominations be called for the following positions on Union Council on Monday, Uth Septem­ber and that nominations wll close at 5 p.m. at Union Office, St Lucio, on Wednesday, I2fh October, with tho provision that a by-election, if necessary, be not hold until first term, 1961.

Hon. Secretary, Vlce-Prosldent (Turbot St.): Faculty Reprcscnta-tlvos: ArchUocturo I ; Arts (Even­ing) 1: Dentistry 2: Education (day) I . levcnlng) 3; Englneor-ing 1; Physical Education 1; Phy­siotherapy I ; Science (day) 1, tevening) 3.

SECRETARY/MANAGER

NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MHXQH.

^APPLICATIONS are invited tor appointment as Secretary/

Manager of the Newcastle Univer­sity College Union.

Salary; £1976 range £2031 per annum.

Commencing salary will be paid according to qualifications and experience. Applicants should preferably possess a degree or equivalent qualifications and should havo had experience in some phase of administration.

Tho successful applicant will be responsible to the Union Board and to tho Warden of the Univer­sity College.

He will be rcsponsiblo for the general management and organisa­tion of the Union, for social and sporting activities and student welfare within the University Col­lege.

The University reserves tho right to fill the position by invitation.

Applications should 6o forwarifed in an onvelopo marked "Univor-ilty Appotntmont" to tho Bursar, Box 1. Post Office, Kensington bofoic 30th Septomlwr, 1960.

TYPING SHALL typo your Essays or Theses or Notes. Reasonable charges. Ring 7 1519 after 6.00.

VACATION EMPLOYMENT

TfHE Commonwealth Employment Service is making a drive to

obtain employment for students during tho forthcoming long vaca­tion.

So that students who will desire assistance in obtaining employ-mant can be interviewed by the Employment Service, arrangements have been made for an Employ­ment Officer to be available at Room 3A, St. Lucta.

Students who are unable to at­tend for infervfew at tho above times may call at tho Higher Ap­pointments Office of the Employ­ment Service, 7) Adelaide Street, Brisbane, at thoir convenience.

A CALL FOR KUPI

ONION SHOP—Another Union ser­vice. Is to opcrato in tho now Rotoctory Building—^wo want your opinion as to what brands and typos of Cosmetics and Toiletries, you would 111(0 to see on sale to students and staff from UNION SHOP.

SEND YOUR WRITTEN OPINION TO:—E.O. UNION OFFICE. UNI­VERSITY, ST. LUCIA.

SEMPER FLOREAT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1960

Conformity is for Crumbs

PAGE 9

Revealing for the fhvsC habits of the Besitiiiks. ou TV or iu Weelceiiil.

time liie resil lives ami Y oil will not see T1II8

LET me put you right from the start. daddyo, I don't care whether you

read this article or not. I wouldn't have written the crummy thing except for all the free beer It's going to get me. So wise up man. If you think I want you to read this, you're way out In your reasoning. Because I'm Beat; man,. I'm so beat I'm practically non-existent; I'm so close to horizontal it's only a matter of time. And when that happens —finis, kaput, Bombsvllle! So if you want to read this crummy article, go right ahead; at least It'll prove one thing; you're just a crumb like all the others who read It.

Do you dig me, daddyo? You're a mediocrity—a hasbeen, one cf the ter­mites of civilization. You're nothing but a sharpened up square, a dead cube. You think you're sharp do you? You wear desert boots, corduroy slacks, sloppy jumpers? Back offa me dad, you cruel me.

Well get with my wavelength, cal, 'cause I'm a wandering soul looking for kindred spirits to commune with. Like all my life I've been a wanderer, search-

mg for the true light, looking for a smooth groove. Alia time searching, alia time on the move, never reaching drcamsville.

First off I was in the Little League —chucking bricks through windows, hissing cops, playing poker In the school grounds, Then it was High School—black leather jacket, side­burns, a fix every now and then, knock off a car once a week for the thrill, stretches In Boggo Road. Man, I was In and cut of stir hke a yo-yo.

Then I graduated—I learnt how not to get caught. Pretty soon I started to get the message, you know—meet the gang at Si Bon or the Prim., get into long conversations about life, death, sex, groove off to seme cat's pad for a ses-.slon of wine, women, and occasional song. Yeah, Thelonius Monk, Ahmad Jamal, Cal Tjader—real cool music makers, real cool,

{xMan. like I'm dying for a slug of the gocd old grape juice—my stomach thinks my throats cut. And I've got a willing chick waiting at my pad, Uke man . . . glug . . . glug . . . glug . . . now where was I?]

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DON'T WINK AT ROAD SAFETY The, special attention of Students is drawn to the following traffic rules :

• GIVE WAY TO TRAFFIC ON YOUR RIGHT — even from stop signs and side streets;

• GIVE SIGNALS CORRECTLY AND IN AMPLE TIME

• SPEED LIMIT PAST SCHOOLS (when children are entering or leaving), 15 m.p.h.

Always Drive with

CARE, COURTESY and CONSIDERATION

INSERTED BY THE QUEENSLAND ROAD SAFETY COUNCIL.

Yeah, real cool daddyo. That walling sound really used to send me. Man, it sent me so far I didn't want to come back. But there was always something. Like the old crow who owned the place wanting her rent; just imagine, a cat like me having to pay for a life like this! And those squares sprout about justice! Me I'm against It; I'm against every­thing.

If I had my way, all those windbags down at Canberra would be out of a job. Tliey're just too way out to be real. Like just a while back one of the cats wrote them a note asking them to stop sending him summonses, he wasn't going to pay tax on anything he stole. And you know what they did—put the Ds on him. He's up the river now on a double stretch—Tax Evasion and Theft.

Maybe if a few of us enlightened cats got into parliament, things would start grooving. Yeah—no taxes, free vino, a chick in every pad, free sunglasses for every sensitive soul!

This country needs a big shakeup. Like I'll bet most of the poor squares hereabouts have never dug Thelonlous on Around Midnight or even heard of Mort, Sahl, much less read him. Crazy man—every soul enlightened, every cat right In the groove, really swinging. What a cool life—no worry, no trouble, no need to work, no nothing, just glorious oblivion.

Have you ever felt nothingness, Man? Have you ever been so way out that there was no way back? So beat that nothing mattered any more. Wow, what a way to be. You haven't lived if you haven't hopped yourself into oblivion, you've only existed.

[That reminds me—ah, thank you . . . plug . . . glug . . . slurp.]

Me, I'm always trying to get with it I never miss a chance to join In a grog session or a real gone party, you know —chicks, juice, marijuana, police raids by the Vice Squad—real cool Daddyo. Like the last one: there was this real gone chick, you see, really stacked; any­way I gave her the big hello and she gave me the big Come-on; well, Dad, right away I knew that here was a kindred spirit, we were tuned in to the same wavelength. Anyway pretty soon we left the joint and we went back to her pad, and . . . .

[What's that? They CENSOR this paper? ? ]

Yeah, well not all parties finish up orgies—some are just gatherings of the clan. You know—bongoes, cheap wine, sit around on the floor, argue about the evils of religion, the diseases of modern civilization, the nowhere we're all headed for. Crazy—all those kindred souls grooving In the one direction, working out a new moral code, taking apart ttie plebeian skeleton the squares use now. These cats know what they want; they're not going to be led by the bourgeoisie, no Man.

Like if those cats decide the Univer­sity Great Hall is for the good of humanity, its for the good of humanity. So its gotta come; so I say why fight it, why not help them build this in­describable monstrosity. With all them Beats behind it, it's just unstoppable.

[Was that the way you wanted it, or did it sound too Commercial?].

Do I ever get tired of being a Beat? Well that's hard to say. There are times when life is just a drag. You know, you're just existing, drifting aim­lessly from place to place.. Binges In Surfers' Paradise, wild parties in Kings Cross, vagrancy charges in Melbourne. Yeah, life is just a drag. Sometimes I feel like packing my bongoes, shaving my fuzz, and returning to civilization. But one look at the hopeless squares outside is enough to return me to reality. Me exist in a world like that? Me be one of those dead cubes? Me? ? ?

Wliat do you think this Is? Alice in Wonderland?

Next thing people will be suggesting I take a bath! Or go to work! No man, thoughts like that just aren't funny.

Tlien squares just don't understand us Beats. Trouble is they're not on the same wavelength as us. They try to judge us by their standards. They think we should work, pay taxes, even pay for the stuff we take out of shops. That's the trouble, they think we're like them.

We're just misunderstood. And If you're misunderstood, you've gotta try and find consolation somewhere—wine, women, car stealing—gotta find It some­where. So It's those squares tliat are making us what we are. They're to blame for our little vices. Ycu can bet If a Beat gets pulled up for stealing any­thing It's only because the square wouldn't give It to him In the first place.

We're really nice types underneath. When I'm sober, I'm a very nice person. But I spend so much time trying to escape from the horrors of life that I'm rarely out of the grip of the Grape. But when I am, I'm a real good guy. You ask any of my friends—they'll tell you. If I had any money, I'd lend it

[You know. Dad, that outburst has left me parched . . . No, don't mind if I do . . . glug . . .glug . . . glug. Maybe (hlc . . .) maybe it'd be better if you left the bottle with me . . . Thanks.] to you.

Well, cat, I've tried to wise you up. If you don't get the message you were a bloody fool to start reading in the first place. There just Isn't any hope for you. But If you saw the light, well man, get witli It. Get rid of your hi-hlbltlons, start to live. Get yourself a pad somewhere, a supply of grape juice, a willing chick, cool records (you can steal them at any record bar), a copy of the "Darma Bums", and be reborn.

Or you could do it the easy way, become a Uni. Student—Arts preferably.

—P.S.

PAGE 10 SEMPER FLOREAT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, T960

dmmod^ mm6. on 3ta6tw^xwUeti THIS may well be described as a

"rave" notice. Mstlslav Rostropovich, pre-eminent

among 'cellists, in fact among perform­ing musicians, has been described as "the Olstrakh of the 'cello", but the violinist may as well be compared with him as "the Rostropovich of the violin" with a justifiable shift of accent.

This 'cellist's technique Is fabulous in the authentic sense of the word, but I am sure that he considers It a mere means to an end. Fortissimcs were without any harshness and pianlssimos unbelievable—mere whispers, but quite audible. He is a gorgeously sonorous cantablle, and he handled his instru­

ment with loving care making it the perfect Intermediary for expression of his feelings so deeply felt by player and audience. The infectious levity of his encores showed a man with a real sense of humour. The dexterity of his fingers was marvellous and huge stretches were made easily, as If he were playing the same intervals on a violin. He made tricks like "col legno" really artistic and his trilling was amazing.

Alexander Dedyukhin was the ideal accompanist. His playing was sensitive and exact scaling the perfection of the combination. He certainly merits more than the usual perfunctory reference to the accompanist's presence.

admired, thz SxiS^vupMcn Cancent THE Sixth Subscription Concert, if

something of a farrago, was also, in effect, played from end to beginning.

The programme (in order) was: 1. Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony (No. 6); 2. Prelude and Love - Death (from "Tristan and Isolde" by Wagner); In­terval; 3. 'Cello Concerto in E Plat (Op. 107) by Shostakovich; and 4, the Over­ture to Verdi's "Force 6f Desthiy". An unconventional arrangement to say the least.

The Shostakovich proved to be a readily approachable work: it does not raise very profound issues, but few concertos do. Nonetheless, the second movement contahis some very beautiful music, but, remembering that "still waters run deep", Shostakovich rushed ills finale along as fast as it would go.

Needless to say Mstlslav Rostropovich was incredibly brilliant. His playing of the cadenza linking the second and third movement was breathtaking, especially the almost impossible succes­sion cf gossamer harmonics which he produced.

Mild controversy has long existed over Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony. Others are acclaimed for their "pro­gramme music", so I suppose that Beethoven had every right to try some but many find a slight surfeit of naive "feeling" in the work. The woodwind produced a truly opulent tone, and the violins sang as sweetly as could be desired. Igor Markevltch guided the orchestra, unfailingly through a thoroughly enjoyable rural ramble, although the second movement did become a little dull. Tact prevents my mentioning the horn playing.

Wagner's Prelude was not all that It might have been (especially from the 'ceUDbu t the "Liebestod" was played extremely well, swelling smoothly to a climax which justified the description, "passionate and tragic". The inexorable force of destiny sometimes vacillates on the brink of extravagant melodrama in Verdi's overture, but the orchestra, again with brilliant direction, performed very well, although, at the chmax, the strings were completely lost in a iflood of brass.

and fia6. a feia (inxd deuMd. EXTENUATING circumstances can

partly justify the playing of Bee­thoven's "Pastoral" Symphony In the Sixth Youth Concert only one week after It was performed in a Subscrip­tion Concert: I believe that, through ill-health, guest conductor Igor Marke­vltch was unable to devote sufficient energy to rehearsal of another work. Nothing else could excuse such a close repetition of this Symphony.

Actually, the performance was better than the previous one. The horns were more secure (except, distressingly, In the finale), and the second movement had more cohesion, being, this time, not at all dull. The woodwind were outstanding, although their triplet pas­sages In the first movement were not as good hi this playing.

Bruce Short, the narrator in an ex­cellent reading of Prokofieff's, "Peter and the Wolf, might well have been advertised as soloistr—tenor Kenneth Neate certainly did not merit such dis­

tinction. Ths introduction to the or­chestra, in fairy-tale form was most enjoyable—Mr. Short's narration was most effecti^'e. The soloists were in fme form and they all grasped every opportunity to capitalize on the atmosphere and comedy of the music.

Kenneth Neate slides. blithely to and from notes and has a poor nasal tone. There are tenors in Brisbane far better than he. He seems to work hard to pro­duce a sound which does not justify his effort. Two of his three arias were rather hackneyed.

A very impressive performance of Beethoven's "Egmont" Overture began the programme after what, I under­stand, was a new version of the National Anthem Carranged by Rudolf Pekarek). 'nils was a reaction to some very pertinent remarks on this subject in the daily press but I have to report that it was a failure. A more dreary and sluggish arrangement I have never heard.

. . . and g4^je^. to MoMen^ SjympAmuf QUSTAV MAHLER was born one hun­

dred years ago, and, commemora-tively,, his First, Symphony was played In the Seventh Subscription Concert. It Is certainly not among the best of his works^ but Vn has some extremely fine partsv, often showing the way along which Mahler's orchestral technique eventually/ developed. The good sec-tkms sounded, magnificent, but not even excellent directloa by Sh: Bernard Heinze; could improve some dreadfully banal wdthig—eapeciallr In. the first Movement The trombones deserve special! commendatioai.

r am? decidedly conservative about "arrangemfintev, and do. nob much ap­preciate- Leo Wehier's version of Bach's great Tocoata^ in C; The music was- hitended" for an' organ, and can­not- be wholly successful with an or­

chestra, which, in any case, often merely dupllcaties the organ tone. De­finition of the entries and voices in the Fugue was not always sufficient.

Mozart's enchanting little Symphony in C (No. 28) drew from the' Q.S'.O. one of their finest; performances for a very long time. Unquestionably, throughout this concert Sir Bernard had. the or­chestra srtmdhig, almost In world class^ and that Is. no mean feat. His sensa of style and period was; faultless hi a. wide range of works, and this' Mozart,, h i particular, was. outstanding.

Although he sang rather better thart jreviously,, tenoo Kexmethi Neates: ziiad» it. unnecessary for' me to- altec ai^r ot my earlkr remarks about him..

~JOHN CABMOBY.

A considerable portion of the pro­gramme was mere "surface music" but Rostropovlch's masterly touch ennobled it. Grieg's Sonata in A Minor (with almost verbatim quotations from the Piano Concerto et cetera) shows the composer mere adroit In writing for the 'cello than Chopin, whose G Minor Sonata demonstrates quite clearly, I think, the fact that he wrote weU only for the piano which herein has a verit­able virtuoso part. Beautiful music cf Handel, Schubert and Schumann, also, at his bidding floated luxuriously from his instrument.

Rostrot>ovich is probably the finest artist that the AJI.C. has presented in my experience of concert-going.

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UNITED M T M S ASSOCIATION pEW people know of the existence of the United Nations Association of Ausralia

(UNAA). Yet, it is a vital liaison between the mighty complexities of the United Nations Organisation and the people.

It is the real and im­partial window on the state of the world; and it is alarming to see that, apparently, only a small proportion of our com­munity can see past their own back garden.

• Possibly, this situation is due to the fact that people are unaware of l i e existence of UNAA. I t is for this reason that this vital article Is presented to you. This association demands public support.

We, the students of an important u n 1 v e r s Ity, should make it our prive-lege to constitute a major part of the community that realises It must not separate itself from the rest of the world.

So now, just what is this UNAA? Essentially, it Is the citizens' extension service of the UNO. Through it, a member Is kept informed on situa­tions and investigations as observed by UNO Agen­cies and individuals,

This Is achieved in many ways. The various litera­ture of these Agencies is sent to members. Some of essential interest are. United Nations Educa­tional, Scientific and Cul­tural O r g a n i s a t i o n (UNESCO); World Health O r g a n i s a t i o n (WHO); Pood and Agricultural Or­ganisation (FAO); and many, many others. This Information keeps one right up to date on world and scientific develop­ments in these fields.

ACTIVITIES OF UNAA Monthly meetings pro­

vide interesting talks and discussions on many topics of world interest, includ­ing some local ones. As an Immhient example, consider Professor Teakle's discussion on "The Future of Agriculture in Queens­land", to be presented in about a fortnight. Tliese are regular functions of UNAA, i.e. keeping up with the times. "There are others.

Per instance, any UNO project receives vigorous active support. A member has the opportunity to provide some contribution towards the brotherhood of man. Of course, one

doesn't have to belong to UNAA to do this, as the recent World Reiugee Ap­peal so vividly demon­strated.

This, by the way, has now surpassed the State's target and reached £81,845. UNAA gratefully acknow­ledges the no mean effort the students made towards this achievement.

But, as a member of UNAA, one works at the very heart of the situation. It may have been observed that the organisation of the Refugee Appeal was carried out by UNAA,.

There are,, however, other UNO appeals which have not received such

glamorous public support, but w h i c h UNAA generously does support. One such appeal is the Children's Fund (UNICEF), which, tills year, amounted to only £700 from Queensland. This is a poor figure from people who claim to love children. Of course, perhaps this will appeal more to our stal­wart 'varsity femmes. (It Is certainly hoped sol).

These are major func­tions of UNAA. but there are many smaller ones. A common feature of them all, however, is that they let you, the develophig citizen, share the world.

PLEA TO STUDENTS Answer this question

truthfully: "Can you af­ford NOT to understand the world's problems?" De­finitely not! Let's take a glimpse at our position in the community. Generally, university students are the future kaj-citizens. On the completion of our studies,, the moulding of a field of human endeavour will be left largely to us. It Is essential, then, that university students be aware of the problems, whether scientific or social. Furthermore it is essential they find the^ answers;. This cannot be achieved unless t&e stu.-dentr themselves make the effort to understand.

Your studies make you knowledgable: UNAA may also make you apprecia­tive and wise. Students are important potentially, but they cannot adopt their responsibilities unless they know what their re­sponsibilities are. It is not enough to know the in­side of the nose-bag off by note. The eyes will tire of hesslon, and, unless they are brought out to view the wide open spaces', the mind will sleep because of. stale air.. Australia,, you know, is a part of the world..

All this; has appeared, probably, as a propaganda campaign for UNAA. Actu­

ally, it did not start that way. The object has been to draw your attention to the importance of UNAA. It is hoped you will do something about it. I t is dlsturbhig to- find a lack of youth hi this associa­tion that should, by right, have a very large propor­tion of youth;

SOj here is a plea, and a challenge. Please don't let examinations drive this out of your thoughts entirely. Let's show that ever-decrying pubUc that we are willing to* do wliat many oC them ace not: to imderstand the wicntld;. and its peopfeli

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' also be informed of the may he established (1961) membership from the i^pj tj^^j y^„,,g ^ univer- under the guidance of the UNAA secretary, Mrs.. N. gity atuctent^ . From this: s Qaeensland division of P^Dasis,, on. the. sixth. Ilaoc gauge, ma; be had. o£ sta:< UNAA. Ihia i& uj^ to joa!

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FENCING - FITNESS WINS The adventures and misadventures of the University fencers at Intervarsity

in Melbourne are recounted briefly (fortunately) in the following paragraphs. We left with high hopes of at last wresting the trophies away from Sydney who had dominated Intervarsity Fencing since 1952. As events turned out we were not entirely unsuccessful.

While the women's team trahied our men fenced off the foil bouts with the other Universities, and as we hoped (and expected) we emerged victorious. Brian Parton fenced well and did not lose a bout. Sydney greatly felt the loss of their Olympic team members, who fortunately for us had graduated. Sydney took second place, with Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in that order. That night the women fenced against Sydney and were unfortunately beaten.

The men's epee was held that day and once again Queensland first place. The final b.outs were not to be fenced off until Friday, but the re­sult was never really in doubt. That night the women's team foil com­petition was completed. Our women convincingly defeated South Australia and in an extremely close match lost to a strong Melbourne team, who were the ultimate winners by only five hits. Rae Bielen-burg fenced well to win all her bouts and the other team members fenced well

CRICKET (TRICKET Club practices ^ which are held at 10 a.m. on Sundays, com­menced during the vaca­tion. There were a num­ber of new members pres­ent, which was very heart­ening to see at the com­mencement of third term.

Q.C.A. fixtures start on September 17, but before then there will be practice matches agahist other Brisbane clubs and Too-woomba.

The coming s e a s o n should be one of con­tinued success for our five teams following on from the premiership wins of last season. During the season there will be four intervarsity games as well as intrastate trips.

The highlight of the cricket season as far as University cricket is con­cerned will be the com-bhied Universities game against the touring West Indian side. This game will be played in Canberra and Queensland should be well represented.

Any intending new play­ers who desire information about the club should contact the secretary, Wep Harris at« 97 1861 (busi­ness).

to force such a close re­sult The women's team finished. third behind Melbourne and Sydney.

Wednesday saw the novice men's, team foil fought out and again the Queensland men won. This was a meritorious victory since our novices had been fencing only five or six months, and It speaks well for their en­thusiasm that they should win. At night half the sabre events were fenced, and our men's teams re

That night a party to end all previous parties was held and as a farewell gesture (since it was theh-last Intervarsity) Craig Watford from Sydney and Ian Alfredscn f r o m Queensland were subjected to some rough handling. The drinkers were then put to the test to see if they could substantiate their extravagant claims. It must be admitted that a combined S y d n e y -Adelalde team performed well in defeating all op­position, but in the in-

cord was marred when dividual event, continued they lost to Sydney In a practice told, and a very close match by three hits. This match was really tense and the result was in doubt to the very end. Our team had little trouble in defeating the South Australian team.

After this an Impromptu party was arranged in the University Geology rooms, and some Interesting specimens were seen dur­ing the course of the evening. After career­ing round Melbourne on a motor cycle, one young lady couldn't find her keys, so after performing a dance In mid street to attract someone's atten­tion (which it certainly did) she was let In and peace finally descended with no more than the usual disturbance.

On T h u r s d a y our women's novice team had their turn and performed creditably in taking second place In Sydney. Like the men they had only been fencing for a few months and they fenced well to take second place. That night the remaining sabre bouts were fenced and we allowed ourselves to be a little overconfident so that Melbourne were able to take seven bouts-from us. However, we filled second place behind Syd­ney with Melbourne third,

Friday dawned soon after, and later the teams awoke to face yet another day of competition. The remaining epee bouts were to be fenced and a women's Individual foil event was to be held. Queensland clinched its epee win by defeating Melbourne comfortably. This gave us a clear over­all victory and we were now outright winners of the Intervarsity.

The women's individual championship went to Ricky Winter from Mel­bourne with Rae Blelen-burg and Gwen Sprad-brow from Queensland fUlhig sbcth and eight places.

Queensland team member emerged victorious with the fastest time and no spillage.

Left to right—Front Row: H. Brown, J. McKenzie, E. Atherton, D. Sallows, B. Burton.

Back Row: M. Duggan, P. Joyce, B. Bell, M. Rus­sell (captain), J. Histed, S. Stannard, A. Bore-ham, V. Cecil, M. Adam.

MENS SQUASH RESULTS Well, the last week of the Show vacation is well over and with it, Thank

God, the other University teams participating in the Annual Men's Squash Intervarsity.

From Monday till Friday, dawn to dusk (well almost, anyway) the 30 team members did their utmost to reduce each other into slow-moving pools of pcrspiru' tion and sweat.

And when it was all I being demolished next

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over Sydney University had retained the Teams Trophy, just defeating Queensland (runners-up) In the final match and the 1960 champion was L. Ravesl cf Adelaide who beat Frank Cheok of Syd­ney (champion for the last four years) in the final. The combined Varsities side did not have any Queenslanders and this may explain the beating delivered to them by the representative State team played on Friday night.

It was not play alto­gether, however, and con­siderable work was done by the hosts in an attempt to soften up the opposi­tion for the Queensland team who were, by the way, B. Kenway, A. Jack-man, P. Lee, R. Mihell, R. Skeates and B. McGrath. The highlight of the week was undoubtedly the combined Farewell/Pre­sentation of Trophies do at the home of A.U.S.A. representative Bill Robson, which, it was believed, was

day anyway. At this point it should be mentioned that the first Women's Squash Intervarsity was also held here—a very happy coincdence (nuff saidJ.

The dinner must have also been successful (I can barely remember) because a proud man now boasts a Foreign Legion cap Trophy (?). This started a fad, of course, which resulted in a Queenslander rescuing a couple of captives from the clutches of a number of very Irate, capless tram-mles. Past car and all that kind of thing.

Other functions included a Gold Coast jaunt on Sunday which wound up-and-up-and-up fright into orbit, in fact) at Lennons Broadbeach; a Welcome Dance at the Tennis Pavilion and a Women's Social. These were the of­ficial functions only, of course. M a n y others branched off along the way and were carried on

all over town. It was undoubtedly a

successful Intervarsity, ad­judged by the rash of sun­glasses each day, and the enthusiasm with which players look forward to next year's at Adelaide.

WOMEN'S HOCKEY

OURING the August vacation, the Women's

Intervarsity Hockey Car­nival was held in Hobart, with teams from all States competing.

Fifteen members of the University of Queensland Women's Hockey Club comprised the Queensland team which won two matches against the Uni­versities of New England and New South Wales. The competition was won by Sydney who won six matches out of seven.

Our team found it diffi­cult to adapt themselves to weather and playing con­ditions, and this, com­bined with the injuries of two of the team members, was probably the reason why the Queensland team did not have as much suc­cess as it hoped for. How­ever, everyone enjoyed, meeting the players from

I other States and appreci-i ated tho hospitality of the j Tasmanlan U n i v e rslty, looking for ward to being

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Science Makes News Once upon a time there was a Science Studend. (At least, we

think he was a science student; anyway, we'll make him one for the purpose of the fairy taiaf). When he was a little boy, he used to dream about how he was going to organize things when (and if) he got to be a big boy. Unfortunately, no-one had the the forsight to belt this strange idea out of his system, he went happily along with his dream: He was going to ORGANIZE something.

Eventually things calmed down a little, and the meetings became less frequent. Then came another horrible surprise:

\there arnong the small type in

New Vet. School Mural Comp. T H E University ol Queens-' iRTiil Vi>t«rinarv Stn-

bin.

Anyway, after many strange adventures (Scholarship, Junior and Senior) and several lucky breaks (bribing of examiners, blackmail, etc.! he arrived at the University of Queensland. There he found that he was a little, fish in a big ocean. Everyone was running around in concentric circles getting nowhere fast, and everyone was ignoring everyone else. So our little fish decided to make a splash. He looked around to find a suitable pool to make it in, and wonder, of wonders, there was the Science Faculty completely disorganized.

So, naturally, our hero at once resolved to set things right. He began to have visions of his name carved in the Hall of Fame, and underneath the words "Saviour of Science", i^^ ir iposing that they ail Off he went like a busy li»le.became very worried and began bee to stir every-body up and ^^ ave meetings of the Science organiie them. All enthusiastic; sfyjgnjj. Association two or

nDrfK' i i7 ' i : ' \ *^* •"' ' ' t?" ' rJ ' ' ' three times a day to make up ORGANIZE, to carve his little i|g^ [^jf jif^g niche in immortality. ; ^^^^^^^^^^^m^^^^^m

But after a little while, he , luddcnly noticed that nobody, was taking any notice of him. I They were still going their i own ways, too busy to be con- | ccrncd with what he was doing. This left him very dejected for a while, but all of a sud­den he had a wonderful IDEA.

Why not organize them any­way? The fact that they didn't know they had been organized wouldn't really matter at all. So off he went again, as happy as happy can be. Pretty soon he had organired the Science Students' Association and drawn up a most imposing Constitution. Of course, he was President, Secretary, Treas­urer, and total active mem­bership, but that didn't worry him one bit. All the other Science Students were auto­matically members, so there he was, President of a huge as­sociation.

Unfortunately, soon after this, all his dreams were ruined. He failed first year. Nothing could persuade his Mummy and Daddy that he should be allowed to try again, jthe constitution was the con-so he had to leave. Sadly he 'dition that Science Students' held his last meeting, and /Notes must appear in "Semper faded away, throwing the con- ^'—^-'" * ' ~ - ' -" ""'- *—-* stitution into a nearby rubbish

Floreat". Alas, alas, this had not been done. So everyone ran round in little circles till they found a poor innocent Fresherettc who had missed a meeting. She became the scapegoat and was ordered to write the Science Students' Notes immediately, if not sooner.

land Veterinary Stu dents' Association with the backing of the Dean of the Faculty and Prof. 3. F. A. Sprent, has de­cided to hold a competi­tion for a Mural for the entrance foyer of the New Veterinary School at St. Lucia.

The competition is open to all University students or graduates, and Art students at the Technical College.

The prize consists of £10/10/- for the success­ful entry, and a further £30 for the execution of the Mural during the long vacation.

Some account of the

Now as you know, rubbish bins aren't emptied very often around the University, so it wasn't until many years later that someone in emptying the bin found the constitution. The cleaner was very impressed by , ^ * I.T. >T o i- i what he read, so ran straight I That was several months ;"*^"^. ! °^ '^® ^^? ^^'^°,?} across to the Science Faculty ' ago. The intervening time has 11^^ ^^ surroundings wi l l with the constitution in his i been spent in research. T h e i J ^ ^ f . ^ ^ be DOrn In m i n d hand. Naturally, no-one knew following vitally important i n - i ^ y the artist. T h e basic anything about it. But it looked i formation has been uncovered theme consists 01 the as-

' in consequence' .sociatlon of man and ani-

WITHIN LIVING MEMORY, feS siffldent^ sSfnVfo? NOTHING HAS HAPPENED ? i 7 y 5 ™ ^ IN THE SCIENCE FACULTY! 11 ^^ y^eTft t inent to the'

M.F i proposed site for the ^ • ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I mural.

The actual size has not !yet been finalized but It 'is expected to be about , 16ft. X 7ft. The design can

THE 1960 edition of the Student Travel Handbook '^^ abstract, semiabstract ' International Student "! or conventional. A short

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