The Higher Learning in America the University of California
The Higher Learning in America the University of California
Stephen Fitzroy
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Sam Hume and Irving Pichel, the directors, starting from nothing, have built up this enterprise until it now offers the best series of plays being pro- duced in any American university. A new play is presented every two weeks, each production being repeated three times. Schnitzler's "The Lonely Way" was recently played for the first time in America. VI ALTHOUGH California is not particu- larly rich in campus customs and tradi- tions, she has a few which are both unique and picturesque. The bonf...ire rallies in the Greek theatre are the most impressive of the regular shows. In spite of the horrible speeches which the old grads trot out and the ancient jokes which are retailed, these rallies manage to achieve a certain barbaric splendor which is worth all the torture of sitting on concrete steps and alternately roast- ing and freezing. The great bonfire in the center, where in old Athens stood the altar to Dionysus; the thousands of howling demons packed so close around it that their eyebrows are singed; the riot of colors on the co-eds, weirdly illuminated by the roaring flames; the delirious strains of syncopation; the mad whirl of the serpentine, the yells which cause the old hills to tremble all these things make incomparable spec- 66 THE HIGHER LEARNING IN AMERICA tacles.
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