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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Wesiminster, Md. Passing in _Review VARIETY A REVIEW OF By BRADY O. BRYSON BOOKS, PLAYS, AND LIFE Senator Huey P. Long, political lion "VALLEY :FORGE" of Louisiana state politics, added an- A play in three acts by "EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOG- other flame to the fire of his dictator- Maxwell Anderson RAPHY" Offi?ial student n«;wspaper of Western Maryland College, published on Thursday ship a few weeks ago when he sup· By H. G. Wells dunng the aeademie year by the students of Western Maryland College, Westminster, pressed the Reveille, Louisiana State Maryland. Entered as second-class matter at the Westminster Post office. University campus paper, because of Presented last week at Recently purchased for the college SUBSCRIPTIONPRICE $1.00 A YEAR editorial criticism which it passed upon Ford's Theatre, Baltimore. library him. Reviewed by Reviewed by EDITORIAL STAFF Huey has made a great noise on the Dennis J. Brown Edito'r-in-Chief , DENNIS ;r. BROWN, '35 L S. U. campus. He publicized his rule Jdamae Riley Associate. Editors PAUL SCHWEIKER, 35, EDITH FORNEY, '35 of the state there in a colorful though News Editors ROBERT BROOKS, '36 FRANCES ELDERDICE '35 burlesque f'a shion ; he conducted person- During the past few years Maxwell In this "experiment", H. G. Wells COrn}Editors .•.......................... IDAMAE RILEY; '36, HAROLDWHITE; '36 ally caravans of students to L. S. U. Anderson has accomplished that which Sports Editors .•..................... WILSON NICHOLS, '35, FRANCES GLYNN, '35 few playwrights have had the intre- very frankly and objectively analyzes Feature Editor ........................•.............. ROSALIE SILBERSTEIN, '36 football games, lending seven dollars pidity to a ttempt. He has three times "hat he calls his "very ordinary brain", Exchange EditOI·.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . HELEN STUMP, '36 to every student who needed it to at- and shows us the result. And the rec- tend the games; he offered a state sen- dipped his creative pen in the exuber- MAKE·UP STAFF atorship to "Abe" Mickall, L. S. U. ant pages of history, and each time has ord of this experiment, although cer- Managing Editor '" HERBERT STEVENS, '36 succeeded in writing a play which ac- tainly not startling, is still not as tame Assistant Managing Editors MANSELL STEVENS, '35, ROBERT COE, '37 football star, who had sense enough to tually glows with all the exhilarating as the tabulated data of a wr-its-up of refuse it; he made flowery speeches BUSINESS STAFF calling the youth of the state to his sup- warmth of words and all the charm of a biological experiment. Far from it! Business Manager ..•.................................... F. KALE MATHIAS, '3'5 port for the next U. S. presidency; and character delinea tion which are so H. G. Wells couldn't be like a piece of Advertising Manager EDWARD BEAUCHAMP, '36 necessary to make historical drama gah'anized tin if he wanted 'to! He is Assistant Advertising Manager JOHN WARMAN, '37 now he has suppressed the college paper. more than a mere chronicle account of Circulation Managers THOMAS EVELAND, '36, OLIVE BUTLER, '35 The blustering Huey, who won his past events. much too vital, too excited about his position by eating cornpone and molas- ideas of a "planned world community" Assistant Circulation Managers ses and mixing a few democratic "Valley Forge", which was preserrtsd for that. And because he himself is ANDREW RILEY, '36 MARTHA MCCULLOUGH, '37 "ain'ts" in his verbosity for the benefit by the Theatre Guild in Baltimore at RALPH LUMAN, '37 ROSALIE GILBERT, '36 Ford's Theatre, represents Mr. Ander- vitally alive, every page of his auto- of Louisiana backwoodsmen, naturally biography seems pulsating and exciting. REPORTERS has come ill for a lot of humorous criti- son's third historical" dip' '. And despite Proof of this is the statement of Alex- con- deal of Brady Bryson, '35; Charles Read, '36; Guy Griffen, '36; Nicholas Campofreda, '36; cism. Nor did the L. S. U. Reveille a great '38; M. V. Brittingham, '38; Janet MacVean, '38; posed to have violently cursed the edi- them in the superior grouping. ence and began to acquire reflexes and Eleanor Taylor, '3'8. tor, the staff, ·the writer of the article, As the title implies, "Valley Forge" register impressions in a needy, shabby Duyam R. Norman, and to have threat- concerns itself with that terrible time home in a little town called Bromley in and to get a Worthy opinion; Model management; Correct news. end to fire 4,000 students He stopped the during the winter of 1775 when the Kent", wrote Mr. Wells in his chapter whole new enrollment! at the mercy lay Continental forces presses, had twenty-six Reveille work- Death and Hunger some few miles from of on "Origins". it How tha t brain was ed- developed how ucated, certain gen- appointed a censor ors suspended, E D I T o R I A L at $150 a month and to examine the paper Philadelphia. But Mr. Anderson does eral ideas concerning the world, how it before it goes to press. not stop here. He uses this situation tussled with the brains of its contem- as a mere background, and concerns poraries, all this forms the story related The staff immediately resigned and Mr. Hearst Talks Back America's notorious nationalist has replied to appealed to the university president, himself primarily with the character of by Mr. Wells in the following pages of the lengthy and stimulating letter recently Dr. James M. Smith, to grant freedom General George 'Washington. A~; Mr. his book. In th ese pages, he uses his presented to him by the Association of College Editors. Mr. William of the press. The school of journalism, Anderson creates him, Washingto n be- own brain as his rabbit, and does a Randolph Hearst, full of his customary bombast and bias, answered too, went on a strike. Sadly enough, comes a man who, while fighting to up- thorough job of dissecting it. Francis G. Smith's letter by stating what is no more than a typical President Smith is quite under the hold the spirit of his men and th'e fu- Hearst harangue-a series of "I believe" and" I do not believe:" thumb of Senator Long, and has re- ture of his country, sees his endeavors In the stories of his ear'ly reading, of Both Mr. Smith's open letter and Mr. Hearst's recent reply have fused the plea for freedom of the press. rendered and practically useless by a vacil- his escape from the drapery business, Con- Continental stubborn lating been printed in the GOLD BUG, thus giving anyone who is interested a The staff, of course, will not go on un- gress, but who finally finds in the 'ashes of his student life, of his marital rela- chance to compare the two letters. But an attempt at comparison is less its liberty IS unimpaired of a love which long since has died tions, of his rise in the literary world, confusing. One can scarcely compare a Rembrandt 'with a Picasso, a Dr. Smith threatened to resign un- down