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Muriel Robinson for Pearce McCall, president Germans Sponsors Patricia O'Kelly for George Byrd, vice-president you mi A ciga but withc the wholg When it It's the Up front in That' WINSTON TJ like a cigar New Thea 'Plans Win By Melv Special Recently a group of Thespians formed a theatrical organization. They realized Columbia's need for an independent group of this type. The Actors Experimental Thea tre as it is known in an embry onic drama society created espe cially .to bring the community more drama and entertainment for which it obviously hungers in its provincial wilderness. For every play, concert, motion pic ture (sex filled or otherwise), good or -bad, the population of Columbia pours out. Unless, of course, the entertainment is "cul tural," then they shy away from it. First- Presentation The tentative .plans of this group are to present plays bi monthly with different directors for each production. The first presentation of the. Actors Ex perimental Theatre is to be "I Am a Camera" by John Van Druden which is to be proscenium Pi Phis Will Hold Christmas Party Tomorrow Night Pi Beta Phi social sorority will hold a Christmas party for Pi Phi's and dates at Mehlman's tomorrow night. Christmas decorations will car ry out the theme of the approach ing holiday season. Officers of Pi Phi are Juanita Edwards, president; Becky Find ley, vice-president; Mary Savage, corresponding secretary; Patty Wilson, recording secretary; and Myrna Hutto, treasurer. watch Is to, but without hands ss the whole idea rette is to s >ut flavor-you mis : idea of smoking comes to flavor what! front it coul EYNOLOS TOSACCO CO.. WNSTON.SALEM. N.C. M Winston is s why "" ESTES GOOD, ette should! tre Group iter Debut n Byars Writer style. The elected director for It is Alexander Garroz. The Thea tre's coordinator is John Hand cock. Agent for Good Theatre Contrary to some heresay, the AET according to its founders is not intended to be the rivil of the 40-year-old community tlhea tre, the University Players, the Opera Workshop nor any other. It is merely an agent to bring the city and the actors themselves good theatre. Dramas to Be Given The initial productions will be calibrated so that the general public will receive much enter tainment and benefit. According to the members this does not mean that the plays will be frothy. There will be no musicals only strict drama. West phalian Society Will Hold Winter Dance The Westphalian Society cor4 posed of members of Kappa Al pha, Sigma Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Sigma Nu social fraternities will present its sec ond dance Dec. 18 at the Jeffer son Hotel from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Music will be furnished by Jimmy Farr and his orchestra. Officers of the Westphalian Society formed last semester as a campus organization are Charlie Jackson (KA) president; Charlie Way (Sigma Chi), vice president; Nicki Moore (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) secretary-treas urer; and "Happy" Cotton (Sig ma Nu) dance chairman. tell time of a watch imoke S rts oio U and Reau./ By Emily McCutchen Thanksgiving holidays come to a close . .. Block C party invitations received . .. Bowl bids sent out ... the weather has definitely become cold beyond words, no snow though . . Naval ROTC Ball ... Westphalian Dance'... Song Fest, December 8.. . Fall Germans ... the flu may be here again . . . Thanksgiving dinner parties were quite the vogue ... football games were attended by many Carolina students . . "twenty-four more shopping (lays until Christmas" can be heard in every town in the country. Hinson Coker (Chi Psi) visited Charlotte and Winston Salem over the Thanksgiving holidays. Billy Woods (Chi Psi) cr.me back reporting that he did absolutely nothing and went nowhere. Dottie Hardeman, Janie Brown, and Jane McGowan went down for the Georgia-Georgia Tech game. SIGMA CHI'S The fraternity spent a scattered but happy holiday. Nancy Pembroke (Sweetbriar) and Johnny Stover, Gayle Pederkyn (Skidmore Alum) and Bill Handel were among those seen at the game and then on they went to Thanks giving dinner at "Hope Hill" on the Wateree. One of the alums at the game was Dave Smith with Francis Byrd (Converse College). Tuffy Wolfe entertained Angelia Bellos and Bert Pooser, Johnny Hagins, Tommy Rose and a Clem son man-Lee Clyburn (uring the holidays in Camden. SIGMA NU'S "Getting organized" for a three-day round of parties in Greenwood over the holidays were Bill Simpson and Normi Abercrombie, Walter Duffie and Lynn Thomas, Jimmie Mills and Sandra Browning, Bo Mullis and Genie Watson. Bobby Ellis and Judy Andrews, Bill Herring and Jo Kirven enjoyed a "low country" Thanksgiving in George town. ~KA's John Taylor and Archie Hardy went up to Wofford over the holidays for the weekend. The KA's and dates enter tained the N. C. State KA's with a party at the Syrian Lebanon Club after the game. Vivi Smith and Joe Ashley, Priscilla Harrington and Tommy Reynolds, Fran Evans and Peter Read, Gracie Hutchison and Tommy Edmunds, Bob and Makie Shell, Legare and Margaret Mellette, and Patsy Warmoth and Tommy Cook were among those attending. PiKA's PiKA's and their dates seen in the stands watching USC beat Wake Forest Thanksgiving Day were Caroline Harrell and Jim Twitty, Jo Ann Folk and Tommy Miles, Jerome King and Bill Wilson, Pat Gunn and Oliver Porter and Marie Riccoboni and Brown Sibert. PiKA pinnings recently include Rita Graham (ADPi) to Jack Potter, Mary Lou Sanders to Dick Kirkland, Camille Wyman (ADPi) to Loy Daniels and Cille Simpson (Win throp Alum) to D)ermon HIarveyv. McBRYD)E BROTHERHOOD) Brothers and their dlates partied at the 'Y' Camp. Amy McKnight andl Bob Waldrep, Johnsie Nabors and Dick Badger, Becky Clover and Jim Shealy. Wanda McKowan md Tommy Huskey andl Carrie Bartell and Larry May were imong those there. Gosh frosh! -how'd you catch on so quick? Catch on to the fact that Coca-Cola is the hep drink on campus, I mean. Always drink It, you say? Well-how about* dropping over to the dorm and0 downing a sparkling Coke or two with the boys. The man who's. for Coke is the man for us SIGN OF GOOD TASTE Boted under authority of The Coca-Cola Company by BOOK ( Bricklayer Shuns Cel Pietro di Donato has the weather-worn face and sinewy hands of a bricklayer and the sensitivity and way with words of a writer. This is not surpris ing, since bricklaying and writ ing have been the twin corner stones of his life. Born in West Hoboken, New Jersey, he started laying br,cks at age 12. His father, also a 'bricklayer, perished in the col lapse of .a building, and young Pietro had to help support his four brothers and three sisters. Toiling at his craft until his mid die 20's, di Donato became in terested in writing after reading realists such as Zola and Dostoev sky. "I had begun to react to my father's death," he says, "and wanted to write a document of rebellion." Story Expanded He wrote the theme as a long short-story titled "Christ in Con crete." "Esquire" bought it, and its publication created such a sen sation that di Donato expanded the material into a novel. It sold over a million copies; and Pietro di Donato, the bricklayer, was transformed into a celebrity al most before he could wash the mortar from his hands. Lionized by the literati, in demand as a lecturer and writer, he earned about $100,000. "But," di Donato recalls today, "I spent all my money on material madness dancy restaurants, clothes and big cars." Deserted His new-found friends soon deserted him, and during the next 10 years he wrote a few short stories, and wandered around the country, earning a living as best he could. Finally he returned for JAZZ ARTIST SKET Defin ition Garner-- 6 By John Special Fifty thousand dollars worth of talent . . . that's Erroll Garner. For the few music haters, E. G. plays a piano. Yet, he does more than just play, he takes 88 notes and arranges them in a lace-work pattern that some times jumps, sometimes floats, but alwvays thrills. Rise to Fame Garner began his rise to fame in the middle 30's and has swept the nation with his happy-go lucky sounds ever since. In the earlier days of his career, this master of musical feeling worked Erroll Garner small group circuit-trios, duos, but mostly singles. His main passion in life was to play with a big name orchestra. There was, however, one large drawback to this: Erroll Garner cannot, and never has been able to, read a single note of music. This sur prising lack led to the develop ment of Garner's amazing sound. First Album Finally, E. G. realized that to be able to record with the larger groups, he would have to eitsher CAMPBELL' PHARi Cornell DRUCS --CHI NOhThNS 3ORNER - Author ?brity Life a visit to West Hoboken, where his people, the Italian immigrants of whom he had written with such emotion, welcomed him back to their simple life of hard work, good food, wine, play and prayer. "They respected me fbr tihe deftness of my trowel, for the good wall I could build," he says. "They couldn't understand why I should get my head all mixed up writing books." "This Woman" Today, di Donato works as a bricklayer in the Hoboken area and lives in Setauket, Long Is land, with his wife, Helen, sons Peter, 13 and Richard, 9. and step-daughter Harriet, 20. Be tween jobs he found time to write a new novel entitled "This Wo man," for which he and his pub lishers, Ballantine Books, have high hopes; "But whatever hap pens," he says with a smile, "I can still lay bricks when I have to." Agee Novel The Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "A Death in the Family" is one of the most honored and most beloved books to be pub lished in many years by Mc Dowell, Obolensky. It received a universally enthusiastic critical reception; it was then nominated for the National Book Award; and finally it was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958. A best seller from coast to coast it is now in its fourth printing. The Author One of the genuinely gifted writers of our time, James Agee was readying this novel for pub lication at the time of his sudden tragic death at the age of 45. Few books have ever captured the warmth and tenderness of love within the family as this. CHED Of Erroll ood Music Grunert I Wrter learn to read music, or teach his style to them. The former being rather impossible at such a late date, he decided to try the latter. So, when arranger Nat Pierce came along, Garner started to have his ideas put on paper. He couldn't read what Pierce put down, but his feelings for music told him that what he heard was what he wanted. The two of them got together with Mitch Miller to turn out Garner's first album, "Other Voices." Mr. Misty The widespread success of this work is indicated by the number of D. J.'s throughout who used cuts from this L. P. for theme music. In fact, one such disc spinner used Garner's composi tion, "Misty," so much, that he became known as Mister Misty. .Feeling One thing that should be noted is that E. G. has a feeling for music that becomes seemingly less and less a requirement for the enterprising young musician of today. He does more than butcher a guitar string and swing his hips, he just loses him self in the sheer beauty of melody versus counter-melody, progres sive harmonization. Where does the fifty thousand dollars come in? This is how much Garner takes home every year as a minimum. Not bad for a piano player who doesn't wiggle or croak. Christmas Ist This artist has put out sev eral albums recently which, In the estimation of yours truly, will solve my Christmas shopping problem all in one leap. You see, I've never heard of anyone who dislikes good music, and this Erroll Garner sound is tops in tihe race for listening appeal and pleasure. Fifty thousand dollsars worth of talent . . . that's Erroll Garner. ~CORNEll >oL SUPPLES 4 IDA EnO1NrAIN