Southern
SUMMER
Cal ifornia
TROJAN
VOL. XI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JULY 10r 1561
NO. 6
THE LYING ART
. w#*iip , TV Critic to Speak
Knight Will Explain—,	.	,	.	.	,,
Movie Distortions On Modern Authors
Cinema critic Arthur Knight will give a public lecture on “The Lying Art of The Movies”
tomorrow altemoon at 2:15 in FH 133.
Knight, a visiting associate professor of cinema and senior film critic for the Saturday Review, has often remarked that the motion picture camera distorts reality, although viewers tend to feel, that they are actually watching an objective history of an event.
In his book, “The Liveliest Art,” Knight distinguishes between the subjective camera, which takes the angle or position of one of the characters in the scene, and the objective camera, which views the scene much the same way as an observer.
Knight was recently appointed curator of films and tapes for the new Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum. The critic began to write for the Saturday Review in 1949.
fn an interview last year, Knight explained that he has no set pattern of criticizing films but. in descending order of importance, considers content, technique and novelty value in writing his review.
The novelty value category.
he explained, includes anything that is unique — an approach that is different,- some new star
discovered, a musical score of special interest.
Knight at that time watched an average _of five films a week for reviewing purposes as well as seeing additional films' for his classes.
In addition to his history of
the movies, Knight has written many articles for magazines and encyclopedias, as well as his Saturday Review column, which
appears about twice a month.
Knight draws a sharp line between a film critic and a film reviewer.
‘‘A film critic must have a complete knowledge of films, not the film reviewer’s ‘interest’ in films,” he said.
The critic believes that a reviewer should have certain publications in the field as well as a complete knowledge of the medium before he can be called a critic.
Before coming West last summer, Knight served as assistant curator of the Museum of -Modern Art in New York City for 10 years. He was the first American to serve on the international jury of the Venifce Film Festival in 1955 and 1957.
JUSTIN DART
, . new trustee
Dr. Frederick B. Shroyer, moderator and panelist for “A Cavalcade of Books” and profesor	of	English	at	Los	Angeles State College, will deliver	the	first	of	two	lectures	on
special phases of literature today at 1:15 in FH 212.
Today’s lecture is titled “The Creative Symbiosis: Writers and Interpreters." and a	’
lecture tomorrow at the same time in FH 212 will deal with
"The Word Set Free: Prose Fiction and the Interpreter.”
The lectures are part of a series of talks to members of a summer symposium of contemporary literature and the oral interpreter that have been opened to public attendance.	,	A	two-unit	work_
Previous speakers in the series shop for elementary school pnn-
haYe included Dr. Marie Hoch-J cipals is currently being held by muth Nichols on contemporary the university in Riverside, criticism. Dr. Zelda Wolpe on
Frank	workshop is sponsored
jointly by USOs Community Ser-^ vices Division, the Califoria Elementary School Administrators
Principals Get New Methods At Workshop
Trustees Pick Rexall Leader
Reading Will Satirize Old Art of Snobbery
The profile of snobbism will be drawn today at 12:30 in FH 133 when Dr. Ronald E. Freeman, assistant professor of English reads from William M. Thackeray’s “Book of Snobs.”
The “Book of Snobs” originally appeared as a series of essays in Punch titled “The Snobs
of England, by one of themselves." It was the first widely popular series for both the magazine and the author, according to Dr. Freeman.
“Smugness, complacency and arrogance personified the public character of the snobs of England,” the English professor explained. Snobbism is not dead, he continued, although money and power have replaced the Victorian symbols of rank and acceptance.
“Snobbery is a part of human character,” Dr. Freeman noted.
Educators Must Meet
A special meeting.for students who plan to enroll in Field Work (Educational Administration 5291 or Educational Administration 559 will be heW on Wednesday, July 19, at 1:15 p.m.
Dr. Emery Stoops, professor of educational administration, said (hat all students who plan to enroll for Field Work during the coming school year but will not be able to attend instructional meetings this fall must attend the meeting.
“Circumstances change, but the coach and four or six of 1850 has given way only in kind to the sports car and swimming pool in 1961 in Southern California.”
Dr. Freeman believes that the snob essays preview “the perceptive and sharp focus that Thackeray later manifested in drawing his characters for his great satiric masterpiece, vanity Fair.’
“The snobs of Mayfair are first cousins of the snobs of the Punch series, if not even closer relatives,” he said.
Dr. Freeman noted that Thackeray divides his snobs into several classifications.
“He has club snobs, clerical and university snobs, dining-out and dining-at-home snobs, snobs on the continent and snobs in the country,” Dr. Freeman said.
“He lampoons those who foster the ‘right’ connections, who mention the ‘right’ names and who engage in ‘suitable’ marriages,” he added.
Thackeray’s ‘ essays revealed his skill in analyzing his own culture and seeing its hollowness, Dr. Freeman remarked. His wit attacks the inconsistencies, the pettiness, the pomposity and the inflated egos of his day.
Dr. Freeman noted that Punch celebrated the 100th anniversary of the book publication of Thackeray's essays in 1958 with a long series written by eminent British literary men titled “The New Book of Snobs.”
Election of Justin W. Dart.
! president of Rexall Drug and I Chemical Company, Los Angeles, j’to the Board of Trustees was an-| nounced Friday.
! Joining the Walgreen Compa-j ny. a drug store chain in Chi-| cago, in 1929 he was in general | charge of store operations from ! 1932-39. Dart became general manager in 1939 and was also elected a director.
He left the Walgreen Company in 1941 and later that year joined the then United Drug Company ( now Rexall Drug and Chemical Company) as vice president and director. He has been
poetic metaphors and Dr C. Baxter on contemporary
et ry.
Dr. Shroyer's lectures will
deal with the general topic of the contemporaiy novel and short story in oral presentation.
Dr. Shroyer was head of the department of language arts at Los Angeles Stale College from 1951 to 1953 anti helped found ihe Idyllwild Arts Foundation Writers Conference in 1956. He served as director of the foundation during 1956 and 1957.
The television personality was a visiting professor at USC in 1958. He received his B.A.. >1. A. and Ph. D. degrees in English and American literature from the university.
In addition to his apearanees on “Cavalcade of Books.” Dr. Shroyer conducts two lecture classes on local station KCOP j and was a literary consultant to
Association and the Riverside County Elementary Principals
Association.
Open only to experienced administrators or advanced students in school administration,
the seminar includes discussions of administrative arid supervisory planning, current issues and
problems.
Coordinating the 10 meetings is Dr. Emery Stoops, professor of education. Two panel discussions will highlight the seminar, the first of which was held last Thursday wi'h Dr. Jacob Wiens, suj)erintendent ot the Hemet Valley Union School District, and Dr. John Stallings, assistant superintendent of the Riverside County Schools, acting as modéra I ors.
the CBS network for the “First An observation of demonstra-Meeting” series in 1959. This f tion teaching and group partici-CBS series later received the; pation, with a critique and eval-Sylvania Award for the best lo- J uation period, will c 1 o se the
(Continued on Page 2) 1 cal educational series of 1959. eight-day workshop.
Fisher Fears Turkey Strife
The military coup d’etat ini the Turkish government last j year was the result of a conflict between forces who wish to Westernize the Mid - Eastern country and those who wish to i return to its Oriental past, a I university audience was told recently.
Dr. Sydney N. Fisher, his-1 tory professor at Ohio State University and a nationally known authority on the Near and Middle East, remarked that j this ciash between the sophisticated, Westernized urban areas and the backward, superstitious! rural areas was the real cause for the downfall of the Mender-ez government and may result in rejection of that country's new constitution.
“The future of Turkey’s government is not yet clear,” Dr. Fisher said. “The rural areas I contains 75 percent of the popu- ‘ lation and have not yet been I conv ineed that Mender^z was 1 not doing a splendid job.”
The new constitution, which is being voted on this week, con-j lains provisions for a tax on thPj villages, which will undoubtedly |
DR. SYDNEY N. FISHER
. . . sees problems
l>e unfavorable in the rural areas. he added.
Continued discontent could cause a counter - revolution, although the Westernized minority now in control is taking all steps to prevent such attempts.; he said.
"The new government being |
considered will be a government if the people, for the people. by the elite.” Dr. Fisher, who has studied Turkish politics for the past 30 years, quipped.
“The current feeling is that only the educated. Westernized group will be able to lead the .country toward democracy, whereas true democracy at this time would open the gates for reactionary demagogues to appeal to the superstitious peasants,” he explained.
The revolution last year that led to the current constitution would probably have not taken place had not this clash between the progressive economists and the reactionary nationalists been present, he claimed.	,,
The proposed constitution is the result of a year's study by law professors of the various Western democracies and the special internal problems of the Mid-Eastern country. Dr. Fisher a<ided.
The history professor is currently teaching courses in history and international relations /or the summer session.