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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1960
NO 10
Knight Paints Filmic Picture Of Bergman
B.v DAVID Al.LSWANG
He is one of the real phenomena ol show business said Arthur Knight of Ingmar Bergman in last Thursday's afternoon lecture to 150 students and faculty members.
“Five years ago if you used the name Bergman it was always Ingrid, two years ago the question was which Bergman? Today there is no doubt in anyone's mind who lhe most famous Bergman is,” said Knight in his position as one of the country's top film critics.
One surprise is that he has not generally made the kind of films you would expect audiences to go for.
“And in some of his films there are rapes, seductions, and plagues ideas over which women's clubs throw up their hands," said Knight.
He maintains that there are three reasons for the Swedish director’s si>ectacular success.
Three Reasons
The first is that Bergman W’orks with a closely knit group of people who know what he means and wants and are responsive to every nuance of his direction.
“His actresses adore him." Knight continued, “they obtain a discovery of inner resources they never knew they had.”
Ingrid Thulin, one of Bergman's leading ladies and a director herself, has said that she is never so successful as when she is directed by Bergman.
He contrasted this to the Hollywood system where often ten different individuals will work on a film and not see each other once.
“You can amuse people with pictures like these for a while,” he said, “‘but you will never have a work of art.”
Original Director
The second reason is that the director of such films as “The Magician,” “Wild Strawberries” and “The Seventh Seal” originates his own material. His sources are unusual.
Knighi gave as an example, Bergman's latest movie, “The Virgin Spring” which stemmed from his recognition of. the cinematic possibilities in a medieval ballad.
The third rea«on for his success is, according to Knight, that he tells his story with the camera. This motion picture artist knows how to use lighting, angles and camera viewpoint to achieve effects which no other medium offers.
Bergman himself has said, “My hands are the limits and I see the scene w’ithin them.” Different Eyes
“Our eyes are different from the camera—we see a full 170 degrees and can shift our center of attention instantly,” he said. “Bergman realizes the camera's limitations and after a few days on the set becomes a part of the camera itself and sees through its eyes.”
The rules for his art are simple and he follows them religiously.
They are: 1) Thou shalt always be entertained, 2) Thou shalt never compromise, 3) Thou shalt make each film as though it were thy last.
Speaking of Bergman's themes, the Saturday Review film critic (Continued on page 4)
ooo° Proves Broadway s Haydon
tooooo Much Pays Gifted Tribute
Too tiMUiy O’» caused M>me confusion last »r^k.
It all started when the Summer Trojan reported the following in the Jitly 18 'edition:
“SC will borrow $300,000,000 from the Equitable I.ife Assuming Society of the I’nited State» for “JO years to finance the 7l2-a<-re Town anil Country redevelopment, (site of the new super shopping center managed by SC).”
The administration was lip-set because Si' will borrow $3,000,000 not $300,000,000, as was reported.
The publicity department was upset bccause anxious bankers and financiers wanted to know about SC’s increa-sed “loan.”
The journalism department was upset because our style is 3(H) million dollars (or corrected, three million dollars), not $300,000,000 (or corrected, $3,000,000).
Who said that “nothing (0), comes from nothing (0)?”
i Juli«* Haydon will talk abou* her husband, drama critic George Jean Nathan, in a 90 minute dramatic reading, “Profiles of a Critic,” today on the j SC campus.
By using her husband's actual | writings. Miss Haydon will give her audience a seriei of Na-thans impressions toward life, art and the theatre, portraying him in the many facets of hts career from youthful playwright to elder statesman of dramatic 1 | criticism, witty and mundane.
She will appear for one performance only at 2:15 p.m. in 1 | 133 FH.
Miss Haydon, long a star of | Broadway, emerges from a self- ‘
1 imposed retirement to tour in her 90 minute reading based on Nathan's writings.
Throughout her sensitive and j witty readings, Nathan emerges j as editor, playwright, biographer. raconteur, philopsopher, writer, traveler and critic.
His writings, filled w-ith candor, wit, humor and barbed “Na- j thanisms” which were his stock- j in-trade during a long and mem- I
JULIE HAYDON
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orable career, make up the entire program.
Selections which SC student: will be able to hear include humorous letters to and from Hen-
Music Dean Kendall Commended By State Department for Survey
Dr. Raymond Kendall, dean of the School of Music at SC. has been commended by the U. S. Department of State for his report and recommendations following a trip to Europe on a special performing arts survey for the Federal government.
Dean Kendall spent five weeks this spring in France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy. Spain, Portugal and England on behalf of the international exchange pro- ’ gram for the State Department, j
He met with embassy cultural affairs officers, heads of conser-' vatories and university music departments to arrange tours abroad by the best musical
groups from American colleges and universities.
Undersecretary of State Robert Thayer, former ambassador to Rumania, wrote Presided Norman Topping:
“The tasks assigned Dr. Kendall by the Department required him to venture in subject matter and relationships not previously explored by the United States Government.
“His understanding of our objectives and the tact and good judgment he exercises during the survey contributed in no small measure to the success of his efforts.
“Dr. Kendall has executed his
assignments in most commendable fashion, and we expect his findings to be of substantial benefit in the formulation of policies and procedures for the President's Special International Program for Cultural Presentations and other cultural activities of the Department of State
“The Department of State extends to you and to the University of Southern California its thanks for making Dr. Kendall's services available for this important mission, and to Dr. Kendall its deep appreciation for a job w**ll done.”
Historic Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on Student's Studies
Whether or not the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain has been a burning question for Iris Higbie Wilson, a native of Los Angeles and a graduate student at SC, long before “My Fair Lady” came to town.
Her life-long ambition to live and travel in Spain — and to j study the raining seasons as well —became a reality last week when she was awrarded a $3000 j fellowship by the Del Amo Foundation of Los Angeles.
The Foundation aims for a cultural exchange between America and Spain by giving grants to American students to study in Spain and to Spanish students wishing to study in Los Angeles and at SC.
Mrs. Wilson was selected from many Southern California students for her excellent scholarship. fluency in Spanish and personality and character.
She was awarded an SC graduate scholarship last year and |
maintained a 3.8 grade average out of a possible 4 point during her doctoral study.
Mrs. Wilson quit teaching at Huntington Beach High School last year to concentrate on her degree and historical research projects.
She taught history and Spanish there for two years and previously taught a year at El Rancho High School.
A keen interest and research ability led her to the Los Angeles County Museum where she discovered the Del Valle manuscript collection, which contains much unpublished California history.
“This important file of California history has never been translated into English or catalogued," Mrs. Wilson said.
Because of the many interesting materials and information found in the manuscripts, she is now working part-time at the museum, translating and cataloguing the Del Valle documents.
Mrs. Wilson had previously graduated number one in her j class at Orange Coast College in 1953 and received a California j honor award as the outstanding ! junior college graduate in the j state.
Her stay in Spain will be j “mainly on the plains,” for she : will live in Madrid and spend I her days in the NrfVal Museum : archives.
She will also travel to Seville.
I which is located again on the plains, searching in the dusty archives of the Indies for more information from 18th century Spanish explorers on the California coast.
“In those archives lies the dust of an empire.” said the blond, pert green-eyed history enthus-j iast.
When asked if she might have | run across some secret maps of ; buried Spanish gold bullion in ! Southern California, she said, "That’s all mostly legend."
ry L Mencken, the American wit with whom Nathan coedited the Smart Set and American Mercury magazines for i many years, serious and pungent philosophical passages at differ-' ent stages of his versatile career, and several humorous play-: lets.
Miss Haydon reads from her husband’s writings with the same unaffected manner which marked her many stage characterizations.
Best known for her portrayals of Brigid in Paul Vincent Carroll's “Shadow' and Substance.** Laura in Tennessee Williams* “The Glass Mena,T»»’-ie.'' and Kitty Duval in William Sarovan’s "The Time of Your Life.” she has performed in numerous other Broadway plays including “Our Lan’.” “Miracle in the Mountains,” “Hello Out There,” and "Bright Star.”
In June 1955, Miss Haydon became the wife of Critic Nathan. She has toured the country this year with her special reading, appearing with student groups as guest star at Catholic. Utah. Akron. Cincinnati and Kansas State Universities.
She has also conducted student seminars at Northwestern . and other educational institu-I tions.
St. Mary’s College, where she | appeared last season as guest ' artist with the students of both St. Mary's and Notre Dame University invited her to remain as artist-in-residence.
Community playhouses | throughout the country have utilized her talents as guest artist, lecturer, consultant and instructor.
Last season. Miss Haydon was consultant-on-acting at Dr. Baker’s famed Dallas Theatre Center during the assembling of its permanent acting companv in the beautiful theatre designed by the late renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
While at the Dallas Center, she was invited to lecture at Baylor University.
Miss Haydon's dramatic reading marks a half-way point in the university's summer lecture series for July and August.
It previews an exciting calendar of distinguished guest speakers, from both Southern California and other parts of the country as well as the world.
Scheduled to speak Wednesday. August 3. on “Celestina:
A Spanish Masterpiece.” is Joseph Silverman, assistant professor of Spanish at UCLA. He will talk in 133 FH at 2:15.
On Wednesday, August 10, Nobel-prize winner Harold C. Urey will discuss the “At^ntic Union Proposal.” The acclaimed chemist and atomic scientist is now affiliated with the University of California at La Jolla. He w jjl speak at 2:15 in 133 FH.
On the Monday, Aug. 22. calendar is a lecture on “Science and Values" by Mario of Bunge, professor of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires.
He will speak at 2:15 p.m. in Bowne Hall.
The following day he will speak on “Kinds and Criteria of Scientific Law” at 11 a.m. in Argonaut Hall.
Wrapping up the distinguished speaker's list Aug. 31 will be talks by outstanding meteorologists from all parts of the nation.