Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-01-12


stingy farmer who boards his
wealth at the expense OF his chill
dren. This is Mr., Greene's third
play tosbe produced BY the Play,
makers and has been successfully
presented tlireen times both At
Chapel Hill and on the road II is.
remarkable for its Keen portrayal
Of life as it. exists on some Of the
tenant farms in eastern North Cars
lolina.
In Dixons Kitchen, the comedy
Of the three, has q record equal to
that Of Mr.. Greene's play Its de-
llightful humor and general human
appeal centering in the difficulties
tof one country swain endeavoring
to pop the question to his LADY,
love In seeing this play, we expe-
rience over again the difficulties all
of us have had with that dern lit
tie brother always buttin in.
Miss Lays, 'Trista' was produc-
ed for the first time in Chapel Hill,
December 2nd and 3rd. The author
has put into dramaic form a poetic
Interpretation of the wondering be-
Iliefs of Our folk-life. These are as
much a part OF our heritage as the
religion brought from England by
the first settlers, The belief in
witches is current even now in iso-
lated sections of North Carolina. 1t
is as old as history itsf though
the witch was usually conceived
of as an old bag and SO connected
with all that is ugly, still there are
stories of witches, young and beau
tiful-kin to the sidens of the Greeks
and to the fairies of all times. In
"Trista,' a legend of the South has
been interpreted for its human sig
lnificance. If we can put ourselves
into the spirit of the wondering
we may catch some of the beauty
and the truth underlying what
seems hut worn out superstition.
! During comparatively short pc
lriod of three years, the Playmakers,
under the direction of Professor
Frederick H. Koch, have attracted
national attention. In q paper pre-.
pared by Walter Prichard Eaton
for the Drama League Convention,
April 70, 1921, and published in The
Dramas, July 1881, we read The foil
/ lowing: Frederick Koch Of North
Carolina is doing a wonderful work.
He did it in North Dakota and HE
has proved it can be done just ais
! well in the Carolina hills. He is
i teaching young people to write their
Town plays, about their own people
land lives. stage them, costume them,
| act them and then take them right
Into the heart of the country they
arc concerned with, and make the
people listen to them and enjoy
them. would rejoice more over the
one little play that is written and
acted by men and women in theil
own environment, before their own
neighbors. provided it is honestly
written and earnestly acted, than
would ovet the ninety and nine
written by G. B. Shaw, Augustus
: Thomas G. H. Cohan and William
gkespeare, and sent out from
I.Iprk.
'sFesk of the Playmakers al
Hill has,taken on such pro
Is that it can no longer carry
work in the high school build
re it has struggled during
three year., The erection
Fl community theatre ii
of the campus, is the i'm
soai Of the PIaemalters ans
Is from performances boil
and out IN the state 60 t
Iolina Playmakers Theatre
fund.
rofessor Koch of-this move
these times Of demo
wing there is everywhere
sling Of the folk conscious
ch sould be cherished IN Z
blic u active literature All
irceks and sour far-seeina
IN fnrIlaare "a 4hnlald wa