Frost After Hours

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Title
Frost After Hours
Description
Image of a short create piece from the April 1958 Scripts 'N Pranks.
Date
00-04-1958
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FROST AFTER HOURS
JI
IS FAIRLY evident that a certain
attitude of sophistication surrounds
the Davidson Gentleman and that, for
the most part, his taste in lighter read-
ing is directed toward the sophisti-
cated magazines ( so called ) .
Now,
whether he is really as cool as he
thinks is another question, and wheth-
er chis scare is deplorable or desir-
able is still another ( the faculty seems
co have certain explicit opinions).
Nevertheless, as stated earlier, our
?1agazine attempts to point up campus
mcongruities by the art of pertinent
satire. Although the "sex" magazines
a~e an obvious subject for parody, at
first we avoided the sacred subject of
sex like the plague. We felt that this
wo_ul? not be in keeping with our
religious principles -
we are all
Orthodox Cowards. However, an im-
porca~c precedent was brought to our
arcennon. Three hundred years ago,
the books of Rabelais were "dirty;"
bur, with the proper passage of time,
they have become "earthy." Thus, we
made our fateful decision. Perhaps,
so~e day this issue will also be re-
quired reading in all the advanced
literature classes.
FILMS
Ir
seems that a universal tendency
among today's "Cool Men" is an atti-
~ude of profound introspection -
an
inward searching for motivating forces
td thoughts. The result of this, thus
-r
has been an egoistical chorus of
..o
st youth in the chaotic deluge
of etc., etc., ere." They have looked
and have found nothing. Why?
We don't know, but one thing is
certain-a look at a certain
jeune
fille,
completely misnomered as BB,
is guaranteed to furnish plenty of
"food" for thought. Which brings us
to our criticism of films.
Yesirree, fellows, BB could best be
renamed cannonball ( s). We saw a
scorcher of hers, something about
"somebody making something" and
believe me Kinsey was wrong. We
didn't believe him from the begin-
ning, though. What he says obviously
isn't true and we should know. And
here this picture is supporting Kinsey
-all it is trying to do is sell copies
of his report. Like we said, it is not
true · at all. Whoever heard of such?
But, when in Rome ( though un-
fortunately we're not in Rome), and
even if it's not true, ( and we should
know) we'll try to 1ook at it ( BB, of
course) ( though her name should be
cannonballs) as objectively as pos-
sible.
The movie starts off convincingly,
but everything seems to go all wrong
later ( according to us, not Kinsey)
and one man's meat turned out to
be another man's poison, and we felt
like taking poison ( because the Kin-
sey Report isn't true, and we should
know) . We would recommend this
film to anyone inclined to depravity
or senility.
THEATRE
Nothing much going on concern-.
ing the theatre lately. It's fast becom-
ing a fact that one can walk from one
end of Davidson
to
the other without
finding a decent play.
We did see one the other day!
Actually it was more than one-
seemed to be some sort of a "Twelve
Worthies" thing. The plot was loose
and confusing. We were viewing a
classroom when - whisk -
the scene
became a gremlin convention ( we
think they were gremlins, anyway) ,
and then there was an assembly which
kept dedicating things. This was all
right, but, toward the end of the play,
one of .the Worthies was so tired that
he fell down in his tracks·. Ironically
and humiliatingly enough, the place in
which he happened to fall was a
horizontal _mop stand, and the poor
Worthy fainted ( or something) with
his face buried in a mop. We think
the play was too long because every-
one said there were certain parts which
should be cut out.
But, the play was closed after open-
ing night. We can't remember ever
having seen a bit of drama so violent-
ly panned by the critics.
DINING - DRINKING
We don't know a thing about this
kind of stuff-Nothing! Honest, we
don't -
because it's a bad thing ( or
something) !
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