WHEREIN FATHER, MOTHER AND YOUNGER BROTHER AWAIT THE ARRIVAL OF 18-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER AT THE DINNER TABLE. DAUGHTER HAS JUST DISCOVERED THAT SHE IS A LESBIAN AND PLANS ON MOVING OUT.
MR.
THE AUDIENCE HUGELY ENJOYED THE EXTEMPORANEOUS PERFORMANCES. BAKER INTERRUPTED THE ENJOYMENT TO EXPLAIN THAT IN PRACTICE NOT MORE THAN EIGHT TO TEN PEOPLE COULD BE PERMITTED IN SUCH ACTIVITY AS THE AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION MADE THE "ACTOR" SELF-CONSCIOUS AND ENDED
THE THERAPEUTIC VALUE OF THE PERFORMANCE.
MR. BAKER HAD EARLIER
POINTED OUT THAT THE VALUE OF THIS TECHNIQUE WAS TWO-FOLD. THE INDIVIDUAL COULD ACT OUT HIS SECRET FRUSTRATIONS AND DESIRES WITHOUT PENALTY AND LATER IN CONSULTATION WITH HIS ANALYST COULD GET AT THE TRUE ROOTS OF HIS PROBLEMS,
ANNUAL BANQUET
DR. MARIO PALMIERI, WORLD FAMOUS CONSULTING ENGINEER AND WRITER, GAVE A SHORT AND MOVING ADDRESS ON THE TOPIC OF "CLASSICAL BOY LOVE" AS CONCEIVED AND PRACTICED BY THE ANCIENT GREEK STATESMEN AND PHILOSOPHERS. DR. PALMIERI CITED PARALLEL AND ATTENDANT PROBLEMS OF THIS PHENOMENON IN MODERN CIVILIZATION. DON SLATER, EDITOR OF ONE MAGAZINE, WAS TOASTMASTER.
TEA AND POETRY
THE "TEA AND POETRY" SESSION, DIRECTED BY THE ONE AND ONLY "SAMSON", PROVIDED A DELIGHTFUL ENDING TO ONE OF THE BEST MIDWINTER INSTITUTES EVER ATTENDED. THERE WAS AN ARRAY OF BOTH PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR TALENT.
W. DORR LEGG READ POEMS FROM THE "GREEK ANTHOLOGY" AND "THE SONNETS" OF MICHELANGELO. ANTONIO REYES HELD THE CROWD SPELLBOUND WITH HIS MASTERY OF TRADITIONAL SPANISH DANCES. HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. PINA ON THE PIANO.
SOME MODERN POEMS WERE MOVINGLY READ BY MORGAN FARLEY, A NOTED ACTOR, ESPECIALLY STIRRING WAS "SAILOR BOY" FROM "DEATH OF THE SCHARNHORST." RACHEL ROSENTHAL, ACTRESS AND DRAMA COACH, READ "SONGS OF SAPPHO" ATTIRED IN A STRIKING WHITE COSTUME REMINISCENT OF A GRECIAN NYMPH. LATER SHE READ MORE MODERN POEMS FROM J. PHOENICE AND EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY. THE AUDIENCE WAS HELD RAPT BY THE MUSICAL QUALITY OF HER VOICE AND HER BEAUTY.
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