trinity news thursday l lth november- page fouri,i J~r,Ji ’1((ITR.IN ITY N EWSA Dublin University Undergraduate WeeklyUndergraduates feel obliged to behave inthe manner expected of them; they are expectedto be irresponsible -- to practisestudent pranks. But these pranks, in return,should be amusing and clever.Last week’s Buttery smoke bomb incidentwas neither. Any fool can set off one of thesecanisters; any fool can put one into a brief-caseand bring it into a crowded room. It is not particularlyamusing to cause discomfort to twohundred people. Whoever the curious personalitybehind this was, one hopes, at least, that hewill think of something more ingenius nexttime." <strong>Trinity</strong> <strong>News</strong>’ has often been accused ofbeing a clique" the reason for this is that weturn down a large number of applicants. We tryto carry as broad a representation of collegeas possible, but selection is solely on thegrounds of journalistic merit and energy. 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Tel. 65434(Ladies and Gentlemen’s salons) and 24 SuffolkStreet (Gentlemen only)PLEASE SHOW STUDENTS CARD FOR DISCOUNTESSENTIAL READING FORSTUDENTS. Keep informed onpolitics, world events, social &economic affairs, new books,all the arts. Every Friday, ls.only.t%4~.Merrion Square is a convenientplace for <strong>Trinity</strong> students tolive. A growing number do. Inrecent years, however, it seemsto have become a centre forprocuring. It is becoming increasinglyembarrassing to <strong>Trinity</strong> girlso O _1nigel ramageSubject for this week’s haltingpanegyric: Nigel Ramage--Chairmanof Players, latter-day knighterrantand the butt of many aribald jest. " Who is this man ? "I hear them mutter into theirWinsor soup along the Commonsto walk home alone at night. Lastweek one of our photographersa driver spent two hours in theMerrion Square area. During thisperior the door (above) was continuallyajar, and saw several differentcouples embracing. Attable. Mutter as they may, everyoneknows Ramage, and Ramage,inexplicably, knows everyone.1 mean, you can’t ignore theman; he’s just there. (And if heisn’t he will be in five minutes.)You don’t know him ? Just stickaround a while -- Ramage awaitsfor an introduction, expects noformality, and is willing (nay determined)to converse, with orwithout authority, on any subjectyou dare mention. He comes froma major Public School (of whichhe secretly approves), professesan interest in modern lithographs(of which I do not approve), andenjoys a glass or three of unas-NEW STATE!SMAN--Photo Hike Welch¯other times a man looked out.There was evidence of somepolice activity: two squad cars,patroling the back lanes. A darkCortina stood nearby (right) withmen in civillian clothes chattingto a uniformed Guard.I In th[plain clso n th(ltwenty~/ere al[to cgu~[The ccCamer~twentyi]ishe dbeen r[several[’and tFArchbhlRev JaIthat si,[Even(Z get,s(tflere. -[disrupt,~she na earch ,ting mu~that thlthis iss[kuch anippedI Ther,tthe Duprostit[[off th~i’task si~victed IIclemancSo sma,that itIself inlwon t tiSoph, llbehindithe la~suming, God-fearing port (of [ ~which we both approve).There is a distinct Nigel[DAN(Ramage image. Nigel secretlycherishes the propagation of it. ~i~’,O.K., so he likes being in the l~!spotlight¯ Don’t we all ? The onlydifference between you, me, and[ Widehim, though, is (a) He’s successful [Spanish(b) He’ll tell you he enjoys it. tence(c) He’s quite as happy to see,Spanis hyou in it.It , s just that he doesnt , believejappeariin living inside a shell. Don’t te, ,, ~nL orte- ,him he always a secret says -- pretty he can well t , keep w!at it:, I meTnl~ cratmgl ehe thinks, even if he thinks you re/thbehavin~ ° like an old cow (Or at) reeleast that is the gist of what " " , he. ,,, Ikapri( ,. .,o LOS I"say).He would be the first to wis h ,, Ithe ."for a list of his attributes to ap- I~enta t icpear in this co umn ; and so they yp ashall. Although the bones have uensesuccess]stiffened of late owing to his diD,dramatigent attendance to his dramaticactivities, he has on occasion beenEspanolI Siemseen padding down the rugbY!less corfield for the 1st XV; he is als0known by his m~ny friends to be[’lightingan excellent drummer, schoolmasterand professional best-man.scene-~,tablHe manages to pass his G.S. Igiven tFrench second time round thisnets, t,year, and is an ardent collector stampirof dubious second-hand motor vervlvehicles.Vent .Watch it, he might start collectingyou.land tI Lu dlDon’t try and contradict him, Zap~ e~he’ll win, and even if he didn’t,Ifully -cishe’ll think he has.Iho l~rSPECIAL OFFER to new studentreaders: 20 weeks for 10s.Write sending 10s. to ArthurSoutter, NEW STATESMAN,Great Turnstile, London WC1.uts m,rnembeI~-!1i!t
:rinity news thursday l lth november--page fiveecl out.f somead cars,A clarkit) with=hatting)rt (ofI In the Summer of 1964, severaliplain clothes Bangardi walked up-,on the prostitute beat ; about]~venty men approached them andl~ere arrested for behaviour likely:0 cause a breach of the peace.~The court case was not held inameraand the names of the~t~enty convicted men were pub-T!ished in the daily press. It has0een rumoured that as a resultIseveral of their wives left them,~nd that the Roman CatholicArchbishop of Dublin, the VeryII~ev. John C. McQuaid requestedhat since family life was beingI Even Nassau Street is bad now.II get stopped twice a night along/here."--Y. Soph.J~l disrupted by the publishing of]~.he ~earch names of prostitutes, of married the publish- men inIng must stop. It seems unlikelyhat the Archbishop could rule inthis issue, but one wonders whylluch a preventative measure was~ipped in the bud.1 There is a special branch oftthe Dublin Gardai that deals with~r0stitution and with keeping itJ0ff the streets. It is a difficultitask since with under forty convictedprostitutes in the city, the]demand far outstrips the supplyS0 small is the prostitute force,~ hat it has not yet organised it-Tself into a telephone system by~on t take no [or an answer.mS.iSoph, living in Merrion Square.which its procuring could be done]behind closed doors and withinithe law. The social climate ofN igel DANCING : Pepeta Harrison.secretlyin of thel~ it ICliekity--elaekt"he onlyme, and,ccessful ISpanish Dance company in exis-1joys it. cence today Luisillo and histo see Spanish Theatre, at the presentl~ppearing at the Gaiety, providebelieve ,~n often disappointing and frusnn’ttell Icratinglyunbalanced entertain-~eep ~t :.,11 what ment.The programme is divided intos you’re three parts ¯ Sierra Bermeja;(Or at C~richo Esp’anol; and Venta delat he’ll Los Pinares; but unfairly most ofto wish the "goodies" are kept till the;to ap- Venta, which in spite of beingso they typically "Spanish" (in the touristsense of the word), is wholly.~s have successful in itshis dili- ’.dramatic vitality. colour andIramacic ] Sierra Bermeja and Caprichoon been jEspanol were mor~ ambitious but, rugby 0less conventional "In the first theis also ]lighting effects "in the openingJs to be I scene" were effective if predicschool-.table; in the second we were:st-man. igiven the full works with castaisG 5.nd this i’nets, tambourines, clapping andollector Istamping but they lackedthemotor Venta. lverve and spontaneity of theart col-I luisill o himself is a polished]and at best a compelling dancer,Z~ateado is exciting and beauticthim. Ifully controlled Conchita Anton,didn’t. ]his partner, is good but nothingOutstanding as are the otherlmembers of the company includ-1~1I1~ing the two guitarists and singer.Ireland does not encourage this,since going to a prostitute is amatter of furtive expediencyprompted by the want of birthcontrol and the frigidity of alreadyover worked mothers,rather than by an urge for a goodtime; in the bars and wo~’ks ofDublin there is no gawdy exchangeof tips and tales aboutthe girls of Nerrion Square. The" You aren’t even sa/e on thewest side o[ Merrion Square. Thecars don’t seem [rightened o/ thestreet lamps or the policemen outsidethe Embassy."~English girlstaying in Dublin.only way a man can find a prostituteis by a cruise round lookingfor her.This presents a very real problemto any woman walking alonein Dublin at night. ParticularlyIf though you suffer pangs ofnostalgia thinking about your lastsummer vac. in Spain, or youjust happen to like Spanish musicand dancing, or even if your suntanis wearing off and you arefeeling mascochistic, do go andsee Luisillo and his company: atits best it is stimulating, at itsworst it’s colourful -- and theyare doing Don Quixote nextweek.PLAYERS: yune Rodgers.Painless Pootr!l,_~;cranJ bled l~.’.qf IUnlike Macavity, William ffYoung was there--at Players onSunday night, as the liturgical andironic star of Geoff Thurley’sguaranteed painless,’ Teach YourselfT. S. Eliot’.Initial timid uncertainty mutedthe early Eliot poems to a polite,Georgian pastiche, which seemedto ignore the world of the Bostonpubs. However, ’ The Wasteland ’put the team through their paceswith beautiful vocal precision, especiallyfrom Nigel Rammage andnew-comer Petronella Trenam.Polyphonic rendering of ’TheHollow Men’ only increased thedisappointment that even a sec-THREE MEN IN A TUBdifficult is the Merrion Squareand Upper Mount Street area.Walking home at eleven o’clockat night, any <strong>Trinity</strong> girl can see" It makes the walk home irritatingand disgusting, though it’squite [unny to have three carshope[ully parking and ~z~ndingdown their windows all at the sametime."~y. Soph.a prostitute, usually begarbed ina head scarf, three quarter lengthcoat and boots, standing at theDail corner of Merrion Square,and can expect to be approachedby men lurking in the shadows,and for as many as eight or ninecars to slow down for her, someostensibly offering lifts, some tentativelyasking " How much ? " or"Are you doing business tonight? " It is not very pleasant.A resident of Upper Mounttion of ’ The Four Quartets’ wasnot attempted.In a potted version of ’TheCocktail Party’ Gill Hanna, NigelRammage and William Youngcaught the pattern of humaninter-relationships with great sympathy.Geoff Thurley’s linking remarkswere helpful to those newto Eliot, and provocative to thosefamiliar with his poetry.If the standard of Sunday evening’sperformance is maintained,in coming readings of variouspoets, we may expect an excellentseries of Sunday poetry.Players’s half-term offering wasmediocre. Potentially the eveningcould have been good; we hadthe first scene of Shaw’s St. Joan,and eleven sketches by MartynLewis and Graham Mortim. Butthere was a lack of professionalismabout the whole production;the acting in the first part wasb.~d, the sketches in the secon-Jwere flat.THE.4TRE: 3.falcohn Bc.so,,z.Nilent Lt ~ldlonThere is a sting behind JohnB. Keane’s latest play "TheField " (Olympia). For nearly twowhole acts the scene is in a pubwith a stock comic figure, thedrinking Irishman, holding theStreet pointed out a woman,seemingly in her forties, whostands in that beat most nights.He said that she is deposited byaccosted on my own doorstep."a man, who collects her and aboutfive others at four in the morning; he has seen her being pickedup and deposited by seven customersin two hours.A Garda officer says that thes~tuation has quietened downsince the 1964 convictions. Nomen have been arrested recently,and this publishing of the names"I saw her chase a non-payingcustomer with a broken bottle."~Mount Street resident.certainly had a deterring effect.If names were published again,the streets might be furthercleared.play together. Then, quite unexpectedly,there is an accidentalkilling in a fight over a four-acrefield. The play changes completely.The depth and venom ofact three is centred around thefact that while the whole villageknows the murderer, a terribleand unchristian silence on thepart of the villagers defies theefforts of both police and prieststo find him. The Irish are portrayedas a sullen, spineless," Vicar of Bray " people, unable tothink or act except whenforeigners begin interfering withthem.While this judgment on theIrish is harsh, exaggeration is frequentlythe only method efmaking people realise the truth.This exaggeration almost bluntsthe effect, but not quite. Whatdoes tone down the venom isovermuch comedy: the audiencebegin to laugh at everything, evenwhen the publican’s wife says sheis booked for her annual holiday--pregnant for the tenth time.This is just not funny and thesooner i~ is realised, the bet:er.Ray McAIly has much to dowith the excellent audienceswhich this play has been getting.He is a tremendous actor and hasan enthusiastic supporting cast,including the author’s brotherEamon Keane. The play is adouble success, for McAnally andfor the the author; persons interestedin Anglo-lrish literatureplease attend.Hair StylistPeter Creation ArcadeLtd.15% Reduction forStudents.Creation ArcadeTelephoneGrafton Street 79973Ring binders, Refills,Notebooks ?HELYSofDAME STREEThave the finest range ofstationery goods in Dublin.Run out of Food?Shops Closed?MALLON’SIN TOWNSEND STREETby the traffic lightsare open until 10.30 p.m.TYPEWRITERSWe service and supply allmakes of r, ew, rebuilt andused .typewriters. 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