University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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East of Westwood Now it came to pass that Adam and Eve were confronted in the botanical garden by the Serpent and his Traveling Medicine Shaw and Apple Revue. The Serpent didst sport a loud purple and orange print shirt, bifocals, and he spake in run-on sentences. He spake most plaintively of limited budget, irascible actors, tight schedules, whilst he assembled his mainstage at the feet of the innocent couple. And he didst tell them of the Evils of maintaining a goodly quality of theatrical production with great flux and emotionally-charged atmosphere and too narrow a Vision by the actor, the director and the writer. He spake wistfully of his desire to form a professional company in the garden that might bridge more substantially into the professional world Out There. He spake indeed of bringing into the garden the professionals themselves, at which the naked pair didst shudder and quake and didst see their nakedness. And they didst cover themselves with diplomas, for they knew shame that day. The Serpent assured them that the seasons of the earth wrought finely executed plays, e ' en of the garden ' s own playwrights, and that the playhouse and little stage did altogether rend a Divine balance of drama, comedy and musical unto the Publick. Hardly had he begun to bring in the sweet refrain of angels ' accompaniment to commence the Acts, when the L rd didst intercede. He expelled these children of Paradise forever unto a life of toil. No more monthly allowance from the Father shall they know, nor soft academic pursuit. And they were led East of Westwood, to dreary jobs in fruitless LA basin, wretched to the last of their days.