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  • Josefina Niggli looks back on writing career THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN THURSDAY MAY 15 16. 1974 PAGE 3 When Josefina Niggli'? credit line rolls across the television screen, the telephone begins to ring at a quiet house with picture windows and purple and white violets on a hill above Cullowhee, The woman who lives there is considered by critics to be one of the most produced one- act plivwrlghts in the English- speaking world. Friends call to alert her when one of her scripts is on TV, "Once, it happened and people began to call»-and th3 film broke, I believe—and they weren't able to show whatever it was," she said. Prolific JosefiTj N'iggJi has turned out so many scripts in her career that sometimes she doesn't even remember the titles of her plays or the names of the characters that made them fa mo is. She has "no idea" how many scripts she has written. Miss Niggli has led a peace* ful but productive life since Lionel Barrymore and a childhood dream convinced her she should give up an impressive Hollywood career fortheclass» room. She once had a gold Cadillacs, but replaced it with a yellow Jeep she drives to the campus of Western Carolina Cniversity. She has been a faculty member here for close to 18 years. "Teaching," she said, "mv been a terrific responsibility. It is a creative art, like any- other art—molding students.-," Miss Niggli joined the WCU faculty in September, 1956, Her reputation was already solidly established. She was a published poet, playwright and novelist, "Mexican Village,1' a collection of short stories published in 1945, was greeted by reviews describing her as "richly gifted,1' "a born writer," "a storyteller in the fine tradition," Her first novel, "S;ep Down Elder Brother,5-' (1947) was a Book of the Month Club selection. Both works and many of her plays are about her heritage, Mexico, She was born in Moo terrey, the daughter of a Texas by Christy McCarley WCC News Bureau father who was comptroller for a number of Mexican factories, and a Virginian mother who had been a concert violinist. In 1913, when she was three years old Miss Niggli and her parents were forced Aith all Americans to flee Mexico af.er the assassination of Madero, After a seven-year wait in the L'JS,, they were able to return to Monterrey, but Miss Niggli was sent o San Antonio, Tex. when the revolution of 1925 broke out. She graduated from the College of the Incarnate Word in Texas and traveled to North Carolina, taking a master's degree in drama from the University of North Carolina in 1937, There followed writing careers with Twentieth Century- Fox and Metro-Coldwyn -Meyer in California and teaching positions in Britain and the C,S, "When you grow up like I did, you think nothing of traveling around alone. People will help," she said, "And I learned early the value of looking helpless," Much of the writing sv'ich attracted the attention of Hollywood and resulted in job offers there was done during Miss Niggli's 20's and 30's. But the professional career in w-iting actually began muc'- earlier. When she was 12, Miss Niggli wrote "the world's worst poem" and sent it off to a church publication, It was printed and the magazine paid her $50 "I was so proud,'' she remembered, "I wanted everyone to know I was an AUTHOR," In later years there was a deluge of awards for other poetic efforts. She has received the Ladies Home Journal award in short story, and the Kaleidoscope and National Catholic awards for poetry. Highly respected as an author, poet, and critic, Miss Niggli admits i her first love is the stage In her "Pointers on Playwriting, " a popular textbook for drama students, she wrote that once a playwright has ha J a play produced, that person is "forever lost to the ordinary world,," SALE ENDS SOON University Supply Store BONANZA BOOK SALE Values from $10.00 only $1.00 over 100 titles to choose from AN AMERICAN MELODRAMA, By L, Chester- G, Hodgson, and B. Page, The 1968 Presidential Campaign-fully investigated, analyzed and presented by a brilliant team of London Times reporters, All the personalities-Nixon, RFK, McCarthy, Wallace, Reagan plus the tumultuous events in Chicago and Miami, Pub. at Si0.00, Only Si,00 SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE. Introd. by R.O, Ballon, with the famous Temple notes, Illus, all 154 of the greatest sonnets ever written, collected and bound in beautiful brown simulated leather with gold stamping. EXTRA SPECIAL VALUE ONLY $1,00. THE PRISONER OF SEX, Norman Mailer. Mailer as stunning answer to the women's liberation movement-an eloquent protest against what he sees as the movements drive to eliminate the difference between the sexes, pub, at S.3,95. Only Sl.00 At Western, Miss Niggli has taught playwriting, acting, dramatic structure and other courses relating to the Department of Speech and Theatre Arts, which she constructed. "There has to be talent to write a play," she said, "And I find my students have most of their difficulty with emotional scenes, I think it is because we are reared in this country never to show emotion publicly, My students are breaking through that however, and learning to express fear and anger." She believes comedy is much more difficult to write than tragedy, "We are born with the gift to make someone laugh or we just don't have ii:," she said. New students have some trouble getting used to the awe of being i i her class even though Miss Niggli has never encouraged it, "My older siudents tell me the younger ones are terrified at first," she said, "I have tried to come up with a reason for it and all I can think of is that it may be because I use no lecture notes in the classroom.*' Until three years ago. Miss Niggli d.rected many of the productions at WCU, "I'm not doing it anymore because I think it's important for my students to get that opportunity. This is the only school I know of where undergraduates can direct and produce major productions." In addition to Western, Miss Niggli has taught at schools and theatres in England, Dublin, JOSEFINA France, Mexico City and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Greensboro, Sir Lawrence Olivier was a visiting lecturer while she taught and studied at the University of Bristol in England, "I never met him, but I used to sit in the front seat when he came to Bristol, 1 like him in anything he does—acting, directing,, even the commercials he's been in lately," She laughed, "He does them so apologetically." In the late 1940's while in Hollywood, Miss Niggli met NIGGLI Lionel Barrymore Mid made her decision to give up California glamour for the teaching profession, "It was while I was at MOM and I was trying to decide whether or not to renew my contract," she said. "Mr, Barrymore was confined to a wheelchair at that time and I used to push him to the commissary at lunch. We were discussing the new contract one day and he told me, 'Why don't you just go on and teach? 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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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