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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1966
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FOR U of M MUSIC
UNIVERSITY OF MICHGAN GLEE CLUB:
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P.S. We also have U of M Songbook
'Wedding Band' Selected As New Play Project
For
This Season's
Premiere
at Mendelssohn
"Wedding Band," an originalItion to bring the University pro-
drama by Negro playwright Alice! duction to New York after the
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Childress, has been selected as the
New Play Project for 1966 by The
University Professional Theatre
Program, Executive Director Rob-
ert C. Schnitzer has announced.
The premiere production will
take place Dec. 7-11 in Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre. Eugene V.
Wolsk, producer of "Lion In Win-
ter," and Max Allentuck, Broad-
way manager, have taken an op-
Michigan opening.
"Wedding Band" will be direct-
ed by Marcella Cisney, the PTP's
associate director, who staged the
the successful "An Evening's
Frost" in Ann Arbor and New
York, as the 1965 New Play Proj-
ect. Ed Whittstein, whose de-
signs for "Sgt. Musgrave's Dance"
won this year's Obie Award from
the New York critics, will create
the setting for the new produc-'
tion.
Miss Childress is a member of
the board of the New Drama-
tists Committee, where her new
play was given a reading which
attracted favorable attention. Her
earlier work, "Trouble In Mind,"
was well received in an Off
Broadway run some seasons ago.
She had been awarded a grant
by the University to enable her
to participate in the rehearsals;
and is also the recipient of a cre-
ative writing fellowship from
Radcliffe College. She was a
member of the original cast of
"Anna Lucasta" and the author
of a collection of short pieces en-
titled "Like One of the Family.
"Wedding Band" was chosenl
from over 200 scripts because of
the quality of its writing and its
pertinent and moving theme,",
Schnitzer stated in making the.
announcement. The Professional
Theatre Program annually pro-1
duces a new work for the theatre
as a basic policy. In 1962 it was
Richard Baldridge's "We Com-
rades Three." which will be re-
vised and re-staged in Ann* Arbor
this fall prior to its Lyceum The-
atre engagement. "The Child
Buyer" was the 1963 New Play:
"An Evening's Frost" by Donald
Hall won' the award in 1964 and
"Herkales," by Archibald Mac-
"Leish. was given a World Pre-
miere in 1965 under the Pro-
gram's aegis. "Wedding Band"
will be the fifth new work in live
seasons to be presented by the
University.
If "Wedding Band" proceeds to
Broadway it will also be the elev-
enth production originated tor
the PTP to enrich both the re-
gional and New York theatre
scenes, including "War & Peace,"
"Judith," "Man & Superman" and
"You Can't Take It With You,"
which were created by the Uni-
versity's resident company, The
APA, in Ann Arbor prior to New
York.
Other winners of the New Play
Project, including "An Evening's
Frost," moved to New York after
the Ann Arbor season. The plays
are performed at the Phoenix
Theatre in New York, the winter
home of the University's - APA.
The Phoenix Theatre is also sup-
ported by a subscription fund.
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Increased Integration Still
Inadequate Percentage-wise
ATLANTA, Ga. (/P--A substan- Educators in some states de-
tial increase in school integration scribed the increase in integra-
apparently will occur this fall tion as substantial or dramatic.
in much of the South under
pressure of federal law, courts. "We know that there will be a
guidelines and the threat of dramatic increase over last year,"
funds cutoffs. Schools begin said Dr. Allen Smith, assistant
opening this week. state superintendent of education
The number of Negroes attend- in Georgia. He said mostly rural
ing classes with white pupils will areas, excluding the large cities,
more than double in South Caro- expected to enroll more than 11,-
lina. Dramatic numerical increas- 000 Negro pupils in once-white
es are expected on the basis of schools-compared to a statewide
registration in some other areas. total of about 10,000 last year.
But the Southside percentage With nearly 5,000 of the 1965
of Negro pupils in desegregated figure accounted for by Atlanta
schools evidently remains low. alone, indications are that Geor-
Figures are difficult to obtain in gia's total for this school term
most states prior to the start of might be about double last year's
classes, count.
Tokenism is still the rule, a- Actual data was not available
Negro leader said, adding that in most school systems prior to
more court action will be neces- school opening, however, because
sary to speed up the desegrega- under the widely used freedom-
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retary of the NAACP in Virginia,
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gation still was unsatisfactory.
While Alabama's situation was
clouded by the governor's move
to nullify compliance agreements,
the majority of local systems have
moved to increase desegregation.
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rightss drive, the first eight
grades will desegregate, compared
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