PAGE TWO THE ~MICHIG~AN fUAULV !l:$TS T T 71T TTh W a ' W I ' .w __ EDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1962 . I BInl SJAME:e Initial, Success Sparks Tean By MARJORIE BRAHMS Jack O'Brien, Grad, and Robert Jaynes, who together have pro- duced last year's MUSKET produc- tion, "Land Ho!"; and this year's "Bartholomew Fair," believe that their first musical comedy taught them much that is invaluable in forming their second MUSKET show. "The concept of 'Land Ho!' was on!. of trying everything that we theoretically could in terms of musical comedy-folk music, big production numbers, jazz. The re- sult was a show which was a little bit eclectic," James commented. Tighter Show The new show is "more tight, mcre refined," he said. The music is all of one general character in "Bartholomew Fair," with an over- all idiom running through the show. O'Brien added that his own idea of musical comedy includes the necessary dramatic continuity, by which the music and the book are tie1 In together. He realized in "Land Ho!" that at times the ac- tion stopped and musically there was commentary on the action. The plot therefore did not advance enough. However, in "Bartholomew Fair" the team feel they -have made things happen. "Almost every mu- sical number is essential to the plct. Dramatically, we've cut the running time to almost half that of 'Land Ho!'. The music carries the dramatic action," O'Brien ex- plained. More Specific With "Bartholomew Fair," there is more of a chance to be specific. O'Brien noted that there was a great advantage in working with- in an already written framework as it gives the writers something to live up to. "Bartholomew Fair" was originally written by Ben, Johnson in the 16th century. Explaining his concept of musi- cal comedy, O'Brien said it is im- portant for the music and the plot to flow ' ogether. He described the good musical comedy as "the per- fect blending of the dramatic ele- ments of dance, music and drama," adding that this definition was not limited to comedy but also includ- ed musical dramas. -Daily-Todd Pierce AWARD WINNERS--Robert James (left) and Jack O'Brien, au- thors of this year's MUSKET, "Bartholomew Fair," won the Sec- ond Annual Varsity Show Competition prize of $1,000 for their first MUSKET production, "Land Ho!" THEATRE NOTES: Cities Offer Varied Cal DETROIT -- Opening today at' the Vanguard Playhouse is "The Egg " At the Fisher Theatre the Brit- ish musical comedy "Oliver!" adapted from the classic "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens is pres- ently running. The Music Hall is showing "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm," a Ciner- ama production. Conductor Paul Paray will pre- sent an all-Paray program at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Ford Aud. Included will be Symphony No. 1, Seven Songs and Joan of Arc Mass. The Detroit Symphony will present an- other concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Ford Aud., with Seiji Ozawa conducting and Coleman Blumfield as pianist. Works by Berger, Rach- maninoff and Tschaikovsky will be performed. The New York City Opera will present "Rigoletto" in Masonic Aud. at 8:30 p.m. Friday. * * * NEW YORK-Both on Broadway offer a variety and off- of thea- NBR8GWNMAYERvg MICHIGAN PREMIERE WED., NOV. 21st. 8:15 P.M. tre fare for the Thanksgiving va- cation. Among the productions of special interest are Zero Mostel in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" at the Alvin Theatre; "A Man for All Seasons" at the ANTA Theatre; "A Thou- sand Clowns" with Jason Robards at the Eugene O'Neill; Sid Caesar in the musical "Little Me," at the Lunt-Fontane. At the Barrymore, Rod Steiger is appearing in Orson Welles' adaptation of "Moby Dick." "Be- yond the Fringe" is currently at the Golden Theatre. Joseph Cotten is appearing in "Calculated Risk," a suspense play at the Ambassa- dor. At the Broadway Theatre Lil- lian Roth is playing in "I Can Get It-for You Whblesale." Charles Boyer and Agnes Moore- head are appearing in the come- dy "Lord Pengo" at the Royale, Theatre. The all-star "Mr. Presi- dent" is at the St. James Theatre. At the Brooks Atkinson, Sidney Kingsley's "Night Life" is current- ly running. "No Strings," a Rich- ard Rodgers musical, is at the Broadhurst. At the Belasco Inn, Sam Levene is appearing in "Seid- man and Sons." Art Carney, at the Biltmore, in "Take Her, She's Mine" will play for three more weeks before going 'U' Students Form Group To Aid SNCC Friends of Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee organ- ized Monday to effect a "study in depth of the Southern civil rights movement, and to lend sup- port to SNCC projects," Martha Prescod, '65, co-ordinator of the group, reported. The group will bring news and analysis of civil rights activities to the campus via seminars, news- letters and a library file of reports and press releases from SNCC and other active civil rights groups, in the South, Miss Prescod ex- plained. The Friends of SNCC will also work on special projects corre- lgted with SNCC activity. Fund raising and direct support to Mis-; sissippi Negroes who have had all relief payments stopped by a re-I cent state law. Work will also be, done to help defend Charles Mc- Dew and J. Robert Zelner, chargedI with criminal anarchy in Baton Rouge, La.- "Direct action will not be taken by the group as a whole," Misss Prescod said. College Roundup By DAVID FAINBERG plete organizational change in ac CAMBRIDGE - A lecture pre- cordance with the national frater sented by Minister Malcolm X, nity. Among its new standards wi) spokesman for the Black Muslim be: "to be pledged, a freshma movement, was limited to members mushigheupper 25aper cen of the MIT community as a re- his high school graduation clas sult of a decision by Dean Ken- and an upperclassman must hav neth Wadleigh. a 'C-plus' cumulative average" Tickets were sold at fifty cents * * * each in order to help pay for the CHAPEL HILL-A former Uni- six policemen and security force versity of North Carolina student members that were used to avert Ann Carter, has appealed her 196 any mob violence, suspension by the Women's Coun * * * cil to the Wake County Superio: MADISON-Kappa Sigma, cam- Court in Raleigh. She had beei pus social fraternity, has been suspended on charges of cheating placed on social probation from The decision was upheld by thi Nov. 8, until the end of the semes- University Board of Trustees. ter, for violation of the Wisconsin * * * Inter-fraternity Association Ac- COLUMBUS - The Ohio Lan. tive Training Creed. The frater- tern, newspaper of Ohio State Uni nity was charged with forced con- versity, reported this week thata sumption of unhealthy food, and speaker's bureau has been organiz the wearing of "degrading or un- ed to debate the Student Senat healthy apparel." proposal for revision of the gues * * * speaker's rule. The compromis LINCOLN-The University of proposal offer by the Senate al Nebraska chapter of Theta Chi lows the president of OSU to mak fraternity is undergoing a com- the final decision on guest speak- ers within the bounds of certai stated criteria. Donald Stuver,a member of the Student Senate, i, leading the opposition to this pro- posal in stating the student body i against a rule that would permi an arbitrary decision for or agains a guest speaker by one individual on tour. "Tchin-Tchin" is being * * * presented at the Plymouth Thea- GAINESVILLE-Members of th tre. The provacatively titled Ed- Florida State Board of Control an ward Albee play, "Who's Afraid state university professors huddle of Virginia Woolfe?", is at the Billy in secret session this week in ar Rose Theatre. attempt to reach a satisfactory Anthony Newley in "Stop the agreement on a recent board di- World-I Want to Get Off" is at rective concerning "homosexual the Shubert. C. P. Snow's "The Af- ity, obscenity in teaching mater. fair" is at the Henry Miller. After ials, fingerprinting and religion." the Thursday evening perform- ance an open discussion will be NEW DELHI-The Asian Stu held, with novelist Ayn Rand and dent estimated that over 10,000 In- Prof. Monrad Paulson as guests. dian students rioted in Bomba Also of interest is Chekhov's last week against the Indian Corn- "The Cherry Orchard," directed munist Party. by David Ross, at the Theatre Four. Four.Council Delays Three Bertolt Brecht plays are being enacted, "Brecht on Brecht" H at the Theatre de Lys, "A Man's a H ousing Action Man" at the Masque, and "Man is Man" at the Living Theatre, Bren- dan Behan's "The Hostage" con- City Council postponed action or tinues at One Sheridan Square. its fair housing legislation, receiv- AtnCesat On Sheid Square. yed messages from Student Govern- At Circle in the Square, Dylan ment Council and Ann Arbor High~ Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" re- School Student Council and set u turns for a limited engagement. a Civil Defense Board at its meet- Jean Genet's "The Blacks" con- ing Monday night. tinues at St. Marks Playhouse. At SGC's message to the Council the Martinique, "A Portrait of the asked that fair housing legislatior Artist as a Young Man" by James be passed. The fair housing grou Joyce is being presented. will meet with SGC's Human Rela- "The Days and Nights of Bee tions Board on Dec. 3 to get in- Bee Fenstermaker" is at the Sher- formation on such legislation. idan Square Playhouse. At the Ann Arbor High School Student Grammercy Arts Theatre, Graham Council set a letter to City Coun- Greene's "The Living Room" opens ci explaining its efforts to cub today, incidents of violence involving Favorites on Broadway are "The high school students. Sound of Music," "Mary Mary," "Milk and Honey," "Carnival" and Libraries Provide others.Lba is rvd For the musical note, New York acation Schedule offers the Metropolitan Opera in a series of varied productions and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company The undergraduate, general busi- at the New York City Center in ness administration, and engineer- Gilbert and Sullivan productions. ing libraries will be closed Thanks- The Bolshoi Ballet will present six giving Day, Saturday and Sunday. performances today through Sun- All four libaries will be open Fri- day at the Madison Square Gar- day, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. den. * *m * CHICAGO-In theatre circles, ATT'N Chicagoans will see "Mary Mary" at the Blackstone, Helen Hayes M ass Meeng and Maurice Evans in "A Program for Two Players" at the Studebak- for er through Saturday, and "Carni- val," currently at the Shubert. Srn e kn A musical revue, "Put It in Writ- Spring Weekend ing," is running at The Happy Me- dium. Comedian Lenny Bruce is appearing at the Gate of Horn. On NOV. 27.. . 7:30 stage at the Chicago Theatre will be Dizzy Gillespie and Joe Wil- LEAGUE BALLROOM liams, Thursday through Satur- day. The Chicago Symphony Orches- tra will present Hans Rosbaud as STARTING guest conductor Thursday and Fri- THANKSGIVING DAY day in a program of Brahms and Stravinsky. Saturday there will be (Please note unusual a "Popular Concert" with Walter time schedule below) Hendl conducting. Premniere! Crealion AIR Nov.28 By GERALD STORCH On a quiet and voluntary basis, Michigan has developed a system of education "surprisingly similar" to that of California, Prof. Merritt Chambers of the education school declares in the latest issue of the "School of Education Bulletin." California's system is a three- layer one: 1) Community-junior colleges which admit all high school grad- uates, offering them two-year technical and occupational courses or two years of college-level in- struction. 2) Four and five-year state col- leges, which admit only students from the upper one-third of their high school graduating classes, and which also accept transfers with good records from the junior colleges. Upper One-Eighth 3) The seven-campus University of California, which admits fresh- men only from the upper one- eighth of their high school, and with good records from other insti- tutions. The university is also the only state institution offering doctor- ate degree programs and carrying on large-scale research and ad- vanced graduate and professional preparation. This plan is statutory in Call- fornia, whereas Michigan's is bas- ed on the voluntary coordination of autonomous educational cen- ters, Prof. Chambers wrote. DIAL 8-6416 Holiday Schedule Thursday Continuous From 1 P.M. l JOSEPH E..EVINE Pmec.d by CARLO PONTI An Embassy-ntematonaM PctureRelease m EASTMAN QQR .l The University, in much the same manner as the University of California at Berkeley, is at "the apex of this system." Wayne State University "is perhaps roughly analogous to the campus at Los Angeles; and Michigan State Uni- versity is comparable to what the campus at Davis is soon to become. The parallels are not exact, but the resemblance is unmistakable." Junior Colleges Michigan has junior colleges which correspond to the lowest tier in the California system; and its six "middle-grade four and five-year institutions" are also similar in function to California's, Prof. Chambers noted. Besides its continued leadership as the "spearpoint" of a rapidly growing statewide system of edu- cation, he outlined two other ave- ---- "THE CHAPMAN REPORT" Shown at 1:00-3:00 5:05-7:10 & 9:30 DIAL 2-6264 STARTS THURSDAY ENDS TODAY "WEST SIDE STORY" Shown at 2-8 p.m. Matinee 90c Evening $1.25 SCHOOL JOURNAL: Contrast California, Michigan Education nues the University must take if it will continue its general excellence. It must, first of all, retain its "nationwide and worldwide out- look, and maintain its cosmopoli- tanism. "Learning knows no boundaries. The cosmopolitan character is a mark of every highly distinguish- ed university in the world." Secondly 'the University must continue "to become more and more of a center of advanced grad- uate studies and research, while also affording the best of learn- ing opportunities fore selected un- dergraduates," Prof. Chambers as- serted. "Forty per cent of the students are above the level of the bach- elor's degree. 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