TAE MICHIGAN DAILY FR"A",A Guest Stars Of Summer Repertory Players Are Made: Known Itkin Will Direct, Plays; Wycoff To Be Designer Theatre To Be Workshop And Test, Laboratory For Drama Students During the 11 years since Play Pro- duction took over the summer the- atre work of the University, the Michigan Repertory Players, begin- ning with a staff consisting of Prof. Valentine B. Windt, Chester Wal- lace of the drama department of Carnegie Institute of Technology and four students, have carefully built up the membership to include distin- guished guest artists, experienced students of the drama and stage technique, aiia a complete stage crew. This summer the Repertory Play- ers, connected with the Department of Speech, will enter their 12th sea- son, with five leading figures in the world of theatre as guest members. David B. Itkin, well-known Russian actor and director, head of the Dra- ma School of the De Pauw University and associate director of the Good- man Theatre of Chicago, will be guest director. Professor Itkin was former- ly a member of the Moscow Arts Theatre and has had theatrical ex- perience in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Warsaw, Riga and the leading cities of America. Whitford Kane To Appear Whitford Kane, professional actor and star of many English and Ameri- can plays, will return for another season. Mr. Kane has also been associated with the Goodman The- atre, and has played the leading roles in many professional productions, in- cluding "The White Steed", "Ham- let", "Juno and the Paycock", "The Man Who Killed Lincoln", and "The First Legion." i Another guest for the summer sea- son will be Claribel Buford Baird, Professor of Speech from Oklahoma College for Women. Miss Baird has spent seven consecutive summers at the University, and has taken the acting roles of Hecuba (Trojan Wo- men), Olivia (Mr. Pim Passes By), Gunhild (John Gabriel Borkman), Charlotte Bronte (Moor Born), Kni- Drama Star To Return 10 University-Sponsored Trips Will Be Available To Students University-sponsored trips in and event of the season- the boat trip outside of Ann Arbor are one of the to Niagara Falls, which will begin many opportunities made available Friday, July 12, and end the follow- to students attending the Summer ng Monday. School session. Greenfield Village will be visited Tentatively, the schedule includes Wednesday, July 7, and again July 10 trips. all of which are under the 24. A trip to the General Motors direction of Prof. Ruel Churchill of proving grounds at Milford has been the mathematics department. A tour planned for July 20. The final tour, of the campus on the first Thursday as the schedule now stands, will be of the summer session, June 27, will to Put-In-Bay, an island on Lake begin the series of tours. Erie, which is scheduled for Wed- This will be followed by a trip to nesday, July 31. Detroit, Saturday, June 29, and a trip Jackson Prison may be added to to the Ford factory . on Wednesday, the tour-schedule of the "traveling July 3. Saturday, July 6, will see the students," but this trip has not yet group at Cranbrook Schools, a pri- been made definite. The tours are vately endowed school in Bloomfield usually conducted twice a week, one Hills. Back to the Ford factory on on Wednesday and another over the Wednesday, July 10, and then the big week-end. HOME MADE ICE CREAM Human Relations Studied Diagnosis and partial treatment of campers' problems will be stressed at the University of Michigan Fresh Air Camp this summer. Originally begun to give under- privileged childrenan opportunity to enjoy a country vacation, the camp now serves also as a laboratory for the study of human relations. Art Exhibit To Be Held A special exhibit of American art will be held in the galleries of the Rackham Building during the 1940 Summer School session. Special art collections, illustrat- ing various aspects of the pro- gram, will be shown in the Uni- versity Library. Music Concerts Planned A comprehensive daily program of special concerts, lectures, excurs- ions, and entertainments has been arranged for the 1940 Summer Ses- sion by the School of Music. Faculty concerts are given Tues- public. Carillon recitals will also be given on frequent occasions. WHITFORD KANE ertje (The Good Hope), and Mary (Family Portrait) and others. Alexander Wyckoff, eminent stage- craft director and art director of the Manhattan Theatre Colony and Rep- ertory Theatre, will be the designer in charge of scenery. Evelyn Co- hen, instructor in costume design and costumiere of the Yale School of Drama, and costumiere of the Memphis Little Theatre, will be in charge of coscumes. One-Act Plays Used! Before 1929, the professional Ann! Arbor Dramatic Season appeared in the Summer Session, but in that year it was held in the spring and, Play Production took over the summer the- atre work, with Professor Windt, Wal- lace and the four students handling properties, box-office, and stage inanagement and dirction. Because of the intricacy of the work involved and the difficulty entailed when six persons produce elaborate plays, the first season used a number of one- act plays. At first seven productions were used in a season, then the number was increased to nine. At present the staff is adthoroughly experienced organization, combining profession- al workers with specifically qualified students of this art. 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