THE- MiI CHf-A.N- fDAITY PA F iv ehind Scenes Of Mimes Are Interesting Sidelights On Opera By JANET HIATT The scene is the Union Ballroom almost any night about 9:30. One can see a good cross section of Mich- igan masculinity, replete with pipes, red plaid flannel shirts, and saddle shoes, following their diminutive dance routine. Out in front of the practice plat- foim, Director Richard Hadley pre- pares for a rehearsal, while beside the piano stands Gordon Hardy, com- poser of several Union Opera songs, supervising the playing of his music. A small audience has gathered. The participants bunch in large and small groups around the room. Then from the mike, "Calling all Orientals . . calling all Orientals and mystic, Scene 1." Behind Mimes Scenes It is Mimes in the making. Be- hind these scenes of "Take a Num- ber," one can see all the little things that make rehearsals as much fun for the players as the finished product is for the audience. The dance plat- form comes apart while the Deans of the faculty of the college of the fu- ture are going through their routine. There's a rush and scramble for positions for the first dance routine. Football players Whitey Frauman, Bob Ingalls, Rube Kelto and Joe Rog- ers are all linesmen for this number. One has to imagine such rugged males dressed up in women's clothing and wigs., Men Rag Coeds Guests at the Opera this year will 4 see masculine razzing of the faculty and the women, their League points, their swimming pool, their clothes, their manners, their hours, and their saddle shoes. They will hear in addi- tion both smooth and comic musical compositions; will see some goose- stepping choruses, and will hear the story of a mechanized and regiment- ed college of the future, whose stu- dents feel they must strike to speed love up to the tempo of the rest of their lives. As the story of the play unfolds, enter the three screwball lawyers, Shyster, Peyster and Jones, otherwise known as the "three fairy godmoth- ers." This trio makes its wildcat en- trance at the most unexpected time and completely and literally takes over the center of the stage. One hectic interview with President Bar- num, and the latter is borne out on the shoulders of his students to a somewhat syncopated dirge.- 1. Scenes Impossible And Improbable Scenes throughout the first act bring in such improbable situations as a coed's fond mamma in the presi- dent's office over her daughter's be- ing "rushed into anything so serious as a college romance," and a student strike for the right to love which, of course, is settled by the grand lot- tery system-"Take A Number" to get a girl to love. So to the Union Opera to spend an evening in the realm of the im- possible and the comic with Shyster, Peyster, and Jones, heroine Sandra Van Arbor, and Eli Randolph Haig, the mythical male from Yale, and a cast of about 75 men, all striving to carry on an old Michigan tradition in as fine style as they did the "Four Out Of Five" revival last year. LEAGUE CALENDAR Tuesday through Thursday: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., orientation ad- visor interviews. Tuesday: 5 p.m. Merit System Committee. 7:30 p.m. Extra Beginners' Dance Class. 8:30 p.m. Advance Dance Class. Wednesday: 4:45 p.m. Assembly Board Meeting. Thursday: 4 p.m. Discussion on Parliamentary Law. 5 p.m. Dance Class Committee. Friday: Assembly Dance. -mas Xpress Patron's List Is Announced Saint Nick Will Head Guests Present At Assembly Dance In League; Gifts To Be Sent Oldest among the patrons who have been invited to be present on the "X-mas X-press". from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday in the League Ballroom, is patron Saint Nicholas, of the North Pole. From local climes Assembly has in- vited President and Mrs. Ruthven, Deans Alice C. Lloyd, Jeannette Perry and Byrl F. Bacher. Dean and Mrs. E. A. Walter and Registrar and Mrs. Ira Smith will also be there. List Continues Prof. and Mrs. C. B. Slawson, Dr. Margaret Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Prator and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Haimes have been invited. Miss Ethel McCormick and Miss Barbara Mac- Intyre will represent the League at the dance. House directors from sev- eral dormitories and Alumnae House have accepted the invitations. They are Mrs. Mary C. Mitchell, Mrs. El- lery D. Preston, Mrs. Leona B. Diek- ema, Mrs. Frederick C. Klein, Miss Ruth Danielson and Miss Esther Colton. "X-mas X-press" is the name and themne of Assembly's annual informal dance. It is the last dance of the sea- son at the League and Assembly has planned a fitting send-off for va- cationers, according to Frances-Nev- in, '41, general chairman, with Bill Sawyer and his orchestra furnishing the music. Gifts To Be Collected There will be a pack set at the door, and those who wish may bring small gifts to fill it up. The gifts will be collected by Assembly repre- sentatives and distributed to the shut- ins at the Hospital or other deserving children. Tickets for the dance are on sale now in the Parrot and the West Quad- rangle, and at the main desks of the Union and the League. They also are on sale in the Romance Language Building and University Hall, and are priced at one dollar per couple. Goodfelows - Monday Parliamentary Law Class To Continue Last in a series of discussion on parliamentary law, sponsored by Mor- tar Board will be held from A p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday in the Grand Rapids Room of the League. Junior and Senior women are invited to at- tend and participate. The meeting will serve the purpose of testing out the knowledge of par- liamentary law which women have acquired through their discussions. Conducted in strict parliamentary manner, the meeting should prove a good work-out in parliamentary law. This honor society for seniors will direct the discussion through a com- mittee consisting of Jean Maxted, Florence Signiago, Elizabeth Lyman and Annabel Van Winkle. ir HIGH TIME! CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT TIME: midnight. between Sunday night and Monday morning. SCENE: A room in one of the girls' dorms. CHARACTERS: Betty and Jean. two campus socialites. and Marge. a girl who lives down the hall. BETTY. "Boy, this certainly has been, some week-end, hasn't it?' Everyone seerms to want to have a good time before Christmas vacation. I saw loads of people doing just that at Panhel Ball, Friday. Marge Ken- dell was there with Bob Wendel and at intermission I saw Laura Vial and Duk Vander Burch, Betty Pexton and Bill Sadler and, oh, yes. Harriet Pratt was with Jack Sherrill and Joan Reutter and Sawyer Earl were to- gether. You know Carol Pitcher, don't you? She and Jack Emmett were dancing the "sweetheart waltz" together. By the way, who was at Coffin Capers? I've been going so fast I haven't had a chance to ask you." JANE: "Let me see, I saw Virginia Crawl and Don Hollinshead talking Nwith Betty Newton and Warren MacElroy. Virginia Soule, Jim Wilkie, Ruth Eddy and Bob Boche were in the crowd' watching the Eight O'Clock Class being murdered. "I called up Mary this afternoon and she said that Rog Pineau, Maxine Good, Kay Gainey, Jim Ogle, Gun Taggert and Betty Kefgen were all at the Martha Cook dance Friday:' BETTY: "There were a lot of pledge formals this week- . ;-end too. "Shirley went to the Beta Theta Pi dance. She said that' Patty Kempf, Nancy Worrel and Sally Aabbie were there too with Jim Hollin, Billy Devlin and Bud Gulde. "Norm Call was with Mary Lew Ewing and Marge Lee went with Larry Hobart." Sews For Red Cross . "But to get on to Saturday, whpt did you do in the afternoon? I went down to the WAB and sewed for the Red Cross with Margaret Van Ess, Marjorie Allison and Donelda Schaible. At night Jim and I went to the Hillel Dance at the League. We exchanged dances with Harriet Baker and Oscar Feferman. Jo Moyses and Seymour Taffet. Natalie Van Gelder told me she was there with Herb London." JANE: "The Scabbard and Blade formal was super; I love their dances with all the fellows in uniform: they certainly do something for any man. I guess most of the girls felt that way as I saw Joy Omerad was admiring Captain Wendy Lenze's uniform while Rita Garvey, Jacques Van, Giesen, Fran MacKey and Mary McConkey were dancing." (There's a knock on the door) BETTY: "Come in ---- Hello, Marge, we've just been talking about the wonderful week-end and what everyone was doing." MARGE: "Well, I went to the basketball game Saturday with Bob. We were talking with Dick Arbuckle and Mary .Major. Dick was taking the night off from Ais J-Hop publicity activities so they were making a night of it taking in the game and going to the Union. Olga Gruhzit and Dye Hogan were busy watching the game and seated next to them were Marjorie Wilcox and John Smith. A ter The Grame .. -" -. . s- ... .rs: i" J. . P i J. ; 11 "ra-A v a aWVa: PrXVacatxion Ruthven Tea ' Will Be lueid A fourth informal tea, the last one to be held before the Christmas holi- days, will again draw students to the home of President and Mrs. Ruthven tomorrow. Betty Bailie, '42, assisted by Betty Fariss. '42, will be in charge of the open house which will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow. Special invitations have been ex-1 tended this week to eight campus groups: Alpha Delta Pi. Beta Theta Pi, Chicago House, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Nu, Theta Delta Chi, and Zones III and IV. Group II of the League Social Committee will be in charge of the affair. Assisting at the tea will be, from- 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Olga Giuhzit, '43, at the door; Janet Grace. '42, and Lila Foster, '41, at the tea table; Eliza- beth Gram, '43, and Marney Gardner, '42, assisting the pourers. From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Jeanne Goudy, '42, will assist at the door: Virginia Frey, '42E, and Marie Holmes, '42, at the tea table; Nancy Gray, '43, and Clara Louise Fulde, '41, assistants to the pourers. All members of the social commit- tee are expected to attend the tea, Miss Bailie said, Two unexcused ab- sences from a tea or any other social committee function will automatically drop the member from the commit- tee role unless she notifies the head of her group. Union Coke Bar Will Continue Refreshments To Be Offered With Dancing To Recordings The entire campus has been invited to take an hour off to enjoy the hos- pitality of the Union from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. today at the third Union Coke Bar. Dancing to recorded mus- is will be offered in the small ball- room with free cokes and other re- freshments available on the terrace leading off the ballroom. Seven especially invited groups are Betsy Barbour, Chi Phi, Chicago House, Delta Delta Delta, Gamma Phi Beta, Greene House and Psi Up- silon. Dick Strain, '42, is chairman of the affair, while Lois Basse, '42, will be the hostess. Couples, as well as single individ- uals, are particularly invited to at- tend the Coke Bar which is now a permanent feature of the Union's weekly social events. There will be tables of bridge on the terrace in addition to the dancing and refreshments offered to guests. Women will be admitted free; men will be charged ten cents admis- sion. JGP MEETING At 5 pm. today, there will be a meeting of two JGP committees. There will be a Publicity Commit- tee meeting and the Music Com- mittee will meet to try out pianists for rehearsals. F . _. Gif ts of Jewelry I 0 BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS IN GOLD AND SILVER BROOCIJES NECKLACES BRACELETS Plain gold ,or silver, or set with genuine stones. Also replicas of antique designs in gold. Especially fitting for Mother, Sister, or Sweetheart. 1.00 up J*'B* EIRERg weie "Afterwards, we went to the Union and caught a glimpse of Ed Holmberg, Shirley Johnson, Ed Vogt and Doris Logeman in the crowd." JANE: "I guess that just about covers the week-end, but where were you tonight, Marge? We were down to your room several times looking for you." MARGE: "Oh, didn't I tell you? I went to the Wyvern Triangle sup- per at the Union. Harriet Heames and Bob Sibley went together and I saw Margot Thom with Bob Collins and Mary Hayden and Hank Gielding. "Ho hum, I hate to leave but I have a bluebook in the morning that I'd better start studying right now." BETTY: "Well, I'm going to bed and try to catch up on a little of the sleep I lost this week-end, because next week-end will be a big one too with Soph Prom, X-mas X-press and the Union Opera." III . . ..:, MERRY CHRISTMAS P 0 SAVINGS at joodIear Our Fluff) -Down Dresses . "t . 41 f low 8.95 Bowling Match Qains Popularity Among Women You can't keep a good game down and just to prove it, the turnouts for this year's women's bowling tourna- ment have tripled the competitive participation of past years. The entire tournament is divided into four sub-tournaments; the win- ner of each one will then clash for championship distinction some time near the close of the first semester. Such a system will eliminate much confusion and add' to the length of the contest. The tournament is already well underway and Margaret Johnson, '41Ed., chairman, urges every girl to check her name on the schedule in the WAB and to arrange her match with her opponent as soon as pos- sible. A single match consists of three games which may be played at any of the four specified alleys. The scores are to be handed in at the alley on completion of a match. There will also be a mixed doubles tournament. Sorority girls and independents alike make up the total of 125 en- tries in this year's conflict and most of them have already arranged their first match. Goodfetowsi - Monday Tournament Is Held Women's singles tournament in badminton began yesterday in Bar- bour Gymnasium. There will be a sign-up sheet in the Gymnasium un- til vacation begins for those who wish to play in a mixed doubles tourna- ment. qr f90tAA F. Two-PIECE DRESSES for school or dates. Cardigan or convertible collar necklines . . . full. Full skirts shirred on a ring-size waist-band. Bunny soft suede fabric in holly red or beige. p. .i I Pinafore-Bib Skirts w 2.98 and 4.98 Now they're pinafores! Now they're not. Light- weight wool skirts in plaid and plain colors with pina- fore "bibs" that button on or off in a jiffy. 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