THE MICHIGAN DAILT EEKUEND OF ART: 'U' Talent To Be Shown In Student Arts Festival !4 Student talent -music, drama, poetry, dance and fine arts-will be on display May 14 and 15 when the newly formed Inter-Arts Union presents the Student Arts Festi- val a concerted weekend of the arts. Believed to be the only college arts festival in the country, mem- bers of the Union hope to make it an annual event, according to Bob Edge, spokesman of the group. * * * "THE PURPOSE of the Arts Festival is to encourage student participation in the creative arts and to provide an audience for be- ginners in such endeavors," Edge said. The Festival will officially get under way 3 p.m. May 14 in the League Ballroom with an intro- ductory speech by Thomas Wil- son, Grad, president of the Inter- Arts Union. He will be followed by James Johnson Sweeney, director of the department of painting and sculp- ture of the New York Museum of Modern Art, who will lecture on "The Arts Today." * * * THE UNIVERSITY Symphony Orchestra will play "Symphony in B" composed by Leslie Bassett. At 8 p.m. in University High School Auditorium, a program of musical compositions, a..one- act play, a panel discussion of the arts, and reading of student- written poems, will be given. Student compositions and two short panel discussions will be fea- tured at 3 p.m. Sunday in the League Ballroom. The first of the panels will deal with "The Role of the Designer in Contemporary So- ciety," and will be directed by Mar- shall Frederick, sculpturer from Cranbrook Academy. The second panel will be composed of Univer- sity faculty members. * * * IN ADDITION to the musical compositions, the program will in- clude a recital by the student Mod- ern Dance Group who will present a series of original compositions. The Arts Festival will be con- cluded Sunday night with an open forum discussion and in- formal reception at Lane Hall. During the two days of the Fes- tival, an exhibit of student paint- ings and sculpture will be. open to the public in the League Ballroom. A series of ten broadcasts has been arranged for the Festival over station WUOM. BACKSTAGE AT THE UNION- DaveLeyshonls Opera UnsungHero Dave Leyshon is the unsinging and unsung hero of the Union Opera. The revival of the annual mu-j sical extravaganza was mainly due to his two years of hard work. Left holding the bag when thev rest of the original opera com- mittee graduated soon after its formation, Leyshon single-hand-v edly continued the job of putting "Froggy Bottom" on the boards.m HIS FIRST theatrical venture was an all-male army production. "That show went off surpris- ingly well," he said, "probably b a p l g s.k k because people got such a kick '*" .. out of seeing men dressed as women. Vet Center's Plight Has Pub lic Eye The possible financial death of the Veteran's Readjustment Cen- ter drew further outside interest yesterday as a staff of Detroit Times photographers arrived here to cover the clinic pictorially. They snapped pictures of the Center's seven occupational shops, including several of the patients. In addition, a few pictures were taken of the Center lobby and the building itself. Meanwhile, controversy over the state's refusal of operating grants to the clinic still continued. Anx- ious patients have been making almost daily pilgrimages to Lan- sing to contact their representa- tives. Marriage Talks Begin Today Rev. H. L. Pickerill will open the church dining room are open to Westminster Guild's series of three the public. Sunday night lectures on marriage Other lectures which will follow relations at 6:30 p.m. today in the on succeeding Sundays will be de- social hall of the First Presbyter- livered by Rev. William H. Hen- ian Church. derson, assistant minister of the All three lectures in the series First Presbyterian Church, and as well as informal suppers which Prof. Howard Y. McClusky of the will be served at 5:30 p.ni. in the psychology department. TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE! ON THE DIAGONAL Th e All- Cam~upu4 So when a call was issued on campus for the Union Opera, Ley- shon was one of the most en- thusiastic responders. AS GENERAL MANAGER of the Opera, he attended scores of committee meetings, assisted on the directing, ordered costumes, started the music and script writ- ers working, and handled the bud- get. Casting men as women was one of the biggest problems Ley- shon recalled because "we had some awfully big boys." "One bruiser rehearsed as a chorine until the costumes were ordered-then we found out he wore a size 13 shoe." * * * "BUT I THINK I was one of the luckier members of the cast-I was able to see the opera all three times and I enjoyed it more each night." I= SENIOR -Daily-Don Howe OPERA MAN-Dave Leyshon, general manager of the Union' Opera's production "Froggy Bottom," looks over pictures of the cast. Dave, long a musical comedy fan, declares that he liked "Froggy Bottom" better than "Oklahoma." * * * * PREPARE NOW o C G" We have'em... The essentials of your courses highlighted and packed into a nutshell, for quick thorough review! Ask to see the famous SWING-OUT presented by The Class of 1949 SEMI-FORMAL MAY 21,'49 I.M. BUILDING r -t e s W.G. WA DE SHOWS presented by EAST ANN ARBOR'S BUSINESS MEN'S ASSN. .M-' ----,1 VA AUTO RACES "Hot Rods" i s t A senior in the engineering, college, Leyshon describes him- self as "not an activities man." "Froggy Bottom" has taken up so much of his time however, that he hasn't been able to ful- fill his chief ambition-to be a ,member of the Thank God it's Friday Club. Leyshon says that his excur- sions into the theatre are "strictly limited to the Union Opera, and that he plans to be a chemical engineer. Most of his non-slide rule courses have been in business, but his favorite subjects are "real dry things like physical chemis- try." * * * DURING REHEARSALS of the show, his wife (since December) dubbed herself a "Froggy Bottom widow." Leyshon is now trying to rem- edy this situation by organizing a permanent Union Opera Com- pany-"a take-off on the Met- ropolitan," he says-so that next year's production won't have to be a one-man job. "I'll be around in the fall to supervise though," he declared. COLLEGE ROUNDUP: May Comes in With a Bang On American College Scene ra 7 Big 100 Laps 20 Lap Events of Racing Feature ON STAGE! ON STAGE! Boy MEETS RL SEX-SATIONAL! REAL LIFE! See hard-hitting DAN DWORSKY as a Lover 60c, 90c, and $1.10 May 13,8 P.M. and May 15, 7:30 P.M. 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CORNELL STUDENTS com- plained loudly about an impromp- tu early morning concert on the library chimes which rudely jarred the campus out of peaceful slum- bers on Monday morning. College authorities are still un- certain as to who was respon- sible, and a pair of black and red flags found fluttering from the tower apparently shed no light on the situation. The Harvard Crimson professed to see a subversive side to the an- nual Wellesley hoop race. * * * THE WINNER, who is traditi- onally supposed to be the first of her class to marry, unhappily de- clared that she didn't want to marry after all and an unauthor- ized male entrant finished out of the money. After the early morning fes- tivities the hoopsters heard an address on "woman's role in this revolution." Freedom of the press was threat- ened at the University of Pitts- burgh where roving groups of fra- ternity men confiscated 1100 cop- ies of an election issue of the stu- dent paper because of misappre- hensions concerning a forthcom- ing article. * * * IT WAS ALMOST noon before they discovered that the article they sought was not in that day's issue. Gala week-end activities were scheduled this week-end at five Big Ten universities. Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Minnesota and Ohio State, were busily prepar- ing parade floats and dance dec- orations and throwing out the welcome mat for alumni. Prospective May Day queens had a tough time of it at Ohio State were a caravan of open cars car- rying the gorgeously adorned can- didates on a campaign tour were doused with torrents of water from the fourth floors of a men's dorm. May had its darker note, too. In East Lansing, unwary Spar- tans were lining up at the health service for poison ivy treatment. 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