a LILG ELV THIE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, I)EGEMBLD 19~ 49' SEIT FOR ST. NICK: Yule Cheer Holds Sway Over Dorms This Week FARIS HANVD LOOK p-- By HERB CHESTON Fried chicken, plum pudding and caroling will usher in the spirit of Christmas in University dormitories this week and next in annual celebration of the holi- day season. Traditional Christmas dinner, served at candle lit tables covered with holly and greens are being planned for 5,000 students living MSC Project Work To Start Michigan State College expects to begin construction on half of its war memorial project next year. The project originally called for the construction of- a student cha- pel and adjoining international center. * * * PLANS FOR THE international center have been temporarily shel- ved and the $170,000 collected in the war memorial drive will be used to build the chapel. Until the international center can be built, the basement of the chapel will serve as a gathering place for foreign students. This year visit Fischers in University Residence Halls. * * * FOOD SERVICE units have been planning for the festive sea- son with mountains of candy canes, fruit cakes and molded jel- lies, to garnish the Christmas tables. Glee clubs gathered from var- ious dormitory units will once again roam from dining room to dining room singing the cen- tury old carols and hymns. The dining rooms will be decked with the red and green of spark- ling lights and trees that mark the celebration of the season of the birth of Christ. LATER IN THE WEEK, indivi- dual house units will gather once again for the annual Christmas parties, to eat the cookies and candies of -the holiday season. The Christmas parties held just before the beginning of va- cation, mark a traditional cele- bration, in most dormitories. The most unusual of the festi- vities held, will be the Christmas program in Helen Newberry. * * * * THE NEWBERRY Christmas play, presented at a dinner is a production of "St. Geogre and the Dragon." Featured in the play will be a raw boars head brought in by pages on a silver platter and carried around the dining room. Oscar Natzka . . . Anna Kaskas . . . Chloe Owen .. . * * * David Lloyd . .* * * * * * * * * * NOTED VOCALISTS TO PERFORM: 'U' Musical Groups Combine To Present'Messiah' The University Choral Union, four leading vocalists, and the Special Symphony Orchestra un- der the directorship of Lester Mc- Coy will combine musical efforts for the 36th annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" Saturday and Sunday at Hill Auditorium. Featured soloists in the tradi- tional Christmas-time work will be the noted soprano Chloe Owen, Metropolitan Opera contralto An- na Kaskas; David Lloyd, tenor heard here last year in the May Festival performance ofMozart's "Mass in C minor," and Oscar Natzka, leading bass of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, London. MISS OWEN, well-known in American music circles, has been heard throughout the country in concert, opera and oratorio work. She has performed with the New York Schola Cantorum, the Hart- ford Oratorio Society, the Carne- gie Opera Guild and on CBS broadcasts. Natzka, who made his Ameri- can debut with the New York City Opera Company in 1948, has been hailed by New York Times critics as possessing a "voice which was a treat to hear. rieh with resonan, and and was judging "a commanding bass with a beautiful voice." A New Zealander, Natzke appeared also in the 1940 New Zealand Cen- tenary Celebration Music Festival, and also made a 20-concert tour of the Union of South Africa. MISS KASKAS, who appeared in Ann Arbor as soloist in the 1947 May Festival performanceof Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis," re- ceived her first American award as winner of the 1936 Metropolitan "Auditions of the Air" over 700 other contestants. Since then she has been a regular member of the Company. Miss Kaskas has also appeared color . . . a true basso." Later in 1948, he sang in Ben- jamin Britten's "Rape of Lucrece" with the Chicago Opera Company, t 4 1 a i E 1 I 1 ' give her gifts by Faberg6 in her favorite fragrance ... WOODHUE... APHRODISIA TIGRESS... STRAW HAT 0 f SIMULATED PEARLS See our large assortment ofO OM one, two, and three-strand necklaces. Matching brace- lets and earrings. And only 0 $3.95 each. We'll be open Monday and - o Wednesday evenings until 8 P.M. V116 SOUTH UNIVERSITY' 0 !t-ocmo<"mcoc<"-co<-- oco--yo<--o<--oc--oc o --- Man, Convertible Listed As Most Desirable Presents Grin and wear it! This is the only advice to the many optimists who have asked for cadillac convertibles this Christmas and will by all indications get underwear or another tie. STUDENTS POLLED in a "What do you want for Christmas" survey indicated that the most popular yuletide wishes are, in ap- proximately this order: 1. A man. 2. A woman. 3. A car. 4. Money- scads of it. 5. A ski trip. Others nervously clutching their wallets sheepishly admitted that their female friends would have to be content with a well- selected card. But not all the coeds will be disappointed Christmas morn. Jewelry and perfume rated high as possibilities. SEVERAL WOMEN confided that they'd been dropping subtle hints for jewelry, though just how many will get diamond rings and platinum watches is dubious. One man was skeptical about dropping hints. Last year, he casually mentioned rattle snake meat and got it-"canned and in- edible," he said. Argyle socks will be dropping off many a knitting needle to keep campus feet warm, and tie racks should be adequately stocked when the men get their presents, judging from female intentions. regularly on the radio on many nationwidebroadcasts, including the "Treasury Hour." She has also appeared as soloist with several symphony groups, among them the Choral Union series orchestra, the Boston, Philadel- phia and Cleveland. She has also been featured re- cently in the Worcester and Berk- shire Festivals and at Colorado's Central City Opera Festival in the title role of "Orpheus." The "Messiah" will be performed at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, and re- peated in a matinee performance 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets for either concert may be purchased at the Choral Union office, Burton Tower. Christmas Job Outlook Poor In Ann Arbor The outlook isn't too bright for students who hope to earn Christ- mas gift money at part-time jobs in campus stores. Only a quarter of the stores surveyed are planning to use extra student help during the rush sea- son. All of these either have al- ready hired the extra workers or have long waiting lists. * * * MANY OF THE merchants use students part-time during the en- tire school year and felt that these people would be sufficient to carry them through the holiday buying spree. For the handful of students remaining in Ann Arbor over the vacation the job outlook is only a little less bleak. "The reason that we don't hire students over the holiday period is that they leave for home at the time we are most busy," a dime store manager explained. THESE JOBS however will be scarce. The director of a local super market pointed out that those students who are working part-time while classes are in ses- sion will work full-time over the recess. 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