T HE MICHIGAN DAILY' PAGE° T PAGE T 'U' Bands To Star in RKO Short The University marching and symphony bands will be the sub- jects of a "This Is America" short film, which will be released some- time this spring. Produced by the RKO Studios of Hollywood, the film will be dis- tributed to about 8,000 theatres in the United States and abroad and will be seen by an estimated 40 million people. * * * BEGINNING the week before classes start in the fall, the movie will depict the bands' activities through the June commencement. Outdoor shots of the march- ing band will, be filmed'at Ferry Field and the Stadium. Moving pictures taken at the North- western-Michigan game last fall will also be used while addition- al shots will be taken this spring. The film will include small groups in practice as well as the entire band practicing fundamen- tal marching steps which eventu- ally are used in the band's half- time gridiron show. Shots of the symphony band will be staged as an open air con- cert. Prof. William D. Revelli, con- ductor of the bands, will direct excerpts f r o m the "Michigan Rhapsody," a colorful arrange- ment of famous University songs. Barry Play To Be Held Over An extra performance of "Hotel Universe" will be presented by the Arts Theatre Club at 8 p.m. to- morrow. The Philip Barry play was orig- inally scheduled to end tonight, but club Business Manager Ed Troupin said that to accommo- date all the club's members and 4 guests who wanted to see the play, the extra performance had to be added. Troupin said, however, that this would be the only extra perform- ance because the rest of the week will be needed to get the group's next production, "The Master Builder," by Isben, set up. TO OPEN WEDNESDAY: Stage Being Set for Annual Union Opera By BOB KEITH Props, canvas, stage-hands and production chiefs filled the stage of the Michigan Theatre yesterday as the Union Opera, "Go West- Madam," moved in for a gay and gaudy three-day stand this week. With only a few days remaining before the opening curtain, Opera men watched earnestly as a com- plex array of lights and special ef- fects went into place backstage. DIRECTING OPERATIONS was scenery designer Robert Mellen- camp, a Whitmore Lake resident Opera Photo Contest The Union Opera is sponsor- ing a photography contest- with $15 in prizes as incentive. Dress rehearsals tomorrow and Tuesday mornings in the Michigan Theatre will be open to any photographer who wants to try his luck at winning a $10 first prize or a $5 second prize for good promotional pictures. Opera staffmen asked that entries be turned in Wednes- day at the Opera office in the Union. 1i Campus Calendar A PHOTOGRAPHIC "Sculpture Lesson" will go on display at 8 am. tomorrow in the architecture col- lege and will be shown from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily except Sunday un- til April 6. * * * "HOUSING AND HEALTH" will be discussed by Dr. C-E. A. Win- slow, of Yale University, at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the public health school auditorium. PROF. EDGAR WAUGH, of Michigan State Normal College, Democraticdcandidate fornState Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, will address Phi Delta Kappa education fraternity at 6 p.m. to- morrow in the Union. * * * "ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LIV- ING" is featured in an exhibition at the newly reopened archeology museum. 'I LOOK and LISTEN with HARRY REED Bringing TV back to normal for"legal question of the indignity of4"brates his 84th birthday today-- a day, Faye Emerson and Skitch television cameras and the rights pity the messenger boy who has Henderson will sub for the Kefau- of the witness, Sen. Kefauver has to sing happy birthday to him. The ver proceedings when they de- written to Francis McCall, NBC's aged maestro is scheduled to re- scribe New York City's Fifth Ave- director of television news and turn as musical director of the nue Easter Parade at noon today special events: NBC symphony next fall if his over WWJ-TV and at 12:30 p.m. "ss health permits. He's slated to over WJBK-TV. "The question ofnCostellos conduct 12 of the 22 concerts. right to object to being televised -______________ Mayor and Mrs. Vincent Im- is as yet undetermined by law pellitteri will officially open the and in view of the fact that our holy-day cakewalk, which will be committee expires March 31 we NOW your favorite caught by four mobile TV units felt it would be unwise to en- opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral, danger the possibility of having STRAIGHT-LINE and Miss Emerson, the girl who his testimony by insisting on put the V in TV, and her husband his being televised." will interview celebrities when not The Kefauver program, which describing the parading fashion many claim has stopped spring plates. cleaning, emptied theatres and stalled Red Cross drives all over ALTHOUGH the popular Frank the country, has also led to the 1 SHORT Costello finally allowed his visage selection by the Custom Tailors' to be pictured on video screens Guild of chief committee counsel SLIP in ME DI U across the country in a between- Rudolph Halley as one of the best- questions interview, he still re- dressed men in television. LONG fuses to be televised while an- * * * swering charges. Regarding the ARTURO TOSCANINI cele- W KITE NV-BUCK OXFORDS 95- with RED RUBBER SOLES and SPRING HEELS -. ?4acr0! At , P who builds sets for the Detroit Civic Light Opera when he is not working on local projects. Mellencamp's chief assign- ment in "Go West-Madam" was to create an old-time bar- room set with two acting levels- one for the bar and the other for an upstairs bedroom. Complicating things was the re- quirement that the set be built in sections--to facilitate transporta- tion during the Opera's spring road trip-but Mellencamp solved the problem with a large assort- ment of hooks, nuts and bolts. * *f * MELLENCAMP also had a hand in a number of special stage tech- niques with which the audience will be treated when the show opens Wednesday night. Special green and red glasses will be passed out among the spectators for one scene. It's a silhouette affair, jerformea be- hind a white muslin curtain. When the glasses are put on, COLLAPSIBLE BAR ROOM - Union Opera scenery designer Robert Mellencamp, (left) looks on as his assistant, Al Graf, puts up the upper acting level of a set representing an old-time western bar room. The scenery was built in a barn on the outskirts of Ann Arbor and moved into the Michigan Theatre yesterday. The Opera will be presented here Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I however, the scene appears three dimensional and huge undefined objects are made to look as if they are being thrown out at the audi- ence. Other specialties include a "blacklight" Indian dance with luminescent wooden hoops and a bedroom scene behind a "scrim," which is a sheer scenery cloth that can be made to look either opaque or transparent, depending on how it's lighted. PILFER PLOTS: Hollywoot ' ~ E ci, A few $2.40 seats for the Wed- nesday and Thursday night shows can still be purchased in the Union lobby and plenty of $1.20 and $1.80 tickets are left for the Friday mati- nee. 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"The difference between Shake- speare and the script writers," Prof. Harrison declared, "lies in what Shakespeare did with his stories after he got them. There Hollywood is left far behind." Public sale of tickets for the upcoming production of "Romeo and Juliet" will open at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Mendelssohn Theatre box office. Tickets are priced at $1.20 and 90 and 60 cents. Special tickets, priced at 60 cents are available for students for. Wednesday and Thursday night. Newest thing in sporty flats... neat, Iced oxford style "stolen from the boys"I Perfect for campus, town, vacation ing...so super comfy. Genuine Goodyear Welt constructi (ong wearing solesl as seen in Glamour and Seventeen ~1 V' J <