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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1953
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First Spring Weekend T o Include Skit Night
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Dorm Group
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MSC Theme
Residents of Helen Newberr3
and Taylor House are neglecting
textbooks and lecture notes these
days for rehearsals of their pro-
duction of "M.S.C. Pinafore,'
which will be presented as part of
the first Skit Night program at
8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28, in
Hill Auditorium.
Using music from Gilbert and
Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore," the
group has written new lyrics to
many of the songs.
In the first act of the skit, action
pokes fun at many of the stereo-
types of Michigan State College
students. After a transition song,
the scene changes to the Univer-
sity, where campus traditions and
student life here also receive a
"gentle riding,"
All the action in the first act
takes place inside a "typical"
M.S.C. classroom, a cow barn,
where students have gathered
t for a cow-psychology class.
The steps of Angell Hall, a fav-
orite gathering spot for 'U' stu-
dents, sets the scene in the sec-
ond act.
Leading roles in the show will
be sung by Dawn Waldron, Esther
McGlothin, Bob Lindsley, Tom
Lester and Malcolm Shatz.
Ed Weiner, portraying a guest
lecturer at M.S.C. and Pete Mc-
Carthy, taking the part of a Uni-
versity professor will handle the
main speaking roles.
A chorus of approximately 30
men and women will also be
featured.
Frank Johnston is director of
the production.
"M.S.C. Pinafore' will be one
of six skits to be presented as part
of the Skit Night program, which
is sponsored by the Union and the
Women's Athletic Association as
part of their new Spring Weekend
project.
Victor-Vaughan -Delta Upsilon,
Kappa Alpha Theta-Theta Xi and
Gamma Phi Beta-Sigma Phi Ep-
silon will also take part in the
program.
Other groups presenting skits
will be Martha Cook-Zeta Beta
Tau and Henderson House-Delta
Sigma Phi.
Reserved seats for the program
will be on sale from 1 to 4 p.m.
daily until Friday in the Admin-
istration Building. All reserved
seats, priced at 75 cents, are lo-
cated on the first floor of the
Auditorium.
Tickets co-chairmen Nan Rein
f and Tom Leopold have announced
that members of houses wishing
to sit in block sections should de-
termine how many tickets they
will need and buy them at one
time.
General admission tickets, also
priced at 75 cents, will go on sale
Monday at booths located in Ma-
son Hall anc the League.
All proceeds from the show will
be donated to charity. The Union
will present its share of the pro-
ceeds to the national Damon Run-
yon Cancer Fund, while the WAA
will donate its part of the profits
to the Alice Crocker Lloyd Re-
search Fund, also dealing with
cancer research.
MCF To Sponsor
Easter Lectures
Beginning Sunday
In connection with their Easter
Series, Michigan Christian Fellow-
ship will present several lecture-
discussions next week for the pub-
lic.
o Rev. D. H. MacLennon, pastor
of St. George's Anglican Church
in Hamilton, Ontario, will open
4 the series when he speaks at the
weekly meeting of Michigan
Christian Fellowship to be held at
4 p.m. Sunday in Lane Hall.
The remainder of the series will
be held in the Women's League on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
when Rev. MacLennon will lead
lecture-discussions at 4:15 p.i.
and 8 p.m. each day.
Room locations will be posted
on the League bulletin board.
-Daily-Larry Wilk
REHEARSAL TIME-Studying is being neglected these days by Helen Newberry and Taylor House
residents as the group goes into final rehearsals of their production, "M.S.C. Pinafore," which will
be presented as part of the first Skit Night program. The Newberry-Taylor skit is one of six which
will be presented at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2 8, in Hill Auditorium. Reserved seat tickets, priced
at 75 cents, will be on sale from 1 to 4 p.m. dail y until Friday in the Administration Building.
Beginning Monday, general admission tickets, also 75 cents, will be sold at booths in Mason Hall
and the League.
Senior Coeds
To Witness
JGP Opening
Program To Include
Traditional Ceremony
At Honorary Banquet
Senior women will recall pleas-
ant memories of the past four
years tomorrow night as they at-
tend the Senior Night Festivities.
Gathering in front of the Li-
brary at 5:30 p.m. these women
will march in a body to the League
for the annual Senior Banquet.
Highlight of the evening will be
the premiere of "Vanity Flair,"
this year's JGP. given by the jun-
ior class in honor of all graduating
seniors.
During this first presentation of'
"Vanity Flair" before the exclu-
sive senior audience, the spectators
have the right to heckle the junior
players and make them repeat
lines and whole scenes.
The plot of the play which has
been kept secret from the rest of
the campus for over six months
will be revealed to the seniors for
the first time tomorrow much to
the relief of the juniors who had
a hard time containing this sec-
ret.
Before the play, the seniors will
walk across the stage one by one
in keeping with an old tradition.
Pinned women will carry pins, en-
gaged seniors will carry candles,
married women will suck lemons
and unattached coeds will havej
to throw pennies, one for every
year of their life, into a wishing
well.
Tickets for Senior Night are
$1.75 and may be purchased in
the Undergraduate Office today
only.
Mary Marsh is general chairman
of the 1953 Senior Night activi-
ties.
The public performances of
"Vanity Flair" are scheduled ,for
Friday and Saturday in Lydia
Mendelssohn Theater. The evening
shows will begin at 8 p.m. and the
Saturday matinee will start at 2
p.m.
Tickets for JGP are 90 cents for
the evening performances and 75
cents for the matinee. They are
available from 2 to 5 p.m. every
day this week at the Mendelssohn
box office in the League.
After the four campus preserl-
tations of "Vanity Flair" this
weekend, the entire cast and the
JGP Central Committee will travel
to Detroit Wednesday, March 25
to present the show before Alum-
ni at Horace Rackham Auditor-
ium.
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Tagging along the heels of
spring's official arrival the annual_
Military Ball will usher in the
season's social agenda from 9 p.m.
to 1 a.m. Friday, March 27 in the
Union Ballroom.1
A combat atmosphere without
the rigors and 'hardships one us-
ually endures under these condi-
tions awaits all reserve unit menj
and their dates at this affair.
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AS A NECESSARY precaution,t
couples will encounter the sentry
post and interrogation table be-
fore the foot of the Union stair-
way in the hope that no confi-
dential information will be smug-
gled past.
Entering the ballroom through
the doors of an Air Force C-119
Cargo Plane students will dance
under a camouflaged ceiling.
As elements of a typical com-
bat operation representing each
service will be displayed in the
corners of the ballroom, dancers
will have a chance to examine this
equipment.
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VARIOUS TROPHIES and med-
als awarded to members of the re-
serve units will also be displayed.
Featuring a number of -their
own special arrangements, Ray
Fifer's 14-piece orchestra will
provide music at the formal.
This group has as its vocalist,
Ann Letsis, a singer who was fea-
tured on her own radio show in
Oklahoma City.
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IN KEEPING with the theme of
the dance, intermission entertain-
ment will be provided by the Per-
shing Rifles, a drill team composed
primarily of Army and Air Force
Cadets.
This honorary group will do
the traditional Queenanne's
Manual and a musket drill from
the Civil War days.
Military Ball is open to all mem-
bers of the Army, Navy and Air
Corps Reserve Units.
TICKETS priced at $3 per cou-
ple may be purchased at the NRO-
TC Office in North Hall and from
Army Instructors in TCB and from
members of the central committee.
As only 300 tickets will be sold,
students are urged by members
of the committee to buy their
tickets as soon as possible.
This event has one of the long-
est histories of any campus dance.
Begun in 1918 by the ROTC and
NROTC units, the dance has been
given every year since that time
with the exception of the war
years.
The Theosophical Society in Ann Arbor
presents
A COURSE OF TALKS AND DISCUSSIONS
ON THE BASIS OF RELIGION
What is Religion? Is Religion Necessary?
Is There a Universal Basis for All Religions?
What Can Be Done to Bring Religion Into Our Lives?
You are invited to join this discussion,
FRIDAY, MARCH 20 8:00 P.M.
MICHIGAN LEAGUE KALAMAZOO ROOM
Combat Atmosphere To Set Scene
In Union Ballroom for Military Ball
EVENT
MARKS
SIXTIETH YEAR:
Five Women Celebrities To Participate
In Annual May Music Festival at Hill
Five women musical celebrities
will participate in this year's May
Festival April 30 to May 3 in Hill
Auditorium.
The sixtieth annual music fes-
tival will feature Myra Hess, pian-
ist, Dorothy Warenskjold, lyric
soprano. Janice Moudry, contral-
to, Zinka Milanov, soprano, and
Marguerite Hood, conductor of the
Festival Youth Chorus.
Miss Hess, who was made Dame
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BOARD -OF REPS-The Board
of Representatives will meet. at 4
p.m. today in the League.
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FROSH WEEKEND-Tryouts
for the Maize floorshow will be
held from 3 to 5 p.m. and from
7:30 to 10 p.m. today in the
League. All interested women are
urged to attend. Experience is not
necessary.
SOPHOMORES-Petitions for
all sophomore League positions are
due at 5 p.m. Monday in the Un-
dergraduate Office of the League.
An open house for coeds inter-
ested in petitioning will be held
from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday in the
League.
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ASSEMBLY-Petitions for As-
sembly Board are due at 5 p.m.
Monday in the Undergraduate Of-
fice of the League. All independent
coeds are eligible to petition re-
gardless of the class they will be
in next year.
Want to travel
and study
abroad?
Take a university-sponsored
tour via TWA this summer
and earn full college credit
while you travel -
Visit the countries of your choice
..study from 2 to 6 weeks at a
foreign university. You can do both
on one trip when you arrange a uni.
versity-sponsored tour via TWA.
Itineraries include countries in
Europe, the Middle East, Asia and
Africa. Special study tours available.
[.ow all-inclusive prices with TWA's
economical Sky Tourist service.
For information, write: John H.
Furbay, Ph. D., Director, Air World
Tours, Dept. CN, 80 East 42nd St.,
New York 17, N. Y. Be sure to men-
tion countries you wish to visit.
M4A#0WOE N# WW
Commander of the British Empire
by the late King George VI, is one
of the foremost pianists of today.
She has made several tours of the
United States, which included
stops in Ann Arbor, to present re-
citals.
This will be Miss Hess's first ap-
pearance here with an orchestra.
After the Festival, she will fly to
London to take part in the coro-
nation ceremonies.
Miss Warenskjold, lyric soprano
known for her recent work with
the San Francisco Opera Com-
pany, is of Scandinavian back-
ground. She is considered by many
as one of the brightest young stars
of the American musical firma-
ment.
At the Festival Miss Warensk-
jold will sing the soprano role
in the performance of Bach's B-
minor Mass on Friday, May 1, with
the University Choral Union and
the Philadelphia Orchestra, under
the baton of Thor Johnson.
Janice Moudry, like Miss War-
enskjold, launched her career in
California and has since made sev-
eral cross-country trips to appear
in leading eastern music centers
such as the Berkshire Festival,re-
citals in New York and with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Miss Moudry will also appear in
the contralto role of the Bach
B-minor Mass at the Friday night
concert.
Miss Milanov is generally ac-
knowledged as the "Queen of So-
pranos" of the Metropolitan Opera
Association. She is of Romanian
parentage and won her first op-
eratic success in Vienna under
Bruno Walter.
Subsequently, Miss Milanov tri-
umphed at the Salzburg Festival
under Toscanini, and for several
seasons has been with the Metro-
politan Opera.
Miss Milanov will be heard as
soloist at the final concert of the
festival, Sunday night, May 3,
when she will sing under the baton
of Eugene Ormandy with the Phil-
adelphia Orchestra.
Miss Hood, supervisor of music
in the Ann Arbor public schools,
will appear at the Festival in the
role of conductor as she presents
the Festival Youth Chorus in a
Suite of Songs by the contemporr,
ary British composer, Benjamin
Britten.
The songs were orchestrated by
Marion McArtor of the University
faculty. Miss Hood has won dis-
tinction as a conductor of youth
choruses and as executive in nu-
merous national musical organiza-
tions.
Coffee Hour
There will be a student-fa-
culty coffee hour from 4 to 5
p.m. tomorrow in the Terrace
Room of the Union. Special
guests will be members of the
German department. Everyone
is invited to attend and free
coffee will be served.
HEY GANG .
Skit Night
SEATS ARE NOW ON SALE!
1ST FLOOR RESERVED SEATS CAN BE PURCHASED BEFORE
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