t WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1953 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pow vwr. THE M~mANBATT *c~u A r s v a rw First Spring Weekend T o Include Skit Night -- i Dorm Group To Feature 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. 1' - 4 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. * * *l 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. * * * 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. * * * 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 II d4cn'44 Campu4 BOARD -OF REPS-The Board of Representatives will meet. at 4 p.m. today in the League. * * * 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. * * * 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 .. - MARCH 20 AT THE ADMINISTRATION BLDG., 1-4 P.M. 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