SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1953 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN Drill Team Maneuvers To Be Featured at Ball Members of Pershing Rifles Will Perform During Intermission at Annual Military Dance Bridge Fans Will Display Card Skills Campus Tournament Slated To Take Place Skit Staging Experiment Tried Results periment audience program,; of a new staging ex- auditorium stage when casts for will be revealed to the all the skits gather for a mass re- at the first Skit Night hearsal. scheduled for 8:30 p.m._ Students attending the Military Ball, which will be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday in the Union, may see a record broken during the intermission program when a machine gun drill team attempts to take a 30 calibre gun, assemble it for combat and take it out of action in 19 seconds. So far this year the group com- posed of members of the Pershing Rifles has been clocked perform- ing this maneuver in 21 seconds. SIXTEEN inches of "cold steel" on the end of bayonets will be spinning as close as two inches from the performers' faces during another part of the program to be presented by the Pershing Rifles. This feat will be performeq by an exhibition team doing the Queen Anne's Manual, a drill involving the spinning of rifles in the manner of a baton. During the show a sabre drill team will also perform. * * * ACCORDING to Bill Fisher, '54E, who is in charge of the en- tertainment, anyone who has ever seen the members of the Pershing Rifles in action has been amazed that chaos does not result from: the tricky formations. Friday's show will seem even more complex because the men will be limited by the space in the ballroom and therefore will operate out of a circle, he added. Fisher said that a similar pro- gram, presented two years ago, was enthusiastically received by the audience. THE Pershing Rifles is an hon- orary precision drill group com- posed of between 75 and 80 basic Army and Air Force cadets. Freshmen and sophomores who show extra interest in mili- tary activities go through one semester of pledge duty sharp- ening up on basic drill and then are initiated into the group. The men in the organization not only receive extra training but work on development of leader- ship qualities and are in closer contact with the department of- ficers. cDuring the year the drillmen serveras anhonor guard at the Honors Convocation, conduct biv- ouacs in overnight tactical prob- lems, and compete against other collegiate drill outfits. Named after General Pershing, the campus team was first organ- ized five years ago. Officers of the Pershing Rifles are George Beckwith, '53NS, Com- pany Commander; Ed Leland, '54, executive officer; Bill Fisher, '54E., Vincent Dambrauskas, '55E., and Al Jones. '54, who are in charge of the various drill teams for the show. Tickets priced at $3 per couple, may be purchased at the NROTC Office in North Hall, from army instructors in TCB and from members of the central committee. At Union This Week -Daily-Larry Wilk OUT FOR THE RECORD-Practicing for a machine gun drill which will be given at the Military Ball Friday as part of the intermission show presented by the Pershing Rifles, Vincent Dambrauskas, '55E and Bill Corson, '56 will be among those trying to set up a 30 calibre machine gun for combat and take it out of action under the record time of 19 seconds. DEADLINE SET: Petitions Due Tomorrow For Various League Posts Amateur Culbertsons and Gor- ens on campus will have an op- portunity to display their talents in the annual all-campus bridge tournament which will be held Tuesday through Thursday in the Union. The final play-offs are sched- uled to take place on April 1. House teams will be entered, with each team having an oppor- tunity to qualify on one of the three nights. The teams which do qualify will then enter the final play-offs. These elimination tournaments are run off on a duplicate bridge basis. with the highest scoring contestants as the winners. The men's teams will sit in the north-south positions, while the women's teams are sitting east- west. Thus, the men and women participate together, but will not compete against each other. Prizes will be given in both the men's and women's divisions. They will include a first and second for both groups with trophies for the winning pairs. In the past, weekly bridge nights, co-sponsored by the League and Union, were held each Wed- nesday. The two organizations al- so have provided bridge lessons for students in the beginning stages to the more advanced fansI of the game. Art Bublitz and Joan Prescott, chairmen of the Union-League contest this year, urge all students to attend this all-campus bridge tournament. Saturday in Hill Auditorium. j Central committee members have expressed their belief that this will be the first time that skits, each with their own scenery change, have ever been presented on the auditorium stage. * * * MIRIAM BUCK and Bob Guise, co-chairmen of the productions committee, are in charge of work- ing out many of the problems en- countered in staging. To give the casts and stage- hands a covering to work behind on the curtainless Hill stage, the committee is providing a black velour backdrop which will en- close the entire staging area. The six housing groups which are taking part in the program will then be able to place their scenery in front of this curtain. -A CONSTRUCTION crew has been at work daily near the load- ing dock of the Union building the 16 feet high and 40 feet long frames on which the velour will hang. Curtains on the sides of the stage will extend out diagon- ally. House backdrops will be hung on three wires extending across the back of the stage. Working on a "shower curtain" principle with hooks running on the wires, the scenery will be slid on and off the stage, making rapid scene changes a possibility. Crewmen have been practicingj putting the curtain frames up and taking them down, as they will have opportunity to do this several times during the next week. * * * THE FRAMES will be put up for the first time today on the I I The backdrops will then be dismantled and stored until Fri- day, when they will be needed for the dress rehearsal of the show. After this rehearsal they will again be ripped down, to be constructed for the last time the night of the performance. Each group will be responsible for the lighting for its show. A phone system from the stage to the spotlight will enable electri- cians to "hit" the right person at the right time. ALL SCENE changes will be made while the stage is "blacked out." The productions committee is acting in a supervisory capacity on house problems, including costuming and make-up. Each house taking part in the program is providing its own funds for staging expenses. THE SIX GROUPS taking part in this staging "first" are Gamma Phi Beta-Sigma Phi Epsilon, Mar- tha Cook-Zeta Beta Tau, Hender- son House-Delta Sigma Phi, Kap- pa Alpha Theta-Theta Xi, Victor Vaughan-Delta Upsilon and Hel- en Newberry-Taylor House. These houses will all be com- peting for the first place trophy Are you -- - . .4ga .ed ? Then prepare for your honeymoon now. Most resorts will be full if you wait. Thousands of collegians from all over the United Statesj have happy memories of a little cottage all their own, terrific meals and friendly folk met here. Mention dates, and we'll send our helpful Three Honeymoon Plans. FARM ON THE HILT. Swiftwater, Penn. which is offered by the Spring Weekend central committee. Judging the skits will be Prof. Philip Dewey of the music school, Prof. Marvin Felheim and Prof. Kenneth Rowe of the English De- partment. Tickets for the show, priced at 75 cents, are now on sale at booths in Mason Hall and the League. All proceeds from the perform- ance will be donated to charity. The Alice Lloyd Memorial Re- search Fund and the Damon Run- yon cancer Fund have been chosen by the Women's Athletic Associa- tion and the Union, sponsors of the event, to receive their share of the proceeds. Musicale Fred Coulter, pianist, and Robert Moore, baritone, will perform at a musicale to be held at 1:15 p.m. today in the main lounge of West quad- rangle. There is no charge for this program, which is open to the public. same. -- IFIEG rr °. ,.: - l } -= , :... All sophomore positions in the League will be filled from peti- tions, which are to be submitted by freshmen women by 5 p.m. to- morrow in the Undergraduate Of- fice of the League. The Interviewing and Nominat- ing Council will hold interviews next week to make the decisions. and the results will be announced at Installation Night, which has been changed to April 21. An open house was held Satur- day during which members of this year's Sophomore Cabaret central committee answered questions about their positions. Next year's committee will be filled by fresh- men who are petitioning at this! time.1 IGITWEI4 of white with a design- - mu have ark. . $X.95 MCF To WONDEV Present PANTIE GIP A dainty hand fid nylon power net ribbon front deftly ed to make sure y a well-trimmed to Rev. MacLennen In Easter Series Michigan Christian Fellowship, in connection with their Easter series, will present Rev. R. H. MacLennen in several lecture-dis- cussions this week. The series will open at 4 p.m. today in Lane Hall when Rev. MacLennen of St. George's Angli- can Church in Hamilton, Ontario, speaks on the subject "Facing the Cross." Other public lecture-discussions will be presented at 4:15 p.m. and at 8 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Women's League.. Room locations for these meetings will be posted on the League bulletin board. The purpose of these lectures and discussions is to consider the significance of Easter, and its im- portance in the student's life. Interested students are encour- aged to attend the public discus- sions, and to arrange personal in- terviews with Rev. MacLennen during the three days will be on campus a:f rv" . i .' . ' +.?.r Ai>5 "S :.:: Jt{."'r :.::.::... These positions on Soph Cab include chairman and assistant chairman, decorations and assist- ant, hostess chairman, programs, publicity, posters, stunts, refresh- ments and secretary and assistant. Other chairmanships on the list are special booths and assistant, treasurer and assistant, ushering, floorshow and assistant chair- man. Concluding the list are costume and assistant, dance and assist- ant, make-up and assistant, music and assistant, script chairman and stage manager and assistant. The other League posts to be! filled are three sophomore mem- bers of the interviewing and nom- inating committee, two posts on Women's Juiciary Council andI four dance class captains. Assembly ... Petitions for the Assembly Board are due at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Undergraduate office of the League. Coeds are reminded to sign up for interviews when they hand in their petitions. Nine positions will be filled, including president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, personnel chairman, social chairman, pro- jects chairman, public relations chairman and candy booth chair- man. All independent coeds are eligi- ble to petition, including freshmen who will be sophomore next year. 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