~1 THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1954 Y A 'Tickled Pink 'To Be Premiered Today 44 Senior Coeds To See Debut Performance Weeks of rehearsals, scenery-painting and costume-making will culminate at 8 p.m. tonight when the 1954 Junior Girls' Play, 'Tickled Pink,' is premiered before an audience of senior women. In preparing for production of the traditional musical comedy, junior women have weathered a number of crises of varying dimen- sions. Confusion over the summer among the members of the central committee left the coeds with nothing more of their original script than the basic idea. Rising to the emergency, director Jill Coleman sat down over Christmas vacation and wrote a new plot for the chosen theme. Misfortune again struck when dance chairman Jane Kohr injured her knee in a skiing accident and hobbled around with her leg in a cast for three weeks. However, her co-chairman, Joanne Lichty, took over the necessary fast footwork while Miss Kohr assisted from the sidelines. After meeting these and other problems that always arise in producing a play, the coeds will be ready tonight to present a comedy about government inefficiency which revolves around a misplaced atom bomb test and the problems arising as a result. The history of JGP dates back to 1904 when six junior women presented a skit which told the story of Buster Brown at Michigan. Mrs. Myra Jorden, dean of women at the time, suggested that the junior women present a play in honor of the graduating seniors. Following her suggestion the coeds came up with "Everysenior," a take-off on the old morality play, "Everyman." Traditionally, only women were permitted to see the play but the 1907 production, "Don Quixote, the Coed Knight," marked the be- ginning of male requests to be permitted to view the skit. In an editorial in The Daily, the men protested: "The mascu- line element of the campus resented being barred from the giay little functions held under Mrs. Jorden's eye." After 11 years of performing strictly for local audiences, in 1915 the women traveled to Toledo to present their skit, "The Come.Back." This play gave the viewers a glimpse of the University in 2002 as an institution for women only, since all the men had left years ago to fight in the World War. The story dealt with the triumphant g return of men to the University after a fierce battle with the dean of women. The 1915 performance also marked the introduction of the custom of having senior women attend the performance in a group wearing their caps and gowns, a tradition that was dis- continued in 1952. University men finally won their fight to see the feminine produc- tion in 1923 when they were per- :. <'mitted to -watch "Jane Climbs a Mountain." For many years the JGP script stuck to a college theme but in 1949 the long-standing tradition was broken when the coeds pre- sented "Fate of the Union." In 1950 junior women again found their theme away from the college campus and produc- ed "The Real McCoy," which centered around the life of a hillbilly girl who won a contest and a free trip to New York. For the third year in a row the theme of the 1951 play was a more cosmopolitan one than had been the custom. That year's play, "It's The Payoff," told the story of four young women who must pro- uth Sea life to a scientist who is duceya play in order to earn owslung Fungus Island. Travel- money, With the 1952 production, of his own. The half-finished "Heavenly Days," the coeds revert- ork and imagination on the part ed to a college theme for their uctions as to what type of c- skit. The play followed the trials whip up gay, gaudy outfits for and tribulations of two coeds at d thread were transformed into the University of Michigan from rehearsal deadline. 1870 to 1952. I V I, A ZOMBIE-Three scientists curiously test a fourth member of their research group who has turned into a zombie on a native island which they are studying. The scientist-turned-zombie set out with the group to prove his theory that everyone is an American Indian. JGP DIRECTOR-Jill Coleman, director of this year's play, dis- cusses some production problems encountered in the final weep of rehearsals. Miss Coleman also wrote the script for the musical comedy which deals with government inefficiency. -t NATIVE DANCFRS-Rehearsing one of their numbers in tonight's show are these dancers practicing the hula which is their specialty. Natives on Lowslung Fungus Island, they provide one of the many, interesting sights for the team of government investigators who are doing research on the effects of a misplaced atomic bomb. Traveling among the islands they encounter, besides the natives, many inter- esting kinds of flora and fauna including pink and purple monkeys and pink trees with purple foliage.. In their scientific fervor, the scientists collect data from the natives and expound many odd pet theories which they are hoping to. prove on this expedition. .4 1 1 . ,, I i1 DAILY PHOTO FEATURE PICTURES BY BETSY SMITH STORY BY PAM SMITH THE SUGAR BOWL ANN ARBOR'S FINEST FOOD 109-111 SOUTH MAIN ST. i 'JUST THE FACTS'-Carefree natives are giving the facts on Sou studying the effects of a misplaced atom bomb on the natives of L ing among the natives, he is gathering data to prove a pet theory costumes of the natives worn at this rehearsal represent weeks of w of the costumes committee members. After receiving general instri tumes were wanted the coeds gave free rein to their imaginations to the many members of the cast. 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