FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1954 THlE MICHIGAN ]DUAILY "ASS w I, I I YALE-IFra I Cities Offer Drama, ~ Sports Over Holidays LT By BERT CORWIN Many forms of entertainmeni are available in New York, Chi- cago, and Detroit for students who will be holidaying or living ir these places during Christmas In New York, Joan Fontaine and Anthony Perkins head the cast of Robert Anderson's "Tea and Sympathy." "The Teahouse of the August Moon," John Pat- rick's comedy about Okinawa un- ier American occupation, stars Da- vid Wayne, John Forsythe, Pau. Ford and Mariko Niki. Loring Smith is featured in "So- lid Gold Cadillac," a satire by George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann on the business world of today. "Pajama Game",is a mu- sical comedy about romance and confusion in a pajama factory in which John Raitt, Janis Paige Eddie Foy, Jr., and Carol Haney have leading roles. To quote the New Yorker re- viewing "Peter Pan," "Mary Mar- tin and Cyril Ritchard appear in probably the best rendering of the Barrie fantasy in the history of our theatre." 0 e The Museum of Modern Art will display, in celebration of the Mu- seum's 25th year, 300 paintings owned by the Museum plus 40 new acquisitions. The seventh week of opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, which opens with a performance of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" on Monday, will feature the re- turn of Puccini's "Tosca." This opera, missing for a sea- son, will be given on Saturday, Dec. 25, with Licia Albanese in the title role, Jan Peerce as Cavara- dossi and George London as Scar- pia. Coeds Help r To Produce Union Opera , , By JANE FOWLER Coeds can rightly claim a share of the success of 'Iail to Victor," the 35th annual Union Opera. Women worked behind t h e scenes, prompting, working on pro- motions and the program, usher- ing, applying make-up and making costumes. Coeds also devoted their time to the Secretariat of the Op- era. All the costumes, 106 of them, were made by a committee of co- eds, headed by Thelma Kavanaw. More than 30 women started cut- ting and stitching the first week in November and continued until the curtain rose. When a group of costumes was ready for fitting, Miss Kavanaw re- ports, the troubles began. She adds that it took a while for the husky "chorus girls" to get used to the scanty white angel costumes. Make-up Artists Beverly Falk aid her assistant, Sonny Everett, headed the 25 coeds who applied make-up to cast mem- bers. Including the chorus and mi- nor parts, 50 make-up jobs were done for each performance. On an assembly line basis, ac- tors moved around a huge table, stopping at one point to have their eyebrows put on, at another spot to have rouge applied, and so on until the make-up job was com- plete. In this production, a coed would do nothing for the entire evening but draw sideburns or powder per- formers. Miss Everett reports that nine cans of theatrical powder were used to produce the "beau- ties" that appeared on stage for the three night Ann Arbor run. Three Tramps The three tramps, Lou Baldacci, John Morrow and Jim Bates, re- quired special beards. Instructed not to shave for the performances, grey shadow was then smeared on them for an authentic hobo look. Also, black gum was applied to their teeth giving the illusion of a missing incisor or two. Having to set up the make-up table as well as applying the greasepaint, the women began working at 6:30 p.m. each day. On the last evening, the coeds taught the cast how to put on their own make-up. MERRY XM and A HAPPY~ ii _C iA r% "The Nativity," a yuletide pa- geant, and "King Kringle," a mer- ry holiday spectacle produced by Leonidoff with the "Rockettes," Corps de Ballet, choral ensemble and symphony orchestra directed by Raymond Paige can be seen at Radio City Music Hall. Chicago "Hails Victor" Chicago will "Hail to Victor" on Saturday, Jan. 1, when the Mi- chigan Union Opera plays there. Also in the "Windy City," a stage show will be headed by sing- er Don Cornell. A complete ice ,ie- vue is being staged with Jean Matthews, ice ballerina, Jim Mc- Inerny and Douglas Duffy. The Union Opera will play in Detroit on Tuesday, Dec. 28. Hockey Game Detroit will be host this Satur- day to Boston as the two teams meet for hockey. A revival of Rogers and Ham- merstein's musical, "Oklahoma" will begin Sunday and play for seven days; "Cinerama" will com- plete its second gear. "Holiday R e v u e," featuring George Scotti, plus an all-star cast of 24, including eight Lindsay dancers, and Jack Madden's or- chestra will also play there during' the Yuletide Season. National Customs To Be Featured In Noel Program National Christmas customs, songs and music will be explained1 at a Yuletide program sponsored by the English Language Institute and the visiting group of Interna- tional Educators at 8 p.m. today, in the Assembly Hall of Racklam Hall. In addition to the program, en-' titled "Christmas Around the, World," there will be refresh- ments and a gift exchange, fort which each guest is requested to bring a 25 cent gift. The Christmas story will be pre- sented by Eeles Landstrom, while carols will be sung by Mrs. Esterj Gagardo, Frances Winter, Peng Ann Tung and Eelkje Tunenkol., Mrs. Prachoomsuk Amrung and Armi Ailas will describe customs from the British Isles. Traditions s of Northern Europe will be dis-' cussed by Katri Lauste and Miss Ailas. The holiday spirit of Germany,k France, and Spain will be shown1 by Jaime Uribe and Walter Wag-2 ner; Enrique Siblesz, Joseph Pierre,t Nicanor Madrid and Francisco Bustamente; and David Bullones and Mrs. Lado, respectively. Italy, Iran and Mexico will bee represented by Mrs. Maria Bergera Rocco, Leontine Massumain and Jose Cuellar, in that order. Camilo Vivas and a chorus wills demonstrate South American< Christmas songs, while anothera part of the program will be de-n voted to customs, song, and music of Canadian Indians. AS - ' -Wt IEW Y EA R 01 'Mr ' r -r Yuletide Food To Highlight Celebrations . Christmas Suppers Traditionally Differ From Nation to Nation By SUE RAUNHEIM While Christmas and turkey dinner "go together" the world over, the trimmings differ from country to country. Parties with native dancing highlight the festivities in Iraq. At the traditional supper, the peo- ple start off with a salad and dressing. Then come the hors d'- oevres, turkey and potatoes. Eng- lish liquor finishes off the meal. Uruguay also has the tradition- al turkey dinner. This is served with sweet breads, brown potatoes, dried fruits and champagne. Venezuelan Dinner Christmas' dinner is a little dif- ferent in Venezuela. The natives eat a preparation consisting of a meat dish wrapped in dried bana- na leaves and dough. Along with dinner cheeses, apples and pears are on the menu. Wine or cham- pagne completes the meal. Honduras features turkey or sometimes pork as the big meal of the day. The bread eaten may be compared to the American donut. It has a hole in the middle and is cooked in honey. Sauce is eaten with the turkey, while cake, fruits and wine provid1e tasty treats In Chile the natives eat "em- panadas," similar to a meat pie turnover. Since it is summer when Christmas rolls around, the people eat a comparatively cold meal. Po- tato salad is enjoyed along with pineapple and other fruits. Turkish Delight Turkish people also eat a cold dinner. The main dish is usually chicken, turkey or tongue. Fruit is much loved there and oranges, bananas, pears, dried grapese and figs go along with the dinner. The people drink "raki," which can be compared to vodka. Since Turkey is mostly Moslem, the peo- ple celebrate the New Year and not Christmas. In India, Christmas is only cele- brated in the Christian villages. Rice cooked in meat forms the main dish. Curries are also part of the meal. Fowl for the Dutch Holland celebrates with fowl, such as goose, for the main meal. Cookies baked with spices are made and many sweets are also enjoyed. For dessert, puddingais served with a hard custary sauce. Another popular Dutch sweet is "marzepan," an almond paste made with sugar and served in different colors and shapes. In Lebanon, turkey is served with plenty of rice containing tur- key kidneys and pine nuts. The' women concoct fancy salads with vegetables, lemon, vinegar, mint leaves and parsley. For dessert, "Baklawa" is made. Ingredients include fine wheat flour, pistachio nuts and butter. Wine is usually sipped with the meal. Brazilian "Freyong" The Brazilians celebrate Christ- mas with "freijong," consisting of black beans with dried beef or ham. This dish is served over rice' and is very popular with the na- tives. For dessert, the women bake, pies filled with custard and coco- nut. Roast turkey or duck is also eaten with the hearts of young shoots of a palm tree. In Greece, "patriagen" is a fav- orite delicacy. This dish contains sliced egg plant fried with eggs. "Goudapearas" cookies, delight of all children, are shaped like half moons and filled with dough, mak- ing them heavy. Cookies Popular in Greece Ingredients include butter, flour, sugar and vanilla. These cookies are imitated in America today.' Birds Nest Soup is the first course served in China. Chicken, pork, shrimp or duck follow, The Japanese do notcelebrate Christmas, but have important fes- ivities at the New Year. "Mochi," a national dish made with rice, beans, eggs and dried fish jelly, pens the meal. Japanese New Year Chia-Che Chen, graduate stu- dent from Japan, remarked that 'at his home, small fish were serv- ed with potatoes and the root of a lotus. The lotus leaves have holes in them, which oAe can see hrough. Japanese eat them at New Years so that they may pre- ict the future." Soybeans, called "mummy >eans" in Japan, are also eaten in he "Land of the Rising Sun." Mummy" means "work hard" in he Japanese language and so the beans are eaten to encourage this uality among the people through- ut the year. -Daily-Dick Gaskill CHRISTMAS CHEER-Christmas decorations help to bring more festive spirit and color to the Yuletide season. This year, displays are trending toward the modern and more abstract type of art. Carol ing Groups on Campus Serenade Houses, Hospital By MARJI BLUTTMAN Mistletoe, because of its practica- bility, may seem to be "the one and only" Christmas plant. Nevertheless, there are countless varieties of flowers and shrubs whose traditions, if not their pres- ent uses, are just as interesting and much more meaningful. One of the most popular Yule activities in many homes is the hanging of the greens, which orig- inally denoted spore than just dec- oration. For the Saturnalia of ancient Rome the people gathered green boughs of spruce, pine, laurel, cy- prus and bay branches and adorned their temples and dwellings during the Christmas season. This was supposed toward off crop-destroy- ing "spirits" and bring a bountiful produce for the following year. A religious meaning is attached to the herbaceous plant, rosemary. The originally white flower is said to have opened up to give Mary and the infant Jesus shelter from Herod's soldiers on their flight into Egypt.- For Remembrance The colorless, dull petals there- after turned blue from the Virgin's mantle. Because of that event, this winter plant is often referred to as "the rosemary for remembrance." Holly, with its thorny leaves, white flowers and red berries, is another shrub with religious mean- ing. The early Roman Christians believed that the cross was con- structed of Dolly wood, and for a punishment, it became a scrub tree with scarlet fruits that signify the blood of Christ. A vine usually associated with holly at Christmastime is shiny- leaved ivy. Superstition said to place its leaves in water in a cov- ered dish and let it stand over the holiday season. The spots that de- velop on the leaf surface supposed- ly foretell the future. One of the most beloved of all seasonal flowers is the Christmas rose, which is associated with Ve- nus, the Gooddess of Love.-. It is said that the stems of this r o s e formed the "Crown of Thorns," the tree on which Judas hanged himself, and Christ's blood stained the once-white rose red at the time of the Crucifixion. This beautiful flower is distinguished by its simple and graceful solemnity. Crown of Thorns Used in mantle decorating is an- other plant that is also thought to have compiled the "Crown of GREENS TAKE 'BOUGHS': Plants Influence Season's Spirit Thorns." This is Christ's thorn, a shrub of Palestine which is a mem- ber of the buckthorn family. In the United States, buckthorn is usually substituted for the original Christ- mas plant. Not to be forgotten is the favor- ite of all-the Christmas- tree. The custom of chopping down an ever- green and bringing it inside the home for decoration and adornment is a not-too ancient German tradi- tion. The lights of the tree are said to be adapted from the Jewish holo- iday Hanukah, or Festival of Lights, which occurs parallel with Christmas. Perfect for use as a Christmas tree is the Norfolk Island pine with its plentiful dark green needles and symetrical shape. This tree, because of its perfection in form, is called also the Star pine. Sometimes a branch or young pine plant is used in place of the usual tree and is decorated with lights and shiny ornaments. Like the tree, these should be kept within the home during the entire festival and should not be discarded until after the twelfth night, if luck is to come to the home during the new year. Jerusalem Cherry The Jerusalem cherry is revered by some since it is a shrub native of the Holy Land. Its thick, dark- green foliage and bright red ber- ries form a color combination be- coming to the holiday atmosphere. In addition to the symbolic Christmas plants, many winter va- rieties are used solely for adorn- ment purposes. Carnations, snap- dragons, geraniums, begonias, Chi- nese primroses and bell flowers provide cheery splashes of color for Christmas arrangements. The poinsetta, green with red star-like petals, is the most popu- lar flower for Yuletide decoration. Originally from Mexico, this un- usual plant has adapted itself to a rugged winter climate. Fruits, nuts and berries, used for embellishment as well as for eat- ing purposes,. supposedly repre- sents the winter harvest. Cranberry seeds and pine cones signify fertili- ty and bounty. The twenty-fifth of December is a bare 'Christmas without its flow- ers and greenery. From a tiny sprig of holly to a towering ever- green tree, dazzling with its myri- ad of lights, is the deeper mean- ing of Christmas derived. SPECIAL o Christmas Cards o Gregularly $1.00, now only 50rc o HUSBANDS! Get your wives a Knit-King for Christmas. Saves knitting time. 0 0 $5.00 discount on HANDMADE RUGSV c YARNGOODS YARN SHOP c 324 East Liberty Open 9 to 6 Closed Saturday o NO 2-7920 0 --soaca o so o By ROSE PERLBERG Familiar strains of Christmas carols echoing through the cold night air came not from angels, but University students, as many resi- dence halls, sorority and fraterni- ty houses held annual singing par- ties. For many years, caroling was a function of the church alone. Small groups would make annual rounds of the neighborhood. In the years following World War Two, the cus- tom spread to dormitories. Soon, coeds. were granted late permission one night during the "Christmas week." Then men and women began the practice of the joint caroling parties Songs and Fun Several fraternities combined car- oling with informal parties. Typical was that of Acacia, where men Foreign Students To Celebrate Yule With Union Party International students will get into the spirit of the season at an annual Christmas party from 8 p.m. to midnight tomorrow in the main ballroom of the Union. According to Renate Quastler, party chairman, guests will sing Christmas carols, exchange gifts and watch a program presented by foreign students. The program will consist of na- tive dances, songs and customs of the various countries. Guests will dance to records and refreshments will be served. Each person is asked to bring a 25 cent gift for a gift exchange, remarked Miss Quastler. and their dates went singing through the streets of Ann Arbor, then returned to the fraternity house for food and dancing. Delta Delta Delta and Beta Theta Pi joined their music making, by serenading houses in their neigh- borhood. Houses in the quadrangle too, were filled with the spirit of the season. Taylor house in South Quad joined their "singing sisters" in Betsy Barbour, Cheer Patients The group wended its way up to the "hill" where the carolers enter- tained patients at the University hospital. Returning through the res- idential section of Ann Arbor, they finished the evening at Barbour with refreshments and dancing. Wednesday evening East Quad's Tyler House women and Strauss men sang their way from Quad to Quad and serenaded President and Mrs. Harlan Hatcher before re- Typical of the feelings of par- turning for an informal party. ticipants were those expressed by Marie De Witt, who was part of a caroling group Wednesday night. "Bundled up in our warmest clothes, singing at the top of our lungs, we got a big thrill out of the enthusiastic welcome we received at each house," she said. HOLIDAY GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES TO ALL OUR MICHIGAN FRIENDS.. ... Each of you have our blessings, for the vacation and ieriod of festivity wherever you may be . .. May you return to campus with vision for a better new year ahead. Our sncere thanks for the part you have permitted us to play in so many ways, both in business and pleasure. BOB CARLSON PEG PERIGO L. G. BALFOUR COMPANY 1321 South University Avenue 11 II II Orientation Women interested in being orientation leaders for the sec- ond semester orientation pro- gram may apply in the League Undergraduate Office today and tomorrow. Students who have questions about the pro- gram may call Susan Fricker at NO 2-5675. '*1 I Best Wishes for a HAPPY HOLIDAY Overbeck Book Store 1216 South University .. 1 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND STUDENT CENTER 1432 Washtenaw Ave. Henry Kuizenga and George Laurent, Ministers William S. Baker and Eduard Sue, University Pastors 9:00-"The Inextinguishable Light" 11:00-"The Inextinguishable Light" 7:30-Geneva Fellowship FIRST METHODIST CHURCH and WESLEY FOUNDATION 120 South State Street Merrill R. Abbey, Erland J. Wangdahl, Eugene A. Ransom, Ministers 11 11 9:00 and 10:45 A.M.-Worship: "Teach To Pray," Dr. Abbey preaching. Us U. Of.bIUUENIb The, Collins Shoppe -figtt l rQ k11 (I j t'NN and a HAPPY HOLIDAY VACATION to you, our friends and patrons ST. NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH 414 North Main Rev. Father Eusebius A. Stephanou 9:30 A.M.-Matins Service 10:30 A.M.-Divine Liturgy Alternate Thursdays, 7:30 P.M.--Orthodox Stu- dent Guild BETHLEHEM EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED 423 South Fourth Ave, Walter S, Press, Pastor Warren Winkler, Director of Student Work 10:45 A.M.-Worship Service. Sermon by Rev. Press: "How Shall We Keep Christmas" 7:30 P.M.-Christmas Candlelight Service CAMPUS CHAPEL (Sponsored by the Christian Reformed Churches of Michigan) Washtenow at Forest Rev,hLeonard Verduin, Director Res. Ph. NO 5-4205. Office Ph. NO 8-7421 10:00 A.M -Morning Service FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 502 East Huron, Phone NO 8-7332 Rev. C. H. Loucks, Minister Beth Mahone, Asst. Student Counselor Sunday, December 19- 1:00--Sermon: "Incarnation" 7:30-Family Worship Service Wednesday, December 22- 7:00-All Church School Party, Mrs. Philip Jones in charge of reservations Sunday, January 2- 6:45-Open House at the Guild House FRIENDS (QUAKER) MEETING Lone Hall 10:00 A.M.-Young Friends 11:00 A.M.-Meeting for Worship. Visitors Wel- come, THE CHURCH OF CHRIST 530 West Stadium (Formerly at Y.M.C.A.) Sundays-10:15 A.M., 11:00 A.M., 7:30 P.M. Wednesdays-7:30 P.M., Bible Study, G. Wheeler Utley, Minister Hear: "The Herald of Truth" WXYZ-ABC Net- work Sundays-1:00.1:30 P.M. ST. ANDREWS CHURCH and the EPISCOPAL STUDENT FOUNDATION 306 North Division St. Sunday Services at 8, 9, 11 A.M., and 8 P.M. Lectures on The Faith of the Church at 4:30 P.M. Supper Club at 6:00 P.M. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, Scientist 1833 Washtenow Ave. ADVENTURE TRAVEL to every corner of the globe . . 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