SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1957 TSE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE SUNDAY, FEBRUAIW 10, 1957 T~E MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE T1fl~EE Playreaders To Perform Works of Shaw and ilde Reading Clu Planis Meeth ab Lg 1 w ~--- By ALLAN STILLWAGON The Ann Arbor Playreading Group is emphatically 'just for fun.- Productions by the non-profit, non-professional organization are fi-ee from long rehearsals, box- office worries or technical trivia. Tomorrow's program, for exam- ple, is the second in the group's history to be "staged." Previously, Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" was the only program that had not been read with a mini- mum of concern for stage busi- ness and props. Trio Planned A trio of short works will be of- fered at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Dramatic Arts Center, the guar- dian angel of the playreading group. Act One of Shaw's "Cae- sar and Cleopatra," Scene One of his "St. Joan," and all of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" will be read. Philip Diskin, this month's vol-. unteer for staging and direction, calls attention to the group's "c o m p l e t e flexibility." Each month one member volunteers to direct a forthcoming reading, and then has the option of choosing the play and its cast. Some directors call two or three rehearsals, concentrate on vocal expression alone, and strive to duplicate the austere style of the First Dramatic Quartet's "Don Juan in Hell." Diskin has planned things dif-; ferently, and boasts not only3 character movement, and cos- tumes, but original music and ,choreography for "Salome" as well. Cleopatra and Joan are played by students, Diana Marcus, '58 A&D, and Nancy Winston, '59, while 'Salome' is portrayed by a, housewife, Mary Lee Merriman. MIT Group The group appeared shortly aft- er the arrival of Bill Caldwell of the mathematics department from! the Massachusetts Institute ofj ,Technology. There, a similarlyI casual organization had claimed his interest. Prof. Wilfred Kaplan of the mathematics department, a mem- ber of the DAC Board of Direc- tors, encouraged Caldwell to or- ganize here and shortly thereafter, the club was taken under the pro- tective wing of the DAC. It has steadily increased its membership since that time. Now approximately 100 stu- dents, faculty, and townspeople join to present a playbill at least once a month. Their stated pur- pose is "to have fun, and to en- joy plays both socially and dra- matically." The members maintain a stand- ing invitation to anyone who would like to join them, to read, to direct, or just to listen. The Contemporary Literature Club will hold a second organiza- tional meeting at 7:30 p.m. Mon- day in Room 3A of the Union, ac- cording to Sidney Warschausky of the English Department. Informal discussion of poetry and prose is the aim of the group, which is being formed at the re- quest of students. Dylan Thomas, Steinbeck and James Joyce are among the auth- ors being considered for discus- sion.fodics Membership ,is not limited to English majors, and all students are invited to join the group. A permanent meeting time will be selected during tomorrow's meeting. N. M "}Cz..+r }::?{+a'i.'r.{ +w'v v y i DAILY BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial respoisi- bility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 2553 Adminsitration Building, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. VOL. LXVII, NO. 88 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1957 General Notices University Figure Skating Club will meet on Wed., Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m. in- stead of its usual Tues. meeting. See- (Continued on Page 4) a, -Daily-Norm Jacobs ROME MEETS EQYPT-Richard Allen as Caesar sternly watches Ftatateeta (Laurrie Webber) crown the young Cleopatra (Diana Marcus.) w ns True ccount Of American Revolution -Daily-Norm Jacobs SALOME' STARES-Mary Lee Merriman peers past the pale form of Allen Shields during the Playreader's production of Salome'. Scientists-Begin Extensive Search for Earth's Secrets kki. r i V:: FOR L.1 A- R-MIt OHLT CARVEN-PARFUMS SPECIALLY DESIGNED vr--- By JAN WILZEWSKI Readers of American history ac- A counts -written by A m er ica n authors for American people-and students studying their history books often wonder about the "other side" of the picture. Realizing such books are often biased when relating historical events, these readers turn to other sources in order to obtain the true picture. Clements Library, which' deals exclusively with early American histoi-y, has no such biased ac- counts in their' American revolu- tion collection. In fact, a major share of their collection of books and manuscripts from this period. deals extensively with the English side of the battle. S C t f t C f e a c i t t olicitor general, dealt with ban- shed Loyalists. Here also are, the papers of General Thomas, Gage, British commander in America from 1763 hrough the year of the Boston MIassacre and Tea Party and the irst year of the Revolution. The Gage volumes include more' han 21,000 letters composed of orrespondence with British of- icials, his officers, colonial gov- rnors and Indian agents. One local interest manuscriptis aletter to Gage giving a Detroit ensus on both sides of the river, omplete with list of people, ani- mals and bushels of grain and po- atoes. Clinton Collection The most complete collection is hat of Sir Henry Clinton, British iommander from 1778 to 1782. A highly publicized document is raitor Benedict Arnold's overture o the British in 1780, in which he ffered to sell West Point for 20,- 00 pounds sterling. Clements Li- 'rary has the original letter, writ- en in a code keyed to a small dic- ionary. There are some papers from the American side, also. Those of Gen- ral Nathanael Greene, southern ommander of the revolution who eveloped into Washington's ablest ssistant; and General Josiah Tar- .ar, first commander of the Am- rican Army when it was active n the old Northwest, are some of the larger collections. SCHISTOSOMIASIS: Snails Threaten Darn Says van der Scha lie : Y" _ . William L. Clements The libarary is based on the t books of* William L. Clements, a t Michigan alumnus and regent. o This Bay City industrialist gave 0 his.-books and the building to the b University in 1923. t He continued collecting manu- ti scripts of the revolution, but in his search found most of, the orig- A inal letters and documents by e American officials already dispos- c ed of in the Library of Congress d and eastern historical societies. a Clements, therefore, 10 o k e d m abroad for British correspondence, e finding the papers still in 'the in hands of family descendents of t British generals and ministers. His efforts to procure them wele quite successful. The result is Clements Library, possessing the largest collections of, this kind in the country. British Papers The library has the papers. of important British men who were largely responsible for the out- come of the war. Among them are Lord George Germain, colonial secretary for American colonies during the war, who tried to suppress colony up- rising; and his assistan William Knox. ,The manuscripts of Lord Shel- burne, English prime minister after the war, are largely peace treaty negotiation documents. IHis secretary of war, Lord Sydney, Britian's attorney general and An army of small snails may spell trouble for Egypt's proposed Aswan Dam, Prof. Henry vander Schalie of the Zoology department says. The snails are key links in the life cycle of the schistosomes- parasites of the human blood stream which cause the debilitat- ing disease, schistosomiasis. Usu- al result from the disease is pro- gressive weakness and emaciation, followed by death from exhaus- tion, pneumonia, or secondary infections. Prof. van de Schalie says scien- tists fear that construction of the proposed $1.3 billion Aswan Dam could make the disease prevalent enough to cancel all the benefits Egypt expects to gain from the ir- rigation and power project. He notes that more than 60 per- cent of the people in northern Egypt have schistosomiasis, com- pared to only 5 or 6 per cent of the people in the southern part, because perennial irrigation in the North makes an ideal environ- ment for the snails. Construction of the dam,' he says, would create the same en- vironment in southern Egypt and pave the way for the spread of snails and schistosomiasis. Prof. van der Schalie is one of four Americans who recently attended the World Health Or- ganization Conference on African Schistosomiasis at Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa Another University zoologist, Prof. Nelson G. Hairston, is more optimistic about control prospects' for the disease in the Philippines,, where he spent the past two and a half years as special advisor for joint Filipino-WHO experimental' projects. Prof. Hairston says experiment- al projects have shown the Ori- ental variety of the disease can be controlled by upsetting the snails' environment. Knowledge tested in the experiments is now being ap- plied on a larger scale, the pro- fessor adds, and much of Asia is watching for the results. NEW YORK (A)-Scientists are. starting a world-wide search into secrets of this big house we live in-the planet Earth. Their search will range'from deepest cellar to highest attic, and even the space beyond. The quest is sending U.S. scien- tists to duty stations from Alaska to the South Pole, and over the seas. It will shoot artificial moons circling in space. Forty Nations The occasion is the Interna- tional Geophysical Year - IGYY, combining the skills of scientists of 40 nations. IGY starts officially July 1, and extends to Jan. 1, 1959. Its purpose is a more exact un- derstanding of our own planet and the powerful forces that act upon it and affect our lives. From LGY may well come better weather predictions, even control of weather; surer communications, better understanding of the shape and interior of the earth, the strange auroral displays, cosmic rays, magnetism and gravity, the secrets of the seas, and the first step toward travel one day to the moon and sister planets. Six Miles Deep In a million years on this planet, men have dug only six miles deep, soared scarecely higher in the ocean of air. Brilliant scientists have nonetheless learned and de- duced many vital facts about our home. But IGY will permit , far-flung and even simultaneous measure- ments and observations of vital\ phenomena through networks of stations around the globe. Most dramatic event will be the launching of man-made moons, the size of basketballs, into orbits carrying them at five miles per second at heights of 300 to 1,500 miles above the earth.- a Crowded Space Messengers into the new frontier of space, they will record a new- look at our life-giving sun, a look not obscured by earth's atmos- phere. They can tell new facts about the intensity of the sun's radiation, including X-rays and ultraviolet light. They can record how crowded space is with meteors, from tiny dust specks to BB shot or larger, that may await a rocket ship. 320 So Just how empty is space of air or hydrogen molecules?:::.;;:..... MIS-S-S-ST-I-F ER A special offer of the fabu- lous Carven Mis-s-s.t-i-fier in a dramatic new bottle. Stunningly designed in heavy crystal glass with a gleaming golden top. 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