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THE MICHiGAN DAILY
MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1940
'The Critic' Will Open
7-Play Summer
Repertory Season
Farce To Open
12th Summer
Season June 26
Wyckoff Returns To Unit
As Art Director; Windt
And Itkin Will Direct
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The School of Music and the Univer-
sity Symphony Orchestra will coop-
erate in this production.
The acting company and technical
staff of the Players are made up of
the experienced students enrolled in
Play Production classes, former stu-
dents who wish further theatrical
training and visiting actors and di-
rectors from the professional the-
atre.
Windt To Direct
Prof. Windt as Managing Director
brings an extensive experience to
tPhe Players.He is Director of Play
Production and has just concluded
a successful season as director for
the Spring Drama Season.
Kane will be with the Players for
his fourth successive season. His pro-
fessional appearances here this sea-
on include part in the "White Steed,"
the "Winter's Tale," and "Boyd's
Shop." On Broadway he appeared
in "The Man Who Killed Lincoln."
Itkin To Assist
David Itkin, associate director of
the Goodman Theatre of Chicago
and head of- the Drama School at
DePaul University, will make his
first appearance here as guest di-{
rector. A former member of the
Moscow Art Players, he is especiallyt
well known for his work in the pro-
duction of psychological drama.
Completing the directing staff
will be Claribel Baird of the faculty
at the Oklahoma State College for
Women. Mrs. Baird is a favorite of
Ann Arbor audiences and has been;
a member of the Players for severali
seasons.
A Scene From Sheridan's Comedy
Cast For 'The Critic' Announced
The Michigan Repertory Players
will open their twelfth annual sea-
son with a performance Wednesday
night of "The Critic," an 18th cen-
tury rehearsal farce by Richard
Brinsley Sheridan. Other perform-
ances will be offered Thursday, Fri-
day and Saturday nights.
The Players are sponsored by the
Department of Speech, and Direc-
tion is in the hands of Professor
William P. Halstead. Alexander
Wyckoff and Robert Mellencamp are
the art directors. Emma Hirsch will
design costumes.
In the cast are James Moll as Mr.
Puff, Hugh Norton as Sneer, John
Weimer as Mr. Dangle, Marguerite
Mink as Mrs. Dangle and John Jen-
sen as Sir Fretful Plagiary.
In the "play within the play" June
Madison will appear as Tilburina,
the Heroine, and the Confidante will
be Doris Barr. Whiskerandos, the
Spanish youth, will be played by Roy
Rector.
John Schwarzwalder will be heard
as Sir Walter Raleigh, William Kin-
zer as Sir Christopher Hatton,
George Shapiro as the Earl of Lei-
cester and Arthur Klein as the
Governor.
Helen Ralston, Joan Baker, Lucy
Jones, Adeline Gitlin, B. Odom Day,
Ollieray Bilby, Lucille Cohen, George
Batka, Alfred Wilkinson, Frank Jones
and Ray Pedersen will also be seen in
the historical satire.
"The Masque of the Rivers" bur-
lesques the complicated costumes and
over-elaborate dances of the time
and has Margery Soenksen as the
River Thames and Veitch Purdom
as - Britannia.
Others in the masque are Mary
Jordan, Mary Ellen Wheeler, Mar-
ion Conde, Margaret Schiller, Clara
Lee Keller, Jean Ruth, June Roberts.
Theatre Orders
Now Being Filled
Mail orders for tickets to the
Summer Repertory season are now
being accepted at the box office of
the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in
the Michigan League. Over-the-
counter sales are also being made
and, according to James Murnan,
box office manager of tiie theatre,
a brisk sale is already evident.
The prices for season tickets range
from $2.50 to $3.25 and $3.75, while
single tickets fol the first six plays
may be purchased for 75, 50 and 35
cents. Single ti! kets for "Patience"
will be priced at $1, 75 and 50 cents.
READ THE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS!
The assembled belles and period costumes shown here appeared
in the Play Production presentation of Sheridan's "The Critic" last
spring, and a similar scene will be seen at the Summer Session revival
opening Wednesday.
Art Cinema League To Present
Four Programs This Summer
Four ,moving picture programs,
featuring the American documentary,
the French, the Russian and the
German films, will be offered at two-
week intervals during the summer by
the Art Cinema League.
Memberships entitling the posses-
sor to one admission for each of the
programs may be purchased this
week only at the Union, the League
and Wahr's Book Store. Tickets for
single performances will not be sold
at any time.
The first program will be presented
at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, June 30, and
will consist of four examples of the
American documentary film. The
four will be ";The River," "Trhe City,"~
"The Plough That Broke the Plains"
and "New Schools for Old." These
productions deal respectively with
the Mississippi, city planning, the
dust bowl and progressive education,
and were all exhibited andsreceived
with enthusiasm at last year's
World's Fair in New York.
"Grand Illusion," a French film
based on the experiences of its di-
rector, Jean Renoir, in a World War
prison camp, will be featured on the
second program scheduled for the
same time on Sunday, July 14.
"Grand Illusion" was selected by the
National Board of Review of Motion
Pictures as the best film of 1939
produced in any country.
Two weeks later, July 28, the
Russian film "The Childhood of
Maxim Gorky," will be shown. This1
picture is based on Gorky's autobio-
graphical "My Childhood." written
in 1914 and depicts the early life in
Nizhni of that great artist and sup-
porter of the Russian revolution.
The final program of the series,
cn August 11, will be the German
"Kameradschaft," produced before
Hitler and based on a mine disaster.
The picture brings out vividly the
immediate post-war relationship be-
tween the French and German peo-
ple.
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