PAGE EIGHT 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 (Continued from Page 1) 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. 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