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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4. 1954

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OPERA WORKSHOP:
' Marriage of Figaro'

Ends Season

Astronomy INSIDE LOOK AT THE ARTIST:n
Nights End WIlt Wins Many Prizes with Paintings

By SUE GARFIELD
When the curtain goes up on
the Department of Speech and
School of Music production of
Mozart's "The Marriage of Figa-
ro," at 8 p.m. Thursday in Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre, it will mark
the culmination of this summer's
opera workshop in the School of
Music.
"The Marriage of Figaro" has
been the major project for the
opera workshop, which is under
the direction, of Josef Blatt and
Valentine Windt.
Singing roles are played by stu-
dents majoring in opera, while the
back-stage work on scenery, lights
and costumes has been done by
speech department students in the
theatre courses.
Opera Selection
This summer's opera was sel-
ected late last spring, when con-
ferences were held among the two
directors, Josef Blatt and Valen-
tine Windt, and Prof. Jack E.
Bender, scene designer, and Phyl-
lis Pletcher, costumier.
Scenery . for this production is
based on Robert Mellencamp's set-
tings for the 1947 presentation for
the speech department and the
School of Music.
Scenery floor-plans and eleva-
tion sketches were made by Prof.
Bender. The sets were construct-
ed by the scene design students
in the theatre workshop in the
temporary classroom building, un-
der the supervision of Edward An-
dreasen and Russell Aiuto,
After' the scenery was moved
into the Lydia Mendelssohn Thea-
tre, it'was set up and completed
by Robert Armstrong and Thomas
Arp and the students working tech-
ztical crews. Helen Garlington,
lighting technician, and 6rville'
Emery, head of the light crew,
then went to work setting the
lights according to the lighting
plot. .
Properties Vary
Carlaine Balduf and Dorothy
Davis were in charge of assemb-
ling and making the properties,
which have ranged from a Spanish
Armada to a roast chicken in pre-
Pianist Recital
Slated Tonight
Betty Whitney Ellis, pianist, will
present a concert at 8:30 p.m.
today in Rackham Assembly Hall,
in partial fulfillment of the re-
quirements for the degree of Mas-
ter of Music at the University.
The Program will include Res-
pighi's "Antiche Danze ed Arie,"
"Italiana," "Siciliana" and "Pass-
acaglia;" Schumann's "Symphon-
ic Etudes, Op. 13;" and Chopin's
"Fantasy in F-minor, Op. 49."
She will also play "Sonata No. 4
in E-major"-"Hymn,""Invention,'
"Nocturne," "Toccata" and Clos-
ing Hymn by Finney.
Miss Ellis, a student of the
School of Music, is a pupil of
Helen Titus. The recital will be
open to the public.

Last of this summer's Visitor's
Nights at the University astronomy
department Friday will feature a
discussion of "Stellar Evolution"
by Prof. Leo Goldberg, depart-
ment chairman.
The illustrated lecture will be
presented at 8:30 p.m. in Room
2003, Angell Hall.
Following the public talk, the
student observatory on the fifth
floor of Angell Hall will be open
so visitors may view the moon,
planets and a double star. In addi-
tion, they may examine the tele-
scopes and exhibits.
Children attending the event
must be accompanied by adults.
Beauty Contest
Invites Entries
Local bathing beauties will have
an opportunity to win prizes and
appear on television at a Whit-
more Lake contest this Saturday.
Entry blanks can be secured
from The Daily. The only requisite
is that contestants be at least 16
years old and appear at the con-
test by 1 p.m. Saturday.
Judging the event will be Mayor
William Brown, Don Bailey, man-
ager of the local VFW, and local
attorney Richard Ryan.
Prizes include a watch, radio,
outdoor sports ensemble and other
valuable awards. The event will be
televised over WPAG-TV.
Raseher Sets
Public Concert
Saxophonist Sigurd Rascher,
guest faculty member of the
School of Music, will give a public
concert at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in
Aud. A.
.Patricia Joy Arden, graduate
student, 871 Starwick Drive, Ann
Arbor, will be at the piano.
Pakistan has cut steel prices and
is considering lower prices for con-
sumer goods.

By RUSS AuWERTER
Richard Wilt is a painter in
oils who has in the past year
shown his work in some forty ex-
hibitions about the state of Mich-
igan and has taken numerous
prizes including the Detroit Art
Museum's Purchase Prize for his
"Birthday Cake."
Wilt, born in Pennsylvania, has
wanted to be a serious painter
ever since he can remember. Aft-
er getting a B.A. from Carnegie
Tech, Wilt worked for a short time
as an illustrator and then served
five years in the Army Air Force
piloting B-25 bombers on fifty-
five missions in the ETO.
After his army discharge Wilt
went back to commercial art for
a while, wrote and illustrated two
children's books, and took his first
teaching job at the University of
West Virginia, before coming to
the University of Michigan.
Wilt has a wife, Ellen, who is
a talented painter in her own
right, and a daughter, Robin. His
war experiences, he says, are what
primarily got him actually doing
serious painting and took him
away from commercial art. Wilt
paints from a philosophy synthe-1
sized from two elements: art and!
the work-a-day world.
Warm Boyishness
Upon first meeting him onei s
impressed by warm boyishness
which belies his thirty-eight years.
His is of lanky medium height
with an angular face deeply tan-
ned, and owns an outgrown crop-
ped haircut.
Wilt appears deceptively sober,
has a clear perceptive eye, and is
extremely relaxed in manner and
motion. An informal talker, Wilt's
seriousness about painting shows
in his speech. His laugh is wry,
but jovial.
He and his family live in a
modest ranch-type home on the
west outskirts of Ann Arbor. Their
living room is furnished very sim-
ply with antiques and contempor-
ary furniture. On the walls are a
number of his oils and two of
his daughter's sketches.
In the large basement studio
that looks out on his back yard are
all the implements of his trade,

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"THAT'S ABOUT RIGHT"-Gilda Fox, a graduate of the University from Detroit; and Beverly
Canning, Ph.D. candidate from Baltimore, Md., are adjusting the lights for the production of Mo-
zart's opera, "The Marriage of Figaro," to be presented at 8 p.m. tomorrow through Monday, Aug-
ust 9 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in the League.

vious productions in the 1954 sum-
mer playbill.
Most of the costumes for the four
major productions this summer
were designed by Miss Pletcher.
They were constructed in the cos-
tume room by Lloyd Evans, Ralph
Duckwall, Mary Lou Moench and
the students in costume courses.
In commenting on the costumes
for this summer, Miss Pletcher
pointed out that theatrical c o s-
tumes are not authentic clothes
for a given period. Costumes must
be seen by an audience varying
in distance from the first row
center to the last row of the bal-
cony. Costumes must help the ac-
tor not only with his characteri-
zation, but they must also enhance
the actions required by the script,
director or choreographer.
In the early dress rehearsals,
the dancers, under the direction
of Esther Pease, rehearsed on the
stage with the scenery and prop-
erties. In the final dress rehears-
als, the opera orchestra was add-
ed. Under the baton of Josef Blatt,
most of the students play in this
orchestra primarily for their own
pleasure and professional experi-
ence.
Tickets for Mozart's opera, the
Department. of Speurci-School of
Music-Physical Education Depart-
ment production, are still on sale
at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
in the League. They may be pur-
chased from business manager
Bruce Nary for $1.75, $1.40 and $1.
The widest choice of seats is for
the Monday,August 9 performance.
Sleeping in a noisy place may
decrease a person's ability to hear
for a day or two.

Meteor Shower, Double Star
To Light-Up August Skies_

" "University of Michigan star"
and a meteor shower will be the
astronomical highlights for the
month of August, says Hazel M.
Losh, professor of astronomy.
Prof. Losh points out that the
"Michigan star" actually is a
double star found at the foot of
the Northern Cross in the Milky
Way. The star's two components
are strikingly in contrast, one a
decided blue and the other a dis-
tinct yellow, hence the name.
According to the professor theI
top of the cross is marked by
Deneb, "one of the great stars,r
estimated to be 400 light years
distant and perhaps 10000 times
more luminous than our Sun." h
The Northern Cross is found in
the zenith of the Milky Way, she
adds, and may be located by trac-
ing a line through the hazy path
from Cassiopeias' giant letter
"W" in the northeast.
Meteor Shower
"August is the month of the
Perseid meteor shower," Prof.
Losh states, most conspicuous and
dependable of the annual showers,
Although visible for a two or three
week period, it reaches its peak
around the evenings of August 10
and 11. The month's bright moon,
full on August 14, will diminish
the display somewhat, she adds.
Paths of the "shooting stars"
appear to intersect in the north-
east, she explains, around the con-
stellation Perseus. Seeming to fly
in all directions from the radiant
point, such a star sometimes ap-y

pears to move upward, Prof. Losh
continues.
The shower comes when bits of
iron and stone enter the Earth's
atmosphere at high speed, are
checked and the resulting friction
sets them burning and the temp-
erature is enormous and produces
the brilliant flash. "Most of them
are consumed in their plunge,"
she says.
The Milky Way appears to split
into two stream of stars, the
western branch extending to Scor-
pius, the eastern through Aquila,
the Eagle, to Sagittarius, the Arch-
(ger.
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brushes, tubes of paint, turpin- f or paints of color closely spaced to
tine cans, canvas, and miter box. give the effect of mass colors. His
Like the rest of the house the new paintings are also oils, but
studio is unpretentious and the achieve an effect very similar to
many paintings hung on the walls water color.
and stored in racks show that it is Wilt explained that the new
a work room. i work "achieves the same effect as
As the writer was ushered into the earlier, but does it more di-
the studio Wilt was at work on a I rectly." He says his earlier pointi-
large four by.six uncompleted can- lism paintings took him a year to
vas. There is an element of per- finish. He worked on six or eight
haps magic for one used to seeing of them at once, since drying was
museum canvases to suddenly a slow process. But he says he
come upon an artist in his den can complete a painting of the
'struggling over an uncompleted new type in a week or rnore.
canvas. "I'm aware of two things when
On the right side of the canvas I start a canvas," he said, "tech-
was a jungle scene background nique and a philosophy. Both of
with two native women standing these grow as the painting pro-
against it and as I sat at his re- gresses."
quest he penciled in another fig- Wilt, who says, "I don't feel
ure on the bare canvas. good when I don't paint," man-
Working at the canvas as I ages to stay at his canvases al-
querried him, Wilt said that what most as much during the school
he was doing couldn't exactly be year as he does during the sum-
described. Things just "look right mer when he doesn't teach-this
to me when they all fit together" means eight. to ten hours or more
e oteTa day. "I never get sick of paint-
He continued "TerenisdarceAr iAg,"rhe adds
tam wonder about life and this!f hadsn
wonder is what I paint for. What ainting is sometimes pain-
makes you do it is not having a Ifun because the canvas seldom does
gratinsgeornwntng.tohe sw- hexactly what you want it to do.
ge~ messagehisrewantingwtok wa Tngdrad antindo de t o
cape from life, but sort of a mix- Thedraminyi pind ful." ou o
ture of the two."st midspanl."
Wilt considers Ann Arbor a sort
New Style of oasis in the desert and plans.
At that point his wife walked to make it 'the center of opera-
in and explained that Dick is tion for all his future plans,
painting in a new style. She show- which include continuing teach-
ed me how his earlier work wasI ing and painting and to travel
done in the paintilism method in about the United States (he has
which the canvas is filled with dots Ino desire to return to Europe).
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Academic Notices
Doctoral Examination for Thomas
Edward Pustell, Psychology: thesis:
"Cue and Drive Aspects of Anxiety in
Relation to Perceptual Vigilance and
Defense," Wednesday, August 4, 6625
Haven Hall, at 10:00a.m, Chairman, E.
L. Walker.
Doctoral Examination for James Pat-
rick Jans, Mathematics; thesis: "On the
Indecomposable Representations of Al-
gebras," Thursday, August 5, East
Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 4:00
p.m. Chairman, R. M. Thrall.
Botanical Seminar. Dr. Alfred S. Suss-
man will discuss "The Oxidative En-
zymes of Glomerella." Wednesday, Aug-
ust 4, at 7:30 p.m. Room 1139, Natural
Science.
Seminar in Applied Mathematics will
meet Thursday, August 5, at 4:00 in
Rm. 247 West Engineering. Speaker:
Mr. John Line. Topic: Harmonic Func-
tions in the Semi-Infinite Strip,
There will be no meeting of the Rus-
sian Study Seminar on Thursday, Aug-
ust 5th.
Concerts
Student Recital: Betty Whitney El-!
lis, pianist, will present a recital in
partial fulfillment of. the requirements
for the Master of Music degree at 8:30
Wednesday evening, August 4, in the
Rackham Assembly Hall. The program
will include compositions by Respighi,
Schumann, Chopin, and Finney, and
will be open to the general public. Miss
Ellis is a pupil of Helen Titus.

Carillon Recital: 7:15 Thursday eve-
ning, August 5, by Percival Price, Uni-
versity Carillonneur. The program of
American works will include Samuel
Barber's Suite. Menotti's Six Composi-
tions for Carillon; Nina Rota's Cam-
pana a sera, Campana a festa; A Song
for Bells by Daniel Pinkham, Theme
and Variations for Carillon by Theo.
Rusterholz, Piece for Carillon by Karl
Magnuson, and Carillon Prelude by!

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ExhibitionsCoigEes
C Em iby.s Museum Collections.itio sThe Marriage of Figaro will be pre-
Clements Library. MuseumCollections.sented by the Department of Speech
and The School of Music at 8 p.m. in
General Library. Women as Authors. the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Thurs-
day, Friday, Saturday and Monday, Au-
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Egyp- gust 5, 6, 7 and 9. Tickets are avail-
an Antiquities--a loan exhibit from able at the Lydia Mendelssohn Box Of-
he Metropolitan Museum of Art, New fice from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
ork City.
The International Tea, sponsored by
Michigan Historical Collections. The the International Center and the In-
niversity in 1904. ternational Student Association, will
Museum of At. Three Women Paint- e held in the Madelon Pound House,
se1024 Hill Street, Thursday, August 5,
at 4:30 until 6 o'clock.
Exhibition of Recent Publications and The Economics Clam Chowder and
work in progress in linguistic geo- Marching Society: Dr. Rudolf Richter,
aphy and dialectology. 2-5 p.m., July who is visiting Ann Arbor this summer
- August 6, 1954. Sat. 10-12. 3015 from the University of Frankfurt am
ackham Building. Main, will be the guest speaker of the
Economics Department's graduate dis-
cussion group this Thursday. His topic
Events Today I is: "Some Problems in Oligopoly The-
ory." An informal discussion will fol-
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Box Of- low. Thursday, August 5. 8:00 p.m.
ce is open continuously today from Rackham Bldg., West Conference Room
a.m. until 5 p.m. for the sale of -
ckets for the' Department of Speech The Fresh Air Camp Clinic will be
ad School of Music production of Mo- held at 8:00 p.m. at the lodge, Patter-
rt's opera, THE MARRIAGE OF FI- son Lake. The psychiatrist till be Dr.
ARO, which will be presented at 8 Pitkin from the Huron Valley Child
m. in the Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- Guidance Clinic. Students with a pro-
e Thursday, Friday, Saturday and fessional interest are welcome.

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Monday. Tickets are available for $1.75
-$1.40--$1.00.
Kaffeestande: A German Conversa-
tion group will meet informally at 3:151
o'clock this afternoon in the south
cafeteria of the Michigan Union. Allj
persons interested in speaking and
hearing German are cordially invited'
to attend. Dr. A. J. Gaiss will be pre-
sent at the meeting.

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