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THE UNIVERSITY DRAMATIC CLUB.
Its Past and Its Future.
The University Dramatic Club, although it is only in its third year, has become a part of the regular University features and has been a help to the student body as a representative test of the dramatic talent of the students. It has been upheld only moderately well by patronage although the University
EDGAR G. FRAZIER,
Director of Dramatics
in every case has been benefitted by the performances given by the club. The members chosen for a cast give all their spare time and work to the rehearsals and spare no pains or expense to make the plays a success. Their officers superintend the giving of the play in the most business like way possible and share nothing but the satisfaction of seeing the performance end successfully.
Not many people know or at least stop to think of the work or expense incurred in giving a performance of the character that have been given by the Dramatic Club.
Selecting the cast and assigning the characters alone for the last play took two weeks. The interpretation of the characters and the staging of the play has to be worked out during every night of the rehearsal and the director's time and experience is invaluable in these things. The expense of special scenery, hall rent, costumes, advertising and such matters of importance count up in plays of one or two nights performance.
The figures of the business managers of the three years will show what has been done by the club.
In 1906-1902 the club gave "Shore Acres"; the figures, for that are as follows:
Receipts - $319.00.
Expenses $1507 including the director's per cent but not including the personal expenses of the cast.
Paid to the Organ Fund $150, making a total expense of $300.75, leaving $18.75 for the expense fund for the following year.
In 1921/1923 "A Night Off" was given
two nights.
Total expense including director's salary and also the personal expenses of the cast, $383.50.
Receipts for first night, $271.50.
Receipts for second night, $102.00
Total, $373.50.
To the Oratorical Association for prize, $25.00, leaving $10.00 for the expense fund for the following year
This year "Mabana" was the play chosen and it took more work individually than either of the previous plays and the receipts were less; owing to the inconvenient time chosen for its performance. The cast got nothing whatever from the proceeds and their work has been done ungrudgingly though in crowded conditions.
The total expense was $206,30.
Leaving a balance of $46,20, which will be left for the expenses of the oning season when the club will be reorganized under a partially different rule.
The receipts were $242.50.
The total expense was $206,30.
There have been a few whispered accusations from some of the students and faculty indicating the dramatic Club as a graft. These
hints make the club feel like they had been stepped upon and then kicked for not squirming. They have worked hard and willingly hind have turned over a good balance to the University each year until this year when it has been decided to reorganize the club making a base of faculty supervision and student and faculty control. For this reason the balance has been kept for next year.
next year. The club as it will probably exist in the future will consist of about fifty members and be divided into about five sections, each section being responsible for a monthly program given for the club and invited guests for the selection of a cast for the regular public play or plays to be given by a picked company. It will also add to the social aspect of the club as there has thus far been little else than work before the members and few of them to do the work.
A committee of three members of the faculty will be chosen by the Chancellor to confer with the business manager and the president of
will likely be the studying and staging of plays of literary value. This will require a much more thorough and consciences study of the author, the characters of the drama, the interpretation of the lines,and the conditions which gave rise to the drama itself.
In the selection of plays of this character there are two broad fields from which the club may choose; plays may be chosen which have been recently produced and found to be successful. plays like "She Stoops to Conquer," "The Rivals," "School for Scandal," etc.; or plays may be chosen from the dead and almost forgotten dramas of the old masters, in this case the production would be in the nature of a dramatic revival, as was the recent performance of the old fourteenth century morality play, Everyman.
The production of plays from either of these two classes, however, is an undertaking more pretentions than anything yet attempted by the club. In some cases, indeed, it might even mean the building of a complete set of scenery, and the designing and making of a wardrobe for the cast. Then, too, the assistance of a large number of students might possibly be needed to represent adequately the various scenes
tions and not to caricature or abuse the individual. It is needless to say that the student or students chosen to construct the play should write always with the idea of embodying in the play literary excellencies. The plot, if not local, might be purely imaginary. The scene could be laid in some far, out of the way country, the theme fanciful or startling, the plot unusual and its development unique.
The officers and members of the club at present are: President, O. B. Syster; business manager, Herman Kube; property manager, Jess Worley; members, Walter Herrick J. A. Peters, Dudley Doolittle, Karl Kilby, Roy Himman, Ray Adams, Frank Burford, Ray Clifford, Mr. Hulbert, Misses Inez Plumb, Maude Morrison, Nell Wilhelmi, Marienne Brooks, Margaret Philbrook, Maude Olander, Bonnie Bell, Hazel Stevenson, Margaret Hammond, and Miss Sciven.
The Dramatic Club of the University of Minnesota has completed all arrangements for a trip during the Christmas holidays. The play to be presented is "One Night Only." The costuming and stage settings are said to have been lavishly supplied. The cost of staging is estimated at $500
THE ALABAMA CAST.
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Hermann Katie Jess Worley Marienne Brook Dudley Doolittle Margaret Philbrook
Bonnie Bell Maud Olander Prof Frazier
Ray Adams W. G. Herrick Karl Kilby Roy Hinman
the club and those five constituted the executive committee of the club.
the executive committee of the club. An organization of this character will give a form of entertainment and instruction to the members that would pay them in some measure for the time they put in preparing fares for monthly entertainment and heavier or more extensive plays for public performance.
The work of the club each year has been very satisfactory. There is of course a certain amount of inferior acting in every amateur play but we have been fortunate in having a good director and a willing cast and altogether the club has been above the standard of the average dramatic club of universities.
All of the plays given by the Dramatic Club up to this time have been by American dramatists only. It was felt wise to limit the club, at first, at least, to the portrayal of that kind of life with which the students were most familiar. Hence, it was that American dramatists who depict American life and habits, were chosen. This experience has given the club members a fairly good insight into the interpretation of dramatic themes. The next step in the development of the club
of the play. The expense of giving such plays would be great, greater perhaps than could be paid from the sale of tickets. Hence it would seem that if plays involving so large an expenditure of energy and money are to be given the club, itself should be reorganized in such a way that the possibility of individual financial loss is eliminated; tor, as long as the members of the cast are required to do the drudgery, inevitably connected with the stageing of a play, and to stand whatever financial loss there may be, there will doubledess be the tendency to choose those plays in which drudgery and loss are reduced to a minimum.
But should the Dramatic Club consider it unwise to undertake plays of the character just mention, ed, opportunity might be found for the construction of plays with an original plot. The plot could be local in the sense that its theme would be drawn from the social, political or intellectual conditions of our own state; nor would it be unfitting to introduce certain phases of university life in which the object would be to set forth under-graduate life and university trad-
Arranging tours for college dramatic clubs is new among western colleges. Four towns will be visited with a probability of a fifth, the city of Duluth being a final stand. The club last year made a similar trip so successful that the event was made an annual one. Pieces in the cast were keenly contested for.
The winner of the preliminary oratorical contest at Drake University to select a representative to the Iowa oratorical contest confessed that he was guilty of plagiarism. With the oration, he now admits is not his own work, he last year won first place in the Colorado high school oratorical contest. The discovery that the oration was not original was made by a woman student who recognized not only the idea but also whole passages as taken from a chapter in "Portraits and Principles" entitled "The Value of Decision."
The athletic benefit performance to be given at Cornell University advertises its main feature an original burglesque sketch entitled "Mrs. Re-Niggs of the Cabbage Patch;" another attraction is a vaudeville stunt entitled "Boozy Susie," in which seventy "rosebuds" appear.
THE X. Y. Z. DEBATING CLUB.
The X, Y, Z. debating club represents the highest stage in the evolution of college literary societies It is distinguished for the closeness of its organization and the practical character of its literary work. Originally formed for practice in debate and extemporaneous speaking, it has kept this object steadily in view, but has broadened its field until now there is scarcely a University interest in which its influence is not felt.
The quality of the work in debate is shown by the number of men furnished by the club for the University debating teams. Of the eight men who took part in the inter-state debates last year, four were members of the X.Y.Z club.
The serious work of the club is varied by occasional social affairs, of which the most elaborate is the annual banquet which is given sometime during the spring term.
Although the club has been organized only three years, it already has reason to be proud of its alumni members. Among the former X.Y.Z men are now to be found teachers, college instructors, news paper men and ministers, as well as graduate students in this and other institutions.
In order to keep in connection with the alumni members, an information bureau, based on a correspondence system, has been commenced this year. In this way, the club is enabled to get news of its graduate members, and absent members can keep informed in record to the doings of the club.
At the beginning of this term, arrangements were made by which the room formerly occupied by the department of public speaking was turned over to the X. Y. Z. club, to be used as a permanent club room. Authority to make any desired alterations in the room was granted by the chancellor, and extensive repairs and improvements have been made. New furniture has been put in by the club, and the room is now one of the most attractive in Frazer hall.
In order to transact the financial business incident to the fitting up of the club room, it was thought best to have the club incorporated. Application was made to the Secretary of state, and by a charter granted in October, 1003 the club is reorganized as a corporation under the laws of Kansas.
The first board of directors elected by the new corporation consists of G. L. Metcaff, Frank Grant, Samuel E. Bartlett, E. S. Cowdrick and Chester A. Leimbach.
The officers who served for the first three months this fall are: Chester A. Leinbach, president; Mr. Ashbaugh, vice president; J. W. Kayser, secretary; Samuel E. Bartlett, sergeant at arms.
At the meeting held December 5 new officers were elected as follows; president, Frank Grant; vice president, Mr. Elder; secretary, Chester A. Leinbach; sergeant at arms, Mr. Tritt.
REPORT OF THE QUILL CLUB
Mr. Chambers read "A Plot Study of Hamlet." His summary of Shakespeare's life and the probable motive of the play was logical and complete.
Miss Borland wrote of "The Women of the Canterbury Tales." One seldom finds a piece of criticism so readable as the one presented by Miss Borland whose paper was sympathetic without being narrow, historical and yet not pedantic.
Miss Pendleton's paper was on 'Shakespeare's Prose' and proved to be so enjoyable that it was subjected to no unfavorable comments. The style was so pleasing, it would not require a lower of Shakespeare to appreciate Miss Pendleton's treatment of his prose.
The Saturday night dancing school in Pythian hall increases in popularity.