Page 12 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 1, 1955
He Wowed 'Em In Colorado
Playing "two a day" before audiences of Colorado tourists was the experience last summer of David Rosario, Lawrence senior, who is pictured above. The audience liked Rosario so much that he was named by the management "best performer of the season." The selection was based on audience applause and comment.
Rosario acted in 126 performances of "The Flying Scud" with the Imperial Players at the Imperial Hotel in Cripple Creek. Audiences totaling 21,000 saw the production. Rosario had the role in the melodrama of Mo Davis, a likable crook.
The actor found playing for tourist audiences was a "different" acting experience. The play was given in the hotel's Gold Bar Room, and the audience sat at tables placed near the stage. The holiday mood of the tourists sometimes made them noisy and unpredictable.
"During one performance, a man ledged to the stage and tried to give me a hot foot. I saw him from the corner of my eye, and I stepped forward with a look of fear without breaking character. The audience liked that." Rosario said.
His work at Cripple Creek also included the "olios" after the show. He did two singing acts and one comedy routine.
The hotel has produced a melodrama for eight seasons, and authentic scripts of the 1850-1900 period are selected. Orvis Grout, director of the Colorado Springs Civic Players, has directed the Imperial Players for five seasons.
Rosario heard of the Cripple Creek production through KU's department of speech and drama. Twenty-three actors read for parts and 11 were chosen. There was only one week for rehearsal, and the actors worked from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily. Rosario has been asked to return for next summer's production.
Not only has Rosario appeared in several University Theatre plays, but he has appeared in "Die Fiedermaus," "Faust" and other musical productions. He is a tenor, and is currently rehearsing for his role of "Diccon" in "Gammer Gurton's Needle," the University Theatre play to be given from Dec. 7 through 10 in Fraser Theater.
He is also building sets for "Gammer" as he did for "Picnic" and previous University Theatre productions. The sets are designed by Milton Howard, instructor of speech.
He was an extra in the movie, "The Hour Before Zero," which was filmed on location at Camp Carson, Colo., where he was stationed. He three years in the Army, and was in Korea part of that time.
Rosario was first interested in acting when he was in the Army.
He attended elementary and junior high school in Puerto Rico and went to New York City in 1944 to attend school. He lived there with other members of his family and has not visited Puerto Rico since 1951.
Although he is an actor, singer, and dancer, Rosario said, "I am interested primarily in acting. Eventually I would like to be a director."
He plans to attend Stanford University next year.
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TV Provides Class Technique
COLUMBIA, Mo. (LP.)—Stephens College recently inaugurated a new course for all entering students which will be taught over a closed television circuit, and which will put to use a new teaching approach.
The project is supported by grants from the fund for the advancement of Education and the Radio Corporation of America.
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It is planned that more than 800 first-year college students will paticipate simultaneously in the course. Small groups of students will meet in 50 classrooms throughout the campus twice a week to hear 30-minute lectures by a "master" teacher, coming to them by closed-circuit television.
These lectures will provide the stimuli for discussion which will follow immediately in all classrooms, each under the leadership of one or two faculty members. Thus the ideas introduced by television make possible a common experience directly linked with wholly independent discussions developed by each class section.
Present plans call for a change in the master teacher each semester and will include special guest lecturers. This system will make it possible for outstanding teachers from many campuses and other qualified leaders to participate in the course.
Dr. Reuel Denney, professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago, has been selected as the first teacher of the course.
President Thomas A. Spragens of Stephens College said he considers television to have unique qualities for implementing this objective. The fact that the television speaker looks every viewer in the eye, and the known capacity of television to eliminate conversation and dominate a social gathering are viewed by him as educational assets when properly controlled.
Experiments at Florida State University and a study conducted by Fordham University for the Special Devices Center of the U.S. Navy have given evidence, he said, that retention from television is greater than that resulting from face-to-face contact with the lecturer.
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In providing students with rides to their homes for vacations, the Student Union Activities Travel Bureau has helped students cut down their traveling expenses. Not only beneficial to the riders, the bureau reduces the drivers' expenses by providing them with riders.
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Originally in operation every weekend, the Bureau now limits itself to arranging rides for Thanksgiving, Christmas, semester, and spring vacations.
Bureau Finds Rides For Traveling Students
Two sheets of paper, one list for those desiring rides and the other for those with cars, are posted in every organized house, the Student Union, and several of the campus halls two weeks before each vacation.
Several days before the vacation begins the lists are collected by the Travel Bureau and compared. A student who wants a ride to Salina, for example, is called and given the name of one who is driving to or passing through Salina. It is then the student's responsibility to arrange the ride and the sharing of expenses.
The lists for the Christmas vacation rides will be posted Tuesday or Wednesday, according to Ronald Ott, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore and chairman of the Travel Bureau. Students desiring rides or riders should sign before Dec. 15, the date the lists will be collected. Riders will be called the next day so they can schedule their transportation.
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Faculty Exchange GrantGoesToCase
CLEVELAND — (LP.)—Case Institute of Technology has been awarded two grants, totalling $43,-000 by the Fund for the Advancement of Education.
The first grant, $15,000, is to be used to support a faculty exchange program within the Division of Humanities and Social Studies, which will extend over five years.
Case will appoint four interns to the staff of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences and may be extended later to other departments in the sciences and engineering.
Under the program, Case would exchange faculty members with other colleges having a program in the humanities and social sciences. This exchange would not be limited to other engineering colleges but would include liberal arts institutions.
The second grant, totalling $28,000, is for a two-year experimental internship program. The program would be to help a student make the transition from graduate school to his first teaching assignment.
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