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Here again we may see how important a part one's orientation toward the whole of a civilization affects every branch of theatre.
This is beautifully demonstrated by a most important play, Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of our Teeth," which has been both praised to the skies and condemned as a fraud.
When the breath of creative imagination blows through the theatre, what exhilaration to the lungs, what refreshment to the spirit! Doors may bang and scenery fly about; audiences may be outraged, infuriated, delighted, but the theatre becomes once more alive.
Mr. Wilder has been as unconventional in his stage technique as in his subject matter. Just as he skips lightly to and fro through the adventures of mankind during some five thousand odd years, so he juggles with theatre conventions, laughingly exhibiting the wrong side of canvas walls, actors behind character and the reality beyond the appearance of things. He literally litters his stage.
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In the opening scene, for instance, when the curtain goes up on a small town interior, a typical, perky, parlor-maid soubrette of a venerable theatre tradition is 'discovered' whisking about with a feather duster and propounding in rattling soliloquy all the author's exposition.
To Teach In Connecticut
Norman Wyman Storer, associate professor of astronomy, has been appointed a visiting professor in the Graduate Summer School for Teachers of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. The 6-week assignment will begin Tuesday. The summer program is designed for elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators who wish to broaden their general education.
Some 85 per cent of the forested land in Rhode Island is in private ownership of less than 500 acres.
the show—there are no masking pieces and no ceiling so that the set stands out precariously on a bare stage; everything seems slightly off center; some of the flats fly up in the air just as the parlor maid is about to dust them.
These are but a few of any number of absurd and gaily erratic tricks by which Mr. Wilder points his moral while he keeps his audience alert.
Its strongly theatrical quality, its use of presentational techniques, its variety and color make "The Skin of our Teeth" a director's holiday of which Jack T. Brooking, assistant professor of speech and assistant director of the University Theatre, has taken spirited advantage.
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Graduate's Design In Contest Finals
William B. Hayward, 1952 graduate, is one of the eight finalists in an international competition for design of the projected $18 million city hall and civic center for Toronto, Canada.
He and the seven others each will receive $7,500. They are to refine their plans for the final judging after September 18. The winner will get a 6 per cent fee, more than $1 million. Mr. Hayward now lives in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Two out of every three South Dakota ranchers and farmers rent part or all of the land.
Faculty Concert To Be Tuesday
A faculty concert will be given at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Swarthout Recital Hall in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
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The program will include trios written by Eugene Goosens and Milhaud, duets from Puccini's Tosca and LaBoheme, two movements from the Kabalevsky Cello Concerto, two works for harp by Salzedo and piano works of Griffes and Bartok.
The program is open to the public without charge.
The concert will include Karel Blaas, assistant professor of organ theory and viola, playing the viola; Margaret Ling, instructor of Harp, playing the harp; Don Sheid, instructor of band and orchestra, playing the clarinet; Raymond Stuhl, associate professor of cello, playing the cello; Max Waits, instructor of flute, playing the flute; Joseph Wilkins, professor of voice, singing tenor, Mrs. Marie Wilkins, wife of Prof. Wilkins, singing soprano; Miss Janet Turk, assistant professor of piano, and Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts, playing the piano.
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The three week camp, which was only two weeks long during the first two years, has been wholly self-supporting from student fees with funds contributed to the Endowment Assn. providing scholarships.
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The National Science Foundation has made an underwritng grant of $8,500 for the third annual Science and Mathematics Camp now in progress at KU.
This year we tett the record clearly showed the camp's value in stimulating interest among potential scientists, so we applied to the National Science Foundation for a grant," said David Paretsky, associate professor of bacteriology and camp director.
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"The grant, which is being used to assure that no qualified applicant be denied attendance for financial reasons, now releases the Endowment Association's funds for other uses in the same fields," he said.
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Eighty high school students from 12 states, spread from coast to coast, are now on the campus. They will be learning the fundamentals of 16 sciences through lectures, actual laboratory experience and field trips. Senior members of the KU faculty are the teachers.
Forty-four of the campers hold scholarships, based on need, varying up to nearly full fee of $135.
Campers live and eat with the approximately 500 other high school students attending the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. The camp closes Wednesday.
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This Sunday . . .
After Church
or if (for shame) you stayed in bed.
have a delicious Sunday dinner at the Air Conditioned Hawk's Nest. Serving 11 a.m.
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