Friday, Feb. 15. 1963
University Daily Kansan
Page 7
YOUR LOVE OF YOUR HEAD—Mortimer, Elizabeth's nephew, (Howard Estes, Prairie Village junior) bargains with Mary Stuart (Marilyn Miller Boyd, Lawrence graduate student) in the current Experimental Theatre production of "Mary Stuart."
Greek Women Begin Informal Pledging
Sorority formal spring rush ended two weeks ago, but informal rush is just beginning.
Alpha Chi Omega was the first sorority to participate in this semester's informal rush. They pledged Nancy Clarke, Leawood freshman and Susan Fredeen, Shawnee Mission freshman last week.
In each of the last two years, 30- 35 women have been pledged in informal rush.
EMILY TAYLOR, dean of women,
said she expected pledging to be
a steady process. "There probably
will be one woman pledged here and
there all the way through the
semester," she said.
Dean Taylor said some of the girls who dropped out of formal rush while still receiving invitations were under the impression they would have a better chance to pledge during informal rush.
DURING INFORMAL rush a sorority is free to invite any woman, who has previously gone through formal rush, to pledge. The only provision is the house must have or expect to have by next fall a vacancy they did not anticipate at the time their quota was set for formal rush.
THERE IS NO specified period for informal rush. Dean Taylor explained that at one time the first month after formal rush was set aside for informal rush.
Women pledged in informal rush will move into the sorority house the following semester.
"However, it seems more sensible to pledge whenever it is right for the individual houses." she said.
Large Audience Views Love, Conspiracy, Religion in 'Mary'
Conspiracy, religious conflict, and romantic intrigue are the ingredients of the Experimental Theater production "Mary Stuart," a quasihistorical drama by the 18th century German poet and playwright, Friedrich Schiller.
A near-capacity appreciative audience attended the production last night. The play, which runs through next Thursday, concerns the dramatic turmoil surrounding the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
As the play begins, Mary, well played by Marilyn Boyd, Lawrence senior, is bitter over her 19-year imprisonment in England.
She condemns the trial which convicted her of plotting against Queen Elizabeth's life and conspiring to take the throne. She feels it was unfair and the death sentence unjust.
Mary finds a sympathetic and faithful ear in her personal nurse, convincingly played by Margaret Denfeld. Lawrence special student.
Elizabeth, superbly played by Karole Stevenson, Cape Girardeau, Mo., senior, fears carrying out the death sentence although Protestant England cries for the Catholic queen's execution.
Through her stern counselor Lord Burleigh, Robert Rumpf, Webster Groves, Mo., junior, Elizabeth tries to hire Mary's ward keeper, Sir Paulet, Michael Jackson, Lawrence graduate student, as an assassin, but Paulet is too conscientious.
She next seeks Paulet's fiery
KUls Host To State Music Conventions
KU will host the state conventions of the Kansas Music Teachers Association (KMTA) and the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA) today through Saturday in Murphy Hall.
KU Band and Orchestra and the Kansas State Men's Glee Club will perform Friday evening in the University Theatre.
Gordon Terwilliger, University of Wichita instructor, is president of the KMTA. Dean Owen, music supervisor from Dighton, will preside over the KMEA convention.
Highlights of the conventions include a piano recital by John Simms, faculty member of the University of Iowa, tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Approximately 500 high school students representing the eastern state will perform in the festival band, chorus and orchestra Saturday evening in Hoch Auditorium. These groups will be under the combined direction of Gene Kenny, Texas Technological College, Stanley Chapple, University of Washington, and Commander Charles Brendler, retired conductor of the United States Navy Band.
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young nephew, Mortimer, Howard Estes, Prairie Village junior. Mortimer is secretly a friend of Mary's, but he feigns acceptance.
Mortimer vainly seeks the aid of a reluctant Earl of Leicester, the queen's courter, played by Patrick Prosser, Lawrence junior, in a plot to effect Mary's escape.
Leicester, an ardent admirer of Mary, shrewdly engineers a meeting between the two queens. The meeting between the two women — one young, beautiful and passionate; the other strong, cold, and shrewd, a victim of feminine jealousy — provides one of the most dramatic scenes in the play.
Cautioned by the wise old counselor Earl of Shrewsbury — Larry Ketchum, Twin Falls, Ida, freshman — to curb her pride and indignation. Mary forgets herself and in a bitter tirade, seals her fate.
Mary is then stunned by an impassioned Mortimer who declares his love for her and demands her love as the price of her deliverance.
But one of the conspirators makes a premature attempt to assassinate
the queen. The plot is discovered and Mortimer, betrayed by Leicester, commits suicide amid England's demands of Mary's execution.
In one of the more moving scenes of the play, Mary, resigned to her fate, dispenses her worldly goods, makes her final requests and confesses her role in the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley and her illicit love with her husband's murderer.
She is led to her execution and Elizabeth is left with a bitter triumph.
The Experimental Theater production, through superb acting by the cast and beautiful costuming, vividly and graphically conveyed the warmth, emotion, and conflict in "Mary Stuart."
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