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Vol. 49 No. 161
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Friday, July 8( 1949
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PAUL HARRINGTON returns
to the University stage to play
the "Man of the House" in Noel
Coward's "Hay Fever." Har
rington, a radio student was
last seen in - "Winterset." Re
henrsal for the summer thea
ters production will begin this
week. The play is directed by
Max Whittaker and will be pro
duced on the stage of the Union
ballroom on July 21.
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Blanche Duckworth.
Clinic Will Discuss
Missouri Basin Plan
Missouri basin development will
be the topic of the last of the
summer clinic series.
The final and largest program
of the group will feature ten ex
perts on river development in the
middle western region.
The clinic begins on Monday,
July 11 with a press and radio
conference in the Union's faculty
lounge. At that time four of the
experts will be interviewed. W. G.
Sloan, chief of the reports co
ordination division of the U. S.
Bureau of Reclamation, will give
his views on the Missouri's po
tentialities. Sloan is from Bill
ings, Mont.
THE PRESS will also talk to
Department of Agriculture repre
sentative, Gladwin E. Young.
Young is from Lincoln. The Fed
eral Power commisssion will be
represented at the conference by
its regional engineer, B. H.
Greene, Chicago, Illinois. Com
pleting the foursome is Ralph W.
Sullivan, Department of Com
merce. Sullivan, an' Omaha man,
is district manager of the bureau
of foreign and domestic com
merce. At noon, on Monday, Harry G.
Gould, director of University Ag
ricultural Extension will preside
at a luncheon in the Union. Young
will speak on Missouri basin de
velopment at the meeting.
DEAN ROY M. Green, of the
college of engineering and archi
tecture will preside at a special
session in Love library auditor
ium, Monday at 7:30 p.m. Speak
ers will be Brig. Gen. S. D. Stur
gis, Jr., corps of engineers, U. S.
Army, and Shelton Streater, U. S.
Bureau of Reclamation. Streater
is associated with the regional
branch of project planning in
Denver.
Tuesday's agenda includes a
round table and forum from 10
to 12 a. m. This session will also
be held in the library.
Union Calendar
Friday, July 8
8:30 Unionizer, Ballroom, Jimmy
LeRiche and Orchestra.
Saturday, July 9
8:30 Jukebox Fling, Ballroom
dancing to recorded music.
Sunday, July 10
5:00 Coffee Hour, Main Lounge,
Fine Arts department, every
one invited.
7:30 Flicker Nrte, 04d Time
. movies.
Tuesday, JV IX
4:00 Book Review, Parlor X, Em
ily Schossberger and Karl
Arndt.
THE MEETING will be opened
by Chancellor R. G. Gustavson
who will introduce Val Peterson,
governor of Nebraska. Peterson
will act as moderator for the
forum.
Panel members include Col.
Paul D. Berrigan, U. S. Army dis
trict engineer; -Avery A. Batson,
regional director of the U. S. Bu
reau of Reclamation; Young,
Greene and Sullivan.
The water development experts
will discuss progress being made
on Missouri river control and fu
ture plans for the basin area. The
Monday evening session and the
Tuesday morning panel are open
to the public.
THE CLINIC series is spon
sored by the Summer Session
committee headed by Dr. Frank
Sorenson, Teachers College. The
series consits of three clinics. The
first dealt with new problems fac
ing the United Nations and fea
tured a British member of the
UN trusteeship Council, John
Fletcher-Cooke. The second in the
series was concerned with mak
ing atomic energy and its by
products understandable to the
general public. Authorities from
AEC Agronne national ..labora
tories conducted the clinic.
Paul Harrington, Blanche Duckworth,
Thompson, Downing, Play Leading Roles
Mary Lou Thompson.
Y Presents
German Film
In Library
Continuing its Foreign Film
Project, the University Y.M.C.A.
will present its summer film,
"Die Fledermaus" on Thursday
evening July 14, in aid-conditioned
Love Library Auditorium.
"Die Fledermaus" is based on
the world-famous operetta by
Johann Strauss and is directed
by Geza von Bolvary (Two
Hearts in Waltz Time and La
Boheme).
The story concerns a riotous
situation at a Viennese masked
ball involving a husband overly
confident of his wife's affection
for him, the wife who sets out
to make her husband jealous and
a wealthy prince who presents
all his female companions with
emerald rings. Doris Kreysler and
Hans Brausewetter sing the leads
in a premiere of the famous
operetta.
The film uses a new color pro
See "Y", page 4.
State Needs Graduates in Home
Communities Says Dr. Fryer
Nebraska schools, like others
across the nation, face the chal
lenge of turning out more stu
dents who will fit the occupa
tional needs of their home com
munities. That thought was presented by
Dr. Douglas H. Fryer, New York
University industrial psycholog
ist, Thursday to more than 200
Nebraska teachers attending a
special counseling and guidance
clinic.
IN NEBRASKA, he said, the
declining trend in population in
creases, the need for graduates
who can, and want to, fit into
home community jobs.
Schools can help fill the need,
Dr. Fryer said, by paying more
attention to the individual inter
ests of students and developing
them to meet local occupational
demands. He emphasized that not
every local graduate can be ex
pected to remain in the home
community but said a good coun
seling and guidance program in
schools can increase the number
wno will.
'IT IS BECOMING more and
more important," be said, "lor the
teacher to recognize each pupil as
an individual whose benefit from
his education will come from his
own efforts." Those efforts, he
added, can be increased by link
ing instruction with individual
interests if the teacher knows
what the interests are.
Dr. Fryer admitted that such a
program requires widespread ad
justments in both teaching and
school administration. It will, he
said, require schools to work
closely with community busi
nesses, agricultural enterprizes,
and professions.
THE WHOLE TASK, he sug
gested, could be simplified some
what if each school would select
one of its own staff members for
training in the gathering of occu
pational information, the giving
and evaluation of interest and
ability tests.
The counseling and guidance
clinic is the second in a series the
University of Nebraska summer
session is offering to Nebraska
school administrators and teach
ers. Thursday's clinic was de
signed especially for teachers and
included about 70 program participants.
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David "Bud" Downing.
The die is cast!
And so is the summer theater's production of "Hay
Fever."
Four principle parts will be played by Blanche Duck
worth, Paul Harrington, Mary Lou Thompson and David
Downing. TJie Noel Coward play
is constructed about a family and
their house guest trouble.
THE FOUR major characters
are members of the Bliss family.
Blanche Duckworth will play
Judith, the mother. Miss Duck
worth returns to the University
stage after a year's absence. Her
last major role was that of Lady
Macbeth in Sheakpeare's "Mac
beth." The head of the household,
David Bliss, will be portrayed by
Paul Harrington. Active in Uni
versity Radio, Harrington's last
role was that of Esdras in "Win
terset," the last play to be pro
duced on the Temple stage.
The family's two children, Sorel
and Simon, will be played by
Mary Lou Thompson and David
Downing respectively. Both are
newcomers to University thea
ters. Miss Thompson has appeared
in a number of experimental pro
ductions, including "Holiday," but
will make her first appearance in
a leading role in the cast of "Hay
fever." Downing will also be
playing his first major role.
The castas announced by Max
Whittaker, director of the summer
theater, includes four guests and
a maid.
MYRA ARUNDEL will be
played by theater veteran, Joan
Spidefl. Milton Hoffman, star of
the Circlet theater's "John Loves
Mary," will play Richard Great
ham, a great lover. Christine
Phelps will portray Jackie Cory
ton and Dwight Smith, who con
cludes his first year ift University
productions, wiH play Sand
Tyrell.
Clara, a maid, will be por
trayed by Marjory Miller.
The play's technical direction
will be under the guidance of
Mary Sigler. Miss Sigler has been
associated with the theater for
the past two years. Her last major
role was in "But Not Goodbye."
Janet Kepner will act as con
struction and stage manager for
the production.
THE PLAY will be given in the
Union ballroom July 21. ft will
be sponsored by the speech de
partment and the Union summer
activities committee.
The plot centers about a family
of four persons. Life is not a par
ticularly serious affair to the
Bliss's but it becomes rather in
volved as Coward weaves a
peaceful summer around a series
of eccentric guests.
Mrs. Bliss is a retired actress
to whom all the world is literally
a stage. The lord and master is
a novelist. The children are rash,
ill-mannered, but lovable indi
viduals. The comparatively serene life
of the Blisses is upset by the ar
rival of four guests each invited
by a member of the family with
out the knowledge of other mem
bers of the family. Each member
of the family pairs off wi'h some
one else's , guest. This turn of
events does not surprise any of
the Blisses but proves a source of
consteration to the guests.
THE OPENING of the summer
session theater marks the return
of University productions to the
campus. The last two plays, pro
ducted by the department of
speech, were given on the Plains
man stage at Wesleyan Univer
sity. The Temple theater was
closed by order of the state fire
See WHITTAKER, page 2.
'Pops' Concert
Slated July 13
Symphony music in their own
backyard well, almost is in
store for University Summer Ses
sion students next Wednesday
evening.
On July 13, the University or
chestra, conducted by Emanuel
Wishnow, will present its annual
"Pops" concert at the stadium.
The program, which will begin at
8 p. m., is free and open to the
public.
BEGUN THREE years ago, the
open air concerts have been pro
nounced "a huge success" by au
diences of well over 1000. The
University is one of the few
schools which features these out
door programs in connection with
summer school. Students have
been rehearsing daily since the
opening of the session.
Selections which the orchestra
will play are well-known and
well-liked by music-lovers all
over the country. They have been
chosen from the best in music of
the popular-classic type, accord
ing to Prof. Wishnow. Last year's
concert was built around a United
Nations theme.
CHAIRS for the audience will
be set up in front of the stadium's
east entrance, where the orchestra
will be seated. In case of rain the
program will be presented in the
Union ballroom.
Student Recital . . .
Three soloists from the Uni
versity school of fine arts will
present recital at 4 p. m. Tues
day, July 12, in the Union- ball
room. Ruth Padgett, contralto, Rich
ard Ridgeway, tenor and Eugene
Stoll, trumpeter, will take part.
Accompanists will be Marilyn
Nelson, Mary Barton and Janet
Clark.
Baptists . . .
The joint meeting of the stu
dent religious groups will be held
Sunday evening at the Baptist
Student House. Those planning
to attend should meet on th Union
steps at 5:30 p. m. and then go
to the Baptist Student House, 315
North 15th Street. The meeting
will feature a panel discussion.
Supper will be served at 5:45.
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