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Friday, March 21 T9!J2 I C Few ApGnttmenif IHlwse Hp 1KB THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Ten , .X II I sKiKissa,- 4f"'7 "''t .,,,m..mMMII.MMrillw TWO-STORY SCAFFOLD . . . Cast members John Lange, Nanette Cowles, Charles Huestis and Janis McCaw rehearse a scene on the partially completed front steps of the tenement scaffold. (Daily Nebraskai! Photo.) BUILDING EQUIPMENT . . . James Ehret, member of the technical crew, poses with the array of hand tools in the University Theatre workshop. The tools are purchases with box office receipts. (Daily Nebraskan Photo.) PIGMENT AND GLUE . . . Diane Downing, V. K. Smith and Chloe Calder take time out to smile as they mix paint for an evening's work. (Daily Nebraskan Photo.) BARE FEET AND COVERALLS . . . Chloe Calder, technical direc tor John Tolch and D. K. Smith paint flats that are spread on the floor of the workshop. The flats will be completed Saturday. (Daily Nebraskan Photo.) By PAT PECK Staff Writer The technical crew of the University theatre is building an apartment house on the second floor of Temple building. The brownstone tenement is the scene of action for the com ing production, "Street Scene," which will be presented at the Nebraska theater Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $1.25 and are available at the box office in Temple build ing from 12 noon to 4:45 p.m. Under John Tolch, technical director of the University The atre, the crew built the scenery for "Othello" and "Idiots' De light." All sets are designed by Tolch. The scenery is painted on muslin or canvas-covered pine frames called "flats." The paints are water colors which come in powder form. The powder is mixed with melted glue and water. The glue keeps the paint from rubbing off. Once a flat has been constructed it can be painted over and over in any desired color. "Street Scene" takes place in front of a tenement on New York's lower East Side. The basement, first and sec ond floors are visible to the audience. Actors appear on all three levels of the build ing by means of an intricate scaffold against which the flats are erected. "Much of the atmosphere and mood of the play depends on the selection of paint and paint ing technique," Tolch says. Since the action of the play takes place during a heat wave, Sound-Off Open Letters To Three Political Critics Clarify Columnist's Views On Kefauver Tom Rische the brown paint used on the flats is a red-brown. This gives a feeling of warmth. Five sep arate colors are applied and blended to give the effect of brownstone. The weatherworn appearance is achieved by sprinkling the flats with dry, green pigment and blending it in with a brushful of brown paint. The scenery is unusual in that the crew has telescoped the effect of a large, run down tenement into an area 16 feet by 26 feet. The technical crew has an ar ray of tools that would thrill any homecoming display com mittee. In addition to hand tools, the crew has a power table saw, band saw and drill press, all purchased with box office receipts. Membership on the crew is open to any University student. A new crew is generally broken in for each project since crew members may disappear into the cast of the next play. Each crew member follows a regular schedule and works about three hours a day. The scenery for "Street Scene" waS begun March 3 and will require more than 250 man-hours of labor to com plete. Crew manager is Lee Simo dynes. She is a freshman ma joring In art. Other crew members are Diane Downing, Chloe Calder, Marilyn Roddy, Shirley MiJler, James Ehret and D. K. Smith. Smith is also a member of the cast and un dergraduate assistant to Tolch. When the crew finishes the scenery on Saturday morning, it will be set up in Temple the ater for the technical arid dress rehearsal. Monday is moving day. The scenery will be moved to the Nebraska theater on Mon day night and set up Tuesday morning. After the final per formance on Wednesday night the scenery will be struck and returned to Temple for storing. In addition to moving the scenery, the crew must move properties consisting of every thing from pipes to baby car riages. Just to make the heat wave seem real there will be a hand cart full of ice and a collection of melting ice cream cones. When "Street Scene" is his tory, the cast will have finished the year's work, but the tech nical crew will begin the scen ery for "Girl Crazy," the Kos met Klub spring show. 'Round The Campus Since these seems to have been some discussion about the validity of conclusions reached in the Sound-Off column last Tuesday, I will try to clarify my position in the form of open letters to three gentlemen who took issue with me. Open discus sion of political issues is a healthy thing, and it is grati fying to see these gentle men take an interest in the coming election, There are f Rische many different shades of opinion on the matter, and each is worthy of respect. To the three gentlemen: Dear Mr. Banks, You and I agree basically that Kefauver is a good man.. He is your first choice for presi dent. He is not mine, although he ranks high on the list. I wonder whether you read my column of Tuesday carefully, since you mis-quoted me in four different parts of your Letterip: 1. You say "Tom draws the questionable conclusion that Ke fauver is at odds with the Demo cratic party." I actually said "As yet, no major congressional leader has declared himself for Ke fauver." You may subscribe to the philosophy that anyone who is not for a candidate must be against him. I don't. . You sav "His (Kefauver's) nomnrratie affiliation further leads Tom to believe that Ke fauver will lose." At no point in the column did I make any such Your Church By GRETA CRAIG Staff Writer Bantist Student house, 315 No. 15, C. B. Howells, pastor. Sunday church scnooi ana morning wui shin in city Baptist churches; ! nm fellowshiD supper; 6 p.m., guest speaker: Miss Margaret Trester, associate director, Baptist Student work, JNew xonc. Methodist Student house, 1417 R street, Richard W. Nutt, pastor. Friday square dance, St. Paul's church, 8 p.m. Saturday Wesley Players, 2 p.m. Sunday Wesley Fireside, 5:30 p.m., Dr. John Leach, Vermillion, South Dakota, speaker. Lutheran Student service, 1440 Q street, Alvin M. Peter sen, pastor. Friday discussion, 8 p.m., leader: John Methuse lah, student from India, topic: "The Influence of Christ in India." Sunday Bible study, 1200 No. 37 street and 1440 Q fcireet, 9:15 a.m.; city LSA, at First Lutheran church, 17th and A streets, cost supper at 5 p.m. and program at 6:15, speaker: Dr. Wilton C. Bergstrand, youth director of the Augustana Syn od, Lutheran church, topic: "The Relationship of L.SA to Luther Leagues;" Ag LSA, cost supper at 6 p.m. (changed from 6:30 p.m.), program at Evangelical . United Brethren church in con junction with Ag Interdenom, 7:00. Lutheran (Missouri Synod), Al wnrrion. nastor. Sunday Lenten unrshirj. 10:45 a.m., Room 315, TTninn sprmon: "The Bread from Heaven," anthem by student choir under the direction of Harry Gies selman. Gamma Delta, 5:30 p.m., YMCA lounge, cost supper, ioi lowed by initiation of new mem v,or sneaker: John Methuselah, a native of India, question period follows. 9 9 University Episcopal Chapel, 13th and R streets. Sunday 9:30 B.m., Litany and Penitential Of fice; 11:00 a.m.. Matins (Morn ing prayer): 7:00 p.m., choral evensongi starting Search 'Week fov faculty and student Episco palians friends. At the evening service the choir will !ng Simper's "Magnificat" and Nane Dlmlttls" and there will be short meditation. statement. In fact, I even specu lated what might happen were Kefauver elected. 3. You say "In other words, Tom is saying that because one Democrat is bad, all the rest are too." I beg your pardon, but Tom is saying no such thing. I did say that Kefauver would probably unwittingly keep many corrupt Democrats. Never did I say that Kefauver, or Truman either, was corrupt. 4. You say "I inferred that Tom meant this (corruption among government officials) as applying only to the Democrats." You in ferred incorrectly. I actually said "Democrats have no strangle hold on corruption, but after 20 years in power, Truman s aa ministration seems to have col lected more than its share ... You are entitled to your opin ions, but please do not put words in my mouth. bincereiy, TR Dear Mr. Pierson, I noted with interest that you think I was illogical in my argu ments against a Kefauver candidacy. I said that a president has to get along with the "big wheels", of his party and that as yet no major candidate had declared, himself for Kefauver. I said this because: Any candi date must have the support of some politicians to be nominated at a national convention. 2, Any president must have the support of, or at least have a working agreement with, leading politicians in his party in order to get anything done. The late Woodrow Wilson, one of the smartest and most idealistic of chief executives, once decided that he was going to personally select the best men fori various government offices, instead or taking the advice of leading Democratic politicians (a common practice) in filling these jobs. To his sorrow, Mr. Wilson discovered that Senators thus shorn of their patronage refused to confirm his appointments or to "play ball" with him. Wilson had to give up this laudable, but politically impractical idea. That is why I say that Ke fauver could not be expected to remove all the "barnacles" from federal jobs. He would probably do his best, but he would still have to deal with congressmen jealous of their patronage. As most people know, a congressman shorn of his patronage is like a woman left waiting at the church. If a president is not a strict party man, (and Kefauver is, more often than not) he has to deal with plenty of men who put party and patronage above all else. Yours for a good president, TR e Dear Mr. Reichenbach, You and I did a lot of specu lating in last Tuesday's paper. I speculated that Kefauver would not be able to clean out all the corruption in Washing-. ton. You speculated most em phatically that all of Truman's aides would "be out in the cold." Actually, neither one of us can prove our statements, but only state our beliefs. I base my belief on the fact that in nearly every change oi ad ministration, if both men are from the same party, there is a shuffle of faces at the top of the( adminis tration, but much less change in the lesser offices. I gave another reason in my letter to Mr. Pierson. I think we will both agree thai it is too bad Congress will not give Truman a chance to clean his own house The investigation of Newbold Morris, Truman's clean up man minus mop and bucket, by Congress is probably being con ducted largely on political grounds to furnish campaign material. I think we will both agree also that Truman himself is probably not dishonest, but merely the victim of his own folly to much tru-it in un worthy subordinates. If any man has ever allowed loyalty to friends to drag him down, it is Truman. You-all may think the "Estcs is the bestest," but "I Like Ike." Until Next Tuesday's Column. 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HELP WANTED Four Coeds Given Scholarship Grants National Congress of Parents and Teachers and the Dawson County Extension clubs have awarded four scholarships to Tea chers' college students. Marian Marienau, senior, and Darlene McQuistan, sophomore, won the Dawson County Extension clubs' sholarship, offered to those who would like to take up special work in the field of cerebral palsy. This is the first year a scholarship of this sort has been available. Joan Hanson, junior, and Phyllis Firestone, senior, received schol arships offered by the National Congress of Parents and Teachers for upperclass or graduate stu dents who are majoring in some area of special eduaction. A few more similar scholarships for the summer session will be available. All interested students should sub mit their applications to Profes sor Dean A. Worchester, Room 309, Teachers college. a Men's Dorm, Phi Delt, Cornhusker Co-op Parties To Highlight Weekend Connie Gordon It's going to be dances this weekend! One of the big formals on the weekend agenda is the men's dorm spring dance that will be held Friday at the Lincoln ho tel. Some of the dates to the dance will be: Lester Demmel and Emily Weidner; Brad Lear and Ann Mocks; Jack Lliteras and Rita Grecnwalt; Galen Allen and Jean Huff; John Marks and Carmen Lliteras; W. S. Croft and Ruth Norstedt; Art Gross and Frances Rogers; John Beien and Joanne Eppard; Jim Atkin son and Dorothy Quinn; Al Cur tis and Mary Jane McCuIIouffh; Verl Claussen and Rose Gin gery; Duane Johnson and Bar bara Medlin. Dates to the party will include: Keith Glorfield and Judy Flans burg; Cal' Helme and Kay Web ster; George Mink and Jean Stef fen; Steve Carveth and Norma Lothrop; Chick Battey and Betsy Lieber; Bill Harris and Lois Srb; Ken Fisher and Barbara Zimmer- KNUS On The Air 870 ON TOUR DIAL Friday 3:00 "Music from Everywhere" 3:15 "YM-YW Show" 3:30 "Comparing Notes" 3:45 "Radio Workshop Play 4:00 "Musical Grab Bag" 4:15 "This Week on Campus" 4:3 "Garretson's Waxworks" 4:4i "Pretty Girl Is Like Melody" 5:00 Sign Off 'Quo Vadis' Proves Lust But Weak Plot Distracts By Staff Reviewer itween If you want nearly three hours of lusty, colorful and emotional entertainment, sit through MGM's lavish "Quo Vadis," now showing at the Lincoln theater. Against a background of gaudy costumes, struggling mobs and Christianity versus the Roman Empire, Robert Taylor and Deb orah Kerr parade their love story which receives dramatic strength from Miss Kerr's religious con victions and Taylor's position as a Roman commander. " The plot falls far short of the scenery on which MGM spent $6,500,000 and six months shoot ing at Italy's Cinecitta studios. The audience is taken back and forth from the lavish court of Nero to the truggling mob of Rome and the suffering Chris tians. High point of the extravaganza is the frequent mugging of Nero portrayed by Britain's Actor-Playwright-Director Peter Ustinov. Be- Pirates will take over the Phi, man (Omaha): Dick Hlidek and Delt house Friday night for the Joyce Hobbs; John Schrieber and (naturally) Phi Delt Pirate party. Rita Angel; Steve McKenzie and Barbara Anderson; Herb Neissner and Pat Forsythe; Jack Crawford and Bobbie Blackburn; John Carr and Marilyn Stanley; Jim Nors worthy and Shirley Oschner; Bill Lancaster and Ann Skold; Ron Smith and Carroll Erickson (Northwestern); Randy Ayers and Mary Flynn; Eldon Lovell and sing, compose and fiddle, and hisiCarole Else; Jim Munger and scenes of childish rage at anyone 'Judy Wiebe; J. T. Anderson and xjuiinie varney; ji Anderson ana Ann McKamy; Jim Cederdahl and Mimi DuTeau. e his atrocious attempts to who questions his divinity, Usti- powerful madman. Miss Kerr and Taylor make an nov gives a vivid portrayal of a attempt to portray the struggle between the persecuted Christians and th arrogant Roman militar ism. But Finlay Currie's por trayal of St. Peter, specifically, while speaking to the Christians in the catacombs, does more to bring the faith and determination of the first Christians to the eye of the audience. The movie is entertaining, lusty, beautiful, contains a message for a lew and takes as little time as possible with Christianity while reeling from the burning of Rome, to the Christians against the lions in the arena, to Nero's insanity, to the nobility of a few chosen characters, to thd happy finish of the love story of actress Kerr and actor Taylor. Getting back to the formals this weekend, the Cornhusker Co-op is also holding its formal Satur day evening at the Lincoln hotel. Some of the dates to the dance will include: Don Nelson and Gayle Henkel; Lowell Owens and Ellen Swoboda; Dale Flood and Anne Carlson; Jim Medlin and Marlcne Norskov; Bill Sprius and Barb Medlin; John Krogh- and Jo Turner; Dave Tunnicliff and Joan Hawthorne; Darryl Lukasiewicz and Mary Ann Ronsby; Hank Delnes and Jo Ann Brown; Darrel Dang berg and Ruth Lowney. 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