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Thursday, February 20, 1964
The Daily Nebraskan
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'Rivals' Tryouts Scheduled
Tryouts for the University Theater production of "The
Rivals, one of the world's most famous comedies were
announced by Dr. Joseph Baldwin, professor of speech
and dramatic art.
The tryouts will be held Monday through Thursday at
7:30 p.m. in 201 Temple Building, as well as 3:30 p.m.
every day except Monday, when only evening tryouts will
be held.
Dr. Baldwin emphasized the fact that all students reg
ularly enrolled in the University and not on scholastic or
other probation are eligible to compete for parts in the
prodcction.
"The Rivals," by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is one of
the great comedies of the eighteenth century. Sheridan
wrote the play, in part, to spoof the current fad for senti
mentality in the theater and in literature. His heroine, Lyd
ia Languish, who has filled her mind with syrupy stories
from the lending library, wants her young man to elope
with her and lose her fortune "love me for myself
alone."
Naturally, the young man, Captain Jack Absolute, tries
to win both her and the fortune, being more of a realist
Among the comic portraits in the play, Mrs. Malaprop
stands out An aggressive and ignorant woman who tries
to sound educated, Mrs. Malaprop misues the language
delightfully. Her pretentious mistakes gave the language a
word now found in dictionaries: malapropism.
Rehearsals, to begin after the production of "Ham
let," will be held during the evening. Directing the show
will be Baldwin; Mr. Charles Howard is the technical di
rector and designer.
Performances will be May 20 through 23.
When asked why it was important to people of the
twentieth century to be interested in anything written in
the eighteenth, Baldwin emphasized that the play is "a
delightful comedy, one of the great ones. Its humor is
not topical, but lasting."
He went on to say that the play would be staged in
an eighteenth century style. "This will help us get at
the spirit of that period," he stressed.
In this regard there will be a large forestage, in front
of the curtain, as was prevalent when the play was written.
In addition, staged boxes are planned, with actors to sit
in them, dressed as audiences of that day.
"The scenery will be of a flat-wing and drop style,"
noted Baldwin. "Beautiful and artificial-looking, it will be
shifted in full view of the audience, by way of indicat
ing that 200 years ago the idea of raising and lowering a
curtain was nonexistent"
Baldwin further revealed that as in the eighteenth
century, the action will take place largely on the forestage,
with the scenery forming a sort of picture behind the
actors.
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-JESUS IN WILDERNESS
Lent Is Time Oi Preparation
for Christian World's Easter
By Al Brandt
Junior Staff Writer
Editor's Note: This is the
first of a series to be run
during the Lenten season
telling of the meanings of
Lent. It is -done in coopera
tion with some of the cam
pus ministers.
"Then Jesus was led up by
the Spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted by the devil.?'
Matthew 4:1. In this way be
gan the story of Jesus' forty
days in the wilderness on
which Lent is based.
We enter now into another
season of Lent. Lent, which
begins on Ash Wednesday and
includes the forty days before
Easter, excluding Sundays, is
the Christian preparation for
Easter. ,
Sermons during Lent deal
with gifts and means of
grace, the events of Christ's
lift and his teachings. The
mood is introspection in t h e
light of the Gospel of the
crucified and risen Lord.
TODAY
HOME EC CLUB will meet
at 4:30 p.m. in 203 Food and
Nutrition building.
COLIN JACKSON, British
Broadcasting Company news
analyst, will speak at 8 p.m.
in Love Library.
AWS REPRESENTATIVES
will meet at 5 p.m. in Union
334.
TOMORROW
TOT BEAUTY SHOW, spon
sored by Ag Union hospital
ity committee will be held
at 7 p.m. A child of a Uni
versity student will be chos
en the cutest child.
Garence Landen, chairman
of the Ak-Sar-Ben scholar
ship committee, and Dean
E. F. Frolik of the College
of Agriculture and Home Ec
onomics, announced that the
change would be instigated at
the beginning of the 1964-65
school year.
The adjustment was made
by the Ak-Sar-Ben Board of
Governors in reviewing the
entire scholarship program,
taking into account the in
creased cost of education.
The complete Ak-Sar-B e n
scholarship program includes
over 500 scholarships given
at all state universities and
nearly every four-year col
lege in Nebraska.
Since 1955, a total of 100
such scholarships, valued at
$150 each, have been made
available annually at me un
Ford Employees
To Be On Panel
Three recent college grad
uates employed by the Ford
Motor Company will partici
pate in a panel discussion
tonight at 7 p.m. in Union
small auditorium. All students
are invited.
The program is sponsored
by the College of Business Ad
ministration and the Busi
ness Administration Execu
tive Council.
L. J. Graziano, manager of
the engineering cost analysis
department at Ford will be
the main speaker and panel
chairman.
The panel will consist of
Rolf Roth, Earl Bunkers and
James Duff. Bunkers earned
his masters degree at the Uni
versity of Nebraska in 1961.
The Ford employees will
discuss their experiences and
responsibilities with the com
pany, concentrating on the
areas of managment account
ing, financial analysis and
budgetary control.
Ford Motor Company will
interview prospective gradu
ates at the University March
3 and 4. !
YD's To Hear Report
Loren Weatherwax will ad
dress a meeting of the Young
Democrats (YD's) tonight
at 7:30 p.m. to report on his
trip to the Young Democrats
National Convention in Las
Vegas which he attended as
official representative.
The state president of YD's,
Joe Badami, will also speak
&. the meeting to explain
about the state convention to
be held in April.
Ash Wednesday inaugurates
Lent with a prayerful mood.
The first three Sundays of
Ag Junior
Honored
At Dinner
' A junior with an 8.6 aver
age in the College of Agricul
ture has been named top
sophomore by Gamma Sigma
Delta, honor society of agri
culture, at the society's an
nual Scholarship Recognition
Dinner.
Gary Fick, a junior major
ing in range management,
added the honor to a long list
of accomplishments through
high school and his first years
at Nebraska.
Fick was among eleven
other juniors cited for t h e i r
sophomore scholarship at the
dinner.
Main speaker at the ban
quet was Dr. Donald O. Clif
ton, professor of educational
psychology and measure
ments. Top students honored Tues
day night by Gamma Sigma
Delta are:
Sophomores Jay B e 1 d e n,
Stanley Cassel, Burle Gengen
bach, Rodney Johnson, Ken
neth Krausnick, Ronald Lind
vall, Marshall Logan, Law
rence McGill, Dwain Meyer,
Milan Moore, Wayne Pfeiffer,
Robert Schaffert, Bruce Sny
der and John Wendt.
Juniors Donald Alan, Dono
von Benson, Leroy C e c h,
Gary Fick, Galen Frenzen,
Dale Hanson, Frances Jor
gensen, Daniel Knievel, Wil
liam Luebbe, Robert Rey
nolds, Rolen Sell and Marvin
Wesley.
versity 82 for upperclass
men and 18 for freshmen.
Upperclass scholarships are
based on college grade re
cords and financial need. In
the case of incoming fresh
men, the awards are based
upon the high school record,
need, and amount of farm
experience.
University records show
that Ak-Sar-Ben has made
available a total of $178,800
in scholarship funds since the
present program was initiat
ed in 1946.
During the first six years,
24 scholarships, awarded to
upperclassmen only, were
valued at $100 each. In 1952
the number offered was In
creased to 36, with twelve
made available to freshmen.
In 1954 a total of 72 schol
arships were offered, and in
each year since 1955, 100 scho
larships have been offered
65 for men and 35 for wom
en students at the University.
Including those scholar
ships awarded this year, a to
tal of 1,118 scholarships have
been available 729 for men
and 459 for women. During
this time 459 men and 248
women have participated in
the program, receiving schol
arships for one semester or
longer.
Ak-Sar-Ben scholarship re
cipients for 1963-64 in atten
dance at the University rep
resent 79 different communi
ties in the state. I
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of penitence, looking- toward
the Passion and Resurrection
beyond. The Fourth Sunday
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tude and rejoicing for forgive
ness. The last two weeks in Lent,
known as Passiontide, lead
to Holy Week. The fifth Sun
day being Passion Sunday
centers on the redemptive suf
fering of Christ and interest
centers on the final events of
his life on earth.
Holy Week, the last Sunday
in Lent, and Lent proper close
on Saturday at noon, when
Christ lay in the grave.
The last week in Lent par
allels Jesus' final preparation
for His death. The whole
drama from Palm Sunday to
Good Friday is a pageant of
preparation for the victory of
the cross and the Resurrec
tion. Thus, with the ending of
Lent the preparation for Eas
ter, for the Christian world,
is complete and the world
waits for His resurrection.
Tri Defs Offer Grants
Delta Delta Delta is offer
ing two $132 scholarships to
University undergraduate co
eds. Candidates will be judged
ton community leadership,
scholarship, activities and
need. Applicants need not be
affiliated.
Application blanks may be
obtained from Miss Arbuth
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college or from Sally Eckel
at the Tri Delt house. Filing
deadline is March 1, 1964.
Queen Will Win Car, European Trip
A French sports car and a
trip to Paris and other Eu
ropean cities will be among
the top prizes in the "1964
National College Queen" con
test sponsored by Renault
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The 10th annual "College
Queen" contest is open to any
unmarried girl between 17
and 22 who is a fuli-time stu
dent at either a women's col
lege or co-educational school
or university.
A total of 50 winners,
one from each state, will be
selected this spring. Each will
be given a week's free-ex
pense trip to New York and
the 1964 World's Fair, where
final judging will determine
the 1964 college queen.
Contestants will never ap
pear in the swim-suits, unlike
many beauty contests. The
judges will pick the state
queens and the national queen
for attractiveness, charm,
personality and appearance,
plus scholastic accomplish
ment, campus activities, hob
bies and interest in com
munity service.
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LaGrange College Gives
Experimental 'Thompson'
A play written by Dr. Joseph Baldwin, professor of
speech and dramatic art at the University, will be per
formed at a fine arts festival at LaGrange College, Geor
gia in April.
Baldwin's play, "Thompson," is a story .of a sensitive
young man's revolt against the horror of impersonal kil
ing in warfare.
First performed at the University of Alabama,
"Thompson" was chosen for production at LaGrange by
Sylvia Strickland.
Miss Strickland played the leading female role when
a graduate student at tlae University of Alabama. As as
sistant professor of speech at LaGrange, she remembered
Baldwin's play, and urged, that it be performed there.
The play is written in an "experimental" style and is
noted for its use of a number of soliloquys, direct speeches,
to the audience and chorus characters speaking in con
cert. The stage setting represents, hi skeleton form, an en
tire town with several separate stages which are used for
short scenes in quick succession.
Baldwin, who came to the University in 1958, says,
"I'm anxious to have the play done again. It will give
me a chance to work on the play, having seen it performed
at Alabama."
Commenting on his "magical second chance to im
prove the play," Baldwin indicated delight at being able to
rewrite the ending.
"It was a bit vague and negative before," said the
professor.
"Thompson gives you no flat moral," he went on; "but
Is instead suggestive to the audience, leaving one with
many possibilities of interpretation."
He stressed, however, that these "possiblilities are
clear ones," and expressed the conviction that this tech
nique is a facet of "great drama."
Baldwin has had a number of his plays published and
performed and has won a number of writing awards, in
cluding the Texas Playwright's Award in 1951, the Mar
burg Award at Johns Hopkins University in 1952 and the
Birmingham Festival of Arts Award in 1958.
He indicated the possibility that "Thompson" might be
performed at the University sometime, but noted that he
would "rather reserve spots for students' plays in the lab
oratory and experimental theaters."
Baldwin, who recently traveled to Georgia to discuss
revisions of the play, termed the trip "quite an experi
ence, livened by various revisions and intriguing dis
cussions of the play itself."
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