The Stetson Reporter

DOLORES HANCOCK, left, and Jack Coldiron, right, are shown rehearsing for the Opera Workshop presentation of the saered Opera, "Elijah" to be given as a climax to Religious Emphasis Week tonight in Elizabeth Hail. See Story. SEVERAL STETSON MALES are seen taking advantage of the "open house" held last Friday at Chaudoin Hall. The men students, like those above, made a thorough check for cleanliness in the rooms. Lamar Willis, above, checks under the bed while Walt Nardn, center, and an uniderttified male surveys the rest of the room- Reporter Photo By Holbrook Outstanding Actress* Artists Composer Coming For Fine Arts Festival Here The fourth annual Fine Arts Festival at Stetson will bring to the campus this year three outstanding leaders in their fields—Blanche Yurka. actress; Carl Holty, painter, and Wayne Barlow, composer. The festival, designed to give the students a first ed scenes have been selected will hand insight into the fine arts, will open March 3 and continue daily through March 7. Art, drama and music groups in the university will augment the appearance of the guest artists, giving the students, residents of De- Land and the winter visitors a wide variety of events to see and hear. The festival will open with Miss Yurka in a solo dramatic performance, essentially the same program of excerpts from great plays with which she made a great impression at the ANTA theatre in New York earlier this season. The play from which select- range from the classic Athenian comedy of Aristophanes to the modern American dramatist, Max well Anderson. Mr. Holty, known in America for his abstract paintings came from Hungary and now is artist- in-residence at the University of (Continued on Page Two) it's inside It happens every spring—the baseball schedule —on page four What do you call the Soda Shop? —on page six 66th YEAR "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" No. 17 STETSON UNIVERSITY. DELAND, FLORIDA, Friday, February 20, 1953 The 110 voices of the combined Stetson Glee Clubs will present their annual home concert Tuesday evening in the Elizabeth Hall Auditorium. Director Harold M. Giffin said this week that many new numbers would be included on the program. The entire glee club will sing "Onward Christian Soldiers" arranged by Fred Waring; "The Omnipotence" by Schubert; "Oh, What A Beautiful City" and "Soon- ah Will Be Done", both arranged by Dawsors. The 40-voice travel squad will present four numbers, including "The Lord's Prayer" by Malotte- Deis; and "Judge Me, O God" by Mendelssohn. In a lighter vein they will sing "The Road to Romany" and "The Sleigh". Jack Coldiron, baritone, will sing a solo which will be announced and Don Richads will have a piano solo. An old folk song, "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" will be presented by the women's section of the Glee Club; and the men's section will _sing "Ain'-a That Good News" as arranged by Dawson. The mixed quartet composed of Betty Nordman, Evelyn Gordon, Bill Holley and Jack Coldiron will sing "The Spirit Flower" by Campbell-Tipton. Another quartet composed of Ernest Murphy, Ron Clonts, Jack Coldiron and Hugh Watson will sing two spirituals, "Steal Away" and "Get On Board". The entire group will close out the concert with the Stetson Alma Mater. Accompanists for the Glee Club are Joyce Burrell, Donna Jean Newcomer and Tom Brown. School Infirmery Asks Cooperation Due to the fine- co-operation of the students in reporting any early symptoms of the flu. Dr. Robert O. Burry, school physician, stated that an epidemic has been prevented on Stetson's campus. However, if the control is to be maintained, the students must continue to co-operate in this same respect. Any student ill enough to miss class should come to the infirmery immediately. In this way, if the illness is serious or contagious, it will be treated in its early stages and the chances of its infecting others will be stopped. Miss Sara Young, Supervisor of the Infirmary, announced that Dr. Burry makes a daily visit to the campus between 1:00 and 2:00 each afternoonj Miss Young requests that all students wishing to see the doctor report to the infirmery prior to 1:00 if at all possible so that she will be able to obtain the necessary information and make the appointment. SPORTS BULLETIN NA1A Basketball Tourney To Be Held Here Feb. 27-28 Stetson wil! be host to the District 25 NAIA basketball tournament to be held February 27-28 at the Airport Arena. Stetson, Tampa, Florida State, and Mercer will participate in the tournament. The Hatters play in the first round. Prominent Movie On Film Series Program Monday "The Titan—Story of Michaelan- gelo", Academy Award winner for the be'st feature documentary, will be presented in the film series at Allen Hall Monday evening. There will be two showings of this movie—at 7:15 and 7:30 p.m Students have been asked to attend the first show by Dr. John Hicks, member of the film committee. "The Titan", narrated by Frederic March, was selected, in addition to its "Oscar", the "Best Foreign Film Of The Year" by the National Board of Review and the Foreign Language Press of America tagged it the "Best Film Of The Year." Time Magazine said: "The Titan" is an extraordinary documentary that recreates the work, life and times of Michaelangelo without showing a glimpse of a human actor. The film is at once an exciting tribute to the art of the Florentine master and an impressive tour de force in the art of the cinema. "The 67 minute film does a resourceful job at what only the movie camera can do: give motion and meaning to inanimate things. The script uses a tight story continuity, thumbnail art critiques, a telling musical score and a narration spoken by Frederic March. "The picture sets the Renissance stage for Michelangelo's emergence, shows the influence of contemporaries and ancients, carries the unseen hero through papal and princely intrigues, the bloody uprising of Savonarola, the siege of Florence and the sack of Rome. Out of the turbulence of the age and the passionate rigors of Michelangelo's genius flowers the beauty of his masterworks: the David, the Medici monument, the Moses, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Last Judgment, and the Soaring dome of St Peters. Workshop Sings "Elijah59 Tonight By WILMA WILSON Reporter Staff Writer Four scenes from Mendelssohn's dramatic oratorio, Elijah will be presented tonight by the Opera Workshop in Elizabeth Hall Auditorium at eight. The production comes as a climax to Religious Emphasis Week which ends today. The part of Elijah will be played by either Jack Coldiron or Dick Lassiter. Other members of the cast will include Delores Hancock, Evelyn Gordon, Stafford Wing, Betty Nordman, Carroll Hart, Ernie Munphy, Sally Sentell, Mary Puck- ett, and Jean Wright. Included in the chorus and the staging are: Charlotte Hollenbach, Betty Pless, Mary Hathaway, Mary Catherine Pak Ron Clonts,, Oran Almond, John Knnedy, and Peter Christa- pherson. Kenneth L. Ballenger, director- producer of the staged sacred opera, stated that the presentation gives the story of the life of Elijah, the Old Testament prophet, as taken from 1 Kings 17, IS, and 19. The theme of the entire performance is related in the prologue by a tenor aria, "If with all your hearts ye truly seek me, ye shall ever surely find me" Elijah goes through a period of learning to be long suffering and patient. The first scene will portray Eli jah at Zrepath where he raises the widow's son from the dead. A contralto aria states the theme. (Continued on Page Five) New Stover Play Cast Announced The cast for Stetson's annual Shakespearean production, this year a comedy, 'The Merry Wives of Windsor", was announced today by Irving C. Stover, Theatre director. The play will be presented March 5, 6 and 7. Heading the cast is Gettise Elliot as Falstaff. Master Ford is Joe Pumell; his wife, Carolyn Baltzer. Master and Mistress Page will be played by Norman Gold and Helen Lee Radloff. Fenton, the lover, will be Bob Thurman, the object of his affectioa, BStlr White. Jackie Rich portrays Mistress Quickly, Slender, the idiot, is Hugh Young. Shallow will be Allan Myer. Al Vara and Kelly Weeks appear as a Welsh parson and a French physician respectively "Three of Falstaff's closest followers are Mark Hollis, Vic Vaughen and Ralph Storey. Jack Shaw characterizes the Host of the Garter Inn. Jim Young and Jim Whittle appear as trusted servants. Falstaff's servant is Sue Reynolds. Fairies in the production are Ann Anderson, Darlee Knisely, Gloria Sorrell, Barbara Covington, Claud- ette Haisten, Nancy Haxton. Other servants are Roy Hostetter and Clay Rose.