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VOL. XII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MONDAY, JULY 23, 1962
NO. 9
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HELPS DEAF — Mrs. Spencer Tracy, wife of the Academy Award-winning actor and founder and director of the John Tracy Clinic for pre-school deaf children, will speak today at 4 p.m. in 129 FH. She began the clinic in 1942.
French Moon' Play Will Begin Festival
By EOITH SANDERS
A comedy written by a Frenchman. translated by an Englishman and presented to an American audience will open tonight at Stop Gap Theater.
“Ring Round the Moon,’’ written by Jean Anouilh and translated by Christopher Fry’ will be presented by the drama department's summer advanced theater repertory workshop.
The director, John E. Blan-kenchip, describes the play as a light gay comedy. "It’s like the fizz on top of a soda,” Blanken-chip exclaimed.
Plays’ Problems
“The main problem, however, is one of learning the style of the 1915 period in which the play takes place. The actors must learn the mannerisms and ideas of upper class people of that lime,” Blankenchip commented.
The star, Lynn Raynor, senior drama major, portrays twin brothers, Hugo and Frederick Raynor says his biggest problem is keeping the two characters separate.
Personality Switch
“Sometimes when I am playing Frederick, I will inject a little bit of Hugo’s personality and vice versa,” Raynor explained.
Frederick falls in love with Diana, portrayed by Allison Price, who is the daughter of the richest man in the world. Hugo, who does not want Frederick to marry Diana, gets a poor ballet dancer, portrayed by
Farris Clark, to impersonate a wealthy woman. Hugo lures Frederick into falling in love with the dancer.
Workshop Workout
In order to improve the play, Blankenchip might ask an actor to run around the stage four or five times, or do four somersaults on the back lawn, and then say, his lines.
The actors become so physically exhausted that they forget themselves and become the characters they are portraying, he explained.
During the second act two of the characters do a tango scene. In order to perfect this scene the actors watched old movie clips showing Valentino doing the tango.
Shop Talk
“While they are dancing the two characters must carry on a conversation, which presents quite a coordination problem,” Blankenchip noted.
Two years ago the drama workshop instituted the idea of presenting reperatory plays, which are presented in a revolving fashion. Other universities have adopted this plan for their drama groups.
The other two plays to be presented in the present repertory of French comedies are George Feydeau and Maurice Desval-liers’ “Hotel Paradiso” and Jean Giraudoux's “Ondine.”
“Ring Round the Moon” will i>e presented July 23, 24 and 25 and August 4, 6, 7, 16 and 17.
Tracy Clinic Chief To Speak on Deaf
Mrs. Spencer Tracy, wife of the Academy Award winning actor will speak today at 4 p.m. in 129 FH on “Education of Young Deaf Children and their Parents.”
Mrs. Tracy, president of the board of directors of the John Tracy Clinic for pre-school deaf children, will be the fourth speaker in a series presented by the university's committee on special education.
Founder and director-in-charge of the clinic, named after her son John, Mr. Tracy is also second vice president of the
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf.
In recognition for her contributions in the care of the deaf, she has received four honorary degrees, among them a doctor of science degree from Northwestern University anti a doctor of humane letters degree from USC.
Mrs. Tracy founded the John Tracy Clinic in 1942 after she and a group of mothers of young deaf children met as a study group to pool their experiences and to learn more about preschool deaf children.
The clinic is an educational
Robb, Hyman Cet Department Posts
Two new department chairmen appointments were made last week to replace university personnel who are on leaves.
Dr. J. Wesley Robb will replace Dr. Harold von Hofe as chairman of the division of hu manities of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Dr. Chester Hyman will replace Dr. Douglas R. Drury as head of the department of physiology of the School of Medicine.
Both Dr. von Hofe and Dr. Drury are on sabbatical leaves for the coming year.
Directs Department
Dr. Robb, associate professor of religion, will be in charge of the departments of Asiatic and Slavic studies, classics, comparative literature, English, fine arts, French, German, music, philosophy. religion. Spanish. Italian ami Portugese.
He joined the USC faculty in 1954 after two years service as a Navy chaplain. He taught philosophy and religion at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn., after World War II.
He is a graduate of Greenville College in Illinois and USC. In 1960 he was one of eight professors selected by the graduating class to receive a $1.000 award from the USC Associates for excellence in teaching.
Authors Articles
Dr. Robb is the author of "An Inquiry into Faith” and several articles in national magazines and professional journals.
Dr. Hyman, professor of i»hys-iology, specializes in the cardiovascular system with emphasis on capillaries and peripheral circulation.
Dr. Hyman holds MS and PhD degrees from New York University. He joined the USC faculty in 1946. Before coming to USC, he was an instructor and research assistant at Yale University’s Aero-Medical Research Unit. .
Author or oo-author of some
I center for pre-school deaf children and their parents, the emphasis being placed on parent I education. The clinic's first home j was a cottage furnished by the university. Later three dwellings on campus were occupied by the clinic.
Since the opening in October, 1942. the clinic has gradually j added services for parents and j their children until the present program developed.
I More than 16,000 families in 76 countries have received or are leceiving the clinic's services, which are given without charge. They «re financed by voluntary contributions from individuals and organizations.
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, chancellor of the university, has been a member of the clinic's board of directors since Î946. Spencer Tracy was an original 52 scientific papers. Dr. Hyman board member and still serves in is currently engaged in research that capacity. Walt Disney has on the exchange of solutes be- been the clinic’s first vice presi-tween blood and tissue fluid, demons'tation of non-nutritive circulation through muscle, factors regulating blood flow and pressure and pulse velocity in man.
NSF Research During 1956 and 1957, Dr. Hyman did research in peripheral vascular physiology in London and Stockholm under a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship.
He is a consultant to the Los Angeles County General Hospital and Huntington Memorial Hospital. He is a fellow of the
dent since its incorporation.
Mutant Expert Wins Award From Institute
A School of Medicine scientist who is seeking answers to some basic questions about mutations has received a research career award from the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Margaret Lieb, associate American Association for the professor of medical micro-blol-Advancement of Science and a ogy. was given the award to member of the American Phys- caiTy out her comparative re-iological Society: International search in mutations caused by Cardiovascular Society: ami ultraviolet light in bacteria vi-many local, national and inter- 1 ruses.
national scientific societies. He jn	she	also received a
is an honorary member of the $48 900 three-year research grant Société Fiancaise d angiologie from (he National Science Foun-
and Histopathologie.
Businessman Takes Job
dttion to support these studies.
The career awards, granted initially for five years and then renewable, are designed to provide more stable career opportunities for researchers in the health Sciences. Recipients are selected competitively each year.
Dr. Lieb received her PhD degree from Columbia Univesity in 1950. She also was gaduated from Smith College and Indiana
Dr. Robert E. Schultz, professor of finance and real estate in the Graduate School of Business Administration, has been elected to the board of directors of Abbey Rents, largest rental com- j University. She has done post pany in the nation.	'doctoral work at the California
Dr. Schultz has been a busi- | Institute of Technology, Institut ness consultant to this firm and Pasteur and Institut du Radium, also to Waste King Corp., Bark- I Paris.
er Bros., Pepsi Cola in Venezuela, Grandview Building Co. and Ipsoa Institute in Italy.
A student of the European Common Market, he was a teacher and consultant in Italy the first six months of 1959 at the University of Turin’s Institute for Postgraduate Business Administration
She taught previously at Barnard College and Brandeis University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancet >nt of Science. Sin^e 1950. she has published 14 scientific papers.
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