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VOL XI
LOS AMG£L€S, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1*51
NO 5
Four Plays to Open Tonight
Big Five Elect History Head For President
Dr. Arthur R. Kooker pto-fessor and head of the histoi y department, took office recently for one year as president of the Athletic Association >f Western Universities
Dr. Kooker, who Ls (JSC's faculty athletic representative and chairman of the faculty athletic committee. >n- elected head of I lie AAWU, oi Big Five, recently at its summer meeting in Seattle. He succeeds J. Cordon Gose of the University of Washington.
Hill Retire»
Jesse T. Hill, director >f athletics for the university, retired July 1 as secret ary-trea_surer ot the AAWU to l>e succeeds! by Pete Newell, athletic director of the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Kooker, who is a foi met president of the Faculty Center Association and former chairman of the University Senate, joined the USC faculty in 1941 from the University of Michigan, where he earned a t»acl*e-lor’s degree in 1932, masters in 1933 and doctorate in 1941 War Historian
Tlte history professoi »-ivxse special field of study is rtie Civil War, is also active in the American Historical Association He is a member of the Mississip-pi Valley Historical Assn.. r-be Southern Historical Assn., the Society of American Archivists and the Civil War Round Table of Southern California, of which he Ls a past president. Dt. Kooker has done extensive resea* oh on Lincoln and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
During World War II Dr. Kooker served with the Air Force for four years. He wa.s a ground school instructor a* the Santa Ana army air ba.ae for one year and an historical officer for three years. Dm ing the latter period he wis with the headquarters of the training command at Fort Worth and also in Washington. D.O.
Works of Williams, Sartre To Be Acted In Th ree-Night Run
A ¿er.es of four plays bv top contemporary playwrighri will open for a three-night run in Stop Gup Theatre tonight at 8:30 Tickets for the performances, which will include plays by Tennessee Williams. Dorothy Parker Noel Coward atti
Jean l'lui Sarti s u ; ui i *ntlj	--
GENTLE WISDOM — Actors in Tennessee Williams' "Unsatisfactory Supper" prepare for opening of four plays in Stop Gap Theater tonight at 8:30. The dramas range from satire to existentialism. Tickets are now selling for SI.
Reviewer to Discuss Bertolt Brecht s Plays
on sale in the Ticket Office. Sl_* 209. and the Drama Office. 3709 S. H(X>ver St. Admission price is SI. Remaining tickets will he sold at rhe box office Experimental
The plays have heen directed by experimental workshop students. and will t>e acted hv college students and memlters of
'he high scb>*l innn workshop.
William C. White, faculty supervising director of rhe ;mo-duction along with Dr. Bernard F. Dukore, has [»oimel out that the plays represent “A balanced bill for an evening's entertHtn-ment.
‘The (»lays range from the «it and satire of Doiothv Park-
Foreign Film To Be Seen
The Australian film ‘ Back >t Beyond” will be shown tonight at 7:30 in Cine 108 as part of Festival ‘61’s “Summer Cittern i Soiree.”
The cinema building is located at 35th St. and ^Hoover Blvd Admission is 50 cents
Included in the program will Ik? a number of selected shot ts. among which will be Walt Disney's first Mickey Mouse cartoon, “Steamboat Willie,” made in 1928. and “Sex Life of th.-» Polyp," a 1928 film starring the late Robert Benchley
“Shaw Talks for Movietone” and “Lights of New York ' wili also be shown during the event which is open to all students and faculty members
Drama reviewer and editor Robert Corrigan will discuss the writings of German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht today at 3:15 in FH 129.
Dr. Corrigan, an associate pro lessor of drama at Tulane University who is currently a guest lecturer in the departments of drama and comparative literature. will explain Brecht as “a poet without incense.”
In a recent talk at the Faculty Center-. Dr. Corrigan hailed Brecht as one of the few recent playwrights to adjust to the demands of modern theater.
Brecht, who died in 1956, trained such prominent actors as Oskar Homolka. Peter Lorre and Helen Weigel. His plays, including “Threepenny Opera” and "Corruption of the City,” were described by Dr. Corrigan as more advanced than the works of the modern a''ant garde play-wrights. Brecht did most of his writing in the 1920s.
Dr. Corrigan, editor of the Tu lane Drama Review, is author or "The Theater in the Twentieth Century,” which will be published this summer.
Dr Corrigan is editor of "The Modern Theatre." which wilj be published in the spring, and of the five-volume Laurel Editions in Classical Drama.
The reviewer received an A.B. it; classics at Cornell and an M A. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins He was granted a Ph D in comparative literature from Minnesota. This fall he will teach at Carnegie Institute of Technology as the Andrew Mel Ion Distinguished Visiting Professor in Drama.
Dr. Corrigan has previously
taught -ii Johns Hopkins. University of Minnesota and Carle-ton College. He « general edi-toi of the Chandler Editions in Drama, tlie first 15 volumes 'of which will appear in the fall.
His translation of Apia's “Music atvl Theatrical Production" will he published next summer.
Arthur Knight To Supervise Film Museum
Arthur Krnght. associate professor of cinema and film eri».--for tbe Satuiday Review, hi-been appointed curator of films anti tapes for the Los Angele> County Hollywood Motion P»e-ftire i*nri Television Museum
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Knight is an internationally known writer <>n motion pictures and author of “The Liveliest
Art."
Before cowing West last .»timer's ‘Here We Are* to the exist- mer. Knight served as assistant ential searching of Sartre's Wo curator of the Museum of M*l-Exit.' ” White explained.	ern Art in New York City f->r
“Williams* ‘Uasatisfactoi v Sup- 10 years. He Ls presently teach-per' is a tragi-eomedy and Cow- ing “The Documentary Film” ard’s ‘Fumed Oak' is a comic- and "History of Motion Pie. tragedy.” he added.	tur^” in the summer sessi->t»
Dorothy Parker's plot revolves and is scheduled to speak .hi around the attempts of a shy campus later in Che semester pair of newly we-is to oome to Knight was the first Ameri-grips with their first marital can t0 serve on the interrvati->n-problem honey m-x>ning	al jury of the Venice Film Fes-
You Brtiie	tival in 1955 and 1957. He re-
Left alone on a train for the ceived the Screen Direct >«-s first time 9»noe their marriage. Guild's ciitics award in 1948 for and learning that they hardly his "distinguished contributi->r».s (Continual <wi I*««;.» it to motion picture criticism.”
Alabama Architect to Head USC School of Architecture
Samuel T. Hurst. 40. dean of the School >f Architecture and the Axfii at Aulnun University. Alabama, was ap;x>inted Wednesday by President Norman Topping as dean >f tire USC Schoo! of Architecture.
Dean Hurst's resignation at Auburn was announced by President Ralph B” Draughon and Dr M. C -Huntley, dean of faculties. who sari. "We congratulate him u'*on the promotion and USC upon obtaining ihe services of suet» an excellent educator-."
The ne-A dean will assume his ne<v postli.in in Los Angeles thi> fall or the first of next year. Prof. Henr> Charles Burge ha.-been acting dean of the School of Architecture the past year since Arthur B. Gall ion resigned after 15 years to become director of planning for Harland Bartholomew a n d Associates, city pi an net - and engineers, in Honolulu.
A gradual* ot Harvard University. where he received his mister’s degree in architecture j in t949. and of Geor gia Tech. I
SAMUEL T. HU8ST
. . . new dean
where he earned Ins bachelor of architecture degree in 1942. Dean Hurst Ls a memhei of the American Institute of Architect-..
Dean Hurst comes lo L"SC highly recommended bv architects in L*> Angele« and
throughout rhe nation for I*, ability as a practicing architect and educator. President Topping
~aid.
Hurst recently received a n*-.«' four-year appointment to ihe National Architectural Accrediting Board. The appointment was made by AIA President Philip Will Jr. on rhe unanimous recommendation of the NA.\R. which sends accrediting team-to schools of architecture
Before joining the Auburn faculty in 1957. Dean Hurst \i> •-tn instructor in architecture •►r Georgia Tech. and assistant pr ►-fessor of architecture at Tulane. He,was associate profess >»• and administrative assistant t » ihe director of rhe School of Architecture at Georgia T>’h from 1951 to 1955. when he resigned to enter the full time practice of architecture For tlttf next two years he was design associate with Abreti and Robeson. Inc. architects in Atlanta.
In his position as dean of th*» ■school of Architecture and tb* (Continued imi