Austens Works To Be Noon Topic
The minor characters in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” will be brought to life during the English department Noon Reading this afternoon at 12:30 in FH 133.
Dr. Harold E. Briggs, professor of English and specialist in the Romantic period, explained that his reading will center on Miss Austen’s minor characters because they are often overlooked by the reader.
‘When people think of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ they usually think of the heroines,” Dr. Briggs said. “But the minor characters are equally interesting.”
He cited as an example the character of Mr. Bennet. whom he described as “witty, sarcastic and highly intelligent.
“And yet there is a real sadness in this character’s life that makes him very interesting, although minor,” Dr. Briggs explained.
He added that Miss Austen’s power as a novelist is displayed most clearly ift her development of these minor characters.
Dr. Briggs noted that Miss Austen wrote in a Neoclassic style although she lived in the Romantic period.
“She is regarded today by most critics as one of the top English writers of all time,” Dr. Briggs said. “Although she may not have the scope of other writers, she is perfect in what she does.”
English department Noon Readings feature a member of the department in a lecture or reading of one of his favorite works.
Federal Aide to Cover
Soviet Work in Africa
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An authority on psychological warfare will speak on “Soviet Approaches to Africa” at a public lecture today at 2:15 in the Art and Lecture Room of Doheny Library.
Christopher Bird, research scholar and federal govern- . ment consultant, will discuss the Soviet discovery of Africa and recent activities in the area.
Bird worked in Africa and Asia after studying at Har-ard, Yale and the University of Hawaii. He later worked for the United States Information Agency in Washington.
Bird has made a special study of Soviet efforts at “human organization” in Africa and is the author cf a series of articles published in “African Special Report.”
One of the areas of discussion will be the recent Congo crisis and its implications and relationship to the attitude of the Soviet Union in uncommitted Africa.
The lecture is first of an informal series of three talks oh Africa and the Soviet Union to be sponsored by the Soviet-Asian Studies Center and the summer session. Specific titles and lecturers for the remaining talks are as yet unannounced.
The Soviet-Asian Studies Center, headed by Dr. Rodger Swearingen, was established under a grant from the Ford Foundation in 1958.
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Editor-Critic to Open Speaker Symposium
URA to Start Dancing Class For Summer
Free instruction in social and folk dancing will be offered tomorrow night in the P.E. building to all students attending summer classes.
The dance class, which will meet every Tuesday and Thursday evening, is offered as part of the social program r>f the University Recreation Association. Dr. Tillman Hall, dance instructor for the university, will supervise the meetings.
"These classes provide one of : the best opportunities for sum-j mer students to get exercise and j meet people," Dr Hall, who also: heads the URA program, explained.
Dr. Hall said that ihe Tuesday night class will emphasize square ! and folk dancing, while the ! Thursday class will learn the ! latest social dances.
“Our summer dance program usually draws about 150 people," Dr. Hall noted. “We have a lot of fun meeting each other and learning the popular and folk dance steps.”
Dr. Hall has taught social and lolk dancing at the university for the past 11 years.
Stop Gap Will Present Experimental Program
Four plays, ranging from the existentialism of Sartre to the sarcasm of Dorothy Parker, are being prepared for the summer’s first experimental theatre production in Stop Gap Theatre July 6, 7 and 8.
The plays are “Fumed Oak" by Noel Coward, “No Exit” by Jean Paul Sartre, “Unsatisfactory Supper” by Tennessee | Williams, and “Here We Are" by Dorothy Parker. They will be acted and directed by members of the experimental theatre class and the high school drama workshop.
William C. White, who supervises the productions with Dr. Bernard Dukore, described the plays as “balanced for an evening’s entertainment.
“The plays of Sartre and Coward are forerunners of the modern avant-garde playwrights such as Eugene Ionesco,” WTiite explained. “Coward, for instance, spoofs middle class conformity like Ionesco, but is less imagistic with his characterizations.”
The plays are being directed by Ed Carnes, Anne de Rubertis, Lucille Liberatore and Les Blank. Tickets for the production go on sale Wednesday in the Ticket Office, 209 SU, and in the drama office, 3709 Hoover St. Cast is $1.
Stop Gap Theatre was recently hailed in the national Theatre Arts magazine as a center of stimulating drama in Los Angeles.
Pool Needs Lifeguards
Lifeguards are needed for the university swimming pool, which will be open daily for classes and recreation. The hours open for lifeguards are 10 and 11 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. daily and 12 to 1 p.m. and 3 to 5:30 p.m. daily except Friday.
Guards are ilso needed Tuesday and Thursday evenings from i to 9;30.
Applicants may work any a-mount of hours.
Pay will be *1 an hou \ All j lifeguards must hold a senior! Red Cross life saving certifi- J cate. Professor Harry Anderson will accept applications daily between 9 and 10 a.m. and 2:15 to 3 p.m. in P.E. 106.
MARIE H. NICHOLS
. . . criticism lecture j
The annual summer speaker1 series will begin today at 1:15 in FH 212 with a lectuie on “Contemporary Analysis and Criticism'’ by a professor of speech and rhetoric.
Marie Hockmuth Nichols, professor at the University of Illinois and editor of volume III of "A History aixi Criticism of American Public Address,” will deliver the lecture in two parts.; Today she will discuss the works of I. A. Richards, and tomorrow at 1:15 p.m. in FH 212 she will conduct a similar discussion of Kenneth Burke.
Dr. Nichols is presently associate editor of- both the Quarterly Journal of Speech and of Speech Monographs. She has engaged in research at the Huntington Library and the British Museum.
The lecture series will be sponsored by the department of speech and will include lectures and demonstrations by several contemporary authorities. Gen-| eral topic for the symposium is “Contemporary Literature and the Oral Interpreter."
Dr. Janet Bolton, assistant professor of Speech, who will coordinate the program with Professor William B. McCoard. noted that the series will include lectures by Robert Corrigan, professor of drama at Tulane University; Frederick Shroyer. moderator of “A Cavalcade of Books"; and Zeida Wolpe. clinical psychologist and author of “The Blinding Light."
USC Professor Frank Baxter will speak on contemporary poetry at one of the lectures, she added.
Two Scientists Join Peruvian Snake Search
Two USC herpetologists left ' for Peru Saturday on a scientific expedition sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum.
Dr. Richard Etheridge, postdoctoral fallow, and David Wake, National Science Foundation research fellow, are accompanying Dr. Fred Truxal. curator of entomology at the museum, on a field trip to eastern Peru. They are the first biologists invited to conduct work in this area, which is a tropieal forest of the Amazon basin.
Base camp for the expedition will be established on the Rio Pachitea, which flows into the Rio Ucayali, a large tributary of the Amazon.
Dr. Truxal stated that the group will be interested primarily in the collection of ia-sects, reptiles and amphib>ans for subsequent study at the museum and the university. He added that representative ?p*ci-mens of the insects collected will be displayed in the future in the museum's new HaJl of Insects.
The trio is flying to the field camp via Panama and Lima and expects to return to Los Angeles in early August.
El Rodeos Due Aug. 1
The delivery date for the 1961 El Rodeo, official student yearbook, has been tentatively set for Aug. I, Tim Reilly Jr., manager of student publications, announced recently *
Activity coupons for the yearbook will be valid until Sept. 30. Reilly said, so that the ordinary expiration date of July 30 will not affect yearbook distribution.
General sales of limited quantities of the yearbook will begin in October, with the price set at ST.50. Further yearbook information will be released through the Summer Trojan, Reilly said.
Graduate Grants Available
More than 200 fellowships for graduate study in 15 foreign! countries in 1962-63 will be of-! fered by foreign governments I and universities, the Institute of International Education announc-| ed recently.	1
The fellowships cover tuition costs and varying amounts for j living expenses for study in universities in Austria, Brazil. Canada. Denmark, France, Ger-many, Iran. Israel, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland. ! Rumania, Sweden and Switzerland.
Students applying for Austrian, Danish, French, German,
Israeli. Italian or Netherlands government awards may apply for a Fulbright Travel Grant to supplement their fellowships, the institute announced.
Two additional awards, offer-: ed by an American foundation.!
are for study or research in any country in the Far East. South or Southeast Asia, and Africa.
General eligibility require-1 ments include United States citi-! zenship. a bachelor's degree or its equivalent before departure. I foreign language ability and good health. A good academic record and demonstrated capacity fori
independent study are also necessary. Preference is given to applicants under 35 years of age who have not had extensive experience abroad. While married persons are eligible for most of the fellowships, the stipends are geared to the needs of single grantees.
A special meeting will be held in July for all students interested in applying by Dr. Dorothy McMahon, head of the Spanish department and local Fulbright advisor. Further information and application forms are available from the Institute. 1 E. 67th St., New York 21.