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VOL. IX
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1959
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Lecky To Discuss Tragedy
Professor Finds Visiting Job Fun
By JOE SALTZMAN Summer Trojaa Editor
Dr. Lewis V. Thomas, a Princeton professor who has lived and taught in the Middle East and who is now a visiting professor at SC’s Summer School, feels quite at home in Southern California.
While he was compiling his notes for his lecture on
, “Contemporary American Policy
One-Act Plays Premiere in Gap Theatre
Three unusual one-act plays
Decline' Premature Answer to Problem
“Tragedy: it focuses serious attention upon one or more instances of human suffering and tries to make that suffering important and intelligible/'
That definition of tragedy is the one Dr. Eleazer Lecky
ranging from serious drama to; wU1 use ln his lecture today “The Decline of Tragedy?” at
Toward Iraq.” scheduled for Monday, 3:15 p.m. in 129 FH, the visiting authority on the Middle East said that Los An-
Student, Grad Affairs Begin
AH students and alumni activities are now being officially coordinated for the first time in the history of SC with the arrival of Francis D. Tappaan, new vice president for student and alumni affairs.
Directors of student activities,
admissions, athletics and alumni affairs will allv> report to the new vice president, will will coordinate their reports with substantial programs.
Tappaan, all-American football player at SC in 1929, was a graduate from SC. He has had a distinguished career as an attorney in both Washington | on lectures, conferences, class D C. and Los Angeles, and j notes, business appointments and served as a naval officer in j of course, swimming in the pool, both World War II and Korea, i	(Continued	on	Page	2)
TV, MOVIES TO WAIT
high comedy will premiere tonight at 8:30 in Stop Gap Theatre and will continue its opening run Friday and Saturday.
The plays’ cast comes from students in the experimental and High School Workshop. The workshop is under the direction of Harold Salisbury.
Student directors are Lewis
geles reminded him a great deal
, . .	-m• jji xr ^	I	Carlino,	Roy	Sorrels,	and	Lou
of his former Middle Last home	.	,
away from home.”
“When we first came to Los Angeles, the climate and general land features reminded us so much of the Middle East, that my family and I were looking for Turks and Moslems in village squares rather than a large industrial center.”
A permanent teacher at Princeton, a visiting professor at SC and a man who has just returned from touring Europe, Asia and of course, the Middle East, Dr. Thomas out of mere necessity, must bring the home and family to the location.
The rest of his day is spent
DR
ELEAZER LECKY
, tragedy today
Students See Self Speech
Actor Paul Comi Returns To Stage for Harvest'
Paul Comi, professional tele- role then his recent achieve-vision and cinema star, summed nients, Comi said, “When one is
up his return to the "legitimate theater” in Lewis John Carlino’s “Dark Harvest,” (July 23, 24 and 25, 8:30 curtain in Bovard Auditorium), with a fast, adequate reply:
“Legitimate theater is the on
working the film medium, one does not have the time to delve properly into character and character-motivation.”
“His character is very openly drawn, and he is forced to work in terms of generalities,” he ex-
ly commercial medium which j Pained, provides the actor with a dimen- ;	This is one oi the reasons
sion of characterization which !	Pa,1s if1 cinema and tele-
neither cinema nor television
has the time to cultivate/'
Playing the romantic lead in the original production of “Harvest,“ Comi said he took the role because of his recently intensified interest in directing.
He said that he felt that working on another rc^e under the direction of SC’s Herbert M. Stahl would help to answer some oi his questions regarding the need for better actor-director relationships, particularly in cinema direction, an area which he believes is grossly undeveloped “Foreign directors have tremendous respect for our technical achievement in the cinema, despite the superiority of such foreign films as ‘Panther Pan-challi,’ ‘Rashomon/ and ‘The Bicycle Thief,’ ” Comi said.
“However/' he continued, “they are amazed at the fact that director-actor combined creativeness is so rarely utilized.”
Getting back to his reasons for accepting a less impressive
I vision are so frequently type cast For the ser ious actor, some
Weiss. In addition to two plays (
by well-known contemporary
American playwrights, the bill; includes an original play by Carlino, “A Moment of Glass.”
Some of Carlino’s other plays which have received their premiere in Stop Gap Theatre are j
“Brick and the Rose/’ and “Junkyard.” Carlino’s “Dark special premiers in Bovard Auditorium as the “mains tage” production of the summer.
The Experimental and High School Workshop Theatre is now in its fifth year. Its enrollment comes from the high schools of Southern California ' as well as the SC student body.
Production Manager Bill White -said that seating often
poses a problem so Summer Nearly 150 freshman high students are urged to come ear- | school students, all 14-years of
ly*_______________age and all having IQs around
170, attended a “Know Thyself” symposium yesterday.
Dr. John Wesley Robb, associate professor of religion; Dr. Thomas E. Lasswell, associate professor of sociology; and Dr. german Harvey, associate pro-j fessor of psyschology were ! speakers at the event.
Dr Glenn Wilcox, associate director of admissions in charge .....	,	.	.	,	,	of the high school and college
bi it}	and	of continuing to de-	, re]ations office, was moderator,
velop	and	refine both	analysis	-plie program was arranged by
and technique. Comi concluded. Miss Catheine Save of South About the SC author	Carlino.	Gate Hjgh Schoo]
whose original play “Dark Har- —------------------------------------------
3:15 in a new lecture room. 133 FH.
As to his question, ‘The Decline of Tragedy?,” Dr. Lecky maintains that Tragedy is still possible. The 56-year-old professor of English at SC said, in a pre-lecture statement, .that there are various people around the country who maintain that in America today, tragedy is not fashionable.
“With the production of Archibald MacLeish’s “J.B.., a play based on	the story of	Job, it
has	been	said again	that	in
America today, tragedy is out.** he said.
“However, it seems to me ! that	the	traditional	idea	of
tragedy is an over-simplification/' he declared.
“Tragedies do not necessarily deal	with	the gigantic;	nor	do
they necessarily end with an affirmation," he said. ‘‘Using the dramatic form, helps us to understand human suffering in a better light/'
Dr. Lecky said that he would dewte most of his talk to a reexamination of some of the elements of tragedy. He said he wQuld discuss “J.B./; and that he would also give a few observations on the recently produced work of O’Neil, Miller and Williams.
Having* been a professor at SC since 1938. Dr. Lecky has done extensive research in the field of semantics and has contributed to numerous national media on the subject.
He earned his AB from the University o f Pittsburgh i n 1923 anud his LL.B degree there in 1927. In 1924 he received MA honors from Harvard University and in 1938 his PhD degree from Cornell University.
vest,” is stirring quite a bit of attention around town, Comi said, “After I had worked on ‘The Brick and the Rose’ (a past Carlino original play) it seemed only natural to combine efforts with him by playing a role in his new play.”
Comi worked with Carlino regular	legitimate-theater	work	while he was a student at SC in ences and similarities between
is	one	real	way	of	achieving	sta-	drama and speech.
Rafael Tells of Diffe rences Between Educational Plans
Dr. David D. Rafael told of • States yesterday at the Faculty his impressions on the differ- Luncheon.
In his luncheon speech, “A
PAUL COMI
. . new role
A graduate of SC in 1958, Comi was active both in drama and in speech. While studying here, he was present of the National Collegiate Players and for three consecutive years won the Best Actor Award ‘in Drama.
These awards were given his performances of Oedipus in “Oedipus Rex/' Mr. Anthrobus in “The Skin Of Our Teeth;“ and Macduff in “Macbeth.”
Comi won sweepstakes in interpretation for three years in the forensic program, Department of Speech. He graduated magna cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Pi.
Since his graduation, Comi has been active in a wide variety of professional and semi-professional dramatic productions.
He has played in motion pictures such as “The Young (Continued on Page 3)
Official
Nlolsce
Students who have deferred tuition accounts for the six weeks session only, are reminded that the final payment is ,dtie on July 13, 1959. Payment made after July 13 will be subject to the $5.00 late payment fee.
Payments may be made in person at the Office of the Bursar in Owens Hall. Cheeks and money orders may be mailed, marked to the attention of the Bursar’s Office.
William D. Robertson Ilireetor of Collections
the educational systems of En- Long Way from Sauchiehall
land, Scotland and the United Street, Dr. Rafael, professor
and senior lecturer in Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow Scotland, said that he enjoyed the experience of teaching Summer Session students at SC and then told of the fundamental differences between the educational systems.
He has had direct experience in all of these countries and his opinions were enjoyed by the lunching group.
Professor Rafael was born in Liverpool England and received his BA, MA and PhD from Oxford University.
He has had experience in government service and after the war was invited as visiting professor at Otago University in New Zealand where he served one year. In 1949 he returned to Britain and assumed his present position on the Glasgow faculty.