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NO. 5
LOS ANGELES 7, CALIFORNIA
MONDAY, JULY 9, 1956
ASSEMBLY
Downer
Revival
to Review of Theatre
“The Revival of the Theatre” will be the topic of tomorrow’s general assembly at 11 a.m. in 133 FH. Alan S. Downer, professor of English at Princeton University, will speak.
He will point out some of the reasons for the sudden
revival in the American theatre, both in the number of plays being presented and the number of people attending them.
“During the past year the qualities of good acting, directing, and designing have come together to produce an outstanding season," Downer said.
“This is the first time since the mid-1930’s that this combination has come together.” he said.
Mind Health, Spiritual Code Discussion Set
“Mental Hygiene and Spiritual Values” will be the subject of the second Religion and Education Series lecture to be given tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. in 133 FH.
Mrs. J. W. Pixley, teacher of English and senior problems at Venice High School, will be the lecturer. She has been a supervisor in the moral and spiritual education section of the Los Angeles City schools and helped develop the brochure called “Moral and Spiritual Values in Education.”
She has also been a teacher in several schools in Kansas and California and an English and social studies supervisor in the curriculum division of the L.A. City Schools.
Mrs. Pixley has collaborated in the publishing of “Mastery Grammar Guides,” “Looking Toward Marriage,” “You and Your Life.” and “The Words You Use.”
She received an AB from Washburn College. Topeka, Kansas, and her master degree from Columbia University. She has I also done graduate work at SC.
Some of the possible reasons he will cite as contributing to the revival are:
il) the discovery of ways of drawing the audience more closely into the action.
(2)	exploitation of the affective elements of the theatre, that is, using the skills of the actor, director, and playwright to the fullest, and
(3)	the change in stage settings.
“Not long ago the typical play had 4 actors set in a drawing room. The scene did not change from act to act. Today this has disappeared and each play has several changes in scenes,” Downer said.
Specific plays to which the professor will be refering are Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Miller’s “A View From the Bridge,” Inge’s “Bus Stop.” | and Gazzo’s “Hat Full of Rain.” i
Downer is teaching courses in the contemporary theater and a seminar of dramatic criticism , here this summer.
IR LECTURES—Professor Rodger Swearingen points to the area which will be discussed in the international relations series "Challenge and Response in Asia." Howard Boorman, from the State Department, will give the first lecture.
Official
Notice
Applications to take special make-up examinations to be given July 21 to remove marks of le, must be filed at the Office of the Registrar and $3 fees paid at the Office of the Bursar no later than Wednesday, July 11, 1956.
H. W. Patmore Registrar
HONORS
Townsend, Lundy Win Awards
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Professors Plan to Study in Milan, Vienna
Two SC faculty members have been awarded a Fulbright Faculty Grant.
The awards, for the academic year 1956-57, were made to Dr. Stanley R. Townsend, Graduate School assistant dean and to Dr. Robert D. Lundy, instructor in the department of English.
Dr. Townsend will conduct research in German literature at the University of Vienna at Vienna, Austria. Dr. Lundy will perform his lecturing duties in American Studies at Luigi Boc-
coni University of Commerce in Milan, Italy.
Dr. Lundy and Dr. Townsend are two of approximately 400 grantees who will do lecturing and research abroad under the provisions of the Fulbright Act (Public Law 584,	79	th Con-
gress). As provided by the Act, all candidates are selected by the Board of Foreign Scholarships, the members of which are appointed by the President of the United States. Lecturers and research' scholars are recommended for the Board’s consideration by the Conference Board of Associated Research Councils, which has been designated to receive and review the applications of candidates in these cate- DR. ROBERT D. LUNDY gories.	• • • goes to Milan
Study Abroad Scholarships Granted Nine
Six University of Southern California students and three members of the SC alumni have recently been honored by being awarded scholarships to continue their studies in foreign countries in the academic year 1956-57.
DR. STANLEY R. TOWNSEND
. . . qoes to Vienna
The following are the SC students, their field of study, and the location of the school: Richard A. Nies, sociology, University of Sydney in Australia; Bob J. Smith, architecture, Institute of Urbanism in Paris, France; Beverly M. Carl, international law, University of Chile (South America); Jack L. Pinkus, chemistry, State University of Groningen in the Netherlands; Ramiro Cortes, musical composition. Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, Italy; and Murray H. Bring, political science, Peter House of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
An alumnus, Georgia A. Laster, will study music at the Music Academy in Freiburg, Germany. All of the above awards were made through the Fulbright Act which yearly awards about 1000 grants for graduate study abroad.
Word was received from the Institute of International Education that Richard L. Merritt, class of SC June ’55, has been awarded a scholarship at the University of Berlin, Germany, Another SC graduate, George W. Kent, has been granted a fellow- | ship by the Ford Foundation’s 1 Foreign Area Training Fellow- , ship Program.
Diplomat Will Give Asia Talk
A series of seven weekly free public lectures on the theme, “Challenge and Response in Asia,” will be started Wednesday at 2:15 p.m. in 133 FH by the SC School of International Relations.
Howard L. Boorman, one of the U.S. Department of State’s top authorities on Communist China, will give the first lecture entitled, “The Mos-cow-Peking Axis — A New Dimension.”
Boorman, who is co-author of a book soon to be published on this subject, is presently directing a research project at Columbia University on men and politics in modern China. He is on j leave there from the State Department.
Boorman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Yale University program in Far Eastern studies.
Other lectures in the series will be:
July 18 — “The Asian Policies of the Moscow-Peking Axis,” by Dr. Rodger Swearingen and Dr. Theodore H. E. Chen, both of
SC.
July 25 — “Asian Responses to Moscow and Peking Initiative,” by Abraham M. Halpern of The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica: Paul Langer, SC; Mrs. Daw Mya Sein, University of Rangoon, and Tiburcio C. Baja, recently of the Philippine Embassy in Indonesia.
August 8 — “Collective Security vs. Collective Peace.” by George Taylor, University of Washington.
August 13 — “The Challenge of Asia to United States Policy,” by Kenneth T. Young Jr., U. S. Department of State.
August 15 — “Asian Implications of Recent Soviet Policies." by Harold H. Fisher. San Francisco State College.
August 22 — “The United States and British Responses to the Challenge.” by Dr. Ross Berkes, director. SC School of International Relations.
Death. Takes SC Trustee
Private funeral services will be held this morning at Wee Kiiiv o’ The Heather, Forest Lawn, for Stephen M. Griffith, 75, SC trustee since 1944, who died of a heart attack Friday afternoon.
Mr. Griffith was president and co-founder of Griffith Co., general contractors, and a director of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. and the Farmers and Merchants National Bank. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and came to Los Angeles in 1907. He is survived by his wife, Della, and a son, Ben, executive vice president of the company.