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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1953
NO. 3
IT'S NO 'PiCNIC' — Bill White, production manager for William Inge's play "Picnic" which opens Thursday night in Bovard Auditorium, shows the intricate lighting
schemes to one of the students who works backstage. The play will run for three nights. Tickets are $1 and may be purchased at the SC Ticket Office.
Sex Secondary in Picnic s' SC Version, Says Director
SC’s version of “Picnic” either the movie version or declared director Herbert M.
“Since the producers of play were mainly interested phasized sex.” he said.
“I think s x is only secondary: in this play. I am mote con-c erne d v. ith the educational forces in a good drama, and feel we shou d learn something from it.
Better or Worv?
“In this play Inge is saying that things happen in life, and no one knows if those things are for better or for worse. “The characters in Picnic' are all thrown together, yet none oi them real'ze what is happening. Inge is also saying that in life some people marry for- convenience or conformity and some marry because they really lie-long together. He does not try to say which is right or which is wrong.*’ Stahl reported.
Xo Moralizing Dr. Stahl maintains that Inge pinpointed the play when the author said “I haven't moralized on these people nor garnered from their lives anything that might rightly be cal ed a theme, unless it possibly is that love and romance cannot always be dictated to by ideals.
“Inge sees the need for fulfillment in all people wherever they may be,*’ said Dr. Stahl “In Picnic he uses as a subject matter unfulfilled womanhood He chooses as his seting a small town in Kansas. The author was born and raised in a small Kansan town, so he is quite familiar with the people he writes about.
Established Ideas “Although in a smalt town people are more apt to be gov-1 erned by the established ideals of a community, it may not al-, ways make for the kind of fulfillment needed. Nothing is wrong with idealism unless it is confined to a strait jacket. Stahl remarked. Although in this play we have a community that by intent adheres to these accepted ideals, there remains much in the
will be much subtler than the original Broadway play, Stahl, yesterday, the movie and the original in box office, they overem-
.ives of these characters that remains chaotic.
“For example,” he said, “in one of the two households in which the action takes place, we have Mrs. Potts who ran away and married and later had her marriage annulled by her invalid mother. Her cranky mother’ now dominates her life. Although the mother is an important character we never meet her. This is where Inge makes very effective use of ofi'-stage voices.
Fat and Forty
“In the other household,” said Stahl, “lives Flo Owens, a widow in her 40’s who has tw'o daughters. Madge and Millie. Madge, beautiful and restless yearns to do something w'ith her life. Boarding at the Owens home is Rosemary Sydney, an a most old-maid schoolteacher.
Dr. Stahl pointed out how Hal Carter enters this web of unfulfilled womanhood, and how they each, in their own way, grab for the world of masculinity.
“When Hal Carter enters the picture we see these women as they really are,” said Stahl. “He is no good, handsome, lithe and uncouth, but nevertheless ingratiating with a brawny virility that is disturbing and fascinating.
Official
Notice
Students w ho expect to complete requirements for degrees in either Summer Session should check with the Senior Department in the Registrar’s •Office.
H. W. Patmore 1 Registrar
SEER AND SAINT'
Tomorrow's Morality Discussed Today
Gerald Heard, one of the world’s few recognized seers and saints, will conclude his series of lectures at SC today when he discusses “Morality in the World of Tomorrow/' at 2:15 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
Heard, who has won wide acclaim for his m^ny books
and lectures, spoke on “Psy-1 chologv in the World of Tomorrow,’’ and “Religion in the
URA Planning Camping Trip
World of Tomorrow.” in his two previous speeches. His first lecture had	such a large	audience
that his	second talk	was pre-
sented in Bovard to accommo-A ten day trip beginning Au- date large crowd, gust 4, of camping, fishing, hik-	Acutely	Aware
ing and	nature	study is being of- Heard	has been described as
fered by the University Recrea- one of the most acutely aware tion	Association.	religious	men of - this	age. He
Total cost of the outing is $85 has exerted considerable influ-which includes food, packing ence in the fields of literature, service both ways, saddle horses, sociology and anthropology. This pack mules and professional influence has been reflected in
j guides during the 10 days.
The pack trip will be in the High Sierra mountains and there will be expert instruction for
the works of both Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood.
Often praised by clergymen. Heard has written several re-
those w'ho wish to leran about ligious books. Among them are
Car Coarse Is Given In
Postsesslon
A special seminar in driver education, Education 1*11 .332,
w'ill be taught the last half of the post session, August 18-29. Dean John 1). Cooke announced yesterday.
Dr. Marland K. Strasser, the instructor, is the Field Representative of the Accident Prevention Department, Association of Casualty and Surety Companies, San Francisco
Need Teachers It is anticipated by many educators that in the coming school year, there will be 210,-000 students receiving classroom instruction in California. This increase in the number of students receiving driver education and training is creating an even larger demand for trained teachers.
The need for more adequate course offerings to prepare teachers for driver education has become increasingly evident.
Present Inadequate In early June the Western States Conference on Teacher Preparation in Safety and Driver Education, conducted in San Francisco, brought together representatives of 12 states, including persons from seven state departments of education and 26 colleges and universities. It was their conclusion that present teacher preparation programs were inadequate in many respects.
Regular Offerings For many years SC has recognized the need for properly prepared teachers in driver education, and has conducted institutes, seminars and regular class offerings.
Since 1955 they have offered Course 532 which is a seminar designed specifically to meet the needs of trained and experienced teachers of both driver education and driver training.
mountaineering in the back country wilderness. Campfire programs and entertainment will be provided every evening.
The group will leave Mammoth dent; and Is God in History?
Lakes, over Mammoth Pass to	Mature	Culture
the Muir Trail and then go winiard L s	dean	of
south along the trail to Cascade	the	Harvard	Divinitv School,
Valley where a permanent camp	beUeves	that	Heard	¡s	ma„
will be established on Fish
Trainings on the Life of the Spirit. The Creed of Christ; Code of Christ; Preface to Prayer; Eternal Gospel; Is God Evi-
! Creek.
The trip will be co-educational and is for all faculty, students and friends. All camping equipment will be provided. Personal
of mature culture, of many contacts and has a keen under-
needs, such as sleeping bags and air mattresses may be rented at a nominal fee.
Each camper will share a saddle horse with one other person for the entire period. Professional packers will pack all food, supplies and equipment to the base camp. Saddle horses and pack mules will be available
for daily and overnight side trips to Lake of the Lone Indian. Marilyn Lakes, Silver Pass and Tully Hale.
Reservations should be made at the URA office, 112 PE by July 30. A deposit of $20 must be paid at the time reservations are made. A health examination is necessary to be sure that each camper is physically fit for high altitude camping.____________
Official
Notices
Applications for the Ph.D. language test are due this week in the Graduate School Office, Administration 204.
The tests will be given next week. The French test will be held on July 30 at 2:15, the German test July 31 at 7 p.m., the Spanish test August 1 at 2:11. All tests will be held in 229 FH.
John D. Cook
Dean, Graduate School
. . . HearJ
standing of the modern mind.
“He feels deeply the spiritual poverty and shrunken state of our modern world, and our need for a rebirth of personal religion,” said Sperry.
“There is a simple directness of all that he thinks and says. He stirs both the imagination and the conscience of those to whom he speaks. His indubitable intellectual skills are supplemented by a touch of authentic saintliness which gives to what he says the authority of the prophet and the true mystic."
England Born
Born in London England, in 1889. Heard studied history at Cambridge and graduated with honors. He worked with the founder of the Agricultural Cooperative movement in Ireland, 1919-1923. and in England, 1923-1927. He was a commentator on scientific advancement over the British Broadcasting Company, 1930-1934.
He came to the United States in 1937 and lectured for the New School of Social Research in New York City. In 19>4 he received a two-year Bol ingen Foundation Fellowship. He lectured for the Vedanta Society in Hollywood three years ago.