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:>tter. who once taught a class in musical ar-l at SC, will conduct the 700-voice massed plus the A Capella Choir and the Trojan Sym-Band at the May 16 event, e conductor will lead the Songfest group in s Bustin' Out All Over ’ and “You’ll Never Walk for the show’s finale.
>tter. who was a judge at last year’s Hollywood roduction, presently records for Warner Bros, s. He has been in the popular music business lost 35 years, after getting his start with the mp band in 1925.
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sity of North Carolina in 1925. He had been studying piano since he was seven years old, and thus naturally drifted into the collegiate band that Hal Kemp formed.
It was a six-man outfit with Kemp doubling as maestro and first saxophonist. Ben Williams and Saxie Dowell also playing saxophones, Skinney Ennis as drummer, Harry Pond as banioist and Trotter as pianist. All the members were freshmen except Kemp, who was a junior.
Afraid that their musical aspirations might interfere with their college work, the band members ditched the latter but continued to live in a fraternity house and play campus dates and any others they could get.
After 11 years with Kemp, who headed one of the big bands in the class with Glen Miller and the Dor-
seys, Trc/ter joined Bing Crosby. He worked with Crosby for 17 years, then took the assignment as musical director of the “George Gobel Show” in 1954.
Trotter, who is currently arranging the finale for Songfest, aiso scored music for such movies as “Pennies from Heaven,” starring Crosby.
The maestro, born in Charlotte, N.C. in 1908, worked with American and Brunswick Records while with Kemp and Crosby, and now has two albums out for Warner Bros. They are “A Thousand and One Notes’ and “Escape to the Magic Mediterranean.” Trotter grew up in the south “with a deep respect for the good things to eat in life and a deeper love for his fellow man,'’ say his friends. He is known as a connoisseur of good food, having traveled the world over in search of rare and interesting comestibles. Trotter enjoys discussing records, food and an-
tiques—he owns antique shop in the art center at Laguna Beach called “John Scott Trotter Antiques.”
And. in line with his regard for good food he “collects small restaurants,” ones where he knows he can obtain an outstanding meal.
Twenty singing groups will take part in this year's songfest production, competing in six divisions. Dr. Norman Topping will be the official host for the event.
Members of the Songfest Promotional Committee will meet tomorrow in 418 SU. Every campus living group should be represented, Stewart said.
The overture for this year's Songfest will be a history of past Songfests told in music. The music, written by SC student Jim Hopkins, uses the best numbers from each of the five past Sweepstakes-winning entries since the show started in 1954.
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Banquet To Open International Fair, Industrial Exhibit
KloinSmid will pronounce the invocation ai Ihe Calfair World Announcement Banquet slated for 8 p.m. Saturday at the Beverly Hillon Hotel.
The banquet will serve as a curtain raiser for the California International Trade Fair and Industrial Kxposition which opens ai 6 p.m. Saturday at Great Western Kxhihit Center. Sania Ana Freeway at Atlantic Boule-
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Oilier distinguished guests at the rvcnt will include Gov. Ed-mund Brown, Mayor Poulson. Concrossman Gordon McDonough Mayor George W. Davis of Reverlv Hills. and Msyor Raymond Kealer of Lone Beach.
Featured speaker will be former president Harry S. Truman. Mrs. Truman will share the head table with her husband.
During their s1a\ in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Truman will bo the house guests of Fdwin \V. Paulcv. oil industry leader and philanthropist.
Donald P. Loker. banquet chairman, will serve as master of ceremonies, and Sinner Kath-rvn Grayson will provide entertainment. Reservations for the banouet should be made imined-
Bible Issues To Be Told
Play To Feature
Interpretive Scenery
A raised platform, a bare tree and a floor full of dead leaves make up the scenery for Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” a tragicomedy in two acts which opens Thursday at the Stop Gap Theater at 8:30.
This stage set is the first effort of Tom Costello, a junior majoring in drama. The platform is used to produce an isolated feeling to give the play more impact, he said. “The colors that have been used are black and white to carry out the symbolism found within the play and also to leave room for several interpretations.”
Besides designing the set, he takes the part of Vladimir, a man waiting for truth. Cos-
tello feels.
The characters in the play are waiting to have the void in their lives filled. This void is personified by Godot.
“Godot is fulfillment and he is in a wav God —not God the Father but everything you think of when going to heaven.” he said. Costello, interpreting what the character meant to him. Thus fulfillment to Vladimir is truth and to Fatroagon, another character in the play, it is physical satisfaction. he said.
The cha&acters wait, instead of searching for Godot, because he must come to them. They never think of searching and they don’t know how to go about it since they do everything in the wrong way.
Costello continued by saying that “if Godot were to come, their lives would be ruined because they are fatalists.
“They go all around him without finding him,” he said.
The going around in a circle is part of the symbolism which can be carried out to mean the cycle of life. There is no end and no beginning, he said, which indicates the influence of Oriental philosphies and religions.
“The cycle can be found in the tree which first appears bare and then in the second act has three leaves. The dead leaves on the ground show the completion of the cycle,” he said.
Costello has made Ihe platform curve to add more em-
phasis to this in the play.
When the characters come close to realizing what they must do to find Godot they
don’t like it and so the moment of finding Godot never comes. They are child-like and then suddenly rational, but they never stay with reality.
“They say things without saying anything; they try to do things without ever doln^ anything; and they go places with out moving,” he said.
The costumes, designed by John Blankenchip, assistant professor in drama, are variations of formal tuxedos.
“They are remnants of people they represent by ‘gone’ grandeur, and the variances in styles reflect each character.”
explained Blankenchip.
Make-up by Dick Anderson will be mainly clown-white. Estroagon and Vladimir ha\« happy and sad faces. The other characters will have the white faces with little other detail added.
“The make-up is quite abstract. just as the play is.” Anderson said.
To give greater emphasis to the dissolation and bleakness, the lighting by Bill White will be in black and white, as are the sets, the costomes, and the makeup.
The play will be presented Friday and Saturday nights. Tickets are on sale in the drama office and the Bovard box office for 51.
Daily Trojan Photo by Dave Gallagher
GUEST CONDUCTOR—John Scctt Trotter will lead the Grand Finale at this year's Songfest in the Hollywood Bowl. He follows in the long line of famous conductors that have appeared before. Les Baxter headed the group last year.
Trojan Interest Shown In SC Drive Donations
Tn¡Ah“t Van Alstyne To Describe
Europe Today British Views of Revolution
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“If ihe Resurrection of Christ v oi e not a historical occurcne?. ihon we Christians were cer-lainlv talkincr a lot of nonsense this last Sunday,” Chaplain
“The motiv?ting lorce and the message of the earlv Church
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More than 100 students have signed up to be donors in SCs annual blood drive to be held next week, announced chairman Bill Steigervvalt yesterday.
Sign-up booths for the drive will be localed in the Student Union. Founders Hall and the Annex until next Monday.
“The interest shown by students was tremendous when 100 nconle signed up the first day.” Steigerwalt said. “We hope this enthusiasm will continue and make the dripe a really worth while project. We hope to have at lea^t 1000 si^nea up by Monday,” he said.
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Any person between the a<res of 21 and 60. weighing at least 110 oounds and in good health is eligible to donaie blood. Unmarried oersons between the a^res of 18 and 21 may secure a "Minor Re'ease Form” to he signed by thoir parents. Release forms will be available at the
sign-un hoolhs.
A short physical examination will be given to each donor before he donates the blood. Only fifteen minutes will be re-ouired for the taking of the blood, and free orange juice and
| coffee will be given by the Red Cross to the donor afterwards.
Blood can work miracles in the saving of a life but only if
it is available in sufficient quantities when and where it is needed. Steigerwalt pointed out.
In a recent case in St. Louis, 15 blood donors were required for an “open heart” operation on a little boy who was born with a heart defect. Fifteen B-negative donors supplied fresh blood needed to operate the heart-lung machine which took over the vital circulatory process while the child’s heart was exposed and undergoing surgery.
Mother Saved
Equallv dramatic was the saving of a mother in Wiscon-son who suffered a near-fatal hemorrhage when her fifth child was born dead. Five transfusions of whole blood did not stop the bleeding, but four units of fib-rinogin. the concentrated clotting element in the blood, did the job. One pint of blood has less than one percent of fibrinogen in its composition, so it required this single element from 50 blood donations to make the four units that saved a life.
Trojan Intellectual Emphasis Week To Be Outlined by Administrators
Perspectives of Europe in relation to the world community will be established and discussed by the director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London when he speaks on campus today at 1:15 in 133 FH.
Professor Geoffery Barra-clough, who is on a lecture tour of Canada and the United States, will examine "Europe and the Wider World in the 19th and 20th Centuries” this afternoon. The lecture is sponsored i by the Graduate School.
Dr. Richard Van Alstyne, professor of history and international relations, said that Professor Barraclough is not a historian of the conventional order when he referred to him as “a stimulating man of ideas.”
In addition to being director of the institute, Ihe visiting lecturer is an author and world traveler. His publications include history books and literary supplements for the London Times. He is an officer in the Historical Society of Great Britain.
He has come to the United States from a lecture tour of West Germany. His n e x t sneaking engagements include discussions at Pomona College and Northwestern University. Yesterday he spoke at Stanford University.
A t'-'i honoring Professor Barraclough and his assistant, Rachael Wall, will be eiven in the Graduate Lounge following his lecture.
The War for American Independence as the British saw it will be examined when Dr. Richard W. Van Alstyne. professor of history and international relations, delivers the 26th annual research lecture of the Graduate School at a dinner tomorrow night.
Dr. Van Alstyne, who will speak in the Foyer of Town and Gown, describes “The Gathering Storm of 1776” as part of a large international conflict with Britain in the middle.
“The purpose of the war, as it developed, was to encircle Great Britain and reduce her to the level of a second-rate power,” Dr. Van Alstyne said.
In the United States, the war generated three movements in addition to independent. They were all closely in-
ter-connected and aimed at the creation of a new American empire or national state.
“The first of these movements was the quest for foreign alliances, chiefly with France, to he followed or accomplished by alliances with Spain. Prussia and other European states whose jealousies of Britain could be stimulated.
“The second was a" movement to conquer or absorb all of the British Empire’s holdings in North America. The third was maritime, pointing at the expansion of the merchant marine, the capture of trade outlets in Western Europe and the creation of a navy able to dominate the waters of the Western Atlantic,” he said.
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that from the outset the Americans were heavily dependent for supplies upon Continental Europe, and they seriously considered an alliance with France very early in the struggle. France, on her part, embarked on a rearmament program, and her preparations for war were watched eagerly from this side of the Atlantic.
“The movement for alliance, in fact, took shape in the colonies before the movement for independence. While it is too much to say that independence was decided upon in order to persuade France to enter an alliance, nevertheless the documents show that the Americans discussed the prospects for an alliance before they seriously considered independence. They concluded
that a declaration of independence from Britain was practically the only way by which an alliance with France could be obtained,” he stated.
“Another factor of major importance in convincing the Americans of their dependence upon France was the failure of their invasion of Canada. High hopes attended this eam-paing. and its failure, which became apparent by June 1776. was taken hard. On the other hand, had the Americans succeeded in conquering and holding Canada, it is unlikely that they would have continued to press France for an alliance,” he explained.
Dr. Van Alstyne said that Britain was, from the outset, at a serious disadvantage because the war’s principal theater was the Atlantic Ocean.
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Dr. Cordon and Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer. educational 1 vice president, will open Intellectual Emnhasis Week with a talk on “Education for What?” Monday ai 3:30 p.m. in 133 FH.
On Tuesday ihe topic “Russia and Co-Existence” will be discussed at 3:30 p.m. in 133 FH by Dr. Roger Swearingen, associate rrofessor of history and international relations, Dr. | Theodore H. E. Chen, profes-cor of Aciatic studies, and Mo- j hinder Eedi. an author and j graduate student in international i Hat ions.
SC and UCLA debate teams will tangle Tuesday night at 7 j in 229 FH on “Private vs. Pub-
lic Education.” Dr. J. Wesley Robb, associate professor of religion. and Dr. James A. Peterson, marriage counselor and associate professor of sociology and general studies, will talk on “Adult Values Now or Later?” Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in 229 FII. Also on the Wednesday program will be a speech at 7 p.m. in 229 FH by Dr. Frank C. Baxter. English professor, on “Culture in Modern Society.”
“America — 1988” is the topic of Thursday’s discussion at 3:30 p.m. in 133 FH by Dr. Russell L. Caldwell, associate professor of general studies and history, and Dr. Paul D. Salt-man, assistant professor of biochemistry and nutrition.
Thursday evening at 7 in 133 FH, representatives from industry, the armed forces and science will speak ©n “The Atom’s Place in Today's World.”
SC Seminar To Get Tips
Wendell B. Miller, college relations supervisor for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, will lead a discussion on “Taking an Interview” tonight at 7:30 in j 229 FII.
The seminar, sponsored by the professional commerce fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi, will give j the prospective interviewee tips on how he should conduct himself during an interview and some general information he should know for an interview, j said Dr. Edwin Robbins, professor of finance at SC.
Miller, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, j has conducted interviews at SC for several years. He, along with oilier interviewers, has noticed | 1hat SC seniors s :m to lack ihe proper techniques of inter-! view taking.	j
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Next time you make a phone j call from any of the 35 campus/ booths, be on the lookout for large groups of thin, spring- , happy students — they’re liable ! to get in the booth with you.
College students from South Africa to Southern California, plagued by spring fever, are piling into telephone booths of assorted sizes in hopes of setting a new inter-collegiate record and paying homeage to the season. .
The craze began in South Africa, where a school boasted that 25 students had crammed into a booth. Students at London’s University College set out to beat the record but could on- j ly squeeze 18 into Ihe broad- ■ style British booih.
A few days later, undergraduates of England's Hatfield Technical College jammed 19 into a booth. The British phone booth has an internal volume of about 50 cubic feet, including the telephone, however.
American colleges then joined the battle, each playing by its own rules. One MIT student boasted that “here we think and calculate about the job. The mathematics of it are challenging.”
They managed to “scientifically” stack 19 students into an J
oversized fraternity house booth and make a phone call to satisfy British rules.
Modesto Junior College last week claimed a new world's record as they packed 33 into a regulation outdoor style booth (34 x 34 x 84).
The champs admitted that they were all “more or less” standing up in the booth which
was placed horizontally on its back with the doors removed. The booth cracked, however, when the 33rd student wedged in.
UCLA students have also been playing sardine but were unable to better Modesto’s record. After two attempts, the Bruins were only able to cram 14 into their booth. Their try did have
U.S. Economic Counsel To Lecture at Banquet
Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier, chairman of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers. will speak at the second annual formal dinner of SC's Commerce Associates tomorrow al 7 p.m. in the Embassy room of the Hotel Ambassador.
His subject will be “The Performance of the American Economy.”
The dinner will be given by the trustees and president of SC honoring Die officers and members of the group of alumni and friends of the SC School of Commerce who each give S100 a year to support the school.
Dr. Saulnier, a teacher and research economist, has been ?»
consultant to President Eisenhower’s economic council since 1953. a member of the group since 1955 and its chairman since 1957. He is a former special adviser to the hoard of governors of the Federal Reserve System, and has been director of the financial research program of the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City since 194S.
A graduate of Middlebury College, Tufts College and Columbia University, Dr. Saulnier taught economics at Columbia from 1934 to 1949. He is currently on leave from the faculty of Barnard College. the Columbia branch for undergraduate women.
an original twist however—two of the 14 were coeds.
Competitors agree that th« best phone-boothing technique is to round up undersized undergraduates, preferably freshmen, and put them under the supervision of a tough master crammer.
Historically speaking, springtime pranks by college students started when Athenian undergraduates tried giving Socrates a hot sandle in the market place.
Several years ago an Annapolis sophomore was expelled for what the records termed “conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline for re-wiring clocks, telephones, etc.”
The rpidshipman. an expert in mechanics and electricity, managed to tap into electrical circuits, rig up a control switch in his room to stop the campus clocks when he was late for formation. ring bells to end classes early and halt elevators between floors.
His dismissal resulted from an investigation which came about after the officer of the day was trapped between floors in an elevator as a result of the midshipman's ingenious antics.
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