Southern C^ô>l i-Porr^ï«a
SUMMER TROJAN
Vol. XII
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, July 25, 1957
No. 9
Comedy Opens in Bovard
Weekend Run
Starts Tonight
The drama department’s major summer production opens tonight in Bovard Auditorium for a three performance run. “The Chalk Garden,” Enid Bagnold’s three-act comedy, will be seen each evening at 8:30.
According to Eric Bentley, one of the nation’s leading drama critics, “The Chalk ~
Must Restrain Israeli Action Winder Warns
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CALM BEFORE STORM-Betty Van Werden, right, introduces her niece, Susan Anderson, to a rather severe looking Gretchen
Kanne in an early scene from "The Chalk Garden." The Enid Bagnold play opens tonight at 8:30 in Bovard Aud.
Padua Hills Trip Set for Tomorrow
University Recreation Association takes its annual trip to Padua Hills tomorrow afternoon. The group of SC students will go to Padua Hills to see the Mexican Players perform and to eat Mexican food in a scenic atmosphere.
The Trojan visitors will leave from the PE building at 4:30 p.m. Total cost of $5.50 includes transportation, dinner f and the play.
Padua Institute is a non-profit organization formed to present Spanish and Mexican songs, customs, arts and traditions of Spanish California and Mexico.
According to the Institute, it affords an opportunity for training and self expression to talented young Mexicans. Many of the plays are written and produced by the students there.
Operatics Readied by Musicians
Although the dialogue is mostly in Spanish, the audience will be able to follow the plot through the action.
SC students will be served Mexican dishes by the actors who also do ushering and stage design for the play. After the play there will be the “Jamaica,” or Summer Outdoor festival, a typical Mexican fiesta with gay songs, dances, games and refreshments.
The group will return to campus around midnight.
According to Hall, reservations must be made immediately by contacting the URA office, 112 PE.
The originally scheduled deep sea fishing trip on the URA calendar for next Saturday had to be cancelled, according to HalL, because <;f the lack of early interest in the trip. A certain number of reservations had to be mads b> a certain date before the school would give its approval. This goal was not reached before it wss too late.
Opera excerpts will be sung in English by School of Music students in Bovard auditorium at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday. These free concerts will be directed by Dr. Walter Ducloux, head of the opera department, and WTallace Berry, assistant.
Sets and costumes will be the work of Gaiy Campbell. Hans Beer a’d Frank Moyer will be p,ai ists.
A scene from Act IV of “La Giceonda” by Ponchielli, in an KngMsh translation by Dr. Ducloux. will be sung by Joy Carroll, Maralin Niska, Ray Arbi-zu, Marion Oles and Patricia Pettefer.
Act II from “Fra Diavolo,” by Auber, translated by John Gutman, will be performed by Gail Bradley, Louise Pixa, James Gibbons, Patricia Pettefer, Linda Trotter, Albert S. Golbert, Milton Briggs Carl Schultz, and Ray Arbizu.
A scene from Act II of “The Silent Woman” by Strauss, translated by Dr. Ducloux, will feature Carl Schi'ltz, Marion Oles, Milton Briggs, Lisa Carel, Mar-alin Niska, Louise Pixa, Erena ChiUingarian. and Jo Anna Shields.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
TODAY
LECTURE — “Some Victorian Novelists Contribute,” by William D. Templeman, Professor of English. At 2:15 in 133 F.H.
PLAY—“The Chalk Garden,” by Enid Bagnold. At 8:30 in Bovard Auditorium.
FRIDAY, JULY 26
EDUCATION CONFERENCE— “Educational Administration,” talks by Hubert Everly, Dr. C. C. Trillingham. At 9:30 in 133 F.H.
PLAY—“The Chalk Garden,” by Enid Bagnold. At 8:30 in Bovard Auditorium.
SATURDAY, JULY 27
PLAY—“The Chalk Garden,” by Enid Bagnold. At 8:30 in Bovard Auditorium.
Garden” was one of the finest plays of the 1955-56 Broadway
season.
“It is a very brilliant piece of composition, one of the most skillfully buil.t plays of recent years with a good subject and an honorable theme,” the New Republic critic says.
Meaning and Distinction
Basic action of the play is a progressive revelation of the past of Miss Madrigal, a female companion of great abilities. A secondary plot revolves around the story of a young girl whom Miss Madrigal saves from a fate similar to her own.
Bentley asserts that it is on this action that the play’s claim to meaning and distinction mainly rests.
The young girl, Laurel, likes to think that she was violated at the age of 12 and that she hates her mother. So she languishes in her grandmother’s chalk garden in which nothing can grow, until Miss Madrigal does battle both with the girl's neurosis and her grandmother.
Sick, Mad Misfit
“The play is a sort of drawing room play to end all drawing room plays,” according to its' director, Dr. Herbert M. Stahl. “T o symbolize that fact, the old butler lies dying throughout the play, and finally does die in the last scene.
“The new butler belongs to the time when servants are recruited from the ‘sick, the mad, and those who can’t take their places in the outside world.”
Principals in the cast include Gretchen Kanne as Miss Madrigal; Betty Van Werden as Mrs. St. Maugham:	Susan Anderson
and Kathy Coombs as Laurel; Carl Fabrizio as Maitland: and Richard Butler as the judge. Bill White is in charge of lights and sets are by Robert H. Johnson.
An expert on Arab affairs urged that restraining hands be placed on an aggressive Israel to ease the explosive Middle East situation yesterday. Dr. R. Bayly Winder, visiting professor of international relations from Princeton. said the United States should restrain Israel from mass retaliations and its aggressiv# attitude.
Incomplete Ideas He also stressed that American statesmen must get the Israelis to at least entertain the idea of taking back some of the Arab refugees left homeless after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Winder referred to the United States position on Israel as “hopelessly incompatible” with xthe traditional American ideal, of self determination. Using Woodrow Wilson as an example, Dr. Winder said the U.S. President had referred to himself as a Zionist, yet fought for the right of all nations to choose their governments. “You can’t be for both,” Dr. Winder said.
War Futile The United States government must also make the Arabs face reality as far as Israel is concerned, the Princeton man said. They must see the futility of further military action against a small,, cut definitely first class army.
We have made steps in this direction, he said. But we’ve started awfully late, and we must keep it up. Over this situation, he said.
Victorians To Be Subject of Talk
Dr. William D. Templeman will tell Summer Session students of the influences of Victorian writers on modern literature in an English department lecture this afternoon. Dr. Templeman, newly appointed head of the English department, will give a talk entitled “Some Victorian Novelists Contribute’’ at 2:15 in 133 FH.
Pearl Buck, the American writer, has publicly explained her great debt to Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, according to Dr. Templeman.
“All of us today are indebted to Dickens,” Dr. Templeman says. “And many other Victorian novelists have contributed in various ways to our intellectual profit and delight.”
Today’s talk will feature quotes from the works of many Vic-torians. “I shall read some favorite brief passages in novels by Dickens, George Meredith,
George Barrow, M r s. Gaskell, Oscar W’ilde, George MacDonald Captain Marryat and George Elliot.”
“Some will be humorous, others will be provocatively serious,” he says. “In 1888 the novelist Thomas Hardy published a magazine article entitled ‘The Profitable Reading of Fiction’.
“In it he saiu, in part: ‘Not only may the bo^k be read for tl.ese it :»in features - the presentation, as they may collect-iveiy be Colled — but for the accidents and appo.dages of narrative; :*nd such are of more Kinds than on*e.
“There accidents and appendages I refer to passages with
and
in my lecture as incidental ideas, I fieal largely with them.”
WILLIAM TEMPLEMAN
. a modern Victorian
What do novelists give us? Dr. Templeman asked rhetorically. “Many things, entertainment first of all,” he says.