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SUMMER TROJAN
VOL VIM
LOS ANGSLES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1958
NO. Ï0
SC Dramatist Uses Analysis On Thespians
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Aiiil'ienre Filmed “The pley v\ as produced and directed ur cier normal theatrical con	Dr.	Butler said.
“However, infrared pictures were taken ol the audience as they watched the play, while microphones v. ere employed to tape the;:* reaction.”
After \ jawing the performance, Dr. Bainet Sharrin, psychoanalyst, consulted with the director end actors, giving his psychoana.v » cal interpretation.
“After this, the play was rerehearsed accoiding to the doctor's suggest ions, ’’ Dr. Butler continuec. "It was again presented Jur,e 13th to the same panel ol 10, but with a different audience. Fictures were taken and tepe recordings were made at the exact same points that they were employed in the first product’on.’’
Studies Audience Dr. Butler pointed out that the photos arid tapes of the two audiences c:e being carefully studied to see ii there are any significant ciiierences. Questionnaires, given to the audience, director and actors, are also being studied.
“We’re trying to see if a play is more elective after a psychoanalyst Las then his ideas,” Dr. Butler said, “and if he can help the actors and director give better interpretations.
“The anah st can determine ii the citraders are properly motivated.”
“Even ii the play has been properly interpreted, perhaps the anah ~t can add another dimension by going deeper,” said Jit Kapur, SC graduate drama student, who has been one of Dr. Butler’s main assistants. “If this w orks it w ill be particularly effective in the modern realistic plays such as those of William Inge. Arthur Miller, and Eugene O’Neill.*’
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Evening of Opera Planned in Bovard
Two evenings of opera excerpts will be presented Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8 in Bovard Auditorium. The program is presented by the summer opera workshop under the direction of Dr. Walter Ducloux, head of the SC opera department.
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VISITING DRAMATIST — Dr. Alan S. Downer, visiting professor cf drama from Princeton University, who recently spoke to a campus group on the plays of William Inge. Inge, Dr. Downer feels, is the playwright most representative of the "bourgeoise" American drama. Dr. Downer discussed Inge's four plays, "Picnic,” "Come Back, Little Sheba," "Bus Stop' and "Dark at the Top of the Stairs," which all have scored triumphs cn Broadway and throughout the country.
Theater Bourgeoise Declares Professor
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The American theater has built a bourgeoise drama. Dr. Alan S. Downer, visiting professor of drama from Princeton University declared Friday.
Dr. Downer, talking on the plays of William Inge, pointed out that Inge is the playwright “most representative of American temperament.’’
Inge writes about what Dr. Downer called the “American cultural myth.” This myth revolves around the common man who emerged into drama during the of literature.
“That which is conventional can some freshness,” gardless if it’s bourgeoise or not.
U. S. Dramatic History
Dr. Downer prefaced his remarks about Inge with a short history of the American drama and pointed out that Inge is very much a part of the American kind of drama.
It developed the middle class hero who wears various costumes. At first he was the shrewd, quick-witted Yankee peddler, then the frontiersman, then the farmer who had to go to the big city to “save” his way-fearing son.
There was also the drunkard who was the victim of the dea-mon rum and who was in the grips of the wicked saloon keeper, but he always reformed.
Ride Tm Cowboy
Dr. Downer pointed out that today that kind of hero survives in the cowboy who goes after the villian with horses and fists, not the organized tools of society.
“These characters always appear in the same plots, and the hero always returned to something he has lost, the earlier simplicity of living close to nature,” he said.
“In the 30s the angle of vision was changed. The hero was a middle class worker, or a lower class worker, a Marxist stereo-! type of social criticism. The Garden of Eden of the earlier dramas disappeared, but Adam and his children were still the actors,” he said.
Highlighting the programs is the entire Glan-Carlo Menotti opera “The Old Maid and the Thief,” which is the story of an old maid from the middle West who takes in a young man as a lodger, but then discovers that he is a thief. Her maid persuades her to keep him and lead him to the light path.
Menotti in the West
The Menotti opera is the third one by composer to be given at SC. Last year the opera department presented “The Saint of Bleeker Street” and “The Consul”.
Act IV of the Tschaikowsky opera “Mazeppa” is also on the program. This opera is one of the most infrequently done musical works in this country. It is a Russian tragedy set in the Ukraine in the days of Peter the Great.
Part of Act II of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” will also be presented. This German opera concerns two men who conspire to find out if their sweethearts are faithful. The settings for this presentation wre inspired by Raoul Dufy.
Traditional
The remaining part of the program is an excerpt from Act IV
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Most of the well-known American playwrights today write around the American m y t h. j “Take Maxwell Anderson, Thorton Wilder, Elmer Rice or Arthur Miller, for example,” he i said.
Miller uses a modern version of the early stage Yankee peddler in “Death of a Salesman.” William Inge handles the heroic drunk in a bourgeoise manner in “Come Back, Little Sheba.”
Inge, according to Dr. Downer, continues in the vein of “10 Nights in a Barroom.” His main I character, Doc, is a modern ! drunk, driven by failure of his dreams and ambitions.
Cry of Mankind
Doc’s cry of “I’ve go to keep j going somehow,” is the story of mankind, said Dr. Downer. But the reform of the drunkard in j “Come Back, Little Sheba” does not change the home as it used | to in the old helodramas.
In “Picnic,” Inge portrays the ; “immensely stereotype love af-j fair between a football hero and I a beautiful, dumb blonde.” But Inge takes a newer slant on this myth. His blonde is aware that she is dumb and pretty. Even ! she can sense the futility of her i life.
| Dr. Downer feels that Inge’s “Bus Stop” is a more adventurous effort and a more significant play than “Picnic.” “The audience knows what is going to happen, but the plot does not always make a good play.”
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of II Trovatore by Verdi. It is a tragedy of Medieval Spain and is one of the traditional Verdi operas.
Cast for “II Trovatore” includes Eileen Kent as Leonora, Milton Briggs and Glenn Cole as Manrico, Ernest Kramer as Count di Luna, Linda Trotter and Janis W’ilcox as Azucena.
Cast for “Cosi Fan Tutte” includes Erena Chilingarian as Fi-ordiligi, Sharon Bliss and Miss Trotter as Dorabella, Nancy Weaver and Jacquie Williams as Despina, Ray Arbizu and Briggs as Ferrando, James R. Gibbons and John Griffith as Guglie'mo and French Tickner as Don Alfonso.
Kramer Sings
Leading roles in “Mazeppa” will be p’*yed by Cole as Andrei, Kramer as Mazeppa, Virginia Anderson and Miss Chilin- , garian as Maria and Gibbons as Orlik.
Cast for “The Old Maid and the Tihef ’ includes Miss Bliss as Midd Todd. Ann Vajda as Miss Pinkerton, Enrica Polese and Miss Miss Weaver as Letitia and Ed Mastin as Bob.	J
|Spies Useless Says Canadian
So long as American newspapermen keep doing such a good I job of reporting all that happens every day, no foreign government really needs to keep spies in the United States, a Canadian history professor said J yesterday at SC.
Canadians feel, probably wrongly, they understand everything that goes on in the U.S., said Dr. Arthur R. M. Lower, professor of history at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont., who is teaching at SC this summer.
Magnetic Carmen The U.S. exerts an enormous magnetic pull on Canada, he said, although most Americans find it hard to understand the psychological, political and economic impact of the States on the Dominion.
“It’s like a poor man living in the presence of a rich family whose flashy cars dart about and who have plenty of serv-ants,” said Dr. Lower.
“The North American way of life is easily accepted by English-speaking Canadians at the same time that they feel a strong attachment to their historical past. To be a Canadian today, however, means that a person maintains his own identity and is not ‘just American.’ Come to Exist “Canadians at long last have come to exist in the world in their own right. Canada will find its future as the great compromiser of the Western world, seeking to hold the Western bloc of nations together. Disunity between Great Britain and the U.S. would be the worst thing that could happen from a Canadian poin of view.”
English and French Canadians are slowly growing together. Dr. Lower said. They have kept the peace 200 years, and even in a country with two cultures and two official languages “you can’t live together ior two centuries without some effect.” Although some Canadians dislike the presence of American armed forces on Canadian soil and fear that the occupation of the distant Arctic north might become permanent, Dr. Lower said he did not think the DEW radar defense line posed this threat for the present.
No great power can ever avoid being disliked in the world unless it abdicates its role as a great power, the Canadian historian said.______________
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