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USC wins opera rights
“The present-day prejudice against opera is absolutely false,” Walter Ducloux, director of the Opera Theatre, says. “Opera should be understandable. and here, in America, it should be in English, fine English.”
Ducloux's claim seems to be well founded. His company has been awarded exclusive rights to the American premiere of a Richard Strauss opera, “Friedenstag.” Dr. Franz Strauss, the composer’s only son, made the decision on previous successful premieres.
One of Strauss’ later works, “Friedenstag (Peace Day),” is compressed into a 75-minute, one-act opera about a group of soldiers returning to peacetime at the end of the Thirty Years War.
Work has already begun on the April presentation. Translation has been started and actual production will begin in January.
Ducloux will conduct and stage the production in a setting by Gar Campbell.
George Gibson and Genevieve Weide are slated for the two leading roles.
“Universities usually don’t get these premieres,” Ducloux said. “We certainly can claim to be one of the outstanding opera institutions in the world. The fantastic reviews of our successes from all over justify our premiere.”
Ducloux says USC has the finest operatic institution in the world, but the American operatic fire seems to have caught on at schools all over the nation.
_ And USC graduates, like Tom Kirshbaum, who is now working at Northern Arizona University, are helping to establish new opera departments at various schools.
April will not be the Opera Theatre’s only big time. “Idomeneo,” a lesser - known Mozart opera, will be presented tomorrow and next weekend.
Like a Greek tragedy, it portrays the fatal quandry of Cretan king Idomeneo who, while returning from the Trojan War, has saved him-
self and his men from the wrath of the sea-god by offering a sacrifice—his own son Idamantes. |
“Idomeneo” will be presented tomorrow. Dec. 9 and Dec. 11 in Bovard Auditorium at 8 p.m.
It will be conducted by Hans L. Beer and staged by Gibson. The sets were de^i^ned by • Campbell, with costumes designed by Mary Gilbert.
The cast will include Rafael Enriquez in : the title role. Rose Taylor as Idamar.tes and j Timothy Allspach as Arbaces, the king's adviser.
Eleanor Headwall and Donna Murphy will alternate as the Trojan princess Illia. Lorraine Doggett and Genevieve Weide will both p!ay | Electra, princess of Argos.
“We have some of the most marvelous talent,” Ducloux said. “It’s a combination of young and old and an outstanding orchestra | and chorus who perhaps exhibit the greatest teamwork in the performing arts.
SOME RED ROSES FOR SOME BLUE BRUINS Holiday spirit and ironic cheer for Westwood fans at Royce Hall
BRUINS GET ROSES -BUT NO TICKETS
. University of Southern California
DAILY « TROJAN
VOL. LVIH	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2,1966	NO. 50
FRATERNITY HONOR AT STAKE
The line may be short at the Rose Bowl ticket booth. But it's longer than they have at UCLA.
The only bowl rememberance at the Westwood campus, aside from a few scattered papers and perhaps a few more revenge vows, are the two dozen red roses left at the campus-centered Royce Hall.
The flowers, bought with $40 collected in the men’s dormitory complex with the original intention of sending dead roses to each of their UCLA counterparts, are the idea of M^irks Hall residents Ken Grabtree and Jim Goyton.
And while Trojans have at least
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“The Bandwagon." starring Fred Astaire and Cvd Charisse. will be shown by DKA tonight at 7 and 9:30 in 133 Founders Hail. Tickets are 50
cents.
The movie, also featuring Oscar Levant and Nanette Fabray. is about a movie star attempting a comeback on Broadway. He and two other friends produce a script and songs to a new’ musical, only to have it
LAST DAY FOR 'BIBLE' TICKETS
Today is the last day to buy tickets for tomorrow's screening of “The Bible.”
The film is being sponsored by the senior class to benefit Troy Camp. It will be shown at 9:30 a.m. at the Beverly Theater, 206 N. Beverly in Beverly Hills.
until 4 p.m. today to buy their tickets (selling for $3.50 with an Activity Book in a special booth on Childs Way), the Bruins have to wait for another shot at the luck of the roses.
In the meantime the roses and horseshoe-shaped wreath do wish them a Happy New Year in best Trojan form.
Two cards, addressed to the offensive and defensive teams, are signed by Traveler, Tommy Trojan, the dormitory and MHA.
The receipt for the floral gift, made out from Tommy Trojan, University Park, was marked—“deliver to Royce Hall, UCLA, and run.”
changed completely by the show's arty director.
When the production is taken on the road, it is a failure, and the director leaves the show. The star, played by Astaire, works with the rest of the cast to rewrite the musical along more popular lines and it becomes a smash hit.
“The Bandwagon,” starring Fred Vincente Minnelli, also offers an attack on Broadway’s temperamental performers, and depicts the preparation backstage for an opening night presentation.
Astaire and his dancing partner. Cyd Charisse, are featured in several numbers. One of the most outstanding is “Girl Hunt.” This ballet is a satire on Mickey Spillane and the hardboiled detective story.
The technicolor movie borrows its name from Astaire’s hit revue of the 1930’s. The new “Bandwagon,” however, presents Astaire in a much more lavish setting than could have been attempted thirty years ago.
Bandwagon' into campus
Phi Sigs arrange jet set date for Winslow
SDS plans Vietnam protest in Van Nuys
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH Editorial Director
Love always finds a way. even if it needs an occasional assist from a group such as Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
As the result of a broken date when Troy Winslow was in Miami, Winslow and his fraternity brothers are playing hosts to a pretty University of Miami coed named Claire Baas.
Miss Baas was one of the Miami cheerleaders who yelled her team
to victor}- over the Trojan varsity on Oct. 20.
She had been introduced to the Trojan quarterback when he arrived at Miami Airport by another cheerleader, the girlfriend of the Miami quarterback.
The girl asked her if she wanted to go out with Winslow after the game.
“She looked at me and I looked at her, and we both agreed to go out,” Winslow said.
“It was all so tentative that I.doubted if she'd show up.”
But she did. After the game, she drove from the Orange Bowl to the University of Miami (a half hour drive), changed out of her cheerleader togs, and drove out to Miami Beach (45 minutes) where the team was staying.
However, Winslow and the rest of the team retired early, at the coaches' recommendation, and when Miss Baas arrived she received a message that he couldn't go out with her.
SANTA'S WORKSHOP-EVERYONE'S WELCOME TO WRAP GIFTS FOR ORPHANS Helpers Coroline Colladay (left) and Kay Colladay work on Christmas Project
Teacher interns plan zoo visit for pupils
More than 350 elementary and junior high school students from local school districts will be treated to a “day on the town” Saturday under the auspices of the National gram of its kind at a single uni-
The youngsters will meet with others in a cross-district “buddy system” at the Los Angeles Zoo and the Griffith Observatory and Planetarium.
The day's experiences are planned to help the students by lending a new meaning to their classroom work.
The National Teacher Corps, now in its first year, is a program operated under the auspices of the U.S. Office of Education to train teachers
in the special skills required to provide better education for youngsters in poverty areas.
Teachers experienced in working with the disadvantaged child supervise teacher interns in the four participating Southland school districts.
The NTC program at USC, headed by Dr. Donald Wilson, director of teacher education, is the largest program of its kind at a single university in the U.S. There are only 36 interns in the nation.
Youngsters to be treated come from the Jurupa, Willowbrook, Enterprise and Garvey Unified School Districts.
By MARSHA SCARBROUGH
Students for a Democratic Society are planning a march to the Van Nuys National Guard Base tomorrow to protest the war in Vietnam.
“All students and faculty who are opposed to the war in Vietnam can demonstrate their opposition by meeting in front of the Van Nuys National Guard Base at noon on Saturday.” David Lang, vice-president of USC’s chapter of SDS, said.
Students from USC, San Fernando Valley State College, and other colleges will march from the valley campus to the National Guard base handing out anti-Vietnam literature along the way.
Lang said the demonstration is to protest the war in Vietnam as well as threats and coercion against demonstrators.
During the last demonstration, Nov. 12, five demonstrators were reportedly arrested on trespassing charges.
This action reportedly came when the demonstrators’ requests to speak with the base commander regarding leafleting in the area were denied.
Reports said armed National Guardsmen surrounded five demonstrators who had seated themselves on the drive outside the base gates while 30 other demonstrators looked on.
The troops stood guard as the five Valley State students were removed on trucks.
One girl was reportedly slightly injured when a National Guardsman stepped on her leg.
Eight college students were arrested in a similar demonstration at the base on Saturday. Nov. 5.
The base is located at 8339 Balboa Blvd. in Van Nuys.
An SDS caravan providing rides to Saturday's demonstration will leave from the Ecumenical Center at 11 a.m.
SDS will meet at noon today in the park between Founders Hall and Bovard Auditorium. Lang urged all
IFC APPOINTS NEW COMMITTEE
In accordance with the IFC's DIRECTION '67 Conference on goals, a scholarship committee has been set up to re-evaluate and revise the existing programs.
Under the leadership of Fiji Tom Kristovich. the committee will act in cases involving fraternity members’ academic eligibility.
It will also establish a faculty fellow program for fraternities whereby each fraternity would have a faculty member as academic adviser.
0*her committee members include KA Geoff Harding, Phi Sig Jim Smith, Sammie Bob Linden, and SAE Jon Wittwer.
But she spoke to him on the hotel phone, “and she was very thoughtful,” Winslow said. “She didn’t rub it in about our loss at all.
“I told her to leave her name and address with the team manager, and that maybe we could have that date at some future time when she came out to L.A. or I got back to Miami.”
On the Monday after the game, Miss Baas received a dozen red roses from the amorous Trojan quarterback. On Thursday, he called her from Los Angeles and invited her to come here for a few days.
“I was very thrilled, and so were the rest of my Tri-Delt sorority sisters,” Miss Baas said, “but I was still undecided.”
She said she and her sisters watched Winslow on “The Dating Game” that night. They all urged her to take him up on his offer, and she did.
Miss Baas arrived Wednesday night, and will stay with some friends of Winslow’s until Sunday night or Monday morning before flying back. She and Winslow will attend the Phi Sig Snow Party Saturday night.
Miss Baas said the administration at Miami is very strict, and she had a hard time getting permission to leave the dorm for a few days.
When Winslow told his Phi Sig brothers about his experience, they said the broken date was a matter of fraternity honor and decided to fly her out here at their own expense.
“I told them I was going to a wedding in California,” she said. Winslow accepted this excuse with a twinkle in his eye.
VUAMI COED IS HELEN OF TROY AND TROY DOESN'T MIND Phi Sigs flew Claire Baas to L.A. for date with Troy Winslow