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MAROON AND GOLD Non-Profit Orgonizotion U. S. POSTAGE PAID Elon College, N. C. PERMIT No, 1 Return Requested volume 49 EI-ON COLLEGE. N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1969 NUMBER 20 Elon LyceumPresentsOpera ‘Don Pasquale’ Will Be Given Tuesday (PICTURE ON PAGE 4) Entertaining and easy- to-understand opera in the English language will be offered by the National Opera Company in Whit ley Auditorium on the Elon College campus at 8 o’clock next Tuesday night. The program,new est in the series of Elon Lyceum programs, is open to the public without charge. At that time the tour ing opera group will pre sent Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale,” an opera which is famous for its sparkle, exuberant good humor and infectious hil arity, and music and thea tre lovers may find the program one of the best of the entire Elon Lyceum group. The famous Italian composer, Donizetti, drew the plot fot this mas terpiece of his from an ancient tradition. An old man decides to take a young wife, who in turn, hopes to marry the old boy’s nephew and heir. The elderly suitor is tricked into believing that he married a demure young thing, but she is suddenly transformed in to a spendthrift shrew by the act of affixing a false name to an equally false marriage contract. Realizing the situation, the old dotard is only too eager to extricate him self from the marriage trap and turn his “bride” over the result if a series of time-tested comic situa tions which Donizetti ex ploited to the fullest. The “Don Pasquale” opera has remained a great favorite for more than a century, for it is a storehouse of beautiful melodies, to be sung at E- lon by a spirited and tal ented young cast of pro fessionals from all over the United States and from as far away as Salzburg, Austria, The National Opera Company is really a pro duct of North Carolina, for it was founded in Ral eigh in 1948 under the ori ginal title of Crass Roots (Continued on page 2) Tryouts For Opera To Be Held Monday On the very weekend when spring begins and after the long winter, which has brought so much unpleasant weather, the above picture might well be entitled Dreams of Spring,"^ although it may be that Susan Heatwole, Elon senior from Wchmond, Va., might have been thinking of all the work she had to do in get- fing the 1969 edition of the Phi Psi Cli off to the printers. The Richmond girl js editor in chief of the Elon yearbook for this year, and reports are that the wok has been bundled off to the printers after months of work. With the year- ook finished, the editor may now be able truly to dream of spring and the forth coming graduation, Auditions for the Elon Player production of Ber tolt Brecht’s “Threepen ny Opera,’’which will be the next full-length Play er show on the campus later this spring, will be held in Mooney Little Theatre at 2 o’clock next Monday afternoon and 7:30 o’clock next Monday Ueatwole Phi Psi Cli Editor Susan Heatwole^, of ichmond, Va.,istheedi- “r-in-chief and leader the staff which has been “usy since last fall in pre- edition of Phi Psi Cli for the _Pnnters. The staff has worked under the di rection of Prof. Danny Euliss, who is serving as director of publications this year. Working with the edi-;_ ^enhoff Lectur^ For Pi Gamma Mu L 2'^- Richard von Doen- W.of Washington, D.C., Mad of the early records Naval His- wy Vision of th2 United tes Navy Department, p ivered the 10th annual lecture in the fT" ^i"ing Hall on nL campus on Wed- night, March 12th, cnnti lecture, which t:he series of “'■es that started in i960 undersponsophipof the honorary sodal sci ence fraternity, von Doenhoff spoke on East Asia: The Modern Trans formation,” and into his discussion the many complex problems which have evolved in re cent years in various Or iental countries. The guest speaker alumnus of tlon Col is an (Continued on page 2) tor-in-chief as art editor and layout editor has been Jackson Prentice, of Alexandria, Va,; with Pam Owens, of Eden, and Ruth Mayfield, of Norlina, serving as copy editors. Bill Walker, of Newport News, Va„ is sports edi tor- and Vick Harris, of Redisville, has served as feature editor; with Linda Long, of Pocomoke City, Md.; and Cheryl Hopkins, of Asheboro, holding the positions of academic editors. Others on the editorial staff are Kathy Davis of Durham, and Carolyn Cameron, of Sanford, or ganizations editors; K.a- Thy Copeland, of Norfolk, Va Greek editor; Ray mond Bailey, of Elon Col lege, as photographer, Kay Savage, of Whaley- ville, Va., typist; and Steve Conner, of Wil mington, Del,, business manager. The editors for the four class groups are Miriam Kenyon, of Little Silver, N^.J., and Joan King, of Hendersonville, for the freshman class; Adrienne Moen, of Belmar Wall,N. J., for the sophomore class; Vicky Riley, of Burlington, and Resa Ro binson, of Falls Church, Va,, for the junior class; and Linda Wesley, of Rox- boro, and Martha Kellam, of Spencer, Mass., for the senior class. night. The “Threepenny Ope ra” is Brecht’s satire on bourgeoise corruption, using thieves, beggars, crooked policemen and prostitutes in 19th Cen tury London, He satirizes the human corruption and greed of all periods, using songs set to the brilliant music of Kurt Weill, and Brecht needles preten sions of society with his lines and music. One of the best known songs in the show is “Jack The Knife,” long popular after its intro duction in the show dur ing its long and success ful run on Broadway, The show still holds the record as the longest- running musical ever presented in New York, The opera will be pre sented under the direction of Prof. Sandy Moffett, who has extended an in vitation to all persons who are interested in taking part in the production, in cluding both stage and technical work. He point ed out that there are sev eral non-singing ^ ^ roles. Today is the day in which yesterday was tomorrow. Life began yesterday, ends today, and will again Begin tomorrow.
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