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September 13, 1966 THE DAILY. TAR HEEL Cnniinn III P. i iru I T in On P The curtain is going up on plans to recostume the Caro lina Playmakcrs and the en tire dramatic arts program in mod?rn attire. - One of the first drama groups in higher education in the United States, the Caro lina Playmakcrs was founded in 1918 by the late Prof. Fred erick H. Koch father of American folk drama. Th- late Mrs. William Meade Prince, wife of a Chapel Hill artist and author, left the Uni versity $100,000 for construc tion, of a new theatre. Her husband, author of the North Carolina best seller "The Southern Part of Heaven," once hoaded the UNC Art De partment. During his lifetime, his art works appeared in .lams For New Ilea i mo-1 oi the leading museums m thu country and in Eng land, and he illustrated most of th leading magazines in the United States. In addition to the Prince gift, funds for expansion of drama facilities will ba" sought from the 1967 Legislature Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitter son has labeled a dramatic arts building one of the top priority proposals in the cap ital improvements program to be submitted to the General Assembly for approval next year. , The' projected building will include a main theatre with 500 to 600 seats and full stage facilities, plus teaching work shops, costume and scene shops, classrooms and facul- vL11 6fl WELC0UE FRESIIUEN DLIQfi QMQgl SE3i SERVING CHAPEL HILL ." SINCE 1910 ty offices. University planners hope to locate the building in the Fine Arts area of the campus in the vicinity of the Ackland Art Center, Music Department and the Radio, TV and Mo tion Pictures Building. A Drime source of entertain ment for students, townsfolk and campus visitors, the Car olina Playmakers is a lead ing cultural asset to the Re search Triangle area. Some 20,000 people attend Playmak er productions annually. . With adequate facilities, th University plans to expand all its dramatic activities, includ ing the Institute for Outdoor Drama, the Bureau of Com munity Drama and the an nual Stat2 Dramatic Festivals for high school, college and community theatre groups. In addition, the Playmakers hope to expand their long tra dition of taking plays on tour to the people. A program of classical drama presentations for state high schools in an ticipated. A major resource of drama teachers, writers and profes sional actors, the Playmakers boasts such early cast mem bers as novelist Tom Wolfe, editor Jonathan Daniels, play wright Howard Richardson A r' f Upa. j) - I a .-. - : 5 s W , I , f I i i .-'s I . I I k v 3 - iff y;r yx t l.i mm iiiiiiniiii .i 'i .r -flji , LllAJSL -. students in drama during the year. Two new faculty mem bers are being added to the present eight-member depart ment. At present, drama class rooms, offices and storage areas are scattered over the ' campus in the 116-year-old Playmakers Theatre, two of fice buildings, the basement of a classroom building and in a temporary World War II wooden barracks. Limited fa cilities have forced a curtail ment in undergraduate enroll1 ment in drama courses and in the number of students ac cepted as majors. "Future strengthening and enlargement . of dramatic arts." says Drama Deport ment chairman Harry tSavis. "depends on establishment of modern facilities that will centralize in one area of the campus the academic aspects "of the program and the dose-; ly related public, perform afiees of the Plavmakers." pa ED ... - , II r n n b n BEST OF HALF A CENTURY. As the Caro lina Playmakers launch their second fifty years of drama-theatre-playwriting, the top Playmakers of the past half century are sa luted. The late Prof. Frederick H. Koch is pictured in center. Going clockwise from top right: Thomas Wolfe, Paul Green, Andy Grif fith, Jonathan Daniels, Sheppard Strudwick, Richard Adler, Betty .Smith, Frances Gray Patton. TH FT end the FilBiLI 0E3IT AtTho In Ghapo! Hill 7 Till Hidnight Eon't Diss This lEIEflT Sliov; A Jo'cors Throo Prodasiion and news commentator George D?nny. Outdoor dra ma writers Paul Green and Kermit Hunter were among earlier UNC dramatists. Aging playbills bear the names of such professionals as band leader Kay Kyser, stage and screen actors George Grizzard, Sheppard Strudwlick, Doug(las Watson, Robert Armstrong and Andy Griffith, along with the auth or of "Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees," Richard Adler. Tar Heel authors such as Arnold Schulman, Betty Smith, Frances Gray Patton and Legette Blythe-are on the roster, as well as Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Roy ster, New York Herald Trib une dance editor Walter Terry and Boston Herald drama critic Sam Hirsch. lished the drama program at the School for the Perform ing Arts, with Marion Fitz Simmons and Gerd Young as faculty membersAmong UNC alumni serving as drama di rectors are Edgar Loessin at East Carolina College, Jose fina Niggli of Western Caro lina, Arthur McDonald of St. Andrews and Dan Linney of Campbell. Recent establishment of a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dramatic art and admit tance of freshmen coeds in 'the program have led to a sharp rise in drama enroll ment requests. This rise is ex pected to continue into the next decade, along with in creasing demands for crea tion of programs leading to the Master of Fine Arts and doctoral degrees. . Enrollment requests from -The-majorityf North Caro-r undergraduate non-majors are lina's high school and college- drama teachers were once Playmakers at UNC. William Trottman, for example, estab- mounting too. Additional courses are being offered this fall as the department pre pares to instruct over 1,000 OIAD 47 TIMES if FASTER Take Evelyn Wood READING DYNAMICS "I can now read in a few hours material that prev iously took several eve nings of study. I am get ting much more out of my study time. I intend to use Reading Dynamics techniques in graduate school where I must cover a large amount of mat erial and be able to pick out the important facts. This course has been of immeasurable aid towards that end. . . ; Kenneth P ' Kaufman". " SEE OUR HALF PAGE AD ON PAGE 9, SEC. 3 Tuesday and Vcdnotdcy ALL THE SPA You Can Eat!! in FR - Taxi Service Co ZZA And Back to Your Drm For 4 Students or Mc?3, CALL 967-1431 ;i t L ' x''.--.-, , . IV.-.,'.'.. " . La Pizza 4CS E. 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