L ARCri;\ ^etLW.ROB^ : .U3R;\RV: !/UISBURG-''' : :F "TcTT The Kewspap.^r .of._.tfeg Sfaicle^ February iO^p CHANGES IN £LAY CAST JEROLD FREDr.RlO £LAY3 HERE Miss £eyatt, director of "Once . There was a princess", has her : group in rehearsals again after a few changes in the cast* Due to Alice Cahill’s withdrawal from the student body, the part of the Prin- ' cess was left open and Prances i Bri'm- was picked for the role. In taking this role she left her own, that of the old ferineess open# Katherine ^illis wa,s drafted for this part, ^eggy ^ord, cast as the tyrannlcal...old-maid aunt, was with drawn from the cast, and Martha Kearney has the Job of portraying a ohc^acter quite contrary to her ow®* ^0 to a breach of discipline Emmitte Harrison was withdrawn, leaving vacant the part of Joe, the kindly pseudo-uncle of the ^rincess^ Ber. Reeves has taken over this role. This upheaval of the cast caus es nev/ headaches for Miss i^eyatt, because the new members v;ill be handicapped in starting from scratch, whereas the others in the cast had several rehearsals last fall-and. this spring'before the changes were made^ They are, nev ertheless, rapidly falling into 'character and the play in progress- sing rather rapidly. This production has been parti cularly filled v;ith difficulties throughout* Tjae cast was forced to postpone rehearsals last fall due to work on the,auditorium which made rehea^’sals impossible, ^ ^After a long lay off, they resumed reheai’sals Monday, February 19, i this long layoff. Then came the upheaval in the cast which is a distinct hindrance to the pro duction, Miss •t’eyatt, however, is pleasefi with the willingness aiid (Coiitlaued on Page Pour) Jerold Frederic, brilliant Amer ican Pianist, gave a magnificent performance in the Louisburg Col lege Auditorium Vifednesday ilight, February 21, at 7:30 o’clock, Frpderic v/as first scheduled to play Monday night, but due to con ditions beyond his control, he was unable to appe r until Wednesday^ Although his program v;as tv/o days Ikte, the audience was no less pleased -by his fine performance^ - Frederic is undoubtedly one of the finest young pianists in the icruntry today. He played' v;ith ap parent ease some of the works of ■‘Bach, Chopin, Paderewski, and other imasters of music during his regular Iprogram; but "the Plight of the •Bumble Bee," "Prelude in.O Sharp," •ar*d Liebustraum" by Liszt in his 'iehcores. delighted his audience most,, • As a child Frederic was unusual ly gifted in music^ H^ studied earnestly and atlithe ag©-of eleven he gave his. first public recital, oi.d at thirteen he was touring the Country as a- "boy prodigy," After his tour of the country he was 'y'irithdrawn from the public and for Sr'eveipal years he was placed .under %e most capable instructors in the theory and musical compositioi'^ of pi'ianr;. He wen four successive com- r^etitive scholorships in America and afterwards took a Bachelor’s degree at seventeen* : Frederic is destined to rank as an outstanding pianist of the fu- iJure because of his remarkable a- bility to recreate the music of the masters and his ability to hold his audience spell-bound by his skill. The press accords this young pianisv the distinction of being "the most ( continued on Page ? )

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