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PERMIT No. 1
VOLUME 48
ELON COLLEGE. N. C.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1967
NUMBERS
Elon Player Show Is Praised
HAVE LEAD ROLES IN ELON PLAYER SHOW ON MOONEY THEATRE STAGE ThrCC MOTC
Shows Set
This Week
Choir Gives
Messiah On
December 3
The Elon College Choir
is a busy group during these
November days as the stu
dent singers prepare for
their thirty-fifth annual
presentation of Handel’s
‘The Messiah” in Whit
ley Auditorium on the af
ternoon of the first Sunday
in December.
The great Handel ora-
which has been
grilling audiences in both
Europe and America for
more than 200 years, will
once more be directed by
Prof. Wendell Bartholf,
with Prof. Fletcher Moore
at the organ, and once more
^e Elon College-Com-
inunity Orchestra will join
in the presentation under
tne direction of Dr. Mal-
vin N. Artley.
The Elon Choir, which
eatures more than fifty
student singers, will once
more sing the mighty cho
ruses of the Yule season
program, with four guest
artists to participate in
•o roles. The names of
0 guest soloists have not
yet teen announced.
^ne members of the Elon
this year include
f '' Anderson, Winches-
„ • "a.; Margie Antal,
Carversvilie, Pa.; Ellen
^fnes, Courtland, Va.;
Barrett, Charlotte;
iSrh ®f""ett. Driver, Va.;
Jhael Callahan. Burling-
Sanford-^’^®^^" Cameron,
Christian, Hamp-
'Continued on page 4)
Prof. Lloyd Young (left) and Kathy Copeland (right) appeared in the featured roles
of the Elon Player presentation of George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms And The Man”
in Mooney Chapel Theatre last Friday, Saturday and Monday nights, and they will
also be featured in three additional showings in the campus theatre at 8:15 o'clock
tonight, tomorrow night and Monday night.
Rothgeb And MacDonald Duo
er Concert November 28
Off
Anne Rothgeb, soprano,
and RobertMacDonald.pia-
nist, will combine their
musical talents in concert
in Whitley Memorial Audi
torium on the Elon^ Col
lege campus at 8 o’clock
on Tuesday night. Novem
ber 28th. when they ap
pear as the next feature
of the annual Elon College
Lyceum program.
Miss Rothgeb, a native
of Raleigh, who attended
both St. Mary’s and the
University of North Caro
lina at Greensboro, later
received her Master of Mu
sic degree from the New
England Conservatory of
Music, where she won the
Eleanor Steber Award. She
later studied in Vienna on
a Fulbright Scholarship and
grants from the Rocke
feller Foundation.
Her concert and opera
performances have taken
her throughout Europe,both
the Near and Far East
and all over the United
States. She has toured in
opera with the Boston Ly
ric ' Opera, the National
Opera Company andhasap
peared in the opera thea
tre of the famed Berkshire
Festival.
Robert MacDonald, also
a Carolinian by birth, is
a graduate of the Univer
sity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, received the
Master of Music Degree
from the University of In
diana and later studied at
the Vienna Academy of Mu
sic. He is at present art-
ist-in-residence at Flori
da Southern College.
He had completed three
successful European tours
for the U. S. State Depart
ment before he made his
successful debut in New
York at Carnegie Hall.
Since accepting his pre
sent post at Florida Sou
thern, he has been fea
tured on the TV presen
tation of “Hollywood Tal
ent Scouts,” where he was
introduced by Andy Grif
fith, one of his classmates
at UNC-CH.
It is not a new musi
cal team when Miss Roth
geb and MacDonald com
bine their talents in the
Elon program on Tuesday
night after Thanksgiving,
for the two have worked
together frequently since
their student days in Vien
na.
Both of the artists are
married to natives of Vien
na. Miss Rothgeb to Dr.
Klaus Peschek and Robert
MacDonald to Ingrid Wal-
enta, a Viennese actress.
Each couple has a young
daughter, and the young
sters have become friends
through family visits in
Vienna, and it is interest
ing indeed to listen as the
two young daughters con-
\^erse enthusiastically in
combined German and Eng
lish.
The Elon Players chalk
ed up another dramatic tri
umph in their first three
presentations of George
Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and
The Man” on the stage of
Mooney Chapel Theatre
last Friday, Saturday and
Monday nights, and the
campus actors will pre
sent three additional per
formances of the great Sha
vian play tonight and to
morrow night and again
on Monday night of next
week.
The initial Player per
formances of this 1967-68
college year featured both
faculty and student per
formers in masterful ac
tion on the stage of the Elon
Players’ own theatre on the
second floor of the Mooney
Building. The three per
formances this weekend
are all set for 8:15 o'
clock.
Prof. Lloyd Young, who
joined the Elon faculty just
a year ago, won high praise
for his three performances
last weekend of the role of
Captain Bluntschli, a pro
fessional soldier virho was
more interested in saving
his own skin that in winning
military honors.
Honors also went to Ka
thy Copeland, of Norfolk,
Va., who had the role of
Raina Petkoff, whose noble
bearing and thrilling voice
did not keep her from plat
ing fast and loose with
the truth; and to Bill Brad
shaw. of Windsor, Va..who
was always a fool in prac
tical situations.
Others who made the
Shaw comedy a tremendous
success included Jim Gil
lespie, of Taftville. Conn..
as Major Petkoff; Nancy
Boone, of Orefield. Pa., as
Catherine; Dawn Leland,
of Southern Pines, as Lou-
ka; David Scott, of Bur
lington, as Mikola; and Neil
Henning, of Richmond, Va,,
as the Russian Officer.
Tribute is also due to
Gordon Payne andAngiano,
(Continued on pige 4)
APPEAR IN LYCEUM PROGRAM
Ann Rothgeb (left) and Robert MacDonald (right)
will be the guest performers in a combined concert
of soprano and piano to be given in Whitley Auditorium
at 8 o’clock Tuesday night, November 28th, as the
next number of the Elon Lyceum series.