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MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1960
Number 10
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and Louisiipiett of Greensboro
i, attendinl^^'^ Hickory have
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triday nigh'!°" rhe Hilltop,
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Thomas served as feature
for the school newspaper,
lered were'. Jean was ed-
Faith ” "P*S. school newspaper
selections"®)“ journalism at
VIembers North Carolina.
)se directoHitor will be Sandy
the main Atlanta, Georgia, and
ith a valet will be Nancy Lane,
campus Dita. Morris Mason of
:ion of beii C., will be sports ed-
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Above is a scene from the opera **Carmen*’ which will be presented
here in the Mars Hill College auditorium by the National Grass Roots
Opera Company on March 5.
Quality Entertainment Is On Agenda
For Forthcoming Presentations Here
bring this form of music theatre to
many towns and colleges that are
missed by the "grand” opera tour
ing troupes.
Musical director and accompanist
for this season is Dobb Franks, a
young Juilliard graduate with con
siderable professional experience.
Dr. John Newfield, well known
stage director, has been selected to
stage the operas this season. Dr.
Newfield is famous throughout the
country because of his associations
with many of the major opera com
panies.
Saturday, March 12, will be
"Symphony Night” in Mars Hill.
Director Benjamin Swalin and the
2 5-member Little Symphony group
will perform in Mars Hill College
auditorium.
This year marks the beginning of
the fifteenth annual tour of the
North Carolina Symphony. For the
15 th consecutive year the Orchestra
will travel approximately 8,000
miles to bring live music to the
smaller villages and larger cities in
four corners of the state.
Among major works to be pre
sented by the Orchestra in I960 are
Beethoven’s "Fifth Symphony”,
Haydn’s "Miracle Symphony,” the
"Haffner” Symphony by Mozart,
and Respighi’s "The Pines of
Rome.”
Returning after many successful
solo appearances are violinists Kenji
Kobayashi and Elaine Skorodin, and
Walter Carringer, tenor.
Each year on its tour the orches
tra gives more free programs to
school children than any other pro
fessional orchestra in the United
States.
Magdi El-Kamash, statistician
at Duke University, will speak
in chapel services at Mars Hill
College on February 29 and
March 1.
Mr. El-Kamash, of Arab na
tionality, was educated at Cairo
University, Egypt, U. A. R., and
the University of North Caro
lina. He has been in the United
States for three years.
Arrangements for Mr. El-Ka-
mash’s visit to the campus were
made through the Organization
cf Arab Students in the U. S. A.
Players Group Present
Macbeth Here Tonight
Tonight, February 27, the Players Incorporated of the Catholic Uni
versity of America in Washington, D. C., will present Shakespeare’s
Macbeth in the College Auditorium at 8:00.
The leading role, Macbeth, will be played by Laurence Luckinbill. His
wife. Lady Macbeth, will be played by Delores Viola. Playing opposite
Laurence Luckinbill will be Nicholas Bedessem as Banquo. Jack Fore
man will play Macduff, and Lady Macduff will be played by Barbara
Krajenka.
Vocational Emphasis
Week Is March 7-10
A new production of Bizet’s famous opera CARMEN, with a transla
tion by Ruth and Thomas Martin, will be presented at Mars Hill College
auditorium on March 5, I960 by a troupe of the National Grass Roots
Opera Company.
The National Grass Roots Opera Company is now in its eleventh year of
bringing live opera in English as entertainment to the American public.
In their home state of North Carolina and on their national tours, the
group of young professional singers
Cast Selected For
Banquet Play
The cast has been selected for the
musical comedy which will be the
entertainment feature at the annual
class banquet on April 16.
Included in the group are Mar
tha Compton as Mme. Dubonnet;
Don Everhart, Percival Browne;
Jayne Stephenson, Polly; Ron
Cooke, Tony; Lowell Dotson, Lord
Brockhurst; Brenner Levy, Lady
Brockhurst; Kay Shadoan, Hortense;
Ron Stamey, Bobby Van Hearn.
Also Joyce Lockhart, as Maisie;
Donna Day, Fay; Belva Hudson,
Nancy; Richard Brassell, Alphonse;
Mayon Weeks, Pierre; Fred Link-
enhoker, Marcel; C. W. Moss, Po
liceman; Coolidge Porterfield, wait
er; and Betty Leonard and Lynn
Mesnig, two dancers.
Committee heads have been ap
pointed and have begun work.
Walter McLendon is head of the
Props Committee with Bill Wilson
in charge of lighting. Wanda Wal
ters is chairman of the Cosmme
Committee. Decorations are under
the direction of Joyce Lockhart and
Continued on page 4, col. 2
The week of March 7-10 has
b;en selected as Vocational Em
phasis Week sponsored by the
Chapel Committee. The Chapel
programs throughout the week will
be centered around vocational em
phasis.
Monday, March 7, Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Phillips, missionaries to Rho
desia, will speak in Owen Building
and the auditorium respectively on
Church Related Vocations. (Both
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips are Mars Hill
alumni.)
On Tuesday Captain Fritz Ny-
land of Weaverville will speak in
Owen on Engineering. Mr. Hobart
Mitchell will speak in the audi
torium on Literature. Mr. Mitchell
is an English Professor at New
York University, a lecturer, and a
musician.
Wednesday the above two speak
ers will be in the opposite audi
toriums.
Thursday Mr. E. C. Funderburke,
Superintendent of the Public
Schools of Asheville, will speak in
the auditorium on Education. E.
Lee Cain, assistant vice-president of
the Wachovia Bank and Trust Co.
will speak in Owen on the Business
World.
The art department is responsi
ble for the posters publicizing vo
cational emphasis.
Squad
Forensic
Enters S.A. Tourney
In accordance with its annual
custom. Mars Hill College will en
ter the twenty-seventh annual South
Atlantic Forensic Tournament, to
be held at Lenoir Rhyne College,
Hickory, on March 3-5.
Competing in debate will be a
squad consisting of Coolidge Por
terfield, Edward Bagwell, John
Stanton, and Stan Jackson. The
query for this year is Resolved that
Congress should be given the pow
er to reverse decisions of the Su
preme Court.
Nancy Brunt and Loretta Mill-
sapps will enter several of the
following events: Oratory, extem
pore speaking, after dinner speak
ing radio newscasting, address
reading, and poetry reading.
The group will be accompanied
to Hickory by Gentry Crisp, direc
tor of speech and debating activi
ties.
CORRECTION
In the last edition of the Hilltop
it was reported that Ken Aydlette
placed first in the Philomathian
poetry reading contest. We are
in error. Ken Spainhour won first
place in the contest. Congratu
lations, Ken!
David Sabin will play the role of
Duncan, King of Scotland, with
John Going and John Grissmer por
traying his two sons, Malcolm and
Donalbain. Ross will be played by
Rudolph Caringi, and Banquo’s son
Fleance by Bernie Passeltiner.
Other characters will be por
trayed by Primo Amato, Dolores
McDougal, Joan Murray, Ben Slack,
and John Doherty.
Laurence Luckinbill is a veteran
of Players Incorporated. He was
born in Arkansas, and has studied
Laurence Luckinbill
at the University of Arkansas and
the Catholic University of America.
He has played leading roles in many
plays. Among these are The Tam
ing of the Shrew, Death of A Sales
man, Twelfth Night, Bus Stop, and
Teahouse of the August Moon.
Luckinbill is not only interested in
acting, but he is also interested in
playwriting and directing.
Delores Viola has been with
Players Incorporated for three years.
Miss Viola, who is from Detroit,
had not planned to act, but her
teachers felt differently. With much
misgiving she went to C. U. and
auditioned (against her will) for a
part in Twelfth Night. Ever since
she has been acting. She has played
lead roles in She Stoops To Con
quer, Our Hearts Were Young and
Gay, Boy Friend, Anastasia, Wit
ness for the Prosecution and many
others.
During the past ten years the
Players have done over 150 per
formances of Shakespeare’s plays in
cluding Much Ado About Nothing,
King Lear, Loves’ Labours’ Lost,
Twelfth Night and others. The
Players have performed in the Far
East, Europe, Carnegie Hall and the
Arctic Circle.
The company is composed of fif
teen members who are each re
sponsible for their own jobs. These
fifteen members, besides acting, put
up the sets, adjust the lights and
sound plus all the other odd jobs
that go into putting on a perform
ance.